Monday, December 2, 2002

M O N D A Y DECEMBER 2, 2002

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD Volume CXXXVII, No. 122

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Budget woes a roadblock to aggressive enrichment initiatives

Inspection in Goddard House finds no asbestos contaminants

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

The first of two asbestos inspections of University residence halls found no contamination on campus despite concerns that a broken pipe in a Goddard House social room released the carcinogen into the air.

Last Thursday’s inspection came after members of the Delta Phi fraternity and their parents expressed concern about possible dangers associated with the broken basement pipe, Director of the Brown News Service Mark Nickel told The Herald.

Delta Phi members notified Facilities Management on Nov. 7 that a four to five foot section of the basement pipe was broken. That afternoon, Stephen Morin, director of Office of Environmental Health and Safety, closed the room.

On the afternoon of Nov. 7, the University also hired an asbestos abatement contractor, who repaired and cleaned the basement.

The University also took air samples of the room, which “confirmed that no asbestos fibers were found in the air samples,” according to a University press release.

But Goddard residents say their basement was contaminated.

Zach Worden ’04 said the University informed members of Delta Phi that asbestos had been found in the basement. Worden said University representatives met with members of the fraternity to reassure them that their health was not at risk, but he found it concerning that it might not be safe in the basement of Goddard House.

Rob Chen ’05 was one of the Delta Phi members who alerted the University to the suspicious material in early November.

Chen, along with members of his pledge class, first noticed the broken pipe last year, he said. Then, this year, pledges were responsible for cleaning the social room on a regular basis.

Chen said the group disposed of a majority of the material surrounding the pipe “one Friday afternoon and then called Facilities Management to repair the pipe.”

He and his fellow pledges had “joked about it, never knew whether it was asbestos,” Chen said. But a Goddard House custodian mentioned offhandedly to Chen that the material around the broken pipe might be asbestos.

The University first “tried to assure me that it’s not” asbestos, Chen said, but “they hadn’t come down there to inspect it.”

The Office of Environmental Health and Safety visited and closed see ASBESTOS, page 5

BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ

Josh Apte / Herald File Photo

President Ruth Simmons was ecstatic when the Brown Corporation endorsed her Initiatives for Academic Enrichment in February. It now appears that budget problems will slow down the implementation of some parts of her plan.

Despite budget shortfalls, U. officials reaffirm commitment to academic goals

BY LISA MANDLE

Administrators reaffirmed their commitment to implementing the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment at last Monday’s University Resources Committee meeting despite Brown’s recent budget woes.

The meeting of the committee, formerly known as the Advisory Committee on University Planning, was closed to the Brown community and to the press.

Assistant Provost Brian Casey reviewed the administrators’ presentations with The Herald last Tuesday.

Dean of Faculty Mary Fennell told the committee that Paul Armstrong the increase in faculty salaries this year appears to have given Brown a sizeable gain in average faculty compensation relative to its closest peer institutions, Casey said. Although data will not be available until February, Fennell “anticipates we will have moved up strongly in comparison to our peers,” Casey said.

Fennell also emphasized her commitment to bringing 100 new faculty members to the University as part of the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment,

Casey said.

The University is currently searching for 40 faculty members, some as replacements and others for new positions, he said.

President Ruth Simmons told The Herald that the plan to add 100 faculty positions over the course of five to seven years could be delayed to about seven to nine years.

Fennell asked the URC for additional funds for faculty startups. She did not ask for a specific amount, Casey said.

Dean of Biology and Medicine Donald Marsh cited a lack of space as the primary pressure point on the Division of Biology and Medicine at the URC meeting.

Marsh told URC that construction of the Life Sciences building on Meeting and Brown streets would be just the first step in addressing the space needs, Casey said.

Construction on the Life Sciences building may begin as soon as next academic year.

The proposed construction of the Life Sciences building on the East Side is a particularly controversial issue, and the University is facing opposition from East Side residents over parking, pollution, noise and other issues associated with the project.

Dean of the College Paul Armstrong see URC, page 5

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With smallpox vaccine, Brown prof teams up with U.S. gov to fight bioterrorism threat page 3

Bill Louis ’06 says the political right and left must clearly delineate their policies guest column, page 11

The current economic slump may force the University to make substantial budget cuts and delay plans to bring new faculty to campus, increase wages and implement other elements of the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment, President Ruth Simmons told The Herald Tuesday.

Simmons said she asked Elizabeth Huidekoper, the new vice president for finance and administration, to explore ways to conserve University resources to balance the budget and keep her plans afloat. The Budget Committee and the University Resources Committee, which replaced the Advisory Committee on University Planning, will assist Huidekoper in this effort.

Following an upcoming meeting of the Corporation’s Budget and Finance Committee, Simmons said the University will be prepared to announce any budget cuts or delays to the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. The University will make an announcement before the end of the semester, she said.

“We’re talking about strengthening our revenue streams in a number of ways, and we’re certainly talking about reducing expenditures,” she said. She cited vacancy savings and the new Brown First policy as successful measures that conserved University resources during the past year.

Brown First, which requires University departments and student groups to retain internal services over outside vendors, has drawn some criticism from student groups and University departments.

In the coming year, delays to the $78.8 million Initiatives for Academic Enrichment could also ease the strain on the University budget and keep the plan viable.

For instance, the current plan calls for the addition of about 100 faculty positions over the course of five to seven years. If necessary, this time frame could be expanded to about seven to nine years, Simmons said.

The plan initially included increases to the median faculty salary and to the minimum wage for staff, which would rise from $9 to $10. These changes could also be reevaluated or delayed in the coming weeks, Simmons said.

Simmons cautioned that concessions to the poor economic climate should not exceed what is necessary or compromise the quality of a Brown education. She also emphasized that the University does not currently intend to lay off staff members in response to current budget constraints.

“We have to have the budget reasonably in balance, but we also have to keep in mind that things will change,” she said.

“We shouldn’t make draconian cuts that will hamper our ability to continue to build on our strengths.”

Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 covers the Office of the President. She can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Men’s basketball claims first win of the season despite absence of Earl Hunt ’03 sports, page 12

Athletes on three fall teams claim league honors for individual performances sports, page 12

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CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2002 · PAGE 3

Dartmouth students organize to protest cancellation of swimming, diving programs

BY JESSICA SPRADLING Hanover, N.H. (U-Wire) — Hundreds of chanting students

protested the elimination of Dartmouth’s swimming and diving teams at the houses of Dean of the College James Larimore and College President James Wright.

Administrators recently announced the cuts, which become effective at the end of the winter season.

Notified only an hour before information on the cuts was released to the public, team members and coaches were shocked and dismayed by the news.

Athletes and non-athletes alike expressed their outrage at the lack of communication between the administration and the student body.

As part of the overall budget reductions across the College, the athletic department faces a nearly 2.5 percent reduction in its $10.8 million budget.

Fifty-three Dartmouth men and women are currently on the swimming and diving team, representing about 5 percent of the total population of varsity student-athletes.

The athletic department decided to eliminate the aquatic teams as opposed to spreading its $260,000 budget reduction across all athletic teams, a measure administrators said hasn’t worked well in the past.

After a day of long meetings, the swim teams, along with the 2003 Class Council, scrambled to organize a rally in the Collis Center.

At the gathering, many students voiced complaints not only about the team eliminations, but about their frustration at what they felt was the administration’s refusal to listen to student opinions. Members of Student Assembly and Palaeopitus said that despite College Provost Barry Scherr’s and Wright’s promises of greater communication between students and administration on budget cuts, students had been totally unaware of cuts to the swim

team.

Another student at the rally added that the administration was “totally divorced from what the students want.”

After several impassioned speeches, including one by Student Body Vice President Julia Hildreth ‘05, Miles Harrigan ‘03 led the crowd of students across campus to Larimore’s house, where they were met by several cruisers from the Hanover Police.

After Larimore did not appear, the crowd moved to Wright’s Webester Avenue mansion, where their shouts also received no response.

As the students marched across campus, the original crowd from Collis was joined by students who heard their cheering, or were brought by friends who had run back to their dorms. At its peak, the crowd was at least 300 strong.

The student demonstration was colorful, and included singing the alma matter as well as cheers such as, “Down with Jim — let us swim” as well as “Wright is wrong.”

Despite the fact that he had “tremendous regard” for the swim teams, College President James Wright said that across the board budget cuts in the athletic department compromised the quality of programs the College was able to offer.

Because of this, Wright said that he “totally supported” the decision made by Athletic Director Joann Harper to cut the swimming and diving teams.

Larimore said that cutting the swimming and diving teams was a last resort after two years of cutbacks in the athletic department. Larimore said he “felt that in the current situation there had been enough problems encountered with the across-the-board approach” to athletic cuts.

Larimore met with swimmers for over three hours to discuss the elimination of their program.

With vaccine research, Brown prof teams up with government to combat bioterrorism

BY BAMBOO DONG

A Brown professor is working in conjunction with the government to combat bioterrorism.

Dr. Andrew Artenstein, associate professor of medicine and an expert on infectious diseases, is researching a new method to quickly produce the smallpox vaccine.

He is conducting studies to determine whether the vaccine developed from the new method is as effective as the old one.

In the new method, derivative smallpox viruses are grown in laboratory tissue cultures rather than in cattle tissues, which take longer. The new method of developing smallpox vaccines is expected to speed up the process and make it easier for the vaccine to be produced in larger quantities.

“It’s just a more advanced and modern way of producing vaccine,” Artenstein told the Providence Journal.

He said in an interview with the George Street Journal that bioterrorism is unique because the pathogens used are manmade. He said few physicians have clinical expertise in dealing with these rare infectious diseases.

Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island in Pawtucket, where Artenstein is conducting his research, is one of three sites in the United States chosen to test the see SMALLPOX, page 4

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Honors

Goalkeeper Chris

continued from page 12

Gomez ’05 ended his

the 2002 season with 323 kills, ending her Brown career with 1,151, second all time in Brown history. Cooper also had 101 blocks and was among the League’s best in hitting percentage, kills and blocks. Angela Dunn ’03 had 250 kills, placing her fourth in career kills at Brown with 1,079. Dunn also had 62 aces, just one behind fifth all time.

Defender Dustin Branan ’03 started in each of Brown’s 17 games this year and was a solid presence, especially in the air for Brown’s backfield. His offensive statistics include one goal and one assist on the season and two goals and three assists on his career. Branan ends his tenure on College Hill having played in a total of 62 games for Brown, helping the Bears to 21 shutouts. He was also named as an All-Ivy

Smallpox continued from page 3 effectiveness and safety of the new vaccine.

The vaccine is being produced

by Acambis, a Massachusettsbased pharmaceutical company.

State officials announced this past July a plan to inoculate all health workers in Rhode Island against a possible smallpox terrorist attack, according to an ABC News report. Rhode Island officials said that in case of an emergency, they wanted to be able to

sophomore season as the Ivy League leader in saves with 73.

League selection three times.

Forward Adom Crew ’04 started off the season strongly, going on a six-game scoring streak and leading the league in scoring until an injury sidelined him in early October. Despite the abrupt end to his season, Crew finished the year tied for the lead in goals and second in scoring.

Goalkeeper Chris Gomez ’05 ended his sophomore season as the Ivy League leader in saves with 73, including a season-high ten saves in a league match on Oct. 18.

— with reports from Brown Sports Information

shield state residents from a bioterrorist attack.

State health officials said at the time that mass immunizations would require a tremendous amount of organization and preparation. Because Rhode Island is a small state, emergency inoculations can be given if the need arises.

Artenstein, who used to work at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md., is a leading researcher in his field. He has appeared at numerous national conferences to speak about anthrax and smallpox.

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Asbestos continued from page 1 the room within 30 minutes of being notified of the complaint, according to a University press release.

After the inspection, though, Facilities Management informed Chen that it was asbestos, he said.

The subsequent University-commissioned studies did not turn up harmful levels of asbestos, but Chen said what the University studied in Goddard’s basement was “a small fraction of what was actually in the room, because we had already cleaned it up.

“They had a panel come in and talk to us about how it wasn’t harmful levels,” Chen said. “We just think it’s kind of bullshit because we’ve been in that space for about a year, because there’s no way to simulate what it was like.

You can’t really tell now.”

The University discussed the situation with members of Delta Phi but did not notify other Goddard residents, including Emily Kanstroom ’05, an independent who lives in the fourth floor suite directly above Delta Phi’s rooms. She said she had heard nothing about the possible contamination, but she finds it concerning that there might be asbestos in the basement of the building where she lives.

Kanstroom said she had been in the Delta Phi section of the basement.

Mike Blitstein ’03, who also lives in Goddard but is a member of Alpha Delta Phi rather than Delta Phi, said he had not been informed that there was a suspicion of asbestos.

“I haven’t heard anything,” he said, and as far as he knew, the only maintenance that had been done in the

“They had a panel come in and talk to us about how it wasn’t harmful levels. We just think it’s kind of bullshit because we’ve been in that space for about a year, because there’s no way to simulate what it was like. You can’t really tell now.”

Rob Chen ’05 Member, Delta Phi building was on a heater in Alpha Delta Phi’s lounge.

In mid-November, the University requested two inspections of the room by the Occupational and Environmental Health Center of Rhode Island in response to Goddard residents’ concerns that the pipe was initially damaged over a year ago, Nickel said.

“Once (the pipe) was broken or cracked — nobody is sure when that happened, but it began to deteriorate steadily,” Nickel said.

Dr. Thomas Hicks, who conducted the state environmental health center’s first inspection last Thursday, found no asbestos in the air samples.

Hicks will return on Dec. 12 to conduct additional tests, Nickel said.

“For a while everybody was all

intense about” the possibility of asbestos exposure, Nickel said. “But the more we found out about it, it looks like the University did respond in a timely way.”

Chen said the pipe has been repaired in recent weeks, but he doesn’t feel it is a comprehensive repair.

“They went in and said they sealed it up and patched it up. It doesn’t even look that patched up,” Chen said.

Parts of the piping are still exposed, he said, making the repair seem like a “quick fix.”

The University’s Asbestos Operations and Maintenance Program periodically inspects buildings for possible asbestos contamination.

The program has removed “hundreds of tons of asbestos-containing materials from campus facilities and replaced them with asbestos-free materials,” according to a University press release.

No matter what the studies thus far prove regarding asbestos in the air, Chen said he and other members of the fraternity are concerned about their health.

Chen said his roommate complained of light-headedness and coughing while cleaning the social room before the University inspection, and Chen said he also felt lightheaded during the cleanup. Although the basement is officially Delta Phi’s social space, Chen said people other than members of Delta Phi have been down there.

“We have parties,” he said. “Tons and tons of people have been down there not affiliated with our fraternity.”

The broken pipe was not related to a fire that took place in the Goddard basement on Nov. 15, Nickel said.

— with Herald staff reports

URC continued from page 1 asked URC for funding for administrative support for the First Year Seminar program, Casey said.

The program is offering approximately 30 seminars this academic year.

Armstrong hopes to increase the number of seminars to 60 over the next two years, Casey said.

Armstrong Dean of the also requested additional fundCollege Paul ing to improve Brown’s summer Armstrong studies program and offer more courses, Casey also requestsaid.

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The faculty courses. voted last Tuesday to change the name and charge of the Advisory Committee on University Planning to the University Resource Committee.

Last Monday’s meeting was the first as the URC. Herald staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 covers URC. She can be reached at lmandle@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2002 · PAGE 6

IN BRIEF Kissinger, Mitchell pledge to sever any conflict-of-interest ties

Kerry explores bid for presidency WASHINGTON (L. A. Times) — Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said

and, of course, national security. And, I think, literally on almost every issue facing the country, I believe there is a better choice for this nation.”

Soon after graduating from Yale University in 1966, Kerry entered the Navy, where he served on a gunboat in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam.

He was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for his combat service. When he returned from Vietnam, he began questioning U.S. involvement in that conflict, becoming a spokesman for Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Kerry, 58, was a lawyer and prosecutor in Massachusetts before being elected lieutenant governor in 1982. He was elected to the Senate two years later and was unopposed when he ran for a fourth term in November.

In the Senate, he helped lead the investigation into the Iran-Contra affair — in which money from secret U.S. arms sales to Iran in the early 1980s went to support rebels in Nicaragua, in violation of congressional limitations — and helped expose scandals at the Abu Dhabibased Bank of Credit and Commerce International, which closed in 1991 after it was linked to secret weapons deals, drug money and terrorists.

Kerry has been a vocal critic of President Bush’s policy against Iraq, urging that Bush first go to the United Nations.

Kerryeventually voted for the congressional resolution supporting U.S. action against Baghdad. He voted against the Gulf War in 1991.

He has been sharply critical of Bush’s Middle East policy, repeating his complaint Sunday that the administration has disengaged from that area of the world during its first year in office.

He also opposes Bush’s tax cuts, saying they favor the rich.

“As people get to know me in the course of this, they’ll know the things that I have fought for and the things I stand for,” Kerry said on NBC.

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger and former Senate majority leader George Mitchell, who will head the new commission to look into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, said Sunday they would sever relations with any clients that are involved in their investigation.

They also said they would conduct an aggressive, wideranging inquiry over the next 18 months. While adding that it was “premature” before the other eight commissioners are named to say whether or not President Bush, former President Clinton or even foreign leaders or foreign intelligence agencies would be called for questioning, Kissinger did not rule it out.

“We will follow the facts where they lead,” Kissinger said on CNN’s “Late Edition.”“When there is felt to be the need that there’s information that only the president might have, that’s when that question will arise and that’s when we will pursue the facts with the leaders,” he said.“If they lead in the direction of the need for looking into the actions of foreign countries or what foreign countries knew, my personal recommendation will be to explore that,” he added.

The possibility that conflicts of interest could arise between Kissinger’s clients of his New York-based consulting firm and the targets of the 9/11 investigation was raised Sunday by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Kerry said,“I think it is going to be extraordinarily important for Dr. Kissinger to prove to the nation that he comes to this without any linkages that could remain suspect.”

Asked on Fox News Sunday about Kerry’s remark, Kissinger said,“If there are any clients that are involved in the investigations, I will certainly sever my relations with them. But I cannot conceive that there will be any.”

Sunday that he is forming an exploratory committee this week in anticipation of a 2004 bid for the White House.

“It’s an enormous step and it’s not one I take lightly, but it’s one that I’m excited about,” the decorated Vietnam War veteran said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s a challenge.”

Kerry’s move was widely expected. Once he files the papers to launch a committee, he can begin raising money to gauge whether he has backing as a serious presidential candidate.

A formal announcement of his candidacy is “down the road some months,” he said.

A recent Los Angeles Times Poll of Democratic Party insiders found strong support for Kerry as the party’s presidential candidate.

The poll found no clear-cut favorite, but when read a list of 10 prospective nominees, 19 percent of those surveyed named former Vice President Al Gore, the party’s presidential candidate in 2000, as their top choice, and 18 percent named Kerry.

Nearly half those polled said Gore should sit out the race.

The Democratic field is expected to be crowded.

Vermont Gov. Howard Dean already is exploring a bid.

Missouri Rep. Richard A. Gephardt and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards also have expressed interest. Gore has said he will make up his mind by January. His running mate in 2000, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, has said he will run if Gore doesn’t.

“There are good people who are standing up. There are others who will contest. That’s part of the process,” Kerry said Sunday.

“I want this to be a contest of ideas, and I want it to be based not on my running against anybody, but running for a vision for this country.”

There is, he said, “deep anxiety” in America about “job security, income security, retirement security, health security, education security, physical, personal security

Bush and GOP allies in Congress plan quick push for more tax cuts

Farmer a witness to Kenya bombings

WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Buoyed by the midterm elections — and with an eye on the next campaign — President Bush and GOP congressional officials plan to use their new clout to push for early action on legislation to cut taxes and promote economic growth.

Some analysts question whether such measures are needed to boost an economy that shows signs of recovering. But the Bush administration wants to plow ahead — and fast.

The White House has its political antennae tuned as much to the economy of November 2004 as of January 2003, Republicans close to the administration say. At the least, Bush and his aides want to ensure that he cannot be accused of benign neglect toward the economy — a criticism that helped topple his father’s administration in 1992.

“I don’t think there’s a huge clamor” for an economic growth package, said a senior House Republican leadership aide.“But they are not doing it for two months from now; they are doing it for two years from now.”

Among the options under review are proposals that speed up scheduled reductions in income tax rates, boost the child tax credit from $600 to $1,000 and cut taxes on dividends from investments.

Even though Congress doesn’t return until January, White House officials are moving aggressively to lay the groundwork for action early next year.

Bush’s chief economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey, met Monday with senior GOP congressional aides to strategize.

Representatives of major business groups went to the White House on Tuesday to discuss tax cuts and the economy with Lindsey and Bush’s chief political adviser, Karl Rove. Bush’s economic advisers gave him options to review over his holiday weekend at his ranch near Crawford, Texas, GOP sources said.

The momentum behind new economic measures is one of the most vivid examples of how Washington’s policy landscape has been transformed by the 2002 elections.

With Republicans grabbing control of the Senate and expanding their House majority, they can contemplate passing tax cuts that were unthinkable as long as Democrats controlled the Senate.

“That’s one thing you can bet on in 2003: There will be more tax relief,” said Mark Isakowitz, a lobbyist with close ties to the GOP.

— A fisherman who lives less than two miles from the Israeli-owned hotel that was bombed here Thursday said that minutes before the attack he noticed a four-wheel-drive vehicle idling on his property with two men inside acting suspiciously.

But Khamis Haro Deche, who lives in a mud hut and earns no more than $6 a week, said he did not call the police because he does not have a telephone.

Deche said he approached the men in the vehicle and they said they were waiting for a friend. The driver of the car shook Deche’s hand but said nothing, Deche recalled.

The man appeared to be trying to hide something on the passenger’s lap, blocking Deche’s view when he peeked in the car. But Deche was able to see 10 cellular phones on the dashboard.

“I shook hands with fires and I didn’t know,” Deche said.

“My heart is burned. They have spoiled our life in Kenya.”

Deche, 39, might have been one of the last people to speak to the bombers before they blew up the Paradise Hotel. He gave police the cars license plate number, which he said he remembered because he was concerned that the men would commit a robbery in the area.

The details of the encounter were the latest clues in the investigation of the terrorist attacks on two Israeli targets in Mombasa. At 8:30 a.m. Thursday a green Pajero packed with explosives crashed into the hotel lobby, killing 10 Kenyans, three Israelis and three bombers. Moments earlier two shoulder fired surface-to-air missiles narrowly missed a Boeing 757 as it took from Mombasa’s airport bound for Tel Aviv.

Israeli and Kenyan officials say Osama bin Laden’s alQaeda network is the main suspect in the attack. Al-Qaeda is widely blamed for the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in which 224 people died, most of them Africans.

Kenyan police are holding 10 suspects they seized from a boat. But Israeli officials questioned their involvement in the attacks because they have been detained since Monday.

U.S. officials have said a likely suspect might be alIttihad al-Islamiya, a Somali group with links to al-Qaeda active in East Africa.

With increased tensions over the speed and accuracy of the investigation, Kenyan and Israeli officials sparred Sunday over who would handle the evidence. Kenyan police said they had found two fragments of the bomb, MSUMARINI, Kenya (Washington Post)

which Israeli bomb experts said they wanted to take to Israel to be analyzed.

Chaos filled the crime scene Sunday, with passers-by able to pick up and sift through pieces of evidence. Parts of vehicle were left out in the rain, and Israeli investigators were visibly frustrated.

Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said his government wanted U.S. officials have more control of the probe. Sharon sent said a likely suspect investigators from the Mossad spy agency to Kenya after might be al-Ittihad the bombing to help.

“We are cooperatal-Islamiya, a Somali ing with the Kenyan government,” Gissin group with links to said. “I think up to now they were very, al-Qaeda active in very much cooperative, but one must East Africa. understand that they were not geared to this kind of a threat or they don’t have the necessary resources or technological capabilities that would enable them to deal with that.”

Julius Sunkuli, Kenya’s internal security and defense minister, defended his country’s handling of the investigation despite its lack of resources.

Kenyan police said they have interviewed dozens of witnesses and people who were in the hotel at the time of the bombing, and have visited Deche at his home twice.

Deche said that around 8 a.m. his 13-year-old daughter, Sophia, told him a car was sitting on his property. He jumped out of bed to see what was going on. “I was imaging that they wanted to buy a goat,” said Deche, who is a farmer.

The man in the passenger’s seat spoke Swahili, an official language in Kenya, with an Arabic-accent. There were black markings on the heads of both men, Deche said, which devout Muslims often have from bowing during prayer.

Shortly after walking back to his home, Deche heard the explosion at the hotel.

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Dispute wears on over death of U.N. worker in Jenin — Once busy providing Palestinian refugees with aid, the United Nations compound here is empty except for a few U.N. investigators piecing together the events that led to the death of their colleague, Iain Hook.

The Israeli armed forces have admitted that one or more of its soldiers shot Hook, 54, in the compound Nov. 22, but the circumstances surrounding his death remain bitterly contested.

The military says armed Palestinians were using the compound as a sniper nest and soldiers fired into what they believed was enemy territory.

U.N. officials adamantly deny that. “At no time did armed gunmen enter the compound,” said Paul McCann, a spokesman for the U.N. Works and Refugee Agency, where Hook worked.

The anger is rooted in the Israeli government’s decades-long resentment of the what it perceives as the U.N. agency’s support for the Palestinian political cause.

The agency, for its part, sees the Israelis as careless when it comes to Palestinian civilians and those who work with them. UNWRA was created in 1948 specifically to help Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes as Israel declared itself a state.

But Hook’s shooting in particular has heightened the tensions. His death — the first of a foreign U.N. employee since the Palestinian intifada began 26 months ago — has refocused attention on civilian casualties in the occupied territories, which have become so frequent that the individual circumstances are often left unexamined.

On the day Hook died, Israeli soldiers shot a 12-yearold Palestinian, Mohammed Musleh Balalwa, who was throwing stones at them in the Jenin camp.

Five days later, soldiers shot and killed Jihad Natour, 22, as he walked through the West Bank city of Hebron banging the traditional Ramadan festival drum at 3 a.m. to wake Muslims for their pre-sunrise meal before the required sun-up to sundown fast. And Saturday, a 16-yearold Palestinian was shot and killed on his way home from school in the Gaza Strip. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers fired on a group of teens as they neared an army outpost; the Israelis say they only fired warning shots.

In the case of Hook’s death, the search for explanations only confirms the difficulty of sorting out the truth.

A few things are undisputed: Hook, an Englishman,

JENIN, West Bank (L.A.Times)

had arrived in Jenin six weeks earlier. A veteran of U.N. postings in Afghanistan, East Timor and Kosovo, he was used to charged situations.

His assignment was to oversee a $27 million project to rebuild some 400 homes, destroyed by Israeli forces when the Jenin camp was under siege in the spring. Staff at the Red Crescent Society, the Muslim version of the Red Cross, and at the Jenin hospital knew him, as did Israeli military liaison officers.

On the morning of Nov. 22, Israeli soldiers entered the Jenin camp in search of Abdullah Wahsh, a leader of Islamic Jihad wanted in connection with an attack on a bus that killed 14 people in October. Wahsh’s suspected hide-out was a house fewer than 150 feet from the U.N. compound. A 7-foot concrete wall, topped with 3 feet of chicken wire, surrounds the U.N. offices.

A corrugated metal roof covers much of the compound’s area to shield it from the pounding summer sun.

Residents say the soldiers stormed into the neighborhood about 8 a.m. and took up positions surrounding Wahsh’s suspected hide-out.

Several entered the home of Tafiq Farhad, just up the street and on the opposite side from the U.N. compound.

Farhad, 36, shows a visitor one of the rooms where the soldiers took up positions.

The neat living room on the third floor has three windows overlooking the U.N. compound. The floor is littered with bullet casings, which one of his little daughters plays with absently. Farhad says that the casings were left by the soldiers and that U.N. officials told him not to move them.

By 9 a.m., Hook, worried about his staff, called Capt.

Peter Lerner, the military’s liaison with international groups. “He wanted me to confirm there was a military operation,” Lerner said. “I said, ‘Stay inside the building, away from the windows and close to the walls.’ “ What happened next is less clear.

Some witnesses say that there were repeated bursts of gunfire from soldiers and Palestinian gunmen facing off in the streets near Wahsh’s hide-out.

Meanwhile, Palestinian civilians in the U.N. compound, some of them women and children, were unable to leave by the front gate because of the shooting and called to neighbors to help them, said Caoimhe Butterly, an Irishwoman who has been working in the camp since April.

As she came around the back of the compound,

Butterly said, she saw Palestinian youths hacking with pickaxes on the wall to chip a hole large enough for people to climb through. “There had been armed resistance in that area earlier that morning, but at that time, the small number who were fighting had left,” she said. At 12:53 p.m., Hook made another call to Lerner, which was recorded on Lerner’s voice mail, a tape made available to reporters last week. “Just making a progress report. We’re pinned down in the compound and the ‘shabab’ have knocked a hole in the wall. I’m not happy about it. I’m trying to keep them out.”

The term shabab can be used to describe either youths generically — or gunmen.

“There was no fighting for tens of minutes, maybe a half hour, before Iain was shot,” said McCann, the U.N. spokesman.

“Iain realized that armed elements were trying to gain entrance to the compound. He approached them and told them they were jeopardizing the safety of all his staff and the neutrality of the compound, and they accepted it and left.”

Absolutely wrong, say the Israelis, who contend there was shooting from the U.N. property.

“Iain told us they were trying to get in, and on at least two occasions, there was direct fire at (Israeli) troops from the compound,” said Lerner. In addition, he said the Qatar-based al Jazeera TV network broadcast a video last Sunday that showed “empty cartridges inside the compound and Palestinians picking them up.”

Lerner implied that Hook had been forced to give armed men entry. “This isn’t the first instance when U.N. officials were held at gunpoint by armed Palestinians,” he said.

Whatever the situation, a little after 1 p.m., Hook walked out of one of the trailers, holding an object — now believed to be a cell phone by Israeli and U.N. sources — and took a step or two into the open area of the compound. A moment later, a bullet penetrated his back.

Hook’s staff called the Red Crescent ambulance service.

The driver sped to the compound, only to be stopped by an Israel tank and jeeps about 50 feet from the gate.

A U.N. ambulance, called by the agency’s Jerusalem staff, ran into the same problem. After a 20- to 25-minute delay, it went around the back of the compound, said Othman Talib, a nurse who was in the ambulance.

Study: wireless phone use leads to more road deaths A study that will be released today by Harvard University’s Center for Risk Analysis estimates a rate of 2,600 deaths a year in crashes caused by drivers talking on mobile phones WASHINGTON (L. A. Times) — The death toll from crashes

caused by drivers talking on their wireless phones appears to be rising significantly as the devices become a must-have accessory for many Americans.

A study being released Monday by Harvard University’s Center for Risk Analysis estimates a rate of 2,600 deaths a year in such crashes, compared with the same researchers’ estimate of 1,000 fatalities only two years ago.

“The amount of time people spend using their cell phones while driving has increased, probably reflecting the fact that it is becoming cheaper to use the devices,” said research scientist Joshua Cohen, the study’s author.

The Harvard study also estimated that 570,000 injuries a year and 1.5 million crashes resulting in property damage can be blamed on wireless phone use.

The study will feed into a national debate that pits personal freedom and convenience against safety concerns.

Two federal agencies have recently stepped up efforts to understand how wireless phone use may contribute to accidents. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating wireless phones as a potential contributing factor in several recent serious crashes.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is launching a study of how wireless phone use affects individual drivers, using the government’s driving simulator facility in Iowa.

Nationwide, there is no uniform measure for tracking accidents in which wireless phone use may have been a factor. The Harvard study used mathematical models to estimate the risk of injury and death as well as the costs and benefits of using wireless phones while driving. The risk analysis center is part of Harvard’s School of Public Health. The study concluded that the escalating costs of wireless phone-related

accidents are erasing the economic benefits of unrestricted use of the devices by drivers.

Previous economic analysis by Harvard researchers had found that the benefits of being able to readily communicate for business or pleasure while on the road clearly outweighed the social costs of injuries and deaths in accidents.

Cohen’s latest calculations found that the costs are now roughly equal to the benefits.

“The risk is growing, but the benefits are not keeping up,” Cohen said. Such conclusions could bolster the case for restricting wireless phone use by drivers.

This year, at least 22 states considered legislation to restrict wireless phone use while driving, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. So far, only New York has enacted a partial prohibition. It does not allow drivers to use hand-held phones. New Yorkers may use devices adapted for hands-free use, which are usually voice-activated and come with an earpiece and microphone.

It is too early to tell whether New York’s law, which went into effect last year, is saving lives. A preliminary study indicated that the law had changed the behavior of motorists, and use of hand-held phones appears to be down by about 50 percent.

Wireless phone use is by no means the biggest menace on the roads. Alcohol-related crashes accounted for 17,448 deaths last year, while accidents involving speeding took 12,850 lives, according to federal statistics.

But much less is known about the link between wireless phone use and crashes than about the effects of alcohol or speeding. In most states, accident report forms used by police do not collect information on whether drivers were on the phone.

The wireless phone industry — which has more than 128 million customers — has refused to turn over customer records that would allow researchers to pinpoint whether drivers were in fact on the phone at the time of an accident.

A 1997 study of Canadian drivers who agreed to have their wireless phone records scrutinized found that the risk of an accident was four times greater while a driver was using the phone.

Cohen, the author of the Harvard study, said federal and state agencies should commission more research before any decision to restrict wireless phone use. That way lawmakers can be sure that the solutions they

The wireless phone industry strongly opposes restrictions on motorists, but it has launched a safety education campaign that discourages drivers from engaging in stressful conversations while behind the wheel, and urges them to avoid using their phones in bad weather, heavy traffic or while driving in unfamiliar territory. The industry encourages the use of hands-free phones. come up with will work.

Although New York’s ban on hand-held phones has generated widespread interest, Cohen said research indicates it might not be the most effective approach.

The Canadian study found that hands-free phones did not appear to reduce the risk of getting into an accident.

Crashes “may result from drivers’ limitations with regard to attention rather than dexterity,” the Canadian authors suggested.

The wireless phone industry strongly opposes restrictions on motorists, but it has launched a safety education campaign that discourages drivers from engaging in stressful conversations while behind the wheel, and urges them to avoid using their phones in bad weather, heavy traffic or while driving in unfamiliar territory. The industry encourages the use of hands-free phones.

“There are laws already in place that allow an officer to stop and ticket a driver for distracted driving,” said Kim Kuo, a spokeswoman for the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. “We feel it’s going to be ineffective if you just pass laws and ignore the need for education.”

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U.S. quietly lobbying Iran to stay out of Iraq affairs WASHINGTON (Baltimore Sun) — As it courts

military and diplomatic support among allies for a possible war against Iraq, the United States is also quietly reaching out to a longtime adversary — Iran — in hopes that it will stay on the sidelines in a new Persian Gulf conflict.

Since last summer, when they began laying the groundwork for a confrontation with Iraq, U.S. officials have signaled a willingness to make contact with Tehran’s clerical regime to explain their goal of disarming Saddam Hussein and to seek Iran’s cooperation. “We need to see what each other is about here, and see if we can work that out,” a senior Bush administration official said.

In an August speech, Bush adviser Zalmay Khalilzad said that despite U.S. criticism of Iranian policy, the United States was open to discussions with Iran about Iraq. He added, “We seek an Iraq which is unified, stable, representative, protective of the rights of minorities, and no longer a threat to its neighbors. This should be in Iran’s interests as well.”

Addressing the United Nations on Sept.

12, President Bush made a point of saying that Iran was threatened by Iraq’s failure to comply with U.N. mandates — Iraq had failed to account for missing Iranians, among other foreign nationals, he said; Iraq continued to harbor terrorists that direct violence against Iran; and in the past Hussein “has gassed many Iranians.”

The American overtures come at a sensitive time for the Iranian regime. Nervous about the United States’ long-term intentions in the Middle East, Iran’s clerical leadership is simultaneously cracking down on dissidents clamoring for a more open political system and facing economic problems, including a chronically high jobless rate.

The United States has pressed more than 50 allies for help in case of a war with Iraq, and this weekend two high-level envoys, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman, begin a mission to seek cooperation from Turkey and other NATO allies.

American officials, who have limited goals in dealing with Iran, scoff at the idea of a drastic improvement in relations.

Bush labeled Iran as part of an “axis of evil” in his State of the Union speech this year.

The United States accuses Iran of being the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and of actively supporting violence against Israelis by Palestinian militants and Lebanon-based Hezbollah guerrillas.

But they hope to reach an understanding that would keep Iran out of a U.S. conflict with Iraq and cooperative during the period of reconstruction after an expected American victory.

Iran avoided involvement during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and showed a measure of cooperation last year during the most intense phase of the U.S.-led war to remove the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

Although the United States broke diplomatic relations with Iran after militants there took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held American diplomats hostage more than 20 years ago, it has slowly reopened channels of communication, using them to talk about Iraq.

On the surface, Iran would seem eager to cooperate in destroying Hussein’s regime. Hussein launched a brutal eightyear war with Iran in 1980. Having seen its troops victimized by Iraqi chemical weapons, Iran has reason to want Iraq stripped of weapons of mass destruction.

But the Iranian regime is nervous about what it fears are Washington’s intentions to make Iran a future target of America’s war on terrorism.

“Encirclement is what they’re afraid of,” said Edward S. Walker, president of the Middle East Institute in Washington, who met in New York early this fall with Iran’s foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi.

With a new U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan on its eastern border and NATO member Turkey to the west, Iran would find itself nearly surrounded by countries more or less allied with the United States if American troops were to occupy Iraq and help install a new, proWestern government.

In a speech to the United Nations

“They should be reassured by the fact that they could well have a neighbor that will no longer pose a threat to them,” the official said.

“They should welcome the emergence of an Iraq that is focused on rebuilding the country, that has no weapons of mass destruction. No one’s talking about turning Iraq into an American colony. That’s ridiculous. I don’t see where Iraq becoming a normal country is in any way a problem for Iran.”

Senior Official Bush administration Security Council in October, Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, said a U.S. attack on Iraq “will inevitably fuel further resentment everywhere — not just in Iraq. It will sow seeds of new hatred that will feed instability for years to come.”

He also spoke obliquely about proIsrael “ideologues” who, he said, “seek to further their own aims and remake the world in their own peculiar image.”

In his meeting with Walker and other

American Mideast specialists in the fall, Kharrazi was “very polite” but also “very firm that he didn’t see how Iran could work with this administration, given the position the president had stated publicly and threats from some quarters of the administration,” Walker said.

Iran has various ways of causing trouble for the United States, analysts say. It could encourage major attacks against Israel by Hezbollah — its client guerrilla organization based in Lebanon, provoking Israel into a counterattack that could trigger a wider war — or by its allies in the militant Palestinian Hamas movement. Iran could also want to use its allies among Iraq’s Shia to gain influence in a new Iraqi government.

During the Afghan campaign, U.S. officials saw Iran playing a double game.

While not undermining the U.S. war effort, Iran failed for months to arrest and extradite al-Qaeda members crossing the Afghan border into Iran. After the war, Iran infiltrated forces linked with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards into parts of Afghanistan.

Walker said that during his meeting with the Iranian foreign minister, “Kharrazi said, ‘We’re a bystander in this one (the confrontation with Iraq).” But I don’t really believe that. Their interests are too intimately involved in that long border.”

U.S. officials have refused to divulge the substance of their quiet communication with Iranians or to say whether Iran has given a pledge of cooperation.

But the senior administration official indicated that Washington wants to send a message of reassurance.

“They should be reassured by the fact that they could well have a neighbor that will no longer pose a threat to them,” the official said. “They should welcome the emergence of an Iraq that is focused on rebuilding the country, that has no weapons of mass destruction. No one’s talking about turning Iraq into an American colony. That’s ridiculous.”

“I don’t see where Iraq becoming a normal country is in any way a problem for Iran,” the official said.

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Pigs fly in China as ‘Animal Farm’ takes center stage BEIJING (L.A. Times) — The whis-

pers hissing through Chinese theater circles these days center on a single question: Can pigs fly?

Some observers say yes, because they thought they’d never see the day when George Orwell’s classic critique of Communist excess, “Animal Farm,” would be served up for mass consumption in China. Yet there it is, adapted for the stage, at the Central Academy of Drama’s Experimental Theater in downtown Beijing.

Others, however, are waiting to see whether these particular pigs, the dictatorial leaders in Orwell’s barnyard revolution, will fly with Chinese audiences — and with the authorities in the last Communist behemoth.

With unintended irony, the stage version of “Animal Farm” opened Nov. 15, just hours after the Communist Party unveiled the new leaders who will rule this country virtually unchecked for the next five years.

As China-watchers scrambled to parse the new party lineup, theatergoers in Beijing tried to interpret the meaning of a text familiar to high school students in the English-speaking world but practically unknown here.

A scathing indictment of totalitarianism, “Animal Farm” first appeared in Britain in 1945.

Orwell’s novel of an animal utopia gone bad was an overnight success in the West, and spawned phrases that have entered the vernacular, such as “four legs good, two legs bad” and “some animals are more equal than others.”

Those slogans have been preserved in director Shang Chengjun’s theatrical adaptation,

a quirky production that combines a large cast, “Lion King”like costumes, a revolving stage and eclectic music ranging from klezmer to tango to the ethereal Celtic strains of the singer Enya.

But crucially, Shang has tweaked parts of the book and shifted its original emphasis in order to send a different message to audiences — one more palatable, perhaps, to official censors.

Orwell intended the story to serve as a fable of the corrupting effect of absolute power. The book focuses on the pigs who lead the overthrow of the farm’s owners but who become as tyrannical and murderous as the human beings they replaced.

What Shang insists he wants to convey instead is the danger of apathy and abdication of conscience on the part of the masses, not the ruthlessness and moral bankruptcy of the masters who oppress them.

“The novel stresses what the pigs did as the ruling class. What I wanted to stress was not the ruling class, but the horses, the sheep and the chickens, the animals that represent the masses and their attitudes. I wanted to criticize them for being selfish, indifferent, ignorant, fatuous and lazy,” said Shang, 30.

“Many foreign journalists have asked me whether this play hints at something about China,” he added, “but I told them, ‘You shouldn’t think of it that way.’ “ Whether this is a sly case of doublespeak by Shang is hard to tell, for at least a portion of the audience one recent evening saw through the veil — and were astonished at the play’s daring in a land where Communist rhetoric still abounds.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2002 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Ill Communication The University responded swiftly to complaints raised by members of Delta Phi fraternity that their Goddard House basement social space was possibly contaminated with asbestos. But school officials neglected to inform Goddard residents who are not members of Delta Phi about the possible health hazards.

Within 30 minutes of being notified of the complaint, the Office of Environmental Health and Safety visited, cleaned and closed the room, the Brown News Service reported. Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Janina Montero corresponded with both Delta Phi fraternity members and their parents regarding the possible contamination. And although tests found “no asbestos fibers … in the air samples,” the University neglected to notify residents of Goddard House who are not members of Delta Phi that they were testing their residence for possible asbestos materials, residents said.

We hope the University would notify not only members of Delta Phi, but all residents of Goddard who could be affected by a dangerous carcinogen. Even more troubling is that despite University claims that no asbestos was present, Delta Phi members said University representatives told them that asbestos had been found in the basement.

Asbestos was used heavily in construction prior to the 1970s. It is no longer used because exposure to the mineral causes cancer and other deadly diseases. While it is reassuring that the University’s Asbestos Management and Maintenance Program responds to these issues, it is troubling that Brown had such poor communication regarding recent reports of and tests for asbestos contamination.

All residents of buildings reported to have or inspected for asbestos materials should be informed of such reports or inspections. The University should continue to respond to inquiries regarding asbestos in a timely manner. Furthermore, Brown should conduct ongoing examinations of its numerous buildings that are more than 30 years old to ensure that similar problems do not arise.

University officials assure students that residential buildings are safe, but the recent happenings question the certainty with which they make this claim. Student safety should be one of Brown’s top concerns. But the University’s failure to engage in prudent communication with all students who could be living in a contaminated area is an unacceptable oversight that overlooks the welfare of some students.

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tants” (11/25), which reads, “There is tremendous potential for us to grow in this business, and we could be a $20 billion business in two and a half years.”

In fact, our industry is only $2.5 billion on the high side, and we reasonably expect to be a $20 million business.

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OPINIONS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2002 · PAGE 11

Republicans won’t own up to protecting drug giant Republican domestic terrorism bill proves strange sanctuary for one of party’s biggest donors, Eli Lilly WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH SIGNED OFF the Homeland Security legislation. And on legislation creating his Homeland Frist isn’t the only one who cannot Security Department on Nov. 25, lawmak- remember how protecting Eli Lilly against ers, defense contractors and millions of lawsuits from the parents of autistic chilother U.S. citizens were ecstatic. But the dren poisoned by the drug giant became thousands of autistic children and their part of the “war on terror.” A spokesman for House Majority Leader parents who found out that Dick Armey told the the Homeland Security bill Washington Post that the prohibits them from suing Eli SETH KERSCHNER GUEST COLUMN provision became part of the Lilly, the drug manufacturer bill at the request of the that they allege developed and White House. But a White sold vaccines with the autismcausing preservative thimersol, were not House spokesman told the New York as happy. The refusal of the government to Times that “It’s a mystery to us how it got allow families to bring Eli Lilly to court to in there.”

Something doesn’t sound right. It establish anything more than causal link protects the drug company from ade- seems impossible that a provision proquately responding to claims that they tecting a drug company that contributes millions of dollars to Republican political poisoned and killed children.

While the thought of the government campaigns can just magically appear in a using domestic security legislation to pro- piece of legislation on Capitol Hill. tect drug companies that allegedly poison Somebody must be behind this and all and kill children is horrible in and of itself, signs point to Bush. In fact, the presiit is even more disturbing that nobody on dent’s father was a member of Eli Lilly’s Capitol Hill is taking responsibility for board of directors in the 1970s. The White adding the Eli Lilly protection provision House budget director is a former Eli Lilly executive. And Sidney Taurel, the chairinto the bill.

Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, R- man of Eli Lilly, is an advisor to the presiTenn., sought unsuccessfully to sneak a dent on national security. If that wasn’t provision protecting Eli Lilly from poten- enough, Lilly gave more money to polititially damaging multi-million dollar law- cal candidates in the 2002 election season suits into legislation that was to increase than any other drug company. Of the $1.6 the availability of vaccines. But now, Frist million the drug maker donated, 79 pertold the New York Times he has no idea cent went to Republicans (Center for how protection for Lilly became part of Responsive Politics).

It’s strange that the Republican or group of Republicans who are responsible Herald Editor-in-Chief Seth Kerschner ’03 for protecting Eli Lilly against these lawlikes to come inside.

“It seems impossible that a provision protecting a drug company that contributes millions of dollars to Republican political campaigns can just magically appear in a piece of legislation on Capitol Hill.” suits are not claiming credit. After all, the guy who went to bat for the drug company probably stands to get millions more in donations during the next election season. But maybe politicians don’t want to be perceived as the defenders of companies that poison children. That makes sense. After all, there are thousands of parents who contend that their children are now either autistic or dead as a result of Eli Lilly’s vaccines.

Frist and others may counter that the Homeland Security legislation doesn’t completely rule out any sort of compensation to these families. Complaints against the company will now be channeled to a federal program that provides liability protection for vaccine manufacturers. But this program compensates the families of people poisoned or killed by

such vaccines to a maximum of $250,000, all of which is federally funded.

Obviously, no amount of money can make up for the loss or poisoning of a child. And it is silly and heartless to assume that grieving families would be appeased if they could sue Eli Lilly in court for millions of dollars. But now that the drug giant doesn’t have to spend money on payments to the families of children it allegedly either poisoned or killed, Eli Lilly can continue donating millions to political campaigns. And legislation protecting the drug maker against similar lawsuits can continue to appear mysteriously on legislation as part of the “war on terror.”

The Eli Lilly case sets a horrible precedent that allows our lawmakers to propose and pass legislation without any accountability. We may never know which senator, representative or member of the executive branch was responsible for sneaking this provision into the Homeland Security bill.

Nevertheless, concerned citizens and parents of children allegedly poisoned or killed by Eli Lilly unsuccessfully proposed an amendment to the Homeland Security legislation. And Democratic senators, like Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, vow to repeal the provision through future legislation. So there is hope for those tragically affected by Eli Lilly. And maybe in the future, legislation with a million-dollar price tag that protects drug companies that poison or kill children will not mysteriously turn up in domestic security legislation.

Disentangling convoluted stances in U.S. politics The left and right in the United States need to decide what policies they really stand for I RECENTLY RECEIVED AN E-MAIL the contemporary right (in their varying from one of my favorite (Republican) degrees of extremism), one choice holds high school teachers. Among other all of the answers to the world’s problems.

One of the main problems that our dual things he said, “You’re probably well on your way to being indoctrinated by and party political system (and humanity’s toward the left. That’s ok, most will go relentless desire to throw everything into neat little categories) has is through that process and that it has inculcated the idea some will eventually recoil that every idea or policy must themselves from it.” Gee, that BILL LOUIS GUEST COLUMN be branded as either leftist or sounds incredibly frightenrightist. This unfortunate ing. “Indoctrination” doesn’t inclination has led to the largreally have a nice connotation. Most often when I’ve seen the word er problem of branding people as leftist or indoctrination, it was associated with rightist. It’s assumed by society that one Nazis or Communist “re-education.” who is labeled rightist espouses the correThinking further, it seems to me that the sponding body of “rightist” ideology (this word “indoctrination” is usually used works the same way for leftists). This when referring to the dissemination of assumption may not hold true.

However, since it is a human characideas (forced or otherwise) by someone teristic to categorize everything neatly, or some group perceived as bad or evil.

Could my teacher perceive the U.S. left one who sees himself as a liberal may try as inherently bad? Most definitely. As to mold his own feelings to fit in the “libcrazy as it may sound to students at eral ideological mold,” regardless of his Brown, many people feel that liberalism or her real inclinations (after all, if a libis flawed (and even crazier, that number eral doesn’t espouse the entire body of of people in the United States is about liberal ideology, what is he? Not really a equal to the number of people that find liberal or a conservative? Most of us cannot bear to live with that ambiguity — conservatism inherently flawed.)

I responded to my teacher saying that, we’ve gotta have a name).

This has become a trap. People are “I haven’t joined the International Socialist Organization yet, but I haven’t being forced to try to decide whether been wearing my ‘I love Karl Rove’ pin they identify more with liberals or coneither.” I think I’ve successfully avoided servatives and are then forced to modify being “indoctrinated” by either the left or their own ideology to fit that of their chothe right thus far. In keeping with the sen political mold. This stifles creativity questioning spirit and the skepticism of and creates a political atmosphere that is social and political norms that liberal anything but accepting to new and education is supposed to foster, I refuse potentially helpful ideas. Everybody is to accept that, out of the only two choices afraid of an idea until it somehow available to me, the contemporary left or becomes identifiable with either liberalism or conservatism. (Then, only about half of Americans are afraid of it). The This is Bill Louis’ ’06 first column for The problem is that most ideas can’t really fit Herald.

“The U.S. left and right would do well to consider relying less on past associations with regard to specific policies ... and to figure out what they really stand for.” neatly into one of the two categories that are available. So, we better jam those ideas in there, right?

One of the things I learned in kindergarten is that you can fit a round peg into a square hole if you push hard enough, but the peg and the hole unfortunately become mangled in the process. It’s really funny to look at how liberal and conservative ideologies have been mangled in this way over the years.

During the 19th century, if you favored hands off economic policy and the right of the individual to choose what he or she did in his or her spare time, then you were called a liberal (Malthus and Ricardo, whose theories earned economics the nickname of “the dismal science,” would surprisingly have been called liberals). A conservative was a person who favored government intervention in economic affairs and saw no problem with restrictions on the activities that citizens could engage in during their spare time.

In 20th-century western politics, it seems these economic views have been reversed, while the social stances of lib-

eralism and conservatism have just become convoluted (i.e., You should be able to smoke pot but not have the freedom to own guns; you should be pro-life, yet support the death sentence and be a hawk). Really, it’s amazing anyone can rationalize advocating such seemingly mutually exclusive policies, but it’s done by a great many Americans under the protective flags of the left and the right.

I think that people shouldn’t be afraid of a new idea or policy just because it has been tagged with the label “leftist” or “rightist” ideology by some fool on Capitol Hill. Likewise, no one should be compelled to oppose a seemingly helpful idea or policy simply because it has been tagged as ideology of the political group with which they don’t identify.

The U.S. left and right would do well to consider relying less on past associations with regard to specific policies (which at this point have become so convoluted as to make their “real” stance on the nature of government inscrutable) and to figure out what they really stand for. At least then we’d be able choose our political associations based on whether we want government to act as our mommy and protect us from ourselves or just to act as a cohesive force in maintaining the state in which we live, while providing ample freedom for all citizens.

If it is true that incorrigible human nature compels us to throw everything into neat little categories, providing us with a clear choice between uniformly small (military included) and unobtrusive government and a large mommy-like one to protect us would at least provide us with two choices that we wouldn’t have to compromise our own principles to support.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS MONDAY DECEMBER 2, 2002 · PAGE 12

Several Bears earn top Ivy League honors

W. indoor track hopes to sprint to success in ’03

BY JERMAINE MATHESON

BY KEELY THARP

Eleven players on the football team, women’s volleyball team and men’s soccer team were singled out for their strong play this fall when selections and honorable mentions for the All Ivy teams and All-New England teams were announced.

Football Chas Gessner ’03 led the nation WR Chas Gessner ’03 with 11.4 catches First Team All Ivy per game including a 24-catch RB Joe Rackley ’03 performance Second Team against Rhode Island. Gessner TE Chris Walther ’03 ended the year LB Joel Barone ’03 with 114 recepLB Jeremiah Watts ’03 tions. He conS Hunter Young ‘03, cludes his colleHonorable Mention giate career 292 catches for 3,408 Volleyball yards and 36 touchdowns, all ranking near the Jessica Cooper ’03 top of Division IFirst Team All Ivy AA football.

Though hurt for Angela Dunn ‘03 most of the seaHonorable Mention son, Joe Rackley ‘03 rushed for Men’s Soccer 100 or more yards in Brown’s Dustin Branan ’03 final three Adom Crew ’04 games, including Chris Gomez ‘05 148 yards against NSCAA All-New Dartmouth.

England Third Team Rackley ended his senior year rushing for 572 yards on 150 carries and five touchdowns.

Joel Barone ’03 led the team with 76 tackles and a season-high 16 tackles against Harvard. Barone picked off a pass on the final play of the season to preserve a Brown victory versus Columbia. Jeremiah Watts ’03 was second on the team in tackles with 73 including 7 tackles for loss for 29 yards. Hunter Young ’03 was third on the team in tackles with 56. Young made 13 tackles versus Harvard and 12 tackles versus Towson. Tightend Chris Walther ’03 had a strong season with 35 catches for 345 yards and caught three touchdown passes.

In volleyball, Jessica Cooper ‘03 finished

Brown women’s track and field has garnered 13 team championships since the Outdoor Heptagonal Games’ inception in 1977 and the Indoor Heptagonal Games’ creation in 1981. Head Coach Robert Johnson looks to continue the tradition of excellence. The indoor season has begun, with much enthusiasm on the part of the women participating.

Last year’s results were disappointing for the team, as the women lost both their indoor and outdoor crowns. Finishing fourth at the Indoor Championships, the team regrouped enough to improve to a second place finish at the Outdoor Championships. Despite all the banners already hung in the OMAC, the women’s track and field team is not satisfied with anything but a first place finish..

This year, Cornell is again the team to beat, returning the main group of scoring runners from its championship team.

Brown struggled against Cornell’s depth last year, but the large group of freshman on this year’s team will attempt to replace and improve upon the positions vacated by last year’s seniors. Coach Johnson believes that this year’s team is wellrounded and has many event areas that are capable of scoring.

In the jumps, the team will look to Dominique Bosa-Edwards ’05, who scored as a freshman, to continue to improve in the triple-jump. Kim Fogarty ’03 will provide points in the long jump and heptathlon. Ashley Wall ’05 and Katie Rowinsky ’04 will provide leadership and points in the high jump. Pole vault is led by Outdoor Heptagonal Champion Lauren Contursi ’03.

With no freshman female throwers, Coach Michelle Eisenreich expects Rachelle Seibolt ’04, Jill Lynch ’05 and Jennifer Donahue ’05 to literally carry the weight in their events and improve upon their performances from last year. At last season’s Outdoor Championships, Seibolt finished fifth in the hammer and Lynch finished seventh in the shot put and eighth in the discus. Seibolt is one of the team’s captains.

The sprint/hurdle squad is captained by Basia Dabrowski ’04 and returns many scorers. The 55-meter hurdles will be led

by Fara Kitton ’05 and Rowinski, with the addition of several freshman as possible scorers. Coach Johnson looks to Lauren Linder ’04, to improve upon her exciting outdoor season with scores in the 200 meter dash indoor. Jaylon White ’05 will be looked upon for consistent placing in the 55-meter dash. With Emily McElveen ’04 and Julia Stevenson ’04 back healthy, an instant impact will be provided for the team in several events. Keely Tharp ’03 will be expected to score in the 400-meter dash and be a part of a competitive 4 x 400meter relay team.

Losing the most seniors were the distance and mid-distance parts of the team.

Julia Devanthery ’04 and Rosie Woodford ‘03 captain a group of women ready to run indoor races after its cross-country season.

This year the team is full of enthusiasm and has a more positive attitude than last year, which is already coming through in practices and training.

“I’m feeling really good about the season,” said Dabrowski. “I think we can win back our Heps crown.”

“We’re going to surprise a lot of people,” Dabrowski added.

see HONORS, page 4

SCOREBOARD Men’s Ice Hockey

Men’s Basketball

BROWN 1, RPI 1 (OT) Union 4, BROWN 1

Wagner 81, BROWN 69 BROWN 97, Navy 92 (ot)

Women’s Ice Hockey

Women’s Basketball

BROWN 4, Providence 4 (OT) Harvard 3, BROWN 2

BROWN 64, Providence 62 Maine 60, BROWN 51 Drake 75, BROWN 67

NFL/NCAA SCORES NFL

NCAA

New England 20, Detroit 12 Dallas 27, Washington 20 Pittsburgh 25, Jacksonville 23 Green Bay 30. Chicago 20 Baltimore 27, Cincinnati 23 Kansas City 49, Arizona 0 Indianapolis 19, Houston 3 Tennessee 32, NY Giants 29 Buffalo 38, Miami 21 Carolina 13, Cleveland 6 Atlanta 30, Minnesota 24 Philadelphia 10, St. Louis 3 San Francisco 31, Seattle 24 Indianapolis 19, Houston 3 San Diego 30, Denver 27

No. 1 Miami 49, Syracuse 0 Oklahoma State 38, No. 4 Oklahoma 28 No. 5 Georgia 51, Georgia Tech 7 No. 6 USC 44, No. 7 Notre Dame 13 No. 10 Texas 50, Texas A&M 20 No. 22 Florida State 31, No. 11 Florida 14 UNLV 36, No. 13 Colorado State 33 No. 15 Colorado 28, Nebraska 13

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Earl Hunt ’03 missed the last two basketball games with a thigh injury.

Men’s basketball picks up first win in overtime

BY ADAM STERN

After a sluggish start to the season for the Brown’s men’s basketball squad, the holiday weekend gave the team at least one reason to be thankful: Bruno acquired its first victory on Saturday against Navy. Just days prior, however, Brown’s team fell short against Wagner College. Bruno now sports an overall record of 1-4, not having played any Ivy League games to date.

Brown’s victory over Navy featured the emergence of a dominant player in Patrick Powers ’04. Noting the need to pick up the slack for injured Brown star Earl Hunt ’03, Powers scored a career high 32 points in Bruno’s 97-92 overtime win. Throughout Hunt’s mature college career, he had never missed a game, a streak that ended at 85 consecutive starts.

Powers came out shooting, scoring 16 first-half points as Brown secured a 45-27 lead. His early dominance included 5 of 6 shooting from the field, featuring four dunks and two of two shooting from beyond the arc.

“Pat Powers has always had the ability to score,” said Brown Head Coach Glen Miller. “With Earl out of the lineup, we were given the opportunity to give him more playing time. He really stepped up offensively.”

In the second half, an impressive Navy rally allowed for the Midshipmen to gain the lead. With 5:10 remaining in the game, the Bears were trailing by five points and it appeared that they might sink to 0-5 on the season. With key plays from Powers and Jason Forte ’05, Bruno managed to send the game into overtime.

With the score tied at 90, Forte’s free

throw provided Brown with the lead in OT, 93-92. Luke Ruscoe ’06 then had a significant steal with 15.9 seconds remaining and was sent to the line where he made both free throws. This gave the Bears a 95-92 lead. Forte put the icing on the cake by converting two free throws with 1.2 seconds left after stealing the ball.

Other key players in the Brown victory were Mike Martin ’04 and Alai Nuualiitia ’03. Martin scored 12 while Nuualiitia contributed 11 points.

Bruno may have been inspired to achieve its first victory because of the devastating loss to Wagner last Tuesday.

Although Brown defeated Wagner (1-1) last year 103-100 in a shootout, this year’s squad did not fare as well.

Wagner jumped out to an early 17-7 lead in the opening minutes. Brown then quickly bounced back, scoring eight straight points. Late in the first half, however, Brown’s shots would not fall, and Wagner went on a 17-2 run. By halftime, Wagner was up 40-27.

Throughout the second half, the Seahawks used the long-range jumper to maintain their lead, while Brown struggled to keep up. In the end, Wagner defeated Brown by a score of 81-69.

Brown’s leading scorers were Nuualiitia and Jaime Kilburn ’04.

Nuualiitia scored 13 — all in the second half — and Kilburn added 11.

Bruno opens a homestand tonight against Ohio University. The game begins at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center.

Sports staff writer Adam Stern ’06 covers the men’s basketball team and can be reached at astern@browndailyherald.com.

Keely Tharp ’03 is a member of the women’s track and field team.