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Med School hospitals stand to lose $2M thanks to federal Medicare cuts BY SARA PERKINS

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Ed Goll was serving drinks Tuesday afternoon at the Graduate Center Bar, where the establishment’s non-profit charter allows it to serve most drinks at a cost much lower than the average pub.

At GCB, drinking is for a good cause BY JESSICA WEISBERG

Extensive community service responsibilities can hinder a student’s social life, but it’s possible to kill two birds with one stone with a visit to the Graduate Center Bar. Chartered in 1969 as a non-profit organization, the bar recycles monthly profits to finance maintenance of the facility and then donates all extra funds to charity. “On an exceptional month, we’ve donated as much as $5,000 to $8,000 to various causes,” said Manager Susan Yund. “At the GCB, one can drink and know your money’s not going into some greedy guy’s pocket,” said Joshua Sachar GS, a fifth year graduate student in engineering. The bar, located in the basement of the Graduate Center in a windowless bundle of rooms, is operated as a completely separate entity from the University. “Our only association is to serve the community,” Yund said. The bar has a board of directors who meet monthly to discuss membership policies and budgetary concerns. “Being on the board gives the customer input into the running of the establishment,” said Sachar, also treasurer of the board. Every year half the board’s seats are open for re-election. While members of the board are not presently frequent customers, Yund said, “most of the board members were customers at one point.” Board members are elected every April in adherence with established quotas: six graduate students, two staff members and two other members, Yund said. Exempt from tax requirements, the bar charges significantly less than a profit-oriented bar, Yund said. “Even dinky little holes charge more than we do,” Yund said. “Our draft and liquor is significantly cheaper, and our bottled beer is cheaper but not by leaps and bounds.” The price for a pint of draft beer ranges from $1.50 to $3.25. “We keep services really low,” added bartender Serena

Andrews, who works in the Dean of the Faculty’s office. Although organized and managed independently of the University, its location on Brown’s campus places certain restraints on the bar’s operations, Yund said. “They (University administrators) don’t want us to run like Wickenden Pub” she said. Instead, the bar is a private club. A yearly membership fee of $20 — not to be confused with a cover charge — entitles customers to an unlimited number of visits, during which they can invite three guests. A one-night membership fee costs $5. The yearly membership fee is included in the student activity fee of graduate students’ tuition, and the bar covers the yearly membership fee of its board members. Yund described the atmosphere as that of a “neighborhood bar.” The bar rarely hosts live music. “Usually the music is the bartender’s choice,” Sachar said, “which tends to be good.” Although established primarily for the faculty’s recreation, today the bar attracts mostly graduate students. “Second semester we begin to see more undergraduates,” Yund said. On Thursdays and Fridays after 11 p.m., the bar tends to get crowded. “The GCB is one of the strictest bars about carding in the area,” Sachar said. “People like to go there because they know they won’t be drinking with people under 21.” Such popularity allows the bar to donate its profits to different charities, which have varied over the years from AIDS research to Habitat for Humanity, Yund said. “We regularly support Fox Point East Side Little League,” she said. “We’ve sent underprivileged kids to summer camp, and we recently sponsored Hope High School students’ entrance in a playwright competition in an Edinburgh Drama Festival.” As manager, Yund selects the charities to support. “If (board members) disagree, then the choice would be carefully discussed,” he said. The Grad Center Bar is open daily and during the summer.

Brown Medical School’s eight affiliated teaching hospitals could each lose as much as $2 million annually because of federally proposed Medicare cuts, which if implemented would deprive U.S. teaching hospitals of $800 million, or 15 percent of their indirect expense funding. The cuts were supposed to take effect last week, but Congress may delay implementing them and the president will have the final say. “There was some encouraging news out of Washington,” said Brown Medical School Interim Dean Richard Besdine. “We’ll know on Monday” if President George Bush agreed to “put a stay on implementing the cuts,” he said. The Brown Medical School has agreements with eight teaching hospitals for a variety of programs. The medical school sends third- and fourth-year students to local teaching hospitals to do clinical clerkships in their intended specialties, and graduates participate in a large program of 900 residents, interns and fellows. Medicare supports residency programs through two types of funding — direct and indirect expense funding. Direct expense covers the salaries and benefits of residents and interns, around $50,000 per resident per year, Besdine said. Direct expense funding will not be cut. Indirect expense funding pays for the meat of a residency program, including the cost of employing faculty to oversee and teach the residents, classroom space, audiovisual and educational materials and especially the cost of extra medical tests that residents order, Besdine said. “Indirect expenses were calculated last back in 1983,” Besdine said. “The smarter the hospital was” in justifying expenses as part of the teaching program, “the higher the payment was.” Some hospitals are awarded as much as $200,000 per resident, he said. “These payments help hospitals operate see MEDICARE, page 4

Semester’s first ACUP meeting held behind closed doors BY EMIR SENTURK

The Advisory Committee on University Planning drastically changed the way it operates, holding its first meeting of the semester behind closed doors. Student and faculty representatives gathered Monday evening for the first in a series of weekly sessions that will no longer be open to the public as they have been in past years. The University’s new Provost and ACUP Chairperson Robert Zimmer mandated the change in the committee’s modus operandi. “The meetings need to be closed in order to lead to open conversation and decision making,” Zimmer told The Herald in September. “What we really want is to get the openness from the closing of it.” “The idea is that in order to allow for really frank and critical discussions about matters or decisions this University needs to make, it would be helpful to have the meetings closed,” said Assistant Provost Brian Casey. This change to the committee’s protocol parallels that of Princeton University’s Priorities Committee, a group charged with roughly the same budgetary planning tasks as ACUP. “PriCom” meetings, as they are known at Princeton, are not open to the public, according to the Daily Princetonian. see ACUP, page 4

I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 9 , 2 0 0 2 New health education Web site puts sensitive health help online for students page 3

R.B. Litchfield maintains Renaissance Web site, one of many at University page 3

In first-year units, WPCs come up short on numbers but not on effectiveness page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Nick Noon ’05 says affirmative action should not be labeled reverse discrimination column,page 15

Men’s tennis surges but ultimately can’t pull out the win in ECAC matches sports,page 16

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Modernist mags now online, thanks to MCM effort BY MONIQUE MENESES

Scholars of modernism can now access archived volumes of two out-of-print scholarly journals, thanks to a new comprehensive Web site that is the brainchild of Research Professor Robert Scholes. The modernist movement in literature and art, which flourished in the first half of the 20th century, radically redefined accepted norms in the arts. Scholes, professor emeritus of modern culture and media, envisioned the Modernist Journals Project in 1995, but it was not until the late 1990s that the project got under way. “One of my main fields of study has been modern literature and modernism in general, and I came to realize some years ago that certain magazines were tremendously important in the development of modernism as a literary and artistic movement,” Scholes said. The primary goal of the project is to make accessible a digitized archive for anyone with interest in modernism. “It occurred to me that it would be a real service to scholars of modernism if (these periodicals) were made available,” Scholes said. The Web site is currently in the process of putting two archives online — The New Age and Cine-Tracts. The New Age, a weekly newspaper published from 1907 to 1922, comprises 780 issues and can be found in its entirety in only three libraries, said Daphnee Rentfrow, project manager for MJP. As project manager of MJP, Rentfrow maintains and updates the Web site. This entails scanning The New Age volumes, correcting pages that are torn and unclear and turning them into PDFs. “We make those PDFs completely searchable,” Rentfrow said. By turning these volumes into PDFs, the project allows for keyword-searchable texts of modernist journals and offers essays on general topics related to modernism and discussions of particular publications and their historical and cultural backgrounds. The PDF format also retains the experience of the original text. “If you really want to get a flavor of it, you need to see the original pages,” Scholes said. The complete run of Cine-Tracts, a quarterly journal of film and cultural studies published from 1977 to 1982, is also archived on the Web site. The University issued a start up grant for the project, which is maintained by various small grants from the Malcom Funds Center and the Salomon Center. Scholes and Rentfrow both said they hope the application for a National Endowment for Humanities Grant will be accepted this April. “We’ve been trying for several years for a big grant from the NEH. We’ve come close, and we’re trying again for next year,” Scholes said. Response from users of the site has been largely positive. “I’ve received e-mails since I’ve been involved in this project, perhaps five or six e-mails from people around the world that work on modernism that say, ‘Wow! This is great!’” Rentfrow said. Future projects include linking this project to the James Joyce Quarterly, a similar project at the University of Tulsa. Rentfrow said MJP is negotiating to house the Joyce archives on the MJP site in return for help in scanning journals. Brown students interested in digital projects like MJP may have something to look forward to. Rentfrow said it is possible she will teach a course next semester on computing in the humanities called “Reading 1914 in the Digital Age.” The proposal has yet to be accepted by the University. The goals that fueled the development of the project are in the process of being realized. “The main goal is to make accessible — in terms of ease and in terms of finances — journals, magazines and newspapers that were important in shaping what we’ve come to call modernism,” Rentfrow said. Scholes said he likes the project’s progress and the audience it has come to cater to, from amateurs to scholars of modernism. “I hope they’ll find something interesting and they’ll come back for more,” Scholes said. The project can be accessed at www.modjourn.brown.edu.

Health Ed launches online help site By navigating to the new Web site, sudents can now get answers on a range of sensitive health topics, including alcohol, drugs, safe sex and eating disorders BY STEPHANIE HARRIS

After nearly two years of planning, Brown’s Health Education launched a new Web site this summer that provides students with sensitive health information in an anonymous manner. Developed by Director of Health Education Frances Mantak and a team of students, the Web site offers information on topics such as alcohol, drugs, safe sex and eating disorders. The new site received 6,895 hits this August, up 1,400 percent from the 484 hits received by the old site in August 2001. “It’s a completely anonymous way for people to get help on sensitive issues,” Mantak said. “We were interested in coming up with some way of presenting students with information more clearly,” said Heather Clark ’03, who along with Allison Paradise ’03 helped design the site. “We wanted something people go to for information — especially people who aren’t freshmen and don’t have Woman Peer Counselors living down the hall from them.” Health Education surveyed students last year through random phone calls and personal interviews. One question asked students how they preferred to get health information. “The overwhelming response was the Internet,” Mantak said. “It didn’t surprise us, but it told us we had to make it a priority,” she said. A large portion of the development time was spent on content and tone, Clark said. “We took into account how (the

information) was presented, what was more sensitive to students’ needs, especially talking about topic such as sexual health and pregnancy and drugs and alcohol,” she said. Eighty-five topic pages, written by the staff of Health Education and Health Services, provide expert information about topics in which students indicated they were most interested. “We wanted the tone to be consistent throughout,” Mantak said. “We also wanted it to be non-judgmental.” Mantak said they tried to strike a balance in giving expert advice in a way that would not be too technical. “We were looking for the special voice we can voice all the information in so it’s not too dry and not preachery,” Clark said. “It’s more of an open, kind, friendly voice students could feel free to ask questions to.” Making the Web site easy to navigate was one of the goals of the design team. “We spent a lot of time thinking about design and what we wanted it to convey,” Mantak said. “Technology has changed” since the first Web site was designed, Mantak said. “This has a better graphical look.” A graphic designer from Rhode Island School of Design helped with this aspect, Mantak said. One of the most helpful parts of the site is information about “how to help a friend” in every section, Mantak said. The site has “Brown-specific information,” Mantak said. Although there are links to outside resources, most links take students to other pages in the site rather than outside pages. Feedback has been largely positive, Mantak and Clark said. Health Education’s new Web site is www.brown.edu/healthed. Herald staff writer Stephanie Harris ’04 edits the academic watch section. She can be reached at sharris@browndailyherald.com.

At U., Renaissance Web sites flourish BY ALLISON JOY ROSENDAHL

Brown currently has the largest concentration of academic Florentine Renaissance Web sites in the world, and the University’s Renaissance enthusiasts are not resting on their laurels. A new online project provides historians with information about the political and social elite of Renaissance Florence. The Online Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532 is available at www.stg.brown.edu/projects/tratte/. “Tratte” means drawing by lot, which is how office holders in Florence were chosen during this period. The Tratte database includes 165,000 records — the most detailed antique records that exist for an electoral system, said Professor of history R.B. Litchfield, who created the database. The original handwritten records from Renaissance Florence were nearly illegible and “impossible to use,” he said. The Web site “takes archival documents and makes it possible to do research.” The late David Herlihy, who taught at Harvard and Brown universities, initially developed the database, which was later completed under the direction of Litchfield and Professor Emeritus Anthony Molho. The site is maintained by the Scholarly Technology Group, an organization at Brown that assists in running University Web sites. Herlihy compiled the data for years, preparing a book on the Florentine political system that he never completed, Litchfield said. After Herlihy’s death in 1991, Litchfield and Molho began computerizing the data, which were in an archaic computer format and had never been checked or edited, Litchfield said. Part of this data was used in 1995 to create the “Online Catasto of 1427,” the tax records for Florence in 1427. The rest formed the bulk of the material for the new “Online Tratte,” Litchfield said. While the Decameron Web site and Pico Project are run by professors in Italian studies and are of a more literary nature, the Catasto and the new Tratte site are historical resources, Litchfield said. The Tratte site makes available the electoral records for the Tre Maggiori (highest offices 1282-1532) and for guild elections and birth dates, which can help historians construct thumbnail sketches about elite individuals and families during the Florentine Republic, Litchfield said. The information is useful because Florentine officials kept detailed records that included information about not only officeholders but those rejected from political office,

Professor of History R.B. Litchfield’s Tratte site makes available the electoral records for the Tre Maggiori (highest offices 12821532) and for guild elections and birth dates, which can help historians construct thumbnail sketches about elite individuals and families during the Florentine Republic, Litchfield said. The information is useful because Florentine officials kept detailed records that included information about not only officeholders but those rejected for political office because of youth or death, Litchfield said. Litchfield said. The site received rave reviews from both American and Italian historians. One reviewer noted that the Tratte database helped him to trace the popularity of the name “Cossimo,” because partisans of the Medici family had a particular affinity for naming their sons after Cosimo de’ Medici not only during his political ascendancy but even some decades later. All four Brown sites will be featured in a session at the New England Renaissance Conference that will be held at Brown on Oct. 19.

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Medicare continued from page 1 major portions of their infrastructure,” Besdine said. “Even 1 percent reductions would have a great impact.” Since the 1997 Balanced Budget Act, which mandated a series of cuts to Medicare in order to forestall its impending lack of funds, the $6 billion per year that Medicare pays to support teaching hospitals has been reduced by one-sixth. Reimbursements made to hospitals treating Medicare patients who are otherwise uninsured would also be cut. “We are experiencing a rather sizable federal budget deficit, and there is talk of further reductions in Medicare support for graduate medical education besides those already part of the 1997 law,” former Dean of the Medical School Donald Marsh told the George Street Journal last year. “I have great concern about this because it places in jeopardy everything that we at Brown and other medical schools in the United States have worked hard to achieve.” Teaching hospitals that lose too much funding may be in danger of going bankrupt or losing their residency program accreditation. “Academic programs historically deliver better care than non-academic programs. … Residents are a great asset to a teaching hospital” in terms of care and also economics, because running a hospital with only full doctors on staff “can get extremely costly,” Besdine

“It places in jeopardy everything that we at Brown and other medical schools in the United States have worked hard to achieve.” Donald Marsh Former Dean of the Medical School said. Despite the advantage of employing interns, teaching hospitals are generally more expensive to run because they often participate in research and offer specialized services. Teaching hospitals that maintain financial solvency after funding cuts still “wouldn’t have as much money to spend on the training of residents and interns,” he said. Representatives from Rhode Island Hospital and Rhode Island Memorial Hospital did not return calls for comment. Medical associations have lobbied Congress to indefinitely forestall the budget cuts. In May, Besdine had planned to travel to Washington, D.C., for “Teaching Hospital Day” to lobby for the American Hospital Preservation Act, which would eliminate the proposed cuts. But “we decided not to go because Congress was distracted” by issues of terrorism,” he said. “We lobbied from here instead.”

ACUP continued from page 1 Casey and several student representatives of ACUP said that closing ACUP’s doors will make the meetings more productive and individually more influential in the decision-making process that accompanies the allocation of funds to University departments. “Every senior officer in charge of a major budgetary unit will be facing some very pointed, critical questions about the operation and aspirations of their unit and the way that they have allocated resources in the past. That may be easier to do in a closed setting,” Casey said. Among the senior officers who will be appearing before ACUP in the weeks to come are Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Janina Montero, Dean of the Graduate School Karen Newman, Interim Dean of the Medical School Richard Besdine and Dean of the College Paul Armstrong. “The provost sounded very optimistic (about keeping the meetings closed), in that it would allow for the committee to be as open as possible and allow many ideas to be tossed around in an important discussion,” said student representative Andrew Horesh GS. “I think it’s a good idea,” said

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Professor John Savage, who served as an ACUP faculty representative. “When the meetings were open, the discussions were not frank and the administrators could not discuss their budgets in detail.” “In the past, ACUP has been a disappointing experience for students and faculty,” he added. The general body of the University will not be left uninformed, however, committee members said. ACUP plans on communicating its progress and deliberations as much as possible once the meetings have ended. “The committee would hear from the community” through “briefings” in The Herald and open forums, Casey said. ACUP members have not scheduled any open forums this semester. Many student representatives were not fazed by the change in ACUP’s protocol. “I don’t think we’ll be hiding anything,” said student representative Michael Harrison GS. “There’s nothing to hide. There’s no reason to keep the prioritization process secret.” “It’s a change of format — I’d be hesitant to be too presumptuous in labeling it as a negative move,” said Horesh. Provost Robert Zimmer was unavailable for comment. Herald staff writer Emir Senturk ’05 can be reached at esenturk@browndailyherald.com.

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IN BRIEF ACUP reviews University budget at first meeting of the semester Associate Vice President for Budget and Planning Susan Howitt said she reviewed the background information necessary to understand the University’s “very complicated” budget system during Monday’s first meeting of the Advisory Committee for University Planning, which was closed to the media and the public. “Basically, it was a chance to provide the members of ACUP with a whole set of background information on the school’s budget so that they all could get up to a common level of understanding. It’s important that everyone come to a general knowledge so that they can engage in discussion,” Howitt said. The meeting welcomed a new semester’s worth of reviewing, analyzing and recommending changes to the University’s budgetary plans. Several student representatives said they benefited from the tutorial and felt confident about ACUP’s progress in the upcoming semester. “I was overwhelmed by the information presented, but I would say that I was very impressed by the faculty’s handle on the different aspects and components of the school,” said first-time ACUP member Laura Lehmann ’04. “I definitely benefited,” she said. “I found the tutorial informative in that it helped us see where Brown lies in relation to other schools in terms of tuition increases, how much we draw from the endowment, and why we’re different than say Princeton as far as that’s concerned,” said representative Michael Harrison GS. “The meeting really set the tone in terms of what we’ll be discussing and how issues like tuition increase are not so cut-and-dry,” he said. The tutorial, which touched on all aspects of the University’s major budgets, also addressed the new changes to the committee’s jurisdiction. “This year, everything is on the table,” said Assistant Provost Brian Casey. This semester will be the first in which ACUP considers the Educational and General Budget, the medical school’s budget, and the Auxiliary Enterprise Budget together. The Educational and General Budget is the only aspect of the University’s budget that the committee analyzed in the past, Casey said. ACUP will also look at the budget in a new way. “The provost said that ACUP needs to think in a longer time frame and weigh all the University’s budgets alongside each other,” he said.“Funds you allocate to one area are funds you won’t be able to allocate to another.” This type of mindset was “quite new,” Casey said.“The budget is a complicated affair and it takes a lot for everyone to get used to how it works.” — Emir Senturk

Stallstreet Journal, spreading sports news, hits campus bathrooms Students may notice an improvement in reading material available in campus bathrooms, thanks to the new Brown sports publication, the Stallstreet Journal. The office of Assistant Athletic Director of Marketing Michael Kohler prints the Stallstreet Journal bimonthly. The publication is part of the Athletic Department’s effort to “increase student awareness and attendance at games,” Kohler said. Kohler said the newsletter markets to students and lets them know about athletic events. It also promotes contests and giveaways geared toward students. Kohler brought the idea and name for the Stallstreet Journal with him from two universities where he previously worked. “I think it’s cool,” said Chris Sha ’06, who saw the Stallstreet Journal in his dormitory bathroom. The Stallstreet Journal is put in bathroom stalls exclusively, Kohler said,“because it’s one of the better ways to get students’ undivided attention.” “I think it’s fun,” said Debbie Friedman ’05.“I usually end up reading it and finding out things I wouldn’t normally have known.” The publication is one page long. It includes stories about recent games, times for upcoming games and photos. It also displays ads for giveaways and a link to the Brown Athletic Department Web site. — Cassie Ramirez

Some first-year units short on WPCs BY AMY RUDDLE

Pembroke College was once Brown’s all-women residential college. But today several first-year units on Pembroke are without Woman Peer Counselors. Six units on campus do not have WPCs because some applicants did not accept offers to take positions, said Amy Graham, assistant dean for student life and director of the WPC program. Four out of the six units without WPCs are on Pembroke Campus. Even so, first-year women in those units say the problem is being dealt with adequately. Program directors selected 30 WPCs last year, and 24 accepted their positions, Graham said. There were also 24 WPCs in the 2001-2002 school year, but the number of counselors varies from 14 to 30 in any given year, she said. “It’s not shocking to me that this happens,” Graham said. The number of participants in both the WPC and Minority Peer Counselor programs varies from year to year, depending on student interest on campus,” she said. Once accepted, women students chosen to be WPCs often decide to live elsewhere on campus or join sororities, leaving the program directors to find replacements, Graham said. To fill the empty positions, they select women students from the Residential Counselor waiting list, she said. Program directors aim to have either three or four counselors for each unit, depending on size, and one male and one woman counselor for the unit, as well as one minority and one non-minority counselor, Graham said. The program directors look at size of the units for the placement of counselors, not racial or gender composition, Graham said. “Units without (WPCs) aren’t significantly disadvantaged,” because all counselors are trained to help students or provide students with contact to other University resources, Graham said. Women in the units without WPCs expressed the same opinion. Unit 20, located in Andrews Hall, is 80 percent female and has no WPC. “It’s not really an issue,” said resident Sarah Modiano ’06. Unit 20 has one woman and one male RC, and one woman MPC, all of whom are “fabulous counselors,” said Blanche Case ’06. “I haven’t felt slighted by not having a WPC,” Case said. Any questions that she might have as a woman, she could ask any one of them, she added.

Unit 20 resident Sarah Hirschfeld-Sussman ’06 echoed these sentiments and said she asked her counselors questions pertaining to women’s issues and they were adequately answered. If there were fewer women counselors on the floor, then there could be a problem, Modiano and HirschfeldSussman said. Women in units without WPCs in Emery and Woolley Halls all expressed their satisfaction with the counseling available to them. “I feel that I could talk to any of my other counselors here,” said Jess Deforge ’06. “If I had a problem where I needed to talk to a WPC, I would probably just as soon go to Health Services,” said Laura Neville ’06. Students in Morris and Champlin Halls, which are also without WPCs, were introduced to WPCs on other floors. “The fourth-floor counselor walks around this floor all the time,” said Nusrat Zaman ’06, “If I ever felt that I needed (a WPC), I’d go to the fourth floor,” she said. Residential Counselors said they are well trained to handle any issues that first-years may bring to them. Counselor Leslie Herrman ’05 said the relationships students have with their counselors are more based on whom they have a better relationship with than whether or not a counselor is a WPC, RC or MPC. “We’re here for everybody,” said MPC Maria Kasparian ’05. Despite her confidence that she and her fellow RCs could handle any of the problems of their students, Herrman said she feels the WPC program is important and essential to campus. “I think there should be more WPCs. There are some issues — health education — that could be emphasized more if there was a WPC for each unit,” said WPC Bianca Garcia ’05. She said a lack of applicants was a major hindrance to the program. Former WPC and student coordinator of the WPC program Robin Tittle ’03.5 said the WPC program is important because it is beneficial to have “people who specialize in women’s issues,” not just to have RCs that deal with broader topics. It’s important to focus on women’s safety issues like sexual assault, and also to deal with body image and eating disorders, Tittle said. “There are still issues (on campus) that affect women in a different way,” she said.

For 200 students yearly, taking leave is key Students take time off from the University for a variety of reasons that include psychological and health problems, jobs and family trouble BY HANNAH BASCOM

Each year about 200 Brown students take leaves of absence from the University for reasons that include everything from psychological or health problems to jobs or family problems. The University categorizes leaves as either “medical” or “personal.” Students take medical leaves “because of something going on that interferes with academics or other aspects of the student’s life … (or) with the Brown experience,” said Associate Dean of Student Life Robert Samuels, one of the deans in charge of overseeing medical leaves. Associate Dean of the College Bruce Donovan said students take personal leaves for “all sorts of reasons: employment, study on other campuses, dog-tired of being here on campus.” It “might be a leave that is a revisiting of a desire they had when they left high school that mummy and daddy wouldn’t let them indulge at that time,” Donovan said. Donovan also oversees leaves of absence that stem from a drug or alcohol problem. These types of leaves are rare, and he only handles two or three each year, he said. To take a leave of absence, undergraduate students must consult with at least one dean, often after contacting Psychological Services or Health Services. Each case is different and is customized according to the student’s problem. In terms of medical leaves, Samuels said there is no written policy for when students should take leaves of absence, but the basic policy is that the need to take a leave has to be confirmed by a professional in the field. “There are some times when a student is suffering from a psychological or emotional condition that makes it almost impossible to focus on their work. … It doesn’t make sense, if they can’t do it, for them to be here,” said Belinda Johnson, director of Psychological Services.

Students also take medical leaves for surgeries and sicknesses, because often the recovery and switching between medicines can make it very difficult for them to concentrate on their work. Even so, students are not always eager to leave Brown. “It’s not unusual for students to feel ambivalent and reluctant to take a medical leave in spite of the fact that they’re struggling or having serious difficulties,” Johnson said. “When students return from a leave, many of them say ‘I was reluctant to do this, but I’m really glad I did.’” The majority of the time students are in agreement with professionals that a leave is needed, Samuels said. “Often, it’s coming to terms with the fact that they’re just not making it and need to take a leave,” he said. In the case that a student is not ready to take a leave, a strategy is developed by the student, a dean and Psychological Services or Health Services to help the student cope with his stress and workload. Often this involves the student signing an information release form in order to seek help from an outside professional. The process of returning to Brown differs with the type of leave taken. For personal leaves of less than five years, the process is easy, Donovan said. “They write and say ‘I want to come back,’ and we say, ‘We want you to come back,’” he said. But, “if they’ve been gone for more than five years they need to tell us what they’ve been doing. Absent from a career of poisoning pigeons, we almost always let them come back,” Donovan said. Returning from medical leave requires a letter explaining what the student did while away and what changes the student plans to make once returned to Brown. When necessary, it also includes documentation of psychological counseling and an interview with a dean and a member of Psychological Services or Health Services. In the case of a leave due to a drug or alcohol problem, the student must provide “evidence that they are prepared to return to serious academic work with drug use behind them and with a plan to stay clean and sober,” Donovan said. More than 90 percent of students who take leave return and graduate, Samuels said.

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Meier continued from page 16 lost and grappling for purpose though. I was faced with an existential dilemma: Who was I to cheer for now that the Yankees had no opponent? The fact is, as much as we like the success of underdogs, the Yankees need to be in the World Series. It just isn’t right without them. I think some luster will be lost without them in the championship. If a national league team wins the Series this year against the plucky Twins or Angels, there will be less accomplishment than if they had knocked off a powerful Steinbrenner-built machine stocked with big name players and sky high salaries. People may deduce that they proceeded to win a championship mostly for lack of a formidable opponent, a little bit like the Raven’s recent Super Bowl win over the Giants. It just doesn’t seem like a big deal. Don’t get me wrong. I love under-

Lee continued from page 16 only manage sixth place at the tournament reflects the current quality of international superstars. There were 17 NBA players on teams other than the United States at the World Championships this summer. Five of these players hailed from gold medal-winning Yugoslavia, and the tournament’s Most Valuable Player was Dirk Nowitzki of Germany. The NBA has already borne witness to Nowitzki and Nash abusing defenses for the Mavericks, Yugoslavs Peja Stojakovic and Vlade Divac helping the Kings almost topple the Lakers and Spaniard Pau Gasol providing the Grizzlies with their only reason for existing by winning the Rookie of the Year award. But who are some new

dogs as much as anybody, and I’m thrilled that World Series games are coming to either Minneapolis or Anaheim. Those fans deserve it. Bud Selig will look foolish for trying to contract both teams, and the tipping of the power scales will certainly be good for baseball. I also think, however, that come championship time, we’ll find ourselves wondering about those silly Yankees. Sitting courtside after being eliminated from a 3-on-3 basketball tournament this summer, I attempted to be charmingly arrogant by suggesting that the fans would be disappointed to watch a championship game that didn’t involve my team. “It just isn’t right to lose the best team so early,” I said. “It’s like watching last year’s NCAA finals—all you’re wondering is, ‘Where’s Duke?’” In truth, there was something wrong with last year’s final. Maryland was a fantastic team: talented, well-coached and due. I wanted them to win the tournament from the start. I even picked them in my pool (still lost!). I wanted

to see them win it in style though. I wanted them to play their best game of the year and knock off their arch rival Duke, the Yankees of college basketball. Instead, they took the floor like someone had tied their shoes together and shot them with animal tranquilizers. Playing to the level of their opponent, the Cinderella Indiana Hoosiers, they registered one of the most unimpressive NCAA title game victories in recent memory. I think the Terrapins had some glory stolen from them in March because of their opponent, and I fear the same thing could happen this World Series to the Cardinals or Giants. In the end, I know I’m just being picky. And would I really have wanted to see the Yankees beat the Angels? Of course not. It’s definitely better for them to lose early than never. I just wish I still had them to cheer against. My baseball world has been thrown into chaos. I need to find somebody to cheer for.

faces from overseas that we can look forward to seeing scorching the nets this season? The imminent beginning to the NBA career of Chinese center Yao Ming has an entire nation of one billion people enraptured. Simply put, Yao has double the range of Shaq and is four inches taller than the Big Aristotle. He can even shoot free throws. Of course, he needs to bulk up a lot first before he can withstand one of those patented elbows to the chest. But just think of the Marv Albert broadcast possibilities he provides: “They swing the ball to Yao, he shoots over O’Neal without even jumping! Yessss!!!” Emmanuel Ginobili put Argentina on the basketball map when he helped them end the United States’ undefeated record with NBA players representing the national team. When he and Tony Parker of France play together for the San Antonio Spurs this season, get used to his

high-flying dunks and observance of basketball fundamentals that many a young NBA player lacks and disdains. The Spurs, Kings and Mavericks are the three teams that have made the best use of international talent and, coincidentally, they are the only three viable challengers to the Lakers’ throne. It is clear that other teams will have to tap the foreign talent pool in order to contend in the future. These players are grounded in team-first mentalities, shoot the ball well from the outside, drive to the basket with authority and add cultural flair to the league. What could be more valuable and entertaining? If anything, just keeping track of Nash’s hair will entertain you wildly this season. He’s Canadian.

Sports columnist Luke Meier hails from Champaigne, Ill.

Hanyen Andrew Lee ’06 hails from Hong Kong. He is also Canadian.

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Equestrian stays undefeated BY GALYN BURKE AND SARAH STAVELEY-O’CARROLL

After spending the last few weeks preparing for their only home show of the season, the Brown varsity equestrians took home the blue ribbon last Sunday at Windswept Farm in Warren, R.I. This win followed another Brown victory — the season opener two weekends ago at the University of Connecticut — keeping the team undefeated. The Bears felt the pressure particularly keenly this past weekend as many of the team’s alumni returned for the occasion, joined by many more friends and family than who come to most shows. Without a cloud in sight, the morning began as show officials randomly assigned horses to riders through a lottery system. Then the jumping, or fences, portion of the show commenced. Jamie Peddy ’06 rallied the team by capturing second place in a competitive Open class, while co-captain Chelsea Hamilton ‘03 won her Intermediate fences class. Marston St. John ’03 demonstrated her skill by winning her Novice jumping class after having taken a year off from riding. After jumping, the Bears regrouped. Even with the home-team advantage, the girls knew they needed to come back strong on the flat to secure a win. Known as a strong “flat” team, the Bears lived up to their reputation as fourteen riders placed first, second or third in this segment. Phillie Silverman ’04 earned a second place finish in Open flat, followed by

Peddy’s win in the same division. This win put Peddy in a ride-off for the Reserve High Point rider, a title which she later won after a difficult test among the other riders who had also won a first and a second. Cindy Willner ’04, who competed individually at Nationals last year in the Novice division and for the team in Intermediate, won her Intermediate class. Rebecca Barker ’05 continued the streak by winning her debut Novice flat class after having pointed out of Advanced Walk/Trot/Canter the week before. Jennifer Kim ’04 also demonstrated prowess at the Novice level by finishing second in her class. Advanced Walk/Trot/Canter riders Allyson Oakley ’03 and Catherine Alsop ’05 took home first and second respectively, while Galyn Burke ’05 continued her own undefeated streak by winning her first Walk/Trot/Canter class. This weekend’s win not only extended Brown’s lead in the region, but also helped bring together the team, which is composed of 16 new riders out of a total of 32. The team has high hopes for the season, including the chance to defend its threeyear title as Regional Champion. After a “dead” week, they hope to continue their success at a traditional stronghold, Teikyo Post University’s show at Windcrest in Hebron, Conn. on Oct. 19. Galyn Burke ‘05 and Sarah StaveleyO’Carroll ’03 are on the equestrian team.

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IN BRIEF Sniper’s taunting note reported found (Washington Post) — The sniper linked to eight area shoot-

ings left a taunting message for authorities outside the Bowie, Md., school where a 13-year-old boy was shot Monday morning, police sources confirmed Tuesday night. “Dear policeman, I am God,” the message said. Police said it was found on a Tarot card, part of a deck used in fortune telling, and is known as the Death card. It was spotted in a wooded area about 150 yards from the school entrance, where police have also found a spent shell casing and a matted area of grass that suggested the gunman had lain in wait. The message, first reported Tuesday night on Channel 9 in Washington, was the first known communication from the sniper, police sources said Tuesday night. Authorities have linked the same gun to several of the shootings, which have left six people dead and two wounded. However, despite devoting an increasing level of resources to the investigation, which has seized the attention of the Washington area and been widely reported throughout the nation, authorities have reported few clues. Contacted Tuesday night after the television report aired, Prince George’s County police Chief Gerald Wilson declined to comment. “I can’t confirm that,”Wilson said of the TV report. There’s “nothing I can say in regards to that.” An officer close to the case told a reporter that the television account had severely impaired the police investigation. Earlier Tuesday, it was reported that bullet fragments recovered from a liquor store clerk who was wounded at a shopping center in Silver Spring, Md., on Sept. 14 have been examined. But the analysis has proved inconclusive, authorities announced Tuesday night, meaning a connection cannot be made or rejected.

Report says 1 in 3 U.S. adults is obese (Washington Post) — Americans aren’t just fat, they’re getting fatter, according to a government study that finds about one in every three adults is now obese and nearly twothirds are overweight in the United States. The number of overweight and obese in the nation continues to climb at a steady rate despite the fact that Americans spend $34 billion annually on various diet products, from sugar-free sodas and weight-loss supplements to diet programs, according to the study. From 1999 to 2000, the number of overweight adults rose from 56 percent to 65 percent of the population, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Overweight is defined as having a body mass index of 25 or higher — for example, a 5-foot-6-inch person who weighs 160 pounds or more.) While waistlines are increasing across the board, the study shows that some groups are getting fatter faster than others. Among women, for example, more than half of black women aged 40 and older are obese and more than 80 percent are overweight. The findings suggest that “we are totally losing the battle to prevent and treat obesity,” said George Blackburn, director of the Center for the Study of Nutrition Medicine at Harvard University. Also troubling is the rise in extreme obesity, according to the study, which is one of three papers on obesity published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Extreme obesity is defined as having a BMI of 40 or greater. The number of adults with extreme obesity — equal to a 5-foot-10-inch person weighing 280 pounds or more — rose from 3 percent to nearly 5 percent from 1999 to 2000, according to the CDC. That trend worries public health officials since this group is at greatest risk for severe health problems, ranging from diabetes and high blood pressure to heart disease and kidney failure. “The greatest concern is about African-American women,” said William Dietz, director of the CDC’s Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity and co-author of the JAMA paper on extreme obesity.“More than half are obese and 15 percent have a BMI greater than 40.” Nor is the obesity epidemic limited to adults. A companion study of children and adolescents, led by Cynthia Ogden of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, found that in 1999 to 2000 nearly 16 percent of 12- to 19year-olds were overweight, an increase of nearly 5 percent from 1988 to 1994. Among blacks and Mexican-Americans, the rise was even greater, jumping 10 percentage points, according to the study.

Bush builds support against Iraq WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — President Bush continued to pick up strong support Tuesday from the left and right in Congress for a resolution that would give him backing to use military force to disarm Saddam Hussein and possibly remove him from power in Iraq. As debate opened in the House and continued in the Senate, many congressional Republicans and Democrats sounded convinced that the US should strike Saddam — unilaterally if necessary — if he doesn’t promptly comply with new and unfettered weapons inspections. “Saddam Hussein will only respond to the credible threat of force or the use of force,” said Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. In the latest sign that momentum for a strong, bipartisan show of support is building on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, S.D., suggested he plans to vote for the final Bush war resolution. “I am inclined to support it,” Daschle told reporters, as an impassioned debate over Iraq raged inside the Senate chamber. Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., who voted against going to war with Iraq in 1991, signed up as a co-sponsor of the Bush plan, which gives the president relatively unfettered authority to order an invasion of Iraq. Rep. John Thune, R-S.D., is running ads linking him to Saddam because he voted against Bush’s plan for a national missile defense system. Republicans said it now appears Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island will be the only Senate Republican voting against the president. In a speech Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., will raise concerns that Bush has failed to articulate a plan to rebuild a post-Saddam Iraq, but he’s expected to back Bush in the end. Opposition persists on the left. Sen. Robert Byrd, DW.Va., a master of arcane Senate rules and sharp critic of going to war, may delay a final Senate vote on the resolution until next week by staging a verbal and procedural protest on the Senate floor. CIA Director George Tenet provided critics of the Bush plan new and unexpected fodder Tuesday during a joint hearing of the House and Senate intelligence committee. In

a letter from Tenet read to the committee, the CIA Director said U.S. attacks on Iraq could provoke Saddam to launch a terrorist attack on the United States. “Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or chemical or biological weapons,” Tenet said. Most congressional opponents of Bush’s war resolution favor military action if it’s authorized by the United Nations. Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., is pushing an alternative resolution that would require Bush to come back to Congress for approval to go to war if U.N. efforts ultimately fail. Levin pointed to Tenet’s assertion that an attack on Iraq may increase the likelihood that Saddam will use his weapons as evidence that lawmakers should think twice before giving Bush a green light now. In a bid to learn more about the threat Saddam poses, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, DDel., introduced legislation Tuesday that would entice Iraqi scientists to defect to the United States by offering them safe haven here in exchange for secrets. Biden supports military action in Iraq, but only to enforce U.N. resolutions requiring Saddam eliminate his dangerous weapons program. Bush is hoping resounding bipartisan support will prompt the United Nations to adopt a new resolution mandating immediate and unfettered weapons inspections in Iraq backed by threat of military force. Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared on Capitol Hill Tuesday with Republicans and Democrats to challenge the international community to act boldly. The congressional resolution “will definitely strengthen my hand as I try to do the diplomatic work up in New York to get the U.N. Security Counsel” to act, Powell said. At a rally Tuesday in Knoxville, Tenn., Bush left little doubt that war is a distinct possibility. “The message from Congress, from people from both political parties, will be for the sake of peace ... if (the U.N.) won’t deal with this man, the United States of America will lead a coalition to disarm him,” Bush said.

Gunmen kill U.S. Marine in Kuwaiti exercise DOHA, Qatar (L.A. Times) — Gunmen opened fire Tuesday on

U.S. Marines conducting an urban warfare exercise on a Kuwaiti island, killing one American and wounding another in an attack highlighting growing tensions in the Arab world as the United States prepares for a possible attack on Iraq. The Marines, based at Camp Pendleton, Calif., returned fire with their M-16s and killed the two gunmen. Kuwait declared the attackers to be terrorists but did not immediately tie them to any specific group. Pentagon officials said security would be increased at all U.S. bases in the region but did not say whether they regarded the shooting as a terrorist attack. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with other senior military officials, and spoke by phone with commanders of U.S. forces in the region to discuss other possible responses, a Pentagon spokesman said. The attack was highly unusual in Kuwait, a close Washington ally since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. More than a decade later, most Kuwaitis remain supportive of the close relationship. However, analysts said that even in Kuwait, moderate Muslims feel caught in the middle between their more radical brethren and the United States. The Kuwait government identified the two gunmen as Kuwaiti citizens Anas Kari, born in 1981, and Jassan Hajiri, born in 1976, and described them as Islamic extremists. The Interior Ministry declared that it “will not allow anyone to undermine the country’s security.” Friends and associates of the pair were being rounded up for questioning. Thirty-one unarmed Kuwaiti civilians in the area of the exercise on Failaka Island, 10 miles east of Kuwait City, were taken into custody by the Marines as witnesses and turned over to local authorities for questioning, said a Navy spokesman in Bahrain, the military’s regional hub for Persian Gulf operations. “The two gunmen were in a vehicle that got close to the training,” said the spokesman, Lt. Christopher Davis. “They got close, jumped out and opened fire without any warning or provocation.” Davis said the Marines were using dummy rounds when they were attacked, and they shifted to live rounds to defend themselves. Three AK-47 assault rifles and a cache of ammunition were found in the attackers’ pickup truck, officials said. The wounded Marines were taken by helicopter to a military hospital used by U.S. personnel on the Kuwait

mainland, where one died during surgery. The dead Marine’s name was withheld pending notification of family. The injured Marine suffered an arm wound that is not considered life-threatening, Davis said. The 150 Marines in the training exercise were withdrawn from the island after the shootings and sent to an encampment in the desert. The Marines were among 1,000 combat Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit from Camp Pendleton who are in Kuwait for a month-long training exercise called Eager Mace. The exercise, including live-fire training in the desert frontier between Iraq and Kuwait, had been scheduled for months. But it has taken on added significance and received added media attention in light of President Bush’s threat to use military force against Saddam Hussein. The Marine exercise is the latest show of U.S. military muscle in the region. As tensions with Iraq have mounted, the U.S. has shifted weaponry and munitions from bases in Qatar and Saudi Arabia to bases in Kuwait in anticipation of a possible land offensive in Iraq. Among the equipment being positioned are tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles, the kind of gear used by Army combat troops. In addition, senior defense officials say elite special operations troops last month began training alongside CIA units that could be used in covert counter-terrorism operations within Iraq. For much of the past decade, the Pentagon has based more than 20,000 American military personnel within close striking distance of Iraq, along with heavy equipment for at least four armored brigades and Patriot antimissile batteries to protect them. In recent months, the Pentagon has moved or announced plans to move another 10,000 troops to the region, officially to conduct routine training exercises. But military officials acknowledge that the additional troops may remain in the area for longer than their exercise schedules call for. The shootings followed by less than two weeks an incident in which two men in a jeep, carrying a machine gun and many rounds of ammunition, tried to position their vehicle amid a convoy of American military vehicles along a Kuwait freeway. The two were arrested by local authorities, but released after saying that they were on their way to a bird hunt in the desert. Local authorities described them as being drunk.

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Only 1 of 6 Buffalo terror suspects is allowed bail BUFFALO, N.Y. (Newsday) — Splitting

the differences in a hotly contested terrorism case that has divided this community, a federal magistrate here Tuesday ordered five alleged members of a sleeper cell in nearby Lackawanna held without bail but said a sixth man could be released if he posts a bond or property worth $600,000. The ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Kenneth Schroeder in a packed courtroom followed four days of unusually extensive bail hearings last month and last week in which prosecutors laid out their case that the men attended an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in the spring of 2001, and the judge agonized over whether that was enough to show they were a danger to the community. Citing the failure of five of the defendants to explain their presence at the training camp for five weeks or more and a text justifying suicide attacks found in one of the men’s houses in Lackawanna, Schroeder said he could not “disregard common sense and the drawing of reasonable inferences based on circumstantial evidence.” “If the defendants are or have become disciples of al-Qaeda and believers in self-destruction as a legitimate means of causing harm to others, there are no conditions that could be imposed that would deter such act of selfdestruction other than detention,” Schroeder said, reading his 35-page decision as the six accused men, dressed in prison jumpsuits, and several rows of supporters from Lackawanna’s tight-knit Yemeni-American community looked on. But Schroeder said he was persuaded that the sixth defendant, Sahim Alwan, 29, was not a danger because he cooperated with government agents last month in disclosing the trip, and he left the al-Farooq training camp after just 10 days, feigning an ankle injury because he was repulsed by what

he saw and heard. The judge said it would be “intellectually dishonest” to keep Alwan imprisoned, and the ruling made Alwan the first defendant in a quartet of recent domestic terror cases — in Buffalo, Detroit, Seattle and Oregon — to be cleared for release pending trial. In addition to posting $600,000, he must surrender his passport, stay away from all computers and telephones except to call his lawyer, and submit to the monitoring of his home telephones. Alwan must also pay for electronic monitoring to ensure he remains confined in his home 24 hours a day, leaving only for medical and legal appointments, and for work if he can get back the job as a youth counselor he held before his arrest in midSeptember. His lawyer said it would take at least two weeks to arrange for his release. Alwan and the five other men Mukhtar al-Bakri, 22; Faysal Galab, 26; Shafal Mosed, 24; Yasein Taher, 24; and Yahya Goba, 25 - are charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization by making themselves available to al-Qaeda as “personnel.” They each face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. Two other alleged members of the Lackawanna ring are still at large. Only Alwan and al-Bakri have admitted attending the training camp. In court the men showed little emotion, although Alwan raised his eyebrows as the judge described the conditions he would have to submit to. His attorney, James Harrington, said Alwan was “pleased,” and lawyers for the other five men said they were disappointed but had not decided whether to appeal. Buffalo U.S. Attorney Michael Battle said the government “accepts” Schroeder’s ruling but has not yet decided whether to appeal Alwan’s release.

Sharon calls Gaza Strip operations ‘successful’ JERUSALEM (The Washington Post) — While expressing regret for civilian deaths, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Tuesday described an Israeli military operation that left 15 Palestinians dead in the Gaza Strip as “successful” and warned that his troops will conduct more attacks in the populous Palestinian-controlled area. Sharon’s characterization of the operation, in which a helicopter gunship fired a missile into a crowded street early Monday in the city of Khan Younis, contrasted sharply with international condemnation that arose Tuesday over the bloodshed. A White House spokesman said President Bush was “deeply concerned” by the incident. The Arab League termed the military action “barbaric.” The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross cautioned Sharon against what he called the “disproportionate use of force” in civilian neighborhoods. The death toll in Monday’s pre-dawn assault in the southern Gaza Strip city climbed to 15 with

the deaths of two wounded Palestinians aged 16 and 35, according to hospital officials. Israeli officials said the Khan Younis community targeted was a stronghold for militants in the Islamic Resistance Movement, called Hamas, which has claimed responsibility for a large percentage of the suicide bombings in Israel and attacks against Israeli soldiers and Jewish settlers in the West Bank. They said the missile was aimed at a group of Palestinian gunmen firing on Israeli troops and tanks withdrawing after a raid into the neighborhood in search of Hamas militants. “I think that the operation was a success,” Sharon told reporters. “We have to take into consideration that the Israeli forces are making every effort to contain raids and attacks by terrorist organizations. Most of the casualties there were terrorists and are terrorists, but still there were some civilians,” Sharon said. “Therefore, I express my sorrow for that.” He added, “There will be more operations in the Gaza Strip.”

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3 win Nobel Prize for detecting cosmic particles, X-rays (L.A.Times) — A Japanese scientist

and two Americans won the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for snatching elusive cosmic particles and bits of radiation that constantly pelt the Earth and using them to understand the basic workings of the sun and stars and to unveil the previously hidden but incredibly violent nature of our universe. University of Pennsylvania chemist Raymond Davis Jr., 87, and retired University of Tokyo physicist Masatoshi Koshiba, 76, shared half of the $1.1 million prize for their pioneering work on detecting solar neutrinos — ghostly particles that stream out of the heart of the sun by the thousands of billions, “change flavors” as they bombard Earth and pass easily through solid rock, making them almost impossible to snare. The two men created underground chambers — one in a South Dakota gold mine, the other in a Tokyo copper mine – to trap and study the particles. The work resolved a centuries-old controversy by proving that it was indeed nuclear fusion that made the sun shine. The work also suggested that each neutrino seemed to contain a sliver of mass, meaning the universe was not as lopsided as once believed. The other half of the prize went to Riccardo Giacconi, 71, an astronomer who was the first to detect X-rays coming from outside our solar system and first to

prove that the universe is bathed in a background glow of X-ray light. The work proved the existence of black holes and established an entirely new field of astrophysics, X-ray astronomy, that has gone on to illuminate many surprisingly violent aspects of the night skies. “It’s not just that the winners have written new sentences in the history of science, they’ve written whole new chapters,” said John Bahcall, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., who worked closely with Davis on solar neutrinos and called Giacconi a giant.” The Nobel committee said Xray astronomy had provided “completely new — and sharp — images of the universe” and described neutrino detection as “considerably more difficult than finding a particular grain of sand in the whole of the Sahara desert.” They credited the work with changing “the way we look upon the universe.” The prizes did not come as a surprise to many in the physics community, or even to some of the men themselves. When the phone rang in his Tokyo home, “I said, ‘Oh, that must be it,’ “ a smiling Koshiba told dozens of reporters who clustered at his house shortly after the announcement. “Having won the prize, I can finally return to my quiet life.” Davis, who suffers from early-

Appeals court approves new secret deportation hearings (L.A. Times) — The U.S. government may legally hold secret deportation hearings for individuals targeted in the sweeping post-Sept. 11 terrorism investigation, a divided federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Tuesday. The decision is the first by a federal appellate court upholding controversial government secrecy policies enacted in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. It reversed the ruling of U.S. District Judge John W. Bissell in Newark, N.J., who held in May that the government policy violated the First Amendment right of the media and the public to attend such hearings. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government has the right to close the hearings on grounds of “national security,” saying it trumps the public’s First Amendment right of access. “Since the primary national policy must be self-preservation, it seems elementary that, to the extent open deportation hearings might impair national security,” it is logical for the government to close the hearings, Judge Edward R. Becker wrote for the majority. The 2-1 decision is at odds with an Aug. 26 decision by a federal appeals court in Cincinnati, making it likely that the U.S. Supreme Court will review the thorny issue. These are the only two cases that have been filed on this issue, though there are other pending legal challenges to government policies adopted after the terrorist attacks. For now, the 3rd Circuit ruling applies only in its jurisdiction —

New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and the Virgin Islands, just as the 6th Circuit decision applies only in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. Judge Anthony J. Scirica dissented, saying the government had not justified a blanket policy of closure. Scirica said that while there might be valid reasons to close some hearings, federal immigration judges were capable of deciding — “with substantial deference to national security” — which ones to close on a case-by-case basis. Tuesday’s decision “is not just a victory for the Justice Department, but for every American relying on the government to take every legal step possible to protect our nation from acts of terror while preserving constitutional liberties,” said Assistant Attorney General Robert McCallum. Justice Department regulations dating from 1964, he added, have expressly allowed “select deportation hearings to be closed to protect public interest, and this authority is an important constitutional tool in this time of war.” American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt, who argued the case on behalf of three New Jersey newspapers seeking access to closed deportation hearings, said he was disappointed by the ruling and might ask for a rehearing from a larger panel of 3rd Circuit judges or a review by the U.S. Supreme Court. “The decision sanctions locking up people based on secret hearings,” Gelernt said. “That is profoundly at odds with basic principles of fairness.”

stage Alzheimer’s disease and now lives in semi-retirement on Long Island, N.Y., did not make public comments about his award. His reaction to colleagues was a modest one. “I don’t deserve this,” he told his University of Pennsylvania collaborator Ken Lande, saying the award should be shared among hundreds who contributed to his manpower-intensive work. Giacconi said he was “dumbstruck” when Nobel officials phoned him at his Washington, D.C.-area home at 5:30 a.m. and had since been fielding a steady stream of congratulations calls. “It’s been a long day,” he said in a telephone interview, “but I’ve had worse.” He said his first thought was to use the Nobel money to pay for the education of his two grandchildren. “Given how the costs are rising, that might require the whole prize,” he joked. The existence of neutrinos was first postulated in the 1930s. But with no electrical charge and possibly no mass at all, it seemed that neutrinos would forever remain elusive. Despite the poor odds, Davis thought he could trap them. To do so, he needed to build a detector deep underground, so the experiment would not be contaminated by cosmic rays. Solar neutrinos would have no problems getting underground — interacting only weakly with matter, they pass through rock, dirt and human beings with

equal ease. To trap neutrinos, Davis and his colleagues filled a portion of South Dakota’s Homestake gold mine with 100,000 gallons of drycleaning solvent. Neutrinos, he reasoned, would react with the chlorine in the cleaning fluid and produce radioactive argon atoms, which he could measure by releasing helium gas through the fluid to grab the argon. The tactic worked, to the amazement of physicists everywhere. But in 30 years of collecting, the instrument detected just 2,000 argon atoms — far fewer than expected. This led to an even greater mystery known as the “solar neutrino problem.” Where were all the rest of the particles? Scientist theorized that neutrinos can flit between various forms — electron, muon and tau — during their 8-minute journey from sun to Earth, and that Davis’ detector was only picking up one form of neutrino. Koshiba and his collaborators confirmed and extended Davis’ work at the Kamiokande and later at the bigger SuperKamiokande neutrino detectors, huge tanks of water buried beneath the Japanese Alps. When neutrinos from the sun and from supernovas passed through the tank, a tiny fraction of them interacted with atoms in the water and gave off a characteristic streak of blue light called Cerenkov radiation. The work

showed that neutrinos did come in different flavors. By showing that muon neutrinos had a different mass than tau neutrinos, they showed the particles were not massless wonders as standard theories of physics had predicted. With a speck of mass each, the untold numbers of neutrinos that shoot through the universe are now thought to add heft to the big equation of what makes up the universe. The Italian-born Giacconi was 28 when he started working out the details of how to construct the X-ray telescope. Four decades later, X-ray astronomy is a branch of study on equal footing with traditional optical and radio astronomy. Before Giacconi’s work, astronomers had viewed the universe as a stately, relatively quiet place. That is largely because the violent explosions of X-ray radiation emitted from violent black holes and dying stars had been invisible. “It gives us a different view of the universe, just as an X-ray gives a different view of the body,” said Giacconi, who runs Associated Universities Inc., a nonprofit corporation that operates astronomical observatories. X-ray astronomy allowed Giacconi to prove the existence of strange binary star systems and black holes, monsters that previously existed only in science fiction.

National Academy of Sciences study discounts validity of polygraph tests (L.A. Times) — A long-awaited research report released Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences describes polygraph testing for nationalsecurity screening as little more than junk science. The United States’ premier scientific organization said such tests, a key counterespionage tool for 50 years, are so inaccurate as to be counterproductive — promoting false confidence that spies and other nationalsecurity threats have been ferreted out. The Academy’s National Research Council prepared the report based on 19 months of study. Produced by experts in psychology, engineering, law and other fields, the report confirms long-standing doubts about the validity of polygraph testing that led to a 1988 federal law banning the use of such tests for employment screening in most private businesses. Polygraph results are also inadmissible as evidence in nearly all state courts. “If logic has anything to do with it, then the report will have a major policy impact,” said Steven Aftergood, an intelligence analyst with the Federation of American Scientists. “I don’t think federal agencies stop and ask themselves how many spies have we caught with this — because the answer is `none’ — or how many people have been unfairly denied employment — because the answer is `many.”’ Federal security agencies would not discuss the report’s conclusions Wednesday. They

said they needed time to review the 333-page report in detail. The federal government subjects thousands of job applicants and employees in sensitive positions to “lie detector” tests each year. The CIA and National Security Agency give polygraph tests to all job applicants and employees. The FBI and Defense Department also test extensively, particularly since last year’s terrorist attacks. Such screening also is common at large police departments nationwide. Linton Brooks, acting head of the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency responsible for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile — said that agency will reassess its use of lie detectors in light of the new report. “It is used not on a stand-alone basis but as part of a larger fabric of investigative and analytical reviews to help security personnel determine who should have access to classified information,” Brooks said. A Defense Department spokesperson said the DOD has valued the polygraph “as an investigative tool” for half a century, but agrees that further research would be valuable. Some experts say the wideranging and authoritative report could trigger profound changes in security practice. “It is going to be a watershed” that shifts the burden of proof from polygraph skeptics to its advocates, said Paul Giannelli, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University and a consultant to the National Academy panel. “The report is so devastating

that it will affect all uses of the polygraph,” he said, noting that the panel concluded that the government has “wasted millions of dollars and ought to go in a different direction.” The study was underwritten by the Department of Energy, which was embarrassed by contradictory interpretations of polygraph tests given to Wen Ho Lee, who had been accused of being a nuclear spy, in 1998 and 1999. Lee was ultimately exonerated, and the furor over his case indirectly stimulated the polygraph study. The 2002 national defense authorization bill requires the DOE to revise its polygraph policy — under which about 2,000 employees are tested annually — based on a review of the new study. Many people often assume that polygraph machines literally detect lies. Actually, they measure changes in physiologic signals — blood pressure, heart and breathing rates, and perspiration — thought to characterize deception. Only trained operators can interpret the results, and their conclusions often are more art than science. Reviewing a century of experience, the research panel found that technicians can sometimes detect deceptive responses to questions involving specific incidents, such as, “were you at the bank robbery on Oct. 9, 2002?” But the method shows scant reliability for general use in employment or security screening, particularly with spies or criminals trained to defeat the testing procedure.

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Malaysia holding U.S. man for terror plot (The Washington Post) JAKARTA, Indonesia — Malaysian police are

holding and preparing to extradite an American man wanted by the United States on charges of conspiring with five others in Oregon to sign on with al-Qaida and Taliban forces in Afghanistan, Malaysian and U.S. officials said Tuesday. California-born Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, 24, surrendered to authorities at the International Islamic School, an institution outside the capital Kuala Lumpur where he had been studying since early this year, officials said. The police began pursuing Bilal last week when U.S. investigators asked for Malaysia’s help after arresting four of his alleged associates in the United States. The U.S. Embassy in Kuala Lumpur praised the Malaysian government. “This is yet another sign of Malaysia’s continuous commitment and strong support of the international war against terrorism,” the embassy said in a statement. Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Malaysia has detained dozens of Islamic militants, some suspected of having ties to al-Qaida, and held them under a strict internal security act that limits legal protection. This help has prompted plaudits from the Bush administration, but relations between the two countries have been tense nonetheless. The United States expressed regret last week for “inappropriate treatment” of Malaysian leaders after Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was forced to take off his shoes for a security check at the Los Angeles airport. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad complained of the “rough” manner of a U.S. security officer who boarded Mahathir’s plane in New York. The Bush administration has placed Malaysia on a list of countries whose citizens now face increased scrutiny when they arrive in the United States because they are deemed to pose a possible terrorist threat. These restrictions, including registration, fingerprinting and photographing of some travelers, prompted Mahathir to denounce “anti-Muslim hysteria” in the United States. Four of the Oregon suspects were arrested in the United States, but Bilal and another suspect were said by officials to be in other countries. As part of efforts to catch Bilal, U.S. officials revoked his U.S. passport, providing Malaysian authorities grounds to hold him for immigration violations. A Malaysian judge has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday to review whether Bilal’s arrest was legal and ordered that his deportation be delayed in the meantime, the state-run Bernama news agency said.

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Philippine bombing probe focuses on Abu Sayyaf ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines, (Washington Post) — Police and mili-

tary investigators are focusing on Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim insurgent group labeled as terrorist by the U.S. and Philippine governments, as the mastermind behind the Oct. 2 bombing here that killed one U.S. soldier and two Filipino civilians. They are also exploring possible links to Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional militant Islamic group, and to al-Qaida, said Gen. Ernesto Carolina, chief of the Philippine Armed Forces Southern Command. In a press conference and interview today, Carolina said that investigators have under surveillance four foreign nationals suspected of dealings with Abu Sayyaf and of ties to foreign terrorist groups. He would not give names or nationalities. There have been no arrests or detentions in the case, police said. An earlier report that a Palestinian man was arrested in connection with the bombing was erroneous, officials said. In the last two months, the four “high-risk” individuals have been sighted in Zamboanga City on the southern tip of Mindanao, and elsewhere on the island, Carolina said. They have not been named by al-Qaida suspects under interrogation, he said. “They are new names,” he said. Investigators are also considering the possibility that the bomb attack was a “test mission” related to a recent Abu Sayyaf exercise on Mindanao to train guerrillas in

“urban terrorism,” Carolina said. Two men seen in Zamboanga City when the bombing occurred were known to have taken the training, he said. “If this was a test mission resulting from the training, then definitely (the bombing) is the work of Abu Sayyaf because it is only Abu Sayyaf who, in the past, has been proven to have the ability to conduct this type of urban terrorist training,” he said. He added that investigators see “a strong possibility” that the exercise involved “militant, foreign” trainers. The bomb itself resembled two others, one which exploded last month at a bus terminal here, injuring one man, and another, found two months ago in Jolo, capital of Sulu province. That bomb was defused before it detonated. The bus terminal bombing was not linked to Abu Sayyaf, but the Jolo bomb was, police said. The attack, which occurred near a Philippine Armed Forces base where U.S. military are also stationed, has not stopped people in Zamboanga from celebrating their annual patron saint festival, which runs all week. Security has been heightened, but Carolina said that the attack should not be a cause for “serious alarm.” Five days before the attack, an Abu Sayyaf leader, Khadafi Janjalani, told Radio Mindanao Network in Manila that the group was “united and strong” despite recent efforts by the Philippine military to combat it.

SEC chairman Pitt weighs his accounting policy options WASHINGTON (Newsday) — Where

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt moves, controversy follows. With three weeks before the SEC must fill five spots on a new independent board overseeing the scandal-crossed accounting industry, Pitt is being roasted for his handling of the selection process. To resolve the flap, Pitt cancelled a scheduled European trip, and tried to mollify his fellow commissioners and to duck criticism by the financial press and congressional Democrats. A veteran of controversy, Pitt has been criticized for private meetings with past clients who were under investigation and for seeking Cabinet-level status for the SEC, which would have given him a pay raise. But the volume of criticism has increased as the SEC moves to finalize arrangements for the new oversight board which represents the end of an era of self-regulation by the accounting industry. Before President Bush signed the measure creating the new board in August, Pitt was promising a blue-chip membership and asked former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to be chairman. After several weeks, Volcker said no, and Pitt approached John Biggs, retiring president and chairman of the TIAA-CREFF schoolteachers and pension fund, a respected manager of a $180 billion pension plan. Biggs’ record as an advocate for strong accounting reforms is well known and documented in recent congressional testimony. His pension fund prevented accountants from providing consulting servic-

es, a hot-button issue for the accounting industry. Biggs and Pitt won’t discuss their conversations, but when Biggs’ selection was publicized, Pitt issued a statement denying that any final decision had been made. Other SEC members were upset that they hadn’t been fully consulted. Pitt also heard from House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, who raised reservations about Biggs echoing concerns expressed by the accounting industry lobbyists. Widely respected by Republicans and Democrats, Biggs did not meet Oxley’s test, according to Peggy Peterson, Oxley’s spokeswoman. “He favors a balanced and moderate board,” she said. “The chairman should be a moderate person who is able to bring both sides of the board together.” Pitt blamed “untrue press stories” and “false stories planted in the press” for the confusion. Former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt Jr., who favors Biggs’ appointment, said on CNBC Tuesday that the ongoing controversy “suggests that kind of politicization which is bound to undermine investor confidence; and would be a tragic denigration of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, which was intended to help restore public confidence.” And the delay has drawn increased criticism from reform activists. “It’s not surprising the people who fought to the last minute against the bill would oppose a strong candidate for the board,” said Barbara Roper, director of investor protection for the Consumer Federation of America.

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Open up ACUP The Advisory Committee on University Planning — Brown’s highest representative governing body of students, faculty and administrators — met for the first time this semester in a radically different way than the group convened in the past. ACUP closed its doors to the public and plans to meet in secret indefinitely. Closing ACUP to the public and the press conflicts with the committee’s mission and stands to make the body less effective. ACUP is charged with, among other things, “maintaining a level of awareness of budgetary matters throughout the University.” In the past, varying amounts of students attended the meetings, and The Herald extensively covered ACUP’s discussions and decisions. Although we appreciate the committee’s decision to inform the community about ACUP’s decisions through forums and “briefings” to campus media, this tactic will not effectively keep the campus informed. In fact, the committee has yet to announce when it will hold any of these forums. The committee’s new chair, Provost Robert Zimmer, made the ridiculous assumption that closing the meetings will allow for “openness.” Perhaps committee members will be more open in their communication with each other behind closed doors. But, if anything, ACUP’s representatives will be less open with their constituents. Unfortunately, many of the student representatives The Herald spoke to expressed satisfaction with the decision to hold closed meetings. We urge our representatives to reconsider their opinions. ACUP was founded in the 1970s to create an open environment in which students and faculty could both participate in and observe the University’s decision making process. During the era prior to ACUP’s formation, a few high-level administrators made important governing decisions in private and nearly brought the University to financial ruin. If ACUP continues to meet in private, the University could create a situation similar to that of 30 years ago. Furthermore, open ACUP meetings have been the sites of several important and effective student protests. In May 2000, students filled University Hall during an ACUP meeting to demand the University adopt a need blind admission policy. And several months later, ACUP recommended the adoption of such a policy. It is ridiculous to assume the University’s highest governing body will remain as connected to its constituency through only “briefings” to campus media and occasional open forums. Students often question governance at Brown and perceive it as ineffective because of secret meetings, secret reports and non-disclosure. Decisions and discussions related to University governance should not be restricted to the few students, faculty and administrators who sit on committees.

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LETTERS Reparations talk must take a backseat to teaching practical skills to youth To the Editor: After reading about Michael Dawson’s slavery reparations lecture ("Author says blacks, whites view slavery reparations differently," 10/7), I feel that we must get more blacks in the economic mainstream because I'd like to add Dawson to the tax base. The current custodial state is expensive. I'd just love for blacks to study and learn to com-

pete. He should quit the Afro-American studies, learn about digital design or engineering and go to work in Silicon Gulch. Dawson may not believe it, but I and most whites don't like seeing blacks as screwed up and as miserable as they are. The projects are ugly. It's no fun watching perfectly good kids turn into semi-literate dope dealers who barely speak English. So let’s knock off the reparations talk, start studying something that can be used and work with the young people. That's how everyone else does it. It works. Then blacks would not feel left out, and racial tensions would decline. Dwight Doolan ’56 Oct. 8

Correction In “Simmons only Ivy Pres to sign anti-hate speech letter, (10/7)” the name of the organization that drafted the letter in question was incorrect.The committee is correctly called the American Jewish Committee.

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Affirmative action not reverse discrimination Affirmative action policies must exist in order to rectify the institutional racism of this country ABOUT TEN MINUTES AGO, SOMEBODY racism can be clearly seen with any minortold me that affirmative action, which sup- ity in the United States, but none so clearposedly got me into this school, was a ly as African Americans. Africans were form of reverse racism. They said that in brought to America on ships for the sole giving a minority a job over an equally purpose of providing free labor. They were qualified member of the white majority, given no rights, tortured and forced to maintain a status equal to or one is reversing the racism of lesser than an expensive which minorities complain. horse. They were liberated by Twenty minutes after setPresident Lincoln, who basitling in my new room on this cally freed them to keep the supposedly liberal campus, I union together politically. was told that I got into Brown During their time as slaves, because I am Mexican and that blacks were not given an I stole the place of other stuopportunity to establish busidents who were deserving. nesses, setting them back in Since this introduction to the modern job market. Brown, I have been told nearly A little less than a century the exact same thing by no less NICK NOON later, after sharecropping, than ten people. No matter BROWN INTRUDER mass lynchings and segregathow many times people say ed facilities, the Civil Rights this to me, I am never quite Movement began. Throughout prepared for it. I always think, “I will be ready next time,” but I never am. the movement, marchers were sprayed I always end up shouting, “SHUT THE with hoses, attacked by police dogs, beaten FUCK UP! I deserve to be here god- and herded with cattle prods. Today in the damnit!” and stop them from stealing my United States, an African American indiconfidence. But I have always wanted to vidual that kills a white individual is seven be able to sit them down and explain to times more likely to be executed than a them why affirmative action is so impor- white who kills a black. When trying to convince others of the tant and why, if it is what got me into this need for affirmative action, I always think school, I still deserve to be here. Opponents of affirmative action com- of an analogy that a teacher of mine made. plain about the job market and education. Let’s say that there is a race between two They lead a challenge against affirmative men. One man has been trained his entire action on the basis that it is a discrimina- life in track. He has had the best coaches, tory policy, which, according to oppo- good shoes and has always had time to nents, is the last thing the state should be focus on practicing. The other spent his supporting. I say that the state and nation life working to support his family instead of practicing. He has had weights on his already do. Affirmative action is necessary because back his entire life, never had shoes, and it counters the racism that our country has never had a coach. Is it fair to hold them to always had built into its system. This the same standards? Like my teacher’s analogy suggests, being born white in the United States is a head start. Nick Noon ’05 is a Latin American studies According to the Department of Justice, concentrator from Los Angeles, Calif. This the average minority will spend over twice is his first semester as a Herald columnist.

the amount of time in prison on drug related charges as his white druggie counterpart. Over 50 percent of the prison population in the United States is black and Latino; yet, according to the National Census, these groups only combine to make 31 percent of the national population. In the face of these statistics, certain political outlets claim that more minorities are in jail because they commit the most crimes. Interestingly enough, according to the Department of Health, white drug use is nearly 2.5 times greater than that of minorities. And in Florida, a black man is 75 times more likely to be pulled over than a white man. Yes, if being white is a head start, being a minority in this nation is an obstacle. Despite these obstacles that minorities must overcome in our society, opponents of affirmative action remain. It was a group of such opponents that passed Proposition 209 in California, a document under 100 words which begins, “The state shall not discriminate.” This proposition banned affirmative action in the state of California, citing the same reverse discrimination that I have heard complained about for years. Commercials for the proposition shouted, “Give all Americans a fair shake!” What they meant to say is, “Give us a fair shake but don’t go helping others at our expense. We know stuff isn’t fair for them, but that’s their problem.” What I didn’t understand then and don’t understand now is how anybody can complain that a minority was given a chance by affirmative action to combat the institutional racism that plagues our nation and makes it difficult for minorities to succeed. Affirmative action does not create racism; it fights against it. The problem isn’t with affirmative action; it is with the majority that blindly ignores obvious signs of inequality and discrimination and only raises their voice

when they see members of their own ethnic group facing minimal setbacks at the hands of affirmative action. Is their narcissism not nearly as troubling as racism itself? Beyond institutional racism, there is also the personal side to consider when discussing affirmative action. This is the part of racism that cripples spirits, the kind I experienced in my dorm. Systematic racism makes it harder for motivated people to succeed. Personal racism makes it harder for people to be motivated. I have a unique perspective on racism as a Mexican who can pass for white. I have gone places alone and been treated in a manner that I would never be treated if I were with my mom, who is very dark. I can see faces change when people realize that I am Mexican and then say, “Oh! I wouldn’t have noticed,” in a consoling way, trying to assure me that I don’t look too Mexican. To me, it is everywhere. It is in people’s faces as they get irritated when they hear me speaking Spanish with my family in a non-Mexican area. Sometimes I can almost hear them thinking, “Go back to where you came from,” either meaning my neighborhood where they don’t have to hear me — or Mexico. It was in my high school teachers’ voices when they tried to speak slang, thinking that was all I could understand. It is in white tourists’ actions in Hollywood when they see me with a group of Mexican friends walking towards them and immediately clutch their purses, letting go after we have passed and keeing their hands at their side as a group of white teenagers approaches. Racism is something that always cuts you down, whether it is institutional or personal. And you can’t choose when to deal with it because it pops up at random times. Slowly, it breaks you. And affirmative action is something that puts you back together.

For Palestinians’ sake, Arafat should take early retirement Palestinians are finally ready to proclaim that Yasser Arafat does not represent the best interests of his constituency SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE RECENT board. I thought about that a lot. Why should Palestinian Intifada two years ago, Americans have been flooded with infor- I blame an entire people for the mistakes mation about the conflict in the Middle of a few? I knew that the Palestinian peoEast. Though the debate over the West ple, as a whole, are as serious about Bank and Gaza Strip obviously means a achieving peace as Israelis. Rather than hastily demonizing the millot to some of us, I would venlions of Palestinians living in ture to say that most the territories, I took a long Americans don’t start or end DANNY WASSERMAN look at their incumbent leadtheir day thinking about the GUEST COLUMN ership. With the legendary most recent terrorist attack in politician Yasser Arafat at the Netanya or Haifa. To be honhelm of the Palestinian est, neither did I until I spent a semester abroad at the Hebrew Authority, one can easily pinpoint the cause of the present turmoil. University in Jerusalem. With this in mind, note the dissension But studying in Israel and living through the uprising for five months gave among the ranks in Ramallah. Exactly one me a new perspective on the situation. I year after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on saw two peoples living in the same city, America, the Palestinian Legislative working the same jobs, even learning Council forced the resignations of Arafat’s together at my college. Though I never entire cabinet. The threatened no-confiwitnessed a terrorist attack, I did notice dence vote followed months of Arafat’s the distrustful look I sometimes got from stubborn refusal to set a firm date for Palestinians walking past me on the street presidential and parliamentary elections. — not too dissimilar from the look of dis- Members of the legislature that led this gust some Israelis assumed when they maneuver noted that they were tired of encountered Arab-looking people. corruption and mismanagement within Guiltily, I admit that I developed a knot in their government and that they did not my stomach when I would walk by a bus believe Arafat was serious about substanstop where Palestinians were waiting to tive reform. It took eight years from Arafat’s return from exile in 1994 for anyone in his govDanny Wasserman ’03 would like you to ernment to challenge his leadership. know that the falafel ball was an Arab Palestinians are finally ready to proclaim invention, though it tastes pretty damn what Israel has advocated for years: good, even in Tel Aviv.

Yasser Arafat does not represent the best interests of his constituency. From his squandering of billions in U.S. international aid, to his (until-recent) open support for terrorist attacks upon Israeli civilian targets, Arafat has set the movement for Palestinian nationhood back many years. He is also notorious for walking out of the Camp David talks in the summer of 2000, in which former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian Authority over 95 percent of the disputed territories, as well as political sovereignty over East Jerusalem, including the ruins of the second Jewish Temple. Mu’awiya Al-Masri, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council that recently forced out Arafat’s cabinet, noted the chairman’s strict yet corrupt leadership: “There are no real numbers in the PA budget. In 1997, the Health Ministry budget was $104 million. Of this, $24 million was designated for officials’ salaries, and the rest was for ongoing expenses such as medicines, equipment, hospital construction and development of medical services. Over the course of the year, we were surprised to discover that Rafidiya Hospital in Nablus, which serves the northern West Bank, had no anesthesia (medication). The anesthesia supply costs 1,000 NIS (around $225) per week. The hospital’s activity was halted for an entire week until some citizens donated

the amount (required to purchase) anesthesia. … No one but God almighty and Yasser Arafat know where the rest of the funds from the ministry budget went — (a budget) which reaches $56 million.” A new generation of leadership will soon emerge in Ramallah, one with a proven dedication to democracy and internal development. There is a younger, educated political elite with constructive solutions to dig the Palestinian people out of poverty. Mohammed Dahlan, an Arafat advisor but a staunch supporter of a democratically elected leadership, is one fresh face who has impressed U.S. diplomats and Palestinians alike. Dahlan has also condemned suicide bombings on Israeli citizens, arguing that such actions are counterproductive. As for a viable economic agenda, regional free trade pacts, a Gaza seaport and an increase in high-tech agricultural methods could put a future Palestinian nation on par with the rest of the Middle East. But at the same time, the next generation of leaders recognizes that internal reform must come in conjunction with the struggle for sovereignty, not only after agreements with Israel are reached. In a region of the world where the passion of religions can explode with even the smallest provocation, neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis can afford to prolong this conflict for much longer.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 9, 2002 · PAGE 16

Love them or hate them, Yankees will be missed this fall DOWNTOWN AT THE TRINITY Brewhouse last week, my attention deficit disorder was getting the better of me. Despite my best efforts, I simply could not keep my eyes fastened on either my lovely companion or the band performing. Something in the corner of the bar kept stealing my eyes. Perched high and angled directly towards me, a television was playing the scenes of a stunning real-life drama. The Angels were LUKE MEIER pulling ahead of BOLTS AND NUTS the Yankees. Consecutive home runs late in the game put Anaheim ahead to stay and the Angels pulled off a marvelous upset at Yankee stadium, putting them in the driver’s seat for the series. Much to my great pleasure, the Angels eventually succeeded in finishing off the Yanks at home in four games, 3-1. The early exit of the pinstripes soon left me see MEIER, page 6

A foreign affair adds flavor to the new NBA YAO MING WILL DUNK ON SHAQUILLE O’Neal this season. Emmanuel Ginobili will embarrass certain members of this summer’s U.S. national team once again. And Steve Nash’s uncombed hair will be longer than ever, mark my words. I believe that this season will be one of the most exciting NBA seasons in recent memory because the continuing influx of foreign talent will give a jolt to the NBA HANYEN ANDREW LEE KARAOKE SINGER that it hasn’t seen since Michael Jordan retired for the second time (okay, he came back again, but Air Tendonitis doesn’t have that spring in his step anymore). Simply put, the international talent has become too good to ignore any longer. I’m a huge fan of basketball. I love watching all basketball competitions, especially the NBA. But I strongly disagree with all the sports columnists who compare the humiliation of the U.S. national team at the recent World Championships to the apocalypse. I consider it the genesis of a new era in basketball, where players can actually accurately shoot and pass the ball instead of hogging it for 23.9 seconds of the 24-second shot clock before bricking ridiculous 540 between-the-legs dunks. The fact that the U.S. team could see LEE, page 6

M. Tennis surges, falls short at ECACs BY BEN WISEMAN

At the most important tournament of the fall season thus far, the Brown men’s tennis team advanced to the semi-finals before being ousted by Harvard University. The team was seeded third this weekend at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships, a sixteenteam tournament. The Bears easily won their first two matches, routing No. 14 U.S. Naval Academy 4-0 in the first round and manhandling a tough Penn State University Team 6-1 in the quarterfinals. Bruno met second-seeded Harvard on Sunday in an outstanding semifinal battle. Brown started the match off hot, winning an important doubles point over Harvard. Nick Goldberg ’05 and Adil Shamasdin ’05 beat the number one Harvard doubles pair 8-4 and were followed by an important victory from Captain Chris Drake ’03 and Jamie Cerratani ’04 in the number three doubles match. The team headed into the singles matches up 2-1. “Getting that doubles point was key,” said Benjamin Brier ’04. “We put ourselves in a good position to win.” Harvard came out strong in singles, winning both the number one and number two seeded matches over Cerratani and Goldberg. Brown bounced back though, led again by Drake, who came back from a 0-6 loss in the first set to win the match in the third. Shamasin followed with a convincing victory over Harvard’s fifth seed 6-2, 6-3. Rookie standout Zack Pasanen ‘06 battled for three competitive sets in the

number three-seeded match, but fell short. Brown dropped its finals singles match at the number six seed as Harvard came away with the 4-3 victory and advanced to the finals. “We played well against Harvard. All of our matches were long and close,” said Drake. “We gave it our all but were just outplayed a little bit.” Brown’s loss was disappointing, but overall the team played well and showed resilience in all of its matches. Bruno elicited great effort from all of its players, and although they fell short of expectations, they come away feeling good about the tournament. “It was not a poor effort at all,” said Brier. “It is a little disappointing but you got to think: if a few points swing our way, we are playing for the championship. “There is no reason for us to hold out heads down, but anytime you lose to Harvard it is disappointing.” Harvard went on to win the championship on Monday and advances to the Indoor Nationals later in the fall. Harvard and Brown have developed a healthy rivalry over the past year. Brown defeated Harvard for the Ivy championship last spring in an intense match. Both teams are vying for national recognition come this spring season. “This loss was not so bad,” Drake said. “Harvard is a good team, possibly a top twenty school, and we know we can beat them. This should keep us motivated into the spring.” Bruno’s next big tournament is the OMNI Regional Championship. Goldberg and Shamasdin return to

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Jamie Cerratani ’04 (above) was part of a doubles’ team with Chris Drake ’03that helped win a crucial doubles point. defend their doubles title as the team looks to rebound from this weekend. Ben Wiseman ’05 covers the men’s tennis team.

Diverse competition dominates W. tennis tourney BY ADAM STERN

The Brown women’s tennis team hosted the 13th annual Brown Tennis Invitational last weekend. The University invited seven other college teams to participate in the event: the University of Alabama, Boston College, Boston University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University and Syracuse University. Brown’s players have said that the competition at this tournament from outside the Ivy League grows more intense each year. Aside from the rigorous competition involved in the annual tournament, Brown’s coaches and players enjoy the opportunity to play against teams from as far away as Alabama. “It is great to welcome the different teams from various areas of the country,” said Head Coach Norma Taylor. Bruno seldom has the opportunity to play against teams like Alabama, BC, BU or Syracuse, so it was important for Brown’s team to play well in the matches it was offered. As far as Brown’s team performance, the coaches and players were not so pleased. They said they felt that, despite Brown’s various successes in the tournament, the team underachieved. Bruno was led by Bridget Barbera ’04 who placed second in the D singles bracket. After winning in the semifinals in straight sets 6-1, 6-2, Barbera came up short in the finals against a player from Boston University. Kim Singer ’06 also took fourth place in that same bracket.

Aside from the rigorous competition involved in the annual tournament, Brown’s coaches and players enjoy the opportunity to play against teams from as far away as Alabama.“It is great to welcome the different teams from various areas of the country,” said Head Coach Norma Taylor. Bruno seldom has the opportunity to play against teams like Alabama, BC, BU or Syracuse, so it was important for Brown’s team to play well in the matches they were offered. The team enjoyed moderate success in doubles action. Yelena Klurfeld ’06 and Stephanie Falconi ’06 paired together to win third place in the C flight. “Considering the fact that we never really played doubles in the past, let alone as a team, we had an impressive performance and an extraordinary group effort,” Klurfeld said. Barbera and Singer won the D flight bracket, defeating teammate Mariana Lee ’06, who had been paired with a player from Alabama in the championship match. “Even though I was playing doubles with a freshman, she stayed amazingly together and calm,” Barbera said. “Kim got the job done when she needed to and played great throughout the entire tournament.” Caroline Casey ’03 and Adriana Marianella ’05 teamed up to win the

flight D doubles consolation bracket. Captain Victoria Beck ’04 looked at the tournament as a training session for next weekend’s Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships. “This was a very strong tournament with a high quality of play in all four divisions and it should prepare us well for the ECACs next weekend,” Beck said. The ECAC tournament will be held Columbus Day weekend at the U.S. Open site in Queens, New York. This tournament will be crucial in determining the overall success of this year’s team. Despite being seeded number four for the ECACs, Bruno hopes to place second this upcoming weekend. Adam Stern ’06 covers the women’s tennis team.