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U. hopes to move Grad School offices to Horace Mann within 1 year

BY JESSICA TOOKER

Much anticipated plans to move the Graduate School’s administrative offices to Horace Mann Hall could come to fruition in a little over a year.

Now located on the fourth floor of Graduate Center Tower E, the Graduate School’s administration will move to Horace Mann in an estimated 12 to 16 months. The shift is one of the initiatives underway to enhance the graduate experience at Brown, Graduate School deans said.

The inconvenience of the current location was a primary motive behind the scheduled move.

The Graduate Center “is at the periphery of the campus,” said Dean of the Graduate School and Research Peder Estrup.

The move “raises the profile of the Graduate School ... symbolically, it places the Graduate School in the center of campus,” said Graduate Student Council CoPresident Aaron Katz GS. Officials also say the move will simplify graduate student access to the administration.

“Right now, it’s such a hassle to see one of the deans,” Katz said.

Difficult to find and navigate once inside, the Graduate Center is like the Graduate School’s admission process, administrators said.

“It’s hard to get in and very hard to find your way out,” said Associate Dean of the Graduate School Joan Lusk.

The current space is also problematic for a host of logistical reasons. Water leaks through the roof when it rains, administrators said.

A door in Estrup’s office leads directly to the men’s room, and the entranceway, located unobtrusively to the side, “lacks a little dignity,” Lusk said.

The University will assess the space inside Horace Mann before the Graduate

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Pete Hopkins ’04 was running the show Thursday night at WBRU,where the station’s ratings have dropped from 3.9 to 2.9 on the Arbitron scale since the summer of 2001,a dip that has been attributed to the emergence of rival station FNX into the Providence area.

WBRU sees ratings dip — but stays on top

BY DANIELLE CERNY

After enjoying a heyday of virtually competition-free airwaves, WBRU radio suffered a steady ratings drop this year thanks to the expansion of rival station FNX into the Providence area.

Since the summer of 2001, the student-run, commercial station’s Arbitron ratings have fallen from 3.9 to 2.9 percent of radio listeners. FNX, however, has seen an increase in ratings since the summer of 2001 from 1.7 to 2.4 percent of listeners.

FNX, which broadcasts live out of Boston, Mass., as a full-fledged professional radio station with an active rock

format, expanded its broadcast into Providence in September 2000.

Before FNX expanded into Providence, WBRU had no direct competitor and logged up to a 5.1 share in Arbitron’s ratings. But WBRU Program Director Tim Schiavelli ’95 said the recent drop does not worry him.

“Whenever you have another station coming into the market that’s playing a lot of the same music, there’s going to be a button pushing effect on the audience,” he said.

Schiavelli said ratings are unreliable since there is little incentive for people to send back ratings surveys, and those

who do represent a small portion of the population.

Arbitron releases ratings every summer and fall that are based on mail-out surveys to random households.

Household members over the age of 12 keep a seven-day diary of their radio listening. Using these samples, Arbitron estimates a city’s radio listening habits.

Ratings are expressed in terms of shares, which is the percentage of people listening to radio in a designated region that are listening to a specific station.

Despite WBRU’s rating drop, see WBRU, page 5

see GRAD SCHOOL, page 4

City stalls RISD on proposal to build new six-story residence hall

BY LISA MANDLE

The city has asked the Rhode Island School of Design to reconsider its plans to replace several historic houses at the corner of Angell and Prospect streets with a six-story dormitory.

RISD unveiled its proposal to build the dormitory across the street from Brown’s admission office at a Providence Planning Commission meeting Tuesday evening.

The proposed building is intended to compensate for a housing shortage resulting from the expansion of the university.

Under current plans, the dormitory would provide beds for 300 RISD sophomores.

To construct the dorm, at least two buildings will need to be moved and others possibly demolished. Of particular

concern to both RISD and East Side residents is the fate of the historic Barstow House. RISD currently uses the building to house students.

The house’s characteristic trim was replaced with aluminum siding 15 to 20 years ago, said Ann Hudner, RISD spokeswoman. The house would need to be renovated to restore its value as a historic building.

Relocating the house would require sawing it in half and removing several trees, Hudner said.

While RISD has looked into other possible locations for constructing additional dormitory space, including downtown Providence, the school ultimately decided that sophomore housing needed to be

closer to the main campus, Hudner said.

RISD came to Tuesday’s planning commission meeting hoping to get approval for the new building from the commission, Hudner said. Over the past nine months, RISD held several meetings between architects and neighboring property owners in an attempt to satisfy everybody’s needs.

But the university was met with resistance from several community groups.

The Providence Preservation Society and College Hill Neighborhood Association filed letters of opposition with the commission.

“It is just a matter of time before the historic, residential character that makes College Hill so unique is destroyed forev-

I N S I D E F R I D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 0 , 2 0 0 2 Without a home, Coalition of Bands at Brown looks for practice, storage space page 3

Yara Lorenzo ’05 says TWTP is not responsible for diversity problems on campus guest column,page 7

The Herald previews this weekend’s sports games, including Bears football vs. Towson page 8

er,” wrote neighborhood association President Thomas Goddard.

But Hudner said the property in question is not in a historical zone and the university is not requesting any variants to the building code.

Neighbors said they also worry about the tax-base erosion that will result from decreased property values of land near such institutional buildings. Ronald Dwight ’66, a member of the neighborhood association’s board of directors, said he sees growing slums and even bankruptcy in Providence’s future if the city’s taxexempt institutions continue to build as they wish. see RISD DORM, page 4

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Joshua Troy ’04 details all the inside information for this weekend’s NFL matchups guest column,page 8

Post- looks at year one of the Ruth Simmons era at Brown University magazine,inside

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 · PAGE 3

‘Equus’ goes up at PW, a ‘horse’ of a different caliber ‘Equus,’ a multi-faceted tale with more themes than one can count, is playing through Monday at Production Workshop

BY ETHAN RIS

“Equus” is a very good play. In fact, it is perhaps too good. Its terrific script, impressive cast, and thorough direction leave little room for error, and unfortunately, error is present.

The show, playing at Performance Workshop now through Monday, is largely still as powerful as it was when Peter Schaffer wrote it in 1973. “Equus” is the story of a boy and his psychoanalyst; the seventeen-year-old Alan Strang (Andrew McClain ’03), who is institutionalized after blinding six horses with a metal spike, and the doctor Martin Dysart (Michael Linden ’03), whose insecurity and sexual repression make him a likely candidate for psychiatric treatment himself.

The themes of the show are too many to count, but they notably include the perversion of religion, the failures of parenthood, and that old standby, moral relativism. Shaffer’s opinion on this last point is not muted; Alan is the hero of “Equus,” though he cannot conform to societal norms.

The tension between what should be and what must be is deftly rendered phys-

ical in the PW production. Director Ben Sugar ’03 creates a stage in which the two visions are often literally intermingled, as is suggested by the script. Through repeated flashbacks, McClain and Linden are often found straddling the divide, with the patient reliving experiences in the dream world that is his reality, while the doctor must remain in his office and live vicariously.

There are several outstanding scenes where Alan’s recollections are acted out, including very convincing whole-cast representations of an electronics store and a barn. The two principals maintain their dialogue even as the patient is participating in the flashback.

Sugar sets a fairly rapid pace, even though the show is still long at well over two hours. Increasingly dramatic scenes, set against lighting and sound design that start creepy and only get more so, add to the unease created by repeated moral questions asked of the audience.

The tension of “Equus,” in fact, is built so thoroughly that if it were to break, it would break almost irreparably. And it inevitably does break. Stuttered lines and resorts to physical cliché are unforgivable here. The few unplanned moments in this generally highly planned play stand out as prominently as Alan Strang’s psychoses: notably, an on-stage costume change, before the barn scene, that takes too long, and the frequent revelations that the elaborate miming in this show has been inadequately rehearsed.

“Equus” is the story of a boy and his psychoanalyst; the seventeen-year-old Alan Strang (Andrew McClain ’03), who is institutionalized after blinding six horses with a metal spike, and the doctor Martin Dysart (Michael Linden ’03), whose insecurity and sexual repression make him a likely candidate for psychiatric treatment himself.

In contrast to these small imperfections, the larger shortcomings of “Equus” are actually tolerable. Foremost among these is the dual use of the set’s principal piece, a large metal-wrought construction that hangs above the stage for most of the performance. While it works fine as a roof for various settings, it proves very ineffective when it is lowered at the end of Act I to become a rotating mechanism for Alan’s spiritual horse ride, a literal deus ex machina. On the ground, the piece is clumsy and noisy, and it fails to convincingly portray the ride, despite the best efforts of the actors operating it. Yet, the concept and rehearsal behind this mechanism salvage it.

Other aspects of “Equus” need no salvaging. Although it is primarily a two-man show, Linden and McClain are joined by a talented supporting cast. Out of these, Rob

Blair ’05 stands out as Alan’s comically hypocritical father, as does Benjamin Asriel ’03, who turns in a terrific performance as both a horse and horse rider. The lighting design, by Gayle Macdonald ’04, is very effective, especially its innovative floor illumination.

The show is staged in PW’s downstairs space, in true blackbox form. The seating is done in a staggered stadium style, which creates an interesting environment, but is also very difficult to navigate. The audience is also in extreme proximity to the stage, making them especially vulnerable not only to the discomfort raised by the provocative script, but also to the more tangible discomfort raised by hot lights, second-hand smoke and prolonged nudity. PW’s “Equus” is for neither the easily intimidated nor the perfectionist, but it is still very good theater.

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While she does not see bankruptcy as an impending issue, Democratic Ward 2 City Councilwoman Rita Williams told the Herald she has concerns about a massive structure.

In the end, the commission told RISD to find a housing solution more acceptable to the neighbors.

“We’re neighbors, too,” Hudner said. “I think they sometimes forget that.”

Hudner would not say whether RISD is considering modifying its proposal to respond to residents’ concerns.

Although the building’s construction is still in the preliminary stages, “visually, it is not like a six-story building is going to drop from the sky,” Hudner said.

Both Williams and Dwight said they hope that as RISD, Brown and other tax-exempt institutions continue to occupy and affect an increasing percentage of Providence, they will work cooperatively with the city to improve public safety.

School moves in. The Graduate School administration will share the building with the Brown University Research Foundation, currently located on the third floor of the Grad Center, and possibly with the Howard Foundation, an organization that allots grants to students in any academic field on the basis of project proposals.

Due to this relocation, the Office of Summer Studies — currently located in Horace Mann — is moving to offices on Waterman Street.

The future use of the Graduate Center office space is currently undecided.

“There is a long waitlist for space at Brown, including this one,” Estrup said.

Demands for space will likely continue during the next five years, during which the Graduate School hopes to employ approximately 100 additional faculty members and to increase the graduate student population, both Lusk and Estrup said.

New space will be required for teaching assistant offices and study and research rooms.

“Space planning in universities is a constant evolution,” said Associate Provost Nancy Dunbar.

The relocation exemplifies the mission behind President Ruth Simmons’s academic enrichment program. Including plans for new first-year seminars, need-blind admission and more support and financial aid for graduate students, the program seeks to address the needs of both graduate and undergraduate faculty and students, Estrup said.

Estrup cited the move to Horace Mann as an example of Simmons’s commitment and support.

“We are very happy that graduate education is also a very substantial part of that plan,” he said.

Graduate Student Council CoPresident Heinrich Hock GS said he believes the Graduate School’s new location will change the “general sentiment that the Graduate School was a secondary concern.”

Nicholas Mark / Herald “Now (the administration) has The current offices of the Graduate School are housed in the fourth realized the Grad School is vital to floor of Graduate Center Tower E.The University plans to move the the University,” he said. offices to Horace Mann Hall within 12 to 16 months.

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WBRU continued from page 1 Schiavelli said “FNX’s expansion hasn’t had a huge effect on WBRU’s ratings thus far, and even more importantly, it hasn’t had much of an effect at all on our sales.”

But WBRU General Manager Moye Ishimoto ’03 said the ratings drop has taken a psychological toll.

“We have been feeling a little targeted

by FNX,” she said. “It was more of a pride thing. Providence considers itself, not a major market, but its own market.

We’re our own place, we don’t need to be overshadowed by a station from Boston,” Ishimoto said.

FNX Radio President Bruce Mittman said the advantages to FNX expanding into the Providence area are undeniable.

FNX already owned the Providence Phoenix, a weekly city paper, which provided FNX with a preexisting presence in the area, he said.

Though the two stations are in direct competition in the Providence area, WBRU DJ Dilini Fernando ’03, said the stations are distinct in their on-air attitudes.

“Personality wise, we’re very different. We are from a younger generation, and I think that gives us a freshness,”

she said. “Sometimes I think what may seem like a lack of professionalism is part of the charm of BRU. Everyone on air is very intelligent, we don’t do these very dirty, rude comments that FNX does — we’re not about that.”

Mittman agreed that the stations are different and said that FNX is much more personality-oriented radio.

“Our stations are very different in presentation. We definitely have elements to offer that the Brown station can’t — our on-air personalities for one thing. With the Brown station, it’s hard for them to build a relationship with the listeners because the DJs always come and go. FNX can build consistent, strong relationships between personalities and listeners,” he said.

WBRU is still prominent in the Providence area. It advertises on billboards, produces TV ads and attends local major events that target WBRU’s desired audience, Schiavelli said.

FNX has increased its presence in the Providence area, as well, taking advantage of the same advertising techniques as WBRU and using the leverage they have with the Phoenix, Mittman said.

Schiavelli said he remains optimistic despite the less than desirable ratings this past spring. Other stations have been more seriously affected by FNX’s expansion into the market than WBRU, he said.

“Personality wise, we’re very different. We are from a younger generation, and I think that gives us a freshness. Sometimes I think what may seem like a lack of professionalism is part of the charm of BRU. Everyone on air is very intelligent, we don’t do these very dirty, rude comments that FNX does — we’re not about that.”

Dilini Fernando WBRU DJ While WBRU has an alternative rock play list and maintains an even-gender approach, FNX targets a younger, male audience. Other local stations, such as WHJY, that tend to focus on the male population, have suffered greater rating drops, falling from a 7.9 to a 5.9 share between spring 2001 and spring 2002.

WBRU’s drop has forced the station to reevaluate parts of its broadcast. But Schiavelli said the station will not incur any drastic changes in response to the newfound competition.

If nothing else, the emergence of FNX into the Providence area has only increased student drive and involvement at WBRU. WBRU’s target audience

varies enough from that of FNX that it will bounce back from the fall in ratings, he said.

“Every station bounces up and down from book to book, so it’s not a huge deal. And even though the summer 2002 numbers come out in October, early indications from Arbitron are that we’re back in the 3’s for the summer,” he said.

Mittman said he wasn’t sure how FNX would do in the new ratings.

“I can’t predict the Arbitron, but what I know is that our standing continues to grow whereas BRU’s continues to go backwards,” he said. “So what the future holds for both of us, we’ll have to wait and see.”

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 · PAGE 6 S T A F F

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Diamonds and coal Coal to UCS for delaying payments to the contestants of “Win Paul Armstrong’s Money.” This is not a leather jacket you put on layaway. Now it’s our turn to suggest a game: “Win Paul Armstrong’s Money and 5 percent interest compounded over 6 months.”

A cubic zirconium to the unidentified woman demanding copies in University Hall. Better it be copies than harder to obtain items, such as helmets made of cheese or a bathtub filled with plutonium, we suppose. But here’s to following your heart, even if it takes you only as far as University Hall’s Xerox machine.

A diamond to the new Graduate School digs. It’s about time, and hey — Brown is starting to look almost normal.

A diamond to Oxfam for opening the Hourglass Café again.

Anything that gives us a greater number of options than Gate pizza and Jo’s wraps is a welcome addition.

Coal to Career Services for instituting mandatory meetings to teach seniors to use the Internet. Apparently we are supposed to write down our qualifications, nepotistic connections and special skills on pieces of paper, handily termed “resumes.”

We must admit this is easier than hiring sky writing-planes.

A diamond to former Mayor Vincent Cianci’s new radio show.

He might be a crook, but we hope he’ll accept our offer to buy him a drink at the Biltmore bar.

A cubic zirconium to FNX. We enjoy having more than one rock station, although if we hear that P.O.D. song again, we will be in danger of hating that oiled-up Creed singer less, simply by default. WBRU must continue with the late-night Hunter Thompson-esque monologues in order to keep things balanced.

ANDREW SHEETS

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

UCS was not solely responsible for delay in Armstrong payout To the Editor: Although I am very glad that the winners of “Win Paul Armstrong’s Money” finally received their winnings (“‘Win Paul Armstrong’s Money’ victors finally get their checks,” 9/19), I wish that The Herald would have interviewed all parties involved before printing this article. If The Herald had called, I would have told them that the Student

Activities Office requested the names and summer addresses of the winners, information that we did not have on file prior to the game show. This, and not the loss of contestant information, was the reason for my correspondence with the winners after the show.

While my name was floated in the story, no effort was made to contact me for comment. Speaking as a Herald alumna, I hope that our campus daily will endeavor to present a more well-rounded version of the facts in future articles.

A cubic zirconium to David Segals’ campaign flyer, which is an alarmingly realistic facsimile of a parking ticket. Eager young campaigners stick these under windshield wipers and watch as Johnny Car Owner feels both a deep resentment of David Segal and an undying love borne of sheer relief.

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 · PAGE 7

TWTP not responsible for campus diversity problems All Brown students can make use of the TWC as a means of promoting diversity AS A STUDENT OF COLOR HERE AT tural diversity, and she attacks the one event Brown, I felt attacked by Jill Lynch’s guest col- that is not open to the rest of the campus.

The reality is that students of color suffer umn “TWTP should be open to all incoming first-years,” (9/18). In the column, Lynch sug- discrimination on this campus and in the gests that Brown lacks diversity and, further- world in general. We do face systems of more, goes on to attack several aspects of the supremacy and racism. The fact that Lynch has a boyfriend of a different Third World community. I write race is irrelevant to the issue this with the hope that I will not being discussed. When Lynch come across as an angry student YARA LORENZO and I walk into a room, Lynch of color but rather as a source of GUEST COLUMN will always be a member of the motivation for those who have majority and I will always be a not previously gotten involved student of color. It is unfair for with the Third World community Lynch to say that she is as affected by issues to go ahead and do so.

It is very easy for Lynch to essentially place of race and color as students on this campus blame on students of color for Brown’s lack of who have been constantly put down for diversity. The fact that you see blacks and being anything but what she is — white.

Lynch also says that nobody really talks Latinos at one table in the Ratty is something for which white students should be held about what goes on at TWTP. Who is equally accountable. Diversity is not about “nobody”? If you maintain a circle of white whether one group of students is exclusive. It friends, this could be a problem. However, if is about each individual in this University you reach out, you will realize that there are making the decision to step outside his or her many discussion panels, including “Rapping comfort zone and meet new people. and Dining,” that cover the events of TWTP Although the TWTP program can be seen as coming out of the Third World Center each exclusive, is that true of all of the other events year. Maybe if Lynch had shown interest, she the Third World community sponsors would have heard about these events.

TWTP was beneficial to me not because I throughout the year? How many white students make the effort to come to one of was recently introduced to “Western culTWC’s many cultural events that are open to ture,” as Lynch suggests, but because I grew the entire community? Lynch fails to point up in a community that was probably 99.9 this out. She overlooks the programs the percent Latino. I did not experience what Third World community offers to the entire racism truly was because I was a member of campus that aim to educate and share cul- the majority. It was only when I got to New England, where somebody pointed out all of the differences in me because I was Latina, Yara Lorenzo ’05 hails from Miami, Fla.

that it became clear that some people thought less of me because of my skin color and background. If it were not for TWTP, I would not have known how to deal with these issues, because I had never before been to a school with any white students. That is why the program was a great “transition” for me, as it is for many students of color.

Although Western culture may not have been new to me, coming to this new community of people was certainly a big transition. I fight for TWTP because the program made a great impact on my life and influenced my decision to remain here at Brown.

There are also many international students who come to TWTP because western culture is new to them, so that is also a possibility. It is very easy to blow things out of proportion and ignore the realities that exist.

Speaking of blowing things out of proportion, let’s consider Lynch’s suggestion to change the name of the Third World Center because it makes her think of “starving little children.” Even though she knows that’s not what it stands for here at Brown, she advocates we change the name because it doesn’t sound good to her. Why doesn’t she make the effort to learn the history behind why it is called the Third World Center? Educate yourself and then respond. If students of color did not feel represented by this term I am sure it would be debated as well.

I am sorry that Lynch is disappointed because she expected a more diverse environment from an Ivy League institution. That is what I expected as well. However, unlike

Lynch, I did not expect it would fall on my lap. I was not expecting to arrive at a utopian society where everyone was the same and got along, possibly like Lynch’s hometown. I had to make an effort to meet white students, to go to meetings at which I may not have felt comfortable and to go debates to hear different points of views. I must say it was well worth it. For the first time in my life, I celebrated Hanukkah and learned about Jewish culture — something that had been completely foreign to me. This did not happen by criticizing students at Brown for being racist and sitting in my room. This happened by reaching out to other people and expressing interest in learning and growing as an individual. I invite Lynch to do the same.

As a Co-Chair of the Latin American Student Organization, I welcome anyone on this campus to our meetings, which have and will continue to be open to those who have interest in or questions about Latino culture.

I am sure this invitation goes for most, if not all, of Brown’s Third World organizations.

I hope Lynch will consider stepping outside of her comfort zone and try to go to new meetings and cultural events, rather than sitting home at her computer and criticizing the Third World community.

Moreover, I hope this article serves to inspire people to make individual decisions to meet new people and break through their comfort zones. Maybe then she and many other students here at Brown will discover the diversity that truly exists on this campus.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 · PAGE 8

Plenty of weekend sports action in store for Bears In season opener, football to take on Towson The Brown football team will travel to Towson University (1-1) in Maryland for its first game of the season on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. The Tigers have played two games, beating Morgan State in their opener and falling to Lafayette last weekend. Towson is currently a member of the Patriot League; however the school recently accepted a membership into the Atlantic 10 Football Conference beginning in 2004.

This will be the first ever meeting between the two schools.

Women’s soccer to host Lions in Ivy opener The Brown women’s soccer team (3-1-1) will open its Ivy League season this Saturday when it plays host to Columbia University at 7:00 p.m. at Stevenson Field.

The Bears have won their last three games, beating Fairfield University, Colgate University and the University of Rhode Island. Brown will look for continued strong play from midfielder Micheala Sewall ’04, who was recently named to the weekly Ivy League Honor Roll for women’s soccer.

M.’s soccer travels to New Haven for 2 games The Brown men’s soccer team (0-1-1) will compete at the Yale-Fila Classic this weekend. The Bears will play Alabama A&M University at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and will square off against

Vanderbilt University at noon on Sunday. Yale University will also participate in the tournament, also playing matches against the two southern schools. The Bears lost their only meeting with Alabama A&M in 1982 and have never faced Vanderbilt. This will be the fifth consecutive year Brown has participated in this tournament. Last season, the Bears split their two games, falling to the University of AlabamaBirmingham and beating Tulsa. Adom Crew ’03 and Ibrahim Diane ’06 were named to the Ivy League Honor Roll last week for their play in the first two matches.

Volleyball heads to Florida for tourney The Brown volleyball team (1-2) will travel to Tallahassee, Fla. this weekend to compete at a tournament hosted by Florida State University. The Bears will play three matches, taking on Louisiana State University and Louisiana-Lafayette University on Friday and facing off against Florida State on Saturday. Brown will play in two more tournaments before opening its Ivy League season on Oct. 11 against Dartmouth. Jessie Cooper ’03 was named to the Ivy League Honor Roll for her strong performances in the Bears’ first three matches.

Other sports in action this weekend: FIELD HOCKEY vs, Columbia, noon,

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The men’s soccer team dropped one and tied one in action last weekend.

Warner Roof.

WOMEN’S GOLF, Yale Invitational, Saturday and Sunday.

MEN’S GOLF, Dartmouth Invitational,

Saturday and Sunday.

MEN’S WATER POLO, vs. Fordham, St. Francis-NY and Iona, Saturday — Herald Sports Staff Reports

Concerns about image, surprise teams, highlight Week 3 of the NFL CONCERNS ABOUT THE IMAGE OF SPORTS and athletes have never been more prevalent and the National Football League is no exception. After facing high-profile arrests and trials with Ray Lewis and Rae Carruth and the tragic death of Korey Stringer, the league has placed a premium on presentJOSH TROY ing a tonedSPREADING THE LOVE down image to its fans. It all started with the elimination of end zone celebrations, may the Icky Shuffle rest in peace. However this past weekend social correctness was taken a step too far when Peyton Manning was not allowed to wear black high-top sneakers to honor Johnny Unitas.

The sneakers were a trademark of Unitas’ and with Manning playing quarterback for the Colts, the same team Unitas played for (except now in Indianapolis instead of Baltimore), it seemed like an appropriate gesture. Yet when Manning proposed the idea, he was informed that he would be fined if he did try to wear the sneakers because it would violate the NFL’s conservative dress code. Apparently the passing of one of the greatest players in NFL history did not merit an exception.

The league later showed that it would not hesitate to enforce the policy when Chris Redman, the quarterback for the current Baltimore franchise the Ravens, wore black high-tops and has subsequently been threatened with a $25,000 fine. It was not as if Redman wore Air Jordan’s to commemorate the Bulls’ first championship. He was wearing the sneakers as a tribute to a man beloved in Baltimore, who revolutionized the position that he was currently playing.

While the NFL is right in trying to clean up its image, preventing tributes to one of the classiest players to ever suit up is clearly not the right way to go about it.

As for this week’s picks, as usual they are against the spread as provided by the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Also, please remember they are for recre-

ational purposes only and apparently flipping a coin is an equally successful method. (Home team in CAPS) Last week – 8-8 Season – 16-16 Lock of the Week – 1-1 DOLPHINS (-6.5) over the Jets It is difficult to pick against the team you root for. However in this case, I feel comfortable making that decision. The Jets were disemboweled last week by the Patriots and are giving up over 30 points per game, while the Dolphins have ridden Ricky Williams to two straight wins.

VIKINGS (-6) over the Panthers Last season, Carolina beat Minnesota for what would be its only win of the year.

Randy Moss does not take being embarrassed well, so expect him to take out his revenge on the Panthers.

PATRIOTS (-9.5) over the Chiefs I have seen the light and now I am a full believer in the Church of Tom Brady. By my count, he completes 90 percent of his passes and all of them are for at least eight yards. Finally favorites after five straight games as underdogs, the Pats are going to make the Chiefs bend to their will.

Saints (+1.5) over the BEARS (LOCK OF THE WEEK) The Saints shut down Brett Favre; I think they can shut down Jim Miller. Plus, they will be “dropping the Deuce” all over Champagne and with Ted Washington out for 10 weeks with an injured ankle, the Bears’ “D” should have plenty of holes in it. Regardless, one of these teams will be 3-0 and could find itself on top of the NFC. Colts (-12.5) over the TEXANS As San Diego reminded us all last week, Houston is an expansion team. Indy should offer another friendly reminder, as Peyton goes to work on the Texan’s shaky defense. He better start winning soon though or his brother Eli might have to come to the NFL and show him up.

BRONCOS (-9) over the Bills Denver shocked everyone by knocking off the Rams and the 49ers in consecutive weeks and doing so, by shutting down two high-powered offenses. While I am not a fan of the running back by committee approach, the Broncos seem to make it work. As for the Bills, Drew has shown that he is still an elite QB, but he also still gets hit more times than Oscar De La Hoya’s punching bag, aka Fernando Vargas.

EAGLES (-8.5) over the Cowboys After losing to the Texans, the Cowboys had a delusion of grandeur last week when they upset the Titans. It is time for run D. Mc. to bring them back to reality. The Eagles could easily be 2-0 and with former Packers Dorsey Levens and Antonio Freeman now on-board, they could be Super Bowl bound.

Chargers (-1.5) over the CARDINALS Someone obviously wanted the Chargers to open the season with a winning record, as their first three opponents were the Bengals, Texans and now the Cardinals.

Somehow the Cardinals are tied for first with the 49ers in the new NFC West, ahead of the Rams; but unless Thomas Jones does another Walter Payton impression, their first place run should not last too long.

Browns (+4.5) over the TITANS If Tennessee has shown anything over the past year and a half, it is that when McNair and George are injured, they struggle. With both players missing practice this week, if the Browns can manage not to take off their helmets during the game they could pick up a win.

Redskins (+8) over the 49ERS Before the season started, Terrell Owens was aiming for a 2,000-yard season. Right now, he is on pace for less than half of that and he is undoubtedly upset that he is missing out on prime showboating opportunities. The Redskins should rebound from their MNF embarrassment, and

maybe during the week they figured out whether Marvin Lewis or Jerry Lewis was coaching their defense.

GIANTS (-6.5) over the Seahawks At first glance, this seems like an obvious let down game for the G-men. They upset the Rams and now face a team who lost convincingly to the Cardinals. However Kerry “No longer drinking Tom” Collins has put together a string of successful games and Mike Holmgren clearly left his coaching ability in Green Bay. Packers (-8) over the LIONS It is almost too easy to pick on the Lions at this point. They are 0-2 for the second straight year, have been beaten up on in both games and have already decided to switch quarterbacks — Joey Harrington is in and Mike McMahon is out. The only thing that they’ve got going from them is that they are opening up a new stadium and at least fans will be comfortable as they watch Brett Favre throw for well-over 300 yards.

ATLANTA (-7.5) over the Bengals Michael Vick is the real deal. He is one of those players who you would pay to see and not just because you want to see the other team try and take out his knees. If he is going to live up to the hype surrounding him, he will need to beat the bad teams and it starts this week with Cincinnati.

BUCS (+2.5) over the Rams The surprise of the young season may be that either of these teams enters this game with a loss. Apparently St. Louis is still waiting to play overtime to finish the Super Bowl and Tampa Bay just can not shake its ability to underachieve. In what is really a toss-up, the Bucs have been able to beat the Rams each of the last two years and since KJ loves the spotlight, Monday Night Football should give him a chance shine once again.

Joshua Troy ’04 hails from Stamford, Conn., and is a political science concentrator.