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West Nile on the rise; DEM warns students against bites

More questions about athletes and student life after new policy

BY JULIETTE WALLACK

BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ

With mosquitoes in Rhode Island testing positive for encephalitis and West Nile Virus in the past week, students should make sure to minimize the risk of bites, according to one Department of Environmental Management official. Eastern equine encephalitis virus has been found in mosquitoes in nearby Washington County, and West Nile virus has been found statewide, according to Stephanie Powell, a spokeswoman for DEM. “So, absolutely in the area of Brown,” students should take care to minimize risk, she said. As of Monday, the DEM has not found mosquitoes carrying Eastern equine encephalitis in Providence, Powell said. But “we don’t know” whether it could be in bugs in the area. The possibility of transmission will remain until the first frost kills active mosquitoes, Powell said. In Washington County, which includes South Kingstown, residents are being advised to avoid outdoor activities, many of which have been cancelled. Students can help prevent exposure by avoiding standing water, where mosquitoes breed, she said. Though there is no standing water on campus, Powell said, it’s feasible that mosquitoes could breed near the Providence River downtown. “The best thing for people anywhere in Rhode Island until the first hard frost is to protect themselves by wearing long pants and long sleeves,” she said. There are also certain types of conditions that encourage mosquito activity, which students should consider. Those conditions include shady areas and high humidity. “If you’re just walking around the Brown campus at noon on a sunny day, and it’s windy, there’s less chance than if you’re taking a walk in the woods” of being bitten, Powell said. There have not been any cases of Eastern equine encephalitis or West Nile

The recent relaxation of last year’s sevenweek rest policy for Ivy League athletes has reopened the conflict between the demands of Division I athletics and attempts to integrate Brown athletes into the full range of student life. The seven-week rest period, instituted by the Council of Ivy Presidents in June 2002, mandated that Ivy teams break from team-related activity for seven weeks per year to allow athletes to pursue other aspects of campus life. Following widespread complaints from coaches and athletes, the Council modified the policy this June. Teams are still required to take off seven weeks per year, but may break them up by days, rather than weeks. Athletics Director David Roach said he believes the rest period is fundamentally unfair to athletes, no matter how the seven weeks are divided. It hampers their ability to compete with non-Ivy League teams, which are not required to take time off from practice, and “takes away from the individual’s right to be able to improve himself,” Roach said. “People make decisions about what they want to do during their four years at college, and everyone should be given

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West House resident Elizabeth Ochs '06 writes chalk poetry Tuesday morning. see ATHLETES, page 8

Brown’s Watermyn Co-op: vegan dining, communal living and Bob Marley BY MERYL ROTHSTEIN

Bob Marley blares as Jodie Miller ’05 scrapes remnants of vegan eggplant lasagna into the trash. The lasagna, complete with tofu ricotta “cheese,” was part of the dinner she and two others had cooked for roughly 25 people Monday night at the Watermyn co-op. Watermyn, one of Brown’s two housing cooperatives, includes 15 residents and eight non-residential food co-opers.

Located on Waterman and Governor streets, the house provides a communal living and vegetarian/vegan dining experience. Each night, three co-opers, including food co-opers, cook dinner, said Andrew Fox ’06. Preparation for the meals, which are all vegetarian and always include a vegan option, begins at around 5 p.m., and are usually served around 7 p.m., when a horn, likened to a “wounded buffalo” by

New Brown-Woods Hole affiliation creates research opportunities, classes for undergrad and grad students BY JONATHAN HERMAN

A newly-created affiliation between Brown and the Marine Biology Laboratory at Woods Hole will create new graduate and undergraduate research opportunities and several new courses. The affiliation joins Brown and MBL’s research and education in biology, biomedicine and ecology. MBL Director and CEO William T. Speck and Provost Robert J. Zimmer signed the official agreement Sept. 7. MBL at Woods Hole is a world-class biology, biomedicine and ecology labora-

tory dedicated to cutting edge research and education, according to Speck. MBL started as a summer laboratory and teaching facility, located on the intersection of two major oceanic currents. “A large fraction of the leaders in biology have spent some time at MBL,” Zimmer said. The University and MBL will first create a joint graduate program — giving graduate students an opportunity to work with both Brown and MBL scientists, Zimmer said. Students of the graduate program will be granted Brown degrees

and have the chance to work at both educational institutions. “I believe this is really an extraordinary event for Brown, and I know the people at MBL feel the same way,” said Biology professor Mark Bertness, one of the designers of the partnership. “Graduate students at Brown will be very different (from) graduates from anywhere else in that the graduates in the Brown MBL program will not only have exposure to the Brown faculty and the

housemates, notifies the house that dinner is ready, Fox said. Most of the house gathers to eat at the large, hand-painted table in the dining room, lined with bookshelves as well as hand-written notes from previous co-op residents. These scribblings also line the kitchen walls, as well as bumper stickers encouraging co-opers to “Be Green” and “Abolish Nuclear Weapons.” “The house has a lot of character to it,” said resident Pablo Gaston ’05. “It’s a really chill environment.” Dinner conversation ranged from the benefits of omega-3 — an essential fatty acid found in fish — to the food requirements of one wheat-allergic co-oper to the sizes of slices of the vegan pumpkin pie, an unusual treat made by one of the two Johnson and Wales culinary students residing in the house. Sonya Goddy ’06 said she liked the house because of the independence it demands. “This is completely student-run,” she said. “We’re doing it ourselves. And it’s working.” Goddy called it an “ideal lifestyle” but said that “there are times when the communal aspect can get annoying,” like when house meetings take hours in order to take

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I N S I D E W E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 1 , 2 0 0 3 Dartmouth implements high-tech device for free long distance calls campus watch,page 3

Women are too obsessed with body image, says Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 column,page 11

Christopher McAuliffe ’05 takes a closer look at Gorbachev’s speech and reputation column, page 11

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Volleyball earns first win against St. Peter’s, but loses to UNH and Georgia State sports, page 12

M. water polo finishes fourth of 10 in tournament, defeating Harvard rivals sports, page 12

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URI students fight for the right to party after newly enforced party house list (U-WIRE) KINGSTON, R.I. — As a result of the newly enforced party house list, University of Rhode Island students are going to have to fight harder for their right to party in the upcoming months. Community Patrol Officer Anthony Pelopida said since the list’s enactment on Sept. 1 of this year, there have been 21 houses placed on the list as a result of having large and/or loud parties. Each house on the list is a student residence. According to the Narragansett Police Department’s procedure for the party house list, a residence will be placed on the list if the renters/owners host a large party, the renters/owners are uncooperative when police respond to the party or the police department has received repeated calls of a loud party. Once on the list, the residents of the house remain on the list for 30 days. If the police don’t respond to the residence again within those 30 days, they are taken off the list. If the police are called to respond to a residence already on the list, the inhabitants of the house will be charged for each subsequent occurrence and will remain on the list for another 90 days, according to the Narragansett Police Department procedure for the party house list. On Mondays, Pelopida and fellow community patrol officer Scott Vallone visit houses placed on the list over the previous weekend and give residents a copy of the party house list and procedure as well as selected statutes and fines. Junior Joe Civitello hosted a party on Sept. 13 that was broken up by Narragansett police. Civitello said the officers were respectful of him and his roommates and “basically told us that we were going to be put on the party list.” Although the cops didn’t follow nor-

mal procedure by returning to Civitello’s residence the following Monday, Civitello said they explained the list and how it works to him and his roommates the night of the party. Pelopida said Narragansett police officers do not attempt to explain the list and its procedures at the time a party is broken up because it is better to speak to residents when they are sober and in a more passive state of mind. Junior Kevin Murray hosted a party with his three roommates on Sept. 19. The Narragansett police told Murray and his roommate upon the breakup of the party that they were on the list. The following Monday, Murray said Narragansett police did not revisit his home and added, “I don’t think [the list is] going to do much to curb anyone’s partying. The cops kind of treated us like we didn’t deserve to know what was going on.” Senior Tom Sydow hosted a party with

his three roommates that was responded to on Sept. 26. Sydow said Narragansett police visited his house Monday and gave him the party house list, the procedures and various statutes and fines. “I don’t think it’ll help in stopping parties. It’ll just get more people to pay fines they haven’t had to pay in the past,” Sydow commented. Others thought the list might be effective. “Actually, I think it’s going to work because of all the people I know that are on the list are not going to have anything [within the 30 days]” Civitello said. He added that in the following weekends since his party he has seen Narragansett police vehicles patrol his streets multiple times each night. “I think from the simple fact that it’s been a month now and we haven’t gone to any house on the list speaks for itself,” Pelopida said.

Dartmouth ushers in free long distance phone tech. BY ROBERT COREY-BOULET

Always on the cutting edge of campus technology, Dartmouth College recently unveiled voice-over Internet protocol, a new device that allows students to make free local and long-distance calls campus-wide. Now, without charge, students are free to plug the $50 “softphone” devices into their computers and make calls from anywhere on the campus network. “Wireless or wired, all users need is a headset or handset, some free software from the Dartmouth Web site, and an assigned phone number in order to talk on the phone from Dartmouth to anyone, anywhere, anysee DARTMOUTH, page 4

Women get better grades, fewer graduate degrees (U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Girls are generally better students than boys, according to a recent study that has momentarily settled a major skirmish in the battle of the sexes. A study that involved 42 industrialized countries, including the United States, found that girls are better readers than boys and tend to get better grades. The study was conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The study reported that three out five National Honors Society members are girls, and that girls outnumber boys 124 to 100 in advanced placement courses. In 2000, 44 percent of girls taking the SAT reported an A average, while 35 percent of boys reported the same. In addition, in 39 out of the 42 industrialized countries involved in the study, girls earned more university degrees than men. At

the University of Michigan, 51 percent of the students that received undergraduate degrees in 2002 were female. While women outnumber men in number of bachelor’s degrees obtained, men still earn more post-undergraduate degrees than women. In 2002, 56 percent of graduate degree conferrals and 54 percent of professional degrees went to men. “There remains a pipeline issue, for as you go into higher levels of education, you see fewer levels of female degree candidates. So, while we might say that girls and women are highly achieving, we examine whether women are being afforded the same access to higher education as men are,” said Jeanne Miller, a librarian at the Center for the Education of Women. see WOMEN, page 4

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Women continued from page 3 The University’s research coincides with this study, said Pamela Davis-Kean, assistant research scientist for Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Institute for Social Research. “Our research consistently shows that girls outperform boys grade-wise in schools,” DavisKean said.

The study released by OECD cited girls’ strength in reading — but University research shows that girls also do noticeably better than boys in math and science, a claim that has long been disputed. “We have shown that girls’ math grades at their junior year in high school are better than that of their male counterparts,” DavisKean said. “If you actually look at SAT scores, men do better, but there has been some theory showing that there’s a restricted range for men who take it. The higher

achieving boys take it. The wide range of girls (both high- and lowachieving) that take the test bring the overall mean down,” she added. Davis-Kean, who works on the Gender Achievement Research Program at ISR, added that women from all achievement levels strive to enter higher education, while only the most accomplished boys go to college. Men, on average, have a greater opportunity of getting jobs without a college degree — in fields such as mechanics and construction.

Although the study did not compare women and boys’ mathematical and scientific skills, University researchers and administrators in gender issues expressed both concern and hope for women in math and science. In science and engineering, the pipeline effect is especially noticeable. In 2002, the University’s engineering program conferred 14 percent of its doctoral degrees to women and 24 percent of its masters’ degrees. “Historically, women took fewer math classes, but that’s

changing now, which is good. Then, they can go on to be math and science majors. And also historically, women have not done so well on the math portion of the SAT, but that is also changing. Women are catching up,” said Cinda-Sue Davis, director of the Women in Science and Engineering Program. “We work with women in the elementary and high schools. We have a large K-12 outreach program, and we encourage women to go into science and engineering fields,” Davis said.

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ward thinking in technology and communications, often outdoing its peers at more populated and urban universities. In 2001, for instance, the university installed a wireless network that covers the entire campus, a feat that other schools like Brown have only been able to implement on a smaller, more restricted scale. “Shared vision and support starting at the top … permits our program to embark upon such innovations,” wrote Bob Johnson, director of network services at Dartmouth to The Herald in an e-mail. “This started with support for a campuswide network upgrade and wireless overlay. We see access to these technologies bringing the campus closer together while we make it easier to communicate.” Even as early as the 1980s, Dartmouth surpassed its peers with the widespread incorporation of e-mail communication into all elements of campus life, an improvement that preceded most other universities by several years. The decision to install VoIP was largely fueled by the realization that traditional methods for tracking and billing phone calls over such a large, wireless area were not effective, Dr. David Kotz, professor of computer science at Dartmouth, told the New York Times. Attempting to charge wireless long-distance calls on a campus that serves over 13,000 people resulted in a major strain on the College’s resources. This new form of operation could pose a challenge for the College’s wireless network, Johnson said. This is because the technological manpower required for audio calls far exceeds the resources needed for the text-based communication that currently dominates the campus.

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continued from page 3 time,” Public Affairs Officer Susan Knapp wrote in a September press release. Dartmouth has become renowned in recent years for for-

tor of network services at Dartmouth, said he believes the community’s focus on innovative technology is what enables such progression. “The challenge will be … managing bandwidth, billing issues and the lightning pace at which these technologies are evolving,” Johnson said, particularly if other schools choose to employ the technology. Kotz will be gauging both the system’s response to this new activity as well as the way students incorporate VoIP into their everyday lives, he told the Times. “I’m curious to monitor how much people use it,” Kotz said. “Are students who have had a very e-mail oriented culture going to use it? Will they use it from dorm rooms, dining halls, classrooms? Will they make lengthy calls? Long-distance calls?” But many students said they were unsure that it would have a great impact on their lives at Dartmouth. “I don’t plan on using the system this year,” sophomore Diana Bradford told The Dartmouth. “I have a cell phone with many unused night and weekend minutes for long distance.” Junior Liz Vaughan agreed. “I may not use it really, partly because I have a cell phone and the only place I really go with my computer is the library,” she said.

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For Black women, sororities are more about politics than parties WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Do not be distracted by the pink-and-green sneakers. Oh, they’re cute all right, especially on Diane Johnson, who also is sporting a lime green pantsuit. She is surrounded by about 100 women wearing variations of the color theme: hot pink, pale pink, bubble gum, sea green, olive, emerald. But the living bouquet posing recently on the steps of Capitol Hill is here for business. They’re all members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s oldest black sorority. Once the group picture is taken, they spread into the offices of their senators and representatives, gently but firmly reminding them who they are (college-educated professionals), what they do (organize, network and raise lots of money) and what they care about (education, health, equal and civil rights). “As women of Alpha Kappa Alpha, it’s our responsibility to say, ‘You can’t fool us with this smoke-and-mirrors game,’” says Phyllis Young, president of the local Xi Omega chapter. “‘You can’t play us.’” The AKAs were in Washington for their Public Policy Conference, which coincided with last weekend’s Congressional Black Caucus conference. And they aren’t the only sisters in town. The ladies in red are Delta Sigma Thetas. Those in royal blue and white are from Zeta Phi Beta; the ones in blue and gold, from Sigma Gamma Rho. These historic black sororities boast an impressive network of professional women who run companies, campaigns, families and much more. They represent about 500,000 women known and trusted on the grass-roots level who stay active and involved for a lifetime. “People at work kid me because I wear a lot of pink and green,” says Doxie McCoy, communications director for Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C. Then there’s her goldand-diamond AKA bracelet. “I wear it all the time.” Texas Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Eddie Bernice Johnson are AKAs. Civil rights leader Dorothy Height, former Labor Secretary Alexis Herman and presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun are Deltas. And that’s just the start.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-N.Y., meets with Linda White, international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, and other members, many dressed in the sorority colors, on Capitol Hill. “I’m with Senator Clinton’s office — but I’m a soror, too!” Leecia Roberta Eve tells the ladies assembled on the Capitol steps. A collective cheer goes up, and Eve, counsel to Hillary Rodham Clinton, jumps into the picture with her AKA sorors. Then the AKAs troop over to the Russell Office Building, where the junior senator from New York takes time from a packed day to meet and greet and pose with the AKAs

because ... well, because there are a lot of votes and green in all that pink and green. Growing up poor in Alabama, Herman never thought of herself as sorority material. That was for the “other Mobile,” she says; for middle-class, educated black women. But in 1977, just after Herman moved to Washington, her friend Dorothy Height told her: Join a graduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta.

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Watermyn continued from page 1 everyone’s opinion into account. “We make the rules,” Gaston said, although he added that most residents break the rules as well. All the house chores, like sweeping the floors and collecting money for food, are divided between the housemates and the food co-opers. But, “even if people clean once a week, it still gets pretty dirty,” said Casey Koppelson ’06. As in many other houses occupied by college-aged students, table counters had remnants of meals passed, but residents were diligent about cleaning their plates and wrapping left-over food for the fridge, often providing the next day’s lunch. Perhaps the most unusual additions to the rooms are the extra bodies — Watermyn residents are welcoming to crashers,

Perhaps the most unusual additions to the rooms are the extra bodies — Watermyn residents are welcoming to crashers, Koppelson said. Koppelson said. “It’s like living at home and having a brother,” Miller said. “Like, seven of them.” Living in the co-op saves roughly $1,300 per semester on housing. Food co-oping saves more than $1,000 per semester compared to the 20-meal plan, Koppelson said. In order to secure these low

prices, the house buys food, most of which is organic, in bulk, combining orders with the Finlandia co-op and other smaller food cooping groups, she said. Not all the residents of Watermyn are Brown students, Koppelson said. Other residents include the two students at Johnson and Wales’ culinary school, a RISD student, a Brown alumnus and one Providence native — a poet currently roaming Thayer Street, she said. The house also comes with a practice space and a communal black cat, Koppelson said. The Brown Association for Cooperative Housing acquired Watermyn house in 1970 to be part of a 1969 Group Independent Study Project on cooperative living, according to BACH’s Web site. Herald senior staff writer Meryl Rothstein ’06 can be reached at mrothstein@browndailyherald.com.

West Nile continued from page 1 virus on campus, according to Dr. Edward Wheeler, director of Health Services at Brown. It’s important to remember that most cases of West Nile virus are not serious, he said. “The vast majority of people who are infected may even have a mild illness, where they get a fever, maybe some headaches and some body aches,” Wheeler said. What is more dangerous is the possibility that West Nile will result in encephalitis, or swelling of the brain.

Woods Hole continued from page 1 MBL faculty but the virtue of what happens (in Woods Hole) every summer. They will be exposed to scientists from around the world,” Speck said. According to Bertness, official funding for graduate students has not yet been established. But grant proposals will be written soon and submitted for the program and could help provide funding as soon as next year. New undergraduate research opportunities have not been specified, but they are part of the future plans for the affiliation. “This is a really spectacular opportunity and could be an exciting thing for undergraduates,” Bertness said. “People should be excited to see what happens over the next year.” The partnership will also give the MBL scientists an opportunity to teach both undergraduate and graduate Brown students, Bertness said. “Many of the scientists working at their labs want an opportunity to teach,” Zimmer said. Bertness said classes offered by the MBL faculty will begin spring semester — greatly increasing the University’s offering in biology, the environmental sciences and engineering. Before the new agreement was signed, Brown students studied at MBL through other programs.

“That’s the bad one,” he said. “But most people who get West Nile don’t develop the encephalitis from it.” According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Eastern equine encephalitis virus is fatal in 35 percent of cases, making it one of the most pathogenic mosquito-born diseases in the United States. Powell said Providence officials have made every effort to keep mosquitoes from breeding, including using pesticides to eradicate nests in storm drains. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 edits the metro section. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

For many years, the University has offered the Semester in Environmental Science to students, Speck said. Undergraduates spend a semester performing hands-on research in the environmental sciences at one of MBL’s facilities. Many biology and environmental science concentrators have collaborated with MBL to complete their senior theses, said Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences Steven Hamburg. Jeremy Sinaikin ’00 completed his senior thesis entitled “The Effect of Nitrogen and Phosphorous Fertilization on the Cation Exchange Capacity of Arctic Soils and Plant Nutrient Content” with the help of MBL. “As the only ecosystem ecologist on campus it is exciting to have linked up with one of the world’s premier ecosystem research teams,” Hamburg said. Hamburg was once a student himself at MBL. He was an undergraduate student in MBL’s first ecosystem course in 1975. Speck said MBL considered partnering with many other universities. He said MBL chose Brown because “many of the Brown faculty are summer researchers here and summer teachers here.” A retreat for professors from both institutions is planned for Oct. 25 to create more interpersonal cooperation between Brown and MBL, Bertness said.

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early 4-1 lead, but New Hampshire quickly closed the gap. Brown’s play was much cleaner in this game and Karalyn Kuchenbecker ‘06 and Liz Cvitan ‘07 were consistent with the jump-serve. Brown fell behind after being tied at 22 and ended up behind 27-29, but they were able to fight back, scoring four in a row to take it 31-29. However, Brown was unable to keep up the intensity in the fourth game. They trailed early on and, though they were able to minimize the gap, they were not able to finish, falling 26-30. “I think we definitely could have beaten New Hampshire,” said Lauren Gibbs ‘06. “We played with them the whole time, but the problem was that we didn’t step up and play our game; we played to their level.” Gibbs led the attack with 16 kills, trailed closely by Kuchenbecker and Cvitan, who each had 11. Kuchenbecker also tallied 13 digs, giving her a double-double. “I’ve been working my consistency, playing the game, being confident. Volleyball is very much a mental sport,” Gibbs said. “My coaches and I have been working on staying confident, playing our game and doing everything we can to keep the ball in the court.” The next day, Brown came on the court with a desire to win. The Bears started off with more discipline than St. Peter’s and capitalized on its opponent’s mistakes. Brown ran away with the first game for a 30-19 win. The second game was more evenly matched, as St. Peter’s settled in. After a back and forth battle, the Bears were able to go up 30-29. Brown lost the advantage, but St. Peter’s got called on a carry and the game was again tied 32-32 with Leigh Martin ’06 serving. She dished ouit a pair of aces giving Brown a 34-32 win. “I do think that we need to win games more decisively, but the fact that we could do that is a sign that we are growing as a team and that takes a lot of effort to come together and make a change in the way we play and win this game,” Gibbs said. Brown seemed to be mentally exhausted in the third game. The teams were tied for most of the time, but St. Peter’s took the lead after the 20 point mark ,resulting in a 26-30 loss for the Bears. In the final game of the match, Bruno grabbed an early lead and never let go. They won 30-22 for a 3-1 victory in the match. Cvitan led the team in kills with 16, closely followed by Kuchenbecker with 15 kills and 19 digs for another doubledouble. Gibbs tallied nine kills, five block assists and two solo blocks. Her partner in blocking was Rikki Baldwin ‘07, who tallied five block assists as well as eight kills. “I think we came together as a team,” Gibbs said. “We kept communication open on the court, and it was just worth it to everybody to get this win.” Breaking into the win column was a big step for a team, which started the season with some tough losses.

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The Bears’ offense fell apart a number of times throughout the game–in many situations before a player was able to take a decent shot at goal. “We had a pretty tentative offense, and weren’t organized early on,” Clapper said. “We became hesitant to attack because we were afraid that if we lost possession St. Francis would counterattack and score.” In spite of the faltering offense and defense, goalie Jay Fantone ’06 kept the Bears afloat and made a total of eleven saves. Several times he faced one-on-one situations with a St. Francis player on a fast break and virtually no other defensive players between the ball and the goal. “The only one who didn’t back down at all was Jay,” Sandys said. “We let him down, but he had an incredible game. The number of one-on-one shots he blocked was astounding.” At the end of all four quarters, the scoreboard read 9-3, giving Brown its first loss of the weekend. It would also be the team’s last. The Bears came out on Sunday morning in their game against Bucknell with a desire to prove themselves and play to their full potential. “We came out and pressured the ball any chance we got, and put the responsibility on Bucknell to make something happen,” Clapper said. “Our aggressive defense fueled our counter-attacks and offense, and as a team we played better.” Though the game started out as a close match with the difference of only a goal in the first quarter, the gap on the scoreboard widened to a decisive win of 11-7. With the defense increasingly putting pressure on Bucknell’s two leading scorers

State, dropping the match 3-0. “We were excited to win, but we were also upset that it didn’t happen earlier,” Gibbs said. The team did not fare well that night against Georgia State, dropping the match 3-0. They fell 25-30 in their first and best game, then 24-30 and finally 20-30. “We just stopped playing. We beat ourselves; it was our own mistakes,” Gibbs said. “We let them get a few points on us and then we couldn’t control the ball and hit the ball away. It was our mistakes.” Individual performances were slightly down as well. Kuchenbecker led the team with 11 kills, while Baldwin and Cvitan each notched 10. Gibbs and Baldwin teamed up for two assisted blocks each. Captain Kim Highlund ‘04 had a personal best with nine digs. Martin continued strong play, notching 34 assists after picking up 48 against New Hampshire and 49 against St. Peter’s. “We need leadership on the court to win,” Gibbs said. “We just need to step it up and know that we can be a winning team. Knowing that it just takes playing the entire match to the best of our abilities.” Volleyball is away this weekend in the team’s first Ivy League game of the season, against Yale. Brown split with Yale last year winning the first match 3-2 on October 30, 2002, but falling to the Bulldogs 3-2 in November. Herald staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 can be reached at kbabcock@browndailyherald.c om.

and creating counter-attack opportunities for the offense, Grutzmacher added three goals to Sandys’ two in the first quarter, as well as scoring by co-captain Dan Spencer ’04, Thomas Payton ’07, Bourne and Wiener. The final game of the weekend pitted the Bears against George Washington to vie for the fourth place spot in the tournament. Despite an early lead in the first quarter, things did not look good for Brown as GW took a 4-3 lead by the end of the second quarter. “We were leading in the first quarter, and then we had our worst quarter of the entire weekend, in all aspects of the game,” Clapper said. “We looked sluggish, we turned over the ball, and we didn’t chase it down afterwards.” The halftime score jolted the team to make a comeback in the third quarter, where it regained control quickly and started attacking again. An amazing 17 saves by Fantone and an aggressive defense shut down further attempts by GW to score and fed the offense for counter-attacks that led to Payton’s goal to catch up on the board and Tiner’s to break the tie. Grutzmacher’s goal five seconds before the buzzer completed the 9-6 win over GW and boosted Brown to a fourth place finish in the tournament. The team’s next contest is its last home game of the season against MIT on Thursday, Oct. 2. Known to be a fast and aggressive team with a solid goalkeeper, MIT will force the Bears to play up to their utmost potential both on offense and defense to come through with a win and a good seed for the Eastern Championships. “We lost to them last year, and it was the worst part of our season,” Sandys said. “This year, we are going to take it to them. We want revenge.” Herald staff writer Jinhee Chung ’05 covers men’s water polo. She can be reached at jchung@browndailyherald.com.

Cropp continued from page 12 pant in the South, but this goes beyond anything I could imagine. Is there a lesson that can be taken away from a case like this? Well, one lesson that has been taught ad nauseam, but nobody has bothered to learn, is that sports and alcohol don’t go well together. Sure, Coors Light tells us that beer and football are like Abbott and Costello, but let’s be honest, we would believe them if they told us beer made a great cologne so long as a pair (or two pairs for that matter) of “Twins” were there to reinforce the message. If beer and sports are such a great team, then why do Bug Selig’s Brewers make him cringe his bitter beer face year after year? But beer does serve its purpose; how else would Boston Red Sox fans be able to cope with not making the playoffs all these years? While drinking may not be the direct solution, an aspect of drinking can be used to quell the problem of deranged sports, and hopefully make Charlton Heston proud to support guns in Alabama. Repeated drinking of alcohol leads to a tolerance, much like suffering repeated heartbreaks leads to a level of tolerance of losses. So maybe we should all root for a bad team and again adopt another side effect of drinking, lowering our expectation levels. Okay, so maybe there isn’t a solution to the irrational acts we perform in the name of sports. Let’s not look at the big picture, but take things one game at a time. Take for example the World Series. I think the only measures we can take to avoid Armageddon are declaring martial law in Boston, rescinding the repeal of the 18th amendment, or hedging our bets and just give the Sox the World Series. Ian Cropp ’04 has never had a gun near him during sporting events.

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Athletes continued from page 1 the opportunity to do so,” he said. “If, at any time, they’d rather be doing something else with the majority of their time, they can do it.” Still, the rest period remains in place, and the Council maintains it is a crucial tool for integrating athletes into student life. In a statement released in

June on behalf of the Council, former Cornell President Hunter Rawlings III and Dartmouth President James Wright described the modified rest period as “another step in assuring that Ivy athletes have adequate time not merely for their academic pursuits and for sports, but for other co-curricular and personal activities as well.” Yet athletes from Brown’s men’s basketball team to its women’s lacrosse team asserted

that a seven-week rest period is not enough time to do anything but weaken off-season performance and that, in any case, commitment to their teams represent “co-curricular and personal” choices. “We were definitely limited in the things we were able to do as a team,” said Jaime Kilburn ’04, co-captain of the basketball team, of last year’s seven rest weeks. “Some players embraced it, but some felt they were at a disadvantage, especially when we played schools outside the Ivy League.” Women’s lacrosse player Debbie Mendel ’04 said she returned from study abroad to find her team’s unity and performance unaffected by the

seven dead weeks during the off-season. But she questioned whether the perceived divide between athletes and non-athletes can be resolved by something as simple as a rest period. Demanding schedules create the most obvious separations between athletes and the rest of campus, Mendel said, but the biases of non-athletes are also to blame. “I’ve been able to establish relationships with people outside of athletics, but I’ve had to prove to them that I can exist on the same academic level,” she said. “If there’s a change in attitude, then maybe relations between student-athletes and regular students would be better.”

But what many academic researchers advocate is a change in recruitment policies. Two influential recent studies, both conducted by the Mellon Foundation, have found a widespread, widening divide between athletics and academics at the most elite colleges. Published in William Bowen and James Shulman’s “The Game of Life” in 2001 and Bowen and Sarah Levin’s “Reclaiming the Game” last month, the results of these studies suggest that the lack of true “scholar-athletes” is due to the mechanics of the recruitment process. Recruited athletes included on coach’s lists at admission offices earn far lower grades in high school and college than non-athletes and even walkons, the more recent study found. Recruited athletes also tend to limit extracurricular activity to their sport and live and socialize with other athletes, according to the study. Considering the demands of fielding competitive teams, particularly in the Ivy League, which competes in Division I, the “specialization” of athletes makes sense, Bowen told The Daily Princetonian. But it also has its costs. Many students who would participate in other extracurricular activities on campus are denied admission, for example, and there are reduced opportunities for non-recruited students to participate in intercollegiate athletics, Bowen said. Competing at a proto-professional level weighs on student athletes as well, he said — part of the reason the Ivy Council has taken a number of measures in recent years to limit the intensity of its athletic programs. At the same time that it instituted the original seven-week rest period, the Council also lowered the maximum number of recruited football players and raised the academic requirements for all recruited athletes. But the rest period was the only one of these policies to generate substantial controversy, with athletic directors and coaches insisting that it runs contrary to the realities of fielding a Division I team — and the best interests of their athletes. “From an athlete’s point of view, education does not necessarily have to be in a classroom,” said Digit Murphy, coach of the women’s hockey team. “I consider myself a teacher at Brown, not just a coach, and I know that these kids, when they graduate at Brown, tell me how much they learned by being part of our program.” And they don’t regret it, either, said Men’s Crew Coach Paul Cooke ’89. During Cooke’s four years on the Brown crew team, he said he only regretted one practice — the one the night before graduation. “I don’t think they’re divided from campus, and I don’t think that’s a negative thing myself,” Cooke said of his team. “In four years, I never felt that any of the sacrifices I made weren’t worth it. When you have something that you really have to do, you just do it.” Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05 edits the campus watch section. She can be reached at cblumenkranz@browndailyherald.com.

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Scheduling sports It comes as a surprise that Brown, of all schools, would attempt to legislate its students’ schedules. But this is precisely what the University tried to do when in 2002 it instituted, along with the rest of the Ivy League, a sevenweek rest period for all student athletes. The intent of the rest period, according to a statement by the Ivy Council, was to allow athletes to pursue “co-curricular and personal activities” — a plainly ridiculous rationale. Athletes already engage in a fuller schedule of “co-curricular and personal activities” than most other students, and to ask — indeed, demand — that they pursue others is unreasonable and unrealistic. The Council appears to have conceded this point, and revised the rest period into oblivion in June. Now teams can take their seven weeks off on a day-by-day basis, which begs the question, why keep the policy at all? The occasional day off during the off-season will not allow athletes to take on other commitments, even if they want to. Moreover, one must ask again why we would demand that athletes decentralize their focus in the first place. No university would ask its musicians, jugglers or writers to drop their primary extracurricular interest for 49 days each year — why then its athletes? The fact is, Brown and its peer institutions regard athletics as fundamentally different from all other extra-curricular activities. Specifically, we see athletic achievement as in conflict with academic achievement — whereas success in a capella, for example, is seen as complementary to one’s academic program. As a result, we tend to regard the behavior that defines athletes – participation in sports – as fundamentally in conflict with academic curiosity and achievement. This is not a fair assumption, and a poor reason for instituting an autocratic policy like the seven-week rest period, which goes against the grain of Brown’s liberal philosophy. If Brown students, athletes included, are sophisticated enough to choose their academic programs, then they are also capable of dealing with the demands of their extracurricular commitments, no matter what hours they require.

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LETTERS DPS can improve safety with simple, effective changes To the Editor: I wanted to make a few additions to your article on campus safety (“Students feel safe despite stepped up DPS efforts,” Sept. 29). While I salute whatever the Department of Public Safety has done to drastically reduce crime over the last two years, some straightforward campus safety measures still need to be taken. I salute the route changes with the shuttle, but as a 6’2” male, I am always willing to risk walking alone instead of wait-

ing as a potential target at shuttle stops. It seems as if all too often, shuttle stops lack blue-light phones. According to the article, DPS has increased its visibility on campus. Why then is there always a DPS uniformed security guard or an even more trained DPS police officer working the front desk at the Rock? Library employees seem to be adequate at least 12 hours a day, why do DPS officers need to be there late at night? I am more concerned about the safety of students than books. Finally, I urge DPS to continue dormitory patrols for fire safety. A major dorm fire would be disastrous in terms of property damage and lives lost. Joe Griffith ‘05 Sept. 30

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Dying to be young When you’re over the hill at 20, it seems no one can enjoy the view from the top “WHEN BUTTERCUP WAS FIFTEEN, the end of August, she told me she had Adella Terrell was easily the most beautiful heard of a girl at UCLA who secretly creature. Then one day, one of her suitors charged Botox injections to her parents’ exclaimed that without question Adella credit card, but informed me proudly that must be the most ideal item yet spawned. she herself does not intend to get Botox Adella began to ponder the truth of the until she is 30. Because, obviously, to get injected at 29 years and 364 statement. It took her close to days would be ridiculous. dawn to finish her inspection, Last week, assuming I was but by that time it was clear to safe from superficiality in her that the young man had rational Providence, I voyaged been quite correct in his to the mall and was shocked to assessment. She said, “I am see the onslaught of 11-yearprobably the very first perfect old pop divas strutting around, person in the whole long hisstrategically baring G-strings tory of the universe … how over the tops of their hip huglucky I am to be perfect and ging jeans and displaying shirts rich and sought after and senwith raunchy slogans like sitive and young. Well, of ALEXANDRA TOUMANOFF “Slut” and “My boyfriend course I will always be sensithinks I’m studying.” tive, and I’ll always be rich, WHAT’S A GIRL To make matters worse, but I don’t quite see how I am GOTTA DO? most of them buzzed away like going to always be young.” chainsaws on cell phones glued She had begun to fret. The first worry lines appeared within a fort- to their yet undeveloped hands. Back in my night….” Paraphrased from William day, when granny panties still ran rampant on this earth, I was lucky if I negotiated Goldman’s “The Princess Bride.” Too many people are obsessed with time away from my two sisters on my staying young. According to the L.A. home phone. I got my first cell phone Times, Botox use has become so prevalent when I was 18, going to college and laborthat Johns Hopkins Medical School doc- ing under the delusion that I was still tors hold “Botox parties” where God only young. On one hand, we have children dressknows what happens. Ridiculous, you say? A 19-year-old Los Angeles friend of mine is ing like they’re auditioning for already planning ahead for the crises of “Showgirls,” and on the other, we have the future. When we ate lunch together at adults obsessed with denying the existence of aging and paying good money to Alexandra Toumanoff ‘06 is too busy aging have snake venom immobilize their faces. The teeny boppers want to be older. gracefully to write a tagline. Botox, anyAnybody old enough to legally drink one?

On one hand, we have children dressing like they’re auditioning for “Showgirls,” and on the other, we have adults obsessed with denying the existence of aging, and paying good money to have snake venom immobilize their faces. wants to be younger. It seems that the only solution for everyone’s self esteem and body dismorphia is to turn 16 and forget their birthdays forever. But that isn’t the solution either, because my sister is 16. She gets straight As and looks like a model. However, she can’t enjoy her Atkins-diet-produced flat stomach because she sees her thighs as too big. Over the summer, she would come into my room early in the morning while I was passed out at the ungodly hour of 10 a.m. and say, “Do these jeans make my legs look big?” This is not a fun question to answer at any time, but especially not before I’ve had my coffee. “No.” I would say, and roll over. Some people say that body language is 50 percent of all communication, and to anyone else, this would have been an obvious sign that I wanted to sleep undisturbed — but not to my sister. “Are you sure?” Victoria said, spinning on her heels in front of my face so that her butt practically blocked out the sun. “What about from the back?” she pouted. I still hadn’t had my coffee. “Yes, I’m sure! Not even from the back! You look stunning. Now go away.”

Five minutes later, she tapped me on the shoulder, having donned a new pair. “What about these?” If looks could kill, I’d be accused of murder. I’m just waiting to go home for Christmas to see my youngest sister, who is 12, wearing scandalous underwear and wielding a Botox syringe, saying, “Didn’t you know? Naked is in. I’m practically Republican.” Thank goodness she has to wear a uniform during school. Amid all the chaos, I realized with a chill that I am about to turn 20 and am, by modern standards, verging on over the hill. I’m straddling the edge. What is it about being human that makes us care so much about being young? Nobody, not even Adella of Terrell, (granted, she was fictional, but William Goldman probably based her on his wife) who was the model of perfection, was happy with what she was. But our response to the visual world is so visceral that after Princess Diana died painfully in a car crash and left two children, many people’s response was, “At least she died young and beautiful, and that is how the world will always remember her.”

Gorby’s world What Mikhail Gorbachev (and Ruth Simmons) forgot to remember MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IS SOMETHING of “Velvet Revolution,” Gorbachev was days a curiosity in the modern political world. away from a summit with President George He is perhaps as despised among ordinary H. W. Bush and did not want to have fresh Russian people as he is beloved by Western blood on his hands. Communism had been crumbling intellectuals. To a casual observer, his transformation must be remarkable internationally for years before Eastern indeed. How, after all, has the one-time Europe finally broke free. The difference in 1990 was it was simply too leader of one of the most noxexpensive for Russia to coniously repressive regimes of CHRISTOPHER tinue to control the old Soviet the past century become the MCAULIFFE Empire by force. Still, few had Renaissance man of choice for LIVE FREE OR DIE predicted this result just a the American intelligentsia? At decade earlier. Before Reagan his speech on Lincoln Field and Thatcher came to power this Monday, Gorbachev sounded like a professional diplomat, in the West, the popular theory was that drawing huge applause from a credulous the Brezhnev Doctrine (where commuaudience. However, his peculiar remarks nism goes, communism stays) had to be on the issue of globalization indicate that accepted, that missile defense was a danhis understanding of why democratic lib- gerous provocation and that socialist eralism prevailed in the Cold War remains economies would outperform stagflating capitalist ones for the foreseeable future. as puny as his place in history is colossal. Gorbachev’s legacy is indeed important, President Carter told the American people though the rush to anoint him as savior of that they were too accustomed to an the world makes little sense in the context unsustainably high standard of living and of history. Introducing Gorbachev, that they would have to learn to live with President Ruth Simmons heralded him as less. Then came President Reagan, who having “played a central role, and perhaps reinvigorated the economy, called evil by the central role, in ending the Cold War.” its true name and realized that when negoGorbachev was different from other Soviet tiating with a dogmatic and totalitarian leaders in one respect: When the Eastern regime, America should speak from a posiEuropean nations got a bit rowdy, he, tion of strength. He rebuilt the military, unlike his predecessors, chose not to send taking away the only advantage the Soviet in the tanks. He was not, however, a cham- Union ever really had. Ronald Reagan pion of freedom, by any stretch of the played the central role in ending the Cold imagination. Tom G. Palmer of the CATO War. And he won it. Simmons also complimented Institute, a man who spent years distributing banned literature behind the Iron Gorbachev for having “abandoned the Curtain, notes that at the time of the Czech instruments of coercion” during his leadership. However, Gorbachev’s central goal in reforming the Soviet Union was to preserve Christopher McAuliffe ‘05 would like communism. Perhaps enough revisionist every Brown student to look up the word history has allowed people to forget that “liberal” in the dictionary.

His understanding of why democratic liberalism prevailed in the Cold War remains as puny as his place in history is colossal. perestroika was a fundamentally illiberal concept, a program wherein the communist police cracked down on the few mechanisms of the free market that had been allowed to creep up in the Soviet Union. Gorbachev wanted to tackle unacceptably high rates of corruption and alcoholism, but somehow utterly failed to consider the possibility that those particular economic liabilities were not the disease, but symptoms of communism itself. On Monday, Gorbachev got it right when he claimed that “economic globalization provided the impetus for democratic globalization.” He then went on to contradict and cloud that eminently reasonable statement with a trendy but meaningless discourse that set “democracy” against “global corporations,” with enough references to “the people” to make any old Communist proud. He blamed the West for not providing enough aid to poor nations and for allowing “democracies” to lapse back into authoritarianisms, and he blamed “global corporations” for restricting the ability of governments to respond in the interests of their people. All this amounts to but a kindler, gentler manifestation of the communist belief in the power of governments to dispense Cosmic Justice. It misses the point that it was not democracy that led to the success of the West, but constitutional liberalism. Capitalism, freedom and property rights cannot dispense Cosmic Justice either, but

these instruments do better than any government ever has. The major reason why many undeveloped nations have failed to advance further is that they have implemented democracy without constitutional liberalism or capitalism. The central tenet of Gorbachev’s reformed ideology surfaced when he remarked that “some people are trying to impose one model on all of us … one panacea cannot be accepted by all.” It became clear that by “some people”, Gorbachev meant developed Western nations, and by “one model,” he meant democratic capitalism. He went on to equate this with the communist imperialism of old. Margaret Thatcher brilliantly summed up this equivocation, stating that Gorbachev’s was essentially that “since no side had won (or, doubtless more important to Mr. Gorbachev, no side had lost) and no single ideology was sufficient for the needs of the world today, the search for solutions must go on.” Such ideas, to Thatcher, “represent the articulation of a strategy, common to the left in many countries, of seeking to escape all blame for communism and then going on to take credit for being more pragmatic, modern and insightful about the world which those who actually fought communism have created. It is a pressing need to expose and defeat both distortions.” I myself could not have put it better than the Iron Lady.

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M. water polo places fourth at ECAC Tourney

Craziest rants of fans, athletes

BY JINHEE CHUNG

With a league game against rival Harvard last Thursday and the ECAC Tournament last weekend, the men’s water polo team brought another challenging set of matches to a close on Sunday. The Bears placed fourth out of 10 in the tournament, which included the top teams on the East Coast, behind Princeton, who went undefeated, Navy and St. Francis. They are now 6-5 in the season. The team originally expected a tough game against Harvard, despite the number of inexperienced players and injuries on the Crimson team, due to the deep-seeded rivalry between the two schools. Yet Brown completely dominated the pool all four quarters, shutting down the Harvard offense to a mere two goals. “We were surprised at how unmotivated they were,” said Pat Sandys ’05. “Usually in a rivalry it’s very close, but they did not step up their play the entire game.” Co-captain Doug Grutzmacher ’04 shined in the pool, leading the Bears in scoring with five goals and drawing four ejections. “Doug has had decent games so far this season, but until this match had not reached the expectations he had for himself,” said Coach Todd Clapper. “This game was a breakout game for him, and that momentum carried to the weekend for him and for the rest of the team as well.” Additional scoring by Sean Tiner ’06, Greg Harm ’06 and Sandys, each with two goals, and Graeme Lee-Wingate ’06 and John Bourne ’07 sealed the victory for Brown with a 13-2 win over Harvard. Only two days later, Brown met Harvard again in its first match in the ECAC Tournament. Despite the result of the previous match-up, Harvard once again failed to rise to the occasion and in a manner reminiscent of Thursday night, the Bears defeated the Harvard team with a final score of 15-6. In contrast, the second game of the day against St. Francis proved to be a much more difficult contest for the team on all ends. Consisting of older players with extensive experience on the international level and known to have inflicted serious injuries to many opposing team players, St. Francis used its advantage of size from the very beginning and did not hold back the entire game. “We were not aggressive whatsoever,” Sandys said. “In such a game we needed the mindset that whatever they did to us, we would do it right back to them, but instead they threw us around and we let them do it.” see WATER POLO, page 7

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Sean Tiner ’06 had two goals versus Harvard in a 13-2 win prior to ECACs.

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Lauren Gibbs ’06 smashes a middle set by Leigh Martin ’06 into St. Peter’s defense.

Volleyball picks up first win of the season against St. Peter’s BY KATHY BABCOCK

Brown volleyball (1-7) hosted a tournament this weekend and earned its first win of the season against St. Peter’s, but the team fell to New Hampshire and Georgia State. The Bears fell to UNH 3-1 on Friday, beat St. Peter’s 3-1 and lost 3-0 to Georgia State on Saturday. “We just played a little bit better this weekend,” said Coach Diane Short. Brown started off slow in their first game against New Hampshire and did-

n’t communicate their intentions well. The Bears also got aced early on by the Wildcats’ Alyson Coler. They picked up the intensity later in the game, but were unable to mount a comeback. The second game was tied half the time, but New Hampshire took a key time out and pulled away from the Bears, leading for the last 10 points of the game and eventually gaining a 27-30 victory. In the third game, Bruno took an see VOLLEYBALL, page 7

Without one of its top runners, M. X-country finishes fourth BY GRANT SMITH

In what Coach John Gregorak described as a conservative race, the Brown men’s cross country team pulled out a fourth place finish Saturday at Van Cortlandt Park in New York, behind the nationally ranked talent of Iona and La Salle and Ivy-League rival Dartmouth. Aiding in the fourth place finish and crossing the line in a near tandem for the Bears were carriers Patrick Tarpy ’05 and captain Matthew Emond ’04 with times of 26:02.6 and 26:02.9 respectively, placing them 17th and 18th overall. Michael DeCoste ’03.5, in his debut after an arthritic knee injury that plagued his season last year, turned in a time of 26:17.4, setting him in the top three finishers for the Bears and 24th in the rest of the field. Rounding out the top five for the Bears was 34th-place finisher Erik Churchill ’04 (26:28.6) and 43rd-place Jordan Kinley ’06 (26:35.8). “We didn’t have a good race or a bad race, it was just OK,” Gregorak said. “This race was not really indicative of

where we are right now. Our main purpose was to get a meet on this track since it is where the Heptagonal meet will be held,” he said. An important aspect of the team’s finish was missing runner Jeff Gaudette ’05, who sat out as a precaution. “Gaudette is normally one of our top three runners. If he would have run, we would have out-placed Dartmouth,” Gregorak said. Also sitting out for the Bears were Eamonn O’Connor ’04, with a possible lower-leg stress fracture, and Owen Washburn ’06, who is rehabilitating from a virus. “What we are looking at for the following weeks is a training program that begins to incorporate more speed work. It’s too early to ease off the miles, but we want to start to do less of an aerobic base workout and more race situations,” Gregorak said. The Bears will exhibit the results of this training when they face off against the talented Providence College team on Oct. 10 in Boston.

LET’S FACE IT, SPORTS MAKE US DO some pretty irrational things. Think about it. Would any person in their right mind jump in front of a piece of rubber traveling at almost 100 miles per hour? How could someone with any self-respect run around in a circle dodging punches thrown to the head? Well, these are just a few of the normal things that athletes do. The insanity does not stop on the field and spectators take no exception to the hysteria associated IAN CROPP with sports events. CROPPICAL PARADISE Fans go the extra mile, pouring their hearts into their teams, hoping that an emotional investment will somehow contribute to a win. I think it was the Beatles who once said that the love you take is equal to the love you make, but they were talking about a less significant and more fleeting love. The love affair that exists between fans and their teams has led to instances that stretch the boundaries of embarrassment. I’ve seen Buffalo Bills fans tear a Miami Dolphins jersey off an unsuspecting fan and punch him in the face. I’ve heard of NASCAR fans sneaking out onto the track the night before a race to urinate in hopes of making “prettyboy” Jeff Gordon spin out. Soccer hooligans have incited riots and are no longer able to visit the Netherlands due to a Dutch version of the “Homeland Security Act.” Cities have even developed psychological complexes while supporting a team (and I’m not talking about the sadomasochism of Detroit Tigers fans). The most destructive action taken by players and fans occurs when their team loses. Having suffered through a litany of sports travesties (The Music City throwback, no goal, Superbowl XV-XVIII, the 1986 world series, the 1972 U.S-Soviet Gold Medal basketball game, and of course the defeat of my intramural hockey team in the championship), I figured that I’ve broken enough chairs, or that nothing would prevent me from showing empathy. Well I would like to thank a man from Pinson, Alabama for raising the bar of sports spazzes and making John McEnroe look like Mr. Rodgers on a heavy dose of Valium. This past Saturday, “die hard” Alabama Crimson Tide fan Joseph Alan Logan held a gun to his son’s head and pulled the trigger while throwing a tantrum after Alabama lost in double overtime to Arkansas. His son, Seth, who had asked him for a car shortly after the loss, moved his head away at the last second and was physically unharmed. Logan claimed that the request upset him because Seth had wrecked several cars before, and that his actions were only meant to scare Seth. I guess if Logan didn’t scare his son enough by slamming doors, throwing boxes, and breaking dishes, putting a 9 mm to his son’s forehead did the trick. But I don’t know who is more at fault here. Asking for a new car after Pa’s team loses in double overtime is like asking Republicans to increase welfare benefits; you should just know better. Logan had been drinking alcohol, which I’m going to say is a reassuring thought, as I only hope someone would be intoxicated to care that much about a sporting event. I know history and I know pride runs ramsee CROPP, page 7