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Number of minorities in Brown athletic department remains low

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and Justice a permit for the planned demonstration.

Bloomberg denied the permit in hopes of limiting the number of people in the city while the nation was under a code orange warning level, the Washington Post reported.

The lack of a permit did not stop Elizabeth Sperber ’06, one of the organizers of the Students Against the War in Iraq, from making the trip.

“I think (New York City officials) were concerned about public safety, and conveniently there is the super alert which probably had a lot to do with it,” she said.

SAWI organized the two buses that departed from Faunce Arch at 6:30 a.m. the day of the protest. Students who did not make it onto the original buses were picked up by ANSWER, a national, non-profit antiwar group that had buses leaving from downtown Providence.

Elizabeth Luna ’06 said while she didn’t get to New York with the buses from Brown, “there was no problem figuring out where to go. Everyone in the city seemed to come

Minorities remain underrepresented in Brown’s athletic department despite a commitment made in 1998 to increase the diversity of the University’s coaching staff.

In a self-study conducted by the University in 1997 in accordance with a National Collegiate Athletic Association regulation, the University noted a need for an “increased commitment to recruit and hire more minority coaches and assistants,” The Herald reported at the time.

In 1997 Brown employed two minority head coaches and two minority assistant coaches.

By October 2001 the total number of minority coaches at Brown had declined to 3 out of a coaching staff of 63.

Athletic Director David Roach said his department remains committed to the University’s affirmative action policy and goal of equity.

“We promote diversity, we want to be diverse and we do what we can to advertise all our positions,” he said.

Roach said the athletic department advertises open coaching positions in a variety of coaching newsletters, including that of the Black Coaches’ Association.

Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Janina Montero said Roach also seeks help from colleagues at other universities to encourage minority applicants to apply for Brown’s open positions.

“Roach works hard with each new vacancy to have a strong pool and also a diverse pool,” Montero said.

Henry Johnson, director of the Equal Employment and Affirmative Action Office, said guidelines about equitable hiring procedures are enforced for the athletic department just as they are for the rest of the University.

According to the Brown University Hiring Plan, departments with open positions identified as underutilized by minorities work with a representative from Human Resources to advertise in trade journals targeted to minority groups.

A position is considered underutilized when fewer members of a minority group fill the position than would be expected based on the percentage of qualified members of that group in Rhode Island, Johnson said.

“One thing that is critical to the equal opportunity employment program is to have equal access to com-

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Hundreds of thousands of people — including a number of Brown and RISD students — braved the cold weather on Saturday to gather in New York City for an antiwar protest.The New York protest was one of many the world over.

Brown students join hundreds of thousands in NYC antiwar protest

BY DANIELLE CERNY NEW YORK — Hundreds of Brown and RISD students

braved the cold and shuffled through miles of police barricades to join the antiwar protests Saturday in New York City.

New York City’s “The World Says No To War” protest, hosted by United for Peace and Justice, was one of 600 protests that took place across the world that day. Nearly one million people marched in London and one to two million in Rome, Madrid and Barcelona.

More than 10 million people protested around the world, causing United for Peace and Justice to claim that Saturday was “the largest day of coordinated protest ever known.”

Though United for Peace and Justice estimated 500,000 people at the New York demonstration, the New York Police Department reported only around 100,000 people were actually present.

These masses gathered despite New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to deny United for Peace

Brown joins six other universities in brief supporting U. Michigan

BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

Brown joined Harvard and six other universities Tuesday in filing an amicus brief supporting the University of Michigan in two Supreme Court cases that could determine the future of affirmative action in the United States.

In the brief, the universities recommended that the court uphold the constitutionality of affirmative action and Michigan’s points-based admission policies.

In an official University statement on the brief released Tuesday afternoon, President Ruth Simmons emphasized the importance of racial and ethnic diversity in higher education.

“By almost all accounts, our institutions of higher learning have benefited enormously from greater diversity in their student bodies, faculty and staff,” Simmons said. “The greater variety of backgrounds, life experi-

ences, political positions, social perspectives and personal aspirations on their campuses has allowed the nation’s colleges and universities to better prepare students for lives in an international, multicultural world.”

The brief states that “the main impetus for developing a broadly representative student body is not to remedy past injustice but to assure that educational programs are forward-looking and inclusive,” according to the University press release.

The universities specifically criticized “race-neutral” policies such as those guaranteeing admission to a top percentage of high school graduates. President Bush promoted guaranteed-admission policies as an alternative to affirmative action in the White House’s brief opposing Michigan.

But those policies are “unworkable for small, academically selective universities,” the universities wrote

in the brief, noting that last year, 2,900 valedictorians applied for 2,066 spaces in Harvard’s freshman class.

The universities also cited recent studies showing that guaranteed-admission policies at public universities in Texas, Florida and California have not increased minority enrollment, The Harvard Crimson reported.

Harvard served as the main author of the brief, and the University of Chicago, Dartmouth, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale also signed it.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments April 1 for both cases, which involve white students who claim they were unfairly denied admission to Michigan’s undergraduate and law schools because black and Latino applicants with similar or weaker academic

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Record setting blizzard cripples much of the Northeast, including Providence. page 5

Bush pushes rightwing agenda while America watches Iraq, says Von Oeyen ’05. column, page 15

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 ponders America’s guilty pleasure: “Joe Millionaire.” column, page 15

Men’s basketball ends 52-year drought at Princeton but loses to Penn. sports, page 16

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DEBATE—”The War with Iraq,”Debate Team, Young Americans for Freedom, International Socialist Organization. Room 101, Solomon, 8 p.m.

LECTURE— “Eating Disorders,” Robyn Mehlenbeck, Brown, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior. Coro West Building,11 a.m.

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ACADEMIC WATCH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003 · PAGE 3

Graduate student Talan Memmott combines prose, art and HTML to create interactive multimedia

BY STEPHANIE HARRIS

In literary terms, code is the means by which a writer transmits ideas to the reader. In computer terms, code refers to the system of symbols and rules used to represent instructions to a computer.

Talan Memmott GS combines both uses of the word as the first graduate fellow in electronic writing.

Memmott’s work combines prose, art and HTML, resulting in interactive multimedia pieces. He will continue his work at Brown as he works with faculty to develop the graduate program.

The fellowship, which will result in a Master of Fine Arts degree, provides tuition and a stipend and includes teaching opportunities as well as a space for Memmott to develop his work.

Electronic writing is writing that takes place on or through a computer, Memmott said. There are many varieties, including hypertext or hypermedia work, Web-based work and even work that takes place through e-mail, he said.

Finished pieces, which are often displayed through the Internet, include aspects of text and art and often have an interactive component.

“I deal with the relationship between text and image in electronic writing,” Memmott said. “Electronic writing … is the relationship of word to image. The

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interactivity becomes part of the narrative structure of the work.”

The reader has a different relationship to electronic writing than writing on the page, he said. “You have different issues that come up, different problems that arise that make it sort of a different mode of writing that has potential in different areas,” he said.

Memmott’s background in visual art has a strong impact on his writing, he said. With experience in theater, primarily in directing, and in painting, installation work and video work, Memmott has many sources to draw from in making a piece. His writing practice includes not only the writing of prose but also developing images as well as writing HTML code.

“I generally like to deal with the code myself,” Memmott said. “I think that’s an important thing to consider in terms of electronic authorship. Authors have to deal with code in other media,” he said — his is just a different type of code.

Although Memmott’s work is varied, much of it deals with art history. “It’s representation and remediation of prior work,” he said. For example, one piece, titled “The Berth of V.Ness,” adapts a 500year-old Botticelli painting to a digital environment. “I think of the work as a visual-slash-textual-slash-interactive art

Electronic writing is writing that takes place on or through a computer, Memmott said. There are many varieties, including hypertext or hypermedia work, Webbased work, even work that takes place through e-mail, he said. Finished pieces, which are often displayed through the Internet, include aspects of text and art and often have an interactive component. history document,” he said.

As Brown’s first graduate fellow in electronic writing, Memmott is working with faculty to develop the graduate program.

Although one or two workshops in electronic writing are offered each semester, there is not a formal department yet, Memmott said.

He is currently doing an independent study that allows him to work in the Cave, Brown’s supercomputing and immersive virtual reality lab. The Cave is an enclosed eight-foot cubicle in which high-resolution stereo graphics are projected onto three walls and the floor to create an immersive virtual reality experience.

Memmott plans to teach workshops in online literary hypermedia beginning next academic year.

Memmott came to Brown at the urging of Adjunct Professor of English Robert Coover, who met Memmott at a conference at UCLA last spring.

“There’s a lot of energy in the creative writing department about electronic writing,” Memmott said. “It’s an exciting time for electronic writing at Brown.”

Herald staff writer Stephanie Harris edits the academic watch section. She can be reached at sharris@browndailyherald.com.

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Protest

Those who made it

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to the rally heard

alive with their posters and chants.”

In New York, SAWI’s buses joined rows of others in the Shea Stadium parking lot. The line for the subway entrance at Shea became so backed up due to the crowd that New York City police let protesters on the subway for free.

In the city, protesters engulfed 3rd Avenue, effectively stopping traffic as they marched through the middle of the road. Tens of thousands of people stuck on 3rd Avenue spent hours trying to navigate through police barricades in hopes of reaching the actual rally taking place at 1st Avenue and 52nd Street.

“I was surprised how many people were on 3rd Avenue marching. At the same time, though, it was kind of empty at the actual rally site, but that had to do with how they juggled the crowds,” said Faye Reiff-Pasarew ’05. Reiff-Pasarew reached the rally with the aid of police officers that pointed her to shops with back doors that could be used to bypass barriers.

Those who made it to the rally heard speakers ranging from Danny Glover and Susan Sarandon to representatives from the National Organization for Women and the NAACP. Crowds at the rally stretched back 20 blocks to 74th Street. The speakers and musical performances were broadcast on sound towers and two Jumbotron screens.

At 3:30 p.m., protest organizers took the stage to inform the crowds of the Associated Press report that the Bush administration, in response to the massive protests around the world, would be working with Great Britain to rewrite a draft of the U.N. Security Council’s resolu-

speakers ranging

Amicus continued from page 1 records were admitted.

Yesterday was the deadline to file amicus briefs, which have no legal weight but may influence the justices’ decisions. More than 300 organizations, including universities, corporations, labor unions and military and civilian defense officials, have announced their intention of filing briefs, the New

from Danny Glover and Susan Sarandon to representatives from the National Organization for Women and the NAACP. Crowds at the rally stretched back 20 blocks to 74th Street. tion that would not explicitly call for war.

“I think it would be wonderful if a new resolution was actually in the works, but I’m going to see what the newspapers say in the morning,” Reiff-Pasarew said.

President George W. Bush confirmed Reiff-Pasarew’s reservations Tuesday by telling reporters he would not be deterred from using force if it is necessary to disarm Iraq despite the global protests, according to the Associated Press and the New York Times.

Despite a lack of solid results, Sperber said the protests accomplished their main goal. “This was a way of getting together and saying in a loud, united voice, ‘No, this is not what we want.’ We are adamantly against it and we will stand in the cold for six hours if that’s what it takes.”

Herald staff writer Danielle Cerny ’06 covers campus

York Times reported. The total number of briefs may top the record of 62, which was set by the 1978 case University of California Board of Regents v. Bakke. The court’s decision in Bakke struck down racial quotas but preserved the constitutionality of race-conscious admissions policies.

Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003 · PAGE 5

IN BRIEF Fountain outside post office still on track, despite winter work stoppage Although the wintry weather has halted work since November, the construction of the fountain outside the post office is proceeding according to plan and will be completed by late March, according to administrators overseeing the project.

The fountain, a 10-foot-tall sculpture of bronze and glass surrounded by a pool 14 feet in diameter, will commemorate the life of Casey Shearer ’00, who died days before his graduation. Shearer’s family hoped to create a gathering space for students to encourage communication — something Shearer did in his capacity as an announcer for BSR and a columnist for The College Hill Independent.

The University expected to halt construction during the winter months if the glass couldn’t be cast and installed.

Howard Ben Tre, the fountain’s designer, said he was pleased with the construction thus far, adding that the work had special significance for him as an artist.

“It’s something to be shared by the Brown community, but it’s also meant to honor (Shearer),” he said.“It’s really special for a lot of reasons.”

Ben Tre said he expects the fountain to be completed by the second or third week of March and dedicated at a ceremony some time in April.

—Zach Barter

Crime incident summary

Kerry Miller / Herald

Two incidents of assault were reported in and around the University campus between Jan. 29 and Feb. 9, according to a crime incident summary released by the Department of Public Safety.

According to the summary, a RISD student was assaulted and robbed on Benefit Street near Meeting Street at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Jan. 29. The two suspects, dressed in all black clothing, were reported to have struck the student on his leg with a crowbar and then fled the scene in a dark colored SUV. Another on-campus assault occurred on Feb. 2 between 2:15 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., according to the summary. DPS received a call from a man who said he was approached, pushed down and kicked by two subjects at Brown and Charlesfield Streets. As the victim began to yell loudly, the suspects fled the area, according to the summary.

At approximately 6:47 p.m. on Feb. 1, the Providence Police Department received a bomb threat from a male suspect who said a bomb was placed in a vehicle in the parking lot of the Athletic Center. According to the summary, a joint investigation conducted by DPS and PPD determined that there was no circumstantial evidence and the threat was not credible.

An incident of breaking and entering was recorded in Hope College on Jan. 25. According to the summary, an electric guitar and a laptop computer were stolen from a student’s room between 1:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. see CRIME, page 6

According to the National Weather Service, between 15 and 25 inches of snow accumulated in and around the Providence area, burying cars and complicating travel plans.

Blizzard cripples northeast, including R.I.

BY SARA PERKINS

The biggest snowstorm to hit Providence in seven years stranded students away from campus for the long weekend and shut down the University for two days.

The National Weather Service reported 15 to 25 inches of accumulated snow in Rhode Island. Boston saw a record 27.5 inches, topping the 27.1 inches the city received in the blizzard of 1978, although wind speeds this year could not match the force of that storm. New York City’s Central Park saw 19.8 inches of snow, according to the New York Times. Western Maryland saw 49 inches of snow, according to the Washington Post.

The storm caused 21 deaths nationwide as it swept in from the Midwest, and left 235,000 people without electricity, according to the Washington Post.

Callers to the University’s snow line heard a curt message Monday and Tuesday: “The University will be closed today.”

University Food Services closed Josiah’s, The Gate and the Ivy Room on Monday, while the Ratty remained open and the V-Dub opened intermittently, as staffing permitted.

Planes, trains and buses were cancelled or delayed

by the storm. Governor Carcieri ’65 advised Rhode Islanders Monday to stay off the roads and let the snow plows do their work, the Providence Journal reported.

The City of Providence issued a parking ban Monday to begin plowing. Thayer Street was mostly clear by midday Tuesday, but cars were still sliding down some snow-covered side streets on the East Side Tuesday night.

The storm closed airports along the eastern seaboard, while cancelled flights caused delays nationwide. T. F. Green Airport ceased all flights Monday morning, but reopened midday Tuesday, according to the Providence Journal. Amtrak trains were cancelled and delayed on Monday and Tuesday.

The collision of a warm air mass from the south and a colder mass from Canada caused the storm, which began near Nebraska, swept over the Ohio Valley and paralyzed Washington, D.C. and other Mid-Atlantic cities before heading to New England, the Providence Journal reported.

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

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Crime

On Feb. 7 an officer patrolling Perkins Hall

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observed a student posting notes on several

According to the incident summary a motor vehicle was stolen from the Athletic Center on Feb. 7.

The complainant said she parked her car at approximately 4 p.m. and upon her return at 8 p.m., she found her blue 1997 four-door Toyota Corolla missing.

There were three cases of larceny and three cases of malicious mischief directed at automobiles over the last two weeks. On Feb. 2, 100 CDs were stolen from a vehicle parked in lot 64.The estimated value of the property lost is $2,000, according to the summary. On Feb. 8, $40 was found missing from a wallet that was misplaced and then recovered from a bathroom in Andrews Hall.

According to the summary, between 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 2 and

Minorities continued from page 1 pete,” he said.

However, he said that the current demography of Brown’s coaching staff is less than ideal for his office.

“At this point we’re underutilized by minority coaches,” he said. “That’s a cause for concern.”

But Johnson said that it is difficult to remedy this situation quickly, especially when there is relatively low turnover in the athletic department.

Opportunities to attract quali-

doors. Upon reading the small notices, the officer found the content of the notes contained bias-related language specific to sexual orientation.

7:45 a.m. on Feb. 3, a banner worth $500 belonging to the Rhode Island Blood Center was stolen from the main green.The DPS has issued a “no questions”policy regarding the return of this banner, which can be returned at any one of the following four locations — DPS headquarters at 75 Charlesfield Street, the DPS communications center at Faunce Arch, the Office of Student Life or University Health Services.

There was one bias-related report mentioned in the incident

summary issued by DPS. On Feb. 7 an officer patrolling Perkins Hall observed a student posting notes on several doors. Upon reading the small notices, the officer found the content of the notes contained bias-related language specific to sexual orientation. According to the report, the officer removed the notices and documented the student’s information.This incident has subsequently been forwarded to the OSL. —Akshay Krishnan

fied minority coaches also vary from sport to sport, Montero said.

“If we don’t reach a goal, we just build it into next year,” Johnson said.

Johnson also said Brown’s lack of minority head coaches reflects a national trend of inadequate representation for minorities in head coaching positions.

“It’s not a situation unique to Brown in athletics,” he said.

“People of color and women just haven’t had the same access” to positions in athletics.

Montero said there is a desire for diversity in coaching staffs in the Ivy League specifically.

NCAA Public Affairs

Spokesman Curtis Blackwell said a lack of diversity in coaching staffs can have negative effects on student athletes.

“Participants don’t aspire to be coaches because they don’t see people like themselves in those positions,” he said.

Blackwell said the NCAA has guidelines in place to help universities foster diversity and works with universities to construct action plans when the schools have not made adequate progress in achieving diversity themselves.

“The need for (a plan of action) says something about the NCAA’s approach to diversity — taking it head-on,” Blackwell said.

According to figures released by the NCAA in 1999, 7.8 percent of head coaches of men’s teams were minorities.

In that same year, just 5.4 percent of Brown’s entire 93-person athletic staff were minorities, and only 4.3 percent were members of the coaching staff, according to the University’s Affirmative Action Plan from that year.

Minorities comprised 6.9 percent of the athletic department in 2001, when minorities made up almost 18 percent of the entire University faculty and staff.

But Johnson said he is optimistic that the hiring goals his office sets in conjunction with individual departments will help lead to increased diversity within the University.

“I’m confident that (the same) progress in hiring women faculty and faculty of color will be achieved in the athletic department and in other departments where the University is not as diverse as we would like it to be,” Johnson said.

“When affirmative action is done right, everyone benefits.”

The NCAA’s certification cycle calls for Brown to begin its next self-study in 2004 for review in 2005, according to a NCAA press release.

Staff writer Philissa Cramer can be reached at pcramer@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003 · PAGE 7

IN BRIEF Moseley-Braun to Explore 2004 Presidential Bid (Washington Post) — Former Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, the only African-American woman ever elected to the Senate, announced Tuesday that she is forming a presidential campaign exploratory committee, further expanding the crowded field of Democratic candidates.

“It’s time to take the Men Only sign off the White House door,’’ Moseley-Braun said during a speech at her alma mater, the University of Chicago Law School. She was surrounded by family and friends, and some supporters waved blue placards bearing the words “Ms. President.’’

Fresh from a weekend tour of early primary states— including Iowa, where snow held her audience to just one old college chum—Moseley-Braun tore into the Bush administration on issues foreign and domestic.

“I am a budget hawk and a peace dove,’’ she said.“The unilateral attempt to take military action against Iraq is not in the interest of our long-term security. And the budget deficit is another matter. We have no right to saddle our children with our debt and our bad decisions.’’

The entry of candidate No. 8 — at least five more are still mulling things over — underscores how wide-open the race for the Democratic nomination is. Beyond that, however, Moseley-Braun’s impact is a big question mark.

On one hand, she is a forceful communicator, a seasoned politician and a statewide winner in one of the most important swing states in the country. Moseley-Braun also could have special appeal for two of the Democratic party’s most important blocs: women and African-Americans.

On the other hand, she has been out of elective office since 1998, when she was unseated after a single term following accusations that she had lavished campaign funds on herself and her boyfriend, and that she had coddled the late Nigerian dictator Gen. Sani Abacha.

“Ms. Braun will probably appeal to women and suburbanites and probably some blacks,’’ said Robert Starks, a professor at the Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, who has watched MoseleyBraun’s career for years. Starks, however, has signed on to help New York political activist Al Sharpton, who earlier this year became the first African American in the race.

Sharpton, he predicted, will have more mass appeal in the black community.

Ron Walters, who teaches political science at the University of Maryland, was even more reserved about Moseley-Braun’s chances.

“It’s going to be tough,’’ he said.“She is going to have to do a lot to establish name recognition across the country. ...

I think she is well-known in the black community but not outside. She’s going to have to have a significant amount of money if she is going to be viable, and I don’t think she can raise a lot of money.’’

U.S.-bound planes remain vulnerable WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Billions in taxpayer dollars and swarms of federal screeners have made U.S. airports harder for terrorists to hit, but passenger jets bound for America remain vulnerable overseas because of gaps in global security, industry and government officials say.

“There are hundreds and hundreds of examples of gaping holes in foreign security,” said Capt. Steve Luckey, security chairman for the Air Line Pilots Association. “There is nothing out there to negate a recurrence of 9/11, provided (terrorists) do it at the end of the flight instead of the beginning.”

The concerns are intensifying as a possible war with Iraq looms closer. They increased earlier this month when the government, citing specific threats against U.S. targets here or overseas, elevated the nation’s terrorism alert system to its second-highest level.

Perfunctory passenger screening at U.S. airports has been replaced by close inspection under the federal Transportation Security Administration. One unintended result may be to displace the threat, making it more tempting to attack American aviation at less secure airports overseas.

“It is much easier for terrorists to plan and to move around overseas,” said Cathal Flynn, who headed the Federal Aviation Administration’s security branch during much of the 1990s. “These guys will go wherever they see a weakness, so every place in the world has to be considered high threat.”

Under international agreements, all nations must provide basic screening of passengers and luggage. In practice, there is no uniform level of security. European countries, Canada and Japan have beefed up airport security since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Yet many poorer countries cannot afford to do it.

In Asia, Japan’s added countermeasures are offset by spotty progress among Southeast Asian countries, said an airline pilot who is based in Southern California and regularly flies Pacific Rim routes.

“We do have a concern,” the pilot said, speaking on condition of anonymity, “because it seems that Manila, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur — those are some of the main route structures that all these terrorists use.”

Such concerns are legitimate, said James Loy, who heads the Transportation Security Administration.

“Security has become a new issue to be carried to the international organizations,” Loy said in a recent interview. “We are trying to persuade other countries to become part of the solution.”

One way to frustrate the government’s $6.6 billion investment in protecting American air passengers is to strike beyond the reach of the U.S. security agency. An attack “is more likely to happen somewhere where TSA isn’t located,” said a Transportation Department official.

“The challenge is keeping complacency from setting in.”

The last known terrorist attempt against a U.S. airliner began on French soil. Richard Reid boarded a Paristo-Miami flight on Dec. 22, 2001, waited until the plane

was cruising over the Atlantic, then tried to light explosives in his shoes. Last month, he was sentenced to three life terms in prison.

The Reid incident brought a quick response in the United States as authorities deployed advanced equipment at airport checkpoints so screeners could test for explosives residue on passengers’ shoes. But relatively few overseas airports have the $45,000 detection units, even though Reid’s plot originated abroad.

“We need to get more equipment abroad to do screening,” Flynn said. “We have deployed thousands of Trace detectors in the United States, but they have not been deployed to U.S. air carrier stations overseas, except in a few instances.”

In another example of apparently lax security abroad, British authorities last week detained a 37-year-old Venezuelan man at Gatwick Airport after finding a grenade in his baggage upon his arrival on a British Airways flight from Caracas, Venezuela.

The man, who identified himself as Hasil Mohammed Rahaham-Alan, was charged with possession of an explosive, possession of an article for terrorist purposes and carrying a dangerous item on a flight. He remains in custody.

Gatwick’s North Terminal was closed for hours after the grenade was found, and flights at the terminal were suspended until police determined there was no further security threat.

For terrorists who operate globally, many countries can be used as staging areas for an attack. “Although the Caribbean is not a high-risk place historically from a terrorist perspective, it doesn’t have a lot of good security and it is close to home,” said Luckey, the pilots union official.

U.S. airlines could copy El Al’s strategy and provide their own security abroad, said Flynn, the former FAA security chief. In Los Angeles on July 4, it was El Al security agents who tackled and shot the Egyptian immigrant who opened fire on the Israeli airline’s ticket counter, killing two people before he was fatally wounded.

American carriers do have additional security of their own, say industry officials, especially on the busiest international routes. At some airports, the airlines employ their own guards to double check passengers after they clear local security. However, the financially struggling airlines cannot afford to deliver a consistently high level of protection at all far-flung departure points.

Among the standard precautions that U.S. carriers provide are reinforced cockpit doors and checks to ensure that no luggage is loaded into the cargo hold unless the passenger has also boarded the flight. Names of international passengers are screened against “watch lists” of people with terrorist links.

International standards for airport security are set by a U.N. agency, the Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization.

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Relationships wake up TV viewers like a slap in the face (Baltimore Sun) — June may be the month of brides, but this is definitely the week of relationships in the strange world of reality television.

On Monday night, Fox’s “Joe Millionaire,’’ Evan Marriott picked Zora Andrich, the seemingly demure schoolteacher, over Sarah Kozer, the strutyour-stuff star of bondage films, while a record-setting audience of an estimated 30 million viewers looked on. In the final halfhour of the telecast, when the construction worker posing as a multimillionaire made his choice from the last of the women who came to his phony French chateau, one out of every four American households was tuned in, according to preliminary overnight ratings

from Nielsen Media.

Wednesday night, ABC’s “The Bachelorette’’ concludes as Trista Rehn makes her final pick from the men who came to court her — and an engagement announcement has been promised. If the ratings for ABC’s “Bachelor’’ and “Bachelor 2’’ are any indication, the audience for this one will also be measured in the tens of million.

Thursday night on WB’s “Surreal Life,’’ the goofy series that placed a group of has-been celebrities in Glen Campbell’s Hollywood mansion, child star Corey Feldman weds his lady friend. As viewers of the first episode will recall, the idea of marriage seemed to come to Feldman, a young man in recovery from multiple addic-

tions, while he was getting a little stir crazy on his first night in the mansion. Rapper and minister MC Hammer, one of Feldman’s housemates, will be among the clergymen officiating the event.

The fact that much of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast was snowbound Monday night surely helped drive the ratings for “Joe Millionaire’’ into the stratosphere, but nonetheless, one out of every four homes is still a phenomenal proportion of the television-watching audience. (It was more than twice the audience captured Monday night by either NBC or ABC, both of which offered specials dealing with Michael Jackson, last week’s hot ratings number.)

An audience this size begs for

further consideration of the television program that attracted it, as well as our curious attraction to it.

Start with the fact that while these programs promise to show two people finding true love, almost no one in these series ever actually marries. The telecasts are loaded with rhetoric of: “Mr. Right,’’ “the woman of his dreams’’ “soul mates,’’ and, most of all, “the one.’’ But, once the programs have aired and viewer interest has waned, the relationships end.

That was the story with Alex Michel, aka “The Bachelor,’’ and Amanda Marsh, the woman he chose to be his wife (chose, by the way, over Rehn, who was a contestant on that series).

Spending bill caps 2-year surge WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

President Bush will sign legislation this week setting a 2003 budget that raises federal spending by 7.8 percent over last year, capping a remarkable two years in which the federal budget increased by 22 percent.

Although Bush has made con-

trolling spending a recurring theme in recent months, the $791.5 billion spending bill for 2003 that he plans to approve by Thursday night will be one for the record books. The 2003 rate of discretionary spending increases—the part of the budget subject to Congress’s annual oversight— will be the second-fastest since 1985. It is topped only by the 2002 increase, which included the government’s response to the Sept.

11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The government has not experienced a two-year leap in spending of this magnitude since expenditures jumped 24.5 percent between 1976 and 1978.

“We have a long way to go to, quote, rein things in,” said G. William Hoagland, budget adviser to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.

There appears to be little chance that the surging rate of spending will be tempered soon.

Bush has called for spending increases for fiscal 2004, which begins Oct. 1, of just 3.4 percent over this year, but the president’s budget does not include the cost of a potential war with Iraq or negotiations with Turkey over a large aid package in the event of war.

Administration officials say they could not put a price tag on such theoretical expenditures, but the budget does include a $400 billion placeholder for a Medicare overhaul and prescription drug proposal that has not

been finished. The administration also has not funded military operations already underway in Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf that are far from theoretical.

“It’s just breathtaking. It’s just absolutely mind-boggling” that those costs have not been included, said Thomas Kahn, the Democratic staff director of the House Budget Committee.

What’s more, Congress appears to be locking in future spending that may prove impossible to avoid. The 2003 budget authorizes discretionary expenditures totaling $763 billion, $14 billion more than Bush sought.

Government agencies may take several years to write the checks to cover such authorized expenditures.

Bush administration officials and congressional Democrats say the rapid buildup of defense spending and homeland security efforts are driving the surge in spending. The assertion helps the White House defuse growing criticism from conservatives that the president is not doing enough to shrink the government.

“No question about it, the president has said we need to spend what it takes to fight the war on terrorism,” said Trent Duffy, spokesman for the White House budget office.

As for the Democrats, blaming defense spending allows them to charge that Republicans are shortchanging popular domestic programs, even as overall spending surges.

But the numbers don’t back up either side. Defense spending over the past two years rose 23 percent, barely more than the rise in total spending. Homeland security spending outside of the Defense Department surged from $10 billion in 2001 to $27 billion this year, but in sheer dollars that is hardly what is driving overall federal spending increases.

Retailers cope with Eastern storm’s effects (Baltimore Sun) — Retailers are

extending Presidents Day sales, restocking shelves with food and other staples and selling off inventory to liquidators after the weekend snowstorm forced hundreds of stores and malls in the northeastern United States to shut down.

Closures on Sunday and Monday likely cost retailers tens of millions of dollars in lost sales and advertising spent to promote the holiday weekend, the final chance to clear holiday inventory before rolling out spring merchandise, retail experts said Tuesday.

“Is it possible to make it up — it’s hard to say what is a sale you’ve lost and what’s new,” said Scott Krugman, a spokesman for the National Retail Federation.

“Retailers rely heavily on the weather to determine what kind of a year (they’ll have). This isn’t as critical as the holiday season, but it would have been nice to have strong sales this weekend.”

Tuesday, as most stores and malls reopened, retailers and experts said they would be extending or adding sales as a way to recoup some of the lost business and clear shelves of winter merchandise.

“Certainly, we hope that some of it can be made up,” said Diane Daly, a spokeswoman for Hecht’s department stores, which extended its Presidents Day coupons for one day — through Tuesday — and will start a previously planned sales event for the upcoming weekend a day early. “When you close up almost an entire company for two key business days, it’s difficult. We are hopeful we’ll bring in more business.”

May Department Stores Co., the parent of Hecht’s, closed 100 East Coast stores on Sunday and Monday, about 60 of them Hecht’s stores as well as Lord & Taylor, Filene’s and Strawbridge’s. J.C. Penney Co. Inc. closed the majority of its 270 Northeast region stores on Monday. Sears, Roebuck and Co. closed stores in areas hit by the storm. Sears, like Hecht’s, said it extended its Presidents Day sale through Tuesday.

“Obviously, retailers spent millions of dollars in advertising for the Presidents Day sales,” said Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a national retail consulting firm in New York. “My clients are going to extend those sales into the coming weekend.”

But because many retailers kept a tight control on inventory going into the holiday season, “It’s not really a crisis,” Davidowitz said. “I don’t think it’s some catastrophe that will skew all the retail numbers. Clearly it’s painful — they spend millions for Presidents Day and the stores were closed — but it will not affect the overall retail number to any gigantic degree.”

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Turkey wants increase in aid Chicago officials blame club owners before vote on U.S. troops CHICAGO (Washington Post) —

Angry Chicago officials on Tuesday blamed what they characterized as rogue club owners who willfully broke the law for the stampede at a crowded nightclub that killed 21 people early Monday.

Prosecutors said it was too soon to determine whether criminal charges will be filed in the deaths of 12 women and nine men who ranged in age from 19 to 43. But that did not stop Mayor Richard Daley from moving on several fronts to shut down the club, called E2, and punish the owners.

City attorneys filed contempt charges Tuesday afternoon against the owner of the facility, Le Mirage Studio Ltd., for operating in violation of a court order that barred them from opening the top floor of a two-story building that also houses Epitome restaurant.

The orders, signed last summer by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Lynch, called for a “mandatory order not to occupy 2nd floor” as a result of code violations.

Attorneys for the owners said they followed the court order and dispute that it banned them from using the dance floor.

“When a court issues an order against you, it is your responsibility to follow that

order,” a visibly upset Daley said at a news conference Tuesday morning. “You don’t have the right to disobey that order until someone catches you or until you have a disaster happen, as it did Monday morning.”

No decision was made Tuesday on the contempt charges, though attorneys for E2 agreed to temporarily shut the down the entire facility while the investigation into the deaths continues.

E2 had been under orders since July not to open the second floor to patrons, and actions were underway to revoke its liquor license for violations including selling liquor to minors.

Andrew Grant, a lawyer for Le Mirage, said club owners had a deal with officials to keep the club open until a hearing next month on the code violations, the Associated Press reported. City officials denied that.

Ministers and experts in crowd control suggested Tuesday that the city may share blame because the facility — which advertises widely and stays open until 4 a.m. — should have been shut down sooner. But Police Chief Terry Hillard said his department was unaware of the order before the accident.

ANKARA, Turkey (L.A. Times) — The Bush administration’s plans to open a northern front in a war against Iraq appeared in jeopardy Tuesday after the Turkish government said it won’t seek a parliamentary vote allowing U.S. troops in this country unless Washington greatly increases the size of a proposed aid package.

Facing strong resistance to a war at home, Turkish officials said they need far more than the $6 billion in grants and $20 billion in loans that the Bush administration has offered before they will seek legislative approval for the troop movement.

President Bush and other top officials, who were expecting a final go-ahead from the Turks on Tuesday, instead were left fuming about the latest demands and weighing how to respond.

In Ankara, a senior Western official close to the talks said: “This is it — it could all be over.

Relations between Turkey and the United States are basically heading south.’’

The Western official insisted that the postponement in the parliamentary vote was an effort by the Turks to get the Bush administration to give up the idea of funneling troops through their country.

“The objective is to make the U.S. give up on the idea of a northern front,’’ he said.

Fears grow in village, U.S. cited as threat KHURMAL, Iraq (L.A. Times) — In the muddy alleys of this village, where geese skitter and children skip over puddles, U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell is known as a “big man” who made a big mistake.

The 7,500 residents here live amid a patchwork of bean and wheat fields and don’t often contemplate the larger forces beyond a wrinkle of encircling mountains. But the world arrived in a thunderous echo nearly two weeks ago when Powell showed a slide to the U.N. Security Council identifying Khurmal as home to a poison factory for terrorists. The villagers winced.

“A great politician like Colin Powell should have looked at a map,” said Mullah Marwan Ismail Hussein.

The satellite photograph in Powell’s report was of a compound in the northern Iraqi village of Sargat, about three miles, or a 30-minute mountainous drive, away. Sargat is a stronghold of Ansar al-Islam, a guerrilla group with ties to al-Qaida.

The people of Khurmal live daily with the whirlwind battles between Ansar fighters and

forces of the ethnic Kurdish government in this region. Now, as winter rains blow across the valley, Khurmal, a village accustomed to misfortune, is jittery.

The residents are worried that cruise missiles and smart bombs will whistle toward them as part of a U.S. invasion of Iraq.

“The name of Khurmal was wrong,” said Abdullah Mohammed Hassan, a laborer who lives with his family in a cinder-block house with no plumbing. “We don’t have enough electrical power to make such chemical weapons. It’s unfair this village could be bombed. There are no chemicals here.’’

The U.S. State Department has said that it knows the alleged poison factory is in Sargat but that Powell used Khurmal as a geographic indicator because it is the largest village in the area. The compound, according to the Bush administration, was designed to manufacture deadly agents such as cyanide and ricin for terrorist attacks.

Ali Bapir, the local leader of Komaly Islami, the Muslim group that controls Khurmal, said he sent a letter to Powell declaring

that “you’re a big man. In your speech to the Security Council, you held up a slide saying Khurmal was the site of a chemical factory. This is a lie. Do not act on false information.’’

Khurmal’s fate has often been tied to the whim of others. This swath of northern Iraq has long been the scene of a struggle between radical Islam and secularism. Khurmal is a kind of border town of opposing ideologies.

Many here do not embrace religious extremism, but because of their proximity to Ansar, whose guerrillas meander through the bazaar, their needs are not met by U.N. programs and by the regional government, led by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.

That front has been key to Pentagon war plans. A threat from the north would force Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to divide and weaken his forces, making it easier for the larger U.S. force coming from Kuwait and potentially hastening the end of the war.

Thousands of U.S. troops are already heading to Turkey on U.S. Navy ships.

But one senior official said the United States won’t come up with the huge “fake numbers’’ that the Turks are demanding to cover the costs they could incur in a war.

Instead, he said, U.S. officials would argue that Turkey stands to gain greatly from the removal of Saddam’s regime and would “remind them of their responsibilities as a member of the transatlantic alliance.’’

This official said the United States views the Turkish move as a tactic to win a better deal and still believes the Turks will offer the proposal soon for a parliamentary vote.

Another U.S. official said that this latest delay may cause some rethinking of the assumption that the Turkish foot-dragging

was a negotiating tactic.

Pentagon officials have said that a Turkish refusal would not be a “showstopper’’ for the effort to develop a northern front.

Instead, the U.S. military may, fly forces into Kurdish airfields in northern Iraq, and work with Kurdish forces to jointly attack Saddam’s armies in the north.

But the United States would have to be content with a smaller force if it took that approach. It might have only 10,000 to 20,000 U.S. troops, versus 40,000 if Turkey is used, analysts say.

If the U.S.-Turkish deal collapsed, it could badly damage military and economic relations between the United States and one of its strongest allies in the region.

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Subway disaster raises safety questions, concerns SEOUL, South Korea (L.A. Times) — As the death toll from a deadly subway inferno in South Korea’s third-largest city climbed Tuesday to more than 120, investigators questioned how a blaze started by a disturbed arsonist could have killed so many people so quickly.

Although construction on the subway trains in the city of Taegu began in 1991, they had no sprinklers, and fixtures were made of flammable material. Doors slammed shut soon after the fire erupted, and emergency lights quickly failed. Plunged into darkness, trapped passengers were unable to find escape routes and rescue workers were unable to find the frantic victims.

Witnesses said the nightmare began when a man in his 50s, who authorities say has a history of mental illness, poured a carton of paint thinner onto the floor of his subway car, then ignited it with a cigarette lighter before other passengers could tackle him.

Within seconds, the flames engulfed all six cars of the subway train — and then leaped across the platform to six more cars of a train that was arriving from the opposite direction. More than 1,000 people were in the trains and the station when the fire broke out at the end of the morning rush hour.

In a phenomenon with eerie echoes of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, trapped passengers called their relatives on mobile phones to assure them they were safe, only minutes before they succumbed to the fire.

“Mom, there is a fire in the subway and I can’t breathe,” one tearful mother, Jang Gae Sun, told reporters about her last conversation with her 20-year-old daughter. “I called her name three times and urged her to pull herself together, but she hung up the phone, saying she couldn’t talk

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anymore because it was too hard to breathe. The last thing she said to me was, ‘I love you, Mother.’”

The heat was so intense that the subway was transformed into an underground incinerator, with fixtures of the trains simply melting away. Many of the victims were nearly obliterated, making recognition impossible. As of early Wednesday morning, investigators had positively identified only 50 victims and officials said they would need to use DNA testing to give an exact determination of the number and identities of the dead.

“We still cannot offer an exact death toll because many bodies were severely torn apart and scorched,” police Lt. Kum Sun Hui told reporters.

Taegu Mayor Cho Hae Nyong told reporters Wednesday morning that 124 people have been confirmed dead, of which 52 have been identified. It was unclear how many were still missing.

The suspect, who was identified as Kim Dae Han, 56, was a truck driver who had suffered a stroke in 2001 and also had a history of mental illness. South Korean media reported that he had threatened in the past to burn down a hospital, blaming poor treatment for partial paralysis he sustained after the stroke.

On the subway, he attracted the attention of other passengers by repeatedly flicking his cigarette lighter.

“When the train arrived at the station, the man took out a plastic container that looked like a water bottle and tried to light it with the lighter,’’ Park Geum Tae, who sat next to Kim, told reporters. “I and other passengers protested and tried to stop him, but he threw the bag onto the floor and fire spread.

In the process, he himself was engulfed by the flame. We put out the flames on him with our clothes and then all hell broke out once.”

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Bush brushes opposition aside UNITED NATIONS (L.A. Times) — Even as a parade of U.N. ambassadors added their voices to the chorus of global protests over the weekend, President Bush said Tuesday that broad opposition to a war with Iraq won’t deter White House plans to disarm Saddam Hussein — by force, if necessary.

“I welcome people’s right to say what they believe,” Bush told reporters. But he added that he had to “respectfully disagree” with those who think the Iraqi president is not a threat to peace.

“The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon the security — in this case, the security of the people.” Bush said.

But the show of resistance to war may be slowing U.S.British efforts to craft a second resolution authorizing military force against Iraq. U.S. officials were noncommittal Tuesday about when — or even if — they would introduce a draft.

“It could take place as soon as this week,” White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said.

“It could be next week. The timing will be determined as a result of the ongoing conversations within our government and with the allies.”

At the United Nations, 70 nonvoting members lined up to have their say in a special Security Council session that will continue through Wednesday evening. Most of the 27 ambassadors who addressed Tuesday’s session — including key Arab representatives Jordan, Iran and the Arab League — urged that weapons inspections must be given a full chance before using force to disarm Iraq, but they also pressed Baghdad to show more cooperation.

“Resorting to war without fully exhausting all other options represents an admission of failure by the Security Council in carrying out its mandate of maintaining international peace and security,’’ said South African Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo, who had requested

the meeting on behalf of the U.N.’s 155 nonaligned members.

Only Australia, Kuwait and Japan appeared to support the U.S. and British stance that Saddam has squandered his chance for the peaceful disarmament of his country.

“It is patently clear that Iraq is in further material breach of its obligations,” Australian Ambassador John Dauth said.

“We cannot allow a tyrant to evade a council’s decisions.

The Security Council must stand united around what is fundamental and not on distractions. It must act decisively to ensure that after 12 years ... Iraq finally meets its obligations.”

U.S. and British diplomats say they hope to present the Security Council soon with a second resolution but are still working on language they hope the entire 15-member council can agree on by month’s end.

Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared to differ on the importance of a second resolution. Despite his willingness to seek Security Council approval for military force, the president exuded impatience at the slow-moving process in New York.

“We want to work with our friends and allies to see if we can get a second resolution.

That’s what we’re doing right now,” Bush said. “As I say, it would be helpful to get one out. It’s not necessary, as far as I’m concerned.’’

Asked if the United States would seek an explicit ultimatum for Saddam to comply, Bush replied: “Well, you mean another, another, another last chance? He knows my feelings.

And that is he needs to disarm — completely, totally disarm.’’

In Britain, Blair said that he wants U.N. backing for war but took pains to respond to mounting antiwar sentiment in Britain and across Europe.

“We are not at the point of decision yet,’’ he said. “All I ask people to do is to listen to the other side of the argument. I do not have a monopoly of wisdom on this.’’

Inspectors aren’t happy with Iraqi interviews BAGHDAD, Iraq (L.A. Times) — When the first Iraqi scientist agreed to sit for a private interview with weapons inspectors without any official “minder” present, officials hoped that it was the beginning of an end to the dispute over interviews that had called into question Iraq’s willingness to cooperate with the United Nations.

But now, nearly two weeks later, U.N. officials are becoming increasingly frustrated that Iraq is only paying lip service to the demand for private interviews. In fact, they say, they have not had one successful interview with any of the scientists that they had asked to speak to about Iraq’s alleged biological and chemical weapons programs.

“There were roughly 30 attempts made to interview Iraqis in private, and three such

interviews took place,’’ said Hiro Ueki, spokesman for the inspection teams in Baghdad for the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Tuesday.

Each of those three individuals had been suggested by the Iraqis, he said. On the other hand, none of the scientists that UNMOVIC has proposed for questioning have agreed to private interviews.

Instead, most insisted on making a tape recording of the interview or on having a relative or friend present.

“We hope that Iraqi interviewees will eventually accept being interviewed in private under UNMOVIC’s terms,’’ Ueki said.

Three biological and chemical scientists turned up voluntarily for interviews Feb. 7-8, just when

chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix and IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei were flying into the country. At the time, Iraqi officials were under intense pressure to show more cooperation with the United Nations or risk the start of a U.S.-led attack to change the Iraqi government and forcibly disarm the country of any banned weapons found.

Responding to the pressure, Iraq in quick succession offered up the first inspectors for private interviews, agreed to U-2 spy plane flights (the second of which reportedly took place Tuesday), passed a long-sought presidential decree banning weapons of mass destruction and made other promises to be more cooperative in producing lists of potential witnesses and procuring documents to show how it had disposed of past weapons.

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Terror system seen lacking provisions for children (Washington Post) — Fred Henretig

is intimately familiar with the unique anatomy of children. He knows how elusive their threadlike veins can be, how they defy all but expert attempts to pierce them with an intravenous line. He knows the way their airways, narrow as a piece of penne, can be hard to open with a lifesaving breathing tube.

These physiological characteristics , said the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia emergency physician, mean that it’s “nerve-wracking to deal with even a single critical child.’’

As Henretig ponders the terrorist threats facing the United States, he sees what he calls a “nightmare’’ scenario: not a single critical child, but dozens, felled by an attack on a school, a sporting event or an ice show. He sees children separated from parents, wailing as other-worldly rescuers clad in frightening yellow suits attempt to provide first aid.

And he sees these same emergency workers hampered not just by their bulky protective clothing, but by the tools they would be likely to use: adult-size IV lines, face masks and doses of medicine.

Henretig was among nearly 70 of the country’s top pediatric and emergency medicine experts who met in Washington last week to discuss something they say has been woefully unexplored during the preparations for acts of terrorism: the unique challenges the youngest patients and those who treat them will face if catastrophe strikes.

The three-day conference, organized by the Children’s Health Fund and the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York, was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

On Sept. 11, 2001, the Children’s Health Fund sent two mobile medical units to Ground Zero. Later that month, the group’s president, Irwin Redlener, attended a meeting of hospital leaders and federal officials. Said Redlener: “At the end I raised the question, ‘So what special provisions are we taking to make sure that emergency planning incorporates the unique needs of children?’”

He wasn’t satisfied with the answer. While federal bioterrorism legislation passed last year orders states to include pediatric preparedness in their disaster plans, funds are only slowly finding their way to hospitals.

Redlener said each hospital in New York received an additional $40,000 for disaster preparedness.

That’s a fraction of what it would cost to address what he sees as the most pressing need: building a pediatric triage unit in every American hospital. Also desperately needed, he said: materials outlining standards of treatment and appropriate dosages for children and programs to train emergency personnel.

Most hospitals that specialize in pediatric patients have incorporated pediatric planning into their disaster scenarios.

Children’s National Medical Center revamped its disaster plan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, said chief medical officer Peter Holbrook, when the hospital’s leaders realized their old worstcase scenario—the arrival of 25 to 50 patients after a school bus crash — required updating.

A terrorist attack involving hundreds of children would create a cascading series of challenges, starting with how many patients Children’s could safely accommodate, Holbrook said. The hospital could treat more victims from certain kinds of attacks, he said, since the ratios of those who would need to be admitted vs. those who could be treated and released, would differ. Holbrook said the hospital also has to prepare for an influx of family members.

While hospitals that generally serve adults have also been forced to plan for catastrophe, they are less likely to think much about children, Redlener said. The Washington area’s Suburban Hospital’s extensive disaster plan “has no special provisions for pediatric patients,’’ said spokeswoman Ronna Borenstein-Levy.

“That isn’t our primary target patient.’’

Southern Maryland Hospital Center in Clinton has a pediatric unit, so it stocks child-size masks and other appropriate equipment. But spokesman David DeClark said the hospital’s disaster preparedness program has no specific guidelines for responding to an influx of young victims.

What Redlener and others find especially troubling is the lack of pediatric experience among most “first responders.’’ It’s understandable, since children rarely have strokes, heart attacks or any of the other health problems that paramedics and EMTs are most familiar with. As Holbrook puts it: “It could be argued that children are too healthy for their own good.’’

They are also disturbingly vulnerable targets for a terrorist strike with chemical, biological or radiological weapons. In the words of Theodore Cieslak, an Army pediatrician and bioterrorism expert who traveled from San Antonio for the conference, they “live closer to the ground,’’ which means their “breathing zone’’ is at the level where heavier-than-air chemical agents may settle. Children breathe faster than adults, so they would take in toxins more rapidly.

And their skin is more permeable than that of grown-ups, another reason they’re likely to get sicker quicker. Symptoms such as diarrhea and vomiting, while harmful to adults, can be fatal to youngsters.

Many of the treatments for chemical, biological and radiological attacks were devised with adults in mind. Auto-injectors for atropine and other nerve-gas antidotes were designed for military use and so contain adult dosages.

But more than medicine will have to be changed, Redlener said. The standard procedure for patients exposed to dangerous chemicals starts with stripping them naked outside the emergency room and dousing them with a hose. Do that to a child, said Redlener, and “you run the risk of having kids become hypothermic and going into shock.’’ You need contained showers, with warm water, he said.

“And they must be built in such a way that a parent can be there, too.’’

Lost on none of the conference participants was the eerie coincidence of meeting just after the Department of Homeland Security raised the terror threat level from yellow to orange. As anxiety increased last week, several attendees were summoned

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Hatfield continued from page 16 ence in getting an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Teams need to bring their A-game every night, no matter who the opponent is.

Really, do you think Kobe gets excited about a trip to play the Nuggets? How about A-Rod preparing for a July game against the Orioles? A loss is not going to mean life or death, so why worry too much about it? However, a national program like Duke needs to go out and win nine of ten to keep its ranking, while smaller programs like Brown need to almost run the table in their conference games to have a shot at making the tournament.

While most of us will never be part of a pro sports franchise in any way other than the poor schmuck who buys the tickets, college sports give much more of a personal connection. You root for Brown because you go here —

W. hoops continued from page 16 steals, while Craigwell scored eight points and led the team in rebounds with 10. Robertson chipped in with six points.

“We really focused on shutting down their outside shooting,” Robertson said. “They’re very dependent on their outside shot, so we knew that we had to play good defense and make them take it inside.”

The following evening saw a shootout between Brown and Penn, as both teams shot close to 50 percent in the first half. Brown went into the half down 41-40 but used a key 12-4 run to pull away in the second half.

The front court led the way for Brown in this contest as the Bears received huge games from Robertson and Mitchell.

Robertson scored 22 points and pulled down 10 rebounds for her

you are a part of the organization.

That is just something inherent about college sports in general, not just Division I. Even for those who do not attend college, the simple fact that there are teams everywhere gives fans more local options than they get with professional sports. Take the state of Kentucky — it has no pro teams but hosts two of the top five teams in NCAA hoops right now.

There will never be a professional sports team in New Hampshire, but UNH sports give those who cannot drive to Boston or Foxboro a chance to cheer for a truly “local” team.

Sure, I will always have the Super Bowl marked on my calendar, wonder why more people do not tune in to NHL games and believe that “this is the year” for my Red Sox. But I doubt anything will ever get me going like that February through early April run in NCAA basketball.

Chris Hatfield ’06 hails from Salem, N.H.

second double-double of the year, while Mitchell led all scorers with 24 points and 7 rebounds.

Robertson credited strong defense as the reason for the victory.

“In the second half, we really focused on picking up our defense,” she said. “Our offense comes from our defense, so we knew we had to step it up.”

Colleen Kelly ’06 and Golston also played well for the Bears.

Kelly netted 13 points and handed out six assists, while Golston contributed 11 points and four assists.

Brown hits the road this coming weekend for the start of the second half of the Ivy season. The Bears play two key games against Columbia and Cornell, which will be crucial in the team’s hunt for first place.

Sports staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 covers women’s basketball. She can be reached at shegde@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003 · PAGE 14 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Playing fair National Football League Commissioner Paul Tagliabue acknowledged last October that the NFL failed to adequately promote minorities to high-ranking positions on coaching staffs and in front offices.

By December, a committee implemented a comprehensive plan that requires teams to interview at least one minority applicant for all head coach positions. Early reaction from NFL team owners and civil rights leaders was overwhelmingly positive.

It will be some time before we know whether the NFL’s plan can successfully confront the league’s diversity issues, or whether such a program could be adopted at the collegiate level. But Brown can take several cues from the NFL’s approach to its problems with diversity.

The first is a frank and open acknowledgement of an institutional problem. The number of minority coaches at the University has not changed in at least five years. No matter how theoretically sound Brown’s hiring methods are, they have failed. Brown was made aware of its lack of diversity among its coaching staff in 1998 — but today operates as if the NCAA study never happened.

Second is breaking old models to set a new precedent. President Simmons told The Herald in October that the affirmative action approach to diversity — an approach Brown has more or less embraced —leads to “making the same mistakes over and over again” because what hasn’t worked in the past will not work in the future.

And indeed, it hasn’t.

Third is speed. Two months from identifying a problem to implementing a solution is unrealistic for an institution such as Brown. But five years — perhaps more if diversity in athletics is not addressed until the next NCAA study in 2004 — is embarrassingly slow.

Having four presidents in six years has made it hard for Brown to tackle long-term problems like diversity, especially in an area such as athletics that is not under as consistent scrutiny for minority representation as Brown’s faculty.

But Simmons has pledged to serve as Brown’s President for at least 10 years, and has quickly capitalized on the University’s newfound stability. She announced in October the creation of a position in the senior administration that will focus solely on diversity, and through her plan to expand the faculty has promised to improve minority representation among the faculty as well.

We can only hope that she learns a lesson from Tagliabue and turns her attention to Brown Athletics.

RYAN LEVESQUE

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003 · PAGE 15

Requiem for a critic

Baghdad or bust?

LESLIE FIEDLER, PRE-EMINENT ENFANT TERRIBLE OF American letters, died a few weeks ago at the grand old age of 85.

Intellectually, we were a richer nation for having him, and I come to both praise and bury Caesar.

Fiedler is best known for his landmark “Love and Death in the American Novel,” (1961) one of the best pieces of literary criticism I have ever read and, considering the bleak current academic climate, an achievement not likely to be equaled anytime soon. Its staggering blend of psychology, history, social analysis and literary study should stand as a beacon to anyone entering the imperiled academy in the coming years, as well as an antidote to the reams of mind-numbing, spirit-crushing “critical theory,” built on turgid French philosophical quicksand, that they will undoubtedly encounter in our Ivory Tower salons. Though not as adulatory toward the greats as, say, Harold Bloom, Fiedler knew that literature is infinitely more than vague social forces expressing the ethereal “power” of some ruling class, or worse yet, reducible to insipid word games of the Jacques Derrida/Judith Butler variety.

Fiedler first came to intellectual attention in 1947, with the publication of his ALEX SCHULMAN BORN TO RUN controversial essay, “Come Back to the Raft Agin’, Huck Honey,” which caused something of a minor stir with its suggestion that archetypal American literature is built on a “chaste marriage” of barely concealed homosexuality between a white man and a dark-skinned companion. Huck and Jim was Fiedler’s favorite example, but he extended the analysis to Melville’s Ishmael and Queequeg, and to Cooper’s Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook. In today’s university that apostasy no longer seems like even a minor transgression, but in the triumphalist postwar climate in which Fiedler matriculated, such thoughts were minority reports indeed.

Fiedler went against the dominant liberal thrust of his times, but he was never easy to pigeonhole ideologically. He acknowledged his debts to Marxist literary analysis in “Love and Death in the American Novel,” yet lost many friends with his virulent (and, as it turns out, correct) assault on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

From his essays one can see his concern with his Judaism and its meaning in a post-Holocaust America, yet he did none of the ethnic/racial fetishizing so chic among current literary scholars.

Students fed on criticism of the past 20 years will undoubtedly find aspects of Fiedler’s work bizarre — his exclamation points, his overall lack of “close reading” or even footnotes, his broad psychological generalizations — and yet he should be read for his style as much as for his content. “Love and Death in the American Novel” is indispensable whether or not one agrees even remotely with Fiedler’s thesis. He can teach us what it is to write criticism that is art in itself, with no inane pretense to being “outside language,” thanks to a jargon ensuring that almost all literary study undertaken since the ’70s will never (and should never) be read by any general public, which has no time for such nonsense.

Fiedler can also revive for us the lost concept of the all-encompassing belles lettres, an endangered species in our increasingly specialized and quarantined academic world, wherein a Brown student may graduate B.A. in English without having read King Lear and where a “post-colonial” expert may well call himself a literary scholar with only a superfluous knowledge of, say, Sophocles or Dante. Thus Fiedler’s tome on the American novel does not even discuss an American author until the sixth chapter, when an exemplary foundation for analysis — using the previous centuries as framework as well as personally exploring deep psychological and philosophical truths — has already been laid.

Ruminating upon “Romanticism,” the breeding ground for the novel’s emergence as the chief literary form, Fiedler writes: The Age of Reason dissolves in a debauch of tearfulness; sensibility, seduction and suicide haunt its art even before ghosts and graveyards take over — strange images of darkness to usher in an era of freedom from fear. And beneath them lurks the realization that the “tyranny of superstition,” far from being the fabrication of a Machiavellian priesthood, was a projection of a profound insecurity and guilt, a hidden world of nightmare not abolished by manifestos or restrained by barricades. The final horrors, as modern society has come to realize, are neither gods nor demons, but intimate aspects of our own minds.

If I submitted this to our current academic clerisy I would probably read responses like “too much generalization” or “consider what social situations privilege this analysis.” Perhaps they’d be right — but I’ll take Fiedler any day. He writes for the emotions as much as for the intellect, and his prose is powerful, terrifying, enlightening and wonderful. I could add up all the “critical theory” I’ve been force-fed at Brown and it would still not even approach the salutary effects of this one fascinating little paragraph. Rest in peace, Mr. Fiedler.

On the domestic front, Bush is already winning

Alex Schulman ‘03 is an English concentrator.

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE GATHERED IN PROTEST given Bush a mandate, regardless of these antiwar this past weekend all around the world. From the demonstrations. They have already bought into the heart of New York City to London, people rallied fear of post-Sept. 11, 2001 terrorism, the “war against the looming war with in Iraq. Some of these against terrorism” that creates a facade of protecprotesters stood up for their beliefs with a consci- tion, and the “imminent threat” of Saddam entious objection to the principles of the war. Hussein. The war is not really about oil, as Marxist Others hold their own reasons to stand for or critics claim. It’s about American media-induced fear. Because if you can convince the against the war effort. All asked thempeople that they are in a “crisis,” they selves one crucial question: will this will sacrifice resources to the U.S. miliprotesting do any good? tary vacuum as if they were already in a In short, the game of war has already Hobbesian jungle. But where are all started. The cards have been dealt and these financial resources coming from? the Bush administration has tripled the Aren’t we already in a financial recesstakes with hawkish rhetoric. Back out sion? now and lose international credibility, Because Americans are convinced all show and no game. Or, it can try to that our national security is in dire jeoprun the table and undoubtedly “win” ardy, they are willing to allow huge cutany confrontation, but the contents of backs in both federal and state prothat pot come with extra strings SCHUYLER VON OEYEN grams. The privatization of Medicaid, attached: rebuilding Iraq, risking destaALL THINGS which gives taxpayers financial incenbilization of the whole region and fiscal CONSIDERED tive to use limited base HMOs, is just backlash in the domestic United States. the beginning. Bush knows he can’t Why opt for the former and look “weak” when you can pass the buck of blame onto a sour overturn Roe v. Wade and that the public is divided economy and a “war we didn’t choose”? And in the on the issue. So he just redirects AIDS and Planned process, Bush is using the whole operation to pri- Parenthood money overseas to those organizations vatize government, cut back federal taxes and roll that don’t offer abortion counseling services. back social programs nationwide to the pre-Great Meanwhile, he passes most of the medical and eduSociety era. All of this is under our noses, and we cation funding debacle back to the states, in limited form. Bush knows that 49 out of 50 states have balare too scared to sniff.

When political journalists and historians look anced budget amendments. He also knows that back at America during the George W. Bush era, these state governments will have to do the prothey will rightly place blame on both Bush and the gram cutting and take the heat instead of his American people for the long-term economic and administration under his current plan. If you aren’t social damage. The American people have already worried about what Social Security is going to look like in 10 years, you should be.

Bush didn’t choose his cards, but he plays them very well. On the domestic front, he is already winSchuyler Von Oeyen ‘05 is a poliitical science and ning his war. And the American public is still lookhistory concentrator who hails from Bloomfield ing at Iraq.

Hills, Michigan.

America’s guilty pleasure “Joe Millionaire:” it’s idiotic, immature — and incredible MY PARENTS WORRY THAT I DO BAD THINGS IN perhaps the reason so many of us watch this helicollege. Unfortunately, they are right. I watch “Joe um-headed “reality” show with such studied indifference is that we need a break from our busy Millionaire.”

When I was five, my parents expunged TV from homework/CNN watching schedule. Wondering if my life, or so they thought. Now that I am in college, Melissa’s boobs are plastic (I don’t care what people “Joe Millionaire” and “American Idol” have wrapped say, nobody’s breasts grow in the center of their chest) is a lot less depressing than conaround my consciousness like cotton templating nuclear war. candy. I used to laugh at people who Or maybe the appeal is making fun watched shows like these. Now I sit on of people who are (we flatter ourselves) the edge of my seat, thinking: “Who will more shallow than we are. But more he eliminate this week?” I tell myself likely, the same part of the brain that that watching “Joe Millionaire” is an responds to “Joe Millionaire” is also the excuse for eating doughnuts. Who am I part that makes us mutter along with kidding? the Backstreet Boys in Macy’s and then I told my father that I watched “Joe when our friends ask, “What?” answer, Millionaire” and he groaned. I then said, red-faced, “I didn’t say anything.” Not “But I spent the entire show insulting that I’ve ever done that. everyone on it. Does that make it betALEXANDRA Maybe “Joe Millionaire” captivates ter?” He said no. He’s not usually this TOUMANOFF WHAT’S A GIRL us because it takes almost less work to closed-minded.

GOTTA DO? comprehend than a sneeze, except for There were closet Joe Millionaire the occasional “Huh?” when Joe and lovers since its inception. People watched it furtively behind locked bedroom doors. company characteristically mumble. But perhaps Soon they could no longer contain their excitement their mumbling adds to the suspense.

Is this show, crafted on a foundation of lies and and began watching it together in parties of shame.

Then they introduced doughnuts into the mix, and deception, how the rest of the world judges our completely threw mama’s morals out dorm win- nation? If he could, Benjamin Franklin would probably have hysterics in his grave. However, if dows.

What is it about reality shows that grips he did, someone would hopefully point out to him American fascination with such sticky fingers? We that in a sense not much has changed. In the are about to invade Iraq, but what was it that was on 1700s, many gentlemen picked out the women everyone’s lips on the stairs last Monday night? who looked the most attractive in their corsets at “Let’s take bets: will he choose Sarah or Zora?” Or, balls, and then, followed by their parents, went on “I bet the butler has the money.” And the favorite: a few shallow dates with them before they married. Now they are followed by a camera crew.

“Maybe Joe’s really a woman!”

“Joe Millionaire.” It’s television’s Britney Spears.

To give Brown students the benefit of the doubt, It’s this year’s parachute pants. It’s this season’s little black dress. For whatever reason, it is America’s guilty pleasure.

Alexandra Toumanoff ‘06 ponders Joe Millionaire.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2003 · PAGE 16

NCAA, not NBA, Men’s hoops splits on P & P road trip is “faaan-tastic” Basketball team wins at Princeton, 80-73, for first time ever

WITH THE MEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM making its run at an Ivy League championship, I find myself believing more than ever that the most exciting sport on the American sports landscape is NCAA basketball. No other major sport consistently provides the kind of entertainment that can be found on any given night in college hoops.

Certainly, the most appealing part about college basketball is its playoff format.

While its oneCHRIS HATFIELD game-per-round OUT OF LEFT FIELD format may not lead to the most talented team becoming the national champion, the chance it gives for an upset to occur in almost any match-up makes every game interesting — at least until tip-off. With the winners of each Division I conference getting bids into the tournament, the chance is always there (albeit a very small one in most cases) that some unknown school could make a Hoosiers-like run at the national title. For some of these lowerseeded teams, just winning one or two games or even just making the tournament can be cause enough for celebration of a fantastic season. Winning a conference title and getting a bid is the highest that most smaller Division I programs can shoot. Honestly, when was the last time you rejoiced when your favorite pro team won its division?

The regular season for NCAA hoops is also much more exciting. Parity in the NFL has made upsets less meaningful due to a more even level of talent, and other sports’ lengthy seasons decrease the value of a single game. NCAA football may have the same upset potential, but most games wind up being blowouts, and personally, I find the pace excruciatingly slow.

The NCAA basketball season is usually good for at least three or four close, exciting games on a national level per night, especially near the end of the season. The significance of each game is much greater.

One loss can send a ranked team careening down the polls, while a key win against a tough opponent could make the differsee HATFIELD, page 13

SCOREBOARD Men’s Basketball BROWN 80, Princeton 73 Penn 73, BROWN 66 Women’s Basketball BROWN 73, Princeton 60 BROWN 83, Penn 72 Men’s Hockey BROWN 2, Cornell 2

BROWN 5, Colgate 2 Wrestling Cornell 33, BROWN 3 Columbia 34, BROWN 7 Men’s Tennis BROWN 7, Rutgers 0 BROWN 6, Buffalo 1

THE HUNT IS ON

1,905

With a total of 29 points against Princeton and Penn, Earl Hunt ’03 moved into fifth place on the Ivy League’s all-time points scored list with 1,905 points.

Hunt needs 59 points to move past Tony Lavelli (Yale, 1945-49) for fourth place.

BY ADAM STERN

Brown’s men’s basketball team was riding an impressive streak of dominant play entering last weekend. The team was undefeated in the Ivy League and sat atop the standings, a position many assumed had no substance. These critics predicted that Brown would lose both of its weekend away games against Princeton and Pennsylvania, putting an end to the silly little run the Bears were putting together.

In the end, Bruno was able to defeat Princeton comfortably and put up a valiant and almost-successful fight against the Penn Quakers. The Bears currently boast an impressive 7-1 Ivy League record, which sets them only half a game behind Penn for the league championship. After the weekend match-up, many of Brown’s players and fans are looking forward to seeing the BrownPenn rematch in Providence in two weeks.

The Bears’ 80-73 victory over the Tigers was not only their ninth in a row, but it also broke a 52-year winless streak at Princeton — their first victory ever in 53 trips to New Jersey.

“This win feels great,” said Head Coach Glen Miller. “We didn’t place any extra emphasis on this game. We played like a team that expected to win. We needed to be mentally tough for 40 minutes to win this game.”

Much of the game’s excitement occurred in a fast-paced first half. With two seconds left, Earl Hunt ’03 was able to connect on a three-pointer that gave Brown the lead. He and Mike Martin ’04 each scored nine points in the first half, providing an important spark that the Bears used to gain the lead. Though Princeton was shooting well from the field, Brown’s 57 percent field goal percentage helped keep the Bears in the game before the intermission.

Princeton’s Ed Persia put up a fight against Brown, scoring 15 points in the final stretch. However, Hunt and Jason Forte ’05 were able to connect on two free throws each during the final 13 seconds of the game to ensure the Bears’ victory.

Forte led all scorers with 18 points and added nine assists, but he said the importance of the game was blown out of proportion.

“The media may have hyped this game, but we remained focused and played like a team,” said Forte.

During the game, Jaime Kilburn ’04

dspics

The men’s basketball team returns to Providence this weekend to host Columbia, Cornell. had his consecutive field goal streak snapped at 20, only five shy of the NCAA season record.

Despite an inspiring effort demonstrated by the Bears the following night, the team came up short, falling to Penn 73-66. Last year’s Ivy League player of the year Ugonna Onyekwe seemed unstoppable in the first half, having his way with the Brown defense. He scored 21 points — mostly during the first half — and added 13 rebounds. He also denied Brown on several occasions, using his long arms to muster up a number of rejections.

Alai Nuualiitia ’03 did his best to contend with Onyekwe, scoring 16 points on 7-8 shooting from the field. He also grabbed six rebounds. Though Hunt, the Ivy League’s leading scorer, had a quiet game, Jason Forte set a career high in assists with 13.

Entering the second half down by six, the Bears mounted a swift comeback to take the lead. With 4:56 remaining, Bruno was up by five, but Penn’s three-point shooting squad went to work from beyond the arc to give the Quakers the edge with 1:33 left to play. Brown was unable to overcome this deficit, snapping

Rank ’em: Men’s tennis moves to 56th in nation with two wins Coach Jay Harris’ 56th-ranked men’s tennis team continued its winning ways with a 7-0 victory over Rutgers and a 6-1 decision over Buffalo at the Pizzitola Sports Center.

Captain Chris Drake ’03 led the way at No. 1 against Rutgers, coming away with a 6-4, 6-4 victory. The sweep of singles continued with Nick Goldberg ’05 capturing a 6-1, 6-2 win at No. 2 and Adil Shamasdin ’05 earning a 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 victory at No. 2.

The Bears also captured matches at four, five and six against the Scarlet Knights, with Ben Brier ’04 (7-5, 6-3), Zack Pasanen ’06 (6-3, 7-6) and Phil Charm ’06 (6-1, 6-2), respectively, earning victories. Brown also captured the doubles point, with the team of Jamie

Cerretani ’04 and Drake coming away with an 8-3 win and the duo of Kris Goddard ’04 and Charm earning an 8-4 decision.

Cerretani led the Bears against Buffalo with a 6-1, 6-1 victory at No. 1.

Also winning for the Bears were Brier at No. 2 (6-2, 6-1), Richard Moss ’06 at No. 4 (6-4, 3-6, 6-2), Luke Tedaldi ’06 at No. 5 (4-6, 6-2, 1-0) and Charm at No. 6 (6-1, 6-1). Brown swept the doubles point behind its No. 1 team of Shamasdin and Goldberg, the 26th-ranked doubles team in the nation, who earned an 8-5 victory. The Bears’ duo of Goddard and Pasanen won 8-1 at No. 2 doubles, while Tedaldi and Moss were 8-2 winners at No. 3.

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its nine-game winning streak.

Despite the loss, the game proved that Brown can compete with the Quakers and any other Ivy League foe. If anything, the game was an inspiration to the team, clearing any questions about Bruno’s ability to compete.

Brown will host Columbia and Cornell next weekend at the Pizzitola Sports Center.

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

W. basketball sweeps Penn and Princeton

BY SHARA HEGDE

The women’s basketball team took care of business this weekend, sweeping Princeton and Pennsylvania at home. The two victories rank the Bears just behind first-place Harvard in the Ivy League as they head into the second half of league play.

The Bears were led by Tanara Golston ’04 and Sarah Hayes ’06 against Princeton, who were the only two Brown players to score in double digits. Golston dropped in 17 points, six assists, five rebounds and two steals; and Hayes had 15 points, five rebounds and three assists.

Despite the strong play of Princeton forward Rebecca Brown, who led all scorers with 23 points, Brown went into halftime up by 19.

The Tigers improved their shooting in the second half, but it was too late, as the Bears cruised to an easy 73-60 victory.

Brown received strong games from forward Nyema Mitchell ’04, Miranda Craigwell ’04 and Holly Robertson ’05. Mitchell continued her strong all-around play with seven points, six rebounds and four see W. HOOPS, page 13