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the same,” said Ead, who also owns Doris Vending.

Ead said he did not know if he was permitted to go to the casinos under his bail agreement.

Egbert told the jury that when Ead was on bail and had not yet cooperated with the government in December 1999, he visited Foxwoods 23 days that month.

“That’s indicative of someone with a gambling problem, isn’t it?” Egbert asked.

“No, sir,” Ead responded.

Because Ead said his vending business was generating profit between 1995 and 1998, and he had “no great need for money,” Egbert said Ead did not need cash and had a gambling problem.

Egbert then questioned Ead’s personal and business tax returns, which he subpoenaed two days earlier.

Ead could only produce his business returns for 1995, 1997 and 1998. He was not able to produce any personal tax returns.

The tax returns showed Ead’s business lost about $395,000 in 1995 and more than $354,000 in 1997. But Ead, who had difficulty interpreting the tax returns on the stand, said his losses were due to depreciation on his vending machines.

Egbert continued to attack Ead’s character, forcing the former city official to speak about the extortion and money laundering charges he pleaded guilty to.

Egbert alleged Ead lied under oath in the past and was investigated for insurance fraud in the mid-1990s.

Ead lied and falsified injuries, Egbert said. In one instance, the government’s witness claimed he was so hurt from a car accident that he could not move the machinery used in his business, but the insurance com-

Candidates for next year’s Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board executive positions identified their priorities and committed to meeting student needs in a series of debates Thursday evening.

Candidates for seven positions, including UCS president and UFB chair, spoke for three minutes each and took questions from the approximately 40 people in attendance, many of them candidates and their supporters.

The candidates for UCS president are incumbent President Rodrick Echols ’03, Campus Life Coordinator Anna Stern ’04 and Representative Allen Feliz ’03.

Langston Dugger ’04 and Sean Yom ’03 are running for UFB chair.

Echols said he thought the “council this year has been the most active and engaged in years.”

If elected, Echols said he would participate in implementing President Ruth Simmons’ Plan for Academic Enrichment, which includes faculty recruitment initiatives.

Echols said he also supports the creation of more student common space and called for increasing UCS efficiency.

Stern characterized herself as “a doer, not a talker,” and cited her work this year on Wellness Week, the Carberry Music Festival and the Van Wickle Gates birthday party.

As president, Stern said she would focus on connecting students and administrators, supporting athletics, reaching out to UCS committees and supporting University traditions and community-based activities.

Feliz asked Stern and Echols, whom he characterized as UCS insiders, to “pass the baton” to the candidate with “the most energy and the most critical eye.”

Feliz said he intends to create a more accountable student government, improve student services such as athletic facilities and build community through projects such as the Third World Transition Program’s diversity initiative, he said.

During the question and answer session, Stern said she favored arming Brown Police because she believes the disengagement policy makes it difficult for officers to protect the community.

Feliz said he felt Brown Police have not earned the students’ trust or the right to be armed, and Echols said he was “not in favor of arming Brown police.”

Dugger advocated a project-based system for allocating funding to student groups that would reward organizations for extensive planning, thorough preparation and strong past performance, he said.

Dugger, who participates in the Organization of United African Peoples and is co-editor-in-chief of “The African Sun,” focused on increasing funding for cultural groups and suggested cutting funding for inactive organizations.

His only opponent, Yom, accused Dugger of supporting cultural groups at the expense of others that serve a broader student population. Yom said he supports “a broader vision for fundraising at the University.”

Yom proposed using money from UFB’s holding account to support student groups, favoring those groups that serve the largest community and have a history of successful events.

UCS vice presidential candidate and current Alumni Liaison Deepah Kumaraiah ’03 emphasized her experience working on the council. As vice president, Kumaraiah said she would focus on creating a community calendar and increasing student access to alumni and the Corporation.

Kumaraiah’s opponent, Allison Roche ’03, said she would bring a “fresh perspective” to UCS as someone who

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see DEBATES, page 4

Charlie Hall

Defense attorneys for Mayor Vincent Cianci on Thursday cross-examined witness David Ead, a former city tax official who testified Wednesday that Cianci accepted bribes in return for city property, tax breaks and jobs. At left is FBI special agent Dennis Aiken. Behind the desk is Judge Ernest Torres. On the video screen to the right is videotaped evidence of bribery negotiations supplied by Providence businessman and FBI informant Antonio Freitas.

CIANCI DEFENSE GRILLS EAD

BY SETH KERSCHNER AND SHERYL SHAPIRO

Aggressively attacking the prosecution’s first witness, defense attorney Richard Egbert portrayed former Vice Chairman of the Providence Board of Tax Assessment Review David Ead as a gambling and lying crook in the third day of arguments in the government’s case against Mayor Vincent Cianci.

Egbert’s cross-examination of Ead asserted the former city official was testifying against Cianci and cooperating with the federal government to save his business and property, and stay out of jail.

Egbert represents the mayor, who is charged with racketeering, mail fraud and extortion.

At the beginning of his cross-examination, Egbert said Ead violated the conditions of his bail agreement and gambled about $897,000 after his arrest on corruption charges three years ago.

As a city tax official, Ead said he controlled bribe taking with Joseph Pannone, former chairman of the Board of Tax Assessment Review. Ead said he didn’t know any of the small homeowners he accepted $50 and $100 bribes from, and said he “absolutely” felt bad about it.

“Getting arrested changed my way of thinking,” Ead said. “Now I really want to do the right thing.”

But Egbert said in the last three months Ead tried to falsify city tax records to show he had paid his automobile excise tax in full when he had not.

Egbert said Ead had been to the Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun casinos in Connecticut 450 times since the FBI arrested him in April 1999.

Egbert claimed Ead violated his bail agreement, which only allowed him to leave Rhode Island for Connecticut and Massachusetts for business purposes.

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I N S I D E F R I D AY, A P R I L 2 6 , 2 0 0 2 Creators of musical ‘Straightman’ claim award for their production page 3

Cardboard Box Theatre Co. prepares to hit the roads of Canada this summer page 3

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Four alumni return to Brown to discuss science news coverage in the press page 5

Stephen Beale ’04 says it’s time to prioritize: the United States must come before Israel column,page 11

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CONFERENCE — “Negotiating Conflict Resolution and Postconflict Trajectories: Culture, Language, and Race in Global Politics.” Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall, 5:30 p.m.

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2002 · PAGE 3

‘Straightman’ creators receive 2002 musical theatre award

BY MEREDITH HEMPHILL

Thomas Beatty ’03 and Gabriel Kahane ’03 attended the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C., last Friday to receive a Musical Theatre Award for their musical “Straightman.”

Having applied on the advice of Professor of Theatre, Speech and Dance John Emigh, writer Beatty and composer Kahane said they were thrilled to win the award. They followed in the path of another Brown theater great, Steven Karam ’02, creator of “Emma” and recipient of last year’s award.

“It’s very difficult to assess your work objectively, and so it’s wonderful to find out that it is appreciated,” especially because “we put a lot of time and thought in it,” Kahane said.

“Straightman” began as a writing project for Beatty in his freshman year at Brown. Beatty, who recently moved to the East Coast from Los Angeles, Calif., found his new life and its contrast from his old brought up some interesting realizations about home.

He wanted to address the “self-consciousness” he saw in Los Angeles, particularly in the world of acting and music, he said.

“Straightman is a story about a very talented gay musician in L.A. trying to clarify his relationship to himself and to others around him,” Beatty said.

Kahane said he was more interested in challenging the assumptions that surround musical theatre and in the process, hoped to revive what many considered a “stagnant” art form. Beatty and Kahane used musicals like “Merrily

We Roll Along” as an example to draw from throughout the creation process, in an attempt to disprove the assumption musicals are “fluff.”

Kahane admitted that at the beginning of the project he was unconvinced the musical was a valuable contribution to the theater world. Beatty said it took him three days to coax Kahane into joining the project. In that time, they talked about the overall aim of the musical. They wanted members of the audience to “enjoy” what they saw and hoped they would “walk away thinking about things,” Beatty said.

Once he started composing, Kahane said his attitude changed as he saw his and Beatty’s dream slowly become a reality.

“With each day, I had more of an appreciation for musical theater and realized why it should be explored,” he said.

However, both said the production’s success was largely due to the dedication of its participants. Kahane said it was thanks to the “integrity” of the actors and directors — their energy and patience — that the production received standing ovations at almost every performance at Brown last semester.

“It was impressive to me how seriously everyone took the show,” he said.

Beatty plans to re-write parts of “Straightman” and send it to various acting workshops over the summer. He and Kahane have no future projects in the works, but they said they will collaborate on a new project at some point.

Herald staff writer Meredith Hemphill ’04 can be reached at mhemphill@browndailyherald.com.

Cardboard Box company to tour Canada this summer

BY STEFAN TALMAN

Two years ago, the Cardboard Box Theatre Company was formed as four Brown students’ idea to bring something new to campus theater. This summer, the company will tour Canada.

CBTC members Sam Kusnetz ’02, Kerry Silva ’02, Darius Pierce ’02 and Rebecca Low ’02.5 have two core goals. They said they hope to work as a small group of friends and colleagues — to intimately get to know each other as actors and to establish a dynamic that can only be built over years. They also want to achieve what troupe members call a dramatic “dual presence.”

In this dual presence, the CBTC said they hope to create shows in which the audience feels like ensemble members. As one member of the CBTC put it, “We want the audience to feel like ‘If I wasn’t there, it wouldn’t have been such a good show.’”

This concept will be put into practice May 11 and 12 when CBTC members stage what they call “anonymous theater” at the Underground, performing Steve Allen’s “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.” The players will act together without group rehearsal, having already received and rehearsed their roles individually and in secrecy.

Audience members, who will know almost as much about the play as the individual actors, are in on the surprise, raising the stakes and infusing the evening with a special kind of energy.

This summer, the CBTC will tour Canada. Troupe members said they will pile their props into a Volkswagen Jetta, drive north and slowly work their way across Canada, stopping to perform the play they will write together.

Canada, unlike the United States, has an ideal summer environment for touring

fringe drama troupes — a series of performance festivals occur in Canada throughout summer. For an entry fee, a troupe can enter its play in a festival, which provides them with a place to perform. The troupe gets to keep whatever box office revenue its play earns. CBTC members said they are optimistic they will break even.

The tour provides a valuable opportunity for the CBTC to practice together as a troupe, the actors said. After touring Canada, Kusnetz, Silva and Pierce said they will move to the West Coast to form a professional company. Low, who will not join them, has a post-graduation acting contract lined up in Boston.

The Canadian festivals will allow CBTC members to perform together about 40 times. While touring, CBTC members said they will have the opportunity to see a lot of other theater productions and gain valuable insights.

For their Canadian tour, CBTC members are writing a play called “On the Air,” a farcical thriller in which two radio plays occur simultaneously during a single broadcast hour, making the play a story within a story. Co-written by all the troupe members, the play will be performed by Kusnetz, Silva and Pierce, stage-managed

by Low and will feature special sound effects appropriate in a radio play. It will also offer an audience member the opportunity for a brief cameo. With the opportunity to create sound effects and perform in the play, CBTC members said they hope the audience will feel it is a valuable part of “On the Air.” CBTC members said they aren’t daunted by their plans to tour Canada and move to the West Coast.

“We’re ready to hit the ground running,” Silva said.

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Debates continued from page 1 has not yet worked on student government. Roche would focus on creating rapport among council members and making them feel engaged and involved, she said.

UCS Representative Thilakshani Dias ’05, a candidate for council treasurer, hopes to make UFB budgeting more responsive to the needs of individual student groups and lobby to increase the minimum wage for students, she said.

The other candidate for treasurer, UCS secretary TyReese Britt-Foreman ’04, would focus on increasing common space for students and planning campus-wide events, as well as increasing Bear’s Lair hours and computer access, he said.

UCS Representative Ferve Ozturk ’04.5, a candidate for UCS Campus Life Coordinator, would plan campus-wide events like the Carberry Music Festival and try to improve the quality of student life, including dining and the flex point system, she said.

Ozturk’s opponent, UCS Representative Justin Sanders ’04, said his top priority was to plan more major social events and to make “Live on Lincoln” an annual tradition.

Sanders also supported creating more common spaces and clarifying the University’s alcohol policy, which he said the University has arbitrarily changed on several occasions.

UCS Associate Member Kevin Bennett ’03, one of two candidates for Academic and Administrative Affairs Coordinator, said he is interested in improving the academic advising system, reforming the University Disciplinary Council, creating more student access to alumni and increasing financial support for events like the Fall Ball.

His opponent, UCS Representative Tim Bentley ’04, said he wants to make both the administration and UCS more transparent to students and allow students to voice their opinions to administrators. “If we want a campus center, we have to scream for it,” he said.

Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.

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Candidates for UCS president Allen Feliz ’03, right, Anna Stern ’04 and Rodrick Echols ’03 debated last night in Manning Hall. Echols is the incumbent, and all three are currently members of the council. Elections will be held this Monday and Tuesday, April 29 and 30.

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CAMPUS NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2002 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF Three candidates remain in contest for Providence top cop job A search committee narrowed its list of potential candidates for Providence Police Department chief to three Tuesday.

It is unclear when the new police chief will be selected, said search committee member Patricia McLaughlin, city director of administration. Mayor Vincent Cianci and Commissioner of Public Safety John Partington will eventually make the final decision.

But McLaughlin said Cianci and Partington have yet to conduct interviews with the candidates, who include city and county police force veteran Leonard Supenski, New Haven Assistant Police Chief Douglas MacDonald and Providence Interim Police Chief Richard Sullivan.

The search committee received over 70 applications for police chief last fall after placing advertisements in professional police chief journals and national newspapers, McLaughlin said.

A subcommittee then passed on 10 candidates to the main search committee, which initially picked six to interview. One candidate dropped out, and committee members assessed the five remaining candidates, McLaughlin said.

Evaluating qualities such as experience and knowledge of typical policing issues, the committee eliminated two candidates.

Although R.I. Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse told the Providence Journal he hopes the new chief will emphasize that the department is “completely independent of City Hall,” McLaughlin told The Herald the committee didn’t take this idea into account when evaluating candidates.

She said the most important factor influencing her vote was each candidate’s view on the police department’s interaction with the Providence community.

“As a community, we’re unique,” she said.“We celebrate our diversity and uniqueness, and it’s important that the person who leads the department emphasizes that.”

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Experts: science coverage takes care

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

Reporting on scientific discoveries requires care and attention to the unique vocabulary of scientific fields, a panel of four Brown alumni said at “Science Meets the Press” Thursday night.

The panelists, who come from the news, publicity and science fields, recommended guidelines for good science news coverage and discussed science education in primary and secondary schools.

At the panel, which drew about 50 people to Starr Auditorium, participants agreed the biggest challenge for science writers is to make sure readers can understand the technical and complicated experiments scientists often undertake.

Often, a reporter must “distill” a scientist’s work in order to help a layperson understand it, said John Donoghue ’79, professor and chairperson of the Department of Neuroscience and the executive director of the Brain Science Program. In trying to make an experiment or concept more understandable, a reporter might withdraw “all the technical craft-work the scientist has put in,” Donoghue said.

But it is important to realize that just because a scientist’s work is summarized doesn’t mean it is inaccurately reported, cautioned Cornelia Dean ’69, New York Times science editor.

“It does not benefit a journalist to have a really sexy story that’s wrong,” she said.

Rather, it is simply a matter of answering readers’ questions and making sure the scientist “has answered the questions readers might have,” said Gareth Cook ’91, a science reporter for the Boston Globe.

Donoghue said scientists often haven’t thought about how to convey their work to laypeople, and it can be a “surprising event” when they “are forced to be much clearer.”

But scientists have an obligation to explain their work outside the scientific community, said David Jarmul ’75, associate vice president of news and communications and public affairs director of the Duke University News Service.

Because many researchers receive federal grant money partly paid for by taxes, scientists should explain their

work to the public, Jarmul said.

Cook said it is partly the responsibility of the reporter to make science news interesting to the average reader so that he “can share the excitement.”

Panelists agreed reporters can generate excitement with metaphors and other rhetorical devices, but visual representations of scientific advances are also important.

Graphics, which both Cook and Jarmul called “essential,” provide “visual traction on the page (and) get the reader to stop,” Dean said. That’s why it’s important, she said, to have “arresting art.”

Cook said science is more difficult to cover than other current events because scientific advancements “don’t necessarily have obvious conflicts” like politics or international affairs.

Also, he said, reporters often have to quickly familiarize themselves with the fields they cover.

Reporters must develop a sense for which terms they need to define within a story, Dean said, but “learning how to do that gracefully is very difficult.” It’s easy, she said, to make a reader feel like they are “being talked down to.”

Cook said, “I think we always need to put things as simply as possible.”

Whether it’s simple or not, “people want to know what the bottom line is,” Dean said, and giving a story space will often convey the message to readers “that you are telling them something important.”

The media does both a good and bad job covering science news, but any accurate science story must be accompanied by caveats, the four panelists agreed. Those warnings caution readers to not form “unrealistic expectations” pertaining to what they’re reading about, Cook said.

But Dean said, “people read over the caveats.”

The panelists agreed that providing good science education to younger students is important, and often, science is made to seem like a tedious subject.

Jarmul said it’s important for students and adults to realize that “science is a way of looking at the world.”

Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached at jwallack@brown.edu.

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pany sent an investigator who took pictures of Ead working and lifting machinery, Egbert said.

Egbert asked Ead about a recent IRS audit of his company’s payroll taxes.

“Didn’t you write them a letter saying, ‘Hey, give me a break. I’m one of them. I’m working with the FBI’?” Egbert asked.

“No sir, I didn’t word it that way,” Ead said.

Egbert tried to establish Ead’s motive for testifying in court.

Egbert said under Ead’s indictment he would have lost his business and building, but if he cooperated with the federal investigation of Cianci, his property would not be seized.

Ead said he was surprised he was to lose his property under the indictment, but said he was happy when Egbert told him he would, in fact, be able to keep his business under his agreement with the government.

Egbert used an aggressive line of questioning and forced Ead to admit he did not want to go to jail, and that his best chance to accomplish that goal was to testify against Cianci.

Ead testified that FBI Investigator Dennis Aiken offered him the opportunity to become an FBI informant “by bringing 10 grand down to the mayor.”

Ead said he could only “deliver to Frank Corrente and Arthur Coloian because they know nothing” and could not bring the money to Cianci.

In April 2000 Ead began working for the FBI. Egbert’s cross examination followed testimony by Ead and the showing of video and audio surveillance footage of Ead and

Ead, who admitted to accepting bribes from Freitas, testified that on March 13, 1999, he received an anonymous phone call from a woman who said,“David Ead, I’m warning you: Anthony Freitas is working for the FBI.” Antonio Freitas, FBI informant and Providence businessman, arranging to bribe Cianci in return for the purchase of cityowned property and tax breaks.

Ead, who admitted to accepting bribes from Freitas, testified that on March 13, 1999, he received an anonymous phone call from a woman who said, “David Ead, I’m warning you: Anthony Freitas is working for the FBI.” Ead was shown acting as negotiator between the mayor and Freitas in an allegedly corrupt deal to purchase two lots on Westminster Street prior to receiving the anonymous tip.

“You’re going to be the boss of Westminster Street,” Ead told Freitas on Feb. 24, 1999.

“Nobody’s going to be doing business there but you.”

Ead referred to Cianci as “the big man downtown” and said the mayor only cares about money.

Video from March 2, 1999, showed Ead telling Freitas that Cianci “owes you one. So if there’s anything around that you want, he’ll give it to you.”

Ead said after receiving the anonymous March 13 phone call, he met with Cianci who asked him if Freitas had him on tape and told Ead to “forget about the deal.”

The prosecution showed footage of Ead meeting with Freitas after receiving the tip “to feel him out,” Ead said.

“There’s no big guy. There’s no

10 grand to give nobody,” Ead told Freitas. “I was just testing you out.”

Ead told Freitas he “cannot accept $1,200 from you because I didn’t do anything for it.”

He offered to work as Freitas’ advisor.

“Put me on the books, I’ll be happy to work for you,” he said.

“If you want my social security number, hire me for a week, two weeks.”

But Ead testified that on April 23, 1999, he telephoned Freitas “to resurrect the deal for the mayor” and asked if he was still interested in the Westminster Street property.

“I didn’t get arrested. Nothing happened. So I figured it was just a phony call,” he said of the anonymous tip Freitas was in the FBI. The defense continued to object to the showing of each video as they had in Wednesday’s trial session.

The judge prohibited the prosecution from showing certain surveillance tapes, such as an audio tape in which Ead allegedly told Freitas about the anonymous phone call he received.

A large group of spectators turned out for the trial Thursday, filling all the seats in the public viewing gallery.

Ead’s cross-examination will continue tomorrow when the trial resumes at 10 a.m. in U.S. District Court.

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at five. Mormile capped off the run with 4:57 to play, giving Brown a commanding 10-4 lead heading into the game’s final quarter.

Providence added a few goals in the final period, but the final outcome had already been decided. Two goals by Culligan and one

by Mormile sealed the deal, and Brown left victorious 13-7.

“Any time you can beat a local rival it means a lot,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson. “Providence came in improved, and was well coached, but we played well enough to win and that’s important. It’s a game we had to win. It got us to .500, and we’ve fought and scratched to get to this point.

We lost some tough games early in the season, but we’ve pulled ourselves together.”

Standout goalie Mike Levin ’04 had another strong game in net for the Bears, compiling 13 saves on 31 Providence shots.

The Bears will next face off against Cornell on Saturday in Ithaca, NY, in a battle for first place.

“Cornell is easily our biggest game of the season,” O’Brien said. “For my class and the senior class, this is the most important college game we’ve ever played.

It’ll come down to who wants it more.”

“Cornell is No. 6 in the country and we’ve got our work cut out for us,” Nelson added. “They’re a team that’s probably already in the tourney and has a shot to win the Ivies. It’s a place we want to be at this time of the year. The Ivy League means everything to us, and it comes down to Saturday now.”

Kansas City just needs talent, period! They have some of the cheapest ticket prices in Major League Baseball for a reason. Last, and definitely least, the Detroit Tigers, which is about all I have to say about them.

Sports editor Jonathan Bloom ’03 covers men’s lacrosse. He can be reached at jbloom@browndailyherald.com.

going into the final inning. A couple defensive mistakes and some good URI hitting helped the Rams stake a lead that a near miraculous last gasp effort could not turn around.

The Bears scored three in the bottom of the seventh to fall just short in game one, 6-5. Luckily for Brown, the aggressive baserunning and clutch hitting present at the end of game one carried over to game two, as they scored early and often in route to an easy win.

“We should have been able to jump on URI early in game one,” said catcher Angie Galt ’04, who finished game one and started game behind the plate. The Bears had early chances but did not come up with any big hits with runners in scoring position.

The Rams cracked open a scoreless game with three runs in the top of the fourth inning of game one. Marisa Berkes ’05 was in command early but ran into trouble in the later innings.

After giving up a one out RBI double to make it 1-0, runners on second and third both tagged up and scored on a miscue by the Bears. After a great shoe-string catch by Lauren Wong ’03 on a hard hit ball down the right field line, her throw to the plate was not cut off. The ball dribbled by home plate and allowed another run to score to make it 3-0.

URI looked to add to its lead in the top of the fifth as they got two on with a pair of one out singles. But Melissa Brown ’04 snared a line drive to kill the rally and keep Bruno in it.

The Bears bats finally woke

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“The sweats depend on the condition,” he added.

Former field hockey Captain Katie Austin ’02 said that she was required to turn in her uniform and practice apparel at the end of the season but expressed frustration with this policy.

“It bothers me that I sweat in those clothes for four seasons, and didn’t get to keep anything,” she said.

The field hockey team had great practice outfits when she was a first-year, she said, but by her sophomore year had new ones. None of the old ones could be kept by team members, she said.

“I have no idea what they did with the practice uniforms from freshman year, but we asked to keep them and were blatantly refused,” she said.

Caroline Casey ’03, a member of the women’s tennis team, said members of her team are not allowed to keep the practice gear, but can keep their uniforms.

AL WEST Seattle Mariners Texas Rangers Oakland Athletics Anaheim Angels The regular season wonders, the Seattle Mariners, will continue their reign as AL-West champs again this season. The core of this team’s roster is basically the same as last season, which is a rarity in today’s day and age. A combination of speed, consistency, and power make Seattle’s offense quite dangerous to opposing pitchers. A tough pitching rotation led by Freddy Garcia and Jamie Moyer looks to capitalize on the tremendous run support from its hitting.

Despite their slow start, the Rangers will begin to emerge as they team that the Ranger’s management paid for. The inconsistency in the pitching will become less significant as Texas’s bats will all come together at once. You can only keep a wild animal in its cage for so long before it breaks free and kills everyone in its path.

Unless the bats of the A’s develop

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some reliability over the course of the season, this team will experience a mediocre year.

Even though the Oakland pitching staff is said to be the best in the entire league, it will take a complete effort of both offense and defense to make a run at the post-season. Anaheim has some decent talent on their team; they just lack the internal fortitude to help them win games. Pitching will be the biggest downfall for this team as guys like Aaron Sele and Kevin Appier will struggle with teams that do not always give them a nice number of runs to works with.

NL EAST Atlanta Montreal New York Philadelphia Florida Right now, it seems as though there is no one team that stands out in the NL East. Sure, the Expos have performed far above expectations thus far, but it seems almost imminent that the ride will end soon In Montreal. The ‘spos have good management, and seem to get the most out of its players, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they finished around 85-77.

Atlanta will eventually come out on top again because of, what else?

Good pitching. However, the health of the veteran staff in Atlanta is always in question. The Braves new addition of Gary Sheffield adds the much-needed power and RBI production to their

up in the bottom of the fifth.

Maggie Haskins ’04 reached second after hustling out a bunt misplayed by URI, and later in the inning Laura Leonetti ’04 would knock Haskins home with an infield single. Then pinch hitter Durlesser brought in another run with a bullet double down the left field line.

Rhode Island immediately answered with three more runs (all with two outs) in the top of the sixth to make it 6-2 and put the game seemingly out of reach. Berkes started to miss with a lot of her pitches and a few defensive lapses gave the Rams their first run.

Nevertheless, Coach Pam McCreesh kept Berkes on the mound, and the Rams capitalized with a pair of back-to-back singles that made it 6-2.

Uchenna Omokaro ’05 relieved her to put an end to a long sixth inning.

Down four in the bottom of the seventh, Bruno was kick started by a pair of one-out hits

by Katie Tone ’03 and Leonetti.

After the runners advanced to second and third Omokaro singled to right to drive in one run, and her aggressive decision to go for second base on the throw to home scored another run to make it 6-4.

Now with two outs and Omokaro on third, the first-base slugger Howe came up in a good spot to cut more into the two run deficit. Howe lined a single to center to make it 6-5. The number five hitter Melissa Brown worked a walk with a solid at bat to put the tying run in scoring position, and for a moment in looked as if Bruno would pull off an amazing comeback.

Wong came up in a pressure spot, and after falling behind 0-2

lineup. Look for him to have a big year.

New York will finish below expectations due to the fact that their pitching has not proven themselves to be the caliber of a top team. The additions of Mo Vaughn and Roberto Alomar will prove not likely not to pull them far above the .500 level.

Philadelphia and Florida just do not have the pitching depth and experience, plus Philadelphia has issues with its top player, Scott Rolen, and management.

NL CENTRAL St. Louis Cincinnati Houston Pittsburgh Chicago Milwaukee It is just a matter of time before JD Drew, Jim Edmonds, Matt Morris, Tino Martinez, and the rest of the Cardinals snap out of their funk. They just have way too much firepower and pitching depth to not win this division.

Pitching injuries to Ankiel, Benes, and a couple others has haunted St. Louis. They will be out of first place in a month.

Cincinnati’s future rests in the health of Ken Griffey Junior. When healthy, he alone can put this team above .500 mark. Houston is a great ball club, now if they could just put together consistent pitching. The rest of the Division is washed up. Chicago relies too heavily on Sammy Sosa and Moises Alou, and Pittsburgh is

just overachieving right now.

NL WEST Arizona San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Colorado Colorado goes through the same thing every year, bad pitching and great hitting. This equals a finish at the bottom. Arizona will win because of the talent in their lineup and the backbone of Schilling and Johnson, who are dominating the game right now.

San Francisco and Los Angeles will present a very close race for second and third because Bonds seems to have gotten injured. If he stays healthy, he can win them 15 games easily with his bat alone. I think if he does not miss too many games, San Francisco could make a run with Arizona.

However, Schilling and Johnson, barring no injuries, will consistently win Arizona two out of every five games. All they have to do is steal some wins when they are not pitching and they are set.

Another reason to put San Francisco ahead of LA is because, ace, Kevin Brown has been experiencing elbow problems. That, and the fact that the Dodger’s hitting is quite suspect, especially at home when they are playing in a “pitcher’s park.” San Diego is in a rebuilding year as they continue to find the right combination of players that will one day give the team the success they are striving for.

the dangerous hitter battled back to finally see a pitch she could drive. Wong made solid contact, but put a little too much air under the ball on a high fly out to mid-range left field to end the rally and the game for URI. The Bears spotted URI a pair of two-out runs in the first inning of game two. They answered with a run in the first and four in the second to take a 5-2 lead into the third.

Howe drove in three of those early runs on a single to left in the first and a double to deep center in the second. Leonetti, as usual, did a great job at the leadoff spot, as she was on base often and scored twice in the early innings.

“When Cara (Howe) is hitting well for us it is just a matter of getting people on base in front of her,” Galt said. “The middle of our order is where our real strength is. The key is executing – not leaving runners in scoring position and moving runners over when we have to.”

After the Rams scored once to cut the lead to 5-3, Durlesser closed the door on any more offense. She scattered nine hits and struck out four over her seven innings of work.

Wong drove in a run in the fourth and the Bears added two more in the sixth to finish off the scoring at 8-3. The squad plays just once more this week, as they close out Ivy League play with a doubleheader at Yale on Friday. Bruno is currently in seventh with a 4-8 record in the league, but with a pair of wins could move to the middle of the pack.

year, recorded the loss on the day despite hurling a complete game and allowing only four runs on four hits, striking out four.

Game 2 ushered in more offensive woes for the Bears.

Brown compiled only four hits in the 10-3 loss.

Each team collected five hours in a what was a sloppy defensive display on both sides.

Adam Royster ’05, Will Cebron ‘05, Lowe, and Greg Metzger ’02 all had hits for the Bears.

Eli Friedman ’05 suffered the loss for the Bears on the mound giving up two earned runs on three hits collecting two strikeouts, falling to 2-3 on the year.

With an 8-4 record in the Ivy League, the Bears are likely contenders for the Rolfe division championship this year.

Four games against division competitor Harvard this weekend are crucial wins for the Bears to remain in contention.

“This weekend should probably decide the winner of the Rolfe division,” Nichols said.

“Next weekend is big in that sense so we have to try to get up on them and take three out of four. If we do that we’ll be in great shape,” he said.

The Bears will face off against their Rolfe division rivals the Harvard Crimson in Cambridge for two doubleheaders next Saturday and Sunday.

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

Sports staff writer Martin Mulkeen ’04 covers baseball. He can be reached at mmulkeen@browndailyherald.com.

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IN BRIEF Russian space tourist enters orbit (Washington Post) — A Russian rocket carrying a South

African space tourist, an Italian astronaut and a Russian commander blasted off Thursday from Kazakhstan on a flight to deliver a fresh Soyuz lifeboat to the international space station.

Television views from inside the cockpit, broadcast by the European Space Agency, showed space tourist Mark Shuttleworth, Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori and commander Yuri Gidzenko smiling and looking relaxed as they accelerated toward space.

Shuttleworth, 28, an Internet entrepreneur, paid the Russians around $20 million to become the second tourist to visit the international space station.

“Spaceflight has always been almost the ultimate dream for me and in a way, I always kind of imagined it would become a reality,” Shuttleworth said in a CBS Radio interview earlier this week.“I’m convinced in our lifetimes we’ll see dramatic advances in technology that make spaceflight accessible to everybody. ... I just couldn’t wait.”

American millionaire Dennis Tito became the first space tourist in April 2001.

NASA managers protested his flight, saying international agreements governing liability and training requirements were not yet complete.

In the end, NASA backed down when it became clear the Russians were going to launch Tito regardless of the U.S. space agency’s approval. But Tito was not allowed to train at the Johnson Space Center in Houston and he was not allowed to enter U.S. station modules without an astronaut escort.

In the wake of that flight, protocols governing requirements for station tourists were hammered out and Shuttleworth was allowed to train in Houston. He also arranged to use station computers to send e-mail from orbit and to carry out experiments and educational activities.

“One of the things I wanted to achieve was to show that private interests and public agencies could work to together and that that relationship could not just be cordial, but actually could be constructive,” Shuttleworth said.

“While I was very apprehensive, I must say that my entire experience with NASA has been exactly that.”

Scientists clone calf from beef (Newsday) — Scientists at the University of Georgia report they have cloned a calf from a piece of meat.

En route to the supermarket, the side of fresh beef was sampled for cells from the kidney area, and the cells supplied genes from which a calf was cloned. It was born Monday at the university in Athens.

The cloners _ Professor Steve Stice and colleagues at the university and at a biotechnology company, ProLinia Inc. — touted the value of cloning for the meat industry.

After much more research and pending government approval, it one day may enable them to identify, and then re-create, animals to supply the best steaks, chops, ribs and oxtails.

But the feat itself is not surprising to scientists.“What is so fantastic about that?’’ asked Rudolf Jaenisch, professor of biology at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass.

“You can clone an animal by taking a piece of its tail, or any piece of tissue. I’m not surprised that this worked.’’

He and others against human cloning stress that cloning has resulted in unexpected abnormalities and early death.“Cloned animals have had lots of problems,’’ Jaenisch said.“Even if you get a calf to be born, it doesn’t mean that it isn’t abnormal.’’

Even if cloning works,“it’s not what you can do, it’s what you should do,’’ said Ruth Fischbach, a professor of bioethics at Columbia University and co-director of the university’s Center for Bioethics.

In harvesting cells for cloning, it doesn’t matter whether an animal is alive or recently dead, only that its tissue is fresh and its genes are intact.

Producing a living calf from a slab of meat is not too different from the technique used to clone the first mammal, the sheep Dolly. Scottish scientists harvested mammary cells from a ewe, moved her genes into an egg emptied of genetic material, then placed the embryo in a surrogate mother ewe.

Seidel, at Colorado State University, said other researchers have cloned animals from the white blood cells found in milk. The question, he said, is “how long can tissues be dead’’ and still be useful.

Blast in New York stirs terrorism fears NEW YORK (Newsday) — An explosion ripped through a

building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood Thursday, showering West 19th Street with debris and shards of glass, injuring nearly three dozen people, and hitting the city with an unsettling post-Sept. 11 fear.

The 11:27 a.m. explosion was touched off in the basement of Kaltech Architectural Signage, Fire Department officials said.

The blast pushed fast-moving air into a stairwell and three elevator shafts, causing windows in the building and an adjacent structure to shatter floor by floor as the air shot through the building’s 10 stories. The explosion caused little fire but a portion of the facade collapsed, Fire Department officials said.

Investigators said it appeared that workers accidentally sparked the blast while transferring a leaking 55gallon barrel of lacquer thinner into another drum using an electric pump.

“It was pretty loud. We didn’t know what was going on,” said firefighter Ken Dorsey.

As Dorsey and his fellow firefighters geared up and ran toward the building, they thought they might be responding to another terrorist attack, he said.

“We were on guard for the possibility of a second explosion,” Dorsey said. “Of course that did cross our minds. You learn from the past.”

Peter Molina, 32, of Queens, a student at Apex Technical school in the building next door, was in class at the time.

“All of a sudden there was an explosion,” Molina said.

“Everyone in the classroom ran out. When we got outside, we realized it wasn’t our building.”

Then Molina spotted some people who “were covered with dark smoke, and blood was coming down their faces.” Some were being carried by police officers and firefighters, he said. A dark smoke cloud filled the street and “there were bricks and glass everywhere,”he said.

Twenty-four people were sent to area hospitals, including 10 who were critically or seriously injured.

Another eight were treated at the scene and released, said Frank McCarton, deputy commissioner for public

information for the mayor’s Office of Emergency Management.

With the city’s collective nerves still frayed following the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, in which an estimated 2,823 people were killed, officials moved quickly to allay fears.

Soon after the explosion, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared, “There’s absolutely no reason to think this is anything other than a tragic accident.”

Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said Kaltech had received a shipment of 55-gallon chemical drums on Wednesday, and that an accident involving those chemicals was likely the cause of the explosion.

An investigator, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said it appeared workers were cleaning up the leaking drum of lacquer thinner, which Kaltech used in its business.

The workers used an electric pump that wasn’t properly grounded to pump the chemical from the leaking barrel into an empty drum, investigator said. The workers saw the pump spark and had started to run when the chemical exploded, he said.

Late Thursday, it was unclear who employed the workers _ Kaltech, or the company that supplied the chemicals, the investigator said. All the workers were severely burned.

Firefighters entering the building found five people trapped inside an elevator between the fourth and fifth floors in a shaft that had mostly collapsed, said firefighter John Gates. The firefighters coached the trapped people on how to secure ropes about themselves and then walk over a ladder extended to the elevator, Gates said.

Firefighters using a ladder truck rescued about 20 more people who were unable to get out of the building because of damaged stairways and elevators.

Meanwhile, across the street, John Offerman, 47, and seven of his colleagues at Donovan Data Systems had their own special problem: They were participating in Take Your Daughter To Work Day. “We all knew that these kids were in here, so we were trying to find them and make sure they were all right,” Offerman said. “They were frightened.”

Experts forecast budget deficit growth WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Federal tax revenue is coming in significantly lower than expected, despite the improving economy, leading budget experts to nearly double the projected budget deficit for the current fiscal year.

The estimates, while preliminary, suggest that it will be much more difficult for the nation to return to budget surpluses in the next few years, and will place new pressure on Congress and the administration to trim federal spending or raise taxes.

The Congressional Budget Office earlier had estimated a deficit of $46 billion for the 2002 fiscal year, after taking into account the slowing economy, the president’s tax cut and recently passed legislation to boost the economy. But individual tax receipts are running $40 billion below projections, and when the all receipts are collected, the projected deficit could be $30 billion to $70 billion higher, experts said.

Congress also is considering the president’s request for a $27 billion supplemental spending bill, though only $10 billion to $15 billion would be spent in this fiscal year, likely bringing the overall deficit above $100 billion. That compares with a surplus of $127 billion in the previous fiscal year.

The Bush administration has suggested the government might begin running a surplus again as soon as 2004.

But Bill Hoagland, Republican staff director of the Senate Budget Committee, said the new numbers raise “some concern about the president’s commitment to get back to balance in 2004.”

Administration officials said they are closely watching the daily reports of Treasury receipts, but they were not prepared to concede a shortfall until all of the taxes paid on April 15 were recorded.

But Hoagland and other experts said that 96 percent of individual tax receipts historically were collected by April 23, leaving little doubt the projected deficit would be higher.

“This ought to be a sobering wake-up call,” said Rep. John Spratt Jr. (S.C.), the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee.

“This will be a deeper and more intractable deficit than

we thought,” he said.

Many budget analysts had hoped the relatively quick rebound in the economy would pull the nation out of deficit financing more quickly. But tax revenues have fallen especially in the category that includes taxes on stock sales and stock options, a major source of the budget surpluses in the late 1990s.

Some economists had cautioned that the boom in revenues from capital gains and stock options was bound to decline once the stock market retreated from the dotcomfueled heights reached in 2000.

Administration and congressional budget forecasters earlier this year had trimmed their expectations for capital gains revenues, leading to lower projected ten-year budget surpluses. But the new numbers suggest that until the market takes off again, this will not be a growing revenue source.

Goldman Sachs & Co., the Wall Street investment firm, last week reported that April tax receipts were running 30 percent below last year’s level, the biggest drop since 1980.

The decline in tax revenues has long-term implications as well. Both CBO and the Office of Management and Budget likely will have to account for the lower revenue base in the updated budget projections over the summer, which could result in grimmer ten-year budget forecasts.

It would also place new scrutiny on the president’s taxcut, which was crafted to phase in over ten years on the premise that the government could expect more than $5 trillion in budget surpluses.

Spratt said “this is bad news for the budget and for people pushing more tax cuts.”

Trent Duffy, an OMB spokesman, said officials thought it was still possible to receive a late infusion of cash as the last returns are catalogued. But he said that even if trends held, officials believed this was a “one-year phenomenon” that would be reversed as soon as the economy moved back into high gear.

He said the administration was sticking with its budget plan. Even so, he added, “this is why you’ve got to hold down on spending .... If the Democrats want to raise taxes, they are welcome to propose that. If they want to cut spending, we welcome their ideas.”

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Palestinians in church standoff demand meeting with Arafat BETHLEHEM, West Bank (L.A. Times) —

Negotiations toward a peaceful end to the three-week siege at the Church of the Nativity hit a stumbling block late Thursday as encircled Palestinians demanded a meeting with their equally besieged leader, Yasser Arafat.

It was unclear whether the Israelis would permit such a meeting.

However, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon indicated that he might loosen restrictions on the Palestinian leader, who is trapped by Israeli forces in his compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

“We hope we will get a positive answer any time,” said Salah Tamari, the lead Palestinian negotiator, adding that talks would not continue without such a consultation. “It is crucial to meet Arafat.”

Nine teen-agers and the bodies of two men came out of the church Thursday afternoon, a minor breakthrough that had both sides predicting a resolution soon to the crisis at one of Christianity’s holiest places.

“There is very cautious optimism that the affair is closer to an end today than it was yesterday,” Brig. Gen. Ron Kitrey, the Israeli military’s chief spokesman, told Army Radio.

More than 140 Palestinians took shelter in the church when the Israeli army advanced into Bethlehem on April 2 as part of its West Bank offensive. Israel believes that about 30 are armed militants.

About 80 priests, nuns and monks were trapped with the Palestinians at the site, a large compound that tradition holds marks the site of Jesus’ birth.

The status of those in the church has remained foggy.

The Israelis insist that at least some of the church leaders and Palestinians are being held hostage. Those inside, as well as some who have left, have denied the charge.

The two sides have remained in a tense standoff, exchanging fire several times. The most recent incident came Wednesday, when an Israeli soldier was injured and a Palestinian fighter was killed.

Tension in the church has risen in recent days, as food and water supplies

dwindled. More than 30 people, including several priests, have fled during the standoff, according to the Israeli military.

The primary sticking point remains the fate of those inside whom the Israelis consider terrorists. Israel wants to try the men or have them deported.

Palestinians have proposed sending them to the Gaza Strip, but those in the church say that some of the gunmen are refusing even that option. In Gaza, the men might be an easy target for informants or Israeli security strikes.

One issue was resolved Thursday with the removal of the two bodies.

Palestinians said the men were shot by snipers. The Israelis declined to comment on how they died but have said that troops fire only on armed men in the church.

About 3 p.m., nine teen-age boys were seen leaving the church, their faces covered with white surgical masks. Israeli soldiers fired smoke grenades that obscured the view of the scene, but at one point the youths could be seen carrying two coffins toward an ambulance.

The teen-agers were held for questioning by Israeli security forces, then released late Thursday. The army said they were given food and medical care.

The two badly decomposed bodies arrived at a nearby hospital in crude wooden boxes.

Abir Nasman, the wife of one of the dead men, broke down in sobs when the coffins arrived. She said her husband, Hassan Nasman, was a policeman who had sought safety in the church during the Israeli invasion.

Abir Nasman, who lost her first husband in another confrontation with Israeli troops, said the 23-year-old policeman was not a militant. During their final telephone call the day before he was shot two weeks ago, he asked about his two daughters, ages 1 and 2.

Nasman, 24, said her husband had died for the Palestinian cause.

“As a Muslim, there is a saying in the Koran: "Whoever enters a holy place is safe,” said Siham Massalmeh, 44, Hassan Nasman's mother-in-law.

“How is it possible that my son-in-law was killed in a house of God?”

Judge to challenge death penalty NEW YORK (Newsday) — A federal judge said

Thursday he is prepared to rule the federal death penalty unconstitutional unless the government can adequately explain why so many death-row inmates have turned out to be innocent.

If he does so, it would be mean that two men scheduled to go to trial on murder conspiracy charges before him in September would become ineligible for execution.

Citing a recent spate of death row inmates cleared by DNA testing, U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff said in a tersely worded decision that innocent people are being put to death “with a frequency far greater than previously supposed.”

While U.S. Supreme Court justices expressed reservations about capital punishment in 1993, Rakoff is the first federal judge to call the validity of capital punishment into question in a case before him since the Federal Death Penalty Act was passed in 1994, lawyers in the matter said.

Rakoff, appointed to the bench by former President Clinton, said the death penalty appears to violate a citizen’s constitutional right to due process because it cuts off a defendant’s ability to establish his innocence in the future by putting him to death.

The judge gave federal prosecutors until May 15 to submit arguments that the

death penalty is appropriate in the case of Alan Quinones and Diego Rodriguez.

The two men were indicted on charges of running a murderous cocaine and heroin-trafficking ring based in the Bronx between 1998 and 2000.

The government is seeking the death penalty. Quinones and Rodriguez are accused of murdering Edwin Santiago, who, it is alleged, was killed June 27, 1999 after the pair allegedly discovered he was a police informant.

Marvin Smilon, spokesman for Manhattan U.S. Attorney James Comey, said, “We are reviewing the judge’s opinion.” In court papers, prosecutors have argued that safeguards in a federal capital trial were sufficient to guarantee the defendants’ rights to a fair trial.

Quinones’ lawyer, Kevin McNally, said Rakoff was affected during oral arguments last month by the growing numbers of inmates who’ve been cleared DNA technology.

“At some point if you have such a dismal track record, the judiciary has got to step in,” said McNally.

Rodriguez’s lawyer, Jean Barrett, said: “If Rakoff does this it’ll be a courageous ruling.”

The judge’s ruling allowed that the Supreme Court had held that the possibility of innocent men and women being executed “seemed remote.”

House votes to split up INS WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Capping years of frustration, the House voted Thursday to overhaul the beleaguered Immigration and Naturalization Service, splitting up its law enforcement and service roles into separate bureaus within the Justice Department.

The bill passed 405-9, reflecting overwhelming support to straighten out an agency that has become legendary for bureaucratic incompetence, most recently when it notified a Florida flight school that two of the Sept. 11 terrorists had been approved for U.S. residency _ six months after they bombed the World Trade Center.

“It is beyond time to restructure one of the worst-run agencies in the federal government,” said House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., the bill’s sponsor. INS, he said, stood for “Ignoring National Security” or “Incompetent and Negligent Service.”

The Senate could begin to consider its own version of INS overhaul as early as next week. While lawmakers still differ over details, the broad goal of reshaping the nation’s immigration service sparks little controversy and may be one of the least disputed goals of Congress this year.

Shortly before the vote, Attorney General John Ashcroft visited Capitol Hill, telling lawmakers: “We are committed to ending the INS as we know it.” The White House has offered a qualified endorsement of the House proposal but wants to establish a stronger office inside the Justice Department to oversee the bureaus that would handle enforcement and routine service.

“I am convinced it is time for reform,” House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., said Thursday, reflecting the broad, bipartisan support for the measure.

Declared Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla.: “The common goal of ridding our system of an incompetent agency that costs people their lives is a worthy one. ... Unfortunately, it took the terrorist acts of Sept. 11 and one bizarre INS foul-up after another to get the

ball rolling.”

Long before Sept. 11, INS actions _ and inactions _ had given rise to an army of critics. The immigration agency was lambasted for mishandling paperwork, losing track of deportees and meting out justice with different standards in different parts of the country. Lawful immigrants complained of endless backlogs, and many people blamed the INS for the nation’s burgeoning population of illegal residents.

But last year’s terrorist attacks elevated the chronic complaints to a high-level priority. Three of the 19 hijackers remained in the country after falling out of legal status, including one who had been granted a student visa and never reported to school.

Under the House bill, a new associate attorney general for immigration affairs would supervise the new divisions as the third-ranking official within the Justice Department. Despite the high rank, critics questioned whether the two new units would be left without a strong, unifying leader.

The White House contends the proposed associate attorney general would be in a weaker position than the existing INS commissioner.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., has been preparing a bill that is expected to come closer to White House demands, and the White House has hinted that it will work closely with the Senate to advance the INS overhaul.

“You need an office at the top that has the ability to set the tone for national immigration policy,” said Larry Gonzalez, Washington office director for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Otherwise, he said, conflicting policies and messages could emerge from the separate enforcement operations, such as the Border Patrol, and more routine immigration services.

In November, the Bush administration unveiled its own plan to remake the INS, with a similar separation of enforcement and immigrant service functions.

Congress plans to use Nevada as government’s nuclear waste site WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — A plan to bury

the United States’ nuclear waste in southern Nevada won lopsided endorsement Thursday from a congressional committee, signaling easy passage by the full House to override the state’s objections.

While approval from the House Energy and Commerce Committee had been expected, the breadth of the margin gave a bipartisan stamp to the Bush administration’s effort to make Yucca Mountain a permanent site for tens of thousands of tons of radioactive waste now stored in many states.

In the panel’s 41-6 vote, 17 Democrats joined 24 Republicans to back a bill that would allow the federal government to move ahead with opening Yucca Mountain to receive waste as early as 2010.

The vote came amid continuing scientific debate about the Yucca Mountain plan. The site is about 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas and 215 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

In an article to be published Friday in Science magazine, two researchers who describe themselves as “pro-nuclear’’ contend that the government should postpone decisions on Yucca Mountain until more is known about its geology and the durability of storage devices.

“A project of this importance ... should not go forward until the relevant scientific issues have been thoughtfully addressed,’’ wrote Rodney Ewing, a geologist at the University of Michigan, and Allison Macfarlane, director of the Yucca Mountain Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ewing and Macfarlane wrote that politics, rather than science, is driving the Yucca Mountain decisions.

Rep. W.J. “Billy’’ Tauzin, R-La., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee,

called Thursday’s vote ``an enormous show of support’’ for an administration plan backed by the nuclear energy industry.

“Whether you like nuclear energy or not,’’ Tauzin said, ``this country can’t do without it.’’

President Bush signed off on the Yucca Mountain plan in February, but Nevada Gov. Kenny Guinn, a Republican, reversed that decision earlier this month. Under federal law, a simple majority vote in both houses of Congress is required to overrule Guinn.

Tauzin said a vote on the House floor would come within two weeks.

House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt, D-Mo., is among those intending to fight the proposal.

“I don’t think it makes sense to have all this nuclear waste travel across the country by truck or rail,’’ Gephardt told reporters. He said he favored the European approach: ``Do your best to store this stuff safely at the site where it has been produced.’’

In its last vote on Yucca Mountain in early 2000, the full House approved a waste-storage plan, 253 to 167. Most of the opponents at that time were Democrats.

But some foes of the earlier plan have now switched, including Rep. John D. Dingell of Michigan, top Democrat on the Commerce Committee.

Barring a surprise in the House, the focus of the battle would then move to the Senate, where foes hope to make a last stand against the Yucca Mountain plan. A Senate vote is projected for June or July.

At first glance, the Senate would seem a formidable obstacle for the plan’s advocates. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the assistant majority leader, and Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., are vehemently opposed to it.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Diamonds and coal A cubic zirconium to former chair of the Board of Tax Assessment Review David Ead. While you are clearly a corrupt and possibly incompetent city official, your constant use of the word “capisce” despite the fact that you are not Italian is entertaining. Also, it seems to be true that the camera adds ten lbs. And about twenty years.

A diamond to Patch Adams. You’re right, farting is funny. Yet clowns are scary.

Coal to A. Alfred Taubman. Driving up the price of a grandmother’s antique fire-pokers is almost as petty as going for those last few extra millions when you’re already a “million-aire.”

A diamond to men’s tennis for winning the Ivy League championship. Like Cianci, you’ve been charged with doing some pretty sweet racketeering.

Coal to 12 o’clock noon lunches at the Ratty. We’re sure you have something more important you could be doing. Like anything.

ANDREW SHEETS

A diamond to the Visual Arts department for instituting an online lottery for VA 10. Now let’s make some art, the old fashioned way, in a class. Crazy.

Coal to professors who expect second papers to be turned in before they have given back the first paper. Comments become less of a help and more of an exercise in moving a pointy object across a flat one when we can’t use them to improve upon our writing.

A diamond to artist’s renderings. Add more hair, subtract a hairy mole or two, maybe even put in some “happy little trees” a la Bob Ross. We like an art form that combines criminals and pastels.

A cubic zirconium to late night food from the Shell Station. It sounds like a great idea until you try to get a bag of Tostitos through that ridiculous little window.

A diamond to the revival of “garage band rock” embodied in bands like the White Stripes, the Strokes and the Hives. We’re so glad it’s cool again to be living in your parents’ basement. Get your flannels out of the attic, kids, and ix-nay on the aircuts-hay for a few months.

Coal to throwing rocks through the kitchen window of Diman. In fact, let’s go hog wild and give a coal to the throwing of any rocks through any windows, regardless of context.

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LETTERS Skolnick’s column simplifies complex global concerns To the Editor: I am appalled at Jonathan Skolnick’s ’04 article “Israelis and Palestinians have other options for peace” (4/24). Not only does the article oversimplify a very complicated issue, it is blatantly misleading, if not simply wrong.

Specifically, I am referring to Skolnick’s complete mockery of “Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.” He complains about how “Superman was able to breathe oxygen in outer space.” I hate to be the one to tell him this, but we’re talking about Superman…

Who said anything about needing to breathe at all?

Skolnick then goes on to say that Superman’s collection of nuclear missiles “couldn’t have amounted to one-thousandth” of the world’s total. Skolnick, it’s Hollywood, a mere depiction of reality meant to show just a piece of the work that Superman had to do in order to rid the world of nuclear arms.

Perhaps the worst and most unforgivable aspect of the column is the horribly misleading statement that the missiles were thrown “into the other part of the solar system.” Skolnick fails to recognize that it was not just anywhere in the solar system, but more specifically, the sun. This is very important because had he been merely throwing the missiles into outer space, Lex Luthor’s evil scheme — the “radiation-charged” Nuclear Man — would never have come to fruition.

Skolnick owes the readers of The Herald an apology and should pay the price for his lack of vision.

The Herald should never print his rubble again.

Stephan Fabregas ’04 April 25

Patch Adams’ lecture provided inspiration in humanism To the Editor: Patch Adams’s lecture was the funniest, most inspirational, and most intense speech I have ever attended (“Patch Adams, MD: the clown doctor,” 4/25). He combines a strong passion for social justice with desire for lifelong education, holistic medical care, loving human relationships, and, most of all, constant humor and joy in all avenues of life.

One should be turned on rather than off by the extremeness of his political views, and embrace his vision of a health care system ruled by love and trust, rather than exclusion and profits. Humor, the arts and caring doctor-patient relationships should rule in the treatment of patients suffering from mental health, and indeed all, medical ailments. To paraphrase Dr Adams, the role of the doctor is to embrace suffering and love humanity.

Philip Lederer ’03 April 25

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2002 · PAGE 11

We must put America first, Israel second Ariel Sharon has pre-empted Phase III of the war on terrorism U.S. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL HOLDS A “details.” The Bush Doctrine declares that catechistic inviolability in the conservative “any nation that continues to harbor or foreign policy establishment. Policy support terrorism will be regarded by the gnomes recite a litany of realpolitik rea- United States as a hostile regime.” In the sons for this allegiance. During the Cold case of Israel, it is impossible to cross apply War, Israel functioned as a conduit for this new principle for the simple reason that Palestine is not a state. It American interests in the is a series of refugee camps Middle East and, in recent and ancient towns split years, economic considerabetween two strips of land. tions have eclipsed geopolitiThe irony is further comcal ones. Whatever the justifipounded by the Israeli milication, to their credit, tary’s incursions, which have American statesmen have decimated any Palestinian consistently subordinated political infrastructure that Israel’s interests to those of could potentially apprehend America. the suicide bombers. (And But on Sept. 11 the better STEPHEN BEALE then Sharon has the nerve to reason of conservatives was RIGHT WORDS hold Arafat accountable.) Yet, hijacked by their passion. the pitch for Israel persists After the Pentagon executed a textbook operation in Phase I of the war on unabated in the camp of conservatives terrorism, neoconservatives launched a who wield an unbridled lust for warfare.

And now ululating Christian conservamass propaganda campaign against Iraq, recycling imprecations against Saddam in tives are adding their amens to the injunca cascade of columns in the Washington tions of Jewish neoconservatives to stand Post, Commentary Magazine, The Weekly by Israel. On Sept. 12, Bill Bennett emoted Standard and the National Review. that “Now we are all Israelis.” Bennett Americans and attentive politicians did amplified his proclamation with a not fall for the “Invade Iraq” mantra. With prophecy of the American and Israeli destheir trophy war shelved, neoconserva- tinies: “America’s fate and Israel’s fate are tives turned to the latest barrage of suicide one and the same.” Apparently, Bennett bombings in Israel to vicariously vent their and his colleagues have taken their cue vengeance. When Bush did not catch on, from the White House speech writers who the hawkish William Kristol, a leader of the delight in putting history through a cenneoconservative movement, cried foul: trifuge; hence, the “axis of evil” historical Sharon was merely implementing the chimera, which simultaneously invokes Bush Doctrine. A manifesto accusing Bush the “Axis” powers of World War II and of hypocrisy on the Bush doctrine was Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire.”

Now, while Sharon butchers Palestinian promptly drafted.

So quick were these “pencil neck” pun- children and the elderly in Jenin, Bennett dits ready to find a heat sink for their war butchers history. What could a 200 year fever that they overlooked a number of old, traditionally white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant and increasingly diverse country of 250 million have in common with an Stephen Beale ’04 wishes Brown students ethnically homogenous Jewish state a happy summer. He looks forward to the forged out of the holocaust? Bennett debates of next year.

“Oil can be the only conceivable reason for extending our financial and political blank check to Israel. How Israel could assist in the acquisition of Arab oil remains a mystery.” appeals to “moral clarity,” attributing to democracy an intrinsic moral worth that it hardly deserves and that does not comport with the realities of American foreign policy. For all the rhetorical flourish about fighting for freedom during the Cold War, America had no compunction about alliances with right-wing dictatorships.

Even if democracy merits moral classification, Israel hardly counts. Its occupation policies implicate it as one of the most repressive democracies in the world.

A statesman, according to Nixon, must take the long view. Thus, Bennett and his neoconservative associates should pause before yoking the fate of America to that of Israel, a state circumscribed by hostile Arab states with whom it has fought five wars and besieged from within by Palestinian discontents. Do we really want to cast our lot with that state? If we weld our national interest to Israel, we too will be subject to more terrorist attacks. The situation is the latest in a drama of many millennia that constitutes one of the greatest human tragedies. We can only add additional lives to that tragedy.

If Israel fits into the American national interest, then our futures will be connected, not congruent.

Yet, the reasons for continued support of Israel reek of the rhetorical emptiness that has characterized Bush and Bennett. Oil can be the only conceivable reason for extending our financial and political blank check to Israel. How Israel could assist in the acquisition of Arab oil remains a mystery. Frequently, defense hawks lapse into metaphor: “Israel is America’s aircraft carrier in the Middle East,” “Israel is America’s eyes and ears in the Middle East.” Any intelligence organization that fails to alert us to Sept.

11 is not worth it and, as far as aircraft carriers go, we already have plenty of those in the Persian Gulf. What is sold as oil is being bought with blood as our bias towards Israel wins the animosity of Arab states and miscreant multimillionaire Muslims.

While America should ease its support for Israel in the long term, in the short term it cannot extricate itself without irreparable damage to all parties.

Currently, Sharon’s imitative war on terrorism detracts from America’s own agenda of pursuing its war on terror either against Iraq or Iran. Our two billion dollar a year subsidy of Israel certainly entitles us to a large vote in Israeli affairs, and our status as the world’s only superpower arms us with a de facto veto. If bloodhound Sharon knows what’s good for him, he had better heed President Bush’s calls to heel.

Meanwhile Americans in general, and conservatives in particular, need to terminate their fixation with Israel and put America first, Israel second.

Such a pronouncement may seem draconian, but it guards against the mushy numbness to geopolitical realities that made Sept. 11 possible. We may pledge our hearts and our sympathies to Israel’s dilemma, but the day we surrender our lives and our fortunes, we betray ourselves and our heritage.

Unearthing the true dilemma facing Israel The existence of a Jewish state hinges on its respect for human rights IN RECENT WEEKS, WITH THE FURY state has the fundamental right to exist unleashed in the Middle East, the debate eternally. Nowhere does it say that an ethover Israel and Palestine has gone nically, religiously, or territorially defined beyond its normal limits. While politi- people have the right to their own state. cians and diplomats debate cease-fires According to the Universal Declaration of and interim security agreements, on the Human Rights, an individual has the right to a nationality, but not to street the debate is on a very difcreate a nation to suit himferent level. People are quarrelself. ing over the existence of Israel NOAM ROSS GUEST COLUMN States come and go. The itself. whole Middle East was Those who call Israel an once just part of the apartheid state are getting air time. Those who equate Zionism with Ottoman Empire, and was carved up into racism are being heard. Israel’s support- states after World War I. Over the past ers sense the change in the air, and they decade in the Balkans, states have been are responding fervently. They are broken up and reformed over and over in scared. They are at the barricades fight- an attempt to bring stability and peace to ing for their country’s survival. the region. The states’ legitimacies are Journalists say they have never gotten so only as good as their utility in safeguardmany angry letters over their coverage of ing the rights of their citizens.

Israel was created as the solution to the conflict. On these pages, we’ve seen piece after piece written affirming one of the worst human rights problems Israel’s right to exist. The latest in history. Jews living landless and as secInternational Meeting for Holocaust ond-class citizens in foreign countries Survivors focused on the “New anti- had their human rights violated for hunSemitism,” which seeks to “cleanse the dreds of years. The murder of millions of world of a Jewish State.” Israel Hare, of Jews during the Holocaust was the final, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, writes horrible proof that that status quo was that “certain Israelis are prophesizing the unworkable.

But Israel’s creation came at the cost of end of their country’s existence.”

The threat to Israel’s existence is real human rights, as well. Hundreds of thoubecause statehood is not a right. Nowhere sands of Palestinians were forced to or in international law does it say that a voluntarily fled from their homes and have not been able to return. Under Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Noam Ross ’05 hails from Ossining, N.Y.

“Israel’s legitimacy rests on its commitment to human rights. If Israel is to save itself, it must recommit to being a defender of those rights.” the Gaza strip, millions of Palestinians have been denied their rights.

Israel’s identity as a “Jewish State” creates a human rights paradox. It has had some great human rights successes in providing aid for European, Sephardic, Arab and Ethiopian Jews, settling them in Israel. Yet at the same time, by differentiating between Jews and non-Jews in its laws, Israel creates a racial inequality amongst its citizenry.

The latest incursion of Israeli troops into the Palestinian territories showed the world human rights atrocities on a scale it could no longer tolerate.

Palestinian civilians have been collectively punished cruelly and illegally, then denied access to the aid they desperately need. The Sharon government has shown that it has only contempt for the human rights of non-Jews. Now the world is

beginning to question the trade-off made in Israel’s creation.

Israel’s legitimacy rests on its commitment to human rights. If Israel is to save itself, it must recommit to being a defender of those rights. It must end its occupation of the Palestinian people. It must deal with the racism embedded within its society. It must do the right thing with the million Palestinian refugees to whom it still bears responsibility.

Would fair solutions to these problems destroy Israel’s “Jewish character?” They would change it, certainly, but such chances are needed to save the state. The Great Depression was the greatest threat ever to American capitalism, and to save capitalism from itself, President Franklin Roosevelt implemented a form of pseudo-socialism. “I am that kind of liberal because I am that kind of conservative,” he said. For Israel to be that kind of Jewish state, it must be that kind of egalitarian society. It must reinvent itself.

The threat of anti-Semitism is still very real. Israel is still needed as a force to counter anti-Semitism and to provide a refuge for persecuted Jews. But the world could lose that force if Israel is allowed to destroy itself. With every humanitarian disaster it creates, Israel is destroying the foundations of its legitimacy. Only a radical rethinking of its policies and principles will save it.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS FRIDAY APRIL 26, 2002 · PAGE 12

Team uniforms face uncertain long term fate

Crosstown victory over PC for men’s laxers sets stage for Cornell showdown

BY JULIE FELDMEIER

With his best game in a Brown uniform, co-captain Jimmy Mormile ’02 scored a career-high six goals to lead the 20thranked men’s lacrosse team to a 13-7 victory over Providence College on Wednesday.

The win, which improves the Bears record to 6-6 (3-1 Ivy League), keeps Brown’s momentum intact for a run at this year’s Ivy title.

With a playoff berth at stake, the Bears are currently in a three-way tie for first place with Cornell and Princeton, with games against both teams still remaining.

“We control our own destiny,” said attackman Ryan Culligan ’05, who scored three goals against the Friars. “If we win the next two games against Cornell and Princeton we make the (NCAA) tournament. We’ve got to take it one game at a time. We’re all tied for first, and whoever wins out makes it in.”

Brown came out firing against crosstown rival Providence, scoring the game’s first three goals, and never looked back.

Mormile lit up the scoreboard first with 7:18 remaining in the first quarter, and off an assist from Chas Gessner ’03, Culligan sent home the Bears second goal of the game to give Brown the 2-0 lead. Mormile hit again with 5:34 on the clock, and a Providence goal by Kip Dunphy pulled the Friars within two at the close of the opening quarter.

Providence’s Dan Giuntini opened the second quarter with a goal at the 14:19 mark, but Brown answered just 27 seconds later to once again extend its lead to two, when Mormile tallied an unassisted score to give the Bears the 4-2 advantage.

“They really prepared well for us this year,” said defenseman Christopher O’Brien ’03. “They came in with an offense that we hadn’t seen on game tape, and it

What becomes of the sweat-stained uniforms and practice apparel of Brown athletes when new jerseys and shorts replace them?

Athletic equipment Manager Joseph Austin said the average life span of Brown Bears’ uniforms is four years. When a coach requests that new uniforms be ordered, the old jerseys are placed in a storage room.

Many of the discarded uniforms are then used for fund-raisers and auctions, Austin said.

Old uniforms are often presented as gifts to alumni, he said.

Austin said it is difficult to donate the uniforms to organizations providing clothing to the needy. “Most people don’t want to wear old uniforms,” he said.

Austin said the University is forbidden to donate any Brown athletic gear to other schools or athletic groups. “It’s a major NCAA violation,” he said.

But it is not against NCAA policy for athletes to keep their athletic apparel, Austin said. The NCAA charter states that “a student-athlete may retain athletics apparel items (not equipment) at the end of the individual’s collegiate participation. Used equipment may be purchased see UNIFORMS, page 7

Softball narrowly loses one, wins one in URI twin bill

BY SEAN PEDEN

The softball team split a doubleheader with the University of Rhode Island on Wednesday afternoon. After coming up just a run short in a great last-chance comeback effort in game one, the Bears came out strong for an 8-3 win in a chilly game two to break even with their intrastate foes.

Cara Howe ’03 hit well for Brown, as she had four RBIs on the day, with three of them coming in a 3-for-3 performance to lead the way in game two. Erin Durlesser ’03 earned the win on the mound with a four-strikeout complete game.

The bats were quiet early for Bruno in game one, as they scored just twice over the first six innings to dig a 6-2 hole see SOFTBALL, page 7

SCOREBOARD Today’s Games Women’s Crew at Cornell/Columbia.

Men’s Golf at URI. Softball at Yale 3:00 PM. Softball at Yale 5:00 PM.

Weekend Games Saturday Women’s Crew at Cornell/Columbia.

Men’s Crew vs. Dartmouth Providence, RI. Men’s Golf at URI. Women’s Water Polo at Easterns Princeton, NJ. Women’s Golf at Northeast Championships.

Baseball at Harvard 12:00 PM. Baseball at Harvard 3:00 PM. Men’s Lacrosse at Cornell.

Women’s Lacrosse vs. Princeton Stevenson Field 4:00 PM.

Sunday Track at Springtime Invite Providence, RI. Women’s Water Polo at Eastern Princeton, NJ. Women’s Golf at Northeast Championships.

Baseball at Harvard 12:00 PM. Baseball at Harvard 3:00 PM.

BY JONATHAN BLOOM

Emily Hunt / Herald

Co-captain Jimmy Mormile ’02 scored a career high six goals in Brown’s 13-7 win over Providence College. was designed to confuse us. It took us about a quarter for us to figure out how to defend it. We broke down on ‘D’ more often than normal, but in the end we were able to pull it together.”

Brown went on another three-goal tear to take a 7-2 lead, as attackman Brian Miller ’04 scored two straight (12:35, 11:34), and Mormile scored his fourth goal of the game with just over six minutes to play in the half. The Friars’ Jon Meehan pulled Providence within four, but the

This year’s best in all of baseball NOW THAT THE 2002 MAJOR LEAGUE Baseball season is underway, we have gotten a small taste of what to expect from our beloved home teams this season. Hence, it is time to predict who will be playing in October and who will not.

AL EAST: Boston Red Sox New York Yankees Toronto Blue Jays Tampa Bay Devil Rays Baltimore Orioles The Yankee’s domination over the ALEast will come to end this year as a result of the birth of “New Red Sox”. With new JOHN VERDEAUX owners, a new & ANDREW FRANK manager, and some THE FINAL GRADE essential player additions (Damon /Burkett/T.Clark), the Red Sox potential is almost limitless. New York’s prevailing pitching rotation is beginning to wither and is now showing signs of decline. Toronto’s big guns in their lineup, led by Carlos Delgado and Jose Cruz Jr., will be competitive once again, but there are serious questions in their pitching staff, which will keep them out of playoff contention.

Tampa Bay will finally enjoy a season out of the basement thanks to the painful inconsistency of the Baltimore Orioles. This Baltimore team has several young guns that are on the brink of stardom; however, this team is at least one or two years from success. Tampa Bay’s “low-budget” roster will surprise people at times this season as these

guys take advantage of their chance to play in the big leagues.

AL CENTRAL Cleveland Indians Chicago White Sox Minnesota Twins Kansas City Royals Detroit Tigers

Bears held off the Friar attack to secure a 7-3 lead at halftime.

Providence’s Dunphy tallied an unassisted goal to start the second half, but Brown reeled off its third three-goal rally of the day to put the game out of reach.

Miller connected on his third goal of the game just two minutes into the half, and Gessner took a feed from Michael Hughes ’03 with 9:33 remaining to solidify the lead see LACROSSE, page 7

Baseball drops two to Vermont, but stays one game over .500

BY MARTIN MULKEEN

By far, the most competitive division in the American League, the AL-Central will be a heated battle right up to October.

Minnesota, Chicago, and Cleveland will make valiant attempt to prove themselves worthy of the playoffs. However, in the end, Cleveland will, once again, be proclaimed, division champs. The season is simple, and it all comes down to pitching. A rotation that includes outstanding young pitcher, C.C Sabathia and proven veteran, Bartolo Colon has already shown its intensity with the lowest ERA in the American League. Despite some key losses in their offense, the Indians are fundamentally solid and play with an amazing level of pride.

Chicago is solid all-around. They have a complete mix of good pitching, consistent hitting, and run support. Look for this team to be in the hunt for the AL-Wildcard spot.

The Twins have arguably the most talent in the division, but lack the experience and ability to maintain the level of play needed to win throughout the entire season. Much like last season, Minnesota will experience several winning droughts causing their playoff hopes to slip through the cracks.

The Brown Baseball team dropped both games of a double header against Vermont University on Wednesday, falling to the Catamounts 4-2 and 10-3 at Centennial field in Burlington.

The Bears remain over five hundred with an overall record of 20-19 going 8-4 in Ivy League play.

Vermont jumped out in front of the Bears in the bottom of the third innings scoring three runs.

The Bears promptly battled back in the top of the fourth inning with hits from James Lowe ’05, Matt Kutler ’04, and Jeff Nichols ’05 to bring home two runners.

The Catamounts scored again in the bottom of the inning to make it 4-2. Brown failed to score again and Vermont went on to a 4-2 victory.

“We just didn’t really show up to hit,” Nichols said. “It’s baseball and that kind of thing happens. We just have to move on and focus on the next game.”

Sam Jennings ’04, now 2-4 on the see BASEBALL, page 7

see MLB, page 7