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2 Brown students arrested on Main Green Friday afternoon

BY ANDY GOLODNY

Kristin Ketelhut ’03.5 said she spent most of the night in the rotunda. “Something about being dressed up is a lot better to see in a formal setting, where it’s a little bit less frat party-like. I like how they had that rotunda area, for nice quiet dancing and feeling like you’re all dressed up for a reason,” she said.

Students said they enjoyed the alternation between a band that played mostly swing music and a DJ that played more popular music. “I’m part of the swing club, and so I’m happy to have swing music there, but I understood some people would take a break during the live band and only dance when the DJ was there,” said Greg Boyd ’02.

At some points during the night, the dance floor was too small to accommodate all the dancers, students reported.

“People ended up dancing by their tables because it’s always overcrowded on the dance floor,” said Laura Brezin ’02.

Bars with both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks lined the reception area. Students over 21 received wristbands and

Two Brown students were arrested Friday afternoon on the Main Green after refusing to show their identification and sparring with Brown police officers.

The students, Michael Smith ’05 and David Williams ’05, are not yet charged with a crime, said BUPS Chief of Police Col. Paul Verrecchia.

Smith and Williams were released from custody early Friday evening.

Brown students are required to present identification to University police officers if requested, according to the Brown University Student Handbook.

Smith and Williams would not comment on the circumstances surrounding their arrest. The University has not made an official police report of the incident available, but Verrecchia spoke to The Herald Friday night.

The incident occurred around 3 p.m., when a BUPS officer stationed outside the Faunce House mailroom saw two students who appeared to be of high school age coming toward the Main Green, Verrecchia said.

The officer asked Smith and Williams for identification to see if they were Brown students.

Verrecchia said high school students have been vandalizing Faunce House and the surrounding area in the afternoons with increasing frequency since last spring.

Executive Vice President for University Affairs and Public Relations Laura Freid said it was a combination of the time of day, the students’ age, the route they were walking and their attitude that caused the officer to ask for the students’ identification.

Verrecchia said the two students responded to the officer’s request by saying, “Why do you need to know?” and kept walking toward Leeds Theatre.

The students walked toward Salomon Hall and the officer again requested to see their IDs, Verrecchia said.

Verrecchia said one of the students responded, “I don’t need to show you shit.”

The officer called for backup because the students never stopped walking, were cursing and were being “disrespectful,” Verrecchia said.

Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service, described the students as using “abusive and rude language.”

Witnesses reported that by this time, three BUPS officers were following the students and were exchanging heated words with them.

Williams was saying, “Fuck the police, get off of me,

see GALA, page 9

see ARRESTS, page 8

Courtesy of Connie Lee

Saturday night’s Gala was hosted by the Brown Key Society in the Rhode Island Convention Center dowtown.

1,500 students flock to Brown Key Society’s black tie Saturday night Gala

BY STEPHANIE HARRIS

Almost 1,500 students attended this year’s Gala, hosted by the Brown Key Society. The University’s annual black tie event took place Saturday night at the Rhode Island Convention Center.

The Gala, which ran from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., offered dancing, food, drinks and music by the John Worsley Orchestra.

The band and a DJ switched off performing every 45 minutes until midnight, when the DJ took over.

Organizers said the event went well.

“Everything was amazing,” said Eddie Kirschenbaum ’03, co-president of the Key Society. “It went as well, if not better than planned.”

“I think it was fantastic,” agreed Key Society Co-President Kate Grossman ’02.

In addition to the orchestra and DJ, a dance floor in the rotunda provided space for swing dancing. There were between 20 and 50 people in the rotunda at all times, Kirschenbaum said, but many students said they were not aware of a second dance area.

U. commissions outside consultants to study campus safety issues Former New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton and four members of his consulting firm begin working with the University today to improve campus safety and evaluate issues regarding arming Brown Police officers and racial profiling, said Laura Freid, executive vice president for public affairs and University relations.

The University hired Bratton Group LLC to study University police operations. Bratton and a team of four senior associates from his firm will analyze safety and security with Daniel Biederman, a consultant hired to improve the Thayer Street business area.

Bratton’s group will develop “a plan of action and recommendations for enhancing security and safety on and near the Brown campus, taking into account the particular challenges of policing a culturally diverse university campus,” according to a Brown News Service statement.

The consultants will interview administrators, students, faculty, community members, local business owners, Brown University Police and Security officers and

Providence Police Department officers.

They will be “accompanying officers in cruisers and on foot patrols,” according to the News Service.

The University will not hold a campus-wide referendum on arming Brown Police, Freid said.

“There isn’t a particular interest in referendums,” she said. “There really is an interest in moving forward with reviewing our police and security force and determining the level of service we need to provide a safe and secure campus. That assessment provided by experts will be much more effective than a referendum of opinion.”

Bratton’s group will evaluate BUPS’ disengagement policy. The consultants will study whether BUPS police officers should be armed, Freid said.

“The consultants will be mindful of general issues on campus, including issues that arise in culturally diverse environments. The issue of racial profiling is not something that would be avoided,” she said.

Freid said the group’s recommendations will be avail-

able at the end of May. “By seeking input from a great variety of people on and off campus and by gathering data in an intense and very concentrated way, this study will give Brown a strong base of understanding from which to address security issues and needs,” said Chief of BUPS Col. Paul Verrecchia in a statement. “This is an opportunity few campuses ever receive.”

Bratton’s group will hire former Boston Police Superintendent and Harvard Police Chief Paul Johnson as a subcontractor, according to the News Service. Johnson will “ensure that the project fully considers the challenges of developing a safety and security plan that is tailored for a private research university,” according to the News Service statement.

Bratton served as police commissioner in Boston and New York City. He is the author of, “Turnaround: How America’s Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic.”

— Herald Staff Reports

I N S I D E M O N D AY, M A RC H 1 1 , 2 0 0 2 RISD museum exhibit explores design of John Nicholas Brown family’s summer home page 3

At forum, Professors establish connections between war abroad, civil liberties attacks page 4

At conference, political activist Eric Tang urges students to get politically involved page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Kerala Goodkin ’02 puts MTV’s ‘Flipped’ into a national context, with President Bush column,page 15

Men’s hockey loses double overtime heartbreaker to Harvard, ends season page 16

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ARTS & CULTURE MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 · PAGE 3 ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

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RISD exhibit chronicles ‘Windshield,’ summer home of Brown’s first family

Under direction of guest conductor, orchestra captures energy of Beethoven

BY JUAN NUÑEZ

A slightly voyeuristic quality surrounds the RISD Museum’s exhibition “Windshield: Richard Neutra’s House for the John Nicholas Brown Family.”

Through architectural plans, pictures and furniture, the exhibit communicates how the design of Windshield, John Nicholas Brown’s family’s summer home in Fire Island, N.Y., reflects the manner in which the Browns lived.

The reflective preoccupation does not preclude aesthetic and historical considerations. The notes accompanying the images, written by the exhibition’s curator, Professor of History of Art and Architecture Dietrich Neumann, highlight the house’s place in a “group of houses that helped to fundamentally redefine ideas about architecture and residential life in the 1930s.”

The house, as the exhibit presents it, becomes a landmark creation of the then-emerging modern architectural style in the United States.

“Windshield embraced a new formal language,” Neumann wrote. It “employed new materials and technologies, and ultimately offered its owners a new way of life, tailored to their tastes, wishes and interests.”

Given its setting, Windshield’s design was innovative, as most of the houses on Fire Island were imitations of French châteaux or sharply roofed Victorian mansions.

Rather than follow the surrounding prevalent aesthetic, Neutra’s design for Windshield “presented a subtle balance of mass and void and of bright and shaded areas under its flat roof and within its rectangular layout,” Neumann wrote. “Efficiency and clarity took precedence over tradition and ornamentation.

“Proponents (of the modern style) sought to replace the dominant formal eclecticism with a ‘new sobriety’ — designs whose clarity and simple elegance derived from a thoughtful response to the building’s function and environment,” Neumann wrote.

Because of Neutra’s greater concern with pragmatism, materials, methods of U.S. building and collaboration with clients, the house emerges as a combination of European thought, the International style and U.S. savoirfaire.

Drafts of plans and sketches that provide a glimpse into the evolution of the architectural plans line the gallery’s walls. The collection includes a preliminary plot plan from around November 1936, as well as sketches of the house from various external perspectives.

The numerous plans of the main floor, with a final draft from October 1937, indicate that Brown and Neutra held competing aesthetic visions. Neutra preferred that rooms “opened up to each other to create spatial connections that would allow for different uses,” while Brown pre-

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Excerpts from their correspondence are also displayed on the walls of the exhibit, heightening the sensation that a dialogue is taking place. In his desire to understand the needs and expectations of his clients, Neutra, an Austrian-born émigré, requested the Browns compose a detailed memorandum describing their everyday lives during the summer and list the functions the house should fulfill.

The most interesting aspects of the exhibit are the questions Neutra poses to Brown regarding his prefer-

“There is a ‘madness’ and a humor and energy in Beethoven that requires us to meet him halfway … as experiencers of music,” writes Eric Culver in his liner notes for the Brown University Orchestra. Friday, Culver replaced Paul Phillips as guest conductor for an energetic program featuring works by Schoenberg and Beethoven.

Bisected to suit the needs of the weekend’s concurrent production of “Candide,” the orchestra was noticeably smaller this weekend. By consequence, the recital was startlingly intimate and comfortable, the playing direct and accessible. While Culver may have unintentionally undermined the orchestra’s impact on the audience with his difficult and complex selections, the repertoire’s inherent historical paradoxes — Schoenberg followed by Beethoven — were captivating and refreshing.

True to his word, the conductor’s interpretations of the historically diverse pieces were indeed humorous and energetic — and occasionally quite maddening.

According to the concert program, repertoire had been selected with the aim of complimenting the ensemble’s diminutive size, and the program consisted of three master miniatures. Compositions were chosen for a variety of reasons: while Schoenberg’s paean to near-atonality, “Chamber Symphony No. 2,” was drawn expressly for a smaller orchestral arena, Beethoven’s Second Symphony was written for a period-size (early 19th century) philharmonic. The orchestra ambitiously attacked both pieces with its usual bravado, missing the mark only occasionally as it delivered one of its more harmonically unorthodox performances of the year.

The chamber orchestra opened the evening with a symphonic account of an 11th-century meteor sighting.

Contemporary composer Judith Weir was inspired by an image of Haley’s Comet she saw on a panel of France’s celebrated Bayeux tapestry. Given its first Brown performance this weekend, her ten-minute “Isti Mirant Stella” is meant to commemorate the event through tone painting, harmonic shading, and theatrics.

Unfortunately, the star-inspired piece was granted a less than stellar performance. Boring the audience with its formless harmonics, the piece was devoid of direction and central melodic theme. Its ostensible climax was a derivative composite of violin tremolo and ululating horn. The sonic drudgery of the composition was eked out by a stalwart Culver, but even the wind section — con-

see WINDSHIELD, page 9

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The water-colored sketches on display at the RISD museum depict Richard Neutra’s design for the summer home of the John Nicholas Brown family.

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CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 · PAGE 4

Historian Wood reads from latest work on American Revolution

BY GENAN ZILKHA

Professor of History Gordon Wood spoke Saturday afternoon about the American Revolution and the challenges he faced in writing his new book to a crowd in the Brown Bookstore.

Wood, an expert in the field, is on a nationwide tour to promote his new book, “The American Revolution: A History.”

Wood said he believes the American Revolution was the most important event in American history.

“To be an American is to believe in something. That something is the ideals and values that came out of the American Revolution,” he said. “The Civil War preserved the union … but the highest aspirations and values — liberty, equality, constitutionalism — come out of the Revolution,” he said.

Wood’s book is one of a new Modern Library series of short books about different topics in history.

“I was asked by an editor to contribute a short book to add to their new Modern Library series,” he said. “There have been a number of different topics.”

Wood spoke about the challenges he faced in condensing the material for his book.

He described his 166-page work as “not a big book.

“The challenge for me was to boil things down. That was a little harder to do than I thought,” he said.

After studying the Revolution for 40 years, Wood said it was difficult “to decide what is important, what needs to be left out.

“I tried to touch on every single event in the 30-year period,” he said.

Popular historical novels are “too focused on individuals, and there is very little interest in structure and content,” he said.

When writing popular histories, Wood said he tried to emphasize the personal aspects of the story, while still emphasizing the structure and history.

“I was trying to reach two audiences,” he said. “I wanted to appeal to my peers, and at the same time, I wanted see WOOD, page 9

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At Saturday’s panel discussion, Professor of English William Keach (center) said the war on terror has caused increased acceptance of the religious and racial profiling of Muslims and Arab Americans.

War on terror permits civil liberties abuses, gives governments free reign, panelists say

BY BENJAMIN DONSKY

Professor of English William Keach established connections between the war abroad and domestic attacks on civil liberties at the panel discussion “War and Resistance: Another World is Possible,” in Salomon Hall Saturday afternoon.

“The so-called war on terrorism has had its war on the home component right from the beginning,” Keach said. Increased acceptance of the religious and racial profiling of Muslims and Arab Americans in the United States has contributed to religious and ethnic violence in other parts of the world, he said.

“United States policy has given the green light to men like (Ariel) Sharon to do whatever they like,” said Keach.

The war on terrorism has become a justification for eliminating political dissent, oppressing indigenous peoples and exploiting workers all over the world, said

Lamis Adoni, a Palestinian journalist and a member of the panel.

Adoni said that since Sept. 11, “all forms of Palestinian resistance are crushed, not just the violent forms.” She said the Israeli government justified its extreme measures by the war on terrorism. “(Yasir) Arafat is under house arrest and this is acceptable?” she said.

David Bates, an activist from Campaign to End the Death Penalty, said that the war on terrorism intensified oppression in the United States by validating the logic of racial profiling through scapegoating Arabs.

In reference to the two students arrested on the Main Green Friday afternoon, Bates said, “You’ve got to ask yourself, ‘Why did it happen to him?’ It was because of the color of his skin.” see WAR, page 9

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CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 · PAGE 5

Chinese American conference opens with a call for student activism in political arena

BY BRENT LANG

Students, educators and activists congregated at Brown this weekend for the fourth annual Chinese American Intercollegiate Conference.

The conference was held “to educate the greater Chinese community of our past and present struggles, to redefine the role of our community, challenging our commitment to each other, the greater Asian community, and beyond, and to incite mobilization for unity in political and social progress,” said the CAIC board’s mission statement.

The conference, which was held at the Westin Hotel, was hosted by the Chinese Students Association. This is the first year the conference was held at Brown.

Eric Tang, political activist and director of the Youth Leadership Project, challenged those in attendance to involve more of their peers in the political arena.

Tang described his experiences working in various Asian American communities and shared stories of past triumphs and frustrations in encouraging neighborhood political activism.

Participants in the conference broke into workshop groups.

The workshops focused on issues in the Asian American community ranging from Chinese American civil rights to illegal immigration to representations of Asian Americans in popular media.

The workshops allowed participants to interact with prominent Asian Americans, including Shirley Lima, a creative executive with Mandalay Television Pictures; and S.B. Woo, the former Lt. Gov. of Delaware.

Participants said they found the experience invaluable. see CAIC, page 7

First-ever Heritage weekend examines unique Cape Verdean challenges

BY VINAY GANTI

Makini Chisolm-Straker / Herald

At Saturday’s conference,political activist Eric Tang challenged students to involve themselves in political arena.

The first-ever Cape Verdean Heritage Weekend, which focused on the history and perception of Cape Verdean culture, concluded with a forum on cultural identity Sunday night.

Richard Libbon, professor of Afro-American studies and Cape Verdean culture at Rhode Island College; Tony Lima, a Cape Verdean activist; Jose Damoura ’02, a Cape Verdean student; and Virginia Goncalves, a local retired teacher of Cape Verdean descent, led the discussion on the struggles and obstacles Cape Verdeans face locally and globally.

Damoura said Cape Verdeans are faced with obstacles because they are not accepted by either black or white cultures. In Providence especially, there is great conflict within the Cape Verdean community over identity, he said.

One of the major reasons for the conflict comes from the colonial history of Cape Verde, Lima said. The Portuguese colonialism of the island created a cultural fusion that separated Cape Verdeans from both African and European cultures, he said.

Lima said he was happy being called Cape Verdean, and that others can interpret that label as they wish. He added that the notion that someone can only be black or white severely limits the ability of Cape Verdeans to see CAPE, page 7

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SPORTS MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 · PAGE 6

NCAA reveals March Madness tourney brackets for men’s hoops (Washington Post) — To the obvious choices of Maryland, Duke and Kansas, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection committee Sunday rounded out the top seeds in its four regions with Cincinnati.

Oklahoma was the other team that rated consideration for a top seed and appeared to help its case by beating Kansas for the Big 12 Conference title earlier in the day.

But selection committee chairman Lee Fowler said his group already had decided Cincinnati was superior no matter what the Sooners did.

“We do look at the total season, from start to finish,” said Fowler, athletic director at North Carolina State. “We want to make sure one game doesn’t influence too much.”

Maryland will be the top seed in the East and play its openinground game Friday in the District of Columbia’s MCI Center against the winner of Tuesday’s play-in between Alcorn State and Siena in Dayton, Ohio.

The Terrapins are an illustration of the NCAA’s move that allows teams to play as close as possible to their schools in the early rounds.

Kansas in St. Louis, Duke in Greenville, S.C., and Pittsburgh, seeded No. 3 in the South but playing in its home town but not on its home court, also are among those reasonably close or very close to home.

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M. Icers continued from page 16 which it appeared a fight would break out, a penalty shot by Brent Robinson ’04, which accounted for Brown’s only goal, and a pair of 20-minute overtime sessions that kept Bright Hockey Center going crazy until the Harvard goal that ended it.

Brown’s first playoff appearance in three years got off to a rocky start. The squad came out very slowly in the first period on Friday night, as Harvard got the lead on its first shot of the game.

The Bears did not get their first shot on net until 15 minutes into the game. Their lack of experience and poise showed æ the only appearing player with prior playoff action was captain Josh Barker ’02.

Harvard made it 2-0 later in the first on the power play. The Crimson, who came into the playoffs reeling, having won just two of their last 11 games, were hitting on all cylinders. Harvard, certainly a very talented team, seemed to be playing at a higher level than Brown.

The Harvard power play struck again early in the third to make it 3-0. Later, Keith Kirley ’03 made a great individual effort to get Bruno on the board. He came crashing in at the net from the right side on a rush. The initial effort did not go in, but Shane Mudryk ’04 cashed in on the rebound to make it 3-1. But Brown mounted only a few more chances in the final period, and an empty net goal finished the scoring at 4-1.

The Bears came out playing much better hockey on Saturday night. It was truly a great battle to watch, as the confident Crimson came out with plenty of offense, but Brown had a lot more fight with its back against the wall.

Danis and Grumet-Morris brought their A-games to game two.

The game was still scoreless as the final seconds of the second period ticked down. A loose puck in the neutral zone squirted behind the Harvard defense, and Robinson, Brown’s leading scorer, streaked into the Crimson zone with just one defender on his tail.

Just as he was getting a shot off, Robinson was dragged down, and the referee signaled for a rare penalty shot with :00 left on the game clock.

Robinson, with all eyes on him, came through with a shot through the five-hole to give the Bears the lead. But, with Harvard out-shooting Bruno, it appeared inevitable that the Crimson would knot it up at 1-1.

And Harvard’s premier forward Brett Nowak did exactly that. Early in the third the Crimson evened up the score, and it would remain that way for almost another three periods of action.

The first overtime, a scoreless one, was controlled completely by the Crimson. They outshot Brown 19-3, but luckily, Danis was there to get it to a second overtime.

Danis stood on his head time and time again for the Bears. But in the end, a scramble in front of the Brown net led to Dominic Moore ending the longest game in the 104-year history of both Brown and Harvard, the two oldest hockey programs in the nation, at 2-1.

“I’m proud of what we did this year,” Danis said. “We really turned it around, and we just have to keep on improving for next year.”

The Harvard win put an end to an exciting season of hockey for the Bears. It also ended the careers of five members of Brown hockey’s Class of 2002.

And those five hockey players have come a long way since their freshman year. The class of ’02, Jean-Francois Labarre ’02, Gianni Cantini ’02, Brian Eklund ’02, Chris Dirkes ’02, and Josh Barker ’02, have been through it all, but stuck with Bruno and brought the team back to respectability with a hard-fought and emotional season.

After the dismal seasons of their sophomore and junior years, when Brown won a total of 10 games, the senior leadership helped the team to 14 wins this year. They have put a young team well on the way back to success.

Expect great things out of the men’s hockey team in the near future.

“This team is not going to lose anything for next season,” said Eklund, who had a great career in net for the Bears. “They are going to be strong both physically and mentally for all that they have gone through this year.”

Sports staff writer Sean Peden ’04 covers men’s hockey. He can be reached at speden@browndailyherald.com.

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Cape continued from page 5 define their culture.

Cape Verdean culture and identity depends on multiple outlets for ethnicity, Libbon said, and if the community chooses to exclude one, it diminishes its own culture.

Cape Verdeans have trouble with the association of the terms “black” and “African American,” because this association excludes Cape Verdeans, Goncalves said.

Increased organization by Cape Verdeans in Rhode Island is one way to improve Cape Verdean representation in politics, Lima said.

Forum participants agreed that the best way to improve the image of Cape Verdeans in America is through education.

Some students said they thought perceived animosity toward Cape Verdeans is a curiosity that results in exotification and is not

CAIC continued from page 5 “I hope that the Asian community here at Brown — and in the country — can learn more about itself and define itself,” said John Eng ’03.

University of California at Berkeley Professor and Founder of Chinese for Affirmative Action Ling-chi Wang, a speaker at the event, echoed Eng’s sentiments and added that in the post-Sept.

11 political climate, the issues

inherently hateful.

Some people may want to learn about Cape Verdean culture, said weekend co-coordinator Brooke Wallace ’05.

The Cape Verdean Students Association brought 18 local high school students of Cape Verdean descent to Brown for the weekend, said CVSA co-coordinator Andrea Carvalho ‘05.

The weekend began Friday with social events for the visiting high school students, Carvalho said. The students watched “Eyes on the Prize,” a movie about the Civil Rights Movement in America. A Cape Verdean reggae dance was also held Friday.

CVSA held a forum on college admission and financial aid for the high school students on Saturday.

The convocation Saturday evening focused on Cape Verdean identity and culture.

Herald staff writer Vinay Ganti ’05 can be reached at vganti@browndailyherald.com.

raised were of political expedience.

Wang said he hoped the conference would cause participants to recognize that “there has to be a balance between need for national security and a recognition of people’s constitutional rights.”

The conference also included performances by singer and songwriter Kevin So and hip-hop group Mountain Brothers at a closing party in Alumnae Hall.

Herald staff writer Brent Lang can be reached at blang@browndailyherald.com.

Meachin continued from page 16 much respect, but as Richardson said, he deserved a little slack after producing a string of dominating teams during the nineties.

So Richardson’s press meeting comments horrified the Arkansas administration and left everyone a little uncomfortable, but wait till you see the school’s reaction when the Razorbacks spend the next five seasons as the pathetic doormats of the SEC. Jon Meachin ’04 hails from New York City, NY and is a public and private sector organizations concentrator.

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Arrests continued from page 1 and until you ask everyone here for their ID, I don’t have to show you mine,” said Anoop Raman ’05 and other witnesses.

Witnesses also reported Williams as saying, “You’re just doing this because I am black,” and “I pay money to go here, you can’t fucking do this to me.”

“At any time this could have been avoided if the students identified themselves as Brown students,” Freid said.

Witnesses also reported that one of the officers said “Yo mamma” back to the students.

Verrecchia said the officers made repeated attempts to identify whether Smith and Williams were Brown students.

But witnesses reported that friends of the students went over to the officers and identified them as Brown students.

“I told the cops that they are freshmen here and that I know them, but the police told me to get away,” said witness Tamara Goldstein ’04.

“My friend and I told one of the officers that these two people

were our friends and that they are Brown students and the cops seemed surprised to hear that,” said witness Rajiv Aggarwal ’05.

He said it appeared that the officer he talked to may not have effectively relayed this information to other officers at the scene.

“I don’t think they had very good communications between the officers,” he said.

The police and the students stopped in front of Sayles Hall, where about five additional officers joined the scene, witnesses said.

“Everything was just escalating out of control at that point,” said witness Tali Wenger ’02.

Verrecchia said that one of the students began to push a BUPS sergeant and chest bump him and one of the students jumped onto the sergeant’s back.

Witnesses at the scene contested parts of Verrecchia’s account of the incident.

Williams “didn’t push anybody,” said witness Andrea Martinas ’04. “I have seen people fight back, and he wasn’t fighting back.”

Williams “definitely pushed one of the cops,” said witness David Cohen ’05, “but it didn’t

seem extremely violent, just out of anger.”

Both students were arrested outside of Sayles. Williams was brought to the ground and Smith was pushed onto a bench, witnesses said.

By this time a crowd of about 50 people had gathered around the scene by Sayles Hall, witnesses said.

Three witnesses told The Herald that once the students were in handcuffs, one of the police officers said, “Do you want to get (pepper) sprayed?”

Witnesses disagreed over the extent of the force used to arrest the students.

“They roughly tackled them to the ground and cuffed them,” Goldstein said. “I was pretty appalled by the whole thing.”

Witnesses said Smith was relatively calm throughout the incident, but when Williams was arrested, Smith tried to assist him. “(Smith) was being a lot less resistant,” Wenger said.

Smith tried to get some of the police officers off of Williams, Raman said.

Both students were taken into custody and taken to the BUPS station on Charlesfield Street.

Officers have been posted around the mailroom since the beginning of the academic year because there have been several incidents recently of local high school students entering Faunce House and causing problems by pulling down posters and being disruptive, Verrecchia said.

“Faunce House staff asked Police and Security to post an officer in the Leeds Plaza area because there were incidents where high school students were trespassing in the building and spraying graffiti in the bathroom,” Freid said.

Verrecchia described how the high school students followed the same route by walking across parking lot number 14, crossing over Waterman Street and then coming onto the Plaza near the loading dock door near the mailroom entrance of Faunce where they enter through that post office door.

Verrecchia said the two Brown students followed a similar pattern, which aroused the suspicion of the officer who decided to ask them for identification.

“The route they were taking toward Faunce House was typical of the pattern the high school

kids followed,” Freid said.

Witnesses said they thought the students were stopped by BUPS because they were black.

Williams and Smith are both black.

“It was clear that they were being picked on because they were black,” said witness Ben Kintisch ’02.5.

“I think it’s ridiculous that (the police) were after their IDs, said witness Amanda Lombardi ’03. “If I was walking across the Main Green, I wouldn’t have been stopped,” she said.

Freid said that allegations of racial profiling are a “serious issue which should be looked into.” Freid also said that at least one of the officers at the scene was black.

“Age was the only characteristic of appearance” used to identify the students, Freid said.

Freid said no one had mentioned to her the possibility that the incident could be a result of racial profiling.

Some witnesses at the scene did not think it was necessary for the police to ask the students for identification.

“I don’t see why we have to be such an exclusive university that we can’t let people onto the Main Green who aren’t part of Brown,” said Leah Scherzer ’02.

“If they are going to check IDs, they need to check every single person, because if they are selectively checking people, racial profiling occurs, and that is wrong,” Scherzer said.

But Freid said it is “very typical for the police to ask a student for an ID — it wouldn’t be in the student handbook otherwise.”

Not providing an ID is offense number seven in Standards of Student Conduct and carries possible disciplinary consequences.

“There are many occasions including … cases of suspected unlawful conduct when it is especially important that authorized personnel be able to identify members of the Brown University community,” the rule says.

“BUPS is entitled to ask people to show identification,” Freid added.

“We are still gathering the facts and are in the process of conducting the investigation,” Verrecchia said, adding that the investigation would not be completed until Monday or Tuesday and that no police report will be made available until that time.

Smith and Williams “were released pending further investigation,” Freid said.

Freid said the deans in the Office of Student Life will discuss the incident as part of their Monday meeting and decide if the students should have a Dean’s Hearing or a more serious University Disciplinary Council Hearing.

Freid said that President Ruth Simmons is “aware of the situation.”

Witnesses reported a number of Brown administrators responding to the scene, including Associate Dean of the College Armando Bengochea and Assistant Dean of Student Life Kisa Takesue.

Freid said the Dean on Call went to the BUPS station to talk to Smith and Williams after their arrest.

Herald staff writer Andy Golodny ’03 is a campus news editor. He can be reached at agolodny@browndailyherald.com.

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W. Icers continued from page 16 Zamora, who wasted no time in driving it in the back of the net for her second goal of the game. 11 seconds after the goal, Jenny Rice ’03 took a penalty for hooking which was not too serious until Zamora took a penalty for roughing a minute later. This put Yale two women up, which was a strain on Brown’s penalty kill, and it was just beginning.

The Bears decided to play musical chairs in the penalty box, with Cassie Turner ’03 getting whistled for kneeing before Zamora was out and then Meredith Ostrander ’02 receiving two minutes for elbowing when Ostrander had 40 seconds on the clock. Yale failed to capitalize on all of these opportunities, as Brown was able to get some nice shots on goal even with the team shorthanded and was able to maintain the 3-0 lead.

Brown did not let up the intensity in the third and continued to play physical hockey. A few minutes into the period Courtney Johnson ’03 took the puck down the ice with Krissy McManus ’04 trailing. Johnson fired hard into Hirte’s pads; McManus picked up the rebound on the move and slammed it into the goal. This put the score at 4-0 with 17 minutes left to play, and Brown added its final goal as Link scored from within a mass of players bunched before the Yale goal. Yale failed to bite back, giving Brown goalie Pam Dreyer ’03 a shutout with 17 saves.

Windshield continued from page 3 ences in the corner of some plans, particularly those of individual chambers. Next to Neutra’s questions are Brown’s pencilled answers, suggesting an awareness that the house, far from being a mere building, is a space meant to be inhabited. The portraits of Anne Kinsolving Brown and John Nicholas Brown are further reminders of human presence.

“The ‘questions’ to you do not mean that I wish to burden you with the developing of the design idea, but only to become more familiar with your wishful thoughts and predilections,” says one of Neutra’s quotes.

“We are deeply sensible for the thousand and one successes your design has brought into being,” Brown wrote to Neutra in September 1938. “Everyone who visits the house seems enthusiastic with its plan and its beauty, and certainly the Brown family are enjoying life there most hugely.”

The exhibition is most success-

Wood continued from page 4 to write a book that would be appealing to a broader audience.”

Wood said he thinks he found the right audience for the book.

“This book is more for the general reader, but maybe I’m wrong.

It’s hard to know because I’m so absorbed in the material,” he said.

Saturday night the Brown women faced Yale again with the knowledge that another win would put them in the semifinals.

Despite their aggressive attack in the first period, the Bears came up empty-handed. Bruno missed several opportunities to score, which combined with some lucky breaks for Yale to keep Brown off the board. The Bears played a physical game and killed penalties effectively, but Katie Germain ’04 had to come up with a few skilled saves to keep the Bulldogs scoreless. When Brown wasn’t shorthanded, it was able to set up like a power play and continuously pressure Yale’s goal even when Yale had all its players on the ice. Brown had 23 shots on goal in the period compared to Yale’s four, but the score was tied 0-0 after the first.

“I knew that if we kept plugging, and playing our game and not pressing, that we’d come out,” Murphy said. “Yale played a good period.”

After a sloppy start to the second period, the Bears came alive with a goal from Katie Guay ’05.

The Bears remained on fire for the rest of the period, tallying five goals. The second goal was scored by Marguerite McDonald ’04 when she received the puck from Guay and shot left sending it past the Yale goalie Nicolette Franck. These two goals in such quick succession both came from the Guay-Sheridan-McDonald line.

The third goal occurred when the puck broke loose before the net and Franck dove in response to a different threat while Zamora tipped it over her. The next goal

was a power play goal as Johnson picked up a rebound and immediately fired it at the upper regions of the net to score the team’s fourth goal of the period.

The final goal of the period came from Cassie Turner ’03 who was unassisted on the shot. She shot from the blue line and the puck found a gap bringing the score to 5-0.

Yale’s desperation and frustration was almost palpable in the third period. Kim Insalaco ’03 scored an early goal as the Bears set the tempo for the rest of the game. The last goal was scored late in the period, as Ostrander got the puck behind the net and shot it past the Yale goalie for a final score of 7-0. The win earned the Bears a trip to Hanover, New Hampshire for the semifinals.

“I think the goal added something to it for me,” Ostrander said. “Since it was the last goal of the game and it was my last game here; it was closure.”

Both Dreyer and Germain have been getting time in goal in the past two weeks, which makes it uncertain who will play later.

“I’m not sure who is going to go, but I would anticipate the split,” Murphy said on the subject.

Aside from a decision in goal, the team’s game plan is the same as it always has been.

“When you’ve been buttering your bread this way the whole season, you don’t change to Parkay,” Murphy said.

ful when it brings something of the house into the gallery, such as the prototypes of furnishings by Finnish designer Alvar Aalto that decorated Windshield.

While most of the furniture the Browns ordered was stained, painted and upholstered to match the family’s preferences, the unfinished pieces evoke Windshield’s ambience.

Aalto’s geometric forms in pale laminated birch wood lend themselves very well to the alterations.

The table and floor lamps, by Kurt Versen, are elegantly spare, with thin bases and cylindrical or domed shapes and juxtaposition of the brushed and polished surfaces. The curator’s choice to showcase this against a backdrop of a life-sized photo of Windshield’s music room removes the aura of a museum dwelling, replacing it instead with something concrete and alive.

But the exhibit constantly reminds attendees of the artistry of the house’s design and interiors. Also on display are various watercolors on paper by Lyonel Feininger that once hung in Windshield’s yellow guestroom

and a small bronze sculpture entitled “Kneeling Woman” by German artist George Kolbe. The small sculpture of a denuded woman with a severe expression once occupied a low bookshelf in the music room.

It is surprising that the exhibit includes the Browns’ home movies from between 1937 and 1940, as well as their china and cutlery. The ascetic form of the cutlery service designed in 1934 shows the extent to which the Browns’ commitment to modern style pervaded the most minute of choices.

Misfortune plagued the house since its completion in 1938.

Weeks after the Browns moved into the home that summer, a severe hurricane ravaged the house. The house was rebuilt the following year and was sold in 1963. A fire ultimately destroyed the home on New Year’s Eve 1973.

The exhibition will be held until April 14, 2002.

Wood is currently working on a biography of Benjamin Franklin.

“I’ve been working on a study of Ben Franklin, trying to fill out the notes. You have to be very careful about that these days … and some historians have been rather sloppy,” he said.

Wood is also working on what he described as “a larger project” called “The Oxford Dictionary of the Republic.”

Currently on sabbatical, Wood is living in London when he is not touring.

“Every 10 years, I go there and live there for six months to reassure myself why I like living in America,” he said. “You can get a better perspective. They are similar to us, but they’re very different and you come to appreciate what it is to be an American, especially in England,” Wood’s book is now on sale at the Brown Bookstore.

Sports staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers women’s ice hockey. She can be reached at kbabock@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Juan Nuñez ’03 is assistant arts and culture editor. He can be reached at jnunez@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Genan Zilkha ’03 can be reached at gzilkha@browndailyherald.com.

Orchestra continued from page 3 ferring the most syncopated and interesting of the piece’s orchestrations—was rendered comatose by the end of this study in symphonic tedium.

Fortunately, the program was rescued by Schoenberg’s enigmatic Second Chamber Symphony. Representative of the composer’s brief break from atonal Serialism during the 1930s, the short composition is comprised of two pieces of contrasting tempos.

In these sections, the orchestra seemed literally to salvage itself.

The Adagio, with its soft, arching lines of flute and string, was allotted a sensitive reading by Culver.

Indeed, the strings responded so acquiescently to his poise and control during the waltz-like second movement, that they sounded completely revitalized. By the end of the evening, the audience seemed to desire a similarly well directed orchestra year round.

The highlight of the program,

War continued from page 4 Bates stated that Afghan citizens see the people of the United States as complicit in the bombing of innocent civilians in Afghanistan “because we’re not up in arms about what happened.”

Colleen Kelly from September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows discussed the “lack of debate and serious thought in the aftermath of Sept. 11” among national politicians and journalists.

Kelly lost her brother in the attack on the World Trade Center and equated his death to that of civilian casualties of United States bombs in Afghanistan. “I don’t want anyone to have to feel the way we feel,” Kelly said. As family members of victims of the attacks, “we are in a unique position to start discussion about alternatives to violence” in

Gala continued from page 1 two free drink tickets, one for beer and one for wine or a mixed drink.

They were also able to purchase extra tickets. Non-alcoholic drinks were free for everyone. In addition, there were buffet tables with cheese, crackers, bread and desserts.

“I like the way they did the drinks,” Ketelhut said. “It was great to have the sodas and water free and the drinks monitored a little better (than last year),” she said.

Boyd disagreed. “I thought it was annoying the way they handled the drinks. I understand they have to watch out for underage drinkers, but for legal drinkers, they closed the bar kind of early.

Also, for the tickets, they gave you one of beer and one of wine, even if that’s not what you wanted,” he said.

The Key Society provided transportation to and from the convention center throughout the night, a service many students said they appreciated.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D major, fulfilled Culver’s craving for a stroke of madness. In his fast-paced Second, the German composer plays on the fourmovement form with throwbacks to Haydnean convention and precursors to early Romanticism.

During its execution of this thematic fusion, the chamber orchestra delivered a stirring performance that both captivated and roused the audience.

With large-voiced instrumentation filling the auditorium, the orchestra revealed its flair for the dramatic to the guest conductor.

Eric Culver’s direction was selfassured; he seemed to lead the string section through its harrowing Allegro by his facial expression alone. The orchestra maintained composure throughout the rhythmic scurryings of the Scherzo, although the horns lacked precision and dynamic range.

Although audiences might have found this progression of Schoenberg to Beethoven more baffling than brilliant, the evening of halved orchestral arrangements received an ovation.

response to the attack on the World Trade Center, Kelly said.

Bates questioned the rationale for war. Kelly is “not in support of that war, but that’s who (the U.S. government) say they’re fighting it for.”

Shaun Joseph ’02 of Not Another Victim Anywhere and the International Socialist Organization said, “The panel was intended to expose the different aspects of what is being subsumed under the so-called war on terrorism.”

The panelists said activists should coordinate their individual movements because of the connections between the war abroad and threats to civil liberties in the United States.

“We have got to build the broadest movement possible under all of these issues,” Keach said.

The event was part of the International Socialist Review speaking tour and was sponsored

by NAVA, the ISO and the International Socialist Review.

“It was nice that they had the buses so we didn’t have to pay for cabs or worry about getting cars,” said Jessica Wisdom ’04.5. “It worked out really well.”

Student volunteers were on the buses to answer questions and direct students into the convention center. In return for working for two hours, the students received free admission.

Paid student workers were also stationed inside the convention center to “keep general order, show people where to go, answer questions (and) work at the coat check,” Kirschenbaum said.

Although the Key Society makes improvements to the Gala each year, “I think we’ve got a pretty good formula,” Grossman said.

Students said they appreciated the opportunity to spend a weekend night doing something out of the ordinary.

“It was a different kind of evening than usual,” Wisdom said.

“It was a good change from the normal activities of a weekend.”

Herald staff writer Stephanie Harris ’04 can be reached at sharris@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 · PAGE 10

IN BRIEF Zimbabwe court extends vote, but government plans appeal HARARE, Zimbabwe (L.A. Times) — A high court Sunday

ordered that this country’s landmark presidential election be extended into Monday after long lines of would-be voters continued to besiege polling places here in the capital well beyond the 7 p.m. deadline.

But the government said it would appeal the ruling, sparking fears among opposition supporters that incumbent Robert Mugabe might use a presidential decree to close the polls, which could trigger widespread civil unrest.

Residents in some high-density Harare townships who had queued for more than 12 hours to cast their ballots Saturday – the first day of voting – returned before dawn Sunday after their first bids to vote had failed. Hundreds slept in lines in front of polling places in order to retain their spots.

“They are obviously trying to keep us from voting,” said one man, who gave his name as Tosto and by noon Sunday had spent more than 15 hours waiting in line at a polling place in Glen View, a township on the outskirts of Harare.“But even if it’s five days, we are going to stay to vote.”

The election, considered to be the most bitterly contested in Zimbabwe’s 22-year history, pits Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriot Front, or ZANUPF, against Morgan Tsvangirai, a former trade unionist and the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change.

Three lesser-known candidates are also in the running but are expected to garner an insignificant fraction of the votes.

Voters in the capital also were casting ballots for mayoral and local council positions.

Analysts said the extension could work to the advantage of the MDC, even though they said many flaws in the electoral process had already prevented the vote from being free and fair.

“This is significant,” said John Makumbe, a local political analyst and chairman of Transparency International Zimbabwe, an anti-corruption watchdog.

“It is largely going to benefit the MDC, because voting in rural areas has effectively ended, because the turnout has not been so high and because there were many more polling stations in the rural areas,” he said.

Government critics charged that the slow pace of allowing people to vote was a deliberate attempt to frustrate MDC supporters in Harare, which is widely accepted to be an opposition stronghold.

But George Charamba, the country’s secretary of state for information and publicity, insisted that the lines at several polling places in the capital were not genuine.

“That was the strategy of the MDC,” he said.“What they did was to bring in their youth, some of whom had already voted, so as to create the impression that we needed an extra day.”

Charamba said that elsewhere in the country, voting had been completed before the deadline and that by 7 p.m. Sunday polling places were virtually empty.

After 2 days of violence, Israel destroys Arafat’s headquarters with missile attack GAZA CITY (L.A. Times) — It was a vivid symbol of his power

and of the state he expected to create and lead. But much of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s headquarters lay in ruins Sunday after Israeli warships and combat helicopters blasted the building from the air and sea with about 35 missiles in 45 minutes.

The attack was in retaliation for a pair of horrific Palestinian assaults Saturday—a suicide bombing at a crowded Jerusalem cafe and a shooting rampage at a hotel in the town of Netanya—that killed 13 Israelis and wounded about 100.

The strike on Arafat’s offices also fit into Israel’s larger campaign of hitting the Palestinians relentlessly until they plead for peace. The strategy was both psychological— delivering the message that Israel can restrict and humiliate Arafat—and concrete. Scores of police and securityforce buildings in the Gaza Strip have been leveled by aerial bombardment in recent weeks.

In one sprawling two-block complex here, 23 of 25 buildings housing various branches of the police, from riot-control forces to traffic cops, have been flattened or damaged beyond repair. It looks as if a major earthquake struck.

Palestinians say the strategy is not working. If anything, they say, every escalation in the Israeli offensive inspires an escalation by Palestinian militants – another wave of suicide bombers, another commando operation.

Israel says it targets Arafat and his security services because they have failed to rein in terrorists. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon would like to permanently sideline Arafat and work with a more malleable Palestinian leader.

But in all the eye-for-an-eye violence of the past

months, Israel had avoided damaging Arafat’s offices. The larger compound was hit several times, but not until early Sunday did Israeli forces zoom in on the two-story stucco building where Arafat has held court since he returned from exile and became president of the Palestinian Authority in 1994.

Here he received numerous world leaders, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Television cameras repeatedly chronicled the comings and goings of important visitors as Arafat draped himself in the trappings of sovereignty and nationhood.

On Sunday, security guards picked through the pieces.

Chunks of concrete and shards of terra cotta tiles from the entryway’s roof littered the ground. The building was still standing, but it was in very bad shape. Missiles had punched gaping holes where the windows once were and had slammed through the roof of an annex containing political offices.

Arafat was not present during the airstrike or afterward because he has been confined by Israel to the West Bank city of Ramallah since early December.

Someone had hung six photographs of Arafat from the ruins of the building, as if to reassert his dwindling authority.

“When this place is hit, it means all of Palestine is hit,” said Dr. Jihad Atta, head of the Palestinian doctors union, who was part of a small demonstration in support of Arafat. The protesters, including a number of doctors, lawyers and other professionals, along with gruff gunmen, demanded an end to Israeli occupation and waved signs with pictures of Sharon with prison bars drawn across his face.

Reaction overseas subdued to U.S. nuclear targets MOSCOW (Washington Post) — Reports that the United States

was re-examining where to target its nuclear arsenal drew a subdued response overseas this weekend, with some European leaders dismissing the project as nothing more than routine military planning.

The strongest reaction came from Iran, identified in a 56-page report with six other countries as a possible nuclear adversaries. While the Iranian government did not comment, former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani accused the United States of trying to frighten other countries into submission.

“America thinks that if a military threat looms large over the head of these seven countries, they will give up their logical demands,” Rafsanjani told the official Islamic Republic News Agency.

The Tehran Times newspaper, which is close to Iran’s hard-liners, said the report “indicates that the U.S. administration is going to wreak havoc on the whole world in order to establish its hegemony and domination.”

A draft presidential directive currently under review identifies China, North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria as countries more likely than in the past to require plans for nuclear weapons use. The possibility of nuclear war with Russia, the only country whose nuclear arsenal rivals that of the United States in size, was considered less likely than in the past.

The British Foreign Office and the Italian defense minister characterized the report as ordinary military strategizing. “Military forces from time to time evaluate their long-term programs even when it is hypothetical,” Antonio Martino, the Italian minister, told the ANSA news agency. A NATO spokesman said it was too soon to comment.

The military blueprint shows the United States still sees Russia as a geo-political rival and wants to weaken it, said Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, a former top Defense Ministry official who often voices the views of the military’s conservative wing.

“It’s about time Russian politicians realized this and stopped having illusions that Washington wishes Moscow well,” Ivashov said.

One leading Russian lawmaker with ties with the Kremlin accused the Bush administration of intimidation tactics. “They’ve brought out a big stick – a nuclear stick – that is supposed to scare us and put us in our place,” said Dmitri Rogozin, chairman of the international affairs committee of the lower house of parliament.

Vyacheslav Nikonov, president of the Politika foundation that analyzes political trends, said drawing up contingency plans for a nuclear war with Russia was an unseemly gesture for a country that claims to be Russia’s friend.

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Enron, creditors plan to negotiate new bonuses NEW YORK (L.A. Times) — As 4,500

fired Enron Corp. workers await meager severance payments, the bankrupt energy company and its creditors are negotiating a new round of “retention bonuses” for the luckier few considered indispensable to keeping Enron running.

The new bonus package was expected to be submitted for approval by Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York this week, perhaps as early as Monday, Enron spokeswoman Karen Denne said.

Few issues in the Enron scandal have raised more hackles than the $55 million in bonuses that the company doled out to about 550 people on Nov. 30, two days before filing for the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Critics have made much of the contrast between bonuses of as much as $5 million for certain key employees and the relative pittance for the fired workers, many of whom face financial hardship.

Gonzalez last week approved an additional $1,100 apiece for the idled workers, on top of initial severance payments of $4,500 each.

Lawyers for the fired workers are seeking severance of as much as $30,000 apiece. The issue has been scheduled for a hearing April 2.

Those lawyers and other legal experts also are wondering why Enron and its official creditors committee have not challenged the legitimacy of the first round of retention bonuses.

Such generous payouts, delivered on the brink of a bankruptcy filing, raise at least the suspicion of

fraudulent conveyance, or the illegal transfer of assets by an insolvent company, said Elizabeth Warren, bankruptcy law professor at Harvard Business School.

“Why isn’t Enron doing something to set aside those pre-bankruptcy transfers?” Warren asked.

“Is it because the same management is still in charge?”

At the helm of Enron today is turnaround expert Stephen F. Cooper. Cooper had no prior connection with Enron, but just below him are executives who have spent years there and who received large bonuses Nov. 30. Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey McMahon, for example, got $1.5 million, and Chief Financial Officer Ray Bowen received $750,000.

The decision to hand out bonuses was made after the departure of former President Jeffrey K. Skilling and former CFO Andrew Fastow.

Cooper, who is negotiating the new round of bonuses with Enron’s creditors committee, came under attack Friday when the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a blistering objection to his being confirmed as interim chief executive.

The SEC said Cooper’s proposed $1.3 million employment contract is unduly plush and his past connections with members of the creditors committee pose conflicts of interest.

Enron’s lawyers replied that the SEC erroneously relied on an early version of the contract and that a final version filed with the court late Friday addresses many of the agency’s concerns.

Proposed scope of Bush’s Alaska drilling is misleading, critics say WASHINGTON (Newsday) — With the

Senate expected this week to consider the merits of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, proponents are being accused of artfully misrepresenting the “footprint” of possible development. The legislation would limit the total footprint — the ground covered by drilling pads and other defined structures — to no more than 2,000 acres. But critics say the limit has widely been misunderstood and could allow oil wells and support facilities to be sprinkled over hundreds of square miles of the refuge.

The restriction was included in an energy bill passed by the House in August and is expected to be part of a Senate amendment on arctic drilling as well.

The 2,000 acres are not contiguous, however.

State-of-the-art drilling pads could be laid down at 20 sites, environmental groups say, and the House language does not appear to count the acreage of any permanent roads, gravel mining operations or oil facilities on lands within the refuge owned

by Inupiat Eskimos.

The House version also counts only support piers for pipelines in its restriction but not the ground spanned by the pipelines.

That would allow a network of pipelines to crisscross the coastal plain while leaving a minimal footprint, critics say. The Trans Alaska Pipeline has 78,000 support piers, or “vertical support members,” for the 420 miles that it runs above ground, according

to engineering data from Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Each pier is 18 inches in diameter. The total ground covered by all 78,000 support piers is only about 3.2 acres.

“It’s like counting the chalk lines on a football field and saying that’s the football field,” said Adam Kolton of the Alaska Wilderness League, a group opposed to drilling in the refuge.

The 2,000 acres can be used, he said, to produce what he calls “an industrial drift net” of development.

David Woodruff, a spokesman for Sen. Frank Murkowski, RAlaska, dismissed such notions.

The 2,000 acres “is not a lot of area,” Woodruff said. “It will limit your ability to reach stem to stern” across the 1.5 million-acre area targeted for exploration and drilling.

The U.S. Geological Survey, in a 1998 analysis, concluded that oil beneath the refuge’s coastal plain is not confined to a single reservoir but spread out in several dozen smaller deposits. It said nearly 80 percent of the expected amount of oil is thought to occur in the western part of the refuge, closest to oil fields in the Prudhoe Bay region. The physical footprint of those existing facilities at Prudhoe Bay and elsewhere on the North Slope is only about 10,000 acres, according to a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report.

But the current industrial complex — a web of roads, pipelines, housing and other structures — is spread over more than 1,000 square miles, an area about the size of Rhode Island.

Karzai meets with governors, maps out stabilization program KABUL, Afghanistan (L.A. Times) —

Fighting may still rage in this country’s eastern reaches, but interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai wants to get things in order — so he summoned the 32 provincial governors Sunday for their first joint meeting and mapped out a program he hopes will put war-torn Afghanistan on the road to normalcy.

The central government instructed each governor to immediately start implementing six goals: reviving local administrations; providing security, in part by taking arms away from the public; establishing police forces; fighting drug growing and smuggling; rooting out pockets of Taliban and alQaida resistance; and guaranteeing fundamental human and political rights.

The issuance of the orders to the governors, who have been appointed by Karzai in consultation with local communities, was an important step toward establishing centralized authority again, said the Interior Ministry’s chief of local organizations, Mohammed Ebrahim Seleandari.

He explained that a chaotic power vacuum was created last year when the Taliban regime collapsed and its governors and other local officials fled helterskelter.

Military commanders or respected individuals emerged with the consent of the public to take control of each province. In

most cases, Karzai later legitimized the people’s choices. But now he is trying to bring all the governors into line with his government’s main goals.

Although the governors are all august potentates in their provinces, and in appearance are mostly imposing graybeards in long robes and turbans, they trooped into Sunday’s meeting something like obedient schoolchildren holding their notebooks to receive their marching orders from officials in Kabul, the capital.

“Now everybody will be going on in a unified way,” said Moulawi Ziaulhaq Haqyam, the governor of Bagram province.

As he left the meeting, held in the Interior Ministry building, Haqyam said the joint session indicated “a mood of cooperation and coordination” and showed the “affection and unity” shared by different parts of the country.

Mohammed Ebrahim Mashfeq, governor of Khost, said the meeting and a subsequent seminar went over the ABCs of governing, so that the governors will devote their time to important priorities and not waste effort on insignificant matters.

Mashfeq said the interim regime in Kabul is legitimate in the eyes of most Afghans, “extraordinarily more than the Taliban regime was. They were fierce, while this government is the one of peace and security.”

Seleandari said the central

government will be evaluating each governor from next week onward to see how he is implementing the goals laid out Sunday. “And if they do not apply the strategies we have defined, then there will be decisive action to replace the governors,” he said.

One of the most important tasks given the governors, Seleandari said, was to ensure security in the provinces by getting guns and other weapons out of the hands of individuals.

“As long as weapons such as Kalashnikovs and ammunition are with the people, there cannot be stable security in the area,” he said.

Another task seems equally daunting — the struggle against drugs. The governors are supposed to be the government’s first line of defense in the drug war, said Seleandari, assigned to find ways to inspire farmers to grow different crops than opium poppies. Afghanistan has been the main producer of opium and heroin going to Europe.

“It is the will of the interim government and the whole world community that we end this tragic and dangerous trade,” Seleandari said.

If farmers persist in growing poppies in spite of the government’s wishes, he said, then the governors are supposed to organize police and army troops to destroy the fields and search out and smash any drug storage facilities they find.

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Britain wages campaign to save citizen from execution (L.A. Times) — British leaders are

waging an unusually strong campaign to persuade Georgia state officials to spare the life of a British citizen who is scheduled to be executed there Tuesday for a 1985 murder.

The guilt of Tracy L. Housel — sentenced to death for killing Jeanne Drew, whom he met at a truck stop northeast of Atlanta — is not in question. The doubts are about his mental health at the time of the murder, as well as his legal defense.

The case “has haunted me for years,” confessed his former lawyer, Walter M. Britt.

Although Britain, like all other western European countries, has outlawed the death penalty, the Housel case marks the first time that government officials have weighed in on behalf of a British citizen on death row in the United States.

British Foreign Minister Jack Straw has called Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, the British ambassador has called the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles and more than 100 members of Parliament say they favor clemency for Housel, who is one of four British nationals on death row in the United States.

Vera Baird, a member of Parliament and the Queens Council, plans to speak on Housel’s behalf Monday when the parole board holds a hearing on Housel’s clemency bid.

“I will be bringing a letter from the prime minister (Tony Blair) showing that he wishes the sentence to be commuted” to life without possibility of parole, Baird said.

The five-member board has the sole power to commute a death sentence in Georgia.

The case has not generated much attention in the United States, but it has been covered extensively in the British press.

On Thursday, death penalty opponents demonstrated outside 10 Downing Street urging Blair to weigh in, as Mexican President Vicente Fox did on behalf of a Mexican national facing the death penalty last year in Oklahoma.

That man’s sentence was commuted to life.

The British government’s support for Housel represents a new step in that country’s opposition to the death penalty, said Clive Stafford-Smith, a New Orleansbased attorney who specializes in death penalty appeals and is a British native.

“We are not asking anyone to forgive Tracy, just to show some compassion,” said StaffordSmith, who also will speak to the pardon board Monday. “He would spend the rest of his life in prison if we succeed.”

Also protesting the pending execution are Amnesty International, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Sister Helen Prejean, the noted death penalty foe. She also plans to speak on Housel’s behalf Monday.

But Gwinnett County prosecutors, who during a 1986 trial described Housel as a predator who “deserves no mercy,” firmly assert that he should die for his crimes.

Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter described Housel as a calculating killer.

“He’s like Ted Bundy,” Porter said referring to the Florida serial killer executed in 1989 for murdering eight women.

“He’s charming and smart. If you met him at a truck stop, you’d take him home to meet your sister and then he’d kill her,” he said.

Through his attorneys, Housel, now 43, has expressed remorse for murdering Drew.

His murder conviction and death sentence have been upheld

Arbitration group to recommend patients must have right to sue HMOs (L.A. Times) — Patients should have the right to forego arbitration in health-care disputes and file lawsuits directly in court, the nation’s largest arbitration provider plans to tell California lawmakers Tuesday.

The American Arbitration Association will no longer allow its arbitrators to handle health-care cases unless both sides voluntarily agree to the out-of-court process, said senior vice president Robert E. Meade.

The group’s move, officials and lawmakers say, will put pressure on California doctors, hospitals and health plans to stop forcing patients into arbitration, officials predict.

In many states, laws prohibit mandatory arbitration clauses, which are signed as a condition of joining a health plan or seeking care from a medical provider.

Such clauses are unfair when the problem involves health care, Meade said. He plans to explain the group’s policy change at a Tuesday hearing of the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

“Nothing is more emotional or personal or devastating than a health-care problem,” Meade said. “if you buy a lemon car, it’s not life or death. It’s not a medical problem. That’s what puts this on a higher playing field.”

Some legislators and consumer advocates praised the move. “It’s a significant development,” said Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg , a Democrat from Sacramento and chairman of the Assembly Judiciary Committee.

“AAA’s announcement is a very positive sign that they recognize there are issues, especially when it comes to people who are forced into the system, as opposed to voluntarily agreeing to enter the system,”

he said.

For the past year, Steinberg’s committee has been placing pressure on arbitration groups to change their practices to make arbitration more fair to consumers.

“This is really a very big political trump card to move the issue forward after years of being rebuffed by HMO lobbyists,” said Jamie Court, director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and a frequent HMO critic.

“This is proof positive that it’s unethical medically and legally to force patients into a secret process that’s stacked against them,” he said.

The vast majority of California health maintenance organizations, as well as many private medical providers, require consumers to submit their grievances to arbitration rather than filing lawsuits.

They say the out-of-court process is speedier, less contentious and not subject to the variability of juries.

The AAA handled more than 200,000 disputes last year, but only 16 of those involved health care.

Still, its stance is often sought in national policy debates about out-of-court dispute resolution.

In 1997, the AAA formed a task force with the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association to examine health-care arbitration.

The task force concluded in July 1998 that such cases should be sent to arbitration only if the patient voluntarily agrees after a dispute occurs.

But the arbitration group didn’t implement the recommendation until last week, Meade said. “This is going to send waves,” he said. Officials at Kaiser Permanente, the state’s largest HMO, say criti-

cism of mandatory arbitration is misplaced.

If consumers are allowed to choose which forum to take their disputes, they will select the venue that is likely to award them the most money, said Michael Hawkins, Kaiser’s legislative representative and senior counsel.

“Reasonable people disagree about the issue of voluntariness,” Hawkins said. “A mandatory system is the only system that we believe that we can manage.”

Between March 1999 and December 2000, Kaiser received 1,716 arbitration requests from its 6 million California members. (Kaiser handles far more cases than other HMOs because it is closely tied to its doctors and hospitals and pays their legal claims; other HMOs do not.)

Still unclear is whether the AAA’s new policy will apply to medical malpractice cases.

About 95 percent of Kaiser’s arbitrations fall into that category, Hawkins said.

The California Supreme Court, in July 1997, ruled that Kaiser’s system was deceptive to consumers by promising fairness but not providing it.

Kaiser gave up direct oversight of the system to an outside law office the following year, and officials claim that the new process is a model for others.

Arbitration for HMO patients has been under fire in other circles as well.

Earlier this year, Daniel Zingale, director of the California Department of Managed Health Care, said that the current system probably favors HMOs over patients.

He has asked insurers to provide more information on arbitration verdicts to his office so regulators can study whether changes need to be made.

by the Georgia Supreme Court twice, a federal district court in Atlanta andthe federal appeals court there. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice declined review, most recently in February.

Appellate attorneys Robert L. McGlasson and Mary Elizabeth Wells contend Housel should be given clemency because he had a serious mental defect at the time of the crime and received constitutionally deficient representation from a court-appointed lawyer who was trying his first capital murder case.

The attorney, Britt, decided the case against Housel was strong and encouraged him to plead guilty. Such a plea is generally accompanied by a promise from prosecutors not to seek the death penalty, but not in this case. Housel had been charged with murdering Drew, raping her, stealing her car and using her credit cards.

Prosecutors dropped the rape charge in exchange for the guilty plea, a deal that yielded no benefit to Housel.

During the penalty phase, Britt mounted a skimpy presentation, calling only three witnesses and taking only 30 minutes, according to court documents.

Years after the trial, new lawyers were appointed to represent Housel and discovered he was abused as a child and suffers from severehypoglycemia, a blood sugar imbalance that, if left untreated, can render a person psychotic, according to experts retained by the defense.

Housel, who was born in the British territory of Bermuda, spent a good deal of his youth living in poverty in Rhode Island. He was frequently beaten by his father and neglected by his mother, who married at age 14 and was an alcoholic, according to court testimony. Housel also suffered several head injuries that went untreated because his father did not believe in doctors, according to testimony.

But Britt did not learn any of this when representing Housel. In fact, both Housel and his mother testified during the trial’s penalty phase that he had a “normal” upbringing.

Britt acknowledged that he provided an inadequate defense.

“I have to live with the fact that I helped to put my client on death row. If I had known then what I know now, I would never have advised Mr. Housel to plead guilty,” Britt said.

Public’s anger simmers over inconvenience of increased airport searches (L.A. Times) WASHINGTON — The

Horrigan family was about to board the flight back to Pittsburgh from Orlando, Fla., when the gate agent scrutinizing their boarding passes stopped them.

“Caroline is going to have to step aside for a manual scan,” he told Courtney and Frank Horrigan. Caroline is their 3-yearold. The family was heading home after a trip to Walt Disney World.

“I honestly thought when he figured out that Caroline was the child, he would ask to search me or my husband,” said Courtney Horrigan. Wrong. So she told her daughter it was time to play a game of ‘Simon says” with the airline man.

From Orlando to Phoenix to Philadelphia, such incidents are prompting travelers to wonder whether aviation security is in danger of running amok and turning on ordinary citizens.

Whether the problems stem from overzealousness or bureaucratic ineptitude, making the system more user-friendly has become a concern second only to stopping terrorists.

At the Transportation Department, officials worry that horror stories of passenger harassment will create a political backlash, and they are hiring high-level ombudsman at the new Transportation Security Administration.

Experts say officials have failed to spell out passengers’ responsibilities and rights.

Another gap is a lack of clear protocols for dealing with minor incidents. Without such guidelines, even a sarcastic comment from a frustrated traveler can escalate into a federal felony charge.

The file of complaints from air travelers is growing.

An 86-year-old World War II

fighter ace was repeatedly searched at the Phoenix airport last month after screeners discovered a suspicious article in his jacket: his star-shaped Medal of Honor. “The way the (security) guy had it in his hand, it was like you could scratch somebody with it,” said retired Marine Corps Gen. Joe Foss. “I’m not some punk sitting on a hill looking for trouble. They are swatting at gnats and letting the big bees in.”

Foss was traveling to West Point to speak to the sophomore class and wanted to show the cadets his medal.

Dozens of women have complained of being groped or subjected to demeaning sexual remarks by male security screeners at airports around the country.

Cathleen Reinke of Chicago said she was given a “rub down” by a male screener at the Philadelphia airport Jan. 16, even though she didn’t set off the metal detector. “It’s like they’re taking advantage of their power, thinking that people are not going to complain. I really didn’t know what my rights were — all I knew is that it was extremely uncomfortable.” Philadelphia police are investigating.

One sign of the system’s problems is that similar infractions have met with radically different responses.

In Salt Lake City, businessman Richard Bizzaro faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of interfering with a flight crew during the Winter Olympics. Bizzaro went to the lavatory 25 minutes before his plane landed and claims he did not hear instructions to remain seated. A federal complaint said he “stared intently” at a flight attendant who challenged him. “Mr. Bizzaro is not a criminal,” said Max Wheeler, his lawyer.

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Support growing for anti-terrorism aid for Colombia WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — A

series of bold attacks by Colombia’s leftist guerrillas, and a newly tough response by President Andres Pastrana, have begun to shift long-standing resistance on Capital Hill to expanded U.S. military involvement there, encouraging Bush administration officials who believe Colombia should be included in the administration’s counterterrorism efforts.

Since January, forces of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, have hijacked a domestic airliner, kidnapped leading political figures and targeted major national electrical and water installations.

Police have charged the FARC with torturing and killing a Colombian senator whose body was found Sunday in a ravine outside of Bogota.

Colombia’s 40 years of warfare have been characterized by spectacular brutality that has left tens of thousands dead. It is considered the kidnapping capital of the world in 1999, a separate leftist group burst into Mass at a Medellin church and marched the congregation into the mountains as hostages.

Right-wing paramilitary forces, sometimes in tacit alliance with the Colombian military, have slain hundreds of innocent rural villagers for

alleged guerrilla complicity.

Before the guerrillas and the paramilitary force took over much of the country’s cocaine and heroin business, drug cartels regularly bombed and slaughtered civilians.

But the timing and scope of the FARC actions, amid the new anti-terrorism focus of U.S. foreign policy, has provoked a strong reaction in Washington.

Combined with the guerrillas’ unyielding stance during three years of government peace talks Pastrana has now ended, and their increasing dependence on the drug trade, the recent attacks appear to have ended any FARC claim to political legitimacy and changed the label applied to them from “insurgents” to “terrorists.”

Although the Bush administration has not seen the need to consult Congress on new antiterrorism efforts in countries including Georgia and Yemen, military aid to Colombia has a long history of legislative consultation. Congress restricted nearly $2 billion in largely military aid approved for Colombia over the past two years to stopping the production and export of narcotics, and imposed tough human rights restrictions on the military.

But even the leading backers of those limits, including Sen.

Israel retaliates as mourners bury 7 family members RISHON LE ZION, Israel (L.A. Times) —

Anguished mourners buried seven members of the Nehmad family here Sunday, including three children, as the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon launched retaliatory airstrikes for a string of attacks that killed 21 Israelis over the weekend.

“The man who did this is not a human being. He is an animal,” Rishon Mayor Meir Nitzan cried out in a eulogy delivered before 3,000 people at the town’s cemetery.

Meanwhile, F-16 fighter jets and helicopters carried out limited airstrikes against Palestinian targets, killing four Palestinians in attacks on police stations, a military intelligence building and a checkpoint in the West Bank.

One of two police stations hit in Ramallah was several hundred yards from the headquarters of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat. He was not hurt, but a Palestinian policeman was killed.

Sharon, under mounting pressure from both left and right to drastically alter his approach to the conflict, huddled with groups of ministers and security chiefs throughout the day. But he resisted the demands of right-wing ministers in his Cabinet that the Palestinian Authority be toppled and Arafat driven from Palestinian-controlled territory.

Sources in the prime minister’s office said the government would step up its military operations but would not destroy the authority or harm Arafat. Staterun Israel Radio quoted Sharon as telling his Cabinet that Israel faces a long fight with the Palestinians and that only military pressure will eventually force them back to the negotiating table.

Since his election a year ago, Sharon has insisted that he will conduct political negotiations with the Palestinians only if they halt all attacks on Israelis. As the toll of dead Israelis rises, however, opinion polls show his popularity sagging.

Although the public is demanding either a military or a political solution to the conflict, the partnership Sharon has forged with the center-left Labor Party makes it hard for him to deal a crushing blow to the Palestinian Authority. But his dependence on the right-wing parties that are the core of his government makes it difficult for him to seek a negotiated settlement while the violence continues.

For Israelis exhausted by more than 17 months of bloodshed, Sunday was another day of horror.

Bodies of the nine Israelis killed Saturday night in a suicide bombing in an ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood had not been identified by forensic specialists before a Palestinian gunman launched another devastating attack, as Israelis began their workweek Sunday morning.

The gunman climbed a hill above a remote Israeli army checkpoint in the West Bank, then used a rifle to methodically gun down soldiers manning the roadblock, Jewish settlers waiting to pass through in their cars on their way to work and rescuers who arrived at the scene. Army investigators said he shot 30 times, killing the three soldiers at the checkpoint. An aged carbine he was thought to have used was found at the scene.

A commander who emerged from a structure at the checkpoint when the shooting started was also gunned down.

Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that must approve such funding, have indicated that the counter-narcotics policy should be reviewed.

Leahy and others are insistent that human rights limits must be preserved, and that Colombia must spend more of its own money on defense. If Colombia could “demonstrate it is taking the conditions (on aid) seriously,” said one knowledgeable Senate aide, non-narcotics aid would be considered.

In a closed-door briefing by State Department officials last week, sources said that Reps. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., and Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., the chairman and ranking member of the House foreign operations appropriations subcommittee suggested the administration was likely to find a receptive audience for proposals to help Colombia fight domestic terrorism.

“There is just more support now,” said one subcommittee aide, noting that Pastrana in now calling the FARC terrorists, after long resistance.

Kolbe, Lowey and others have warned the Bush administration not to look for loopholes in current legislation that restricts aid “solely for counter-narcotics purpose(s),” or to try to evade human rights restrictions.

The administration will have an early opportunity to respond in a request for new anti-terrorism funding it expects to send to Congress March 18.

Instead, they advised the administration to make a case for new, anti-terrorism authority in light of what many consider a new threat level in Colombia.

Colombia and administration proponents of expanded aid have urged congressional supporters to be more public in their views, with the aim of convincing national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell that it is time to move.

In a Cabinet-level White House meeting last week, Rice and Powell cited possible congressional resistance in opposing a Pentagon plan to make Colombia part of the administra-

tion’s war against global terrorism, and to issue a new presidential directive citing terrorism rather than narcotics as the justification for aid.

They agreed that any major policy change was unadvisable before Colombia’s presidential election in May. But some in Congress may be moving more quickly. Kolbe and others have discussed a resolution supporting anti-terrorism aid for Colombia in the House to push the White House to action.

The administration will have an early opportunity to respond in a request for new anti-terrorism funding it expects to send to Congress March 18. The original proposal considered by the White House last week included up to $100 million in supplemental assistance for Colombia.

Among the proposed items were combat upgrades for Colombia’s 12 Black Hawk helicopters.

None of the Colombia proposals call for U.S. ground troops. Instead, Colombia and the Pentagon have joined in asking that counter-narcotics restrictions be lifted on existing U.S. aid, and that new training, equipment and intelligence be provided for the war against the guerrillas.

Bush’s bully pulpit showcases model individual for community service WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) —

President Bush will launch a sustained public effort Monday to raise interest in community and national service, selecting a model volunteer to showcase at each stop he makes across the country.

White House officials say the use of the bully pulpit to promote service is intended to expand volunteerism, which has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks and Bush’s call during his State of the Union address for each American to dedicate two years to community or national service. Applications to join the Peace Corps and the national service program AmeriCorps were up about 50 percent last month after Bush announced plans to expand the two programs.

Drawing media attention to an individual at each stop is modeled after Bush’s use of “tax families” during the presidential campaign to illustrate the effects of his tax cut. But while the tax families were used to strengthen Bush’s argument in a partisan debate, the promotion of exemplary volunteers is intended to promote national unity through service, officials said.

Bush will meet his first volunteer, 83-year-old Willard Gove, in Minneapolis Monday morning as he gets off Air Force One. Bush will take Gove in his motorcade to a speech at a high school. Gove, a decorated World War II veteran, is a full-time volunteer. He has done radio broadcasts for the blind, mentors for Junior Achievement, is building two soccer fields for children on reclaimed factory land, serves on several community boards and works on a national volunteer program for fellow Honeywell Corp. retirees.

“I try not to say yes to moneyraising because I don’t have any money, but if somebody asks me to do something, I do it,” said Gove, who starts volunteer work at 7:30 a.m. and goes until 4 p.m., not including evening work. He believes the work keeps him young. “If you go to Sun City and play golf and drink martinis, you won’t last very long,” he said.

It’s an indication of the nonpartisan nature of Bush’s effort to showcase volunteers that his first choice, Gove, is a yellowdog Democrat. “It’s a big joke in my family because we’re all a bunch of Democrats,” he said.

“They think I’m crazy and I’m quite convinced I am.” Gove is particularly amused that Bush will take him to a downtown Minneapolis fundraiser for Republican Senate candidate Norm Coleman; Gove supports the Democratic incumbent. “I’m a Paul Wellstone guy,” he said.

“But if they want to give me a free ride around town, my kids will raise hell with me, but that’s okay.”

Still, Gove supports Bush’s bid to boost national service after the September attacks. “I think that’s right, and I’m sure he can.

It’s good for people and good for the country. This world is so screwed up we need all the help we can get.”

Aides say Bush will feature a volunteer on virtually each stop much as he did with his “tax families.”

In the coming months, the administration plans to tout programs by which Americans can perform the 4,000 hours of lifetime volunteer service Bush suggested in his State of the Union address. “What the president wants to do is turn a moment of tragedy last

September into an era of service for our nation,” said Jim Wilkinson, the White House deputy communications director.

The White House said the Web site for its new service initiative, www.usafreedomcorps.gov, received more than 6 million visits in the month it has been operating. Applications to the Peace Corps grew 56 percent from a year earlier, to 14,614, while applications to AmeriCorps grew nearly 50 percent. Traffic on the Web site for Senior Corps, a service program for older Americans, has grown by more than seven times, to 131,000 hits a week. The new Citizen Corps, volunteers to guard against terrorism, has signed up 18,719 people. A Peace Corps assessment team is visiting Afghanistan and Pakistan and in two weeks will recommend how to build a presence in those countries.

Bush favors spending $560 million next year to expand service programs, far less than some in Congress had proposed. But Bush has also created a White House office to find ways to boost service, and his aides hope to gradually increase service opportunities and incentives to the point that it is a common option for those leaving high school and college or retiring.

To start, Bush proposed expanding AmeriCorps, which provides traditional volunteer services such as home-building and literacy coaching, to 75,000 from 50,000. Bush would increase the number of Senior Corps volunteers, a similar program for older Americans, to 600,000 from 500,000. And he would double the number of Peace Corps volunteers to a level near the 1960s peak.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 · PAGE 14 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

A call for careful review Members of the Brown community must not rush to judgement over the arrests of two Brown students following an altercation Friday with BUPS officers on the Main Green. We know BUPS officers asked the students to identify themselves, and the students refused. We know a shouting match ensued, and conflict between the students and police followed. We don’t know — and a University investigation must determine — why the incident escalated and what motivated police and student action.

Why did BUPS officers choose to card these two students? How often do BUPS officers ask students for identification? Executive Vice President for University Affairs and Public Relations Laura Fried told The Herald that, as of Sunday night, no one had mentioned the possibility that the incident could be a result of racial profiling. The University must open its eyes: those allegations have already been made and will continue to circulate. Demanding identification from two minority students with little probable cause is a serious reason for concern. The University claims the officers stopped the students on the basis of time of day, apparent age, walking patterns and behavior. This vague methodology is suspect. We wonder why students aren’t stopped everyday.

The University rightly contends that the incident could have been resolved at any time if the students had identified themselves as Brown students, as the Standards of Student Conduct require them to do. Although the rules justify the police behavior, this does not exempt BUPS and the administration from taking a look at how the rules are being enforced. In defense of civil liberties, we must ensure that the police are applying rules equally.

Nevertheless, while some facts associated with the incident point to racial profiling, we cannot pass judgement until we have heard the whole story. Until BUPS releases an official police report and until the University concludes a prudent investigation, we can merely speculate on the rationales of the parties involved. In the past, the Brown community has mobilized for or against incidents involving community members before gathering all information or engaging in informed discussion. Such rushing to judgement clouds our ability to reach educated and valuable conclusions.

As the University invites outside consultants to study campus security and the possible arming of Brown Police, we urge that the consultants examine Friday’s incident as a case study in police and student interaction. Before the administration dismisses the possibility that Friday’s events had nothing to do with race, it must seriously study the possibility that BUPS officers may engage in racial profiling.

RYAN LEVESQUE

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OPINIONS MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2002 · PAGE 15

MTV’s ‘Flipped’: A serious lesson in empathy?

How producers are attempting to rectify society’s ills through popular television HAVE YOU HEARD? RUMOR HAS IT THAT the chance to undergo such prejudiceMTV is going to extend its program shattering, mind-broadening experi“Flipped” a bit beyond the present ences. Let’s up the stakes a bit, they’re scope. Apparently some scientifically- saying. Expand the horizons.

First, maybe, let’s flip around a few minded producers within its midst want to use the concept of the show to enact gender roles. I’m sure, for example, that MTV has the resources to a large-scale social experimake men the child-bearers ment. Don’t worry, these proinstead of women. Let them ducers assure a rather anxpush out something the size ious public: the guaranteed of a basketball from some high entertainment value tiny bodily orifice after nine will more than compensate months of morning sickness for the risk involved. and abstinence from coffee, For those who aren’t alcohol and/or cigarettes familiar with “Flipped,” the and see what they have to basic premise is this: thin, say. (Do you think abortion tan, good-looking teenagers KERALA GOODKIN would still be such a controundergo intense learning DON’T QUOTE ME versial issue?) experiences by temporarily ON THIS But we can’t stop there. becoming the person they The fun is just beginning! most fear and/or despise.

The popular guy is made over into a For episode number two, let’s take a dork, the girl who hates fat kids has to field trip to some of our city’s ghettoes; parade around in a fat suit — you get let’s take those “lazy” and “unmotivatthe idea. At the day’s end, the teenager ed” inner-city kids out of their cruminevitably starts crying and whimpers bling schools and move them out to something to the effect of, “I never some public school in the midst of knew what is was like before…” By the clean, manicured suburbia. And while end of the show, compassion prevails, we’re at it, let’s bus those suburban kids minds are opened, and the whole world to the ghetto — let them sit cramped next to urinals in bathrooms converted is a little bit brighter.

These new producers applaud the to classrooms in schools with such limconcept, but like me, they believe that ited funds that their facilities rely on a the show doesn’t live up to its full poten- 50 percent dropout rate to less than adetial. After all, it’s not quite fair that only quately accommodate the student body. thin, tan, good-looking teenagers have How many of these students would flourish, or continue on to college?

(Find out in next year’s season preKerala Goodkin ’02 can’t believe how many Brown students forget to say thank you after miere!)

Let’s make President Bush a poor sinshe makes them a sandwich at the Gate. Her gle mom who, as his new plan dictates, columns appear on alternate Mondays.

can only receive welfare benefits if he works forty-hour weeks.

Then we can sit back with our chips and soda and watch him put that famous Republican “work ethic” into play, as he successfully rises up in the system and ceases to selfishly sap government resources.

This is MTV, anything is possible! We can turn some of California’s Proposition 227 proponents (maybe even millionaire Robert Unz himself ) into “limited-English-proficiency” students and plop them into the very program that they designed, which replaced bilingual education agendas with one year of intensive English-language classes.

Will these proponents-turned-LEPstudents effectively master the English language in the course of a year and magically transform themselves into happy, apple pie eating, all-American kids? If they should, god forbid, still speak their native language, will they only do so in the privacy of their own home?

Sadly, we may never know. I was lying, of course, when I said MTV was seriously considering such a proposal to expand the horizons of “Flipped.” We all know that MTV could never stomach the prospect of putting people on their show who might not look so hot in swimsuits.

So it goes. But perhaps it shouldn’t take a nationally broadcast, multimillion dollar effort to teach some people in this country a simple lesson in the art of compassion. There’s too much distance in our modern world; distance

makes blame easy and understanding difficult. Distance makes it trickier to perceive the broader societal forces working against a person or group of people. It’s easy to blame ghetto residents for their poverty if you’ve never lived in one. It’s harder to recognize the vicious cycles these residents cope with on a daily basis: racism, poor schooling and government neglect, to name a few.

It’s easier to unconditionally saddle women with the responsibility of childbearing than to address issues like male coercion or insufficient sexual education. It’s easier to throw immigrants into English-only classrooms (and to blame them if they fail) than to concentrate on vague, messy issues like dual identity and ethnic pride.

In my fictional version of “Flipped,” I do not ask for unconditional love.

Neither do I ask that the marginalized people I’ve mentioned here to be perceived as helpless victims with no agency of their own. No, I merely ask for a simple twist of perspective. Such a twist would not only give rise to understanding but also to thoughtful and productive criticism that doesn’t lapse into naive accusations.

As entertaining as it would be to watch George Bush haul buckets of water up seven flights of stairs because his welfare hotel lacks adequate plumbing facilities, I guess for now we’ll have to make do with young, pretty people prancing around in fat suits. But we can still remember the broader — and far more consequential — real life implications.

Learning, debate and the death of scorn in academia Articulating the place of acceptance, forgiveness and subjective understanding in discourse THERE IS A PROBLEM IN THE CURRENT Plato, who, all of them, adopt this philostate of even the best public dispute at sophical attitude by way of purification).

Brown. We assert the right of all parties That is why the only organ of contact to state their opinion, and the more con- with existence is acceptance, love,” she writes. “Among human scientious polemicists among beings, only the existence of us take an interest in knowthose we love is fully recoging the arguments of all parnized. Belief in the existence ties and refuting them careof other human beings as fully and factually. This is an such is love.” improvement on mere shoutUnderstanding is more ing matches, but it is missing than merely objective knowsomething critical that can ing. As long as knowing is be explained in terms of eduonly knowing, the status of cation. Learning stands each assertion as true or beside debate as one of the NICK SHERE false — whether the sky is in forms of discourse most necCHAOS AND fact blue today, in which essary for a democratic sociMEMORY’S RUINS year the treaty was signed, ety. etc. — is largely irrelevant to In defining his philosophy of education, Alfred North Whitehead the operation of the mind. It is the paradraws on the French proverb “To under- dox of objectivity that those who step stand all is to forgive all.” Understanding back to look at facts merely as facts are or real learning, for Whitehead, intrinsi- precisely those for whom the truth or cally and necessarily involves accept- falsehood of such facts does not really ance and an element of open-hearted- matter. As long as the goal of education ness. This is not a matter of clearly delin- is only knowing and thinking, it would eated stages — first understanding, then be nearly as good to first teach children forgiving — but a unifying culmination a history filled with lies or fantasies and later to provide them with the truth as it of the motions of heart and mind.

Whitehead’s understanding is echoed would be to teach them true history in in Simone Weil’s concept of love: “The the first place.

When we achieve understanding, mind is not forced to believe in the existence of anything (subjectivism, however, what we learn matters. It matabsolute idealism, solipsism, skepticism: ters not just because it is “important” cf. the Upanishads, the Taoists, and information in some abstract way, or because it is treated as important by the larger world, or because it will help me Unlike that Jonah guy, Nick Shere ’04 get a certificate and later a job. When I knows when to stop running. He is an understand a thing, I feel it. I open my education and religious studies concenheart to it. I identify with it. I begin to trator.

take it seriously in its positive and negative aspects and simultaneously to forgive it for those negative aspects.

Suddenly, I care that Arendt’s “The Human Condition” misunderstands the origins of Christianity and the limits of the Christian way of life, while a year or two before I could happily have relegated Christianity to the realm of the apolitical. At the same time, I keep returning to Arendt’s understanding of the human, when a semester ago it took an active effort for me to even skim her books. I begin to take this knowledge personally and subjectively: I am personal. I am human. I am a knowing and feeling subject in my attitude towards it.

My growing attachment to Arendt pushes me past my skepticism and my rightful rejection of much of her historical interpretation. I see the truth that nonetheless lies beneath, a truth which, if I were applying the best standards of debate present in forums like The Herald’s opinion page and Heraldsphere, I would never be able to comprehend.

The immediate consequence of understanding rather than knowing coming to characterize my education is thus the death of scorn, or the replacement of scorn by understanding. And while I can still feel scorn for things I know little or nothing about, I cannot help sensing the fragility of this contempt. I cannot avoid the anticipation that this, too, will vanish in time.

All this frightens me; I do not hold myself up as a model of what a learner should be — quite the contrary. I hold myself up as what a learner tends to

become, even against his will. I do not want to understand. I am angry; I have lost a part of my freedom of speech, for I am no longer free to make casual dismissals and summary judgments. I can no longer assume when I read a “wrong” opinion or an opinion based on facts I know to be incorrect that my knowledge of the opinion’s weakness is sufficient for its dismissal.

And yet this loss is right, because it springs from the hope for understanding. Without it, without reality-giving love, learning can never be complete.

The vital reality of the world and its inhabitants is lost to me, or it is a sporadic accident.

The freedom of objectivity has its allure, but this allure is superficial and hollow. For to be truly objective is to take the position that it if the facts were otherwise, they would do just as well. It is the essence of carelessness. Taken literally, it is the absence of care. Similarly, it is impersonal, which is to say, inhuman.

I have written this column with respect to my changing attitudes toward learning, but the need for understanding, acceptance, forgiveness and an honoring of subjectivity is at least as strong in public debate as it is in education. In forums like The Herald opinions page, it is easy to go for the quick kill, to pick away at facts or to scrabble for some colder rationality. But each time we do so we risk anew the error of scorn and turn our backs on understanding, and thus on the reality of our shared world and each other.

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SPORTS MONDAY MARCH 11, 2002 · PAGE 16

Losing Richardson means losing on courtforRazorbacks

In heartbreaking double OT loss, men’s icers bow out of ECAC playoffs to Harvard

IN THE WAKE OF THE UTTERLY BIZARRE dismissal of Arkansas Razorbacks coach Nolan Richardson, Arkansas will soon discover the high cost of losing a successful long-term coach.

Look no further than the painful plight of the University of North Carolina men’s basketball program since Dean Smith’s retirement or to South Bend, Indiana where a storied instituJON tion has been MEACHIN reduced to SUICIDE SQUEEZE mediocrity. Not only does a program lose the genius and experience of a successful coach like a Richardson or Holtz, but its recruiting capabilities disappear almost immediately.

UNC finished the regular season 8-19 and became a pitiful afterthought in the once highly anticipated and intense rivalry between itself and Duke. The Tarheels won’t make the NCAA tournament for the first time in 27 years and really don’t have a player that anyone outside the state would even recognize.

Jason Capel? Yeah, he doesn’t really measure up to Vince Carter, Jerry Stackhouse and MJ. Since coach Bill Guthridge led the Tarheels to a 22-14 year in 1999-2000, many have pointed to Doherty as the reason for UNC’s steep descent.

However, coach Guthridge got 22 wins with Dean’s guys while Doherty has had to coach two much weaker classes of recruits. UNC simply isn’t getting the athletes that it used to without a bigtime coach to lure them, and its win-loss record is showing it.

Trying to win without the same level of talent has also been the leading cause of Notre Dame’s recent downfall. Over the past three seasons, the fighting Irish have tallied a 19-16 record, hardly comparable to the success enjoyed in the Lou Holtz era when he became second in school history in wins from 1986-96. The Irish went 5-6 last season and have not won a bowl game since Holtz’s tenure.

While Notre Dame has not achieved a high level on the football field, this off season’s hiring fiasco has also left its mark. In trying to regain the school’s former status as a football elite, the school’s athletic administration just opened a can of worms in the George O’Leary resume debacle, but hopes that coach Willingham can pave the way for a new dynasty. By the beginning of next season, it will have been six years since Lou Holtz retired and unknowingly ended Notre Dame’s run of excellence.

While Nolan Richardson may not be in the same league as Smith and Holtz, Arkansas will certainly be in the same unwelcome state that both UNC and Notre Dame have been in.

Granted, Arkansas’ 14-15 overall record this season doesn’t command too

BY SEAN PEDEN

see MEACHIN, page 7

SCOREBOARD Weekend Results Men’s Ice Hockey Harvard 4, BROWN 1 Harvard 2, BROWN 1 (2OT)

Women’s Ice Hockey

North Carolina A & T 12, BROWN 2 BROWN 16, North Carolina A & T 3

Women’s Water Polo

BROWN 5, Yale 0 BROWN 7, Yale 0

BROWN 8, 6 Harvard BROWN 14, Connecticut College 3 BROWN 8, UMASS 7

Baseball

Men’s Lacrosse

BROWN 8, North Carolina A & T 5 BROWN 18, North Carolina A & T 15

Fairfield 9. BROWN 8

The men’s ice hockey season ended late on Saturday night with a heartbreaking double-overtime loss at Harvard. The game lasted until almost midnight, when the Crimson finally cracked goaltender Yann Danis ’04, who, until that goal, had stopped 66 of the first 67 shots in the dramatic 2-1 loss.

Saturday night’s game was a wild one, and, at times, it seemed like it was going to go all night. Danis saved his best performance of the year for Bruno’s last game, but he was countered by Harvard freshman Dov Grumet-Morris, who stopped many excellent Brown chances to put the win away and send this best of three series to a third and final game.

That loss, compounded with a poor effort on Friday night in which the Bears were clearly outmatched in a 4-1 loss at Harvard, clinched the first round playoff series for the Crimson, who will now head to the ECAC Championships in Lake Placid next weekend. It was a tough one to swallow for Bruno, but it marked the end to a breakthrough season for the squad, considering it won 10 more games this year than it did last season.

“The lumps we took last year helped us this year,” said head coach Roger Grillo.

“And we know that this experience will help us next year.”

Just about everyone predicted Brown would finish last this season. But the team went on a second-half run that put Bruno

Michelle Batoon / Herald

The men’s hockey team battled for almost 95 minutes in Saturday’s double overtime loss to Harvard, but came up just short, 2-1. a win away from gaining home ice advantage in the playoffs. Highlighting the season was a great non-conference campaign, as the Bears knocked off highly ranked UMass-Lowell and St. Cloud,

among others.

Saturday’s game was one for the ages. It featured a penalty-ridden first period, in see M. ICERS, page 7

3-0 showing at league tourney for w. water polo

BY ANDREW FRANK

Emily Hunt / Herald

The women’s ice hockey team won its quarterfinal match-up, dominating Yale 5-0 and 7-0 in two weekend meetings.

Women’s icers victorious in first round of playoffs, beat Yale twice

BY KATHY BABCOCK

In the first round of the playoffs, the women’s ice hockey team (22-7-2) skated easily past seventh seed Yale to win two games, 5-0 and 7-0. The Bears played aggressively and confidently in both games to triumph over a much weaker team. Winning the series puts them into the semifinals, where they will face thirdranked St. Lawrence. The real competition for them is just beginning.

“I think that playing the seventh seed doesn’t lend itself to having that championship pace that you need,” said Coach Digit Murphy. “I hope the kids bring a lot of energy to the championship.”

On Friday night the ice in Meehan resembled a shooting gallery, with Brown hammering at Yale goalie Katie Hirte’s pads while the Bulldogs looked on helpless in the face of a Bruno onslaught. Bruno

jumped on the Bulldogs, scoring in the first three minutes on a power play. The shot came from Jessica Link ’05 assisted by Kristy Zamora ’02. Brown dominated the rest of the period, but didn’t score again until 14:27, when Kerry Nugent ’05 brought it in, passing to Zamora right before the goal for a quick, clean shot.

Brown had a secure 2-0 lead at the end of the first period.

The second period was sluggish until the 10-minute mark, when Brown pulled everything together and made a concentrated drive on the Yale goal. Link received the puck before the goal but was surrounded by blue jerseys, and as they fought for the puck, Zamora positioned herself on the left. Link managed to fend off the Bulldogs enough to send it out to see W. ICERS, page 9

The women’s water polo team won all three games this weekend at the League Tournament, held at UMassAmherst March 10, to boost its overall record to 9-4 this season. The Bears beat Harvard 8-6, Connecticut College 14-3 and UMass 8-7.

Jeanie Ward-Waller ’04 and Diana Livermore ’05 led the Bears with six and five goals respectively. Noel Pacarro ’02, Tori Barbata ’03, Barbara Edwards ’05, Kristin Vollmer ’05 and Julie Williams ’03 scored three each.

During the game against Harvard, Pacarro, Ward-Waller, and Barbata each scored twice, while Edwards and Livermore contributed one goal each. Alexa LaFaunce ’03 made four saves in net for the Bears as they defeated the Crimson 8-6.

Against Connecticut College, Vollmer, Williams and Livermore each scored three goals to lead Brown. Pacarro and Ward-Waller added one each, along with Melissa Iagulli ’03, Evan Gill ’05 and Heidi Wendt ’04. LaFaunce made two saves to help secure the 14-3 victory.

In the last game of the day, the Bears were victorious over UMass, 87. It was the second time they had defeated the Minutemen this season.

Ward-Waller paced the Bears with three goals, and Edwards pumped in two. Barbata, Livermore, and Iagulli each scored one goal apiece, while goalie Keira Heggie ’04 contributed 10 saves in net.

Brown will compete March 24 against Long Beach State at Hawaii.