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CIS, libraries lay out financial needs for campus wide upgrades BY JULIETTE WALLACK

Representatives of the libraries and Computing and Information Services presented proposed budgets amounting to tens of millions of dollars for the next fiscal year at Monday’s ACUP meeting. The libraries requested $6 million in total funds. CIS was unable to present a specific budget, but planned expenditures could cost between $10 million and $100 million. Committee members heard presentations from Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president for CIS, and Merrily Taylor, University librarian, that detailed the University’s goals in both areas for Fiscal Year 2004, which begins July 1. The meeting was closed to the public, but Assistant Provost Brian Casey discussed the Advisory Committee on University Planning’s weekly session with The Herald. Waite-Franzen was unable to provide specific FY04 figures because, after arriving in Providence from the University of Richmond six months ago, “she’s still trying to figure out this year’s budget and how it’s being allocated,” said ACUP representative Laura Lehmann ’04. CIS’ goals include completion of the campus network upgrades, to be funded by President Ruth Simmons’ Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. Waite-Franzen said she also hopes to switch Brown to an “enterprise system” that will cost between $10 million and $100 million, Casey said. Funding for that system has not yet been allocated as part of Simmons’ initiatives, he said. Casey said that an enterprise system is an “integrated computer system” that will house faculty, staff and student computer resources in one main system. Numerous other universities use such a system, Casey said. Students might eventually see the effects of the new system in the online course registration system the University is now considering. see RESOURCES, page 4

At memorial service, colleagues, family remember CogSci Prof Nelson Francis BY STEPHANIE HARRIS

A memorial service was held Monday afternoon for W. Nelson Francis, who died June 14 at age 91. A professor and former head of the Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Francis had been a member of the Brown community since 1962. About 50 people attended the memorial in Manning Chapel, which featured poetry, music and reminiscences by friends, family and colleagues. Francis was a “world-renowned linguist, mentor and a leader among Brown faculty,” said Sheila Blumstein, professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences, who said Francis was her mentor at Brown. “He was a voice of reason and intellect on the Brown campus,” she said. Francis was a professor of English and linguistics at the University from 1962 until his retirement in 1975. From 1968 until his retirement, he served as chair of the Department of Linguistics. Even after his retirement, Francis remained active in the University community.

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Students lit candles and held vigil last night for the 14 passengers killed when a car bomb exploded Monday in northern Israel.The vigil coincided with a lecture by Palestinian legal advisor Michael Tarazi in Salomon 101.

From a Palestinian perspective Some audience members expressed frustration with Palestinian legal advisor Michael Tarazi, who was invited to speak by the group Common Ground BY MONIQUE MENESES

Michael Tarazi, legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team, addressed the importance of understanding the Palestinian viewpoint and current role in the war between Israel and Palestine Monday night. “When we understand why we’re in the situation today, we will understand how to get out of it,” Tarazi said. In a lecture sponsored by Common Ground, titled “Truth and Illusions about the Palestinian Israeli Conflict,” Tarazi spoke to a packed Salomon 101 about the Camp David peace negotations, what happened after the Oslo negotiations, and future prospects for peace between Israel and Palestine. The international community responded to the Palestinian rejection of negotiations at Camp David in 2000 by asking, “Why would Palestinians turn down this generous offer?” Tarazi said. With Israel handing

back 95 percent of the land that Palestinians wanted, the international community neglected to ask what Israel was doing with the remaining five percent, he said. Tarazi said for a peace agreement to take place, the Palestinians must “educate the Israelis and the international community as to what the Palestinians are looking for.” Tarazi said the three core requirements that Palestinians need to have addressed in order for peace to work are “viability, true independence and choice.” Viability is “not only a question of movement but the ability for the Palestinians to build their economy,” he said. For an agreement to be viable, it must address the issue of freedom of movement, hindrance by Israelis to stifle the Palestinian economy and Israeli ownership claims of water aquifers located in Palestinian territory, he said. Israel’s desire to take over Palestinian airspace would deny Palestinians “true independence” since the area’s telecommunications would be under Israeli jurisdiction, he said. The Camp David negotiations did not meet Palestinian approval because they failed to meet the first two requirements, Tarazi said. see TARAZI, page 6

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I N S I D E T U E S D AY, O C T O B E R 2 2 , 2 0 0 2 David Cicilline ’83 talks to The Herald about being the favorite to win City Hall page 3

Democrat Kyle Diggins frames himself as a ‘neighborhood kid’ in his quest for 1st Ward win page 3

Rhode Island pols visit Brown to talk about opportunites for student activism page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Ross Hyzer ’03 says Swiney Holocaust comic was an acceptable form of humor column, page 11

After 1-1 draw with Princeton, men’s soccer remains winless in the Ivy League sports, page 12

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Riding a big lead, Cicilline adjusts to the role of favorite in Mayoral race BY STEPHEN KILAR

David Cicilline ’83 is having a difficult time settling in as the winner of September’s Democratic mayoral primary, saying it is “one of the worst positions to be in.” With a poll from the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions predicting Cicilline to be the winner of the Nov. 5 election with 70 percent of the vote, Cicilline said people do not think of him as a candidate anymore. “They begin treating you like you’ve already won the election,” he said. “I thank them for that … but I still need their vote.” Cicilline’s closest competitor, Republican Dave Talan, is slated by the poll to win about 4 percent of the vote. Cicilline focused his campaign on Providence’s neighborhoods. “We have had considerable success in the downtown (area),” David Cicilline ’83 he said, “but have not seen the same kind of renaissance in the neighborhoods of Providence.” The three major issues Cicilline plans to deal with are crime, education and the lack of affordable housing, he said. Crime, Cicilline said, affects all of Providence, including College Hill. He plans to implement new gun control laws in the city in an effort to fight the safety issues the city faces. But his main goal is to find leaders for Providence’s crime prevention units who are willing to stand up to the city’s THE RACE FOR intense challenges, he said. In PROVIDENCE the past, the leaders of the FOURTH IN A SERIES police department became demoralized by the system, Cicilline said, a problem that can be resolved with a reward program. “People who play by the rules and work hard will have an opportunity to advance through the department,” he added. Educational systems throughout the city need to be reworked, Cicilline said. He established a 10-point plan that includes creating smaller learning communities, providing teachers with adequate resources and involving parents in children’s learning. He said he would like to augment affordable housing by “ensuring that abandoned property is quickly turned over to … corporations and others who are equipped in other capacities to build housing and accommodate that process.” These turnovers will not immediately cost the city money, he said. Cicilline would also like to increase lowinterest, short-term loan programs. Cicilline said he plans to involve Brown in the city as much as possible. The PILOT tax payment program currently represents Brown and other tax-exempt institutions in the city, which make up approximately half of Providence’s property owners. Payment In Lieu Of Taxes mandates that Rhode Island pay the city 27 percent of the tax credit from these non-profit organizations. In most states, the institutions, not the state taxpayers, make this payment. His campaign released a statement last May calling for reimbursement levels to be increased to “a more reasonable” 40 percent. “We have to look at some other models to find other ways to ensure that non-profit institutions, particularly the hospitals and universities, are playing a greater role in the responsibilities that they have to the city,” he said. Cicilline supports other options for payment based on a non-profit institution’s financial holdings, he said. Ciciline suggested that universities and other tax-exempt institutions be charged for the cost of city services including police, fire and water. He also supports the creation of non-monetary payment such as in-school tutorials or food services for city see CICILLINE, page 7

Democrat looks to play home grown angle in City Council campaign In his quest to win student votes, Diggins made his first campus appearance last week at a meeting of the Brown College Democrats BY ADAM STELLA

Kyle Diggins thinks the next 1st Ward city councilman should be a “neighborhood kid.” He also happens to be one — something he reminds voters of often. Diggins is the Democratic candidate in a four-way 1st Ward race that is one of the city’s most competitive races. The resignation of former councilman Bob Clarkin, Diggins’ uncle, left the seat open. The other candidates for the seat are Republican Bill Miller, Green Party can“I think the didate David Segal and Harry biggest obstacle Independent Bilodeau. Diggins, 27, a third to my campaign generation Fox Point resident, has lived on the is getting the East Side his whole life. He grew up going to Brown students.” local public schools, delivering newspapers to ward residents and Kyle Diggins working on local demo1st Ward Democrat cratic campaigns. Now, he works as a customer service representative at the Providence Watch Hospital in Cranston. “He’s Fox Point’s favorite son of sorts,” said Kevin Murphy ’96, a campaign coordinator for Diggins’ campaign. As the “neighborhood kid,” Diggins thinks he has the best ideas to help the community. Improving safety through community policing is the most important issue in the race, Diggins said. This issue is particularly relevant to Brown students because of a number of assaults on campus over the summer. “We do need to feel more safe in our neighborhood,” Diggins said. Like other candidates in the race, ensuring honesty in city government after the corrupt administration of former Mayor Vincent Cianci’s administration is one of his priorities. “It really was an embarrassment to call yourself a lifelong resident of the city,” he said. One of the city’s greatest needs is a full review of its finances, Diggins said. He called the $2.5 million budget for Cianci’s office “a total waste,” and he said it is very likely that there are other areas of the city’s budget that can be cut. He sees the city’s colleges and universities as a way to expand the city’s tax base, he said. He wants Brown to build a second campus on the other side of the Woonsquatucket River, he said. He also proposed that Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and Johnson and Wales University build dorms downtown. These initiatives would encourage more business downtown, he said. Diggins proposes to lift the ban on overnight parking and institute a permit parking system, he said. Skyrocketing housing costs make rent control necessary, he said, and he rails against absentee landlords who have residents and college students “by the throat.” “You’re moving the neighborhood people out, and it’s not as much of a neighborhood anymore. It’s all absentee landlords.” Diggins pledges to be more accessible than past councilmen by holding bimonthly meetings with the public to hear concerns, he said. Diggins’ past work on the campaigns of State Rep. Paul Muoro, State Sen. John Roney and Clarkin led to his own interest in politics, he said. “It’s in the blood,” Diggins said. “If you’re in Fox Point, and if you’ve lived there your whole life and you’re not involved in politics, it’s quite the exception.” He began thinking about running for city council five or six years ago and told Clarkin about his intentions, he said. After Clarkin decided to resign his position to take

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First Ward candidate Kyle Diggins spoke last week to the Brown College Democrats. a job with the Providence Department of Public Works, he approached Diggins about running, Diggins said. Diggins entered the race shortly thereafter. Clarkin said he helps Diggins most in his campaign by explaining issues to him. But Diggins makes it clear that Clarkin does not want to give the impression that he controls Diggins by telling him what position to take on the issues, Diggins said. As evidence of his independence, Diggins pointed to the fact that he supports a living wage for city government workers and contractors, a measure Clarkin opposed. Diggins said he supports the living wage despite comments at an Oct. 9 debate that seemed to suggest he was not in favor of it. Diggins first concentrated on courting neighborhood residents, and now he is pushing for votes from the Brown community, he said. But he acknowledges that he may have made a mistake by not campaigning at Brown sooner. “I think the biggest obstacle to my campaign is getting the Brown students,” he said. Diggins’ first appearance on campus was at a Brown College Democrats’ meeting last week, where he spoke. Segal spent much of his time registering voters at Brown earlier this month, while Miller and Bilodeau have all but ignored the campus. The candidates had nothing but positive things to say about each other at an Oct. 9 debate, but Diggins senses a little rivalry between him and Segal. Segal, 22, is also young and shares similar ideological positions, which fosters competition, Diggins said. The biggest challenge that his campaign faces is convincing voters that Diggins is better able to get things done than his rivals, Murphy said. While Diggins said that all the candidates are qualified to be the next councilman, his knowledge of the community makes him the best choice, he said. “If you’ve been here a while, you’re in touch a little more than someone who hasn’t been there the whole time,” he said. Herald staff writer Adam Stella ’05 can be reached at astella@browndailyherald.com.

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Resources continued from page 1 Waite-Franzen and a committee are studying enterprise system options and meeting with various consultants regarding the change. Casey said that when the University makes the switch, student and faculty resources will be the first to move to the enterprise system. “There was a feeling in the room” during the ACUP meeting that student and faculty computer systems would have the highest priority on the new system, Casey said. The multimillion-dollar switch comes on the heels of more than $1 million in upgrades to the campus networks. But, Casey said, the expensive upgrades are necessary. Brown’s network is 20 years old, and, according to Waite-Franzen, is extremely labor-intensive and fragile. Waite-Franzen told ACUP that she hopes upgrading the network will allow the system to operate with less maintenance in the long run, but, Casey said, “I sincerely

Stern continued from page 12 related, when I began to follow his career in the late 1980’s, Gooden started abusing drugs. Buying into the ignorance and denial of most of Doc’s fans, I was not aware of his escalating problem. I quickly became enamored of this superstar. Little children often find it difficult to remain attentive throughout a three-hour baseball game, so it was very exciting to find a pitcher displaying such intensity and skill. When Doc would shut out the opposition, striking out 15, the games were short and exciting. After falling under the influence of some shady characters, my hero slyly allowed his performance to deteriorate. He never managed to replicate his brilliant ’85 season. Adding to his performance issues, Gooden had a series of injuries in the early 1990’s. If I did not know better, the combination of Doc’s shoddy playing and his injuries would have made me believe he was a washed up has-been. Luckily, I was a firm subscriber in the belief that “next season, when he’s healthy, he’ll be a 20-game winner again.” I still remember the moment I found out that Gooden was suspended for a year on account of vio-

Equestrian continued from page 12 mediate fences and winning her intermediate flat class. Severine Brustlein ’05 won her jumping class, also in the intermediate division. The day continued with many solid rides, but the competition was stiff and Brown slipped out of the top spots, hoping to recover during the flat portion of the day. Wrapped in blankets on the sidelines, the Bears coached one another as the long day progressed. After strong rides but no blue ribbons, Alexis Marcuvitz ’06 brought back the team’s momentum by winning her class

doubt we’ll ever see a size” in the CIS labor force that is much smaller than it is today. Waite-Franzen said she plans to centralize academic departments’ planning and purchasing of technology within CIS. In past years, Casey said, academic departments handled their own technology acquisitions, which made it harder for CIS to standardize upgrades and support, she said. Waite-Franzen “made a case that if you could re-centralize and systemize desktop (computer) replacement,” CIS would be able to save significant amounts of money, Casey said. Taylor said part of the libraries’ $6 million needs arose after the University purchased an off-site storage facility in East Providence this spring. The University currently houses more than 200,000 volumes at the Harvard Book Depository in Southboro, Mass. Now the libraries must move the books from Harvard. Simmons hopes to complete that move by this summer, Casey said. A $2.6 million chunk of the budget is a one-time request that will facilitate the move. In addition to the new storage

facility, the library system needs significant funds to keep pace with other Ivy League libraries, something that is difficult with a smaller graduate community, Casey said. “The library has been under significant pressure (because of ) both the cost of monographs and the cost of electronic services,” Casey said. The University must now “increase its acquisitions budget to see the fact that in the past few years, it’s fallen behind in its acquisitions” compared to peer institutions, he said. The departments’ needs will become more specific as February’s Corporation meeting approaches, when the University’s governing body must approve next year’s budget. At the Nov. 5 ACUP meeting, the committee expects to hear monetary requests from the Office of Public Affairs and University Relations and from Ronald Vanden Dorpel, senior vice president for development.

lating Major League Baseball’s drug policy. A 10-year-old with no real concept of what cocaine was, I did not completely understand. I figured that somehow, my hero had been deceived. The league had it all wrong. He was such a great guy — he would not purposely partake in such illegal behavior. It was not until Gooden’s return in 1996 that I understood the gravity of the situation. Maybe it was because I had matured slightly and had been educated in school about the dangers of drug abuse. Maybe it was the fact that Doc was no longer invited to play for the Mets and was exiled across town to the evil and corrupt Yankees. In any event, the fact of the matter was that Dwight Gooden was no longer Doctor K. He had been stripped of his nickname, along with his dignity, during his drug rehab. When Gooden came back, he was without his overpowering fastball and mesmerizing curve. Bouncing from team to team over the next few years, my favorite player struggled to remain competitive. Free of the burden of drug abuse, Gooden had to deal with the new task of recapturing his formerly innate abilities. But alas, they had disappeared, along with his youth and potential. Despite a few shining moments in his return, including but not limited to his no-hitter in ’96, the old Dwight

Gooden never resurfaced. My readers may be wondering, why write about this now, two years after Gooden retired as a player? The answer is that drug abuse in sports continues to be a hot topic. Even though I looked to Gooden as a role model, I am not condemning drugs because it affects today’s youth. Kids have more substantial role models than professional athletes, which is why I am not a cokehead today. I criticize drug abuse in professional athletics because of its corruptive results. Whether it is recreational drugs or performance enhancers, the issue has never been more real than it is today. After a terrible season, seven Mets have allegedly been accused of smoking marijuana during the season. Whoopty doo! Who cares, right? Wrong. Although some recreational pot smoking probably has very little to do with the Mets’ pathetic display this year, it does start them on a slippery slope. Where should the line be drawn? Smoking marijuana is acceptable, but cocaine abuse requires suspension? Legal muscle-building drugs are fine, but steroids are out of the question? People enjoy sports to see the athletes perform using their natural abilities. Although increased homeruns makes the game exciting, people do not want to watch juiced-up players.

in open flat, a victory that was especially significant since this was her intercollegiate debut. Leila Ledsinger ’05 and classmate Ashley Bear ’05 continued to keep up the team’s intensity as both took second in intermediate and novice flat, respectively. Finally, the day began winding down, and the Bears calculated how they were doing as walk-trotcanter riders stepped into the ring. Rachel Roemer ’06 and Ariana Arcenas ’06 swept the first two classes in this division with consecutive wins, which helped buoy the team’s spirits, not to mention its points. Joanna Kels ’04.5 finished up the day with a second place in walk-trot, which also helped bring up the team’s score. After a day of solid perform-

ances, many third-place finishes, but not enough blues, the team took fourth place but still remain first in the region. They scored 34 out of a possible 49 points and only trailed Johnson and Wales University, the winning team, by six points. The Bears were still able to maintain their first-place status in Region I with a grand total of 111 points, followed by Johnson and Wales and Connecticut College, who tie for second with 97 points. This Saturday on Parents Weekend, the team hopes to extend its lead in the region at the University of Rhode Island’s horse show in East Greenwich.

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

Sarah Staveley-O’Carroll ’03 is a member of the equestrian team.

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IN BRIEF

Spies to UCS: Enrichment goals have broadened BY JONATHAN ELLIS

Rhode Island pols take the stage to discuss importance of student activism Democratic candidates for national, state and city office encouraged students to be politically active and to participate in community service Monday night in Salomon 001. Several candidates identified community service and activism as important factors in their own political careers. It is “not about politics, but community service — that’s the first motivating factor,” said Patrick Lynch ’87, a candidate for state attorney general. “Expose people to what’s been going on around them. You learn pretty quickly that the system is really screwed up,” said candidate for secretary of state Matt Brown.“Go out and do some service — roll up your sleeves.” Mayoral candidate David Cicilline ’83 identified his time as a criminal defense attorney as a key influence in his political career. “I represented mostly the kids — kids who were poor … I began to look at some of the issues that brought children into the family court … my campaign was about bringing together lots of people who were left out of politics,” he said. Political apathy among younger voters was a recurring theme. “The democratic process hasn’t failed young people — young people failed the democratic process,” Brown said.“Young people in record numbers have withdrawn from the process. “When politicians only pay attention to seniors, we say ‘right,’ because they are the ones who are participating in the process,” he added. Candidates were asked to identify what they would do if they were a college student today. “I would get involved with whatever pissed me off,” Brown said. The candidates asked members of the audience to volunteer their time during the upcoming elections to help get out the vote. “We want people to register to vote who share our vision of the world,” Cicilline said. U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy appeared at the forum — held one day after the 40th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis in which his great-uncle, President John F. Kennedy, helped to avert a potential nuclear conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. “Thank God cooler heads prevailed,” he said. Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate Myrth York participated in the forum but left early. The forum on college activism was sponsored by the Brown College Democrats, the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, Coalition for Social Justice, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance, Student Labor Alliance and Students for Choice. — George Haws

Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior adviser to the president, discussed the future of President Ruth Simmons’s Academic Enrichment Initiatives with the Undergraduate Council of Students Monday night. “The planning for the academic long-term goals at Brown has gone well past where we were last spring,” Spies said. Although academic and faculty expansion remains the core of the program, the administration is now taking a broad look at what education and scholarship mean at Brown, adding campus life and student services to the proposed gamut of improvements. Instead of focusing entirely on goals for the next three to five years, Simmons is pushing University planners to look 10 to 20 years into the future, Spies told the council. The goal is to make Brown not just one of the best universities in the country, but in the world, Spies said. “There’s a lot we have that already qualifies us for that, but there’s a lot we need to do,” he added. Reviewing the initial enrichment proposals, Spies said the University is trying to do too many things with too few faculty. Because both undergraduate teaching and research receive so much emphasis, Brown cannot get by with its faculty of slightly over 500, he said. Goals of the program include adding 100 new faculty positions in five years, offering more competitive salaries for both faculty and staff, and boosting recruitment of faculty and graduate students. Spies acknowledged that the University needs to improve its recruitment of graduate students, which will attract better faculty and, in turn, the best undergraduate students. Although financial support for graduate students remains weak, first-year undergraduates now need not work as part of their aid package, and the admission office will go need blind for the Class of 2007. The 100 new faculty positions will be spread across many academic disciplines, Spies said, with each hiring the result of a careful selection process — “not just making us bigger for the sake of being bigger, but … so that we can be better.” Faculty don’t come to Brown entirely for the money, but “it’s still the case that salary is a piece of that decision,” Spies said. “If you’re 10 or 20 percent below the competition, it’s tough to get in the game.” The University has not invested enough in facilities and resources designed to assist faculty in their teaching and research, he added. Spies called Simmons’s February proposals “just the beginning. If we stop there we will have really missed the real opportunity for Brown to move forward.” Besides playing catch-up with its peer institutions, Spies said Brown must also focus on its unique strengths, such as interdisciplinary programs. Spies, who came to Brown from Princeton University, called departmental lines at his former institution “very rigid.” The University must find ways to enhance its graduate program without diminishing undergraduate study, Spies said. He hinted that administrators are looking at new

and different approaches that could revolutionize graduate education as the New Curriculum changed the undergraduate program decades ago. The medical school could be more fully integrated with the larger University community, he added. To improve undergraduate education, Brown is adding smaller classes and expanding research opportunities, Spies told council members. He pointed to the new firstyear seminars program as an immediate enhancement. “Let’s make sure we do translate the 100 new faculty into more and better teaching,” he said. Although the focus of the initiatives is academics, the University is trying to determine where modest investments could make significant differences in campus life and student services, Spies added. Brown must continue to invest in its computing infrastructure, library resources and physical facilities, Spies said. “It’s amazing that people can really do good science” in some outdated facilities, he said. To accomplish all this, the University will assemble human, physical and financial resources. The campus must inevitably grow, and plans must be made now that will affect its shape 50 years from now, Spies said. And “it’s no secret that we’ve hired a senior vice president for advancement,” he said, referring to Ronald Vanden Dorpel. During the implementation of the initiatives, the University will constantly be assessing their progress and keeping lines of communication open to ensure their success, Spies said. “I think it’s an incredibly exciting time to be at Brown,” Spies said, “because we do have an opportunity to make real strides as an institution. … You go up to that ‘correctional institution’ in Cambridge, Mass. … they couldn’t do this any more than we could all of a sudden have 18,000 students. We have an opportunity to do something that is very rare.” Spies admitted that the faltering economy will make reforms difficult, but said that as other institutions cut back, Brown’s aggressive expansion could be an advantage. Campus Life Committee Chair Justin Sanders ’04 wondered if Brown’s ‘University College’ vision would remain intact. Spies said careful faculty hiring would be necessary, saying professors only concerned with research would be a “mistake” for the University. Spies told Alumni Liason Thilakshani Dias ’05 that alumni are playing a crucial role in the process that extends beyond financial support. After Representative Nikhil Laud ’03 asked about departmental concentrations of new faculty hires, Spies said the proposed Academic Priorities Committee will determine their distribution among the disciplines. UCS members sharply insisted that the administration keep campus and student life issues on its agenda. Spies told Representative Andy Golodny ’03, a Herald staff writer, that the initiatives have been faculty-oriented from the beginning, but that life outside the classroom is also see UCS, page 7

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Salt continued from page 12 feated Oakland Raiders last week. Mike Martz had an epiphany and decided that this Faulk isn’t that bad and that the Rams should stop throwing the ball up and start using Marshall as he should be used. Last week, Faulk gave us a glimpse of last season when he rushed for 158 yards and was everywhere on the field. Last Sunday, Martz kept the revamped “best show on turf,” going with Marshall at the helm. Faulk got almost 40 touches during the game. Now the Rams have suddenly won two in a row going into a bye and look to be one of the best offensive teams in the NFL once again.

Martz seems to have looked back at history and seen the error of his ways, while New England’s offensive coordinator Charlie Weis hasn’t. Last year’s defending champs, the Baltimore Ravens, lost their star running back Jamal Lewis, and suddenly they couldn’t score or control the game at all. The Patriots may be headed down the same path. Teams cannot win without a running game. It’s a fact that has been proven over time, and more teams like the Patriots need to realize that you need a running game in order to have a good passing game. After you establish that, you can give your receivers the damn ball. Jeff Saltman ’03 hails from outside Washington, D.C., and concentrates in history and economics.

Tarazi continued from page 1 The negotiations also failed to address the issue of refugees, he said. Tarazi called this “discrimination of the basic form.” He said he supported the right of Palestinians to return to areas of Israel that were evacuated following Israeli occupation. Tarazi suggested a lottery system to select a limited number of refugees to return to Israel. Camp David, Tarazi said, is “where the mythology started.” The mythology that followed the Camp David negotiations led to Oslo, where the Palestinians had two expectations: growth in their international legitimacy and security. “It actually got worse for us after Oslo,” Tarazi said. After the Oslo negotiations, he said, Israeli settlements expanded, freedom of movement was more limited than before the negotiations with the introduction of checkpoints, and the Palestinian economy was a “captive civilian market.” “It was as if Oslo was a green light to build more settlements,” he said. After Oslo, the Palestinian people lost faith in the peace process, Tarazi said. “It’s like you and I are negotiating over a pizza, but while we are negotiating, you keep on eating it,” he said. Recognizing that Israeli lack of security is linked to the Palestinian lack of freedom is a

“It’s like you and I are negotiating over a pizza, but while we are negotiating, you keep on eating it.” Michael Tarazi Legal adviser to Palestinian delegation, speaking about the peace process after the 1993 Oslo negotiations step toward improving the relations that were stalemated after the Oslo negotiations, Tarazi said. He cited an increasing concern among Palestinians regarding the possibility of an Israeli “transfer” of Palestinians living in Israel. This policy, Tarazi said, is comparable to genocide. “Who’s going to stop them?” Tarazi asked the audience. A U.S. invasion of Iraq, he said, can give Israel the guise it needs to carry out these policies and other actions in the Middle East. Some members of the audience said they did not feel that the lecture addressed the issues as advertised — and said the event failed to clarify the question of Palestinian terrorism. One student said to Tarazi that the speech focused primarily on the opinions of the Palestinians without mentioning Israeli views. Other students asked questions concerning terrorism, trust

between the Palestinians and the Israelis and the United States’ role in the war. In response to these questions, Tarazi occasionally replied by saying, “In answering questions I’m not going to enter negotiations with each one of you,” and “I didn’t interrupt you when you spoke, I’d like it if you didn’t interrupt me.” “I don’t understand why the negotiations were met with violence, which you hardly talked about,” one said to Tarazi. Tarazi responded, “This was not a plan. It was an explosion based on past experiences. People don’t believe there’s another choice.” Another student asked, “Can terrorism be viewed as a legitimate recourse in the face of limited military options and an imbalance in power?” “Define terrorism,” Tarazi initially responded. He then said, “I condemn any form of terrorism. The real question is how you address it.” “I thought it went really well,” said Lara Harb ‘04, one of the founders of Common Ground. “Michael Tarazi gave people a logical argument from a legal perspective.” “A lot of the questions people were asking, the ones that were completely dismissed by him, were things that had been addressed in his lecture,” she said. “They were frustrating for him. I expected a more hostile audience,” Harb said. Herald staff writer Monique Meneses ’05 can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.

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Francis continued from page 1 In 1987, he came out of retirement to fill the position of chair of the new Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences. He retired a second time in the early 1990s but remained active in the field of historical linguistics, doing research, attending conferences and writing book reviews. “He never gave up his love of the field,” Blumstein said. The author of four books, Francis is most famous for his work on computational linguistics with Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages Henry Kucera. In the 1960s, the two collaborated to produce what is now known as the “Brown Corpus,” a list of over a million words compiled from thousands of articles in a variety of subjects. The Corpus lists the frequency and category of each word. The first of its kind, the work has served as a model for other languages and continues to be used in linguistic research today. “His work was 20 to 30 years ahead of its time,” Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Mark Johnson told The Herald. “The work done at Brown was fundamental. It took the rest of the world a long time to recognize that. It’s really quite amazing,” he said. At the memorial service,

Francis’ sons John and Sam and his daughter Chérie shared their memories of their father. “He never got angry at me,” Chérie Francis said. She described him as a good father who encouraged her to study English and linguistics. “He was a gentleman, but above all, he was a gentle man,” Sam Francis said. “He was a multi-faceted man,” John Francis said in his remarks. In addition to his interest in linguistics, Francis also studied other languages, wrote poetry and was an avid sailor. “He never lost his love of sailing,” said Al Shatkin, a friend whom Francis met while sailing. Shatkin said that Francis, who was a World War II Navy veteran and the commodore of the Naragansett Yacht Club, was “a consummate teacher.” Francis’ granddaughter Erika Francis-Raniere read one of Francis’ poems, “The Cremation.” His grandson, Kip Francis, performed the Jimmy Buffett song “Son of a Son of a Sailor.” Professor of English Rick Russom, a friend of Francis’, read another of Francis’ poems, “Racing Sloop Going to Windward.” Francis’ ashes will be buried today in the family plot in Lowell, Mass. Herald staff writer Stephanie Harris can be reached at sharris@browndailyherald.com.

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important. UCS President Allen Feliz ’03 expressed the council’s excitement about the initiatives, but said it hoped student life issues wouldn’t get lost amid the buzz. “There are a lot of issues in campus life that, if they aren’t improved upon, are going to make the academic improvements in vain,” Sanders told Spies. Following Spies’s presentation, UCS categorized the Orthodox Christian Fellowship and awarded Category II status to MEZCLA, a Latino performing arts group. Golodny complained to Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski that closing the Underground detracted from the Brown community. Jablonski called a recent violation of the underage drinking policy “unfortunate” and “not something we can take lightly.” Jablonski clarified that the Underground is free to continue operations but is not permitted to serve alcohol for the remainder of the semester. She said she hoped the pub would take advantage of alternate forms of entertainment.

agencies, he said. Cicilline said he would like to continually meet with leaders like President Ruth Simmons to ensure lines of communication remain open, as they have not before. He would also like the city to share more of the growth of these non-profits. In a May press release he said, “Whenever a hospital or college or university expands, we lose taxable land and the facilities we must service increase.” Cicilline endorsed the expansion of non-profits but only if this growth is also beneficial to the city. Brown’s proposed Life Sciences building on Meeting Street could be useful to the city for research and development purposes, he said. Cicilline, a lawyer and former legislator from Providence’s East Side, began his campaign last February despite the possibility of former Mayor Vincent Cianci running for another term. “I really enjoy public service,” he said. “This was a good opportunity to do things that would improve people’s lives more directly.”

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers the Undergraduate Council of Students. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

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IN BRIEF Public colleges hike fees by 9.6 percent WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Squeezed by smaller government appropriations and dwindling endowments, fouryear public colleges and universities raised their tuitions and fees by 9.6 percent for the current school year, the College Board said Monday. The tuition increases were accompanied by a 6.0 percent hike in room-and-board charges, raising the average cost of attending a four-year public university for students who live on campus to $9,663 — $672 more than last fall. The tuition increases at public schools outpaced those at the nation’s 1,730 private four-year colleges and universities, where tuition went up 7.5 percent to an average of $18,273 this fall — a significant increase over last fall’s 5.5 percent increase. Meanwhile, room-and-board charges at private colleges increased 4.7 percent to an average of $6,479. Higher education officials said the price increases at four-year public colleges — the largest percentage increase in a decade — were a consequence of a slowing economy that has crimped tax revenues, prompting state officials to raise tuition. “The College Board’s new report on tuition and student aid confirms what we know too well: that the poor performance of the economy has had a substantial and negative impact on tax revenue and endowments, and consequently college tuitions,” said David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, which represents 1,800 colleges and universities.“This effect can be seen most vividly in the public sector of higher education, where enormous cuts in state appropriations have led governors and legislatures to enact tuition increases.” Beyond the increase in four-year tuitions and fees, the College Board said that the cost of attending two-year public school increased 7.9 percent this year to $1,608, while the cost of two-year private schools increased 7.5 percent to $9,890. Even with the recent cost increases, College Board officials emphasized that higher education remained affordable for most Americans. Overall, College Board officials said, 70 percent of students attend schools whose tuition and fees are under $8,000 a year. Moreover, they said, financial aid cushions the cost of college for many students.

14 Israelis killed in car-bomb blast KARKUR JUNCTION, Israel (Washington Post) — At least 14 people were killed and 50 more injured Monday when a car laden with an estimated 200 pounds of explosives rammed into the rear of a commuter bus on a crowded highway in northern Israel. The ferocity of the blast turned the bus into a fireball, burning some of its passengers alive; flattened about six nearby vehicles: threw the automobile carrying the explosives 100 yards from the scene; and spewed body parts for hundreds of feet. Israeli police said they believe two Palestinians were inside the rigged car. The engine block was the only part of the vehicle that survived the blast. The militant Islamic Jihad movement claimed responsibility for the attack, and in a letter faxed to the Associated Press news agency in Beirut said the bombing was in “retaliation for the series of massacres committed by the criminal enemy against our people.” It listed several recent Israeli military operations that have killed civilians in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The blast occurred at the start of the afternoon rush hour traffic at the Karkur Junction east of the town of Hadera. It was the fourth time a car bomb has exploded near a bus in this area, which is near the Green Line separating Israel and the West Bank. Bus driver Hayim Avraham said a passenger had just mounted the steps into the bus when “the car bomb hit the back of the bus and the whole bus was dismantled and started burning.” Firefighters who arrived at the scenes said they could not rescue passengers trapped inside the bus because of the intensity of the fire. “There were many people inside burned alive,” said Avaraham Mashich, one of the firefighters. Israeli authorities immediately condemned the attack but declined to say what type of action Israel might take against Palestinians in response to the bombing.

Muslim groups call for crackdown

Indonesia’s two largest Muslim organizations called on the nation’s president to crack down on Islamic Shootings spur interest in body armor militants suspected of terrorist WASHINGTON (Newsday) — The calls began pouring in last activities. week.

The first was from a Chicago woman, afraid that her son, a 19-year-old Maryland college student, was in harm’s way. “She wanted body armor,” said Vico Confino, who runs Maxsell Corp. in Coconut Creek, Fla.“She had to have it the next day. She didn’t care about what the cost was. “This thing,” he said of sniper attacks in the Washington area,“has this country going bananas.” Orders for body armor from residents in the Washington area have “more than doubled, probably tripled,” for Confino since a sniper began targeting people earlier this month. Many Washington-area gun shop owners say they’ve fielded numerous calls in recent days from people inquiring about body armor. Often the callers are out of luck. Most local places don’t carry such items, which can cost from $400 to $700. Would-be customers have turned to Maxsell and other Internet stores. These companies report selling twice as many bulletproof vests than normal. Some buyers are businesses trying to protect employees, others are travelers fearful of coming to the area. Shop owners said fewer people are asking for helmets. Customers are almost always willing to pay extra for overnight delivery of the vests, which can weigh up to nearly 20 pounds, shop owners say. “It comes in waves. There’s a shooting, and for a couple of days I get three or four times more call volume,” said Nick Taylor, who sells body armor at BulletProofME.com, based in Austin, Texas.“I see a shortage developing in the industry if this keeps up.” Salesman Tim Bacus of Gilbert’s Small Fire Arms Range in Lorton, Va., said people don’t realize that a bullet-proof vest capable of stopping the sniper’s heavy-caliber bullets is impractical. “The lightweight ones that you wear all day don’t work against high-powered rifles,” he said.“The ones that will stop it are too heavy and too expensive.”

Zalman Shoval, senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for “not making it clear to different Palestinian groups that violence and terror have to stop.” Shoval said the northern area near the scene of Monday’s incident has been a frequent target of bombing and other attacks because “it is easy to infiltrate there, there’s no physical barrier.” Monday’s bombing was the first attack inside Israel in 10 days; the last one involved a suicide bomber who slipped and fell trying to clamber aboard a commuter bus in Tel Aviv on Oct. 10. The bomber and a woman who was walking nearby died in that incident. The Bush administration condemned the bombing, but officials said it would not derail peace efforts. “The president condemns the most recent attack in Israel,” said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. “It’s another reminder of how it’s so important for peace to be pursued and for terror to be stopped.” More than four hours after the blast, rescue workers were still attempting to pull bodies from the wreckage of the charred bus carcass while other rescue workers gathered body parts that had been blown across the area. Metal shards from cars, pieces of clothing and shattered glass littered the highway, which had been burned black by the explosion and fire. Uzi Landau, Israeli minister of public security, said at the scene of the attack that he believes the government should pursue its ongoing efforts on the West Bank and Gaza Strip “more forcefully.” “We have to go from house to house and search for weapons and continue hunting down the gunmen in the area and disarm all the (Palestinian) security apparatuses,” he said. Palestinian leaders have blamed the Israeli crackdown on the West Bank — including curfews that have paralyzed the economy and daily lives of Palestinians — for perpetuating the cycle of violence against Israelis.

AKARTA, Indonesia (Washington Post) — Indonesia’s two

largest Muslim organizations, claiming nearly onethird of the population as members, urged Monday that the government of President Megawati Sukarnoputri crack down on Islamic militants suspected of violent activities. Following the arrest of the country’s best-known radical cleric, Abubakar Baasyir, the two main groups representing mainstream Muslims here have joined the public debate, tagging Islamic extremists as a fringe minority in the world’s largest Muslim nation. Leaders from Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah have rallied behind a pair of government decrees issued over the weekend that make it easier to detain people suspected of involvement in terrorist activities, such as the massive bombing of Bali’s nightclub district on Oct. 12 that killed at least 183 people. Some moderate Muslim leaders have urged Megawati to propose even more draconian measures. “We badly need such regulations to prevent terrorist attacks,” said Hazim Muzadi, chairman of the 40-million member Nahdlatul Ulama. “All countries have similar laws.” Although some human rights groups have warned that the new anti-terrorist measures could be abused and might mark a return to the autocratic practices of former president Suharto, moderate Muslim figures said these fears are overstated. “It’s rubbish,” said Syafii Maarif, chairman of Muhammadiyah, which has 30 million members. “If those so-called radicals did not do anything wrong, they should not worry.” These two groups have emerged as a force for stability in Indonesian politics. Leaders from both organizations were outspoken in their opposition to an effort this summer by militant Muslims to heighten the role of Islamic sharia law, which would have proven highly divisive even though

nearly 90 percent of the population classifies itself as Muslim. Muhammadiyah represents many of the country’s modern Muslims and has a large following in the cities. Nahdlatul Ulama draws its support from a more rural population that tends to follow a form of Islam heavily tempered by other traditional religious beliefs and cultural practices. Together, they reflect a society that is more moderate in both politics and religious practice than that of many other Muslimcountries. They have long been at odds with some of the more radical Islamic groups in Indonesia, including those associated with Baasyir. While some government officials warned that Baasyir’s arrest could provoke a backlash from Muslim militants, former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, a leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, made clear he supports the move. “I believe that Baasyir is a terrorist,” Wahid said in a radio interview. Police handed Baasyir an arrest warrant Saturday but have yet to question him. He remains in a hospital in the central Java city of Solo after complaining Friday of heart and respiratory problems. He is under police guard while authorities evaluate whether they will be able to move him to Jakarta. Baasyir, the founder of an Islamic boarding school in Solo, has been identified by U.S. and Asian intelligence officials as the head of Jemaah Islamiyah, a radical network active in several Southeast Asian countries. These officials said the group has links with al Qaeda. Although Indonesian security officials suspect Jemaah Islamiyah members were involved in the Bali attack, Baasyir was not charged in connection with that bombing. Instead, he was arrested for his alleged involvement in a series of church bombings in Jakarta and nine other Indonesian cities on Christmas Eve 2000 that killed 19 people. Investigators disclosed today that the main bomb in the Bali attack was made of ammonium nitrate, a compound stockpiled by Jemaah Islamiyah, the Associated Press reported. Baasyir has denied participating in terrorist activities and said that Jemaah Islamiyah does not exist.

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Race, Enron injected into Texas Senatorial campaign In one of the nation’s most closely watched campaigns, African American Democrat Ron Kirk is trying to become the first southern black since Reconstruction to gain a seat in the Senate HOUSTON (Washington Post) — After lying all but dormant for months, two hot potatoes of Texas politics — race and Enron — have burst into the contest to fill the state’s open Senate seat, one of the nation’s most closely watched campaigns. Perhaps it was inevitable. The Democratic nominee, former Dallas mayor Ron Kirk, is the first southern African-American since Reconstruction with a plausible shot at being elected to the Senate. The Republican nominee, Texas Attorney General John Cornyn, has been a ranking public official in a state rocked by the meltdown of one of its leading companies, Enron Corp. On Friday night, both themes got a prime-time airing when the candidates—each a buttoned-down lawyer and pro-business moderate—faced off here in a televised debate, the first of three scheduled this week and next. The result was a handful of sharp exchanges in which the candidates used racially tinged references to tweak each other, in addition to accusing one another of benefiting from Enron’s cash before the energy-trading giant began to collapse last year.

On race, Cornyn rapped Kirk for attending a hip-hop “summit” last weekend in Dallas featuring a rap artist who worked on an album by the group N.W.A. that included the song “(Expletive) tha Police.” Kirk pleaded ignorance about the song, which he said was recorded 14 years ago, and said he had attended the hip-hop event simply to urge young blacks to vote. He returned fire by saying Cornyn, as a high school student, had written an article in favor of George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama who ran for president four times. “The truth is, I was a Nixon man back in high school,” said Cornyn. He said he had written about Wallace as a school assignment. The two also tried to tar each other with the Enron brush, a strategy they adopted in TV ads this week. Kirk accused Cornyn of accepting $193,000 in political contributions from Enron executives when he ran for attorney general and then rewarding them last year by ruling that the firm could keep certain financial information secret. “You basically served as in-house counsel to Enron,” said Kirk. “The bad news is the people of Texas were paying you at the time.” Cornyn, who later donated $200,000 to a fund for laidoff Enron employees, said his ruling complied with the law. He demanded to know how Kirk could attack him on this issue when the Democrat’s own law firm had accepted $180,000 in legal fees from Enron. Kirk, who received only a small fee as mayor of Dallas, has continued to draw an annual salary of $227,000 from the law firm, Gardere Wynne Sewell, although he did no work on Enron’s behalf.

Neither candidate appeared to land a knockout blow, but Cornyn kept Kirk on the defensive while crisply parrying the Democrat’s charges. Kirk had trouble answering questions or offering rebuttals within the allotted 60- and 30-second slots, and once or twice appeared rattled. At one point Kirk, who seems slightly uneasy discussing foreign affairs, suggested that Saudi Arabia might develop weapons of mass destruction, a remark he had to modify in the post-debate spin session with journalists. Even if the debate was a draw, as some analysts suggested, that may be bad news for Kirk. A Democrat in an overwhelmingly Republican state, he was a popular mayor and retains broad support in Dallas, even among Republicans who regard him as affable and pragmatic. But Kirk’s considerable charisma does not come across so clearly on television or at large campaign events, where he sometimes seems formal and unfocused. Badly outspent by the GOP, he has lagged in the polls. And Saturday, a new statewide survey posted on the Dallas Morning News Web site suggested the gap is widening, with Cornyn leading 47 to 37 percent, and 14 percent undecided. The poll, conducted by the New York firm Blum and Weprin Associates Inc., had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Just as dispiriting for Texas Democrats, the poll showed an even bigger Republican edge in the race for governor. Democrat Tony Sanchez, a Hispanic American oil and gas multimillionaire who has self-financed one of the most expensive races in state history, trails Gov. Rick Perry, the Republican who succeeded George W. Bush. Perry led, 50 to 35 percent.

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Polishing the Rock The libraries and Computing and Information Services requested funds from the University Monday to upgrade their respective services. While University Librarian Merrily Taylor delivered a clear presentation to the Advisory Committee on University Planning requesting a reasonable amount of money for much-needed improvements, CIS representatives were unprepared and unable to tell committee members exactly how much money CIS needed. The University should invest in improvements to Brown’s outdated library system, but should refrain from allocating additional funds to CIS until that University department precisely articulates how much money is needed and what improvements will be made. For years now, the library’s acquisitions budget has been under-funded, causing the Rock and SciLi to lag behind other Ivy League libraries. When Brown announced plans to build the Rock in 1962, the facility was designed to be comparable in size and holdings to libraries at only Harvard and Yale universities. This is hardly the case today. Students and faculty conducting research are forced to use time-consuming interlibrary loan services to acquire necessary research materials. These materials should be available at this top notch university. It’s time to put money into expanding Brown’s library acquisitions budget in order to reclaim the glory of our libraries’ past. Computing and Information Services, on the other hand, should not be given additional funds until the department can provide the University with a concrete request for funds and a clear plan of what it intends to do with this money. Unlike in previous years, when CIS came to ACUP with precise requests for funds, representatives from computing told the committee that CIS will need anywhere from $10 to $100 million. This lack of preparedness and thoughtful financial planning demonstrated by CIS leads us to question how serious the department’s new leadership is in its commitment to rebuilding Brown’s antiquated computing network. Brown’s libraries need additional funding to make the University competitive with its peer institutions. The University should honor the libraries’ request for $6 million, while administrators and ACUP members should refuse to grant an additional cent to CIS until this department gets its house in order.

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Graduate school unfairly leaves BGEO out of TA task force To the Editor: Based on concerns expressed by various members of the graduate community, a joint committee between the GSC and BGEO met over the summer to discuss the lack of a formal teaching assistant TA policy at Brown. The outcome of this committee was a proposal that requests the University to provide oversight as individual departments formalize their TA policies. This proposal (available online at http://www.bgeouaw.com and http://www.brown.edu/Students/GSC) was submitted to the graduate school by the BGEO and GSC at the end of September. While the administration has responded to our proposal, we have mixed feelings about the response. Dean of the Graduate School Karen Newman has agreed to form a special task force to begin looking at

the issue more carefully, and this task force would have graduate student representatives, chosen by the GSC. However, the graduate school is currently refusing to officially recognize the BGEO as a contributor to the proposal, and has indicated that the BGEO will play no role in future discussion. Given the administration's position to date, it is not overly surprising that they would exclude the BGEO in an official capacity. However, we feel that this sets a disquieting precedent regarding how the University interacts with student groups; a letter to the members of the joint committee from Newman implied a policy of excluding groups other than the GSC from formal discussions of University affairs. Concerned that this might limit future initiative and input from graduate student groups, we ask the University to discuss this new stance with the graduate community. Renee Allen GS, Nancy Burns GS, Chris Frazer GS BGEO Heinrich Hock GS, Aaron Katz GS GSC Co-Presidents Oct. 20

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2002 · PAGE 11

The Bush doctrine and the new ‘imperialism’ War is fine, as long as the United States makes an effort to pursue the correct enemy THE UNVEILING OF THE “BUSH economic mess. The administration isn’t clear on why Doctrine,” the assertion that the United States should make no distinction in attri- it’s going into Iraq. Nuclear weapons bution of culpability between terrorist Saddam Hussein may one day have? organizations and the countries that har- Chemical weapons he now has? Ties to al bor them, was greeted with a mixture of Qaeda? The gassing of the Kurds? The breaking of some U.N. resolucondescension and/or fear tion or other (though the GOP from the usual odd coalition of hawks’ respect for the U.N. certain left and right sectors. has never been particularly The doctrine was an inane high)? Daily, we hear the likes move for the administration — of Condoleeza Rice and Dick all it did was hype up the Cheney swearing on a stack of opposition, and it’s not like bibles that Hussein is tied to Bush’s foreign policy has really al Qaeda, but the proof stubchanged with the document’s bornly refuses to show up — debut. They were gunning for not in the controversial docuIraq before, and it’s unlikely ment, not in the speech that they’ll be gunning for anyone ALEX SCHULMAN accompanied it and not in the else in the foreseeable future. BORN TO RUN contradictory CIA reports of The irony is, if the Bush late. doctrine was really about A “clear and present danwhat leftists and Buchananite rightists claim, he’d be on a more ingenu- ger” tie to al Qaeda, if elucidated by the ous track. I see little indication that he administration in a clear and democratplans to flex unlimited muscle into the ic way — i.e. not “just trust us” — would unlimited future. Lebanon and Somalia justify action against Iraq outside of showed how quickly Americans of all U.N. approval or coalition. What any political persuasions will turn against new doctrine should emphasize is not “imperialism” (imperfect nomenclature, our right to rampage all over the globe but I’ll play along) when the situation gets taking out any “rogue” regime we don’t complex, and the body bags start to come like; it should emphasize that, for all the home. If he really did plan an unprece- talk about the immortality and diffusedented wave of “neo-imperialism,” colo- ness of terrorism, we are fighting a very nizing Iraq in order to democratize the specific war against a very specific Middle East and, slowly, the world, I’d still enemy. That enemy is al Qaeda and the have my doubts, but I’d respect the guy designs of their Islamist fellow-travelers, more. I fear that Bush’s commitment to and they are beatable. For example: there is in fact a country in war is greater than his commitment to the patient (and expensive) nation building the Middle East ruled by a dictator, that required afterward, and he has simply possesses nuclear arms, has engaged in wagged the Iraq dog into the news to ban- dependable brinksmanship and war with ish Enron, Halliburton and our general its neighbors and whose powerful, brutal, semi-autonomous secret police force not only maintains close ties to al Qaeda, but The Herald eagerly anticipates the formahas helped train and arm them. That tion of the Alex Schulman ’03 doctrine. country is Pakistan, now a valued “ally.” This is Alex’s fifth semester as a Herald Who are we kidding here? While Bush dartcolumnist.

ed out of Afghanistan and prepared for Gulf War part II, General Musharraf was quietly letting al Qaeda fighters back into his anarchic northwest to redirect them into Pakistan’s proxy war in Kashmir. Elsewhere, it is common knowledge at this point (except in the State Department) that Saudi Arabia bred fifteen of the nineteen hijackers, is duplicitously antiAmerican, stonewalled our intelligence agencies reliably after Sept. 11, 2001 and has been the leading financier of bin Ladenism for at least a decade. With friends like these, who needs enemies? True, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are tenuously fine as long as they can be bought off, but how long is that? Isn’t a country with documented ties to al Qaeda, a clearly rogue security sector and actual here-and-now nuclear weapons far closer to the threats Bush has outlined than Iraq? Aren’t countries with dissatisfied, radicalized, anti-American populations more worrisome than Iran, with its middle class restless for secularism, and its stale, declining theocracy? There is an “axis of evil,” and it stretches from Nigeria and Sudan, up to the Caucasus and Kashmir and as far east as Indonesia. It rarely involves state actors, except insofar as they are patron (the Saudis) or indulgent nanny (Pakistan). That doesn’t give Bush his one face and one country to point at, but we should pick our battles wisely, for superpower or not, we have limited resources and creditors, especially in trying economic times. This is not an argument that the United States should fight in every place al Qaeda spreads its poison. Realistically, we will have to step away and allow the lesser of two evils to crush Islamo-fascism in many of the globe’s corners — Russia, China, India, etc. They will be far more brutal than we, and we will wince at some of their measures, but after fifty years of murky motives and justifications for murky wars,

we now have an enemy clearly worth every last bit of our fight, and I have no problem standing alongside any nation that has chosen sides, for yes, that is what the collapse of the towers demanded. It is a test only a few have passed satisfactorily, and this is where the Bush administration is correct. Accept brotherhood where it comes (Tony Blair) but be prepared to act alone if it doesn’t show up elsewhere. Don’t wait for France, Germany and Italy to sign on. They never will, not in spirit at least. They will reap the rewards of U.S. action without bearing the cost, sneer at us from their salons and move on to their next meaningless conference. Continental Europe has been involved in a semi-utopian project in recent years that considers war outmoded — fluid borders, economic integration, uniform rule by bureaucratic elites — and thus has been of little value in solving problems (Balkans, for example) that don’t fit the template. Meanwhile, they face inassimilable Arab underclasses, and racial resentments fuel populist demagoguery. Of all people, they should be the ones insisting that certain values are nonnegotiable; meanwhile, we hear, Danish social workers refuse to report Muslim clitoral mutilations for fear of being branded “culturally insensitive.” We need no lectures from Europe on the creation of a pluralist, cosmopolitan, multiethnic democracy — that subject is ours to teach. Our proper war is an imperial one — bin Ladenism is as imperialist as it gets, seeking to impose one bleak, backward vision on the entire world. If it is between our imperialism and theirs, I’ll gladly take ours, and will not feel unjust in demanding of my fellow citizens that they, too, choose sides. This is not a war against Islam or a war against any despotism we choose. It is a war, already declared, by a fundamentalist breed of mafia syndicate, and its end lies in their extermination.

Swiney comic follows the rules of comedic discourse ‘Pornucopia’ mention of the Holocaust no more inappropriate than a reference within a story DRAT THAT ELI SWINEY ’03. HE DRAWS A offers specialized modes of treatment comic that some people find offensive available nowhere else and has undeni(“Swiney comic offensive, trivializes ably unique effects on the audience Holocaust,” 10/16). These people com- (which are, in turn, based on comedy’s plain and ask for an apology. He specific psychological implications). For responds with comics about the com- a better explanation than I could offer, look at texts on the subject by plaints, and one finds himGeorge Meredith, Henri self wondering: when will he Bergson, Freud, Kierkegaard, get serious? That is, in fact, ROSS HYZER Hobbes, Descartes, Simon the $10 million question. I, GUEST COLUMN Dentith and others. for one, disagree with the Through his comic, critics; so I’m writing this Swiney made a joke, which column, if not in defense of the comic, then in opposition to the falls within the category of comedic discourse. The fact that this joke made refercriticism. Swiney’s critics complain that his ref- ence to the Holocaust has been called erence to the Holocaust in one of his inappropriate because “the Holocaust is comics was insensitive and inappropri- not a joke” (a truer statement has never ate. This complaint is problematic been made). However, this is the same as because it fails to recognize both the spe- saying Ms. Whoever treated the cific details of Swiney’s comic, as well the Holocaust like a story because she wrote particular qualities of what I shall refer to a story referencing the Holocaust. Even generally as comedy. Comedy is, in fact, a though general opinion curiously assigns distinct, specific form of discourse. This more degradation to a joke than a story, statement is not meant as some foggy the idea that “the Holocaust is a story” is assertion that “comedy can say some- still clearly dangerous. If this strange forthing and stuff.” Rather, I make it mula that is applied to jokes were because comedy has its own peculiar applied to all forms of discourse, we structure, its own tools, its own ways of would have a problem; the Holocaust is organizing and conveying information, not a joke, nor is it a story, movie, play, song, painting or photograph. If one wants to argue that the subject of the Ross Hyzer ’03 is an independent concenHolocaust should be taboo, then that is a trator in comedy theory. He hails from West different matter altogether. Des Moins, Iowa.

The effective and seemingly impossible marriage of levity and gravity is one of the finest and most powerful capacities of comedy. Other arguments can be made that the lightness of comedy makes it an improper arena for subjects such as the Holocaust to appear. However, comedy’s “lack of seriousness” is simply a manifestation of the widespread inability to effectively interact with the genre, rather than any inherent quality. Seriousness does not come from not being funny; seriousness comes from gravity. Indeed, the effective and seemingly impossible marriage of levity and gravity is one of the finest and most powerful capabilities of comedy. For examples, consider Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” Heller’s “Catch-22” and Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove” and try to prove that they are either not comedic or not serious. One could respond by saying that it is absurd to give such consideration to a college comic strip such as Swiney’s

“Pornucopia.” Would Brown student theatrical productions be placed in such constraints? Shall they be evaluated only according to, say, line memorization and efficient blocking? Anybody who thinks that the two cannot be analogous knows very little about either one or both of them. Depth is not dictated by the medium. Finally, it must be understood that the joke in Swiney’s comic isn’t even directed at the Holocaust — that is not what is being held up as “laughable” (the notion of “laughability” is, in fact, one of the most interesting peculiarities of comedic discourse). Just about every reader picked up on the irresponsible treatment of the Holocaust in the comic. Some readers obviously stopped there and assigned the offensive incongruity to Swiney, along with the distaste that is meant to accompany it. Further consideration, however, clearly reveals that the objectionable sentiment instead belongs to the character in the comic who has an unhealthy and shamelessly self-gratifying obsession with the Holocaust. This is the central idea, or “butt,” of the joke. People who fetishize the Holocaust like some Vines-obsessed fan girl are being held up as laughable, not the Holocaust. If you have an objection to that, well, that’s a whole other kettle of fish.

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SPORTS TUESDAY OCTOBER 22, 2002 · PAGE 12

NFL coaches need some more schooling

Doctor K could not find his own anti-drug

FOR SOME REASONS, NFL OFFENSIVE coordinators haven’t taken history classes. They definitely took math, physics and English, but for some reason they missed out on history. How do I know this? Because they’re definitely not paying attention to what wins games in the NFL — the ability to run the football. No matter whom you have as quarterback and receivers, you need an effective running game to win consistently. The inability to run JEFF SALTMAN kept Dan Marino THE SALT’S TAKE from winning a Super Bowl, and it prevented John Elway from winning one until Terrell Davis came along. Suddenly, however, offensive coordinators have forgotten the value of the run. The best example of this sort of mentality is New England’s pride and joy — the Super Bowl Champion Patriots. Their miraculous run to the Super Bowl was spearheaded by an effective run game. Antowain Smith rushed for over 1,100 yards and he wasn’t even a starter at the beginning of the year. His moving into a starting role coincided with the Patriots going on their winning streak. Funny coincidence, isn’t it? This year the Patriots have suddenly become pass-happy. They think Marino is starting for them, when in fact he’s enjoying wearing his Isotoner gloves and staying unnaturally tan in retirement. Someone from Western Pennsylvania should never be that tan. The Patriots, however, do not have, as Bill Maas likes to say over and over and over again, a “gunslinger” at quarterback. There is a reason Tom Brady wasn’t picked first overall, and it wasn’t because of his poor acting ability in Dunkin’ Donuts commercials. But the Patriots have decided to just keep throwing the ball up. In fact, in their opening night win, the Patriots threw the ball 68% of the time and 70% of the time two weeks later against the Chiefs. Antowain Smith is averaging 14 carries a game, when a good back should get it at least 20 times. Defenses have begun to focus on the pass and effectively shut it down. The Patriots offense hasn’t scored more than 14 points in the past three games, while it averaged over 30 through the first three games. The Pats don’t have the personnel to throw the ball 40 times a game and be effective. They need to control the clock and get back to running the ball in order to have a chance to win another Super Bowl. The Patriots’ Super Bowl opponent, the St. Louis Rams/Lambs, have gone through a similar problem. The Rams had gotten away from their best weapon, Marshall Faulk. Not surprisingly, they were 0-5 going into a match up against the unde-

LIKE MOST BASEBALL FANS, I WAS NEVER quite sure how to react to the 2002 season’s memorable occurrences. The headlined events of this year, especially those involving drug abuse, elicited a number of questions in my mind. Are most power hitters using steroids? Is that the reason Barry Bonds never sees strikes anymore? If steroids have corrupted the game, do I really care? When thinking about this last question, I immediately recalled one ADAM STERN player’s story. STERN ADAM Granted, he did not abuse steroids. Yet his misfortune, if interpreted in a certain light, can be a lesson for today’s players. Dwight Gooden was my favorite baseball player throughout my childhood. “Doc K,” as he was called, was one of the most dominant young pitchers of the 1980’s. After winning the Rookie of the Year award in 1984, Gooden’s sophomore season proved to be one of the best of any pitcher in MLB history. Leading the league in wins (24), ERA (1.53) and strikeouts (268), he became the youngest player ever to win the Cy Young Award, at the age of 20. Unparalleled in potential, this phenom had the promise of being one of the best pitchers of all time. Though I do not think the two were

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SCOREBOARD Men’s Soccer BROWN versus Fairfield University, 7 p.m., Stevenson Field

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The Brown men’s soccer team (4-3-4) hosts the Fairfield University Stags tonight.

Men’s soccer remains winless in Ivy League BY NICK GOUREVITCH

The Brown men’s soccer team (4-3-4 overall, 0-1-2 Ivy) has lost only one of its last five matches. Unfortunately, the Bears have only picked up one win in that span, tying three games including last Friday’s 1-1 doubleovertime draw at Princeton University. Evan Ryan ’03 scored Brown’s only goal, continuing his streak of timely goals over his career. While Ryan has only hit the net three times at Brown, all three have come in Ivy League matches that the Bears either won or tied, and all three have been the only goal of the game for Bruno. The score came just 11 minutes after Princeton had taken a one-goal lead. Jeff Larentowicz ’05 sent a free kick towards the opposite goalpost where Dustin Branan ’03 re-directed the ball on a header to Ryan, who headed it into the net. Brown had struggled on set pieces this season, so the score on a free kick was one of the silver linings in what was an otherwise disappointing day. On the other side of the ball, Chris Gomez ’05 put together another solid performance as keeper, posting a career-high 10 saves. Gomez’s clutch saves allowed the Bears to keep the game scoreless in the first half despite being out-shot during that time. The Tigers were only able to beat Gomez when sophomore forward Ryan Rich was fed a through ball giving him a one-on-one with the keeper. Rich finished the play with a low, hard shot towards the left post.

Gomez’s performance on Friday, combined with his shutout against Providence College last Tuesday, earned him a place on the Ivy League Weekly Honor Roll. On the injury front, Omar Macedo ’03 is still sidelined and did not see any action against Princeton, while Eduardo Romaniero ’03 played despite sporting a cast on his right arm. With the result of this game, the Bears are now sitting in sixth place — without a league victory — in the Ivy standings and face an uphill battle if they hope to salvage their season. They will not only need to win their final four league games — something they were able to accomplish last season — but they will also need a good deal of help from other Ivy League schools. University of Pennsylvania is sitting atop the league at 3-0 and Harvard is a close second with a 2-01 record. The Bears have yet to play the Quakers and already dropped a heartbreaker earlier this season to the Crimson. In a scheduling change, Brown will next face Fairfield University tonight at 7 p.m. at Stevenson Field. The game was originally scheduled to be played in Conn., but unsatisfactory field conditions led to the switch. Bruno’s next Ivy League match is at home against Cornell University on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Sports staff writer Nick Gourevitch ‘03 is an assistant sports editor and covers the men soccer team. He can be reached at ngourevitch@browndailyherald.com.

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Equestrian places 4th at Teikyo Post after week off BY SARAH STAVELEY-O’CARROLL

Last Saturday, Oct. 19, the Brown varsity equestrian team competed against seven other schools at Teikyo Post University’s horse show in Hebron, Conn. Despite going into the competition undefeated and first in the region, the team feared it had lost momentum during a “dead week,” one of seven which will be observed throughout its season. A new Ivy League policy for varsity sports meant that during the week, in addition to canceling meetings and lifting times, no team members could have lessons with their coach, Michaela Scanlon. A bit rusty after the time off, the team still looked forward to a show that had traditionally been a Brown stronghold. The morning began with Jamie Peddy ’06 taking the blue ribbon in the first class of the day, a competitive open fences class with eight other competitors. Co-captain Jessica Kingsborough ’04 added excitement to the morning when she completed a near-flawless jumping course in intermediate fences, and then slid half-way around the horse as the saddle slipped in her finishing circle. After a graceful recovery, however, she too won first place. Marston St. John ’03 continued her successful season by taking second in intersee EQUESTRIAN, page 4