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U. bio professor quarantined for possible SARS infection BY LOTEM ALMOG

A Brown faculty member has been placed under house quarantine due to a possible Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome infection, according to a campus-wide email sent by Provost Robert Zimmer and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Elizabeth Huidekoper. Kimberly Mowry, associate professor of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, recently returned from Toronto and has exhibited some SARS symptoms. Mowry’s condition has not been confirmed as SARS, but the University is taking precautionary measures as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Rhode Island Department of Health. Director of University Health Services Dr. Edward Wheeler said the professor’s condition is already improving. “She’s been coughing for a week. She’s definitely sick with something,” said Sarah Denucci ’03, one of Mowry’s students. The University contacted 11 people who may have been in close contact with Mowry to warn them to be aware of any symptoms they may experience, Wheeler said. “We have to take our temperature twice a day and call it in (to Health Services) every night until May 1,” said Lisa Jasperson ’03, a teaching assistant for Mowry’s biochemistry course. Jasperson had turned in her thesis to Mowry and was thus among those cautioned by the University. Mowry e-mailed Jasperson on Thursday to say her quarantine would prevent her from attending Jasperson’s thesis presentation. Elliot Lieberman ’05, another of Mowry’s students, is also among those being asked to monitor his temperature. He went to see Mowry at her office hours this week and shook her hand.

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Daniel Keefe’s "Sailing a Dhow in Tanzania: A Cave Painting," allows viewers to examine the ship from all angles. It will be on display in the virtual reality lab April 16 and May 3 in a limited exhibition, "Works from the Cave," presented by the David Winton Bell Gallery and the Creative Arts Council.

Cicilline delays proposed legislation for college tax BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

Legislation that would require Providence’s five colleges and universities to make direct payments to city government in lieu of taxes was delayed Thursday after an unanticipated announcement by Mayor David Cicilline ’83. In a press conference held at City Hall, Cicilline said he decided to postpone the introduction of his “Fair Share Act” just hours earlier, when the presidents of Brown, Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson and Wales University, Providence College and

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Former Brown president Gregorian to serve on WTC design committee BY JULIA ZUCKERMAN

Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation and president of Brown from 1989 to 1997, will serve on the jury for the design competition for the World Trade Center memorial. The memorial will be integrated into the master plan for the site designed by the firm Studio Daniel Liebeskind. Liebeskind’s plan for the entire 16-acre site was chosen from among nine submitted entries this year, but did not specifically designate what the memorial would look like. The 13-member jury was selected April 10 by New York Gov. George

Pataki, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Lower Manhattan Development Corporation Chairman John Whitehead. Gregorian said he was approached two weeks ago with the invitation to serve on the jury. “I did not want to do it, but I had no choice,” he said. “As a New Yorker, it’s a very important obligation.” Other members include architect Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial, prominent artists and architects, a Lower Manhattan busi-

Roger Williams University asked the mayor for more time to negotiate the plan. Later in the day, Cicilline appeared at a question-and-answer session at the Old Meeting House on Benefit Street. He said he remained committed to the Fair Share Act despite the delay and called it a fundamental part of his drive to reduce the city’s $60 million budget gap. Audience members broke into a round of applause when Cicilline said, “It’s time for colleges and universities to pay their fair share.” Later, in a statement echoing one he made in February at the Taubman Center for Public Policy, Cicilline said Providence residents were “not wrong” when they complained that their property taxes were “subsidizing colleges and universities.” “We will resume our negotiations at a heightened level of intensity,” Cicilline said of his discussions with the schools’ representatives. “Brown University and RISD have a stake in what kind of city Providence is because their future depends on their ability to attract high-quality faculty and students. People won’t want to come to Providence if it’s not a safe and prosperous and vibrant city,” he added. Cicilline said his plan for the city’s relationship with colleges and universities differs from that of his predeces-

Loans will not increase thanks to anonymous donation BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

A substantial contribution to the University from an anonymous alumni donor will reduce the expected loan increase in students’ financial aid packages from $1,000 to between $250 and $500. The University decided in February to change $1,000 of grants in most students’ financial aid packages to loans. Those in the lowest income bracket were to see a $500 increase in their loans. Students on Financial Aid protested the decision by rallying during the February Corporation meeting and presenting Corporation members with 400 fake $1,000 bills bearing messages from students opposed to the increase. “We consider (the donation) an incredibly positive contribution to the well-being of Brown and its goal of economic accessibility,” said SOFA spokesperson Brady Dunklee ’04. “It was the result of a lot of hard work, both on the part of SOFA and the administration.” Dunklee said the donation was “an excellent beginning. … We’d especially like to express gratitude and thank in the strongest terms possible whoever the donor was.” Dunklee said he received a letter on March 23 informing him of the donation and that the families of students on financial aid were notified of the change about

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I N S I D E F R I D AY, A P R I L 2 5 , 2 0 0 3 One of three Shakespeare on the Green plays, “Much Ado” pleases crowds arts & culture, page 3

Negotiators finish 78th session over library contract, no closer to agreement page 5

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Recently created Africana studies dept. begins talks to establish graduate program page 5

Library negotiating committee says Josiah would suffer under reorganization guest column, page 15

Women’s sailing wins New England division and ranks second in nation sports, page 16

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THEATER — “The Museum Play,” written by Jordan Harrison, directed by Mark Sutch, New Plays Festival. McCormack Family Theater, 8 p.m.

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2003 · PAGE 3

Shakespeare on the Green’s “Much Ado” is straightforward, but fun BY JEN SOPCHOCKCHAI

There’s not much to-do about “Much Ado,” but that isn’t to say it’s nothing. Shakespeare on the Green’s rendition of “Much Ado About Nothing,” directed by Jillian Tucker ’04, is classic, straightforward Shakespeare. Audience members already familiar with the play will discover nothing new, but those not yet introduced to one of the Bard’s finest comedies are in for a treat. The play tells the story of soldiers who return from war only to find themselves entangled in battles of the heart. Confirmed bachelor and bachelorette Benedick and Beatrice deny their love for one another, but their friends decide to play the ultimate matchmaking trick and bring the two together. On the other hand, their friends, Count Claudio and Hero, willingly agree to marry until slanderous rumors make the young man question his betrothed’s virtue. Meanwhile, Don John, the bitter bastard of the family, decides to cause mischief and thwart the future of both couples. The best scenes are those in which Beatrice and Benedick face off in a duel of scathing wit to hide their true feelings for one another. The two actors who play the parts, Sophie Klein ’03 and Matt Lueders ’05, have great chemistry and offer outstanding performances independently of each other. Lueders’ magnetic personality and comic genius make him a pleasure to watch, and Klein has elegant stage pres-

ence as Beatrice. Both actors are extremely expressive — they convey more with looks than with words. Priya Chalam ’06 as Leonato is humorous and heartfelt, embodying the essence of royalty with grace and charm. And she has by far the best costume with a burgundy velvet cape and gold belt. The production is staged on the steps of Manning Chapel, which could not be a more ideal locale. The majestic columns and strong lighting in the evening give the show just the right amount of romantic atmosphere. Tucker’s thoughtful direction becomes apparent when audience members see the actors use the height differentials created by steps and ledges to their creative advantage. The columns also prove their use as innovative set pieces when characters hide behind them. The period music and costume are successfully chosen. Some of the songs intended as background music, however, become too loud at times, overpowering the voices of the actors. Another minor flaw is that entrances and exits are at times not quick enough, leaving the audience to stare at a bare stage. As a final word, “Much Ado” should leave singing to Musical Forum. Although Lueders’ deliberately off-key caterwaul is great for comic relief, the few times Jamieson Bunn ’05 as Ursula bursts into Jen Sopchockchai / Herald

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A scene from the Shakespeare on the Green performance of “Much Ado About Nothing.”

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SARS continued from page 1 Lieberman said he went to Health Services as soon as he found out about Mowry’s condition. He added that he was not particularly concerned. Mowry’s biochemistry class was also alerted Thursday by John Sedivy, professor of molecular biology, cell biology and biochemistry, who came to administer an exam in Mowry’s

place. Sedivy announced to the class that Mowry was upset that she had to stay at home, Denucci said. Denucci added that she had not been personally contacted by the University. Wheeler said students in Mowry’s class will be receiving letters today explaining that the contact they had with her in a lecture hall is not contact they need to be concerned about. The University has organized a task force that is in regular

It is spread through “close contact via droplet transmission,” the e-mail said. contact with the state Department of Health, the Centers for Disease Control, the faculty of the Brown Medical School and Health Services leadership to monitor the SARS situation, according to the email from Zimmer and Huidekoper. The task force exists “to ensure that appropriate plans are in place to maintain the health of our campus communi-

Gregorian continued from page 1 ness owner, a member of the LMDC Families Advisory Council whose husband was killed in the World Trade Center and representatives of Pataki and Bloomberg. “They complement each other. Each one brings a different perspective,” Gregorian said Wednesday. He had not yet met the other jury members — the 13 met for the first time yesterday evening. Gregorian said his perspective as a historian, an educator, a member of a minority group and a New Yorker would inform his contributions to the jury. “As an Armenian, I am used to witnessing suffering,” he said, adding

ty,” according to the e-mail. SARS symptoms include sudden fever greater than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, a dry cough, shortness of breath, body aches and general discomfort. It is spread through “close contact via droplet transmission,” the email said. Students exhibiting these symptoms should contact Health Services immediately, according to the e-mail. Wheeler added that SARS is not necessarily a fatal disease. “Greater than 90 percent of people with SARS have total recovery,” he said. Herald staff writer Lotem Almog ’03 can be reached at lalmog@browndailyherald.com.

that what he wants most to contribute is “empathy.” The competition to design the memorial officially begins Monday and is open to anyone 18 or older. The jury will evaluate the submissions during the summer and select five finalists in mid-September. The public will be able to view the finalists’ designs but will not be invited to comment, and the jury will select the winning design in late October or early November. The LMDC has released a list of program elements the memorial designs should incorporate. The memorial should “recognize each individual who was a victim of the attacks,” including those killed at the Pentagon and on the hijacked airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania, as well as the six

Shakespeare continued from page 3 idyllic song are absolutely painful. Shakespeare on the Green will also be sponsoring two other productions this weekend, including “The Winter’s Tale” and “Romeo and Juliet,” which uses a blocked-off section of Thayer Street as its stage. Herald staff writer Jen Sopchockchai ’05 covers arts and culture at Brown. She can be reached at jsopchockchai@browndailyherald.com.

victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. It should “provide space for contemplation,” “create a unique and powerful setting” that incorporates the footprints of the World Trade Center towers and “convey historical authenticity.” Gregorian said he hopes the memorial designs will be “extremely imaginative” and incorporate a sense of history. Sept. 11, 2001 was a very important event in the history of New York and the United States, and the design that commemorates it must live up to that historical weight, he said. Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ’05 can be reached at jzuckerman@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2003 · PAGE 5

Africana studies dept. developing graduate program BY MOMOKO HIROSE

Officially designated as a department in June 2002, Africana studies is now developing plans for a graduate program. Internal talks began last year and will culminate with the presentation of a plan to Provost Robert Zimmer at some point next year, said Anthony Bogues, associate professor of Africana studies. “The department has to figure out what the department will look like, what the structure will be,” Bogues said. “My guess is that you’re looking at a graduate program in Africana studies within the next two years,” beginning in either Fall 2004 or 2005. Paget Henry, professor of Africana studies and sociology, said only five U.S. institutions currently offer doctoral programs in Africana studies. Bogues said one reason he is pushing for a graduate program is because of strong undergraduate interest. “Often … students in Africana studies would come to me to ask, ‘When are we having our graduate program?’” Bogues said. “And the frequency of those requests has indicated to me that there was a need for scholars to have a graduate program in Africana studies with a specific emphasis.” Henry said one of the main challenges in developing a graduate program is acquiring enough permanent faculty. Henry said the University must hire more fulltime professors working exclusively in Africana studies before the graduate program can be developed. “We just became a department … and most of us see AFRICANA, page 13

Still no agreement for University and unionized library employees BY JULIETTE WALLACK

University and union representatives completed their 78th bargaining session Thursday for unionized library workers but are no closer to a contract agreement. If both sides fail to make progress soon, union representatives may file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, said Karen McAninch, a business agent of Service Employees Union International Local 134, which represents 84 of the libraries’ 175 non-student employees. A proposed library reorganization is at the heart of the negotiations, which have continued since unionized library workers’ three-year contract expired last September. At the heart of the contract dispute are what the union is calling “involuntary transfers,” which could force library workers to switch jobs to facilitate the reorganization. The University still hopes to “reach an agreement with the union that would allow the reorganization to proceed over the summer,” said Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service. “Both sides are still at it and are still talking,” Nickel said. “I get the impression that both sides are working hard on specifics.” But McAninch said union negotiators “came away (Thursday) very discouraged” because the University is not providing all the information negotiators need. “They seem to be generally trying to hold back on things they are able to do,” McAninch said. But Nickel said the University is trying to do everything it is able to both facilitate the reorganization and meet the workers’ preferences. “We are working very hard to try to maximize the number of library workers who will be able to get their first choice of time and schedule,” Nickel said, but “we really are not in a position to guarantee that each member of the bar-

gaining unit will have the first choice.” McAninch said union negotiators are frustrated with the University’s apparent refusals or inabilities to make guarantees on certain issues, such as how much money will be available for the reorganization, the promotion process and wages. It is likely that the union will file an unfair labor practice charge with the NLRB, she said. The unfair labor practice charge will allow the union to see LIBRARY, page 13

15-year-old CSREA is growing in popularity BY SARA PERKINS AND MOMOKO HIROSE

Evelyn Hu-DeHart has big plans for the 15-year-old Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. The past year was filled with conferences and seminars co-sponsored by multiple departments. The number of concentrators in ethnic studies keeps rising. Hu-DeHart, the Center’s director, expects more faculty hires, including one or two senior scholars in Latino Studies in the near future. “We here at Brown think we will become the leading ethnic studies program, not just in the Ivy League but in the East Coast,” Hu-DeHart said. Banished to the far reaches of campus — on see CSREA., page 6

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Taxes continued from page 1 sor, Vincent Cianci, in that the Fair Share Act would require Brown and other schools to pay a lump sum to the city each year. Cianci, Cicilline said, asked colleges and universities to contribute funds to specific projects. “I think (Cianci) was smart enough to know that he didn’t really have the credibility to make the case for a very substantial payment of taxes,” Cicilline said. The Fair Share Act will determine schools’ payments to the city by subtracting Rhode Island’s current contribution to

the city on behalf of each institution from the amount of money the city would receive if the property owned by the college or university were taxed. Under federal law, it is illegal to charge property taxes to colleges, universities, hospitals and some other non-profit institutions. Cicilline told The Herald this formula had been successfully used in Cambridge, Mass., Philadelphia and other cities throughout the country. Cicilline acknowledged that college and university administrators had been thinking seriously about their institutions’ contributions to Providence but said he and the five institutions were “still quite far apart” in their conceptions of how pri-

vate institutions should contribute financially to the city. Ward One Councilman David Segal wrote in an e-mail that it is “morally right” for colleges and universities to contribute monetarily to city government and that he hoped there would be a “significant line item in next fiscal year’s budget for money from the universities.” Laura Freid, Brown’s executive vice president for public affairs and University relations, and the RISD Office of External Affairs did not return calls seeking comment. Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 can be reached at dgoldstein@browndailyherald.c om.

Loans continued from page 1 two weeks ago. Director of Financial Aid Michael Bartini called the donation “good news from a financial aid standpoint and good news for students.” David Greene, assistant to President Ruth Simmons, confirmed the donor had been in direct communication with the president. The University Office of Development was not available for comment. Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 can be reached at dgoldstein@browndailyherald.com.

CSREA continued from page 5 Power Street, near Perkins — and boasting only three fulltime members, the center has nevertheless come a long way since its inception, and particularly since Hu-DeHart became its director. “We’re trying to create a culture that is very unique. It’s very open, it’s very inclusive, but also still has that edge,” Hu-DeHart said. “(We want to be) very community-oriented but at the same time very serious about scholarship. These are hard things to juggle. “We want to be a student center that’s not been taken over by students because we’re not the Third World Center either … (CSREA is) a place where students feel like they own it, and are part of it, but it’s also a place for faculty.” Hu-DeHart is the child of Chinese refugees who arrived in Palo Alto, Calif., when she was 12. She later attended Stanford University, though half of her time there was spent abroad, she said. Arriving at Brown last July from a similar position at University of Colorado at Boulder, Hu-DeHart found a center that had “not really taken off,” she told The Herald last spring. The lack of department status and dedicated faculty made the ethnic studies concentration difficult to maintain and often discontinuous, Professor of Education Cynthia Garcia Coll said. “What we’ve done here in ethnic studies as a Center is to collaborate,” Hu-DeHart said. “First with American Civ. for the Latino studies search, second with environmental studies for the ‘Environmental Justice, Environmental Racism’ series which could also result in a new faculty, and third with many, many departments on the ‘Race, Globalization and the New Ethnic Studies’ conference.” Ethnic studies is by necessity

a collaborative venture — its entire faculty belongs to other departments. These adjunct professors include Wanni Anderson of the Department of Anthropology, sociology’s José Itzigsohn, Daniel Kim of English and others. “We are working with as many units and departments that want to work with us, while building up our own base, our own dedicated faculty,” she said. “We are eventually moving towards becoming a department, but you can’t create a department overnight … but that’s a logical direction as we hire new faculty, as we define our own work.” The Center currently supports several projects related to its mission, opening its space for faculty ventures, retreats and community-based groups, HuDeHart said. English for Action is one such project, through which Brown students teach English to new immigrants. Another project, Native to Native, connects the local Native American community with students once a month for open dialogue. Hu-DeHart said a community-based learning component will most likely become a requirement for the ethnic studies concentration. She also hopes to extend the program into the realm of sexuality studies with a new faculty hire, she said. “It’s not good to be constantly temporary, constantly marginalized, constantly fighting for a right to exist,” Hu-DeHart said. “You can go to the provost and say ‘we need this, we need that,’ (and) he’ll say, ‘why?’” Plans and ideas need to be presented clearly and with an eye towards administrative priorities, she said. The Center also works with the student group Race and Ethnic Studies at Brown to promote the implementation of an Ethnic studies department. RESist held teach-ins during the first semester to explain the history of ethnic studies and its goal for a comprehensive department. But, despite their common goal, RESist and Hu-DeHart had early conflicts over the role of students in the new Center, said Dan Schleifer ’03, a “core” member of RESist. Still, he said the subsequent cooperation between the group and the Center has been “really empowering.” “The fact that we’re having these kinds of meetings (about the future path of the center) reflects the kind of commitment from her that we’ve been wanting for ethnic studies for a long time,” he said. “Our ideal center is one that values the voices of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, staff and members of the community and uses their input,” Schleifer said. “(We want to see) the democratization of an academic department that isn’t necessarily seen as vital in other departments.” “I know RESist wants a department, but you know, RESist also has to know that the University probably can’t work as fast as they would like,” HuDeHart said. “I know RESist students resist the idea of institutionalization, but without institutionalization, without having roots, you’re always going to be marginalized, always going to be begging.”

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WORLD & NATION FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2003 · PAGE 7

North Korea tells U.S. it has nuclear arms in country WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — North Korean negotiators

have told U.S. officials in Beijing that the communist nation has nuclear weapons and threatened to export them or conduct a “physical demonstration,” U.S. officials said Thursday. Pyongyang has never before said it had nuclear weapons, though the CIA has estimated it has produced one or possibly two devices. North Korea’s unexpected declaration is certain to alarm its neighbors and heighten the crisis atmosphere over its nuclear ambitions. But North Korea also hinted it might be willing to eventually give up its weapons, officials said, which some saw as a small ray of hope amid the bluster of the North Korean stance. Speaking in Washington, Secretary of State Colin Powell warned North Korea that the United States would not “be intimidated by bellicose statements or by threats or actions they think might get them more attention or might force us to make a concession that we would not otherwise make.” “They’re back to the old blackmail game,” President Bush said Thursday night in an interview on NBC. U.S. officials said North Korea declared it had nuclear weapons as officials were milling about in corridors on Wednesday, the first day of the talks among the United States, North Korea and China. The top North Korean official at the talks, Li Gun, pulled aside the highest-ranking American present, Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly, and told him that North Korea had nuclear weapons. “We can’t dismantle them,” Li told Kelly. “It’s up to you whether we do a physical demonstration or transfer them.” U.S. officials are still puzzling over the statement and its exact meaning, including whether North Korea was threatening to test a nuclear weapon. But, a senior official said, “it was very fast, very categorical and obviously very scripted.” The North Koreans appeared to play down their admission, saying they had told the United States in 1993 they had nuclear weapons. But U.S. officials have contacted for-

mer Clinton administration officials and there appears to be no record of such a statement. North Korea has a history of claiming it made statements in the past that were never made. During the plenary session, Li, deputy director of American affairs for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry, also told the Americans that North Korea has just about completed reprocessing 8,000 spent fuel rods into plutonium for weapons — a statement not confirmed by U.S. intelligence. Officials believe that may just be a bluff, but it is a sobering bluff: Analysts have said the fuel rods could be turned into material for two to three nuclear bombs within a few months. During the talks, Kelly pressed to confirm that Li truly meant to say the reprocessing has been completed, because North Korean officials have made contradictory statements in the past. If the North Korean assertion about reprocessing is correct, it would signify a massive intelligence failure by the United States. The crisis began in October, when Washington said North Korea admitted to a covert program to make highly enriched uranium for nuclear arms. It intensified earlier this year, when North Korea restarted a plutonium reactor it had frozen under a 1994 pact with the United States. During this week’s talks, the North Koreans outlined what was described as an extensive proposal for ending the crisis. In effect, U.S. officials said, North Korea wants to reestablish the 1994 agreement under which it would give up its nuclear programs in exchange for a steady supply of energy — but the dismantling of the programs would only take place once Washington fulfilled its end of the bargain. The U.S. delegation emphasized that the administration would accept nothing less than the complete and verifiable dismantling of North Korea’s nuclear programs, including the restoration of international inspections, before progress could be made on other areas of the U.S.-North Korean relationship.

North Korea also hinted it might be willing to eventually give up its weapons, officials said, which some saw as a small ray of hope amid the bluster of the North Korean stance. The U.S. delegation was under strict instructions not to negotiate. Still, one official said, the small opening in the North Korean statement might provide a reason to continue to another round of talks. The official said North Korea’s Kim Jong Il apparently does not realize Bush has no intention of cutting a deal along the lines of the 1994 pact. “Kim will not get this president’s attention without getting rid of his nuclear programs,” he said. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the administration would carefully review the talks before deciding how to respond. The North Koreans “said a lot of things that require careful analysis before anybody jumps out and makes grand pronouncements on it means this and it means that,” he said. “The story should not be that San Francisco is about to be incinerated,” one government official said. “This is the beginning of a long process.” Thursday, the second day of the talks, the three parties did not meet together. Instead, China held separate sessions with the United States and with North Korea. U.S. officials said it was unclear if any further talks would take place on the planned third day. Kelly planned to leave Friday for Seoul and Tokyo to brief the South Koreans and Japanese.

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If the virus doesn’t kill you, fear might BEIJING (L.A. Times) — The week before China finally confessed the truth about the extent of the deadly pneumonia-like outbreak within its borders, some students in elite universities were already staring the epidemic in the eye. “There was total chaos. It felt like the end of the world,’’ said Luo Yan, a 20-year-old engineering student who lived in the dorm where many of the 60 SARS cases were reported at Northern Jiaotong University, the hardest-hit campus in the capital. “If the virus doesn’t kill you, fear might.’’ Severe acute respiratory syndrome has led to panic and quarantines in this country where the virus originated. Major institutions have been forced to close as public life has ground to a halt. Face masks and other special precautions have become a way of life. The toll has been steadily rising since China finally bowed to international pressure and admitted it had hidden the real impact of SARS. On Thursday, Beijing reported 125 new cases and four new deaths, raising the national total to about 2,422 sick and 110 fatalities. The growing death count pushed Beijing to take drastic measures Thursday, shutting down the People’s Hospital and ordering about 2,000 medical staffers not to leave the site. Friday morning, Beijing health official Guo Jiyong said 4,000 people who have had “intimate contact’’ with others

showing symptoms of the disease have been ordered to stay home. Guo didn’t say who the quarantined were or what constituted “intimate contact.’’ Officials said they are also ready to take even more draconian steps, using police to enforce the new restrictions. At shuttered Northern Jiaotong University, the difficulties caused by the outbreak are visible. To get on campus requires going through heavy security, which barred visitors. Inside, the campus appeared deserted, although a few students wearing masks were seen. The situation at the university also shows how Beijing’s previous policy of minimizing the virus’ impact inspired fear rather than calm. The policy of concealing information also made it harder for students to recognize and cope with the disease. Apparently, the outbreak at the university started with a 35year-old foreigner who taught English at another school. He rented an apartment in a campus teacher’s dormitory, where he lived with his Chinese fiancee. University officials said the man was hospitalized during the April 11 weekend for high fever and dry coughs. When he was told he would be sent to another hospital for those suspected of having SARS, he bolted. On Tuesday, medical officials called on the police to force the man and his fiancee

to the hospital. Nor was that the only case. A student went to a hospital with flu-like symptoms, but doctors sent her back to class with a clean bill of health. Then, people around her fell ill and she became so feverish that she could not get out of bed. University officials called an ambulance but the medics — fearing contamination — refused to fetch her. According to one account from an Internet posting, the university paid two migrant workers a hefty $125 each to carry the sick student down to the vehicle. Officials remained mum, but news of the cases, spread by the Internet and word of mouth, began to strike fear across the campus. Part of the panic rose from an information vacuum that fueled the rumor mill and intensified the doomsday atmosphere during the virus’ initial spread in Beijing’s university district. “First, we heard 15 people were isolated next door, then there was four more, including one dead,’’ Luo said. “The news was getting worse and worse. We didn’t have anything to believe but the rumors.’’ On April 17, officials announced that 19 students had indeed been isolated and that end-of-term exams had been canceled. Students were told to not leave campus. “That was a terrible night. We all freaked,’’ Luo said. “We felt like death was all around us.’’

Benevolent rescuer or malevolent profiteer? RIVERSIDE, Calif. (L.A.Times) — At the Tiger Rescue shelter in Colton, John Weinhart was known as Tarzan, a man with a mystical connection with the cats he boasted of saving from circuses, films and television productions. When he walked into a pen of leopards, the big cats would fight over who got to rub against him, recalled Marlon Hilbert, an employee of the exotic cat sanctuary that Weinhart has run for the past 30 years. “I live with them,” Weinhart told a newspaper reporter in 2000. “The pores of my skin smell like a tiger. So when I go around one I don’t know, they accept me as a tiger.” But the image of John Weinhart as the benevolent rescuer gave way to a far different portrait this week when officials raided his Riverside County home and discovered 90 dead tigers, including 58 cubs found in freezers. The raid came months after prosecutors charged Weinhart with unlawful public display of exotic cats at the Tiger Rescue headquarters, breeding animals without a permit, failure to clean animal cages, and supplying animals with insufficient food and water. Weinhart pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to face trial in late May. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed it is investigating Weinhart for possible violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The state Department of Fish Game said they have received complaints about conditions at Tiger

Rescue dating to the mid-1970s and had cited the group several times for “small problems” such inadequate caging of animals and availability of water, said assistant chief Mike McBride. Weinhart remained secluded in his home Thursday, sending word that he would speak to the media on Saturday. Those who work with him staunchly defend him as a benevolent rescuer. “I’ve seen him with $100 in his pocket,” says Steve Jeffries, a spokesman for Tiger Rescue. “He’ll spend $95 on cat food and then go to Burger King for $5 of food for himself. That’s his life.” Others who know him recall less an animal lover and more of a profiteer masquerading as a rescuer. “(This is) a horrible example of something that occurs every day in this country,” said Pat Derby, who runs the Performing Animal Welfare Society outside of Galt. From all accounts, Weinhart has been involved with animals for the past 30 years, particularly tigers. According to one acquaintance, Jan Giacinto, 78 of Tarzana, he started with a pet shop in Inglewood in the 1960s. In the 1970s in the Los Angeles area, when Pat Derby met Weinart, “he and his (then) wife did a sort of circus act and a nightclub act and they played all over,” Derby said. She recalls a charming, attractive, well-muscled man who kissed his tigers in the act and put them through the paces of rising up their hind legs and other circus-like acts. Weinhart worked circuses and

shopping malls, put his animals in movies, and tried to break into Vegas, according to Derby, who was herself a former animal trainer. Derby said Weinhart kept his animals in a warehouse with outdoor runs for the animals in an industrial area outside Los Angeles. Eventually the acts gave way to selling animals, she says. “He was a very well known animal breeder and dealer in the 70s and 80s-leopard and Sumatran tigers,” she says. Jan Giacinto, 78, a Tarzana animal trainer and owner, who first met Weinhart when he owned a pet shop in Inglewood with his then wife Carol, remembers that he would spend months at a time in Las Vegas. He would frequently rent his cats to magic acts playing in the city. He would also set up a booth and charge tourists to have their photos taken with the big cats. “He was trying to do whatever he could do to work with the animals and rent them out,” she said. Dr. Martin Dinnes, 62, Agua Dulce, said he treated Weinhart’s animals between the early 1970s and ’80s — at Weinhart’s land in the Norco area but stopped after Weinhart refused to pay his bills. Dinnes said that Weinhart called his office two weeks ago and left a message for Dinnes, asking if he could write health certificates for all his animals. Dinnes never called back because he didn’t want to be involved with Tiger Rescue. Friends said he moved to the Inland Empire and started Tiger Rescue in the mid-1970s.

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Tariq Aziz turns himself in BAGHDAD, Iraq (Washington Post) —

Tariq Aziz, the urbane deputy prime minister who was Iraq’s chief spokesman to the West, surrendered to U.S. custody in Baghdad Thursday, becoming the highest-ranking official in fallen president Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party government to give himself up. A senior U.S. official said Aziz, known for his silver mane, largeframed glasses and taste for fine cigars, made several inquiries through intermediaries about his fate before being taken in by U.S. officials. He was detained at an undisclosed place for what is likely to be extensive interrogation on what he knows about Saddam, his two sons and other top Iraqi leaders unaccounted for more than two weeks after the government’s collapse. Aziz, an English-speaking Chaldean Christian born near Mosul in 1936 and educated in Baghdad, toiled for years as Saddam’s foreign minister and main representative abroad. He served on the Revolutionary Command Council, the ultimate authority in Iraq, but was not part of the ruler’s inner circle, composed of Saddam’s family and Baath stalwarts who have stood beside him since the party took over here in 1968. He was No. 43 on the U.S. list of 55 most-wanted Iraqis. Aziz turned himself in as U.S. occupation authorities struggled to organize an interim administration to replace the now destroyed Baath Party government that he represented so long. Retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, the Pentagon appointee setting up the new administration, said he hopes to fill the country’s power vacuum by early next week, chiefly by getting government ministries up and running again. A self-styled new mayor of Baghdad, however, went ahead with meetings and the appointment of city officials in defiance of a U.S. order to stop his activities and cede to U.S. occupation authorities. Garner, head of the Pentagon’s Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, sug-

gested he might force out the self-appointed Baghdad leader, Mohammed Mohsen Zubaidi, unless he goes away voluntarily. “If the people of Baghdad are unhappy with him, all they have to do is come tell us,” Garner said at a news conference concluding a four-day tour of the country since his arrival from Kuwait. “We’ll ask him to leave and show him how.” Garner said his efforts are intended to allow Iraqis to take control of their country and eventually elect new leaders to replace Saddam’s destroyed government. The only requirement Garner said his organization has of those new leaders is that they follow democratic processes. When asked what would he would do if Iraqis chose an Islamic state, as some groups from the country’s 60 percent Shiite Muslim majority have called for during recent antiAmerican demonstrations, Garner said he does not believe such a government is likely to meet the U.S. condition. “It’s hard to think an Islamic republic could be a democratic process,” he said. Garner’s boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, also ruled out a clergy-run Islamic government for Iraq, telling the Associated Press in a Washington interview: “If you’re suggesting, how would we feel about an Iranian-type government with a few clerics running everything in the country, the answer is: That isn’t going to happen.” Garner said, as have other U.S. officials, that the anti-U.S. demonstrations by Iraqi Shiites in recent days have been orchestrated in part by neighboring Iran, which is predominantly Shiite and run largely by the clergy. He added that his office will work to quash any external influence on Iraq’s future. But Iran rejected the suggestions that it is interfering in Iraq, denying that it seeks to promote the fortunes of Iraqi Shiites. Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi, at a news conference Thursday in Tehran, said that if any country is interfering in Iraq, it is the United

States. In the city of Kut, meanwhile, gunmen fired at least 15 shots at a U.S. Marine command post in two drive-day shootings, U.S. military officers reported. No one was injured. Tensions have been high in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, between Marines who are supposed to control the area and a Shiite cleric who has taken over town hall with apparent support from the population. U.S. officials said they believe the cleric, Sayed Abbas Fadhil, is part of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a Tehran-based Shiite group headed by Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr Hakim that has boycotted Garner’s attempt to lay groundwork for a U.S.-led interim administration. Zubaidi’s assumption of mayoral functions in Baghdad occurred last week, while Garner and his team were still in neighboring Kuwait awaiting military clearance to start his work in Iraq. Zubaidi’s activities have emerged as another significant obstacle confronting the Defense Department as it seeks to organize civilian authority here alongside the U.S. military occupation. Although U.S. officials have made it clear they want him out, they remain reluctant to forcibly evict him out of concern that Iraqis could regard such an action as heavy-handed for a government that has repeatedly claimed it wants Iraqis to take charge of their own destiny now that Saddam’s rule has been destroyed. As Garner spoke, Zubaidi was busy looking and acting like a big city mayor. He met with hundreds of Baghdad residents and toured public institutions, including hospitals and water facilities, then headed off for a meeting in a neighborhood that he said had invited him to visit. That is his mandate, Zubaidi insisted, as he brandished a letter of support signed by 74 Iraqi academics, clerics and tribal leaders who he has claimed elected him to administer the city, without saying when or where they did so.

Bush admits U.S. may not find WMD in Iraq LIMA, Ohio (L.A. Times) — President

Bush on Thursday suggested for the first time that the United States may not find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as he raised the possibility that Saddam Hussein may have destroyed, moved or hidden his biological and chemical weapons before the war began. Whatever the case, Bush vowed in a speech to workers at the Lima Army Tank Plant, “we are going to find out the truth.” The status of such weapons is no small matter because ridding Iraq of illegal weapons and undertaking a “regime change” in Baghdad were Bush’s twin justifications for starting the war. Bush spoke of the as-yet fruitless search for such weapons during a speech that the White House billed as a broad update on the war in Iraq. Later, in an interview with Tom Brokaw on “NBC Nightly News,” Bush noted that there was some evidence suggesting

that Saddam was either dead or, “at the very minimum, severely wounded.” But he said: “We would never make that declaration (of Saddam’s death) until we are more certain.” At his first speech of the day — given in North Canton, Ohio, and devoted largely to the economy — Bush very nearly declared the war over. Addressing hundreds of workers at a steel and ball-bearing factory there, he said: “We fought a war in Afghanistan, and now we have finished a war — in the process of finishing a war in Iraq.” In his remarks at the plant, which manufactures the workhorse Abrams tanks that charged across the Iraqi desert, Bush was more emphatic in declaring that the war was not over. Indeed, he warned of remaining perils for the troops in Iraq and acknowledged the challenges that Iraq faces on the

road toward democracy. “The mission is not complete. Our forces still face danger in Iraq. Our enemy is scattered, but they’re still capable of doing harm,” Bush said. Bush said that U.S. forces in Iraq are now “working to locate and destroy” Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. “But so far nothing has turned up.” The president reported that senior Iraqi officials with firsthand knowledge of such weapons programs now are “beginning to cooperate, are beginning to let us know what the facts were on the ground.”

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FBI knew of relationship, one critical source says LOS ANGELES (L.A. Times) —

Officials at the FBI, including those at headquarters in Washington, were aware of an especially close relationship between once-prized spy Katrina Leung and her FBI handler, and allowed at least one departure from FBI policy designed to protect the integrity of the bureau’s counterespionage system. A source close to the investigation said officials were aware for years that Agent James J. Smith would meet with Leung to pay her in person, despite a policy that normally requires the presence of two agents at such meetings, in part to discourage theft. Top FBI brass were willing to make the accommodation because Leung, whose code name was Parlor Maid, was a particularly valuable “asset’’ in the FBI’s effort to spy on the Chinese, said the source, a former Justice Department official. “She was hot,’’ he said, “a very integral part of the Chinese program.’’ What officials did not know at the time was that Smith and Leung were involved in a longterm sexual relationship, which federal prosecutors allege served as the backdrop for Leung’s secret copying of classified documents and providing them to the Chinese government. The fact that Smith had a close friendship with Leung was an open secret in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office — she attended his retirement party wielding a video camera. But the disclosure that officials in the FBI’s Washington headquarters were also aware of aspects of the relationship and appear to have looked the other way may shed new light on the “management lapses’’ that FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has said allowed the scandal to occur. Recently, Mueller dispatched a team of agents from the bureau’s inspections unit in an effort to get to the bottom of the case that resulted in criminal charges being filed against Leung and Smith earlier this month. Some current agents already have been questioned, and none has refused to be interviewed, sources familiar with the investigation said. The special treatment given to the meetings between Smith and Leung was one of several apparent opportunities to recognize the potential security threat caused by their relationship. The investigation into Leung and her relationship with Smith began in 2000 when “the China program went to hell,’’ said the former Justice Department official, who is familiar with some aspects of the Parlor Maid case as it developed in Washington and Los Angeles. At the time, officials were concerned that the Chinese had discovered various electronic surveillance operations by the United States, accord-

ing to the former Justice Department official. As part of the probe into what had gone wrong with the China program, FBI supervisors in Los Angeles questioned Smith about Leung. According to the source, Smith said that Leung was trustworthy and that he was confident she was not responsible for any security breaches. The meeting, which occurred shortly before Smith retired from the FBI in November 2000, was not confrontational because Smith was not suspected of any wrongdoing, the source said. “J.J. was a very trusted guy,’’ the source added. “Knowing what we suspect about him now I think even if he knew she was a double agent, he thought he was smart enough to manage that.’’ Smith, 59, and Leung, 49, were arrested April 9. Leung is accused of having taken classified documents and passing them to the Chinese. She is being held without bail in the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles. She has denied any wrongdoing. Her lawyers have said she was merely doing what Smith and other FBI officials had asked her to do during a more than 20-year career as an FBI spy during which she was paid $1.7 million. Smith was charged with gross negligence for allegedly having allowed Leung access to the classified material she is suspected of providing to the Chinese. He is free on $250,000 bond. How Smith managed for years to sidestep the regulations governing counterintelligence sources remains a source of embarrassment for the FBI because some of his actions were known to top officials, records and interviews show. Although veteran FBI agents acknowledge that meeting alone with sources occurs more frequently than it should, they expressed surprise that Smith did so repeatedly and with the knowledge of superiors. “It is one of those things that you don’t want to happen,’’ an FBI official said. “But we know it did happen here and people, apparently, just looked the other way.’’ Said another source: “People understood he had a very close relationship with her, (and) though it was a technical violation of the rules, I don’t think anyone saw it as the world’s biggest infraction. In hindsight, however, it was.’’ Shortly after the 2000 meeting with Smith, three supervisors in the Los Angeles office were summoned to Washington for a meeting with top bureau officials to discuss the developing situation regarding Smith and Leung. The details of what was discussed in the meeting, how matters were left when it concluded, and what happened next are unclear.

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Rural Virginia father executes three sons before killing self (Washington Post) — Robin C.

Edwards had arranged with his boss to take Wednesday off, saying he needed to tend to some personal business. That morning, the 37-year-old father gathered his three young boys from a baby sitter, took them to his small home in rural Prince William County, Va., and executed them one by one with a shotgun before killing himself, authorities said. Prince William County police found the bodies of Bradley, 9, Ryan, 7, and Kyle, 5, in a bedroom at Edwards’ Greenwich Road home after the boys’ frantic mother, who had moved out of the home, called police after a fruitless search for her children. Officers then found Edwards in the home’s second bedroom. Authorities said Thursday that the violence came without warning and emanated from domestic problems that became serious only recently. Police said they’d never been called to the Edwards home for a domestic violence call or any other criminal matters. There has been an unusual spate of mass killings in the

region this month. On Wednesday, a man killed his estranged wife and her parents in an Anne Arundel County, Md., town house before shooting himself during a police chase, authorities said. Earlier this month, three workers were killed during a robbery at Colonel Brooks’ Tavern in Northeast Washington, and three others were fatally shot at a Landover Hills strip club. Police said the Edwards case is closed, though investigators are working to determine what led Edwards to kill his children. By most accounts, Edwards was a devoted father who often was seen outside with the boys in their large back yard. As recently as Tuesday night — less than 24 hours before the killings — Edwards watched his boys play a spirited game of baseball with friends as he sipped a beer and talked calmly to neighbors. The relationship between Edwards and his wife, Debra, had been slowly deteriorating, according to family and neighbors. Debra Edwards’ brother,

Robert Dowd, said his sister still wanted the boys to stay close to their father. This week, she chose an apartment in Northern Virginia, instead of moving closer to her family in Maryland, so that it would be easier for the children to travel between her new place and the home near Nokesville that the family had rented for the past eight years. “She still wanted him to be in the kids’ lives,’’ Dowd said. “She wanted them to still be a family.’’ On Wednesday, police said, Robin Edwards picked up his three boys from a baby sitter in Fairfax County and told her he was going to take them to Centre Ridge Elementary School in Centreville, which all three attended. When another relative went to get the eldest, Bradley, from school for a pre-planned event, the relative realized that the boys weren’t there. By 8 p.m., having exhausted other efforts, Debra Edwards called police. Police weren’t able to get into the house or to see inside, said First Sgt. Kim Chinn, a police spokeswoman.

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Library continued from page 5 assert that the University is not bargaining in “good faith,” McAninch said. The charge will assert that University negotiators might not be providing all of the information that they have and might not necessarily be negotiating with the intent of reaching a resolution, she said. The negotiations would then be investigated by the NLRB. The union filed a similar charge at the end of February regarding

AOTW continued from page 16 she said. It may be a bit surprising that Omokaro has incurred six losses despite her success, something that is largely due to the high level of play of the team’s opponents. For example, Omokaro gave up only two runs in a complete game performance against Princeton last week, but the team was unable to provide run support. “We’ve definitely had some heartbreakers, but we turn around easily,” Omokaro said. “If we lose the first game (of a doubleheader), we can see that the team is beatable, and we use that as motivation and come back and get them. Even if it’s a good team, we know we can beat them.” Indeed, resiliency has been key for this year’s team — in its last four doubleheaders, the team lost each of the first games but came back to tie or win the second ones. Two 4-3 losses, one to

Song continued from page 16 the next Michael Jordan. So, can LeBron save the East? Not until he develops and reaches his potential. Until James’ development in the NBA is complete, the West will continue to dominate the East. As for this season, whether the Lakers win their fourth straight title or Sacramento avenges its Game 7 loss from last season is uncertain. Every team in the West has a legitimate chance at winning it all because, as long as the team can get out of the West, it can easily take down any team in

Zarda continued from page 16 Normally, I could rattle off an inspired commentary about the validation of the theory that it is “more than a game.” Instead, “I’m terrified, mortified, petrified and stupefied” (“A Beautiful Mind”) by the column’s potential. Willis McGahee and his agent are whining about how good he was. He’s screaming for teams to “show him the money” (“Jerry Maguire”), yet he can barely run forward. Hey Willis, “losers always whine about their best — winners go home with the prom queen” (“The Rock”). Bud Selig signed a contract

what it says is a refusal to provide information, McAninch said, and an NLRB investigator is currently exploring the situation. But, McAninch said she is not sure if the lack of information is a deliberate attempt to withhold data or a simple function of the as of yet incomplete plans for the reorganization — the final plans depend on the results of the negotiations and eventual contract. Right now, unionized library workers are working without a contract — the previously extended contract expired at the end of February.

Harvard and the other to Dartmouth, came in extra innings, and the team has yet to notch an extra inning win. In spite of this, Omokaro insists the team still has it together. “Morale is very good. Our team is very close, and we have great chemistry, and we clearly don’t get discouraged. We don’t die.” Omokaro is optimistic about the prospect of winning the Ivy League title. “I think we could hold our own. Princeton is a good team — I won’t lie — but they’re also beatable. We tied one game with them because of darkness, and we were right there with them. Other than (Princeton), I really don’t think any team is just dominant. “A lot of our wins are not close wins … (so) I know we have a good team.” Sports staff writer Eric Perlmutter ’06 writes “Athlete of the Week” and “Fresh Faces.” He can be reached at eperlmutter@browndailyherald.c om.

the East. It is most unlikely the Eastern Conference champ will be hoisting the World Championship trophy. Rather, the East can only hope LJ can become MJ very quickly and can do what Michael did for them for six seasons. So, welcome to the NBA, LeBron. All you have to do is follow in the footsteps of the greatest basketball player of all time, with every scout, player, coach and fan analyzing your every move, and save the Eastern Conference. Chris Song ’04.5 actually believed LeBron James was coming to Brown but looks forward to seeing him in the NBA next year.

extension through 2006. You know what I see when I look at Bud? “I see pride; I see power; I see a pitiful commissioner that should’ve stepped down years ago” (“Cool Runnings”). What I don’t see is enough substance to formulate a well-thought-out column. “You want the truth” (“A Few Good Men”)? “I really am just spent” (“Austin Powers”). I’m out of ideas, and I’m out thoughts. In the end, “I’ve written about nothing, and it’s everything I thought it could be” (“Office Space”). Brett Zarda GS hails from Gainesville, Fla., and hopes this column wasn’t “jussst a bit outside” (“Major League”).

McAninch said she fears the University might not have been bargaining to reach a resolution and that Brown is only willing to negotiate to a certain point. “This is not something that really is workable if not everyone is on board,” McAninch said about the reorganization. In previous weeks University officials explored the possibility of mediation with the union, Nickel said. But union negotiators declined the use of a mediator. “This isn’t really an issue with mediation,” McAninch said. The University negotiators are “not providing information to us,” she said, but a mediator’s job would simply be to sort the information provided, attempting to develop a compromise. McAninch said the union will meet with its members next week to discuss the latest round of negotiations and possible courses of action. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

Africana continued from page 5 have commitments in other departments,” Henry said. “Any kind of graduate program needs infrastructure, new faculty members, staffing, because there’s a way in which you have to reorganize the department … to teach graduate school, and that becomes a major undertaking,” Bogues said. The nature of Africana studies and its history as a discipline present further challenges, Bogues added. “I still think the identity of the discipline is still very much in transition. Many doctoral programs (in Africana studies), for example, do conduct their studies in conjunction with other departments,” Bogues said. “Africana studies by itself is very multidisciplinary … and that makes it difficult for people to determine what a Ph.D. program will entail.”

The nature of Africana studies and its history as a discipline present further challenges, Bogues added. Bogues said the most difficult challenge the department faces is communicating its potential for interdisciplinary relationships with other departments. “The push for a Ph.D. program has been going on for a long time,” Henry said. “But Africana studies is not going to disappear. I think once Yale developed their graduate program, it helped encourage others.” Herald staff writer Momoko Hirose ’06 can be reached at mhirose@browndailyherald.com.

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Diamonds and coal A diamond to the one in two Brown students who voted in the recent UCS election. You care, you really care! And a diamond to incoming UCS President Rahim. We have high hopes for next year. But coal to Daily Jolt candidate-bashing. At least sign your names, you filthy cowards. A diamond to “Simpsons” producer Mike Reiss for confirming what we already suspected — gays and Jews are the best lovers. A diamond to Marla Singer. We know she’s a classical tragic protagonist and she won’t be coming back, but we’ll still miss her. Coal to professors who flagrantly ignore reading period. Diamond to the two progressive Brown grads nominated to the Providence school board. Although we love Buddy, patronage and racketeering, we reluctantly accept that there are downsides to machine politics.

ANDREW SHEETS

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A diamond to anonymous donors … keep it coming! Coal to keg thieves. Who steals a keg? Who? A diamond to senior scramble; Here’s hoping that Senior Week will make up for a less-than-happening Spring Weekend. A diamond to the Critical Review Web site for finally making years of pooled information useful. But coal to the ever-so-unsatisfying hard copy for its disturbing lack of information. Coal to “admission strategists” like Ivy Success that charge $18,000 to tell (wealthy) suckers how to do what we all figured out more or less on our own. But maybe that’s just jealousy talking. A diamond to the prospect of a non-pizza-based diet. A diamond to our staff. You make the long nights and hair loss all worthwhile.

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Herald story shows P.C. stereotype where there is none

Abortion rights come with personal responsibility

To the Editor:

Re: “Lack of conservative viewpoints at Brown a problem, GISP says” (April 24): It would be ridiculous, I think, to object to there being a course or an independent study project on conservative thought at Brown. But Brown is sometimes thought to be ridiculously politically correct, and so some people might expect to find such ridiculous objections. In a recent Herald story on Rob Sand’s planned GISP, it could appear that such ridiculous objections have surfaced, at least in a mild form. I was quoted as saying, “It’s difficult to say whether Brown ‘needs’ a class on conservative thought; many of these ideas are available in other courses.” Actually, though, this could give entirely the wrong impression of what I said. Here are the remarks I sent to the reporter in their entirety: “I think it’s a good idea for a GISP. It could also be a good regular course if there were a faculty member devoted to doing it well. The whole range of political perspectives is an appropriate subject of study at Brown. In the Philosophy dept. we’ve often had a course on Marxism. I regularly teach courses in which both socialist and free-market libertarian thinkers are closely studied. It’s difficult to say whether Brown “needs” a class on conservative thought: many of these ideas are available in other courses. There are tons of topics that would make good courses but aren’t offered, simply because it’s not possible to do everything. But if someone were interested in doing it, I think it could be a very good course. Would it be a better thing to do, for any given professor, than any of the other three or so courses he or she teaches each year? Hard to say.” We can’t always be quoted in our full verbose glory, but the excerpt that was chosen in this case might encourage an important misunderstanding. It would be a more interesting story, and more in line with the political correctness stereotype, if this GISP were (even mildly) controversial among the faculty. But so far, there’s no evidence that it is.

Re: “Abortion essential to the liberty of women” (April 24): Goralnik has argued that a woman has the “right to make important decisions about her body and life” and that such rights “must be secured at any cost.” I heartily concur, even to his statement that such rights should be extended to the “living and unborn.” The problem with his article is that with each right that we have, we also have a responsibility. If a man engages in sexual intercourse that leads to childbirth, he is legally and morally obligated to pay child support. “Fragile condoms” and the influence of various substances do not absolve him of this responsibility. Few would argue there is anything oppressive about this. We recognize that a man’s decision to engage in intercourse must be coupled by a willingness to accept the results of his decision. The same goes for women. Very few pro-lifers argue that abortions should be illegal in cases of rape or incest and I believe people need to realize that they must take responsibility for the actions they choose to engage in. If this “deters women (or men) from exercising their right to have sex” it only means that they are thinking about the consequences of their actions, a type of thinking that should be done much more frequently. Life does not magically begin when a doctor cuts the umbilical cord. Protecting the unborn is not an issue of “The Right,” it is an issue for all concerned about the protection of life at all stages, regardless of race, gender or political orientation. Joel Dietz ’04 April 24

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2003 · PAGE 15

You will make these mistakes no matter what THERE’S A CERTAIN ABSURDITY IN COLLEGE STUDENTS doling out advice and opinions, especially on international issues. How could I, Brett Cohen, think I have anything of substance to offer on perpetual conflicts such as the IsraeliPalestinian fiasco or nation failure in Africa? The answer is simple: I, like all columnists, operate on the usually false notion that I am the most intelligent person in the room (though I would think it’s true sometimes at the pornography store). You, the reader, absorb my words of “wisdom” because you have nothing better to do at lunch or are a pathetic alumnus clinging onto your college years by reading every word of the Herald online. (An unrelated note to alumni readers: I need a job. Hire me!) BRETT COHEN POLITE CONTRARIAN So while I might not be any smarter than the rest of us, only more arrogant and loud, being a ninth semester senior has conferred on me a credential: experience. As a perfect human being in the classical sense, whose only fault is perhaps an excess of modesty, I have made no errors of any sort, but I have seen people around me mess up all of the time. Here are some of the most frequent mistakes: 1. You will fall in love with someone bad for you. If you are female, you will at some point fall for some abusive or mean guy. If you are male, you will fall for any female. Only kidding — by that I mean that women can also fall for any female. (Women offended by this may discuss this with me over lunch, at Paragon, Monday or Tuesday, 12ish). 2. To cope with adversity, you will enter denial. First, no, I don’t mean you will enter “de Nile,” meaning the river in Egypt — although many cultures foolishly believe that entering into a polluted waterway will nonetheless be cleansing. What I mean is that rather than facing an unpleasant reality, you will lather yourself in the soap that is fantasy, using its many bath bubbles to distract yourself from the real issue: you or your associates’ increasing schizophrenic tendencies. 3. You will throw gasoline on the fire. This is a metaphor used by another Herald columnist to describe a situation in which you, having already pissed someone off, do something in a hotheaded fashion that will further exacerbate the situation. I, however, mean that being a Brown student, you will literally pour gasoline on a fire in an ignorant attempt to get it going — face it, around here, common sense is about as common as Kosher pork. 4. You will nod yes to someone when you have no idea what they’re saying. The person might have a thick Mongolian accent, or they might be a soft talker, or if you’re like me the person speaks just fine but you’re not paying attention to someone whose intellect you deem profoundly inferior to your own; either way, one of these days, out of courtesy, you’ll pretend you understand, and nod to some outlandish proposition like, “Cannibalism shouldn’t be prohibited, unless humans turn out to taste bad.” Here’s a tip to avoid this problem — just nod and raise your eyebrows, and you’ll look like you’re deeply thinking about what they’re saying. (This has its pitfalls too; you’d appear engrossed by the proposition, “Bunnies are fluffy!”). 5. You will project your contempt for some aspect of yourself onto something else. Dissatisfied with myself, I rejected my inner-nerd, evilly and undeservedly taking out my wrath on the Fantasy Gaming Society. But I found that nerd inside and embraced him and the money that his organizational and computer skills will create. (Good thing I didn’t reject my ‘inner fratboy’ — I would have suffered the whole trove of frat boy pranks, meaning some frat boys would have switched my Nantucket Nectars lemonade for urine 30 times). So, you are wondering, why did I go to the trouble of listing these mistakes you will make, even though they are inevitable? Is there some hidden message here that transcends the fatalism? Or did I simply file this column at the last minute in a profound miscalculation of my own? Perhaps. But in this short space I can only begin to enumerate the mistakes you’ve made — the last of which is reading this column.

Brett J. Cohen ’03 hopes you enjoyed this column … for it shall be … his last.

What is happening to the library? LAST WEEK’S OPINIONS COLUMN, TITLED operation for some time now. While last week’s column touts “individual assis“Why the library is reorganizing” (April 15) claimed to explain something it did not. Instead of present- tance” from librarians, the library administration proing a rationale for radically reorganizing library poses to cut back significantly on the number of work structures that have evolved over time, it lists hours librarians will work at the reference desk, greatseveral welcome enhancements of library services ly reducing their availability to patrons. While librariand states that these cannot be made available ans would still be available to help patrons by appointment, the reorganization proposwithout a reorganization. This is inacal decreases the number of professional curate. staff devoted to front-line assistance. Web-based “one-stop searching” of TRISH DUMIN, The library administration’s proposal online databases and e-journals, and TIMOTHY ENGELS, calls for librarians to spend time instead the integration of these resources with SUZAN GERVAIS visiting faculty and graduate students library materials, exist to a certain YVONNE regularly to inform them of additions to extent within the present organization. FEDEROWICZ collections and new technological servFurther enhancements to Josiah GUEST COLUMNISTS ices. Yet very few of these patrons have searches would have to be supplied by asked for such visits in surveys conductoutside vendors and/or by adding proed by the library. Does it not then make grammers to staff. Neither scenario would require a wholesale restructuring of library more sense to rely on professors and students to initiate such requests on their own? departments. If this reorganization is being planned to address The proposed reorganization could actually have a negative impact on the quality of records in the needs of Brown patrons, as the library adminisJosiah. The plan calls for fewer staff to catalog tration claims, why have Brown faculty and stulibrary materials and for the library to outsource the dents not been asked for their input at all stages of rest of the work. While the proposal to change over the planning? Even though there have been library to outside vendors is meant to get material surveys from time to time, no interactive forums processed more quickly, it will not be without com- where users could ask their own questions and offer promises in the quality and consistency of Josiah creative input have been provided. Why have records and book labeling. Is it better to do the job patrons not been informed in an ongoing way of quickly or well, especially when no money is being the changes the library administration is contemsaved through the outsourcing? Most patrons we plating? The Brown library has continuously evolved hear from complain about not being able to find books they need on the shelves, not about how fast work procedures and has implemented many technological changes to meet the needs of its patrons. the books get there. The library has already introduced several desir- But the reorganization as proposed can only disable technological advances. Luna Insight, a server- rupt library services that are now successfully probased database used to display graphic images such vided. In some cases, the reorganization will as art slides via the network, and streaming audio, is remove employees from areas where they perform being used for course reserves via the Web. These work that is important now and will continue to be services are already being offered without any reor- so. This represents a loss of expertise that now ganization. The department of digital initiatives, serves library patrons. Despite over six years of planning, the library which is working to digitize certain collections and put them on the Web for wider use, has also been in administration has failed to present any convincing rationale for its reorganization proposal. Listing valuable new services currently provided is no subTrish Dumin, Timothy Engels ’92, Yvonne stitute for the kind of explanation and dialogue that Federowicz ’86, and Suzan Gervais are members of the entire Brown community deserves. the Library Union Negotiating Committee.

Lost friends serve as inspiration MY FRIEND LUKE POSSESSED A UNIQUE QUALITY silently and others bury their feelings. Many find that was going to make him an excellent doctor. solace in religion, memories or humor. Regardless When we hung out, playing basketball or driving of how we cope, however, we have lost a friend, and around town after the end of the high school day, he a vital part of ourselves. In Western society, death is hidden behind walls of made me feel like I truly mattered. His joy radiated outward and was infectious; he inspired his friends to secrecy, usually occurring deep in nursing homes and join him in his latest scheme, whatever it was. hospitals. After death, people’s bodies are dressed up in fancy clothes with their faces painted Although I didn’t realize it at the time, he with makeup to preserve beauty and shimmered and effervesced, enriching PHILIP LEDERER youth. Yet talking openly about our feelall of our lives. Luke Sink would have GUEST COLUMNIST ings is unacceptable. Instead, we are told been an exemplary doctor because he to “be strong.” People say, “You aren’t over would have listened to his patients and inspired them to change their lives. But he never had this yet?” They do not want to hear or think about the chance. My friend, who would have graduated death. Out of sight, out of mind. Thus, the isolation of from Vanderbilt University in May, died in his sleep those left behind is compounded. I write these words on a gorgeous Easter Sunday, two years ago of an undiagnosed genetic disease. I write about Luke to bring up the subjects of when we are supposed to celebrate resurrection and coping with death and searching for meaning. In the arrival of spring. Brown is beautiful this time of our day-to-day lives, death does not usually seem year when the snow has vanished, on hot afternoons imminent. This semester, however, the passing of on the Main Green and on weekend nights of comSarah Lamendola ’04, Mary Interlandi, Laura mencement when the trees bloom. The changes of Rothenberg ’04 and Michael Archer ’02 has brought graduation are exciting and we are young and alive. College speeds by in a wave of exams, parties and it close to home for many of us. Death is distant for young people, as it usually friendships. Before we know it, our Brown years occurs to a sick grandparent, or on television. In have died and are only a memory. Life is filled with such cases, we don’t really feel the deep pain of transience; everything changes, and before we know what has occurred. When death is close, however, it we are reborn in an unexpected place. I would like to see Luke again to thank him for his we experience different emotions. Emptiness, anxiety, sadness, uncertainty, anger. friendship. I would tell him that his life was immeaThe feelings vary depending on how close we were surably valuable to all of us who knew him. Those to the deceased, if the death was sudden or unex- who loved Sarah, Mary, Laura and Michael would pected and our past experiences. We manage in a give anything for more time. But we cannot have variety of ways; some openly mourn, others do so what we want. The deaths of our loved ones point toward one concrete fact: Life is precious and fleeting. Members of the Brown community, permit us to make the most of the time that we have left at this Philip Lederer '03 likes funny jokes and playing the university and on this earth. fiddle and doesn't just think about death.

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SPORTS FRIDAY APRIL 25, 2003 · PAGE 16

Zarda asks, “How’s your wife, my kids?”

East waits for next Jordan, plays for 2nd

IT’S THE FINAL HERALD OF THE YEAR. It’s the last game of my rookie season and I’m flat-out choking. I’m confident I lived up to expectations throughout the year. I addressed serious topics, shed light on the obscure and concocted lists about things that don’t matter. Still, “when a defining moment comes along, you BRETT ZARDA BORN “N’ RAISED either define the moment or the moment defines you” (“Tin Cup”). That’s what this is. It’s the bottom of the ninth, down by one, with two men on. Yet, with the pressure building, “I’m draggin’ ass and it’s screwin’ up my universe” (“Varsity Blues”). There’s no inspiration — there are no ideas. I could’ve written about David Beckham’s pending decision to leave Manchester United. The renowned footballer (that’s soccer to us) contemplating a move to the United States is probably worth a column. He says he wants to get away from the attention. There’s the irony — an athlete is moving to the United States to avoid media scrutiny. I could ask whether Beckham can do for American soccer what Gretzky’s move to L.A. did for hockey (the answer is “no,” by the way). But, in the end, the corny references to Posh Spice and inventive puns about the movie “Bend it Like Beckham” just aren’t enough to “blow my hair back” (“Good Will Hunting”). Some South Korean kid in Florida hit a bird with a baseball. It’s endangered, so the bird people want him deported. Please — he’s not exactly “as crooked as the Soviet sickle, nor as hard as the hammer that crosses it” (“Snatch”). Is it really worth sending the kid back to a life of pain and suffering? Maybe he just “doesn’t understand because he’s small” (“Austin Powers”). Who are we as a nation to hold that against him? Carmelo Anthony decided to leave school early but claims he doesn’t want to. Anybody else find that odd? Someone needs to tell ’Melo that “life moves pretty fast. If he doesn’t stop and look around once and a while, he could miss it” (“Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”). But I’m bored with the high school/early-entry/draft debate. The Royals are undefeated at home. “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” (“Gone With the Wind”), so I’m not writing an article about it. A report was published claiming that the number of heart attacks in Brazil decreased the day of the World Cup finals.

THE 2003 NBA PLAYOFFS HAVE GOTTEN off to an extremely exciting start, with close games and outstanding individual performances. Number one seeds from both conferences were upset in Game 1. In the West, the Spurs fell to Stephon Marbury’s buzzerbeating threepointer in overCHRISTOPHER SONG time, while the SWAN SONG Pistons could not contain Tracy McGrady as he exploded for 43 points and a team playoff record. Up until now the Playoffs have been fun to watch, and they will continue to be for the next few weeks. The games will be close, teams will be competitive and the Game 7s will bring out the best in the players. But once the NBA Finals arrive, say goodbye to all good things that make a championship series entertaining. For the past three years, the NBA Finals have been a letdown. It wasn’t because the Lakers won all three years. It was because Los Angeles won so easily. In fact, the Western Conference Finals have always felt more like a championship than the NBA Finals. Teams like the Portland Trail Blazers and the Sacramento Kings each took L.A. to Game 7 and brought us memorable finishes. But after Shaq and Co. took care of the West, it was all downhill from there. There is no doubt the teams in the East are getting better. In fact, the East’s guards, with players like T-Mac, Allen Iverson and Vince Carter, are probably better than those of the West. But the problem arises when you look at the center and forward positions. The Eastern Conference lacks dominant big men that can compete with players like Shaq, C-Webb and KG. The West’s advantage in the inside game is far greater than the East’s in the outside game. The question that remains is: can a team from the East beat out the West’s representative in the Finals to bring the championship back to the East for the first time in five years? The last time the Eastern Conference won was back in 1998, when Michael Jordan capped his career as a Chicago Bull by taking down the Utah Jazz and three-peating for the second time. But without Jordan, the big men of the West have been the bullies of the NBA. Shaq and the Lakers won the last three Championships. The Twin Towers, Duncan and Robinson, of San Antonio won it all the year before and Hakeem brought Houston two championships while Jordan retired from basketball. Therefore, for the past decade or so, it looks like no Michael and no championship for the East. Let’s consider the last two seasons as exceptions because, even though he’s Michael Jordan, he couldn’t bring a team like the Wizards to the Playoffs. Now that he’s old and gone from the NBA for good, someone has to take over and lift the East back to a competitive status with the West. But who will this certain someone be? I would bet on a player who’s not even in the NBA yet and everyone is talking about. Growing up and learning basketball, LeBron James idolized Jordan like every other kid who played the game. The difference for LeBron is that he may actually become like his idol. Projected as the number one pick in this June’s draft, scouts and team executives are calling him

see ZARDA, page 13

SCHEDULE Friday Men’s tennis at Harvard for the Ivy League Championship. Women’s water polo at Eastern Championships in Cambridge, Mass.

Saturday Baseball vs. Harvard. (DH) Aldich-Dexter Field, noon. Women’s lacrosse vs. Penn. Stevenson Field, 11 a.m. Women’s crew vs. Cornell, Columbia. Providence, 6:30 a.m. Men’s lacrosse vs. Cornell. Stevenson Field, 2 p.m. Softball at Columbia. Women’s water polo at Eastern Championships in Cambridge, Mass. Men’s golf at Ivy League

Championships. Men’s crew at Dartmouth. Women’s golf at Ivy League Championships in Ridgewood, N.J.

Sunday Baseball vs. Harvard. (DH) Aldich-Dexter Field, noon. Men’s track hosts the Brown Springtime Invitational. Women’s track hosts the Brown Springtime Invitational. Softball at Cornell. Men’s golf at Ivy League Championships. Women’s golf at Ivy League Championships in Ridgewood, N.J. Women’s water polo at Eastern Championships in Cambridge, Mass.

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The softball team will hit the road for games at Columbia and Cornell this weekend. At 14-16, the Bears have showed continued improvement over the course of the season.

AT H L E T E O F T H E W E E K

Now a starter, Omokaro ’05 throws no-hitter BY ERIC PERLMUTTER

One might think throwing a no-hitter would be a pitcher’s nirvana, given that it is one of the rarest feats in baseball and softball. One might think that when you’re three outs away from tossing a no-no, you’d be as nervous as Rahim Kurji ’05 on election night. For Brown softball pitcher Uchenna Omokaro ’05, however, her no-hitter two weeks ago against Penn elicited none of these emotions — the victory was just another solid win in the books. “I didn’t notice it was happening — the coach told me at the end of the game,” Omokaro said. “I could tell that they weren’t hitting, I knew it was a shutout, so I was just thinking about

that.” Despite her 6-6 record, the modest Omokaro has had great success on the mound this year for the Bears. She leads the team with a 2.14 earned run average, having started 15 games, thrown four shutouts and held opponents to a humbling .208 average at the plate. After pitching mostly in relief last year, Omokaro was named a starter and has thus far conquered the transition. “It’s not that big of a difference between starting and relieving. I think starting is a bit more pressure for me, because it’s my game and I’m the one setting the tone from the beginning,” see AOTW, page 13

#2 women’s sailing wins New England Championships BY JESSICA MALKIN

The Brown women’s sailing team, now ranked second in the nation, capped off a tremendous season with a 17-point victory at the New England Championship April 19 and 20, securing a berth at Nationals in June. The women beat 17 other teams from across New England, finishing third in A-division and first in B-division, for a combined total of 100 points after 28 races. Harvard and Yale finished second and third, respectively. Sailing A-division for the Bears was two-time Women’s Honorable Mention All-American skipper Whitney Besse ’03 with crew Jessica Malkin ’05. AllAmerican skipper Emma Lichtenstein ’03 and All-American crew Marisa Ihara ’03 won B-division by a convincing ten points. All four Brown women were also named to the All-New England Women’s Team, along with Brown sailors Anne Davidson ’05 and Louise Sherman ’05, Brown’s alternate women’s squad. A

total of 20 women received All-New England honors, with Brown representing nearly a third of the team. Besse was named the Most Outstanding Women’s Sailor in New England for the second year in a row. The Brown women have been ranked in the top four in the nation and first in New England for the entire season. They are currently ranked second nationally, behind St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Having qualified last weekend, the team will compete at the Intercollegiate North American Women’s Sailing Championship June 2 to 4 in Grosse Point, Mich. The women have high expectations for the event, having placed fourth last year, when Lichtenstein and Ihara won B-division. The women will remain at Brown for the next month to prepare at home in 420 dinghies, the same boat that will be used at the North American Championship. Jessica Malkin ’05 is a member of the women’s sailing team.

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