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“Stan’ up for your Rights” at Caribbean convocation

Ratty food is good enough for the pigs

BY LISA MANDLE

For those worried about the fate of uneaten Ratty food, the leftovers’ destiny is straightforward — uneaten food from plates at dining facilities is processed to remove liquids and then goes into dumpsters and eventually a landfill, said Director of Food Services Gretchen Willis.

But waste produced during food preparation might end up in a number of different places.

A pig farmer comes daily to pick up scraps from preparation at the Ratty. Peter Rossi, associate director of food services, said he estimated the pig farmer removes between 25 and 30 55-gallon barrels each week.

Rossi said he did not have figures for the amount of waste that goes to dumpsters.

The V-Dub lacks refrigerated space necessary for storing scraps until they can be picked up, so all the waste there goes to dumpsters, Willis said. Scraps from food preparation that cannot be fed to pigs are also landfilled, she said.

UFS sends fat trimmings to a company that renders them into other fat-based products, said Kurt Teichert, coordinator of Brown is Green, a University conservation program.

Brown follows a “pretty standard procedure” of dealing with food waste, said Executive Chef John O’Shea. Most schools must pay to have waste taken away, though some schools have composting programs, he said.

The University has considered composting waste from dining facilities, but it is not currently feasible, Teichert said.

The Urban Environmental Lab, West House, Watermyn and Finlandia compost on a residential scale, Teichert said.

Composting waste from dining facilities would require trucking it to Charlestown, the location of the only company in Rhode Island that composts institutional food waste, he said.

A study Teichert did with a student a few years ago found UFS’ options for more environmentally friendly disposal were “just disappointing,” Teichert said.

UFS has no current plans to change its waste disposal system, O’Shea said.

In the past, Rhode Island Community Food Bank provided UFS with pans for freezing leftover prepared food, O’Shea said. Large batches of food were frozen at Brown and then picked up by the food bank, he said. This practice stopped when it was no longer cost effective for the food bank, but the food bank still occasionally picks up excess canned see UFS, page 4

BY LOTEM ALMOG

The speakers at Monday night’s Caribbean Heritage Week Convocation resonated the week’s theme: “Get Up, Stan’ Up, Stan’ Up for your Rights.”

“We have reclaimed the strength of this phrase and hope to infuse Caribbean Heritage Week with the same hope and strength that revolutionaries in the Caribbean inspired,” said Andre St. Clair Thompson ’05, who coordinated Caribbean Heritage Week with Dania Davy ’05.

Between 60 and 70 students and faculty gathered in Salomon 101 to mark the beginning of the week’s events.

Robert Glave M.F.A. ’98 gave the keynote address entitled “Whose Caribbean? An Allegory in Part.” His remarks, which included some original short fiction, emphasized the ideals of political activism, cultural identity and dealing with problems of poverty, violence and discrimination plaguing Caribbean nations.

Glave, who grew up in the Bronx and in Kingston, Jamaica, is an assistant professor of English and Africana studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He also wrote a book of short stories entitled “Whose Song? and Other Short Stories.”

Kimberly Insel / Herald

see CARIBBEAN, page 4

Caribbean Heritage Week was inspired by the strength and hope of revolutionaries.

UCS passes paper provider resolution

BY JONATHAN ELLIS

The Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution urging Brown to shred ties with paper giant Boise Cascade at its meeting Monday night. The Council also learned details of the Brown Alumni Association’s refusal to sponsor alcoholrelated off-campus Senior Nights.

The Boise resolution, introduced by Representative Ari Savitzky ’06, coauthored by Representative Ferve Ozturk ’04.5 and aided by members of the Brown Environmental Action Network, “asks the administration and purchasing departments of Brown University to purchase paper products not from Boise Cascade and to switch from Boise to other suppliers with all due and deliberate speed.”

According to the resolution, Boise has been the largest logger of “old growth” and endangered forests around the world in the past decade, and the company fails to use third-party monitoring of its practices.

The resolution says a variety of other companies, like Staples, offer environmentally friendly paper products at comparable prices. The University’s contract with Boise expires in November, with bidding for the next contract scheduled for this summer.

“A switch in Brown’s supplier … does

not constitute a fiscal or budgetary problem, according to the purchasing department,” the resolution states.

The resolution also urges the University to switch from partially post-consumer recycled paper to 100 percent recycled.

Senior class Co-President Benjamin Dalley ’03 was also on hand to update the Council about the future of Senior Nights and Senior Week. The BAA will no longer sponsor off-campus events that involve alcohol, such as bar and club nights, due in part to a November fight involving Johnson and Wales students and a subsequent minor automobile accident.

Dalley told UCS, “Our class, namely me and my Co-President (Mumal Hemrajani ’03), will continue those Senior Nights without the help of the University, which means that it’s going to be hard for us to provide a safe environment for seniors to go to our events, and … all liability will be on me and (Hemrajani).”

Representative Rajiv Aggarwal ’05 asked Dalley how the two would be able to afford such a liability.

“We can’t,” Dalley said. “But we feel personally that we have to.”

The BAA is completely independent from the University. Dalley said he preferred the senior class officers separate from the BAA’s control and become a

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Category III student organization, which would allow them to solicit funding and transportation and security services from the University. “We were told, quite frankly, ‘no;’ (the BAA doesn’t) want to do that,” Dalley said.

“We’re working very hard with the BAA to redefine what senior class events look like,” Dalley said. “We’re working on ways to not ruin senior year.” Currently, the BAA is doing “nothing” to build class spirit, Dalley said.

UCS President Allen Feliz ’03 recapped the UCS executive board’s Friday meeting with President Ruth Simmons.

“We learned that the current status of the Underground, as being 21-and-over and serving alcohol two nights a week, is a short-term means of opening up the place, and President Simmons and (future interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services) David Greene are eagerly waiting to work with us so that we can come up with a better long-term solution,” Feliz said.

UCS also approved Students in Free Enterprise as a Category I group.

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers the Undergraduate Council of Students. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Democrats dangerously low on new ideas for improving the country, says Stephen Beale ’04 opinions, page 11

Men’s icers beat Tigers 2-1 and advance to second round of ECAC playoffs sports, page 12

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Def. of “whiteness” evolved over time

BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

The definition of “whiteness” has evolved over the course of American history to elevate some groups and oppress others, experts said at a panel discussion, “The Historical Construction of Whiteness.”

Panelists said the study of race should not be construed as solely the study of nonwhite races, with the implicit definition of white as neutral.

“We cannot study or even understand race without understanding whiteness,” said Jennifer RothGordon, a post-doctoral research associate at Brown’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

Roth-Gordon described ways in which whiteness maintains dominance by establishing itself as normal. “Race” usually only refers to nonwhite races, while white people are not identified by race, she said. “While raced people can only speak for their group or community, white people can speak for everyone.”

The idea of a colorblind society is a myth, she said.

When someone brings up race in a debate, “they are accused of bringing race into the picture, as if race wasn’t in picture to begin with,” she said.

Studying whiteness from a critical perspective is an important step in removing from it the association of normality or neutrality, Roth-Gordon said. In response to concerns that studying whiteness is an “our turn” response to the growing popularity of ethnic studies, she said the goal of the discipline is to develop a new sense of white identity that opposes racism.

Miriam Jimenez Roman, assistant director of the scholars-in-residence program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, discussed the meaning of race and whiteness in Latino society.

“Latinos have always had an ambivalent and ambiguous relationship to whiteness,” she said.

In Latin America, the mixing of races is celebrated but the elite remain white, she said.

Latinos who grew up in the United States, particularly those of Mexican descent, have alternately been treated as white and nonwhite, she said. Latinos were legally identified as white in the 19th century and again in the 1950s, when the designation was used to deflect accusations of racism and segregation, she said.

Matthew Guterl, a post-doctoral fellow at the CSREA, gave an overview of how whiteness has been defined in the United States.

Over the course of American history, the definition of whiteness has expanded to include groups previously designated as nonwhite, including people of Irish and Italian descent. But “each of these steps toward whiteness by one group comes at the expense of another group,” he said.

Guterl said the definition of whiteness has changed at the rare moments when whiteness is seen as a disadvantage, such as the current opposition to affirmative action. “It will be interesting to see how the makers of whiteness shift the lines,” he said.

He said class and privilege work together with race to construct definitions of whiteness, and he predicted that the definition of whiteness may alter, expanding to include some more privileged nationalities and ethnic groups while excluding less privileged groups currently included.

Roman said the definition is not likely to expand to include all Latinos because Latinos are of all races.

There is also a movement to identify Afro-Latinos as African American, she said.

“The only definition that is being expanded is in fact what a Latino is,” she said.

The panel was the first event of Deconstructing Whiteness Week. Renee Betancourt ’05 and Sharon Mulligan ’05, the event’s planners, said the idea for the week came out of discussions in an ethnic studies class, “A Critical Perspective on Whiteness,” taught by Roth-Gordon.

The purpose of the class was to show that whiteness is a real societal construction, “bringing it out of the camouflage of normality,” Betancourt said in an introduction.

Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ’05 can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

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Dr.Thomas Perls examines the possibility of living past 100 years of age.

Centenarians the fastest growing segment of population, Perls says

BY JESSE CHEN

Centenarians are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, Dr. Thomas Perls told an audience in Salomon 001 Monday night.

During his lecture, Perls, an associate professor of medicine at Boston University Medical School, examined whether certain people are genetically predisposed to live longer than others.

Despite an increase in the number of U.S. centenarians, those passing the hallowed mark of 100 are rare at about one per 10,000 with 85 percent of them women, Perls said.

Perls is the director of the New England Centenarian Study and co-author of the recently-published book “Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential At Any Age,” containing information for individuals aiming to make the best of their genetic endowment as well as their outlook on life in general.

He said one of the goals of his research is to debunk the myth, “The older you get, the sicker you get,” and convert it to the more optimistic idea, “The older you get, the healthier you’ve been.”

Perls divided centenarians into three categories.

“Survivors,” about 40 percent of the total, experience diseases in their 60s they will fight and overcome. “Delayers,” which encompass 40 percent of centenarians, live with diseases at 80 years of age. Lastly, “escapers,” the remaining 20 percent, confront disease only after turning 100, if at all.

One of the “escapers” in the study, Anna Morgan of Somerville, Mass., lived on the top floor of a triple-decker home with the subsequent generations of her family on the lower floors.

“We walked in, and there she was on her exercise bicycle, and she had these dental visors on with magnifying glass and bright light,” Perls said. “Now, 50 percent of centenarians do have trouble with their vision and/or their hearing, and she found out that if she woke up early in the morning, and if her eyes were fresh and she had a bright light, she could read while she was exercising on her bicycle for a couple of hours.”

With her seventy-year-old son looking on, Perls’ researchers ran several neuro-psychological tests on her, and remarkably she performed at the level of a 60-yearold, he said. She repeated sequences of numbers forward and backward and demonstrated a solid command of memory.

“This woman was unbelievable,” Perls said. “She was editing this autobiography that she had started three years earlier and was cursing under her breath because her agent had whittled this autobiography of 900 pages

down to 600, and she was getting quite upset about every little edit.”

Perls’ team asked Morgan if she would eventually donate her brain to science. She agreed and, after she passed away at age 101 from arrhythmia, a neuropathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital said after the autopsy, which was the first ever performed on anyone of that age, “‘My God. She’s got a beautiful brain.’ She had no neurofibrillary tangles or plaques, and it was more objective evidence that there are individuals out there who are just off the curve, specifically that of a woman having aged extremely slowly,” Perls said. see 100, page 4

METRO BRIEF House will vote on lowering legal blood alcohol content for drivers Rhode Island could lose more than $17 million in federal transportation aid if the State House of Representatives doesn’t lower the legal blood alcohol content for drivers to .08 percent.

Representatives will vote this week whether to comply with a federal statute mandating criminal penalties for a BAC of .08 percent.

According to a press release from the Rhode Island General Assembly, the state could stand to lose $17.3 million in highway funds over the next four fiscal years if Bill 2003 — H5452 is not passed.

The bill would make driving with a .08 percent BAC a misdemeanor.

Attorney General Patrick Lynch told the Providence Journal that he supports the bill, which was introduced by Rep. Peter Ginaitt, D-Warwick.

“Civil infractions are not enough,” Lynch said in his Feb. 5 speech supporting the bill.“We need to raise our standards and demand more responsibility, not less.” In 1999 and 2000, 45.6 percent of traffic fatalities in Rhode Island were alcohol-related, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Brown’s Department of Public Safety would not comment on the bill.

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100 continued from page 3 Longevity often runs in families, he said. Many of the subjects he interviewed also exhibited strong personal features in their lives, Perls said, whether it was a faith in the divine, a happy-golucky personality, assertiveness or the ability to manage stress well. Perls showed a video segment produced by CBS News, at the end of which he said, “We’re hoping these studies will lead to producing medication that does what these centenarians do naturally.

“I spend quite a lot of time with the media,” he said, having been profiled by NPR, CNN, BBC, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Oprah, “and it’s one of the most important things I do because I try to counteract these very negative traditional views, particularly in youth-oriented societies, toward older people.”

Perls also described his work as involving mysteries waiting to be unraveled. “My forte as a clinician is phenotyping, that is characterizing individuals according to various traits,” he said.

“Sometimes, just when you think you’ve got the handle on the group you’ve been studying,

you turn the corner and there’s a whole new thing to look at. So instead of looking at “delayers” or “escapers,” we’re looking at “survivors” as well. And, obviously, we haven’t even looked at the psychological and a bunch of other things.”

The lecture was sponsored by the Brown Medical School Aging Interest Group, the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research and the American Federation for Aging Research.

UFS continued from page 1 goods from UFS, he said.

O’Shea said he did not know of any student groups currently involved in distributing leftover food from the dining halls. Project Save took extra fruit and bread to soup kitchens and food banks in past years, but the group could not take prepared food because it had no refrigeration facilities, O’Shea said.

Herald staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 covers campus life and student services. She can be reached at lmandle@browndailyherald.com.

Caribbean continued from page 1 Many of Glave’s comments specifically addressed the lack of rights for homosexuals and bisexuals in Jamaica, where male homosexuality is a criminal offense, he said. In response to this issue, Glave helped found the Jamaica Forum of Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays.

He encouraged Brown students to tackle the social issues facing Caribbean nations as well. “The Caribbean of today needs us. We, all of us, are indispensable to its future,” Glave said.

Glave added that effective political activism would not be a romantic pursuit, but should involve a social, historical and nonpartisan analysis of the issues. While the road to change would be extremely challenging, Glave said he hopes many students of Caribbean ancestry would return to the Caribbean to pursue that goal.

“In our lifetime, even in the lifetime of the youngest person in this room, we certainly will not see all of our ideals achieved,” Glave said.

Another important topic Glave addressed in his speech was the conflict between his Caribbean and American cul-

tures. He described traveling back and forth between the United States and Jamaica and said he would think, “which citizen will I be this time entering ‘my’ country?”

Similar sentiments were echoed by the senior reflection speaker, Antiguan student George Roberts ’03.

He described going back to Antigua for the first time after coming to Brown and seeing the telephone missing from his bedroom.

“Although I thought I still lived in Antigua, nobody else did,” he said.

A dual citizen, Roberts talked about some tangible conflicts between his two nationalities.

After Sept. 11, 2001, he said he was not allowed to go back to his internship offered through a branch of the U.S. military. “I understand, I guess. I might have a conflict of interest if the U.S. were to bomb Antigua for harboring weapons of mass destruction,” he quipped.

Roberts also talked about rules he learned at Brown, which he encouraged younger students to adopt. These rules included participating in activities in and around campus, being aware of people who think less of others based on their race or ethnicity but not being too paranoid of some well-intentioned people and,

Glave added that effective political activism would not be a romantic pursuit, but should involve a social, historical and nonpartisan analysis of the issues. finally, to not be afraid to ask for help, he said.

Other speakers included Nicole Bazelais ’06, who gave the “freshman perspective” with a reading of an original poem, and Michael Chen-Illamos ’05, who introduced Glave.

Events have been planned for every day of Caribbean Heritage Week and will include a study break sponsored by Students of Caribbean Ancestry tonight, and movie screenings later in the week.

Herald staff writer Lotem Almog ’03 can be reached at lalmog@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2003 · PAGE 5

As time runs out, U.S. shifts gaze beyond U.N. WASHINGTON (Newsday) — Even as President Bush and

his aides lobbied frantically Monday for votes to pass a United Nations resolution authorizing war against Iraq, his administration appears to be looking past a likely defeat and arguing it would not matter.

The resolution’s prospects grew dimmer Monday when French President Jacques Chirac and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said their governments were prepared to veto it. U.S. and British diplomats said the vote, once expected for Tuesday, would take place later this week.

Despite this diplomatic setback, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer suggested that the small ad hoc coalition Bush has cobbled together to fight Iraq has as much legitimacy as the entire world body, saying that if the United Nations failed to act Iraq would be disarmed by “another international body.”

Fleischer also said the United Nations had developed a bad habit of standing by passively during times of crisis, noting its failure to act against genocide in Rwanda and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo during the 1990s.

“If the United Nations fails to act ... another inter-

national body will disarm Saddam Hussein,” he said.

“So this will remain an international action. It’s just the United Nations will have chosen to put itself on the sidelines.

“From a moral point of view, as the world witnessed in Rwanda and as the world witnessed in Kosovo, the United Nations Security Council will have failed to act once again. And this is becoming a trend for the United Nations Security Council.”

Asked if Bush believed that international affairs could be conducted through temporary coalitions rather than permanent organizations such as the United Nations, Fleischer replied: “There are many ways to form international coalitions. The United Nations Security Council is but one of them. They are not the only group that can speak well about international organizations and international efforts.”

In Kosovo, the United States intervened militarily through NATO in 1999 to halt abuses of ethnic Albanians by Serbia. NATO acted when it became clear that Russian opposition made U.N. agreement impossible. In Rwanda, the United Nations failed to intervene in 1994 to stop a horrific slaughter of

800,000 ethnic Tutsis — largely because the United States opposed action.

Asked if it were fair to criticize the United Nations for its Rwandan fiasco when the United States played a large role in creating it, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said: “I don’t think it is unfair to point that out, and I think people who were in office at the time, including foreign service people as well as political people, have expressed their regret that we did not take more firm action in that case.”

Still searching for a nine-vote majority in the face of French and Russian veto threats, Bush worked the phone Monday, calling Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, South African President Thabo Mbeke and Sultan Qaboos of Oman, Fleischer said. Secretary of State Colin Powell met with Guinean Foreign Minister Francois Fall and telephoned Angolan President Jose dos Santos, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Derbez.

“There could be a veto,” Fleischer acknowledged.

“There also could be nine or 10 votes still, and we are working very hard on that.”

Despite North Korean crisis, China keeps its focus inward BEIJING (Baltimore Sun) — Thanks to its border with North Korea and veto power in the U.N. Security Council, China has the ability to play key roles in shaping actions against North Korea and Iraq. But it has adopted a cautious stance designed to preserve stability both abroad and at home.

If the Security Council votes on an Americansponsored resolution explicitly authorizing the use of force against Iraq, China is expected to abstain.

On the issue of North Korea’s nuclear program, China has limited itself to saying it favors direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang to assure a non-nuclear North Korea.

“As far as questions like the veto or questions of really using her economic or military muscle, I think China will confine her efforts only to questions concerning her security directly,” said Pan Shaozhong, a Beijing scholar who has taught at Foreign Affairs College here. “Even though China may have deeply felt and strongly held views on issues like Iraq, China will not use her veto.”

“What is utmost in the minds of Chinese leaders is to try to guarantee a kind of peaceful international environment so that China can concentrate on her own modernization program,” he said.

Relations with the United States have become an integral part of that calculation. The United States is a key trading partner, major source of investment and now a convenient ally in efforts against terrorism. As a result, China has opposed aggressive actions against Iraq and North Korea while trying not to directly oppose the United States.

France, Germany and Russia issued a joint statement last week to make clear their opposition to the immediate use of force against Iraq. Chinese President Jiang Zemin responded with a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac, an understated show of support that doesn’t portend a Chinese veto in the Security Council.

“There’s no need to veto and incur American anger needlessly,” said James Mann, author of “About Face,” which chronicles Sino-U.S. relations from Nixon to Clinton.

Jiang repeated his opposition to war in a telephone conversation Sunday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and spoke with Bush Monday.

But diplomats and analysts here noted that China was usually content to allow the other permanent members of the Security Council — in this case France — to wage their battles for them.

“Although China is 100 percent morally on the side of France and Russia, China doesn’t really want to obstruct America openly on this question,” Pan said.

China has shown even greater caution in dealings with North Korea, which test-fired a medium-range missile Monday and has accused the United States of planning a nuclear attack. China has yet to alter its reserved public approach of merely encouraging dialogue.

President Bush has said China must be involved in a regional approach toward North Korea, but China has maintained that the United States and North Korea engage each other directly, in part to

make sure that Washington deals with Pyongyang’s security concerns. But China’s refusal to increase pressure on North Korea is clearly beginning to frustrate the United States and South Korea.

“Right now the focus is not the U.S. We have to focus on the Chinese government,” said Syung Je Park, deputy director of the Institute for Peace Affairs in Seoul, South Korea. “The Chinese government is doing the right thing to talk with North Korea, but now the Chinese government has to go one more step again, which is not only official talks and high-level talks, but publicly, they have to say to North Korea, ‘Don’t develop nuclear weapons.’ “ If that fails to change North Korea’s behavior, Park said, China’s leaders should “show they are sincere” by halting fuel oil shipments that are critical to the North Korean regime.

Analysts here assert that the Chinese government is exerting as much influence as it can. China has said publicly that it wants a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, and specialists here argue that tough tactics will be counterproductive with Pyongyang.

“Especially with North Korea, an Asian country, applying a lot of pressure to force them to do something will often end up with bad results,” said Zhang Liankui, a professor of international relations at the influential Central Party School in Beijing. If China were to cut off aid to North Korea, Zhang said, it would lose its “special influence” with North Korea.

“China is still doing things through its own channels,” Zhang said.

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Iranians argue they have right to nukes saudades

TEHRAN (Washington Post) — While

maintaining their country is not developing nuclear weapons, Iranians argue strenuously and with rare unanimity that they have a right to such weapons, to balance off Israel’s arsenal and as a manifestation of national pride.

The defense of obtaining nuclear arms cuts across Iran’s deep political divide, uniting the conservative clerics who occupy powerful appointive offices and the elected reformers who challenge the conservatives on most other topics. Leading theoreticians on opposite poles find common ground articulating a national ambition that diplomats warn could hold the seeds of a crisis if it is realized.

“Are nuclear weapons bad?” asked Amir Mohebian, an unofficial adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, the conservative Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Why don’t you make the same protest against Israel?”

“It’s basically a matter of equilibrium,” said Mostafa Tajzadeh, a leading theorist in the reform movement that controls Iran’s parliament. “On the one hand, Israel says, ‘If I don’t have it, I don’t have security.’ And we say, ‘As long as Israel has it, we don’t have security.’

“We believe the way to deal with Israel’s expansionism is to democratize the region,” the reformist said. “But while things are the way they are, public opinion in Muslim countries, and in Iran, is not going to be against having nuclear weapons.”

U.S. officials have expressed surprise and alarm at the rate Iran has been developing its nuclear capabilities, after briefings from inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency. The U.N. inspectors last month toured new nuclear facilities that Iran had revealed “only when asked about them,” said a foreign diplomat in the Iranian capital. “If they had peaceful intentions, there’s no reason why they shouldn’t declare them from the start.”

The inspections determined that a new complex in the central

desert town of Nantaz could in three years be producing enriched uranium, which experts say could be diverted to make nuclear bombs. Independent experts said satellite photos show a facility under construction near the town of Arak appears to be a heavy water reactor. Another reactor at Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, being built with Russian help and fuel, is due to go on line later this year, Iranian officials have said.

Iran maintains its ambitious nuclear program is geared only toward energy. As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, officials note, Iran might rely on nuclear power to supply 20 percent of national energy needs under IAEA guidelines despite its vast natural gas and petroleum reserves.

“We do need nuclear energy,” said Mohebian, an editor at the conservative newspaper Resalat.

“Because of an incorrect distribution of people around the country we do have certain problems.”

But during interviews, he and others moved quickly to other explanations. “The Americans say, in order to preserve the peace for my children, I should have nuclear weapons and you shouldn’t have them,” Mohebian said.

“It’s a double standard,” said Shirzad Bozorghner, the reformist editor of Iran News, an Englishlanguage daily. “If a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty is subscribing to the so-called community of civilized nations, then why has Israel not been sanctioned?

“I hope we get our atomic weapons,” the editor said. “If Israel has it, we should have it. If India and Pakistan do, we should too.”

Hostility toward Israel, which is widely understood to have nuclear weapons, is a touchstone of Iranian politics. It is also an impediment to restoring diplomatic relations with the United States, severed after the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy. The United States also has put Iran on its list of nations that support or sponsor terrorism.

Palestinian lawmakers establish Prime Minister’s job RAMALLAH, West Bank (Baltimore Sun) — Palestinian legislators

Monday began wresting power away from their leader, Yasser Arafat, and giving it to the newly created post of prime minister, in response to pressure from the United States and because of the stalemate in the conflict with Israel.

During a stormy session that went into the night, members of the Palestinian Legislative Council first approved the position of prime minister, some hailing the moment as nothing short of revolutionary, and then defined the position’s powers.

Instead of relegating Arafat to a ceremonial role, as was urged by the United States and Israel, the legislators left significant powers in his hands, including the authority to conduct negotiations with Israel and oversight of Palestinian security forces.

Arafat, an enduring symbol

of Palestinian nationalism known for his survival skills, had agreed only reluctantly to appoint a prime minister, and he must now approve the bill for it to become law.

His nominee, Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, would then have three weeks to form a new government, but officials said that task could be completed and voted on much sooner.

The legislature’s actions Monday marked the first time the body had limited Arafat’s power. Under the legislation’s provisions, Arafat would cede to the prime minister oversight of the internal workings of the Palestinian Authority and authority to appoint cabinet ministers and oversee internal police matters.

Arafat would be able to fire the prime minister and would also retain his position as commander in chief of the security forces.

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Senate takes up “lateterm” abortion ban WASHINGTON (Newsday) — The

Senate Monday opened debate on a high-stakes bill to ban a so-called late-term abortion procedure amid signs that it now has its best chance of approval in its eight-year journey through Congress.

With Republicans in control of Congress and the White House, both opponents and proponents said the bill sponsored by Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., is likely to pass. A final vote is expected on Thursday.

“I think the odds are very good,” said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a physician who has called the procedure brutal and unnecessary. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., plans to vote for the ban.

Signaling defeat, abortion rights advocates Monday said they are likely to challenge the bill in the courts.

Santorum’s bill would ban an abortion procedure known as dilation and extraction, which involves partially removing the fetus from the uterus feet first. The skull is then punctured and the brain suctioned to allow passage through the birth canal. Those pressing for a ban call the procedure “partial-birth abortion.”

A substitute bill to be offered by Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., is among several Democratic amendments expected and could derail Santorum’s bill.

Another amendment by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, could slow it down.

Durbin’s measure would bar doctors from aborting a “viable” fetus unless two doctors certified that continuing the pregnancy would threaten the woman’s life or risk her

“grievous” harm. Harkin’s amendment would put the Senate on record supporting the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, a declaration that would require the measure to go to conference — the Senate and House have to reconcile any differences in legislation in committee — after the House passes the bill as expected.

The House has passed a similar ban four times — in 1995, 1997, 2000 and 2002 — and the Senate also approved it twice, but President Clinton vetoed it each time.

Santorum’s bill was rewritten to address a Supreme Court decision in 2000 that struck down a similar ban in Nebraska. The court said the state law was too vague, failed to provide a health exception for women and unduly affected a woman’s abortion rights as affirmed by Roe v. Wade.

The bill now includes a more narrow definition of the procedure. But it does not include an exception to protect a woman’s health. Santorum said the exception was not needed because the procedure does not protect a woman’s health.

Abortion foes have listed banning the procedure as their top priority. President Bush has backed the measure and called the procedure “abhorrent” Monday.

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., opposed the bill, saying it would criminalize a necessary medical procedure.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., deplored the timing of the measure, calling it “outrageous” to bring up the bill as the nation is girded for war and facing a troubled national economy.

Brit under investigation for leak of NSA memo (Baltimore Sun) — A British intel-

ligence employee is under criminal investigation in connection with the leak of a National Security Agency memorandum calling for stepped-up eavesdropping on countries whose U.N. Security Council votes on Iraq could be crucial to the United States.

The investigation of a 28year-old female employee of Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, appears to confirm the authenticity of the NSA memo printed last week in The Observer, a British newspaper.

An NSA spokesman declined to comment Monday, saying “We have no statement.”

Inspector Richard Smith of the Gloucestershire Constabulary said the GCHQ employee, who lives near the agency’s complex in Cheltenham, England, was arrested Wednesday and held overnight at a police station before being released on bail Thursday.

Smith said the employee, whom authorities declined to name, has not been charged but is being investigated “on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act,” the British

statute protecting sensitive intelligence.

The Jan. 31 memo, marked as “top secret” and sent by Frank Koza, described as chief of staff for “regional targets,” said NSA had begun a “surge” of extra eavesdropping on communications by officials from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria, Guinea and Pakistan, all among the 15 members of the Security Council.

All the countries are being furiously lobbied by the United States to back the use of force against Iraq and by France to block or delay any war.

While the recipients of the electronic message were not revealed, it appeared to be directed to eavesdroppers at GCHQ or other closely cooperating foreign signals intelligence agencies. “We’d appreciate your support in getting the word to your analysts,” it said.

When The Observer printed the memo March 2, several intelligence experts speculated that the memo might have been leaked to the British paper by a GCHQ officer unhappy with the U.S. push for war against Iraq.

i can taste your spicy brains.

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M. icers continued from page 12 hoping to slip one by Danis and knock off the Bears. Princeton’s hard work finally came to fruition at 6:56 into the period. Brown failed to score on a 2-1 and moments later, Princeton forward Tommy Colclough ripped a shot that trickled past Danis and towards the goal line. A forward pushed the puck home as he crashed into the cross bar, giving the Tigers a 1-0 lead.

Not wasting any time, Swon responded 24 seconds later to even the game at one. Les Haggett ’05 pushed the face-off forward and the puck bounced off a Princeton skate, finding its way to the front of the Princeton net. All alone, Swon collected the puck and slipped it past a diving Eric Leroux.

“The first shift after a goal is the most important shift,” Swon said. “You can’t think about being behind and playing catch up, but knowing that Yann is back there makes us feel pretty confident.”

From there on out, it was all Brown. After a long shift deep in its own zone, Princeton was unable to change its tired line, and the Bears took advantage and pounded the Tigers with a tough fore-checking. Keith Kirley ’03 collected the puck, and as Pascal Denis ’04 circled around in the high slot, Kirley hit him with a perfect pass, and Denis let go of a quick wrist shot that squeezed past Leroux. For the final eight minutes, Princeton had few shots on Danis, who finished the game with 30 saves.

“The first game is always the hardest to win” Denis said. “We played sloppily and their first goal gave (Princeton) momentum, but our first goal put a doubt in (Princeton’s) mind.”

Saturday’s game featured an eerily similar start to the previous night’s — sloppy and lacking in offensive production. In the first four minutes, Brown canceled two power-play opportunities by taking penalties while a man up.

Again, Princeton earned the advantage in shots and opportunities, but failed to score on Danis.

In the second period the Bears took advantage of several power plays and pounded Leroux with 18 shots, but continued to encounter problems finding the net.

The Bears would not be discouraged, though, and took the lead half-way into the third period. While deep in the Princeton zone, Denis found Shane Mudryk ’04 in the slot. Mudryk’s shot headed to the left of the net, but a well-positioned Kirley immediately one-timed the puck into the net. Much as he had the previous night, Swon scored a goal 24 seconds after the first tally. Adam Tichauer ’06 gave Brent Robinson ’04 a nice cross-ice pass, and the puck found its way onto Swon’s stick. An out-of-position Leroux was unable to move over and prevent Swon from scoring his third goal in three games.

Right after Princeton called a timeout, Tigers Assistant Captain Scott Prime charged into Danis who had covered the puck up two seconds earlier. A melee ensued, and Prime was assessed a fiveminute major. Only eight seconds

into the penalty, Princeton put a sting into the side of Roger Grillo’s squad, tallying a short-handed goal. But the Brown power play, which had failed to score in the previous 12 chances, came alive to quell the threat of a comeback on a goal by Mudryk.

Danis was again the backbone of the team, playing calmly and with composure, and saving 68 of 70 shots on the weekend. The win moved Brown into the second round, where it will face Yale in a best-of-three series.

“The key to the series was

Saltman continued from page 12 ing many of its players to graduation after this season. Earl has been a great leader on this team, leading them with his actions. While the Brown team looked very sluggish in the first half of Saturday’s game at Harvard, a game that included as many Brown fans as Harvard fans and one Brown student having her sign taken away by Harvard security staff, Hunt shot only two for eight from the field. This didn’t deter him as he took the team on his back for about a five-minute stretch of the second half and helped

Perlmutter continued from page 12 got the attitude to lead?

Lindros and Bure sure don’t.

Get a guy like Scott Stevens of the New Jersey Devils, who only scores 20 points per season but whose plus/minus rating has never been below one in his 20-year career. He gets his teammates riled up and plays with intensity — read up on Lindros’ concussion history if you need proof.

And if you can’t find a guy like that in the market, build a

working hard and staying positive,” Mudryk said. “Hopefully we can carry what we did into the first game against Yale.”

“Playoff hockey is all about patience,” Grillo said. “You can’t get out of control and force plays, because it will come back to bite you. We need to work out a few kinks and get ready for next weekend.”

Sports staff writer Ian Cropp ’05 covers the men’s hockey team and can be reached at icropp@browndailyherald.com.

give it the lead and not give it up. He wouldn’t let the Bears lose and surrender a possible chance for an NIT bid.

The end of the season and the departure of Alai and Earl has begun the coronation of Forte as Brown’s next great player. He has played amazingly in the past four games and will have to step it up next year.

After all, he’ll have to step into the shoes of “Mr. Brown Basketball” and those are some large shoes to fill — both literally and figuratively.

Jeff Saltman ’03 hails from outside Washington, D.C., and is an economics and history concentrator.

team within the organization whose young players mesh and develop in the same system.

When Sather had a job with the Edmonton Oilers, he once said, “If I had the Rangers’ budget, I’d never lose a game.”

Nice one, Glen. Drop the stat sheets, do some real searching and find players with more heart and character. Fire and ice is a recipe for success.

Sports staff writer Eric Perlmutter ’06 still believes in the flying V and that ducks do fly together.

W. icers continued from page 12 destruction. Less than two minutes after taking the ice, Rebecca Russell scored. Gina Kingsbury and Laurie Ross assisted. But that didn’t suffice for the Saints — Powers scored again at 3:58 from Kingsbury and Russell.

Dreyer made 34 saves in the loss.

“We knew what we were up against, and we knew it would probably come to three, especially because we were away,” Insalaco said. “I think if we were at home we could have beat them in two. We had a 10-hour bus trip Thursday night that wasn’t really in our game plan.”

The Bears brought some fire to the ice on Saturday, coming from behind to win in the third period. St. Lawrence got on the board first at 7:50 in the first period. Kingsbury took advantage of a traffic jam in front of the Brown goal to knock the puck in. Russell and Powers assisted. Brown didn’t even the score until the final period, but a mere 13 seconds into the period, Cassie Turner ’03 found the net with an assist from Thatcher.

Two minutes later Jessica Link ’05 scored the winning goal.

Courtney Johnson ’03 assisted.

St. Lawrence couldn’t catch the Bears and, when the Saints pulled their goalie in the final minutes of the game, Brown scored again. Insalaco lit the lamp for the open-net goal assisted by Johnson and Guay.

The Bears triumphed 3-1.

On Sunday, for the first time in the series Brown scored the initial goal. Insalaco put Brown on the board at 8:45 in the first period with assists from Guay and Ashlee Drover ’06. The Saints evened things up at 18:00 when Whitney Carbone onetouched a pass from Berlinguette. Thatcher took care of the problem 15 seconds later, scoring with the help of veterans Turner and Insalaco. The Bears held the Saints for the next two periods, maintaining their lead thanks in part to 32 saves by Dreyer. In the final minutes, St. Lawrence again pulled its goalie.

The move backfired when Thatcher scored an unassisted goal at 18:52.

The ECAC semifinals and final are being held at Meehan Auditorium this coming weekend. On Saturday Brown faces Harvard, and Princeton battles Dartmouth.

The Bears lost by one goal in both of their previous games against Harvard. Their last match-up was a 4-3 loss Feb. 25.

“I think we’re just looking for that semifinal game right now hoping we can knock off the number one team in the country.

I don’t think a lot of people think we can do it, so that is playing to our advantage,” Insalaco said. “I think we’re a definite underdog, and I don’t mind being the underdog, and I don’t think my teammates mind either.”

The winner of the ECAC does not get an automatic bid to the Frozen Four. The final competing teams are determined by a formula that takes the entire season into account, not permitting automatic bids for any conference.

Sports staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers the women’s ice hockey team. She can be reached at kbabcock@browndailyherald.com.

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OPINIONS EXTRA TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2003 · PAGE 9

A likely case for going to war — in North Korea Why the United States should brace itself for a different war than we expected IT SEEMS UNLIKELY, BUT THE HERALD’S directly risking nuclear retaliation. In fact, recent slough of pro-war, pro-antiwar, Kim has virtually no other choice. Many a antiwar-for-humanitarian-pro-for-prag- distressed citizen has nervously asked why matic-reasons, pro-humanitarian-war- Bush is ignoring North Korea entirely, and anti-pro-pragmatic-war and simply war in has pointed out that forking over the Iraq editorials are behind the times. The money would be preferable to allowing the Bush administration already moved past creation of a nuclear eBay to ship warthese questions about five to 10 months heads directly from Pyongyang to Manhattan. ago, yet the general public is Let’s play president for a still playing ‘If I were BARRON second. Stanley Kurtz of President’ and handing out YOUNGSMITH Stanford University recently ‘There is still time for PETA to GUEST COLUMN published an article outlining stop the war’ table slips. While the strategic situation as it everyone is still mulling their options and creating nuanced versions of stands: the Bush administration’s ostensi“pro-” and “anti-” to fit their particular ble plan of allowing China to put pressure fashion statement, I’d like to give a preview on North Korea will simply not work. It is of real life West Wing episodes that are based on the idea that Japan and South probably being written in back rooms as Korea will now be forced to arm themselves — something which China will supwe speak.

Conventional rumor has it that Kim posedly never allow. However, China is Jong-Il will probably choose the first day of unlikely to cave if they have not already. the Iraq invasion to start up North Korean Jane’s Intelligence Review recently pointed plutonium production and begin churn- out that China’s influence over Kim is lukeing out the first of many highly portable warm at best; but furthermore, it is not nuclear warheads. Not that Dan Rather even in China’s best interest to push Kim has an inside look at the DPRK’s (North to disarm.

Bush, Kim and the Chinese politburo all Korea’s) battle plans; but it seems in keeping with Kim’s current strategy and his understand that North Korea will collapse penchant for spectacular, James Bond- without either foreign aid or the revenue style pageantry. That means there will be a from selling nuclear weapons. Kurtz has very real and very serious crisis on the rightly pointed out that China would Korean peninsula in the next month or so: rather deal with a nuclear but stable Japan North Korea needs money and has no rea- and South Korea than hundreds of thouson to keep the warheads for itself when it sands of pro-democracy North Koreans can sell them to al-Qaida, make a quick flooding over the border. Remember how buck and destroy New York without ever touchy China was about a few hundred old men doing Falun Gong exercises in public places? This would be a thousand times more destabilizing. If we can’t all agree Barron Youngsmith ’06 hails from that the Bush team speaks with foresight, Littleton, Colorado.

Many a distressed citizen has nervously asked why Bush is ignoring North Korea entirely and has pointed out that forking over the money would be preferable to allowing the creation of a nuclear eBay to ship warheads directly from Pyongyang to Manhattan. at least we can agree that it’s ruthless.

Bush’s policy is thus based on the following: if China does pressure North Korea, Kim collapses and everything is fine. If this does not work, then bribery, negotiations and dialogue with Kim will probably not work either, simply because Kim never stopped working on nuclear weapons. Why would he stop now if he can get more aid and the revenue from selling weapons? Kim has made a conscious gamble by resuming nuclear production, and it shows that he certainly does not fear the consequences or care about the esteem of the international community. If U.N. inspections are reintroduced, he can simply follow Saddam Hussein’s lead and kick them out again unless they are backed up by the threat of war. The final option is much more brutal and much more likely.

As in the Clinton Administration, people in the back rooms of today’s White House are probably planning preemptive strikes to destroy Kim’s nuclear reactors.

This would be a reasonable explanation for the administration’s silence on the matter: if the Godfather had decided once and for all that his enemy had to go, he would simply remain silent until Kim was

found shot dead on the stairs to his apartment. There is a reason that Bush is not doing this with Iraq: He needs to convince the international community that there is a threat, he needs to gain basing rights to mass troops, and most of all, Iraq does not have a hostage. In this matter, South Korea is like a bystander with Kim’s gun held to its head. This makes the situation 20 times more delicate than the one in Iraq — and it makes surprise all the more necessary.

Notwithstanding South Korea’s recent bout of Helsinki syndrome, Bush could either destroy the reactors and hope that North Korea thinks better of flattening Seoul, or he could try to destroy Kim’s troops and artillery a few minutes north of the border. This weaponry is located in underground bunkers and would require nuclear strikes in order to be stopped quickly enough.

Neither strategy is guaranteed to work.

Both require unprecedented audacity and ruthlessness, and both rely on nuclear weapons as an endgame. As Kurtz says, Bush may find this sick gamble necessary in order to save San Francisco or New York from nuclear terror in the long run — but what happens if he doesn’t?

Democratic Party is the true enemy of racial equality When it comes to race, Democrats are the ones who have explaining to do RACE CONTINUES TO BE THE MOST to enforce the 1954 Brown v. Board of divisive issue in American political cul- Education decision and it took a ture. That a casual compliment at a Republican Congress to pass the 1964 birthday party for a living fossil could Civil Rights Act. In the House, Republicans supported the bill excite passions sufficient to at a ratio of 136 to 35 while the end the career of a Senator Democrats opposed it 153 to Majority Leader illustrates 91. In the Senate, only six the potency of race and the Republican senators voted ability of the Democrats to with segregationist Democrats exploit it. And with this race and the most famous of these card, the Democrats recov— Barry Goldwater — opposed ered the momentum they the Civil Rights Act on princilost in the November elecple, arguing that the movetions while the Republicans ment should operate on the capitulated in a torrent of state level rather than the fedmea culpas. In the end it STEPHEN BEALE eral level. Goldwater — who was a Republican who RIGHT WORDS would later support gays in the delivered the coup de grace military — had little in comwhen former surgeon Bill mon with bona fide bigots like Frist promised to purge the party of its vestigial racism. The Robert Byrd.

Most of these Southern Democrats Republicans emerged from the fray stained with the guilt of America’s segre- defected from the Democratic Party in a mass exodus to the Republicans, but only gationist past.

The record of history testifies to the after shedding their segregationist pasts: opposite. It took a Republican President Strom Thurmond the Republican was the first South Carolina politician to hire a black aide, voted for the 1982 extension of the Voting Rights Act and supported Stephen Beale ’04 wishes to emphasize the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. that in lauding the creativity of the And the shift of the solid South from Republican Party he does not intend to Democrat to Republican did not alter imply that he necessarily agrees with the Republican position on race. In 1966 their ideas.

Thirty years after the civil rights era, the Democratic Party remains the party of race preferences as the spirit of segregation lives on in affirmative action. The situation is indicative of a broader poverty of ideas which afflicts the Democratic Party.

Nixon heralded his comeback with an editorial outlining an agenda for the Republican Party which included civil rights, leaving it to the “party of Maddox, Mahoney and Wallace to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice.” Nixon matched his rhetoric with action: He raised the civil rights enforcement budget by 800 percent, expanded the desegregation of Southern school districts to 70 percent and appointed more blacks to federal positions than any other president. And under President Bush, the party of Lincoln has honored this tradition by outlining a respectable position on race: simultaneously condemning Senator Lott and castigating the University of Michigan for its racial quotas.

Yet, 30 years after the civil rights era the Democratic Party remains the party

of race preferences as the spirit of segregation lives on in affirmative action. The situation is indicative of a broader poverty of ideas which afflicts the Democratic Party. Contrast this with the Republicans, whose portfolio of innovative ideas includes school vouchers, social security savings accounts, faithbased charity programs and the articulation of a new foreign policy after Sept.

11, 2001. From domestic policy to foreign affairs, the only alternative the Democrats have for Republican creativity is a litany of cliches. On Bush’s tax cut we hear that it will benefit the rich and hurt the poor, and on the impending war with Iraq, once again “it’s the economy stupid.” If Democrats continue to hold themselves hostage to the past, they will be sidelined as American public policy moves into the 21st century with the Republicans in the lead.

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Waste wanted In keeping with Brown’s reputation as a progressive institution, University Food Services disposes of waste, for the most part, in environmentally friendly ways. Food scraps harvested during preparation go to a local pig farmer and fat trimmings are eventually converted into other fat-based products. But there’s still more that can be done — and environmentally conscious students should take the initiative.

Dining hall food taken by students and left uneaten ends up in landfills. Executive Chef John O’Shea told The Herald many universities pay to have food waste hauled away, and Brown follows this “pretty standard procedure.” Although some institutions have their uneaten dining hall food composted, he said the University determined such an undertaking would be too costly.

But there’s no reason student groups can’t help take over where the University leaves off. Although it’s not feasible for student groups to lobby for funds that would transport all dining hall waste to Rhode Island’s only institutional composting facility, located in Charlestown, they can contribute in other ways. Co-ops like Watermyn and Finlandia already participate in localized composting. Student groups could research health codes and regulations, discuss possibilities with UFS and Facilities Management and set aside a certain amount of food waste to be composted every day. Such a system would be highly symbolic, but practical.

More use can also be made of dining hall food that is left unselected. Large batches of prepared food were at one time frozen by UFS and then picked up by the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. The food bank had to discontinue this practice due to budget constraints, but some student groups began to transport items that didn’t require refrigeration on their own. Although O’Shea told The Herald he is unaware of any groups doing this now, there’s no reason for them not to. Even without extensive refrigeration equipment, student groups could drive products such as fruit and bread to soup kitchens and the food bank.

During a time when the University is plagued by budgetary concerns, progressive initiatives such as composting will necessarily fall by the wayside. It’s up to students to make sure they happen.

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LETTERS Affirmative action is no cure for racism

Is Thomas Friedman a Herald columnist?

To the Editor:

To the Editor:

(Re: “College education an opportunity, not a reward,” March 10) Affirmative action is meant to offer those students of minority backgrounds an opportunity to actualize their potential. This is a wonderful goal, but affirmative action fails to achieve this goal and within this process there is an assumption made by Kleinfeld that the potential of minority students is somehow more deserving of actualization than that of Caucasian students.

The first assertion made is based on the system itself, as Kleinfeld sets it up, as an impersonal set of rules to help disenfranchised students. There are qualifications, though, that apply only to disenfranchised minority students. So first we have an inequality in value of potential determined by race.

Which is essentially to the letter racism.

Second, due to the impersonality of the system, there is no difference between students of color who have had the full benefits of education and wealth and those who have grown up with a subpar educational background.

In light of this, the argument that affirmative action is meant to benefit those who are disenfranchised seems to be inaccurate, as it really is meant to benefit the entire minority population based on race, not disadvantage. Systems like Michigan add points not based on a student’s educational background or upbringing, but based on race.

In order to truly create equality and to progress toward ending racism and discrimination, we must focus on creating an educational system throughout the country that will truly leave no child behind. If we take our energy used to fight for or against affirmative action and fight to end the disparity in public education, we may soon see an end to needing institutionally discriminatory programs such as affirmative action, as all students, not just minority students or white students but all students, will be able to be judged based on their true abilities, free from the restrictions of society and independent of their backgrounds.

As I was reading Schuyler von Oeyen’s article (“Why the world makes a difference,” March 10) I found myself nodding in agreement, until I experienced a striking sense of deja-vu. In this past Sunday’s New York Times, Thomas Friedman writes that Iraq “is not a war of necessity. That was Afghanistan. Iraq is a war of choice.” In yesterday’s article, Schuyler von Oeyen writes, “Afghanistan was a war of necessity, but this (Iraq) is a war of choice.”

Both writers go on to make the case that because Iraq is a war of choice, the U.S. does in fact need the world’s permission. So, either this is an incredible coincidence or an indication that the editors of The Herald do not read the Op-Ed page of the Sunday Times and that our Opinions writers do.

Randall Rempp ’03 March 10

Anthony Halperin ’06 March 10

BAA’s decision on Senior Nights is deplorable To the Editor: I am very concerned with the BAA’s decision to discontinue funding for Senior Nights. If transportation is not provided to these events off campus, then students are going to drive there themselves, leading to an unsafe situation. This is yet another example of the University putting its own liability ahead of student’s safety. From closing Oliver’s and the Underground, and tightening up rules for student parties, many seniors feel that the University has significantly limited student life during the past few years. For the BAA to make this decision just as the senior class gift campaign is kicking off is almost unconscionable. As a member of the gift committee, I know that such policies make our already difficult job even harder.

Hopefully the BAA will reconsider its decision.

Andy Golodny ’03 UCS Representative Senior Class Gift Committee member March 10

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2003 · PAGE 11

Bush ignoring the real threat to our security His obsession with regime change in Iraq detracts from the more pressing problems of Iran, North Korea I HAVE A SURPRISE FOR YOU. ON FEB. 22, built in Iraq more than two decades ago. experts at the International Atomic Energy Furthermore, Iran, unlike Iraq, gives Agency reported that they had found their active and substantial financial support ‘smoking gun.’ Technology for producing to the terrorist group Hezbollah, which weapons-grade uranium was discovered former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee Bob Graham has in the city of Natanz, not too called the most dangerous far outside of Baghdad. Now terrorist group on Earth. get ready for an even bigger Then there’s always North surprise. President Bush decidKorea. It was no surprise to ed not to strike the site. Why? anyone in the Because the equipment the Administration that North IAEA discovered isn’t located in Korea had a couple of Iraq. It’s located in Iran. And nuclear weapons up its because of that, it doesn’t help sleeve, to say nothing of one Bush attack Iraq. And because of the world’s most active of that, Bush doesn’t care. The missile programs and what only bad weapon of mass NATE GORALNIK ORDERS FROM may be the world’s largest destruction is an Iraqi weapon THE BOSS stockpile of VX gas. And of mass destruction. So much when Kim Jong Il ordered his for the “axis of evil.” scientists to resume manuYou know, I always did think it was a little weird when President facturing weapons-grade plutonium, Bush suggested last year that we invade there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that Iraq of all places. I mean, let’s be honest the deadly warheads could end up in the with ourselves. For years, the Iranian hands of just about anyone interested in government has been overt in its efforts detonating a nuke. It’s also likely that the to acquire a nuclear program. Russia has North possesses smallpox.

So why didn’t Bush make more of an been aiding Iran in developing a nuclear reactor much like the one that the French effort when his advisors warned him that if he didn’t act soon, North Korea would have multiple nuclear missiles aimed at South Korea, Japan and California?

Nate Goralnik ’06 thinks Iran needs a Because despite the facts, Bush thinks it’s Disneyland of its own.

Iraq that we should be focused on. Yes, Iran and North Korea may be manufacturing fissile material faster than Bush’s aides can write speeches about it, but should we care? I guess not. After all, the missiles that arms inspectors discovered in Iraq are “just the tip of the iceberg,” Bush says. Bush made no mention, of course, of Iran and North Korea’s missiles, which can strike at distances many times that of Iraq’s. Nor does he seem to think that North Korea’s and Iran’s known nuclear programs hold any significance, considering that Iraq may possess some oh-so-scary aluminum tubing.

Fine, I won’t judge. But you’ve got to ask yourself, if Bush won’t cough up even a penny to get North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program, why is he offering to pay Turkey billions of dollars to base troops that he himself has called strategically unnecessary? Does that sound like a president who wants to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction or a president who wants to invade Iraq? Arms inspectors have combed Iraq high and low looking for even the tiniest trace of deadly nuclear, chemical and biological agents, and they have found nothing. This doesn’t automatically exonerate Saddam, but why all the fuss over a nuclear program that may not even exist when North Korea is building

nuclear weapons as we speak?

North Korea has been pretty clear that it will disarm if given economic incentives. That means no more plutonium and weapons-grade uranium that it could either sell to terrorists or launch at America or its allies. A deal with North Korea would cost a fraction of what it will cost to invade Iraq and would not expose Americans to attack by Iraqi soldiers and terrorists. So why are we bribing the Turks with money we could be using to remove the threat of Korean nukes? The standard line in the Bush administration is that we have to keep Iraq from becoming a North Korea. I agree, but that sounds a little weird coming from an administration that doesn’t seem to find North Korea’s nuclear program dangerous enough to warrant developing an effective foreign policy strategy.

Since Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have become aware that we live in a dangerous world, but our government is too busy chasing the monsters under the bed to confront the real monsters who wield real weapons. Demolishing defenseless countries while ignoring the real threats doesn’t make those threats go away. If Bush really wants to get rid of a nuke or two, he won’t find any in Iraq. They’re out there, but we’re still waiting for Bush to find them.

As Israelis are slaughtered Anti-Israel sentiment persists while Israelis show admirable restraint ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, ONE DAY Arab Palestinians and one Jewish state in after Mr. Blecher ’91 warned in a letter to largely Jewish areas of Palestine constituted The Herald of an increased possibility of an an unacceptable situation), attempting to Israeli transfer of Palestinians from the West slaughter her at birth. In the process of this Bank and Gaza — which he termed “ethnic war begun by the Arab states, hundreds of cleansing”— 16 Israelis, including college thousands of Jewish refugees were forced to flee Arab countries and hunstudents, Muslims, Christians dreds of thousands of and Jews, as well as women JOSHUA SAMSON Palestinian Arabs became and children, were incinerated MARCUS refugees, many at the request on a bus in northern Haifa. As GUEST COLUMN of Arab leaders who asked that usual, the suicide monster they temporarily evacuate the packed his bomb with nails so area so as to facilitate a maxithat the shrapnel would maim as many as possible in the explosion. The mally efficient massacre. The difference Palestinian terrorist group Hamas praised between the war’s two refugee populations?

Israel absorbed the Jewish refugees; the and took “credit” for the bombing.

The citizens of Israel have endured 87 Arab states have refused to absorb the Arab such attacks over the past 29 months and refugees, preferring to keep them in squalor have shown an incomprehensible and for nearly 60 years as political pawns. miraculous restraint and courage amidst Meanwhile their numbers grew in “refugee the indiscriminate slaughter of their chil- camps” to a population of millions. dren. Israel is roughly the size of New Apparently, in 22 Arab countries, there is Hampshire, surrounded by 22 Arab states simply “not enough room” for Arab 640 times her size and with 60 times her refugees. If only Israel gives up more land, population. Each bus bombing is Israel’s of course, everything will be alright.

Mr. Blecher bettered us all in advertising proportional equivalent of an Oklahoma City attack. Speculation that any state his recent article, “Living on the Edge: The might engage in “ethnic cleansing,” with no Threat of Transfer in Israel and Palestine,” mention of the fact that it is being subject- and in mentioning his inclusion in a ed continuously to ethnic cleansing in the “Campus Israel Coalition” at Brown from true and full sense of the term, does indi- 1987-1991. There is no “Palestine.” The Palestinians have been offered a state twice cate bias, and a horrific one.

Mr. Blecher quotes Professor Elliott in the past 60 years, in 1948 and in 2000.

Colla: “Arab commentators have already Both times they have refused, preferring to warned that such expulsions would be like explode buses. Quite simply, they want it a second 1948.” Interesting. In 1948, for the all; and if they can’t have it, they would record, five Arab states invaded the infant rather accept nothing and complain about Jewish State (apparently, 99.5 percent of it. The idea of transferring Palestinians from Middle East land, an independent state for the West Bank and Gaza to Arab states in the region is a proposition no sane person hopes for, and every poll has shown that the majority of Israelis do not want it to hapJoshua Samson Marcus ‘04 is not the same pen. I ask, however, what would Mr. Blecher person as Joshua Schulman-Marcus ‘04, or Professor Colla suggest Israel do? She has but he takes it as a compliment when offered the Palestinians everything she can they’re confused.

All I want is for us to live together in peace. But when I say “peace,” I mean it. I do not mean “appeasement.” And Israel will not accept a “peace” agreement whose primary obligation is for her to die. possibly offer while maintaining her security against those who have mercilessly assaulted her since her birth and been spurned for terror. The status quo is obviously untenable, though the Israel Defense Forces are miraculously able to prevent over 80 percent of the suicide bombings before they occur through Israel’s military presence in the disputed territories. And Israel cannot annex the territories and allow millions of Palestinians, most of whom have been brainwashed for years through Arafat’s media to view the killing of Jews, Israelis and Westerners as the highest form of self-sacrifice, to become citizens.

Barely an Arab cry was heard for “an end to occupation” or “a Palestinian state” between 1948 and 1967, during which time Jordan annexed the West Bank area originally meant for “Palestine,” Egypt occupied Gaza, denying Palestinians citizenship, and Syria seized control of the Golan Heights.

Only after Israel had conquered these territories amidst a war launched against her, and immediately offered to withdraw simply in return for a peace agreement — only to be spurned, of course — did the chorus of cries begin. Oh, and wouldn’t you know it, the “Palestine Liberation Organization” was created in 1964, three years before Israel’s “occupation” of — no, not illegallyoccupying Jordan, or illegally-occupying Egypt, or illegally-occupying Syria — but, so suddenly, “Palestinian land.” Not only would Israeli annexation of the disputed territories present an unfathomable securi-

ty risk, but it would alter the demographics such that Israel would no longer possess a majority Jewish population. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, during which the Palestinian leadership allied with Hitler to support Jewish extermination, and the vast majority of the world averted its gaze to the genocide of two thirds of Europe’s Jewish population, this was the fundamental point of the creation of a Jewish State; one place on earth the Jews could be safe from persecution.

I want a Palestinian state, and I hope against hope that the Arab states and Palestinian leadership will one day acquiesce to one. I would shoot a suicide bomber before he murdered my family, but I would not hate him, and I hold no hatred for Palestinians. All I want is for us to live together in peace. But when I say “peace,” I mean it. I do not mean “appeasement.” And Israel will not accept a “peace” agreement whose primary obligation is for her to die.

Don’t be fooled: Mr. Blecher is no friend of “real” democracy, “real” peace or Israel, as he claims. In fact, with “friends” like Mr. Blecher, none of the above needs enemies. I encourage Mr. Blecher, and every Brown student and faculty member who does not sanction the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians, to read the biographies of the victims of Wednesday’s attack at http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0 n5r0. In this way, we can pay a small tribute to those lives so horrifically snuffed out as we chatted away at the Ratty.

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Saying goodbye to Earl, one of Brown’s best HIS OPPONENTS PROBABLY HEAR THE chant while they sleep at night. “E-A-R-L, Earl Earl Earl!” being shouted at them between 18 and 20 times a game for the past four years.

No wonder they can’t sleep. But at least a remarkably consistent career came to its regular season end up in Cambridge on Saturday night when Earl Hunt ’03 played his last Ivy League game in a victory over Harvard.

JEFF SALTMAN Hunt came to THE SALT’S TAKE Brown four years ago out of lovely Rockville, Md. Having gone to Good Counsel, a school that defeated an almost unbeatable opponent — a DeMatha team that included both Keith Bogans and Joe Forte — he was used to playing in highpressure games. At Good Counsel, Earl had to take a backseat to players like Roger Mason Jr. who went to UVA and left a year early for the NBA. When he arrived at Brown, the basketball team was woeful. It hadn’t contended in the Ivy League since its league championship in 1986. Students didn’t go to the games, and when they did, they sat and watched quietly as if they were back in their dorm rooms studying.

Flash forward three years, and suddenly you need to be standing in line an hour and a half before a game just to get a seat, or sit in the aisle as the case may be. Alumni come from all around, and even the Swami makes an appearance or two doing the introductions. The crowd is so loud and raucous that you can’t hear yourself think.

Don’t get me wrong, you don’t need to tent out for a week to get tickets for the game, but as the movie “What About Bob” showed us, you need to do things in “baby steps.”

This complete change was not solely due to Hunt. He has had many great teammates including Alai Nuualiitia ’03 and Jason Forte ’05, and a dynamic coach in Glen Miller, who may have more to do with the turnaround than anyone. But Earl still deserves a great deal of credit.

He has quickly become “Mr. Brown Basketball.” What Christian Laettner was for Duke and Patrick Ewing was for Georgetown, Hunt has become for Brown.

He is the all-time leader in points scored, having topped the 2,000-point mark as those two players did. But Hunt did it playing sometimes 10 fewer games per season than they. Not only is he the best player, but he, like Ewing and Laettner, became the leader of his team at a very early age. His consistency is absolutely amazing. As a freshman, he averaged 17.0 points per game, but led the conference with an 18.8 average in Ivy League games. These were both improvements from his average of 13 points per game on an amazing high school team. As a sophomore, he improved to 19.7 points per game, which he averaged again as a junior. This year, he has slipped all the way to 19.4 points per game. The consistency is incredible.

While doing all of this, he has led this team to its best record (12-2) in the Ivy League ever. The only two losses came to a Penn team that will probably surprise a 4 or 5 seed in the NCAA tournament before lossee SALTMAN, page 8

The worst team money can buy

have a good solid core of talent, and they have a lot of speed, and we just need to be aware of what we are up against.”

Last Friday, the quarterfinals started slowly. St. Lawrence scored the first goal at 17:28 in the first period. RickiLee Doyle took a shot for the Saints, which was stopped by Pam Dreyer ’03, but Emilie Berlinguette picked up the loose puck off the rebound and scored.

The second period was uneventful until Karen Thatcher ’06 stole the puck on the sideline and crossed it to Katie Guay ’05, who sounded the siren. This tied the game 1-1. The Bears had things under control until the last six seconds, when Trisha Powers spanked the puck in from a scramble in front of the goal.

Berlinguette assisted on the powerplay goal. This gave the Saints the lead, and the Bears never recovered. The third stanza witnessed Brown’s

ERIC LINDROS. BOBBY HOLIK. BRIAN Leetch and Pavel Bure. Petr Nedved and Alexei Kovalev. Matthew Barnaby, Mark Messier and Tom Poti. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the paper champions of the world: the New York Rangers.

One might think — scratch that — one must think that a hockey team composed of this many talented players is atop the NHL, or at least making a serious run for it. But then why are this year’s ERIC PERLMUTTER Rangers, just like PERL MUTTERS the past several years’ Rangers teams, shockingly on the periphery of the playoff picture? The Rangers have cut the Boston Bruins’ lead for the eighth playoff spot to two points, which is certainly in range, but we shouldn’t even be discussing the Rangers’ chances of making the postseason. Their shot at the Cup seemed a more likely topic of conversation at the start of winter.

The Rangers are not a team composed of outstanding individual efforts that simply don’t add up — see last year’s Boston Red Sox for a prime example of such a team.

Their top points scorer is Petr Nedved at a measly 47 points, and the player with the best plus/minus rating is Matthew Barnaby at +9, tied for 87th in the league. Oh, Gretzky, where have you gone?

Furthermore, each time a new big-shot player is hauled in via wallet, he seems to play worse on the Rangers. In many cases, when a player signs with a team full of tradition and expectation, he feels inspired to live up to the challenge, armed with the feeling that he has become a part of that richness which makes the team so mighty in the first place. The Yankees embody this idea.

Roger Clemens and Jason Giambi come to town, and they don’t take over the team; they become part of the team. Whenever a new All-Star comes to the Rangers, however, he tries to be the center of attention on a team full of players just like him.

Perhaps the problem is that the Rangers’ staff doesn’t do a good enough job of indoctrinating the players with the idea of “team.”

In most successful franchises, the attitude is that no one player is bigger than the team.

The captains are captains, not dictators.

They may lead by example or they may lead by sheer force, but leadership is the end result. The Rangers have a hard time finding a natural leader among all of the veterans they lure in.

Every problem mentioned thus far becomes more egregious in light of the Rangers’ gargantuan payroll — tops in the league at $69.1 million. When comparing the number of points the team has to the number of millions spent, the Rangers are (all together now) last in the NHL at 0.94, less than one point per million. Compare this to a team like the Minnesota Wild, who have all but secured a playoff spot and have only a $20.5 million payroll.

What all of these problems add up to is a botched job by Rangers General Motors Glen Sather. Spending more money on some players than they deserve, picking the wrong players on which to spend and generally ignoring what it takes to be a cohesive team all headline his list of failures. Sticking as many All-Stars as you can on a team isn’t always the way to do it — this isn’t a game of NHL 2K3.

Where’s the fire on the Rangers? Who’s

see W. ICERS, page 8

see PERLMUTTER, page 8

Wasabe Photo

Yann Danis ’04 (above) will lead the men’s ice hockey team into action on Friday and Saturday nights against the Yale Bulldogs, in the ECAC Quarterfinals in New Haven.

Men’s icers sweep Tigers, move on to face Bulldogs

BY IAN CROPP

This past weekend the men’s hockey team found out that slow starts may hurt, even when playing the last-place team. After falling behind one goal in the third period, the Bears stormed back on Friday night to beat Princeton 2-1 at Meehan Auditorium. The following night, the Bears scored three goals in just over two minutes to eliminate Princeton and advance to the second round of the ECAC playoffs for the first time since the 1995-1996 season.

Much like it did in last year’s first playoff game, Brown came out flat in the first period. Both teams had trouble moving the puck through the neutral zone and sustaining offensive pressure.

“We played like we were nervous,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo. “There were too many times when we were

fighting the puck, and we can’t play like that.”

The best chance of the first period came on a Princeton 5-3, but Yann Danis ’04 made several key saves to keep the game at a scoreless tie. Princeton failed to convert on seven power plays, thanks in a large part to clogged lanes and blocked shots from the aggressive Brown penalty kill, led by Captain Tye Korbl ’03 and Chris Swon ’05.

Brown did little to improve its offense in the second period, recording just four shots despite two power plays and several odd-man rushes. Princeton registered 12 shots on Danis, though the Tigers failed to recover on many rebounds.

In the third period, Princeton continued to work hard to put shots on net, see M. ICERS, page 8

Comeback kids: W. ice hockey storms back to win in 3 games

BY KATHY BABCOCK

At this weekend’s ECAC quarterfinals against St. Lawrence, the women’s ice hockey team lost its first game (4-1) but came back to win on Saturday (3-1) and again on Sunday (3-1), bringing its record to 14-13-4 overall and 11-7-1 in the conference. That record earns the team an appearance in the ECAC semifinals.

“I think we knew it was going to end up coming to three games only because we were so evenly matched with St. Lawrence,” said Kim Insalaco ’03. “We had tied them and beat them earlier in the year.”

Brown faces top-ranked Harvard Saturday in the conference semis at home. The semifinals are single-elimination, so if the Bears lose, their season is over.

“I think we need to just focus on playing good team defense and controlling their speed through the neutral zone,” Insalaco said. “It’s just that they