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Admiral defines ‘a new kind of war’

BY RIELLE NAVITSKI

A profound attempt to define a national direction amid the dizzying complexity of the post-Sept. 11, 2001 political world lay at the center of “America’s War on Terrorism: A Military Perspective,” a lecture by Rear Adm. Rodney Rempt, president of Newport’s U.S. Naval War College.

During the forum, part of the Watson Institute for International Studies’ series of lectures and exhibitions entitled “911 + 1: The Perplexities of Security,” Rempt and audience members discussed the features of this unusual conflict from both strategic and ideological viewpoints.

Rempt emphasized the urgency of an aggressive, comprehensive response to last year’s terrorist attacks and to terrorism in the past decade, which he described as “a series of battles in a new kind of war.”

The stakes in this war, Rempt said, are much greater than those of traditional struggles between states over territory or other political disputes.

He said he sees the U.S. war on terrorism as “a war of freedom against tyranny, justice against mass murder and a free economy against closed markets and unrelieved poverty.” He added that terrorists’ objective is “not to end lives, but (to end) a way of life.”

Rempt listed challenges facing the U.S. government in the elimination of the terrorist threat to U.S. society and culture. He said global cooperation is necessary for U.S. efforts to be successful. The Naval War College has admitted increased numbers of foreign students to be trained in military strategy, which Rempt said would strengthen the international effort.

In claiming the existence of “a nexus between terrorist groups and nations developing weapons of mass destruction,” Rempt upheld the government position that the war on terrorism is a relatively simple case of “us versus them.”

“Nations who believe in the rule of law cannot rationally support (terrorism),” Rempt said.

Entirely new strategies of warfare are necessary in this kind of war, he added, and he emphasized the complete elimination of “safe havens,” which terrorists have sometimes enjoyed in nations that actively support or passively allow their presence, he said.

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Investigation continues as student’s status upgraded to ‘fair’ The condition of a Brown student who fell from a third-story window early Friday morning and briefly slipped into a coma improved to ‘fair’ Monday evening, Rhode Island Hospital officials confirmed.

Adam Edwards ’04 was listed in critical condition Sunday, two days after Edwards’ housemates reported hearing him fall from a window in Olney House at 4:30 a.m.

Edwards’ twin brother, David Edwards ’04, told The Herald Sunday that Edwards has a long history of sleep walking.

Sigma Chi President Geoff Gillespie ’04 said he had a conversation with Edwards, a member of the fraternity, outside the fraternity house around 2 a.m., and Edwards appeared to be in high spirits and not intoxicated.

Edwards visited the Underground hours before his fall, but Underground General Manager Ally Dickie ’03 told The Herald Sunday that Edwards did not drink at the on-campus establishment, which includes a bar.

Department of Public Safety Sgt. Antonio Leite said DPS is investigating the incident.

“We don’t know what happened yet,” Leite told The Herald Sunday. “We don’t want to rule anything out because no one else witnessed it — they just heard and saw it outside.”

DPS officials refused The Herald’s requests Monday to obtain the police report for the incident.

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Rear Adm. Rodney Rempt spoke on the U.S. war on terrorism Monday as part of the “911 + 1” lectre series. rorists and negotiations with nations that are unable to root out terrorism will be far more effective than conventional warfare, he said.

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BGEO/UAW amends brief, seeking to redefine science RAs as employees

BY BRIAN BASKIN

Research assistants in the physical and life sciences, once barred from joining any potential union by the Brown Graduate Employee Organization / United Auto Workers, could now be allowed to participate in union activities.

The change hinges on the outcome of Brown’s appeal of a November 2001 decision by a National Labor Relations Board regional director that some graduate students could be considered employees and have the right to vote on unionization.

While Brown claims in its appeal that no graduate students are employees, the BGEO/UAW has amended its legal brief sent to the NLRB to ask that it broaden the definition of an employee to include research assistants.

Last December, 450 of 510 graduate students voted on whether to unionize, but the votes sit in Boston, uncounted, waiting for the appeal to be processed.

With the BGEO/UAW and the University both taking issue with the NLRB’s initial approval of a unionization vote, a revote is likely no matter what the outcome of Brown’s appeal, said BGEO/UAW member Nancy Burns GS. The decision has been delayed because two of the five seats on the NLRB are vacant. Brown asked that its appeal not be heard until President George Bush appoints two more members.

Both the delay and the prospect of two new Republican-appointed NLRB members could hurt the union movement at Brown, Burns said.

“People are sick of the whole thing,” Burns said. “(Graduate students) really didn’t like the fact that it created so much controversy amongst grad students, and they want to have it disappear.”

While the BGEO/UAW waits on the NLRB, the

Graduate Student Council will maintain its position of neutrality regarding the union issue but will continue to address the concerns of its constituency, said CoPresident Heinrich Hock GS. Graduate students saw an increase in annual stipends and health insurance during Peder Estrup’s final year as dean of the graduate school and research. But under his successor, Professor of Comparative Literature and English Karen Newman, the University appears prepared to commit to major improvements, said Graduate Student Council Co-President Aaron Katz GS. Katz, who sat on the search committee that selected Newman, said the new dean of the graduate school is concerned about workload, financial and housing issues for graduate students.

The council will move forward with BGEO/UAW representatives to present to the administration a plan to require departments to clearly outline the responsibilities and work hours for its teaching assistants. Either the Graduate Student Council or the administration would then ensure that each department sticks to its promises, Hock said.

Graduate students are often given more students and sections than they could reasonably be expected to manage in the 20 hours per week they are expected to work to receive a yearly stipend, Hock said.

Ideally a TA in the humanities would handle two sections of 15 students, but in some cases graduate students are expected to handle as many as 150 undergraduates, Burns said.

“If you’re in a section that has 30 or 40 people in it, that’s not a section,” Burns said. “There’s no way a TA can give you any kind of one-on-one time, much less lead a productive section.”

The Graduate Student Council will continue to push for higher stipends and better health insurance this semester.

The council will seek an additional $1,000 per year in health insurance for each dependent, easing the financial burden faced by graduate students with children, Hock said.

Brown does not differentiate between single graduate students and those with dependents in terms of support, he added.

University sponsored childcare offered at a reduced rate to students, staff and professors would also go a long way toward addressing the needs of graduate students with families, Hock said. A council committee is creating a proposal for University daycare partly based on a survey of 200 graduate students’ child-related needs.

Securing better on-campus housing is also a priority, Hock said.

Most graduate students who live on campus live in Miller Hall. Complaints about noise and the lack of an adequate common room exclusively for graduate students led the council to renovate the piano lounge below Grad Center into a graduate student lounge, study area and kitchenette.

The lounge is one step toward creating a more cohesive graduate student community, Hock said.

The council will also try this year to secure on-campus housing in an apartment-style dorm like Young Orchard, where graduate students can have more privacy, Hock said.

Herald staff writer Brian Baskin ’04 can be reached at bbaskin@browndailyherald.com.

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City diocese grants apology, $13.5 million settlement in abuse cases

BY COURTNEY QUICK

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence issued an official apology on Sept. 9 to 36 plaintiffs who sued the church on charges of molestation and abuse. The diocese paired the precedent-setting apology with a $13.5 million settlement.

Robert Mulvee, archbishop of the Providence diocese since 1998, expressed regret on behalf of the diocese at a news conference.

“I reach out with deep sadness to the victims.

Certainly, in the name of the church, I ask for their forgiveness and offer an apology for the harm that has been done to them,” he said.

The public acknowledgment of wrongdoing represents a reversal in the diocese’s policy. For nearly a decade, officials refused to reveal key case documents, claiming the First Amendment protected their right to religious freedom, the New York Times reported.

On July 1, however, the diocese lost its ability to use this amendment as protection.

Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Robert Krause ruled the diocese must turn over documents deemed critical to the sexual assault cases, including records of filed complaints, records of the church’s investigation into these matters and medical files of the accused.

In his decision, Krause referred to the Catholic Church’s own Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People — created during June’s United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Meeting in Dallas — which vows to take all possible measures to protect children.

According to its creators, the charter “commits the U.S. Church to cooperating with other churches and ecclesial communities, other religious bodies, institutions of learning and other interested organizations in conducting research about child sexual abuse and protection of children.”

“Insistence upon disclosure emanated not only from those not associated with the church, but indeed from bishops within the church as well,” Krause said in his ruling.

Krause also cited the bishops’ acknowledgement that the church’s history of shrouding itself in secrecy had hurt its members.

In the Preamble of the Child Protection Charter, the bishops wrote, “In the past, secrecy has created an atmosphere that has inhibited the healing process and, in some cases, enabled sexually abusive behavior to be repeated.”

Father Henry Bodah, chaplain of the University’s Catholic community, said this is a time of renewal, not one of despair, for the church.

“Sometimes I’m afraid that people think of the church as a cold and distant institution,” Bodah said.

Bishop Mulvee’s statement on Sept. 9 “meant a great deal” and will help discourage this misconception, he said. The apology itself has already played a key role in recovering from this crisis, he added.

“Any sign of humanity and humility from the church leaders seems to be a healing step,” he said.

Bodah said he has not heard any commentary or complaints from the Brown Catholic community and does not anticipate any. Most students appear unaffected by the news of the settlement, he said.

Many worry about the sources from which the money will be drawn to pay the victims, Bodah said.

The diocese has a general fund from which much of the $13.5 million will be taken, he said.

Curtain falls on polling center’s debut

BY JEFFERSON MOORS

Salomon Center’s shaky debut last week as a polling center for Rhode Island and Providence primaries left many voters unable to cast their ballots Tuesday morning. The center opened several hours late, inconveniencing potential voters and leading some to question the accuracy of the polls.

Providence polls were scheduled to open at 7 a.m., but Salomon was not open to voters until 11 a.m., said Thomas Dyer, the clerk in charge of the polling location.

The Providence Board of Canvassers released Dyer from his duties around noon, said Executive Secretary of the Board Laurence Flynn.

Board members said Salomon was closed because it was understaffed, and poll workers said they did not have the necessary equipment to run the voting machines.

Dyer said that he refused to open the poll because it was “seriously understaffed,” and he was concerned that the poll would not be run properly.

“Poll workers didn’t show up,” he said, and this shortage of workers was a “rare situation” that forced him to close the polling location.

Members of the Providence Board of Canvassers disagreed with Dyer’s assessment. Flynn said the staffing shortage “was not a legitimate reason to remain closed.

“If we are short a person or two, we still open. There is no way the place did not have enough people to open.

What happened is criminal — there is no excuse whatsoever,” he said.

Flynn also said poll workers fail to show up in some cases and that clerks must be prepared for such instances.

Dyer said the Salomon polling location was not the only one with problems. “Most of the polls opened late — not just Salomon,” he said, and added that his release was “totally unfair.”

Dyer said he called the Board of Canvassers about the problem, but Flynn said he did not find out about the difficulties until after candidate David Cicilline ’83 contacted the board in the late morning. Flynn also said it

was not true that most of the other polls opened late, describing the issue instead as a “sporadic problem.”

Both Flynn and George Smith, another member of the Board of Canvassers, said there was no possibility of inaccuracies in the counting of cast ballots because of mishaps at the Salomon polling location.

“It’s not possible that anything got miscounted,” Flynn said. But he added that he “didn’t know” if votes were lost because the center opened late and that there was a “very low turnout.”

The Board of Canvassers posted a message on its Web site to alert voters that Salomon was open in spite of the earlier problems. Flynn said that despite the delay, the board did not receive any complaints from spurned voters.

Professor of Political Science and Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy Darrell West said polling place difficulties are indicative of a problem in Rhode Island politics.

“Poll workers tend to be recruited by the state through parties or candidates who suggest them,” he said. “They need to be recruited by the state through more professional means.”

Flynn acknowledged the problem of recruiting poll workers. “We need a more professional system,” he said.

“I’ve been asking the General Assembly to give more power to the city and state in choosing workers for years.”

Smith said the board hopes to get Brown students involved as poll workers.

“If we could get students to take jobs at the polling centers, it would help tremendously,” he said.

Salomon is slated to be a polling center in the November election.

Workers can make up to $200 dollars.

Anyone interested in working the polls can contact the Providence Board of Canvassers at 421-0495.

Roger Williams raises doubts with housing plan

BY ELLEN WERNECKE

Roger Williams University’s conversion of a Bristol, R.I., apartment complex to house students this semester has prompted debate about the relationship between colleges and communities in Rhode Island and beyond.

Roger Williams signed a two-year lease on Aug. 12 for the King Philip apartment complex, managed by RAKA LLC. The school evicted approximately 50 tenants on May 31 to make room for over 100 students.

Although Roger Williams spokesman Rick Goff promised that Roger Williams would go to great lengths to make the apartment complex — now Oak Apartments — a “good cohabitation situation,” some are concerned about the misplaced tenants, many of whom were receiving housing assistance from the state, the Providence Journal reported.

Two residents who were unable to find housing after the eviction remain in the complex. Both tenants, single mothers with children, have expressed concern about the influx of students.

The lease of the King Philip apartment complex was a reaction to an unplanned housing shortage, not a strategic initiative, according to the Rick Stegman, dean of student affairs at Roger Williams.

“This year’s housing shortage caught us by surprise,” Stegman said. “We intentionally lowered the size of the incoming freshman class.”

But the Department of Student Life and Housing had not anticipated rising rates of retention among upperclassmen.

The university took on the lease last spring to avoid the “temporary tripling” and conversion of existing space that had taken place the previous year. The university settled on the King Philip complex because of its proximity to the campus.

Tension between students and the two former tenants “has not materialized,” the dean said. The situation “has been much better than most people would’ve predicted.

Both tenants have indicated that they appreciate the interaction with students. The one issue that we’ve had to address has been parking around the complex,” which was resolved by giving the tenants reserved spots.

“We have a very strong ‘good neighbor’ policy here,” Stegman said. “We have enforced that and plan to continue to enforce it. Students are held accountable for off-

campus behavior.”

The dean projected the existing arrangement with RAKA LLC to last “not much more than a year,” and he said that the university is planning for a new on-campus residential hall. Roger Williams currently has an on-campus housing requirement for first-years and sophomores, but houses 87 percent of the student body.

“It’s not a dorm,” Stegman said of Oak Apartments, “and we’re not referring to it as a dorm. There are a plethora of issues that a university must consider” before taking on an off-campus lease. He cited the neighborhood and the needs of the institution as factors that affect the feasibility of such projects.

The public-private partnership pursued by Roger Williams is a relatively new innovation in the quest for student housing.

Despite recent housing shortages, it’s an option that Brown “has not looked at,” said Director of Residential Life Donald Desrochers.

“The University isn’t considering it,” Desrochers said, citing the lack of properties on College Hill that would be “easily converted to student housing.” Nor, he said, will the University turn to housing students in local hotels in future semesters, except “temporarily — 30 days maximum.” More likely, he said, is that students choosing to live off campus will alleviate pressures on the housing system.

This year, all requests for student housing were granted by the Office of Residential Life, including those requests made by transfers and students on the waiting list. An estimated 230 juniors and 980 seniors are living off campus this year, a move that eased the predicted shortages for this fall.

Although allowing a select number of juniors to live off campus this year helped, Desrochers said that it is not intended as a permanent arrangement.

“So far, the six-semester rule has worked,” Desrochers said. He also said that the University would rather keep students on campus through “capacity adjustments” and renovations than encourage them to live off campus — a philosophical rather than pragmatic decision.

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to juniors and seniors,” an interchange, Desrochers said, that is lost as more upperclassmen move off campus. The University wants to maintain the delicate balance between Brown and the College Hill area.

“The University contributes to the community and the community contributes to the University,” he said.

Roger Williams is not the first university to look to the private sector for student housing.

Last year, George Washington University in Washington, D.C., contracted with Potomac Hospitality Services to convert a business hotel into student residences. Although critics highlighted the rift between business travelers and rowdy college students, GWU declared the experiment a success and is maintaining its lease.

Potomac is now working with DePaul University of Chicago on a 26-story “executive residence,” which the university hopes will house an additional 230 students this fall, according to a DePaul press release.

Other universities have been forced to put students wait-listed for housing in hotels for as long as a semester. Although it maintains four off-campus facilities, West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.Va., is currently housing 40 first-years at a nearby Holiday Inn until housing opens up for them, the Associated Press reported.

The AP also reported that some first-years at the University of South Carolina are being charged extra for their hotel rooms, paying as much as residents in the best campus dorms without the privileges of on-campus living. Worse off are students whose colleges have not made any contingency plans: At St. Louis University, some 180 upperclassmen who were accepted to live in a converted hotel are homeless as classes begin and are living in friends’ dorm rooms while renovations drag on, the St. Louis Post Dispatch reported.

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He also cited the importance of public readiness in the face of a terrorist attack, and gave the example of “war games” involving the New York City police and fire departments and members of the Rhode Island state government as important training exercises.

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UCS elects members,preps for safety debate next week UCS President Allen Feliz ’03 urged UCS reps to familiarize themselves with the Bratton Report on campus safety in preparation for next week’s council meeting

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

The Undergraduate Council of Students met last night to further preparations for the rest of the year. At the meeting representatives elected three students to fill open spots on the council.

Seven students came to the weekly meeting seeking positions. The winners, Ferve Ozturk ’04.5, Thilakshani Dias ’05 and Joel Paine ’05, all expressed excitement about UCS in their two-minute speeches before the council.

Paine said he is “eager” to get involved in a group that he thinks is “the niche for me.” After the announcement of his victory, Paine told The Herald he was “very happy” and that the outcome of the election was “unexpected.”

“I’m just ready to help out,” he said.

“Every year I like it more,” said Ozturk, who served on UCS last year as an associate member. As such, she was a driving force behind the food rescue program in the Ratty.

After the election of the three new members, UCS President Allen Feliz ’03 called for nominations to fill open spaces on committees.

The council elected Charles Montz ’05 and Roophy Roy ’05 as coordinators of appointments, and Luke Meier ’04 won the position of secretary. Dennis Kwan ’05 and Paine were named coordinators of communications, and Dias became this year’s alumni liaison.

The council decided to consider

increasing the number of corporation liaisons to two. Though two UCS reps served as liaisons last year, the council’s code states that the group may only elect one representative. Feliz motioned to draft an amendment allowing for two liaisons, and the group will discuss the issue further at next week’s meeting.

The council will also discuss the appointment of one member to an advisory board for the Department of Public Safety next week. In addition to the UCS member, one member of the general student body will serve on the committee.

Feliz reported on the executive board’s recent activities and said he has met or plans to meet with many administrators, including Provost Robert Zimmer, regarding faculty governance — the system of committees that oversees University affairs.

Feliz said he will meet with a representative of the Office of Student Life to discuss student “leadership development.”

Feliz also detailed plans for a UCS town meeting, now scheduled for Oct. 3 at 8 p.m. The meeting will feature council discussions with student organizations and other members of the student body in Salomon 101.

Feliz urged UCS reps to familiarize themselves with the Bratton Report on campus safety in anticipation of Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski’s and Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter’s presentations at next week’s meeting, saying it is important for members to understand the situation and the report.

Representative Tarek Khanachet ’03 reminded the council that at the end of last year he was trying to establish an account for UCS at the Faculty Club, which would allow UCS members to conduct meetings there with members of the administration and faculty. The account, he told the council, would allow UCS members to create a “power differential” because they would not always be indebted to faculty and administrators.

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UCS President Allen Feliz ’03 is looking ahead to next week’s council meeting, when the group will discuss campus safety recommendations made by the Bratton Group LLC. Sunday’s UCS retreat, the council upgraded three student groups to Category I and moved one group, Women Students at Brown, to a Category II rating.

The council also received an update on the upcoming first-year UCS elections, which Vice President Deepa Kumaraiah ’04 said are the council’s “first real opportunity to reach out to the freshman class.”

Ten students interested in vying for the council’s five first-year spots attended today’s information session, she said, and there is another meeting today at 7:30 p.m. in the Blue Room.

Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

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The number 47 lacks the same mystique that 56 does. In a similar way, Unitas lacks the mystique that DiMaggio had. Unitas was loved by a city; DiMaggio was adored by a nation. Now Unitas’

team is no longer in that city and it’s a question of which team has “rights” to Unitas’ legacy.

DiMaggio never had to deal with this sort of stuff. Unitas may have been the greatest quarterback of all time, but he never got the respect he deserved. He was voted the quarterback of NFL’s all century team, but still was relatively unknown by our generation. It appears as if he will remain that way. This is one of the few times that you should wish football could be more like baseball.

Jeff Saltman ’04 is a history and economics concentrator from Washington, D.C. He can be reached at jsaltman@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2002 · PAGE 7

IN BRIEF

Singapore officials arrest 21 militants SINGAPORE (Washington Post) — Singapore officials said

Study finds three-quarters of college students use Internet over library WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Just because that college junior still has not found his way to the campus library does not mean he is an academic slacker. Almost threequarters of U.S. college students now use the Internet more than the library, and a strong majority said the Net has been an asset to their educational experience, according to a report released Sunday.

The study, conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, found that 86 percent of college students have gone online, compared with 59 percent of the general population.

“One of the things that jumped out was the degree to which college students have integrated the Internet into their everyday life. They are used to high-speed, instant access. They treat it like they would any utility-water, telephones, television,” said Steve Jones, the study’s author and head of the Communications Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The study is based on more than 2,000 surveys from undergraduate students at 27 U.S. colleges and universities as well as observational research done at 10 Chicagoarea schools. The research was conducted from March to June and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percent.

“This is such an interesting generation,” Jones said.“We’ve known anecdotally that students are using the Internet a lot, but we didn’t have any hard numbers. Nobody has ever gone out to find out for sure what is really happening.”

Students are using the Net for research purposes, but also to communicate with professors and other students outside the classroom.

A year after attacks, respiratory ills plague ground zero workers NEW YORK (Washington Post) — Age never seemed to catch

up with consummate New Yorker Michael Burke, 43. He flourished on little more than four hours of sleep a night, working as a carpenter and bartender, chauffeuring his four daughters to activities, jogging in the Bronx’s Van Cortlandt Park and playing Gaelic football for his native County Sligo team.

That routine ended abruptly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and his six-week stint at Ground Zero, where he built ramps and helped reinstall blown-out windows in nearby buildings.

By early October, Burke couldn’t stop wheezing and coughing. At the end of the month, doctors discovered he had airway dysfunction and dead muscle ringing the outer edges of his heart.

“They diagnosed me as disabled for the rest of my days,” he said, before heading back to Ireland to recuperate at his parents’ home.“You still think you’re superman.

But you just can’t do it.”

A year after the Sept. 11 attacks, medical studies show hundreds of World Trade Center rescue workers are struggling with respiratory problems.

Commercial insurance coverage now costlier, more restrictive (L.A. Times) — The attacks that shattered American notions

of security a year ago also exposed how commercial insurers misjudged the threat of terrorism, an error they’ve since corrected with a vengeance by charging far higher premiums for far more restrictive policies.

When the World Trade Center towers collapsed, the insurance industry was recovering from a competitive battle that had many insurers providing coverage at a loss in an effort to build market share. With profits from stock investments — which had covered underwriting losses in the 1990s — evaporating and claims from storms and other disasters rising, property insurers already were restricting coverages and raising premiums sharply.

But the terrorist attacks, which caused the single largest loss in the industry’s history, revealed what investor Warren Buffett, whose central holdings are insurance companies, called a “fundamental underwriting mistake.”

The industry, Buffett told investors in his Berkshire Hathaway Inc., had failed to look ahead, training its attention on only traditional perils:“windstorm, fire, explosion and earthquake ... thereby assuming a huge terrorism risk for which we received no premium.”

Monday night they have arrested 21 Islamic militants, seriously disrupting a radical network tied to al-Qaeda that had planned to bomb the U.S. and other western embassies here.

Nineteen of those arrested last month belonged to Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional militant group that officials said had been plotting to attack Western targets in the city state, according to a statement by Singapore’s Home Affairs Ministry.

Officials said these suspects had carried out reconnaissance of potential targets at the direction of their Jemaah Islamiyah leaders, most of whom were arrested in an earlier sweep last December when the bomb plot was foiled.

That breakthrough prompted further investigation, which in turn led to the most recent arrests.

Two of the militants arrested were linked to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a rebel Muslim group active in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, officials said.

All 21 suspects were identified as citizens of Singapore, a staunch U.S. ally that has long prided itself on remaining an island of stability in a highly unsettled region. They were arrested for “terrorism-related activities” under an internal security law that allows for indefinite detention without trial.

“There is no known imminent security threat” from other Jemaah Islamiyah elements in the country and officials continue to investigate the group, the ministry statement said.

The announcement of the arrests by Singapore’s Internal Security Department comes soon after the capture of suspected al-Qaeda militants in Pakistan and upstate New York. The Singapore arrests were announced on the same day that the U.S. Embassies in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, reopened amid heightened security. The embassies, including a consulate in Surabaya, Indonesia, were closed last week when a detained al-Qaeda suspect revealed details of a plot to bomb embassies in the region on or near the Sept. 11 anniversary of last year’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

As of Monday night, U.S. Embassy officials in Singapore and Jakarta had no comment and were waiting to receive information about the arrests.

A few of the militants trained at al-Qaeda military

camps in Afghanistan and at the Moro Islamic group’s Camp Abu Bakar in Mindanao, the statement said.

Singapore officials have previously reported that some Jemaah Islamiyah members active in their country had trained in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, where they learned how to use assault rifles, bazookas, mortars, grenades and explosives.

In December, Singapore arrested 15 suspected extremists, including 13 men authorities said were Jemaah Islamiyah members. The suspects have been detained since January without trial.

After these earlier arrests, Singapore officials said they had thwarted a potentially “catastrophic” plot to drive trucks packed with powerful fertilizer bombs into the embassies of the United States, Britain, Israel and Australia.

Before the plan was foiled, the suspects had conducted detailed reconnaissance of the embassies, profiled the possible targets and acquired four tons of ammonium nitrate.

Another Singapore cell allegedly was plotting to blow up U.S. warships docked at the Changi Naval base, attack a shuttle used by American military personnel and target the offices of American companies.

Militants linked to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network had been planning to strike targets in Singapore since the mid-1990s but the plans accelerated immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to Singapore officials.

The officials said earlier this year that three cells had been active in the country, primarily providing logistical and other support to “foreign terrorist elements who would determine when and what to attack.”

Singapore officials said following the December arrests that they had largely destroyed Jemaah Islamiyah’s operations but acknowledged that about a dozen members had slipped through the police dragnet to other countries in the region.

Singapore has been especially outspoken in demanding that Indonesia turn over radical Muslim cleric Abu Bakr Baasyir, who runs an Islamic school in Java and has been tagged by some terror investigators as the leader of Jemaah Islamiyah. Jakarta authorities, however, have balked at the request, saying that they have yet to see evidence that Baasyir is involved in criminal activity.

Tense Kashmir holds state elections HANDWARA, India (Washington Post) — In the atmosphere of

an armed camp, voters in Indian-held Kashmir on Monday began choosing a new state legislature in elections that India sees as crucial to the future of the disputed Himalayan region. The voting was marred by sporadic violence, but Indian officials pronounced themselves satisfied with turnout they reported at 44 percent.

Islamic militants who have vowed to wreck the elections killed a 16-year-old boy in a rocket attack and wounded two men with a homemade bomb in separate attacks on polling stations around the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, which includes the mostly Muslim Kashmir Valley.

Indian authorities, meanwhile, said that security forces had killed 17 militants in the last 24 hours as they tried to enter the state by crossing the Line of Control, a truce line that separates Indian and Pakistani forces in Kashmir.

They cited the attempts as further evidence that Pakistan has breached its pledge to end the infiltrations, a charge that Pakistan denies.

Notwithstanding the bloodshed, the first day of elections that run through early October went off peacefully in most areas, and there were few reports of egregious fraud and vote-rigging of the sort that has marred previous balloting in Kashmir.

Indian officials announced after the polls closed at 4 p.m. Monday that turnout had exceeded their expectations at 44 percent, with about 1.5 million voters in 23 constituencies having participated in the balloting. “We are satisfied,” Deputy Election Commissioner S. Chatterjee told reporters.

Here in Handwara, about 60 miles north of Kashmir’s summer capital of Srinagar, voters turned out in large numbers, submitting to three searches before casting their ballots in a schoolyard polling station supervised by election officials in helmets and bulletproof vests.

Soldiers manned machine gun positions in surrounding buildings.

Many people here have been energized by the chance to vote for a local separatist leader, Ghulam Mohideen Sofi, in defiance of the separatists’ main political group,

which has called the elections irrelevant to the separatists’ goal of direct talks between India and Pakistan on the status of Kashmir.

The separatist All Parties Hurriyat Conference has urged a boycott of the elections, a plea that in combination with militant threats against candidates and voters kept turnout to a minimum in some areas. “It’s slightly depressing,” said a senior Indian official who monitored the voting. “The percentages are low. There is the influence of the separatists and the fear is very high.”

At the same time, some Indian army and paramilitary units appear to have defied assurances by the Indian government that no one in the state would be forced to vote, a frequent complaint in past elections. In interviews Monday morning, residents of the village of Chowgal, about three miles from here, said they had been ordered from their homes, herded toward the local polling station and in a few cases beaten by Indian soldiers who insisted they take part in the voting.

Although there was no way to judge the scope of the army’s effort to boost participation in the voting, similar episodes were reported elsewhere in Kashmir, and Indian officials promised to investigate. “The orders are very clear to the armed forces that no one would be asked to vote,” said the senior Indian official. “That’s not the mandate. The army is only to create a general sense of security.”

The significance of the elections goes well beyond Kashmir. In a dispute that dates to the two countries’ founding in 1947, India and Pakistan have fought two wars over the mostly Muslim region, which is once again the focal point of a hostile military standoff between the two neighbors — each of which now possess nuclear weapons.

Last spring, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage secured a pledge from Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to permanently end incursions by Pakistan-based Islamic militants across the Line of Control. U.S. officials said the pledge could create conditions for Pakistan’s long-sought “dialogue” with India on the status of Kashmir.

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Black caucus has a new focus: money WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Jovan Bowles was

working his first awards dinner of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation on Saturday when he spied his mentor, Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, across the room.

Maneuvering his way through a crowd of satin and sushi, gracefully skirting executives from Toyota, General Mills and 50 other corporate sponsors, he snagged the 18-year House veteran next to the salsa and shrimp.

“Hi, boss,” said Bowles, 23, a Hampton University graduate who once interned in the Democrat’s office.

Lewis’ eyes lit up.

“How are you, Jovan?” the legendary civil rights activist asked. Then, to anyone within earshot, he pronounced, “This young man is one of our next generation of leaders.”

Young adults like Bowles, Lewis said, are focused less on past racial ills and more on the belief that if they don’t amass wealth, they’ll never have power — power to sway national elections, to rebuild urban schools, to steer investments and donations to needy countries overseas.

“They realize something we didn’t, at first,” Lewis said. “You can make money, be successful and not forget where you come from.”

Bowles, wearing his first designer tuxedo, smiled and nodded.

Economic empowerment has always been on the agenda of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, a nonprofit think tank founded 26 years ago to support black members of Congress and other African-American leaders. And big corporate contributions have been increasingly, if quietly, important to the caucus’ political action committee.

But this year, at the foundation’s annual legislative conference of 15,000 people, money was front and center. Coca-Cola and Ford Motor Co. booths were in the exhibit hall. Attendees crowded into forums such as “Generation X, Y and Wealth.” Awards were presented to two blacks who have truly made it: Richard Parsons, chief executive of AOL Time Warner, and Kenneth Chenault, head of American Express. C. DeLores Tucker, chairwoman of the National Congress of Black Women, announced the formation of FuturePac, a political action campaign to support women of color.

Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation board, said in an interview last week that the foundation recently completed a strategic plan for the next 20 years. Top priorities? “Economic issues,” said Jefferson. Then “public health and education.”

Blacks “have moved from access to the acquisition of capital and good jobs,” he continued, “from the question of whether we have a right to live anywhere we want, to how to own a home.”

He acknowledged some debate in the 38-member, exclusively Democratic caucus and its foundation members over the emphasis. “Should we be focused on getting wealthy or helping others?” he asked. His answer: “If we don’t have wealth, we can’t help anyone.”

AOL’s Parsons congratulated the foundation for deciding that the business of black America is business, saying, “It’s long overdue.”

But not all attendees appreciated the new emphasis.

“The brothers who have reached the middle class need to come back to the ‘hood,” said an audience member at one forum. “There is a new kind of young person divorced from the civil rights movement who doesn’t care about our community.”

But Jovan Bowles disagreed. Wealthy people can build parks, donate money for textbooks and improve the neighborhoods they come from.

Bowles, who is from Atlanta, was supposed to coordinate ticket sales at the four-day conference.

But as a foundation employee, he found himself asked to do much else, from writing brochures to distributing water bottles to tracking down members of Congress who strayed off just when they were needed for a photo opportunity.

“I believe in getting the job done. Period,” he said over lunch.

Perhaps typical of his generation, he’s a practical sort. Experience with the caucus — any experience, he said — will move him in the direction of what has been his dream since he took a constitutional law course at Hampton: running for office. Neither of his parents was particularly political, but his grandmother was and still is. Every week he calls her with news of whom he has met and the issues he’s working on.

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California gay activists split despite gains SACRAMENTO, Calif. (L.A. Times) — These would seem

heady times for gay rights advocates in California.

Laws granting lesbian and gay couples inheritance and other benefits that seemed unattainable not long ago were signed by the governor last week. A caucus was established over the summer for state lawmakers who want to advance more such measures. And even GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon Jr.’s staff felt the need to pledge support for gay rights — never mind that Simon himself reversed the campaign’s position.

Outside Vermont, where a court order allows gays to enter civil unions resembling marriage, California is now widely perceived as the country’s most gay-friendly state.

Yet despite achieving many of their goals for the legislative session, gay rights advocates remain divided about whether the year has been a success, and about the political strategy of the movement’s leaders at the Capitol.

Of eight proposals this year to grant new rights to gays, the Legislature approved six, and Gov. Gray Davis so far has signed three into law — measures that provide survivor benefits to gays who suffer the loss of a domestic partner. He is still considering bills that would prohibit discrimination against gay youth in foster care and allow gays and nongays to take paid family leave from their jobs.

With each measure, sponsors overcame the arguments of opponents who said the bills were the work of extremists and who fear that any change in the law is a step toward gay marriage, which the opponents see as eroding the sanctity of the institution.

Even so, disagreement among gay activists over how to win more civil rights is bubbling to the surface. Many, including gay lawmakers who carry the legislation, are pleased with the incremental victories and warn against reaching for too much too fast.

But a growing group sees the gains made in the last year as evidence that California voters are ready to accept a Vermont-style civil union system.

They want to mobilize all the gay community’s political might behind a push for it now.

Ilona Turner, legislative advocate for the Los Angeles-based California Alliance for Pride and Equality, remains sobered, she says, by the math.

By Turner’s count, there are 1,000 rights and responsibilities linked to marriage. California’s gay domestic partners so far have been granted but a handful. At this rate, she says, it will take 100 years for the law to treat gays as equal to everyone else.

“A lot of people are getting tired of doing things incrementally,” she said. “I wouldn’t say these are great strides.”

Others warn that aggressively pursuing civilunion legislation would be a big mistake just two years after 57 percent of Californians approved Proposition 22, reserving marriage exclusively for heterosexuals.

Making a hard push for civil unions now, some activists warn, could stir up resentment among mainstream voters whose support is crucial to gaining more rights.

“You always have a naysayer sitting on a perch with a mimosa telling you it is not enough,” said Assemblywoman Carole Migden, a San Francisco Democrat and one of four openly gay state lawmakers. Term limits are forcing Migden out of the Legislature this year, but the newly formed Lesbian and Gay Caucus is still expected to grow, with openly gay men favored to win two new seats in the upcoming election.

“We’re out here getting these things done, and these people are on the sidelines at brunch saying, `It is not enough,’ “ Migden said, pointing out that the only reason Vermont gays and lesbians have more rights is a judicial order there. “Of course it is not enough. But it is what we are able to do now.”

Even the narrowest of gay rights measures — like one that would keep a house’s value from being reassessed if it has two gay owners and one dies — are resisted as attempts to slowly slip gay marriage through a legislative back door.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Making amends For nearly one decade, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence refused to reveal documents critical to cases of sexual abuse. While hiding credible allegations of abuse, the diocese cowered behind the First Amendment, and claimed that freedom of religion allowed the documents to remain secret.

Only after a judge ordered the Providence Diocese to release its files did the diocese offer an apology to victims. Only after years of refusing to make the church’s documents public did the Providence Diocese reach a $13.5 million settlement with 36 different plaintiffs.

Robert Mulvee, archbishop of the Providence Diocese since 1998, said he felt deep sadness for the victims and asked for forgiveness. Mulvee’s acknowledgement of wrongdoing is heartening, but not commendable — a court order forced the diocese to take responsibility for a decade of secrecy.

The judge who ordered the diocese turn over documents cited the Catholic Church’s own Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, which commits the church to protect children. But instead, Providence Diocese officials conspired to hide allegations of sexual abuse from the state, from the city and from churchgoers who entrust their children to priests every day.

Sexual abuse against a child is unspeakable. And when the church covered up a history of abuse, it allowed more horrid acts to occur.

The vast majority of priests has never abused a child and never would. But the Providence Diocese’s decade-long delay in confronting sexual abuse undermines the church’s credibility and has harmed the reputation of good priests. The Providence Diocese owes more than money and apologies to victims of abuse, churchgoers and the many priests who have suffered because of allegations against a handful priests.

The Providence Diocese must commit itself to confronting all credible allegations of sexual abuse and to protecting children.

Before another judge orders it to release more files and before anyone else is abused, the Providence Diocese must stop operating under a veil of secrecy and reach out to victims and community members.

By apologizing, dishing out money in out-of-court settlements and hoping the sexual-abuse scandal blows over, the Providence Diocese all but ensures there will be more pain.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

BUAD can stimulate discussion of diversity, complement TWTP To the Editor: I agree with the overall premise of Myra Pong ’06’s column (“TWTP necessary orientation for Brown University,” 9/16) and believe the author convincingly summed up the aims of TWTP and its impact on her. Far more notable is what is not mentioned: the fact that TWTP, as it exists now, is, like it or not, divisive.

As Pong illustrates, the laudable aim of TWTP is to give participants an introduction to issues inherent to life as a “student of color” at Brown and in our society and in the process create a communal bond. However, as the Visiting Committee on Diversity observed in 1999, while it largely succeeds as such, it does create a divide by virtue of its scheduling and the fact that it remains a mystery to those who do not participate. The University must do more to adapt to this reality and facilitate broader discussion of diversity, racism, classism, sexism, heterosexism, etc.

While most people who attend TWTP consider it a cherished experience, it is only natural that being in the new setting of a university a few days early, and among people with whom one’s commonality of daily struggle is emphasized, can socialize individuals to gravitate toward certain people. While I was able to quickly befriend many people who had attended TWTP last fall, I also found myself uncomfortably unable to break through the walls of “groups” formed then, which while not defining people’s social lives did seem at times to dominate them. Very little was done during my first year that made people aware of what exactly TWTP entailed or encouraged frank, open-minded discussion of it and the issues it tackles.

What I do cherish, and what way too many people on this campus are not aware of, is that a program exists in which students from all backgrounds are able to discuss issues of diversity.

Building Understanding Across Differences (BUAD) is a wonderful program that seeks to bridge the societal divides inadvertently strengthened in wake of TWTP. (It does not necessarily

replace it but complements it and gradually bringing the issues it discusses to a larger audience.)

Should TWTP be phased into the regular orientation or opened to the whole community? What is certain is that as this community comes to grasp the dire need to move beyond merely having TWTP in the realm of diversity education (and to counter the negative impacts of TWTP), we will perhaps make the Cohen vs. Pong debate obsolete. BUAD is an evolving program focused on incoming freshmen, but its spirit of bridging the divides on this campus and in society needs to be replicated on a larger scale for the benefit of all.

Sean Silperstein ’05 Sept. 16

Separate orientations serve to divide Brown community by race To the Editor: During my first day at Brown, I walked into the Ratty, grabbed some food and looked for a place to sit. Before me there were half a dozen tables full of gregarious students, laughing and joking. These students, all minorities, had already had four days of bonding and had settled into a more comfortable routine. I, on the other hand, had been on campus for less than three hours and knew no one.

In the perfect race-blind world, I would have sat anywhere, but instead I sat at a table of dumbfounded kids who hadn’t quite settled in yet. The only black student at my table was one who hadn’t attended TWTP. I can’t think of any better way to separate kids by race than providing minority and non-minority students different orientations. If TWTP occurred during the normal Brown orientation, it wouldn’t promote the separation of races so effectively. I still saw many of the same groups that I saw then sitting together last year. I’m fairly certain that TWTP is a wonderful experience, and I’ve heard rave reviews, but it does a poor job promoting diversity and interaction across races.

David Edelman ’03 Sept. 16

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2002 · PAGE 11

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Hence, my niche was carved in the capitalist jungle. Flustered by the Asian Sensation, Louis V. made a hasty decision, instituting a ‘one bag per customer per city per year rule’ to rebuff the mercenaries and discourage the dealers from buying and reselling in volume. The policy has had the opposite effect. It angers the real shoppers, well known for buying gifts by the truckload to haul back to Japan, but does little to stop black market dealers who hire runners to buy the bags for them.

Thus, business continues as before.

I wait in line for two hours with my traveler’s checks in hand and mission in mind: the purchase must have the LV monogram, a zipper and only one strap. I tell the clerk I’m shopping for my mother. My friends once masqueraded as Canadian rock stars and received celebrity treatment in turn.

Producing a passport and 700 Euros in traveler’s checks on cue, Louis admits defeat, tosses me a purse and a small matching wallet and shoos me away. My spoils of war will wind up in Tokyo where they’ll make someone’s materialist day on the down-low, and I’ll wind up with 10 percent commission from my “liaison,” a charming, petite, Chinese woman named Flora.

I am spreading happiness across the globe. On my way out, I pass a hoarse

young Japanese woman pleading with her gatekeeper in broken French, pointing to the showcase, in search of her own happiness: “new pattern…new pattern….” A victorious shopper asks me to take her picture in front of the boutique as a souvenir.

New pattern after new pattern, Louis Vuitton continues to increase its share of the “fuck the poor, there’s a sale at Macys” luxury apparel market. Every day more and more 25-year-old girls in Osaka dream of spending a month’s wages for a backpack bearing the insignia designed by a Parisian trunk maker in 1896. Japan’s bubble economy of the late-1980s has been called the greatest asset boom in world history. Along with super-sized profits have come the super-sized cultural baggage, and the baggage has a super-sized logo.

I used to joke about those silly Japanese and their “Hello Kitty”-du-jour. Close up, though, this is no longer a quirk and no joke at all. After a few weeks traveling through Louisville, I feel like I’m visiting wards of the commercially insane. This is not the work of nature, either: humanity is cultivating shopping machines. How else could a penchant for something pretty become a compulsion for “new pattern?”

In the grand scheme, how tough would it be for most of humanity to label this humble columnist a shopping machine as well?

I shudder to think dear reader.

Incidentally, these bags are hideous. My great aunt Shirley might carry one. But as long as LV continues to charge outrageous prices for a monogram, and as long as thousands of brainwashed East Asian women continue to salivate over that monogram, I will be here to milk that monogram. Am I a hero or a villain?

Neither, I say. Just a cameo in the absurdist tale of consumerist religion.

Big brothers should abound at Brown College Hill is the perfect place to find mentors for underprivileged youth LAST MAY WE DANCED OUTSIDE JOHNNY an interest in them and their problems.

McCabe envisioned a one-man-oneRockets for nickels and gave the change to the homeless. For the premier of “Spider- boy concept built on a long-term friendman” we went to the movie theater in cos- ship between a man and a fatherless boy. tume and used dental floss for webbing. Finding qualified, dedicated men who Most days though, we can be found in cared enough to be a part of the lives of Roger Williams Park, going for walks, skip- these boys has been the goal of Big ping stones and shooting hoops. Mostly Brothers from the beginning.

Big Brothers covers the entire state, we discourage his friend Brendan from working with Little Brothers spewing a venous stream of who range in age from six to 16 racist invective each and years. How well Big Brothers of every time his pudgy hands MICHAEL Rhode Island has done its job fumble the football. And ROTHMAN can be documented by the when we’re tired of playing GUEST COLUMN hundreds of Little Brothers ball, we’ll go back to the who have become successful Seekonk Speedway and beat the pants out of some hotshot eight year men in their communities. No single proold racer who actually thinks he can out- gram in the history of Rhode Island can corner us on the final lap. And then we’ll match Big Brothers in providing new hope beat him at video games. And all of his and faith in the lives of fatherless boys.

I have been a Big Brother to a Little friends who think they can test this.

Dec. 15, 1952 was a very big day in the Brother, along with my roommate James life of fatherless boys in Rhode Island. On Maher, for the last three years. James and I that day in the Providence County Court see our boys regularly during the school House, a small group of caring men found- year and keep in touch when we’re away over the summer. Both of our boys live in a ed Big Brothers of Rhode Island.

The concept came from the then Chief South Providence neighborhood suffering Justice of Family Court, the late Judge from gang violence, broken families, subFrancis J. McCabe. McCabe felt strongly stance abuse and every other problem with urban poverty. that many of the troubled boys who were associated showing up in his courtroom could be Nonetheless, they are amazingly spirited, helped and possibly saved from wasted resilient, creative, occasionally obnoxious, lives if responsible male adults would take always funny and otherwise healthy adolescents.

Together we’ve been all over Rhode Michael Rothman ’03 hails from Oradel, NJ. Island and to places around Providence we He would love to hear from you if you are wouldn’t ordinarily venture. Besides the interested in being a Big Brother.

Brown University, seemingly a bastion of positive role models 2,500 males deep, currently only supplies 12 Big Brothers. That number is embarrassing. usual dose of football, basketball and high-speed super-intensity stickball (yeah, we’ve had some close calls and mound charges), we’ve also gone apple picking, seen high-flying motorcross stunts and thrown out the first pitch at a PawSox game.

The beauty of the program is that it leaves the initiative up to the Big Brother.

Its main responsibility is simply to find the best match between a Big Brother and a Little Brother whose interests correspond.

In a sense they are like a benevolent dating service whose job is to find a pairing with the greatest potential. The rest is up to the Big Brother. He will arrange meetings with his Little Brother, with the consent of his parent or guardian, and then go do whatever it is they like to do.

There are no obligations to anyone other than the Little Brother after a selection is made. Just like any new relationship, the first few steps may be a little awk-

ward (although the program does its best to lessen this as much as possible), but this is easily overcome within the first few meetings.

Perhaps this is why it is sometimes easier to join the program along with a few friends. Not only does this diffuse some of the initial pressure but also makes activities more fun in the long run. Many of the Little Brothers know each other through other after-school programs and could use more positive, constructive time with their friends. It also makes pick-up games a lot easier.

Currently there are nearly 1,000 open cases in and around Providence. This occurs when a request for a Big Brother by a social worker or surrogate parent is left unanswered because of a sheer lack of participation in the program. Brown University, seemingly a bastion of positive role models 2,500 males deep, currently only supplies 12 Big Brothers. That number is embarrassing. It is more embarrassing than dressing up in tights to see Spiderman. It has prompted me to go out and actively recruit for I believe the problem is due more to a lack of publicity than of indifference. The strong response James and I received this week in the Post Office confirms that.

If you would like to join Big Brothers or would simply like to request additional information, please contact either Michael_Rothman@Brown.edu or James _Maher@Brown.edu. Big Brothers can be reached directly at (401)432-9955.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2002 · PAGE 12

After too long, Unitas finally getting his due SPORTS WITNESSED THE PASSING OF YET another legend, but this legend had never really shown his greatness to the new generation of sports fans. I grew up hearing about Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, Bill Russell and Jim Brown, but rarely did I hear anything about Johnny Unitas.

The most I JEFF SALTMAN THE SALT’S TAKE ever heard about him was that he was visiting his old teammate Mike Curtis who lived down the street from me. I knew that he was a quarterback, and I knew that he played in “the greatest game of all time,” but aside from that, there wasn’t much to tell — or so I thought.

Johnny U. was never the charismatic figure that great sports stars have to be nowadays. Even the things that made him distinct in character — his signature crew cut and black high top cleats, for example — were never very original or exciting. I haven’t seen an exciting crew cut since Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, and that’s only because he was big and Russian. Johnny U. was never a very outspoken guy. He went about his business and led by example. He would yell in his teammates’ ears if he needed to, because, after all, Unitas wanted to win more than anything else. He never trash-talked though. He symbolized the game in its pure form — the old school player who would play with a broken anything and would be professional at all times. This is a lesson that many of today’s players could stand to learn.

In football, unlike in baseball, the present and immediate past are always viewed with more reverence than distant history.

If you asked a young sports fan who the greatest quarterback of all time is, the answer would inevitably be either Montana, Marino or Elway. If you asked who the greatest baseball player of all time is, the answer would range from Ruth to Mays to Aaron. Football lacks this feeling of awe for the past, and only at times like the passing of Unitas do we truly begin to realize this.

Unitas was unheralded out of college and was picked late in the 1955 draft. His hometown team, the Pittsburgh Steelers, eventually drafted him in the ninth round and quickly cut him. Unitas landed in Baltimore with the Colts. There he flourished, winning two NFL championships and one Super Bowl. He symbolized the city of Baltimore — a hard-working quiet man who never looked like a football player aside from the assorted scars on his body. He ended his career as the number one quarterback in virtually every important statistical record, including completions, yards, and touchdowns. In later years, rules and offenses changed in order to protect the quarterback and make passing an easier feat. If Unitas had played today, he may have had better numbers than Marino and Elway.

The most astounding stat that Unitas ever compiled was symbolized by the number 47. In an SAT analogy, 47 is to football as blank is to baseball. The answer is 56. In baseball, DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight games. This record has never really been challenged. Pete Rose came the closest to this record and only hit in 44 straight games. In football, Johnny Unitas threw a touchdown in 47 consecutive games. In those days it lastsee SALT, page 6

Women’s soccer rallies to defeat Colgate

BY SHARA HEDGE

The Brown women’s soccer team (2-1-1) enjoyed a strong performance this weekend, coming back from an early deficit to defeat Colgate University (1-3-1) 3-2 in a women’s soccer contest on the last day of the ECAC tournament.

The Bears got off to a strong start, taking a 1-0 lead on a goal by Tory Manchester ’06 — her first Brown career goal. It came at the 30:10 mark of the first half, assisted by Megan Schreck ’06.

However, the Raiders came back to tie the game ten minutes later with a goal by freshman Kelly Kuss, and the two teams headed into halftime deadlocked at 1-1.

After the break, Colgate took a 2-1 lead on Kuss’s second goal of the game.

Brown stormed back with a goal by Laura Iden ’03 in the 67th minute, assisted by Caitlin Carey ’03.

Carey would go on to lead the Bears to a 3-2 victory with her goal in the 77th minute.

She was assisted by Michaela Sewall ’04, who earned ECAC Hy-line Player of the Game.

Sewall was pleased with the team’s performance. “We had to come back from a deficit to win this game, and that Jon Noble / Herald was something we had trouble doing last The women’s soccer team was in action against Colgate this weekend. year,” she said. “I think that’s a good sign for this year and hopefully we can con- down Colgate for the final 13 minutes of Field at 7 p.m. the game. tinue to perform well.”

Brown (2-1-1) next faces state rival Herald staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 The Lady Bears also received a strong performance from goalie Sarah Gervais University of Rhode Island. The game can be reached at shegde@browndaily’04, who preserved the win by shutting will be played Wednesday on Stevenson herald.com.

Sports world does not revolve around U.S. TIM MONTGOMERY OF THE UNITED States broke the world record in the men’s 100-meter dash this past weekend. Did anyone notice? ESPN showed day-long coverage of college football on Saturday, with telecasts and highlights of numerous games and analysis of every play and player imaginable, HANYEN LEE A DAY AT THE PARK yet relegated the achievement of the fastest 100-meter run in history to a single article the same length as this one.

For a company that bills itself as the “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” ESPN does little to provide equal coverage to sports worldwide. One could argue that ESPN, being an American organization, gives the greatest coverage to the sports in which the American public is most interested.

However, ESPN’s prominent status in the world of sports reporting often influences the public by dimming the importance of noteworthy achievements in certain sports, while blowing out of proportion less historically significant feats in other ones.

Illustrating the inequality in sports coverage, ESPN has a college football as well as an NFL page, but places track news under “Olympic Sports.” I had trouble even finding stories concerning Montgomery’s feat, only seeing it because it was under the ESPNNEWS Headlines for a couple of days. I did not even know they placed track under the broad section “Olympic Sports”, as track is a sport that continues year-in and year-out with many prominent international meets. It does not only take place during the Olympics.

The fact is that in the U.S. track is not considered important enough to have its own section, despite occurring year-round as

As the U.S is a sporting nation that loves statistics, ESPN satiates the American public’s appetite for sports figures with in-depth analyses of the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball. It would do well however to broaden its perspective to include greater, more incisive coverage of other sports such as rugby and cricket. opposed to college football’s four-month season.

Sports such as track, rugby, cricket and soccer are treated like fringe sports here in the United States They may receive greater media attention outside the United States, but channels such as ESPN and CNNSI clearly broadcast most of the sports news and commentary to the largest population of people who own television sets. These organizations pride themselves on being worldwide leaders in sports coverage, yet do not cover many worldwide sports in any detail. The above sports do not have an extensive mainstream following in the United States, but that does not mean that they are not “real sports.” However, despite huge followings in other countries, in the United States, these sports appear destined to remain curiosities on the same level as croquet.

As the United States is a sporting nation that loves statistics, ESPN satiates the American public’s appetite for sports figures with in-depth analyses of the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball. It would do well, however, to broaden its perspective to include greater, more incisive coverage of other sports such as rugby and

cricket. Not only would the public be exposed to new things that would help it to cultivate more internationally conscious sports fans, but the American people could also gain an appreciation for other cultures and the relative importance of sports in those cultures.

The United States may be good at American football and baseball, two sports that originated in this country, but just because it is not as good at soccer does not mean that soccer is a sport unworthy of coverage. The more extensive coverage of this year’s World Cup was a good sign that ESPN acknowledged the worldwide importance of the event. I would hope that ESPN and other “worldwide leader(s) in sports” could continue to increase their coverage of events that are important to much of the world, such as the rugby and cricket World Cups, even if the U.S team does not do well in them.

I shall end with one more piece of news from the world of fringe sports. Anna Kournikova was once again denied her first singles title on the WTA tour this past weekend at the Shanghai Open final, losing to Anna Smashnova in straight sets.

But you probably already knew that.