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As market trips, era of stock gifts passes

BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

In February 2000, a donor gave Brown over 3,000 shares in a well-regarded energy company. That donation, which netted the University $216,000 and the donor a $216,000 tax exemption, would be worth about $370 today. The company was Enron.

Stock donations were popular in the fiscal year 2000, according to the University’s public financial documents from that year.

Approximately 20 percent of donations came in the form of securities. Jerome Vascellaro ’74, national chair of the Brown Annual Fund, said “a tax advantage” motivated donors to give stock.

Under federal tax laws, stock donated to charitable organizations is exempt from the capital gains tax shareholders pay when they sell shares. Donors receive a tax deduction equal to the value of the shares on the day of donation.

Donating appreciated shares is advantageous because it gives donors a deduction greater than the amount they invested in the stock, Vascellaro said. see STOCKS, page 6

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LIKE THAT TIME IN KINDERGARTEN Led by members of Bottega House, students took to the Main Green Monday afternoon for bit of painting — preschool style.

New church service calls all to worship

BY ELENA LESLEY

While some Brown students associate organized religion with conservatism and intolerance, a core group of believers is working to change this perception.

Through the creation of a new protestant service, A Call to Worship, University chaplains and students “are trying to change the face of what is seen as a religious community on-campus,” said Sarah Staley ’03, one of the service’s student leaders. A Call to Worship “is always changing and socially conscious.”

The service, which is held every Sunday at 12:30 p.m., started Sept. 8. Although not a reaction to services currently offered oncampus, A Call to Worship appeals to students from more activist Protestant backgrounds, said Associate Chaplain Jennifer Rankin.

“This service arose out of the notion that there were Protestant Christians on campus who wanted to come together and wouldn’t feel at home” in all religious environments, she said. “We’re intentionally welcoming of lesbian, gay, transgendered students” and encourage the attendance of people from different ethnic and religious backgrounds.

For the past few years a similar service

was held on Sunday nights, but it was poorly attended because of its scheduled time, said University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson. Most Protestant traditions hold services on Sunday mornings.

Since the time change, attendance has greatly improved, Rankin said.

Many of those in attendance come from different branches of Protestantism, but most are attracted to “the social gospel,” Cooper Nelson said.

“It’s living toward an amelioration of social ills,” she added. “Other traditions are more directed at internal spiritual piety.”

But she said the service’s organizers want to keep it from becoming overlypoliticized, although students from some religious backgrounds may feel that A Call to Worship’s inclusive nature already makes it too political.

“We’re ruling in folks who were feeling without a community, which might rule out other people,” Cooper Nelson said.

“It’s our job to pay attention to what’s not available on campus and create places where people can feel safe.”

Many student leaders said this service’s openness closely adhered to their liberal religious backgrounds.

“When people here think of religion, they think of the conservative right wing,” said student leader Ashley Harness ’05. “My understanding of religion and Christianity is so different from what people expect.”

The devotion of students like Harness has enabled the service to grow — student leaders have circulated mass e-mails and advertised by word of mouth.

Instead of donating money during each week’s offering, as tradition dictates, students in attendance fill out cards volunteering talents they could bring to the congregation.

“There’s just so much talent here,” Rankin said. Both students and members of the Providence community have already performed at services.

Despite A Call to Worship’s focus on spirituality over politics, student leaders said they hoped the congregation could eventually become involved in social justice work.

“I do feel though that our very presence is an act of social justice,” Harness said.

“We’re a very inclusive group.”

Herald staff writer Elena Lesley ’04 is a news editor. She can be reached at elesley@browndailyherald.com.

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For some students, faith leads them to houses of worship away from campus page 3

Without a new life sciences building, Brown struggles to attract top profs page 5

Final UDC recs to go before Corporation in February

BY AMY RUDDLE

Mediation and student involvement will drive University Disciplinary Council reform this fall, according to University officials, who hope to submit final UDC recommendations for Corporation approval by February.

Study groups, composed of students, faculty and staff, will discuss the installation of student judicial boards as part of sweeping UDC reforms first proposed last February.

Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies Meera Viswanathan chaired the Committee to Reform NonAcademic Discipline, which submitted recommendations for reform to President Ruth Simmons on Feb. 7.

The committee asked for a clarification of the disciplinary rights of students, rewriting of several controversial sections of the Standards of Student Conduct, incorporation of mediation into the disciplinary system and the construction of student judicial boards.

The Office of Student Life has already enacted several of these recommendations, said Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Janina Montero. OSL see UDC, page 6

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Associate Dean of the College Armando Bengochea defends his remarks on TWTP guest column,page 11

Women’s soccer drops one to Harvard, gears up for Wednesday face off against Dartmouth sports,page 12

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Protestors rally in support of janitors as strike threat looms

BY ADAM STELLA

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Despite Brown’s extensive on-campus faith resource, a small percentage of students opt to worship off campus, in venues like St. Joseph’s Church on Hope Street.

For some, faith leads off campus

BY COURTNEY QUICK

Although Brown boasts of having the only “multi-faith chaplaincy in the Ivy League” on its Web site and holds services for all faiths on campus, a small percentage of Brown students opt to conduct their worship at offcampus venues.

Weekly worship options at Manning Chapel include Protestant services, Roman Catholic Masses, Imani Jubilee Services, Korean Presbyterian Services and Zen meditations. Brown Hillel offers Jewish students various religious options, while the Brown Muslim Student Center provides opportunities for Muslim students. The Hindu prayer group meets in Faunce House weekly. But still Brown students search beyond these convenient offerings for spiritual fulfillment.

The proximity of Brown’s services, which is essential for some, can also drive others away from campus, several students said.

Kimberly Hyde ’03 said there are many benefits to attending services at churches located off campus. As first-years, she and classmate Erin Gerrard ’03 became involved with the Riverside Evangelical Church in Riverside, R.I., which is a 10-minute drive from campus.

The church’s Adopt a College Student Program excited them, they said, and contributes to their involvement there.

Through this program local parishioners can take college students under their wing, and they occasionally invite students to join them for meals.

Gerrard and Hyde were adopted by the same parishioner, Professor of Political Science Paul Kellstedt.

Kellstedt, who is also the faculty supervisor of the Brown Christian Fellowship, highlighted the importance of Brown students being able to find “a place beyond Brown that is community.”

At Riverside, he said, “students know me as ‘Paul’ and not Professor Kellstedt, and I like it that way.”

He spoke of services held Labor Day weekend, in which the pastor of the church made a special announcement specifically welcoming Brown students back to Riverside.

Kellstedt said all members of the parish try to include students, not leaving the responsibility solely to him because of his affiliation with Brown.

Brown services tend to be homogenous, he said.

The ages of worshippers range from 18 to only about 25.

Gerrard and Hyde said attending services off campus offered “a change of scene.”

Going to church off campus and seeing “little kids and the elderly” offers “more of a reality” and a break from Sunday religious gatherings of college students who are “hung-over and feel obliged to be there,” Gerrard said.

It is far more uplifting to be celebrating with a large group of people who really want to be there, she said.

The frequently low attendance at Brown’s services do nothing to enhance one’s religious experience, Gerrard said, although she admitted that her practice of going off campus does contribute to the lack of worshippers at Manning.

Joel Dietz ’04 said the non-denominational Cathedral of Life in downtown Providence, where he attends services, offered him what Brown could not provide.

After attending several services on campus and feeling unsatisfied with what they had to offer, Dietz found that he “felt at home” at the Cathedral of Life, because it “demonstrated the love of Jesus in practical ways.”

Among the “demonstrations of love” that attracted him were participation in inner city projects, education and outreach to the community.

When Michael Linden ’03 felt an urge to work with kids he discovered Temple Emanu-El on Taft Avenue.

Linden, who had previously attended services on campus and said they “didn’t click” with him, found the worship and service options at Emanu-El pleasing.

He now works with high school students, acting as a mentor and supervising a youth group program. He also worships there, as his job requires him to “maintain a presence at services.”

Linden said he enjoys his off-campus worship because he now has “the sense that Providence is my home.”

Students received a warm welcome during High Holiday services, although congregation members were required to purchase tickets because of high attendance, Linden said.

But, he said, “any student is welcome. All you need is your student ID.”

Impassioned politicians spoke, sympathetic motorists honked their horns and about 100 protestors rallied at the foot of the building at One Financial Plaza Monday afternoon in support of Providence janitors who are threatening to strike this week unless a new contract is negotiated.

The dispute pits about 100 janitors in Service Employees International Union Local 615 against UNICCO Service Co., the company that contracts janitorial services to several buildings downtown.

The event attracted politicians hoping to show their support of labor in what is currently the city’s biggest labor dispute. Those in attendance included Democratic gubernatorial candidate Myrth York, Democratic mayoral candidate David Cicilline ‘83, State Rep. Paul Moura and 1st Ward Green Party candidate David Segal.

About 25 Brown students joined the rally in support of the workers. The Student Labor Alliance coordinated the student effort.

Chelsea Sharon ’06 said her personal ideology compelled her to attend the rally.

“The entire system of capitalism is based on exploitation. This is an action we can take to be in solidarity with those who are hurt in this system,” she said.

The janitors have been working without a contract since Aug. 31, when their previous contract expired.

The two sides are not currently negotiating, said SEIU organizer Frank Sosa UNICCO negotiator James Canavan could not be reached for comment.

Two thousand SEIU janitors in Boston went on strike Monday, and janitors in other Massachusetts and Rhode Island cities may strike later in the week, creating a “domino effect,” Sosa said.

UNICCO issued a statement on its Web site Monday that sought to dispel “misinformation” about the labor see RALLY, page 9

Survey reveals surge of support for Cicilline, minority relations problems

BY OLIVER BOWERS

A recent University survey reveals a tide of support for Democratic mayoral candidate David Cicilline ’83. The survey also exposed agitation among whites, blacks and Latinos over the state of minority relations in Providence.

The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions survey predicts that Cicilline will receive 70 percent of the city vote, with Republican Dave Talan limping to a second place finish with just 4 percent of the vote.

“The (result of the primary) mayors’ race was not surprising,” said Darrell West, director of the Taubman Center and professor of political science.

But the rest of the results were more profound, he said.

The survey polled a random selection of 688 Providence residents between Sept. 14 and 22 and had a 4 percent margin of error.

West said Providence is in the process of a momentous change.

“This year is a landmark for the city,” he said, not just because of the unprecedented conviction of former Mayor Vincent Cianci, but because of a “major transformation in the underlying demographics of the city.”

For the first time ever, Providence’s minority population count has swelled to surpass the population of whites, West said.

“This eventually is going to lead to more inclusion of minorities in Providence politics,” he added. see SURVEY, page 9

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UCS welcomes new first-year reps

BY JONATHAN ELLIS

The Undergraduate Council of Students welcomed new freshman representatives and several prospective associate members into its fold Monday night.

UCS President Allen Feliz ’03 detailed his recent meeting with Provost Robert Zimmer. Along with Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee Chair Kevin Bennett ’03 and Admission and Student Services Committee Chair Rahim Kurji ’05, Feliz said he “opened up an important line of communication with the provost” regarding issues such as faculty governance and hiring.

At a meeting last week, Vice President for Student Life Janina Montero asked Feliz for a list of the council’s short-term priorities for campus life and student services.

Feliz requested that UCS committees compile lists of initiatives in three weeks.

Feliz encouraged council members to promote the University’s campus safety forums, which are scheduled for today at noon and 7 p.m. in Carmichael Auditorium.

Meanwhile, UCS prepared for its own town meeting, which is planned for Thursday at 8 p.m. in Upper Salomon.

At that event students can meet the council, hear its committees’ agendas and ask questions. Feliz called for “aggressive” publicity for the meet-

ing.

UCS Vice President Deepa Kumaraiah ’03 reported that Kurji had been appointed to the University’s Diversity Committee. Kumaraiah said she also began working on an amendment to create a council webmaster position.

Bennett summarized the Academic and Administrative Affairs committee’s goals for the upcoming year. The committee will try to improve sophomore advising and address campus safety in a meeting with Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter today.

Plans are also in the works for a raffle in which the winner would get to shadow President Ruth Simmons for a day, Bennett said.

The Campus Life Committee is finalizing plans for the Fall Ball with the Key Society but is having difficulty setting a date, said Justin Sanders ’04, committee chair.

In other news, UCS awarded Category I status to Dead White Men, a theatrical group; the Cooking and Baking Club; and the Brown University Linux Users Group.

Feliz said that Langston Dugger ’04, Undergraduate Finance Board chair, would explain the UFB’s workings to the council next week.

Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers the Undergraduate Council of Students.

He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

Without life science building, U. struggles to recruit new faculty

BY LISA MANDLE

The absence of a life sciences building is hampering the ability of several University departments to recruit new faculty members, said Donald Marsh, former dean of medicine and biological sciences.

The proposed life sciences building would house the department of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, the department of neuroscience, the department of cognitive and linguistic sciences and the brain sciences program.

Construction on the building — originally slated to begin last November — was held up by conflicts with the neighborhood.

Administrators are now telling the departments not to expect to occupy the building before the spring of 2005, said Mike McKeown, professor of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry and a department representative to the building committee. Construction is expected to take two years once it gets underway, McKeown said.

Walter Hunter, vice president for administration, did not return calls for comment regarding the status of the building.

The molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry and neuroscience departments hope to expand their departments by up to 25 faculty members each, McKeown said.

But all available lab space has already been assigned to faculty, even though some faculty nearing retirement have already given up their lab space, Marsh said. He called the situation a “critical problem.”

With an increasing number of students

pursuing life science degrees, the departments need more faculty than they currently have space to house, said Tricia Serio, assistant professor of molecular biology and cell biology and biochemistry.

Serio, a newly recruited faculty member, chose Brown over other institutions largely because of the University’s atmosphere and support of junior faculty members, she said.

Though space in the life sciences building was mentioned to her while she was being recruited, it was clear that the timeline for construction was not set in stone, Serio said.

“I didn’t come here because of a building,” Serio said. “That said, it would be great to have lab space.”

The condition of current laboratory facilities poses another setback to recruiting new faculty, McKeown said.

Because Brown is competing against other prestigious and well-funded institutions, the University’s ability to continue to recruit depends not only on its atmosphere, but also on convincing potential faculty members that they can have a working lab set up to their satisfaction, McKeown said.

“All is lost if we try to recruit people into a building that is approaching being nonfunctional,” McKeown said.

The occupants of the Metcalf Research Lab and J.W. Wilson Lab are now pushing the limits of the buildings’ power, air conditioning and space capacities, McKeown said.

With several departments housed in the same building, the potential for collaboration among departments would also be exciting, she said.

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UDC continued from page 1 published a separate handbook delineating non-academic disciplinary procedures this fall, and also held meetings with the firstyear class to discuss the disciplinary process and to clarify students’ rights, Montero said.

Montero highlighted the importance of working with incoming first-years to help them understand the disciplinary system.

“Peer counselors can help do that, and we will continue to educate each incoming class,” she said. “Hopefully, soon the entire student body will be aware of the disciplinary process.”

OSL has also listed all information regarding disciplinary procedures online and increased communication with the Graduate School regarding graduate students’ role in the process, Montero said. The University has given UDC members increased training, said Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski.

OSL formed three study

groups to further discuss the suggested reforms and to ensure the recommendations made last year come to fruition.

Each group consists of undergraduate students, faculty, deans, medical students, graduate students and a representative from OSL, Viswanathan said.

This mixed representation will “ensure that we’re looking at all students fairly,” Viswanathan said. It is “not (meant) to impose a template.”

The first group will rewrite the Tenets of Community Behavior, hopefully to be retitled the Tenets of Community Life. This document delineates what type of community Brown students want to live in and the rules by which they abide, Viswanathan said.

The second group will tackle policies and procedures — the restructuring of the UDC and review of the dean’s hearing process — Jablonski said.

Reforms still being debated are whether or not to require higher standards of evidence in UDC cases, the question of unanimity in voting procedures and whether or not to have open hearings.

The last study group will deal solely with the creation of student judicial boards. If created, they would be used only for first-time, non-suspendable, non-academic offenses. The student judicial boards would also have representatives from the Residential Council and the Undergraduate Council of Students.

Student representation could consist of a “pool of students from all residential areas on campus,” Jablonski said. The board would ideally have 15 to 20 members, with three to five students hearing individual cases, she said.

Viswanathan said she thinks student judicial boards would be advantageous to the disciplinary process.

“Most successful programs emerge when students are involved,” she said. The student judicial boards are key in the construction of “a system that we, ourselves, are willing to be subject to.”

Students requesting that they be a part of the disciplinary process were what pushed the idea forward, Jablonski said.

Student judicial boards have worked well on other campuses

also, she added.

There is definite student support for the student judicial boards, although there is concern over how they would be created and implemented, said Megan Zwiebel ’03, a member of the Committee to Reform Non-Academic Discipline. “It would be a good way to get students involved in the disciplinary process” and a “strong way to get things done,” Zwiebel said.

Other reforms will include a periodic review of the UDC, which the report called for every three to four years.

The University is also examining mediation in the disciplinary process. Viswanathan said she sees it as a “very helpful route” — one that validates the emotions of the involved parties — and is a way for the students to have a voice.

“When we speak of justice, we speak of being heard,” she said.

Mediation would not be an option for all cases, such as sexual misconduct cases, and the procedure would be confidential.

The parties involved would dictate the terms of the mediation.

Zwiebel also said it was

important to change the wording of certain clauses, including the “flagrant disrespect” clause, in the code of conduct.

According to the code, you could “get suspended just for words,” she said. It is important, especially on this campus, not to be punished for your words, Zwiebel said.

Some of the study groups’ findings cannot be finalized without Corporation approval.

It is important for the University to adopt these reforms quickly to make the disciplinary process as fair as possible, Zwiebel said. “More than anything, I just want change to happen quickly. The faster it’s done well, the better.”

Viswanathan is disappointed by the apparent lack of a “middle ground” in student opinion.

So far, reactions to the report have been few, and those that have surfaced were highly adversarial, she said.

OSL “has been valiant in their effort to implement these things in the right spirit,” Viswanathan said.

Viswanathan encouraged any students who wish to play a part in the process of reform to contact the OSL.

Stocks continued from page 1 During the height of the stock market boom, donors took advantage of the bull market to make large gifts in stock.

“Now that the stock market’s declined significantly, that’s not the case,” Vascellaro said. With the market falling, donors have less stock whose value has increased since purchase.

Vascellaro added that the amount of donations Brown receives has not been affected by the downturn — only the form. The Annual Fund received a record amount of over $17 million in the fiscal year 2002.

The market slide may have affected current giving patterns, but it did not change the value of previously donated stock. The University does not hold onto donated stock, but resells the shares immediately, Vascellaro said.

A list of donations reveals some that were fortuitously timed. Many donors gave shares of technology companies, which were among the most successful in fiscal year 2000 — and fared the worst when the market changed.

One donor gave Brown over 2,000 shares of Yahoo, then trading at $254.

With Yahoo now trading under $10, the shares, originally worth more than half a million dollars, would now be worth less than $40,000.

Another donor gave shares of Redback Networks, a broadband networking systems company. Worth over $562,000 when Brown received them in December 1999, the shares are now worth about $2,300.

And 5,800 shares of now-bankrupt GC Companies, which operates movie theaters in the United States, would currently be worth under $1,200 of the original $155,000.

Requests for comment from administrators were referred to Acting Vice President of Development Jane Bloomfield, who confirmed that gifts of stock have dropped but declined to comment further on the University’s financial practices.

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

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IN BRIEF Rumsfeld says ‘no-fly’ flights performing weapons inspections WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asserted for the first time Monday that U.S. and British warplanes enforcing “no-fly” zones over Iraq are performing “aerial” weapons inspections under a United Nations resolution, a statement that expands the stated mission of the air patrols.

The U.S. government has long justified the missions as necessary to protect Iraqi Shiites and Kurds from helicopter assaults and aerial bombardments by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s military.

But Rumsfeld, briefing reporters at the Pentagon, argued that the no-fly zones, which were established in northern and southern Iraq after the end of the Gulf War in 1991, have existed to both protect Iraqi citizens under U.N. Resolution 688 and to perform “aerial inspections” under U.N. Resolution 687.

Resolution 688 was passed in 1991 to protect Iraqi citizens from military attacks from their government.

Resolution 687, passed the same year, mandated Iraq’s disarmament and required that Baghdad allow U.N. weapons inspectors into the country to certify it was no longer producing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

But Rumsfeld said enforcement of the northern and southern no-fly zones have existed as “air components” of the U.N. inspections regime, which ended in 1998 when U.N. inspectors withdrew after repeated disputes with Hussein.

“Aerial inspections, however, continued,” Rumsfeld said.

“As coalition aircraft attempt to enforce the no-fly zones, they conduct aerial surveillance to help determine compliance with U.N. Resolutions 688 and 687, which bans nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.”

AIDS activists accuse government of lies WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Proponents of comprehen-

sive sex education accused the Bush administration Monday of waging a widespread campaign of disinformation and intimidation that is hampering AIDS prevention work across the country.

The activists said several government audits, aggressive promotion of abstinence-only programs and a retreat from earlier prevention efforts may put young people and minorities at increased risk of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.

“Whenever AIDS educators are repressed and harassed and kept from doing their jobs, the epidemic is the big winner,” said Joanne Csete, director of HIV/AIDS programs at Human Rights Watch. “Whenever moral judgmentalism and squeamishness are judged by politicians to be more important than preventing a life-threatening catastrophe, the epidemic is the winner.”

The accusations are part of an intensifying debate that is occurring as Congress considers President Bush’s request to increase abstinence-only funding to $135 million.

Administration officials, while arguing that abstinence is the only guaranteed protection, denied there is any effort to single out liberal organizations that promote “safe sex” through contraceptive use.

“We believe young people across the board should abstain until marriage,” said Claude Allen, deputy secretary of Health and Human Services. If that fails, “fidelity is the next-safest protection against contraction of disease,” followed by condom use.

In several instances, federal health officials said they are conducting investigations at the behest of lawmakers. The lawmakers have complained about federally funded groups that distribute explicit sexual materials, play down the importance of faith and heckled Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson at an international AIDS conference.

“We are obligated under law to follow through,” Allen

said.

Thompson has, however, expanded a review of the San Francisco-based Stop AIDS Project to “all department-funded HIV/AIDS activities.” He has authorized a new audit of HIV-related projects at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, just months after a $1 million review was completed.

Allen said the review ordered by Thompson focuses more on management performance than any single group receiving federal money. The administration’s primary goal, he said, is to find “the best science to resolve and address the issue of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.”

Critics disputed that, pointing to the lack of evidence in support of abstinence-until-marriage programs.

By teaching young people about abstinence and not condoms, federal health officials are “censoring and distorting potentially lifesaving information about how to prevent HIV/AIDS,” said Rebecca Schiefler, an HIV/AIDS researcher at Human Rights Watch.

Schiefler recently issued a case study of Texas abstinence programs. She concluded that abstinence-only programs replace “complete, accurate and uncensored health information” with advice that “flies in the face of medical recommendations.”

Gregg Consalves, a spokesman for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, said investing heavily in abstinence-only while capping sex education programs runs counter to the expert advice of the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine and the CDC. Both institutions have issued reports concluding a “broad range of options” must be used when tackling teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, he said.

“We don’t see how the CDC is going to meet its goal of reducing HIV infections by 50 percent by 2005,” he said.

Others noted the CDC has removed condom information sheets and “Programs That Work” sex education summaries from its Web site.

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Rally continued from page 3 dispute in Boston. It called the 36.5 percent wage and benefit increase that are now on the table “generous” and touted its 50 years of business without a strike.

Cicilline, who is heavily favored to become Providence’s next mayor, empathizes with the janitors’ plight because he once worked as a janitor at a Rhode Island beach. If elected, his administration will work to secure fair labor practices for all workers in the city, he added.

“We will insure that everyone is treated with dignity and respect and is properly compensated,” he said.

Other speakers expressed populist themes and called on building owners to ensure that their contractors were treating employees fairly.

Chris Eaton ’06 said he wanted to demonstrate to Fleet Bank, which owns some of the buildings that the janitors clean, that he and other students expect them to support fair labor practices.

In the most personal moment of the rally, janitor Soterito Gonzalez told the crowd he worked for UNICCO for nine years and currently earns $6.50 per hour. He told the crowd that his salary is not enough to support his two nephews, who he

Survey continued from page 3 But according to the survey, minorities have not yet reached this point in the public eye. The poll revealed that 42 percent of the urban population feel that blacks have too little political power, while 23 percent feel blacks hold the right amount and 6 percent believe their current sway too great. Twenty-six percent fell in the undecided column.

Similarly, 38 percent feel Latinos have too little political clout, contrasting with the 30 percent who feel their representation is adequate and the 9 percent who disapprove of their current level of pull in government.

Twenty-three percent abstained from answering this question.

Also, 18 percent observed only a modicum of discrimination against blacks and Latinos in Providence, while 37 percent admitted the existence of a noticeable amount of inequity and 27 percent reported the existence of a sizeable portion of discrimination.

Another question dealt with affirmative action.

A majority, just shy of 49 percent, voted for the use of affirmative action by Providence employers. While whites squeezed out a favoring vote of 46 to 44 percent, blacks and Latinos offered landslide support for affirmative action with tallies of 68 to 16 and 80 to 10 percent, respectively.

West’s prediction about the inclusion of minorities in politics was echoed by the survey’s responses.

Forty-two percent surveyed reported that they felt that opportunities for minorities were improving, with only 25 percent predicting lateral movement and

adopted after his two daughters died.

Protestors picketed for about half an hour, chanting “No contract, no peace” and, alternately, “No contracto, no paz.”

The rally was organized in part

by Rhode Island Jobs with Justice, which is supporting the “Justice for Janitors” campaign that seeks better wages, benefits and working conditions for nearly 11,000 janitors in Providence and Boston.

The rally attracted support from other union representatives, including the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of State, the County and Municipal Employees and the Teamsters.

Brian Rainey ’04 took the microphone as the rally was winding down to announce to the crowd that the University rents a floor in One Financial Plaza.

“We ought to tell Ruth Simmons that we are disgusted,” he told the crowd.

Peter Asen ’04, treasurer of the SLA at Brown, said he hoped to bring students to picket UNICCO should the janitors go on strike.

The SLA may also try to persuade Brown to issue a statement in support of the workers.

Ramon Germosen, who has worked as a UNICCO janitor for 14 months, is optimistic that if there is a strike, it will be short.

“UNICCO will come to the table and give some decent wage increases and respect on the job,” he said.

13 percent expecting a descent.

Twenty percent remained undecided.

The survey also pointed to healthy minority relations among Providence residents. Sixty-three percent of respondents claimed that blacks and Latinos in local communities are easy to get along with.

West said one of the most interesting portions of the survey was the apparent willingness of minorities to band together to support candidates, achieve public policy objectives and secure government jobs. Over 85 percent of participants favored either a good deal or a sizeable amount of minority unity in all three categories.

“Our studies show that a great possibility for a rainbow coalition (exists),” West said. “(It) could make a great difference in Providence.”

Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Marion Orr, who conducted the survey with West, expanded on that point.

“Providence leaders will have to think about ways to integrate Latinos into politics,” which could potentially spell problems for blacks due to the limited number of positions available, he said.

Orr added that the future of minorities in Providence depends on “whether they’ll compete for scarce (positions), or combine themselves into a coalition to address community needs and concerns.”

The survey also reported majority support for bilingual education.

The latest installment in an annual series of surveys, the poll was designed to measure mayoral support and the state of Providence minorities in conjunction with the Taubman center’s recent conference, “The Future of Providence,” West said.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Making UDC right The non-academic disciplinary process, long the most damning blemish upon the face of this University, is suddenly ripe for reform. Last February, a committee headed by Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies Meera Viswanathan recommended sweeping changes to standardize and instill justice in our disciplinary processes. Now, almost eight months later, we are still awaiting concrete action on the most important of these reforms. Before the opportunity is lost, students, faculty and administrators must take keen interest in seeing this blight removed from Brown.

We call on the University and all students to demand a disciplinary system that respects the basic rights of the accused. We must raise the standard of evidence to “clear and convincing” in UDC proceedings, so that students will be assured that a strong burden of proof is met in all cases.

The Tenets of Community Behavior and the Standards of Student Conduct must also be rewritten to eliminate the vague, politically-motivated language that has only confused students and led to egregious injustice too often in the past.

The “flagrant disrespect” clause, which leaves room for erratic interpretation and allows for a student to be punished for any speech that might be deemed offensive, must be stricken from the code, or, as the committee recommended, completely reworded to ensure that its meaning is clear and just. In these areas, the committee’s recommendations were right on the mark — and the University must not waste time in implementing them.

Other focal areas are also ripe for reform: the incorporation of mediation into the disciplinary system and the construction of student judicial boards are sound ideas. The commonality between these notions is one of openness and elucidation, an attempt to demystify UDC for the students it serves.

We highly condone such change.

The necessary proposals are on the table to at long last remedy what ails our disciplinary processes. We urge everyone in this community to act in favor of expediency. Looking ahead to February, when final proposals go before the Corporation for approval, we expect nothing less that the topto-bottom revamping of our non-academic disciplinary procedures. Anything less would be unjust.

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Der Derian wrong in believing that terror can be rationalized without controversy To the Editor: James Der Derian’s letter “Watson Institute provides diverse views on international affairs,” (9/30) demonstrates astonishingly skewed judgement. He thought that the lecture “‘America’s War on Terrorism: A Military Perspective’ by Admiral Rempt, President of the Naval War College, would prove the most contentious” in the 911+1 series.

Rempt argued in part that recent terrorist attacks against the Unites States require an aggressive response; our war on terrorism is one of “freedom against tyranny” (“Admiral defines ‘a new kind of war,’” 9/17); global cooperate is required to fight terrorism; just and moral nations do not support or harbor terrorists and new strategies and tactics are required to fight

terrorism, including preemption.

Why did Der Derian think this would be more contentious than a professor providing moral justification for the murder of civilians? With the exception of the point on preemption, much of what Rempt said is so widely agreed upon as to be banal. The only explanation I can fathom is that Der Derian assumes that a senior American military officer, sworn to defend Constitutional values, is just on the border of responsible discourse, while an obviously anti-American and anti-Western professor is entirely uncontroversial.

My concern is not the views that Der Derian holds or oven that he invites morally distasteful individuals to campus — all this is part of the hurly-burly of academic life. Der Derian holds such a narrow and deranged view of responsible discourse (supporters of terrorism are uncontroversial, but American Navy officers are worrisome) that he upbraids those with a better hold on reality for their temerity in criticizing his speaker.

James M. Kaplan ‘92 Sept. 30

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2002 · PAGE 11

Forum on TWTP displayed the best side of Brown Unlike letters of response, campus-wide discussion of meaning of TWTP civil, respectful IN A RECENT LETTER TO THE EDITOR dents have a history of organizing at my faculty colleague and friend, Brown on behalf of their community Professor of Music David Josephson, needs. If that is not all of the reason why expressed surprise at a number of state- African American students came to be ments attributed to me from the recent invited to the original TWTP, it certainly campus forum on the Third World was the way that Latinos, Asian Americans and Native Transition Program. (“TWTP Americans became a part of mired in ideology, sentithe program over time. The ment,” 9/30) Let me clarify ARMANDO I. BENGOCHEA latter groups, usually in my comments.

GUEST COLUMN coalition with African The first point Josephson American students, organmakes is that while TWTP is ized and challenged the intended for groups that, as I said, have been “dramatically underrep- University throughout the 1970s and resented for the vast majority of Brown’s 1980s to gain support for their commuhistory,” Jewish students “qualified nities and argued their way into TWTP. Jewish American students have the under that rubric far longer than Asian Americans or Arab Americans.” The same rights to organize at Brown, and if implication is that the University uses they feel that entry into TWTP or anothrather arbitrary criteria for invitation to er such program is in their interests, they could enter into discussions with students for this program.

Although I make no claim to be a histo- the appropriate administrators at rian of the Brown community, I think the Brown.

Josephson’s second point entirely answer to Josephson’s point regarding the groups that have been invited to TWTP misses the mark. At the forum I said that over its 30 years of existence has to do with the term “Third World” had been approhow those groups came to the attention of priated by students of color at Brown as the University. They did so in such a way as a way of demonstrating solidarity with to cause Brown to offer a University-spon- liberation and anti-colonial movements in areas of the world from which they or sored program of support.

The fact is that African American stu- their families had come. Again, this is not official history but well-worn lore at Brown.

Armando I. Bengochea is Dean of Josephson responds to my point by Freshman Studies and Associate Dean of saying that these movements were in the College.

The term “Third World” had been appropriated by students of color at Brown as a way of demonstrating solidarity with liberation and anti-colonial movements in areas of the world from which they or their families had come. turn supported by third-party nations and mentions China, Cuba and others.

He then impugns the lack of knowledge of foreign policy exhibited by “students today.”

None of these latter questions, which are much more complicated historical matters than Josephson purports, were at issue in the forum, only the question of why students of color originally adopted a term that is still with us today.

Finally, I am glad that Josephson was surprised to learn I would say “TWTP is based on all forms of repression” because I never said it! I said the exact opposite.

In response to an audience question regarding, again, which groups are invited to TWTP, I said that the program “was not based on all forms of oppression.” I mean that TWTP is chiefly concerned with questions of discrimination based on ethnicity and race, and not based,

say, on the knowledge of their sexual orientation.

It should be noted that the tone of Josephson’s letter is in marked contrast to the tone Brown students generally exhibited at the forum. I could not have been more proud to be a member of this University community than I was on that evening.

Students addressed one another on difficult issues with great respect and civility. They were also articulate without resorting to hyperbole of the sort Josephson uses when he accuses me and others of “sinking into a cliché-ridden stew of ideology” or when he alleges that “the fantasies of the left at Brown never fail to amaze me.”

I hope in future discussions on the important themes of TWTP that we will seek to nurture the civil tone established at the forum. We are all, after all, friends and colleagues.

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SPORTS TUESDAY OCTOBER 1, 2002 · PAGE 12

Chargers’ victory headlines wild, wacky weekend DID I MISS SOMETHING OR DID THE NFL seem to do a complete 180 this weekend? Just when you think you have the NFL pegged, a weekend like this comes around. That’s the great thing about NFL football — you never know what is going to happen.

Coming into this week of play, it seemed like the powerhouse teams in the NFL were the Dolphins, the Patriots, the Raiders and the Saints. All of JEFF those teams, SALTMAN THE SALT’S TAKE except for the Raiders, lost and in some cases lost badly. In fact, it seemed like the Raiders were going to have the toughest matchup of this group, going against Josh Troy’s AFC favorite Tennessee Titans. The Raiders managed to squeak by with a 52-25 win in a defensive struggle.

The Saints, on the other hand, had the easiest game by far. They were playing against Brown’s JV squad, or rather the Detroit Lions (I get the two confused).

With Joey Harrington at the helm, the Lions beat the “Ain’ts” 26-21. Oddsmakers in Vegas had put the over/under bet on Lions’ wins this season at a hefty 1, so you can see how big an upset this was.

So while I watched the Lions/Saints score come across the screen, I thought something must be very wrong in the world; maybe President Bush pardoned someone on death row. Then the Dolphins’ game came on TV, so I watched as Trent Green looked like Dan Marino, throwing five touchdown passes to double his career total and doing this against the Dolphin defense, which is supposedly one of the best in the league.

The Dolphins relied on their defense for the past five years, and now that their offense is starting to come around, their defense gives up 48 points. What is happening to the world?

So after the one o’clock games ended, I thought that the upsets were done for the day. The Patriots game was on and they scored nice and early. Going against a San Diego team that really isn’t very talented, you’d think the defending World Champs would walk all over them.

So this weekend’s football proved to be one of the strangest in recent memory. The Lions won and the Patriots lost.

This weekend was like the “bizarro NFL.” Maybe baseball’s playoffs will be the same way, with Barry Bonds actually hitting in the postseason. It would make for an interesting couple of weeks if that happens.

Regardless, there will probably be a return to normality next week in the NFL and we can sit back and enjoy watching the Lions lose 12 straight games so the people in Las Vegas won’t be too angry.

Jeff Saltman ’03 is a history and economics concentrator and hails from outside Washington, D.C. He can be reached at jsaltman@browndailyherald.com.

W. soccer loses 1-0 in battle with Harvard

BY ELIZABETH GAMER

The Brown women’s soccer team (3-3-2, 01-1 Ivy League), fell to Harvard University Saturday night in a 1-0 emotionally charged match on Stevenson Field.

Brown fans, several with anti-Harvard paraphernalia, came screaming and cheering for Bruno after seeing the football, men’s soccer and women’s field hockey teams all lose to Harvard earlier in the day. Revved up, Brown almost held the Crimson scoreless until in the 71st minute of play, when Harvard scored a goal off a corner and finished the match victorious.

Coach Phil Pincince defined the game as a huge success for the Bears, who lost to Harvard 4-0 in last year’s contest.

“I’m very proud of my team and think the game demonstrated a huge turnaround for my team since last year,” Pincince said. “The match was definitely our strongest performance of the season. Even though Harvard outshot us, the quality of play and the effort put out by our entire squad was certainly there.”

The first half of play was evenly matched with both teams vying for control of the play. Harvard players had good individual ball possession skills and tight ball control, while Brown demonstrated team composure and good ball movement.

At the 37-minute mark, a Brown corner was almost converted into a goal when Michaela Sewall ’04 headed a beautiful cross ball off of Kim LaVere ’06 which just skimmed the side of the net. Brown fans got wild with excitement and then angst after realizing the shot had just missed. Both teams went into the second half scoreless.

After half time, control of play was equal between the two teams, although Harvard recorded more shots and corners than Brown. Caitlin Carey ’03, the team’s leading scorer, accounted for both shots taken on Harvard’s net.

“We had all of the opportunities there, we just couldn’t connect,” said midfielder Sewall.

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Kristin Ferrell ’03,above,will lead the Bears in their next match at Dartmouth on Wednesday.

Defensively, Brown goalie Sarah Gervais ’04 put in a strong performance with nine saves throughout the entire 90 minutes of play.

“We kept marking well. Everyone knew they had a defensive job and stuck with it,” Sewall said. “We were not afraid to get and give hits.”

Harvard scored its first and only goal of the match with only 20 minutes left of play. The Bears tried to answer back when Brown was awarded a corner kick with six minutes remaining in the match. After the initial cross, Brown’s offensive players fired rebounds at the Harvard goalie for about ten seconds. The Crimson goalie fell to the ground and almost let the ball cross the line for a goal. To the crowd’s dismay, the ball was cleared out and Harvard pulled off

the win.

“Our entire backfield did a nice job of keeping out the Harvard offense. Even at the midfield, we were able to stop some of Harvard’s strongest players from being a threat,” Pincince said. “Unfortunately, someone had to capitalize on those opportunities. Harvard did and we didn’t. We will move on from here.”

Hoping to improve their record, the Bears take on Dartmouth University (3-31) in another Ivy League match-up this Wednesday night at 7:00 at Singer Park in Manchester, N.H. Dartmouth, who defeated Brown (3-2) in last year’s game, has beaten Brown several years in a row.

Dartmouth is coming off a win to Colorado College played this past weekend, yet lost its only Ivy League game to Princeton 4-1.

On road trip, volleyball drops three tough matches

BY KATHY BABCOCK

The Brown volleyball team was slightly outmatched this weekend when it traveled to the University of New Hampshire tournament. The Bears were 0-2 in the tournament facing New Hampshire and St. Peters College. They also played Rutgers University at Northeastern on Saturday, losing the match in four games.

“All three teams, we could have beat them if we had played at a higher level more consistently through the matches,” said Ceneca Calvert ’03. “We definitely had moments of high intensity, but we really didn’t hold on to that from beginning to end. That is something that we will be focusing on in practice — starting off with high intensity and ending that way.”

In the first match against UNH, Brown fell in four games, losing the first two 22-30 and 21-30. However they rallied to narrowly win the third game 30-28. Brown put up a fight in the last game of the match, but eventually lost 31-33.

Calvert led the team on the court, recording her second double-double of the season with 13 kills and 20 digs.

Karalyn Kuckenbecker ’06 also had a double-double with 16 kills and 14 digs. While Calvert has been a strong player in past years, she is pivotal this year.

“I think a personal goal for myself this year was to have a greater impact on the team and to make this my best year that I played at Brown. I wanted to finish on a high note,” Calvert said. “I hope that is something at the end of the season I can

say that I achieved.”

Brown faced St. Peters on Saturday morning, winning the first game 30-27. St. Peters rebounded to win the next one 2030. While the Bears triumphed in the third game 30-26, they were then defeated in the next two, 26-30 and 10-15.

Against St. Peters, the Bears received a strong performance out of their whole team. Calvert had another double-double with 12 kills and 15 digs.

Kuckenbecker had another strong game as well with 22 kills and 8 digs. Jessica Cooper ’03, a member of last year’s all-Ivy second team, had 11 kills. Kim Highlund ’04 had 14 digs.

The freshmen also proved their worth in this game, with Lauren Gibbs ’06 getting 14 kills and Leigh Martin ’06 tallying 63 assists and 16 digs.

In their final match of the weekend, the Bears took aim at a tough Rutgers team that put up a 17-6 record last season, lost in the semifinals of the Big East tournament and was ranked seventh in the Northeast region by a NCAA coaches’ poll.

Brown started off well with a 30-27 victory in game one, but the girls from New Jersey managed to win the next three games 21-30, 23-30, and 28-30. Calvert led the team again with her third doubledouble of the weekend — 10 kills and 18 digs.

“I definitely felt frustrated in the first match against New Hampshire,” Calvert said. “So I just made a personal goal for the rest of the weekend just to work harder

and be more supportive of my team and accept their support.”

Against Rutgers the upperclassmen took the lead for Brown as the younger players slipped into the background. The experienced Cooper had another 11 kills.

Alexis Malepeai ’03 stepped up her play and came away with 12 kills. Highlund combined with Angela Dunn ’03 for 33 digs. On the other side of the net Rutgers’ junior Shayla Bush led her team with 20 kills and 22 digs.

This coming weekend Brown hosts a volleyball tournament where they will face Yale on Friday.

“It’s our first Ivy League match and as far as we’re all concerned this is the beginning of our Ivy League season,” Calvert said. “Today in practice we’re going to be more excited and I think we’re all willing to step it up and work a lot harder.”

Brown’s record is 2-7 going into its tournament this weekend. The Bears will compete against Towson University, Iona University and Yale University as they attempt to improve their record.

“We have very rarely in this preseason played to our team’s potential,” Calvert said. “We see moments of it which make us all really excited — how good we can be, but we have to stop talking and actually have to become the team which we all know we can be.”

Sports staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers the volleyball team and can be reached at Kbabcock@browndailyherald.com.