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U. moves to equalize staff, faculty tuition benefits

BY JONATHAN ELLIS

Courtesy of Brett Cohen

The new Brown Television program “Killing Time” is an exercise in the comedy of wit.The show faced some difficulty getting on the air, with its producers changing the date of the show’s premier several times.

ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

‘Killing Time,’ killing viewers

BY SARA PERKINS

The creators of the new Brown Television program “Killing Time” had difficulty bringing it to air, and it may be somewhat hard for viewers to watch.

The show, whose first airing was moved several times to allow its producers more opportunity for editing and advertising, is practically a sitcom about a sketch comedy: the first episode follows the intrepid cast of “Killing Time” through its attempts to produce the show’s sketches. The show is a creative foray that suffers from a severe lack of polish.

“Killing Time” is essentially “a sketch comedy … like (on) the Muppet Show, a sketch will end or begin, and we’ll continue to follow the antics of the ‘performers,’” explains the show’s creator, Herald Opinions Columnist Brett Cohen ’03. Most of the sketches are filmed in front of a green screen so the background can be replaced — the line between the show’s “reality” segments and its comedy sketches is defined by the use of the screen. The green screen backgrounds are simple and charmingly low budget.

The main problem with “Killing Time” is that it isn’t very funny. Most of the participants lack a natural or comedic on-camera presence. The cast looks uncomfortable. The concepts of the sketches, while funny, get

lost for a variety of reasons. It takes effort for a viewer to uncover the wit.

But there are moments of uncompromised humor: in particular “Contrary Dave,” who contradicts everything people say to him. He has what many of the characters lack: a solid and hilariously simple foundation, and his lines are creative. Tragically, Cohen said Dave will not appear in future episodes, leaving it to the other characters to fill the gap and establish more personality. Some characters, like “sci-fi girl,” simply need a better situation in which to shine.

The first episode has three main components: cast scenes, sketches and promotional spots. In one of the first reality scenes, a rogue ping-pong ball hits the director and puts her out of commission — she is played by a body under a blanket for the remainder of the episode. Cohen takes charge and scrambles to teach the cast to act, impress the station manager and repress mutinies. Interspersed are sketch endorsements for “Crazy Poker” and the “Master Liar” home training course, as well as a misfiring bit with “failed stand-up comics.” In bits that get old, the cast also roams the campus looking for students to endorse the

Brown will extend its child tuition benefit to University staff but will also phase out its spousal tuition benefit for faculty, erasing two policies considered discriminatory by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

Under the child tuition benefit, the University awards faculty members $10,000 toward a child’s tuition at any college or university, said William Crossgrove, associate dean of the faculty.

But University staff received less of a benefit until the recent changes. The IRS reviewed the benefit and “had seen a difference between the programs for kids of faculty and staff,” said Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service.

Because the higher-paid faculty received a higher benefit, the IRS considered the program discriminatory, Nickel said. The IRS routinely examines benefits packages to make sure benefits for highly compensated staff are equal, he said.

“By the standards of the IRS, it’s what they call a ‘tainted’ benefit,” Crossgrove said. President Ruth Simmons used that term when she announced the changes at the Nov. 5 faculty meeting. see BENEFITS, page 4

Career Services program gives cash for summer internships

BY ALLISON LOMBARDO

Unpaid summer internships at times mean long hours and hard work with no compensation. Some students can’t accept worthwhile opportunities because of financial reasons, but a University program hopes to change that.

Career Services’ Brown Internship Assistance Program and Aided Internship Program help students participate in internship opportunities that otherwise would be unavailable to them.

The BIAP/AIP summer program “provide(s) financial

see KILLING TIME, page 8 see BIAP, page 4

Student concentrators in most academic departments find they dig the DUG

BY CASSIE RAMIREZ

Concentrators in several academic departments can look to Departmental Undergraduate Groups for support and fun during their time at Brown, organizers say.

DUGs, which are run by students with the help of faculty advisors, are intended to give interested students an outlet to talk, relate or just hang out.

Ethan Horowitz ’04 is a DUG coordinator for the urban studies concentration. He and Co-coordinator Jessica Jones ’03 arrange dinners once a month for concentrators or potential concentrators. Speakers, such as professors in the area of study, are sometimes featured at the dinners.

At the November dinner, Horowitz said there were 50 people in attendance, including four professors.

“It’s really important to foster an informal intellectual

community around us,” Horowitz said.

Joshua Nugent ’03 is an urban studies concentrator who has attended some of the DUG events. “It really gives you the chance to see the larger relevance of your concentration when they bring in people who are doing post-graduate studies and people who are working outside the community,” he said.

A DUG coordinator who arranges activities for chemistry concentrators, Cara Zeldis ’04 said the chemistry DUG meets the first Tuesday of every month. Its last meeting was right after Halloween, so members put liquid nitrogen in jack o’ lanterns. They also cracked vegetables that had been treated with liquid nitrogen.

But not all students have the opportunity to be a part of a DUG. Some departments, including history, have no undergraduate group.

Nathan Morris ’03 is a history concentrator who doesn’t feel the lack of a DUG affects him. “The advisors are good, and they’re all available if you need help,” he said.

“We had one a few years back,” said Department Chair James McClain. “The department provided funding for activities and a publication at the end of the year. It was fairly successful.”

When student interest waned, the history department’s DUG was discontinued, he said.

“If students came and wanted to start it again, we’d be happy to help,” McClain said. “But it’s hard to push. It has to be at the initiation of the student.”

Herald staff writer Cassie Ramirez ’06 can be reached at cramirez@browndailyherald.com.

I N S I D E M O N D AY, N O V E M B E R 1 8 , 2 0 0 2 Some student leaders still mystified by University’s new ‘Brown First’ program page 3

Wendy Pearlman ’96 says that to save lives, Israel should withdraw to its 1967 borders guest column,page 9

Ateesh Chanda ’04 says Howard Zinn’s critique of George Bush was cheap, glib guest column, page 11

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T With a 3-0 loss on the road at Dartmouth, men’s soccer wraps up an up-and-down year sports, page 12

Brown football claims its first win of the season in Hanover, defeating Dartmouth 21-18 sports, page 12

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SEMINAR — “Online Discussions and Bulletin Boards,” Roger Blumberg.

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LECTURE — “From the Industrial Trainer to the Progressive Educator: Five Types of Mathematical Education,” Philip Davis, Brown. Room 219, CIT, 4 p.m.

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LECTURE — Harvey Pitt, former Securities and Exchange Commissioner.

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LECTURE — “Conspiratorial Imagination,” Remo Ceserani, University of Bologna. Brian Room, Maddock Alumni Center, 5:30 p.m.

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CONCERT — “Wispy Moods of the Loudspeaker,” electronic music and video art featuring James Bohn, Brown graduate students and visiting professor Christopher Penrose. Grant Recital Hall, 8 p.m.

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CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 3

Questions still surround ‘Brown First’ implementation Though the University has sponsored a number of explanatory forums, some student leaders say they are still wary of the program, which aims to save the U. over $2 million

BY MOMOKO HIROSE

Despite recent forums to clarify the University’s new cost-cutting Brown First program, student leaders continue to express frustration with the new initiative.

Brown First requires student organizations use University Food Services and Graphic Services before turning to outside vendors for food and photocopies.

Metcalf Copy Center currently works with Kinkos to provide 24-hour, sevendays-a-week service to student organizations.

“Now that UFS is always going to get money from student groups, they have absolutely no reason to try to improve their quality or try to provide better service, or even give us delivery if we want it,” said Sasha Rosenthal ‘04, secretarygeneral of the Model United Nations Club.

The biggest problem with Brown First is that the University is giving a monop-

oly to an institution that has had problems with quality before, she said.

The policy is more detrimental to student organizations than the University realizes, because groups are not allowed to spend money in the most efficient way possible, Rosenthal said. The food the Model UN club had to order for its recent high school student conference was inferior and more expensive than what is available on Thayer Street, she said.

“If UFB is going to give student groups so little money, it’s just an awful policy,” Rosenthal said.

“It seems like a good idea overall,” said Sean Thomas ’03, a member of the Fusion Dance Company. “I just hope they use the money they receive well.”

In past years after late-night practices, the Fusion Dance Company ordered take-out food from Thayer Street for dinner. This year, with the development of the Brown First policy, the troupe must turn to UFS for food instead, said Thomas, who called the policy an inconvenience.

Shanna Bowie ’05, a member of Students of Caribbean Ancestry, said a problem with Brown First is that it does not offer enough variety.

“UFS does not offer Caribbean food, and when they do, they make it wrong,” Bowie said.

She said that purchase orders and invoices are harder to deal with, espe-

“What we’re trying to do is to save money so that we can redirect it, but not to make people’s lives miserable. If negotiations or adjustments or exceptions need to be made, we all have to figure out how to make this work.”

Ellen O’Connor Vice President for Finance cially with outside vendors, since groups must petition to go to outside vendors for food, Bowie said.

“UFS needs to make their prices comparable to outside vendors,” she said.

“They need to either lower prices or make services comparable to the deals we can get around town.”

Ellen O’Connor, vice president for finance, said the redirection of money

back to the University from Brown First was to provide additional funding for faculty salaries, need-blind admission and improved health benefits. Assistant Provost Brian Casey told The Herald last week that the University was committed to implementing a need-blind admission policy regardless of profits gained from University revenue-increasing programs.

O’Connor said student organizations can turn to outside vendors for food after initially consulting UFS. “The plan had always been to phase in the implementation — that is, to not try to bite off more than we could chew,” O’Connor said.

“It’s to have a reasonable plan, and not trying to create a situation where we believed that we were going to be able to do 100 percent of everything on campus, day one,” she added.

O’Connor said that the policy was not meant to trouble student groups or cause complications.

“What we’re trying to do is to save money so that we can redirect it, but not to make people’s lives miserable,” O’Connor said. “If negotiations or adjustments or exceptions need to be made, we all have to figure out how to make this work.”

Herald staff writer Momoko Hirose ’06 can be reached at mhirose@browndailyherald.com.

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BIAP continued from page 1 assistance to students pursuing career-related internships … and furthers the goal of continually enhancing the Brown educational experience through student initiatives and experimental learning outside, but not unrelated to, the classroom,” according to the Career Services Web site.

The AIP lets students wave summer earning requirements for financial aid packages.

Although students who receive support from AIP aren’t paid for their summer work, federal financial aid does not require they have paying internships.

The BIAP and AIP both have 25 recipients each year, with the average award being $2,300.

Students may apply for and receive both awards. Some awards, such as the Timory Hyde Class of 1997 Memorial Award in the creative arts, are specific to certain concentrations.

The awards are not open to graduating seniors, and preference is given to rising juniors and seniors and those who have not

previously received an award.

Students may not receive other fellowships if they receive this award.

Internship Coordinator Karen Clancy said Career Services receives about 100 applications a year for each award, meaning that students have only a 25 percent chance of getting one.

The applications go through seven different committees composed of deans, professors and staff, Clancy said.

The committees “want to be sure that opportunities students are going after closely match their course work and long-term career goals,” Clancy said.

The skills the committee hopes students will gain can range from acquiring methodology skills, understanding different cultures, acquiring work skills (communication, time management) as well as exploring career options, according to the Career Services Web site.

Michael Lucas ’03 interned part time at Atlantic Monthly in Boston last summer. Commuting from Providence, Lucas, a Comparative Literature concentrator, spent the summer reading fiction and passing it on to editors, something he would like to

spend his life doing, he said.

He learned networking skills and how to wake up every day and go to work, carefully read fiction and fact check, he said.

Lucas said most good internships are unpaid, and that this is a “fundamentally classist” system that excludes those “who don’t have the means to get an unpaid internship.”

Although he managed to keep a small amount of the money he was awarded, he said his BIAP and AIP funds mostly went toward transportation to Boston and other living expenses.

“It seems ridiculous to have to live in New York City for the summer and not get paid,” he said.

Nisa Mason ’02.5, an Urban Studies concentrator, saw a table slip for BIAP and applied right away, she said. She interned in Austin, Texas, at The Center for Women and Their Work, a non-profit for women artists. She spent the summer taking down and putting up a gallery, organizing education programs, fundraising and doing administrative work, she said.

Branching out from her course of study, Mason said she was “trying to have an internship which

combined visual art and education.”

Although she does not anticipate an immediate change in her career plans, she said she gained insight for the future.

The BIAP award helped her work full time instead of just one day a week, and that gave her “insight into the reality of the concrete day-to-day workings of the profession,” Mason said.

After an internship, students must follow up when back at Brown by writing an essay, writing thank you letters to the donors and contacting their summer supervisor. Before starting an internship, students must have a personal meeting with the Career Services staff to discuss internship expectations and goals.

Donors for the program include Goldman Sachs, which sponsors the Andrea Rosenthal Memorial Award.

The Jack Ringer ‘52 Summer Internship Endowed Award in Southeast Asia and other international BIAP awards are now available through the Watson Institute for International Studies.

The deadline for applications is March 19, and award recipients will be announced in April.

Benefits continued from page 1 Though the IRS did not penalize the University for what it said was a discriminatory benefits policy, faculty within the top 10 percent of University salaries had their tuition assistance “substantially reduced” by additional taxes, Crossgrove said.

Professor of Computer Science John Savage said only those professors with salaries exceeding $63,000 had their tuition assistance benefits reduced.

Not only does Simmons’ decision increase the child tuition benefit for staff, it also “effectively increases the benefit for faculty” by eliminating the penalizing taxes, Crossgrove said.

“Simmons has been working to get rid of that kind of (discriminatory) benefit,” Crossgrove said.

Under the spousal tuition benefit, “spouses of faculty members could get tuition remitted for graduate courses they took as long as they counted towards a graduate degree,” Crossgrove said.

Because those benefits did not extend to staff, the same “tainted” benefit problem applied to the spousal tuition assistance program, Nickel said.

The IRS does not tax spousal benefits for graduate level courses up to $5,250.

The Corporation voted to abolish the spousal benefit for faculty members in October, Crossgrove said.

Simmons’ announcement that the University would phase out the spousal tuition benefit caught many faculty off guard. “Somehow word didn’t get passed onto the faculty” before the meeting, Crossgrove said.

“It was a case where the information wasn’t spread effectively.”

Crossgrove said he understood the concerns of those faculty members whose spouses had planned to take advantage of the program in the future. “No one ever likes to lose a benefit,” he said.

Simmons decided the program would be discontinued except for those already participating, Nickel said.

“There aren’t too many spouses who are using it anymore,” Savage said.

Ultimately, the decision to cut one program while extending another came down to monetary concerns, Crossgrove said. The University could not afford to extend both programs to staff.

“The child tuition benefit is a lot more important to most people,” Crossgrove said. More people have children who take advantage of the benefit, while “only a small number of people actually use” the spousal tuition benefit, he said.

“A long time ago (the spousal tuition benefit) was considered an important benefit,” said Savage, whose wife participated in the program for a time. He estimated the University offered the benefit for at least 35 years.

At the height of the program’s popularity, more faculty spouses were unemployed and thus had more time to pursue graduate studies, Savage said.

Savage said it was “hard to tell” whether the University did the right thing in eliminating the spousal tuition benefit.

“The goal of the new president has been to move resources to the academic side,” he said. “One could argue that since this is a benefit that has marginal significance to a majority of the faculty, it should be cancelled.”

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

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WORLD AND NATION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF Many Chinese citizens ask ‘who’s Hu?’ BEIJING (L.A. Times) — Talk to ordinary Chinese about Hu Jintao, the man who was just named the new leader of their country, and the biggest impression you get of him is that he seems to have made none.

“Generally speaking, I have no impression of Hu Jintao,” confessed Liu Shuguang, an economics professor here in the capital.“He’s so quiet and behind-the-scenes that I don’t know what he thinks or what he wants to do.”

As he takes over as general secretary of the Communist Party — the No. 1 job in China — the 59-year-old Hu seems to have excelled in fading into the background in a land more accustomed to personality cults and incessant public adulation of its top leaders.

Indeed, his very modesty might have been what helped propel him to the apex of Chinese politics, by making him a less likely target of jealousy and enmity among his rivals.

As a result, not only are world leaders puzzling over what to make of the new head of the world’s most populous nation, but so are most of his fellow citizens.

Little is known about the bespectacled, unassuming Hu beyond what appears in the official biography. Before his meteoric rise — the Chinese call it “helicoptering” — to the top, he served in some of China’s poorest inland provinces.

He was in charge in Tibet when the Beijing regime declared martial law there in 1989. And he is reputed to have a nearphotographic memory and a fondness for dancing.

But his personal political views, beyond the scripted tributes he has paid to the policies of his predecessor, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, remain a mystery.

Abdullah Gul poised to be next Turkish prime Minister ISTANBUL, Turkey (Washington Post) — Turkey’s new prime

minister will be Abdullah Gul, deputy chairman of a ruling party whose leader is barred from holding office because of a 1998 conviction for mixing politics and religion.

Gul was nominated by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, chairman of the Justice and Development Party, which swept to a parliamentary majority in the Nov. 3 election. Despite being barred from office, Erdogan is regarded as the country’s most powerful political figure, and in the same hour that President Ahmet Necdet Sezer formally appointed Gul, Erdogan was announcing the new government’s legislative agenda. This week, Erdogan is scheduled to resume a tour of European capitals that began Wednesday in Rome, where he was received as a head of government.

“There seems to be a parallel prime minister,” said Yalim Eralp, a former Turkish diplomat and policy adviser.“That seems to be unavoidable in the coming weeks and months.”

With almost two-thirds of the seats in Turkey’s Grand National Assembly, the Justice and Development Party — known in Turkey as AKP — has vowed to amend the laws that keep Erdogan from becoming prime minister, the office commensurate with his power.

Taxation without habitation may prompt commuter revolt in NY NEW YORK (L.A. Times) — “Who likes taxes?” asked the man

behind the Pretzel Bakery stand at Grand Central Station as the commuters rushed by, headed for trains home to the suburbs.“But I live here in New York. So do you want the altruistic answer or the selfish answer?”

Then the peddler laughed, making clear that he supported the “commuter tax” proposed last week by New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who wants to take a bite out of the wages of those who work in the city but live outside it.

“Just don’t tell these people,” whispered the pretzel man as he took his own small piece of the suburbanites’ income before they fled Friday evening, many fuming over the tax proposal that quickly divided city dwellers and out-of-towners, prompting rhetoric that at times seemed worthy of a professional wrestling arena.

“Highway Robbery” headlined The New York Post, doing its part to raise the blood pressure of the commuters.

From the other side came a Newsday commentator, asking,“Remind me again: Why shouldn’t the freeloading suburbanites pay? They roar into our city five mornings a week, clogging our sidewalks with their rotund posteriors, grinding our traffic to a halt, filling our trash cans with their fastfood containers, hogging the seats on our buses and trains.

Bush heads to NATO summit with Iraq and more on his agenda WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — President Bush heads to a

NATO summit in Prague Tuesday with the burden of European disagreement over Iraq at least temporarily lifted and the freedom to focus on U.S. priorities for expanding and refashioning the aging alliance.

“Of course Iraq is going to come up,” said a senior administration official. “It’s topic Number One and were not going to run from it.” But tentative plans for Bush to deliver a speech on the need to get tough with Saddam Hussein were scrapped following the recent unanimous United Nations vote for new weapons inspections.

“We would be happy with a strong statement of (NATO) political support” for strict enforcement of the new U.N. resolution, the official said. “If we were still wrangling in New York, it would be a lot harder.”

The resolution calls for uncompromising new inspections and destruction of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction programs, and pledges to consider “serious consequences,” including military action, if Baghdad does not cooperate.

Bush’s major address during the five-day trip, delivered to a student forum Wednesday, will focus on “his vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace,” White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said Friday.

“I expect that we will hear from NATO partners what they are prepared to do and what they can do” in the event of military action against Iraq, Rice said. “But that’s not the purpose of this summit.”

The two-day Prague meeting will “celebrate an historic moment for NATO, which is the expansion of NATO into territories that I think nobody ever thought NATO would expand into,” she said. Seven countries are expected to be approved for membership at the summit, two of which — Lithuania and Romania — Bush will visit before returning to Washington next weekend.

Other nations expecting to receive invitations are Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia and Bulgaria. The expansion will be NATO’s second, following admission in 1999 of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic; formal induction requires individual ratification in each of the current 19 member states and will take about two years.

In addition to approving the expansion, the administration is looking for NATO leaders to endorse establishment of a joint 20,000-troop rapid deployment force for combat operations around the world proposed earlier this year by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and agreement on new tasks and a command structure to make the alliance better able to respond to the global terrorist threat.

But while it will not have a formal, centralized role in the proceedings, Iraq will be hovering over the NATO deliberations. “Iraq is typical of the most important example of the kind of threat that NATO will face in the future,” Rice said.

“So it would be odd if this were not an issue at the summit.”

Bush will meet with French President Jacques Chirac, who led U.N. Security Council opposition to an initial U.S.proposed Iraq resolution that was modified to remove what France and others considered automatic triggers the United States might use to launch an invasion without specific council authorization.

He will also meet with Turkish President Ahmet Necet Sezer. Turkish assistance is considered vital to any U.S. military action in Iraq, and Bush wants to reach out to Turkey’s newly-elected Islamic-based government.

Bush will not meet separately with German President Gerhard Schroeder, who has been the NATO leader most adamantly opposed to a military attack. Schroeder’s pledge that Germany would not participate in any assault on Iraq, with or without U.N. backing, put relations with Washington in a deep freeze from which they have only partially thawed.

Sharon calls for expanding settlements JERUSALEM (Washington Post) — Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday called for expanding the size of Jewish settlements in and around Hebron — one of the most volatile and divided cities in the West Bank — as a way to boost security by linking together Jewish communities and neighborhoods.

The proposal, which Sharon mentioned during meetings in Hebron with Israeli military commanders, followed an attack in the city Friday night in which Palestinian militants killed 12 Israeli military, border patrol and settlement security officers.

The Israeli government initially said the attack was a massacre of worshipers walking home to Kiryat Arba, a Jewish settlement about a half mile east of Hebron, after they had marked the start of the Sabbath at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a shrine in Hebron’s old city revered by Muslims and Jews. That account has been discredited by Israeli military commanders at the scene and settlement leaders.

Sunday, Sharon proposed linking Kiryat Arba with the shrine by expanding settlements in between and effectively creating a long corridor that would be occupied and controlled by Israel, Israeli radio reported. The idea runs counter to demands by the Bush administration that Israel freeze settlement activity and begin to dismantle illegal settlements — known as “outposts” — that have proliferated in recent years.

Polls show that the vast majority of Israelis do not support settlement expansion and want most settlements dismantled, saying they are a key barrier to peace with the Palestinians and a lightning rod for violence against Israeli civilians.

Dror Etkes, who monitors settlement expansion for Peace Now, an Israeli group that opposes settlements, called Sharon’s proposal “outrageous,” pointing out that thousands of Palestinians live in the area Sharon wants to expropriate.

Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian cabinet minister for local government, said that “if they carry out this settlement expansion or linkage, it’s just adding fuel to the fire that will lead to a major explosion (of violence) in that area. It’s crazy.”

The settlement expansion proposal was not fully explained. According to Israeli radio, Sharon said the aim of the plan was to ensure territorial continuity between Kiryat Arba and the Jewish section of Hebron, where the Tomb of the Patriarchs is located. The city is home to about 130,000 Palestinians and 450 Israelis who live in settlement enclaves that are heavily guarded by Israeli soldiers.

Sharon said there would be no change in prayer arrangements at the tomb, which, according to religious teachings, is the site where Abraham and his family were buried and has separate areas where Jews and Muslims pray.

Israeli Housing and Construction Minister Natan Sharansky told Army radio that Israel might consider additions to Jewish settlements to connect Kiryat Arba and Jewish areas in the old city. “We have to build settlement contiguity between Kiryat Arba, the Cave (Tomb) of the Patriarchs, and the settlement community in Hebron,” he said.

Sunday, Jewish settlers moved three shipping containers into a lot near the scene of Friday’s killings — a few dozen yards from Kiryat Arba — and declared it a new outpost, the Associated Press reported. Tents and water tanks reportedly were also moved to areas along the route between Kiryat Arba and the tomb. Israeli troops that entered Hebron on Saturday remained in place, and the city was under a curfew.

Meanwhile, Israel’s foreign minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, continued to say that Jewish worshipers were the target of Friday’s attack, despite statements from Israeli settlers and soldiers that no worshipers were killed or injured, and that all the people who had gone to the tomb to pray had returned to Kiryat Arba by the time the attack occurred.

“I think that you can imagine what would happen in your own country if worshipers would be killed or wounded, either in churches or mosques or synagogues,” Netanyahu told a gathering of foreign diplomats in Jerusalem.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Jonathan Peled said Sunday night that government officials were wrong to have initially called the attack a massacre, but that it was “according to the data we had at the moment, and we admit the data was not full. Having said that, it shouldn’t diminish the fact that human lives were taken in direct and clear attempt to carry out a terrorist attack.”

Peled said Netanyahu apparently “was not aware of the distinction being made” between worshipers and civilian security officers from the settlement.

The Israeli media made virtually no mention of worshipers allegedly being attacked but criticized the military’s handling of the affair, saying high number of Israeli deaths seemed to result from bad procedures and poor coordination by commanders on the scene.

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New drugs coming into medical market at slowest rate in a decade (Washington Post) — New drugs to treat and cure sick patients are coming onto the market in the United States at the slowest rate in a decade, despite billions invested by pharmaceutical companies on research and a costly expansion by the federal agency that reviews new medicines.

The decline in the number of new drugs is most pronounced in the category considered by the Food and Drug Administration to have the greatest promise for patients — those listed as breakthrough “priority” drugs and “new molecular entities” that are different from any others on the market.

The slowdown is troubling to many because it is largely unexpected. The drug industry now invests three times as much money in research as it did a decade ago, and the FDA has undergone a major revamping to become more efficient and prompt — an expansion funded largely by user fees from the drug makers. Yet the number of industry applications for innovative new drugs is down significantly, and the average time needed by the FDA to review applications is moving up.

The net result of both trends is a steep drop in the number of new drugs coming to the market to help cure and treat illnesses, and growing disappointment among many patients and their families and advocates.

“We hear talk all the time from the drug makers of the great drugs waiting in line, but the reality doesn’t seem to match the facts,” said Ellen Stovall, director of the Cancer Leadership Council, a patient advocacy group. “There’s been a lot of hope about new drug cures and treatments and we’ve seen some progress, but lots more disappointment.”

Some believe the drop is a relatively short-term development that will resolve on its own, while others believe there is a deeper and more fundamental problem.

Bush must balance disparate GOP voices WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Less than two weeks after the

remarkable GOP victory in the congressional elections, President Bush and the hard-core conservatives who make up an important part of his support are butting heads.

During the lame-duck session of Congress that opened last week, Bush focused on two issues that appeal to Republican centrists: national security and the economy.

But these do not energize the party’s rock-ribbed conservatives. Abortion and school prayer are the social right’s kinds of issues. Then there is the dwindling number of moderate Republicans whose votes will be crucial and can’t be taken for granted.

The lame-duck session suggests that the tensions among the various components of the Republican coalition will pose risks for the president even after the new Congress, with both the House and the Senate narrowly in Republican control, takes office next year.

Bush “is going to have to work with conservative Republicans,” said K.B. Forbes, a Republican strategist and former aide to presidential candidates Patrick Buchanan and Steve Forbes. “They’re pivotal.

Conservatives are on cloud nine.”

But at the same time, Forbes said, Bush has to “build the broad message” that will attract centrists and independents.

Some issues allow the president to appeal to many parts of the Republican spectrum at once. His proposal last week to subject as many as 850,000 government jobs below policy-making levels to competition from private contractors appealed to a broad range of Republicans for its claim of more efficient delivery of government services and its potential to undercut federal employee unions.

But as often as not, Bush must choose among the various wings of his party. The terrorism insurance bill last week provided one such occasion.

For economic reasons, Bush supports providing backup government insurance for damage caused by terrorism. He argues that it will jump-start construction projects delayed by a lack of insurance.

Some conservatives, however, worry that the legislation could inspire a host of frivolous lawsuits and thus enrich one the nation’s trial lawyers, a group high on the conservatives’ enemies list.

Some conservatives in the House, led by Majority Whip

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letters YOU ONLY HAVE 11 MORE CHANCES.

Tom DeLay, R-Texas, threatened to block the bill. Bush intervened and twisted arms, and the House passed the bill Thursday.

The lesson, observers say, is that the president can roll over the conservatives when he wants to.

Bush can “to a certain extent ignore the right,” said a senior GOP Senate aide, who spoke on condition on anonymity. “He’s the king of the Republican Party. Unlike his father, he has hardly any vulnerability to his right, which gives him maximum flexibility to move to the center.”

But the same day provided a countervailing example: the bankruptcy reform bill, which died early Thursday.

Bush and business Republicans favored the bill, designed to limit the growing number of personal bankruptcies.

But at about 2 in the morning on Friday, social conservatives ambushed the bill over an abortion provision.

They amended it to allow abortion protesters to declare bankruptcy as a means of avoiding fines levied against them for blocking access to abortion clinics during antiabortion protests.

That left the bill in a form that the Senate, still in Democratic hands during the lame-duck session, would not pass. So the measure, which has accounted for considerable time and effort from the present Congress, will die when the lame-duck session concludes this week.

The lesson from the bankruptcy bill is that the president ignores the conservatives at his peril.

“What they did was send a message that, ‘We want to help you with your agenda, but don’t run over us roughshod,”’ said David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union.

“It’s a shot across the bow of the White House,” agreed Ross K. Baker, a political scientist and expert on Congress.

“They really have to be careful that conservatives in the House aren’t so emboldened by the results of the election that they seriously over-reach.”

Bush bristles at the suggestion that he has a balancing act on his hands. “I don’t take cues from anybody,” he said in a news conference last week. “I just do what I think is right. That’s just the way I lead.”

But as Bush and his team look ahead to his 2004 reelection race, they are all too aware that divisions with social conservatives helped sink his father’s re-election bid in 1992.

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Youthful scholar is the center of an academic bidding war (L.A. Times) — Universities, like ball clubs

and Hollywood studios, always have competed for the big names. Leah Price doesn’t have one, yet.

But Price, a 32-year-old scholar of Victorian literature, is at the heart of a cross-country tug-of-war between two of America’s most prominent universities, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard.

Price, whose scholarship includes examinations of love and sex in Victorian fiction and a look at the role played by — gasp — abridgements in the rise of the novel, won’t say which way she’s leaning in the (mostly) gentlemanly battle for her services.

Yet at a time when faculty recruiting wars are more often fought over cutting-edge scientists or prominent minority professors, the eager pursuit of Price provides a window into the intensifying competition in academia for other sorts of top scholars, including women and young humanities stars.

It also reflects a new push at Harvard, led by president Lawrence H. Summers, to hang onto more of the university’s most gifted junior faculty by offering them tenured positions earlier than tradition has allowed, officials there said.

And, it spotlights the growing reputation of the UCLA English department for savvy, aggressive faculty recruiting, trying to sell itself as the cutting edge alternative to the Ivy League.

Price, whose research and teaching interests range from the history of the novel to detective fiction and even journalism, has taught for just two years at Harvard, where she earned her undergraduate literature degree, summa cum laude. She received her doctorate from Yale in 1998, then spent three years doing research at Cambridge University.

Yet this fall, in a move precipitated in

part by UCLA’s interest in her, the Harvard English department offered to make her a full tenured professor, years ahead of the typical schedule. If she accepts, Price will become the first woman to rise to tenure through the university’s English department without a stop at another university.

“We have been so tremendously impressed with her intellectual firepower and her work in teaching that we took the leap with full consciousness of how unusual it was,” said Harvard English department chair Lawrence Buell.

UCLA has yet to extend its own formal tenure offer but says it is in conversation with Price. She has interviewed with department leaders and visited the campus here as part of the university’s hiring effort.

She is spending the year on a fellowship and book leave at Stanford University’s humanities center.

“We’re not in any hurry,” said Thomas Wortham, chairman of UCLA’s English department. “Leah has to decide what’s going to make her happy. She’s a very fortunate young woman.”

And if UCLA loses, Wortham said he would have this satisfaction: “If our having identified a very exciting young scholar finally made Harvard come up into the mid-20th century in its hiring practices, we’re delighted.”

Contacted by e-mail, Price declined to comment, saying she does not wish to “complicate negotiations that are still ongoing.” She said she would decide soon.

Neither side will talk about salary specifics and other possible inducements, such as offices, research assistants or grants. At UC, tenured or tenure-track professors earn an average of $93,000. Harvard, a private institution, doesn’t divulge its salary numbers.

Wortham said the UCLA department identified the young professor through a

search for an expert in 19th-century British literature and was immediately struck by the quality of her scholarship.

“She’s doing very innovative work in a well-established field and she’s demonstrating that at a very early stage in her career,” said Wortham, who also edits a leading scholarly journal in 19th-century literature.

Across the country, Buell said the Harvard English department was encouraged to act by Summers’ push for the university to make more tenure offers to younger scholars. Summers, an economist and the former Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration, won tenure himself from Harvard when he was 28.

But the main impetus, Buell said, was Price’s innovative, even quirky scholarship.

A specialist in 18th- and 19th-century British fiction who lists herself as at least competent in Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian and Latin, Price has published widely. Her first book, “The Anthology and Rise of the Novel” (Cambridge University Press, 2000), examined literary anthologies and other shortened forms that other scholars ignored.

Reviewers praised Price’s insights, among other things into the less-than-thorough way that everyone, at least occasionally, reads. Skimming, Price notes in the book, is much like abridging, while skipping is like anthologizing. This observation, one reviewer noted, is “delightfully scandalous,” especially in an academic context.

“Very few people, and even fewer academics, ever publicly admit to being bored by long novels, to skimming them, or to skipping to passages which seem more interesting,” reviewer Claudia Johnson wrote in the London Review of Books.

In her short career at Harvard, Price has taught courses on Victorian literature and technology, the 18th-century novel and an

honors seminar, “Sexing Victorian Fiction,” which examined the central role of love and sex in novels of the period, as well as the role the novel itself has played in forming society’s thinking about gender.

With readings from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and others, the course covered issues including “sex and money, reading and shopping, work and marriage, unsexed women and unmanned men, feminism and anti-feminism,” according to the course description.

According to the schools trying to woo her, Price is unusual partly for her young age. Humanities professors typically don’t reach their creative peaks until their late 40s or early 50s, several said, unlike scientists and mathematicians, who often do so 10 to 20 years earlier.

The reasons for the difference are complex, several said, but involve the fact that humanities are interpretative disciplines inwhich scholars examine works of literature through the prism of their own experience, returning to a book again and again, with new insights each time.

“That whole process is less linear than the quantitative fields, and filled with gaps and haphazardness,” Harvard’s Buell said.

“To have such a mature critical thinker come on the scene so early and make a splash is just so unusual in the humanities.

You don’t want to lose such a person if you can possibly avoid it.”

Price has been helped by the fact that Harvard, UCLA and many other premier universities are searching for top scholars who are also women.

Although female students are a 56 percent majority at U.S. colleges, a gender imbalance persists in the American faculty, especially in its upper reaches, according to John Curtis, research director at the American Association of University Professors.

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Wrestling continued from page 12 Ivy First Team as a sophomore.

Ciarcia is the third member of the squad who was a 2002 NCAA qualifier, accumulating a 26-14 record.

He placed third at the EIWA’s at 197 and was named Second Team Academic All-American.

Had a record of 9-12 in his rookie campaign, including four falls and a victory at the Lone Star Duals.

Brown returns several other talented grapplers including two seniors, five juniors and seven sophomores. The Bears also welcome 12 newcomers to the squad to fill the void of the graduating

class of 2002.

“If we stay healthy and continue to improve, the team will set its goals very high,” said Amato.

“We look to be in the top three again in the Ivy League and in the top five in the EIWA. We would also like to increase our number of NCAA qualifiers and All Americans.”

Mike Burch enters his second year as Amato’s assistant. He served as an assistant at Brown from 1992-1995 and will bring enthusiasm and many other qualities to the wrestling program with his tireless dedication to the sport. New assistant coach Ken Bigley brings experience to the team. Bigley currently competes for the New York Athletic Club.

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Ching ’06 had two interceptions to preserve the win.

The win cannot erase a disappointing season, but finally the Bears get a taste of victory after a string of bitter defeats.

Afterwards, a team that had hopes of competing for the league title took a collective sigh of relief as the victory saved Brown from a potential winless season.

Brown concludes its season at home on Saturday against Columbia.

final nine contests.

However, the Bears still remained in the Ivy League hunt for much of the season as they recorded ties against both Columbia and Princeton, before taking down Cornell to run their league record to 1-1-2.

Yet it was two overtime losses to ranked opponents — Boston College and the University of Pennsylvania — that broke the Bears’ backs. Against the Eagles, the Bears scored a last-minute goal to send the game into overtime before losing, and the Ivy League champion Quakers needed two overtimes at home to take Bruno out of title contention.

On a more positive note, after some early-season struggles, the defense stepped up its performance before giving up three goals last weekend. Over the previous four games, the Bears, led by CoCaptain Dustin Branan ’03 and Jeff Larentowicz ’05 in the center,

Staff writer Jermaine Matheson ’03 covers the football team. He can be reached at jmatheson@browndailyherald.com.

Killing Time continued from page 1 then-unaired show.

“Killing Time” had problems getting to air. Producers worked since early in the semester, but the premiere on BTV was delayed for two weeks, Cohen said. The episode finally aired in a Monday time slot on Nov. 11, then re-aired in what will be its normal 10 p.m.

Wednesday slot. It is also available for download on the BTV Web site.

“Killing Time” has a lot of potential, and there are certainly worse ways to spend a half-hour. Its writing is strong but, like the teens on “Dawson’s Creek,” the cast

only yielded four goals.

Also showing promise was a freshman class that included the team’s second-leading scorer who started all but one of the team’s games, Ibrahim Diane ’06, as well as Keith Caldwell ’06 and Bobby Dobbie ’06, who started eight and seven games respectively. Diane, a shifty forward that showed flashes of dazzling play this season, scored four goals on the year.

Next year, the Bears will return all but five of their players, including many key starters as they look to return to the top of the Ivy League standings.

They will aim to take down this years’ Ivy Champs, Penn and Dartmouth, who will find out their placements in this years’ NCAA tournament when the 48team field is announced today at 4:30 p.m. The always competitive Ivy League will likely get three bids to the tournament.

Nicholas Gourevitch ’03 is an assistant sports editor and covers men’s soccer. He can be reached at ngourevitch@browndailyherald.com.

“Killing Time” has a lot of potential, and there are certainly worse ways to spend a half-hour. occasionally struggles with its verbosity. Cohen describes funnier future bits, like “Al Pacino’s Lullaby,” where the famously intense actor struggles to sing a baby to sleep without shouting or scaring the infant.

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

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OPINIONS EXTRA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 9

Israel has never offered to withdraw to 1967 borders Israel’s peace negotiations with Palestinians reveal a continued effort to get the land without the people Oslo allowed Israel to disengage from AS A MEMBER OF THE HARVARD/MIT Divestment Campaign, I would like to the Palestinian population by pulling back point out the inaccuracy of Michael N. from the 18 percent of the West Bank and Radar’s recent letter (“The Herald neglects 60 percent of Gaza in which it was concenColumbia divestment counter-petition,” trated. Yet at the same time, it gave Israel a 11/15). Contrary to Radar’s claims, Israel green light to continue to seize Palestinian land to build settlements, has never offered to withdraw utterly illegal according to to its 1967 borders. On the international law. contrary, its policies throughWENDY PEARLMAN During the negotiations out 35 years of occupation of GUEST COLUMN from 1993 to 2000 alone, 740 the Palestinian territories Palestinian homes were reveal a continued effort to get demolished, the settler poputhe land without the people.

There was a time when the majority of lation doubled and 250 miles of new setPalestinians hoped that the peace process tler bypass roads were paved in the West would lead to the creation of an independ- Bank and Gaza. Moreover, Israel’s “general ent Palestinian state comprising all of the closure” of the Palestinian territories — West Bank and Gaza Strip. They accepted which was imposed before Arafat and their historic losses in order to live side by Rabin’s “historic handshake” and has side with Israel on the basis of freedom and never been lifted — rendered Palestinians equality. Israel’s actions during the peace less free to move after Oslo than before.

The peace process did not demonstrate process, however, gave Palestinians every reason to believe that what Israel “offers” Israel’s willingness to give up the West with one hand it takes away with the other. Bank and Gaza. Neither did Barak’s “generous offer” at Camp David. What Barak proposed was to divide Palestinian land into Wendy Pearlman’s ’96 book of interviews with Palestinians,“Occupied Voices,” will be four separate cantons, each surrounded by Israeli controlled territory. Under this published by Nation Books this spring.

scheme, Palestinian citizens and goods would require Israeli permission in order to move from one part of their own country to another. Israel would retain control over water, borders and airspace, as well as a “security zone” along the Jordan River valley. Barak proposed Palestinian “administrative authority” over neighborhoods in East Jerusalem but no genuine “sovereignty” over any part of the city. And he declared that Israel would acknowledge no role in the displacement and dispossession of the 750,000 Palestinians who became refugees in 1948.

During the past two years, over 2,000 Palestinians and 650 Israelis have been killed, while some 41,000 Palestinians and 4,700 Israelis have been injured. Both Israelis and Palestinians have suffered, and both deserve to live with security and freedom. Yet there is no comparison between the resources that the two parties bring to the table. Israel is the occupier and the Palestinians are the occupied.

Furthermore, Israel, with a state and the region’s most powerful army, has the strength to take risks for peace and break the cycle of violence.

We who support divestment at universities across the country do so as a way of demanding change. The U.S. government’s vast political, military and economic backing for Israel makes American citizens complicit in Israel’s denial of Palestinians’ rights to live with dignity on their own land. The White House calls Sharon a man of peace and the U.S. Congress expresses its solidarity with the Israeli government, regardless of its brutal use of force against a captive civilian population. Israel is the largest single recipient of U.S. foreign aid, getting $3 billion each year, the equivalent of 30 percent of the foreign aid budget.

In calling for divestment, we are asking our universities to take the principled stand that our political leaders lack the courage to take. We are not singling out Israel for criticism. We are reacting to the fact that so many in this country single out Israeli support.

We encourage students and faculty at Brown to join us in saying that enough is enough. The more Israel makes the Palestinians suffer, the more it will be made to suffer in turn. The sooner that Israel withdraws to its 1967 borders, the more lives that can be saved.

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Can you DUG it?

At a recent symposium on undergraduate curricular models held at Harvard University, Dean of the College Paul Armstrong praised Brown’s New Curriculum as being both “student driven” and “faculty intensive.” Individual academic departments provide leadership opportunities for students and settings for faculty and students to engage in intimate discussions on academic matters through Departmental Undergraduate Groups. Through monthly dinners, speakers and other special events, DUGs, which are run by students with the help of faculty advisors, give interested students an outlet to discuss matters related to their area of concentration.

DUGs facilitate the “student driven” aspect of Brown’s undergraduate experience through these monthly meetings in which concentrators in different departments meet to discuss career and research opportunities, current debates about their academic areas of interest and other topics.

At the same time, DUGs play a major role in the “faculty intensive” part of Brown’s undergraduate curriculum. Often professors in specific areas of study join undergraduate concentrators at monthly DUG meetings to hold informal discussions on topics related to that particular DUGs’ academic department.

Students who participate in DUGs have nothing but good things to say about these groups. However, not every concentrator at Brown is lucky enough to have such a group. It appears that DUGs only exist in those departments where student leaders have been aggressive in creating and maintaining the groups. Oddly, the History Department, one of the most popular departments at Brown, does not have a DUG. We urge those students concentrating in disciplines without DUGs to create these groups. Furthermore, we encourage students concentrating in academic areas that have DUGs to continue to participate in and lead these organizations.

Brown offers a unique education that focuses on student responsibility, faculty interaction and community. DUGs embody the Brown experience, and we urge all students to try one out.

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Armstrong’s curriculum comments taken out of context To the Editor: The Herald’s story about my recent talk at Harvard's curriculum symposium failed to explain why, after extolling the virtues of Brown's curriculum, I would recommend that our friends in Cambridge not adopt it (as if they ever would!) (“At Harvard, Armstrong cites strengths, faults of New Curriculum,” 11/17). Here are the remarks I made: “So, in conclusion, what can Harvard learn from Brown? I hope you don't adopt our curriculum-not that this is likely to happen, but ‘Harvard-bashing’ is a popular sport at Brown, and I would not want to see our defining differences diminish.

“Seriously, I hope that you would take from Brown's example the importance of serious reflection about the implications of different modes of thought as a central goal of general education...”

I hope this clarification is of use to your readers.

Even deans do sometimes make jokes.

Paul Armstrong Dean of the College Nov. 15

Johnston’s advocacy of death penalty shallow, unfounded To the Editor: Heather Johnston’s ’06 piece on the death penalty is a remarkable display of sophistry (“Supporting the death penalty in the U.S. a necessary evil,” 11/15).

Let’s examine her “arguments” one by one.

Johnston acknowledges that the death penalty “does cost more.” However, her solution is merely to limit appeals. I am curious as to which appeals she would eliminate and if she has any justification for eliminating these fundamental rights other than cost. She even mentions the “problem” of innocent people being executed, but does not offer any solution to this problem, apparently deeming the exe-

cution of a few innocent people here and there as worth the cost saved. It is possible she might have a different view if she were one of those innocent people facing execution.

Johnston states, “The problem with the death penalty is not the cost of it, but the threat represented to society by letting a person walk or live.”

I don’t really understand what she is trying to say with this torturous sentence, but if she is trying to argue that murderers should not be let back out onto the street, she apparently has not heard of the sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

Johnston then goes on to make the conclusory statement that “The death penalty is an effective mechanism for murder deterrence.” I have been an opponent of the death penalty since it came back into use in the United States in 1976 and have yet to see any valid evidence to back up this statement, which is so often trotted out to support state-sponsored murder. In support of her assertion, she states that Texas, which murders its prisoners at a greater rate than any other state, ranks No. 15 out of 51 in the United States in its murder rate.

I am still scratching my head at how one can conclude that the death penalty deters murderers when the state which employs it most enthusiastically still has the 15th highest murder rate in the country.

Given that so much of the pro-death penalty sentiment comes from the right-wing Christians (e.g. John Ashcroft), it is odd to see Johnston’s assertion that the government is not playing God or taking a moral stance. One of the most often used justifications for the death penalty is “an eye for an eye.”

Johnston ends her piece by bragging that “a deeper look into the issue shows that many of these stances (those of death penalty opponents) do not take into account other factws that show the fallacy of these points of view.” Her piece seems to me to be a remarkably shallow look, not a “deeper” look and, in my opinion, shows no such thing. Nothing I have seen or read in the last 26 years has struck me as showing anything other than that the death penalty is state-sponsored murder, performed to satisfy the baser need of some in our society for revenge.

Mark de Regt ’74 Nov. 15

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OPINIONS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 11

Unlikely political bedfellows: the U.S. and China The United States and China have more open diplomatic relations then ever before, but for how long?

PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS SAID POLITICS U.S. State Department officials had caremakes interesting bedfellows of fully managed to amend this agreement, nations, and the current hand-in-hand muddling the sovereignty of the Taiwan relationship between China and the issue and giving no formal obligation for United States is no exception. As the the United States to back either Taiwan or Chinese prepare for the most sweeping China, should conflict between the two erupt. This detente policy leadership change since the succeeded then in opening late Chairman Mao Zedong, relations to Communist the relationship between China, putting pressure on these two international the Soviet Union under heavyweights has never been Brezhnev to seek similar talks closer. In fact, international with the United States just a politics experts on both year later and cooling heated sides of the Bering Strait resentments between these have agreed that Chinese Cold War players. Sharp leaders are expressing willreversal of this policy by the ingness to enhance U.S. SCHUYLER Bush administration assertiveness worldwide in VON OEYEN appeared to end this detente order to increase ties. The THE SKY IS THE LIMIT period in 2001, and most preTiananmen Square crisis, dicted strained relations. It is Mao’s Little Red Book and with this historical perspecconcern over that wealthy little dissenting island to the south of tive in mind that we evaluate the meanthem appear to be a thing of the past. At ing of these relations.

Seemingly in an echo of the dialogue least it seems so on the surface.

Looking back to April 2001, the Bush the United States initiated in 1972, the administration made a huge reversal of Chinese have made been making strides nearly three decades of detente politics to establish the strongest U.S.-China between the United States and China ties to date. Instead of becoming hostile when the administration announced that to the U.S. declaration to back Taiwan in it would back Taiwan, otherwise known event of conflict, they have let the matas the Republic of China, in the event of ter subside. In an unprecedented move, any possible “reintegration attempts” by last week NATO officials revealed that the Chinese. Most liberals gave scathing China requested a “dialogue,” the first criticism to this policy, pointing out that official contact of any kind in NATO’s the delicacy of the China-Taiwan situa- 53-year history. This remarkable change tion and significance of border lines near- plays in tune with a number of Chinese ly created a monster out of a Kissinger- policies in recent months. They have Nixon communiqué signed in 1972. The wisely begun exerting increased economic cooperation with Taiwanese businessmen to make the two nations Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 is a history and more economically interdependent. political science concentrator from They have stood fast by the United Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

“The Chinese are looking ahead and establishing economic ties that could return them to major world superpower status, and most experts agree they are well on their way.”

States in almost all of its anti-terrorism initiatives in the Middle East and beyond. And they recently entered the World Trade Organization, in what the New York Times called “a risky but necessary attempt to force the economy to become more competitive.”

What happened to the old China bickering with the United States over Taiwan and human rights? To be sure, the Chinese strongly acknowledge major differences with the United States over these important issues. But the Chinese are looking ahead and establishing economic ties that could return them to major world superpower status, and most experts agree they are well on their way. The New York Times reported on Nov. 15 that a former Clinton administration China policy expert agreed that U.S.-China diplomatic relations today are by far the most open he has ever seen.

A new face of Chinese communism is transforming, and its promise is immense — both figuratively and literally.

Figuratively, the economic and technology policies are new, but literally, there is now also a new face leading

China that will determine the future of these policies. Last week, 59-year-old Hu Jiantao was named the new Communist Party leader in what proved to be the first entirely peaceful and voluntary transfer of power in half a century. Hu says he plans to continue the policies of 76-year-old Jiang Zemin, including broadening the party and overhauling the economy. Jiang’s 13-year tenure ended in ceremonial fashion as delegates voted to put his name in the constitution along icons Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Unlike his predecessors, however, Jiang had no say in Hu’s appointment. Hu will have a number of problems facing him as he takes office.

The new U.S.-China relations are a major asset, but I cannot help but wonder how long they will last. Hu knows well that bad debts are creating a financial crisis, economic transformation is causing environmental disaster even the United States is condemning, relations with the United States are still on long-term collision, North Korea is posing significant crisis potential to the region, and WTO entry has overwhelmed many domestic industries. I applaud Chinese attempts to make lemonade out of lemons, but I think that current relations between the United States and China will only go so far.

Long-term adjustments designed to avert these new potential economic disasters and meaningful dialogue with the United States need to occur. Reconciling human rights, environmental issues and Taiwan with the United States will be difficult but necessary conflicts to resolve before long-term cooperation can be considered the norm rather than the exception.

Zinn rhetoric as simplistic as that of President Bush Instead of providing thorough, cogent arguments against war on Iraq, Zinn’s teach-in resorted to glib jabs at Bush WHETHER IT’S COMING OUT OF sidering allowing its country to become George W. Bush’s mouth or Howard a staging ground for future terrorist Zinn’s, we should be wary of simplistic attacks.

The continued threat of terrorism rhetoric.

In his teach-in against the “war on ter- barely a year after beginning operations ror” and possible military action in Iraq in Afghanistan is hardly a sign of failure.

Even if Zinn’s simplistic plan (“Historian Zinn spins history, to “take those planes they war,” 11/15), Zinn was quick to fill up with bombs and fill take sideswipe at Bush and his ATEESH CHANDA GUEST COLUMN them up with food” was administration. Making fun of pursued, one can be certain Bush is all too easy, but conthat terrorism would considering that Zinn was addressing a somewhat educated audi- tinue to exist a year later. If lack of food ence, more depth and substance could is the issue, then why is sub-Saharan Africa not the hottest of terrorist have been expected from his arguments.

Zinn was quick to point to the U.S. hotbeds?

Zinn criticizes the US. government for action in Afghanistan as a failure, simply because the threat of terrorist using women’s rights issues and democracy attacks still hangs over this country a as justification for its action in Afghanistan, year later. The U.S.-led multilateral while pointing to its indifference to such operations in Afghanistan have, for all issues in other countries. Perhaps Bush practical purposes, been a success. An does use such issues selectively, but there is undeniably wicked regime has been a contradiction in Zinn’s line of argument. replaced by a government with an, On the one hand, he argues that the attacks albeit indirectly, elected moderate on the Pentagon and the World Trade leader. Nationwide elections are sched- Centre were a natural reaction to U.S. economic, military and political hegemony, uled for next year.

Strategically as well, Afghanistan has and on the other, he complains that the been a success for the United States. United States should become more The fact that al Qaeda no longer has a involved in other countries’ affairs.

More importantly, however, safe haven in Afghanistan in which to train and plan future terrorist attacks Washington has never claimed its involvemakes its operations more difficult to ment in Afghanistan to be a purely benevconduct. Furthermore, it sends a clear olent endeavour. Afghanistan, like Kosovo, message to any other government con- presents a rare example of an opportunity for the United States to pursue its national self-interest and protect the weak and Ateesh Chanda ’04 hails from Hong Kong. oppressed at the same time.

This is his first column for The Herald.

“Making fun of Bush is all too easy, but considering that Zinn was addressing a somewhat educated audience, more depth and substance could have been expected from his arguments.”

Iraq has a similar potential. If Saddam Hussein again refuses to cooperate with United Nations requirements as presented in the Security Council’s Nov. 8 resolution, it should expect a U.N. mandated military response.

Zinn, however, objects to U.S. action in Iraq because the completion of Iraq’s nuclear program could be several years away. All the more reason to act now.

North Korea’s recent owning-up to the advanced stage of its nuclear weapons program has made the United States and its neighbors’ dealings with Pyongyang all the more difficult.

Furthermore, it was with great difficulty that Ambassador John Negroponte and his team at the U.N. were able to win support from Arab states for its Security Council resolution. Would that support

have been forthcoming if it put those Arab countries at any risk from an Iraq with nuclear arms? Clearly Hussein must be stopped before he acquires or develops the resources to back his hegemonic ambitions.

Zinn makes a number of good points about the United States’ dubious history of regime change. He pointed to a military coup against Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz in 1954, which the CIA backed to protect the United Fruit Company’s economic interests in that country. He pointed to the U.S. government’s support for Augusto Pinochet’s ousting of President Salvador Allende of Chile in 1973. This is indeed an embarrassing history.

The United States’ interest in Iraq and replacing Hussein, however, is qualitatively different from its interests in Guatemala in 1954 or Chile in 1973.

Hussein is not a weak socialist. He is a ruthless dictator who used chemical and biological weapons against his own people. He murdered his own grandchildren. And now he wants nuclear weapons. He has given the international community no reason to think that he can be trusted or that he understands anything but the language of force, or the threat of it.

Perhaps Zinn is right when he says that “governments don’t give a damn about their own people.” But at least we can be certain that Hussein cares less about his own people than other governments do about theirs.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS MONDAY NOVEMBER 18, 2002 · PAGE 12

Wrestling opens season with two top finishers The Brown wrestling team kicked off the 2002-03 season at the Binghamton Invitational Saturday Nov. 16. Clint Frease ‘03 and Nick Ciarcia ’04 placed first in their respective weight classes.

Frease defeated Millersville’s Derek Sola in the 141 division 3-1 and Ciarcia beat out Brad Christie of Hofstra 2-1 in 184. Lucas Magnani ‘06 placed third in 125 as he defeated Drexel’s Rob Rebmann 5-3. Also placing for the Bears was Michael Savino ‘05 who came in fourth in 157.

Expectations are high for the Brown wrestling team this season as the Bears look to be among the elite teams in the east and in the Ivy League. Seven starters and fourteen letterwinners return to a squad that went 12-6 a year ago. A strong freshman class also joins the team, many of whom will be expected to contribute early.

Coach Dave Amato, who returns for his 20th year at Brown, will look to his top returners to lead his team.

They include three NCAA qualifiers and two first team All-Ivy selections.

Co-Captains Jason Mercado ‘03 and Frease will bring a wealth of leadership and experience to the mat this season.

Mercado, a 2002 NCAA Qualifier, ended his junior year with a record of 10-7 and was third in the EIWA. Mercado did not wrestle in 20002001, but as a sophomore in 1999-00 he was named Second Team All-Ivy after posting a 20-13 record. He had the only first place finish for the Bears at the Ivy League and was also a semi-finalist in EIWA action three years ago.

Frease was also a 2002 NCAA qualifier attaining a record of 22-10 in his junior year and gaining First Team All-Ivy accolades as well as being third in the EIWA. Thirteen of his 24 victories as a junior were for bonus points. In 2000-2001 Frease recorded a 16-21 overall record.

The Bears also look to Ciarcia, Allsee WRESTLING, page 8

SCOREBOARD Football

Volleyball

BROWN 21, Dartmouth 18

Penn 3, BROWN 0 Princeton 3, BROWN 0

Soccer Dartmouth 3, BROWN 0

Water Polo

Basketball

Iona 8. BROWN 7 (6th at Eastern Championships)

IUPUI 66, BROWN 65

Men’s Ice Hockey Clarkson 5, BROWN 1 BROWN 5, St. Lawrence 1

Women’s Ice Hockey Minnesota 5, BROWN 3 BROWN 1, Minnesota-Duluth 1

Women’s Track BROWN 10th of 36 Teams at Northeast Regionals

Men’s Track BROWN 5th of 33 Teams at Northeast Regionals

NFL SCORES Jacksonville 24, Houston 21 Atlanta 24, New Orleands 17 Indianapolis 20, Dallas 3 Philadelphia 38, Arizona 14 Cleveland 27, Cincinatti 20 NY Giants 19, Washinton 17 Tennessee 31, Pittsburgh 23

Kansas City 17, Buffalo 16 Minnesota 31, Green Bay 21 Tampa Bay 23, Carolina 10 NY Jets 31, Detroit 14 Denver 31, Seattle 9 Miami 26, Baltimore 7

Football wins, drops Dartmouth 21-18 in another close Ivy League contest

BY JERMAINE MATHESON

It took much longer than expected, but the Brown football team (1-8, 1-5) won its first game of the season on Saturday over Dartmouth (3-6, 2-4), 21-18. Joe Rackley ’03, who has suffered through an injuryplagued senior year, rushed for 148 yards and proved that when healthy, he can make big contributions.

The victory snapped a streak of close Ivy League losses for Brown, which had lost four league games by a combined 11 points. Saturday’s win was the archetype of what Brown was hoping to archive this season: a balanced offensive attack with timely stops by the defense.

The Bears played in inhospitable weather conditions all season, and Saturday was arguably the worst as the field had to be plowed clear of snow before kickoff.

Brown scored first on a 10-yard run from Rackley into the endzone, going ahead 7-0.

The Bears went ahead 14-0 after a touchdown pass from Kyle Slager ’04 to Chas Gessner ’03.

Dartmouth scored twice before halftime, but failed on both attempts for more points, giving the Bears a 14-12 advantage at the break.

In the third quarter, after a 30-yard run to the five yard line, Slager scored on a quarterback keeper to give Brown a 21-12 lead.

Slager, who has elevated his game of late, had another solid day going 31 of 42 for 364 passing yards and 3 touchdowns, all the more impressive considering the game conditions.

Gessner had an All-American performance with 14 catches for 128 yards and a touchdown.

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The football team (1-8, 1-5) will try to end its season with two straight wins when it plays host to the Columbia Lions this Saturday at the Brown Stadium.

The real key to the game, though, was Brown’s defense. The Big Green made it a three-point game midway through the fourth quarter, but when it had a chance to take the lead, the Brown defense made key stops late in the game to preserve the longawaited victory.

Through the eight game losing streak the team has taken leads going into the

fourth quarter three times, each time allowing the opposition to go ahead, but Saturday would be the exception.

In the second half, Brendan Kelly ’03 recovered a fumble that would lead to Brown’s game winning touchdown. Shaun Eidson ‘03 made twelve tackles and Jason see FOOTBALL, page 8

3-0 road loss to the Big Green completes up-and-down season for men’s soccer

BY NICK GOUREVITCH

The Brown men’s soccer team (5-8-4, 1-4-2 Ivy) closed out its season on Saturday, falling 3-0 to Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. With the result, the Big Green earned a share of the Ivy League title and topped the Bears for the first time since 1993.

The Bears fell behind from the get-go when Dartmouth’s Juan Romera netted his first of two goals on the day just four minutes into the match. Dartmouth would score twice more in the first half to put the game well out of reach going into halftime.

The loss ended a disappointing campaign for the Bears in which they finished with an under .500 overall record for the first time since 1992 and in the Ivy League since 1996.

It was certainly a season of tough luck and heartbreaking losses for Brown. After a promising victory at a weekend tournament early in the season in New Haven, Conn., the Bears lost their Ivy opener to Harvard in controversial fashion and then would lose their leading scorer, CoCaptain Adom Crew ’04, to injury a couple of weeks later.

Crew, despite an injury that held him out of Bruno’s last nine games, was named a First-Team District I Academic AllAmerican and finished the season tied for the Ivy League lead in goals scored with ten.

Losing Crew to injury was a big blow to the team’s offense, which averaged a little over two goals a game in their first eight matches, but scored just six times in its dspics

see SOCCER, page 8

Returning a majority of the team, men’s soccer will aim for an Ivy League title in 2003.