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Plans for new parking lot raise concerns with area neighbors BY KRISTEN GENTILE

Some Fox Point residents and College Hill community members have expressed concern over a possible University plan to build a parking garage near India Point Park near I-195’s Gano Street exit. The University is considering three sites for a garage: Lot 2 at the OMAC, Pembroke Field, which is bounded by Hope, Cushing, Meeting and Brook streets, and a property on Tockwotten Street, located near India Point Park that currently houses two storage buildings. The University will not make a decision about additional parking until July when the City of Providence has asked for Brown’s decision, said Director of Planning Michael McCormick. The Brown Green Party leads the opposition to the India Point Park site on campus. They co-signed a letter to the University administration outlining their concerns

along with the Brown College Democrats and Brown Environmental Action Network, said Ian Carroll ’03 of the Brown Greens. The Brown Green Party faults the University for not firmly pushing for a reduction in cars on campus, Carroll said. The Brown Green Party points to Cornell University’s parking system as a model for Brown to emulate. Cornell instituted a Transportation Demand Management Program in 1991 to handle the problem of increased traffic and parking on its campus. By encouraging carpooling and the use of mass transit, Cornell reduced the amount of cars on their campus. In 2001-02, 37 percent of Cornell employees used mass transit or carpool, according to the university’s Commuter and Parking Services Web site. “The number one priority needs to be car reduction and other alternatives,” said Ellen Bak / Herald

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Dukakis, a high-speed rail supporter, is vice president of the board at Amtrak.

High-speed rail demands federal funding, Michael Dukakis says BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ

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Tockwotten Street near India Point Park is one of possible location for a new parking lot, but the plan is a cause for concern in some neighboring communities.

Former presidential candidate and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis argued for substantial federal investment in high-speed rail at a Thursday lecture in lower Salomon. Now vice president of Amtrak’s board, Dukakis maintained that a national commitment to a high-speed railway system would be more cost-effective for the government and more convenient for citizens. The government last year spent $33 billion on highways, $12 billion on airports and only $350 million on Amtrak, Dukakis said. “This country has never made anywhere near the kind of commitment to rail as it has to airports and highways,” he said. Dukakis supports a bill Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Joseph Biden, DDel., introduced last year, allowing Amtrak to issue up to $12 billion in bonds, according to Hutchison’s Web site.

Amtrak will need $4.6 billion the bill’s first year and $2.5 to $3 million in the years to follow in order to maintain the current rail system and make “modest but consistent improvements,” Dukakis said. These funds “seem like nickels and dimes,” he said, when compared with the federal investment in airports and highways. A national high-speed rail system could be developed on existing tracks, Dukakis said. If standard tracks were upgraded, outfitted with modern equipment and crossings were closed, trains could run on them at up to 150 miles per hour, he said. Dukakis said he believed there is widespread interest in expanding high-speed railways. The majority of people travelling between New York and Washington, D.C., now use trains, he said, and, in 2000, Florida voted to establish an intra-city railway system. “When you give Americans good train see DUKAKIS, page 7

South Asian Identity Week commences with keynote speaker D’Lo BY JULIETTE WALLACK

The first ever South Asian Identity Week began Thursday night with a convocation featuring speeches addressing how the South Asian community can address the complexity of its identities and a keynote address that included stories about civil war in Sri Lanka. Keynote speaker D’Lo, a Tamil-Sri Lankan performance artist, offered a distinctive blend of comedy, dramatic works, storytelling and music to the audience of more than 100 people in Starr Auditorium. D’Lo presented a short history of herself, detailing how she went from being “honorary Chicana” to being accepted by “progressive South Asians” during college. She said college was when she began to learn about South Asian identity. “You were talking about how South Asia has all these different people in it, and there are not very many similarities,” D’Lo

said. She said she remembers growing up Sri Lankan, and “I didn’t even know we were near India until I looked at a map.” D’Lo talked briefly about Sri Lanka, her ancestral home, and spoke about the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka. Now, she said, “for the first time in a long while, there are peaceful negotiations going on.” She said she doesn’t believe in war because she doesn’t believe “people should get killed for no reason.” Because of the fighting, D’Lo said she began to write about the Sri Lankan civil war, and she shared one of the stories with the audience. The story blended the different lives of two boys — one from Los Angeles County and one from Sri Lanka. D’Lo said part of the story was inspired by the experiences of her cousin. Beginning by saying that “guns allow for a superiority complex,” D’Lo performed a short hip-hop piece about police brutality.

She also discussed sexuality and gender issues. D’Lo, who is transgendered, dedicated her third creative work to “my boys who are perfect gentlemen but perfect women all the same.” D’Lo performed a creative work for the women in the audience, saying it was a result of “the struggle we have as women, regardless of what shape or form we’re in.” The serious messages D’Lo conveyed were punctuated by jokes and musings, which ranged from thoughts on her mother to the “insanely bear-like squirrels” on college campuses and drew laughter from the audience. Eight students spoke about their identity and place in Brown and America’s South Asian community. There are “so many issues which require see SOUTH ASIAN, page 6

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D’Lo, a Sri Lankan transgendered performance artist, kicked off the first annual South Asian Identity Week in Starr Auditorium Thursday.

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T U.S. Rep. James Langevin speaks on challenges of physical disability page 5

Alex Schulman ’03 says we must question of Saudi peace plan is just a bluff column,page 11

20th-ranked men’s lacrosse claims first Ivy win with 9-8 victory over Yale page 12

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2002 · PAGE 3

With bag full of tricks, Matt Haicken ’02 proves hand really is quicker than the eye BY KATHERINE BOAS

With the flick of a lighter, Matt Haicken ’02 grabs the attention of five students. He sets a small piece of tissue paper on fire and puts out the flame with his bare hand. Instantly, he opens his hand and reveals a shiny halfdollar. “Have you ever seen one of these?” he asks them as he nimbly flips the coin around with his fingers. Before the women have a chance to respond, he waves his fist and produces a coin twice as large as the first. The metal hits the table with a loud clink. “Can you do that again?” Laura Myers ’02 asks curiously. “It’s magic — it obviously didn’t really happen,” Teresa Fraguada ’04 retorts with a smile, but her body says something entirely different: Fraguada is intrigued, and she won’t let Haicken leave until he does at least a half dozen more tricks. Haicken’s bag of tricks is plentiful, especially considering he’s been performing professionally for just a few weeks. The Brown senior has been performing magic downtown at the Irish pub RiRa every Saturday night since the beginning of February. “If you liked the show, please be sure to tell the manager on your way out,” Haicken tells his audience at the close of each show. He’s trying to make a good impression, but his show speaks for itself — table after table, Haicken impresses every audience. His sleight-of-hand tricks make some smirk in disbelief and others shriek in amazement. Haicken enjoys performing, too. “It’s like I get paid to play,” he says, his fingers constantly manipulating a quarter as it swims effortlessly around his hand. Haicken says he started performing at restaurants to earn money. During his first two years at

At Doyle Gallery, artists celebrate the crazy color orange BY SARA DOWD

Brown he tried other jobs, including tutoring at the Wheeler School and raising money for Brown by asking alumni for donations. But after he returned from his junior year abroad, he “really wanted to see if I could make it as a professional magician,” he says.

The “Celebrate Orange” exhibition, now showing in the Sarah Doyle Gallery, celebrates the color for which it is named with a delightful collection of pieces that vary in intensity of mood. The 18 works by professional artists cover the gallery’s two rooms and all relate to the color orange in some way — whether it be in a title or within a painting as a small dab of orange. Most of the pieces are paintings drawn in either acrylics or oils — some on canvas, others on wood or thick paper. The gallery’s welcoming orange walls do not overwhelm viewers. Pieces are organized to fit the rooms exactly — Ruth Dealy’s abstract “Untitled” painting stretches from window to window in the room that faces Benevolent Street. Also in this room is Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service Peter Hocking’s “When I’m nervous, I drink like a boy,” which covers the opening of the fireplace. But the image of fire is not obscured. In the painting, a man nervously holds his mug with two hands, betraying the “fire” of his feelings in the red tones Hocking gives to his skin. Above the fireplace sits Paula Martiesian’s “Studio View with Orange Tree,” a landscape drawn with feeling and expression. Instead of adopting a meticulous style, Martiesian uses long, free brush strokes to create a street scene that includes an orange tree. More contemplative than the average hearth painting, Martiesian’s piece conveys a sense of both balance and liberation through its unconventional style. Beata Stepien Liu’s “South” stands out. Liu’s juxtaposi-

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Magician continued from page 3 On an average night, Haicken earns about $50 an hour, including tips. For someone who says he used to hate magicians, Haicken has come a long way. When Haicken was in elementary school, his family saw Penn and Teller while vacationing in New York, but the six-year-old was hardly impressed. They had come from Florida to see the touring magic show and young Haicken even volunteered to participate, “but I didn’t come home and want to be a magician.” His parents later bought him a magic set, but Haicken wasn’t interested. It wasn’t until he was at a party near his home in Tampa during the summer after his first year at Brown that Haicken became inspired by magic. A friend performed card tricks, levitated a dollar bill and made a cigarette disappear, and Haicken remembers being “a magician’s nightmare” when he asked how each trick worked. “Of course he wouldn’t tell me,” Haicken says. “And I thought, oh, well, magic is so stupid. I hate magicians — they’re so pretentious and they’re such dorks.” Though at the time he had “absolutely no interest at all” in magic, Haicken remembers going to a local magic store to learn a few tricks “just to spite my friend,” who was territorial about his magic and where he learned it and “didn’t want any-

one else to steal his spotlight.” In what started as revenge on his friend, Haicken went to The Trick Shop in nearby Largo, Fla., one of several magic stores in the area, and bought a book to teach himself magic. He used that book to learn his first trick, producing a handkerchief from nowhere — with “no sleeves on or anything like that.” Haicken spent the following summer in New York, where he visited two magic stores and talked informally to magicians who spent time in those stores. One store, Abacadabra, sponsored an amateur magic show every week. Haicken remembers the composition of the shows’ audiences, “the eight-year-olds, their grandparents and me,” but he said he didn’t mind standing out from the crowd. “I was so into it,” he says, laughing a little. “I would push those kids away to get a frontrow seat.” Haicken got serious about his hobby last year, after he showed his two magic books and small repertoire of tricks to his host family in Madrid. The family told him about a magic school near their home run by Juan Tamariz, one of Spain’s legendary magicians. Haicken enrolled in a weekly magic course and was the only American in a class taught completely in Spanish. In Spain, Haicken learned the basics of card tricks — including a version of the three-card monte — along with some psychology and magic theory. “Some magicians say magic only happens in the minds of the spectators, and human beings are bad recording devices,” he

explains. Haicken also joined a magician’s society in Madrid. Every Monday the members shared tricks and secrets with each other over dinner. Now back at Brown, Haicken spends at least three hours a week studying magic in the John Hay Library, which has one of the country’s foremost magic collections, including a library of videos featuring Tamariz. The middle-aged Spanish man shows his exuberance for his profession through his tapes, sing-songing when he’s completed a trick and displaying his toothy grin throughout his show. At the end of each tape, Tamariz explains in his thick Spanish accent how the tricks work. Haicken is one of only a few people who use the Hay’s magic collection — he’s on a first-name basis with the librarians, who in turn rave about him and his passion for magic. The nearly 10,000 books, videos and tricks were the personal collection of H. Adrian Smith ’30, who donated his magic collection to his alma mater just before his death in 1992. Smith worked his way through Brown as a magician and was a member and past president of the Society of American Magicians. He was a traveling salesman by profession who always wore the same red tie with aces. Smith left the Hay half of his estate to use an endowment of $6,000 a year to keep the collection current. “That’s the magic of Mr. Smith’s collection,” says John Stanley, the special collections bibliographer in charge of the H.

Adrian Smith Collection of Conjuring and Magicana. “He provided for it even after he was gone.” The Hay collection began as Smith’s personal collection, housed in his Attleboro, Mass., home until it moved to Providence. Smith had no children and would often host scholars who traveled to use his extensive collection, Stanley says. The collection focuses on Smith’s interest of close-up magic, which is Haicken’s specialty as well. Since he discovered the Smith collection in September, Haicken has concentrated his learning on the Hay’s resources — some books, but mostly videos — because he knows he won’t have access to them much longer. “I kind of want to soak up everything, but there’s only so much you can learn at a time,” he says. This year, Haicken will help choose what the Hay will add to its collection next. At restaurants, Haicken’s fiveminute routine varies from table to table but generally consists of tricks using coins, cards, sponge balls, bills or handkerchiefs. As he makes his way around the restaurant, his silvery shirt’s sleeves remain rolled up a little and his pockets and belt pack are completely filled with tricks. He tries to approach tables of people who aren’t eating and prefers larger groups to couples. He tries to explain his last rule for selecting audiences: each group must have at least one female. “All men, they don’t — I don’t know.” Haicken makes an exception to his second rule for the couple seated in the corner of Viva.

“I need two volunteers from the audience,” he tells Thomas and Lisa Kalcas as he prepares for his favorite trick. “I guess that means us,” Lisa Kalcas says with a smile. Listening intently to Haicken’s directions, she extends her right hand and grasps a small red ball, much like a clown’s nose, squishing the foam as she tightens her fist. Her husband takes a second ball, and Haicken takes the third. Seconds later, Haicken opens his fist to reveal nothing — his clown nose is gone. But not for long. Thomas Kalcas still has his ball, but his wife has two. The couple laughs and asks for more, and Haicken gladly agrees. “I think it’s a great idea,” Thomas Kalcas says of Haicken’s entertainment. Restaurant management agrees: Soon after his audition, Haicken is hired to perform weekly at Paragon and Viva. Haicken says he plans to continue performing magic at least until graduation, but he is unsure about his plans after that. He is considering law school somewhere down the road, somewhat because of its similarity to magic. “Both have to do with theater and fooling people,” he says with a smile. Like any good magician, Haicken won’t repeat or reveal his tricks to incredulous audience members. But he maintains that becoming a magician isn’t impossible. “Magicians say never reveal your secret, but the rule is if someone really wants to become a magician, the secrets are out there,” he says. “Most of them.”

Doyle continued from page 3 tion of contrasting colors, with bright oranges and reds next to dark strokes of green and blue, subverts the viewer’s expectations. The serene yellow sky creates an even more dynamic contrast. Other works are equally interesting, yet puzzling. David Manzella’s two pieces lend a lighter atmosphere to the gallery. “Ta Da” is a piece with three children dancing and a statement on top of the work saying, “Mendelism states that offspring of the union of two pure orange bushes will always be orange.” Manzella’s other piece, “Never Eat Blue Soup,” reflects an older man with a bowl of blue soup in front of him. In a word bubble he is saying, “Never eat blue soup” and the words “THINK ORANGE, THINK ORANGE” are stamped into the wood. Manzella’s pieces break from the intensity of the gallery’s other works. The show, which opened April 1, will run through April 26.

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Health care in dire straights, U.S Langevin details a life of challenge Rep. Norwood tells Sayles crowd BY JAMAY LIU

U.S. Rep. James Langevin’s life changed dramatically when he was 16. Langevin was set on a career in law enforcement when he was young, but he had to redefine his dreams when a bullet ricocheted off a locker in the Warwick, R.I., police station and hit him, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, he said. Langevin said what was most difficult for him was overcoming his psychological problems, “knowing that my dreams had been ripped away.” In a lecture called “Conquering Challenges: An Inspirational Look at Personal Empowerment,” Langevin spoke Thursday about the importance of perseverance in overcoming obstacles, such as disabilities, as well as the need for increased

BY SHANA JALBERT

U.S. Rep. Charles Norwood, R-Ga., told a Sayles audience Thursday that the country’s healthcare system is in desperate need of repair. He spoke as part of the ongoing conference, “Health Care in an Aging Society.” Norwood, who introduced legislation that founded the patients’ rights movement, cautioned that the cost of government funded healthcare is increasing to unsustainable levels. Taxpayers pay for the majority of Medicare, Medicaid, military healthcare, community health centers and the Children’s Healthcare Insurance Program, Norwood said. If government does not reform Medicare, it will compose 30 percent of the federal budget by 2030, Norwood said. He said the addition of a prescription drug plan could push the cost to 36 percent of the budget. The government must look for a longer-term solution other than raising taxes, Norwood said. Reimbursement rates for doctors don’t cover the cost of the care, Norwood said, so doctors might stop seeing Medicare patients. Many obstacles make a solution to health care problems difficult because it is such a highly politicized issue, he said.

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U.S. Rep. James Langevin in his wheel chair.

Intrusions, larceny reported last month BY AUSTIN HEAD-JONES

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Norwood delivered his address “Health Care in an Aging Society”Thursday night in Sayles Hall. He stressed the solution will only be reached through political means. see NORWOOD, page 7

An unidentified intruder and larcenies were reported to Brown University Police and Security between March 6 and April 1. A student reported an unidentified man was in her room on March 17, between 4 and 5 a.m. The man looked through her desk drawers, and she asked what he was doing. He said he was looking for alcohol. The student told him to leave, which he did. The man is described as being between 18 and 21, with short, brown hair and many tattoos. The student’s door was unlocked when he entered her room.

A camcorder worth $2,000 was taken from Metcalf Lab between March 6 and 11. There were no signs of forced entry. A locker was robbed in the Pizzitola Sports Center on March 14. Someone snapped the combination lock off the locker, and a gold Wiltnauer pocket watch was taken. A Handspring Deluxe Graph Visor was taken from an office in the Rockefeller Library between March 19 and 20. The complainant said he didn’t know if he had locked the door to his office or not. see CRIME, page 7

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South Asian continued from page 1 discussion and exchange,” said Vivek Kothari ’03, co-programmer of South Asian Identity Week, in his introductory speech. Manisha Kumar ’04, co-programmer of South Asian Identity Week, said she enjoyed the convocation. She said while the students’ speeches were more

directed to the South Asian community at Brown than D’Lo’s performance, both parts of the evening were helpful. “The South Asian students could speak more specifically to the South Asian students at Brown as members of that community,” Kumar said. D’Lo, however, addressed “South Asian communities in general” and shared her art, and with her help, organizers were able to address both perspec-

tives, Kumar said. She said she thought both parts of the program were effective. This is the first South Asian Identity Week at Brown, Kumar told the audience. Other events include a South Asian Women’s Collective brunch on Sunday and a Political Action Weekend April 12 and 13. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

Parking continued from page 1 Riana Good ’03, a member of the Brown Green Party. McCormick said the University is looking into a number of programs concerning car reduction, but Brown is just beginning that process. The Brown Green Party also opposes the possible movement of parking from the stadium lot in the wealthier Elmwood Avenue area to the less affluent lower Gano Street area. Good said it is “an issue of economic justice” as the wealthier area is pushing the unwanted parking into a poorer one. But McCormick said if additional parking is shifted to the Elmwood neighborhood, cars will have to drive through the East Side to park. If the lot is by Gano Street, cars could get off I-195 and park immediately. McCormick said such a parking garage could reduce traffic on Gano Street, which is the most heavily traveled two-lane road in Rhode Island, according to the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. The Brown Green Party and community group Friends of India Point Park expressed concern about the effect a parking garage would have on the park.

Langevin continued from page 5 understanding from the general public about disability issues. He emphasized the significance of the Americans with Disabilities Act passed in 1990, but also emphasized that although “so much has been passed, more work needs to be done. “We can pass all the laws in the world, but unless people understand them, it’s hard to know what ADA has to offer,” he said. Langevin said he recognizes his own “success story.” After changing his goals from law enforcement to lawmaking, he embarked on an impressive political career. At age 30, he became the country’s youngest secretary of state ever as Rhode Island Secretary of State. Langevin stressed his success did not come overnight and said stories like his are rare. After his accident, studying and working hard became more crucial for him, because “education would be what would open doors for me,” he said. But he said it wasn’t easy. Providence College was his first choice school, but the inaccessibility for disabled students there drove his decision to enroll at Rhode Island College instead, he said. Even now, 11 years after the

“Parks are for people, not for cars,” said David Riley, co-chair of FIPP. Riley said a Brown garage near the park would further reduce the already diminishing waterfront in Rhode Island. “Shoreline parks are sacrosanct and the heritage of our state,” Riley said. There will be numerous improvements to India Point Park in the upcoming years, Riley said. The East Bay Bike Path, which begins at the park, will have its own bridge when the Washington Bridge is renovated. The elevated Gano Street highway ramps will be removed, allowing more waterfront space and a better view. In a letter to the Brown administration, the FIPP stressed the entire community, including the University, should cherish India Point Park. Brown needs to recognize its own “long-term self-interest” in the park, the letter said. FIPP representatives contacted the University about their opposition through both letters and meetings. They collected 850 signatures on a petition opposing the parking garage. The Fox Point Citizens Association also sent a letter to President Ruth Simmons against a garage. No one wants a parking garage in their neighborhood, but Brown needs to make a decision that is best for the University and the community, McCormick said.

ADA was passed, inaccessibility is still a problem, Langevin said. He said, it is a “national disgrace” that out of the 53 million people with a disability of some form in the United States, 70 percent are jobless. Langevin said a dialogue with the administration and persistence in demanding change are key ways to improve accessibility on campuses like Brown. “The law has passed, but it’s still going to take individuals speaking out, talking about problems and addressing obstacles to make a real difference,” he said. “We need to raise awareness so that people with disabilities will have the opportunity to pursue their goals and dreams as I did,” he said. “Not everyone knows that every obstacle is an opportunity to overcome and succeed. “Life doesn’t always turn out the way we expect it to. The challenge for us is to find ways to adapt,” he said. Langevin recited his favorite quote, by Ernest Hemingway: “The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” Langevin spoke in conjunction with the second annual Disability Awareness Day, to be held on April 10. Herald staff writer Jamay Liu ’05 can be reached at jliu@browndailyherald.com.

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Norwood spoke in detail about the movement for patients’ rights. The majority of Americans have employer-based healthcare plans, and 70 percent of those have managed care, which means there is a third party between sick patients and care providers, Norwood said. “The cost has risen out of sight,” he said, “and the answer to that is rationing healthcare.” But he said insurance companies must pay the fees for services doctors deem necessary for patients— if an insurance company’s refusal to pay for health services harms a patient, it must be held responsible for its actions, Norwood said. If held responsible for mistakes, insurance companies will not continue to make dangerous decisions, he said. When Norwood wanted to discuss patient care legislation that would discourage irresponsible insurance company activity in 1995, members of the U.S. House were not interested, he said. After creating a bill with U.S. Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich, they fought for its passage. Norwood said he had to change the bill so President George Bush would sign it. The bill still had “110 percent of what I ever dreamed of in 1995” even after changes made over issues of liability and federal control over state laws, Norwood said. But the bill is currently sitting on U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle’s, DS.D., desk, Norwood said. “I fear politics may have reared its ugly head,” he said, adding that he thought interest groups were stalling the process. Norwood asked the audience who should receive care, who should pay for it, how it should be paid for, why costs continue to rise, how long do we live and what role should the federal government play. He said he thought Congress would pass a prescription drug plan in incremental steps, starting with people who cannot afford medication. Norwood also emphasized the role of preventative healthcare, asking whether the government should offer incentives for people to take care of themselves. A dentist for 25 years before becoming a member of the U.S. House, Norwood quipped he was “a much better dentist than I am a congressman,” but said he changed professions to make a difference on many issues. Norwood is Chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections of the Education and Workforce Committee as well as Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The event was sponsored by the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and the Brown Medical School.

A student’s room in Perkins Hall was broken into between 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. on March 21, via an unlocked window. Several things were taken, including her laptop. The computer is a Gateway Solo in a black cloth carrying case, worth about $2,700. A locked bicycle was stolen from Jameson House between March 20 and 22. A locked 10-speed black mountain bike was stolen from the Graduate Center on March 21. A four-door Jeep Cherokee was broken into at Brown Street at about 10 a.m on March 22. It received heavy damage, and its CD player was taken. The Jeep’s owner heard his car alarm sound and ran back to his vehicle to find it damaged. A taxi driver nearby said a man pulled up to the Jeep and smashed in the passenger door. The man was described as about 5’8” with cornrow braids. A Dell laptop worth about $2,000 was stolen from the Watson Institute on March 26

Herald staff writer Shana Jalbert ’04 can be reached at sjalbert@browndailyherald.com.

between 12:30 and 2:00 p.m. A Dell laptop and other items from an office in Barus and Holley were taken between 10 and 10:45 a.m. on March 28. The stolen items are worth about $2,900. A dorm room was broken into in Andrews Hall while the students living there were away for spring break. Although they locked their door when they left, the door was unlocked when they returned, and several items worth about $240 were taken. A student’s laptop worth about $3,500 was stolen from Jameson House on April 1. The student left his room unlocked for about two minutes to visit a friend, and the laptop was missing when he returned. A wallet was stolen at the Bio Med Center on April 1. Several computers were also “tampered with,” according to a complainant. Anyone with information about the missing items and crimes should contact Brown University Police and Security. Herald staff writer Austin HeadJones ’05 covers crime. She can be reached at aheadjones@browndailyherald.com.

Dukakis continued from page 1 service, they ride it,” he said. In the next five years, Dukakis said he expects Amtrak trains to travel between Boston and New York in less than three hours, eliminating the need for shuttle flights. One in every three American flights currently travels less than 350 miles, which crowds airports unnecessarily, Dukakis said. In Europe, where high-speed rail connects much of the continent, many airlines are phasing out domestic flights altogether, he said. “Don’t build more runways, get those domestic flights out of there,” Dukakis said. In addition to federal cost benefits, Dukakis said he believes a national high-speed rail system would improve quality-of-life for travellers. Railways transport people directly into urban centers with minimal hassle beforehand, he said. “You don’t have to take your shoes off unless you want to,” he said. Dukakis supported the creation of a national, high-speed railway since the 1970s, he said. After the

federal government developed Amtrak in 1971, Massachusetts, with Dukakis as governor, became the first state permitted to use highway dollars for public transportation, he said. “If I’d won that thing,” he said of the 1988 presidential election, “you’d have a national rail passenger system.” Many students present said they were equally interested in hearing about Dukakis’ plans for high-speed rail and seeing the former governor and presidential candidate. As an environmental studies major and Massachusetts resident, Kaytrue Ting ’04 said she found Dukakis inspirational and his argument convincing. Benjamin Rich, a post-doctoral research fellow, agreed. “I remember when he ran for president, and I wanted to see how he’s evolved over the years,” he said. Rich said he found the lecture interesting having grown up using New York City public transportation. Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.

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IN BRIEF Teen killers sentenced in Dartmouth professors’ murders HAVERHILL,N.H.(L.A.Times) — Two teen-age boys who killed

Dartmouth College professors Half and Susanne Zantop received long prison sentences Thursday, ending a saga that terrorized a calm campus community and, in its gruesomeness, startled a nation. The hearing sent 18-year-old Robert Tulloch to prison for life, with no possibility of parole.James Parker, 17, will spend 25 years to life behind bars. The proceeding in a small county courthouse here gave prosecutors their first opportunity to outline the grisly story of a pair of high school students who grew restless with rural Vermont and struck out to make their fortunes by robbing and killing people. In an emotional appearance before the court, the Zantops’ adult daughters also used the occasion to make their first public remarks about their parents’brutal slayings. “There’s no statement in the entire world that can capture the absolute horror, disbelief, pain, sadness and anger that my sister, my family and friends have experienced since the murders,”29-year-old Veronika Zantop, a Seattle physician, told the court.As her voice quavered, her 27-year-old sister, Marianne, a human rights worker, gently stroked her back. In their courtroom demeanor, the two defendants stood in dramatic and distinct contrast.Reversing his initial plea of insanity,Tulloch was steely.The tall, lanky teen-ager, a former student council president, stared straight ahead and declared himself guilty in the deaths of both acclaimed academics. Parker shuddered with sobs after acknowledging his guilty plea in the killing of Susanne Zantop.Because his hands were manacled, he could not wipe the tears from his eyes. “I’m sorry,”he finally stammered.“There’s not much more I can say than that.I’m just really sorry.” Parker — who cast frequent, frightened glances Thursday in the direction of his parents — turned state’s evidence in December, providing key information that solved the nagging mystery of why two Vermont high school students would take the lives of two famed academics they had never met or even heard of. His sentence was reduced in exchange for his plea.

Minority numbers show gains in University of California system LOS ANGELES (L.A. Times) — The University of California

announced Thursday it has admitted a greater proportion of underrepresented minority students for the fall freshman class than it did in 1997, the last year before it instituted a ban on affirmative action in admissions. The proportion of Latino, black and American Indian students admitted topped 19 percent, compared to 18.8 percent five years ago, the last time race and ethnicity could be considered as a factor. Throughout the UC system, the number of Latino students offered admission set a record for the second consecutive year. The number of admitted black students also rose, although not to record levels, officials said. UC officials expressed satisfaction with the rebounding minority figures, which they said reflected not only the shifting demographics of the state, but concerted efforts by the university to reach out to underrepresented students. “We’ve been seeing steady progress in this regard,” said Dennis Galligani, UC’s associate vice president for student academic services.“And this year we were able to reach 19.1 percent, so that’s very good news.” The percentages of Latinos and blacks also rose at UCLA — the UC system’s most popular campus — but remained virtually unchanged from last year at the university’s flagship campus, UC Berkeley. Across its eight undergraduate campuses, the UC admitted 48,369 California high school seniors for its fall class, a 4.9 percent rise from last year, according to the figures released Thursday. The figures do not include out-of-state or international admissions, which make up a relatively small proportion of the student population at the state’s leading public university system. University officials said all major racial and ethnic groups showed increases this year, including whites and Asian Americans, the largest and second largest groups of students admitted systemwide. Those groups grew 6 percent and 5 percent from last year, respectively.

Bush vows with firm new stand to end violence in the Middle East WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Declaring “enough is enough,” President Bush announced Thursday that he is dispatching Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to the Middle East next week in a bold but risky bid to end the raging violence and get Israel and the Palestinians back to the peace table. “The storms of violence cannot go on,” Bush said in a Rose Garden speech that included a series of stern messages for Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as for regional players in the escalating crisis. As basic steps, he called for Israel to withdraw its troops and the Palestinians to end a wave of terror. The president’s announcement marked a major policy reversal after a week of words but no new action. Administration officials said the president decided to act because of the mounting bloodshed and destruction on both sides, but also because of the looming dangers of a wider regional war. “The world finds itself at a critical moment. This is a conflict that can widen — or an opportunity we can seize,” Bush said, as Powell stood at his side. Shortly after Bush spoke, Israeli armor backed by helicopter gunships moved into Palestinian-ruled parts of the divided city of Hebron in an incursion that brought every West Bank city except Jericho under Israeli occupation. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says the week-old operation is designed to stop a wave of suicide bombings. Bush said Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat finds himself in a situation “largely of his own making” because he’s “missed his opportunities and thereby betrayed the hopes of the people he’s supposed to lead.” Saeb Erekat, the chief negotiator for the Palestinians, said late Thursday in Jerusalem that Arafat accepted Bush’s statement “without conditions” and welcomed Powell’s visit. But the administration hinted that it is fed up with Arafat’s unwillingness to act on his promises by suggesting that Powell also intends to hold talks with other Palestinian leaders — a slap on the wrist as well as a step preparing for a possible post-Arafat era. Whether Powell meets with Arafat will depend on the

outcome of the Palestinian leader’s meeting with U.S. envoy Anthony C. Zinni, which could come Friday, and Arafat’s success in controlling the violence over the next few days, administration officials said. Bush also demanded that Israel withdraw its troops from the cities it has reoccupied over the past week in the West Bank. “Israel must understand that its response to these attacks is only a temporary measure,” he said. In a conspicuous omission, the president did not use the word “immediate” as the time frame for the withdrawal, as he did in calling for an immediate cease-fire and an immediate resumption of negotiations. That wording suggests that the United States may tolerate a few more days of Israel’s incursion. U.S. officials later said Israel should act “very soon” to pull out its forces. In Israel, the Foreign Ministry welcomed Powell’s visit and promised “to do everything so that his mission will be successful.” But a statement from Sharon’s office said Operation Protective Wall would continue until Israel achieves its goal. A Defense Ministry spokesman predicted that the operation could last seven more weeks. Bush also called on Israel to halt the expansion of Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories and to ease border closures. “It is crucial to distinguish between the terrorists and ordinary Palestinians seeking to provide for their own families,” he said. Acknowledging he has no illusions about the difficulties ahead, Bush said Powell’s trip to the region will include three mandates: implementation of the recently approved U.N. Resolution 1402 to achieve an immediate and meaningful cease-fire; a full Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories; and fulfillment of the security plan devised last year by CIA Director George J. Tenet, followed by implementation of a proposal by former Sen. George J. Mitchell for resuming talks on a final settlement of the half-century conflict.

EPA will defend itself in dispute with Pentagon WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — For years, environmental restric-

tions have limited the military’s use of low-altitude training flights over certain lands that harbor endangered species. And just recently, the Interior Department told the Army that it could use the California desert to prepare its troops for Afghanistan only if exercises were conducted during daylight and on roads. The Pentagon had hoped that in George W. Bush, it had found a president who would lift these kinds of environmental restrictions in the name of national security. But now it could find itself locked in a bureaucratic battle with the Environmental Protection Agency, whose career staff has prepared for trench warfare against what it views as the Defense Department’s assault on long-standing environmental rules and laws. In recent weeks, the Defense Department has circulated to other federal agencies a draft of legislation that would waive provisions of a host of environmental laws for training exercises and other so-called readiness activities. But career specialists at the Environmental Protection Agency, in a briefing paper for EPA administrator Christie Whitman, blasted each Pentagon waiver request related to pollution laws. For instance, one Pentagon suggestion would exclude munitions, explosives and other weapons from the list of pollutants governed by the Clean Water Act. “The change to the definition of ‘pollutant’ under the draft bill is a broad change that could affect many sites and have far-reaching effects,” the EPA staff said in the briefing paper, a copy of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The EPA staff stressed that environmental laws already provide various mechanisms to exempt the military for reasons of national security or emergency. EPA spokesman Joe Martyak confirmed that the agency had been exchanging views with the Pentagon over the issue, but he would not give details about the EPA’s comments. He stressed that the EPA had not finalized its responses to the Defense Department’s proposals. In a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee last month, one top military official after another complained about the threat to military readiness caused by environmental regulations.

That committee plans to move legislation addressing the problems this spring, according to Sarah Shelden, spokeswoman for Chairman Joel Hefley, R-Colo. It is waiting for suggestions from the various military services before drafting its legislation. The Pentagon has not shared its draft bill with Hefley or his committee staff, Shelden said. Pentagon officials refused to comment on the draft document and would not say whether it reflected current thinking at the Pentagon. Speaking on National Public Radio Wednesday, Paul Mayberry, deputy under secretary of defense for readiness, said he had been working with other agencies on an administration proposal but stressed that no final legislative package had yet received the Pentagon’s approval. Nonetheless, the draft document and EPA’s staff comments gave at least an indication of the Defense Department’s effort to rein in an array of environmental laws through one sweeping bill. The draft legislation, entitled “Sustained Defense Readiness and Environmental Protection Act” and dated March 7, stressed that the expansion of federal and state environmental laws together with urban sprawl “has markedly restricted the military’s ability to train realistically.” This “encroachment has already negatively affected military readiness and will continue to erode it unless this trend is reversed,” the draft legislation stated. The EPA staff was particularly concerned about a Pentagon proposal that would prevent states from prohibiting military readiness activities that violated their air quality plans. Such a change could “force the states to take more stringent measures against private industry polluters in order to reach (Clean Air Act) ambient air quality standards,” according to the EPA briefing document. The agency’s staff was also concerned that the EPA might not be able to protect human health and the environment if Defense Department munitions and training rangers were broadly exempted from regulations under the Clean Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as called for in the Pentagon’s draft legislation.

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AOL says Microsoft sanctions would diversify computing (Washington Post) — An AOL Time Warner Inc. executive asked a federal judge Wednesday to envision a world in which personal computers could be tailored to the interests of particular users such as children, sports enthusiasts or music lovers and branded by companies such as Disney or Lego. Testifying in the third week of hearings on how Microsoft Corp. should be sanctioned for breaking antitrust laws, AOL vice president John Borthwick said that giving computer makers and others the ability to customize the Windows operating system with nonMicrosoft applications and branding would loosen the software giant’s operating system monopoly. “When someone turns on a PC ... the welcome, set-up and signup process is largely a Microsoft Windows experience,” Borthwick said in written testimony before being cross-examined. “This control over the interface and over the applications that can be included in the PC experience ... effectively gives Microsoft a unique ability to promote its products and services” over those of other providers.

Borthwick said AOL, a bitter Microsoft rival, has unsuccessfully encouraged PC makers to create such customized machines. In one prototype AOL developed for machines that would be aimed at children, the opening screens and icons of the Windows operating system have a Lego theme, including a Lego character as a navigational aid. Another prototype touted an AOL PC, leveraging its online service and Time Warner media content. Borthwick said other machines could be configured as sports PCs, finance machines customized by money-management companies, or MTV machines targeted at high school and college students. The AOL notion, which it dubbed the “open desktop” initiative, represents a key goal of state prosecutors who are seeking stiffer sanctions on Microsoft than those it agreed to in a proposed deal with the Justice Department. Both the states and the Justice Department recognize that computer makers are crucial to software competition because they are the primary vehicle for software distribution.

As US attempts fail, European Union makes offer to mediate Mideast conflict LONDON (Washington Post) — As criticism of Israeli military sweeps into Palestinian areas increased across Western Europe, the European Union Wednesday made a new bid to mediate the conflict, announcing it will send a team to seek peace that U.S. diplomacy has failed to produce. Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Pique told reporters that the 15-member EU would press for an immediate cease-fire, an Israeli pullback from Palestinian cities and a return to peace negotiations. But even before the team departed, European governments were asking for something Israel has been reluctant to grant, access to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Israeli tanks and soldiers have isolated him in his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In a news conference Wednesday, French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine sounded the European theme that Israel must change direction. “We cannot limit ourselves to what the Israeli government does or doesn’t want,” he said. “No government in the world fully supports what (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon is doing. He cannot achieve his goals in this way, beyond a temporary or ephemeral respite.” The decision to send a negotiating team, which will include Pique and possibly Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, followed an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.

European diplomats and major news organizations have been critical of the U.S. role in the current crisis, suggesting that the Bush administration tilted too much to the Israeli side. The EU, the chief financial backer of Arafat’s Palestinian Authority, has strongly opposed Israel’s suggestion that Arafat is the source of violence in the region. It was unclear what effect, if any, a European delegation would have. While the Palestinians have traditionally viewed the EU, withits sizable Muslim population and geographic proximity to the region, as an ally, the Israelis have often ignored its recommendations. Romano Prodi, the EU president, implicitly criticized the U.S. handling of the crisis, telling reporters that “it is clear that previous mediation efforts have failed and we need new mediation.” Prodi said “we need around one table United States, European Union, United Nations, Russia, moderate Arab states, Israel, andPalestinian Authority. We can’t get out of this situation with any other, partial solutions.” That would be a major departure from the current pattern, in which the United States dominates. The European media, never reluctant to trumpet perceived U.S. failures, was less diplomatic. “The Americans,” reported BBC anchor Peter Sissons on the British network’s main nightly news broadcast, “seem to see Israel’s aggressive actions as little more than an extension of

President Bush’s war on terrorism.” Another key European voice, Pope John Paul II, criticized Israel’s actions. A Vatican statement said the Pope “rejects unjust conditions and humiliations imposed on the Palestinian people, as well as reprisals and revenge attacks which do nothing but feed the sense of frustration and hatred.” The Vatican’s foreign office summoned Israeli and U.S. diplomats Tuesday and criticized the movement of Israeli tanks into Bethlehem and other West Bank towns. “The place where Jesus was born,” warned the Vatican news agency Fides, could “become the theater and cradle of massacres and violence.” The European Union has portrayed itself increasingly in recent months as a “new superpower,” in Prodi’s term, that should stand equal with the United States on the world stage. The Mideast is one place where the Europeans are eager to do that. While the Bush administration has largely sided with Israel in the current conflict, the EU has repeatedly expressed its determination to continue financial and diplomatic support for the Palestinians. Last month the EU announced an “emergency” grant of $45 million to the Palestinian Authority. The EU move to take a central role in the Mideast came as Bush’s closest European ally, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, was preparing to leave for consultations at Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Diamonds and coal A diamond to the future Brunonians accepted to the Class of 2006 this week. Coal to secret meetings. And a coal to secret reports while we’re at it. A diamond to Latino History Month. We look forward to an exciting few weeks of speakers, cultural events and other activities. A diamond to the Starr Foundation and its $15 million dollar gift to support need-blind admission at Brown. All we need is another thousand or so multi-million dollar gifts and we’ll be as financially sound as all the other Ivy League schools. Coal to Josiah’s for falsely claming to recycle. Shame on you. Josiah Carberry must be rolling over in his giant, underground, clay-pot-filled crypt. A diamond to janitors in our dorms that chat with us in the morning. Your friendly greetings help get us through our stressful days. A diamond to Michael Dukakis. Thanks for coming here to speak. We think most Americans realize now that they made a huge mistake back in ’88. A cubic zirconium to Spring Break, now that it’s over. In the word-coining tradition of Warren G. Harding, a return to school is truly a return to “mundane-acy.” A diamond to the Walters and to post-Walterization. Coal to colds in the spring. The month of April should be about sunshine, not cough medicine. And what’s up with 25 degree nights? A diamond to April Fools. Every month should have a day that’s all about lying to your friends. A diamond to the White Stripes. Especially Meg.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD EDITORIAL Beth Farnstrom, Editor-in-Chief Seth Kerschner, Editor-in-Chief David Rivello, Editor-in-Chief Will Hurwitz, Executive Editor Sheryl Shapiro, Executive Editor Brian Baskin, News Editor Kavita Mishra, News Editor Andy Golodny, Campus News Editor Bethany Rallis, Campus News Editor Elena Lesley, Arts & Culture Editor Juan Nunez, Asst. Arts & Culture Editor Jonathan Noble, Campus Watch Editor Chris Byrnes, Metro Editor Victoria Harris, Opinions Editor Sanders Kleinfeld, Opinions Editor Shana Jalbert, Listings Editor Maria DiMento, Listings Editor Marion Billings, Design Editor Stephen Lazar, Design Editor Stephanie Harris, Copy Desk Chief Jonathan Skolnick, Copy Desk Chief Josh Apte, Photography Editor Makini Chisolm-Straker,Asst.Photography Editor Allie Silverman, Asst.Photography Editor Grace Farris, Graphics Editor Nathan Pollard, Graphics Editor Brett Cohen, Systems Manager

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LETTERS As Ivy,Brown cannot shed ‘snob’reputation To the Editor: In her article which attempts to expose classism on the part of Brown students (“Brown Students — a bunch of rich snobs?” 4/4), Kerala Goodkin muddies her argument with irrelevant anecdotes and poorly thought out logic. First and foremost, any school in the Ivy League, simply by virtue of being an Ivy League school, has a reputation which includes snobbery, old money and elitism. Regardless of how well-founded that reputation is for Brown in particular in this day and age, it has a bigger impact on others’ perception of Brown than any actions Brown students take. The anecdote of a classmate sarcastically deriding bartending as “a good use of a Brown education” has nothing to do with classism; taking a job which does not require the degree(s) one has earned or the skills one has learned is, in fact, a poor use of that education. If you aren’t using your education, then you are certainly putting it to poor use, just as surely as someone with a doctorate in astrophysics would be putting his education to poor use by working as CEO of a charitable organization. It has nothing to do with the worth of the job but the relevance to the education one has received. Goodkin also fails to recognize that Brown is a private university and, as such, is entitled to close its private property to non-students. It is admirable that Brown has not done so, but the question of “What business does Brown have ‘carding’ students on its campus in the first place?” has a simple answer: the safety and security of Brown students, faculty, employees, and property are a priority, and providing a park or a shortcut to the local populace is not. The message sent to Providence’s working class is that Brown is not a public park, and visitors are welcome only insofar as they do not negatively impact our community. Shedding our reputation as rich snobs is probably desirable, and certainly prejudice based on class/socio-economic standing is undesirable; however, some of the attitudes and behaviors Goodkin has identified as the root of the problem are off the mark. Students should be encouraged to treat Brown employees (and, for that matter, anyone else they may encounter) respectfully and pleasantly and to contribute to the community which surrounds them. We cannot, however, expect to maintain the quality of our community and environment while tolerating abuse

of Brown people or property. The policies that isolate Brown from the rest of Providence are deliberate and important. As much as we may be located in Providence, we are our own community with our own goals and values.

Gregory Seidman GS April 4

In letter, Simmons advocates blind faith in administration To the Editor: In her March 13 letter entitled “Release, publishing of security report a setback to student empowerment,” Ruth Simmons reflects a belief on her part that trust is a one-way street. While I respect President Simmons greatly, I must dissent from her vision of a sound, representative and fair community governance model. Simmons seems to think that trust, transparency and shared governance on campus depend on a blind acceptance of administrative decisions. She says that certain student groups (with which I am not affiliated) violated the principles of Brown’s system of shared governance via “the improper release and publishing of this confidential memorandum” The reader is supposed to accept without any proof that making this memorandum confidential was just and appropriate. Despite many questions, students were never told why it was so important to keep it secret, or who and what were harmed by its release. We were simply asked to trust a decision made by the administration, with some input from UCS — a club that hardly represents or governs the students. I would like to suggest that the students who distributed this “confidential” memorandum did something quite right and proper: they questioned the legitimacy of this document’s confidential labelling. Until the administration can find a way to generate a community consensus on what information deserves this designation, students can empower themselves only by resisting and counteracting the administration’s efforts to keep secrets without justification. Seth Pipkin ’02 April 4

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The limits of the Arab/Israeli conflict One can’t help but wonder if the Saudi peace plan is a bluff L A S T S E M E S T E R , P R E - S E P T. 1 1 , crisis, though very important in its own I opened a column by declaring, “The right, is only a part of the problem, not, as state of Israel is at war,” which has become some would suggest, the crux of it. As one more achingly apparent with every pass- who ultimately supports a two-state soluing month. Now, as the chaotic Arab tion, it has become clear in recent months League summit could not last one day that a sovereign Palestine (achieved somewhat, though not perfectly, without a deadly Passover sui1993-2001) will probably do cide bombing being carried little to mitigate the lasting out in Israel, as American problems in the region, where interlocutors furrow their a pathological anti-semitism brows and as Israeli forces preof medieval breeding has been pare for what could be massive used as an ideological tool of sweeps into refugee camps in population control by corrupt the West Bank and Gaza, it is or failing Arab regimes ever clear we could soon reach the since the first gasps of Zionism limits of the Arab/Israeli conin the early 20th century. flict, for good or ill, in a manRecently, the West itself, espener not seen since the Yom ALEX SCHULMAN BORN TO RUN cially America, has had its Kippur War. identity blurred into Israel’s to With the United States evithe point where either entity dently preparing to effect a could stand in for the other in “regime change” in Iraq one way or another, the hostilities must now be this same equation, as we have seen recentseen in a broader sense than two peoples ly with Al Qaeda. This is the famous “clash vying for that tiny strip of land. With the of civilizations.” One area where the left and right have Soviet Union a fading memory and China as much strategic partner as ideological foe, agreed, since Sept. 11, is in rejecting this it is natural the Middle East, particularly cultural clash, east vs. west theory. Each after last fall, will now become the fulcrum side has different, valid reasoning. The right of foreign affairs, the most complex, trou- is concerned with realpolitik — we need bling and dangerous region on earth. Arab allies, no matter how brutal and corCurrently, it is the area most likely to see the rupt, to effectively mediate the region and detonation of a nuclear weapon — if we its oil resources. Liberals have more of a enter endgame with Saddam Hussein, and philosophical agenda in their rejection. For back to the wall, he uses biological the leftist project to come off, we must weapons against Americans or Israelis — insist, to our very last breath, that everyone and thus, the progenitor of a different mod- on earth basically wants the same things: ern world, with the likely Pan-Arab/Israeli participatory democracy, social justice, war that could follow further destabiliza- economic equality, etc. Both these views have their merits, but tion. The (non)resolution of the Palestinian each is grossly deficient in its own way. By turning a blind eye (or even a supportive Alex Schulman ’03 thought he tasted some- eye) to corrupt military dictatorships and brutal theocracies for a short-term ecothing funny in his matzoh last Wednesday. nomic advantage, the West shoots itself in His columns appear on alternate Fridays.

the foot — Arab political culture remains stagnant and backward, populations locked into cycles of religious extremism, their flux of negative emotions easily directable, via mosque and Mullah, toward a “Great Satan” straw man, usually Jews, and recently the United States also. To even begin reconciliation, we must do all we can to support democracy and secularism, and use our economic power as a punitive tool, making clear that the intolerance of not only an Iran or Iraq, but of Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia also, is unacceptable. The left, still locked into an essentially Marxist economics-only model, has been consistently unable to understand or even acknowledge the levels of religious extremism fueling the conflict. Carrying old baggage from Indochina and Nicaragua into the current war, they have, ostrich-like, avoided the uncomfortable truth that, like it or not, this is a deeply religious clash, and no grandstanding over U.S./Israeli “imperialism” will ever be able to explain the abyss of doctrinal hatred that drives a suicide bomber. Accepting such would mean accepting the equally troubling fact that many powerful Palestinian groups, almost all major Arab media and heads of state, including those who parade in front of Western cameras amiably discussing the likes of the Saudi peace plan, ultimately have had no interest in the past 50 years except seeing Israel wiped off the map. The recent overtures are no exception. Touted as a step forward by not only Western liberals but even the Bush administration, the Saudi peace proposal is just one more chapter in a long sleight of hand — that is, the destruction of Israel by diplomatic, if not military means. After three humiliating defeats — in 1948, 1967 and 1973 — the Arab nations surrounding Israel seemed to recognize that elimination of

Jews from the region by force was unfeasible. The new methods are subtler. They center around a “right of return” for Palestinian refugees and their descendants displaced in 1948, a migration that would demographically mean the effective end of the Jewish state, something Israel is supposed to consent to as part of a good faith measure. They are also expected to remit to the famous “pre-67” borders, which any other country on earth would rightly declare indefensible, not least of all after being invaded from all sides three different times. (Note: This column was written last week. The plan approved at the Arab summit refers vaguely to a “just resolution” to the refugee problem. It also replaced “full normalization” toward Israel with the colder “normal relations.”) The Camp David accords fell apart over this same question, thus framing the AlAqsa intifada. It is indicative of the bankruptcy of the entire debate. Oil-rich Arab states, never shy in declaring their hatred of all things Jewish, states that have done next to nothing to help suffering Palestinian refugees (they’d lose that great photo-op) but suddenly are their supreme advocates, tell the world it is only fair Israel meet suicide attacks with peace, and open its borders to its own dissolution. Lewis Carroll could not have written a better story. Israel has been nowhere close to perfect — their West Bank settlements, for one, must be dismantled. But most Israelis recognize that the occupation is an untenable position that eventually will end. The question is not only how it will happen, but whether, after the troops have gone, Egyptian state media will retract their claims of Passover matzoh being leavened with Palestinian blood — or put differently, whether Arab states will provide Israel and the West with anything but the most superficial diplomatic recognition.

University must consider alternate garage locations Building the proposed six-story parking structure on Gano St. will adversely affect the Providence environment PARKING, OR LACK THEREOF, IS A Meanwhile, community members have source of frustration for many members of been actively discouraging Brown from the University because of the infamous building on Gano Street; an oppositional parking crunch on the East Side. In an petition has been circulating that has effort to ameliorate the situation, Brown is received over 850 signatures at last count. reviewing sites for the construction of a Brown is absolutely responsible to the city new parking garage; one of the sites cur- and to its neighbors for seriously incorporently under serious consideration is on rating community sentiment into its planning. Gano Street next to India Point Brown has other options for Park, where Brown currently IAN CARROLL the location of a new parking owns a warehouse. Many comRIANA GOOD ALLISON structure, including sites on munity members are opposed SILVERMAN Elmgrove Avenue at the Brown to this proposed six-story GUEST COLUMN Stadium and at Pembroke garage by the park, and upon Field. The University has reviewing the situation we have become strongly concerned that received complaints from those neighborBrown is not pursuing the resolution of its hoods, and if Brown rejects these potential sites due to community sentiment, it parking problem fairly or responsibly. According to documentation acquired would be showing preferential treatment from the Providence Department of to these wealthier neighborhoods. Brown Planning and Development, Brown was has already agreed to eliminate overnight instructed to spend six to eight months parking in the current Stadium parking lot collecting information and getting com- because of neighborhood discomfort with munity input. It appears that Brown’s the bright lights. If Brown builds the proPlanning Department has studied the traf- posed garage on lower Gano Street, it fic impacts on Gano Street as well as esti- would in effect be relocating these 166 cars mated costs of construction. However, from a wealthy neighborhood with clout to Brown has not, as far as we’re aware, a poorer one lacking such influence. reviewed the lower Gano Street and Fox Brown must do everything possible to Point communities’ response to the pro- avoid such injustice. Constructing a parking garage next to posed structure or assessed its impact on the use and users of India Point Park. India Point Park not only goes against the interest of the neighborhood but of all This is Ian Carroll’s ’03, Riana Good’s ’03 and users of the park, and therefore the city of Providence. Planning is underway for four Allison Silverman’s ’05 first guest column major improvements to this area, includfor The Herald.

ing the relocation of the I-195 Bridge, which will increase the beauty and enjoyment of this gateway to the city. A park’s purpose by definition is to provide a refuge from the urban environment; its purpose is not to provide another place for cars. Frederick Law Olmstead, the father of American urban parks, said that parks should offer “the greatest possible contrast with the restraining and confining conditions of the town” so that people can “stroll for an hour, seeing, hearing, and feeling nothing of the bustle and jar of the streets.” Brown should be doing its part to protect the city’s waterfront park, one frequented by Brown students, faculty and staff alike, not making it a dumping ground for cars and increasing commuter traffic along the park’s border. Friends of India Point Park, a group of 50 concerned citizens organized to protect and improve the park, note the following: “Fox Point has too many cars already. Gano Street — with 30,000 cars a day — is the most heavily traveled two-lane road in the state, according to the Rhode Island Department of Transportation. It would be nonsensical to add a six-story parking garage at the end of Gano Street, especially when Fox Point residents have been objecting to the amount of traffic on that street for years.” In addition, Brown students and employees object to the inconvenient location. One solution to Brown’s parking problem, one that forward thinking cities and organizations everywhere have begun

adopting, is to simply reduce the amount of cars by supplying alternatives to singleoccupancy vehicle usage. Brown could pursue many options that include organizing carpooling, making public transportation more popular and accessible, discouraging student ownership of cars and encouraging walking and bicycling. Students at Brown’s Center for Environmental Studies have already researched the possibilities of such programs and made recommendations to the University. With support from students and the administration, and by review of successful programs at similar institutions such as Cornell University, Brown could go far in reducing the need for more parking. The Brown Greens, along with the College Democrats, Young Communist League and Brown Environmental Action Network, feel strongly that the University should reconsider building a new parking garage by India Point Park and seriously examine the potential effects on the community, the city and the environment. Our two questions are these: Has the divergent economic status of the neighborhoods surrounding the proposed sites made it possible to favor the site at India Point? Did the University commit to building a parking garage without exploring alternative means of alleviating parking pressure? Brown and members of the surrounding community must be sure that neither of these questions can be answered affirmatively.

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SPORTS FRIDAY APRIL 5, 2002 · PAGE 12

Gymnasts break record at ECAC Championships

20th-ranked men’s laxers capture first Ivy victory in 9-8 win over Yale

BY ALEX KORB

BY JONATHAN BLOOM

The Brown women’s gymnastics team came up huge this weekend at the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) championships. With enormous contributions from everyone on the team, they broke the school record with a total team score of 190.6. Numerous personal records were broken as well. Although they placed fifth out of seven teams, the women are very excited about their performance, and have high hopes for next season. The Bears improved a lot over the course of the season on the uneven parallel bars. Jayne Finst ’04 scored an enormous 9.775, while Kelly Moran ’05 earned a 9.65 for a new personal record. The team as a whole earned a season high score of 46.7 in the event. The vault saw strong scores from everyone on the team. Co-captain Virginia Nuckols ‘02 posted a personal best of 9.6, while co-captain Jessica Buck ‘02, earned a 9.45. The Bears came up big on floor as they always do. Everyone stepped it up, combining outstanding performances into a team total of 48.225. Finst scored an amazing 9.875. Melissa Forziat ’05 and Buck both posted a 9.775. When it came to the balance beam Brown exploded with an exhilarating show of strength and grace. Jamie Shapiro ’03 broke her personal record with a 9.725. She and Buck tied for 12th place out of 42 competitors. Forziat scored a 9.775, earning a tie for fifth place. Finst took it up one more notch, earning a 9.825 and a tie for third. With a team total of 48.225, the Bears took first place in the event. In the all-around competition Finst broke her personal and school record and earned a second place with a score of 38.825. Buck placed sixth with a 38.225. This gymnastics season, which coach Tom Miller called “the best in Brown history”, is over for almost all the Brown gymnasts. However, Finst scored high enough to qualify for ECAC Regionals, and will travel to Penn State this weekend to compete. While the graduating seniors will surely be missed, next year promises to be an exciting season with the return of numerous young stars.

With its back against the wall, the 20thranked Brown men’s lacrosse team (3-4 Overall, 1-0 Ivy League) came out firing Wednesday night. The Bears traveled to New Haven, CT to face off against the No. 13 Yale (4-2, 2-2), and came away with a much-needed 9-8 victory. The Bears led by as much as 9-4 with just over seven minutes left in regulation, and was able to fight of a late Yale rally to hold on for the win. The game, which was played in treacherous weather including gusting winds, rain and even hail at times, marked the first league contest for a Brown team whose sights are set on the NCAA tournament. “It’s the beginning of a long journey for us,” said co-captain Jon Thompson ’03, who leads the Bears in scoring and tallied three goals and two assists in the win. “Our goal is to make the playoffs, and right now our best shot is winning the Ivy title.” After an exciting first half which resulted in a 6-4 Brown lead, the action was slow in the third quarter, as Thompson scored the loan goal, extending the Brown lead to three. The Bears scored first two of the fourth to build a 9-4 advantage, as cocaptains Mike Albarelli ’02 and senior Jimmy Mormile ’02 both found the back of the net for their second goals of the game. Yale scored four straight to pull within one with 1:07 to play, but Brown won the following face-off and was able to control the possession until 28 seconds remained

SCOREBOARD Weekend Games Friday Women’s Tennis vs Princeton. 2 p.m. Men’s Tennis at Princeton. 2 p.m.

Saturday Track at Harvard/Dartmouth. Cambridge, MA. All Day Equestrian at Regionals. Storrs, CT. All Day Women’s Golf at Boston College Invitational Men’s Golf at Yale Invitational Women’s Crew vs Harvard. All Day. Women’s Water Polo vs Connecticut College. 10:30 a.m. Men’s Tennis at UPenn Women’s Tennis vs Upenn Baseball at UPenn Men’s Lacrosse at Georgetown Softball vs Harvard. 1 p.m. Men’s Crew vs. Boston University. 1:30 p.m. Women’s Water Polo vs UMass Amherst. 4:30 p.m. Women’s Lacrosse at Columbia Women’s Water Polo vs Harvard. 9 p.m.

Sunday Baseball at Columbia Softball vs Dartmouth. 1 p.m.

Yesterday’s Results Baseball BROWN 7, Northeastern 5

Softball BROWN 3, Holy Cross 1

on the clock. Ryan Culligan ’05 intercepted a Yale pass at midfield with 22 seconds left, sealing up the win. “It was a great way to start the Ivy schedule,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson. “(Goalie) Mike Levin ’04 had another excellent game in net with 14 saves, and the defense played solid all night. We won two thirds of the face-offs, got to most of the ground balls … it was a big win.” Brown jumped out to an early 2-0 lead off goals from Mormile and Mike Hughes ’03, before Yale’s Mike Scaglione would get the Bulldogs on the board at the 9:14 mark in the first quarter. Culligan extended the Bears lead to 3-1, and after a Yale goal, Thompson slipped one past the goalie to keep the two-goal advantage. Yale tied the score at 4-4 with two unanswered, but Brown would the final goals of the first half with Thompson and Albarelli assuring a 6-4 Brown lead at the break. “We were pretty sloppy early on,” Emily Hunt / Herald Thompson said, “but once we settled The men’s lacrosse team was beating Yale down and adjusted to the conditions, we by a score of 9-4 before having to fight off a started to play our game.” late rally to secure the win. The Bears came into the game looking The Bears will next take on unbeaten to bounce back from two heartbreaking defeats to No. 1 Syracuse and No. 3 Georgetown in Washington, DC on Loyola, losing 8-6 to Loyola and being Saturday, Apr. 6. “We’ve got to take it one game at a edged out 14-13 by Syracuse in an overtime thriller. When combined with a one- time,” Thompson said. “All we’re worried goal loss to No. 9 UMass earlier in the sea- about right now is beating Georgetown.” son, Brown has proved it can compete with any team in the country. Had a few Sports editor Jonathan Bloom ’03 covers breaks gone their way, the Bears would men’s lacrosse. He can be reached at surely be in the top 10 in the nation. jbloom@browndailyherald.com.

Men’s, women’s golfers off to hot Crew rows past start in 2002 season’s first outings the competition, BY JESSICA COOPER

Nothing in team sports is more satisfying than winning a championship. The Brown women’s golf team knows this feeling after clinching their first outright tournament title last week. The women opened the 2002 Spring season with a first place finish at the Florida Gulf Coast University Lady Eagle Spring Invitational, played at the Miromar Club in Bonita Spring, Florida. “This win was very positive for us,” said captain Rebekah Alfond ‘02. “We went in thinking we could win, but I think we surprised some people.” Looking ahead three weeks, the Ivy Championship is just on the horizon. By posting higher scores than Dartmouth and seven others in this past tournament, the Bears confidence is high. “This win is definitely a great boost in preparing for Ivies”, Alfond said. In the meantime, the Lady Bears will be working on perfecting their short game and playing under mock pressure situations. “The Ivy League has improved so much over the past few years, you can win or lose first place by one stroke. We have to keep up our fighting mentality” Alfond said. Brown carded a two-day 645 (321, 324) to outdistance the field by six shots. Tara Fiscella ’03 led the Bears and tied for first place after carding 74-80-154. She lost in a playoff for the individual title. Elizabeth Carpenter ’04, last year’s female Athlete of the Year at Brown, placed third overall, just one shot in back of Fiscella, carding 82-73-155. Jennifer Bley ’05 was 15th overall with a two-day 168 (83-85). Alfond shot 86-86-172 to finish 21st overall, while Amy Behrman ’05 came in at 173 (82-91), placing 26th over-

all. The Bears take to the course again this Saturday in the Boston College Invitational at Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Men’s Golf In their first appearance since last fall, Brown entered two teams at the 3rd Annual Johnson & Wales Invitational, held at the Links at Stony Ferry Golf Club in Hollywood, SC, and finished eigth and 10th, respectively, in the 15-team field. Optimistic about their finish, Dan Schochor ‘04 said, “Golf is a sport where each tournament builds on the next. Cumulatively, your bad days get to be not quite as bad as before. But just having a tournament to play in is the most important thing to getting you focused.” At a disadvantage compared to other teams in the tournament due to lack of course time in the winter, the Bears were able to post two solid finishes. “We were striking the ball well,” Schochor said, “but it was a tight course and our mistakes were magnified on the fairway. It’s just a matter of time before it all comes together.” Between now and the Ivy Championship in two weeks the team will be focusing on their short game to gain a better feel for the speed and line on the putting green. Also, a key component to any title or championship will be to stay mentally focused and shrug off mistakes. “This was our first tournament in a while, but the team morale is positive. We got to play a lot of rounds in South Carolina, with the addition of the upcoming tournaments, we are keeping the necessary competitive mindset,” Schochor said.

as men sweep Syracuse,women take Princeton BY ARI GERSTMAN

The men’s and women’s crew teams did extremely well in their races over spring break. The men swept Syracuse (Varsity, JV, and Novice all won) and the women beat Princeton and Mich. St. on the Varsity and JV levels. The race for the men’s oarsmen was particularly important, because it was Paul Cooke’s first race as head coach of the Varsity team. The men did exceptionally well despite the freezing conditions on lake Onondaga in upstate New York. The women’s crew team seized their opportunity to beat Ivy League competitor, Princeton, in a very important race. John Murphy, women’s crew head coach, realized how crucial this game would be, despite how early in the season it is. The women won two of the four races, beating Princeton and Michigan State. Both teams are extremely excited at this point. Coming off of these big wins, crew has a home race coming up on Saturday, which will be all day, starting at 1 p.m. on Narangasset Bay against Harvard.