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Mayoral hopefuls spar in debate High level admins react to proposals for revamped U. government

BY VICTORIA HARRIS

Candidates for mayor sparred Wednesday night over their differing views of working people’s interests during the Living Wage Mayoral Candidates Forum at Classical High School.

The forum was one of the last public events before next Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

Residents introduced eight issues they said were particularly relevant to lower income residents: the living wage, funding for low income housing, lead poisoning, predatory lending, rat infestation, labor disputes, adult education and the Earned Income Tax Credit.

Each candidate then responded to prepared questions on each topic.

The question of whether each candidate would support the Providence Living Wage Ordinance provoked the most comprehensive answers and demonstrated the clearest differences among the candidates.

Candidates Christopher Young and Greg Geritt pledged to sign the bill unconditionally, while David Cicilline ’83 indicated support but said he could not commit to signing the legislation if elected.

“I need to evaluate where we are as a city financially before I can decide,” Cicilline said. “We have to be responsible as people running for office and be able to pay for it.”

Candidates Keven McKenna and Dave Talan said they were opposed to a living wage ordinance.

“My job as a mayor is to provide the best services at the lowest cost,” Talan said.

McKenna questioned the authority of the mayor to make that type of a decision.

“To ask a candidate for a mayor who doesn’t have the authority to make wages to support a living wage is an unfair question,” he said.

When the candidates were asked what other steps they would take to improve workers’ wages, Geritt said he would “take a 20 percent pay cut as mayor to help pay for this.”

Nearly all the candidates responded with enthusiasm to the remaining concerns, while not necessarily agreeing to the proposals recommended by the Jobs with Justice Coalition, which sponsored the event in conjunction with the Childhood Lead Action Project and Sisters Overcoming Abusive Relationships.

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

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Six days before Tuesday’s primary,mayoral hopefuls participated in a Wednesday night debate on the living wage in the auditorium at Classical High School.

Young, however, repeatedly strayed from the topic.

He persistently attacked Cicilline in his responses, despite reprimands from the moderator, calling his opponent a “ferret” and growling at both Cicilline and the audience.

Candidates Joseph Paolino and David Igliozzi were

Following Tuesday’s proposal by the Task Force on Faculty Governance to drastically revamp the current system of University decision-making and planning, administrators, students and faculty members met today to discuss both the future and history of faculty governance.

The task force, led by Professor of Computer Science John Savage, proposed trimming down the 44 faculty committees to 13. Now, 237 faculty members sit on those 44 committees. The task force’s proposal dictates that only about half that number of professors will need to fill spots.

The proposal also calls for University governance and decision making to occur out of the public eye, with planning committees releasing their findings after debate.

The eight-member task force identified problems with the current governance system with encouragement from President Ruth Simmons, Savage told The Herald.

Those problems dealt with two major issues: committees often had responsibilities, but because no administrator sat on the committee, the groups had no authority or clear definition of power; and, committees often had no clear set of responsibilities.

Savage told faculty members at the monthly faculty meeting Tuesday that the task force had three major goals.

One, dictated by Simmons was to “improve quality of decisions.” The other two goals were to achieve a “greater engagement of faculty in governance” and create a “clear assignment of responsibility” for both faculty and administration.

Dean of the College Paul Armstrong said it seems strange that the task force aimed for a “greater engagement of faculty in governance” but cut down on the number of faculty who will sit on committees at the same time.

“There are fewer faculty positions on the committees, and those positions are going to be more intellectual and matter more,” he said. Because the positions will be more limited and meaningful, “faculty will be more likely to

see DEBATE, page 6 see REACTION, page 4

Princeton Review ranks Brown among best in college radio, theater

BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

Brown may not be the top party school or boast the nation’s premier academic program, but it does have the fourthbest radio station, the eighth-best theater and the ninthtoughest admissions standards.

Or so says the Princeton Review’s 2003 rankings of “The Best 345 Colleges.”

Released in August, the rankings are based on surveys of 100,000 students over the past three years. Categories run the gamut from the best professors (Washington and Lee University) to the most diverse student body (Seton Hall University) to the worst food (Colorado School of Mines).

The best, and — as with the “Dorms like prisons” category — the worst 20 colleges were listed for each category.

Brown appeared on five of the 65 lists, ranking ninth “Toughest to get into,” 17th for having “Students dissatisfied with financial aid,” fourth for its “Great college radio station,” eighth in the “Great college theatre” category and sixth on the “Great college towns” list.

Northwestern University took top honors for undergraduates’ overall academic experience. Brown did not make the top 20 in that category, though fellow Ivy League colleges of Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania did.

Nor could Brown compete with the University of Indiana, which the Princeton Review named the best party school in the nation.

Monica Payne ’06 said she was not surprised by Brown’s

high selectivity ranking. The college application process “was definitely tough,” said Payne, who applied to 17 colleges. “I don’t think anyone expects an Ivy League to be easy to get into,” she added.

Director of Admission Michael Goldberger agreed that “we are certainly incredibly difficult to get into,” but said the idea of numerical rankings for colleges is flawed.

“I don’t know how they would measure that,” he said of the selectivity ranking. “Schools use different methods” to make admission decisions, so there is no way to compare selectivity across a broad range of schools, he said.

The Princeton Review’s book is not associated with U.S. News and World Report’s annual college rankings, which give colleges an overall score based on factors including selectivity, student-faculty ratio and alumni giving. The U.S. News rankings, which placed Brown 16th overall in the 2002 edition, will be released Sept. 13.

Payne said she used published rankings “as kind of a rough guideline.

“I used it to get an idea of what schools were how good,” she said.

Both Payne and Goldberger said students pay less attention to the specific rankings than the media buzz surrounding their release indicates. Payne said she used the rankings to help identify top-tier schools, but did not focus on individual school rankings. see RANKINGS, page 6

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J. Carter Brown, descendent of the Brown family, dead this summer at 67 page 5

University operating this semester with record influx of temporary faculy page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Brett Cohen ’03 lays out ten no-brainer initiatives for University improvement column,page 11

Matt Kutler ’04 excels in Cape Cod League, playing summer ball with the best page 12

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CAMPUS WATCH THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2002 · PAGE 3

Counting calories — on campus

BY BRIAN BASKIN

America’s obsession with dieting has increased with the nation’s waistlines, but college campuses provide the rare convergence of image-conscious students, complimentary fitness facilities, well-balanced menus and --in some cases -- on-staff nutritionists.

Yet the average male college student gains six pounds in his first year, the average woman 4.5 pounds. Two-thirds don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables, and 60 percent have too much saturated fat in their diets, according to the Tufts Longitudinal Health Study conducted this year.

So where do college students go wrong?

“There is this devil called boredom,” said Jeanne Goldberg, professor of nutrition at Tufts University who with Dr. Christina Economos launched the Tufts study in 1998 to analyze student needs, including how they eat. “When students show up in the same place day after day, you can have all the variety in the world but students don’t perceive it as that.”

Tufts’ Dining Services rotates its menus daily, but always includes traditional college comfort foods like French fries, hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza.

Though the university labels each dish with its fat content, calories per serving and other nutrition information, pizza remains the most popular by a wide margin, said Tufts junior Josh Edwards.

Variety is key, Goldberg said. In recent years many colleges have revamped their menus to provide more nutritionally-balanced meals, she said. The University of Connecticut recently began labeling certain dishes as healthy choices, and many large state schools and private universities now employ registered dieticians.

But all the promotion in the world won’t entice students to eat week-old salad.

Edwards gave Tufts high marks for an appetizing vegetarian section, but said the fruit left something to be desired.

Outside the dining hall, health services departments at most universities spread the word about healthy eating habits with mixed results.

One successful campaign at Tufts had prominent university figures sporting milk mustaches in a parody of the “Got Milk” campaign, and Dining Services put flavor syrups by the milk dispensers in the dining halls. Milk consumption, extremely low previously, shot up 20 percent, Goldberg said.

But despite presentations to first-years and advertising around campus, some seniors at Tufts still don’t know that health services offers diet advice, she said.

College nutritionists like to encourage students to seek out nutrition advice, rather than forcing it on unwilling undergraduates. Brown Health Services spends much of its time debunking diet myths like the widely believed taboo on eating at night.

“Food doesn’t turn to fat just because you’re going to be sleeping at night,” said Health Services

The average male student gains six pounds in his first year, the average woman 4.5 pounds. Two-thirds don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables, and 60 percent have too much saturated fat in their diets, according to the Tufts Longitudinal Health Study conducted this year.

So where do college students go wrong?

Nutritionist Katherine McCloy. “Treat your body as if it’s on a road trip. You need to fuel up your body every few hours. It doesn’t matter if it’s at night or in the daytime.”

More students are seeking diet input from University Food Services Dietician Bridget Kay, McCloy said. But the bulk of the nutritionist’s counseling sessions in recent years have come to focus on eating disorders. McCloy said she has seen an especially dramatic rise in the number of male students with eating disorders.

As Americans become increasingly fat conscious, more high school students enter college already worrying excessively about body image and obsessively counting calories after every meal, McCloy said. That mindset can lead to eating disorders, she said.

Many university nutritionists now promote a positive body image to combat the rise in eating disorders. The University of Connecticut’s health center sponsors a body pride fair during eating disorder awareness week in late February and provides nutrition education to nearly 80 percent of each first-year class during orientation outreaches, said Jen Ketterly, nutrition coordinator at UConn.

At many colleges, food has become a scapegoat for wider health issues, Goldberg said. Colleges can’t solve problems such as female students who smoke to lose weight or students afraid they will be mocked at the gym, she said.

“It’s bigger than just the dining room,” Goldberg said.

Herald staff writer Brian Baskin ’04 edits the campus watch section.

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Koran controversy settled at UNC — but some are left smarting

BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

After a summer-long controversy that thrust the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill into a nationwide debate over religious and academic freedoms, firstyear students sat down in August to discuss an annotated translation of excerpts from the Koran.

UNC-Chapel Hill’s decision to assign “Approaching the Qur’an: The Early Revelations” as summer reading for incoming students drew scathing opposition from conservative critics and heavy media attention over the summer.

The UNC-Chapel Hill Faculty Council issued a statement in support of academic freedom, but the UNC Board of Governors chose not to adopt a similar resolution.

The state legislature even got involved, threatening to cut funding for the school’s summer reading program unless UNC chose material that represented all religions, the Chapel Hill Herald reported.

The Family Policy Network, a conservative Christian policy group, filed a lawsuit against the school on behalf of three incoming students. In an op-ed published in USA Today in August, FPN President Joe Glover wrote that the school’s assigning the book “constitutes religious indoctrination” because it contains passages from a religion’s “holy text” and presents Islam in a positive light.

A federal appellate court threw out the lawsuit just hours before students were scheduled to discuss the book, which was written by Haverford College Professor of Religion Michael Sells. The discussions went ahead as scheduled.

Brown University Chaplain Janet Cooper-Nelson said she saw UNC-Chapel Hill’s goal as “rais(ing) the general level of knowledge” in the student population.

It would be questionable if “someone were up there trying to teach the Koran as a belief,” she said. But in this case, the religious book represented a view into another culture, a perspective the UNC faculty viewed many students as lacking, she said.

“Should we (educators), observing a great ignorance of Islam and stereotyping of Muslims, do something about it? Absolutely,” she said. The fact that the topic in question is a religion doesn’t make it any less worthy or appropriate for discussion, she added.

“You can’t really get an education if it begins with the premise that there’s some book or doctrine that’s too dangerous for you,” she said.

Many UNC-Chapel Hill students said they were glad they read the book, and that the debate about it was overblown.

“We’re at a liberal arts school that’s supposed to open our minds. You’re supposed to get new perspective,” UNC-Chapel Hill first-year Matthew Neidich told the New York Times. “You don’t get new perspective by not trying to learn about new things.”

UNC student and Campus Crusade for Christ member see KORAN, page 6

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Reaction continued from page 1 serve on a committee and be engaged.”

Under the reformatted governance plan, committees would be closed to the public, Savage said.

This policy differs drastically from the current system under which the Advisory Committee on University Planning, the Undergraduate Council of Students and other University governing bodies meet under the public eye.

Provost Robert Zimmer said that making meetings of ACUP’s proposed replacement, the University Resources Committee, private would not necessarily shut the University community out of the decision-making process.

“We want the community to really be engaged in a full discussion about the University budget,” he said. But, he said, the task force did not want the committee to be “self-censoring.”

“I think many people believe the meetings need to be closed in order to lead to open conversation and decision making,” Zimmer said. “What we really want is to get the openness from

the closing of it.”

Zimmer said the public’s voice would not be lost by the private meetings and discussions. To maintain the Brown community’s participation, all topics of discussion and the results of the debates will be revealed. Members of the community will be able to voice their opinions at public forums, as well.

“All that’s being closed is the conversation,” he said, “so that it can, in its way, be an open conversation.”

The move to reform the faculty governance system is historic.

The University established parts of the conglomeration of committees and advisory boards, such as the ACUP, during the Vietnam era, Savage told The Herald.

At its inception, the University based ACUP, one of the major parts of University planning and a powerful force in faculty governance, on the Princeton Priorities Committee, which was also growing into its own role at that point.

“This was a time when students (and) faculty wanted to have a voice, wanted to participate in the governing of the universities,” Savage said.

In a time when administrations of all kinds — political and educational — faced public mistrust, educators devised commit-

tees like PPC at Princeton and ACUP at Brown to “bring everyone to the table,”Savage said.

Now, he said, even though these committees exist, “it’s very rare that these committees function to the satisfaction of everybody who participates in them.”

Faculty members will continue to discuss the proposal with the task force, administrators and students in the coming months, eventually meeting in November to vote on the plan. Savage said that students might not necessarily notice any difference immediately if the plan goes through, but the results of it will affect the long-term academic mission of the University.

“What we all want is for Brown University to function more efficiently,” he said. “We want us making better decisions than we make today, and the whole purpose of this is to ensure the decisions we make are serving the academic interests of the University as well as the budgetary interests of the University.”

Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 covers faculty and administration. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2002 · PAGE 5

Record number of temp faculty begin teaching this week

BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

IT’S NOT EASY BEING GREEN — Despite the rainy weather that has plagued Providence for days, plants were on sale yesterday in the mail room for students looking to spruce up their dorm rooms or off-campus apartments.

An initial stage of President Simmons’ Institute for Academic Enrichment goes into effect this week, as temporary faculty members hired over the summer will begin teaching. The University has also scheduled searches for new permanent faculty members that will take place over the course of the year.

Although Brown hires temporary faculty every summer, this year academic departments were allowed to hire more than usual, said William Crossgrove, associate dean of the faculty. Searches for regular faculty positions remained at the same level as in previous years, with 38 searches resulting in 22 new additions.

The temporary faculty will have a “significant short-term impact” on Brown’s course offerings, adding an estimated 87 sections, Crossgrove said. While the additional hires are spread across the academic departments, University officials paid special attention to providing more sections for typically over-enrolled courses, including introductory courses in Spanish and visual arts, he said.

Crossgrove emphasized that long-term growth in the faculty roster will occur at a slow pace. The steep increase in temporary hiring was intended to “create more new courses on a short-term basis” in preparation for a more gradual increase in the permanent size of the faculty, he said.

The temporary faculty members come from varied backgrounds, Crossgrove said. Some are faculty spending a year away from regular positions elsewhere, some are recent Ph.D. recipients and others are Providence-area residents with expertise in a specific field. Some may apply for permanent positions when searches begin; others will be replaced when the year is up.

Their course loads will vary as well. While some were hired to teach one section of one course, others will carry a full teaching load.

A short-term increase in temporary positions is “a first step toward increasing the size of the faculty,” a transitional stage as the University moves to implement President Simmons’ academic renewal plan, Crossgrove said. Under Simmons’ plan, the faculty is projected to grow by 20 people each year for the next five years, to add a total of 100 new permanent faculty positions. Searches to fill the first 20 positions will take place this year.

Hiring faculty for regular positions is a complicated process. Last year, an average of 95 candidates applied for see FACULTY, page 6

J. Carter Brown, trustee and friend, dead of cancer at 67

BY MARIA DI MENTO

J. Carter Brown, descendent of the well-known John Nicholas Brown family, former director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and a member of numerous boards and committees at the University that bears his name, died June 17 at Brigham and Women’s hospital in Boston. He was 67.

Brown was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of terminal blood cancer, in August 2000. After undergoing stem cell transplant treatment in January 2001, he lived “well and vigorously,” according to a statement released by his family. He was hospitalized on May 3 for shortness of breath and died 45 days later from pulmonary failure.

Known internationally throughout the art museum world for ushering in the era of the modern blockbuster museum show, Brown established himself on College Hill as a crucial but quiet university figure.

He served simultaneously on the Corporation’s Committee of Academic Affairs and the Committee on University Relations from 1996 to 2001, and was a term trustee for the Corporation from 1992 to 1998. He played a key role on the Facilities and Design Committee, and was instrumental in bringing architects to campus and in the creation of new buildings such as the Watson Institute, Carr House and the addition to the Barus and Holley engineering building.

Chairman of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize Jury, Brown possessed a keen eye for architectural detail.

John Noonan, associate vice president of Facilities Management, said Brown had a knack for inspiring architects to problem solve and create the best designs and the most functional buildings possible.

“I think in the end it was a great service to the

University,” Noonan said.

Noonan recalled Brown’s enthusiasm when the committee examined a model for one of the University’s new buildings.

“Carter Brown sat right down on the floor to look at it” and to scrutinize it from all vantage points. “He wasn’t afraid to roll his sleeves up and work,” Noonan said.

Brown graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Business School, and attended the Institute of Fine Arts in New York before joining the National Gallery in 1961. He became director there in 1969.

When he retired in 1992, Brown remained active in the arts, helping to establish Ovation, a cable television arts network, and organizing the international art exhibit “Rings,” for the 1996 summer Olympics.

From 1980 until May 2002, Brown was a member of the Board of Governors of the John Carter Brown Library. His death breaks a 100-year-old tradition of having a member of the Brown family on the library’s board.

There has been a member of the Brown family on the board since 1901 when the rare books collection originally belonging to Brown’s great-grandfather, John Carter Brown, was transferred from the family residence to the library’s present home on the University’s Main Green.

Norman Fiering, the director of the library, worked closely with Brown and recalled his graciousness, intellect, sense of humor and ability to juggle an unusually hectic schedule. Fiering remembered receiving calls from Brown on any given day and never knowing what city or country he might be calling from.

“He was the first person I knew who had a cell phone before it was commonplace. We were in a taxi somewhere in Boston and he pulled this thing out of his pocket — I

didn’t know what it was — and started talking into it. He always kept this incredible schedule, so the cell phone was perfect for him,” Fiering said.

Fiering credited Brown with being behind much of the library’s growth in the last 20 years, including the addition in the Classical style of the Caspersen wing in the 1990s, and with supporting the library’s mission to preserve its collection, promote research and reach out to the public with lectures and exhibitions.

“Carter liked the idea of breaking out of the sanctuary of the library and showing our treasures and sharing our collection with the public,” Fiering said.

Born on Oct. 8, 1934 in Providence, Brown grew up in the family home at 357 Benefit St. The family deeded the house to the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization in 1985, and donated the center to the University in 1995. Brown served on the center’s Board of Overseers and was chair of its advisory board.

Director of the center Joyce Botelho said she and others there had the opportunity to see the personal side of Brown because he would stay at the center whenever he came to Providence. She said they haven not been able to process his death yet, and that when she opens her e-mail everyday she still expects to see a message from him.

“It’s a great loss for the center and for Brown,” she said, adding that Brown’s energy was “boundless” in everything he did.

“He was quite an extraordinary man,” Botelho said, “and even that doesn’t really describe him.”

The center has kept the original furnishings and décor from the time Brown’s family lived there. According to see BROWN, page 6

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Brown continued from page 5 Botelho, when he stayed there, Brown would sometimes conduct business sitting in his favorite stuffed, dark red chair that still sits in the parlor where his family had tea at 5 p.m. everyday when he was a child.

Before he died, Brown was using the center to research the Brown family papers that are housed there. At the time of his death, he was working on a book

Debate continued from page 1 not present at the debate, causing the moderator, Saah N’Tow, to question their commitment to poorer communities.

N’Tow, a member of the Liberian Community Association of Rhode Island and the Jobs with Justice Coalition, described the debate as “an opportunity to hear the candidates for mayor discuss issues that affect working people.”

Over 150 residents, including approximately 15 Brown students, attended the forum.

about his life and his father’s.

Brown is survived by his two children, Elissa Brown ’05 and John Carter Brown IV, his brother Nicholas Brown, his sister Angela Fischer, and his fiancée Anne Hawley.

A requiem mass was held June 25 at St. Stephen’s church on George Street and a memorial service was held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. on July 17.

Herald staff writer Maria Di Mento ’03 can be reached at mdimento@browndailyherald.com.

Flavio Casoy ’03, a member of Brown’s Student Labor Alliance and the Jobs with Justice Coaltion, expressed satisfaction with the event but was dismayed that so few students attended.

“I think these debates are very important for Brown students,” he said. “I was disappointed that despite considerable effort we could not get more Brown students to attend. This could have been a really good opportunity to get Brown students committed to city politics.”

Koran continued from page 3 Maggy Lampley praised her university’s decision. “I don’t believe that ignorance of other religions is the guide that Christ set before us to follow,” Lampley told the Times.

The debate is not over yet.

Another conservative group, the American Family Association, has vowed to pursue the original lawsuit, the school’s newspaper reported.

The University of Maryland also came under fire for its summer reading choice when it distributed copies of “The Laramie Project,” a play about the 1998 murder of 21-yearold gay student Matthew Shepard.

The Family Policy Network, which claims the book promotes homosexuality, voiced opposition to the school’s decision on the FPN Web site, but wrote that FPN will not take legal action against the University of Maryland.

Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ’05 can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Victoria Harris ’03 can be reached at vharris@browndailyherald.com.

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Rankings continued from page 1 “The criteria are so vague,” she said, adding that the surveys compile too many different factors to condense into one number.

Goldberger said he would be “shocked” if anyone chose to apply or not apply to a college based solely on its rankings. “I

don’t think anyone puts quite the stock in them that people are afraid they might,” he said.

But he said he understands that “people are curious” about college rankings.

“People do want some way of measuring things,” he said. “It’s just an awfully hard thing to measure.”

each open faculty position, Crossgrove said. That means an estimated 1,900 additional applications for departments to review over each of the next five years.

“We’re going to be seeing a lot of searches in the next few years,” Crossgrove said.

Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ’05 can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ’05 can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2002 · PAGE 7

IN BRIEF FBI looks to refocus, stop terrorism PORTLAND, Ore. (Washington Post) — When FBI special agent Lyndalea Ruffner first arrived here a decade ago, she was fresh off an assignment in the bureau’s premier field office in New York. Trained in counterintelligence and counterterrorism, she hoped to put her skills to use in the remote Pacific Northwest.

Her first assignment: violent crimes.

“This was basically a bank robbery office,” said Ruffner, 49, who now heads the office’s international terrorism section.“It was that and violent crime. ... Foreign intelligence and terrorism cases really weren’t a big priority.”

Nearly a year after the terror attacks on New York and Washington, those priorities have changed dramatically.

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III is overseeing a historic overhaul of the FBI, aiming to refocus the bureau on preventing terrorist incidents rather than solving crimes after they’ve been committed.

The restructuring includes even greater emphasis on international terrorism in large field offices such as New York, where agents already had built cases against defendants in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

But the impact of the change is more pronounced in smaller offices such as the 100-agent Portland operation, where attention to foreign terrorists previously was modest at best and overshadowed by more traditional FBI probes.

After the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the entire Portland office was dispatched to work on the case for two months.

Since then, Portland agents have investigated a threat against Oregon’s bridges and helped uncover alleged plans for a training camp for terrorists on a remote patch of sagebrush in the southern part of the state.

New currency may soon unite Afghans KABUL (L.A. Times) — President Hamid Karzai announced the issuing of a new currency Wednesday, designed to end the confusion from several forms of money now in circulation and provide a symbol of Afghan renewal and unity.

On the same day, Afghanistan handed over 55 longtime Pakistani prisoners who had fought on the side of the ousted Taliban regime to their government, saying they no longer posed a danger here.

Rumors of the new currency had abounded in recent days, causing extreme volatility at the money changers’ stands around the country. Karzai’s announcement seemed aimed at averting panic among the public that their existing currency would become worthless.

In a nationally broadcast address, he assured Afghans that they would not lose money during the introduction of the new bills.

“In order to get rid of inflation, our economists and commercial consultants decided to remove three zeros from the old afghanis,” he said.

“Do not worry. No matter how much you have, you can freely exchange all your old afghanis at the nearest bank in all parts of Afghanistan,” he promised. “If banks are crowded or not available, you can change your money with money changers.”

The current afghanis, which over the past year have been valued at about 40,000 to the U.S. dollar, will be replaced by new afghanis valued at about 40 to the dollar. The new currency, like the old, will float with the market and will be backed by the nation’s gold and hard-currency reserves.

Karzai said the new currency will be honored throughout the country. Presently, variants of the afghani bill circulate in areas formerly controlled by North Alliance forces that overthrew the Taliban last fall with the help of U.S.-led forces. In addition, several foreign currencies, including the U.S. dollar and the Pakistani rupee, are widely used.

“People will be proud,” Karzai said. “The new money will

have value, and in the exchange markets it will be stable and credible.”

The government said two planeloads of the new notes have arrived in Kabul, the capital, and the exchange of the notes will begin soon. The bills are being printed in Germany using the latest techniques to foil counterfeiters, Finance Ministry officials said.

The switch in part will allow the Central Bank, for the first time, to determine how many afghanis are in circulation.

Meanwhile, Afghan officials characterized the release of the prisoners to Pakistan as the beginning of an exchange.

But some here feared that the gesture may boomerang if those released return to take up arms against the U.S.-led multinational forces in Afghanistan.

The 55 prisoners had fought under the Taliban regime until being captured by resistance forces before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Another 55 are due to be turned over to Pakistan Thursday.

“Those deemed not a threat to this country or others as terrorists and not wanted by any other country were returned to Pakistan,” said Omar Samad, a Foreign Ministry spokesman.

The first batch included several aged men and some people on crutches. Reporters in Kabul were not allowed to interview them.

Although Pakistan has made no commitment, the Afghan government is hoping to receive in exchange significant numbers of its citizens being held in Pakistani jails on minor charges such as theft and improper documentation, Samad said in an interview earlier this week.

The Pakistani prisoners turned over Wednesday, some of whom had spent as many as six years in the custody of militias that opposed the Taliban regime, were brought to Kabul’s airport and turned over to the Pakistani ambassador, Rustam Shah Mohmand. They were flown by military transport to Peshawar, Pakistan, where they were jailed again.

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Blair and Britains differ on Iraq plan LONDON (Washington Post) — In a sign of the political battle to precede any military strike against Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair

on Wednesday encountered resistance at home and among European neighbors to his call for ousting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

A day after Blair declared support for the Bush administration’s campaign against Hussein,

the reaction in Britain was decidedly mixed. Voters and leaders of Blair’s own center-left Labor Party expressed misgivings about the prime minister’s willingness to use force against Hussein.

Britain remains the closest U.S. ally, but even here polls show considerable opposition to Washington’s war talk. And that sentiment is widespread

throughout Europe: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder responded to Blair’s speech with a sharp rebuff Wednesday.

“With all respect for Tony Blair: Just like anyone else, he will not speak for Europe alone on this issue or on others,” said Schroeder, whose opposition to the Bush policy on Iraq has been a centerpiece of his campaign for re-election in Germany. “We have absolutely no reason to change our well-founded position. Under my leadership, Germany will not take part in an intervention in Iraq.”

Debate in Britain on Wednesday centered on Blair’s promise to make the case against Iraq by presenting a dossier of evidence to support the claim that Hussein’s regime is developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

Critics predicted that the dossier would not produce compelling new arguments to prove the prime minister’s assertion that Hussein poses “a real and unique threat” to world security.

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‘Sex talk’ often doesn’t work (Washington Post) — Moms in America, take heed: What you think you’re telling your teen-agers about sex, and what they hear, may be two very different things. And it’s your kids’ perceptions that shape their behavior.

These are among the most recent findings of an ongoing national survey of 12- to 17-yearolds, released Wednesday in a report by the University of Minnesota and, simultaneously, in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Researchers wanted to know whether parental connectedness influences the age at which young people first engage in sexual intercourse. They interviewed more than 5,000 kids who identified themselves as virgins. They interviewed the kids’ mothers separately. Then taking a tack rarely found in federally funded research, they returned to the teens one year later to see if they had had sex. (Fathers were not interviewed for this sample.)

At a news conference Wednesday, panelists said closeness between mother and child plays a role in early sexual activity, particularly for younger teens, but in ways that vary between boys and girls.

It matters to all teens, the report concluded, if they know their mothers strongly believe they shouldn’t have sex. Teens are more likely to delay sex "when (they) perceive that their mother strongly disapproves," the Minnesota report states.

But kids often don’t get the message that parents think they are sending. About 85 percent of the mothers surveyed said they strongly disapproved of their kids having sex "at this time." But when their children were interviewed, almost half of the boys and about onethird of the girls said they thought their mothers didn’t disapprove.

"I think there’s an element of the double standard here," Robert Blum, a pediatrician and co-author of the report, said in an interview prior to the news conference. "The message to girls is: “Don’t do this, (sex) is going to affect your reputation, your future.’ " Conversations with boys are more straightforward, Blum suggested: "You better protect yourself."

Panelist Amie McLain, a sophomore at Howard University, offered another reason why mothers might feel less sure of themselves with their daughters: They’re on their own. "Moms think they’ll be supported by dads when they (the fathers) talk to sons about sex, but not to their daughters," McLain said.

The report failed to settle the question, raised by abstinenceonly sex educators, of whether talking about birth control with a child increases the possibility that he or she will jump into bed sooner.

When some mothers in the study talked to their kids about birth control, their kids ended up believing that their moms might not like it if they had sex, but wouldn’t be distraught over it. But unlike some earlier researchers, who reported that teens whose parents recommend contraception are more likely to have intercourse, the authors of this study concluded that "such recommendations were not associated with a greater likelihood of teen sex."

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Good digestions Collegiate life gives students freedoms unheard of during the years of parental guidance and adult monitoring. One of the most discussed and important is the sudden control over one’s diet and nutritional choices.

Eating, no longer the high-school chore of simply finishing a plate of mother-crafted balanced cuisine, becomes a responsibility all its own.

Brown provides “healthy alternatives” to the sometimesstaple first-year diet of soft-serve on a waffle and diet coke — we’ve been there. It is easy to fall into the pattern of securing quick and immediately gratifying meals. The Gate, popular with Pembroke residents, provides Pop Tarts and Hostess aplenty, juxtaposed with only a few pieces of fruit.

Jo’s is better known for its bins of gummy sours than its wraps.

We realize that the fast-food trend at Brown is no fault of the University’s. There is no nefarious plot to fatten up its students for market. But when these pre-packaged carbohydrate blasts are next to a time-consuming and messy salad options, many students reach for the quick fix.

Simple distance plays a factor, too. First-years living in Perkins with half-an-hour to eat may not be able to traverse the distance to a cafeteria in time. As a result, many use up their “credits” and “points” at the after-hours eateries, resulting in late-night binges on Ben and Jerry’s pints and apple-pie pockets. This is hardly a healthy lifestyle.

Meal plan has been improved by the renovation of the VDub. The salad bar has been transformed from an array of sad, sad iceberg lettuce to a more respectable array of fibrous treats. The University has wisely increased the hours of operation for food options, at least in part; the eradication of the rigid hours of each meal at the Ratty helps feed many students who otherwise could not eat there because of class conflicts and extracurricular responsibilities.

It’s generally difficult enough to balance one’s courseload and extracurricular commitments; balancing one’s diet often falls by the wayside. Brown should applaud those students who juggle all three with dexterity.

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2002 · PAGE 11

University should undertake simple win-win projects Clinton-esque “mini projects” would improve quality of life for all THERE ARE PROBABLY 45 QUADRILLION revoked. minor tweaks and enhancements Brown could feasibly make. Unfortunately, while 3. Make your own breakfast. clearly beneficial, nearly all 45 quadrillion The five people who show up for breakfast of them would get bogged down in sense- in the Ratty every morning should be less arguing over unnecessary and nonex- allowed free reign to make their own pancakes or omelets however istent concerns. they like them. Also, public To cut though the muck, I radio should be played at a have selected 10 win-win polinot-too-high volume. Oh, cies that have essentially no wait, that’s Louis. significant downside or valid argument against them. By 4. Support entrepreneurial extension, the list convenientendeavors. ly works as a “reasonableness” The University is always comtest — if you seriously disagree plaining about how little with more than one or two of money it has, yet it doesn’t them, you lpretty much all BRETT COHEN seem to be doing a damn credibility.

CHECKMATE! thing to enable entrepreneur1. Extend library checkout hours.

Circulation often ends at the Rock as early as 11:45 p.m., while the library remains open until 2:00 a.m.

Currently, if you want to check out a book after 11:45 p.m., the best the staff can do is place a “hold” on it. Given that the Rock is not packed during these hours and the staff is standing around essentially idle, there would be immense benefit in extending circulation toward, if not encompassing, the 2:00 a.m. closing time.

2. Enhance card access.

Any Brown student can get into the Rock.

Any Brown student can get into the OMAC. Yet, I cannot swipe myself into any dorm besides my own. This is inconvenient and doesn’t enhance security, since every Brown student will let anyone, including a bum, follow him in. If one or two evil Brown students exist and abuse this policy, they should have this privilege Brett J. Cohen ’03 has rededicated himself and his columns to good, instead of evil.

ial activities while students are here (which, you know, might point people in that direction later in life, allowing them to have funds to donate). The extracurricular Entrepreneurial Program is great in assisting students in setting up ventures, but the University has a plethora of unevenly enforced restrictions on business activity.

Allowing students freer range to sell their products on University property would not jeopardize the University’s tax exempt status any more than allowing the “Bank Fair” or renting space to the barber in Faunce.

5. Arm police officers.

If we hire the Brown Police Officers to protect us, we have an obligation to let them protect themselves. Almost all of our peer institutions have armed police officers, and I know of no cases of Harvard or Princeton students being inadvertently shot by rogue officers. Probably less than 5 percent of Brown students actually oppose arming the police. The fact that left -wing wacko fringe groups are against arming the police should be considered

vindication of the proposed change.

6. The University should create online archive of Herald articles.

The Herald’s archives stretch back decades and include a trove of useful information that anyone, i.e., an administrator, student or faculty member, might want in planning an event. Given that such information would benefit the entire Brown community and archiving is not the central purpose of The Herald, the University should step in and hire a firm to input electronic versions of the existing Herald archives, which would be available to the Brown community via a searchable index. This is such a good idea that I bet plenty of alumni would step over themselves to contribute to the project.

7. The University should install air conditioners in hottest classrooms.

I’m not asking for 100 percent coverage because obviously that would be too much for a world-class institution like Brown to afford. But there are a number of classrooms, often on higher floors, that really sizzle in late April and early October and could be cooled with window-mounted units. If we hear back that even a limited plan would be too expensive, we should be told what temperature the Brown Office Building is kept in those months.

8. The University should provide more institutional support for debate.

I hear the situation is ever improving under effective Brown Debating Union President Brookes Brown ‘04, but there remains, especially among the faculty, a real hesitation to disagree in public. In my time, there could have been any number of exciting professor-on-professor debates on concrete topics, such as the merits of postmodernism, race relations,

etc. Special stipends to courageous professors willing to break their silence and engage in debate on hot-button issues would benefit the whole community and make Brown much more interesting.

9. Integrate TWTP into regular orientation.

Having separate introductions to Brown is shameful. I don’t know how this racist policy was enacted or how it lasted so long, but it continues to physically sicken those who buy into Martin Luther King’s vision of a color-blind society. I don’t know why someone hasn’t challenged the program and threatened legal action if it is not opened up to all students. About the only thing the Third World Center (TWC) can ever marshall in its defense is the tired old claim that “TWTP alumni say that the program was one of their best experiences at Brown.” In general, a welldone orientation of any kind is usually fondly remembered. Brown’s minority community members are tough overachievers (just like all Brown students) and don’t need to be coddled and quarantined for their first few days.

10. Student vote on Spring Weekend headliners.

Dave Binder is cool, and Busta Rhymes and Lisa Loeb ‘90 have their moments, but I’ve gotten the sense over the years that the Brown Concert Agency is picking its favorites to come to Brown without sufficient input from the campus. If there have been online votes, they have certainly not been publicized sufficiently.

Allowing students to rank their preferences in genre and perhaps artist would ensure that the performances better matched with what students want to hear.

With these small tweaks, we can build that bridge to a better future.

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SPORTS THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 2002 · PAGE 12

Kutler ‘04 excels in Cape Cod League summer ball

BY JOSHUA TROY

While some Brown students spent their summer working at The Gap or interning in New York City, Matt Kutler ’04 spent his playing baseball in the Cape Cod Baseball League. However more than just playing, Kutler excelled and earned the SportsTicker, ESPN Playoff Most Valuable Player Award.

“I had a chance to see him this summer and a lot of his improvement has been in pitch selection, while he is also hitting for more power,” said Head Coach Marek Drabinski. “This will only help him down the road when they (pitchers) continue to pitch around him.”

In winning the award, Kutler delivered two game-winning hits and batted a robust .350. His impressive numbers also consisted of nine RBI, compiled in only five games. His postseason success piggybacked a summer league regular season during which he had 15 RBI, 43 hits, and batted .301 to finish sixth in the league.

The award capped off a 2002 season in which Kutler was named to the All-Ivy First Team. Along the way, Kutler helped lead Bruno to a first place tie in the Red Rolfe Division. Although they lost 2-1 in a playoff game against Harvard, the

Bears finished the season with 25 wins, a new school record.

“Offensively, I will leave him where he is at,” Drabinski said in reference in to what he would like to work with Kutler on. “I would like to continue to work on his defense and arm strength. He is also definitely a guy who can steal 20-25 bases a year.”

For the season, he managed to bat .358, good enough for ninth in the Ivy League and notch nine triples, which boosted his career total to 13 and a new school record.

In addition, Kutler finished third in the league with 14 doubles and 105 total bases, fourth in the league with 43 RBI, and tied for first in the league with 64 hits.

Although the baseball season does not start until the spring, the Bears will be playing three exhibition games in the fall.

The team will open its exhibition schedule on Oct. 6th with a home game against the University of Massachusetts. That game will be followed with games at Quinipiac College and Holly Cross on later dates.

Herald staff writer Joshua Troy ’04 is the sports editor. He can be reached at jtroy@browndailyherald.com.

Fact pummels fiction in hard court tennis drama NEW YORK — Too bad Sports Illustrated felt it had to jump on the latest movie device and make up a hot new female tennis prospect. Because women’s tennis doesn’t really need a virtual babe in short shorts and a belly-baring top.

Anybody who pays attention would know the real players have good stories plus muscles and game.

In last week’s SI, there was a story that chronicled the rise of a 17-year-old player from Tashkent. She had a name, Simonya Popova. She had a digitalized photo. The story and picture apparently fooled some real sports editors into trying to find Simonya. But this Simonya was made up, a take-off on the movie Simone, which had a virtual female lead.

What was the point of this fake player? The real flesh and blood women, the ones wearing cat suits, the ones baring their souls, the ones with the knee surgeries and tattoos, the women with lives, are so much more interesting.

Monica Seles beat Martina Hingis in two easy sets Tuesday at the U.S. Open and then spoke emotionally of watching a replay of her 1991 semifinal

against Jennifer Capriati. Seles was 17, with a short haircut and a baggy outfit.

Capriati was 15 and full of youthful confidence.

It was Seles who won that match, after nearly three hours and until Monday, when rain forced the players into six hours of doing nothing but watching TV, Seles said she had never seen a replay of that thrilling match.

“I was very good!” Seles said. She laughed. A soft laugh, a little bit of a sad laugh. “I have to look back after this tournament is over because I definitely did much better than I do now.”

Seles may be on the verge of retirement. Whenever her Open is over, Seles may walk away from the game. She is 28. She has played through the death of her coach and father and has endured the mental and physical trauma suffered after being stabbed on the court by a man who wanted her chief rival, Steffi Graf, to be No. 1.

“I was playing very well those two, three years before my stabbing,” Seles said Tuesday. “I guess dominating the sport at that stage.” There is still a catch in Seles’s voice when she says “stabbing.”