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Library staff agrees to deal, won’t stage Friday walkout BY JULIETTE WALLACK

University officials and union representatives reached a tentative agreement late Wednesday night that should prevent a Friday walkout by library staff members. Ninety union members will vote on the agreement at 11:30 a.m. today, said Karen McAninch, business agent of Service Employees International Union Local 134, but the union will recommend to its members that they not walk out. Though the five union representatives involved in negotiations have the authority to approve the agreement without a vote, McAninch said they felt it was important to consult with the members, who make up more than half of the library system’s staff. It took nine hours of negotiations for the University and the union to come to the tentative agreement, the details of which McAninch declined to reveal until after today’s vote. But the lengthy discussions left the two entities “in a more positive place,” she said. The union’s goal in negotiating was “to figure out a way to put a more positive focus on the whole process,” McAninch see DEAL, page 7

Across the East Side, Universityowned buildings sit vacant

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Poet Staceyann Chin, right, a Jamaican national of Chinese and African descent, performed for a packed audience in Salomon 101 Wednesday night. Senior Waciuma Wanjohi ’03, left, also spoke about his experience as a multiracial student at Brown.

Exploring multi-heritage Poet Staceyann Chin wowed a Salomon crown Wednesday night with her performance of poems that addressed issues ranging from racism to sex to family life

BY ZACH BARTER

BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

In the midst of growing talk of a housing shortage, the University currently controls 14 vacant or unused buildings scattered around College Hill that have fallen into various stages of disrepair. “Some of them are in pretty bad shape,” said Michael McCormick, director of planning in the Office of Facilities Management. “It would take a lot of work and money to reoccupy any of these buildings.” The buildings, 13 of which are houses, were at one time inhabited but have not been occupied in the recent past, said Thomas Raso, assistant director of the Office of Rental Facilities, which currently manages 35 occupied off-campus properties. The unused buildings include four houses on Benevolent Street; three houses on Charlesfield Street; two houses each on Brook, Brown and Waterman streets; and the Old Stone Bank on South Main Street,

Performance poet Staceyann Chin brought a packed Salomon audience to its feet Wednesday evening at the convocation for Multiracial Heritage Week. Chin, a Jamaican national of Chinese and African descent, performed several poems on topics ranging from racism to sex to her relationship with her family. She talked and joked with the audience in between the poems. In “Cross-fire,” she described her multifaceted identity: “Most people are surprised my father is Chinese / like there’s a preconditioned look for the halfChinese / lesbian poet who is also Jamaican but lives in Far Rockaway, Queens.” Chin often abandoned the microphone to perform and at times left the stage to interact more directly with audience members. Some of her poems incorporated humor and references to pop culture, which drew loud appreciation from the audience.

“I believe Pinky and the Brain are revolutionaries, because every night they try to take over the world,” she said in one poem. “Like them, I believe there will always be something to fight for.” Chin has performed in one-woman shows Off-Broadway and won slam poetry competitions in New York and Chicago. She performed on HBO’s “Def Poetry,” and is currently rehearsing for a live version of the Russell Simmons show on Broadway. In a question-and-answer session, Chin said she has a strained relationship with the predominantly white lesbian community. She said she struggles to bring up issues of race in the queer community but is not accepted as a lesbian in minority communities or in Jamaica, where she grew up. “I have pieces of me that belong to different places,” she said. “I feel like I don’t fit in anywhere.” Now that she is successful and gaining fame, Chen finds herself accepted and “claimed” by many communities, including Chinese Americans and Jamaicans, she said. But she said she wonders if those communities would accept her if she were not as successful. The theme for the 12th annual Multiracial Heritage Week is “Unweaving the Myth.” Programmer Megan Asaka ‘03, introduced the evening’s speakers. First-year speaker Bali Kumar ’06 and

Senior Reflections Speakers Sidra Durst ’03 and Lenox Waciuma Wanjohi ’03 spoke about their own experiences as multiracial students. Members of the Brown Organization of Multiracial and Biracial Students read a compilation of poetry and statements BOMBS members wrote in response to the question, “How do you identify today?” The speakers all emphasized the difficulty of finding a place in a society that requires clear divisions between racial categories, with many expressing frustration at having to choose just one racial identity for the U.S. census. Durst said multiracial people all find different answers to questions of identity. She said to multiracial students who are beginning to ask these questions, “Remember that there are no boxes, and you need to shape your identity as your own.” Chin ended the convocation on the same note, with her poem “If only out of vanity.” The poem ended: “I want to go down in history / in a chapter marked miscellaneous / because the writers could find / no other way to categorize me. / In this world where classification is key / I want to erase the straight lines / So I can be me.” Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ‘05 can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

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I N S I D E T H U R S D AY, O C T O B E R 2 4 , 2 0 0 2 At best U.S. state schools, budgetary crises force cut backs, tuition hikes page 3

Minden Hall residents say lack of interior suite doors makes for lack of privacy page 5

For Hope College first-years, environmental interest is a way of life page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Nick Noon ’05 says student workers deserve respect from their peers column, page 11

Scoring goals from Brazil to Brown, Eduardo Romaneiro ’03 stars for men’s soccer sports, page 12

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CALENDAR COLLOQUIUM — “Knowledge, Experience and Inductive Reasoning,” John Coley, Northeastern University. Room 241, CIT, noon. GROUNDBREAKING — of the new Hillel. 80 Brown Street, noon. LECTURE — “The Cuban Missile Crisis in Post-Cold War Consciousness,” David Welch, University of Toronto. Joukowsky Forum, noon COLLOQUIUM — “An Experiment in Unsupervised Training of Statistical Translation Models,” Robert Morse, Microsoft Research. Lubrano Conference Room, CIT, 4 p.m. COLLOQUIUM — “Icelandic Glaciers and Volcanoes,” Matthew Jull, WHOI. Room 115, MacMillan Hall, 4 p.m.

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LECTURE— “The Geometric Style in Italy: Influence and Imitation in Early Contacts with the Greeks in the West,” Angela Leatherman, Brown. Room 103, 70 Waterman St, 5:45 p.m. FILM — “Wilson’s Ghost: Reducing the Risk of Conflict, Killing and Catastrophe in the 21st Century,” a pre-release screening of a documentary film on the life of Robert McNamara. Room 117, MacMillan Hall, 7 p.m. ROUNDTABLE — for mixed race people of Asian descent, facilitated by Laurie Mengel. Fireside Lounge, Morris-Champlin, 7 p.m. READING — Pura Lopez Colome will discuss the literary scene in Mexico. Main lounge, Gregorian Quadrangle, 8 p.m.

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Universities move to restrict file sharing BY DYLAN BROWN

Sharing music and movies through programs like Kazaa and LimeWire has always been illegal, but until recently there were rarely any consequences. To protect their bandwidth and their endowments, universities are restricting and even banning students from networks for file sharing. Princeton University warned its students against allowing their file-sharing programs to upload more than one file at a time. Those students who do not comply are placed on the slower part of the network, according to the Daily Princetonian. The University of Southern California took much stronger actions. A month ago, the university told students that they could lose access to the computer network for a year if caught trading copyrighted files over the university network. Students received an e-mail saying they risk the “complete loss of access to the USC computer system and both disciplinary and legal sanctions.” Kazaa and LimeWire, two of the most popular peer-topeer networks, use technology that lets users connect to one another. These companies do not maintain central databases of music and movie files, so it is harder for the music and film industry to shut them down. When you do a search on one of these programs, you basically ask your “neighbor,” any other user connected at the same time, if they have a file, and if they don’t then they ask their “neighbor,” and so on, said Professor of Computer Science Eliezer Upfal. Peer-to-peer file sharing changed the way the Brown network is used — instead of the traffic going from Brown outside the network, the traffic is coming into the Brown network from outside, said Richard Boes, director of Network Technology for Computing and Information Services Because the network is being used up by so much external traffic, “what you experience inside the institution is a slowdown,” said Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president for CIS. But people who use these peer-to-peer networks can voluntarily prevent large numbers of other users from downloading files off their computer. If this were to happen at Brown the network would speed up, Boes said. Music and motion picture companies asked a federal judge to find “the custodians of Kazaa liable for contributing to copyright infringement,” the New York Times reported. LimeWire has yet to be sued because it uses the Gnutella network, which is different from the “Fast Track”

“If the University makes a statement that says you’re not allowed to download, I’m OK with that, because it’s an academic institution.”

Budget deficits force state schools to cut funding, raise tuition BY JONATHAN ELLIS

Deepa Kumaraiah ’03 proprietary software designed only for media files that Kazaa uses. “When you’re on the (Gnutella) network you have no contact with us. It operates completely independently from any central location,” said Adam Fisk ’99.5, a programmer at LimeWire. But that hasn’t stopped the Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America from hiring agents to search peer-to-peer networks and determine if users are downloading copyrighted material, said Waite-Franzen. Brown’s CIS receives reports from RIAA and MPAA agents daily, said Paul Asadoorian, Internet security engineer for CIS. These reports contain the IP (internet protocol) addresses of people caught trading copyrighted files, the name of the file, the method of sharing the person used to get it, the violation and what action the agents expect CIS to take in order to comply with the law. Today, all CIS is asked to do is get the student to stop sharing the file, Waite-Franzen said. But if an agent hired by the music or film industry notifies CIS that a student is downloading copyrighted material, CIS is obligated by law to notify and remove that student from the network until the file is no longer being shared, Waite-Franzen said. “We are in a transition process right now, because we’re hiring an information technology security officer,” WaiteFranzen said. After CIS hires the new officer, they “will take a close look at the policy and work with the Provost, the academic deans, other deans, the vice president from Student Affairs and the students to really craft what (the) policy should be,” she said. Cracking down on file sharing may be more complicated than removing individual users. While it would be physically possible to determine who

With a lagging economy and slipping state tax revenues, some of the nation’s elite public universities are feeling the squeeze of budgetary cutbacks. With states cutting university budgets, institutions have been forced to raise tuition fees at increasingly faster rates. Overall, four-year public institutions hiked their rates by 9.6 percent for this academic year, according to the College Board. California slashed funding for the University of California system by 3 percent from the previous fiscal year. Gov. Gray Davis authorized additional cuts for the middle of the year. It’s not up to the universities to allocate their lessened resources, said Brad Hayward, spokesperson for the UC system. Instead, the state mandates the areas of reduced funding, Hayward said. The state downsized research program support by 10 percent and cut back K-12 outreach programs even further, Hayward said. The outreach programs allow universities to work with disadvantaged public schools to improve classroom teaching and to increase students’ chances of getting into college. The outreach programs are now operating with 60 percent of their former state funding, UCLA’s Daily Bruin reported. Although the affected programs are important, the goal of the distribution of the cutbacks was to “protect the core instructional program,” Hayward said. “The average undergraduate student should not feel” the effects of the cuts. But with California facing a $10 billion deficit, the UC system is “still confronting a very difficult budget,” Hayward said. There will likely be additional budget decreases in coming years, he added. Hayward said there hasn’t been a reduction in applications to the UC system due to its financial situation. In fact, he said, because of a rapid growth see BUDGETS, page 6

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Empties continued from page 1 McCormick said. Facilities Management is responsible for the buildings’ upkeep and maintenance. “We don’t spend a lot of money on routine maintenance,” said McCormick, “but we do try to take care of them when something comes up.” McCormick was unable to give the annual cost of maintaining the properties. Facilities Management recently performed significant exterior renovations on the two properties located on either side of the Department of Public Safety office at 75 Charlesfield St., but the properties’ upkeep rarely requires extensive efforts, said John Noonan, associate vice president of Facilities Management. The buildings are likely to remain unused unless a comprehensive project is undertaken to bring them up to standard, McCormick said. “For us to reoccupy the buildings, we have to bring (them) up to current codes, and that can be a pretty expensive proposition,”

Cropp continued from page 12 inappropriate, but it also confuses me. Using smokeless tobacco during a baseball game is currently the prerogative of the players, and one that a number seen to exercise. While I don’t profess to know the tobacco policy of the MLB or any other sport for that matter, I can say that for practical purposes, most sports don’t even need a policy. How feasible would it be for a quarterback to use chewing tobacco when in all likelihood he’ll end up swallowing some of the spit and doing his best Linda Blair impression? Maybe I’ve lived a sheltered life, but I’ve never seen a hockey player taking a cigarette to the faceoff circle or a basketball player taking a drag with one hand and dunking with the other. Even Olympic snowboarders realize that using tobacco or even marijuana should wait until after the event. The act of using a tobacco product diminishes the professional aspect of the sport. I know these people are paid millions of dollars and bring in the bucks for their company, but when was the last time anyone saw Michael Eisner walk into a board meeting with a briefcase in one hand and a tin of dip in the other? Presenting this public image stands only to hurt the MLB (not to mention place the players at a risk to lose half their jaw or even their life). If I saw our president smoking or dipping while meeting the prime minister of Malaysia, suffice it to say I’d probably elect a dead person over him. Much like any private organization, the MLB is free to endorse whatever policies it likes, although if it desires a certain level of respectability and support, it would behoove the MLB to

he said. He also said that the differences in building regulations for residential and administrative facilities make it difficult for the University to convert the spaces. For example, he said, converted buildings would require sprinkler systems, fire detection upgrades, elevators, handicap accessibility, restrooms on each floor and two enclosed stair towers. A University “master plan” currently under development will consider potential uses for Brown’s small houses and buildings, Noonan said. “Part of the scope of the master plan is to evaluate all campus buildings as to their current use and to develop a plan to utilize all of the available space for the best needs of the University,” Noonan said. He said the plan, which was first developed this past summer, will likely take 12 to 18 months to complete. Until then, he said, it is unlikely that the buildings will be put back into use. “We don’t renovate buildings that we don’t use,” Noonan said. “So once the use is determined, the appropriate renovations will be undertaken.”

encourage professionalism. Ethics aside, it makes little sense for baseball players to use chewing tobacco. It’s assumed that most athletes want to perform to their highest ability, and will do all within their power, legal or illegal, to attain maximum performance. So why then, would a baseball player choose to dip? I know they want to be relaxed when on the field, but how practical is it to divert their attention to concentrating on suspending the natural action of swallowing? Personally I’d rather give my undivided attention to running to first base. According to the Center for the Advancement of Health, the nicotine in smokeless tobacco hampers an individual’s ability to perform complex tasks that require hand and body movements to adjust to new visual feedback. The Center warns that tobacco use on the job can reduce and individuals ability to learn and adapt his or her performance. It wouldn’t make sense for a person operating heavy machinery to use chewing tobacco because that’s obviously their job, but that doesn’t mean baseball players should have to refrain from it — oh wait, I forgot, playing baseball is their job. I can only hope that for its own sake that the MLB will do something to address this issue. Even if like baseball, chewing tobacco is a part of our culture, I still don’t think that it permits professional baseball players to expose the fans to a habit they may not want to see. Sure, we live in a free country and can do what we want, but we don’t always have to bring our personal lives into the public. Baseball needs to take a step forward and kick the habit. Ian Cropp ’05 hails from Buffalo, N.Y., and sold his soul to the devil to acquire Drew Bledsoe.

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CAMPUS NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2002 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF Minden Hall residents say missing doors makes for lack of privacy The University has informed Minden Hall suite residents who lack interior doors that they must install them on their own if they want them, the residents said. The lack of doors “is not a fire hazard,” said Dean Thomas Forsberg, associate director of student life. Every suite has a locking door separating it from the corridor, he added. The lack of doors within suites is not as much an issue of safety as it is of privacy, said Minden Hall resident Michael Pickford ’05. Leaving the installation of doors up to the residents is asking students to do the University’s job, said Niketa Williams ’05. Williams lives in a three-person suite in Minden Hall. No doors have been installed between the rooms. From what Williams has seen, the doors within the suites are narrower than the standard size. Williams said it seems like the University has withheld the necessary funds to fully prepare Minden Hall for students. Minden Hall was renovated this past summer to provide 145 beds, Forsberg said. Donald Reaves, former executive vice president for finance and administration, suggested earlier this year that Minden Hall would not be a dormitory for long, but Reaves has since left the University. Elizabeth Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, said she knows nothing about the subject since she has been here for only a week. Forsberg said he expects that Minden Hall will be used for housing next year, although he has no knowledge of future plans. Director of Residential Life Donald Desrochers declined The Herald’s numerous requests for interviews. — Lisa Mandle

Informal program gives ES lovers some Hope BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ

It’s no accident that at least 12 of the 58 first-years who live in Hope College are taking ES11, “Environmental Issues: Policy and Science.” The department has housed all of its CAP advisees together for the past 20 years through an informal program that bears some resemblance to the Office of Student Life’s proposed cluster system. Professor of Environmental Studies Harold Ward initiated the housing policy in the early 1980s as an experiment in energy conservation, he said. At that time, his CAP course students attempted to engage their unit in an energy-conscious lifestyle, dimming lights and lowering the heat, he said. The program was discontinued, and Ward no longer teaches ES11, but Environmental Studies continues to house its CAP students in Hope. Donald Desrochers, associate dean of residential life, has been instrumental in maintaining this policy, Ward said. Desrochers declined The Herald’s numerous requests for interviews. Caroline Karp, senior lecturer in Environmental Studies, recently started teaching ES11 and manages the course’s unique housing policy. This year, about 50 firstyears selected ES11 as their top-choice CAP course, she said. From that group, the department selected about 12 students to participate in the program and to live together in Hope. All first-year students who request ES11 as their CAP course know they may be housed together before they make their choice, Ward said. During the summer before their first year, both the CAP course description and a letter sent to students who show an early interest in Environmental Studies discuss this housing policy, he said. And as long as first-year students continue to support the program, Environmental Studies will maintain it, Karp said. She did, however, express some reservations

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Elizabeth Forsyth ’06 lives in Hope College, where 12 of 58 first-year students are enrolled in ES11.The dorm acts as an informal cluster for environmentally-minded students. about identifying potential Environmental Studies concentrators so early on. “There are some things to hesitate about, because they can become too insular,” she said of her advisees. “You can get them to narrow their interests when they’re way too young to be doing that.” Karp described the concentration of ES11 students as having a “cluster effect.” In fact, it is similar to the Living see HOPE, page 7

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in the college-age population in California, UC enrollment will increase by as much as 40 percent in the next decade — the equivalent of adding another UC Berkeley and UCLA. That projected growth is an important factor in budgeting decisions, Hayward said, but the state has historically been willing to provide full funding for enrollment growth. For the University of Virginia, budget cuts weren’t enough to offset the state’s $1.5 billion deficit. The university faces a 13 percent cutback in its budget for the next two years, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Gov. Mark Warner mandated the $33.8 million reduction. The school reduced funding for its library, computer labs and maintenance services, the Chronicle reported. The school also approved a tuition increase for the upcoming spring semester, though it is not yet clear how large it will be. The University of North Carolina, threatened with cuts of $70.6 million, could fire 781 employees of the UNC system, including 200 faculty members. The state of Michigan has a huge deficit, but its effects haven’t yet been felt at the University of Michigan, said Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman. She told the Michigan Daily that she is looking for ways to save money in the university’s infrastructure to avoid excessive tuition increases.

was sharing what, the process would be extremely time consuming and beyond the means of CIS, Boes said. CIS can make sure that critical traffic, such as e-mail, has priority on the network. Everything else is “first come first serve,” Boes said. Deepa Kumaraiah ’03 said that “most if not all of” her friends share copyrighted material. “I feel like I’m an exception to the rule,” but “if the University makes a statement that says you’re not allowed to download, I’m OK with that, because it’s an academic institution,” she said. Appealing to individual students’ morality may not work either — students don’t think they’re hurting anyone when they share music and movies, said Caroline Bersak ’03. “I don’t see it causing any huge issue in the university,” she said. Other students don’t believe intellectual property has any monetary value. “I believe that intellectual property should be free” and that “sharing information is a right,” said Seth Kane ’03. But if an artist sues for copyright infringement, then Brown, not the individual who downloaded a file, would be held liable because Brown provides the Internet service on its network that made file sharing possible, Waite-Franzen said. But if CIS blocks an illegal file from being shared Brown cannot be held liable for damages, she said.

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Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

Students can also block other users from downloading their files. If copyrighted material is on a student’s hard drive but not on the file sharing network, agents would not be able to find them and the network would perform better, Waite-Franzen said. “I’m not condoning this, but you ought to know people are out there looking,” she said. Under current U.S. law, the trading or changing of any copyrighted material, such as movies or music, into a new format such as MP3, without permission, is illegal, said Suzanne Dawley, senior network software specialist for CIS. The operators of peer-to-peer file sharing networks see things differently. “Our hope would be that universities would see beyond the more immediate and obvious copyright infringement issues and see the possible educational advantages” that Gnutella offers, Fisk said. “We see ourselves as doing much more.” LimeWire would prefer not to have anything to do with copyright infringement, Fisk said. The company is working to break into the market of distributive processing, which uses networks like Gnutella to distribute news information and media. “It can evolve in many different directions,” Fisk said. Large companies could use programs like LimeWire to act as an intranet to share information within the company, Upfal said. Peer-to-peer networks are also “very important for democracy movement and getting around censorship,” because once information is on the network, it is hard to get off, he said.

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Hope continued from page 5 and Learning Clusters the Office of Student Life proposed for Morris-Champlin and EmeryWoolley Halls. Slated to begin this fall, the proposed cluster system would have integrated 417 students from all four class years into two communities centered on wellness and community service. The plan was abruptly pulled off the table in January 2002. Meanwhile, Environmental Studies’ variation on the cluster system remains intact. Julia Wolfson ’06, who is enrolled in ES11 and lives in

Deal continued from page 1 said. The union’s members are concerned over a planned reorganization of the library system that could result in longer hours and less job specificity. The unionized workers’ three-year-old contract expired at the end of September, and the union was requesting a four-month extension and a 5 percent raise. The last offer the University had made before Wednesday night was a onemonth extension and a 2.5 percent raise. “Ultimately, this whole reorganization isn’t going to work

Hope, said one of the course’s teaching assistants told her “it’s an unspoken tradition that ES students live in Hope,” she said. So far, she said she prefers her living situation to a standard unit. “I find that because there are so many of us in the dorm, we can talk about things that come up in class,” she said. Wolfson added, though, that her unit mates who are not involved in the Environmental Studies program may feel excluded. “We stick together,” she said of the ES11 students. Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.

unless we are both working on it,” McAninch said, and Wednesday’s negotiations indicated that a “positive process” of discussion might be possible. The negotiations did not address the reorganization directly, McAninch said. Rather, “we’re putting together a framework for discussion. We’re hoping it’s going to become more constructive.” McAninch said she anticipates member approval of the tentative agreement which will allow the libraries to remain open. “The gun is no longer at anybody’s head,” she said. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2002 · PAGE 8

IN BRIEF Ashcroft advocates enforcement, not legislation, to plug information leaks WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Attorney General John

Ashcroft has told Congress that “rigorous investigation” and “vigorous enforcement” of current criminal laws — not new secrecy legislation — is the best way to combat leaks of classified information. In a report required by the fiscal 2002 intelligence authorization bill that was sent to Congress on Tuesday, Ashcroft said an interagency study of current laws and leaks of classified information has determined that “current statutes provide a legal basis to prosecute those who engage in unauthorized disclosures, if they can be identified.” A new law, the attorney general went on,“could enhance our investigative efforts” but it is “unclear” how much that legislation would improve the government’s ability “to identify those who engage in unauthorized disclosures of classified information or (deter) such activity.” Only once in the past 50 years has anyone been convicted of leaking classified information when espionage was not involved, Ashcroft noted. Rather than a new law, he called for a unified administration-wide effort to meet the problem, saying “we must entertain new approaches to deter, identify and punish those who engage in the practice.” In 2000, Congress passed legislation written by Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., then chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, that broadened the law to cover any leaked classified information even if espionage was not involved. After a lobbying effort by civil liberties groups and the media, which argued that it would chill the press’s ability to collect information from government officials, then-President Bill Clinton vetoed the measure.

Police seek 2 in sniper case (Washington Post) — Authorities said Wednesday night they

are seeking two “persons of interest” in connection with the deadly sniper shootings that have terrorized the Washington area, and federal agents Wednesday searched a yard behind a home 2,800 miles away in Tacoma, Wash., for bullet fragments that may be connected to at least one of the men. One man is a former soldier at Fort Lewis, Wash., and both are potential suspects in the case, several high-ranking officials said. Local and federal officials characterized the men as the strongest lead in the case so far. “We’re keeping our fingers crossed,” said a senior FBI official said. “This is several steps forward, and it’s stronger than the others we’ve been looking at.” Some investigators cautioned, however, that there is disagreement about whether the men might be involved in the shootings. “It’s too early to tell,” said one mid-level FBI agent. The West Coast developments occurred on a day when the fatal shooting of a Montgomery County, Md., bus driver was ballistically linked to the sniper responsible for nine other killings in the Washington area. Details emerged of a second letter that threatened children and demanded money, as area children were shepherded to school by fearful parents and Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening said he might deploy National Guard troops to protect polling places if the sniper was still at large Nov. 5. The investigation took an abrupt turn Wednesday night with the announcement by Montgomery County Police Capt. Nancy Demme that there had been “a development that’s leading us down another road.” The development apparently involved the search by federal agents of the yard in Tacoma. After combing the yard with metal detectors and hauling off a tree stump, the agents packed up and departed without confirming

reports that their search was linked to the Washington sniper. The apparent shift of the probe to the West Coast was confirmed by commanders at Fort Lewis, an Army base just south of Tacoma, who said the FBI informed them that a man who recently left the Army after 15 years was being investigated in connection with the sniper case. FBI agents began searching at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time after approaching the Tacoma Police Department. According to Tacoma police, about 15 agents worked throughout the day, at one point getting assistance from the police department’s bomb squad. As of 4:30 p.m. Pacific time, the bomb squad was no longer involved. Tacoma police said they do not have a direct hand in the investigation but have been providing site security at the residence. “The focus of the investigation has been outside of the house,” said James Mattheis, a Tacoma police spokesman. “The focus has been on the yard.” A senior FBI official said the search was connected to the two men being sought by authorities in connection with the sniper shootings. “None of this is by accident,” the official said. The search in Tacoma resulted in the discovery of at least one possible bullet fragment that was found in the tree stump on the property, and the stump was removed for analysis, a law enforcement source said. Mike Bouchard, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose confirmed Wednesday that Tuesday’s slaying of bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, of Oxon Hill, Md., had been ballistically linked to the other sniper killings. Sources said the letter found near the scene of Johnson’s slaying was much like one found tacked to a tree in Ashland, Va., where the sniper shot and wounded a man Saturday.

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Conviction indicts Afghan justice as biased KABUL, Afghanistan (Washington Post) —

Even in the postwar mayhem of the early 1990s in Afghanistan, when anti-Soviet militia forces roamed the countryside robbing and killing at will, the gunman known as “Zardat’s Dog” was a singular study in perversity. According to government prosecutors and more than 30 complainants, Abdullah Shah conducted a personal reign of terror in several provinces. He murdered his neighbors, tortured his wives, extorted money from travelers and bit them ferociously—hence his nickname. He kidnapped villagers for ransom, dumped corpses in wells and set a busload of refugee families on fire. So when Shah, 37, was convicted of multiple violent crimes and sentenced to death last week by a national security court here, many Afghans cheered the verdict as a milestone for the country’s fledgling justice system and a potential model for prosecuting other war crimes that flourished in the chaotic period before the Taliban takeover in 1996. But international human rights monitors here charge that the proceedings against Shah were so biased and deeply flawed that the case might instead undermine efforts to bring to justice former militia leaders who allegedly committed or ordered a range of crimes and atrocities over the past decade. Among other problems in the Shah case: One judge was dismissed for bribery; the defendant had no attorney; and the Supreme Court virtually ordered the death

penalty in his retrial after he was initially sentenced to 20 years in prison. Moreover, prosecutors made no effort to determine whether Shah, a gunman for several Islamic militia groups, had acted under orders. “This is the first time a war criminal has been brought to justice, and it shows that the people are willing to come forward to get it,” said Nader Naderi, Afghan director of the International Human Rights Law Group. “But the way the trial was conducted, it also shows that our current laws and courts do not have the capacity to deal with war crimes. The system is just not ready to go beyond one man and look at what lay behind him.” As told by numerous witnesses and victims, the story of Shah— who denied all the charges against him in court and in a prison interview Tuesday—is an epic of cruelty, greed and violence carried out by someone whose access to weapons and power in a period of civil conflict gave him impunity from capture and punishment. Witnesses from the Paghman district, west of Kabul, where Shah led a band of gunmen under militia leader Abdurrab Rasul Sayyaf in the early 1990s, described Shah shooting a farmer dead after extorting huge sums from him and killing numerous other villagers, whose bodies he dumped down a deep well. Amanullah Sahi, 53, a retired aviation instructor and Paghman native, recounted in court how Shah and several armed associ-

ates appeared at his son’s wedding in 1992, tried to kidnap the groom for ransom and then shot him dead. Sahi and other Paghman residents also described an infamous incident in which Shah and his men stopped a bus full of ethnic Hazara refugees, killed all the passengers by firing rockets at the bus, then poured fuel on the bodies and burned them. “These were assassins whose occupation was killing. They had weapons in the name of holy war (against the Soviet army), but they used them to kill poor people,” Sahi said in an interview Tuesday, sobbing and burying his face in his turban cloth as he recalled his son’s violent death. The Paghman residents said they tried repeatedly to seek help from authorities, to no avail. At one point, they said, Defense Minister Ahmed Shah Massoud sent troops to raid Shah’s home, but Shah escaped. After the Taliban came to power, Sahi said, he complained again to officials, but Shah intimidated local police and had him arrested and whipped until he lost consciousness. Interviewed Tuesday in a prison operated by the national intelligence police, Shah said these accusations were all untrue, and that Sahi and his friends had fabricated them because of “previous hostility” to him. He said they had been supporters of the Soviet-backed government of 1989-92, whereas he had been a “staunch fighter” in the anti-communist resistance.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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The soft parade The University’s renovation of Minden Hall ensured that nearly 150 students would not be made homeless by Brown’s ever-looming housing crunch. While it is heartening that administrators took strides to house these students in a University-owned dorm, it is unfortunate that students there live in rooms without interior doors. To add insult to injury, the University recently told Minden Hall residents that those students who want doors must install the doors themselves. It is unacceptable that the University renovated a dorm for habitation without having the foresight — or, perhaps, the willingness to allocate the necessary funds — to provide students with one of the most fundamental features of a living environment. It is just as unreasonable — and perhaps ridiculous — for the University to expect that students who want basic privacy should have to purchase a door and install it themselves. Everyone needs privacy and quiet, and the suggestion that the only way students can achieve these needs is to trek to a hardware store, buy a door, drill and screws, bring the equipment back to Brown and install it is absurd. The University has long claimed that it wants to keep students on campus for six semesters to foster community values — failing to provide doors is not a very good way to encourage students to stay on campus. And the need for doors isn’t Minden’s only problem. Many students living in Minden are off meal plan, but the kitchen facilities are less than adequate. Minden touts a giant kitchen with four refrigerators, four microwaves and no stove. Minden residents who want to enjoy a homemade dinner behind closed doors are completely out of luck. Some parts of Minden are certainly worthy of praise. Students have lauded the University for turning the building into a clean and spacious dorm, but Brown must not skimp on making Minden into a fully livable dorm. The lack of doors is likely to be a long-term problem if the University refuses to install them. Donald Reaves, former executive vice president for finance and administration, suggested earlier this year that Minden Hall would not be a dormitory for long, but now University officials are looking to keep Minden around for another year. By most recent accounts, Minden will be a dorm for at least three more semesters — the University should spend the money and make the effort to ensure Minden residents enjoy the same privacy as other members of the community.

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Brown urgently needs enterprise system, but price not the focus To the Editor: By focusing so prominently on budget matters and the experience of some of Brown’s peers in upgrading their systems, The Herald’s editorial (“Polishing the Rock,” 10/22) and coverage (“CIS, libraries lay out financial needs for campus wire upgrades,” 10/22) of my presentation before the Advisory Committee on University Planning missed the point of what is now underway in CIS. ACUP was meeting to discuss the enterprise system project, not to review its budget. While it may be true that some universities have installed enterprise systems for $10 million and others have spent $100 million, it is not accurate to suggest that Brown is considering an investment of as much as $100 million. In fact, I have provided the ACUP with a cost of between $15 million and $23 million. But to cite even that more reasonable figure would be to get things out of order. The first step is to identify an enterprise system that is right for Brown, and that is what CIS and other offices in the University are doing right now. Brown urgently needs an enterprise system. We now have more than 40 separate computing systems to conduct the University’s financial, administrative and academic business. Most of these systems do not “talk” to each other. Many were installed before the current student body was born. They are expensive and time-consuming to maintain, and they do not provide the University with the information and analysis it needs for efficient administration and timely decision-making. Three vendors — Oracle, Peoplesoft and SCT/Banner — will come to campus this fall to demonstrate their enterprise system products.

Their demonstrations will be driven by a set of requirements established by 82 employees representing the major administrative and academic sectors of the University. Brown’s 100-page RFP provides the vendors with in depth examples of what the University would like to see demonstrated for admission, benefits, development, financial aid, human resources, payroll, research administration, student administration and technology. After the demonstrations, our teams will meet to review the results. We anticipate selecting a vendor early in the spring semester. Ellen Waite-Franzen Vice President, Computing and Information Systems Oct. 23

Tarazi coverage biased against Palestinians To the Editor: I am disappointed with the way The Herald presented the Tarazi lecture (“From a Palestinian Perspective,” 10/22). Choosing to feature in the subhead that “some audience members expressed frustration” biases the reader’s opinion and shows one-sided journalism. Many students saw the event as a fresh alternative to what is presented in the mainstream media today, but this view was not mentioned. The Herald’s choice to emphasize the hostility felt by “some” people, when that is clearly not the subject of the article, suggests rejection of the Palestinian perspective. I was hoping that The Herald would take a more impartial, objective stance, or at least represent the views of the whole Brown community, not just a select few. Noura Alturki ‘05 Oct. 23

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Student workers deserve courtesy from peers Gate workers are not mean people — they would just like to be treated with respect LET’S BE HONEST: THERE IS LITTLE just a random person walking into work; love between Gate customers and work- it is somebody I will see in class the next ers. I know this because I work at the day, and I can’t get away from feeling Gate and probably dislike somebody like if I let somebody be blatantly rude you know for no other reason than our to me, I have lost part of my dignity as a interaction at the sandwich counter. Brown student. It is difficult to see people on the green the mornPerhaps you don’t like me. ing after you have let them Then again, maybe I don’t walk on top of you. like you. So yes, I am a little quick Of all the realms of Brown to get pissed due to this senstudent life that I have expesitivity. If somebody comes rienced, I have never seen up to the counter, spouts off people so eager to be disthe 10 things they want on pleased and pointlessly cruel their sandwich and then as at the Gate. Of course, walks away, I will probably when people are engaged in roll my eyes or say someserious debate about issues NICK NOON thing obnoxious just loud that they are passionate BROWN INTRUDER enough for them to hear. about, cruelty can often Sometimes I just work a litresult from their passion. tle slower (ok, a lot slower). And I respect that. But losing your temper in a discussion about And when people treat running out of racism or the possibly impending World grilled chicken like a hospital running of War III is far different than blowing up of O-negative, I often silently celebrate upon learning that there is no American their disappointment. I have accidentalcheese (which happens more than you ly on purpose shot somebody with a spray bottle and made a sandwich a litwould think). In the interest of being fair, I am tle too crispy, but I have NEVER crossed happy to admit that a portion of the the ultimate passive aggressive line: problem belongs to me and my fellow spitting in food. I can understand the inclination. I Gate employees. As the person working for you, it is our responsibility to take all was once told by a customer that I was of your attitude and complaints with a born a worker and that my children smile and then hand you your pizza. In would probably serve his. A customer previous jobs, I have been able to deal once remarked about my friend: “Wow, with this a little better. The difference is looks like Gate boy is moving a little that I am now working for other Brown slowly today.” Another friend had a students and am more sensitive. It is not bagel thrown at her. And these are not uneducated fools doing this. Hardly. Just ignorant Brown students. Nick Noon ’05 estimates that he has made While Gate workers are responsible over 4,000 sandwiches as a Brown student.

for some of the hostility in the establishment, we clearly are not responsible for the majority of it. A big part of the problem is that some people have been taught that they are somehow on a higher level than those serving them. Seeing me toss pizza dough, as opposed to getting on the shuttle, immediately changes the way people interact with me. They treat me like I am (gasp) a worker, and if I’m just a worker, well then, most forms of social graces are expendable. This doesn’t just happen at the Gate. Have you seen the way people treat the VDUB employees? I am ashamed to think of the opinion these people have of Brown students. Students roll their eyes and talk to them like they are toddlers. They complain that UFS workers in general are bitter and hostile, but don’t look at their own culpability. If I had to stay working at the Gate for more than my four years here, I can’t imagine how withdrawn and hostile I’d be, for no reason other than having to put up with people that think “thank you” is something you say when you get a present for Christmas, not a plate of food. When addressing the issues that plague certain Gate customers, there are two separate problems. First, there is the previously discussed harsh attitude, which, granted may partially stem from employee negativity. There is also, however, the blatant disregard that customers demonstrate on a regular basis. Right now, my biggest pet peeve in the world is Gate customers who do not throw their trash away after eating. There are seven trash cans inside the

Gate and it is impossible to exit without passing by one of them. Yet, at the end of the night, half eaten sandwiches and pizza are on the tables and old newspapers are on the floor. It only takes me a few minutes to clean this up, but it is the assumption behind it that bothers me, the idea that it is my job to pick up after you. Yes, it is in my job description to make sure the Gate is clean before I go home, and I know that many people seek comfort in this. “Dude, it’s what he gets paid for.” But there is a line somewhere here. It is the escort driver’s job to drive you around on campus. That doesn’t mean that you ask the escort driver to drive you in circles around the Main Green for two hours. I don’t want to come off sounding like I’m on an “I hate Gate customers” tirade, because I’m not. For every 10 customers that come into the Gate, I’d say only three are obnoxious. But those are the three that stick with me. However, some of my favorite people on campus are the nameless friends whom I smile at in the streets and between class; friends that I made while making them a sandwich. I love these Pembrokers and hope they love me. And if you don’t want to be my friend, that’s cool too. Tell me what you want (a please at the end is a very nice bonus to the sandwich order), and I’ll smile, I’ll make it, I’ll hand it to you. And then you say, “Thank you.” These are not complicated things I am asking, and certainly not things that apply just at the Gate. Try these new courteous techniques at CVS. Or even Via Via. No love is required, just courtesy.

Library reorganization the wrong MODEL for change Students should question whether library administrative changes serve their interests WE ALL KNOW THAT THE BROWN some analysis to the problem. Ask some libraries have problems. There aren’t questions. What exactly are the immediate enough books or copies of books, no place ends of the specific changes the library to put those that we already have and the administration has actually proposed? libraries close before many of us would How will they improve the quality of servlike. There is another problem, however, of ice that you receive at Brown’s libraries? We wish you luck with getwhich most of you may not be ting your answers. The aware and from which all othTHOMAS S. ALLEN employees of Brown’s libraries ers depend. The library sysPENINA G. POSNER have been trying to pry those tem’s administration (a sepaRICHARD DITTMAN essential clarifications out of rate entity than the GUEST COLUMN the administration for years University’s administration) now and have received nothhas lost touch with the needs of the community it serves and has fallen ing more than vague, feel-good rhetoric into the unfortunate habit of making uni- and assurances in response. MODEL will do little to promote the collateral decisions with little or no considerlaborative utopia imagined by administraation for either users or staff. A case in point is the proposed reorgan- tors. What it does is eliminate clear cut job ization of the libraries. A number of years descriptions and departmental structures, ago, the library’s administration unveiled and replaces them with vague, openits plan for the future, “MODEL.” Changes ended language about duties and tangled in staffing and departmental structures networks of managerial responsibility. Let’s be clear on one important matter. are to be made in order to promote a more collegial and collaborative environment The University’s library staff does not for staff and administration. The tradition- oppose staffing or organizational changes al employer and employee responsibilities on principle or in application. The SEIU and relationships are to be replaced with a Local 134 Union is not trying to stand in the way of change. This is an intelligent, structure of “self managed teams.” This is being done, we are told, to allow well-educated staff, many of them Brown the library to “commit its resources to new graduates, and we recognize that change work as well as to critical, enduring servic- may be desirable. We do object to the reorganization plan es…. [W]e must work differently” in order to create the library of the 21st century. formulated by the library’s administration Now that sounds very nice, almost inspira- because we have been asked to accept it tional, but before you accept the concept largely sight unseen, and no one has of reorganization without prejudice, apply offered any compelling justification for it. This library’s administration has had a Thomas Allen Ph.D ’94, Penina G. Posner ’92 long history of applying cosmetic fixes to conceal its shortcomings, and it appears and Richard Dittman ’00 are members of that we are to witness to another. SEIU local 134.

Staff have long suggested change, in particular more administrative accountability for decisions and policies. MODEL ensures that administrators will be even less responsive to the needs of users and staff. Staff complained that the beaurocracy was inefficient and suggested that it be streamlined. MODEL provides for a structure so irrational that people working side by side in the same space will find themselves working for different supervisors. Change to conform to the current popular academic or corporate structural trends, change to give the impression of dynamic leadership or change simply because other libraries have made the same change does not serve the best interests of the library users, its staff or the Brown community as a whole. As some of you may know, the University and the union are currently negotiating a new contract. At the outset, the union requested that the reorganization plan not be bundled with discussions of wages, health benefits and other perennial employment issues. The University’s negotiating team refused, and as a consequence, negotiations have been bogged down by the minutiae of problematic job descriptions and other matters best left to another venue. In order to expedite matters and to allow more time for the University to present the details of the proposed reorganization, the union has proposed to the University that the present contract be extended four months with a five percent pay increase retroactive to Oct. 1. We also strongly urge that other members of the Brown community be included in discus-

sions about the advisability and implementation of the reorganization plan. This is far too important an issue to be left entirely in the hands of either the library’s administration or the union. Should the University’s negotiating committee refuse this offer or refuse to make a reasonable counter offer in the same spirit of this proposal, we have no choice but to go on strike the following day. The union membership has agreed that it is not in our best interests or those of the community at large to continue the strike beyond 5:00 p.m. on Friday. We are frustrated by the current stalemate, but we also understand the importance of Parents’ Weekend to many here and have no wish to spoil the evening’s activities. This is not a decision that any of the union staff take lightly, nor should you. A strike of even a day means no pay for that day. It means a disruption of services for the Brown community. This is not just a matter of management versus union, it is not even just an issue of social conscience. Every member of the Brown community has a very real stake here. Students are paying upwards of $30,000 a year to this institution. You have the right to ask whether any of the changes now proposed by the library’s administration serve your interest and that of other library patrons, and you have a right to something better than meaningless platitudes and jargon. Exactly what is the library of the 21st century? Demand a definition from anyone who throws out that phrase to you. Above all, demand that the library serve your priorities and not those of out-oftouch administrators.

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SPORTS THURSDAY OCTOBER 24, 2002 · PAGE 12

It’s time for a shopping Spree SOMEBODY HELP ME OUT — ARE THERE any open spots in the acting classes here at Brown? Because Latrell Sprewell just might have what it takes to fill one. His most recent drama is as follows: Sprewell arrived at training camp and notified the team that he injured his ERIC hand two weeks PERLMUTTER before in an acciPERL MUTTERS dent on his yacht. It turned out to be a broken hand, and he underwent successful surgery. Days later, the New York Post reported that two eyewitnesses saw Sprewell hurt his hand because of an errant punch — Sprewell’s phantom accident, it seemed, was a cover-up. The Knicks, perhaps influenced by this news, fined Sprewell a whopping $250,000 and suspended him until he can make “a positive contribution” much like children are told in preschool. Sprewell and his lawyer are now suing the New York Post on libel charges for about $40 million. Given his past and his irresponsible behavior, Sprewell is looking awfully childish in this case. During his Knicks career, he has been late to games, skipped the entire 1999 preseason without explanation and had minor run-ins with the New York media. I don’t fault Scott Layden, the Knicks General Manager, for throwing the fine on Sprewell, for he has tried other gentler tactics in the past that clearly have not strangled Sprewell’s mischief (pun very much intended). Spree was once fined $2,500 for missing a pregame shootaround. This is also the amount of money trapped in his cornrows. Layden and his staff are at a breaking point with Sprewell, and it is admirable that they are ready to put discipline before winning. As a star player, Sprewell has a responsibility to notify the team when he believes he may be injured. Even if he did not think it was broken, that should not preclude him from giving him and the team their best shot at winning. What cost is it to Sprewell if he tells the team immediately? Nothing, of course – simple chance is a fault of no one. This shifty behavior lends credence to the New York Post report over which Sprewell is suing. Perhaps he kept it a secret because he was ashamed of his own recklessness. Regardless of the veracity of the story, I don’t blame Layden for being swayed by the report, if indeed he was, when he handed down the fine. I acknowledge that the New York Post is not God’s diary, but with all of the hiccups in Sprewell’s past, the level of suspicion is naturally higher. The relationship between Sprewell and the Knicks is effectively over. Sprewell and Layden have been exchanging barbs all week, so it would not surprise me if Sprewell has played his last game in New York. A trade would be in the best interest of both parties. Teams need to do a better job of evaluating character and team chemistry before they begin inflating payroll with overweight babies. Latrell Sprewell is undoubtedly a talented player with enough heart and hustle to field a whole team. Pro basketball, however, is not played one-onone, and until players like Sprewell can figure out the concept of responsibility, they will remain ticking time bombs of immaturity. No spots left in acting? That’s alright — there’s always room in “Rocks for Jocks.” Unlike Carl Everett, Eric “Pizzahead” Perlmutter ’06 believes in dinosaurs and the moon landing.

Chew on this: MLB needs to ditch the dip

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Athlete of the week Edu Romaneiro ‘03 has scored three goals this season for the men’s soccer team.

Soccer takes Edu ’03 from Brazil to Brown BY SHARA HEGDE

From pickup soccer games in Brazil to helping the Brown men’s soccer team to victory, Eduardo Romaneiro ’03 has traveled a long way to pursue his dreams. “It’s been my goal for a long time to go to school and get my degree in the ATHLETE United States,” OF THE WEEK Edu said. While pursuing his degree, Edu has found the time to be a force on the men’s soccer team. Last week against Providence College, he scored two goals to lead the team to a 2-0 shutout of the Friars. Edu grew up in Brazil and has played soccer pretty much all his life. “In Brazil, soccer is part of the culture,” he said. “I think that I’ve been playing since I could walk.” His family moved from Brazil to New Jersey before his junior year in high school. Edu enjoyed a strong high school career earning many accolades, but played in a league with a low level of competition. To help elevate his status in the eyes of recruiters, he spent time playing in the Spanish League and dabbled with club teams. He chose Brown because of the coaching staff’s dedication to winning. “When I came here on my visit and met with the coaches, they were committed to being the first Ivy League team to win a national championship,” Edu said. “It was a lofty goal, but I could see the dedication and determination they had to be the best team that they could.” Edu has seen his share of ups and downs since coming to Brown. “My attitude toward the sport has not always been the greatest,” he said. “But this year, with the team we have, I’m more focused and dedicated to winning.” The Bears are 4-4-4 this year, playing a

“My attitude toward the sport has not always been the greatest. But this year, with the team we have, I’m more focused and dedicated to winning.” Eduardo Romaneiro ’03 Men’s soccer team schedule packed with strong opponents. But the team has lost some close contests and has been hurt by injuries to key players. “There have been a lot of games that we could have won,” Edu said. “We have people stepping up every game but we need to work on doing it collectively to win those close games.” As his career winds down, Edu is looking to finish this season on a strong note. “We have an extremely talented team this year and anyone could be starting,” he said. “It’s been a lot of fun because we’re all friends and hopefully we can put some wins together the rest of the season. After Brown, Edu, a business economics and international relations concentrator, plans to work in investment banking or consulting. However, he will always look back fondly on his days at Brown. “As a senior, you look back and you realize just how much fun it was,” he said. “It goes by way too fast.” Sports staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 writes athlete of the week features. She can be reached at shegde@browndailyherald.com.

OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS I’VE SEEN a good number of pictures and video clips of baseball players. While I’m glad to see a team other than the Yankees playing in October, there are some things I’m not too enthused to see. Looking at a baseball player with a lip full of chewing tobacco isn’t exactly what I consider appealing or entertaining. Last time I checked, baseball was a sport played by professionals, not a poster child for the tobacco industry. IAN CROPP When I played LOLLICROPP little league baseball and filled my mouth with “Big League Chew” bubble gum, I was under the impression that the professionals were also chewing gum, albeit in their lower lip. Now I realize that what fills their curiously swollen lips is actually a mix of fiberglass, tobacco and other yummy stuff. This new enlightenment has changed my view of baseball and it’s strange relationship with tobacco. The use of chewing tobacco during a baseball game not only strikes me as see CROPP, page 4

Women’s, men’s soccer fall in a pair of close matches The women’s soccer team (5-6-2, 0-3-1) fell to the ninth ranked Princeton University (12-00, 5-0-0) Tigers, 2-1, in an Ivy League contest Saturday afternoon in Princeton, N.J. Brown jumped out to an early 1-0 lead just 6:40 into the contest as Michaela Sewall ’04 connected with Caitlin Carey ’03. The Bears were leading at the half, and held onto the 1-0 lead until the 70th minute when Princeton notched the equalizer. The Tigers scored the go-ahead goal with just over 10 minutes remaining as they remained the only undefeated and untied team in the country. Sarah Gervais ’04 stopped seven shots in net for the Bears, who were outshot 18-3. Brown continues action on Saturday, when it hosts Cornell University in an Ivy contest at 5:00 p.m. on Stevenson Field. MEN’S SOCCER

The men’s soccer team suffered a 2-0 loss at home against Fairfield University on Tuesday. The Bears fell to 4-4-4 on the season, while Fairfield improved to 5-5-1. The first half was evenly matched, with Fairfield taking eight shots to the Bears’ seven. Brown came close to getting on the board with two hard shots by Eduardo Romaneiro ’03 that sailed just high. Fairfield took a 1-0 lead five minutes into the second half on a set shot taken by Bryan Harkin inside the box. At 68:37, the Stags added an insurance goal on a breakaway scored by Joseph Dos Santos. Peter Mahoney ’03 initially made the stop but the ball deflected past him and into the goal. Mahoney prevented the Stags from taking a three and four goal lead on two diving stops during a one-minute span. Brown continues action on Saturday at 7:30 at home versus Cornell University. — Brown Sports Information