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Mass. court ruling spurs statehouse rally BY JULIETTE WALLACK

Brown’s LGBT community showed its support of gay marriage at a rally yesterday evening that drew more than 50 people from around the state. The rally in front of the statehouse was organized after the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled state laws preventing same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. Marcy Feibelman ‘04 was one of the Brown students who convened on the lawn of the statehouse to show support for the decision. “Cars would go by and honk, and we would cheer,” Feibelman said. “To say, ‘We know why you’re there, and thanks for standing outside.’ It was back-and-forth support, to say, ‘We believe what you believe in.’” Feibelman said she saw several Brown students she knew at the gathering, and she also encountered people she knew through Rhode Island Pride Committee. “It was nice to have those kinds of support,” she said. Members of the Brown Democrats and Queer Alliance who support gay marriage also attended the rally, but the turnout was smaller than Feibelman hoped, partly because the unexpected announcement of the ruling meant the rally was organized quickly. “I wanted it to be a huge thing, but it still was really meaningful for me. In my littlekid mind, I was picturing tons of people all over the state coming,” she said. Despite the somewhat smaller turnout, the show of support was good to see. The court handed the ruling down Tuesday morning, and the decision in Goodridge et al. v. Department of Public Health clears the way for same-sex couples to apply for civil marriage licenses. The state of Massachusetts has 180 days to change civil marriage laws to reflect the new allowance. A change in civil marriage laws means that same-sex couples in Massachusetts would be afforded the same rights as traditional married couples. Couples with civil

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Geoff Gusoff '07 (left) speaks with Rabbi Alan Flam, a senior fellow at the Swearer Center for Public Service, and Brad Brockman '76 at a discussion on "Interfaith Perspectives on Faith and Activism," sponsored by the Student Housing and Hunger Action Coalition.

Local program supports doctors working abroad BY KATE CUSHING

In developing countries throughout the world, 35,000 children under the age of five die every day. A doctor in Malawi earns only $70 per month, so doctors only practice medicine there for an average of three years. In Liberia there were 100 doctors working in the public sector in 1990. Today, there are only 25 doctors for the country of four million. Adopt A Doctor, a Rhode Island-

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Need-blind admission and faculty growth top budget challenges BY LISA MANDLE

Supporting the costs of need-blind admission and a growing faculty will be two of the greatest challenges to the 2004-2005 University budget, said Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Beppie Huidekoper. The University Resources Committee, a group of faculty, staff, administrators and students who present an annual budget proposal to President Ruth Simmons, has already heard reports throughout the semester from Facilities Management, the Vice

President for Research, the Office of Financial Aid and most academic departments, Huidekoper said. The URC will report its recommendations to Simmons in February, she said. The final budget will be set at the Corporation meeting then. Huidekoper said the University is “trying to do a lot on a lot of different fronts” and must “allocate carefully.” There is “nothing unusual” about this year’s budget pressures, but there are a lot of things to consider, she said.

based organization founded in June, is seeking to reverse this “brain drain” that pulls doctors away from the world’s poorest countries by offering physicians financial incentives to stay. The project is the brainchild of Ray Rickman, a former Rhode Island State representative who currently serves as diversity director for Providence. While sick in bed with the flu, Rickman listened to a radio interview with a physician working in Central Africa, and he was deeply affected by the physician’s struggle to provide even basic health care to his patients due to a lack of supplies and medicine. “I had talked with my doctor and he said, ‘Stay in bed for two days, drink tea and you will be fine,’ and at the same time this young woman (in Malawi) had died because the physician there runs out of medicine on the 15th of every month, and her flu had become pneumonia,” Rickman said. “When the sadness subsided, I conceived the idea of helping support doctors who are working in the poorest countries in the world. ... In the developed world, we seldom die because we get a cold. Once our program succeeds in our mission, thousands in the developing world will no longer die this way either,” Rickman said in a statement on the organization’s Web site. Adopt A Doctor aims to double a

Brown employees receive more benefits than free flu shots and access to the OMAC. Faculty and staff are eligible to receive funds to help put their children through college. The Tuition Aid Program offers employees up to $10,000 per year per eligible child for undergraduate tuition at Brown or another institution. Drew Murphy, director of the Benefits Office, which administers the program, said aid was given to 294 participants in fiscal year 2003. Professor of Neuroscience Justin Fallon, whose daughter is a first-year at Brown, said, “the tuition benefit is an extremely important and highly valued program among the faculty and staff.” “It is a very useful recruitment and retention tool — certainly in the case of staff I’ve hired,” Fallon said. Toni Tinberg, benefits compliance manager, said that since July 2002, the $10,000 has been the same for all employees — from tenured faculty to chefs at the Ratty. Stephen Foley, associate professor of English, who has two sons at Brown, said he is also pleased with the tuition benefit. “The benefit was raised recently to make it equal for everyone,” Foley said. “It’s the best since I’ve been here, which is 21 years.”

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TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Ninth-ranked Dies leads wrestling in first tournament of the season sports, page 12

M. icers defeat Ivy rivals in weekend play, earning Ihnacak ECAC Rookie of the Week sports, page 12

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UPenn considers coed housing BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

The University of Pennsylvania is considering co-ed housing for groups of three or more students. UPenn’s Undergraduate Assembly passed a proposal for co-ed housing on Nov. 9. University officials are currently reviewing a similar proposal. “We are not considering specifically (the UA’s) proposal,” faculty member and Pluralism Committee Chairman Dennis Culhane wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “But their support for a change in the policy is important, and will be considered by the committee in its own deliberations.” “The Undergraduate Assembly’s vote will be taken into consideration along with the feedback of a number of other constituencies by the pluralism committee,” said Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center Director Robert Schoenberg, a supporter of co-ed on-campus housing. After the Pluralism Committee relays its decision to the University Council, the Council will then advise President Judith Rodin, who will make the final decision. “In most instances the president and the provost adhere to the advice of the Council,” Schoenberg said. “All of this is going to take some time.” Bradley Breuer ’06, the student who first questioned the current policy on co-ed housing in early February, told The Herald that the absence of coed housing at UPenn clearly raises discrimination issues. Breuer, who is gay, wished to live with a heterosexual female friend but was unable to because of housing regulasee UPENN, page 7

Stanford Daily under attack for “insensitive” ads in paper BY KRISTA HACHEY

In one of several recent ads published in Stanford University’s student newspaper, an image of Israelis mourning in Tel Aviv on Sept. 11, 2001 is juxtaposed with a photo of Palestinians celebrating the tragedy. The ad, one in a series placed in campus newspapers across the country by the proIsraeli One Truth Foundation, claims “There are two sides to every story, but only one truth.” In response to the ads, a group of about 300 students under the direction of the campus Coalition for Justice signed a petition requesting that the Daily stop running the ad series, and later, a recall of Daily Editor-in-Chief Ramin Setoodeh. In a statement published in the Daily on Nov. 4, the Coalition for Justice stated: “We are not against free speech or the freedom of the press. In fact, we celebrate the rights of people to hold controversial opinions and to express those opinions openly. However, we feel that these advertisements went far beyond controversy, into the realm of unacceptable ignorance, intolerance and hatred.” After several meetings with Coalition members, Setoodeh has decided to continue printing the ads through the scheduled run, which ends Nov. 21. “Nothing in the ads is factually inaccurate,” he said. “I don’t think they have racist implications.” “We were hoping the ads would spark discussion, and they have,” Setoodeh said. “Our opinions page has been swamped with letters, and the letters have been very intelligent and brought up points of discussion that have really made people think.” Ezra Callahan, vice president and chief financial officer of the Stanford Daily Publishing Corporation, said the Daily takes great care to consult its

advertising policy as well as the credibility and objectivity of ad sources. “We take into consideration whether the ad is putting forward an academically relevant point of view, which is to say it is actually making a defensibly argument; it provides some measure of proof or evidence for what it is saying,” Callahan said. Marcela Rosen, president of the One Truth Foundation, said her objective in disseminating the ads is to make students question “awful lies” presented by media and other information sources. Campus papers that have run the ads include the Cornell Daily Sun, Yale Daily News and the Daily Northwestern. The Herald has not received any ads from One Truth. “The first step to stopping heinous practices is to expose them,” Rosen said, calling reports of an Israeli-led massacre in Jenin one instance of anti-Israeli “lies and propaganda.” Rosen said the pro-Israeli ads are well-researched and

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meant to rectify notions of the Israeli people, who have been “demonized,” she said. Rosen also described the “heroes” ad, which the Daily chose not to print. Next to the image of an Islamic terrorist, which is labeled “Palestinian schoolchildren’s hero,” the ad shows an Israeli Olympic athlete, which is marked, “Israeli schoolchildren’s hero.” Rosen acknowledged the inflammatory nature of the ads. “Of course there are good Palestinians and of course not all Israelis are angels,” she said. “But the studies we have conducted are true and all ads are grounded on reports and fact.” The Foundation’s Web site provides further information substantiating each ad’s claim, she said. Callahan said the Daily did not anticipate the charges that the ads were racist, and that by publishing them, the Daily indirectly supported their message. “We expected the debate to have a largely political focus, so

If President Ruth Simmons is looking for a change of locale, she has her supporters for the position of president of the University of Tennessee. Simmons’ name is among many submitted in a series of public forums hosted by the UT Presidential Search Committee. None of the nominees have been informed that their names were submitted, Margaret Perry, executive director for the presidential search, told the Associated Press. Other nominees include Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Riley Anderson, Lt. Gen. Dennis Cavin, commander of the U.S. Army Accessions Command and 10 other university presidents or chancellors. “Seriously, I think we are going to get some good candidates and are getting some good suggestions,” Perry said. UT formally began its presidential search on Oct. 10, two months after former President John Shumaker resigned from the position.

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Princeton library looks to offer music online (U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. — The

Princeton University Library is considering making music available through its Web site in an effort to legally distribute recordings to community members. In what would be an extension of the ereserve system, the University Library may subscribe to a service which would provide streaming audio to users, said Assistant Music Librarian Daniel Boomhower. Streaming is a process which sends music to a user across a network without giving the user a permanent copy. “There is definite interest on the part of the music library and the University Library to subscribe to online audio services,” Boomhower said. Though there are currently no services available that meet the university’s needs, some are in production, he said. HNH International Limited, Classical

International, Inc. and Smithsonian Global Sound are the three online music subscription services under consideration, he said. Princeton is not the only institution aiming to solve the problem of legal music distribution. Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Penn State University’s administration have also both moved toward solutions of their own. At MIT, two students created the Library Access to Music Project. The service was supposed to work by allowing students to act as DJs for a campus-wide music service which would be broadcast across existing cable TV lines. However, after only a week of activity, the service was shut down when the Universal Music Group claimed LAMP operators had not see PRINCETON, page 7

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Stanford continued from page 3 when issues of racism came into the picture and charges that the ads constituted hate speech surfaced, we were a little surprised,” he said. “The question of whether the ads are racially insensitive — or just plain racist — was not the one we expected to be the center of the debate.” Callahan said the Coalition’s efforts to perpetuate a recall are not valid because they did not originate from within the staff itself. While a number of staffers did object to the content of the ads, there is little likelihood of amassing the 20 staff signatures required by the paper’s bylaws to remove the editor-in-chief. “The debates among staff members have been as lively and passionate as those between the paper’s leaders and the community groups against the ad,” Callahan said. “Several staff members did sign the petition to remove the editor-in-chief, and many more signed the first petition aimed at getting the ads removed from the paper.” Setoodeh, who bears the responsibility of passing the paper’s final judgments, said there will always be individuals who do not agree with him, but “the most important issue here is

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that most of the members of my staff who wouldn’t have run the ads if they were in my shoes understand why I made the decision to run them.” While Setoodeh stands by his decision to publish the ads and the Coalition holds fast to its objections, there appear to be few prospects of compromise, Callahan said. “There certainly are ways that similar situations in the future could be handled in such a way as to minimize the negative impact that controversial ads would have,” he said. “It is there that room for compromise exists.” Although few students have openly supported the content of the ads themselves, many have voiced the important role of newspapers as an open forum for the free expression of all ideas and opinions, challenging and uncomfortable as they may be, Callahan said. “Most of the silencing is not how you make controversy go away,” he added. “That was a sentiment also expressed by the editor of The Stanford Progressive, the campus’ liberal student paper, which would be the publication most likely to attack our running of the ad.” Herald staff writer Krista Hachey ’07 can be reached at khachey@browndailyherald.com.

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Court rules samesex marriage ban unconstitutional BOSTON (L.A. Times) — In the

most far-reaching victory yet for advocates of gay and lesbian marriage, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts on Tuesday ruled that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. “We declare that barring an individual from the protections, benefits and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution,” Chief Justice Margaret Marshall wrote. The 4-3 decision by the state’s highest court stopped short of issuing marriage licenses to seven homosexual couples who two years ago brought suit after unsuccessfully seeking to marry. Rather, the court gave the state Legislature 180 days to come up with a plan to allow individuals of the same sex to wed in Massachusetts. In its sweeping, 90-page decision, the court exceeded previous court rulings by reformulating the conventional definition of civil marriage “to mean the voluntary union of two persons as spouses, to the exclusion of all others.” Further, the court ruled: “Whether and whom to marry, how to express sexual intima-

cy, and whether and how to establish a family — these are among the most basic of every individual’s liberty and due process rights. And central to personal freedom and security is the assurance that the laws will apply equally to persons in similar situations. “Barred access to the protections, benefits and obligations of civil marriage, a person who enters into an intimate, exclusive union with another of the same sex is arbitrarily deprived of membership in one of our community’s most rewarding and cherished institutions,” the court declared. While supporters celebrated the decision in Goodridge vs. Massachusetts Board of Health in rallies across the United States, President Bush, speaking from London, denounced the Massachusetts high court for violating the principle that “marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman.” Sean Patrick O’Malley, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, assailed the judicial majority for rejecting “the very definition of marriage held by peoples for thousands of years.” On Beacon Hill — where a see GAY, page 6

Likely remains of Dean’s brother are found in Asia (L.A. Times) — Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean confirmed Tuesday that a joint U.S.-Laotian task force has likely discovered the remains of his younger brother Charles, who was kidnapped and slain while traveling through Laos 29 years ago. Dean, who journeyed to Southeast Asia last year to visit the site where it was believed his brother was killed, received the news several days ago. He and his two other brothers told their mother Monday night. The discovery resurrects a painful chapter in the life of the former Vermont governor, who was 25 when his brother and an Australian friend, Neil Sharman, were captured during a trip through Laos in September 1974. After months of uncertainty, the Dean family learned from Asian contacts in mid-1975 that Charles Dean was probably dead, but they knew little about the circumstances until recently. On Tuesday, Dean was uncharacteristically introspective about how the loss of his brother affected him. “I never really had time to grieve; it’s very hard to grieve when you don’t have a body,” a somber Dean told reporters traveling with him on a plane from Bedford, N.H., to Houston. But he said the loss of a brother caused him to be “much more careful about my personal relationships ... being much more careful to tell people that I loved them when I did,” he said. “It made me more demonstrative about my emotions.”

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Dean also said his brother’s death was so traumatic he had anxiety attacks in the early 1980s, which motivated him to seek therapy for about a year. “When you go through something like this, you have a tremendous sense of survivor’s guilt and anger, anger at the person who disappeared and then guilt over the anger,” he said. Dean still wears a belt that belonged to Charles, and said his brother’s disappearance still haunts him. “You always think about it,” he said. “That never goes away.” Dean said the items found at the site in Laos, a rice paddy a few miles from the Vietnam border, give him confidence that his brother’s grave has been located. “This experience is very hard for us, but it’s a good experience, in the end ... because it does bring closure.” Pentagon officials said they cannot confirm that the remains are those of Dean’s brother until they complete a forensic analysis of the bones and other items found at the site in Bolikhamxai Province in central Laos. The identification process could take months or years, depending on the condition of the remains, said Penatgon spokesman Larry Greer. Along with substantial skeletal remains, investigators with the Pentagon’s Joint Task Force Full Accounting — which seeks to recover the bodies of Americans taken prisoners of war and missing in action in Vietnam and other wars — found a pair of shoes that resem-

bles those worn by Charles Dean and a POW/MIA bracelet he wore to commemorate a soldier lost in Vietnam, Dean said. “I believe it’s 99.9 percent [certain], given the effects they found at the site,” Dean said. The discovery came to light on a day when Dean delivered a speech in Houston summarizing the insurgent themes of his campaign. He accused President Bush of employing “Enron economics” by pushing the agendas of the wealthy — including those who have contributed to his campaigns — over the needs of ordinary Americans. But the focus of the day was on the discovery in Laos, prompting Dean to spend almost an hour reflecting on the impact of his younger brother’s death. Just 16 months apart, the two shared a bunk bed as children growing up in New York and then attended boarding school together in Rhode Island. They went to different colleges — Howard to Yale; Charles to the University of North Carolina. But during those years, they both moved to the political left, much to the disapproval of their staunchly Republican family. Idealistic and gregarious, Charles Dean served as president of the student body at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and then went on to work as the county chair for Democrat George McGovern’s 1972 presidential bid. But McGovern’s sound defeat see DEAN, page 6

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Dean continued from page 5 by President Nixon disillusioned and angered Charles Dean, who decided to head off on a backpacking trip to Asia. His disappearance profoundly affected his older brother and reshaped his outlook on life, according to Irene Wielawski, one of nine journalists who contributed to a recently published book about Dean. Howard Dean became more serious and pragmatic, according to Wielawski, who spoke with many of his friends from the time. “It really halted his Yaleinfluenced liberal drift,” she said. “He snapped back to a much more of a centrist political view.”

At the time he was seized by Communist Laotian forces, Charles Dean was 24 years old and had been backpacking through Australia and Asia for about a year. During a trip down the Mekong River, he and Sharman were taken off a ferry and held by Communist forces in a dispute over a camera he was carrying, according to Howard Dean. He was held in a local police camp for at least three months, and managed to smuggle out a photo of himself, which eventually reached the U.S. embassy in the Laotian capitol. Howard Dean, who was living at home at the time, working as a stock broker and taking night classes to prepare for medical school, got the phone call that his brother was captured. At the time, the family had not heard from Charles Dean in months and had been frantically trying

to track him down. “It was very worrisome, but at least we knew he was alive,” Dean said. Through his father’s contacts with a group called the Asia Foundation, Dean said the family received a letter in May 1975 that indicated Charles Dean was likely dead. The family held a private memorial service for him in Sag Harbor, N.Y., at a family cemetery. They eventually learned that on Dec. 14, 1974, Dean and Sharman were handcuffed and transported from the camp in a truck. That was the last time they were seen alive. Although he was a civilian, Charles Dean was classified as a POW/MIA. Howard Dean said that led to speculation that Charles he was working for the CIA as a spy — a report he said he discounts because of his brother’s strong anti-war views.

Boston continued from page 1 marriage licenses would be permitted to visit each other in the hospital without question, file joint state tax returns and receive other protections under state law, in addition to other legal and financial benefits accorded to traditional couples. Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 edits the metro section. She can be reached at jwallack@browndailyherald.com.

Gay continued from page 5 small group of lawmakers has been working for months to craft a civil-union bill that would create marriage-like rights for gay and lesbian couples — some prominent state legislators said Tuesday that they would pursue a constitutional amendment to limit the definition of marriage to the union between one man and one woman. Republican Gov. Mitt Romney said he would veto any measure extending marriage to homosexual couples. Romney said he agreed with “3,000 years of recorded history,” not with his state’s highest court. “Marriage is an institution between a man and a woman,” the governor said. “I will support an amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution that makes that expressly clear.” Nonetheless, plaintiffs in the lawsuit were overjoyed Tuesday. Gloria Bailey and Linda Davies have been a couple for 32 years. “Without a doubt, this is the happiest day of our lives,” said Bailey, fighting back tears and fingering a diamond engagement ring passed down through Davies’ family. “The most important

Klonik continued from page 12 simply opted to wait to start their steroid cycle until after testing was finished. Trainers reported a loss in body weight of 25 to 30 pounds for a few All-Stars and one player was reportedly seriously injured after a significant loss in muscle mass. In addition, under the proposed testing guidelines, anonymity is maintained until the second positive test is registered, giving athletes

W. rugby continued from page 12 club sport. When the team is a varsity sport, they are much better because they have better equipment and have access to more facilities,” Heffernan said. Each member on the team must pay dues so that she can play on the team and travel to away games. The team plays some schools where women’s rugby is a club sport but others where it is a varsity sport. Many of the players said they play the game because they love to be competitive athletes and like to stay physically active. But they noted that the team would be more competitive if it had access to the same resources that varsity sports receive. “We do not have sports trainers like many of the varsity sports have. Another issue is that it is difficult for club teams to find spaces to practice. Since we will be going to nationals, it is crucial that we have the necessary practice time so that we can compete with the schools where women’s rugby is a varsity sport,” Lindberg said.

thing is that whatever lies ahead, we now know we can be at each other’s sides.” The Supreme Judicial Court spent close to eight months deliberating before issuing its ruling, which gives broader rights to same-sex couples than any other state. The decision was framed around the court’s conclusion that excluding gays and lesbians from “the unique institution of civil marriage” violates the state’s Constitution. Without the right to marry, the court wrote, “one is excluded from the full range of human experience” and denied “enormous private and social advantages.” Although there is no specific statute in Massachusetts precluding same-sex couples from marrying, common-law tradition in Massachusetts has dictated that only heterosexuals could marry. The court’s decision Tuesday cannot be appealed to a federal court because it is based entirely on the state Constitution. The Supreme Judicial Court gave the legislature the 180-day timetable to implement its ruling. The panel was adamant that creating a separate, marriage-like institution for same-sex couples would not satisfy the state’s constitution.

no real responsibility. So, Selig has attempted at least to give us something, as slanted as that something may be. It seems to breathe a level of legitimacy back into the sport of baseball, but it’s only halfway there. Biased and anonymous steroid tests are temporary life support for a sport that seems to be dominated more and more by artifice and affluence. Kate Klonick ’06 is from Pittsford, N.Y., and waited to start her steroid cycle until after writing this column.

The team hopes to build awareness on campus about just how good they are. “Students seem to be very interested in learning about the sport. It is just a matter of publicizing that we are out there and that we are going to nationals,” Lorber said. “Ten years from now, I hope that women’s rugby at Brown has a lot of publicity and that it is a varsity sport so that it can reap the benefits of the other varsity sports on campus.” When Lorber tells other students she plays women’s rugby, “I receive a surprised reaction. Many people are astonished to find out that women’s rugby has the same rules as men’s rugby.” Heffernan emphasized that women’s rugby is “not about freakish women running around on the field. We are trying to dispel this wrong stereotype.” With more than four months left until nationals, the team will be focused on staying healthy and will continue to build weight and muscle so that the weight difference between them and their competitors is not as large. Herald staff writer Robby Klaber ’07 can be reached at rklaber@browndailyherald.com.

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Princeton continued from page 3 obtained the necessary licenses to distribute music on the campus. Penn State recently reached a deal with Napster which would give students free access to a new version of the oncepopular program which now charges a fee for downloads. Students would be able to freely download any song from the Napster library and burn CD’s for 99 cents each. This spring, 18,000 students will have access to the service on their campus. Some students feel that spending educational funds to finance recreational music is not the university’s job.

Budget continued from page 1 With need-blind admission, “you just don’t know what’s going to happen,” Huidekoper said. The Class of 2007 was the first class admitted to Brown under the need-blind policy. As each new class is admitted needblind, financial aid costs could increase dramatically, she said. The University also hopes to increase graduate student financial aid, Huidekoper said. The URC must also look at the cost to support the increasing faculty size, Huidekoper said. In addition to salaries, funds are needed for office and research space, she said. It is generally more expensive to add faculty to the sciences than to the humanities, she said. But when there are searches out in both fields, the University cannot know which searches will be successful and must be prepared to accommodate everyone, she said. Health care costs are also “going up like crazy,” Huidekoper said. The University has seen a 12

UPenn continued from page 3 tions. “We realized the inherent heterosexism that was embedded in that policy,” Breuer said. But Breuer also said he believes the benefits of on-campus co-ed housing are not limited to LGBT students. “I think the proposal to go coed is meant to benefit everyone in this university,” he said. “It’s not just discrimination based on your sexual orientation, it’s discrimination based on gender.” Students tend to want to live with their friends, and a co-ed housing policy acknowledges the fact that “we don’t form friends just based on what our gender identity is,” Breuer said. According to Culhane, administrative resistance to a change in policy may stem from a fear that students will abuse the opportunity to live with members of the opposite sex. “I presume that the current

“Pop music isn’t necessarily part of a college experience,” said Nathan Domingue, who has composed several original rap songs with Brian RootBernstein. Domingue said he wouldn’t expect the University to provide music any more than he would “expect the school to buy me a TV or refrigerator.” While these systems are running their courses at other institutions, the newest version of Apple’s iTunes is already having an effect on Princeton’s campus. In addition to letting students pay for music as they download it, the new version also enables both Macintosh and Microsoft Windows users to share songs across the University network. The program lets users listen to files off

to 20 percent annual increase in costs, and is creating an advisory board to rethink benefit plans, she said. Costs of property insurance and utilities have also increased, she said. The University took advantage of the lowest interest rates in 30 years to borrow $90 million on top of the University’s $160 million debt, Huidekoper said. The low interest rates will finance Brown’s many current capital projects, including construction at 70 Ship St. and early work on the Life Sciences building, she said. Huidekoper is also planning to report on the cost to the University versus the price students pay for a Brown education for this year’s annual report. Tuition does not cover the full cost of students’ education, but additional funds come from the endowment and gifts, she said. Brown has an endowment of $187,000 per student, which gives the University a payout of about $10,000 dollars per student, she said. By comparison, Harvard University has $900,000 per student, she said. Princeton University has an endowment of $1.2 million per student, allow-

policy reflects the concern of administrators, parents and alums (and some students as well), that housing policy should not encourage intimate partners to live with each other while on campus,” Culhane wrote. Director of Housing and Conference Services Douglas Berger declined to comment because of the Pluralism Committee’s pending review of the proposal. But, in an interview with the Daily Pennsylvanian, Berger denied any problems with the current housing system and dismissed claims of discrimination within the system as “more of a personal opinion” than proven fact. Breuer said the only problems he foresees in a co-ed housing system lie in its implementation. He said he fears “there may be strong resistance from some conservatives who will want to preserve the heterosexist system of assigning housing.” Herald staff writer Robbie CoreyBoulet ’07 can be reached at rcoreyboulet@browndailyherald.com.

each other’s computers without copying the files. This sharing feature has Domingue and Root-Bernstein excited. The duo has recorded three original rap songs and is encouraging the community to listen to them through iTunes. “I think sharing is really good for someone like me who is trying to get heard and not necessarily make money,” Domingue said. But this easy distribution is a double-edged sword: “I think programs like iTunes and even Kazaa are wonderful for up-and-coming musicians who have no chance of being signed to a major record label,” said RootBernstein. “But for those artists that depend on record sales for a living, they are certainly the opposite.”

ing for a payout of about $60,000 per student, she said. In past years the URC listened to budget requests from departments and created a proposal for the next year’s budget by weighing those requests, Huidekoper said. This year the URC has asked for “state of the state” reports on how well the 20032004 budget is working, she said. After hearing these reports, the URC will give departments spending guidelines before they submit requests, she said. Herald senior staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 can be reached at lmandle@browndailyherald.com.

Tuition continued from page 1 Many colleges and universities offer a tuition benefit to children of faculty and sometimes to all employees. According to Murphy, Brown’s program “compares favorably, certainly not at the top, not at the bottom, but above average.” The eligibility rules and amount of aid varies widely from school to school. Harvard University offers no tuition benefits at all. But at Duke University, all employees are eligible after five years to apply 75 percent of Duke’s tuition toward tuition at any institution, for up to two children. Jennifer Frazier, who works at Duke’s Benefits Administration office, said 800

people currently participate in the program. At Boston College, like several other schools, the children of employees get a full ride if they attend BC, but the benefit does not apply elsewhere. Massachusetts Institute of Technology was one of several institutions to revamp its tuition benefit program after a change in the federal tax code in 1999. The children of all employees get a full ride at MIT, and tenured faculty receive half of MIT’s tuition to apply toward tuition at other colleges. But the collegeattending children of untenured faculty merit only $2,000 per year, and there is no outside benefit for the children of staff. Herald staff writer Justin Elliott ’07 can be reached at jelliott@browndailyherald.com.

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M. hockey continued from page 12 Brown got the tempo going quickly on Friday night as Ringstad tallied his first goal two minutes into the game. Center Joe Bauer ’06 won a face-off back to defenseman Gerry Burke ’05 in the Yale end. Burke fired a wrist shot from the point that Ringstad tipped past Yale goaltender Matt Modelski, last week’s ECAC rookie of the week. The Bears struck again 10 minutes later after Yale’s Mike Klema and Matthew Craig were simultaneously penalized — Klema for hooking and Craig for roughing. Brown took full advantage of the 5-on-3 power play. Captain Scott Ford ’04 blasted a slap shot from the point that went wide of the net, but Haggett managed to knock the puck to Ihnacak who punched it home. Bruno peppered Modelski with 25 shots in the first period and 39 in the game. Yale came out with renewed energy in the second period, but Danis was up to the task in net. Danis thwarted Yale’s efforts with another stellar performance, making nine saves in the second period. “We can count on Yann to be ready every night. It’s a good feeling to have him back there,” said Antonin Roux ’07. The teams appeared to be more equally matched in the second period, but Brown picked up the intensity in the last five minutes. Chris Swon ’05 took a pass from Caouette, skated out from the left corner and fired a wrist shot over Modelski’s right shoul-

Doctor continued from page 1 doctor’s salary, contingent upon his agreement to stay in one of the target countries for at least seven years. The target countries, selected as the poorest countries in the world with the poorest health care systems, currently include Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Liberia, Malawi, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. Each target country is paired with a local Rhode Island community, and funds for the salary increase are generated from the local residents. “This program will take a doctor out of extreme poverty and at least place them in genteel poverty, and for a committed person that may be enough to keep them in the country,” Rickman said. “We are not expecting 100 percent success, but I expect most to stay. … Even if a doctor does not stay for the seven years, for the time they do remain, they will be a better doctor.” In order to realize his vision of an international health care program, Rickman sought help from the Brown community. He advertised a position through Brown for a summer intern to conduct research. From the 65 applications that were reviewed, Rajiv Kumar ’05 was selected. “From the start Rajiv took on tremendous responsibility and showed great initiative. … I don’t think I could have hired anyone better,” Rickman said. As a result of the dedication and compas-

der to make the score 3-0. Three minutes later, Ringstad struck again, scoring the prettiest goal of the night. Ringstad corralled a loose puck in the corner, skated out in front of the Yale net, waited for Modelski to go down and then shot the puck over the helpless goaltender. The goal was Ringstad’s third point in the last two games. Brown’s power-play unit proved effective in the third period as well. It took Haggett only 15 seconds to capitalize on a Yale holding penalty early in the third period. Haggett, who was playing in his first game of the season after recovering from a knee injury, tapped the puck in after Ihnacak fed him a pass from behind the Yale net, making it 50. “The power play did a great job tonight,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo. “I was really pleased with the team’s overall performance tonight.” Grillo said he was especially happy with the work of the special teams units, which yielded goals on two of their four power-play opportunities, and held Yale to five shots and no goals on three penalty kills. Caouette capped the scoring with 10 minutes left in the third. Defenseman Paul Crosty ’05 held a Yale clearing attempt in the offensive zone and then passed the puck to Swon in the Yale corner. Swon threaded a pass in front of the net to a waiting Caouette, who one-timed a snap shot through the legs of the Yale goaltender. Brown looked much sharper than Yale the entire game. The Bears won the battles to the loose pucks, and they made

fewer mistakes defensively. Brown was also able to capitalize on Yale’s sloppy defensive play. Grillo was pleased with his team’s intensity from the opening face-off. “We came out flat in the last two games, but we really came out strong tonight,” Grillo said. Captain Scott Ford was also pleased with the team’s home opener, after amassing a 2-1-0 record in the team’s first three games on the road. “It was really great to be back in our home building,” Ford said. “We really capitalized on our opportunities tonight.” Ringstad attributed some of the success to Meehan Auditorium’s noisy near-capacity crowd of 2,233 people. “The atmosphere in the building was really great,” Ringstad said. “I expect us to play with the same intensity against Princeton.” His prediction proved to be correct as Brown posted an equally convincing win on Saturday night. Brown continued to dominate at both ends of the rink. The Bears scored four times before Princeton brought Danis’ shutout streak to an end with seven minutes left in the third period on a Grant GoecknerZoeller goal. Danis had held opponents scoreless for 162 minutes over the course of three games. Brown next faces cross-town rival Providence College on Nov. 25 in the 18th Annual Mayor’s Cup. Brown will be looking to avenge last year’s 3-1 loss to the Friars. The game is at 7 p.m. at Schneider Arena.

sion that Kumar demonstrated, his position as an intern evolved into a directorial role. He now serves as the director and cofounder of Adopt A Doctor. A PLME student and business economics concentrator, Kumar hopes to one day pursue a career in pediatrics. He brings his interest in practicing medicine into his work at Adopt A Doctor. “I am passionate about health care. I believe that health care is a human right, not a privilege and something must be done to bring basic health care to people everywhere,” Kumar said. One aspect of Kumar’s responsibilities as director includes organizing the Rhode Island town meetings where residents meet to discuss their partnerships with the target countries. The first Adopt A Doctor town meeting was held in Little Compton, which is paired with Haiti, on Oct. 18. There was an exceptional turnout for a small town, Kumar said. “It was quite a special moment,” Kumar said. “A community gathered to share an intimate conversation about humanity and the power of compassion. Nearly two dozen people ‘adopted a doctor.’ … From that one gathering we are expecting to financially support two Haitian physicians for seven years each.” “It was — and this is not a strong enough word — electrifying,” Rickman said. “The people were glued to every word that was said.” Rickman estimated that 40 percent of the Little Compton meeting attendees donated to

Adopt A Doctor. According to Kumar, there are not specific fundraising goals for each community. In general, the program asks for two types of donations from community members, $100 per year for seven years (or all $700 at once) or donations in any amount to support general operations. “We are convinced, wherever we go, people will give whatever they can,” Kumar said. In June, Rickman and Kumar, along with community representatives from Little Compton, Cranston and Providence, will travel to Haiti, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone. Doctors from the target countries will also visit the Rhode Island communities that help support them. Encouraged by the success in Little Compton, Rickman, Kumar and the staff and volunteers at Adopt A Doctor have planned additional town meetings in coming weeks. “In larger communities such as Cranston and the East Side of Providence, we are expecting even greater turnouts,” Kumar said. “We are hoping to be financially supporting 20 physicians by the end of this year, and we hope to increase this number to 300 by the end of four years,” he said. “We are building a structure for a lifetime. We will save thousands and thousands of lives by keeping doctors in the country. That is what this is all about. The model is so simple and the contribution is so small, but we will save thousands and thousands of lives,” Rickman said.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2003 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Trying our best Doing the right thing can be expensive. Need-blind admission already put Brown briefly in debt earlier this year when the struggling economy forced more members of the Class of 2007 to ask for financial aid than was expected. Recent signs of economic growth aside, the Class of 2008 and beyond will no doubt require more assistance than many of their recent predecessors. We applaud the University for standing by its commitment to allow a Brown education to be as widely accessible as possible. While other schools are rethinking financial aid packages, Brown is doing everything it can to expand its offerings. The University’s push to bring need-blind admission to transfer and international students is beginning. Similarly, while many schools only offer tuition credit for the children of employees to attend the institution where their parent works — if that — Brown gives each of its workers $10,000 for their kids’ educations with no strings attached. With the capital campaign underway and an optimistically NICHOLAS SCHADE

large amount of generated funds on the horizon, it’s easier for Brown to avoid cutbacks in aid many peer institutions are

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making. But the cutbacks we see at other schools are simply not an option; until Brown scrounged up the resources with which to finance need-blind admissions two years ago, the University was already behind comparable institutions. Now, it’s simply a tough time to play the game of catch up. It’s unfortunate we are starting the race from far behind the finish line. But the steps being taken toward equalizing the playing ground for everyone are ambitious and much needed. Now the trick is to find a way to keep those efforts on track and maintain the momentum.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD EDITORIAL Elena Lesley, Editor-in-Chief Brian Baskin, Executive Editor Zachary Frechette, Executive Editor Kerry Miller, Executive Editor Kavita Mishra, Senior Editor Rachel Aviv, Arts & Culture Editor Jen Sopchockchai, Asst. Arts & Culture Editor Carla Blumenkranz, Campus Watch Editor Juliette Wallack, Metro Editor Jonathan Skolnick, Opinions Editor Philissa Cramer, RISD News Editor Maggie Haskins, Sports Editor Jonathan Meachin, Sports Editor

BUSINESS Jamie Wolosky, General Manager Joe Laganas, Executive Manager Joshua Miller, Executive Manager Anastasia Ali, Project Manager Jack Carrere, Project Manager Lawrence L. Hester IV, Project Manager Bill Louis, Project Manager Zoe Ripple, Project Manager Peter Schermerhorn, Project Manager Elias Roman, Human Resources Manager Laurie-Ann Paliotti, Sr. Advertising Rep. Elyse Major, Advertising Rep. Kate Sparaco, Office Manager

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Herald editorial is overly critical of University response to recent dorm break-ins To the Editor: As one of the students visited by the intruder, I would like to correct misinformation provided in Tuesday’s staff editorial, “Students at Risk,” Nov. 18. First, my dorm room was not broken into on Saturday night. The incident occurred early Monday morning at 5:30 am. Secondly, the police could not have released the information about the three prior break-ins any sooner than they did because the women involved in those incidents did not make formal statements to the the police at the

station. Because I could offer a description of the intruder, having seen him in my room, the police asked me to issue a formal statement. Part of this statement was included in the crime report e-mail which was sent out in a timely fashion on Monday night, not even 12 hours after it had been issued. It is important not to criticize institutions when factual information has not been gathered. I am pleased with the response of the Brown University Police and am confident that they did as much as possible in this case. They responded to my 5:30 a.m. call immediately and issued a timely statement regarding the incident to the rest of the campus. As students, it is important not to be hyper-critical of those who work around us, especially individuals who give their best effort to keep us safe. Meghan Gourley ’05 Nov. 18

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2003 · PAGE 11

Why General Clark is missing in action Wesley Clark’s opportunism is typical of a Democratic party where all ideals are negotiable WHILE FORMER VERMONT GOVERNOR repeating the McGovern debacle, it was Regarded by his fellow brass as a brown-nosing opporHoward Dean has won support by running as though they believed the emergence of an aggressive anti-war campaign, estab- a Southern general in the party would tunist, self-absorbed and pathologically self-assured, lishment Democrats have been tying take the Democrats’ incoherent foreign themselves into knots trying to appeal to policy agenda and make it whole again by Clark perfectly embodies Clinton’s cynical legacy. their anti-war base. First they supported some kind of magic. But just weeks later, Clark’s message on Operation Iraqi Freedom. Now they’re brown-nosing opportunist, self-absorbed against it. First they demanded that Bush defense has already been as pathetically military affairs? And there is also the problem of those and pathologically self-assured, Clark beef up Iraqi reconstruction, but now muddled as John Kerry’s. Last fall, Clark, they’re not sure whether to fund it. First who was supposed to lend credibility to Republican fundraisers where Clark was perfectly embodies Clinton’s cynical legathey said that Attorney General Ashcroft the anti-war Democratic platform, told making appearances in 2001. Two years cy. Peter Boyer reports that as Supreme is overzealously fighting the war on ter- the Associated Press that he saw Iraq as a ago he was lavishing praise on the admin- Allied Commander, Clark became obsesrorism. Now they say Bush hasn’t done case in which, “We should go to war istration he now wants to oust. He has sively insubordinate, willing to go behind before our enemies strike.” In February: even admitted that he might be a his superiors’ backs against orders to get enough to secure the homeland. Huh? All traces of a coherent Democratic “Saddam has these weapons … we’re Republican if the White House had his way. Eventually, he alienated so many agenda have vanished behind the fog of going to go ahead and do this, and the rest returned any of his calls. Such is the of his colleagues that when the Pentagon political war. Mainstream Democrats of the world has got to get with us.” And it shameless opportunism of a man without fired him, Defense officials “felt that he could not be trusted to accept the decidon’t fight over big ideas anymore. wasn’t Vice President Dick Cheney who principles, interested only in power. Clark’s vapid “read-my-resume” cam- sion.” That’s not a sign of good character. Endlessly on the defensive, they have wrote, “Liberation is at hand. Liberation And Clark has a lot of Hillary in him. — the powerful balm that justifies painful paign embodies the very essence of become totally reactionary, fighting the sacrifice, erases lingering doubt and mainstream Democratic politics: all tri- Like Hillary’s relocation to New York, it’s president every time he seeks to reinforces bold action.” Nope. That angulation — a politics fought by men clear that Clark joined the Democrats change the status quo. Meanwhile, who lack any convictions other than their only out of lust for power: It’s no secret was Clark, too. true liberals are losing out. The Now the general who was obsession with their own self-advance- that he would have loved to join the Bush Republicans are getting everything hailed as Mr. Credibility says he ment. It all started with Bill Clinton, who team. He also shares her paranoid fear of they want because nay-saying never would have supported the sold liberalism and his party to the poll- fictitious right-wing conspiracies (he’s Democrats don’t appear to want resolution authorizing the sters to maintain high approval ratings. fabricated two). anything at all. The old line about Clinton fits Clark war. Clark’s explanation As Rich Lowry puts it, “Clinton’s malEnter Wesley Clark, the forfor this flip-flop doesn’t leability and his fear of risk kept him … perfectly: he’s always lying, even when mer general who directed exactly inspire confi- from proposing or thinking anything he’s telling the truth. We’ll never know the Kosovo war in 1999. dence: “I wasn’t follow- grand. Clinton shrank liberalism and the whether he really opposes the war or Identified by Bill Clinton ing the resolution and presidency.” This is the road that Kerry, whether he’s even really a Democrat. as a “star” of the I didn’t even know Edwards, Hillary and Clark have taken: Why? Because he is a charlatan interested Democratic Party, Clark what was in the reso- Supporting the war when Bush seemed only in self-promotion. Like Clinton entered the race in nate lution.” Ouch. What unstoppable and then opposing it for before him, Clark is a “star,” not a statesSeptember as the man goralnik good is a soldier with political convenience. It’s a politics that is man. He will say whatever he needs to say to save the Democratic orders from no political experience no longer political, but personal, driven to get elected. establishment from the boss That’s not a man who deserves to be if he doesn’t even know by naked ambition. Howard Dean and Regarded by his fellow brass as a president. what he thinks about boost the party’s credibility on defense. For a Democratic leadership adrift and terrified of Nate Goralnik ’06 donated money to the movement that launched Wesley Clark’s candidacy.

Maybe he was just trying to keep warm How do you stop someone from masturbating in your driveway when Brown police don’t respond to your calls? HE WAS RUNNING IN HIS UNDERWEAR. we are entitled to DPS protection: That’s He was running in his underwear in what we pay for. Officer Pepere responded to our second call, at 11 p.m., having freezing weather. He was running in his underwear in just come on the night shift. He couldn’t understand why no one had responded freezing weather in our driveway. Were we in one of those cheesy college before. Nor did Sergeant Williams, who dispatched him. movies? Was this some crazy When we called at 11, DPS freshman pledging a frat? Or SARA TEDESCHI really rolled out the red carpet. were we on a schlocky detecGRACE FARRIS We got two phone calls from tive show? In short, was he a GUEST COLUMNISTS Sergeant Williams, with a folstreaker or a peeper? low-up from the Dean-on-Call It’s easy to delete all of Mark Perry’s e-mails and dismiss the (who was solicitous of our psychological Campus Lighting Survey as another futile status) and we were offered contact with attempt to cut down on campus assaults. the Office of Internal Affairs (what is But when you live around the corner from that?), and were even made aware of an the Providence fire station, two blocks internal complaint form that was availaway from the Providence police’s new able on the Internet at the BUPS website. “substation,” only three blocks from By the time this began, we had already Brown University Police and Security, and formed a band of students who ventured you still look out your kitchen window into the driveway, ready to make a citione Monday evening at 6:45 p.m. to see zen’s arrest. “Naked man? Naked man?” someone masturbating in the driveway, we called, but to no avail. The offender campus safety comes crashing back into had fled. It turns out, according to Officer your life. That’s why when we call DPS at 6:50 Pepere, we couldn’t have made a citizen’s p.m., we expect them to send an officer arrest. Really, that’s only for felonies. over before, say, 11 p.m., when we call Really, says Officer Pepere, that only hapthem again to see why no one has pens in California. So we were essentially responded. Officer Kevin Pepere agrees. powerless. The Brown Police wouldn’t He says that even as off-campus residents, respond, and we couldn’t arrest the perv in our driveway. Why didn’t we get the Providence police involved? It’s hard to Grace Farris '04 and Sara Tedeschi '04 are call the Providence police when the women in science. Their column only phone number DPS gives you is 272-3121. appears when somebody masturbates in You might not get an answer (we didn’t), their driveway.

It’s hard to feel safe when someone’s doing some twilight masturbating in your driveway, but it’s even harder to feel safe when it seems as if protocols aren’t being followed. even though Sergeant Williams and Officer Pepere say that you will. When no one at the “complaint desk” answers the phone, you might try the number listed in the phonebook: 272-1111. We learned this a little bit post facto. We don’t want to sound like we’re down on the Brown police. We don’t like people who are down on the Brown police. Our University police put themselves out there every day to protect us and the College Hill community. We ask them to be police, but then, as Officer Pepere says, we don’t let them use the appropriate tools. Brown police, who have red detailing on their uniforms, are distinct from Brown security, who have blue-detailed uniforms, and they perform vastly different tasks. Brown police patrol the immediate neighborhood, have the power of arrest and sometimes have to tackle sword-wielding MiniMart robbers. We respect the Brown police for working at a job that asks them to defend others but gives them little means to defend themselves. Our issue is not with the Brown police; it is with the weaknesses that we’ve found within the protocol. As we see it, there are three problems

with this situation: First, someone was masturbating in our driveway. Second, the Brown police said they would come and then didn’t. Third, when trying to submit the online internal complaint form, after filling the whole thing out and clicking submit, the following message appeared: “The field ‘box’ must be numeric. Please go back and fully complete the form.” When we went back to determine what the field “box” was, we were met with the message: “Description of officer (please complete this section only if you have not been apply (sic) to supply the officer’s name and/or badge number).” It was a dead-end road. Like our driveway. So listen, Mark Perry — we’re scared. We don’t like walking around College Hill after 5 p.m. Neither does Officer Pepere. We know because he told us. It’s hard to feel safe when someone’s doing some twilight masturbating in your driveway, but it’s even harder to feel safe when it seems as if protocols aren’t being followed. Isn’t that how every e-mail ends — with an appeal to the Brown community to report crimes witnessed? Well, if DPS doesn’t respond when we report an incident, then where does that leave us?

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2003 · PAGE 12

Women’s rugby proves size does not matter

Huge payrolls and steroid use are killing MLB

BY ROBBY KLABER

IT’S THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER AND most people have moved on from the baseball season. Baseball fans everywhere have packed the trials and tribulations of Bud Selig, the designated hitter, and Astroturf away with their bathing suits and shorts and settled into crashing on KATE KLONICK the couch and eatSPORTS COLUMNIST ing pork rinds for the football season. Yet, a feeling of silent scrutiny still lingers. Payrolls and steroids are threatening to cast a pall on America’s favorite pastime. Things undoubtedly need to be changing in baseball if the game is going to be preserved in all its history and glory, and the off-season is most definitely the time to do it. Let’s start with the epidemic excess that baseball’s payroll has reached. There is of course A-Rod, with his 10-year, $252-million contract, who eclipses any player past or present for total number of Ferraris and Lamborghinis. Granted, Alex Rodriguez is a phenomenal player and should be making one of the top salaries in baseball, but $252 million is just a perfect example of how the free market has spiraled out of control. Admittedly, the players should be getting their share of the profits; they are, after all, the reason fans are in the seats. Furthermore, people continue to pay the astronomical ticket prices, making pro sports a capitalist cloud nine. Yet the MLB free market doesn’t take into account the need for a competitive playing field. If baseball was a Monopoly board, the Yankees would be Boardwalk, Park Place, all the rail roads and the utilities. Advance to Go, collect 26 World Championships. So, the proposed solution to this downward decline into baseball consumerism and inflated income is of course a salary cap. The player’s union, however, reacts to the words “salary cap” the way you and I would react to the words “Ebola virus.” I’m all for workers unions (hey, I even own the movie “Norma Rae”), but I also recognize that the player’s union is destroying the game of baseball. Their recurrent threats to strike every time there’s talk about steroid/drug testing or salary caps are reminiscent of a three-year-old’s temper tantrum right before bedtime. Big payrolls are dominating baseball unlike ever before, and even though it’s hardly the same game, I look forward to the level playing field created by the NFL salary cap this year. Thanks to professional football, I can expect to see a team from Green Bay play competitively with the New York Giants. I mean, honestly, does the market get any smaller than the Cheeseheads from Wisconsin? Along the same lines of leveling the playing field come the insistent rumors that steroids are dominating baseball. Jose Canseco estimated that 45 to 85 percent of ball players used steroids. This year there is finally a baby step in the right direction. Selig has, for the first time in his tenure as commissioner, stepped up to the plate and instituted steroid tests. The results, happily, bring some legitimacy back to baseball with an estimated use of five to seven percent. Although this figure is questionable, it does at least provide a benchmark for future steroid testing. The tests are far from perfect. Conducted anonymously and in the period before spring training, many players

Brown women’s rugby just completed its most successful season and is looking forward to competing at nationals in April. The team posted a 10-2 record this fall and looks forward to starting their spring season in March. “This team is extremely talented and tenacious,” said Coach Kerrissa Heffernan. “Although our team is small compared to our competitors, we have great team chemistry and the girls are willing to take the hits for each other.” Although the team is usually outweighed at each position by their competitors, solid senior leadership and speed have helped the group succeed. With leadership from Co-Captains Ruth Lindberg ’04 and Ashley Blackmon ’04 and club President Meredith Lorber ’04, the team tries to work the ball to the outside of the field so that they can rely on their speed. “We play a much faster paced game than our opponents,” Lindberg said. “We wear them down so that towards the end of the game they just cannot keep up with us.” After a very successful spring season last year, the women’s rugby team wanted to maintain their momentum. Winning their division was a primary goal they were able to accomplish this year. In the back of their heads they were also focused on going to nationals. “While I thought about it during the season, it was something that I never thought would become a reality. Now that we are going, it is like a dream come true,” Blackmon said. Despite the team’s achievements, it constantly faces a lack of resources and practice space because it is a club team, members said. “It is so easy to tell the difference in the schools where it is a varsity sport and not a see W. RUGBY, page 6

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Vince Macri ’04 (2) and Les Haggett ’05 battle for position during Friday’s 6-0 win over Yale. After beating Princeton 5-1 on Saturday, the team is ranked No. 15 in the country.

Men’s icers impress in first home games, beating Yale, Princeton BY JAMES FELDMAN

The men’s ice hockey team had a huge weekend with victories over Ivy League rivals Yale and Princeton. Nick Ringstad ’04 and Yann Danis ’04 led the team Friday night, as Brown posted a 6-0 beating of visiting Yale. Ringstad led the offensive effort, scoring two goals for the Bears, while Danis shut down Yale’s offense recording 31 saves for his second shutout of the season, and the 10th of his career. Then on Saturday, Cory Caouette ’06 provided the offense with two goals and two assists in a 5-1 win over Princeton. Four points by Brian Ihnacak ’07 in the Princeton game and six over the

weekend were more than enough to earn him the ECAC’s Rookie of the Week honors. Brent Robinson ’04 also notched two goals in the game and Assistant Captain Les Haggett ’05 had three assists, giving him five points on the weekend. With the two wins, Brown improved to 4-1-0 in the ECAC, while Yale and Princeton both fell to 1-3-0. Brown’s dominant play over the weekend also grabbed attention nationally. The Bears were ranked No. 15 in the nation in the U.S. College Hockey Coaches’ poll that came out Monday morning. see M. HOCKEY, page 9

Dies ’04 wins class, leads strong showing at Bearcat Open as four Bears place BY BERNARD GORDON

The wrestling team opened the season with a solid performance last weekend at the Bearcat Open in Cortland, N.Y. The team was led by No. 9-ranked Co-captain David Dies ’04, who won the 149 lb. weight class. Also placing were Mike Pedro ’06, who took third at the 174 lb. weight class, Sean Jenkins ’04, who took fourth in the very competitive 165 lb. weight class, and Dan Apello ’06, who finished fifth in the 133 lb. weight class. Dies won the tournament with seeming ease, defeating five opponents on the way to his title. He began the tournament with a 17-2 technical fall over Binghamton University’s John Gartiser. He went on to pin Justin Dwork of Ithaca in the first period to make the quarterfinals. There, he dropped the unattached Chris Vondrusko 5-0 and went on to defeat James Strouse of Hofstra University 5-2 in what would prove to be his closest match of the day. Dies opened the final match against Justin Blumenthal of Boston University quietly, but opened up his offense later in the match, en route to a resounding 10-5 victory.

“Dave’s a battler, he always has been,” said Head Coach David Amato. “All his matches he won quite handily.” Coming off of a season-ending injury last year, Pedro won his first three matches by a considerable margin, earning a spot in the quarterfinals against the nation’s No. 5, Noel Thompson of Hofstra. Thompson won 19-9, but Pedro went on to win his next match on a medical forfeit and take third place. Jenkins faced a tougher road in the tight 165 lb. weight class. He opened strong, posting wins over David Donovan of Ithaca 16-1, Bill Koch of Springfield 9-1 and unattached David Post 3-1, earning a place in the semifinals. There, he faced his nemesis, No. 15 Leighton Brady of Boston University, who defeated Jenkins in the finals last year. Brady won the first of this year’s contests between the two, 7-3, sending Jenkins to the consolation finals, where he lost to No. 8 Ralph Everett of Hofstra. Apello suffered an early round loss to Matt Easter of Cornell, sending him to the consolation brackets earlier than he had intended. He bounced back, however, posting wins over host SUNY Cortland’s

Lance Dolson 12-6, Jason Goldman 3-2 and Anthony Leardi (also from Cornell) 32, to take fifth place. The Bearcat Open was more of an introductory tournament for teams to size themselves up, as well as the competition, according to Amato. The Bears sent some of their less experienced wrestlers to the tournament, trying to get them some experience before the Ivy and EIWA schedule picks up. “(Die) was one of the few seniors that went. There’s no team score, everything is kind of individual. It’s a tournament to see where you are, and in that regard the people who wrestled did well,” Amato said. The Bears travel again this weekend to the smaller but more selective Keystone Classic at the University of Pennsylvania. “This weekend we should have more intensity. There are 12 tough teams (at the Keystone Classic, and) we should get a better idea of where we stand,” Amato said. Herald staff writer Bernard Gordon ’07 covers wrestling. He can be reached at bgordon@browndailyherald.com.

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