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Corruption in Afghanistan still a problem, former ambassador says

Merchants question value of Thayer Street improvements

BY PAT CLARK

BY JONATHAN HERMAN

Once security measures are established, Afghanistan’s future as a nation centers on the institution of an all-Afghan government, former ambassador to Afghanistan Robert Finn told an audience in Salomon 101 Monday evening. Finn — who was ambassador to Afghanistan between 2002 and 2003 — helped to orchestrate the loya jirga that wrote the new Afghan constitution for the post-Taliban government. According to Finn, the state of Afghanistan has improved greatly since the implementation of the constitution and changes in currency, and nationwide elections in June will continue that progress. The constitution specifies elections of a president and a parliament, and current Afghan president Hamid Karzai supports fair elections, Finn said. In order to make progress in security and development, a centralized political system with a strong, supported president is necessary, he said. Finn said the transition toward democracy, although slow and deliberate, is feasible in Afghanistan — the warlord system in the villages and provinces runs on consensus, a class system has not been formed and common men do not hesitate to “tell off” the president. But he said the command-economy legacy of the Soviet Union permeates parts of the Afghan government and the attitude that private investment is a government cash cow that must be overcome. “Corruption in government was endemic (immediately following the expulsion of the Taliban) and remains a serious problem,” Finn said. But government corruption is the least of Afghanistan’s current problems, he said, citing security, infrastructure, narcotics and an absence of basic public services as major problems that can be improved with a combination of greater international funding and organized Afghan government. According to Finn, international aid to Afghanistan amounts to merely $50 per

One year after its implementation in March 2003, the Thayer Street Improvement District has made moderate improvements but not lived up to its initial goals, according to many owners and managers of Thayer Street businesses. TSID is an initiative to revitalize Thayer Street run by the 10 largest property owners on the street, including the University. “It’s been a collaborative process. We want to involve the city, neighborhood and businesses. That’s why it has taken so long,” said Deborah Dinerman, Brown’s community and government relations liaison. TSID hired landscape architectural consulting firm Gates, Leighton and Associates to design Thayer’s new streetscape and intends to start construction next summer. Improvements include new lighting, attractive pavement, larger parking capacity, improved directional and regulatory signage and many other efforts to beautify the street, Dinerman said. But many business owners are skeptical of the prospects for real improvement on the street. “You have 40 different individual owners going in 40 different directions. There has been no cohesive effort to bring them together,” said Bryan Creighton, owner of Morrison Office Supplies. Tom Farnsworth of Tom’s Tracks said that he thinks Thayer Street “is beyond improvement.” Farnsworth called TSID’s efforts to improve the area “too little, too late.” “Anybody can do whatever they want. It’s a fodder of greedy landlords, too

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Robert Finn,the first post-Taliban ambassador to Afghanistan,spoke Monday night in Salomon 101 about current challenges facing the country. capita, while Bosnia received $1,400 per capita in aid after its civil war. Additionally, the Kabul government receives no tax revenue from provinces, and its only source of domestic funding is duty stations on the border. This lack of funding has slowed the development of infrastructure necessary to implement a centralized government, he said. In 2002, phone lines did not exist between the Afghan provinces and Kabul, and a trip between Kandahar and Kabul took up to 18 hours. Phone lines and a road that shortened the trip to a third of its previous length have improved government control and security. “It’s harder (for criminals) to stop a car that’s moving 60 miles per hour than it is to stop a car moving six miles per hour,” Finn

said. Besides the inadequate infrastructure, Finn said Afghans also suffer from an overloaded education system, a national army that is fractured along ethnic cleavages, poor health services that cause 15 percent of Afghan women to die during childbirth and a lack of economic development that has fed a drug culture. Rebuilding the national army and police force would offer jobs to a generation that has always been soldiers while helping to ease ethnic strains, Finn said. Currently, 7,000 soldiers have been trained and deployed into the Afghan provinces. But jobs must be created for those who do not want to be in the national army in

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Leader in environmental justice connects environmental issues, racial inequality BY BRIAN SCHMALZBACH

Robert Bullard, the Ware distinguished professor of sociology and director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, described himself in a lecture Monday as an environmental sociologist and unapologetic environmentalist who was the leading academic bringing environmental justice issues to the public eye in the 1980s and 1990s. Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd that packed Maxcy Hall’s Zimmer Lounge, Bullard recounted his battles for the environmental justice movement. He said environmental justice is neither affirmative action nor preferential treatment but rather

the belief that all communities are entitled to equal protection under the law. Much of Bullard’s work focuses on the southern United States because “the South is the most polluted region in the country and the most resistant to equal justice,” he said. Bullard became interested in challenging environmental discrimination using civil rights laws when his wife brought a lawsuit against a company that targeted African American communities Bullard called “zoned for garbage in Houston.” He said the environmental justice movement was born in 1982 in Warren County, N.C., when students lay down in front of garbage trucks

dumping illegally in a predominantly black community. Since then, the movement has spread rapidly to many areas of public policy, including transportation, housing and health care. Bullard said smart urban and suburban growth must address equity and race because “inequalities are built into the way we grow.” Bullard’s energetic but self-deprecating speech frequently elicited laughs from the audience. “Here I am,” he said, pointing to himself in a picture of President Bill Clinton signing an executive order that enforced see BULLARD, page 3

I N S I D E T U E S D AY, M A RC H 2 , 2 0 0 4 Primaries arrive with fanfare only for some students; others forget absentee ballots metro, page 3

Hope High School, facing new rounds of reforms, waits for improvements metro, page 3

Anthony Halperin ’06 says Gabriella Windsor ’04 is wrong about Brown column, page 7

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At Monday night’s Caribbean Heritage Week Convocation, Roger Bonair-Agard shared some of his poetry. Bonair-Agard is the national slam poetry champion and co-author of “Burning Down the House,” and he was the keynote speaker Monday night in Starr Auditorium.

TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T Polygamy is bad, but gay marriage isn’t, according to Ari Savitzky ’06 column, page 7

W. track beats expectations and Yale, earns third place in Heps at Cornell University sports, page 8

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Super Tuesday finds Hope High faces new round of reforms many students sitting it out BY KIRA LESLEY

BY SARA PERKINS

Today nine states will hold primaries for the Democratic nomination, including four of the 10 most populated states in the union. However, many students who are registered to vote said they are sitting out the primary due to problems with obtaining absentee ballots and general “apathy.” Six of the states that hold primaries on “Super Tuesday” also are among the 10 states most represented by Brown students: California, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Maryland. The remaining states are Ohio, Georgia and Vermont. Most states ask that voters request mail-in absentee ballots between 20 and 30 days before an election. Remembering to do so was a problem for many. Esther Dorzin ’07, who is from Brooklyn, N.Y., was disappointed that it was too late. “I definitely will request one next time,” she said. “It didn’t occur to me to get an absentee ballot, and I can’t make it back home,” said Elizabeth McCullough ’06, who is from Lakeville, Mass. Many students, even those who are registered nearby or got their ballots on time, are not excited enough to vote. Despite the fact that states holding primaries today control 157 electoral votes and 1,079 pledged delegates, Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) commanding lead in early contests has reduced the drive to vote, some political analysts say. Survey USA polling conducted last week predicts Kerry will win 66 percent of the vote in Rhode Island. For students hoping to vote in Rhode Island, where Brown students not registered in their home states are eligible, the deadline to register was Feb. 1, 30 days before the election. The Brown College Democrats have been encouraging students to register in Rhode Island instead of their home states. “Most people at Brown register in Rhode Island and we encourage them,” said Nathaniel Lepp ’06, the Dems’ voter registration chair. The more students registered here, the more political power Brown will have and the more students will vote, since voting locally is much easier than voting absentee, he said. The 18 to 25 age group votes at the lowest rate of any age group, he said, “even though we often have the most to say.” Not every Brown student is afflicted with voter apathy. Two students — Ari Savitzky ’06 and Rajiv Kumar ’05 — are listed on the ballot as delegates for former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, along with local political figures such as perennial gubernatorial candidate Myrth York. “A lot of the people who volunteered to work on presidential campaigns are youth, but a lot of the delegates are not,” Kumar said. He said he felt it was particularly appropriate to be a delegate for Dean, “who’s bringing a lot of young people into politics.” If Dean, who officially dropped out of the race Feb. 17, wins at least 15 percent of the vote, then the Dean delegates who get the most votes will go to the Democratic see PRIMARIES, page 5

Bullard continued from page 1 principles of environmental justice in federal agencies. “And here’s the president’s desk.” In a question-and-answer session, the audience, composed of a mix of students and professors from a variety of departments, connected environmental justice to diverse fields of study. Steve Rabson, associate professor of East Asian studies, highlighted the problems of racial inequality in Providence by describing the dispersal of a Chinese community to make way for the construction of I-95. Bullard said Department of Transportation policies would now forbid such an event because of the success of the environmental justice movement at the federal level. Churches were integral in starting the environmental justice movement — they have embraced the principles of environmental justice and used

“What am I looking at here?” Nancy Mullen’s commanding voice booms into the hallway. Ten seconds later, two boys — one wearing a black do-rag, the other a red one — are sitting sheepishly in her office. “You both get two hours (of detention) for wearing your do-ies,” Mullen says. The protesting boys leave and disappear into different classrooms down the hall. Thirty seconds later, one of the boys sprints out of the classroom, black do-rag resting on his head but not tied, followed by an exasperated teacher. As she pursues him down one hall, three more boys slip out of her classroom and run down a different hall. Meanwhile, the other boy, hidden in a small enclave, does a silent victory dance — the teacher has gone by without noticing him. So begins a Thursday morning at Hope High School. Despite the big blue banner hung over the school’s main entrance reading “The Future Rests on Our Hope,” the high school continues to struggle to compete with other Providence schools and has been classified as “making insufficient progress” for the past three years. Now, with the recent implementation of the 2003 High School Redesign and Site Based Management Plan, teachers, administrators, and students are hoping to reverse Hope’s tendency toward low test scores, low attendance and high drop-out rates. Carole Marshall, who teaches 10th-grade English at Hope, said when she began teaching there almost a decade ago, “kids were off the walls, there was no curriculum — it was a mess.” Two years ago, Hope was found to be among the worst high schools in Rhode Island, said Hope High principal Mullen. In response, Hope High underwent an organizational restructuring and administrative team change, she said. The school is now organized around three site-based programs, focusing on information technology, leadership and arts. “I like the fact that we’re in a smaller school,” Marshall said. Marshall, who is involved with the Information Technology Academy, said that the site-based programs enable small groups of faculty — around 30 as opposed to 100 — who “share a vision” to work together and meet at least every other week. According to the Redesign Plan, each of the three programs, also known as “small learning communities,” is supposed to have approximately 552 students and various smaller sections based on the school’s goal of achieving a 1:26 student-teacher ratio. This effort to reduce class size is part of the Redesign Plan’s focus on individual student attention. This is one of the many elements that the Redesign Plan shares with the “Rekindling the Dream” plan unveiled four years ago by former Providence Schools Superintendent Diana Lam, Mullen said. “Rekindling the Dream” emphasized three areas of improvement for Providence schools: increasing student achievement, building capacity and promoting parent and community involvement with the schools. According Nkoli Onye, director of the Academy of Information Technology, these three goals are very much a part of Hope’s current reforms. To increase parent involvement, Hope is starting a series of Learning Walks in which parents can go into classrooms and shadow their children for a day, Onye said. Hope also offers technology and

stewardship to spread those principles among constituents, Bullard said in response to a question from Anna Fedman ’06 about the role of religion in environmental justice. Ben Gerhardstein ’03.5, who graduated with a concentration in sociology, gave advice for those interested in participating in the movement. He said one of the primary environmental justice initiatives in Providence is a lawsuit that alleges two schools were sited near dumps. It is important to encourage the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management to take a more active role in environmental justice issues, he said. Gerhardstein, who has pursued work in environmental justice, said he was impressed by the turnout at Bullard’s lecture and happy that he was able to meet the hero of the movement. “I’m thrilled to see him at Brown,” he said. The lecture was sponsored by the Center for Environmental Studies and the departments of Sociology and Ethnic Studies.

computer classes for parents and for the first time has established a regular parent-teacher organization, Marshall said. The “building capacity” goal centers around “increasing the competency of the district or staff members,” said Rudy Moseley, assistant principal for the information technology program. Under the reforms, administrators undergo non-traditional training that is not just academic but also pragmatic, Moseley said. The third focus of the reforms — increasing student achievement — can seem like a daunting task. Hope High’s test scores for the 2002-2003 school year fell far short of Rhode Island averages — the average Hope High students’ SAT score was 729, while the average for Rhode Island public schools was 990. Only 7 percent of 10th graders at Hope were proficient in math skills, 12 percent were proficient in basic reading concepts, 12 percent were proficient in the Rhode Island Writing Exam and only 2 percent tested proficient on the R.I. Health Exam. That same year, Hope had a graduation rate of 56.2 percent. One of the reform strategies that was designed to combat academic shortcomings is the implementation of uniform standards. Like all Providence public schools, Hope uses the Scope and Sequence guidelines, which outline specific curriculum requirements for each class, Mullen said. The reform plans are also instructing teachers in new teaching strategies, Marshall said. Teachers are now using overhead projectors and teaching by way of modeling, which was not done much at Hope in the past, Marshall said. Not everyone is happy about the changes being made at Hope. According to Marshall, some teachers take offense at being told in such detail how and what they should teach. Marshall, however, said she thinks the guidelines are helpful, especially when teaching a class for the first time, and she noted that when she first came to Hope “people were teaching whatever they wanted.” Despite their benefits, all the changes to teaching methods and curriculum don’t eliminate many underlying problems that can lead to poor academic performance, such as poverty and unstable home situations, Onye said. Hope High has a high percentage of very poor students and students who don’t live with two parents, she said. “The issues we are dealing with mirror national issues,” Onye said. Nationwide, budget problems in public education are also a concern. Among other complaints, Hope High sophomore Jean Lorenzo said, “We need new books. I opened this one book and it said 1963. The books are jacked up.” Despite last year’s low test scores and high dropout rate, teachers and administrators remain positive about the school’s future. The reforms have not yet had time to really take effect, Marshall said. “People want instant results . . . but the problems we’re having are nationwide and there’s no easy solution.” Although the path to academic reform isn’t an easy one, “something had to be done,” Marshall said.

Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ’07 can be reached at klesley@browndailyherald.com.

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Track continued from page 8 shot put title but still came through with a strong third-place finish. She threw for 44-7 1/4 feet. The senior duo of Lauren Linder ’04 and co-captain Julia Stevenson ’04 competed in the 60meter and 200-meter sprints and scored a combined 10 points. Linder finished third in the 60meter but failed to qualify for the 200-meter finals. While her leg speed and good start got her through the dash, a relaxed finish in the 200-meter left her edged out at the tape, according to Johnson. Linder’s teammate Stevenson, however, qualified for finals in both the 60-meter and 200-meter races and finished fifth in both. Johnson called Stevenson’s performance bittersweet. “She’s talented enough to run the 60-meter and 200-meter but not in shape enough to run the 400-meter yet,” Johnson said, referring to Stevenson’s quick comeback from tendonitis. “She’s really getting ready for the 400meter (outdoors), but she’s versatile enough that she could come down to the 200-meter and 60meter here and score.” Kelly Powell ’06 and Fara Kitton ’05 both slipped in with sixthplace finishes in their respective events. Powell ran a 58.17 in the 400-meter, while Kitton finished

in 9.05 for the 60-meter hurdles. They earned Brown a combined two points on the total score. “It was one of those meets that it came down to a team effort,” Johnson said. “When you look at who contributed to accomplish that third spot, it was very well rounded.” Fittingly, it was the two relay teams that brought in the Bears’ final 18 points of the meet and pushed them into their final thirdplace standing. The 4x800-meter relay squad gave the Bears their third victory of the meet. Sacrificing their individual goals, three of the relay legs jointly chose to focus solely on the relay rather than their respective open events. Caci Cambruzzi ’04, Katherine Kosub ’04 and Kate Cushing ’04 joined Anna Willard ’06 to put together a winning team that outran the tired Cornell and Princeton squads. “The point was to maximize the amount of points our team could score,” said Cushing. “There was a chance that all four of us would make finals in our respective races but not place high enough to

W. Hockey continued from page 8 argued the goal with no success. “We outplayed Dartmouth man-to-man but couldn’t score on our opportunities while they were in the penalty box,” said Heinhuis. “They’re a good team, and we are very proud of the way we played together this weekend.” The Dartmouth victory

Swimming continued from page 8 the next event, the 100-yard butterfly. Later that night, McCoy and Becky Kowalsky ’07 placed second and fifth in the 200-yard freestyle, while Hoban and Daniels dominated the field with a 1-2 finish in the 100-yard backstroke. The night culminated with a fourth-place finish in the marathon 800-yard freestyle relay by McCoy, Kowalsky, Daniels and Hoban. Team scores at the end of the second day held Brown in fourth, with Princeton now at the helm. On Saturday, the last day of competition, Hoban again showed her backstroke prowess with third-place points in the 200yard backstroke. The Brown sprint squad

score. If we were fresh for the 4x800, there was a better chance we could place in the top one or two.” Brown’s strategy paid off, as the relay came away with the win in 8:56.19. Finally, it was the 4x400-meter relay team of Emily LewisLaMonica ’06, Ferjan, Powell and Kitton that closed the meet with a second-place finish in 3:50.23. Each leg averaged just under a 58second split. While the Brown women came through with a surprising thirdplace finish, Johnson is hoping outdoor track will bring more success earlier in the season. “As a coach, you hope to get out of the blocks quicker,” he said. “We were sluggish the first three or four weeks. If we had gotten off to a better start, our finish could have been better. I think we have better performances to come.” Herald staff writer Melissa Perlman ’04 is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s track. She can be reached at mperlman@browndailyherald.com.

clinches the Ivy League Championship for the Big Green. The Bears will battle for second place this weekend at Meehan Auditorium, when they host Princeton University at 2 p.m. Saturday and Yale University at 2 p.m. Sunday. Herald staff writer Lexi Costello ’06 covers women’s ice hockey. She can be reached at lcostello@browndailyherald.com.

showed its stuff again later, with Daniels, McCoy, Robinson and Hinkson placing in the top eight spots. Those swimmers went on to own the first, second, fourth and fifth-place titles. Later that night, butterflier Ashley Wallace ’07 showed her potential by placing third in the distance-oriented 200-yard event. The meet ended on a high note with the victory of the 400-yard freestyle relay squad of McCoy, Hinkson, Robinson and Daniels. At the tally of the final scores, the team held at fourth place, with Princeton hanging on to win the meet. The Bears return to their dens in Providence ready to face the off season. Herald staff writer Aron Gyuris ’04 covers both swimming teams. He can be reached at agyuris@browndailyherald.com.

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Afghanistan continued from page 1 order to reduce the nation’s economic dependence on its opium trade, he said. According to Finn, few realize that before civil wars ravaged the country, Afghanistan was the fifth-most underdeveloped country in the world. Development of alternative crops and a zero-tolerance policy on narcotics are necessary to stop Afghanistan from turning into a “narcomafia” state, he said. “Once an exporter of food, (Afghanistan) is now an exporter of opium,” Finn said. Finn said the development of government, industry, infrastructure and non-biased police will protect Afghan security. The Taliban gained support, he said, by offering security to a nation constantly torn by the factious rule of warlords. A supported central government will reduce the ubiquitous prescience of quiet Taliban support — the Taliban has been able to infiltrate the country and is responsible for 400 deaths since hostilities officially ended, Finn said. As the country unifies around a government, and the factions and warlords battle politically instead of violently, Finn said he thinks support for the Taliban will further dwindle.

Equestrian continued from page 8 Intermediate riders Gillian Heineke ’07 and Katherine Warshaw-Reid ’04.5 received respective second and sixthplace ribbons over fences. Both riders placed third on the flat, continuing Saturday’s streak of third-place finishes. Bridget Barbera ’04 led the novice division with a momentous win in her over fences class. Heidi Abrecht ’07 took home a second over fences and a fifth on the flat, while Grace Peloquin ’07 and Mallory Kass ’06 both earned fourth-place ribbons in the flat ring. The day of the third-place ribbon continued, as novice riders Ariana Arcenas ’06, Rachel Roemer ’06, Kass and Bridget Barbera ’04 all finished third in their flat classes.

During the question-andanswer portion of the lecture, Tahira Dosani ’04 asked how monumental elections would be considering that only one million Afghans are currently registered to vote. Finn said ideally 50 percent of Afghans will be registered to vote by the first election, but the formation of democracy is an ongoing process and voter registration should increase with subsequent elections. Michael Soule ’06 and Lindsay Broockman ’05 both said they found Finn’s speech insightful because of his separation from politics and the American media. Finn is currently the resident ambassador and professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. Major news networks offer limited information about Afghanistan and focus it on the United States budgetary involvement, Broockman said, and Finn offered a more thorough perspective. Soule said he appreciated Finn’s direct analysis and blunt answers, which he was able to give because he is not a politician. “A parliamentary system stops people from killing each other on the streets — instead they get into a room and yell at each other,” said Finn. “This is an improvement.”

“It was a frustrating show, because although we were acknowledged for doing well with many third-place finishes, we weren’t standing out,” said Kels. “We need to work on style and poise so when we get in the ring, we dominate.” The lower division riders did dominate at Wesleyan, however, with several crucial wins that triggered a strong comeback for Brown. Joanna Kels ’04 won her walk-trot-canter contest, while Jenny Fauth ’05 placed first and Jennifer Bain ’05, Connie Lee ’05 and Natalie Forbes ’05 all placed third. Jennifer John ’06 followed with a much-needed win in the walk-trot category, trailed by Anna Mori ’06 in second and Aurora Tower ’06 in the sixth spot. The team heads to the University of Connecticut Saturday.

Thayer continued from page 1 many chains, rent’s too high and traffic has moved to the mall,” he said. “Every other building on Thayer is corporately owned, except my owner (Myron Guttin).” “This is an ambitious plan. Thayer Street has such an eclectic feel, it is kind of a jewel in Rhode Island,” Dinerman said. “It’s funky. There are a lot of different stores. I think it reflects the diversity of Rhode Island. I don’t think Thayer Street is a lost cause.” Other local merchants would rather see Thayer unchanged. “I like the way it is,” said Valerie Trudeau, manager of Paragon. “I don’t think it should be changed. It’s a city.” Moises Made, manager of Johnny Rockets, says he hasn’t seen any changes during the three years he has worked on Thayer Street, except for the improved security. TSID hired guards through the private security firm Pinkerton last spring. The Thayer businesses quickly noticed the difference. “Over the last year and a half, with the addition of the security and the increased police presence, you see fewer kids hanging out, and you see more of the college crowd,” said Ed Rames, manager of Antonio’s. Pinkerton security guard Kjel Franchi patrols Thayer to keep

Primaries continued from page 3 National Convention in Boston this summer. “It’s not looking too good,” Kumar said. Still, “I’ve been letting people know I’m on the bal-

the street free from panhandlers and suspicious activities. “I go around and ask panhandlers to go away. If I see any criminal mischief, I call the police. (I must) be visible so if I am at a restaurant, (I) stay visible,” Franchi said. “If I see someone doing graffiti, I tell them to stop, or I call the police,” he said. “I run the (panhandlers) out of here. What kind of person wants to walk into a store that has a beggar in front of it? I have no remorse and no regret for bums.” TSID has also hired workers to keep the trash off of Thayer. “Last year the street was a mess. For the last few months, I have seen cleaning guys in the morning,” said Lokesh Dva, a worker at Kabob and Curry. Under the guidance of the Biederman Redevelopment Ventures Corp. of New York, the improvements TSID included in the original plan were supposed to cost Brown $350,000, the City of Providence $400,000 and local real estate and business owners $50,000. Many business owners await these improvements, particularly enhanced parking capacity. “I would like to see some improved parking for business owners around here,” said David Gabriel, owner of East Side Vision Care. Sher Singh Rawalt, manager of Kabob and Curry, said the limited parking and two-hour limit on

lot.” Connecticut, Maryland and New York have closed primaries in which only registered party members can vote in that party’s primary. In California, undeclared voters like Noah Lorenzana ’07 have to contact their county offices to receive

most spaces definitely hurts his business. Traffic is another consistent problem owners would like to see changed. “All the trucks in the morning back up the streets for 10 to 15 minutes, although they are on the side streets,” Dva said. “But we are in the same business, so we need our morning deliveries too.” The construction of the Life Sciences Building “has inhibited the Thayer Street effort,” said Nori Swennes, manager of La Creperie. “The construction takes up a lot of space. Just having construction means there is more traffic, streets are closed, traffic is rerouted which causes more traffic to Thayer.” A member of the Providence Police force told The Herald he is assigned to stop Gilbane Building Company from blocking the loading space used by Thayer Street restaurants on the corner of Meeting and Thayer. The officer said he was deployed in response to a court order filed against the construction company. Many Thayer Street merchants said they would like more of an emphasis put on the beautification of Thayer. Some owners suggested adding potted plants and cleaning off the poster kiosks. Herald staff writer Jonathan Herman ’07 can be reached at jherman@browndailyherald.com.

permission to vote on a party ballot. “I refuse to declare a party, so I think that may throw a wrench into my primary voting abilities,” he said. Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

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Easy street It goes without saying that a major part of the Brown experience is Thayer Street. And while Brown is not directly responsible for Thayer, the University has acknowledged the street’s importance to Brown. That acknowledgement came in the form of $350,000 and Brown’s involvement in planning the Thayer Street Improvement District. Last summer, an administrator told The Herald basic improvements such as better lighting, paving and signage would be complete by the end of this academic year. But the plans that seemed ready in September have been delayed until summer. Students, faculty and staff walk Thayer every day, particularly now that construction of the Life Sciences building has eliminated the shortcut to Pembroke campus. But as we walk along the sidewalks, we still trip on uneven concrete. After dark on weekdays, Thayer is filled with shadows. The flow of traffic is still a nightmare. Once implementation of the revitalization plans begins, we will see improvement in all of these areas. Until then, Thayer’s problems will continue to lower the quality of life for the University community and surrounding area and make Brown less appealing to prospective students. The lack of progress on Thayer Street is surprising, but more troubling is the fact that these are basic improvements that do not require a large investment. Compared to the sums that will be necessary to fund the campus life initiatives the Corporation approved this weekend, Brown’s contribution of $350,000 to Thayer improvements is relatively small. The plan for Thayer does not seem too complex — pour funding, time and care into the area, and the entire University and College Hill area will benefit. Revitalizing Thayer is a campus life issue that can be addressed without sprawling, long-term initiatives. Funds are ready, and plans have been made, so we wonder what is holding things up. The delay in implementing what seems like a simple plan makes us wonder about the feasibility of the University’s larger initiatives. It simply does not seem that difficult to get new pavement, lighting and trash cans — if small-scale improvements are that tough to accomplish, how difficult are the bigger challenges going to be?

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LETTERS Column stops abused from coming forward To the Editor: Brett Zarda makes many good points in his article about the sexual assaults at the University of Colorado (“University of Colorado scandal: Where does the bandwagon stop?,” March 1). He asks why one allegation of sexual misconduct inevitably sparks others, and it’s an important question to ask. Many people don’t realize that perpetrators usually victimize many people. But his use of phrases like “jumping on the bandwagon” is hurtful to survivors of sexual violence. Sexual assault is shrouded in fear and shame for its victims. Naming it publicly means facing the collective denial that this happens on such a widespread basis — and that someone you know could do this to you. Often, it’s not until one brave person comes forward that others have the strength to come forward. And just as often, there are many unseen victims who can never garner that strength. To come to grips with the reality that rapists and child molesters are rarely strangers but friends, neighbors and family members means coming to grips with the reality that we are all vulnerable to these unspeakable acts. Blaming a victim and turning offenders into thugs and monsters are the ways that people create a false sense of security for

themselves. Sexual assault pervades every institution and segment of our society. Whenever one group like athletes or the clergy, is demonized, it creates the misperception that that’s the only group that is the problem. Privileged athletes on those campuses need to be held accountable, but we also need to remember that sexual assault happens on every campus and in every part of campus. Brown has to change the belief that “things like that don’t happen here.” Survivors of abuse experience so much shame and blame that they become experts at knowing who is safe to talk to and who isn’t. Making jokes, questioning a victim’s behavior and using phrases like “jumping on the bandwagon” to describe the difficult process of coming forward are clear signals that it’s not safe. I’m glad that Zarda has asked these questions and started the process of becoming one more safe person who will someday help a survivor heal. Learn as much as you can about the dynamics of sexual assault and abuse and the best ways to help. You can visit Health Education’s Web site (www.brown.edu/healthed) to learn more. Frances Mantak Director of Health Education Brown University Health Services March 1

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2004 · PAGE 7

ARI SAVITZKY

Whither polygamy? The Bush administration has recognized that the Constitution is not on its side and has decided to take a gamble: If the government already had a right to ban gay marriage, there would be no need for a Federal Marriage Amendment. The President needs his constitutional wager to win big in November. So Uncle Karl, in an attempt to drive up the national intolerance quotient, has sent his minions to the morning shows, crying, “Whither polygamy?” No one should entertain the claim that the right of same-sex couples to equal civil marriage has any bearing on polygamy’s legal or social status. Yet Tucker Carlson did it on “Crossfire,” O’Reilly did it on “Fox Radio Hegemony” and Jerry Falwell did it on Wolf Blitzer’s show. The brainstorm of Washington extremists is fast gathering into a gale of conservative obfuscation. Polygamy rhetoric is designed to shroud the issue at hand and strengthen the position of the religious right. While some unions are flawed, monogamous partnership represents a desirable opportunity to pursue most intimate happiness and to support future generations. The basis for civil marriage is the support of a relationship which generally benefits society and the public. Polygamy in the United States is only practiced by a tiny subset of fundamentalists who sometimes refuse to pay their taxes. And their practice is being brandished as a high-power taboo to fight equality. The government has a duty to defend its citizens from exploitation and dire poverty and no interest in giving legal sanction to polygamy. Polygamy presents hazards for the children it produces as well as the children it binds. Polygamous men take one legal wife, while others are so-called spiritual wives — in other words, unwed mothers eligible for welfare. Utah, home of many polygamous Mormon sects, spends millions of dollars on them annually. But civil marriage, and the subsequent loss of benefits, might render Thomas Green’s 29 children and five young wives considerably worse off. Legal polygamy also confuses the basic social meaning of marriage. When everyone can marry everyone, what is marriage worth? This is the trick question of polygamy rhetoric, the conjuring of a slippery slope used as a scapegoat to deny equal rights to homosexuals. The state, at least for now, can say what a marriage is but certainly not who enters into it. Civil marriage, for better or

The slippery slope argument is just plain slippery. worse, is a permanent legal institution that defines, upholds and confers some 1,400 rights and privileges on willing heterosexuals. The government simply may not deny individuals equal treatment under the law based on their membership in any suspect class. Some might point to affirmative action as an example of state-sanctioned discrimination. But policies like those of the University of Michigan did not come close to barring a whole category of people from access to a state institution, and the Supreme Court still held them at arm’s length. The current tussle over gay marriage mirrors the fight against anti-miscegenation laws much more closely than it does the eternal struggle for polygamy. Any federal amendment that restricts the rights of gay Americans to civil marriage is a constitutional contradiction, and the question of “whither polygamy?” is an attempt to smokescreen a legal bright line for political cover. The polygamy question tries to frame the issue in terms of moral or immoral and scare Middle America with visions of non-monogamous orgies in the streets. Democrats and progressives need to fight back. Polls show the country splits evenly on the general question of gay marriage. Most voters don’t feel strongly either way, and the intent of the polygamy argument and related sub-distortions is to drive a wedge between activists and the rest of the electorate. President Bush may not have bet correctly on the FMA. The New York Times recently reported that even those religious evangelicals whom Mr. Bush has sought to energize are far from unified in staunch support of the amendment. Of all the senators who have publicly taken a stand on the amendment, 18 expressed support while 47 stated their opposition, according to Lexis-Nexis reports. And Mr. Bush has undercut his own position with his tenuous nod to civil unions. With political defeat looming, no wonder gay marriage opponents are talking polygamy. Democrats should grill the president on his contradictory support of both civil unions and the FMA — driving a wedge between hardcore haters and the rest of the nation — and thwart an attempt at boldfaced discrimination in America’s contract of union. Ari Savitzky ’06 has seven wives.

Lies the Viva-Buxton crowd told me GUEST COLUMN BY ANTHONY HALPERIN

The existence of the Viva-Buxton crowd as an insulated group was confirmed to me when reading an interview with Gabriella Windsor ’04, a member of the British Royal family, in the Feb. 22 edition of the London Sunday Times. Windsor characterizes Brown as a place where “young men and women limp to classes bleary eyed from the previous evening’s excesses.” Brown’s frat houses “end up smelling of urine,” where "it’s acceptable after throwing up to reach for another plastic cup of foamy beer.” She is critical not only of our excessive consumption of beer (something clearly unheard of for the British), but also our dating habits, which she describes as “a less interesting and a more corny way of doing things.” She would have us believe that the only respite a cultured, European could find from this world of vomit and urine is in the comforts and familiarity of her fellow internationals who “are likely to be more demonstrably wealthy.” Princess Windsor’s depiction of Brown is ridiculous enough that it would be trite to criticize. What it really illustrates though is how little Windsor has penetrated American culture in her seven semesters at Brown.The fact that she refers to Viva as being situated in the “Greek part of town” only confirms her ignorance of Providence and its inhabitants. Her superficial observations could have been ascertained in a night or two. Reading the article, it’s clear that Windsor, along with her crowd of international peers, made no genuine effort to get to know a greater range of the American students at Brown. They most likely heard similar stories about American college social life before coming to Brown, and entering with these prejudices, only sought to confirm them. This attitude creates a divide between internationals and American students. When a high-school friend of mine from France recently visited Brown, she asked her tour guide a question about the international commu-

nity. The tour guide gave her the impression that most international students live in the International House (Buxton) and that they view the standard American college life with contempt. Just like that, a probable Brown applicant was turned off from Brown, because having lived in an inclusive international environment, she didn’t want to become part of a closed and elitist one. The sad truth of the situation is that in both cases a loud, visible minority has falsely defined the personality of a much larger majority. In other words, Brown is no more dominated by vomiting frat boys as the international students are all jet-set, Viva-dancing, apathetic students though this is the image that both have of each other. My fear is that with the current state of Americaninternational relations at Brown, it is difficult for either side to experience each other’s culture in a meaningful way. The only way to correct this situation is to break

Princess Windsor has a distorted view of Brown. down the stereotypes that each side has of the other, rather than reinforcing them as Windsor has so recklessly done. That way we can maximize the potential inherent in having such a diverse student community. If not, Brown’s high percentage of international students becomes just another empty statistic, a facade of diversity that may excite prospective students but rings hollow for those already on College Hill. Anthony Halperin ’06 will be in London this spring break.

The coming apocalypse GUEST COLUMN BY DOUGLAS FRETTY

PARIS — Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall may have watched the trailer for “The Day After Tomorrow” one too many times. This upcoming film by sci-fi whiz Roland Emmerich depicts nations submerged by oceans and cities overtaken by glaciers. If only it were just the stuff of science fiction. In a report commissioned by the Pentagon, Schwartz and Randall claim that such meteorological catastrophes may be less than a decade away. Melting glaciers in the North Atlantic, they say, could release enough fresh water in the coming years to halt the flow of the Gulf Stream and other carriers of warm salt water. The result would resemble Armageddon: Great Britain plunged into an artic freeze, vast parts of Florida and Southern California flooded, mass starvation in China, 400 million people driven from their homelands by famine and drought. Coupled with the escalating nuclear arms race, the Pentagon warns, such conditions would inevitably engender aggression. “Disruption and conflict will be endemic features of life,” write Schwartz and Randall, predicting bloody disputes over land and water in Southeast Asia and the former Soviet bloc. “Once again warfare would define human life.” These findings, published in Fortune magazine by Pentagon defense adviser Andrew Marshall, is a blister-

When Bush met the environment. ing embarrassment for the Bush administration. The document rejects Bush’s position that the greenhouse effect is “a theory” and calls for the immediate reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. Marshall, known to his peers as “Yoda,” is not the kind of man our cabinet typically ignores. Yet many defense chiefs struggled to keep his report classified.

Marshall’s troubling announcement coincides with the Union of Concerned Scientists’ charge that the Bush administration distorts scientific facts for its political convenience. The Union’s open letter to the president is signed by 20 Nobel laureates. The scientific community seems to be raising the volume on its plea: Time to get serious about climate change! Doomsday scenarios as described by Schwartz and Randall will not come gradually; an ocean current does not shift in small, linear increments. Rather, there is a “tipping point” for fresh water saturation, a bright line separating order and chaos. The environmental policies of our nation and others will decide whether that threshold is crossed. It’s unlikely that Bush, notoriously beholden to the fossil fuel industry, will overhaul his environmental plan any time soon. Shutting down the Kyoto Agreement was merely the beginning; the White House routinely shuns carbon dioxide regulation and fails to punish companies who violate the already lax emission codes of the United States. Powerful Democrats, however, are being courted for reform by a diverse watchdog group called the Apollo Alliance. Uniting such unlikely bedfellows as the UAW and the Sierra Club, the Alliance has drawn up a plan to phase renewable energy into the American economy. Expect this plan, which diverts $70 million in corporate welfare breaks toward “clean energy” infrastructure, to wield some force at the party’s Boston convention. Frontrunner John Kerry has endorsed the Apollo Project, and all Democrats would be smart to embrace the Alliance with open arms. The Project is a job-creating, emissions-dousing machine that could hold our planet on this side of the tipping point. And besides, nothing says “swing vote” like a prolabor, tree-hugging millionaire. Right, John? Douglas Fretty ’05 dislikes the Paris bureacracy.

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SPORTS TUESDAY MARCH 2, 2004 · PAGE 8

Weekend split leaves women icers out of first

Solo efforts good for fourth place at Ivies for women’s swim team

BY LEXI COSTELLO

The women’s ice hockey team (15-9-2, 11-41 ECAC) split on the road this weekend, defeating ECAC opponent the University of Vermont (6-24-2, 2-14-0) 4-0 on Friday night before losing a battle against Ivy rival Dartmouth College (20-5-2, 12-3-1) Saturday afternoon. The shutout against Vermont was the team’s third in a row. Against Vermont, Bruno took the advantage halfway through the first frame. After a series of shots wide of the net, Kathryn Moos ’07 tallied her seventh goal of the season, assisted by co-captain Katie Guay ’05. The women kept their momentum strong throughout the first, executing a strong passing game and out-shooting the Catamounts by 23. Going into the second period with a 1-0 lead, the Bears continued to pressure the Vermont defense, consistently keeping the puck in the Catamounts’ defensive zone. Moos picked up her second goal of the game off a rebound from defenseman Amy McLaughlin ’05 to break open the game. McLaughlin widened the gap to 3-0 two minutes later, picking up a wide shot behind the net and cycling around the corner to tuck one in beside the post. “We played with lots of energy and endurance,” said Guay. “It wasn’t a tough game, but we played in preparation for the ones that will be.” Keaton Zucker ’06 scored on the power play for the 4-0 lead in the final period. Captain and goaltender Katie Germain ’04 took home her second shutout of the season, tallying six saves. The following afternoon, the tides turned when the Bears dropped a controversial, heated battle to Dartmouth. Jessica Link ’05 gave Brown the early lead less than eight minutes into regulation, scoring her 19th goal of the season with a low shot from out front. The Big Green evened the score 1-1 at the 12:04 mark with a deep shot from the point. Brown pinned the Big Green in its defensive zone for the remainder of the first period, using strong forechecking and solid man-to-man defense to hold the puck. “We felt like the better team once we got on the ice,” said Kerry Nugent ’05. “We used our discipline to keep them from producing early, and our energy gave us the edge for the entire game.” The second period was indicative of the intensity of this showdown, as the teams held each other scoreless. A quick passing game for both teams and back-and-forth momentum kept the Bears on their toes. At the 10:45 mark in the final frame, Dartmouth scored to take a 2-1 lead. Brown’s Myria Heinhuis ’06 answered for Bruno, leveling the score at 2 with five minutes left in the game. Off a pass from Margaret Ramsay ’06, Zucker took a rocket shot from the point, and Heinhuis tipped in the tally from the crease. Although the Bears outplayed the Big Green in the final minutes of play, executing a sharper passing game and outskating the defense down low, Dartmouth scored the winning goal only 12 seconds after Brown tied the game. Head Coach Digit Murphy see W. HOCKEY, page 4

BY ARON GYURIS

champion returned to her top form with a 5-8 1/2 jump, one and a half inches ahead of her nearest competitor. Rowinski, who has been coming on strong the last few weeks, saved her best for last and moved from fourth to first place with a last-minute clincher that none of her competitors could match. “I went into the competition and missed my first jump at 5-3,” Rowinski said. “The girls (from other teams) were whispering because they didn’t think that I had it in me. Mentally, though, it was so exciting to get over the 5-8 barrier.” Brown’s other individual champion was Naja Ferjan ’07 in the 800-meter race. With the third-fastest time coming out of the preliminary heats, Ferjan ran behind the race leader before taking control and winning the final with a time of 2:10.95. “There was some pressure, but it’s still all great, because everyone was cheering for me and the team spirit was so great,” Ferjan said. “It was really exciting and it’s such a big race. I’m excited for outdoor Heps because I want to win again.” In addition to the team’s two individual victories, Brown had numerous athletes scoring points from the second through sixth-place spots. Leading that group was Brittany Grovey ’06, who finished second in the triple jump with a leap of 40-4. Jill Lynch ’05 was unable to defend her

The women’s swimming team closed its competitive season for the 2003-2004 school year by taking fourth place at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend at Harvard University. Twenty-two Bears completed three grueling days of biphasic competition, in which a morning battle determines the 24 competitors returning that night. The finalists compete in three heats of eight and earn points for their team based on their place within the heat. After three days, the points were tallied with Brown in fourth behind Princeton, Harvard and Yale universities. The meet began well for Brown. In the finals of the first day, the 200-yard freestyle relay team of co-captains Liz Daniels ’04 and Emily McCoy ’04, Lauren Hinkson ’06 and Eileen Robinson ’06 simultaneously shattered the meet, Ivy League and pool records, all three of which were formerly held by Brown teams. With its time, the relay team is currently ranked 16th in the nation. Two events later, four Brown swimmers dominated the championship final in the 50-yard freestyle. Daniels secured first place, while teammates McCoy, Hinkson and Robinson made sure the Bears were awarded their due for their third, fifth and sixth place finishes, respectively. Elizabeth Wong ’06 also contributed in the event, winning the bonus final heat and adding nine points to her team’s total. The Bears secured a fourth-place finish in their last race on Thursday thanks to the 400-yard medley relay team of Jessica Brown ’05, Karly Kopra ’07, Wong and Robinson. Brown finished day one in fourth place, with Harvard leading the pack. Finals on the second day of competition opened with the Brown 200-yard medley relay team of Lindsay Hoban ’04, Kopra, Wong and Daniels taking the second tier on the podium. Two events later, Bridgette Cahill ’06 turned in a fifth-place finish in the arduous 400-yard individual medley. Lauren Harlow ’07 and Alexis Skoda ’05 contributed additional strong efforts in that event, winning their heats in the consolation and bonus finals, respectively. Again a bonus final champion, Wong placed 17th in

see TRACK, page 4

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Naja Ferjan ’07 won the 800-meter run at the Heptagonal Championships this weekend.The women’s indoor track and field team finished in third place, exceeding their expectations entering the meet.

W. indoor track surprises with third place finish at Heps BY MELISSA PERLMAN

The women’s indoor track and field team got off to a slow start this season, finishing in the middle of the pack at numerous early meets. But this weekend the team picked up the speed and erased any doubts about its ability at the Heptagonal League Championships, hosted by Cornell University. The Bears, expecting a fourth-place finish behind Princeton and Yale universities and powerhouse Cornell, came out strong and took home third place, ousting Yale from the top three. Brown scored 69 points compared to Cornell’s 164, Princeton’s 121, Penn’s 55 and Yale’s 49. “Before the meet, fourth place was realistic and third would have been a stretch, but after the first day, it became clear we had a shot. It was a surprise,” said Head Coach Robert Johnson. That first day of competition consisted mainly of preliminary heats and a few finals, including the long jump and 5000meter run. Ashley Wall ’05 started things off with an 18-3 leap, which earned her sixth place in the long jump and the first point for the Brown team. Nora Sullivan ’06 brought in the Bears’ next four points with her 17:03.69 in the 5000-meters. Her fourth-place finish was an improvement from last year’s sixthplace showing. After an optimistic first day, the Bears turned on the heat even stronger. In a meet where success is basically “survival of the fittest,” according to Johnson, the Brown women focused on qualifying for the next round of their events and placing high. Johnson said the mental toughness shown by his athletes as they stepped up to the starting line before each event was chilling. “You could see it on their faces,” he said. “As coaches, we told them to put their game faces on, and they did. They worked hard and really came together as a team.” Katie Rowinski ’04 demonstrated that intensity with her dominating win in the high jump. The defending outdoor

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Equestrian squad needs to pick up the pace after fifth-place finish BY AMANDA BURDEN

The equestrian team opened its spring season with a disappointing finish at Wesleyan University Saturday, placing fifth out of the 10 competing schools. Brown scored 31 out of 47 points, dropping the team nine points behind the region’s leader and the Bears’ biggest rival, Roger Williams University. Accustomed to consistently ranking first or second, the team must now struggle for points in its next three horse shows in order to capture the regional title and enter postseason competition. “It was a difficult show because it was our first this semester, and we had to deal with several riders returning

from a semester abroad and recovering from injury, so I think that we were just working things out,” said Joanna Kels ’04. In the open division, Alexis Marcuvitz ’06 began the day with great success, earning a second-place finish in her fences class and an exciting win in her flat competition. Jamie Peddy ’06, the 2003 regional high point rider, placed sixth over fences and third on the flat. Also on the flat, co-captain Leila Ledsinger ’04.5 took fourth place, while Severine Brustlein ’05 and Cindy Willner ’04 placed fifth and sixth, respectively. see EQUESTRIAN, page 5