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Chancellor says Corporation favors arming Brown Police

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

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A majority of Corporation members expressed support for arming Brown Police officers at the Corporation’s first meeting of the academic year, held on campus late last week. The University’s highest governing body also discussed shortages in the financial aid budget and fundraising for academic renewal.

Though the Corporation reviewed the Bratton report on campus policing, it will leave the final decision on the arming of Brown Police to President Ruth Simmons, Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62 told The Herald.

“Since the president is ultimately responsible for Brown being a safe community, the final decision is hers,” Robert said.

Robert said the Corporation is aware of the many views on arming held by Brown community members, and all of those opinions are represented among Corporation members.

Some people “don’t want guns … on the campus,” Robert said, and some “don’t want guns but feel the criminals have brought guns to our community,” and the University must respond.

“Most of the Corporation felt that arming, while unpleasant, was necessary to provide safety,” he said.

The Corporation also discussed the planning and budget process for this academic year, which is partly

The Marcus Aurelius statue on the Main Green is one of many University statues with a rich history. see CORPORATION, page 4

Statues provide link to a storied past

BY AYANA MORALES

Students walk by sculptures every day on their way to classes, use them as backrests to study and nap on, and once in a while or demolish one as part of a senior prank. But unknown to those who pass them everyday, many Brown sculptures have interesting histories that usually go unheard.

A statue of Caesar Augustus watches over Wriston Quadrangle and greets students on their way to the Sharpe Refectory. The statue was a gift of Moses Brown Ives Goddard on Sept. 19, 1906. It is a replica of one on display in the Vatican, but with one noticeable difference – a missing arm.

The statue’s right arm originally broke off during a hurricane in 1938 when a tree fell on it. The arm was found at the foot of College Hill after rushing water washed it away, said University Archivist Martha Mitchell. But the arm’s current whereabouts are unknown, Mitchell said.

“There are two reasons why this statue is of value,” said William H.P. Faunce, ninth president of the University, upon the statue’s unveiling. “In the fist place, it represents one of the first specimens of manhood and physical development of my age, and secondly, it serves to remind us of the great Augustus age of art and literature, an age when both were at its best.”

One of Brown’s most famous superstitions involves the statue of John Hay in the entrance in the library named for him. Rubbing the statue’s nose is supposed to bring good luck before final exams and on big dates.

Augustus Saint-Gauden sculpted the bust around 1904.

After John Hay died in 1905, his wife Clara Stone Hay presented the bust to the University.

A bust of Dante also graces the terrace of the John Hay Library. It came to Brown as a gift from Providence’s Italian community in 1921 in commemoration of the anniversary of Dante’s death.

Marcus Aurelius, the Roman emperor featured in the movie “Gladiator,” watches over Lincoln Field. It

was unveiled on June 1, 1908, and was presented by Robert Ives Goddard in 1858 on behalf of his brother, Moses Brown Ives Goddard, who passed away in 1854.

Brown’s mascot also has an interesting story. In 1887, Theodore Francis Green, a member of the building committee for what would become Faunce House, along with other University officials, searched for “a definite symbol for Brown,” according to the Encyclopedia Brunoniana.

The huge bear on the Main Green that guards the mailroom is known as the Bronze Bruno. Bruno, created by New York animal sculptor Ely Harvey, lived outside Marvel Gym until it was moved to its current location in 1992.

But wherever it stood, the bear has always tread on famous territory. The slate of rock on which the bear stands is believed to have been stepped upon by Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, who fought for religious freedom, said Mitchell.

To raise money for the bear before its unveiling in 1923, the University used the slogan “Put a Hair on the Bear.” It cost $1 to put “one hair” on the bear, or $100 to claim a whole patch of hair, according to the Encyclopedia Brunoniana. Brown cast it in bronze after commencement that year.

In the front yard of Maddock Alumni Center stands a 5’6” statue of a man in a bear suit, complete with two stone human eyes peer out of the bear’s mouth. It was sculpted by Nicholas Swearer, the son of former President Howard Swearer, as a farewell gift from the Class of 1949 marking the end of Swearer’s administration on Nov. 12, 1988.

For several decades in the mid-twentieth century, the University commissioned no new sculptures The dry spell broke when “Bridge Prop,” a one-ton sculpture of a reclining woman was donated by Laura and David Finn in 1974. A Brown News Bureau release at see STATUES, page 4

Citing concerns over underage drinking, U. tells Underground to stop serving alcohol The Office of Student Life barred the Underground last week from serving alcohol because of concerns that underage drinkers frequent the on-campus establishment, said Director of the Brown News Service Mark Nickel.

Underground General manager Ally Dickie ’03 said Associate Dean of Student Life James Stascavage called her Thursday and arranged a meeting to discuss the situation with OSL. The meeting is scheduled for noon today.

In the interim, Stascavage told her that the Underground would be prohibited from serving alcohol, Dickie said.

“Questions have come up as to whether the Underground serves alcohol to underage people,” Nickel said. “Until these questions are resolved, they won’t be able to serve alcohol, but the Underground can remain open.”

The Underground’s managers closed the establishment Thursday night, and it has been closed since, Dickie said.

Nickel said he was “not aware of any specific incident” that would have prompted Stascavage’s phone call.

Nicholas Fribourg ’03, who was a patron of the Underground last Wednesday from 10:15 p.m. until closing, said, “As far as I know, nothing happened (that night). ... The nights are kind of a mixture there. As far as I remember, I don’t remember seeing any police officers there.”

Noah Wangh ’03, the Underground’s manager last Wednesday night, declined to comment.

Dickie said the Underground will re-open today, although she didn’t know if alcohol would be served.

Stascavage was unavailable for comment.

— Elena Lesley

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Explosion rocks home of Cicilline campaign assistant early Sunday morning page 3

New e-mail regulations require students to register alternate addresses page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Hanne Eisenfeld ’06 considers touch, the loneliest of the five senses column,page 15

Men’s soccer battles Columbia to 1-1 tie in Friday action on rainy Stevenson Field sports,page 16

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Travelers Aid announces move to Broad Street

BY LISA MANDLE

Home of Cicilline campaigner rocked by explosion early Sunday morning An early Sunday morning explosion that rocked the home of one of Democratic mayoral candidate David Cicilline’s ’83 campaign workers may have been a firebombing, according to Providence Police.

The explosion and subsequent fire woke residents of Eulogio Acevedo’s Woodman Street home at about 5:30 a.m., the Providence Journal reported Monday. Acevedo’s family and tenants in an upstairs apartment found cars parked in front of the home burning.The three cars that caught fire did not belong to the Acevedos.

“There was fire everywhere,” Maryelyn Acevedo, Eulogio’s wife, told the Providence Journal. A quick response from the fire department prevented damage to the interior of the house, located about three miles from the Brown campus.

Providence Fire Department Chief James Rattigan told the Journal that the fire is suspicious and that investigators collected evidence. He declined to comment on whether there are any suspects.

Maryelyn said officials told her they had “recovered a broken glass container that had apparently contained gasoline, a sock and a bunch of matches,” the Journal reported. She said she doesn’t know anyone who would be capable of such a potentially dangerous attack, but she admitted she could not know if it was related to her husband’s involvement with Cicilline’s campaign.

Eulogio, a building contractor, helped Cicilline secure Hispanic support that helped the candidate win the Democratic primary election in September. Recent polls put Cicilline in the lead to win the November election.

“It may have nothing to do with the campaign,” Ann Gooding, Cicilline’s press secretary, told the Journal. She admitted, though, that “the timing is kind of funny.”

— Juliette Wallack

Travelers Aid of Rhode Island’s acquisition of the former Greater Providence YMCA building on Broad Street will help the organization offer health services, literacy programs, subsidized housing and job training.

Travelers Aid will relocate from its downtown Union Street location to the YMCA building. The organization plans to fully occupy the building in July, said Jan HallStinson director of development.

The summer move to Broad Street will give Travelers Aid clients twice the amount of existing program space and four times the amount of free health and dental services, Hall-Stinson said.

With the agency currently “bursting at the seams,” these added services will allow Travelers Aid to fulfill its mission in “extraordinary ways,” Hall-Stinson said.

The move will open room for separate waiting and service areas for runaway youth, families and adults as well as a play area funded by a donation from Hasbro, Hall-Stinson said.

There will also be a respite care area for sick or elderly clients who would otherwise be forced onto the streets during the day, she said.

Travelers Aid recently took over operation of the YMCA’s 10-story, 178 unit subsidized housing development on Broad Street.

Through a partnership with Johnson and Wales University, Travelers Aid will open an on-site cafeteria.

This will benefit the subsidized housing residents whose apartments lack cooking facilities, Hall-Stinson said.

Travelers Aid will offer a training program in operating copy machines and printing, a literacy program and computer and keyboarding classes, Hall-Stinson said. The copy machine training was created through a collaboration with Fleet Bank, she said.

The organization needs an additional $2 million to finalize the move. Travelers Aid hopes that the remaining

With the agency currently “bursting at the seams,” these added services will allow Travelers Aid to fulfill its mission in “extraordinary ways,” HallStinson said. The move will open room for separate waiting and service areas for runaway youth, families and adults as well as a play area funded by a donation from Hasbro, Hall-Stinson said. There will also be a respite care area for sick or elderly clients who would otherwise be forced onto the streets during the day, she said. funds will come from individuals and business in the community, Hall-Stinson said.

Sixteen thousand people use Travelers Aid’s services annually, and the organization has many opportunities for volunteers, Hall-Stinson said.

No Brown students volunteer or work with Travelers Aid, according to the Swearer Center and Travelers Aid employees.

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Corporation continued from page 1 affected by the weak economy.

Brown was one of few universities to experience a positive growth in its endowment last year, Robert noted, but with only a 0.2 percent gain, “it’s still not growing very well.”

Because of the down economy, more families are having difficulty paying for college, thus stretching the financial aid budget past capacity, Robert said. That shortage, he said, will not affect need-blind admission for the Class of 2007.

The budget woes and small endowment growth will not derail the implementation of Simmons’ academic renewal plans, Robert said.

The Corporation’s support, he said, “hasn’t changed at all.”

Statues continued from page 1 the time stated: “Please come and help welcome this heaviest of Brown women.” The donors have three children who graduated from the University.

The introduction of this sculpture was a “first step in the new program at Brown to make sculpture a living and vital experience

But, he said, the University must be careful right now.

“We’re kind of expanding and growing at a time when many universities are cutting back,” Robert said.

At the October faculty meeting, Simmons said budgetary woes could delay the hiring of 100 new faculty, originally scheduled to be complete within five years.

“The money may affect it some,” Robert said, “but in fact, I think what is going to drive” the timetable is the availability of qualified professors.

Searches “to find outstanding ones,” can sometimes take longer than desired, regardless of financial issues, Robert said.

Trustee Karen Winnick, wife of embattled Global Crossing’s chief executive officer Gary Winnick, did not attend this meeting due to family obligations, Robert said.

But, he added. she remains a

trustee and her six-year term is secure.

Trustee Frank Newman ’47, visiting professor of sociology and public policy, said he thought the Corporation meeting was successful and included “lots of serious discussion.”

Robert concurred, saying the meeting was “terrific.”

There was “a lot of conversation about positive things that are happening, particularly with the plans for academic enrichment,” he said, and there is “great support for the president and the administration.”

The Corporation will meet again in late February to discuss and vote on Simmons’ proposals.

for students,” the donors told a Brown Alumni Magazine reporter. “Bridge Prop” now rests on the Main Green and has become a resting, studying and eating spot for students.

The more recent Brown sculptures are distinctly different from the older ones.

“One and a Half,” an abstract work of bronze and stainless steel dedicated in 1985 lies on the pathway to the Science Library.

Stanford University has a smaller

version of the sculpture.

“America One” — located outside the Center for Information and Technology — was donated

by Artemis Joukowsky ‘55.

Viewers of the sculpture compared it to a soccer ball.

“That’s the way it should be …

Modern sculpture invites discussion and interpretation,” Joukowsky told a Brown Alumni Magazine reporter. “After all, this isn’t a statue of George Washington.”

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

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An abstract work of bronze and stainless steel,“One and a Half” was dedicated in 1985.

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CIS to reform e-mail delivery system Students have until Oct. 29 to register alternate e-mail addresses, which will replace the current nickname system

BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

In the first of several changes to overhaul Brown’s e-mail system, Computing and Information Services is phasing out the current nickname-based method of e-mail delivery and asking users to register new alternate e-mail addresses.

The change, which will go into effect Oct. 29, is part of an effort “to bring our mail services from where they are to where they should be,” said John Spadaro, director of systems and services at CIS. “What we’re reacting to is bad design,” he said.

The current e-mail system dates to the early 1990s, “a very different time for the Internet,” Spadaro said. Even as students, faculty and staff were just beginning to use email, some were frustrated with the length of their e-mail addresses. This prompted CIS to create the nickname system.

When an e-mail was sent to a non-existing Brown account, CIS programmed the system to deliver the message to the most likely e-mail address. Under this “fuzzy logic” method, the system guesses the recipient based on names and nicknames listed in Brown’s Electronic Address Book, Spadaro said.

Since then “the mail system has grown tremendously,” he said. And the “fuzzy logic” system proved helpful to disseminators of an unexpected nuisance: junk e-mail, also known as spam.

Most spam is sent to addresses generated by adding “@brown.edu” to surnames picked at random from a telephone book or other source. The “fuzzy logic” system delivers spam to Brown accounts.

Under the current system, if a spammer sends an email to a name that appears in more than one Brown account, that e-mail is bounced back to the spammer with a list of all valid e-mail addresses that contain the name.

Using nicknames to deliver e-mail also leaves the system open to other types of abuse. A user who created a nickname closely approximating another’s name could effectively steal that person’s identity.

Last spring someone created the nickname Ruth.Simmons, allowing him or her to impersonate

President Ruth Simmons, whose NetID is Ruth_Simmons.

CIS removed the nickname, but the incident revealed the system’s weakness, said Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president of CIS. But according to the EAB, current student nicknames include ruthsimmons, Ruth_J_Simmons, president and Ruth_Simmons, which is also the president’s official email address.

The old system does not check if two people have the same nickname and allows multiple users to select the same nickname. In those cases, neither would receive email sent to that nickname, Waite-Franzen said.

Under the new system, the fuzzy logic method and its accompanying problems will be eliminated, WaiteFranzen and Spadaro said.

Instead, users can register up to four alternate e-mail addresses. The new registration system is designed to prevent people from registering an address that is already another user’s NetID, short ID or alternate address.

E-mail sent to an alternate address will be delivered to a user’s main inbox.

CIS announced the changes in an Oct. 3 e-mail to users who have received e-mail through the fuzzy logic system or used the EAB nickname field.

A similar message will be sent to the entire campus shortly, and an additional notice will be sent to those still relying on “fuzzy logic” one week before the method is eliminated entirely on Oct. 29, Spadaro said. After that date, users will no longer receive e-mail sent to any address other than their exact NetID or registered alternate addresses.

While the alternate addresses work like nicknames, the registration system eliminates some of the loopholes that made the nickname system ineffective, Waite-Franzen said.

In addition to programs that prevent users from registering alternate addresses that overlap with another user’s identity, CIS staff members review every alternate address to guard against identity theft.

Some users attempted to register “President” and “Provost” as alternate e-mail addresses, Waite-Franzen said.

CIS also places restrictions on alternate addresses that are clearly vulgar, Spadaro said. But he said most addresses would be allowed.

“I’ve seen a few go by that have added a few gray hairs see E-MAIL, page 6

Futures Project looks at how market affects higher ed The report, which looks at public and private schools, examines how higher education has grown more competitive in reaction to market pressures

BY ELLEN WERNECKE

As annual college rankings hit newsstands this fall, the University’s Futures Project was looking beyond the numbers to focus on new trends in higher education.

The project, called “Policy for Higher Education in a Changing World,” addresses the effects of market forces on higher education in its latest report, “Meeting the Competition: College and University Presidents, Faculty and State Legislators View the New Competitive Academic Arena.”

Lara Couturier, director of research at the Futures Project, said the project will analyze the “degree to which higher education around the world has grown more competitive.”

“We’re lucky to draw on Brown’s resources,” she said.

Still, the report does not speak only to “prestigious institutions,” but rather to public and private colleges and universities throughout the country.

“Meeting the Competition,” conducted in conjunction with the New York research and education institution Public Agenda, identifies issues like the growth of forprofit institutions, the impact of technology in the classroom and the effect of globalization on higher education in the United States.

“The most important thing is to recognize the changing climate in which higher education operates,” said Frank Newman ’47, director of the Futures Project and a visiting professor in public policy and sociology.

“We’re somewhat less affected by factors discussed” in the report, he said, but added that Brown should by

no means consider itself insulated against such changes.

Focus groups composed of college and university presidents, faculty members and legislators serving on committees related to higher education in their states served as the primary sources for the report. Using their comments, the Futures Project and report author John Immerwahr, associate vice president for Academic Affairs at Villanova University, developed a portrait of current trends in higher education.

Couturier said the Futures Project limits its formal presentations, choosing instead to put forth ideas and scenarios to “generate discussion” in the academic community through published reports.

Newman, who serves as a Corporation trustee, discussed the impact of the study’s findings on Brown.

He said President Ruth Simmons was “exactly what the doctor ordered” for the University. He also said Brown must continue to ask itself “tough questions” to improve.

“At other universities, those kinds of question asking are not present,” Newman said. “The culture is one of satisfaction.”

Newman referred to his tenure at Stanford University where he said faculty and administrators were continually looking for ways to improve the university — until it reached national prominence.

“The opportunity to contribute to such an institution begins to diminish,” he said of Stanford. Though Newman characterized Brown as a school that “always has had to prove itself — and now more than ever,” he warned against academic and social complacency within the University.

“If you go around saying, ‘We are the greatest. We are the greatest. Everything we do is wonderful,’ you’re going to run into trouble in this world,” Newman said.

“So little of the competition at Brown is about money,” he said. “A lot of it is about prestige. We want it to be about performance.”

U. to overhaul system of measuring students’ writing proficiency

BY AKSHAY KRISHNAN

The University recently announced plans to suspend its method of enforcing the English writing requirement, giving faculty members the exclusive responsibility of monitoring students’ writing ability.

The change acknowledges the fact that the present system of monitoring writing proficiency is not working, said Dean of the College Paul Armstrong.

He said a survey conducted among students who were identified as writing deficient by the admission office and who subsequently took a writing course on arriving at Brown found the students demonstrated no pattern of improvement in writing ability.

Under the current system, the admission office reviews incoming first-years’ applications and refers students who need help with writing to the Dean of the College’s office. Faculty members are responsible for monitoring writing proficiency only after students enroll at Brown.

Armstrong said he plans to do away with the admission office’s monitoring of writing skills for two to four years — but the change is not permanent.

“We felt, after consulting with the College Curriculum Council, that the checks made by faculty would be a more reliable indicator of problems with student writing than the analysis of application materials done by the admission office,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong identified misuse as one problem with the current system, which relies on faculty’s willingness to single out on the grade sheet those students who need help with writing.

“Most faculty members are unaware or don’t understand the importance of the ‘writing check’ column on the grade sheet. Very few faculty members refer students to our office,” Armstrong said.

“In fact there are more students who need help with their writing than now receive writing checks.”

But Armstrong said he recommends 75 to 100 students take a writing course based on the admission office’s recommendations.

Despite the change in monitoring, there is no clear consensus on what must be done after two faculty members indicate that a student is deficient in writing.

“I think it’s only fair that a student who is writing deficient is made to take a writing course. You can’t have graduates from Brown not being able to write proficiently,” Jeff Carleton ’03 said.

Others do not agree with the mandatory class requirement, like Lawrence Stanley, lecturer in English.

“I don’t think students should be made to sit in on a writing course. It makes for a healthier class and teaching environment when you have students who actually want to take that course consciously,” Stanley said. “Enforcing students to take a writing course isn’t in keeping with the spirit of things at Brown, especially when you have a lot of takers for your writing courses anyway.”

Dimitris Tsoupides ’05 agreed.

“If a student is notified as being writing deficient, it isn’t fair to enforce him or her to sit through a course that is a semester long. This goes against the spirit of things at Brown,” he said. “The student may be better served going to the writing center or working with the writing fellows.”

Shona Bhattacharyya ’06 said students deficient in writing should be advised to take a writing course, but should not be required to actually attend one.

“If a student is shown up as being ‘writing deficient,’ the faculty may make a strong suggestion, but the choice must ultimately be the student’s as to how to set it right,” she said. “The student should be able to decide as to whether he or she wants to go to the writing center or to the writing fellows or take a course.”

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E-mail continued from page 5 to my head,” he said. But he said CIS would only intervene in the most extreme cases.

Students who have registered alternate e-mail addresses said the changes haven’t made a significant difference in their ability to use the e-mail system.

Fuzzy logic didn’t work for Matthew Jackson ’03. Like most students whose first and last names are not unique in Brown’s system, Jackson has an official email address that includes his middle initial. “There are two Matthew Jacksons at Brown,” he said. “People would send me stuff … and the other kid got it instead of me.”

Jackson registered two alternate e-mail addresses. He uses

Soccer continued from page 16 the second overtime, but failed to convert.

“We really felt like we had the better team out there,” Romaneiro ’03 said.

At this point in the season, the Bears face quite an uphill battle if they are to return the Ivy League championship to College Hill for the third consecutive year. In all likelihood, Brown will have to win out in its remaining five matches to have any hope of a title.

While that certainly is not out of

Runners continued from page 16 spraining her foot while striding down a hill.

“The way she ran is an indicator that she could make the NCAAs as an individual,” Wemple said.

Crocker was followed by teammates Rosie Woodford ’03 and Nora Sullivan ’06 in 18:08 and 18:09, respectively. Woodford and Sullivan ran the 5k course together. “(They were) pushing and pulling the entire way,” Wemple said. Anna Willard ’06, Julie Komosinski ’05, Annie Hatch ’06 and Kristin Ware ’04 finished 34th, 39th, 52nd, and 85th for Brown in a field of over 280 runners.

Wemple believes the team will have to tighten up the top five spots on varsity in order to place well at the Heptagonal Championships

Salt continued from page 16 There is no other player in the league who would get this kind of respect from opposing managers and there is no one else who deserves it. A-Rod, no way. Giambi, are you joking? Brian Daubach?

Okay, maybe there is one other player. Bonds is the most feared hitter of our time, but probably not of all time. With all this talk about how good Bonds is and how dominant he is, people forget that Bonds isn’t the greatest of all time.

He may be the best of this generation and even the best in the last 50 years, but as Thomas Boswell pointed out, Bonds cannot come

his initials for most purposes, and among friends he uses one derived from his nickname, “Action Jackson.”

Neither e-mail address is new, though — Jackson used both as nicknames under the old system.

“I haven’t noticed a change,” he said.

Michael Kreidman ’02.5 also uses a former nickname as an alternate address. He said he uses the nickname to prevent confusion over his frequently misspelled last name.

Kreidman, who never had trouble receiving mail under the old system, said he has “no problems so far” with the new one.

In addition to the changes in e-mail delivery, CIS is also upgrading the anti-virus system.

Last spring, CIS implemented a new anti-virus program that “wasn’t quite ready for prime time” and caused major delays in

e-mail delivery, Spadaro said. He said CIS has since prevented mail delays by having employees monitor the system 24 hours a day, but the new system will make such labor-intensive efforts unnecessary.

The upgrade to the anti-virus system will take place this weekend, Waite-Franzen said.

In the next few weeks, CIS will announce a major overhaul that will essentially “replace WebMail,” Waite-Franzen said.

Waite-Franzen and Spadaro said more improvements will follow this year, but declined to provide details.

The changes should be complete by September 2003, Spadaro said.

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

the realm of possibility – last season the Bears went on a four-game Ivy League run to close out the season – it will be especially hard to do given some of the team’s injuries.

Adom Crew ’04, the team’s leading scorer who had recorded a goal in each of the team’s previous six matches, suffered an injury in last Thursday’s practice and it is doubtful that he will return this season.

Julian Jordan ’04 went out of Saturday’s match with an injury and never returned. His status is unknown. Both Crew and Jordan are starters and were honorable mentions to last season’s All-Ivy team. Omar Macedo ’03, a starter

in the midfield, has also been out of action.

The Bears next match is against Providence College this afternoon at Stevenson field at 4 p.m. Brown hopes to use this match to prepare for the remainder of its league schedule that starts back up on Saturday at Princeton. “(Against Providence) we just need to put in a full game and concentrate for 90 minutes,” Quidichay-Swan said.

(also known as “Heps”) and NCAA Regionals. “If we have that 50-second spread, we’ll find it hard to place higher than fourth at Heps,” he said.

The key just might be right in front of Wemple’s nose. In the junior varsity race at New Englands, three Brown women proved that they are ready for the challenge.

Caci Cambruzzi ’04, Rachel Kitson ’05 and Anya Davidson ’06 ran side-by-side, controlling the race and securing the top three spots.

“It was really great to run with teammates because they pulled me along in the third mile,” Cambruzzi said. “They gave me a lot of encouragement and motivation.”

In the final 800 meters, Cambruzzi used her track speed to run away from her two teammates and the 200-plus other runners in the race and won in a time of 18:40.

Kitson and Davidson closely fol-

lowed in times of 18:48 and 18:49.

“The three top j.v. runners are knocking on the door of varsity,” Wemple said.

The Brown women will be preparing for the Heptagonal Championship over the next three weeks. Wemple says the extra time will allow for increased mileage, longer and faster workouts and closer attention to the needs of some individuals.

“We’ll train hard for two weeks and then taper in that final week (before Heps),” Wemple said.

Brown’s top twelve runners will race at the Heptagonal Championship, which takes place at the challenging Van Cortlandt Park course in New York City on Nov. 1.

close to comparing to the Babe.

Though Bonds has had a great career, he had not hit 50 homeruns until last year, which remains the only year he has hit over 50. While Bonds has had two amazing seasons, Ruth did this throughout most of his career, even out-homering the entire league one year. Ruth would have also been the best pitcher in the league if he had been allowed to keep pitching. Bonds can’t even touch that.

Comparing Bonds to ghosts of the past, however, serves little purpose. What matters is that Bonds is the best player today. Although people may not like it, the temperamental superstar is head and shoulders above the rest of the league.

While many players strive for 200

hits in a year, Bonds was close to 200 walks with 198. Situations where pitchers are forced to pitch to Bonds have to be some of the most exciting moments in all of sports. It happens so rarely that people need to make sure they tune in to see these tense moments.

If managers choose to pitch to Bonds, this will be the first time Bonds is on a national stage where everybody can see how truly amazing a player he is. And believe me, Bonds wants to show you how good he is, and you should let him.

Sports staff writer Nick Gourevitch ’03 is an assistant sports editor and covers the men’s soccer team.

He can be reached at ngourevitch@browndailyherald.com.

Sports staff writer Melissa Perlman ’04 covers women’s cross country.

She can be reached at mperlman@browndailyherald.com.

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

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IN BRIEF Falwell apologizes for remarks (Washington Post) — A recent series of disparaging remarks about Islam by the Rev. Jerry Falwell and other evangelical Christian leaders have sparked riots in India, helped religious parties win elections in Pakistan and undermined public sympathy in Islamic countries for the U.S. war on terrorism, experts said Monday.

Falwell apologized over the weekend for calling Mohammad, the founder of Islam, a “terrorist” in an interview broadcast Sept. 30 by the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”“I sincerely apologize that certain statements of mine ... were hurtful to the feelings of many Muslims. I intended no disrespect to any sincere, law-abiding Muslim,” the Southern Baptist minister said.

But the damage was done, according to academic specialists.

“Jerry Falwell makes a statement, he pleases his constituents, then he says he’s sorry and apparently thinks that’s the end of it,” said Akbar Ahmed, chairman of Islamic studies at American University.“What Americans don’t realize is that remarks like this are flashed all over the Muslim world, and they are doing very serious damage to U.S. interests.”

Falwell did not return calls to his office seeking comment Monday. In the “60 Minutes” interview, he said,“I think Mohammad was a terrorist ... . Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses, and I think Mohammad set an opposite example.”

In the Indian city of Solapur, Muslim youths who had gathered to protest Falwell’s remarks clashed Friday with Hindu crowds and local police, causing a riot that left at least eight people dead and 90 injured, according to wire reports. In Iran, Egypt and Lebanon, Muslim clerics denounced Falwell, some calling for the evangelist’s death and others urging a nonviolent response.

Russians turn from vodka to beer MOSCOW (Washington Post) — The table in the bar called

Russian Style offered a tableau of Russian style old and new: As they sat down to talk business one afternoon last week, Andrei Gromtsev ordered two shots of vodka, but Sergei Sergeyev had a tall glass of Klinskoye beer.

“I prefer to get a little buzz, but not much,” said Sergeyev, 30, a trader.“I like to eat spicy food and it goes well with beer. It enhances the taste of the food and it’s hard to resist.”

A decade ago — even a few years ago — passing up vodka for beer would have been unheard of here. But Russia is undergoing another revolution, this one playing out as much in the bars as on the streets. The country famed for its vodka-swilling is turning quite dramatically to pale ales, stouts and their cousins. Consumption of beer per capita has nearly tripled in the last six years.

And marketing firms predict beer sales will outpace vodka sales this year for the first time in Russia.

“People are switching from stronger drinks to beer,” said Maria Vanifatora, director of the Business Analitica marketing agency’s retail index, which estimates that Russians will spend $6.5 billion on beer this year, compared with $6.3 billion on vodka.“Of course it’s a big change.”

The consequences for Russian self-identity are hard to overestimate. Imagine if the French started drinking more beer thanwine. Or the Germans more wine than beer. This is, after all, the nation that boasts several vodka museums, where every attempt to limit vodka consumption by decree has failed spectacularly, from the czars and Lenin right up to Mikhail Gorbachev’s antialcohol program in the 1980s. Yet what the Kremlin failed to achieve, modern breweries have begun to accomplish.

Historically, vodka has been viewed as a God-given right. Some Russians throw back their first shot of the day with breakfast. On early morning flights, business executives barely wait until takeoff to crack open the bottles. At street kiosks, a bottle can be had for just a couple of bucks. If that’s too pricey, there’s vodka in a can.

While the purchase price has remained low, the cost has remained high. Alcoholism is rampant — and one reason life expectancy for Russian men has fallen below 60 in recent years.

Thanks to alcoholic benders, Russia suffers from phenomenally high rates of people drowning, freezing to death and falling from windows.

Indonesia links Qaeda to Bali attack JAKARTA, Indonesia (Washington Post) — Osama bin Laden’s

al-qaeda network, working through a local group, played a role in the Saturday night bombing that killed more than 180 people in Bali, Indonesia’s defense minister said Monday. The government promised concerted action to prevent more attacks, ending a long-standing position that terrorism is not a problem in this overwhelmingly Muslim country.

“We are sure al-qaeda is here,” Defense Minister Matori Abdul Djalil said after a cabinet meeting in Jakarta. “The Bali bomb blast is related to al-qaeda with the cooperation of local terrorists.”

He offered no evidence, and other officials said it was too soon to pin the explosion on bin Laden’s network.

Some foreign diplomats have suggested the Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiah might have been involved.

At the White House, President Bush echoed Djalil’s remarks. “I think we have to assume it’s al-qaeda,” Bush said. “We’re beginning to hear some reports that’s more definitive than that, but I wait for our own analysis.”

He said the bombing, along with a recent explosion on a French supertanker off Yemen and an attack on U.S. Marines in Kuwait, appeared to be part of a campaign by the organization blamed for the Sept. 11 hijackings last year. “It does look like a pattern of attacks that the enemy, albeit on the run, is trying to once again frighten and kill freedom-loving people,” Bush said.

Bali police Monday said they detained 27 people for questioning about the bombing, which devastated two nightclubs and surrounding buildings in the Bali resort town, a haven for surfers, sailors and sun-seeking backpackers.

A spokesman for the Bali police, Yatim Suyatmo, indicated the detainees, who lived near the clubs, were not suspected of carrying out the attack. “From these people we can get more information to trace the suspects and solve the case,” Suyatmo said. “... We will reveal who was the actor behind the bombing.”

With the help of a national police forensics team from Surabaya, the capital of East Java, investigators in Bali are trying to determine what explosive was used. Indonesian authorities said they were also receiving technical assistance from four Australian Federal Police agents and from the FBI. As medical teams continued working to identify bodies recovered from burned wreckage, police and diplomats put the confirmed death toll at 181. That was slight-

ly lower than an estimate Sunday; officials warned that the number could rise again.

An official at the Australian Foreign Affairs Ministry said more than 1,700 Australians had been flown out of Bali on commercial flights since the explosion. More than 70 injured Australians, some of them wounded critically, have been evacuated on a Hercules military transport plane.

The official added that Australia airlifted 12 victims of other nationalities to Australia for medical care. About 220 Australians are listed as missing. Two Americans have been confirmed dead.

Monday, the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta began preparations to evacuate nonessential embassy personnel for at least 30 days.

Carol Hessler, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia, said American companies are individually evaluating whether to withdraw employees from Indonesia.

The bombing, which devastated an island that had long avoided the political turmoil common elsewhere in Indonesia, continued Monday to roil the country. The Jakarta stock Exchange index fell 10.4 percent to a fouryear low, and the Indonesian currency, the rupiah, fell to its lowest level against the dollar in almost six months.

The government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri promised to move decisively. “Enough is enough,” said Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. “The government will take very firm action, and there will be no more doubts in combating terrorism.” He admonished other government officials for making “unobjective statements that there is no terrorism in Indonesia.”

Vice President Hamzah Haz, who once challenged authorities to arrest him before arresting Indonesian Muslim hard-liners linked to terrorism, also changed direction. “Regarding the threat of terrorism,” he told reporters after the cabinet meeting, “whoever the perpetrators are, whether they are ordinary people, government authorities or clerics, none of them have any impunity.”

Suyatmo said police are investigating whether one or two bombs destroyed the Sari Club and Paddy’s, the two bars in Kuta Beach that exploded. He said the roof of a vehicle believed to have been armed with a bomb was blown into the air and found on the third floor of a building near the Sari Club.

Theories abound for sniper profile BETHESDA, Md. (L.A. Times) — They say the slayer is young

or they say he’s old; describe him as a hunter or a crazed soldier or a militant foreigner. They say he acts alone, or with a buddy, or with a girlfriend.

“A Timothy McVeigh type,” said a housewife named Caroline.

“A nut that’s a sharpshooter,” court reporter Harlyne Blum said, scooting across the parking lot from the gym and ducking into her car.

“A terrorist,” said Arkansas tourist Jim Boyer.

Washington’s suburbs have become an unwilling hunting ground stalked by a faceless sniper. The public has been given no suspect; no pencil sketch; no description; no grainy video still; no hometown; no motive.

Police describe a white getaway truck — but white trucks are everywhere, idling on street corners, heaving through alleyways, wheeling past on the freeway. Aside from the maddeningly ubiquitous trucks, there is just a shadow of a killer, anonymous and mercurial.

In the absence of fact, the people of this rattled region are turning to fancy. Just about everybody has a sniper theory here in Montgomery County, which as near as anybody can tell is where the shooting spree began 13 days ago. Since then, 10 people have been shot, eight are dead — the most recent on Friday — and locals have adopted all manner of myth to explain the bursts of curbside death.

“Everybody is in the same bewildered state, but people have to do something,” Northwestern University sociologist Bernard Beck said. “If you can say, ‘Well, they’re more likely to be like this than like that,’ it’s an attempt to make yourself feel safer.”

And so amateur profilers haunt every corner shop, swapping their private visions of an unseen killer.

“I picture him as a 25-year-old to 45-year-old gun enthusiast type. The sort of fellow that would hang out at gun shows,” said the brown-haired woman named Caroline. She clutches a newspaper to her chest, watches the leaves skitter at her feet and declines to give her

last name. “Just a real loser,” she added tersely. “And — you know — working-class, I guess.”

When authorities released a composite illustration of a workman’s truck over the weekend, Caroline had a rush of vindication. “It fit what I imagined him doing,” she said. “A not very intelligent job.”

Around the corner, an Armenian immigrant named Vart Ozbenian peers out the window of his grocery. The sky overhead is a flat white; the avenue stands almost empty. A lone customer shuffles before the deli case.

“They’re terrorists,” said Ozbenian, 62. “It seems like they’re very smart. If it were just one crazy man, he’d do something wrong. He’d kill too many people in one day, and he’d get caught. But these people are good at their killing.”

It has happened time and time again: The unknown is the scariest. Darkness arranges itself into shapes, and every threatened community puts a face on its enemy — usually projecting the fears already lurking in their midst.

It was a phenomenon noted by Montgomery County Police Chief Charles A. Moose at Monday’s single news briefing. “Everybody is edgy,” he told reporters, describing a flurry of calls that turned out to be car backfires or breaking glass. “People are hearing things.”

The sniper theories are thick in contradiction. A popular dispute: How many assailants lurk behind the killings?

“He’s acting alone,” said Dan Grainger, 26. “It would be too hard for him to have somebody with him. I think he’s white. Middle-aged. Disgruntled — you know.”

“I picture him being by himself,” said artist Eileen Hall.

But some witnesses have said two people rode in the white van. Because snipers often act in pairs, the idea of double gunmen has some traction.

“He’s probably working with somebody else, and that’s how he’s escaping,” said Howard Page. “Maybe he’s ditching the weapon in somebody else’s car.”

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Al-Qaeda heeding calls for new attacks (Washington Post) — Recent suicide

bombing attacks and plots against Westerners show that al-qaeda loyalists are heeding their weakened leadership’s call to initiate a new terror campaign using rudimentary, smaller-scale operations aimed at creating economic hardship, according to U.S., Western and Arab intelligence officials and experts.

With its leaders in hiding and its finances and communications slashed by war, al-qaeda is resorting to more indiscriminate attacks against “soft” targets. But officials warn that while the strategy may be a sign of weakness, the simplicity of these attacks might make them more difficult to predict and prevent.

Saturday’s car bomb attack in a nightclub district on the Indonesian island of Bali, which that country’s defense minister Monday linked to al-qaeda and its local allies, was the latest in a string of fatal attacks that include sniper killings in Kuwait, Afghanistan and the Philippines, and suicide bombings in Pakistan and against European tourists in Tunisia.

Moroccan officials have said they broke up plans to target tourist sites this spring and averted suicide assaults on U.S. and British ships in the Strait of Gibraltar. In one case, al-qaeda operatives, who had fled the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan, planned to detonate a bomb in a popular square in Marrakech, the officials said.

Saudi officials said they have broken up planned attacks on government buildings and prevented the killing of Americans on the streets of the kingdom. Arrested militants linked to al-qaeda were exploring the possibility of using silencer-equipped weapons to kill Americans at close range in public places, Saudi officials said.

Monday, the pan-Arab alJazeera satellite television network broadcast what it said was a written statement by Osama bin Laden, al-qaeda’s leader, hailing last week’s attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait and a French oil tanker near Yemen. The statement also condemned U.S. plans to attack Iraq. “We congratulate the Muslim nation for the daring and heroic jihad operations which our brave

sons conducted in Yemen against the Christian oil tanker and in Kuwait against the American occupation,” the statement said.

Other statements last week attributed to bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, also praised the attacks and warned Western governments of more to come.

Up to and including Sept. 11, 2001, al-qaeda’s signature actions were elaborately planned and centrally controlled — the bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, the attack on the destroyer USS Cole in Yemen in 2000 and the suicide airliner hijackings that struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — and all of them took months or years to plan.

Intelligence officials said that after the U.S.-led defeat of Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, hundreds of al-qaeda fighters were told to flee Afghanistan to their home countries and then independently target American, Jewish and other Western interests. These operatives were expected to conceive and execute acts of terror independent of the group’s leadership, Arab offi-

cials said.

Frank Anderson, the CIA’s former top Middle East operations official, said the emphasis on smaller targets shows that the alqaeda leadership “has been significantly reduced . . . If al-qaeda has gotten down to ones and twos, that’s better than one hundreds and two hundreds.”

U.S. intelligence officials said they intercepted communications in late September signaling a strike on a Western tourist site. Bali was mentioned in the U.S. intelligence report, officials said.

Indonesian officials have said they suspect Jemaah Islamiah, an Indonesian group with training and financial links to al-qaeda, of complicity in the Bali attack. A senior U.S. official described Jemaah Islamiah and al-qaeda as “fellow travelers.” The Indonesian group has its own agenda, envisioning the establishment of an Islamic state in the area of Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It has been accused of bombings in the Philippines and Singapore, and of operating training camps for fighters.

Lawmakers regularly flouting gift rules WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

Lawmakers and aides regularly flout the gift rules that govern Capitol Hill, accepting meals as well as tickets to concerts and sports events that exceed the strict limits Congress imposed on itself several years ago, said dozens of lobbyists, members and staff.

Lobbyists have found several ways to evade the rules’ intentions, insiders say: Claiming to be personal friends with legislators to pay for meals and gifts under a “friendship exemption”; dividing restaurant bills among several lobbyists to keep costs under a spending cap; and ignoring ancillary costs — such as mandatory charges for food and drink — when reporting the value of tickets to pro basketball games.

Some lobbyists, lawmakers and staffers shrug off the gift rules, equating them with minor transgressions such as jaywalking. But others see the enforcement breakdown as cause for public cynicism and a retreat from a reform that was integral to the 1993-94 Republican Revolution, which led to the GOP’s takeover of Congress.

Common Cause Vice President Benjamin Bycel described tightening the gift ban as one of his group’s “top priorities.” The image of politicians taking free meals, golf rounds and other favors, he said, fuels public cynicism.

“Ignoring the gift rule is part of the bigger picture of indulgence and arrogance which makes the average Jane and Joe American think everyone in Washington is corrupt, which isn’t true,” he said.

In 1995, then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, RGa., declared it was time to “end accepting gifts from lobbyists and others who give you the gifts because you are a member of Congress.” Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., said the curbs were integral to “restoring the public’s faith in this institution.”

In 1995, the Senate set a $50 cap for the value of gifts accepted by members and staff, with a $100 limit for gifts from any individual within a given year. The House adopted stricter guidelines, but in 1999 it relaxed them to conform with the Senate rules.

The new standards imposed no reporting requirements on lobbyists, and allowed anyone who had a pre-existing friendship with a lawmaker or aide to bypass the limits as long as the giver used personal funds. Many lobbyists said they frequently used their own money to take out old friends who work on Capitol Hill so the event could qualify for the friendship exemption.

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Attacks drive up crude oil prices in U.S. (LA Times) — Crude oil prices had

their biggest gain in three weeks Monday, spurred by worries of war with Iraq and recent terrorist-connected bombings in Bali and Yemen.

Shaken Indonesian government officials ordered increased security at oil and natural gas facilities operated by Exxon-Mobil, Chevron-Texaco and other U.S. energy companies, which are among the top investors in Indonesia’s energy sector.

The London based International Maritime Bureau also has warned oil firms to step up their protection of tankers traveling in the Middle East or along the Malaysian Peninsula near Indonesia.

Officials of Exxon and ChevronTexaco said they are monitoring the situation in Indonesia closely and as of late Monday were not evacuating personnel.

Monday’s spike in oil prices reflected a belief in the energy markets that Saturday’s bombing in Indonesia, a major oil and gas producer and OPEC member, increases the likelihood of U.S.-led military action against Iraq. A war in Iraq would disrupt oil and gas supplies. Crude oil for November delivery rose 66 cents to $30.03 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange Monday, the biggest increase since Sept. 23. So far this year, oil prices have risen 51 percent.

In Saturday’s car bomb attack on a nightclub in Bali, at least 181 people were killed, most of them foreigners. That followed an incident last week in which Yemeni officials blamed terrorists for damaging a French oil tanker.

“The market is reacting to the first large attack in a natural gas and oil producing country,” said Kate Warne, a senior energy analyst with Edward Jones, a brokerage in St. Louis. “There is nervousness about supply disruptions anywhere. The real question is whether in the next few weeks or months we actually see that disruption occur.”

The terrorist threats and escalating tensions in the Middle East have created new headaches for U.S. energy firms already struggling with the fallout of the Enron financial scandal and supply disruptions caused by recent tropical storms.

“There’s a definite ripple effect here in terms of costs because of heightened security precautions and higher insurance rates,” said Tim Evans, a senior energy analyst at IFR Pegasus in New York.

“Ultimately, the oil companies will be trying to the best of their ability to pass those costs on.”

Threats against foreign energy companies are particularly worrisome to Indonesia, which depends on oil and gas exports to support an economy still struggling to recover from the 1997 financial crisis, violent regional conflicts and political instability. Tourism, the country’s third largest source of foreign currency, suffered a blow with Saturday’s attack in Bali, a popular resort island.

On Monday, the Indonesian stock market lost more than 10 percent of its value and the rupiah, the Indonesian currency, fell to a five-month low. Markets in Japan, the region’s largest, were closed for a national holiday.

Iraqis prepare to vote “Yes” for Hussein BAGHDAD, Iraq (Washington Post) —

When Iraqis go to the polls Tuesday to endorse Saddam Hussein for another seven-year term as president, they will walk past banners exhorting them to vote “Yes, yes, yes for Saddam,” they will cast their votes in buildings festooned with his portrait and they will deposit ballots _ coded to allow authorities to identify a voter’s decision _ into boxes decorated with slogans of admiration for their leader.

As a consequence, the only real suspense about the outcome is whether Saddam will exceed the 99.96 percent affirmation he received in the last election.

“God willing, this time it will be 100 percent,” said Kifah Kazem, 43, a sporting club manager. “It will be an expression of our love for our president.”

Iraqi officials hope the result will also send a message to the Bush administration, which has committed itself to “regime change” in Iraq. Administration officials contend most Iraqis would be happy to see Saddam deposed.

“The political and international circumstances, and the American and Zionist threats, have given the referendum a new meaning,” Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf said Monday. “It’s a

blow to these criminals.”

Or as Kazem put it, the outcome “will be like a fork in the eyes of (President) Bush.”

With the U.N. Security Council scheduled to begin debate this week on a resolution demanding fuller access for weapons inspectors and threatening consequences if Iraq fails to comply, the government here has turned the referendum into a national pep rally, partly to play to the more than 1,000 foreign journalists invited to cover the event and partly to whip up fervor in case Iraq again finds itself at war with the United States.

Colorful, hand-painted banners have been hung from storefronts and streetlights. A few have been written with the blood of Hussein’s most ardent supporters. Most say “Iraq will be victorious” or “Down with America” or “God save our brave leader.”

Baghdad, already replete with posters of Hussein, has been adorned with even more: Hussein in a revolutionary’s black beret, Hussein in a green military uniform, Hussein in Kurdish dress, in traditional Arab headgear and even eating a watermelon.

Hussein, 65, who has run Iraq since the mid-1970s, has not done any campaigning in person. He has not been seen in public by diplomats or for-

eign journalists since December 2000, when he stood in the cold for 13 hours to watch a military parade, repeatedly firing a hunting rifle with one hand. But he is ubiquitous in the media, which are controlled by the government.

His picture is almost always on the front pages of newspapers here, and television stations have been continually showing clips of him waving to admiring crowds.

His campaign song, Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” has been getting lots of airtime.

The government has said nearly 11.8 million people will be eligible to vote. Turnout is expected to be high because members of Hussein’s Baath party have been canvassing neighborhoods and urging people to show up when polling stations open at 8 a.m.

At a Baghdad tea stall Monday, a group of men interviewed in the presence of an Information Ministry minder tried to outdo one another when asked at what time they would arrive. “I’ll be there at 8,” one man said. “I’ll be there before the doors open,” another interrupted. “I’ll arrive at 5 a.m.,” a third man interjected.

At one voting site, an elementary school in Baghdad’s Saadoun neighborhood, resi-

dents trickled in Monday afternoon _ -just to check that their names were on the voter rolls.

They scanned sheets of greenbar computer printouts tacked to boards in the school’s courtyard, which was decorated with streamers and miniature Iraqi flags.

“We are not obliged to come here,” said Marcelle David, a retired math teacher. “We are coming to vote because we want to show with all our hearts that we love our president.”

Voters will be asked to answer “yes” or “no” about whether they “agree that Saddam Hussein should remain as president.” They will be told to mark their ballots behind a curtain and insert them into a box monitored by a judge.

Although government officials contend people have the freedom to vote no, those who do so can be identified by the government because ballots are assigned numbers that correspond to a voter’s identity card.

“It would be crazy for anyone to vote no,” a Western diplomat here said.

In the previous referendum, in 1995, about 1,200 ballots did not indicate a yes vote. It is not clear how many of those were no votes and what, if anything, happened to those voters.

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Resolution mobilizes antiwar groups SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Washington Post) — In all the years he has spent

on street corners, talking himself hoarse trying to convince the world that war is hell, Jeff Grubler has never been so popular.

Life has become one big anti-war rally. Last Wednesday, Grubler, a volunteer with the American Friends Service Committee, agreed to lead a rally of 200 students at the University of California, Berkeley.

On Thursday, he joined 200 people on a march to the Federal Building here to protest the congressional resolution authorizing President Bush to attack Iraq. On Saturday, Grubler sifted through a mountain of e-mails about upcoming antiwar events. Sunday, he led a teachin at Stanford University.

The prospects of a U.S. war on Iraq have prompted so many teachins, protests, marches and forums that he can’t keep up. “In the Bay Area,” said Grubler, a bartender who began working for the Service Committee about five years ago, “there are literally multiple events every day.”

In the Bay Area, bastion of the most liberal Democrats in the country, speaking out against unilateral action on Iraq is like preaching the dangers of binge drinking at an Alcoholics Anonymous convention. Anti-war rallies on two consecutive weekends drew 10,000 people each, and hastily called protests draw several hundred. Unlike the rest of the country — or even the rest of California — activists here can boast that most of their elected representatives (10 of 13) heeded their thousands of phone calls and voted against the resolution on Iraq.

But the Bay Area is not, as some pundits would have it, “out there” alone.

It is simply the most obvious place, veteran peace organizers say, to see a burgeoning national antiwar movement that is gaining momentum by the day.

Peace groups believe they can still avert a war by convincing politicians that the majority of Americans oppose unilateral action against Iraq.

Most Americans — about 61 percent, according to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll — support using force to remove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but anti-war activists contend that is true only when people are asked the question in the broadest terms.

When voters in the Post-ABC poll were asked whether the United States should launch an attack over the opposition of its allies, for example, support dropped to 46 percent.

Approval of the resolution on Iraq, though disheartening to groups that spent weeks organizing citizens to inundate members of Congress with thousands of phone calls and e-mails registering opposition to a war, was expected, peace organizers say. In fact, the resolution has increased the anti-war effort, organizers say. Some say politicians who ignored the will of their constituents and voted to approve the resolution will face repercussions, such as more protests and sit-ins at their offices — and possible retribution in the next election. But the greater effort will be in convincing Congress and the president that war is not the way to go, said Mary Lord, director of the national peace-building unit for the American Friends Service Committee.

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Gore’s low public profile worries insiders DUBUQUE, Iowa (Washington Post) —

Dave Neil is the kind of Democrat Al Gore will want in his corner if he decides to run for president again in 2004. Neil is political director of the United Auto Workers in Iowa, and two years ago the union’s endorsement helped Gore win the Democratic caucuses that kick off the presidential nominating process.

So it wasn’t surprising that when Gore arrived here for two days of campaigning for four House candidates Monday, Neil was one of the first people he wanted to see. But how much had Neil heard from Gore over the past two years, until Monday? “I haven’t heard anything from Al,” Neil said a few weeks ago.

“He came into the JJ (JeffersonJackson Day) dinner last year and I talked to him then. But in the last six to eight months, I haven’t heard anything from him.”

Phil Bredesen is another Democrat Gore cares about.

Bredesen is the party’s candidate for governor in Tennessee, where Democrats have a good chance to take a governorship away from the Republicans. Gore lost Tennessee in 2000, and he said that mending fences back home would be a major priority. Helping win a governorship seemingly would be part of that effort, but he has yet to appear with Bredesen on the campaign trail.

Sometime near the end of this year, Gore will decide whether to seek the presidency again in 2004, and if the answer is yes, he will become the instant frontrunner for his party’s nomination — the man who won the popular vote but lost the presidency. Whether he has used the past two years effectively to build the foundation for another presidential bid is a different question, and on that the balance sheet is far less encouraging.

Gore still commands a bigger stage than all his potential rivals. His dissenting speech on Iraq last month proved that was true, not only in the coverage it generated in newspapers and on television, but also in its effect on the Democratic Party.

While unwelcome by some Democratic congressional leaders, the speech helped galvanized many rank-and-file Democrats who were hungry for someone to challenge President Bush and raise serious questions about the administration’s policy. Donna Brazile, who was Gore’s campaign manager in 2000, called the speech “a brilliant stroke” by the former vice president.

“That speech put him back on the map for the closing weeks of the

election season,” she said.

But as the Neil and Bredesen examples show, Gore has neither spent much time tending to the mundane tasks of keeping a political network stitched together, nor necessarily improved his political standing in areas where he needed to work. Former supporters or advisers grumble he has not touched base with them. One Democratic strategist said that, some months before Gore had lunch with union presidents in Washington last summer, he was given a list of labor leaders to call.

“He didn’t make the calls,” the strategist said.

The UAW’s Neil said he was not surprised or offended that Gore had not called until this weekend.

“It’s way too early to talk about ‘04,” he said Monday after spending time with the former vice president . But Neil said he had been in contact with other potential Democratic presidential candidates, among them House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt (Mo.), who will be Gore’s biggest rival for labor support, Sens. Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), John Kerry (Mass.) and John Edwards (N.C.), and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean.

For Gore, the Iraq speech marked the beginning of a period of renewed political activity, but it followed a summer of virtual invisibility. In all of July and August, Gore participated in just two political events, according to advisers. In the last month, he has given two major speeches (the second on the economy) and has campaigned for candidates in about 10 states, and will hit at least another five before Election Day. Despite his relative invisibility the past two years, Gore remains a polarizing figure. He generates hostility among Republicans and many independents, and even some Democratic insiders who believe he ran a poor campaign.

A Gallup poll late last month showed that as many people have an unfavorable impression of Gore as favorable (46 percent favorable, 47 percent unfavorable). When he left the presidential race, after giving a gracious concession speech, it stood at 57 percent to 40 percent.

Trial heats pitting Gore against Bush in a 2004 rematch were reasonably competitive before Sept.

11, 2001; now they show Bush with a sizable advantage.

Friends say that Gore’s sense of patriotism prompted him to stay out of the spotlight and give Bush time to establish himself immediately after the 2000 campaign. They

also say it took a long time for the former vice president to get over the sting and disappointment of the bitterly contested recount battle in Florida and the 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision that awarded the presidency to Bush.

Gore also threw himself into a book project, with his wife, Tipper, about family and community. As the deadline for submitting the manuscript approached last summer, Gore was immersed in thea book to the exclusion of politics.

The book will be published after the midterm election and will include a national promotion tour that could mark another comingout event for Gore.

He has used the past two years to build some financial security for his family after a quarter-century in elective office, and he has spent more time than usual with his family. Friends and supporters who have had informal contact with him say Gore appears far more relaxed and at ease than he was before.

Gore also has spent considerable time in Tennessee, where he has bought a house and is teaching at two universities. But the fact that he is not campaigning for the party’s gubernatorial candidate there underscores that the former vice president is still not a terribly popular politician outside the Democratic Party. Asked why Gore had not appeared with Bredesen, aides to the candidate sounded defensive, eventually answering with a written statement.

“Al Gore is a Democrat,” it said.

“He is supportive and we appreciate it. This is not a race about who’s going to appear with whom and when. This is a state race about state issues and Phil Bredesen is going to stand on his own two feet.”

Translation: In Tennessee, Gore’s assistance probably would hurt more than help.

Although Gore may not be welcome on Bredesen’s campaign, his advisers say he has done a substantial amount of fence-mending in his home state, campaigning with other candidates, raising money for local Democratic parties and quietly reconnecting with people.

“But he is also aware that one way of helping candidates is by not making their race about him,” one adviser said. “Republicans would love to make these local elections about Al Gore, and it’s a credit to the fact that he is mending fences and is in tune with state politics there that he’s done other things to help these candidates.”

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Supreme court agrees to hear firearms dealers’ case WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

Four years ago in Laredo, Texas, firearms dealer Thomas Lamar Bean decided that a night out in Mexico would be the perfect way to cap off a day at a gun show. But by the time it was over, he had landed in jail and his livelihood was destroyed.

When Bean reached the border that evening, Mexican authorities discovered 200 bullets in his car and charged him with ammunition smuggling. Sentenced without a trial to five years in a Mexican prison, Bean served four months in Mexico before being sent to a U.S. jail under a U.S.Mexico treaty. A federal judge in Texas promptly reduced his sentence to probation, eventually doing away with that as well, but Bean was out of the gun business because U.S. law prohibits anyone with a felony conviction, even a foreign one, from obtaining a firearms license.

The law says the Treasury Department, through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), may reinstate a felon’s license if it determines it would be safe to do so. But Congress, concerned about a possible “loophole” for violent criminals, has refused for a decade to give ATF money to restore licenses.

Wednesday, however, Bean’s lawyer will tell the U.S. Supreme Court that a federal court should be able to grant him the license ATF could not, in a case about the meaning of a key federal gun control measure that has enjoyed wide political support. The case also indirectly raises the most hotly-debated question in gun control law today: Does the Second Amendment create an individual right to have a gun?

The ban on funding license reinstatements was enacted by Congress and signed by thenPresident George Bush in 1992. It

became law amid an outcry over a study by the Violence Policy Center, a D.C.-based nonprofit group, which showed ATF had granted thousands of applications from convicted felons, incurring administrative costs of more than $20 million. A number of those whose gun ownership privileges were restored went on to commit violent crimes, the study said.

The funding ban has been reenacted every year with little debate, but a segment of the gunrights movement strongly opposes it. For this group, Bean’s case is a sympathetic vehicle: He had a clean criminal record and was caught with the ammunition in Mexico only because an assistant failed to follow instructions to leave it behind.

Although Bean attached letters of recommendation from two police chiefs and a state judge, the ATF sent back his 1999 appli-

cation to restore his license, noting it lacked funds to process it.

Bean then persuaded a federal district judge in Texas to reinstate his firearms license by court order.

“There is no way to estimate how many law-abiding people have been affected” by the 1992 law, says William Gustavson, general counsel of the Bellevue, Wash.-based Second Amendment Foundation, which has filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to rule in favor of Bean and declare an individual right to a gun. “But the point is that when people suffer as terribly as Mr. Bean has, there has to be a remedy because we’re not talking about gun privileges, we’re talking about gun rights.”

On June 20, 2001, the district judge’s unusual order was upheld by the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which stoked the consti-

tutional debate on gun ownership last year in a separate case by strongly suggesting the Constitution should be interpreted to guarantee an individual right to a gun _ subject only to regulations the government would have to justify. Citing “the almost incredible plight of Thomas Bean,” the 5th Circuit’s decision in Bean’s favor clashed with rulings by other federal appeals courts, which had held judges could not bypass ATF. The Bush administration appealed the 5th Circuit ruling to the Supreme Court.

Though the Justice Department under Attorney General John Ashcroft has endorsed the general view that the Constitution guarantees a right to gun ownership, reversing what had been decades-old U.S. policy, its brief in this case describes the ban on guns for felons as a reasonable regulation.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2002 · PAGE 14 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Reforming writing Dean of the College Paul Armstrong recently announced changes to the University’s often misunderstood English writing requirement.

Armstrong’s proposal to do away with the monitoring of incoming students’ writing abilities by the admission office is well intended.

But the proposal does nothing to clarify the already existing ambiguities associated with the enforcement of the writing requirement.

In place of checks made on writing ability by admission officers, Armstrong proposes placing the responsibility for checking students’ writing proficiency entirely with the faculty. “Checks made by faculty would be a more reliable indicator of problems with student writing than the analysis of application materials done by the admission office,” Armstrong told The Herald.

Oddly though, Armstrong also told The Herald that “most faculty members are unaware or don’t understand the importance of the ‘writing check’ column on the grade sheet.” It is illogical that the Dean of the College is placing the responsibility for monitoring students’ writing abilities with the faculty who he says don’t understand the importance of monitoring this ability.

Armstrong’s proposal stands only to make the problem worse.

Armstrong told The Herald that very few faculty members refer students who are deficient in writing ability to his office. The admission office, on the other hand, refers over 100 students to the Office of the Dean of the College, he said. Under Armstrong’s proposal, students who would have been identified as writing deficient by the admission office will likely slip by faculty members who are unaware that they need to refer such students to the Office of the Dean of the College.

Armstrong is correct in saying that something must be done to reform the current system. While mandating that all or some incoming students take a writing course is not feasible or productive, giving the faculty no choice but to be aware of the “writing check” may be the answer. Currently, instructors are asked to place a check mark in a column on a student’s grade sheet only if they believe that student is writing deficient. Instead of requiring that faculty only check students with sub-par writing ability, Armstrong’s office should mandate that faculty mark “yes” next to the names of students who meet writing ability standards and a “no” next to those who do not. This would force faculty to be more aware of their responsibilities with regard to the writing requirement. If the University seeks to make faculty members more cognizant of their duties associated with the writing requirement, it should articulate these responsibilities clearly.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Cars not safe from theft on Brown campus To the Editor: I’d like to issue an announcement to all those presently possessing vehicles or contemplating moving their cars on campus. While the occasional patrols seen around campus parking areas may seem to suggest that any vehicle parked there is, relatively speaking, safe, this is not necessarily the case.

As a graduate student who lives several miles off campus, I must park my car in the stadium lot overnight, as my house has insufficient parking. I arrived at the stadium lot Monday morning to find that it had been entered by would-be thieves the night before who, while unable to actually steal the car, tore up the steering column, rendering it undriveable. Moreover, the same thief or thieves seem to have hit several other vehicles in the lot.

Clearly, Brown’s Department of Public Safety cannot be expected to monitor all campus parking areas 24 hours a day.

That said, however, the wider campus community needs to be made aware of the problem of property crime. I encourage all those with vehicles on campus to try to find parking close to their place of residence and/or invest in the Club

or another theft deterrent.

Daniel C. Ehlke GS Oct. 11

New Graduate dean’s anti-union stance disappointing To the Editor: The Herald article on Karen Newman (“Newman aims to build a name for Brown’s Grad School,”10/10), the new Dean of the Graduate School brings out several of the reasons why I and many of my colleagues believe that she will do a good job. It was especially disappointing, therefore, to learn that she “personally believes that faculty and graduate students are not employees and that unionization is not in students’ best interest.” I hope that all of us who support the drive for graduate student unionization will work hard to change her mind.

William Keach Professor of English Oct. 11

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2002 · PAGE 15

Touch: the loneliest and most abstract sense The human need for physical contact is expressed in myriad forms TOUCH SOMETIMES SEEMS THE that, ranked with security and freedom loneliest of the senses: that by which we from fear. Or maybe even at the third are connected and by which we are iso- level, with the need for love and belonglated. Sight and hearing, taste and smell ing and acceptance. As though the pyraare linked, never acting entirely alone — mid were made of some porous fiber, the but in an odd numbered group, one must need for touch permeates the levels, transcending boundary or always stand apart. Like definition. As we grow older, sleep, touch is a strange phetouch becomes slightly nomenon, not clearly linked removed from the sphere of to any particular aspect of our immediate needs. Unlike physical well-being, but emineglected infants, most colnently necessary. Life withlege first-years will not die or out touch, without human suffer serious long-term touch, is impossible. developmental effects withStudies have shown that in out the constant affectionate infancy touch and holding touching of those around are a vital part of the maturaHANNE EISENFELD them. A few may, though, tion process. A newborn left CAST OFF THIS and nobody completely in his crib cannot thrive withTATTERED COAT escapes the yearning or the out the comforting, life-conedgy insecurity that results firming touch of his guardians, even if he is fed and all appar- from a lack of touch.

Sometimes there are days — and we ent needs are clinically tended. What is there in us that demands this? Why can all have them — when nothing is espesomething as simple as a brief handclasp cially wrong, but at the same time, in greeting reaffirm that the world has absolutely nothing is right. When every value and life is not an exercise in soli- petty annoyance or minor inconvenience makes the world a thousand times tude?

It seems that this should fit into heavier. On these days, touch can be Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy some- everything — the absolutely hollow, where, but where would we place it? aching desire to be held, tightly, in the Would touch be at the base of the pyra- circle of a friend’s arms, the need for a mid, keeping such company as air, food shoulder on which to lay your head, if and water? It could be one tier above only for an instant. These needs are echoed in, reinforced by, the angsty teenage ballads that accompany such Hanne Eisenfeld ’06 hails from Vancouver, moods. Just listen to these songs, the Wash.

sentiments expressed are universal, overarching and, at times, consuming.

The lyrics speak of a desperate desire for connectedness and belonging and a place in the world. They weave images of elusive haven and sanctuary, removal from a world that is at times entirely too present and, most of all, intimacy. And it is so easy to be lured by these sirensongs, to listen to the lilting riffs and believe in the utopias that they offer. We are encouraged to indulge our fantasies, told by the music that our desires are natural and necessary.

An assumption is made, over and over again, that our desires extend beyond the need for love and comfort and directly into the realm of physical, sexual intimacy. In the Backstreet Boys song “‘How Did I Fall in Love with You,” the lead sings about how much he cares about his “girl,” how he can’t go on without her. It would seem, then, that he is sincere and ideal, that he offers her that haven and shoulder in times of need.

Upon closer listening, the lyrics reveal a motif, interwoven with tragic protestations. The theme: “The night is long — and I need your touch.” In another song: “I need you baby, to warm the lonely nights — I love you baby.” Hold a moment — how did the serenader make this quantum leap from needing someone to fulfill her desires to actually loving that individual? In the course of the song, borne along by the music, the two ideas are represented as analogous: “I love you;

of course you’ll be spending the night.”

Couple this premise with the extant and recognized need for touch. The two needs, though distinctly separate, flirt along an ill-defined boundary. There are intimacies of all kinds, and as much intimacy can exist in a friend’s arm around one’s shoulders as in a night spent in someone else’s bed. The need for touch, the almost physical pain that accompanies too much time spent without it, is often and mistakenly translated as the need for a physical relationship.

The idea of going to a party and then hooking up with someone, of gleaning pleasure from the encounter and then continuing without a backwards glance, makes a farce of the true need for human touch, a mockery of the true value of intimacy.

Look deeply, to the place beyond simple solutions and one-night stands, and it is not so hard to see that love, support and all the intangibles that we seek (ironically enough) through touch are built slowly and carefully and must spring from a source much truer than any simple physical contact.

This building, this background, this unspoken understanding gives meaning to any physical interaction. Touch is a symptom of love. A recognition, a celebration. Without touch, life would be a wasteland, but to depend on touch alone creates an equally arid existence wherein what should be most valuable is worth nothing.

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SPORTS TUESDAY OCTOBER 15, 2002 · PAGE 16

Bonds’ stock keeps on rising THROUGHOUT HIS GREAT CAREER, Barry Bonds has rarely had the chance to shine on a truly national stage. Bonds wasn’t even on a national stage last season when he was chasing Mark McGwire’s long standing home run record. Instead, he was contending with other baseball games, the Sept. 11 aftermath and the beginning of the football season.

The last time he really got to be viewed nationally was when the Pirates were in the NLCS in the early JEFF SALTMAN 90s. Back in those THE SALT’S TAKE days, Bonds was a skinny arrogant kid who thought he was the next coming of Willie Mays. Ten years later, Bonds is a huge arrogant man who thinks he’s better than the secondcoming of Mays. Frankly, he may well be.

Bonds is by far the most feared hitter in baseball and one of the most frightening of all time. Last regular season he set Major League records for home runs and slugging percentage, and this season he broke another record, this time for onbase percentage. Bonds has instilled fear for a reason and he has deserved every ounce of respect he’s gotten.

In fact, in the series with the Cardinals, Bonds has been walked as many times as he has been at-bat (seven). The Cardinals found out on Saturday what happens when you’re forced to pitch to Bonds. With two men on in the fifth inning, Bonds clubbed an inside fastball about 400 feet into the cool pristine waters of San Francisco Bay. This home run tied the game at four.

On Sunday, the Cardinals had learned their lesson — don’t pitch to Bonds unless you are absolutely forced to do so. It seemed natural then, with the bases empty and two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning, to give Bonds an intentional walk.

Bonds was given first base by Cardinals manager Tony LaRussa with the thought that the next batter, Benito Santiago, wouldn’t be nearly as problematic. The end result was that Santiago hit a two-run home run, giving the Giants a two run lead going into the ninth inning. see SALT, page 6

SCOREBOARD Yesterday’s Results Football Fordham 24, Brown 17

Men’s Soccer Brown 1, Columbia 1 (ot)

Women’s Soccer BROWN 1, Sacred Heart 0 (ot)

Men’s Cross Country Brown finished second out of 46 teams at the New England Championships

Women’s Cross Country Brown finished third out of 42 teams at the New England Championships

Volleyball BROWN 3, Darmouth 1 (30-26, 31-29, 20-30, 30-14) Harvard 3, Brown 1 (19-30, 30-26, 21-30. 21-30)

Today’s Games Tuesday Men’s soccer vs. Providence. Stevenson Field 4 p.m.

Women’s soccer vs. Hartford. Stevenson Field 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday Field hockey vs. Fairfield. Warner Roof 4 p.m.

M. soccer, Columbia battle to 1-1 draw

BY NICK GOUREVITCH

The Brown men’s soccer team (3-3-3 overall, 0-1-1 Ivy) fought to a 1-1 tie against Columbia University on a cold and drizzly Saturday night at Stevenson Field.

The Bears left the game with mixed feelings because while the Lions – ranked 25th in the latest coaches’ poll – are considered one of the top teams in the Ivy League, Brown felt as if they had missed an opportunity to pick up an important league victory. “(The match) was kind of disappointing, as we put in a good effort but didn’t get the result we wanted,” said Seth Quidachay-Swan ’04. “It kind of puts us in a little tougher spot than we would like to be for the league.”

In the opening minutes of the match, the Bears looked as if they were going to take home the victory without question.

Brown completely dominated the run of play for the first 15 minutes but could not break through the defense and score.

“We thought the team effort at the beginning of the match was superb,” said Eduardo Romaneiro ’03. “They didn’t even cross our half of the field.”

Only when things started to even out in the possession game did the Bears actually convert a scoring opportunity. Keith Caldwell ’06 lobbed a perfect pass from the baseline to the center of the box where an unmarked Quidachay-Swan nailed a header over the keeper’s head into the back of the net.

“Keith got it down in the corner,” Quidachay-Swan said. “He sent it to me, and I got up and was surprised that nobody was around me.”

However, the Bears did not hold on to the lead for long. Minutes later, the referee awarded a free kick to the Lions at the tip of the penalty box. After a scuffle in setting up the wall that resulted in two yellow cards – one for a member of each team – the shot taken by Columbia’s Tommy McMenemy found the back of the net for the goal.

The curving kick over the wall was not hit particularly hard and goalkeeper Chris Gomez ’05 got his entire body in front of

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The men’s soccer team fought Columbia to a 1-1 tie Friday afternoon on Stevenson field. it, but the wet conditions caused him to mishandle it and the ball slipped into the side of the net.

Other than the free kick, the Lions had few legitimate scoring opportunities.

“The defensive pressure the majority of the game was pretty good,” QuidachaySwan said.

In the second half, the Bears squandered several good chances from some solid play in the middle from Evan Ryan ’03 and a slew of freshman who started the match including Caldwell, Bobby

Field hockey wins two straight games After four straight losses, the field hockey team won two consecutive games in the last six days to improve its record to 4-6.

In the first game, Laurel Pierpont ’04 scored two goals and added two assists, while classmate Meaghan Harwood ’04 scored two goals, and the Bears defeated Sacred Heart University (5-9, 6-0) in a non-league contest Wednesday afternoon at Warner Roof.

Brown wasted little time in getting on the board, as Ashley Wallace ’03 scored what proved to be the gamewinner just 4:43 into the game. Lizzie Buza ’04 earned an assist on the goal — her eighth point of the season.

Pierpont increased the Bears’ lead to 2-0 at the 15:04 mark, combining with Cory Pelletier ’04 on one of Brown’s nine penalty corners. Pelletier then scored Brown’s third goal less than six minutes later on a penalty corner, combining with Colleen Kanara ’03 and Pierpont as the Bears took a 3-0 lead into the break.

The Bears controlled the tempo in the second half as well. Harwood scored her first of two goals less than two minutes into the second half, giving Brown a 4-0 lead.

Brown’s final two goals were scored

by Pierpont with 26:33 remaining in the

contest and Harwood with 22:31 left to play.

The entire team played strong in front of goalie Katie Noe ’05 who was forced to make just one save in net.

On Saturday, Pierpont notched a goal and an assist as the Bears defeated the University of the Pacific (1-9) 3-1 in another non-league contest on Warner Roof.

After over 20 minutes of scoreless action, Molly Carleton ’04 gave the Bears a 1-0 lead, scoring her fourth goal of the season with 13:13 remaining in the first half.

Brown took a 2-0 lead less than three minutes into the second half when Pierpont connected with Wallace on a penalty corner, and Wallace subsequently scored what would prove to be the game-winning goal.

The Tigers got on the board with 26:17 remaining, but Pierpont scored her third goal in two games to put the Bears back up by two goals less just 2:26 later.

Noe stopped three shots in net for Brown.

Brown continues action on Wednesday when it hosts Fairfield University at 4:00 p.m. on Warner Roof.

— Brown Sports Information

Dobbie ’06 and Ibrahim Diane ’06.

In the latter stages of the second half and in overtime, the slippery conditions clearly had an effect on the run of play.

Both teams had trouble stringing together any sort of cohesive attack, and one got the feeling the game would thus end in a tie.

The Bears almost came through with a dramatic victory when they had two corner kicks with 20 seconds remaining in see SOCCER, page 6

W. X-country runs wild at NECs

BY MELISSA PERLMAN

The New England Championship race on Friday was a tremendous rebound from two weeks ago for the Brown women’s cross country team. Finishing in the back of the pack at the Great American Cross Country Festival had made the season look bleak, but the women were able to turn it all around.

Brown competed at the NECs at Franklin Park in Boston and finished third out of 42 teams. Twelve personal records led the way for Bruno and erased the team’s previous finish from memory. “(It was) a real competitive effort,” said Coach Rick Wemple. “Everyone ran outstandingly. People kept their heads in the game even when they weren’t in the top of the race.”

That focus, combined with the Bears’ pack running strategy, allowed the women to rack up 115 points. The total fell only behind powerhouse Boston College’s 70 and Williams College’s 97.

Meredith Crocker ’05 was once again the team’s top finisher, ending in seventh place at a time of 17:42. Crocker was in the lead pack for the entire race, inching her way up to as high as fifth position. She lost ground in the final 600 meters only after see RUNNERS, page 6