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Thursday night’s panel discussion in List 120 focused on the results of Tuesday’s national midterm elections. All hope is not lost for the Democratic Party, the panelists said.The event was moderated by Michael Kaufman ’03, left, and Dylan Brown ’03.

Deciphering Election Day 2002 At a Thursday night forum, Professors of Political Science Marion Orr, Wendy Schiller and Darrell West discussed the implications of Tuesday’s GOP sweep in the midterm elections BY PHILISSA CRAMER

The state of politics in the United States isn’t as dire as students think, three political science professors told about 80 students Thursday night in a panel discussion and question-and-answer session. Professors Marion Orr, Wendy Schiller and Darrell West discussed Tuesday’s midterm election results and their implications during an event sponsored by the Brown Political Science Society. The discussion, which was moderated by Michael Kaufman ’03 and Dylan Brown ’03, touched on several of the major races and issues that captivated the nation’s political attention during this election cycle, including the close balance between the Democratic and Republican parties. “If one-half of one percent of votes had shifted, Democrats would control the House and Senate,” said West, director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions. Though the Republican Party gained

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Professor of Political Science Marion Orr was a panelist at Thursday’s discussion of this week’s congressional elections. control Tuesday of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the panelists agreed the party will still face challenges to its agenda. “There was no Bush mandate in this election according to public opinion,” West said, adding that he expects Bush to try to move quickly to push through policies that were not approved during the recent period of Democratic control. Panelists emphasized the importance of voter turnout in close races like the

ones that defined this election cycle. “If you combine close elections with limited turnout, any swing votes will clear an election,” said Schiller, an associate professor of political science. Providence politics took center stage as panelists discussed the historic election of David Cicilline ’83 as mayor and the success of Green Party member David Segal in his campaign to secure the 1st Ward seat on City Council. West said he does not think age will be a problem for Segal, who at 22 will be the youngest member of the council. “It’s really how you conduct yourself,” he said. Schiller said the moderate stance of the Democratic Party on many issues has positioned the Green Party to make significant inroads in the rest of the country if it sharpens its message. “At least regionally, they have a shot at being a viable second party,” she said. West said he expects Cicilline to become a national figure, pointing out that Providence is now the largest U.S. city with an openly gay mayor. “With (former Mayor) Buddy Cianci being convicted on racketeering charges … people were looking for something completely different,” he said about Providence voters. Orr, a professor of political science, said his favorite memory of this election cycle was attending Cicilline’s victory

The Brown Medical School raised close to $73.2 million in its most recent capital campaign and earmarked more than 20 percent of those funds for construction of the controversial Life Sciences building despite neighborhood opposition. The fundraising drive, chaired by Chancellor Emeritus Artemis Joukowsky ’55, began five years ago in an effort to allocate more resources toward professorships, scholarships, a Life Sciences building and facilities, according to the Brown News Service. “Lots of people stepped up in very significant ways,” said Richard Spies, executive vice president. Joukowsky elicited donations from more than 90 percent of medical students, along with $2.2 million from the faculty, according to the news service. Of the $73.2 million raised, $9.2 million is designated for financial aid and scholarship funds, $16 million will be used for a new Life Sciences building and $1 million see MED SCHOOL, page 4

Student debaters take on Watson faculty, argue U.S. foreign policy BY MONIQUE MENESES

Former members of the Brown Debate Union took on Watson Institute faculty in a Thursday night debate about the United States’ relationship with the International Criminal Court. A blackboard with the words “Students vs. Watson” welcomed audience members to Salomon, where Sean Yom ’03 and Omar Askari ’03, both former presidents of the Brown Debate Union, argued that the United States should be permitted to seek exemption agreements at the International Criminal Court. Watson faculty members Peter Romaniuk GS and Research Associate Jarat Chopra opposed the resolution, to the approval of the audience, which awarded the faculty an informal victory at the debate’s end. Exemption agreements are documents that protect the citizens of a state involved in peacekeeping efforts in another state from being falsely charged with war crimes and being sent to the ICC. In his opening argument, Askari said the United States needs exemption agreements as insurance for its peacekeeping troops and questioned the likelihood that U.S. troops would commit war crimes. He said the “embedded checks and bal-

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I N S I D E F R I D AY, N O V E M B E R 8 , 2 0 0 2 Now playing at Leeds Theatre, ‘The Green Bird’ dazzles with song and dance review,page 3

New student brass quintet gives life to a new lively sound at University page 5

Medical School Senate passes resolutions on future restructuring of the school page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Jaideep Singh ’03 says Bush gives new levels of support to corporate America column, page11

Football looks to pick up its first win of the season, playing host this Saturday to Yale column, page 15

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2002 · PAGE 3

Student brass quintet strikes a new kind of sound BY STEFAN TALMAN

Five brass players gather under Wayland Arch sporting tuxedos, shivering slightly in the cold of the night and flexing their fingers. Stands and music appear. At 7:30 p.m. sharp, they begin to play. Exactly 10 new hardcore fans sit on the cold cement. Minutes later, no one has spoken. The music, it seems, did all of the work, as dozens of people spill out from either side of the arch, craning their necks to see from whom, from where the soft and subtle melodies emanate. A new instrumental group, the Brown Brass Quintet, emerged on campus this year. With Ravi Prasad ’05 and Andrew Tomlinson ’05 on trumpet, Reid Hopkins ’06 on French horn, Jon Puritz ‘05 on trombone and Adam Waaramaa ’05 on tuba, the quintet is working to bridge the gap between the more popular a capella groups and larger, more formal groups, such as the Brown Wind Symphony, which play more classical literature. The quintet currently performs for free at arches on campus, and plans to carol around Providence, collaborate with University Organist Mark Steinbach and play at the Ann Mary Brown Memorial. They also eventually plan to play for hire, quartet founder Waaramaa said. “We hope to eventually find real, professional gigs, playing for alumni around town,” he said. “I get excited just thinking about it.” Waaramaa said his first experience with the brass quintet was at a high school clinic with the Navy Brass Quintet. When he arrived at Brown, Waaramaa began discussing founding a quintet with Wind Symphony Director Matthew McGarrell, who now advises the new group, he said. The predominately sophomore quintet came together this year with a group of musicians who played together in the Wind Symphony. Waaramaa said the quintet form is ideal for the group because it allows them to choose the music they prefer, interact more with each other as musicians and reach a level much harder to attain with larger groups. “For each performance, we learn a couple new songs, adding to our repertoire, and expanding the possibilities of what we can do,” he said. At its first outdoor performance at Wayland Arch, the quintet’s program included “Two Trumpet Tunes and Eyre,” by Percel, Pachabel’s “Canon” and his “Die Barkelsangerlieder,” an almost requisite piece in brass quintet literature, Waaramaa said. “The performance was great, and not just the kind of great where the audience will just say ‘good job’ to the performers’ faces,” audience member Di Jiang ’05 said. “Afterward, I heard lots of people commenting to each other on the quality of the performance. I really look forward to hearing them again.” Herald staff writer Stefan Talman ’05 can be reached at stalman@browndailyherald.com.

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Carlo Gozzi’s ‘The Green Bird,’ scripted in 1765 and directed by Yann-Pierre Montelle GS, opened at Leeds Theatre Thursday night. In the thoroughly modern adaptation, Montelle crafts an outstanding spectacle of song, dance and outstanding acting.

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Green Bird takes flight on Main Stage BY ETHAN RIS

It’s probably for the best that the fairy-tale plot of Sock and Buskin’s “The Green Bird” makes no sense. Perhaps it was discernable when Carlo Gozzi wrote the script in 1765, but director Yann-Pierre Montelle GS clearly has no use for the narrative except as a backdrop for what is best described as some spectacular plumage. “The Green Bird,” playing at Leeds Theater through next weekend, is by far the most ambitious production yet on the Brown stage this fall. In a thoroughly modern adaptation of Gozzi’s work, Montelle presents a true spectacle of song, dance and some outstanding acting and technical performances. The nonsensical plot is ostensibly a story of Hansel-and-Gretelesque orphans wandering through the wilderness. They must overcome greed, lust and an array of monsters, lascivious royalty and wickedstepmother types before they find their parents and their soul mates. None of this

is particular new or interesting on its own. Fortunately, centuries before Montelle got his hands on it, Gozzi was already tampering with this narrative to turn it into a satirical masterpiece. The tale is told through the stock characters of commedia dell’ arte, a form that almost necessarily lampoons its subject matter. The orphans are self-proclaimed Enlightenment philosophers, child pedants who continually spout hypocritical convictions. The king, the only authority figure in the story, is a bumbling whiner controlled by his mother. And everybody is sexually charged to an embarrassing extent. “The Green Bird” benefits from an outstanding cast, highlighted by Benjamin Sugar ’03 as Truffaldino, the orphans’ unloving, sausage-making adoptive father. In a rollicking performance strongly reminiscent of the funniest and most vulgar aspects of last spring’s “Ubu Roi,” Sugar steals every scene he is in, even when he is

mute and frozen in a corner. Nate Goralnik ’06 makes a terrific debut as the king, Tartaglia. His character’s foppish mannerisms and unbridled sex drive first teeter at, then go well past the edge of absurdity, but consistently prove appropriate for maintaining the play’s high level of comedic intensity. Montelle’s direction is clearly focused on movement, with speech an apparent afterthought. Most of the characters shout throughout the play for reasons that are never clear. The technical aspects of “The Green Bird” are not totally consistent, but include some wonderful accomplishments. The extensive costume team, headed by Boston University graduate student Julie Heneghan and filled out with some ringers from RISD, produces mind-boggling garb for several fantastical characters, most notably a tiger-like monster see BIRD, page 6

Poet, anthropologist Tarn fuses myth, current events BY RACHEL AVIV

Nathaniel Tarn, poet, translator, critic and anthropologist, read a series of his poems Thursday night. His poems possessed a remarkable range of voice and reference, fusing archaic myths with current events and moving from complex spiritual visions to the personal. Tarn read primarily from two books of poetry, “Selected Poems: 1950-2000” — his most recent — and “Architextures,” a book composed mostly of poems he wrote in the late 1980s. Both collections draw heavily from his anthropological fieldwork — the 40 years he spent living among the Tzutujil Maya in Guatemala — as well as his time in Burma, China, Japan, Cuba, Alaska and the Himalayan region. Tarn is one of the founding fathers of Ethnopoetics, a primarily U.S. movement that has provided, since the late 1960s, a forum for exchange and collaboration between poets and anthropologists. Tarn and other ethnopoets investigate notions of

the primitive, the comparison of cross-cultural poetics, the problems of translation and the representation of performance. At first glance, Tarn, who was born in Paris, educated in England and part of Andre Breton’s surrealist circle in Paris, seems an unlikely candidate for this league of U.S. writers. But Tarn has always had a particular curiosity and fascination with the United States. “The juxtaposition of the brash materialism on the one hand, and spiritual optimism on the other, makes America one of the most exotic and naïve cultures in the word,” he said. In “Before the Snake,” the first poem he read, Tarn provides a snapshot of the United States, fusing the literal geographical space with his heightened state of mind. The poem, one of his many “rectangle poems,” written with precisely the same number of spaces and characters in each line, moves with Whitman-esque passion from a celebration of simple sen-

sual pleasures to a characteristically American consideration of nature. “To be the sun, the pine the bird. … I can tell you, I think this may be Eden,” Tarn writes. Unlike Whitman and other early immigrants to the United States, Tarn is obviously not burdened with the Puritanical sense of sin. His delight in the spiritual is undiluted. For him, the idea of the pure, the idea of Eden, the idea of transcendence in the New World is unrestrained by the vestiges of a guilt-ridden past. In one of the last poems he read — No. 3 from “Architextures” — Tarn posed a series of questions, which, like “Before the Snake,” centered around the pleasures and pureness of the “New World.” He read, “Where is the edge of the new?” “Has this new place not always been inside us since the beginning?” “How do we to come back once again … to this home, at the center of everything … the vision of a paradise to become?”

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Med School continued from page 1 will go toward enhancing access to online resources. A total of $29.8 million will be used to create eight new clinical and basic science professorships, and $9.9 million is not yet designated to support a specific area. Construction on the Life Sciences building may begin as soon as the spring, President Ruth Simmons told The Herald. The proposed construction of a new Life Sciences building on the East Side is a particularly controversial issue, and the University is facing opposition from East Side residents over parking, pollution, noise and other issues associated with the project. John Kilmartin of the College Hill Neighborhood Association told The Herald last month that the University’s plan to build the structure on the East Side is “a constant thorn in the side” of area residents. “It’s always complicated. … We are in an area in which our facilities are in common space

with different offices and homes,” Spies said. East Side residents argue that the new building will intrude on their daily lives, Spies said. Kilmartin said the building plan submitted in the fall of 2001 “was out of scale, too industrial in design and too massive” for the area around its proposed site and in one of Providence’s oldest historic districts. Spies said the University is working closely with residents to coordinate a mutually amicable process for the construction of the building. “I think the process has been an extended, but good one,” Spies said. “We’ve opened up some channels of communication, and we’ve learned some things about how the building might be made to mix in with the community more effectively.” Simmons said the construction of a Life Sciences building ranked among the University’s highest priorities. “The Life Sciences building is absolutely essential to both the near-term and mediumterm needs of the Medical School,” Simmons said.

A committee is currently working to design and organize all resources needed for constructing the building. “We are not just putting up this building,” Simmons said, of the organization efforts. “We’re looking at how we can accommodate all the other laboratory and office needs of the sciences in the next phase of renovation and building.” The University and the organizing committee are taking into account further expansion of the campus in the future, Simmons said. Frances Halsband, a partner in the architectural firm R.M. Halsband and Kilment is developing a “master plan” for the University’s expansion, which would examine the concerns of staff, faculty and local residents. Halsband declined to comment on the specifics of the “master plan.” Spies said the University is close to receiving city approval for the building’s construction. Brown suspended the project because it could not obtain approval from the Historical District Commission. Despite the present contro-

versy surrounding the proposed building, Spies said he was optimistic about the University’s future relations with East Side residents. “I think the more important discussions are not around formal approvals, but the informal gatherings (with neighborhood residents). We feel that it’s been an informal, but meaningful process,” Spies said. Simmons said the University is prepared to start construction before the end of the academic year. “We actually think we have a design concept that will work, so the architect now has the task of completing the design task,” Simmons said. “We could have a shovel in the ground by this spring.” Once construction of the Life Sciences building begins, it will take two to three years to complete, Spies said. The University hopes to complete the Life Sciences building sometime during the 2005-06 academic year, and no later than the summer of 2006, Spies said. The building was originally slated for completion in 2002.

Election continued from page 1 celebration on primary night and seeing a diverse group of supporters. “There at Roger Williams Park was Providence,” Orr said. At Kaufman’s request, the panelists acted as pundits and offered their predictions for the U.S. political scene in upcoming years. Schiller named U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill., and U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., as possible leaders of the Democratic Party’s regrouping, and West added U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, DCalif., to Schiller’s list. “(Pelosi) is a rising star within the Democratic Party,” West said. West and Orr both said former Vice President Al Gore will run against Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Schiller predicted U.S. Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., will run. More contested was whether current Vice President Dick Cheney will be Bush’s running mate. “Yes — if he’s alive,” West said, eliciting laughs from the audience. But Schiller said Cheney will not be on the ballot under any circumstances, and Orr suggested current National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice may be poised to replace him. Many students said they attended the discussion to find out how to prevent single-party sweeps from occurring in future elections as they did on Tuesday. “I think, as a Democrat, this election made it clear that our party needs to get back the losses that happened in this election,” said Dan Bassichis ’06. During the question-andanswer portion of the discussion, audience members raised issues ranging from voter intimidation to the possible war in Iraq to fears that the results of Tuesday’s elections will destroy the Democratic Party. “The beauty of American politics is that it’s incredibly difficult to put the nail in the coffin of the other party,” Schiller said.

Football continued from page 12 Brown still has key defensive players missing and will have to rely on youth, especially in the secondary, to stop a balanced Bulldog offense. Before last week’s game against Penn, Estes noted that in his five years at the helm, the Bears have not lost a game in November. After last week that streak is no more. Perhaps the record can be salvaged on Saturday to home games in November. Game Vitals: Yale (4-3, 2-2 Ivy League) versus Brown (0-7, 0-4) at Brown Stadium, Saturday, 12:30 p.m. Last week: Yale 35, Columbia 7; Penn 31, Brown 7. Last year: Brown 37, Yale 34. Herald staff writer Jermaine Matheson ’03 is an assistant sports editor and covers the football team. He can be reached at jmatheson@browndailyherald.com.

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IN BRIEF Med Senate passes resolutions on institutional restructuring The Medical Student Senate passed a motion Wednesday night consisting of seven resolutions that outlined the senate’s official positions on various issues facing the Brown Medical School as the institution seeks to reevaluate its structure. The senate’s recommendations included increasing the medical school’s autonomy, creating a Dean of Medicine position separate from the Dean of Biology, improving academic advising, evaluating admission processes, developing a distinct Medical Education Center comparable to those of Brown’s peers and creating a separate medical school course registrar and calendar. The motion also calls for creating a plan for a permanent medical library that would be easily accessible to all medical students. In the short term, it suggested extending library hours and converting the upper level of Pembroke Hall into a study space for medical and graduate students. Because senate members felt signs currently on campus don’t adequately represent the medical school, the motion recommends “the design and placement of professional ‘Brown Medical School’ signs on BioMedical Center facilities, hospital campuses and University maps.” The senate will deliver the motion, which passed 15 to 1, to Interim Dean of Biology and Medicine Richard Besdine today, said senate chair Mark Slidell MD ’03. Besdine and Provost Robert Zimmer recently created the Blueprint Working Group, a body that is reevaluating “the structure of the med school, how many deans there should be,” Slidell said. “We wanted to give med students’ opinions on a number of topics being debated,” Slidell said.“We want to contribute to the discussion. “I’m hoping this will give (Besdine) an idea of how med students feel about these issues,” Slidell said. — Elena Lesley

When air pollution threatens public health World famous epidemiologist and environmentalist Devra Davis spoke Thursday about air pollution and the threat to public health BY ALYKHAN KARIM

Devra Davis unveiled her new book about the environment titled “When Smoke Ran Like Water” to a packed Smith-Buonnano audience Thursday night. Davis, a world famous epidemiologist and environmentalist and a member of the Clinton administration, outlined case studies of extreme air pollution that caused serious public health threats. One of the most striking examples took place in Davis’ hometown, the small zinc-factory city of “I had no idea that Donora, Pa. Donora was ravaged by the epidemics like this worst single epidemic of smog and air polluhad ever taken tion in United States history. place. It kind of Davis told the audience of what she makes you open called an infamous day in 1948, when your eyes a little.” clouds of smog ran so black that people couldn’t see a foot in Eric Duval ’06 front of them. By 7 p.m. that night, local hospitals were so full that patients were turned away, and many suffered from splitting migraines, heart palpitations and unconsciousness. Eighteen died in 12 hours, and half the town of 12,000 reported feeling ill. Davis presented other incidents of excessive pollution to the audience. She described her research into the 1952 London smog, a phenomenon that resulted in 15,000 deaths from air pollution over three months. Rather than take action against the causes of the contaminants, the British government falsely attributed 12,000 of those

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One of the worst cases of air pollution in U.S. history took place in Donora, Pa., shown here at noon on Oct. 29, 1948 as deadly smog envelops the town.World famous epidemiologist Devra Davis spoke Thursday about her experience in Donora, where she grew up, and her book, “When Smoke Ran Like Water.” deaths to influenza in a desperate attempt to cover up the effects of the event, Davis said. Davis provided information to support the world’s ongoing environmental struggle, and many in the audience said they firmly believed in environmental causes. “I had no idea that epidemics like this had ever taken place,” said Eric Duval ’06. “It kind of makes you open your eyes a little.” Though Davis provided uplifting examples of companies that reduced pollutants and increased recycling and government legislation that helped cut down the levels of smog, she argued that more work is needed to counteract pollution. “The decision not to take immediate action is an action. We will pay the price later for not acting now,” she said. Davis said many people often ask her why she struggles to right environmental wrongs. “It is not for you to finish the task, but you must begin it,” she said.

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Debate continued from page 1 ances” in the international community would prevent these crimes from happening. “How is it possible for the United States to commit genocide without having serious international ramifications?” Askari said. He added that domestic political activism and the U.S. military court also provide checks and balances that would prevent the United States from committing war crimes. Yom said the United States needs some justification for sending its military to areas of conflict. He cited Bosnia as an example of a country with which the United States signed exemption documents. “Without the exemptions, young people would be risking their lives without a guarantee of their protection from being falsely accused of war crimes,” Yom said. The U.S. government is giving its citizens their minimum constitutional right with exemption agreements, Yom said. He said the ICC negates the assurances of a constitutional government. “What is the government

Bird continued from page 3 whose toothsome head is equally fearsome and pathetic. However, some of the human characters have costumes that are downright simple; at least one appears to be wearing jeans. Michael McGarty, designer for Theatre, Speech and Dance creates a set design that is similarly inconsistent. The main section of Leeds’ thrust stage is converted into a desert complete with sand dunes, which is a wonderful effect, even though it leaves the front rows quite dusty by show’s end. The two-dimensional set behind the thrust seems somewhat incomplete, however. It is too noncontiguous, a patchwork

Wiseman continued from page 12 Then I might change my stance. Back to the root of the matter, this type of programming needs to be cut. Yesterday I watched a few minutes of woman’s pool before turning off the TV. I always wonder who watches pool on TV. I am guessing pool fanatics, of which there are few, and creepy old guys who like to watch women pool players bend over. I don’t blame the latter completely. For some reason, women pool players like to wear the skankiest clothing possible: short leather skirts and low-cut shirts. They are playing pool — it would seem that they could perform better if they wore baggy sweatpants and T-shirts that gave them some range of motion. Instead, they look like they were picked off the street. Today I saw a show for the first time. It was called “Fish On,” and if you were thinking of a sexual connotation there is something wrong with you, but you are completely

afraid of?” Chopra asked. He criticized the “bad wording” of the resolution. The use of the word “exceptions,” he said, is faulty in that there are no such things as exceptions under law. “The government is like a fish, and the decision to whether it should be fried in oil or in butter is irrelevant because ultimately, it must be fried,” Chopra said. Yom responded to Chopra’s rebuttal with a quote from the Notorious B.I.G. “No matter what position you’ll be in, there will always be ‘playa-hatas’ in the world,” he said. The reasons the U.S. government should accept the ICC, Romaniuk said, is that the treaty and important definitions like “wars on humanity” are not yet drafted in their final form. The United States must recognize that by accepting or rejecting the treaty it will influence other nations, he said. “You are afraid of the rule of law,” Chopra said in addressing the government. He criticized the U.S. government for being idealist and for giving a “go” signal to mass murder. He criticized the United States for putting its citizens’ constitutional rights above those of other world citizens. The debate was both informative and entertaining, audience

members told The Herald. Chopra’s constant referral to Yom and Askari — “the government” — not having taken the IR180 seminar course he teaches evoked laughter from the audience. Participants in the debate told The Herald that they felt it was a success. “I felt that it was a mass success and that everyone had a great time,” Yom said. “The intellectual level of debate was high, and there were a lot of good arguments being thrown around.” “It was a great opportunity for grad students, faculty and undergraduate students to interact and have a few laughs (and) hopefully, learn more about the issues,” Romaniuk said. Therese Surface ’03, social events chair of the International Scholarship Committee, which organized the event as part of International Scholarship Week, said she wanted to include an “intellectual event” in the form of a debate to make students more aware of foreign issues. “We have lots of events — not intellectual events — but I thought it’d be great to have students against professors for fun,” Surface said.

quilt with several sections missing. Theatre, Speech and Dance Coordinator Jason Bloom’s sound design is jarring at times, as cues burst in too loudly at odd moments. Crashes sound whenever a character exits the desert, but they are never justified. The well-selected music for several of the scenes makes up for any shortcomings, however, as does the singularly outstanding sound effect of a monster suckling at the breast of an animated statue. In addition to its technical pleasures, the spectacular plumage of “The Green Bird” comes onstage in several extraneous scenes. A trio of singing human-size apples is thoroughly unnecessary, but indescribably delightful – almost worth the

price of admission by itself. Similarly, a literally over-the-top rooftop wooing scene by Tartaglia is eye-rollingly frivolous, but very funny all the same. Montelle’s use of Zack Fuller GS is brilliant. Fuller plays Pierrot, a mimed character, strongly resembling Marcel Marceau’s Bip, that is not in Gozzi’s original script. Fuller turns in outstanding mime work in a prologue written by Montelle, as well as in scene changes and a not-to-be-missed intermission performance. “The Green Bird” is a terrific show, captivating throughout its nearly three hour length. The meat of this bird lies in its feathers, the various delights of acting and technical accomplishments that make for a witty, satisfying performance.

right. The show consisted of a guy who goes around the world with about ten supermodel women. The women walk around in bikinis and go swimming while the guy fishes. It was the most ridiculous thing I have ever watched on TV and was the real inspiration for me to write this column. Fishing on TV is bad enough, but fishing/Baywatch was just absurd. Another show that frequently airs is “Tee Off,” where some random guy takes famous people golfing. The worst part about it is that they stand there talking more than they play golf. I do have a few recommendations for ESPN during this weekday daytime period. They should start airing SportsCenter during the day. Most of us don’t have the luxury of free mornings to watch highlights, so we rely on the afternoons. This is obviously the easiest solution, since they would only be playing a tape. Another option would be to air either bloopers or those sweet highlight reels with music in the background that pumps you up. These would at least hold my attention for longer than fifteen minutes.

Finally, a few random thoughts from the world of sports. The Giants are stupid for not getting Dusty Baker back. A guy brings you to game seven of the World Series (a series they should have won) and you let him walk away. They should get over their grievances and realize that there is really no one better than Baker out there. Give him some respect. Congratulations to DeMatha High School basketball coach Morgan Wootten on a tremendous career. Considered one of the best coaches of all time and a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, Wootten won a record 1,274 games and five national championships in his 41-year career. He has sent over 40 players to the NBA, including Adrian Dantly and Danny Ferry. Thank goodness Barry Zito won the AL Cy Young award over Pedro. Sorry to all you Boston fans, but Pedro was hurt, played easier teams and did not get to the playoffs. Don’t worry, though — the Pats are back, and there is always next year for the Red Sox.

Herald staff writer Monique Meneses ’05 can be reached at mmeneses@browndailyherald.com.

Ben Wiseman ’05 hails from Washington, D.C.

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IN BRIEF Van owner confesses to role in Bali bombing, police say JAKARTA, Indonesia (L. A. Times) — The owner of a minivan

used in the deadly car bombing of Bali nightclubs last month has confessed that he took part in the attack, police said Thursday, as evidence mounted that the blast was linked to al-Qaeda. In a major breakthrough in the investigation of the bombings, which killed at least 191 people, Indonesian police arrested the suspect Tuesday after tracing the ownership of the destroyed van through its chassis number. He has been identified only as Amrozi. “Amrozi was one of the main perpetrators of the Bali bombing,” national police Chief Dai Bachtiar said Thursday.“He has disclosed many things and admitted his acts in Bali. ... We are pursuing his companions.” One of the prime suspects in the attack has been Jemaah Islamiyah, a regional terrorist group linked to the al-Qaeda network and allegedly headed by radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir. CNN reported Thursday that al-Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the Bali attack through an Arabic Web site. The group said it had targeted “nightclubs and whorehouses” in Indonesia and boasted of its aim to hit inside Arab and Islamic countries that are part of what it called a “Jewish-Crusader alliance.” The Bali attack hit the world’s most populous Muslim country, but many of the dead were young Australian tourists.

Pentagon moving B-2 bombers closer to Baghdad KNOB NOSTER, Mo. (L. A. Times) — The Pentagon is moving the jet that fired the opening salvos of the last two U.S. wars to within easy striking distance of Iraq, erecting tentlike portable hangars for the batwinged B-2 bomber on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. Four of the new $2.5-million maintenance hangars, each serving two planes, will be built on the British-held isle and one at Fairford, England. It will be the first time B-2s will be based overseas instead of here at Whiteman Air Force Base. The foreign positioning of the radar-deflecting aircraft has been in the works for years, officials said. But the timing suggests the key role the B-2 is likely to play if there is a second war in the Persian Gulf, military analysts said. If the United States launches war on Iraq, the B-2s will be critical in taking out an antiaircraft system that has been improved with fiber-optic communications and updated equipment and has had a decade to adapt to the tactics of U.S. and British planes patrolling “no-fly” zones over Iraq.

U.S. presses U.N. on Iraq resolution UNITED NATIONS — The Bush administration today

launched a final drive to overhaul U.N. arms inspections in Iraq, pressing the 15-nation Security Council to adopt by Friday a tough new inspection resolution that grants the Iraqi government a “last opportunity” to voluntarily disarm. With support growing in the council for passage of a new resolution that would give U.N. inspectors the right to immediate access to any place in the country, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell canceled a trip to Asia to address any last-minute crises at the United Nations. President Bush is scheduled to phone Russian President Vladimir Putin to elicit support for the resolution, or at least to persuade Moscow not to veto it. Senior U.S. officials insisted that the new resolution formally presented to the council today preserves Bush’s authority to wage war against Iraq. And it will ultimately strengthen U.S. efforts to assemble a coalition of countries to unseat Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if he continues to defy the weapons inspectors, the officials said. The resolution would also provide U.S. allies with increased international legal cover if they decide to press ahead with a war against Iraq, according to U.N. diplomats. The resolution declares Iraq in “material breach” — a term that has been invoked by Washington to justify military action — of its disarmament obligations. It warns Iraq has one “final opportunity” to scrap its deadliest weapons. In an effort to broaden support for the resolution, the Bush administration included language that grants the weapons inspectors and the Security Council at least a nominal role in assessing Iraq’s cooperation and to consider what “serious consequences” Iraq would face for continuing to defy the inspectors. “The resolution that we’ve put forward makes very clear this is a final opportunity for Iraq to disarm,” State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. “Either they disarm in cooperation with the requirements of the Security Council or they are made to disarm, either through Security Council action or through action by Security Council members.” After weeks of resisting U.S. efforts to obtain U.N. support for military action, France’s U.N. ambassador Jean David Levitte praised the latest American initiative after a council meeting. He said “very important progress has been achieved” in addressing France’s demand that the council play a role in determining whether war can be waged against Iraq. “We want to give Iraq a last chance to disarm through U.N. inspections,” Levitte said. Although senior U.S. officials insisted they had struck an agreement with France on wording in the resolution that Paris feared would be used to automatically trigger military action against Baghdad, a spokes-

woman for French President Jacques Chirac said the issue has not been resolved. Chirac’s spokeswoman, Catherine Colonna, told reporters in Paris that the French leader believes that “certain ambiguities need to be cleared up” over the question of force. Levitte signaled that France would still press the United States to ease some of the resolution’s most stringent inspections measures, including a provision that allows U.N. inspectors to take Iraqi scientists out of the country for interviews. Russian, Chinese and Syrian envoys expressed concern that the U.S. text still contains a “hidden trigger” for the use of military action. “They are not there,” Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Sergey Lavrov, said of the United States’ and Britain’s campaign to unify the council behind their resolution. “We don’t believe we can agree with automaticity, and we don’t believe that we can agree with unimplementable demands. It’s a work in progress.” France and Russia have used the term “automaticity” to refer to language that provides Washington with the ability to undertake military action against Iraq if it decides that the Iraqi government is not complying with the resolution’s demands. U.S. and British diplomats sought to allay concerns that their governments would use the resolution as an automatic trigger for military force. “President Bush has said on repeated occasions that as far as he is concerned, war would be a last resort, that he wants to give the United Nations and the Security Council a chance,” John D. Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters. “We believe the resolution that we . . . laid down this morning is the best way to achieve the disarmament of Iraq by peaceful means.” U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said the council was making “progress” and urged its members to rally around a new inspection resolution. “I have always maintained that it is important that the council speaks with one voice,” Annan told reporters outside the council. The U.N.’s chief weapons inspector, Hans Blix, cited several problems with the U.S. text of the resolution. He said that a seven-day deadline for Iraq to accept the terms of the resolution was unnecessary and that it would be impossible for Iraq to meet a 30-day deadline to declare every component of its civilian chemical and biological industries. Blix also reiterated his concern about a U.S. proposal to grant him the power to interview Iraqi scientists and their families outside the country. “To declare a program of a whole petrochemical industry might be difficult to put together in 30 days,” Blix said. “We’ll see whether there will be some further modifications (in the U.S. draft) made here and there.” Negroponte said the United States would try to accommodate some of Blix’s concerns.

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Kuwaits prepare for attack KUWAIT CITY (Newsday) — It was a bit of a poor show, the emergency drill. “Very slow,” said Lt. Col. Adel Shoaib of the Kuwait City Fire Department, as he gazed at his watch. About 200 girls in blue-andwhite-checked uniforms filed into their school gymnasium, filling it with chatter and relaxed laughter. “Five minutes and 30 seconds, by now. Too slow.” But then, students at the Naileh Girls School were blocked from three of four doors by plastic sheeting intended to protect them from chemical or biological agents if an attack from Iraq actually occurred. Shoaib said the plastic wouldn’t be much use if half the girls were outside breathing in poisons because they couldn’t get into the building fast enough. He would have a word with the principal after the drill. Kuwaitis all over the country are preparing for the possibility that Iraq might attack them if the United States were to invade Iraq. But as the rather lackadaisical emergency drill at the school illustrated, many Kuwaitis are not taking the threat terribly seriously. Despite the growing signs in Kuwait almost daily that war may be coming — over the weekend the government made about onequarter of the country off limits because of huge American and Kuwaiti military exercises starting in the north — there is an overwhelming feeling that the U.S. military will protect Kuwait. “I really think they expect the United States will neutralize the Iraqis,” said a Western diplomat. “It’s partially a justified belief, but there’s maybe a little denial there.” The Kuwaiti government is taking no risks. It has ordered emergency drills all over the country. On television, short films show people how to construct sealed shelters at home. The government also has made contingency plans for maintaining supplies of water, electricity, food and communications systems, said Fahad al-Buti, chief of Kuwait City’s Civil Defense Center. There are other signs of the threat of war. On Friday, a vast convoy of American tanks and armored

vehicles lumbered slowly down the main road from Kuwait City to the Iraqi border. An exercise over, they were returning to the large American military site, Camp Doha, on the outskirts of the city. Soon they’ll head out again to the hard, flat desert for more training. “It’s wasting time and money, but I agree 100 percent with what they’re doing,” said Hamed alOthman, a Kuwaiti farmer who, like hundreds of others, was having workers tear down buildings of his that were on governmentowned land now declared off limits. His herds, too, would be moved. Al-Othman, an unequivocal supporter of the U.S. military presence in Kuwait, seemed typically unstressed by the prospect of more conflict in the region. He lay on a cot at his farm on Friday, drinking an icy bottle of nonalcoholic beer. Like many Kuwaitis, he said the situation in Kuwait is different from that in 1990, when Iraqi forces rolled easily into Kuwait. This time, there is the massive American military presence to protect the country. On the other hand, if there is a war, a desperate Saddam Hussein may feel he has nothing to lose by unleashing chemical or biological weapons on American forces in Kuwait. “If it happens, it happens and we’ll all go down,” said Majed alBusaili, 26, an architectural engineer who was visiting a mall in downtown Kuwait City. He explained his fatalism and equanimity by citing his experience as a teenager in 1990. “I lived here during the invasion,” he said. “We’ve faced war, so we’re familiar with the war situation. In some respects, it was really fun. We stayed inside and the whole family was around.” Others are taking things a little more seriously. Although sales of gas masks have dropped in recent days, as the United States seems to be slowing its push toward war, last month stores were doing good business in gas masks. “We sold between 35 and 40 last month,” said Mohammed Hassan, a salesman at the Ahmedal Saleh and Sons military supplies store in Kuwait City. This time last year, he was selling none.

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Troy continued from page 12 Season: 66-62-2 Barely a Lock of the Week: 5-4 Colts (+9.5) over the EAGLES Three losses in three games have left Indianapolis, like the Democratic Party, wondering what happened. Peyton Manning has always had the talent to win, but there is clearly a reason why he never beat Florida and failed to win a Heisman Trophy. With an angry head coach, high expectations and 9.5 points, the Colts should play hard or go back to the drawing board. RAVENS (-5.5) over the Bengals When it came to head coach Dick LeBeau’s guarantee of a win, I believed the only thing more worthless was Domino’s claim of delivering your pizza in 30 minutes or it was free. Still, the Bengals violated the Texans 38-3, and are now a robust 1-7. Since the words winning and streak do not go together for Cincinnati, look for the Ravens to shatter the team’s dreams of a multi-win season. PACKERS (-10) over the Lions At this point, is anyone not convinced that Brett Favre could lead a team to victory suffering from a broken arm, a missing leg and scurvy? He is not only the best quarterback in the league, but holds the record for most consecutive games played at the position. So this week, for the 142nd time, Favre will dismantle Detroit and give Joey Harrington something to aim at as he develops. Giants (-1.5) over the VIKINGS The Giants are one of eight teams that are 4-4, and with the parity that has developed in the league, that just might be good enough to grab one of the wild card spots. Unfortunately for Jim Fassell, if his team fails to make the playoffs he could find himself buried with Jimmy Hoffa, or worse, forced to live in central Jersey. After the 2001 NFC Championship Game, how can you feel comfortable picking

continued from page 12 What is it about volleyball that is so attractive? It can be really intense and there’s so much thinking, I have always loved it. I like deciding what’s going to happen — I make our decisions, so it kind of puts me in control. So you do not mind the leadership? Oh no, not at all. My coach told me in the first game that I wasn’t allowed to act like a freshman any-

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RAMS (-6) over the Chargers After an 0-5 start, Mike Martz finally developed a sound game plan: just “give the damn ball” to Marshall Faulk. Right now, I don’t think anyone would be surprised to see the Rams make the playoffs. As a side note, the overunder on Kurt Warner being a bag boy again is five weeks. Texans (+10) over the TITANS Like Warner Wolf famously espouses, if you had Houston and 34 points last week, you would have lost. Regardless, I am not convinced that I have ever seen Tennessee blow out anyone. As long as David Carr does not get sacked 17 times this week, he should be able to keep the Texans close. Saints (-5) over the Panthers (LOCK OF THE WEEK) Just for perspective, no team in the AFC South is over .500, and three teams in the NFC South, including the Saints, are. With the starting quarterback combo that reads like a Who’s Who of nobodies, the biggest surprise of the year may be that the Panthers actually won three games. At least Julius Peppers has proven that he is the best defensive player to play his entire college and professional career in the state of Carolina. Redskins (+3) over the JAGUARS At 4-4, I am not sure what to say about Steve Spurrier’s job as a head coach. The only thing I am sure of is that when Rex Grossman does turn pro, his old coach will have a space ready and waiting for him. As for Mark Brunnell, his ability to be a running QB has dropped faster than Enron stock.

more. Because I had been put in a leadership role, I had to automatically become a sophomore, like I was playing with everyone for a long time. I am having a great time.

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STEELERS (-5) over the Falcons It must have been great in practice for Kordell Stewart this week, pretending to be Michael Vick on the Steelers’ prep team. Ah, the memories of being a starting QB. The Falcons are on the way up, but the Steelers’ D is already there. Vick the Quick will quickly learn that playing the Steelers is different from playing Rutgers.

Have you adjusted to life in the States, and here at Brown? It has been hard with volleyball, so I still haven’t met a lot of people. I know people in my unit but I can’t go out a lot. My team is like my family and that’s all I really need right now. I mean, before this I’d never left home for more than a week. My parents have visited a lot to see me play; they came to my first tourney and they’re coming next weekend, so

CARDINALS (-3.5) over the Seahawks Does anyone feel comfortable trying to name five players on Arizona? On a similar note, does anyone feel comfortable trying to name five players on Seattle who are not overpaid? The Seahawks will need to win a divisional game before they become a sound pick on Sunday. Patriots (-3.5) over the BEARS Though the Bengals picked up their first win last week, I have yet to call a Pats game correctly this season. Clearly, there is scientific evidence of my impact on New England’s ability to win. Here’s to another loss (win). Chiefs (+6) over the 49ERS The over-under for scoring in this game is 70, and that is just for the first half. So if you play fantasy football, seriously consider starting anyone on San Francisco or Kansas City, including the cheerleaders, hot dog vendors and the old guy who paints “Chefs” in the end zone for KC. A Priest Holmes TD late should pull the Chiefs within seven. JETS (-3) over the DOLPHINS Considering how bad they have looked at points this season, if the Jets did not blow an 18-point lead to the Browns they would actually be 4-4. They typically own the Dolphins, and since the Fins considered bringing Troy Aikman out of retirement to join Cris Carter, I can’t put too much faith in Miami to win without Jay Fiedler. RAIDERS (+5.5) over the Broncos Oakland’s manual of how to go from first to worst in just four simple weeks will be available in hardcover form in January, just in time for the team to read as its watches the Super Bowl from home. Luckily for the Silver and Black, it is Denver’s turn this week to be the AFC West team that collapses and makes us question its ability. Kansas City, you’re on deck. Joshua Troy ’04 hails from Stamford, CT, the home of the WWE(F), and is a political science concentrator.

it has been easy. What are your long-term goals? Maybe Olympics, but I don’t think that’s going to happen, I’m too short. Wow, so is that a true possibility? Yeah, definitely. I tried out for Team Ontario, and I made the final cut for it, but I was too young at the time. To make the Olympics I’d have to train extremely hard and it’s a long way away to justify thinking about it. I’m short so I would have to jump so much higher. I shouldn’t really get my hopes up. Right now that’s one of my long-long-term goals, but you never know. We’ll see.

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Diamonds and coal A diamond to “Live on Lincoln,” coming to a green near you tonight. Candy apples? Fire eating? Just like the circus is coming to town, minus the tiny-appendaged carnies and their kind. Look for stand-up, fall-down funny Brett Cohen ’03 at a microphone near you. A cubic zirconium to the kid in section who makes crazy eye contact with the professor. It’s the old snake-charmer trick, and while Eddie Eyes is hypnotizing the teacher, you can busy yourself with list-making, day-dreaming and forty-winkscatching. A diamond to the Brown debaters who had the balls to take on Watson Institute faculty in a debate about the United States’ relationship with the International Criminal Court. Although the faculty may have won, your debate provided interesting insights into complications associated with U.S. peacekeeping efforts. A diamond to David Cicilline ’83 and Don Carcieri ’65 for bringing Brown flavor to Rhode Island politics. It’s like they took a 30-year master’s degree program; maybe someday we’ll see this year’s ISO leader on a mayoral jar of pasta sauce? A coal to the folks who get $5 refunds at Store24 while 80 people languish behind them holding single packs of snack cakes. We’ll give you the five to spare ourselves the agony of listening to Creed while staring at the latest Maxim girl’s shiny bounty on the magazine rack. A coal to Vanilla Coke. One word: cloying. And a coal to Diet Vanilla Coke: a new taste adventure in guilt-free cloy. A diamond to all concert series at PW. The Vines could have grown from the organic material on the floor alone. Nothing says authentic music like rocking out in what appears to be an abandoned bunker, post-Dresden. A cubic zirconium to the January session of OMAC physical fitness courses. Some of us will be fit. Some of us will be fat and guilty on pie 1,000 miles from Brown.

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Sex concentration not ‘fallen apart’ at Brown To the Editor: On behalf of the Sexuality and Society Concentration Board, I would like to thank The Herald for its interest in our concentration and its advocacy of open intellectual inquiry at Brown. However, I find it necessary to correct some inaccuracies in The Herald’s editorial (“Let’s talk about sex,” 11/7) and to elucidate what the broadly conceived discipline of sexuality studies encompasses. The study of sexuality as a category of analysis is of vital interest to the social sciences, life sciences and humanities. Groundbreaking scholarship on sexuality — including but not limited to topics such as the history of sexuality, social protest movements, civil rights legislation, queer theory, literary constructions of sexual minorities, epidemiology, genetics, human sexual behavior and identity — has blossomed across disciplines and methodologies during the last 20 years. At this point, however, formal institutional recognition of this interdisciplinary field is in its infancy, much as was the case for women's studies some 30 years ago. Along with Duke, NYU, Cornell, and UC San Diego, Brown was among the first universities to offer an undergraduate major. Far from “contribut(ing) to the avoidance of the topic of sexuality,” as suggested by The Herald’s editorial, the administration was quite receptive to the creation of the Sexuality and Society Concentration. The hard work of program-building then began, with a dedicated group of professors teaching course overloads, carving out time from busy schedules and departmental duties to work with concentrators and encouraging departments to hire specialists able to contribute to our curriculum. As is often the case in visible and growing fields, some of our top scholars, five of the original nine founding members of the concentration (instead of eight, as the editorial suggested), were recruited by and have joined other institutions. We have been fortunate to welcome new faculty members to our concentration, but curricular gaps still exist. I would like to stress that the concentration has not “fallen apart,” nor is it “hanging by a thread.” Encouraged by a recent student survey that indicated broad student interest in sexuality studies across the disciplines, we are actively working with pertinent professors, departments and administrators to enhance our curriculum. Student input can only

strengthen our concentration and help us make the case for new hires in the field. I welcome all students interested in this exciting and innovative field of study to consult our Web page or to contact me for information about the concentration. Gretchen Schultz Chair, Sexuality and Society Concentration Nov. 7

Haffenreffer deserves better location To the Editor: The Herald’s article “At foot of College Hill, a Brownowned building looks for a use” (11/7) is encouraging on three fronts: moving the famed collection of Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum to campus, renewed interest in the Old Stone Bank building and initiating a more visible presence for Brown in the rejuvenated business district of Providence. Whereas year after year the University’s administration has placed the dilemma facing Haffenreffer's future on a short list, this important collection remains housed 18 miles from campus in the buildings of a former dairy. Clearly, given the dynamics of the politics within the College Hill Historic District, there is no quick solution to relocate the museum to campus. However, as Director Krech has pointed out since 1988, the collection will be better served at a site on or near the Brown campus. This is important for several reasons. First as Professor Krech has stressed, when the collection is available on campus, many more students will take advantage of viewing the museum’s exhibitions. Second, the collection will become available to all visitors to campus, as well as the many tourists who annually visit the historic district. “Simply selling the property,” as Director of Facilities Management John Noonan reportedly said, would be a gross mistake. Old Stone Bank is one of four of the most important historic structures on the College Hill side of the downtown river park (First Baptist Church, Customs Building, Joseph Brown house and the Old Stone Bank). Because of this, the building offers Brown a wonderful opportunity to utilize the site for something that would introduce people outside the University community to the institution. James Owen Ross ’86 Nov. 7

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George W. Bush’s administration: The CEO’s Presidency In all his policy decisions, Bush can lay claim to supporting corporate America like no other PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH TAKES PRIDE Chairman of the Securities and Exchange in his business background, boasting last Commission, was roundly criticized for year that his would be the CEO presidency. dragging his feet on reform in the wake of But more importantly, he’s made clear that the corporate scandals. That’s just to corporations drive administration policy. name a few. When Cheney formulated an energy Over the course of his presidency, Bush’s policy for the country, he tendency has been to confuse consulted no consumer corporate interests with the groups, no advocates for the public interest at home and environment — only his oil the national interest abroad. executive buddies. The Bush’s nominations made result was an energy policy obvious his big business bias. driven by oil interests. Vice President Dick Cheney Cheney has yet to disclose was CEO of the oil-drilling who took part in the secrefirm Halliburton (at the time tive energy task force meetit overstated revenue). ings last year. Government Andrew Card, White House lawyers are fighting the chief of staff, was a top lobbyJAIDEEP SINGH courts, which insist that the ist for the car industry. The J-DEEP THOUGHTS administration release the notoriously pro-industry Gale files. If there is nothing to Norton, who once argued hide, why is Cheney fighting before the Supreme Court that the Endangered Species Act could so vigorously to keep his meetings not and should not be used to prevent secret? The Republican economic stimulus the destruction of essential habitat, even if it would lead to the death of endan- package was mostly a handout to corporagered animals, heads the Department of tions. While it should have provided for a the Interior. Her deputy secretary, J. post-Sept. 11, 2001, economic recovery, it Steven Griles, lobbied for oil and mining instead handed out corporate tax rebates companies he is now supposed to regu- amounting to $10 billion. Even the conserlate. Harvey Pitt, the recently resigned vative Weekly Standard published an article saying, “The House Republican Bill reads as if it were drafted by a horde of K Jaideep Singh ’03 is an international relastreet corporate lobbyists (which to some tions concentrator from Sugarland, Texas. extent it was).” He is co-editor of the Brown Journal of After a spate of forest fires in the west, World Affairs.

the president had a great idea: let’s let logging companies thin out the dense areas of the forests. The main problem, almost everyone agrees, is that over the past several decades we haven’t allowed natural forest fires to clear the underbrush and small trees that make certain forests fireprone. The administration’s “Healthy Forests” plan ignores this and instead provides for cutting down large trees that aren’t the problem. After all, there’s no money in underbrush and small trees. Cynicism about U.S. oil and defense industry interests driving our foreign policy is not without basis. The administration supported a coup this year against Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, even though he was elected by 58 percent of the popular vote in 1998. Chavez became unpopular with the administration when he decided to double the royalties charged to multinational oil companies operating in Venezuela, a major player being ExxonMobil. Chavez told the BBC after the April coup attempt, “I have written proof of the time of the entries and exits of two U.S. military officers into the headquarters of the coup plotters — their names, whom they met with, what they said — proof on video and on still photographs.” A former U.S. intelligence agent told the BBC in April that the United States had been considering a coup against Chavez for a year. Earlier this year a district judge wanted to get the State Department’s opinion on a

case filed by Indonesian villagers against a U.S. company that had allegedly been complicit in atrocities committed by Indonesian security forces. The Bush administration recommended the judge dismiss the case, arguing it could harm U.S. relations with Indonesia. But the message the administration sent was that it was more concerned about corporate ties than human rights. Ken Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, said, “It is the height of hypocrisy for the State Department to publicly promote human rights principles for the oil and gas industry and then tell a judge that scrutiny of an oil company’s human rights record runs counter to foreign policy.” The company on trial is (surprise) ExxonMobil. So while Bush may mention promoting freedom in every speech on foreign affairs, don’t forget that promoting corporate interests is his first priority. Chances are he will remain silent on China’s plans to build an oil pipeline through Tibet (ExxonMobil has a stake in the project). And if we invade Iraq, don’t be surprised if the first big oil contracts go to major U.S. multinationals. This is all not to say that Democrats aren’t guilty of pandering to special interests. They do, and this year’s farm bill is a good example. But the Bush presidency will go down as the most corporate-friendly presidency, one that dropped the ball in an era when big business needed more — not less — scrutiny.

Bush’s politics show aim to maintain U.S. dominance The Bush administration’s motives for promoting war on Iraq are to increase the nation’s power abroad ON OCT. 26, WELL OVER 100,000 PEOPLE 1992 Pentagon paper co-authored by gathered in Washington, D.C. and well Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz that said over 75,000 converged in San Francisco to the United States will aim to “prevent the protest George Bush’s plans for war on reemergence of a new rival … This is a Iraq. People of various political perspec- dominant consideration underlying the tives converged in these cities with one new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to goal in mind: stop Bush’s war. prevent any hostile power There were many liberals, from dominating a region some socialists, some anarBRIAN RAINEY GUEST COLUMN whose resources would chists, anti-imperialists, under consolidated control, Democrats, Greens, religious be sufficient to generate groups and pacifists. Most excitingly, many who had never protested global power.” Though the paper stirred so much controversy when it was leaked made the trek to the capital. This protest was a visible expression of in 1992 that it was practically disowned, the millions of Americans who have the similarity in language between that problems with the war. Most polls show paper and the “Bush Doctrine” clearly that around 55 percent of Americans shows what’s behind Bush’s foreign polisupport military action against Iraq, and cy. The objectives laid out in the Bush they also show that the support plummets to around 30 percent if the United Doctrine show unequivocally that the States does not have allied support. administration’s goal is to maintain the Support also wanes considerably if there United States’ unparalleled dominance are a high number of Iraqi and/or over all potential rivals — and that includAmerican casualties. Clearly, the ing so-called “friends” such as Russia, American people smell something fishy China and the European Union. Keep that in mind when considering that the about this war. The recently released “National Saddam Hussein government awarded Security Strategy” document, outlining $1.1 trillion in oil contracts to Europe, the Bush administration’s foreign policy China and Russia. Russian oil corporaobjectives (also known as the “Bush tions, particularly the Russian oil giant Doctrine”), clearly states: “The President Lukoil, are fearful that their contracts will has no intention of allowing any foreign not be honored by a post-Hussein governpower to catch up with the huge lead the ment dominated, if not outright conUnited States has opened since the fall of trolled, by the United States. On Oct. 8, Reuters reported that the the Soviet Union more than a decade ago.” The document goes on to say: “Our U.S. State Department will be holding a forces will be strong enough to dissuade meeting with Iraqi opposition leaders potential adversaries from pursuing a later this month to “discuss expanding military build-up in hopes of surpassing, Iraq’s oil and natural gas sector after the or equaling, the power of the United fall of Saddam Hussein.” The article goes on to say that (surprise!) “the Bush adminStates.” The “Bush Doctrine” sounds a lot like a istration has not decided whether such oil development contracts would be accepted by the United States in a post-Saddam Brian Rainey ’04 hails from Chesapeake, Va.

government.” In case we didn’t understand what that meant, a U.S. policy official spelled it out for us, “Naturally, U.S. policy generally across the board is to maximize U.S. economic and commercial influence.” Indeed, a war would be a convenient way for the United States to get the upper hand in Iraq and dictate what happens to its oil. Because the United States has military might that far surpasses Europe and Russia, any “international coalition” that invades Iraq will be dominated by the United States — as was the case in the Gulf War of 1991. The Bush administration’s schemes of how a post-Hussein Iraq would look should erase all doubt about its motives. The New York Times reported that “the White House is developing a detailed plan ... to install an American-led military government in Iraq if the United States topples Saddam Hussein. ... In the initial phase, Iraq would be governed by an American military commander — perhaps Tommy Franks, commander of United States forces in the Persian Gulf, or one of his subordinates — who would assume the role that Gen. Douglas MacArthur served in Japan. ... In contemplating an occupation, the administration is scaling back the initial role for Iraqi opposition forces in a postHussein government.” The Times goes on to note that “as long as the coalition partners administered Iraq, they would essentially control the second-largest proven oil reserves in the world.” How convenient. And it is worth reiterating that any “coalition partners” will be getting their marching orders from Washington. In the final analysis, this is all about dictating what happens to “a region whose resources would, under consolidated con-

trol be sufficient to generate global power.” As the Bush Doctrine makes clear, for any foreign power to even think about catching up with the United States is unacceptable. So Jacques Chirac and Bush’s diplomatic wrangling over the wording of Security Council resolutions has little to do with weapons of mass destruction; rather, it is a battle over who will control a country with the world’s second largest oil reserves. That’s the “fishiness” that the American people smell about the war. And because this is the real reason for the war, Bush is having a hard time making a case to his constituency. Now the socialists, the Greens, the anarchists, the liberals, the Democrats, the pacifists, the religious groups and those who haven’t quite sorted out their political beliefs need to be organized into an effective weapon against the war drive. At Brown, there is no widespread and organized opposition to the war, and this state of affairs needs to change quickly. Poll numbers alone are not going to stop an administration that is determined to go to war. Nearly twothirds of Americans support a woman’s right to choose, but that hasn’t stopped Bush from trying to bulldoze abortion rights. Most Americans support gay rights in employment, but the Employment Non Discrimination Act has not been passed. The reason the opinions of the American people are so easily ignored is that there is no organized expression of their dissent. That’s why it is imperative that students, faculty and staff who are opposed to the war come together. The famous saying that “all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” is very true. However, good men (and women) can’t do anything if there is no organization.

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SPORTS FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8, 2002 · PAGE 12

Mini-Swami says: picks for NFL’s week 10 THOUGH PICKING ON SOMEONE when he is down may not be polite, sometimes it is necessary. For Seattle Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren, this is one of those instances. The man who took/was given a lot of the credit for the Green Bay Packers’ advancing to two straight Super Bowls in the mid1990s, winning one, is now a coach on the verge of being fired. JOSHUA TROY He has not SPREADING THE LOVE only posted a worse record than his predecessor, even with one division title, but his team seems to be getting progressively worse. Sure, they might not be the Bengals, but they are in last place in a division with teams that all appear to be more talented: the 49ers, Rams and Cardinals. While all of the blame cannot be placed on Holmgren, a lot of it can, including the responsiblity for trading away Ahman Green and trading for Matt Hasselback. Holmgren apparently felt that being a NFL head coach was not enough of a challenge and wanted to try his hand at being a GM. Like Michael Jordan trying to play baseball, Holmgren should have stuck with what he was good at. If he does actually want to save his job, the former genius needs to bring in a real GM, a real QB (no, Jeff George does not count) and some real playmakers. For this week’s picks, as usual they are against the spread as provided by the Mirage Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. This week’s picks are sponsored by the letter K and the number eight. (Home team in CAPS) Last week: 9-4-1 see TROY, page 9

SCOREBOARD Friday’s Games Men’s Ice Hockey BROWN vs. Vermont, 7 p.m., Meehan Auditorium

Women’s Soccer

BROWN vs. Yale, 7 p.m., Stevenson Field

Women’s Volleyball

BROWN vs. Columbia, 7 p.m., Pizzitola

Women’s Ice Hockey

Focusing on Yale, football tries to look past a season of disappointments BY JERMAINE MATHESON

Football looks to improve on a season of disappointment this weekend, playing host to Yale University at the Brown Stadium. Players to watch: Yale: RB Robert Carr, averaging 124 rushing yards (first Ivy League); QB Jeff Mroz, last week 20-26, 306 passing yards. Brown: WR Chas Gessner, averaging 11.0 receptions per game; QB Nate Poole, last week 27-41-2 185 against Penn. Outlook: Brown Head Coach Phil Estes considers this his toughest season as head coach. Instead of competing for the league title, the team has been forced to adjust its goals, namely getting its first win. Yet Estes is adamant that this is not a rebuilding season. “Rebuilding is a ridiculous word. We were rebuilding years ago,” Estes said. “We should be further along than we are right now. We’ve had a lot of injuries at key positions. You can’t ask a quarterback with limited experience to take on this football team without a run game behind him and we haven’t had that. It’s not about rebuilding, it’s about staying healthy and have breaks go your way. We’ve had none of that.” On Saturday, Brown faces the secondbest defensive team in the Ivy League. The Bulldogs are allowing 19.7 points per game. Yale has a formidable defensive line, with its four linemen combing for 17 sacks on the season. Offensively, Brown is in the midst of a funk. Estes has to look no further than the one calling the plays to explain the offensive woes of this year’s team, explaining

Equestrian BROWN at Wesleyan, Middletown, Conn.

Field Hockey

BROWN vs. Yale, 12 p.m., Warner Roof

Football

Brown vs. Yale, 12:30 p.m., Brown Stadium

Women’s Volleyball

BROWN vs. Cornell, 4 p.m., Pizzitola

Women’s Ice Hockey

BROWN at Vermont, 4:00 p.m., Burlington, Vt.

Men’s Ice Hockey

BROWN vs. Dartmouth, 7 p.m., Meehan Auditorium

Men’s Soccer

BROWN vs. Yale, 7:30 p.m., Stevenson Field

Sunday’s Games Men’s Tennis BROWN at Dartmouth Invitational BROWN at OMNI National Indoors, Dallas, Tex.

that quarterbacks Nate Poole ’04 and Kyle Slager ’04 have not fully grasped the offense, which has become more demanding with injuries at the running back position. Both have had impressive moments but struggle for consistency. Both will likely see playing time tomorrow. “(Until) one is effective — ’til one guy gets it — I’ll use both. Right now I can’t tell you who will be starting,” Estes said.

Volleyball’s Martin having a record-breaking season BY ERIC PERLMUTTER

Leigh Martin ’06, a proud citizen of Canada, is a starting setter for the Brown volleyball squad. She has already made a name for herself, finding her way into the Brown record books for single-game and season marks in assists. How long have you been playing volleyball? I’ve been playing since grade seven, so it’s been seven years of volleyball, since we go to grade 13 back home. It’s been a very long time. To play volleyball anywhere else you have to play club, so I played club right from grade seven, which is young, but there are club teams even younger than that. High school was nothing special — it was more just for fun. Nobody looks at you for college or anything.

BROWN at Dartmouth, 7 p.m., Hanover, NH

Saturday’s Games

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Brown football looks to regroup from a disappointing season against Yale on Saturday.

Was being from Canada a disadvantage in the recruiting process? It is different being in Canada — they don’t look as much there, so I had to sell myself. In senior year, around October, I almost had decided to stay in Canada, but this came along and I couldn’t pass it up. We sent the materials mainly within a small radius near where I live — I didn’t really want to go far from home. My dad said, “send it to the Ivy League, you never know what could happen.” Eventually the coach called, I came down for a visit and loved it here. Your team is well below .500 — what do

you make of that? It has been up and down; we’ve had our moments where we’ve done extremely well, and others where we haven’t done well at all. We had five seniors and five incoming freshmen, so it can be hard to click perfectly. For example, I’m a freshman and I start at setter, so playing with seniors, the chemistry is not always there. We’ve gotten a lot better as the year has gone on, though. Injuries and other outside factors have been affecting us also, so it has not been all that bad. Has the season fallen short of expectations? It has totally lived up to my expectations. From a personal standpoint, coming here I wasn’t sure what to expect, and then I got starting position right away, which was really cool. I didn’t even expect to start, and now I’m starting and breaking records, which is so much better than I thought it would probably be. Looking ahead, what does the future hold for your team? Next year is going to be a rebuilding year, bringing in lots of freshmen and losing five seniors. We will be rebuilding for sure, but the next year will be even stronger, and my senior year might be amazing. So we have a good chance to win a championship before I leave. It’s going be a very young team. see MARTIN, page 9

What Brown lacks, Yale is thriving at. The Bulldogs have the best running game in the league. Running back Robert Carr has two 200-yard rushing games this season, which does not bode well for Brown, whose run defense is ranked last in the Ivy League. Backup quarterback Jeff Mroz had a career day last week against Columbia. see FOOTBALL, page 4

ESPN needs to start fishing for new daytime TV WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH ESPN DAYtime TV? I understand that we are in between the baseball playoffs and the NCAA basketball season, but there is absolute crap on ESPN during the day. On the weekends we get to watch college football and NFL highlights. At night we get mediocre NBA BEN games or SpWISEMAN ortsCenter after WISEMAN’S WISDOMS SportsCenter until we blissfully fall asleep. But for some reason ESPN cannot get it done during the day. Two days ago, I came back to my room after a huge midterm and just wanted to watch TV and take a nap. I ended up watching an hour-long special on why competitive cheerleading should be a varsity NCAA sport. First of all, this should not even be an issue. There is no way cheerleading should be a sanctioned sport. Yes, I have seen “Bring It On” and I know it is a grueling, training-intensive, highly technical display of cheering, but jumping and spinning to music is not a sport. If we let in cheerleading, who knows what will be next? The only way cheerleading would be an acceptable official sport is if Kirsten Dunst were the captain of every team. see WISEMAN, page 6