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“Gangs” director Scorsese packs house for talk BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

In 1963, a 19-year-old New York University student submitted his first short film to a Brown Film Society contest. The work — “What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?” — earned its young director a $25 prize. Heartened by this first victory, the student submitted another film to the contest the following year, this time taking home $100. Yesterday in an overflowing Salomon 101, Brown once again acknowledged Martin Scorsese, the preeminent director, screenwriter and producer responsible for such modern classics as “Taxi Driver,” “Raging Bull,” “Goodfellas” and the current “Gangs of New York.” In attendance was President Ruth Simmons, who received special thanks for fostering the arts at Brown. In a spirited discussion moderated by famed Hollywood talent agent Michael Ovitz, a longtime friend of Scorsese, the director spoke about his films through the lens of family, ethnicity, home and technique. In his introduction, Ovitz said his relationship to Scorsese was one in which he had played the role of agent, manager, supporter and fan. “The one thing that’s always extraordinary,” Ovitz said, “is that I find myself constantly as Martin’s student. … The man is a walking encyclopedia of motion pictures.” “The art of making film the way that Marty does it is exceedingly difficult,” Ovitz said. “The man does not compromise. It’s cost him dearly. The man who I consider probably the greatest filmmaker that we have today has never received an Academy Award.” Following Ovitz’s introduction was a 40-minute screening of clips from Scorsese’s films. The medley began with the 1974 documentary “Italianamerican,” in which Scorsese turned the camera on his own parents, capturing their comedic exchanges and his mother’s special recipe for spaghetti sauce. Movies up to and including 2002’s “Gangs of New York” were included in the screening, with many clips highlighting Scorsese’s way of capturing the smallest humorous moments in the midst of the darkest stories and characters. In conversation, Scorsese entertained the audience with humorous anecdotes about his childhood, his Sicilian-American family and his movie-making experience.

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Monday’s funeral Mass for David Zucconi ’55 at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul drew hundreds.

Hundreds bid farewell to Zucconi ’55 BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ

Hundreds of members of the Brown community gathered yesterday for the funeral mass of David Zucconi ’55, in a show of exceptional devotion to “Mr. Brown” that mirrored his own commitment to the University. The Mass, held downtown at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, drew generations of alumni, faculty and staff, all of whom wore nametags with the Brown seal, at Zucconi’s request, and many of whom participated in the service. Reverend Howard O’Shea, former University chaplain, recalled Zucconi as a beacon of faith within a community that tends toward skepticism, remembering one occasion when Zucconi drove a student trip forward on its tour of the churches in the region of Provence in Southern France, regardless of the pouring rain. “In an academic community, we are accustomed to analysis,” but what we often need is faith, O’Shea said. “I don’t think one can live effectively without faith, and this, David showed us.” Others honored Zucconi’s devotion to the

University, as students, faculty and alumni, including Artemis Joukowsky ’55, chancellor emeritus, rose to read psalms in honor of a man who “flourished as Brown flourished,” as Zucconi wrote of himself in a letter addressed to the Brown community. Read as Zucconi’s eulogy by Eric Widmer, headmaster of Deerfield Academy, the letter recalled “a relentless energy on behalf of Brown that defines me, and sometimes gets me into trouble,” Zucconi wrote. He also expressed gratitude for the steadfastness of the Brown community, which does “our best for the University, now and forever.” Following the Mass, those in attendance were asked at Zucconi’s request to leave their nametags to be placed in the casket, “so that we will all be close to him forever,” as written in the program of the Mass. The chosen recessional was “We Are Ever True to Brown.” An additional memorial service will be held Feb. 22 in Sayles Hall. Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.

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LGBTA proposes campus resource center for students BY JOANNE PARK

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance is spearheading the movement for a resource center for LGBT students on campus. The proposed center for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning students and straight allies would function as a space for both social and academic events that would serve the entire LGBT community. LGBTA President Kenneth Newberg ’05 said the current LGBTA office is “inadequate to hold meetings and to be used as a safe space.” The current office is on the second floor of Faunce House. As the umbrella organization for a number of student groups on campus advocating for a center, the LGBTA has played a prominent role in trying to formulate a proposal. Newberg said complaints by queer students often go unanswered because of a lack of communication with the administration. “The resources for queer students at Brown are very fragmented and oftentimes very difficult to find,” Newberg said. “Many queer individuals, especially those who have yet to self-identify as queer, are absolutely unaware of the many resources ... because of this decen-

tralization.” “At Brown … resources available to (LGBT) students are remarkably decentralized,” Assistant Dean of Student Life James Stascavage said. “We don’t have a readily identifiable place.” Newberg said a new center could centralize the resources available and allow for formal roles that would facilitate communication. If the center was constructed, a director would be able to act as a liaison between the students and the Brown administration. A new resource center would allow paid staffers to assume more responsibilities than the volunteers who currently work in the office. The center would also provide more opportunities for students to socialize. “Many queer students complain about not being able to meet other queer students,” Newberg said. “The queer student center is envisioned to serve the queer community in a similar manner as the women’s center serves women and the Third World Center serves people of color.” Associate Professor of French Studies Gretchen Schultz, a supporter of the center, said it “could serve as a

hub not only for Brown’s LGBT population … but could further maximize interaction among all campus groups by sponsoring dialogue.” Newberg said the LGBTA had pushed for a center in 1988 and 1992 without success, but the idea of a resource center has gathered support among faculty and administrators, graduate and medical students, and other student groups. Newberg counted the growing size of the LGBTA as a reason for the center. At present, there are five subgroups under the LGBTA, a queer undergraduate center under the TWC and one under Hillel, Newberg said. Stascavage said supporters of a LGBT center had met several times and assigned the tasks of collecting data and distributing surveys in order to gain wider input. He said research was also being done on the accommodations available at peer institutions. According to Stascavage, the University of Pennsylvania has a separate building with full-time professional staff that tends to students’ needs. The recent plans to complete a proposal for a LGBT center began last semester, Stascavage said. Faculty

I N S I D E T U E S D AY, J A N UA RY 2 8 , 2 0 0 3 Brown grad Joseph Fernandez to head city’s Department of Law under Cicilline page 3

State responds to recent cold, funds emergency shelters for homeless people page 3

Scorsese describes his place in the history of cinema in a Herald interview page 11

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Government actions unjustly permit citizen surveillance, says Sarah Green ’04 column, page 11

With revenge on its mind, men’s hockey faces Providence tonight sports, page 12

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IN BRIEF Health Services workers will not get smallpox vaccine immediately The Rhode Island Department of Health is offering the smallpox vaccine to a small group of healthcare providers, but workers at Brown University Health Services will not be among that group. The vaccine, which has not been released for the general population, was developed by the federal government for use in case of biological warfare. “Under the federal plan, they’re asking us to immunize now people who might be called upon to take care of smallpox cases if cases ever occur in Rhode Island,” said Dr. Robert Marshall, assistant director for the Rhode Island Department of Health. Marshall said workers of Health Services would not be among those health care providers asked to take care of people with smallpox in the event of an outbreak, so “the idea behind this plan is that … we are offering the vaccine to a certain group of people who would volunteer so that we could call upon them to help” in case of an outbreak, Marshall said. But he stressed that the federal government is not recommending immunization for the entire population. But in the case of an outbreak, Brown Health Services is slated to be a site of massive smallpox vaccinations, according to Dr. Edward Wheeler, director of Brown University Health Services. “Now, they’re talking about who needs to be vaccinated without a case, preemptively vaccinated,” Wheeler said. “The providers here are not on that list yet.” Both Wheeler and Marshall said it would likely be emergency room workers who would receive the vaccine first. In the event of a smallpox case, the Centers for Disease Control and the federal government would “come in, and we would be one of the sites where they would be giving vaccines,” Wheeler said. — Juliette Wallack

Brown graduate named to city’s top legal post under Mayor David Cicilline ’83 BY ADAM STELLA

A Brown graduate assumed the city’s top legal post Jan. 6, and is set to become the permanent city solicitor next month. Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83 nominated Joseph M. Fernandez ’86 as solicitor on Jan. 5. Though both are Brown graduates, the two never met during their college years. Fernandez has served as acting solicitor since his nomination and will become the solicitor pending a Feb. 6 confirmation hearing by the City Council. The Finance Committee unanimously approved Fernandez for solicitor at a Jan. 23 meeting. As solicitor, Fernandez will head the Department of Law, which oversees the legal duties of the city. His major responsibilities will include managing lawsuits against the city and filing lawsuits on its behalf. The Department of Law is also in charge of drafting ordinances and resolutions for the city and preparing the city’s legislative package, which is submitted to the Rhode Island General Assembly for approval. The Department of Law is now undergoing a “comprehensive review of everything,” and will soon begin developing the new code of ethics for city government that Cicilline has touted, Fernandez said. Before joining the mayor’s administration, Fernandez was a commercial litigator with the firm Goldenberg & Muri in Providence. Fernandez said the leap from the private sector to the public sector presents many chal-

The U.S. Attorney’s Office awarded Roger Williams University’s School of Justice Studies a $150,000 grant to study gun violence in Providence. The money, given Jan. 17, is part of the federal Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative that seeks to stem gun violence by identifying where it is likely to occur, Assistant Dean of the Roger Williams’ School of Justice Studies Bob McKenna said. Assistant Professor of Justice Studies Stephanie Manzi and Assistant Professor of Justice Studies Kathleen Dunn, Ph.D. ’86, will head RWU’s research team. The grant covers three years of study, after which the School of Justice will “offer suggestions about how to address gun violence” to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, McKenna said. — Adam Stella

Herald staff writer Adam Stella is the assistant metro editor. He can be reached at astella@browndailyherald.com.

Cold weather prompts new shelters Carcieri ’65 opens temporary shelter, but advocates warn lack of affordable housing is a long-term problem BY JULIETTE WALLACK

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lenges, but he is looking forward to them. “It is a really unique opportunity to participate in a government that is in the process of reforming and to be the legal architect of that change,” he said. Fernandez, a 1991 graduate of Harvard Law School, has legal experience in commerce, banking, insurance, securities, employment, administrative and businessfraud matters, he said. He is a member of the bar in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York, as well as the U.S. District Court and the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Fernandez has experience in a variety of civic, legal and religious groups. He is a member of the Rhode Island Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and the Rhode Island Black Lawyers Association, and he has served as a member of the Brown University Corporation Committee on Minority Affairs since 1995. He also formerly served as a trustee of Providence’s Armenian Euphrates Evangelical Church and the youth chairman of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations. Fernandez succeeds Charles R. Mansolillo, who served as the city solicitor for 10 years. Fernandez is currently concentrating on the day-to-day business of the law department. “I’m trying to take it all in,” he said.

Last week’s below-freezing temperatures prompted Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 to authorize the opening of a temporary homeless shelter in Cranston to meet the high demand for housing during the cold snap. Harrington House, run by the Urban League, has received support from the United Way, the American Red Cross and Welcome Arnold, a neighboring shelter run by the Urban League. The shelter can provide up to 55 homeless people with a warm place to sleep, said Gertrude Blakey, deputy director at the Urban League. On Sunday night, the shelter served 35 people, she said. Response has been “overwhelmingly positive,” Blakey said. The Urban League began making plans for a temporary shelter last November, Blakey said, and, when high demand for shelter forced two churches to house people, “the state actually contacted us to ask if we would be interested in managing the operation.” The Urban League first opened Harrington House two

years ago when demand for shelter far exceeded the city’s supply. Harrington House was then a temporary winter solution, as it is now, Blakey said. Harrington House will remain open through March. The United Way of Rhode Island provided short-term emergency funding to make the shelter operational, said Hank Sennott, director of public relations for the United Way of Rhode Island. Amos House, a Providence-based soup kitchen, is providing meals and transportation to Harrington House with the assistance of a $5,000 emergency grant from the United Way, Sennott said. The financial aid that the United Way provided is nothing new, Sennott said. Instead of managing shelters directly, the organization will often provide funds to start temporary accommodations. In the future, the United Way is “committed to helping other (shelters) if they think that they need some additional funding or short-term assistance,” he said. Right now, he said, the United Way is working to “put together some kind of an emergency response plan so that when the shelters are particularly hard hit, there would be partners in place” to open on an “emergency basis and then close.” Formulating such a plan necessitates more money for see HOMELESS, page 6

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LGBTA continued from page 1 members were fundamental in suggesting an idea for the proposal that would have sexuality and society classes taught within the center, he said. “This center could bridge academic and intellectual ideas with the social needs and experiences of the students,” he said. Schultz said the center was essential to the maintenance of diversity at Brown. “A center would allow LGBT issues and concerns to be addressed in keeping with the recommendations of the Diversity Report, which calls for creating ‘opportunities for the study of diversityrelated intellectual questions.’”

UCS continued from page 5 chair. That will include improving off-campus access, installing email kiosks and additional computer clusters and looking at how the University’s forthcoming wireless network will be implemented, he said. The committee will follow up on the lists of short- and long-term priorities it presented to Simmons last semester to see if the administration’s priorities correlate with those of students, Sanders said. The Campus Life Committee will also examine regulations governing on-campus parties and what will happen to the Underground,

Although the proposal is still in its intermediary phase, Stascavage said he is optimistic about the progress that is being made. In the meantime, he said the working group is addressing short-term issues, such as the inadequate space that is currently provided at Faunce for the LGBTA. Stascavage said participating faculty and administration members include Vice President of Campus Life and Student Services Janina Montero, Associate Professor of French Studies Gretchen Schultz, and Associate Professor of Modern Culture and Media Lynne Joyrich. Herald staff writer Joanne Park ’06 can be reached at jpark@browndailyherald.com.

he added. The Student Activities Committee will attempt to launch an all-campus calendar of events, said Sarah Buchwalter ’05, committee chair. The committee will also publicize the online guide to student activities and streamline the number of student groups by deactivating defunct groups, she said. Corporation Liaison Tarek Khanachet ’03 said he plans to encourage high giving by the senior class. The council engaged in an impromptu question-and-answer session with Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski, who addressed the status of the Underground and the search for a

Lecture continued from page 1 As a child, Scorsese said he was first attracted to the medium of film through the realist work of Italian directors like Roberto Rossellini, whose movies brought his family to tears. Never straying too far from the themes of family, morality and religion, Scorsese said films like “Mean Streets” and “The Last Temptation of Christ” reflected his own worldview. “I saw religion really being worked out the way it should be — in daily life — not necessarily in the church,” he said. Scorsese described 1973’s “Mean Streets” as a deeply personal film that asked the age-old

new director of residential life. The search will involve students under any circumstances, she said. The administration is almost prepared to share the latest draft of possible reforms to the University Disciplinary Committee, Jablonski said. The UCS meeting opened with a moment of silence for former Brown Sports Foundation Director David Zucconi ’55, who died Wednesday night. UCS also welcomed associate member Brian Merritt ’06 who will represent Resumed Undergraduate Education students. Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” “Morality was being worked out at the table,” the director said. “Morality in a world that was a jungle.” Scorsese said that as a child in New York City he acted as “comic relief on the streets” and took religion much more seriously than the older generation of Sicilian immigrants. “They just didn’t take government or the Church seriously,” Scorsese said of his grandparents, “because they were screwed by both of them, constantly.” When Ovitz asked Scorsese to discuss the metamorphosis of his style, Scorsese responded, “I never really figured I had a style.” Still, the director was willing to comment on the directors whose styles he admired, including Orson Welles, who he said united radio and theater in his films, and Steven Spielberg, a friend whose lighting technique Scorsese admires. When an audience member asked the director about his tendency to use closeups and small spaces, the director winkingly responded that having grown up in New York City, “all I saw was hallways and light bulbs.” Scorsese did give away a few tricks of the trade, explaining that he plans most of his scenes out “way beforehand” by drawing them by hand. Scorsese also stressed his work in all facets of the movie-making business, not just directing. He develops and writes his own screenplays, always looking for what he called “an obsessiveness to the character.” Scorsese also edits his own films along with one trusted partner. “The editing for me is the most important part,” he said. “It’s what I like the most. It’s torturous.” Scorsese also spoke extensively about his use of music. In 1973, “The Last Waltz,” a concert documentary about The Band’s

farewell show, he united filmmaking and rock music, as Ovitz put it, “way before MTV.” Scorsese also described how he used music in the last 15 minutes of “Goodfellas” in order to give the allusion of being on cocaine. “My life was scored to music that I never heard in films,” Scorsese said. In his own films, Scorsese chose to incorporate the sounds of artists such as The Who, The Rolling Stones and Muddy Waters. In the late 1970s, Scorsese’s original musical concept for “Gangs of New York,” included having the score done by The Clash, a band he was listening to at the time. “But times changed,” the director said. In the end, Scorsese ended up using traditional fife and drums music to score “Gangs.” The sound was one he said had been adopted by African slaves from the Revolutionary Army’s calls to change formation. “Gangs” also included some blues because, Scorsese said, blues represented the eventual convergence of Anglo, Celtic and African styles — “American music.” Audience members were interested in hearing Scorsese’s opinions on the scripts he reads and the movies he sees. “You’ve got to sit through some stuff that you may not like,” he said of his viewing habits. “I often like certain scenes or the attitude of a film, overlooking some bad acting or blunt lines.” The event was sponsored by the Creative Arts Council, a group composed of the departments of Music, Theatre, Speech and Dance; Creative Writing; Visual Art; and Modern Culture and Media, as well as the David Winton Bell Gallery and Rites and Reason Theatre. Kimberly Ovitz ’05, originally conceived of the event. Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 can be reached at dgoldstein@browndailyherald.com.

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Before speaking to a packed Salomon crowd, director Martin Scorsese spoke to The Herald about his extensive filmography.The event was sponsored by the Creative Arts Council at Brown.

Scorsese talks about influences, family BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

In an interview prior to yesterday’s packed discussion, Martin Scorsese, the prolific director of films such as “The Last Waltz,” “Goodfellas,” “Taxi Driver,” “The Last Temptation of Christ,” “Raging Bull” and the recent “Gangs of New York,” placed his work in the historical context of a century of filmmaking. “No one in New York in the early 1960s could make a Hollywood film,” Scorsese said. “There was no way to get (into the business); there was no way to get funding.” As a student at New York University, Scorsese was primarily exposed to films that had come out of the New Deal’s Works Project Administration. Documentary directors who had worked for the U.S. Information Agency gave guest lectures at the universi-

ty, but there was a real schism between East and West Coast filmmaking. Building on these influences and his love of Italian and French new wave films, Scorsese developed a passion for cinematic realism. Despite his immense, if sporadic, critical and commercial success, Scorsese insisted, “I’m sort of an outsider, as usual.” Although he has lived in Los Angeles for the past 13 years, the director continues to make New York City the emblematic setting of many of his films, including his latest, “Gangs of New York,” which opened on Dec. 20. “I can’t understand how it happens … but to separate New York from L.A. in filmmaking is really not a

The Undergraduate Council of Students outlined its plans for the upcoming semester at its meeting Monday night. The council will continue with its two major themes from last semester — community building and student services, said UCS President Allen Feliz ’03. To strengthen the Brown community, UCS will work to solidify long-term funding for campus-wide events, Feliz said. The council will schedule five to six meetings with President Ruth Simmons to make sure her administration and the council are working together to improve campus life, Feliz added. On the student services front, UCS will look to improve University Food Services, Feliz said. The council will also address national issues, as Feliz said the Admission and Student Services Committee will tackle the affirmative action controversy surrounding the University of Michigan. That committee will also search for a short-term solution for gathering student input in Brown’s faculty hiring, particularly in identifying potential faculty of color, he said. The Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee will study how department undergraduate groups can be better integrated into academic life, said Committee Chair Kevin Bennett ’03. The committee may sponsor a sequel to last year’s “Win Paul Armstrong’s Money” competition, he added. The committee will continue to focus on advising reform and is preparing to launch a new program under which sophomores can contact Meiklejohn advisors about a variety of topics, said Representative Sam Hodges ’04. Rahim Kurji ’05, Admission and Student Services Committee chair, said his committee is excited about the ongoing renovations to the Bear’s Lair, for which it had lobbied repeatedly. Kurji said he hopes to have the Office of Admission meet with students who recruited at their high schools over winter break. His committee will also work with that office to define policies regarding the use of SAT’s in admission and address textbook costs, he added. The Campus Life Committee will work intensively on computing issues, said Justin Sanders ’04, committee

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Homeless continued from page 3 food, a security guard at the temporary shelter and additional insurance coverage, Sennott said. But Sennott said the underlying problem is much more serious than the recent cold weather. The shortage of affordable housing contributes to a relatively high number of homeless citizens. According to the Providence Journal, the city had more than 2,000 homeless people last year. That number, which includes people who live in motels, shel-

ters and transitional housing, has reached that level partly because of the high cost of housing, according to a recent survey by the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless. Temporary housing is “not going to be the answer,” Sennott said. In the short term, the best solution will be “what we can put in place on an emergency basis,” he said. The state and organizations must then start to look for solutions to eliminate the need for shelter, he said. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 edits the Metro section. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

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Scorsese continued from page 5 good thing,” he said. “It’s all American film and that’s the way it is.” Scorsese has always made historical films, never shying away from questions of religion and morality that he says have been crucial to both his personal and professional development. Scorsese said he was attracted to “Kundun,” his 1997 film about the Dalai Lama, because of his interest in looking at religion and the world through a non-JudeoChristian lens. Ruminating on the vision he brought to the ill-fated story of Tibet, Scorsese said he “was interested in a society that had a certain spiritual value. Instead of aggression it seemed to be more of passivity.” “I think that as a moral authority the Dalai Lama is very

interesting,” Scorsese remarked. “We were dealing with a person who was raised as a spiritual being, and then the whole world changed. What happens to that?” The director laughingly mentioned that while Oliver Stone was fascinated with exposing the Central Intelligence Agency’s intervention in Tibetan politics, he preferred to explore the culture and mentality of the society. “One would love to think that they didn’t need material comforts, that they had certain spiritual comfort,” he reflected. “That is an idealized way of thinking though. I put my word in for what was happening. It’s terrible that the culture should be completely destroyed.” “Gangs of New York,” still in theaters, has won Scorsese best director nods from both the Directors Guild of America and the Golden Globes. This was Scorsese’s first Golden Globe nomination and his fifth DGA nomination. He has been nominated for several Academy Awards, but has thus far failed to collect an Oscar. Scorsese said he was not wrapped up in the possibility of an Oscar for “Gangs.”

“The kinds of films I have in mind have always been a little bit bigger,” he said, “so it’s always been a struggle to get the money. If some sort of recognition helps in getting a more comfortable budget for the next picture or the one after, that’s what I’m for.” Scorsese said his next project, a script brought to him by “Gangs” star Leonardo DiCaprio, is “The Aviator,” and traces a period in the life of Howard Hughes, a Hollywood entrepreneur who became obsessed with aviation. Reflecting on the current state of filmmaking, Scorsese said he admired directors Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson and Alejandro Gonzalez Iniarritu. Although Scorsese condemned the “Hollywood machine” for transforming films into “consumer products,” he acknowledged that these few young directors were distinguishing themselves with “new narrative techniques, freshness and a sureness in visual interpretation. They know what they’re doing.” Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 can be reached at dgoldstein@browndailyherald.com.

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National Zoo Deaths Lead to Shake-Up WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — The director of the National

Zoo announced Monday that she will appoint a new curator to oversee all operations involving animal care, a major overhaul prompted by the recent accidental poisoning of two red pandas that raised concerns over how well animals are being protected. But even as the director, Lucy H. Spelman, outlined organizational changes to better protect the animals, zookeepers were dealing with yet another death, the eighth in recent months. This time it was a pygmy hippopotamus, a 9-year-old female that was found dead yesterday morning in the Elephant House. A preliminary necropsy conducted Monday on the 600-pound pygmy hippo showed that it suffered from pulmonary congestion and edema, meaning fluid had built up in its lungs. The exact cause of death will not be known until the zoo’s pathologist completes additional tests and tissue studies, officials said. Pygmy hippos can live 40 years or more in captivity. While deaths in a zoo are not uncommon, the concentration of fatalities over such a short period has brought

unwanted scrutiny to an institution renowned for animal care and research. Human error is to blame in the deaths of the red pandas, but concerns have been raised about some other fatalities. “Several of these deaths were sad, but not all of them were surprise deaths,” Spelman said, “Animals live and die, but when we lose an animal, it’s my job to make sure we’re paying the best attention to details.” The new “general curator” will supervise the zoo’s eight other animal curators. Pest control operations will be moved from the safety office and placed under the direction of the zoo’s pathologist. Spelman also said that she had discovered the pesticide contractor was not certified to use the poison and that from now on, she will personally review the licenses of all contractors and sign off on the use of any chemicals anywhere in the park. The adult male red pandas were found dead in their yard Jan. 11, less than 24 hours after pellets of aluminum phosphide — which mixes with groundwater to form a toxic gas — were buried in the yard to control a chronic rat problem.

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Stunned by growing antiAmericanism spawned by the confrontation with Iraq, the United States is now searching for a formula to ensure the broadest possible consensus and coalition if military action is required to disarm Iraq, according to U.S. officials. One of several options being studied is a second U.N. resolution that would give Iraq limited time to fully account for its weapons of mass destruction — or face any action deemed appropriate by individual or collective Security Council members, according to well-placed U.S. and foreign sources. The general time frame under discussion ranges from 30 to 60 days. The resolution could be proposed before the next reports from U.N. inspectors — tentatively scheduled for midFebruary and early March — so that Saddam Hussein will understand that he must comply, the sources say. The options are being developed for President Bush and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell to use during deliberations with allies and other key U.N. members over how to respond to the inspections report released Monday. “Our preferred option is to get a second resolution to justify the use of force. But what we end up

proposing will depend on what we hear in consultations. It will be one of many things that we will discuss. It’s not an option that anyone has settled on,” said a senior State Department official. Powell stressed Monday that the United States will be in a listening mode during the consultations, which began while he was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, over the weekend and continued Monday when Bush talked with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar. The United States hopes to come to a “collective judgment” after deliberations this week with its allies and the Security Council on the best course of action, Powell said. Formal debate will begin Wednesday in New York, followed by talks Friday between Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair and possibly further discussions next week. The administration, concerned about the antipathy both at home and abroad toward war without U.N. backing, is keeping an open mind about the options, U.S. officials say. Powell stressed, however, that time is running short for a decision. The issue, he said, “is not how much more time the inspectors need to search in the dark. It is how much more time Iraq should be given to turn on the

lights and come clean. Iraq’s time for choosing peaceful disarmament is coming to an end,” he told a news conference at the State Department. The well-placed sources predict that a second resolution is now a strong possibility as a compromise to address allied concerns. The four other veto-wielding members of the Security Council as well as other nations critical to a military operation are virtually all calling for more time for the inspections. Each has also repeatedly made clear a strong preference that a second resolution condoning the use of force should be passed before any military action. “It satisfies our need for a finding of material breach with their need for more time for inspections to work. What it does is put a final end to all of this. They say they want more time. We want to keep this from being an endless extension of the deadline. This is how to satisfy both demands,” said a wellplaced source who requested anonymity. The kind of compromise the administration is exploring differs in timing and approach from earlier suggestions about a second resolution. Originally, the United States envisioned a move at the Security Council at the end of an unspecified period of inspections.

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High Court Dismisses Mattel Case Against ‘Barbie Girl’ WASHINGTON — (L.A. Times) A song

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titled “Barbie Girl,” which makes fun of a “blond bimbo” whose “life in plastic (is) fantastic,” had the first laugh and the last Monday as the Supreme Court turned away a trademarkinfringement claim by Mattel Inc., which makes the Barbie doll. The court’s no-comment dismissal ends the El Segundo, Calif.-based toymaker’s lawsuit against MCA Records Inc. over the song, which Mattel said tarnished and diluted the value of its famous doll. Outside the courts, the “Barbie Girl” vs. “Barbie Doll” dispute flared into a war of angry news releases between Mattel and MCA, in which executives used words such as “bank robber” and “theft” to describe the actions of the others. The animosity prompted 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski to close his opinion in the case with the following admonition: “The parties are advised to chill.” Mattel executives said they were prompted to bring the lawsuit because the “Barbie Girl” song was marketed to young girls using bright pink lettering. Similar pink lettering has been used to sell the doll, and that could fool consumers into thinking the products were related, they said. But a federal judge in Los

Angeles threw out the lawsuit before trial, and the 9th Circuit did the same in July. “Obviously, we are very disappointed,” Jules Andres, a Mattel spokeswoman, said Monday. “We think the standard set by the 9th Circuit will make it very difficult for companies to protect their trademarks.” MCA, a unit of Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music Group, said it was happy to see the case end. “We always contended that the suit involved creative expression and free speech,” spokeswoman Lillian Matulic said. Standard trademark law forbids companies from using another’s brand name or symbol to sell products. In 1996, Congress gave famous brands extra protection when it enacted the Federal Trademark Dilution Act. It is now illegal to use a famous brand in a way that tarnishes or blurs its value. The Supreme Court has yet to interpret the Trademark Dilution Act, although a ruling is pending. Victoria’s Secret, the retailer of women’s lingerie, used the new law to sue the owner of a Kentucky strip-mall store that sells “adult sex toys” and calls itself Victor’s Little Secret. The justices will decide whether a famous-brand company must show it has been

harmed before it can win a court order against an upstart rival. In the Barbie case, Kozinski said Mattel’s desire to protect its trademark conflicted with the recordmaker’s free-speech right to parody a cult figure. “With Barbie, Mattel created not just a toy, but a cultural icon,” Kozinski wrote last year. “With fame often comes unwanted attention.” “Barbie Girl” by the Danish group Aqua has sold 1.4 million copies since 1997 in the United States, according to Mattel’s lawyers. Writing for the three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit, Kozinski concluded that the Trademark Dilution Act could not be extended to punish a parody. “The song lampoons the Barbie image and comments humorously on the cultural values Aqua claims she represents,” he said. In October, Mattel’s lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court. They argued that the 9th Circuit’s approach cut a large loophole in the trademark laws that would allow upstarts to piggyback on famous brands, so long as they made fun of them along the way. MCA defended the song as “social commentary.” The high court issued a oneline order Monday in Mattel vs. MCA Records that dismissed the appeal.

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Saltman continued from page 12 team’s territory, a turnover is the same as giving your opposition points. On Sunday, the Raiders turned the ball over in every way and place imaginable. The Super Bowl record five interceptions of Rich Gannon were due to a variety of things, but mostly because he never was able to throw when and where he wanted. Of the five interceptions, three of them were returned for touchdowns. That’s 21 points just given to the Bucs. If the score had been 27-21 coming down the stretch, things might have ended very differently and maybe Bill Callahan wouldn’t have essentially thrown a time out away by challenging an unchallengeable call. Maybe it wasn’t explained to him correctly or maybe he’s just a little slow, but we were all left wondering what he was thinking

W. Basketball continued from page 12 seven assists. Golston added six points, five assists and four steals. The Bears have a tough weekend ahead, facing Cornell on Friday and Columbia on Saturday. Both games are at 7 p.m. in the Pizzitola Sports Center. Sports staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 covers the women’s basketball team. She can be reached at shegde@browndailyherald.com.

when he challenged that twopoint conversion. The 27-21 possible score does not even take into account the chances the Raiders lost by turning the ball over. Instead, the Raiders threw a total of five touchdowns, three of which were to the Tampa defense and so the Bucs went down in history as yet another dominating defense to win a championship. The really interesting part of the Super Bowl, as so often is the case, was the commercials. Terry Tate, the office linebacker, was a stroke of genius. It was like “The Waterboy” in commercial form. The “Office Space” TPS reports reference was also well done in the commercial, though what Terry Tate had to do with Reebok shoes was left up to the imagination. The best ad was the zebra created by who else but Budweiser. It was extremely well done and had that little edge of educated humor that Terry Tate seemed to lack. The fact that the ad was soon followed by a Bucs challenge being upheld was the perfect timing that August A. Busch XXIV could have only dreamed about. On the other hand, one of the worst ads was the jeans commercial with the buffalo stampede. Not only did it not make any sense as a couple of people wearing Wrangler Jeans somehow were not trampled by a stampede of buffalo, but the ad was over a minute long or, as I’d like to say, about five million dollars. It was almost as painful to watch as the Raiders offense. The worst commercial, however, had to be the one that stated, as a matter of fact, that if you smoke marijuana,

One of the worst ads was the jeans commercial with the buffalo stampede. Not only did it not make any sense as a couple of people wearing Wrangler Jeans somehow were not trampled by a stampede of buffalo, but the ad was over a minute long. you’re going to end up pregnant. I’m sure that, like myself, that’s how many of you were conceived, but it’s far from typical. The commercial led the deafening sound of boos even louder than that emanating from the “black hole” section of Qualcomm Park. They should really come up with a new ad that might actually work. Here’s an idea: Just show highlights of the Raiders offense on Sunday and have a voice say that marijuana makes you throw stupid passes. That’s one ad I’d listen to and maybe Rich Gannon would, too. Jeff Saltman ’03 is a history and economics concentrator. He hails from outside Washington, D.C.

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On the agenda Brown is notorious for its supposed political correctness. But the University has relied far too long on its reputation as a gay-friendly institution without actively supporting the LGBT community. LGBT students are not immune at Brown to the discrimination and ignorance they might face anywhere else. Just because homophobia is not actively discussed on campus does not mean it does not exist — the problem may not be on the University’s agenda, but it is not imaginary. Yet while students who primarily identify with many other groups have well-publicized support networks, assistance and social events for LGBT students are spread across the University and its administration. Often these resources are hard to find and harder to take advantage of. It is still too early in the planning process to say definitively that a resource center is the best way to spend the University’s funds, or even the best way to serve Brown’s LGBT community. Yet we encourage the University to consider the proposal, because LGBT students are no less deserving of a central support institution than the communities served by the Third World Center, Hillel and the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center. The center can provide a space for open dialogue and a wide and flexible variety of support for members of a community that do not always identify with student organizations and existing University programs already in place. A center can also formally address challenges the LGBT community faces academically — using experts to heighten awareness of key issues. The University cannot continue to rest on its PC laurels. Brown cannot produce a prejudice-free environment. But a center could be the next best thing, creating an umbrella group to address the LGBT community’s many concerns and provide a crucial first step toward increasing general awareness of LGBT issues on campus.

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The brothers and sisters of Alpha Delta Phi would like to thank everyone in the Brown commuWith regards to the University’s plan to increase nity who donated to our fund-raising drive for the student loans (“Student loans increase due to poor Rainforest Alliance. The Rainforest Alliance is an economy” Jan. 24), I just want to raise an objection. international conservation organization that proThe University has an enormous endowment that tects ecosystems and the people and wildlife who is very under-utilized. It is designed to be of use live within them by implementing better business should the economic situation prevent the practices for bio-diversity conservation. Alpha Delta Phi’s fund-raising drive, which culUniversity from effectively operating. Why aren’t they using it to help students on financial aid at a minated in last Friday night’s “Jungle Fever” party, time when financial aid is more necessary than raised over $1100 for the charity. On behalf of Alpha Delta Phi and the Rainforest ever? This also comes at a time when President Alliance, we would like to extend our thanks. Simmons is hiking our tuition quite rapidly to pay for her meritorious, if expensive, proposals. Is increasing student debt, which can seriously Marisa Kastoff ‘03, President restrict our future choices for summer and postChristopher Guhin ‘05, Social Chair college experiences, really the only way to balance Alpha Delta Phi Society the books? Jan. 27

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2003: Year of Citizen Surveillance President Bush continues to use the War on Terror as an excuse to invade our personal privacy I’M DISTURBED. NOT SO MUCH IN THE rather than ensuring that the United States mentally-unstable sense as in the I-have- is a safe place for everyone within its boran-almost-overwhelming-urge-to-move- ders — the international students, resito-Canada sense. I’m disturbed by the way dent aliens, immigrants and tourists who concern for the working poor has been have come to enrich this country by studyredefined as instigating class warfare. I’m ing, working and living here. The Total Information bothered that dissent has Awareness System, headed by become unpatriotic, that supJohn Poindexter, plans to colport for diplomacy is now lect information on U.S. resiknown as partisan politics dents from all available and that partisan politics itself sources — the databases of has become taboo. I’m wortelephone companies, finanried about a slew of legislation cial companies, travel agenbearing Orwellian-sounding cies, retailers and libraries are names: the USA Patriot Act, only the beginning. Poindexter Total Information Awareness envisions a vast electronic and the Department of database where all of that Homeland Security, as well as SARAH GREEN information is stored, along the proposed-but-jettisoned BETTER THAN CATS with information garnered Terrorism Information and through the Internet about citPrevention System, or TIPS. izens’ favorite Web sites, downThat a president could even imagine using postal workers, truck driv- loads and online purchases. Everything ers and meter readers as government from your motor vehicle records to your informants should freeze the heart of any- housemates to your medical records to one who remotely cares about personal your e-mails could be recorded in a govprivacy, civil liberties, the Bill of Rights, the ernment file. Poindexter, Ronald Reagan’s Constitution or what is meant by “life, lib- national security adviser, was convicted of lying to Congress and destroyed evidence erty and the pursuit of happiness.” As for the Department of Homeland about the Iran-Contra scandal. He should Security, it’s not so much the actual be the last person entrusted with a project department that bothers me as it is the to spy on the American people. It has all the makings of a Spielberg implications of the name. What’s in a name? This one sounds like a department movie, or at the very least a Fox network that belongs in a totalitarian regime of a television special, but such fears are different era, like Nazi Germany or the already moving out of the realm of science Soviet Union. Furthermore, it implies that fiction and into the realm of science fact. the government is only interested in pro- “Already, one car rental agency tried to tecting those people who were born here, charge a customer for speeding after a (Global Positioning System) device in the car reported the transgression back to the company. And cars are just one example of Sarah Green ‘04 values her right to read how products and possessions can be procelebrity gossip without anyone else grammed to spy and inform on their ownknowing about it.

ers,” states an ACLU report. All the amenities that make life more efficient — from Mobil SpeedPass to the FastTrak radio technology that allows you to zip through tollbooths — comes with a downside. We’re not too far away from law enforcement agencies being able to use that technology to scan your identity on the street. While DNA evidence is a valuable tool for exonerating wrongfully imprisoned people, especially innocent people on death row, one DNA testing company has already amassed samples of more than 50,000 individuals. Many of these samples were taken unwittingly for paternity tests — surely such information would be included in such an all-encompassing system as Total Information Awareness. The USA Patriot Act already gives the government the power to seize the records of bookstores and libraries in order to keep tabs on what their customers are reading. Furthermore, librarians are barred by law from informing their patrons that the government has asked about their reading habits. If you find it a bit unnerving when Amazon.com recommends books, how much more sinister will it feel when the government gets involved? The FBI has already asked colleges and universities around the United States to hand over personal information about all foreign students and faculty — the FBI and the Justice Department even claim that the language of the USA Patriot Act makes informing the targeted people unnecessary. Though academia is resisting this demand, it is sobering to know that the government can make such claims. Jose Padilla, whom the government suspects of trying to detonate a “dirty bomb” in the country, has been held in military custody since June; the government has

not allowed Padilla, who is a U.S. citizen, to meet with his lawyers, nor has it even charged him with a specific crime. Setting a dangerous precedent for suspending due process, the White House has labeled Padilla an enemy combatant and is arguing that allowing him to meet with his lawyers would disrupt his interrogation. The question we must ask ourselves is this: Do we really feel safer without our freedom? One of the problems that allowed the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers to remain undetected was that various government agencies had such a surplus of information that they couldn’t effectively analyze it. Will knowing that I spend too much time on pagesix.com? Is applying for an internship at The Nation enough to get me my own FBI file? It would certainly explain why security guards always stop me at those “random” airport checks to dust my shoes for bombs and to make sure my camera and laptop are really a camera and a laptop. Not that I’m in favor of profiling, but I’m pretty sure no terrorist so far has been a blonde female college student traveling with her parents. We must also ask ourselves, as President Bush ignores the international community and the United Nations in pushing for war against Iraq, exactly what it is he is purporting to defend. No matter that U.N. weapons inspectors have found nothing so far, no matter that even our staunchest ally, Britain, maintains that any military action must rely on U.N. backing. President Bush is itching for battle against the man he calls a tyrant. But we must make sure the liberty and democracy we want to protect are not sacrificed in the process. It would be a great tragedy if the only thing vanquished in the War on Terrorism were our own freedoms.

Cell phone etiquette, part II Why I can’t stand wireless handsets and why they should not be tolerated LET’S START THINGS OFF WITH A LITTLE touch with reality, and consequently, these anecdote. One day over break, I find people lose their jobs and have great diffimyself waiting in an excruciatingly slow culty getting back on their feet. People holiday line at my neighborhood Barnes & with neurological problems who can Noble. The registers are near the entrance afford to do so get good medical and psyof the store, and I pass the time by watch- chological treatment so that symptoms don’t manifest themselves in ing the people outside as they such visible ways. Indeed, conwalk past. At some point, an sidering what this woman is older man who is talking wearing, she appears to be loudly, angrily and to no one quite well off. Eventually, she in particular slowly walks by. gets in front of the store, turns He is clearly mentally ill and to walk in and it all becomes other pedestrians take delibquite clear. In her previously erate measures to avoid gethidden left ear, there is some ting close to him as they kind of headset device and a encounter him. Only seconds wire running down to her coat later, a woman talking and pocket — she is talking on her gesturing equally passionately CHRIS SENIO cell phone. approaches him from the BOTTLES OF CHRIS Now, all of this happened a opposite direction. For a brief lot more quickly than I’ve moment, I wonder if she is described here, but I found the arguing with the first guy, but juxtaposition between these it quickly becomes clear they are talking past each other. I consider that two people so ironic it justified a detailed maybe she too is suffering from some con- description. I observed two people doing dition that makes her argue with people or basically the same thing, but one person things that are not there, but this puzzles was acting in a manner that was socially acceptable, and the other was being avoidme even further. Most people I’ve encountered who suf- ed by passers-by. This incident led me to the obvious confer from delusions are also homeless. No one wants to hire someone who isn’t in clusion that cell phone headsets do not belong in our society. The only place where such a “hands-free” device should be used Chris Senio ‘04 promises this will be his last column on cell phones ... at least until is while driving a car, where there is a safety component involved. While I don’t believe next year.

I can say with confidence that only a tiny fraction of people who regularly use hands-free devices actually use their cell phones so much that it becomes uncomfortable or impractical to hold their phones when they are in use. it is ideal to be distracted at all while you’re driving, if you have to talk and drive, by all means, use some kind of headset. Otherwise, there is no reason that you cannot just hold your cell phone and talk into it like the rest of us. If you are so inept that you can’t walk and hold your cell phone at the same time, then you shouldn’t be chatting on the phone at all. There are lot more productive things you could be doing with your time, like mastering basic motor skills. I can’t stand it when I’m walking and someone passing me by suddenly starts talking to me, only to realize that they are not at all talking to me, but instead talking into a tiny microphone dangling from a wire attached to their ear. There is also an air of arrogance conveyed by walking around while talking on the phone with an earpiece in your ear. The implication is that your affairs are so important that you need to constantly be in touch. You need to talk on the phone so much that it is no longer practical for you to physically hold a phone for the duration of your

conversations. I can say with confidence that only a tiny fraction of people who regularly use hands-free devices actually use their cell phones so much that it becomes uncomfortable or impractical to hold their phones when they are in use. Everyone else is either lazy or just loves to pretend they are in the secret service. Over the last few years, cell phone use in general has accelerated. Cell phones have infiltrated public space to an unprecedented degree, with no sign of slowing down. Restaurants, movie theaters and other institutions now have to ask patrons to limit their cell phone use and be respectful of other people. If discrete earpieces and other devices that hide one’s cell phone are intended to make constant cell phone use less obnoxious, then they are utter failures. So please, don’t freak me out by using hands-free devices on your cell phones. As least when you’re walking around where I might run into you.

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SPORTS TUESDAY JANUARY 28, 2003 · PAGE 12

Super thoughts on football’s biggest game IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF BARF from “Spaceballs”: “When you’re right, you’re right. And you, you’re always right.” As predicted, the Bucs defeated the Raiders on Sunday in what was supposed to be a close game but ended up turning into — as anyone but a Giants fan would call it — a blowout by halftime. The Bucs had thoroughly embarrassed the Raiders in running up a 20-3 score by the break. They out-hustled and JEFF SALTMAN THE SALT’S TAKE outplayed the venerable Raiders who finally showed their age — the median age on the team is an astounding 53.2 years old — by looking much slower and outmatched by a hungry Bucs team. The game started well enough for the Raiders. On the first possession, Brad Johnson did his best Heath Shuler impression and threw a wobbly duck right into the waiting hands of Raiders cornerback Charles Woodson. The Raiders scored on the ensuing possession, not knowing that it would be their only points of the half. From there the Bucs’ defense took over the game as so many great defenses have done in Super Bowls. They pressured and sacked Rich Gannon without mercy. Even when he made only a three-step drop, the Bucs were right in his face and usually the receivers were well covered. What the game really came down to, as so many games have in the past, was turnovers. In general, when a team wins the turnover battle, it wins the game. This is true over 80 percent of the time. The winning teams in the Super Bowl are a combined plus 83 in the turnover battle — that’s over plus two a game on average for you math majors. Nothing changes a game like a turnover. No matter where it happens on the field, it always shifts the momentum at least for a little while. If it happens in your own territory, your defense is now backed up and at best will probably give up three points as the Bucs did on their first possession. If it happens around midfield, the team now has a “short field” to work with and also a potential scoring drive has been abruptly halted. When your team is deep in the other see SALTMAN, page 9

SCHEDULE Tuesday Men’s hockey vs. Providence College Meehan Auditorium 7:00 p.m.

THE HUNT IS ON

1,800

With 20 points against Yale on Friday, Earl Hunt ’03 moved into seventh place on the Ivy League’s all-time points scored list with 1,800 points. Hunt needs 28 points to move past Ernie Beck (UPenn, 1950-53) for sixth place.

In prelude to Mayor’s Cup, men’s ice hockey drops game to Merrimack 3-1 Merrimack College (10-10-4) scored two goals in a span of one minute and 24 seconds to break open a 1-1 game and hand Brown (9-7-2) its first loss in five games, 3-1, in a non-league men’s ice hockey contest Saturday evening at Merrimack’s Volpe Center. After a period of scoreless action, the Warriors took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Matt Johnson just 3:03 into the second period. The goal was scored just three seconds after an interference penalty on Brown’s Gerry Burke ’05 had expired. The Bears knotted the contest at 13:36 of the same period when Jason Wilson ’03 ripped a shot from the top of the face-off circle that beat Merrimack goalie Joe Exter beneath his pads. Cory Caouette ’06 earned his first career point with the assist on the goal. Merrimack regained the one-goal lead just 1:20 into the final stanza, scoring on the man-advantage after peppering Yann Danis ’04 with three quick shots. The Warriors took a 3-1 lead just over a minute later on a goal by Lucas Smith. For the game, Danis finished with 33 saves in 59:26. Brown resumes action on Tuesday, Jan. 28, when the Bears host Providence in the 17th annual Mayor’s dspics Cup. The puck drops at 7 p.m. The men’s hockey team looks to reclaim the Mayor’s Cup, when it hosts Providence — Brown Sports Information College tonight at 7 p.m. The team lost last year’s game 4-3 in overtime.

Fencing foils opponents in year’s second league meet The fencing team made the trip to Chestnut Hill to compete in its second league meet of the season on Jan. 25 at Boston College. Fresh from the rigor of its “Hell Week” winter training session, the team put on a strong show. Both the men and women fenced against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Tufts, Dartmouth and Harvard, while the women also faced off against Smith College. The day started with Brown’s harshest rival — MIT. Women’s individual saber gave a particularly strong performance, beating its opponents 6-3. The men triumphed over MIT, with the deciding bout won by Jeremy Moore ’06, a walk-on who has been fencing for just five months. Fellow walk-on Jimmy Dorroh ’06 won two great bouts against MIT’s varsity fencers. Lacey Gray ’06 started the meet with a strong 5-2 win and continued her powerhouse style all day. The next match was equally difficult against host Boston College. Both the men’s and women’s teams ended up dropping the match 13-14, but there were many great moments along the way. In men’s foil, Dorroh scored a 4-0 against BC’s strongest fencer before the opponent came back to win 5-4. In the men’s epee, Matt Ivester ’03 beat David Moyston, BC’s strongest fencer, in a phenomenal and intense bout. Men’s saber swept its opponents 9-0, women’s saber won 5-4 and women’s epee finished up 54. The men’s and women’s teams both earned victories over Tufts University. Highlights included the solid performances from women’s epee at 7-2 and men’s saber with a 9-0 sweep. The men’s team took a break to cheer for the women’s team as they fenced

Fresh from the rigor of its “Hell Week” winter training session, the team put on a strong show. Smith College. Walk-on Mayalisa Holzman ’06 fenced and won her first intercollegiate bout, beating Smith’s Carroll 5-2. Walk-on Juliane Kellner ’06 earned her first competitive win, against Brenneman, also with a score of 5-2. All three women’s squads beat Smith to secure a solid victory for the team. Dartmouth was the next opponent and the match boasted yet another competitive bout and victory. This time it was Claire Coiro ’06, who beat her rival with a score of 5-2 and saved the meet for the foil squad. The women’s epee squad went 7-2, women’s foil 6-3 and women’s saber 5-4 to make a strong win for the women’s team. The men fared equally well, beating Dartmouth 8-1 in epee, 5-4 in foil and 7-2 in saber. The day ended with a match against Harvard. Matt Ivester ’03 beat National Team member Rose with a score of 5-3 and epee teammate Adrian Martin ’06 beat Harvard’s Soto 5-1. The women’s epee team powered through the match to a 6-3 win and a great performance by Ruth Schneider ’06, Lucy Walker ’06, Ally Assante ’04 and Sophie Klein ’03. Brown is currently the top-ranked women’s epee squad in the league. The Brown fencers will return to competitive action on Feb. 2 at MIT for an invitational meet. — Brown Sports Information

W. basketball 2-0 in league with Yale win BY SHARA HEGDE

The women’s basketball team continued its success in league play this weekend, defeating Yale 70-55 at the Pizzitola Sports Center and remaining undefeated (2-0) in the Ivy League. Nyema Mitchell ’04 led the Bears, scoring 16 points and pulling down 13 rebounds for her third doubledouble of the season. Mitchell also had a strong game defensively, rejecting six shots. The Bears got off to a strong start in the game, thanks to a 16-0 run in the first half, and went into halftime up by 11. With solid team play and strong defense, Brown withstood a second half flurry from Yale that pulled the Bulldogs within five, and outscored the Bulldogs 29-25 to secure the win. Brown received another outstanding game from Colleen Kelly ’06 who led the team with 17 points — 12 coming from behind the arc. Kelly, who also added seven steals, said she believed the team played well and received balanced contributions from everyone. “We are playing well together as a team and everyone is stepping up,” she said. “It’s nice to be clicking so early on and hopefully the success will continue.” Sarah Hayes ’06 and Tanara Golston ’04 also had strong games for the team. Fresh off her Ivy League Rookie of the Week award, Hayes scored nine points while collecting seven rebounds and dishing out see W. BASKETBALL, page 9