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University may raise admission standards for student athletes BY DANIELLE CERNY

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In the wake of an influential book about collegiate athletics and academics, the University is considering raising admission standards for athletes. With changes still in the discussion stage, two possibilities include reducing the number of athletic recruits or raising the minimum standards those athletes must achieve. No definitive decisions have yet been made in either case, said Director of College Admission Michael Goldberger. The Class of 2008 would be the earliest affected by the new standards. Currently, the admission of athletes to Brown is regulated by an academic index, computed by an arithmetic formula using SAT I, SAT II and either class rank or GPA, Goldberger said. “It is designed to guarantee that Ivy League athletes are representative of the student body. It is calculated for

One month after the University ordered the Underground to stop serving alcohol, questions remain as to the appropriate use of the space. Some student groups are hesitant to host events at the bar now that it is dry.

Underground adjusts to life after alcohol Ordered to stop serving alcohol last month, the Underground is shifting its focus to provide performance space for Brown’s musical artists BY AKSHAY KRISHNAN

One month into the Underground’s alcohol-free run, the focus has shifted from the bar to the stage. The University prohibited the Underground from serving alcohol in early October. Student groups continue to use the on-campus bar for concerts, but there have been cancellations, said Ally Dickie ’03, general manager of the Underground. “In recent weeks, the senior class, Students for Sensible Drug Use and the Hunger Benefit have all staged events at the Underground,” Dickie said. Vanessa Saal ’03, a coordinator of National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week at Brown, said her organization is no longer holding one of two planned events at the Underground because the bar cannot serve alcohol. Without alcohol, organizers feared fewer people

would attend the events, she said. The Underground “is centrally located, easily accessible and an 18-plus venue, rather than a 21-plus venue — three reasons that make it a great venue,” Saal said. “With the ban on serving alcohol, we did feel that this would affect the attendance to the concert we were organizing so we moved one concert out of the Underground,” she said. The Underground’s student managers hope to serve alcohol next semester, Dickie said. Money the Underground saves this semester by not purchasing alcohol can be carried over to next semester’s budget, said Langston Dugger ’04, chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board. The Undergraduate Finance Board allocated $19,197 to the Underground this semester and will give the bar $18,190 next semester, the UFB Web site reports. “We just deduct the left over from the amount that we were going to give them for the next semester, so we will be giving them a reduced amount if that’s indeed the case,” Dugger said. Herald staff writer Akshay Krishnan ’04 can be reached at akrishnan@browndailyherald.com.

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Students, Univ. look to iron out substance-free housing policy JESSICA TOOKER

Administrators and students are working to clarify the meaning of substance-free housing, specifically the extent to which residents are allowed to consume alcohol outside the dorm and return to the dorm while under the influence. Currently, New Pembroke No. 2 and Hegeman E are designated as substance free residences. Students who live in these dorms are required to sign a housing contract that reads, “I agree not to consume alcohol or other drugs (with the exception of medically prescribed drugs) anywhere on the floor, suite or building, included but not limited to public areas, quarters, stairwells and bathrooms.” The contract also makes the residents responsible for see SUBSTANCE, page 4

Texts and Teachers program brings college, high school classrooms together BY ALLISON LOMBARDO

Brian Robert, an English teacher at Classical High School, takes his class on field trips — to Brown University. Seventy-eight of his students walk up College Hill to the University several times a semester to discuss the works of authors like Toni Morrison in a collegiate setting. It’s all part of an exchange program, Texts and Teachers, organized by Professors of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein and Edward Ahearn, through which high school classes have the opportunity to visit Weinstein’s and Arnold’s lectures and to incorporate collegiate material into their curricula. Undergraduates, graduate students and the professors also have the opportunity to visit the high school classroom to teach, a positive experience for both the class and college students, Ahearn said. Texts and Teachers “speaks to the idealism of Brown

students” Weinstein said, but logistics are the most difficult obstacle. First suggested in the mid-1980s by Weinstein’s wife Ann, a program coordinator in the German studies department, the program began as a set of summer seminars that connected high school and collegiate educators. In the short term, Weinstein said he would like this program to grow within Brown and then expand to other local schools and involve more faculty in other literary departments. Robert said teachers “try to match (their) curriculum and syllabi with the Brown courses, which include “City (B)Lights,” “Desire in the Marketplace” and “Rites of Passage.” A structured public school curriculum at times does not allow a perfect fit, so some classes match better than other, Robert said. This program takes a unique approach to the learning

process for both students and teachers. The “cross-beneficial nature” of this program lies in the relationship of mutual professional respect between the professors and high school educators, Robert said. “Universities have a big responsibility for education throughout the country — on the whole, they have not fulfilled it,” Ahearn said. The opening up of professional resources is the “most moral thing about this program,” Weinstein said. He said the most difficult challenge of the project is getting educators to expand their vision of what their job should entail. It is a hard issue to get on the agenda because the “academic community is privileged and sheltered” and confined to its own audience, he said. This program creates an environment in which educa-

I N S I D E T H U R S D AY, N O V E M B E R 2 1 , 2 0 0 2 Undergrads running for political office face unique challanges in their bids page 3

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Salaries for U. presidents skyrocket across the nation page 5

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Seth Leibson ’05 says Brown students should rally behind labor’s cause against Wal-mart guest column, page 11

Women’s basketball looks to rebuild, rely on youth from bottom up this season sports preview, page 12

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IN BRIEF

Increasingly, undergrads seek public office BY DYLAN BROWN

Columbia U. seniors accused of using high-tech devices to cheat on GRE NEW YORK (U-Wire) — Two Columbia University seniors

were arrested Tuesday on charges of third-degree burglary and unlawful duplication of computer material after they were allegedly discovered using wireless devices to cheat on the Graduate Record Exam, the Associated Press reported. Bryan Laulicht ’03, and Sasha Bakhru ’03 were arrested at the Sylvan Learning Center in Garden City, N.Y., when an employee noticed Bakhru adjusting a wireless transmitter under a desk, the AP said. Laulicht was outside in a van, allegedly receiving images of test questions on a laptop computer equipped with a wireless transmitter; on a previous visit to the testing center on Nov. 11, the two had switched roles, the AP quoted Det. Lt. Arthur McLoughlin as saying. Police alleged that Bakhru and Laulicht also used walkie-talkies to communicate between the van and the private testing room Bakhru had specially requested at the Long Island testing facility, WNBC reported last night. The pair did not enter pleas at their arraignment in the First District Court Tuesday afternoon, the AP said, and were released until a court date scheduled for Thursday. It was undecided last night what the disciplinary response from Columbia administration would be; spokeswoman Eileen Murphy told the AP that the University was waiting for more information on the case before addressing these “clearly serious allegations.” The GRE is administered by Educational Testing Service and is the major entrance examination for graduate school. High scores on the exam can mean increased financial aid and scholarships. Laulicht and Bakhru, who live in the same East Campus suite at Columbia, did not answer telephone calls to their residence hall rooms late Tuesday night.

Cartoon a headache for Harvard PHILADELPHIA (U-Wire) — A tight job market, a faltering econ-

omy and corporate governance scandals have left business school students everywhere scrambling for jobs. But when the Harvard Business School’s student newspaper vented rising frustrations in a cartoon, the school administration took it personally. The paper, The Harbus, ran a cartoon entitled,“PreHell Week Horror Story,” in its Oct. 28 issue, and depicted a career services Web site overflowing with error messages. The cartoon was in reference to a career services computer glitch that had confused a number of students’ interview schedules. October’s “Hell Week,” even when run smoothly, is exceptionally stressful for Harvard’s job-seeking MBA students, who arrange to meet as many corporate recruiters as possible before the week’s end. The Harbus cartoon referred to the Web site as the “HBS Career Dink,” but it was one particular pop-up message labeled “Incompetent Morons,” that caught the attention of school administrators. The Director of Harvard’s MBA program arranged a Nov. 4 meeting with Harbus Editor-in-Chief Nick Will and the humor section editor. Two days later, Will resigned as editor of the paper. In a Harbus interview, he attributed his resignation to a warning he received at the meeting that he personally would have to take responsibility for all content published by the paper, and that the warning was the first step in the Community Standards disciplinary process. The Community Standards code, introduced in 1998, hangs in every classroom and building at the business school and every member of the HBS community is asked to sign it. Its three basic principles are respect for others, honesty and accountability. “How can I as the editor make tough calls about what to print if the administration can sanction me under Community Standards whenever it disagrees?”Will asked in the Harbus interview. Will then went on to say that invoking Community Standards to influence the free and independent nature of The Harbus is unreasonable. While The Harbus’ legal council reportedly said the cartoon would be protected under the First Amendment, Will considered the “level of personal risk too high” to stay on as editor.

Several undergraduate and graduate students from coast to coast effect change in their universities’ local communities by running grass-roots campaigns for local office. Some students from Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley and Louisiana State University ran successful campaigns for city council, mayor and school board. On the east coat, Yale is in a unique situation, because of its location in New Haven, Conn. — a city of 120,000 split into 30 Wards. New Haven’s 1st Ward is primarily made up of Yale’s undergraduate campus with 5,200 undergraduates — between 1,000 and 1,500 are registered to vote. At least one Yale student has occupied a seat in the 30 seat Board of Aldermen since the 1980s, according the Yale Daily News. Benjamin Healey, a Yale junior and ethics politics and economics major, said he became active in local politics as soon as he arrived at Yale. After being asked by the outgoing senior alderman two years ago to take over the 1st Ward seat, Healey won his own election last year and has another year left in his term. He focuses on affordable housing and a living wage for the city, Healey said. More recently, the Board of Aldermen appointed Healey as the aldermanic representative to the City Planning Commission after a contended 15-14 vote. Winning that vote was “a way to demonstrate power,” he said. “It matters a lot to be a link between the city and Yale,” Healey said of his role on the Board of Aldermen. On the west coat, at UC Berkeley two students recently ran for city council seats in the city of 108,000 people. While one sophomore running in District 7 lost his race, graduate student Andy Katz forced a runoff election in District 8 scheduled for Dec. 3. Katz graduated from Berkeley last year with a major in political science and a minor in theater. Katz, who is still at Berkeley working toward his masters in city planning, said he focused on affordable housing, the environment and tenant rights during his campaign. The outcome of the runoff really depends on how large “I can get the voter turn out to be,” Katz said. “A lot of this campaign is really grass-roots.” Katz said he decided to run after several years of active service to the Berkeley community. Last year, he worked on Berkeley’s Zoning Adjustment Board. He also served as the UC Berkeley student government representative to the city for the last three years. Through his public service, Katz garnered endorsements from the Sierra Club, the Democratic Party, his congresswoman and his state assemblywoman. “I’ve been working on city issues for the last four years,” Katz said about his work on housing crises, traffic, and safety problems in the city. Only one other student won a seat on the Berkley City Council, Katz said. Most of the students who have run since Berkeley switched to district elections in 1986 have “not been in-sync with the values of the community,” he said. In the south, two LSU students ran for local office in the recent election and both lost. “It didn’t turn out so well,” first-year Tony Brown said of his mayoral campaign in Youngsville, La., in which he got 2 percent of the electorate or 32 votes. However, Brown is still happy with the outcome of the election, he said. My campaign “helped accomplish my goal of getting the incumbent mayor out of office,” he said. Youngsville is 60 miles away from LSU’s Baton Rouge campus. Brown said he decided to run for mayor in his 4,000 person town because he believed the 16-year incumbent mayor was not doing his job. Brown’s house flooded during tropical storm Allison, which could have been prevented if the town had cleaned out the ditches behind his house, Brown said. After three years of letters and thousands of dollars of repairs, Brown decided things had to change, he said. In his campaign Brown focused on fixing drainage problems, establishing a recycling program and creating a town Web site. The candidate who actually unseated the incumbent mayor ran on similar terms. Student politicians face many challenges when running for local office. One of the great difficulties Healey faces on the New Haven Board of Aldermen is that “it’s political … It’s a very complicated mix of politics you have to contend with,” he said. Also, Healey believes that in order to be elected one needs a lot of campus access and political networks, he said. Like any freshman alderman, Healey said he had to prove himself. “I had to prove that I was not resume build-

ing and that I cared about the issues that were meaningful to the city,” he said. Healey said that he gets side comments frequently from the other members of the board about how they are not going to leave the city in four years. The thing is that the “Yale alderman will be a young student,” he said. “Regardless of age and any other identifying characteristics, I’m serious about my job.” Katz dealt with serous difficulties in Berkeley. His district is not a student majority district. Only 45 of residents are students, of whom 35 percent are registered voters, he said. In the beginning of his campaign, some in Berkeley did not take Katz too seriously, and now his opponent in the runoff is playing the age card. “He’s actually focusing more on my age, and his campaign material focuses on me being a student,” Katz said. However, Katz said he refutes these attacks with examples of his own experience and the “issues that matter to the community.” On the Berkeley Planning Committee, Katz gets along well with the other members because they respect his ideas and his commitment, he said. Brown felt that his race faced “a lot of skepticism,” but “a lot of people said they enjoyed watching me run,” he said. Joyce Chen, a 2001 Yale graduate, is the 2nd Ward alderwoman in New Haven. During her campaign she identified herself as a resident. “I told (my constituents) that I wasn’t a student,” she said. Another issue these student candidates face is financing their campaigns. Healey said that he spent less than $500 each on the primary and general election. Most of his money came from family and friends, he said. However, “it’s well within my capabilities to raise money,” he said. But turning back to the local grass-roots aspect of his election, Healey said you “don’t need money to” knock on doors and put up posters. While Katz may have a good deal of political support, he also must raise thousands of dollars in financial support, he said. Berkeley law requires a maximum $250 contribution per person per election, and Katz does most of the fundraising by himself. For the general election Katz raised $27,000, and he expects to raise $20,000 for the runoff. “This is the most expensive City Council race in Berkeley history,” Katz said expressing a need for campaign finance reform. The money for Brown’s campaign came “right out of my own pocket,” he said. The $40 qualifying fee came from a credit card loan at the ATM, and $20 to buy a sign for his house came from selling things on eBay, he said. Chen and other candidates expressed concern over the possibility that some students in public office might not be able to commit the time needed to do a good job. “It’s very rewarding to accomplish improvements for the campus community,” Katz said. But there is a large time commitment. During the campaign he works over 70 hours per week, he said. Commuting the 60 miles between Baton Rouge and Youngsville took up “a lot of time out of my busy schedule,” Brown said. Adult aldermen in New Haven have a lot of respect for their young colleagues. “The students have, without exception, been terrific and major players on the board,” said Alderman Edward Mattison from New Haven’s 10th Ward. “The city has been very fortunate” to have students who are civic-minded, he said. “Ben (Healey) works very hard, probably more than most of the aldermen. When he speaks, people listen,” he said. “It makes sense for that particular ward, because they are all students,” said Alderwoman Elizabeth McCormick from the 24th Ward. “Do I think it should be all students? Absolutely not.” McCormick said that at times differences in philosophies arise because the students may be “a little idealistic, but that’s ok ….They bring a different view to the board and they represent their constituents.” Most of these current student politicians believe they will remain active in politics well into the future, and they hope other young people will join them. Brown said he plans to run for the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2004. “It’s very difficult for young people to emerge in elected office, because there are few opportunities to get experience. … If young people stay determined and put the energy into the right outlet, it can be done,” Katz said. “I feel like each day I learn something new about how to be a better public servant,” said Healey, who hopes to stay in New Haven “for many years to come.”

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Classroom continued from page 1 tors are equals, and “professors are not looking down at high school teachers,” Robert said. This approach is a collaborative process, “as opposed to the top down” where high school educators attend seminars to learn skills to bring back to their classroom, Ahearn said. Ahearn said many teachers have told him the program is the “best form of professional development they’ve encountered.” Among the student benefits, Robert said the program challenges them to begin to question “how they know what they know.” Students “start making connections and linkages to reading in high school” and begin to “understand the kinds of ways one has to think and write outside of high school,” he said. Though it is difficult to measure the effects of the program, Weinstein said it “gets inside of people’s brains” and can empower students who question if they are college bound. The opportunity to partially study at Brown comes at a pivotal

point in a high school senior’s life, Robert said. By doing this work, they affirm that “they can handle what goes on here.” Kate Gubata ’03, a Herald opinions columnist and comparative literature concentrator who Weinstein advises, was once a Classical High School student visiting Brown. She said it was a great experience when she was a high school senior to be in a different setting, seeing college students take their academics seriously. Instead of “spouting literary criticism” the discussion was more informal than she imagined, she said. About to leave for college themselves, Gubata said many students were reassured that they could “understand it and be part of the class. … It felt very real.” This program “influenced my decision to come here — the section discussion said a lot about Brown,” she said. Gubata, who is now on the other side of the classroom, said most of her peers tell her they wish they had this program in their public high schools. Although students say they are enthusiastic about the program, participation comes down to whose schedule fits and who has

transportation. “Brown students have a big commitment to the local community,” Ahearn said, and they welcome the chance to share their knowledge. Federal funding cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities grant limit Texts and Teachers, at one time a national program, to four high schools in Providence — Hope, Classical, Central and East Providence — as well as a handful of others in the surrounding areas including Block Island. Still serving as a national model, similar programs exist independently of the program. Numerous grants from national organizations and from past Brown presidents funded this program, but currently it relies only on Brown money to cover the cost of books for the high school students, Ahearn said. Although President Ruth Simmons did not officially give financial help to the program, Weinstein and Ahearn have scheduled a meeting with her to discuss the program’s future. Herald staff writer Allison Lombardo ’05 can be reached at alombardo@browndailyherald.com.

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their guests. A failure to adhere to the agreement may result in their removal from the substance free dorms. But the contract has no clause that outlines how a student living in substance-free housing should act outside the dorm and whether he can return to his dorm while under the influence. University administrators, Health Services and other community members are “trying to assess what is going on with substance-free housing now and trying to improve it as much as (they) can this year” said Wally Pansing GS, a member of the Health Services staff. Pansing said that a new contract would clarify the extent to which students may drink alcohol while living in these dorms. “The agreements will be clear on whether and how substances can be used or possessed in that environment (in the past) substance-free housing has not been well defined,” Pansing said. Josh Edwards ‘03 is now living in Hegeman E and is working to develop a specific policy for rules of conduct in the dorm, which would add the clause that students may not return to the dorm in an intoxicated state. “We don’t want the actual substances or the visible signs of substance use” in the dorm, Edwards said. “The only reason we are living together is specifically to avoid these two things.” Clarifying the tenants of substance-free housing will hopefully assist students in deciding whether these dorms are appropriate for their lifestyles, Edwards said. With the recent designation of New Pembroke No. 2 as substance-free, the University demonstrated that the substance free “option is now one that will be given greater focus,” said Associate Dean of the College Bruce Donovan. The expansion of substancefree housing is intended both to provide abstainers with the “necessary support for their own 24- hour-a-day substancefree lifestyle” and to give students the option of living in a potentially “more pleasant, quiet or civil atmosphere than might otherwise be likely,” Donovan said.

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But maybe it’s that as I’ve grown older I’ve gained a greater appreciation for things I used to do when I was younger, like napping, having people drive me around and playing simple video games. Regardless of the reason for my love of old school video games, I think I should satiate my appetite. Well, I know Thanksgiving break isn’t too long, but I think I can spare a few hours sitting in front of my television until my hand is too sore to go on anymore.

continued from page 12 So maybe I wouldn’t have to do all these things, but in order to have a vague idea as to what I’m doing I would have to study an instruction manual denser than my history reading and master a joystick that looked like the control panel of Apollo 13. Many people enjoy the new video games, and I’m not going to say that I don’t think they are pretty cool because they are. Maybe I’m completely incompetent and can’t adapt to new situations, which many would agree with.

substance use. The only reason we are living together is specifically to avoid these two things.” Joshua Edwards Substance-free resident The concept of a residential community connected by specific tenants can be enhanced by Wellness Programming, a service provided by Health Services, usually at the request of a residential counselor, Pansing said. Although discussing the dangers of substance abuse with substancefree residents may be “preaching to the choir,” discussing general wellness themes like coping with stress, good nutrition and sleeping habits is useful for all students, Pansing said. Students may select substance-free housing for a variety of reasons, ranging from religious observance and medical restrictions or past traumatic experiences with alcohol or drugs, Donovan said. Director of Health Services Frances Mantak said a recent Harvard University study on the substance intake of college students across the country showed 77 percent of Brown students have between zero and four drinks when and if they consume alcohol. There is a misconception, created by the few exceptions, that Brown students are heavy drinkers, Mantak said. Although some students reported selecting substancefree housing only because it is the best housing they can get with their spring housing lottery numbers, residents say they follow the substance-free housing rules. “The extra rules (concerning substance use) that you don’t have in other housing are followed,” said Jackie Cohen ’04. “I haven’t noticed anyone coming in blatantly intoxicated, (and) it’s a lot quieter than the dorm I lived in last year,” said Jennifer Cheng ’05. Associate Dean of Residential Life Donald Desrochers declined to comment.

Ian Cropp ’05 hails from Buffalo, N.Y. and is organizing a consortium to purchase the Buffalo Sabers.

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Number of U. presidents making six digits grows at record pace

Annual survey finds need for more lighting on campus

BY OLIVER BOWERS

The number of university presidents in the “half-million-dollar club” more than doubled between 1999 and 2000 as institutions reevaluated/recalibrated the academic pay scale to mirror that of the corporate world. Salaries rose at record rates for presidents of top universities across the nation, according to the November edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. The top payment for 2000-01 belonged to Judith Rodin, president of the University of Pennsylvania, who topped the ledger with a final figure of $808,021. Close behind were Princeton President Harold Shapiro, who made $705,683, and Johns Hopkins University William Brody, who made $677,564. Top earnings also went to L. Jay Oliva of New York University, Constantine Papadakis of Drexel University and Richard Levin of Yale. When she left Smith in 2001, President Ruth Simmons was given approximately $145,000 in deferred compensation, bringing her total compensation for that year to $539,169. Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service, declined to release information about Simmons’ current salary. Pursuant to policy, Brown will not releasing salary information beyond the 1999-2000 fiscal period until it is required to file public financial documents. The price-hike for quality presidents is unsurprising, Shelly Weiss Storbeck, managing director of the higher-education division at A.T. Kearney Executive Search told the Chronicle.

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University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin, right, shown here at President Ruth Simmons’ inauguration in 2001, was the highest paid university president in the nation in 2000-01. She made more than $800,000 that year. “The talent pool is thin,” she said. “It makes eminent sense to pay somebody who is really superb, and who has a brilliant track record.” The nation’s universities produced a centrifugal effect in their fight to retain their competent leaders with salaries above the $500,000 watermark swelling faster than those above $300,000. Eleven more presidents joined the latter group, while 14 crested above the former. “For those institutions that are up in the stratosphere, a bidding war is indeed obviously going on among them,” Raymond Cotton, a Washington lawyer specializing in presidential contracts, told the Chronicle. Those with the means fought hardest for an able president; 22 of the 27 private-college presidents whose salaries exceeded $500,000 were leaders of doctoral institutions. The only presidents of Liberal Arts colleges to break half a million — among whose ranks Simmons in her term at Smith was numbered — augmented their salaries with severance packages. Private and public institutions differed

little in their presidential compensation. Most of the funds bestowed in the upper echelon of earnings were in the form of bonus provisions and the “golden handcuff of deferred compensation,” a recent development aimed at a more corporate approach to payment, according to the Chronicle. Penn’s board of trustees established official criteria for the annual evaluation of Rodin’s performance and is awarding benefits accordingly. According to the Chronicle, Penn would not provide specifics on benefit packages beyond the assurance that unlike corporate executive bonuses, they constitute below half of Rodin’s annual salary. The Chronicle also discussed the potential for tensions between faculty members and presidents who now outshine them in compensation packages, citing particular concerns at Penn that rough times of recession might spell disillusionment for the comparatively underappreciated faculty. Herald staff writer Oliver Bowers ’06 can be reached at obowers@browndailyherald.com.

Brown Police’s annual lighting survey recommended that the University add additional light poles to campus and found the lighting near Machado House, Patriot’s Court, Wriston Quad and in between Pembroke campus and the OMAC to be below standards. An important but usually unrecognized task of the Crime Prevention Unit, the annual lighting survey determines what parts of campus need improved lighting. Department of Public Safety Security Officer Mark Perry walked the campus with a University electrician and UCS representatives on Nov. 14 to examine what lights needed to be changed or upgraded. The lighting survey checks all exterior lighting, such as lamp poles and blue lights. This year, the main problem areas included Machado House, the walk from Pembroke to the OMAC, Patriot’s Court and Wriston Quad, Perry said. Some lights need replacement and others need upgrades. Perry said his group also found locations that needed more light and made suggestions on where to construct more light poles. He recommended adding more walkway light poles like those found on the Main Green. “The campus is a safe place, but what I keep telling people is that it’s up to the individual person to be their first line of safety,” Perry said. “I tell people, be aware of the surroundings, walk in well-lit areas, avoid potential problems.” — Momoko Hirose

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each admitted student including athletes,” Goldberger said. Based on the index, admitted athletes are supposed to be within one standard deviation of the average student, Goldberger told The Herald. The current reevaluation is due to a regular review procedure, but Golberger said it may have been expedited by “The Game of Life,” a book by James Shulman and William Bowen, former president of Princeton University. According to the book, “intercollegiate programs ... are moving steadily in the direction of greater intensification, increased tension with core educational values and more substantial calls on the tangible and intangible resources of their host institutions.” Based on the book’s content, the University is examining whether it needs to narrow the gap between the lives of athletes and non-athletes at Brown, Goldberger said. While the actions may be seen as discriminatory against athletes, “I don’t think that there is a goal to lessen the emphasis on team sports. I think the goal is to be sure

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week, it was the first time this season we’ve run under a 70 mile week,” Gaudette said. “Everyone’s legs were feeling really good before this race.” The second and third runners both put up good performances for Brown as well. Matt Emond ’04 and Jeff Tomlinson ’03 finished 30th and 33rd in times of 31:59 and 32:01 respectively. “Jeff [Tomlinson] and Matt had their strongest races of the season,” said Captain Corey Kunz

Harriers continued from page 12 eral teams, including Boston University and Harvard. Brown was unable to keep the that record going and struggled at the Heptagonal Championships. Wemple believes the team never rebounded from that meet.“I feel as though there wasn’t enough competing [by Brown],” Wemple said. “To lose to Stony Brook, BU and Harvard was an insult since we kicked their butts earlier in the season.” Going into the Regional meet this past weekend, the Bears knew qualifying for Nationals was not a credible option but they still had hopes of competing well. Brown’s top finisher Meredith Crocker ’05 said Wemple told the team to go out there, race, have fun and show what they could do. “We didn’t really have a set goal so we were going out to have fun,” Crocker said. “There wasn’t a specific place goal because I didn’t want to put too much pressure like what happened at Heps,” Wemple said. “We thought we’d just be realistic. But I did expect them to compete

Division I team. However, we currently have very high standards and we have managed to do quite well.” Michael Goldberger Director of College Admission that athletes are generally representative of the student body and are able to live a life similar to other students,” he said. The impact of the changes on the competitiveness of Brown’s athletic teams will not be known until the new regulations are implemented. “It is logical that as standards go higher, the number of recruitable athletes become fewer, thus lowering chances for success as a Division I team. However, we currently have very high standards and we have managed to do quite well,” Goldberger said. Director of Athletics and Physical Education David Roach also said it was too early to speculate about whether the changes

would affect the standings of Brown’s sports teams or as to what the intentions of the changes may be. With new Ivy League rules requiring a seven week rest period and a delayed beginning to the season, some athletes fear the consequences of additional admission standards. “We’re already at a huge disadvantage, and if they keep adding more rules, athletics at Ivy Leagues aren’t going to be competitive with other schools,” said Jodi Blustin ’06, a goalie for the women’s ice hockey team.

’03. Pat Tarpy ’05 in 32:20, Chad Buechel ’03 in 32:49, Brendan O’Keefe ’04 in 33:06 and Erik Churchill ’03.5 in 33:08 rounded out the other varsity finishers. The Bears went out with a strategy to top Columbia but fell short. “We set up our race to compete against Columbia, they have been running well, and this was basically their home course, so if we could run with them we’d have a shot at doing well,” Gregorek said. “The guys had a good solid race through the first half, but then the back hills took their toll on us again.”

The squad was happy with their performance over the course of the fall season. “Overall we were really successful, now we’re looking forward to track and having everyone healthy all at once,” Kunz said. “We have a bunch of guys who are more geared toward the mile who got in a lot of nice work during cross-country, it bodes well for the middle distance events in track,” Gregorek said.

and finish as high as they could.” While the Bears did pack up during the race, according to Wemple, a pack in the middle of the field of runners doesn’t really help. Crocker separated herself from her pack of teammates and moved toward the front of the race to finish in 30th place for the 6K distance. Crocker was followed by Captain Rosie Woodford ’03 in 41st and then a pack of runners including Anna Willard ’06 in 59th, Nora Sullivan ’06 in 64th, Kristin Ware ’04 in 70th and Julie Komosinski ’05 in 72nd. Crocker, who was hoping to challenge the top runners in the race for a ticket to Nationals, did not have her best race and failed finish in the position she had hoped. Wemple and Crocker devised a plan for her to go out with the people she had been running with at New England’s, instead of focusing strictly on qualifying to Nationals. Crocker, however, was unable to stay with the top runners and fell back. “It wasn’t a horrible race but it wasn’t a great race. It was just blah,” Crocker said. The season, however, was much better than ‘blah’ for Crocker, who made huge

Herald staff writer Danielle Cerny ’06 can be reached at dcerny@browndailyherald.com.

Sports staff writer Joanna Grossman ’03 covers the men’s cross-country team and can be reached at jgrossman@browndailyherald.com.

improvements from last year. “I made a big jump from last year, so I’m happy. There were fallbacks but honestly coming into the season I had never though nationals was even a possibility,” Crocker said. Her teammates are hoping to have the same big jump in performance next year. Because of the team’s youth and depth, Wemple believes huge advances are a definite possibility. “It’s encouraging that we have so many [athletes] returning next year. There are always big jumps made sophomore year and that we had four freshmen in our top seven, bodes well,” Wemple said. Brown is losing two athletes, Woodford and Almea Matanock ’03, to graduation but according to Wemple a “great nucleus” is still coming back. Despite the team’s tough last race and rocky season, one thing is for sure, that they can only get better next year. Wemple and the team have no doubt about doing just that. Sports staff writer Melissa Perlman ’04 covers the women’s cross-country team and can be reached at mperlman@browndailyherald.com.

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IN BRIEF Bush administration is unhappy with 72 new judicial appointments WASHINGTON (L. A. Times) — The Senate quit for the year

Wednesday having confirmed 72 new judges appointed by President Bush, the best record since 1994 for White House judicial nominees. However, the president’s advisers were disappointed because nearly half of Bush’s selections to the U.S. appeals courts were blocked by the Democratic-controlled Senate. “This is very troubling and unprecedented,” said Viet Dinh, an assistant attorney general who heads the office that screensnominations.“All we wanted was an up-ordown vote on them.” But the Democrats say the late rush of Senate confirmations shows that the president’s nominees fared reasonably well. “The vitriolic rhetoric (aside), the reality is that we have approved far more judicial nominees for this president than past Senates did for other presidents,” said Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., the outgoing chairman of the Judiciary Committee. The year’s fierce ideological clash over judges ended in a battle over statistics. In all, Bush had 100 judges confirmed in the two years of the 107th Congress. Of these, 83 will serve as trial judges on federal district courts, while 17 will join the regional U.S. circuit courts of appeals. Leahy contrasted that record with the six previous years, when Democrat Bill Clinton was president and the Republicans controlled the Senate. Clinton won confirmation of 73 judges in the 104th Congress of 1995-96; 98 judges in the 105th Congress of 1997-98; and 72 judges in the 106th Congress of 19992000. Leahy also says there were 110 vacancies on the federal courts when the Democrats took control of the Senate in July 2001 and only 60 today, far fewer than most of the years Clinton was in the White House. But Senate Republicans and the president’s aides say these comparisons are misleading. Most new presidents win easy confirmation of nearly all their first nominees to the federal bench. And no president has had as many of his appeals court nominees blocked, they say.

Gore says Bush has lost focus on terrorism LOS ANGELES (Washington Post) — Former vice president Al

Gore Wednesday accused President Bush of losing focus on the war against terrorism, saying Bush’s two-month campaign to “beat the war drums” against Iraq may have helped Republicans win control of Congress this month but left the country less secure against possible future attacks. Gore said in an interview here that Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist network pose a greater immediate danger than does Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Bush’s decision to shift attention to possible war with Iraq, he said, represented “an historic mistake” that has left Afghanistan facing chaos and U.S. intelligence agencies without some of the resources needed to carry out the war against terrorism. “During the two months prior to the election, the president, instead of directing the war against terror, crisscrossed the nation campaigning against Saddam Hussein,” Gore said. “Now Osama’s back and we’ve lost a considerable amount of valuable time and effort.They’ve (the Republicans) won both houses of Congress, but the country has lost.” Gore conducted several interviews with newspapers and wire services here Wednesday as he continues a promotional tour for a pair of books he and his wife, Tipper, have published this month. The book tour represents a carefully planned political re-emergence by the former vice president, who lost the 2000 election to Bush after a 36-day recount in Florida and a decision by a narrowly divided Supreme Court. He has remained mostly out of the limelight until the book tour began. After the tour and upcoming holidays, Gore said he would decide whether to launch another presidential bid and acknowledged that, if he chooses to run, he must prove to the American people and to Democratic insiders that he has learned the lessons of his defeat. Although Gore has shown signs of moving to the left as he prepares for a possible campaign, he rejected that prescription as the answer to the Democrats’ problems.

Bush says NATO states should decide individually on Iraq action PRAGUE, Czech Republic (Baltimore Sun) — President Bush said

Wednesday that NATO states should decide individually whether to join the United States in any military action against Iraq, but said it was still possible that Saddam Hussein’s regime could be disarmed peacefully. In a speech to students Wednesday, Bush said the threats of terrorists — including those who could be helped by Iraq — were as dangerous as those faced by “your grandfathers and grandmothers.” And, he suggested, it was time for European countries to repay the United States for its role in World War II. “Great evil is stirring in the world,” Bush said. “The commitment of my nation to Europe is found in the carefully tended graves of young Americans who died for this continent’s freedom,” Bush said. Earlier, at a news conference with Czech President Vaclav Havel, Bush said, “If the collective will of the world is strong, we can achieve disarmament peacefully.” But if Saddam does not disarm, “the United States will lead a coalition of the willing to disarm him.” “But one thing is certain,” he said, “he’ll be disarmed, one way or the other, in the name of peace.” NATO leaders were gathering to vote seven more countries into the alliance Thursday. That move — the largest expansion since NATO’s creation in 1949 — has been largely overshadowed by the prospect of war with Iraq. American F-16s were providing security in Czech air space while 15,000 police and military personnel were guarding the Prague streets below, both to defend against any terrorist attack and to control anti-war protests that began on a small scale Wednesday and are expected to grow. While Bush tried to ease anxieties that he was bent on war, there is strong sentiment in Prague and throughout Europe — evidenced by street protests that have attracted thousands in recent weeks, including a half-million in Florence — that military action is merely a matter of time. “It’s easy why people are against war on Iraq,” said Milan Smrz, 54, who said he would be among thousands of protesters expected at Prague’s Wenceslas Square on Thursday. “We lived under communism, and communism was a war against the people. Now we have Bush leading the way to war again.” Bush is seeking NATO approval of a military strike against Iraq if he deems it necessary, but he is not asking

the alliance, as a whole, to take part. The White House has confirmed it has been conducting a poll of sorts of foreign leaders around the world in recent days to see which countries can be counted on to join an attack against Iraq should the work of United Nations inspectors be thwarted. Despite the United Nations resolution that put inspectors back in Baghdad on Monday, key U.S. allies remain divided on what would constitute a trigger for a military attack on Iraq. Germany has said it will not take part in any military action. More than 40 heads of state are in Prague for the summit, though except for a select few people, the public will see none of them. Their hotel is cordoned by a gauntlet of Czech soldiers standing shoulder-to-shoulder. Snipers are atop surrounding buildings and helicopters hover over Prague constantly. The small protests of several hundred people that have popped up have been kept far from the dignitaries, some of whom were still arriving last night. None of them has taken part in any public events other than the brief speech Bush gave to students in which he called on NATO countries to contribute more militarily to the alliance. That seclusion by leaders, said Irena Vodakova, 42, a teacher in Prague who planned to protest Thursday, is frustrating — and partly responsible for what she sees as an inevitable march toward war. “They’re discussing war and peace but there is no reason for a politician to listen to someone like me because this war is about them,” she said. “They have their meetings, say nice things to each other but they don’t know or don’t care that people like me are absolutely opposed to war. It is all about power, especially with Bush, whose attitude is, `I can decide for you.’ Well, I don’t want him deciding for me.” The countries expected to be invited to join NATO are the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, along with Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. None of the countries comes close to constituting a military power, but Bush said at his news conference that as a group they could contribute significantly by sharing their specialties. The Czech Republic, for example, he said, has expertise in dealing with the aftermath of a biological attack.

Tanker slicks may haunt Spain for years MALPICA, Spain (Washington Post) — The seascape is spoiled and thousands of livelihoods are ruined along the jagged northwest shoulder of Spain. If the scenes of blackstained coast were not bleak enough, residents Wednesday pondered the possibility that new oil slicks from the sunken tanker Prestige might be a threat for weeks, maybe years, to come. On Tuesday, six days after a gash opened in its side during a storm, the Prestige snapped in half and sank. It had already bled a tenth of its cargo, and another tenth spewed into the Atlantic when it broke apart. Ninety beaches and bays along 120 miles of the coast of Galicia were stained by toxic fuel. As they have for days, naval cleanup crews feverishly shoveled tons of goo from beaches. The rugged stretch of scalloped bays and cliffs is known as the Coast of Death. The fate of the rest of the Prestige’s cargo, which lies in broken wreckage about two miles down and about 130 miles offshore, remains an open question. The amount of fuel aboard was double the massive cargo of the Exxon Valdez that soiled Alaska’s coast in 1989. No new leaks were spotted Wednesday. Still, scientists and environmentalists debated whether the fuel will languish there safely for eternity, or whether the wreck is a time bomb. According to government officials in La Coruna, the biggest port on the coast, the fuel will coagulate under the pressure and low temperatures of the sea bottom, and stay put. “In the current situation, there may be a bit of luck,” an official said. But Sara del Rio, an expert in toxins for the Greenpeace environmental group, said, “We can’t know what’s going to happen,” noting that the wreck lies near a fertile marine life area called the Galicia Banks. Here in Malpica, a tiny fishing village, the beach appeared Wednesday to have been restored to its normal golden hue. But the heavy surf moves sand in and out,

and a layer of fuel oil lies beneath the beach’s surface. The odor is similar newly laid asphalt. Cleanup crews in yellow slickers finished shoveling and awaited permission from environmental authorities to bulldoze. “We literally shovel against the tide. We might as well be using spoons,” said Jose Luis Gomez Pardo, a provincial official overseeing the cleanup. Three tarred seagulls were taken to an animal clinic on shore for cleaning Wednesday, Gomez said. Three hundred from the coast have been saved. “But we are worried. There are two rare birds—the Arao—who are the only ones left in this area. We haven’t seen them,” he said. Meanwhile, observers aboard helicopters and light planes scanned the seas for signs of massive slicks. Tracking them is tricky. Currents along Galicia shift unpredictably with the tides. Winds Wednesday reached up to 30 mph. Government officials said the slicks appeared to be moving parallel to the east coast. Just in case, in port after port, sailors and fishermen tried to shore up floating barriers to block new arrivals. “We don’t know what’s going to happen the next few minutes or the next few years,” fretted Jose Luis Otero Gomez, a fisherman and proprietor of the Humboldt Bar near Malpica’s port. In any event, a grim future has already arrived for Malpica’s fishermen. The Spanish government has prohibited fishing or harvesting mollusks and shellfish on the Galician coast. Malpica’s 1,500 fishermen idled their colorfully painted boats — some the size of dinghies, some big enough to carry nine people on deep-sea trips of a month or more. Usually on a clear day like Wednesday, the dock bustles with returning sailors and arriving truckers who buy seafood to distribute throughout Spain. Wednesday, the port was deserted. Nets lay folded on the docks and octopus traps were stacked atop one another. The Luisa and the Manolito and Lourdes fish kiosks were shuttered.

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Iran’s alleged nuclear program raises new worries U.S. intelligence reports show Iran may pose a greater nuclear threat than Iraq WASHINGTON (Newsday) — While the Bush administration has focused public attention on Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction, Iran’s nuclear weapons program has in recent months begun to appear more worrisome than Iraq’s, according to U.S. intelligence. Administration officials and nuclear proliferation specialists say Iran is trying covertly to produce weapons-grade uranium or plutonium. A U.S. official with access to intelligence reporting on nonproliferation acknowledged in an interview that Iran’s nuclear weapons effort is now more developed than Iraq’s. The official asked not to be identified. With no fanfare, Mohamed ElBaradei, the top U.N. weapons inspector — now in Baghdad to begin the search for Saddam Hussein’s alleged nuclear weapons facilities — plans a trip soon to look at nuclear sites in Iran. ElBaradei, director general of the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview he hopes to visit sites that may be part of an effort by Iran to acquire a complete nuclear fuel cycle, including what many experts believe will include an ability to produce bomb-grade plutonium. The U.S. government considers Iran the most active state sponsor of international terrorism, far more than Iraq, and President Bush has included Iran in his “axis of evil” along with Iraq and North Korea. Iran is developing a medium-range ballistic missile, based on a North Korean design, that would be capable of striking Israel, experts say. While some parts of the Iranian leadership have moderated their anti-Western rhetoric in recent years, key leaders in charge of the mili-

tary have not and the hard-line Iranian leaders still call for destruction of Israel. What worries U.S. officials and experts most is Iran’s interest in technology for the production of nuclear reactor fuel and the handling of spent fuel. This “fuel cycle” can include reprocessing of the spent fuel to extract weapons-grade plutonium, a step specialists in and outside the U.S. government are convinced the Iranians want to take. “They are pursuing clandestinely through false trading companies and a variety of other means an intensive effort to develop those attributes of the fuel cycle which are necessary” to building nuclear weapons, said John Wolf, assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation. ElBaradei said last week that he expects to go to Iran soon and will seek to visit facilities that he said are under construction as part of Iran’s fuel cycle program. He declined to give specifics on the sites but said Iranian officials “assured me that whatever they are building there will be declared” to his agency and placed under an inspection regime. In a little-noted speech to the International Atomic Energy Agency’s general conference in September, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of the Iran Atomic Energy Organization, invited “technologically advanced” nations “to participate in my country’s ambitious plan for the construction of nuclear power plants and the associated technologies such as fuel cycle, safety and waste management.” Aghazadeh said that “complete transparency of my country’s nuclear activities is a serious commitment by my government.” But U.S. officials and some independent analysts are skeptical. “I think it’s a very dangerous trend,” said Gary Samore of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a London-based think tank. “I think the Iranians are likely to pursue a nuclear weapons program under the

guise of a safeguarded fuel cycle.” Samore, who handled nonproliferation matters for the National Security Council during the Clinton administration, said such an approach by Iran, unless challenged, could set a precedent in the region that “will guarantee proliferation throughout the area.” An Iranian official in New York denied this week that his government has any interest in nuclear weapons. “Our program is for energy and peaceful aims only,” said Morteza Ranandi, press attache at Iran’s U.N. mission. Wolf said in an interview that Iran has been using front companies to pursue technology from suppliers around the world that would be useful in the fabrication and reprocessing of nuclear fuel. Wolf said the purchases include “esoteric technologies which only really make sense as part of a weapons development program.” He declined to offer more specifics on the suppliers, but said they “aren’t looking carefully at the end users.” The CIA, in a written follow-up to a question during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in February, said a chief goal of the Iranian nuclear program “has been the acquisition of a large, heavy-water moderated, natural uranium-fueled reactor and associated facilities suitable for production of weaponsgrade plutonium.” Heavy water is water in which both of the molecule’s hydrogen atoms have been replaced with the isotope deuterium. It is a key to one type of reactor in which plutonium can be bred from natural uranium. Developing such a reactor would let Iran bypass the need for elaborate facilities to enrich uranium for burning in a standard light-water reactor before the fuel can then be processed to extract plutonium. The CIA said Iran also is pursuing uranium enrichment strategies. An Iranian dissident group, the

National Council of Resistance of Iran, said in August that it had learned from sources within Iran about two secret nuclear sites under construction. One, about 25 miles southeast of the city of Kashan, is to be used for nuclear fuel production, the council said. It said the site includes two large halls 25 feet underground. A facility meant to produce heavy water is along a river near the central Iranian city of Arak, the council said. Wolf said the State Department’s information is consistent with the dissident group’s disclosures. “These are two clandestine sites, including one underground,” he said. The administration official familiar with U.S. intelligence reports on nuclear proliferation said other sites in Iran are of interest as well, but he declined to discuss them further. “There are an enormous number of place names said to be associated with Iran’s nuclear ambitions,” said John Pike, director of the nonprofit GlobalSecurity.org. But without further non-classified information on them — such as good commercial satellite photography — Pike said, it is impossible for him to assess their importance. The International Atomic Energy Agency is taking a wait-and-see stance. Mark Gwozdecky, an agency spokesman, said Iran has the right to build facilities for fabricating and processing nuclear fuels as long as it declares their existence at the appropriate time and opens them for inspection. Such facilities are not technically subject to the agency’s safeguards and inspection procedures until nuclear materials are introduced into them, Gwozdecky said. Still, several nuclear experts said there is widespread concern in the nonproliferation community that Iran is seeking to obtain technology that will facilitate a nuclear weapons program.

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At Ground Zero, a tall order for developer Silverstein NEW YORK (Washington Post) — Larry A. Silverstein is talking pure lust. He ramps up the comic in his gravelly voice. “Absolute lust,” the 71-year-old real estate tycoon says. “Unadulterated lust!” Inside his posh Fifth Avenue office, he’s wistfully remembering those days when he virtually salivated over the biggest prize a real estate developer could win. It was 1987. He’d just dedicated the newly built addition to his growing commercial empire, a 47-story office block called World Trade Center 7, with 2 million square feet of space. But it felt so small, so “finite,” Silverstein says, compared with what towered above: the iconic twin towers, 110 stories high, called World Trade Center 1 and 2. He remembers looking up at those stunning towers and thinking, “My God! This is huge! ... Ah, someday wouldn’t it be incredible to own those as well?” “They were there, and they were irresistible,” he says lustily. And they would become his. At last, in 2001, Silverstein won the bid to become the leaseholder on the twin towers’ 10 million square feet of office space. “Silverstein on Top of the World With the WTC,” the New York Daily News blared that July 25. His company began constructing its offices on the 101st

floor of WTC 1. It opened temporary offices on the 88th floor. Silverstein spent his days at the towers, meeting and greeting his tenants. With three World Trade Center buildings under his control, Larry A. Silverstein became one of the largest commercial landlords in New York City. Until Sept. 11, 2001. Various shots of his 130-foot yacht, taken from different angles, decorate Silverstein’s office at Silverstein Properties. A corridor is decorated with gallery-lit portraits of some of the dozen buildings he owns, most on Fifth Avenue. In the conference room, his father, Harry Silverstein, the company’s founder, smiles genially from the wall. The walls also are hung with schematics of 7 World Trade Center. Silverstein Wednesday unveiled his construction plans for Seven World Trade Center. These plans are the first renderings of how any of the buildings destroyed by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks would look in the reconstructed World Trade Center complex. Nearly two decades after he built it the first time, Building 7 soon will rise anew. It is but one step toward Silverstein’s larger goal: to regain what he lost on Sept. 11, 2001, when terror attacks obliterated the entire 16-acre world trade complex plus several

more buildings around it. And his quest to get back as much of his 12 million square feet as possible is at the heart of the economically complicated, emotionally charged and civically challenging question of how to redevelop the Trade Center site, how to revive Lower Manhattan and how to memorialize the nearly 3,000 people who died, including four Silverstein employees. As a pivotal character in this fraught process, Silverstein has been accused of blatant selfinterest, especially when he began talking of rebuilding, rebuilding, rebuilding in the early weeks after the terror attacks. Some families of the dead have set upon him for not embracing their vision of the site’s hallowed status. After all, the remains of more than half the dead have not been found and were perhaps scattered as ashes all over the site. For many months, Silverstein’s interests appeared to be shaping the redevelopment process. When preliminary designs were unveiled over the summer, the dense concentration of 50- and 60-story office blocks atop Ground Zero reflected the singular desire of the city, the state and Silverstein to restore the millions of square feet of office space that were a key revenue stream.

Vaccine makes it over first hurdle in cervical cancer prevention (L. A. Times) — U.S. researchers have successfully tested a vaccine against human papilloma virus, a feat many consider the first step toward the eventual prevention of most cases of cervical cancer, which is caused by the virus. Widespread use of the vaccine, which could occur in as little as five years, could eventually result in an 85 percent reduction in the worldwide toll of 450,000 cervical cancer cases annually and 250,000 deaths. Such an effective vaccine against “would have profound effects,” said Dr. Christopher P. Crum of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, who added that papilloma infections could eventually fade away like polio, smallpox and diphtheria. Another team reports Thursday that a vaccine against herpes simplex virus 2, the primary cause of genital herpes, is 75 percent effective in women who have not previously been exposed to a herpes virus. Genital herpes afflicts one in five Americans over the age of 12. “This is the first clinically relevant success we have had in the entire field,” said Charles Ebel of the American Social Health Association, which has been leading anti-herpes campaigns. “Nothing has worked at all until now.” Some data suggest that herpes also contributes to cervical cancer, so the development of a vaccine against it would provide a double whammy. “This is the first time that this type of therapeutic intervention is

available for a cancer that affects hundreds of thousands of women worldwide,” said Dr. Beth Carlin of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Both vaccines are now entering larger clinical trials. The herpes vaccine also could be available for clinical use in as little as five years. Since human papilloma viruses, or HPVs, were first discovered two decades ago, researchers have identified 20 of them, five of which are involved in triggering cervical cancer. But one, HPV-16, is by far the most common, infecting an estimated 20 percent of the population and causing at least half of the cancer cases. The new vaccine is targeted specifically against HPV16. The vaccine is composed of virus-like particles, grown in yeast, that contain all the surface proteins of the virus but none of its genetic information. It is manufactured by Merck Research Laboratories and administered in three injections over a six-month period. Merck paid for the new study. In the study, a team led by Dr. Laura Koutsky of the University of Washington enrolled nearly 2,400 women between the ages of 16 and 23. Half received the vaccine and half a placebo. The women were studied for an average of two years, and will be followed for an additional two. The team reports in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine

that 41 women in the placebo group developed HPV-16 infections during the course of the study, but none of the women receiving the vaccine. Nine cases of HPV-16-related cervical intraepithelial neoplasia—a precursor of cervical cancer—occurred among women who received the placebo, but none among those who received the vaccine. The group is now starting trials of a vaccine that targets not only HPV-16, but also three other papilloma viruses. The four viruses account for 70 percent of cervical cancers and 90 percent of genital warts. “The implications of having a vaccine are enormous,” Koutsky said. Screening for cervical cancers with Pap smears has reduced the yearly number of deaths in the United States to about 4,100, but the tests are too expensive for most developing countries. “A vaccine could make a real impact in those countries,” she said. It could have a different kind of impact in this country, Carlin said. Many women with a curable form of cervical cancer must undergo hysterectomies, leaving them infertile. Preventing infections would eliminate most of those cases, she said. A majority of positive Pap smears, furthermore, are associated with an HPV infection rather than cervical cancer, and each positive test requires expensive and time-consuming follow-up tests to rule out disease, Crum said.

A year after Taliban, daily life in Kabul is struggle for most KABUL, Afghanistan (Washington Post)

— On a nameless street in a maze of mud-colored residential ruins are three adjacent houses that illustrate, as well as any corner of Kabul, the raggedly uneven progress that has come to the Afghan capital a year after it was freed from the asphyxiation of Taliban rule. The first house, a bulletpocked wreck without windows, doors, water or electricity, is occupied by three poor families who recently returned from a decade in Pakistani refugee camps. Winter is fast approaching, and there is no money for wood or coal. Only one family member has found work, as a casual construction laborer. ‘We wait all day for my son-inlaw to come home,’ said Kandi Gul, 65, peeking out from behind a torn plastic tent that serves as a front door. “If he brings home some money, we can buy rice or potatoes for dinner. If he doesn’t, we don’t eat.” The next house is a half-rebuilt hive of activity, with workmen laying bricks and pouring cement for an expensive new roof with fashionably scalloped eaves. The owner is an Afghan diplomat, related to a cabinet minister, who visits periodically to inspect the work. The third house, a weedy jumble of broken bricks, belongs to Zia Modaressi, a librarian who has just returned from 15 years in Pakistan and works for a U.N. project here. He is sleeping in his Kabul office, however, because he cannot afford to renovate his family’s former home. “My father built this house 40 years ago, and I want to come back,” said Modaressi, poking sadly through the rubble. “A lot of professionals like me want to come back and share in rebuilding the country. But government salaries are very low, and rents are very high. There is no place to start.” It has been just over a year since a U.S.-led military assault drove the Taliban from Kabul, bringing back a semblance of normal urban life for the first time in a decade, opening the way for refugees to return and promising a variety of opportunities for those with skill or money to invest in their country’s rebirth. Today, Kabul is a bustling capital of 2.7 million, more than twice the population of one year ago. Women barred from public life under the Taliban now fill offices and classrooms; music, once banned as un-Islamic, blares from taxis and cassette stands. Shops burst with imported goods, houses are being stylishly renovated and new restaurants offer Thai and Italian cuisine. But often it seems as if the benefits of Kabul’s liberation have been bestowed only on the lucky or well-connected few, while the burdens of its rapid growth, dilapidated infrastructure and continued economic stagnation have fallen on everyone else. Take the problem of traffic. A year ago, there were more bicycles on city streets than motor vehicles, and there was no rush hour because most businesses and government agencies were closed. Today the capital is

trapped in semi-permanent gridlock; a testament to both the welcome surge of urban activity and the woeful incapacity to cope with it. For government and foreign aid officials with powerful SUVs and chauffeurs, commuting is merely an inconvenient obstacle course. For hundreds of thousands of Kabulis who depend on public transportation, it is a nightmare. With less than 150 public buses in operation, getting home after work may mean waiting an hour in the dark, fighting for a spot in (or atop) a hopelessly crammed coach, and crawling across town for another hour or two. “There were 3,000 taxis in Kabul a year ago; now there are 30,000. Everyone wants to buy a car, but no one has a driver’s license, and the traffic signals don’t work,” groaned Lal Mohammed, a policeman frantically waving and whistling at a choked intersection last week. “I love to see people back in the streets, but this peace and stability also bring more problems every day.” The acute shortage of electricity throughout the capital is a more worrisome byproduct of the city’s population boom, and a more acute example of the imbalance between its haves and havenots — especially with the approach of another harsh winter in the mountain-ringed capital. The combination of protracted drought, neglect and war damage to the region’s hydroelectric dams, along with the enormous surge in public demand, has led to a near collapse of the power system in the past month. Less than half of urban homes are electrified, and under a recent emergency regimen, most of those receive power only for eight hours, at night. While poorer Kabulis shiver around wood stoves and gas cylinders, wealthy residents can simply turn on their generators when the electricity sputters and dies each evening. In addition, certain public buildings, such as hospitals, schools and police stations, are theoretically exempted from the rationing system. Hundreds of students, angry at the electrical cuts and food shortages, surged into the streets in a spontaneous nighttime protest. Police opened fire on the crowd, killing three students and leaving numerous others hospitalized with gunshot wounds. “The university is in the (exempt) category, but the system kept breaking down,” said Mohammed Younus Nawandish, the deputy minister for water and power. The underlying problem, he said, is an excess of inhabitants. “We estimated there would be one or two families per house, but in some areas there is one family per room, so the power is always overused.” Now, by repairing and reactivating two old gas turbines, the government hopes to have city power restored full time before the worst cold sets in. But for tens of thousands of squatters in Kabul’s heatless, lightless ruins, the coming winter will mean scavenging for firewood, waiting in line for donated sacks of coal, or freezing.

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... on drugs Substance-free housing is a laudable residential program in theory, but an ineffectual joke in practice. The substance-free dorm in Hegeman E was initiated in the 1980s as a means of providing residential support for those with substance abuse problems, those eschewing drugs and alcohol for religious reasons and those simply opting to live in a vomit-free zone. However, the program has failed to evolve beyond its nebulous conception in the past 20 years. The substance-free contract lacks a mission statement and breadth regarding the regulations that govern the housing program. Associate Dean of Residential Life Donald Desrochers won’t even discuss the program with The Herald. Questions as to whether possession of alcohol in one’s dorm room is discouraged and whether coming home to a substance-free dorm intoxicated is acceptable go unanswered. Furthermore, the contract makes no provision for enforcement of a substance-free zone. The onus to keep the environment substance free rests completely on its residents, and the only way one can feasibly be removed from substance-free housing is by student complaint. It is unacceptable and ludicrous for the University to expect students to patrol their home and turn in their peers in order to maintain a drug-free space. Moreover, since enforcement is universally perceived as a joke for this reason, students feel even less pressure to abide by the contracts they’ve signed. Hegeman E offers desirable suite housing, and it is naive of the University to believe that most of its residents choose to live there due, not despite, the fact that it was substance free. The University should be commended for attempting to revise the substance-free contract and provide substantial residential support for those who have a genuine desire to live in a chemical-free dorm. But substantial policy changes need to go into effect for next year to make substance-free housing a meaningful, effective program. The University must revise its contract to prohibit both possession and consumption of alcohol within the building, and provide support from Health Services and ResLife to truly foster this environment. Enforcement should be ensured by a residential counselor or programmer, so that students won’t be faced with the uncomfortable situation of having to report a friend for alcohol consumption. Lastly, substance-free housing should remain in New Pembroke No. 2 only, so that the University can best concentrate its resources in one place. The housing in Hegeman E is too desirable to ensure that students opt to live there will do so for pure motives and adhere to its rules and regulations. Having one dormitory substance free in both name and practice is far better than having two dormitories substance free in name only.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD EDITORIAL Seth Kerschner, Editor-in-Chief David Rivello, Editor-in-Chief Will Hurwitz, Executive Editor Sheryl Shapiro, Executive Editor Beth Farnstrom, Senior Editor Elena Lesley, News Editor Brian Baskin, Campus Watch Editor Carla Blumenkranz, Arts & Culture Editor Stephanie Harris, Academic Watch Editor Juliette Wallack, Metro Editor Victoria Harris, Opinions Editor

BUSINESS Stacey Doynow, General Manager Jamie Wolosky, Executive Manager Joe Laganas, Senior Accounts Manager Moon-Suk Oh, Marketing Manager David Zehngut, National Accounts Manager Lawrence Hester, University Accounts Manager Bill Louis, University Accounts Manager Hyebin Joo, Local Accounts Manager Jungdo Yu, Local Accounts Manager Tugba Erem, Local Accounts Manager Jack Carrere, Noncomm Accounts Manager Laurie-Ann Paliotti, Sr. Advertising Rep. Genia Gould, Advertising Rep. Kate Sparaco, Office Manager

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BOMBS OVER BAGHDAD!!!! BRIAN BASKIN

LETTERS Staff layoffs as a result of budget woes not discussed by University To the Editor: The lead article in The Herald (“Budget woes have Univ. considering staff layoffs,” 11/20) quotes me as saying, “‘There probably will be’ staff layoffs or cutbacks” as a result of budget pressures. I did not say that. What I did say is that as part of the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment approved last February, the University is committed to achieving savings in administrative and support areas in order to reallocate resources to our academic needs and priorities. The University has not discussed layoffs. Richard Spies Executive Vice President for Planning Senior Advisor to the President Nov. 20

Columns on serious subjects must expect serious criticism To the Editor: In “People should express dissent in polite and respectful manner” (11/20), Adam Greenwood ’03 expresses his opinion that, in responding to Heather Johnston’s ’06 piece advocating the death penalty “Supporting the death penalty in the U.S. a necessary evil,” 11/15), I was guilty of a “vicious attack” on her. Other than some generalities (e.g. “immature rhetoric”), however, his sole specific basis for this charge is that I labeled her work as a “remarkable display of sophistry.” According to my dictionary, the primary definition of “sophistry” is “unsound reasoning,” and that is exactly what I was opining regarding the piece. Johnston’s piece was on a very serious subject: She was advocating the execution of prisoners. Furthermore, it was made in a public forum, not a private setting. I make no apology for listing the

flaws I saw in her reasoning as she attempted to justify what I see as state-sponsored murder. I do not see the advocacy of killing people as a gentle subject, and I do not see the necessity for being gentle when dissenting from a published article on the subject. Given that there is no evidence that Johnston was particularly traumatized by my “vicious attack,” is it not a bit condescending for a senior man to come galloping to the rescue of a first year woman? Rather, is it not entirely possible that Johnston is a mature woman, who wrote a piece on a mature subject and is perfectly capable of dealing with the fallout of publishing that piece? Mark de Regt ’74 Nov. 20

Freedom Week an event The Herald must cover To the Editor: Students for a Sensible Drug Policy hosted its first campus-wide lecture as part of Freedom Week this week. Steven Silverman, from the organization Flex Your Rights (flexyourrights.org) spoke to about 100 students in Salomon 001 about asserting one’s constitutional rights in police encounters. Silverman’s presentation included a realistic portrayal of a police officer interrogating and subsequently arresting a suspect. His talk emphasized that most drug-related arrests are avoidable if the person involved denies the interrogating officer permission to conduct a warrant-less search, keeps personal items out of plain view and remains courteous and polite throughout the encounter. Students at Brown would be well-served to learn about such an important presentation in their newspaper. Please be sure to send a reporter to the next Freedom Week speaker, which will be an expert on drug policy reform from the ACLU. The event is Thursday, Nov. 21 in List 120. Ben Kintisch ’03 SSDP Vice President Nov. 20

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2002 · PAGE 11

Support Wal-Mart workers against labor injustices Wal-Mart horribly mistreats its workers at home and abroad, squashes attempts to unionize WAL-MART IS THE LARGEST EMPLOYER obedience, luck and a Y chromosome. in the United States and the largest corpo- More than three quarters of Wal-Mart’s ration in the world. This is good news if workers are women, but only one third of you are a descendant of Sam Walton (five its store managers and an abysmal 10 perWaltons rank among the 10 richest people cent of its upper management are female. Those who are fortunate enough to in the world), or if you are a fan of low become store managers wages, unaffordable health receive a strict payroll budget care packages, race and genfrom headquarters, which der discrimination or violaSETH LEIBSON GUEST COLUMN they are not to exceed. As a tions of workers’ rights. If you result, it is common practice oppose such realities which for managers to force their affect a million Wal-Mart employees in the United States and count- employees to clock out and continue less more worldwide daily, you can help working, unpaid; paid overtime is anathema, but unpaid overtime is a popular change them. The average full-time Wal-Mart worker option. Workers have filed class-action in this country makes less than $11,000 a suits in at least 25 states alleging that Walyear. At that level of pay, he qualifies for Mart managers have forced them to work food stamps. Well, hey, the economy’s without pay. The only effective response workers down, but at least the benefits are good, right? Wrong. Wal-Mart doesn’t seem to get have to such treatment is unionization; a that a “company health-care policy” union can negotiate better wages and benmeans that the company pays for most of efits and ensure that all violations of conits employees’ health care. In fact, more tractual and legal rights are arbitrated. than 60 percent of Wal-Mart workers can- Unionized workers who do the same work not afford the company health care pack- at other stores get $2 to $3 more an hour, more hours (Wal-Mart defines “full-time” age. Of course, a select few workers can as 28 hours), actual company-paid health break into the coveted two-digit hourly insurance and promotions based on senwage bracket by becoming store managers iority — not gender, sexual orientation or or even joining upper management at Wal- race. So how is it that not one Wal-Mart Mart’s central headquarters in Bentonville, worker is unionized? Wal-Mart managers not only receive Arkansas. All you need is competence, strict limitations on payroll, they must also use a host of tools to ensure their stores Seth Leibson ’05 is a proud member of remain union-free. They are directed to United Cardswipers Local 234. Union Cardswipers: Your Eating Experience Starts profile employees for susceptibility to the union message — workers who are judged With Us.

“The average full-time WalMart worker in this country makes less than $11,000 a year. At that level of pay, he qualifies for food stamps.” to be “misfits” are watched particularly closely. (More sex, race and sexual orientation discrimination cases have been filed about Wal-Mart than about any other employer.) If a manager hears an employee so much as use the word “union,” a vigorous response ensues. First, the manager calls an anti-union hotline, and the company flies in members of its “labor relations” department to intimidate employees into rejecting the union. Managers keep suspected union supporters under constant surveillance, interrupting their conversations and making their lives miserable. They look for the slightest infractions, and when they find them (or get sick of waiting), they fire the workers, in flagrant violation of federal labor law. Despite these union-busting tactics, a group of Wal-Mart workers did manage to unionize. The meat shop workers of a WalMart in Texas voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers. In response, Wal-Mart closed not only that meat department but more than 60 others, switching those stores entirely to pre-

packaged meat. These problems do not extend only from sea to shining sea; Wal-Mart’s trail of worker abuses goes far beyond the borders of this country. It has accomplished the nearly impossible task of decreasing wage standards in Chinese sweatshops. When even those workers proved too expensive, Wal-Mart tried to sneak products made in Myanmar across the Canadian border; Myanmar is known for forced labor and subject to a U.S. embargo. The difference between working in Myanmar and at a Wal-Mart is that all your labor might be unpaid, as opposed to only some of it. Organized labor, other concerned groups and individuals are not taking these abuses sitting down. Today, Thursday Nov. 21, is the National WalMart Day of Action, the beginning of a campaign sponsored by the UFCW; the National Organization of Women and hundreds of other organizations are concerned about Wal-Mart’s worker’s abuses — and its censorship, distribution of weapons and environmental destructiveness, which I haven’t even gotten into. This coalition demands that Wal-Mart substantively redress these issues. Only a broad-based, committed and dedicated movement can force the largest corporation in the world to change its ways and empower its workers to demand their rights. Get involved — the millions of workers whose livelihoods have been and will be undermined by Wal-Mart need your support.

In feminist battles women are their own worst enemies To effectively campaign for equality, women must understand the aims of feminism and unite behind them THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT, FROM would make all bathrooms unisex and the days of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and would diminish the legal rights of wives. Susan B. Anthony to the world of Gloria She believed such a bill would end Steinem and Betty Friedan, has always women’s role in the home and force all been plagued by the same problem: women into the work force. To protest, women are their own worst enemies. she and her followers baked pies and gave them to congressmen, Even in the current era of asking them politely to vote “grrrl power” and new age against the ERA. feminism, the hardest batKATE KLONICK Furthermore, she spoke at tles come from within our GUEST COLUMN more than 30 congressional own gender. hearings, imploring that the Although I am sure it can amendment be voted down, be seen throughout all of history, two incidents come most for the sake of “family values.” Though the suffrage movement prominently to mind. The first is the suffrage movement. As suffragettes thankfully succeeded, the fight for the protested in the streets wearing yellow Equal Rights Amendment was not as banners and demanding the right to fortunate. What Schlafly and women like vote, women gathered on the opposite her failed to understand was that such side protesting against women’s right to an amendment would in no way hinder vote. Their complaint was that they their rights. Government agents would were, in fact, not equal to men and did- not drag women who chose to be mothn’t want to be. Society had so convinced ers and housewives out of the home, them of their mental incapacity that demanding that they get a college they believed themselves unqualified degree and earn a salary. On the confor the hefty responsibility of voting. trary, it would make the dreams of They perceived these radical “feminists” women who had yearned to become as threats to their tidy world of house- doctors, CEOs, lawyers and senators that much easier to attain. keeping and child-rearing. When I was in third grade, my mother In 1972, disunity within the women’s movement once again reared its ugly ran on the Republican ticket for public head. This came at the time of the Equal office. In the course of her campaign, she Rights Amendment, which simply state spoke at the same fundraisers and functhat equality of rights should not be tions as her male opponents. It was dur“denied or abridged” on account of sex. ing one of these political soirées that a Shortly after the bill passed in the woman approached my mother after she Senate, Phyllis Schlafly arrived on the had given a speech. This female demandscene. Schlafly’s belief was that the ERA ed to know who was taking care of me and my brother while my mother was so busy campaigning. My mother quite aptly Kate Klonick ‘06 says equal rights include replied, “The same person who’s taking equal space on this page. This is her first care of [male opponent]’s children.” guest column for The Herald.

“In my own generation, I see young women quickly denouncing feminism. Though they are by no means against the women’s movement, they do not identify with it ... A short survey of 10 girls in my unit turned up no feminists.” The ignorance of the question was astounding. Women judge other women based on their fulfillment of gender roles. Rarely, if ever, does such a dialog occur between men. Rarely, if ever, will you see one man accost another, accusing him of being a horrible father simply for choosing a career. In my own generation, I see young women quickly denouncing feminism. Though they are by no means against the women’s movement, they do not identify with it. When I asked my roommate how she felt about women’s rights, she quickly responded, “Well, I’m not a feminist, but I do feel. . .” Her feelings, in fact, echoed my own, and I am a selfproclaimed feminist. A short survey of 10 girls in my unit turned up no feminists — except one who stated, “Yeah, I guess, but not one of those crazy, psycho ones.” The rest

expressed casual indifference and one girl stated that she, “never really got the whole feminism thing.” Her quandary is, in fact, the entire issue. The problem within the feminist movement is the lack of understanding as to what exactly the feminist movement is. There are hundreds of different “types” of feminism: “lipstick,” “stiletto” and “lesbian,” to name a few. Not only do such disparities in nomenclature create disunity, but they also cause the movement as a whole to lose identity. I was inspired to write this column after reading a newspaper printed by a radical lesbian feminist group called The Furies in the early 1970s. Though the opinion expressed was not that of “anti-feminism,” it echoed the ideas of disunity and tension within the growing women’s liberation movement. The Furies said that “Lesbians must get out of the straight women’s movement and form their own movement in order to be taken seriously... and to force straight women to deal with their own Lesbianism.” This article shows the rampant disunity within the movement and illustrates why a bill such as the ERA failed during this time period. Women will stay diametrically opposed to feminism if they continue to remain ignorant of the issues of their gender and generation. Equal rights do not mean a lack of feminine identity. They do not mean you cannot stay at home and raise children, it simply means that those who wish can go beyond that model and achieve whatever their hearts desire. It is only through unity that women will be able to reach equality.

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SPORTS THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2002 · PAGE 12

Men’s x-country ends year with top-five finish at regionals

Reliving the glory of 32-bit entertainment I REMEMBER BACK IN MIDDLE SCHOOL there would be times when I would spend entire afternoons sitting in front of the television giving myself a sore hand. Most of the time one of my friends would be right next to me doing the same thing. We would yell and scream till our voices were hoarse. What could possibly captivate us day in and day out and take us on an emotional roller coaster? Two words: Nintendo and Sega. IAN CROPP While they may CROPP, CROPP DOWN, DOWN not currently be LEFT, RIGHT on the forefront of technology, these two systems were the crème de la crème a decade ago. At the time, I couldn’t conceive that a system would have any more than 32 bits, so the faux fans in NHL 94 made me wonder how they could do such cool things. Most of the games weren’t too life like, but then again Lawrence Taylor played like he was on crack in the game Tecmo Super Bowl, so they definitely had a few things right. Why were the games so alluring? Well, for one I could follow my dreams and accomplish things that would never actually happen, like winning the Super Bowl with the Buffalo Bills or fighting Mike Tyson without losing any body parts. Kind of like nicotine, video games were addictive, and I had to get my daily dose. Try as I might, I could not resist the temptation of seeing how many goals I could score on Andy Moog or how many times I would be blessed with the infinite wisdom of John Madden commenting “that’s gotta hurt.” But more than anything, the sheer simplicity of the game made it enjoyable. Nintendo had only A and B buttons with a simple four directional pad. When Sega took things up a notch and decided to add a C button and a throw in a slightly more advanced directional pad, I was able to catch on without much difficulty. Football games had a playbook that looked like it was right out of a Pop Warner league and hockey games didn’t provide you with the choice of power plays, but I didn’t care. Over the years, new systems started coming out with high tech graphics, realistic player movements and other great features. Although I wasn’t quite ready to make a full commitment to these systems and purchase one, I would devote time to experimenting with them. There were new features that I would really enjoy, like trading players and special moves, but like most good things in life, with greater enjoyment came greater responsibility. Before I knew it, I was playing a football game that required me not only to occupy the role of the player, but also the general manager, coach, owner, agent, scout, and commissioner. As a football fan, I could grasp the concept of it, and see where the enjoyment could come from, but all I wanted to do was play one quick game. Well, it wasn’t that easy. First I would have to draft an entire team, then I would have to negotiate contracts, then I would have to devise a playbook that looked like the secret service security detail and then I would have to sell season tickets. Only then could I start. see CROPP, page 4

BY JOANNA GROSSMAN

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The women’s basketball team opens its season this Friday at home against Fordham.

W. basketball hopes to rebuild, win with youth BY SHARA HEGDE

The women’s basketball team intends to start off its season on a strong note this Friday against Fordham University. Both teams are looking to return to the top of their respective leagues this season. Brown will rely heavily on the play of star forward Nyema Mitchell ’04, a second team All-Ivy selection last year. Mitchell averaged 11.2 points and 9.1 rebounds per game last year in addition to leading the Ivy League in blocked shots. When asked about the team’s chances against Fordham, Mitchell was optimistic. “We are looking strong right now and I think we’ll play well against them,” Mitchell said. “We beat Fordham last year so it should be a good game.” Joining Mitchell in the front court will be Co-Captain Miranda Craigwell ’04. Craigwell has been Brown’s top shooter for the past two years. Brown will also rely on guard Tanara Golston ’04, a holdover from last year’s squad. Golston, one of the team’s top scorers last year, averaged 7.2 points per game and saw action in all 26 games. Last year the Bears led the Ivy League in field goal percentage and were ranked 38th in total field goal defense, allowing just 37 percent shooting. Brown also led the Ivies in blocked shots with 4.56 per game. While the veteran leadership is there for the Bears, they will also need some breakout performances from the fresh-

men. Brown landed one of the top recruiting classes in the Ivy League this year and Coach Jean Burr will need her first years to play well for the team to succeed. Burr is excited about three outstanding newcomers who will be joining the Bears’ front court. Julia Barton ’06, an honorable mention All-State selection, joins the Bears after averaging 16 points and 7.6 rebounds a game at Lakewood High School in Ohio. A two-time team captain, Adriana Bates ’06 scored 17 points and pulled down 10 rebounds a game as a senior for 20-2 Tully High School in New York. She was a first team All-American at the USA Junior National Basketball Tournament. Ashley Bernius ‘06 averaged eight points and seven rebounds per game for Walt Whitman High School in Maryland and was named to the Montgomery Country Senior All-Star Team. Brown faces a Fordham squad that is off to a strong start. The Rams have won their first two exhibition games convincingly and are looking to rebound from a 6-23 season last year. Senior forward Mobolaji Akiode has started off this season on a tear, scoring 24 and 21 points respectively in the two exhibition games. Fordham has also received strong play from junior guard Patty Williams, the team’s top scorer last year. Tip off is Friday 7:00pm at the Pizzitola Sports Center. — With reports from Sports Information.

The men’s cross country team closed out their season on Saturday at the NCAA regional meet at Van Cortland Park in New York City, N.Y. Though the weather was cold and rainy, the Bears’ performance at the meet was a definite improvement over their disappointing finish at the Heptagonal Championships two weeks ago, finishing fifth out of thirty-three teams. All seven runners finished in the top 90 runners. Perennial favorites Iona College and Providence College captured the top two places and the only team berths from this region to go to the Nationals. “The district this year was extremely strong, though we thought that we had an outside shot at getting third place,” said Head Coach John Gregorek. “We were hoping to pick off either Dartmouth or Columbia. We certainly expected to finish no worse than fifth place, and that’s where we finished, so that tells us where we’re at.” Jeff Gaudette’05 was Brown’s top finisher coming in 18th place, covering the 10kilometer course in 31:27. “Jeff ran very well, had a really nice performance,” Gregorek said. “He had a tough race at the Heps and he bounced back here, which is nice to see.” The team’s training regimen was a bit different for this race than it has been in the past. “We really tapered a lot for this past see REGIONALS, page 6

W. harriers look to future after disappointng finish to season BY MELISSA PERLMAN

A disappointing race concluded a tough season for the women’s cross country team. The team entered the Northeast Division I Regional NCAA Championships hoping to rebound from the previous meet and demonstrate to the rest of the field just how good they were. Unfortunately, Brown finished in tenth place out of 36 teams with 261 points, placing them behind Ivy League competitors Columbia, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell and Harvard. “It was a very competitive meet,” said Coach Rick Wemple. The worst I thought we would finish was seventh. That was based on how we had run the rest of the season not what I though we were actually capable of.” The entire season had been frustrating for Wemple and the Bears. Their hopes started off high, but gradually started to slump as the season progressed. “[Preseason] camp indicated we were going to be towards the top of the league and region. Then two of our best runners, Rachel Kitson ‘05 and Katie Quinlan ‘05, got hurt and that hurt us as a team,” Wemple said. The Bears did have some success in mid-season and had their peak race of the season at the New England Championships in which Brown beat sevsee HARRIERS, page 6