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New Brook Street substation focuses police attention on East Side BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

After $100,000 in renovations financed by Brown, the Providence Police Department substation on Brook Street opened in December, following a rash of street crime and Brown’s decision to arm its police. Now, Providence Police have occupied the Brook Street space, paying only a symbolic $1 for rent each month. As students returned to campus last week, the substation began operating full time. About 21 officers assigned to the substation are responsible for patrolling an area stretching from South Main Street to the Seekonk River, known as District 9. The substation was the eighth built in Providence as part of a new commitment to “neighborhood policing,” a widely used model in which officers are assigned to specific neighborhoods, allowing them to build relationships with local residents, institutions and businesses. Because of the Brook Street substation’s proximity to Brown, the University and its police force are working closely with Providence Police officers on a variety of investigations and crime preven-

BY KIRA LESLEY

The Office of Residential Life plans to double the amount of available coed housing for next year, according to Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski. Jablonski wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that ResLife plans to add 145 optionally coed beds to Minden Hall, 129 to Barbour Hall Apartments and 168 beds to Young Orchard buildings for 2004-2005. This will increase the percentage of housing that is optionally coed from 9 percent to 18 percent. This year, a total of 403 beds were available as optionally coed in Vartan Gregorian Quad A and B, Morriss suites and Wriston suites. The expansion of coed housing falls short of the plan Residential Council outlined in November, when it approved a resolution that would expand optional coed housing to “all suites in Minden, Barbour, Young Orchard and the Graduate Center.” ResCouncil Chair Jesse Goodman told The Herald the resolution is currently “in the very final stages of negotiation.” The changes Jablonski outlined do not include plans to make any coed housing available in Grad Center. Director of Housing Richard Bova said the status of Grad Center bathrooms is one major reason the University is unlikely to add coed housing to the towers. Residence halls that are likely to have coed housing next year contain lockable, single-use bathrooms, and Grad Center does not, Bova said. According to Goodman, coed bathrooms have been a sticking point for the University in creating more optional coed housing. The University feels that students may be uncomfortable sharing bathrooms with members of the opposite sex, Lottery Committee Chair Pamela Dubyak wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. She noted that other schools, including Williams College and Princeton University, offer optional coed housing with coed bathrooms.

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Officer Charles Boranian climbs into his car as he leaves the Providence Police Substation on Brook Street.

Brown legacy in Mars research will continue in future exploration

Lab,” is slated to open next week. “It’s a lab for doing experiments that simulate applications running on the entire Internet,” Doeppner said. For example, if researchers wanted to create their own version of the search engine Google, they could simulate “tons and tons of people using it simultaneously,” he said. The lab will also be used by students in CS courses, he said. The new “Motion Capture Lab,” located in the former CIS telecommunications office on the first floor, will be used to

Sciences Jim Head ’69, “hooked,” he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “I was most fortunate to have been a graduate of this tradition, and it helped me achieve the position I currently hold for NASA,” Garvin wrote. “This very department has led to the large number of Brown graduates who have major roles in the NASA programs of planetary exploration.” The University’s legacy in Mars research may have begun with Mutch, who designed the Viking camera, but student involvement has always been key to the school’s production of prominent planetary scientists, said Head, who said he considers Mutch an inspiration. And the legacy is not likely to end. Of the 15 or so graduate students in the planetary group, Professor of Geological Sciences Jack Mustard Ph.D. ’90 said about half are involved in Mars research. Mustard, who became a professor in 1990 after finishing his doctorate, said the excellence of the department, with its emphasis on undergraduate education and its collegial and visionary faculty, kept him at Brown. He said he believes in the mantra, “Don’t just do science, make discover-

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BY KAVITA MISHRA

In a way, Brown saw Mars first, with Professor Tim Mutch leading the first mission to Mars in 1976. Since the Viking mission, Brown students have been BROWN & MARS: linked to a netsecond in a two-part series work of University faculty and graduates who still lead the efforts to explore the Red Planet. In planetary research, Brown ranks

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among the top programs in the country, along with institutions such as Arizona State University, California Technical Institute and Washington University in St. Louis, said Professor of Geological Sciences Malcolm Rutherford. But it was Mutch who brought Mars research to Brown, according to Jim Garvin ’78, Sc.M. ’81, Ph.D. ’84, chief scientist of NASA’s Mars Exploration Programs. Mutch got many of his students, including Professor of Geological

CIS downtown move makes more space on campus for new technology, classes BY JONATHAN ELLIS

CS is pushing CIS out of the CIT. As it acquires more faculty, graduate students and staff, the Department of Computer Science is expanding operations in the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Center for Information Technology. To accommodate the growth, Computing and Information Services is moving some of its offices to a Davol Square business park. CIS ceded half of the CIT’s third floor to the CS department in early January, according to the CIS Web site. When the second phase of the move is completed this summer, the CS depart-

ment will occupy all of the third, fourth and fifth floors of the building, said Thomas Doeppner, associate professor and vice chairman of the CS department and coordinator of the expansion. Plans for the expansion have been in the works for five to six years, Doeppner said. “The big issue is that both CIS and CS had to expand,” he said. “Although it’s not ideal for CIS to go off campus, it makes more sense than for us to.” The CS department will acquire new labs as part of the expansion, Doeppner said. One of them, dubbed the “Internet

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Students release inaugural issue of multimedia magazine on DVD arts & culture, page 3

Cross-disciplinary class brings together theater, physics and history campus news, page 5

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Christopher McAuliffe ’05 responds to Lani Guinier’s Tuesday speech column, page 11

Wrestling loses match to Rutgers, looks ahead to weekend competition sports, page 12

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2004 · PAGE 3

Upcoming shows promise comedy and tragedy BY DANIELLE CERNY

Obsession, adultery, castration, murder – this semester of Brown theater promises all the drama and excitement of your favorite soap operas without the awful acting. Production Workshop’s first show of the semester, “The Country Wife,” starts off like a typical comedy: a cunning man, Horner, attempts to sweet-talk his way into the hearts and bedrooms of a town’s affluent beauties. Yet this ticket to romance comes at the cost of his manhood. To elude the watchful eyes of the women’s husbands, Horner presents himself as an innocent eunuch. With this infallible cover, Horner is able to garner the sympathy and hearts of three local aristocratic wives. However, the wives are far from innocent victims in this steamy plot. Hiding behind their prestigious names, the three women relish in their deviant love affairs. As the terms “honor” and “sex” become interchangeable in this indecent web, the chances of exposure rise to an unavoidable comedic climax. On the Mainstage, Sophie Treawell’s “Machinal” portrays a more serious struggle against oppression and death. In the play, a young woman struggles to discover herself in a world dominated by men and machines. As the woman strives to contort into her regimented mold, she is forced to deny her humanity. The struggle is no longer a question of conformity or rejection, but rather one of life or death. But who says being at odds with society and despising your fellow man has to be a negative experience? “The Misanthrope,”

by Moliére, is a dark comedy that defies categorization. In the play, anxiety, obsession and melancholy drive the unique plot forward as a young woman, Climente, attempts to convince her numerous lovers that they possess the only key to her heart. One of Climente’s lovers, Alceste, is already disillusioned with the world at large when he finally confronts his promiscuous lover. The awkwardness of this confrontation is amplified when all of Climente’s suitors unexpectedly pay her a visit. Love finds a slightly more optimistic portrayal in the love letters that are adapted in Sandra Laub’s “Mrs. Campbell! Mr. Shaw!” The courier courtship traces the tumultuous romance, work relationship and ultimate friendship between playwright George Bernard Shaw and actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Laub and Tom Oakes make up the professional cast of this historical affair. The performance is part of the Mel and Cindy Yoken Cultural Series and is jointly sponsored by the Friends of the Library and the Friends of the Brown University Theatre. Interestingly, George Bernard Shaw’s work “St. John” plays a prominent role in another Brown production: Lanford Wilson’s “Books of Days.” The theater schedule would not be complete without this tale of suspected murder and public hysteria. In a small town in rural Missouri, a local cheese plant owner and dairy farmer, Walt Bates, is mysteriously killed in a tornado accident. Bates’ bookkeeper, Ruth Hoch, suspects murder and searches see THEATER, page 7

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The main interface of the first issue of CHAISE, a multimedia magazineproduced by students, combines digital art with functionality.

Multimedia DVD magazine showcases Brown talent BY MERYL ROTHSTEIN

A new magazine is about to join the bevy of existing Brown publications, but unlike its predecessors, CHAISE magazine can’t be perused in the Ratty. Founded by Bennett Barbakow ’04, Michelle Higa ’04, Noah Norman ’04 and Chris Smith ’04, CHAISE is a new biannual arts magazine featuring video, audio, still and DVD-ROM pieces, all on DVD. The magazine includes work from about 30 contributors, including Brown and RISD students, a Brown professor and local artists, some of them Brown alumni,

Barbakow said. CHAISE began as an opportunity to showcase all the “cutting-edge work that we knew existed on this campus that wasn’t out there,” he said. The founders met in a multimedia lab at Brown, where they each worked on different types of new media projects, Higa said. In the lab, she noticed impressive computerbased work that had no venue for publication, she said. A DVD seemed like “the only medium see CHAISE, page 6

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Mars continued from page 1 ies.” Scientists should not let the limits of their expertise keep them from answering the big questions, Mustard said. In this way the participation of undergraduate students, who bring enthusiasm and new perspectives, is helpful in the research. “Undergrads ask the questions about cool stuff staring them in the face,” he said. But Mustard agreed with Rutherford, saying it is the department’s “team” mentality that pushes it forward. He said many faculty who are not directly involved in Mars research provide insight into geological processes important for understanding the planet. The faculty, including Edgar Parmentier and Carle Pieters, professors of geological sciences, has also contributed directly to many of NASA’s programs in planetary exploration by proposing innovative experiments, Garvin wrote. “(Head’s) contribution to student education and to integrated research activities is the stuff of legend,” he wrote. Garvin wrote that he expects other Brown faculty to contribute to a 2009 Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will “follow the carbon” in the search for life on the planet, and several planned missions for the next decade. The future Professor of Geological Sciences Peter Schultz, who primarily studies impact craters, said his interest in Mars stems from the

The University’s legacy in Mars research may have begun with Mutch, who designed the Viking camera, but student involvement has always been key to the school’s production of prominent planetary scientists, said Head. desire to understand the history of the planet and its atmosphere. The recent images sent back from the rovers will give researchers “a better handle on how to do experiments,” he said. “My hope is that in this flurry of activity, we have fidelity,” Schultz said. Missions that allow exploration of a planet, like the Mars exploration project, are “not controlled by new technology,” he said. “It’s perspective.” Continuing proposals and interest in such missions keep the research alive, he added. With respect to Mars research, Schultz compared the process to how someone would explore the Rocky Mountains if that person had grown up in South Dakota and never left. NASA’s current program in

Mars exploration is “more ambitious than at any other point in history,” with four spacecraft and two rovers studying the planet, Garvin wrote. But another reconnaissance mission is scheduled for next year, followed by a laboratory mission for launch in 2009. According to Mustard, the future of planetary research is in studying and understanding organisms that live in extreme environments, or astrobiology. Schultz is also working in collaboration with NASA’s Exobiology Program to understand how life can survive or be created after high-velocity impacts, which may bring additional organic materials. But Head said observing other planets’ geological pasts can help answer the question, “Are we doing things on our own planet that can dramatically lead to changes here?” Recent research has allowed scientists “to look at things we know on Earth ... magnified” by looking at Mars, Head said, referring to the differences in ice ages between the planets. Head spent six weeks in Antarctica last year to study cold ice deserts similar to Mars’ extreme environment. David Shean ’04, one of Head’s students, said he uses data images of Mars and actual glaciers on our planet to study glacial features on Mars. Head is currently working on two mission proposals, one that would launch and return samples from the far side of the Moon and another that would send a lander to Venus. This semester, he will also teach a first-year seminar about Mars exploration, a class he says will have novice students looking at the same rover data that scientists will be poring over in the coming months. The confidence in fellow Brown graduates and researchers echoes through the department and beyond, scientists said. Head said of his former student’s role in NASA, “I sleep so much (better) knowing (Garvin’s) down there in charge.” Herald staff writer Kavita Mishra ’04 can be reached at kmishra@browndailyherald.com.

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New course combines physics and theater BY ELISE BARAN

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Instructor Oskar Eustis,artistic director for Trinity Repertory Company,leads class on the first day of “Science in Confrontation with Authority:The Drama,the History,and the Science.”

Brown students love confrontation and, apparently, so do Brown professors. PH 10/TA 10: “Science in Confrontation with Authority: The Drama, the History and the Science” is registered both as a physics course and a course in the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance. Professor of Physics Leon Cooper teaches the course and is assisted by Professor of Biology Kenneth Miller, Trinity Repertory Company Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Tony Award-winning actor Brian Dennehy. Course reading is split between a physics textbook and three plays: Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” Peter Parnell’s “Trumpery” and Michael Frayn’s “Copenhagen.” The class covers some of the most famous conflicts between science and society. Yet despite its unique format, it is more than just a survey course posing questions about why these conflicts occur, why humans have a need to explain the world around them and how scientific explanations compare with other cultural explanations, Cooper said. Cooper formerly taught a class with

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Eustis called “Copenhagen,” after Frayn’s play, but this year decided to expand it into a broader look at the drama of science. Although the class has no prerequisites, most of the students have taken high school or college physics. Patrick Sheehan ’06, a math concentrator, said he was attracted to the course because it combines two of his interests: theater and physics. Jeff Yoskowitz ’07 said that because he considers himself a “humanities person” he is interested in the historical aspect of the course. Miller, a molecular biologist, will guide the class through the ongoing debate about evolution. Miller, who has spent much of his career defending the study of evolution to school boards, will focus on the life of Charles Darwin and current conflicts in science education. Eustis will lead discussion. Dennehy, who is currently working with the Trinity Rep, will assist Eustis in performing the plays. Herald staff writer Elise Baran ’07 can be reached at ebaran@browndailyherald.com.

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A submenu interface of CHAISE’s first issue directs users to featured videos.

CHAISE continued from page 3 that will allow us to encompass all these kinds of work,” Barbakow said. CHAISE “consolidates all these types of new media art in a way that makes sense,” said Tavet Gillson ’04, CHAISE’s creative director. While its main goal is to entertain, the DVD, as well as the magazine’s Web site, can help connect artists in the community to one another, Barbakow said, as well as serve as a “bomb portfolio item” for the artists involved. The DVD format also allowed the CHAISE staff to act as selfdescribed “guerrilla technology warriors,” Barbakow said. Their main tools were their laptops and cell phones, and they finished the magazine over winter break, with editors in

California, Philadelphia and Providence, he said. CHAISE will premiere Feb. 6 with a release party in the List Art Building. The party will include a formal screening of the DVD, as well as musical performances by some of the artists featured on the DVD. The launch will also serve as the closing to the CHAISE-curated art show currently on display in List, which features pieces originally on the DVD as well as works commissioned by the magazine, including a custom-made chaise lounge, Barbakow said. The release party comes roughly one semester after the magazine’s formal beginning. CHAISE began last September as a Category I Brown group and within two weeks became a Category II group, entitling the magazine to some money from the Undergraduate Finance Board, he said. But it really got off the ground

when they received a $5,000 grant from the Creative Arts Council, he said. CHAISE also received funding from the Department of Modern Culture and Media, the Department of Music and the Department of Visual Art, as well as private donors, he said. The money was sufficient to put out 2,000 free DVDs and throw the release party. In the spring semester, CHAISE founders hope to earn Type 3 status and perhaps seek money from corporations, “but not in a sell-out kind of way,” Barbakow said. The DVDs will be available in some department buildings throughout campus, stores on Thayer Street, Avon Cinema, AS220, Cable Car Cinema and Acme Video, Higa said. Herald staff writer Meryl Rothstein ’06 edits the Arts & Culture section. She can be reached at mrothstein@browndailyherald.com.

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Housing continued from page 1 According to a Residential Council report on coed housing, only 23.8 percent of coed groups that entered the lottery were assigned coed suites. No rising sophomores received coed housing assignments, ResCouncil Chair Jesse Goodman said. Ruling out coed housing in Grad Center puts sophomores who wish to live in a coed suite at a disadvantage, Goodman said. Because many sophomores who

CIS continued from page 1 study computer vision and could help create robots that move like humans, Doeppner said. The CS department will also receive new classroom and office space, including an office for teaching assistants. Though CIS administrative systems groups — including the office of Vice President for CIS Ellen Waite-Franzen — will now be located in the Jewelry District, Brown faculty and students will not notice much of a difference,

Theater continued from page 3 for evidence to catch the killer. Yet as she does so, Ruth is cast as Joan of Arc in Shaw’s play and slowly transforms into the character in her everyday life. With the smalltown tension on the rise, the search for Bates’ killer culminates in a public explosion of heresy and collaboration in which no one can be trusted. Wilson’s play provides an alternately scathing and sympathetic view of rural America that searches for truth and identity on the brink of the new millennium. “The Country Wife” opens Feb. 13, “Machinal” Feb. 26, “The Misanthrope” March 11, “Books of Days” April 15 and “Mrs. Campbell! Mr. Shaw!” April 28. Times and dates of these and other shows can be found on Brown’s Arts and Entertainment online calendar and Brown’s theatre and dance Web site. Danielle Cerny ’06 edits the Arts and Culture section. She can be reached at dcerny@browndailyherald.com.

receive suites in the lottery are placed in Graduate Center, there is little chance they will be placed in a coed suite, he said. The issue of coed housing is especially important to LGBT students, Goodman said. “Single-sex housing does a disservice to LGBT students” by assuming single-sex living situations are always the most comfortable, he said. Bova said he does not consider the lack of optional coed housing in the Graduate Center a disadvantage for rising sophomores. If ResCouncil is concerned about

Patricia Falcon, CIS communications and documentation coordinator, wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. That’s because CIS public services will remain in the CIT, said Pamela Vogel, CIS associate director for communications. These include the Help Desk, cluster support and faculty computing support, she said. Davol Square is a 15-minute walk from the main campus and has a stop on the BrownMed Express shuttle route, Vogel said. The business park, located at Eddy and Point Streets, is near the Providence River and

housing options for sophomores, the council should work on a system that benefits sophomores in the housing lottery, he said. According to Bova, the University will not make an official decision until it receives the final report from the Task Force on Student Housing, which is composed of students, faculty and staff. The issue will be resolved before the spring lottery, Bova said. Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ‘07 can be reached at klesley@browndailyherald.com.

the new Heritage Harbor museum. Vogel did not know whether the relocation would give CIS a net gain in square footage of office space, but said the new layout would be more conducive to operations. But with CIS operating from two locations, “it’s been acknowledged that communication is going to be our toughest issue,” Vogel said. Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 covers technology at Brown. He can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

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Police continued from page 1 tion initiatives. And although Mayor David Cicilline has publicly opposed Simmons’ decision to arm the Brown Police, saying there are already enough guns on the streets of Providence, both Colonel Paul Verrecchia, head of DPS, and Lieutenant David Lapatin, the top-ranking officer at the substation, said the arming of Brown Police will strengthen, not weaken, ties between DPS and PPD. “I think it will maybe enhance our working relationship, which I think will be a help to the Providence Police, because there will be less of a need for our officers to rely on their officers as first responders,” Verrecchia said. Lapatin said he welcomes Brown’s help. “We wouldn’t expect the Brown police to respond to crimes that are off campus,” he said, “but I’m sure there will be an occasion when they might have to back us up. … We’ll be happy to have them.” No plans are underway to provide Providence police officers working in the neighborhood with the type of specific diversity training that Brown police receive, Lapatin and Verrecchia said. “There is no special training for working with college students,” Lapatin said. “They are adults.” Twice each week, Lapatin said he or other officers assigned to the substation meet with members of DPS and the RISD Public Safety Department to discuss ongoing investigations and strategies for preventing crime in the neighborhood. DPS is hopeful that an arrest made Nov. 22 will end last semester’s wave of purse-snatchings, Verrecchia said. No street crime took place over the winter break, but meetings between the two police forces and the RISD Department of Public Safety have resulted in plans to prevent such crimes from occurring this semester, Verrecchia and Lapatin said. “We are working together to form foot posts in our areas of concern, which is where we get the reports that students have been assaulted or are afraid to

DPS and PPD are working together to establish strategies for interacting with students living off campus, especially when it comes to breaking up parties, Lapatin said. walk alone,” Lapatin said. Early last semester, Fox Point residents made several complaints about late-night parties hosted by Brown students living in the neighborhood. Lapatin, residents of Fox Point, Brown students living off campus and Deborah Dinerman of Brown Community Relations sit on a committee dealing with issues of off-campus living. DPS and PPD are working together to establish strategies for interacting with students living off campus, especially when it comes to breaking up parties, Lapatin said. An informative video about off-campus living has been produced by the Office of Student Life, with help from the committee’s members, and is currently being edited. On the video, Verrecchia speaks about nighttime safety issues such as walking home alone, visiting an ATM and locking doors, Dinerman said. Overall, Dinerman said Brown’s administration is excited to have the substation in the neighborhood. Students living off campus can now call the Providence Police if needed, she said. “I give a lot of credit to Lieutenant Lapatin because he has really taken the initiative with us,” Dinerman said. “I think that that’s just so indicative of the mentality down there at the substation. … Brown is a large part of the community, and so are the students living off campus.” Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 edits the RISD News section. She can be reached at dgoldstein@browndailyherald.com.

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Wrestling continued from page 12 No. 6 finish at the Las Vegas Open. Both the No. 1 and No. 4 wrestlers in the nation in his class are also in the EIWA. “(Dies and Ciarcia) both lead by example. They are very teamoriented,” Amato said. “Every time they go out, they give it everything, and if you beat them, you beat them.”

Fencing continued from page 12 and 6-3 against Tufts, for a total of 18-9. Against Smith, Brown easily attacked for a matchcount of 24-3, with all three squads victorious. “It’s really encouraging to have your squad cheering and offering advice on the strip,” Milner said. “Everyone is really close and supportive within their squad and also for the rest of the team.” The Brown women avenged their 13-14 loss during their last encounter with BC by stealing the victory with a 16-11 count. During the last match of the day, the Bears faced fatigue while competing against perennial powerhouse Brandeis University and were unable to eke out a victory, losing 7-10. Like its women’s counterpart,

The Bears will play Saturday at the Pizzitola Sports Center against Drexel University at 11 a.m. and No. 2 Lehigh University at 2 p.m. “Drexel is kind of on the same road that we are, so this is a key match for us,” Amato said. “We hope to win and then feed off of that.” Herald staff writer Bernard Gordon ’06 covers wrestling. He can be reached at bgordon@browndailyherald.com.

the men’s fencing team garnered a win against Dartmouth but was unable to gain any victories over MIT, Brandeis University or BC. Despite the losses, however, the Bears delivered many strong individual performances throughout the meet. Jeremy Zeitlin ’07 led the way for the men with an 11-1 overall record. Both teams are continuing to train hard and build momentum before they head to Brandeis Feb. 1 for another competition. “Everyone is very excited for the upcoming tournaments,” Hausmann said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us, but now that we have more experience, we should be able to do really well this next half of the season.” Herald staff writer Zaneta Balantac ’07 covers the fencing team. She can be reached at zbalantac@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Diamonds and coal A diamond to true multidisciplinary innovation and collaboration in PH10/TA10. Classes like this are why we came to Brown. Speaking of desirable classes, coal to professors who don’t let us in, especially when it’s because we’re not concentrators. “Multidisciplinary,” anyone? A diamond to Al Sharpton. We just love that cute stare you give the camera after every attack. Who knew you made sense? You certainly didn’t. Coal to the Grad Center cave-people wandering the halls of Goddard. You can use our showers, but not our towels, you dirty hippies. A tasteful diamond to www.chaisemag.com. Cubic zirconium to the involuntary acid-wash process currently occurring on Thayer Street. We don’t care for salt stains, but then again, they’re not the worst thing we’ve seen stain our pants. ANDREW SHEETS

Coal to ¡¡Bagel Gourmet Ole!! for failing to open on schedule. Also, we resent the premature adoption of the nickname “BGO.” Let it flow, people, let it flow!! Coal to the BOCA conspiracy. If we wanted to cut class, we could find a better excuse than being directed to the wrong room. Next thing we know, it’ll be eating our homework. A diamond to the locker room saunas — so good we’d prefer you keep them “our little secret.” Especially if you’re comfortable with nudity. And a diamond to the planet Mars and all its delightful peculiarities. “Cold deserts” and “water ice” — of course, for the unicorns.

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LETTERS Brown students also trained in apathy To the Editor: Yesterday’s editorial entitled “Our Endorsement” (Jan. 29) concluded, “No matter what November brings, Brown has already won the campaign against apathy.” This is a statement I have to disagree with. I commend the Brown students who, like myself, hit the pavement in New Hampshire in support of the candidate they believed in. Nevertheless, in my time at Brown, I have seen incredible apathy to both domestic politics and international issues, such as the war on Iraq. While groups like the College Democrats and the coalition group SAWI have worked hard to promote student participation in politics and policy discussions, their membership hardly encompasses the majority of the student body. In general, the larger population at Brown appears uninformed or uninvolved. I agree that “a Brown education gives us the tools to make intelligent and creative contributions that raise the level of public discourse.” After all, Plato said that “those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber." While Brown can be credited with giving us the skills to make incredible civic contributions, I believe that those skills are being severely underutilized. Tracy Roosevelt ’05 Jan. 28

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C O R R E C T I O N S A caption in Thursday’s paper incorrectly identified an image of Mars. The image is a rendering of what the planet might have looked like during its most recent ice age. It is not a photo from the Viking mission described in the article. An article in Thursday’s paper about the University’s online calendar misstated the

name of the office handling requests for event listings. It is the Student Activities Office, not the Student Services Office. An article in Thursday’s paper about alums working in politics misstated the name of the Democratic senator from North Carolina who is running for president. His name is John Edwards, not Jonathan.

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2004 · PAGE 11

NATE GORALNIK

ARJUN IYENGAR

Dean’s primal scream

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Howard Dean never enjoyed the support of more than a minority of Democratic voters. That’s no fault of his. His mistake was making the rest of us loathe him even more than we loathe John Kerry. With his populist “Take Back America” theme and his raucous, aggressive style, Dean developed a surliness that helped him rake in votes and money from liberal diehards all over the country at the same time he was alienating the undecided voters he needed to be nominated. While the press wondered whether Dean could win voters from mainstream America, the dark secret was that Dean hadn’t even won over the center of his own party. Left-wing stalwarts and fairweather bandwagoneers had buoyed Dean in the polls, but many undecided voters regarded the Dean machine with suspicion, November despair or outright revulsion. Even the Dean campaign tacitly admitted that the Vermont governor’s so-called “Democratic wing of the Democratic Party” might be too abrasive to be electable. As snow fell on election-year America, rumors spread that Dean would soon ditch his angrygodless-anti-war-yuppy M.O. and make like a moderate. On the list of New Year’s Resolutions: get religion, get mad at Saddam and get the wife. More opium den than echo room, dazed liberal pundits played along, noting his supposed ample room to move to the center, as though Dean — never a NASCAR dad — was merely changing lanes. Now that John Kerry has slammed Dean in two contests, it’s clear that the good doctor’s suddenly centrist chameleon scheme has gone the same way as Gore’s infamous wardrobe makeover. As it turned out, Dean had no room to maneuver: the pundits and most of the public had already entered him into the electoral obituaries as “McGovern Reloaded.” Dean’s campaign didn’t lose any of its repulsive chutzpah, nor did it shake the troubling comparisons with Democratic electoral debacles of the past. What it lost was its momentum.

The rise and fall of a non-contender. Where Dean’s passionate anti-war diatribe had once breathed a kind of Bobby Kennedy warmth into his otherwise cold, stony persona, now there remained only an arrogant and aloof frontrunner with a disturbingly thick neck. With Dean unable to stake a Kucinich-esque moral high ground to bash the rest of the field as “Bush Lite,” the more illiberal side of his centrism slowly reared its ugly head: his waffling on NAFTA, his budget-balancing zeal and chilling rumors of softness on domestic violence. Dick Gephardt’s stalwart support of labor made Dean look like a flake on free trade, while Dean’s resistance to Joe Lieberman’s proposal to keep the middle-class tax cut made him seem more fiscal hawk than bleeding heart. These perceptions did not sit well with a Democratic Party deeply concerned about the plight of the middle class. Increasingly, voters began to take a long-awaited second look at the candidates once written off by Vermont outsider as “the Washington establishment.” Before those final days in Iowa, Dean had enjoyed strong support from a core of obsessed Bush-haters, and his strong poll numbers helped him upstage the quieter, less distinguished campaigns of Kerry and Edwards. But Kerry and Edwards’ sudden surge in the Iowa caucuses proved that the Dean machine was just a sideshow. The main event, which the media completely missed, was the question of who would pick up the moderate, undecided voters. It should have been clear from the start that the abrasive Dean never had a chance in that race. Then came the scream. “YEEEAAGH”? “ARRRGH”? According to ESPN, it was “GINOBILI!” I couldn’t believe my ears as I played and replayed audio of Dean squealing like a prissy Hulk Hogan. Streaming video revealed Tom Harkin boogeying in the background. The anti-war freaks had gone completely mad. While Bush was listing American allies in the following evening’s State of the Union address, the media was more interested in showing Dean shout off the primaries he would win. The hilarity of the moment added insult to Dean’s Iowa injury, and millions of Democrats left the Dean bandwagon. And so the Democratic race came full circle, as the silent antiDean majority of the Democratic Party abandoned its fantasies of a Wesley Clark panacea and settled for a lifeless, out-of-touch John Kerry as the least-worst option. If the poll numbers remain steady, the Feb. 3 primaries will fall like dominoes for the un-Dean. Everybody’s favorite governor will fade away and the Democrats will nominate the mother of all default candidates. Pray for John Edwards to emerge as the über-Clinton pretty boy. Otherwise, the hapless Kerry, never able to excite even his own party except as an unremarkable alternative to Dean, will be sacrificed on the altar of post-9/11 liberalism. Nate Goralnik ’06 draws “My Best Effort” with Will Newman.

I have yet to encounter any students as passionate, innovative and determined as my classmates at Brown. It is no wonder that unlike their peers from Brown’s sister institutions, many recent graduates choose to pursue careers in NGOs and other unconventional fields. But this single-minded nature of many of the students goes hand in hand with a stubbornness that often precludes them from engaging with ideas different from their own. Intellectual diversity, like racial, ethnic and religious diversity, provides for interesting conversation and selfgrowth in an academic environment. But for Brown to truly become a diverse community, subgroups must interact with each other. The same goes for diversity of an intellectual kind. For example, students who simply self-segregate into socialist and conservative organizations contribute little to intellectual diversity if they never comprehensively interact with each other. Because of this year’s winter break, I was able to hear this year’s entire State of the Union address without the sporadic jeering of classmates that customarily made much of the address inaudible. In previous years, collegiate ideologues pounced on the President’s every word in hopes of refuting it without ever truly listening. I have rarely been able to have a conversation about Republican policies without someone making a snide comment about how Republicans are evil, insensitive and profiteering, or how stupid President Bush looks and talks — none of which has any relevance to the conversation at hand. I have been told by some that this situation is entirely acceptable because outside of Brown conservatives have a monopoly on the media, government, et cetera. This is a misconstrued notion at best. To promote a liberal skew on campus because there is a “deemed” conservative skew in the outside world is a disservice to students. To be fair, problems with narrow mindedness do not just apply to liberals. After former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak spoke last year, I remember encountering a pairs of students: a Palestinian sympathizer who was protesting Barak’s visit, and on the other side, an Israeli

sympathizer who refused to accept even the possibility that Israeli troops had committed atrocities against the Palestinians. Once in a conversation with an Indian American student, I heard her disqualify an entire Time Magazine article replete with satellite pictures about the presence of militant training camps in Pakistan. She propounded that because Indians worked at Time, they gave the magazine an anti-Pakistani stance. She was so accustomed to the one-sided nature of the treatment of Pakistan within the Indian community that she naturally dismissed the report. The University can continue to increase intellectual diversity by hosting diverse speakers such as Richard Perle, Spike Lee, Salman Rushdie, Mikhail Gorbachev and David Horowitz that inspire or enrage. Those that solely advocate the increased recruitment of marginalized communities on campus in hopes of increasing diversity are mistaken. The University, perhaps in conjunction with the debate club, should sponsor more open debates. Students, in turn, should not just be tolerant but also have the ability to entertain an opposing viewpoint without categorically dismissing it. Enlightenment scholar and politician Sir Francis Bacon rebelled against contemporaries that relied too heavily on ancient theories and not enough on scientific experimentation. In “Novum Organum” Bacon maintained that all prejudices and preconceived attitudes, which he called idols, stem chiefly from four categories: public opinion (“idols of the tribe”); personal feelings (“idols of the cave”); ambiguous language (“idols of the marketplace”); and tradition (“idols of the theater”). If these false idols were abandoned, according to Bacon, true knowledge could be attained. Too often students dismiss ideas if they don’t align with their conception of the world. By avoiding such idols, students are able to foster an atmosphere of intellectual diversity. Arjun Iyengar ’05 is an international relations and biology concentrator.

CHRISTOPHER MCAULIFFE

A reconstruction gone wrong Last year, in a speech at Duke University, Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier recounted a story in which she asked her eight-year-old son what he would do if someone called him an “ugly nigger.” Aside from questioning the judgment of someone who would ask this of such a small child, one senses in this attitude a sort of oversensitivity, as if Guinier were living in the past. On Tuesday at Brown, Guinier confirmed the retrograde context of her thinking by opening her speech with the story of her father’s rejection from Harvard in 1929, when the university learned that he was not white. She went on to arrogantly claim that believers in colorblindness are “racially illiterate,” and cited Martin Luther King Jr.’s exhortation for a “radical reconstruction of society.” In 1929 or 1959 Guinier’s firebrand racialism may have made sense. Today, it sadly reflects obedience to an unimaginative and uninspiring racial orthodoxy. To be sure, Guinier updated her rhetoric by mentioning the “interaction” between race and class, by which I presume she meant “correlation.” The effect of this is to imply that all poor people and, by extension, all people of color should logically buy into her particular brand of progressive politics. This is truly the crux of Guinier’s ideology: it is what we may call the correlation, or, if you will, the “interaction” between racial politics and leftist politics. It is a phenomenon Guinier and her ilk rely on for their intellectual survival. The roots of racial-class victimology are found in the 1960s and 1970s, when well-meaning progressives declared a “war on poverty.” While we should not begrudge poor families a single dollar of welfare or rob opportunitystarved blacks a single college admission, we must honestly assess how far such feel-good public policy has gotten us decades later. The African American nuclear family is now in ruins: the government supports more children than fathers. Black men graduate from UC-Berkeley within four years at a clip of barely 50 percent. And, no, this is not just because Ronald Reagan interrupted the grand social experiment. Meanwhile, the intellectual elite sleep no better, having long since moved on to other culprits. This is where Guinier’s distaste for a concrete academ-

ic standard comes into play. A well-intended ideologue must believe that there is something to blame other than the policies she supports. In fact, she must believe that those policies are actively helping the situation while other sinister forces insist on confounding her. What better way to rectify results than to claim that standards (presumably save one’s own) are the true problem? The comfort such a belief must bring to good people is no doubt immeasurable, much like accepting the immortality of the soul. Still, scattered studies by politically invested people do not excuse titanic lapses in common sense, such as believing that the SAT is a measure of anything other than basic knowledge. Nor does the dubious notion that parental investment in a prep course is the primary factor in college admissions change the fact that those parents were had, because a $20 book is just as effective. To hear Guinier tell it, a completely arbitrary standard (race) is preferable to a partially arbitrary standard (tests). Either that, or she really does intend to “radically reconstruct society,” beginning with so-called holistic methods of college admissions. Such a brand of perfectionism is astoundingly egotistical. God, or fate, created a world replete with problems and unfair advantages: apparently, Lani Guinier now knows how to make them disappear. Under her system, poor people will no longer have to work harder than rich people to compete with them. Similarly, talentless people need not give up dreams of artistic careers. People with physical impediments can even rest secure in the knowledge that they, too, could one day be star athletes. None of this is to say that unfairness is preferable to fairness. The world is a very complicated place, and people face disadvantages of every possible type, known and unknown. Rather than waive all forms of concrete standards in order to cosmetically adjust for such disadvantages, we must realize that the only true solution is to demand that people meet those standards. This, and only this, is a solution for disadvantage: one that solves, rather than masks problems. Christopher McAuliffe ’05 is a political science concentrator.

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SPORTS FRIDAY JANUARY 30, 2004 · PAGE 12

Unabomber to lead Pats, “JFK” Brady over Cats in Houston Conference Championships: 1-1 Total Playoff Record: 7-3 While New England-Carolina may be the dream Democratic presidential ticket (Kerry and Edwards), it is certainly not the ideal Super Bowl match up. Both teams are defensively oriented and lack flashy superstars, and prior JOSH TROY to last month, most of the SPREADIN’THE LOVE country was not sure

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Nick Ciarcia ’04 got the Bears off to a quick start at Rutgers, taking his match 12-3, but Brown could not keep up the momentum, as Rutgers prevailed 23-12.

Wrestlers miss out on several key opportunities in loss to Rutgers BY BERNARD GORDON

Wrestling fell to EIWA rival Rutgers University last Saturday, losing six of 10 matches on the way to a 23-12 loss in New Brunswick, N.J. The Bears have been hurt by injuries, including one that may sideline Peter Gladish ’06 for the season. “(Losing to) Rutgers especially hurt, because the Rutgers coach came out afterwards and said that they won because they wanted it more, and that is something that should never happen,” said Head Coach David Amato. “You lose because you wrestled a better team, not because they wanted it more.” The Bears jumped out to an early lead on the 12-3 major decision in the first match of tri-captain Nick Ciarcia’s ’04. Ciarcia, currently the top-ranked 184-pounder in the EIWA, went 8-5 over the break, including a hard-fought 4-2 loss to No. 4 Ben Heizer of Northern Illinois University. “His offense is starting to roll,” Amato said of Ciarcia. “He’s starting to turn it around, and he’s been getting better ever since the Lone Star Duals (in Austin, Texas).” Rutgers answered quickly with a 6-0 decision over

Peter Mosley ’05, but it was the next two bouts that decided the meet. Heavyweight Lee Beane ’06 was winning and in control when he was reversed and pinned early in the second period. In the next match, 125-pounder Greg Pace ’06 was winning 8-1 when he was reversed and pinned with 12 seconds left in the period. “Those were two bouts that we should have won and we didn’t, and that was the match right there,” Amato said. In the highlight of the afternoon, 18th-ranked co-captain David Dies ’04 fell behind 2-0 on a reversal by Rutgers’ Greg Austin in the second period. Dies came back in the third, though, with a takedown to tie the score and force overtime. Dies then took Austin down again and ended the match with a 4-2 victory. “David has been wrestling pretty tough over break. He’s No. 3 in the EIWA, so he has a very tough class,” Amato said. Dies went 11-5 over the break, including a 3-1 showing at the competitive Lone Star Duals in Austin, Texas, and a see WRESTLING, page 9

Women’s fencers regain momentum by taking four of six at BC, men finish 1-3 BY ZANETA BALANTAC

After a disappointing loss at last semester’s final tournament, the men’s and women’s fencing teams came back from winter vacation ready to compete. They showed their readiness by giving stellar performances during their first competition of the semester. “We went into the tournament right after ‘Hell Week,’ which is our winter training camp,” said women’s foil squad captain Nanette Milner ’06. “We had been working really hard all week and there was a lot of improvement, even though we were pretty tired.” The much-needed break, in combination with “Hell Week,” when the team practices six hours a day for five days, energized the women’s team and allowed it to regain the momentum it had at the beginning of the season. The team began its winning drive with a strong showing at the second league meet of the season Jan. 24 at Boston College. Brown posted a 4-2 record, winning against Dartmouth College, Tufts University, Smith College and Boston College and proving itself one of the top women’s fencing teams in New England. Milner led the way for the Bears by digging herself out of a 1-4 touch count to tie her opponent 4-4 and push her bout into overtime. After losing priority and making two off-target touches, Milner surged back to

score the winning point with three seconds left on the clock. “I was really angry that I had let myself get into such a deficit against an opponent,” Milner said. “I knew I could easily beat her, and that helped me get up the energy and determination to concentrate and eventually win the bout.” Milner’s teammates came through as well and provided record performances of their own. All-American women’s épéeist Ruth Schneider ’06 finished the meet with a 14-1 record, and Jennifer Hausmann ’07 followed suit with a 17-1 finish. Schneider and Hausmann garnered easy wins against Ivy League rival Dartmouth, while the rest of the team followed their lead. Bruno won 19-8. But against perennial powerhouse Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Bears could not parry the Engineers despite several efforts. Although the women’s foil toppled the Engineers for a 5-4 victory, the Bears lost a close match 12-15. The loss, however, did not stop Brown from taking more matches. The women’s foil, épée and sabre squads fenced long and hard to win victory counts of 6-3, 6-3 see FENCING, page 9

whether the Panthers were from North or South Carolina. Still, the Super Bowl is the marquee sporting event of the year, whether for the commercials or the game itself, and these two teams always seem to play close games. Rather than offer a trite analysis of the two teams, a la Sean Salisbury, I will instead focus on the agony I went through in trying to pick a team in this game. As a resident of Connecticut, I still resent the Patriots for promising to move to Hartford and then reneging when they were able to extort a new stadium out of Massachusetts. As a Jets fan, I think about what might have been had Bill Belichick remained the Jets’ coach instead of running off to New England for more control and more money. Instead, New York was forced to suffer through a year under Al “I coach like I’m playing Madden on PS2” Groh. Moreover, it was against the Jets that Drew Bledsoe was injured and Tom Brady stepped into the spotlight. Despite all of this, and inspired by current Jets coach Herm Edwards, I pick to win the games. So as entertaining as it might be to root against the Patriots and root for the Panthers to lose by less than 6.5, it just is not going to happen. Patriots (-6.5) over the Panthers New England is on a roll that rivals John Kerry’s for the hottest run in the Northeast. Even if Belichick patrols the sidelines in a “Unabomber-esque” sweatshirt, he still manages to craft a game plan that frazzles every NFL quarterback. Furthermore, the Pats’ own QB has taken on the persona of JFK. He rarely makes a mistake in crunch time, and off the field, he dabbles between politics (prime seating at the State of the Union address) and hot women — see Tara Reid and Bridget Moynihan as evidence of the latter. Despite not having the dancing ability of Ray Lewis, New England’s defense is second to none when it comes to the ability to make big plays. In its trophy case at Gillette Stadium, the team is displaying Edgerin James’ and Peyton Manning’s “jewels,” after stopping the former on fourth-and-one from the one-yard line and forcing the latter to throw four interceptions in the AFC Championship Game. On the other hand, Carolina has a return man who starred as “He Hate Me” in the XFL and a quarterback who played behind Kurt Warner in NFL Europe. Those two are not exactly striking fear in the hearts of men. Even though Coach John Fox has done a tremendous job this year, it is tough to forget that he headed the New York Giants’ Super Bowl defense that made Trent Dilfer to Brandon Stokely look like Joe Montana to Jerry Rice. Plus, Steve Smith might be a Pro Bowl wide receiver, but without a cool nickname or an original end zone celebration, he is just not going to make it in the modern-day NFL. In the end, Carolina should just be happy to play a nationally televised game in February. Meanwhile, a victory for New England will at least keep Massachusetts residents pacified until the Red Sox start spring training. Josh Troy ’04 hails from Stamford, Conn. He finished his two seasons “Spreadin’ the Love” 30 games over .500 and isn’t afraid to tell you about it.

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