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Cornel West stresses critical thinking in Tikkun conference speech Cornel West, renowned public intellectual and Princeton University professor of religion and African American studies, spoke Friday night to a packed Salomon 101 as part of the Tikkun Community’s National Student Conference.

West, the co-chair of national Tikkun, gave an animated speech, arguing that Judaism is a religion with an inherently revolutionary ideology and positing that people of all religious faiths need to reclaim spirituality from the right wing in order to advance a worldview of peace and justice, as opposed to one of preemption and exploitation.

Progressive American activists need not be afraid of embracing spirituality, West said, but should not forget “secular footnotes” in history, such as “the best of Marxism” and liberalism.

During the question-and-answer session, West cautioned against a “colorblind” world and said that because of the history of U.S. slavery and the Jim Crow era, which persisted until 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws prohibiting racial intermarriage, he would rather be seen as a black man than just as a man.

When a student asked during the question-and-answer period if affirmative action contributed to resentment between people of different races, West said it would not if it were implemented in such a way that race was not used to boost up unqualified applicants but only to differentiate within large pools of qualified applicants.

In response to a student who asked about a “no state” solution in IsraelPalestine, West said there was much to be learned from anarchist thinkers but cautioned against underestimating the tendency throughout human history for

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Cornel West, the co-chair of the national Tikkun Community, which advocates a middle path in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, gave the keynote address at Tikkun’s National Student Conference this weekend.The conference also featured workshops on peace and spirituality and an address by co-chair Rabbi Michael Lerner (page 5).

Strike at Penn keeps grad student unionization in spotlight

BY MELANIE WOLFGANG

A recent graduate student strike at the University of Pennsylvania has had a mixed impact on graduate student unionization efforts at Brown.

Implemented by Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania, the strike occurred Feb. 26 and Feb. 27. Close to 300 members of GET-UP voted Feb. 23 in an 83 percent majority to strike.

Small groups of protestors picketed at six areas around campus, and at the end of the day, approximately 85 people gathered to hear speeches from GET-UP leadership, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported.

“This is not a small, vocal minority. This is a large, pissed-off majority,” GET-UP Chairman David Faris told the Daily

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People at the training school can write for a publication called the Hidden T.R.E.W.T.H., and students on the outside can contribute to Muzine, both of which are published by the Broad Street Press.

“These workshops also have performances every eight weeks that showcase kid’s art, so they start getting a feel of sharing and really putting something together and working towards something as a project,” Gonzalez said. Since students at the training school are already familiar with the instructors,

should preclude their status as university employees.

Supporters saw the strike as the next step in GET-UP’s effort to have the National Labor Relations Board count graduate student votes from one year ago regarding the ability of grad students to unionize.

Initially, the NLRB classified graduate students strictly as students, but it later reversed its decision, stating that many grad students could actually also be considered university employees, given their role as teaching assistants, teaching fellows and graduate student proctors. As such, they had the right to organize and bargain collectively with the university administration.

In December 2002, the Penn administration appealed the NLRB decision, though the board has not yet announced its evaluation of this appeal.

Brown issued a similar appeal to the NLRB in December 2001, requesting that the board outlaw graduate student unionization. The board is still considering the appeal.

Like GET-UP, the Brown Graduate Employee Organization, which has been campaigning for unionization under the United Auto Workers since 2001, is also waiting for votes to be counted from their own unionization vote. Unlike GET-UP, however, BGEO/UAW has not indicated that a strike would be appropriate at this time.

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Pennsylvanian.

Penn administrators told the Daily Pennsylvanian the strike was minimally disruptive, although several classes were canceled. The strike rekindled campus dialogue on the unionization issue.

In a statement issued Feb. 25, Penn Vice President of Communications Lori Doyle wrote, “Penn and the other private universities (including Brown, Columbia and Tufts universities) have maintained that graduate students are students, not employees, and that teaching, as a longstanding requirement for doctoral programs, is an essential component of graduate students’ educational experience.”

The Penn administration also holds that students’ financial aid packages

Arts and community bloom at Broad Street Studios

BY AMY RUDDLE

Against the backdrop of a city skyline at sunset, arms branch out from a pillar of brick, remnants of chains clinging to wrists. Fists clutch the weapons used to break free — paintbrushes, pencils, microphones and a self-created magazine. Surrounding the pillar are freed people taking pictures, painting and rapping. This is the Broad Street Studio.

Created three years ago by AS220 as a program to employ Providence youth for working with the arts, the BSS has come to be an oasis of creativity and ideas for teenagers in South Providence.

The studio has seven different youthrun programs, each tailored to fit a different creative niche. While BSS was designed for use by all city youth, there is a special emphasis on teenagers guided by the Department of Children, Youth and Families and individuals at the Rhode Island Training School, the state’s juvenile detention facility.

“We have workshops in the training schools on Fridays that mimic all the programs that are going on here, so the kids start building relationships with the programs and also the instructors,” said BSS Performance Director David Gonzalez, an adult staff member.

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I N S I D E M O N D AY, M A RC H 8 , 2 0 0 4 Orchestra’s elaborate performance of “Ellis Island” pleases crowd downtown arts & culture, page 3

AS220 exhibit features work of incarcerated teens from the Rhode Island Training School arts & culture, page 3

Tikkun co-chair advocates tolerance of opposing views on Middle East conflict campus news, page 5

Emir Senturk ’05 says Brown must offer students on-campus summer storage column, page 11

W. basketball has big weekend, defeating Columbia and Cornell universities sports, page 12

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ARTS & CULTURE MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2004 · PAGE 3 ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW

Large-scale performance of “Ellis Island” delights audience

BY LELA SPIELBERG

Not one person in the Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium remained in his seat at the end of Saturday’s performance of Peter Boyer’s “Ellis Island, the American Dream,” in a truly outstanding standing ovation.

The Brown University Orchestra, with the help of actors Kate Burton ’79 and Barry Bostwick, who played Mayor Winston on “Spin City,” performed the 42-minute multimedia work.

While Paul Phillips conducted his orchestra to play “Ellis Island,” a video projection portrayed several images of the immigrant experience.

First-person narratives read by Burton and Bostwick, taken from the Ellis Island Oral History Project, punctuated the orchestra’s music. These narratives recounted the experiences of various immigrants who had traveled through Ellis Island.

The actors did an excellent job of bringing a personal feel to this piece — Burton even cried during her narrative portrayal of a four-year-old girl emigrating from Italy.

Bostwick did not shed any tears, but his heartfelt and comic narratives moved the audience to ponder the immigrant experience.

“After watching this, I felt very proud

to be American,” said Elizabeth Balassone ’07.

Boyer composed the piece in 2002.

“I believe there is a deep, important connection between history and music,” the Providence native told the audience Saturday night.

The performance was presented by the Brown University Creative Arts Council along with the Brown Department of Music.

The VMA, where the orchestra performed Saturday, is home to the Rhode Island Philharmonic. This weekend’s performance was only the fourth time that the orchestra had played at the venue during Philips’ 15-year tenure at Brown.

In addition to the multimedia title piece, the Brown University Orchestra played two additional selections: another Peter Boyer piece, “Titanic,” and a Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47.

The talented Juliana Pereira ’04, the 2003 Concerto Competition winner, performed the concerto.

Pereira has won the competition three times, a Brown University record, Phillips announced to the audience.

Herald staff writer Lela Spielberg ’07 can be reached at lspielberg@browndailyherald.com.

Youths’ artwork intended to raise community awareness

BY LESLIE KAUFMANN

Magazine cut-outs, cardboard and bottle caps seemed particularly endowed with meaning at the Thursday opening reception of “Exhibit A: Recent Work from Artists at the Training School,” a collection displaying the work of incarcerated youths from the Rhode Island Training School. As part of collaboration between RITS and CityArts, their work will be on display at AS220 through March.

CityArts, a non-profit organization with a focus on the arts, hosts exhibitions intended to facilitate community awareness.

The exhibit features prints on recycled cardboard, magazine cut-out collages, books, a quilt and a mural constructed entirely of bottle caps. “The recycled products came from a need to encourage them to recycle and be a part of the environment and take respect for everything that’s happening,” said Sue Sullivan, a special education teacher at RITS. “We’ve been saving bottle caps for a year.”

The largest piece, “Harlem,” is a mural of painted bottle caps based on Romare Bearden’s jazz piece “Last of the Blue Devils.”

The mural depicts two men, one playing a saxophone and one bent intently over a piano. This particular piece drew special attention from the younger members of the audience, who were especial-

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ly taken by the quantity of caps in the piece.

While the artists themselves were not permitted to attend the opening, their presence was felt in their photographs and quotations displayed on the walls.

One student, identified only as Angel V., seemed to capture the prevailing sentiment apparent in most of the pieces.

“I like different kinds of art — not only drawing — also music, words — the meaning behind the words, the power in the words, the emotions and feelings,” she wrote in a statement displayed next to her piece.

For the artists’ benefit, a video camera documented the scene, and a comment book was available by the front door.

“There’s a huge boost for them to know that people want to know what they have to say,” said event organizer Meghan MacNeil.

MacNeil stressed that the artists are “really are more than the stereotype of what a criminal is — they each have a really unique take on life.” “(These are) people with voices and minds and a lot to say and a lot going on in their future,” said Marie Popko, another event organizer. “These kids are really talented, and their work should be in a gallery.”

The exhibit runs from March 4 to 31.

Admission is free.

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Broad Street continued from page 1 their transition is easier.

“The moment they leave the training schools, they can come here,” Gonzalez said.

At BSS, students learn how to paint and draw with Broad Street Visuals, a program that designs logos and flyers and is commissioned to paint murals such as the one depicting all of the branches of BSS breaking free from the bonds of the city.

For musical creativity, they turn to the Broad Street Orchestra, and girls can be creative in an all-female space with Broad Street Sisters.

The Product Design Team helps individuals turn works of art into marketable products, including posters and T-shirts.

Part of the learning experience at BSS is discovering “how to put together a finished product, whether it’s performance, whether it’s putting a T-shirt together, whether it’s documentation,” Gonzalez said.

“I just make sure that everyone has something to walk away with, so that at the end of the two-year commitment … they leave with certain skills in their back pocket,” he said.

One of BSS’s most popular programs is Hip Hop 220, which allows youth to hone their skills as lyricists and gives them a chance to create their own music by working at the studio’s recording facility.

“Kids work so hard — one of the jewel, prize possessions for a lot of these youths is being able to take something home that they created,” said Tek, an adult staff member and founding father of Hip Hop 220, who declined to give his last name.

“They can come into the stu-

Unions continued from page 1 “As for us, we are not at the position that we would (strike). We support their right and what they’re trying to do,” said Sheyda Jahanbani GS, a BGEO/UAW spokeswoman and fourth-year grad student in history. She noted that the strike was “a really solid indication that this issue is not going away for the people who live this every day.”

Many Brown graduate students, especially those in their first year, are straddling the fence regarding unionization and were looking to the outcome of the Penn strike for direction, said Adam Ringguth GS. “I would like to see how things play out there,” Ringguth said.

Brown graduate students on both sides of the unionization debate said they would like to hear the NLRB’s decision.

“I would definitely like to see Brown’s own appeal heard and taken care of as quickly as possible,” said Kristin Bishop GS. “This has definitely been dragging out for a very long time.”

Bishop is a member, though not a spokesperson, for At What Cost, an anti-unionization group that asserts that Brown grad students receive very generous support as compared with those at other universities.

It is “totally anti-democratic” that votes from an election that

dio and drop a track. … They’ll treasure that — this is theirs, this is their property now,” Tek said.

Tek became involved in AS220 early on and was one of the part of the group that helped AS220 create the Broad Street Studio.

“Academically, I was an A to B student, but I was doing stupid stuff in the streets,” Tek said.

“We took a lot of the kids that were downtown, doing all the street nonsense and put them into our program.”

Hip Hop 220 was built as “a channel to reach youth and get a message across,” Tek said.

“When I first started working at AS220, I never knew that I would be doing conferences across the country. I never knew that I would be teaching workshops and classes — I never expected that.

Doors are opened to me, and now I get to pass this down to the next generation of youth,” he said.

Anjel, a 15-year-old staff member, is part of this next generation.

“When I came to this program, I had the worst attitude ever. I came from a really, really violent past — the money situation was always a big problem inside the house, and I had nowhere to put my anger,” Anjel said. “I had bad grades in school, so I couldn’t do dancing in school — I couldn’t do anything like that. They just excluded me from everything because they said I was an angry person.” “(BSS) gave me a chance to put my anger on the dance floor and in my lyrics so I wouldn’t take it out on people, and I learned how to control myself a lot better than I would have before,” Anjel said.

Anjel first became involved

happened two and a half years ago have not been counted, Jahanbani said, adding that “stalling is an anti-union tactic” that links grad students with factory workers.

“The greatest irony is that all of these universities are paragons of liberal virtue as far as their reputations around the country,” Jahanbani said.

Many newer Brown grad students are relatively unaware of the unionization movement as a whole, which is not surprising given the recent standstill, Ringguth said.

“We haven’t had a ton of information unless we’ve sought it out,” he said.

Health insurance coverage and a streamlined process for obtaining summer funding, two central graduate student demands, have “been resolved to a large extent,” said Bethany Bradley GS, who opposes graduate student unionization.

The NLRB has three options with regard to graduate student unionization at Brown. The board can throw out the appeals from Brown and from the BGEO/UAW, allowing the votes from the December 2001 election to settle on whether a union, largely comprised of TAs, could exist at Brown.

If the board accepts Brown’s appeal, grad students at private universities will not be officially recognized as employees and will not be allowed to unionize.

Alternatively, the board can refuse

with BSS through the Rhode Show, an anti-corporate performance program. The Rhode Show brings Broad Street’s message to the masses, performing at local schools, non-profit youth forums and even New York City’s Bowery Ballroom. lllwon, a 19-year-old lyricist, emcee and artist, also connected with BSS through the Rhode Show.

Illwon said the studios have enabled him to branch out and develop his talents further, enriching his life and giving him a forum for spreading his message to others.

The message of the Rhode Show troupe is to “educate the youth,” Anjel said. “We don’t tell them not to smoke — we give them knowledge and then they can make their decisions based on that.”

“That’s basically what Broad Street’s taught me to do. They don’t tell you to think a certain way — they give you a whole world of ideas and you get to choose what’s best for you,” she added.

Anjel hopes some day to be able to have her own recording studio, where people will be allowed to record any kind of music they want — “my own Broad Street Studios.”

“My main goal is to change people’s lives and to really help them,” Anjel said.

Hip Hop 220 and BSS have gone a long way towards doing this, by letting youth who would never have had an opportunity to touch a studio be able to take home music that they created, Tek said.

The Blue Room Gallery in Faunce House is currently holding an exhibition of works done by youth in BSS’s Photographic Memory program.

Initially, the NLRB classified graduate students strictly as students, but it later reversed its decision, stating that many grad students could actually also be considered university employees, given their role as teaching assistants, teaching fellows and graduate student proctors.

Brown’s appeal but accept the BGEO/UAW’s appeal, allowing a new vote for unionization that would expand the union to include research assistants and proctors, in addition to teaching assistants.

Until that decision is made, however, grad students are left waiting.

“It’s kind of a dead issue for now,” Bishop said.

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CAMPUS NEWS MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2004 · PAGE 5

Mutual distrust undermines Middle East peace process, speaker says

BY BEN GRIN

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Rabbi Michael Lerner leads a discussion on Anti-semitism during a workshop Saturday afternoon in Salomon.The workshop was part of Tikkun’s National Student Conference for Middle East Peaceh, which drew students to Brown from many other schools.

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Rabbi Michael Lerner called on students to look beyond traditional pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian labels in a lecture, titled “Healing Israel-Palestine,” held Saturday in the Hillel chapel.

Lerner took a middle-of-the-road approach to the Middle East conflict, telling the audience that Israelis and Palestinians both have legitimate grievances but that the two sides have often been unwilling to listen to each other.

This unwillingness breeds suspicion and hatred of the “Other,” attitudes that are at the heart of the conflict, he said.

The lecture, which focused on the possibility for grassroots change in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was part of the National Student Conference for Middle East Peace, a weekend-long series of events held by the Tikkun Campus Network. Lerner is co-chair of the Tikkun Community, a progressive group working towards a pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian solution to the Middle East conflict, and is editor of Tikkun Magazine.

The attitudes underlying the IsraeliPalestinian conflict can largely be explained by the existence of two contending worldviews, Lerner said.

The first view says the world is composed of competing individuals, each motivated by the goal of maximizing his or her own self-interest. This cynically see LERNER, page 6

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Lerner continued from page 5 realistic philosophy assumes that “the way to protect oneself is to dominate and control the Other,” he said.

The second worldview is founded on the principles of loving, caring and mutual respect. Under this assumption, “the way to get safety and security is not to dominate the Other but to work out loving and caring relationships with the Other,” he said.

Lerner said the world’s major religions all were founded on the optimistic beliefs of the second worldview, although the hypocrisy of religious leaders has led many to become disillusioned with spirituality and idealism.

“Religious communities came to be dominated by people who used language of love

The IsraeliPalestinian conflict exists primarily because the two sides have failed to understand that the “Other” has the capacity to be loving and compassionate, Lerner said. but who were actually seeking power and control,” Lerner said.

This disillusionment has led to the dominance of the first paradigm in modern politics, he said.

The Israeli-Palestinian con-

flict exists primarily because the two sides have failed to understand that the “Other” has the capacity to be loving and compassionate, Lerner said. Both sides have legitimate histories of suffering, he said, but at the same time both have committed wrongs.

When the Jews first immigrated to Palestine after a long exile from their homeland, they were a “powerless, penniless people” trying to escape oppression and anti-Semitism in Europe, Lerner said. They purchased land through legal means from absentee Arab landlords living abroad.

The immigrants expected Palestine to be “a land without a people for a people without a land,” and they were surprised to find a people and a society living on the land they had purchased, he said.

Mutual misunderstandings only bred distrust between the Jews and the Arabs in Palestine,

he said. The Arabs didn’t understand the nature of property rights because they lived in a feudal society, not a capitalist one. Consequently, the deed the Jews brought with them were meaningless to the Arabs living on the land.

Rather than try to understand the Jews, the Arabs assumed the immigrants were coming to hurt them as “part of the colonial enterprise,” while the Jews told themselves that the Arabs hated the Jewish immigrants because people have always irrationally hated the Jews, he said.

In order to build transformation in Israel, both sides must “break through the dichotomous way of thinking that one side is the righteous victim and the other side is the evil oppressor,” affirming the goodness of both Palestinians and Israelis, Lerner said.

He discussed the possibility for change manifested by the Geneva Accord, an unofficial peace agreement negotiated last year by Palestinian and Israeli representatives.

The Geneva Accord shows, “in concrete terms, how both sides could live together,” he said.

Lerner also emphasized the

possibility of change at a grassroots level. He said many people have a vision for a better world but don’t know how to carry out that vision. Organizations such as Tikkun can unite people with a common vision, he said.

Lerner told the audience that individuals can make a difference. “We all think we’re the only ones who want a world based on kindness and generosity,” he said.

Lerner also suggested that people move beyond looking at politics in terms of left versus right and look instead in terms of “hope versus fear.” Drawing a distinction between organized religion and spirituality, he said social change is only possible if people are willing to “come out of the closet as spiritual beings.”

Lerner asked the audience, “Do we have the depressive belief that the world is screwed up and always will be … or do we have the hopeful belief that the world can be another way?”

After the lecture, Michaella Matt ’06, the student organizer of the conference, said, “There are more Brown students here than we expected.

“The potential for something grassroots and authentic to form is very palpable right now.”

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WORLD & NATION MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2004 · PAGE 7

Human rights group accuses U.S. military of abuses NEW DELHI, India (L.A. Times) — U.S. forces in Afghanistan use excessive force during arrests, mistreat prisoners in detention and commit other human rights abuses, Human Rights Watch charged in a report to be released Monday.

“In doing so, the United States is endangering the lives of Afghan civilians, undermining efforts to restore the rule of law in Afghanistan, and calling into question its commitment to upholding basic rights,” the New York-based human rights group said in its report.

The group also said the U.S. Defense Department has not adequately explained at least three deaths of prisoners in U.S. custody, two of which were declared homicides by U.S. military doctors.

The report focuses on eastern and southeastern Afghanistan, where U.S.-led coalition forces continue to battle the ousted Taliban militia, members of al-Qaeda and supporters of renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.

The U.S. military said it was aware of Human Rights Watch’s accusations and had already addressed some of the problems cited in the report, entitled “Enduring Freedom: Abuses by U.S. Forces in Afghanistan.”

“We do take them seriously,” Lt.-Col. Bryan Hilferty, spokesman for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, said from Kabul.

He said U.S. troops follow the law during operations in Afghanistan.

“Our combat operations comply with the Law of Armed Conflict and are conducted with appropriate, and strict, rules of engagement,” Hilferty said.

The spokesman acknowledged that the U.S. military changed its procedures at the Bagram airbase following the deaths of two Afghan prisoners last December.

The two prisoners were declared homicide victims by U.S. military doctors who performed autopsies. Their death certificates cited “blunt force injuries” to the legs. U.S. officials have refused to provide any details about the June 2003 death of a man in a detention facility near the eastern town of Asadabad, Human Rights Watch said.

“We investigate all credible reports and there is an ongoing investigation into the deaths of persons under custody,” said Hilferty, the U.S. military spokesman. “But Human Rights Watch said its investigations, and those of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, have found a pattern of abuses at Bagram and at least two other detention centers, and it believes U.S. authorities have failed to stop the mistreatment of prisoners.

“There is credible evidence of beatings and other physical assaults of detainees, as well as evidence that the United States has used prolonged shackling, exposure to cold, and sleep deprivation amounting to torture or other mistreatment in violation of international law,” the group said.

Militant groups in Afghanistan routinely attack civilians and aid workers, and bomb non-military targets such as markets. Five aid workers have been murdered in the past three weeks. On Saturday, armed men on motorcycles killed a senior Afghan aid worker in southeastern Zabul province as he was driving home from work in the provincial capital, Qalat.

Human Rights Watch said militants responsible for attacks on civilians should be investigated and prosecuted.

“But the activities of these groups are no excuse for U.S. violations,” the report added.

The group estimates that U.S.-led forces have detained about 1,000 people in Afghanistan since 2002. While some of the captives were involved in combat, others were “civilians with no apparent connection to ongoing hostilities,” the report said.

U.S. troops have killed Afghan civilians unnecessarily by repeatedly using deadly force, including attacks from helicopter gunships, in areas under the control of their Afghan allies, the report charged. In some cases, the attacks may amount to violations of humanitarian law, the report stated.

“U.S. forces regularly use military means and methods during arrest operations in residential areas where law enforcement techniques would be more appropriate,” the group said.

Hilferty responded that U.S. troops are in Afghanistan to fight a war, not for law enforcement.

“Afghanistan is currently a combat zone and forces here are engaged in combat operations against determined enemy forces,” he said. “Al Qaeda and (the) Taliban have stated repeatedly that they are at war.”

Native Alaskans get a break in awarding Iraqi contracts WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Snow-covered Alaska is a long way from the deserts of Iraq, but that doesn’t worry Janet Reiser, the president of an Anchorage-based company planning to help rebuild the war-torn country.

Thanks to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Alaska Nativeowned businesses such as Reiser’s are allowed to receive government contracts of unlimited size without going through the normal bidding process. Pentagon officials are turning to them to speed up the rebuilding of Iraq.

“If you exchange snow for sand, work in Iraq is similar to the work we’ve done in Alaska,” said Reiser, whose Nana Pacific engineering company is in the final stages of negotiating a multimillion dollar contract to be awarded without competitive bidding. “We know how to do logistics in remote areas.”

Over the years, Stevens, the powerful Alaska Republican who chairs the Senate’s Appropriations Committee, has made sure that Nana Pacific and other small businesses owned by Alaska Native corporations and Native Americans enjoy special benefits in government contracting.

Their unique ability to land government contracts of any size free of the bidding process — which no other minority — or female-owned small business enjoys — was a largely unknown part of contracting law until the fall, when Congress passed an $18.6 billion aid package for Iraq that contained restrictions calling for full and open competition.

Stevens, however, made sure the final bill contained language to protect the Alaska Native corporations’ ability to win sole source contracts under federal law, according to Republican and Democratic budget ana-

lysts familiar with the process.

At the same time, Alaska Native officials and their lobbyists frequented industry conferences, the Department of Defense and Capitol Hill in an effort to drum up business in Iraq.

Some Pentagon officials have responded by pushing the Alaska Native corporations as a way to quickly get work done without going through the lengthy bidding process, which can take months.

Although only a handful of Alaskan and tribal small business have sought contracts to date, Pentagon officials said they hope the number will increase. So far, many contracting officers have been skeptical of the companies’ abilities to win no-bid contracts.

“Everybody was looking at this as though it were some sort of scam,”’ said John Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, who has been pushing contracting officials to take a close look at Alaska Native corporations. “In point of fact, it was all above board, and, indeed, mandated.”

Unions and government watchdogs, however, question whether the Alaska native small businesses’ ability to win no-bid contracts — designed to help them in competition against bigger companies — is being abused.

“The rationale behind the exceptions is that they’ll lead to an automatic trickle down (for the natives),” said Gerry Swanke, the national vice president for the American Federation of Government Employees district, which covers Alaska. “But nobody ever talks about see IRAQ, page 8

Profit drives illegal trade in body parts LOS ANGELES (L.A.Times) — The trade in human body parts is a seller’s market.

Pharmaceutical companies buy everything from fingernails to tendons to use for research.

Medical instrument companies conduct training seminars for doctors, filling anatomy laboratories — or hotel event rooms — with trays of knees or heads that surgeons can use to acquaint themselves with new devices and techniques.

Then there are at least 50 surgical products made from human skin, bones and heart valves that are used in procedures ranging from lip enhancements to fracture repairs.

Bodies also end up as crash-test dummies and are used in other product-safety research.

In all, the human-tissue industry is thought to be worth $500 million a year — and growing. The trade is supposedly nonprofit, since it is illegal to earn money from the sale of human body parts. But the law allows middlemen to cover their costs by charging “reasonable” fees. Reasonable has become a matter of interpretation.

As demand has expanded, so have prices — and the opportunities for fraud.

The alleged theft of body parts by employees at the University of California-Los Angeles’ medical school is the latest in a series of local scandals involving cadavers.

The program’s director, Henry Reid, was arrested Saturday at his home in Anaheim, Calif., on suspicion of grand theft, but little is known about what transactions occurred.

This much, however, is clear: Reid had easy access to bodies.

There are three main, legitimate sources of bodies and parts.

The first are medical schools. In 1950, UCLA started the world’s first willed body program, pioneering the convention of donating one’s body to science. There are now 154 such programs nationwide.

The vast majority of bodies — by one report up to 8,000 a year — are collected this way. The process is straightforward. A donor signs a consent agreement, and upon death, the school arranges to pick up the body.

Schools often cover the cost of burial, or more often cremation, when they are finished.

Most cadavers are dissected by first-year medical students. But surplus bodies and parts can be sent to other scientific institutions, including for-profit biomedical corporations. The schools are allowed to charge fees to

cover administrative costs, salaries, preservation and storage. Such deals provide an important source of revenue for some anatomy departments.

In principle, all parts that go out must come back — in order that the ashes from the complete body can eventually be returned to the donor’s family.

The second primary legal source of bodies has been more controversial.

Over the last decade, the tissue and organ bank industries have boomed. These institutions are considered nonprofit, and donors envision their parts being used only in altruistic endeavors. But many such banks, closely tied to for-profit companies, essentially sell body parts for commercial research and products.

Only after the Orange County, Calif., Register recently produced a series of stories in 2000 detailing the practice, has there been an effort by legislators to force the industry to disclose all the ways a donated body could be used.

The families of donors are not paid.

The final source of bodies is a tiny number of companies that set up their own willed body programs in states that do not restrict such activities to medical schools.

Such companies often work as contractors, setting up surgical training seminars or product tests and providing well-paid experts to prepare the specimens.

Some university anatomists question the recruiting methods of such companies.

“They go in and raid retirement communities with the idea that people are donating their body to science in a humane act,” said Arthur Dalley, who heads the anatomy department at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

“It’s turned around and used for profit.”

Like stolen cars that are chopped up and sold in pieces, bodies are worth much less than the sum of their parts.

“The prices have been escalating,” said Arthur Caplan, a professor of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. “There is more demand.”

Vidal Herrera, a former medical technician who runs a forensic services businesssaid: “I get calls all the time from medical researchers, corporations. They want to purchase bodies or they want to purchase tissue.”

He said he always refuses such offers.

But as prices have risen, some people who work closely with the dead have been unable to resist the temptation to skim off parts and sell them. By some estimates, a see BODY PARTS, page 9

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people to revert to war and bloodshed.

He also spoke briefly about the upcoming presidential election, saying that although Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has not addressed issues as race and the military-industrial complex, it is imperative in 2004 for the left to present a unified front against President George W. Bush.

West received several standing ovations from the enthusiastic crowd.

Some students who attended West’s lecture said that although it did not focus on the IsraelPalestine conflict, many of his comments reflected ideas necessary for healing the region.

Rahim Kurji ’05, president of the Undergraduate Council of Students, called West’s ability to address many different topics — from Judaism to sociology — “impressive.”

“Everything came back to critical thinking and using critical analysis,” Kurji said. West questioned “even gender stereotypes, and he touched on almost all kinds of discrimination,” Kurji said.

“The general idea was the importance of being a critical thinker and paying attention to what’s going on, and being an active citizen and using your thoughts and your knowledge to gain wisdom,” said Tikkun member Jackie Herold ’07.

West is a national co-chair of the Tikkun Community, along with Rabbi Michael Lerner — who gave a presentation at the conference on Saturday — and Susannah Heschel, who holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College.

West and Lerner co-authored the 1996 book “Jews and Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion

ture said that

Iraq continued from page 7 the corporate greed side of things that inevitably raises its ugly head.”

Stevens’ support for Alaska Native corporations also has raised concerns about whether he might benefit from contracts they receive.

The Los Angeles Times reported last fall that the largest Alaska Native corporation, Arctic Slope Regional Corp., pays $6 million per year as part of a 20-year lease to rent space in an office tower in Anchorage in which Stevens is a partner.

Officials for Arctic Slope, a company with $1 billion a year in sales, did not respond to calls for comment, but there is no indication they have sought or received contracts in Iraq.

Stevens did not respond to requests for comment on this article. In the fall, he told the Times that he would “continue to work with all Alaska Native corporations — both individually and collectively — in my official capacity.”

The result has been a tremendous, largely unnoticed boom for Alaska native corporations. In 2002, the last year for which complete figures are available from the U.S. Small Business Administration, Alaska Native

although it did not focus on the IsraelPalestine conflict, many of his comments reflected ideas necessary for healing the region.

“He was speaking at the much more basic level (about how) there’s an obligation (and a) necessity to

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Medea Benjamin, human rights activist and founder of Global Exchange, discussed the value of activism during a speech at the Tikkun Conference Friday night.

and Culture in America.”

Currently the Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton, West previously taught at Harvard University

and served as director of Princeton’s Program in African American Studies. His books include the bestseller “Race Matters” and his most recent work, “The Cornel West Reader.”

He recently released a spokenword album titled “Sketches of My Culture.” He has received the American Book Award and more than 20 honorary degrees.

“I think the general reaction has been that people have been inspired by what (West) said,” said Steve Aussenberg ’04, who coordinated housing for conference attendees.

Aussenberg said nothing West said was “out of the ordinary,” but Aussenberg found it inspiring that West “had the guts to say some things that other people may not say.”

Leora Abelson, a first-year at Wesleyan University who trav-

eled to Brown for the Tikkun conference, said she knew very little about West before she heard him speak and found him an energetic speaker.

“I definitely felt him talking about critical thinking, about a commitment to what he called ‘deep democracy’ and intellectual integrity,” Abelson said. “I guess it was the mindset and attitude we need to have when we’re approaching this issue.”

West was preceded by Medea Benjamin, the founding director of Global Exchange, an international human rights organization.

She described her involvement in activism surrounding women’s issues and in Afghanistan and Iraq after U.S. military intervention there.

Benjamin emphasized the need for active protest as a

means for social change, citing last March’s nationwide protest against the war in Iraq as an example of a powerful activist statement and calling for 1 million people to protest at the Republican National Convention in July.

In addition to lectures by Rabbi Michael Lerner and West, the conference also included smaller-scale discussions and workshops throughout the weekend.

Following the opening session Friday, conference attendees took part in Shabbat services, while on Saturday they had the option of participating in workshops on the Geneva Accord and Spirituality and American Jewish Peace Movements, among other topics.

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companies made up less than 2 percent of all small businesses, but won 12 percent of the $5.6 billion in government contracts awarded to small businesses.

Some of the awards have been massive. In December 2001, for instance, a joint venture of two Alaska Native small businesses won a 15-year, $2.2 billion nobid contract to revamp technology operations for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.

While the companies must be at least 51 percent owned by Alaska natives to enjoy the bidding advantages, there are no requirements that they employ Alaska natives.

As a result, many of them may hire workers from anywhere in specialized fields such as science and engineering to do the work.

“It’s become such a big elephant,” said Steve Colt, an economist with the University of Alaska in Anchorage who has studied the corporations. “Ten years ago, I had a complete picture of (the corporations’ activities) in my head, and now that’s impossible.”

The companies’ record of improving life for Alaska natives is mixed. Many of them pay annual dividends to their shareholders, often a few thousand dollars per year. They employ more than 12,000 Alaska natives.

And many offer benefits such as

scholarships and healthcare.

Still, while the percentage of Alaska natives living in poverty has dropped by half since 1970, they continue economically to lag other groups. For example, the per capita income of Alaska natives in the 2000 census was $12,500, compared to $26,418 for whites.

Critics say that is because the corporations, while doing good work, are not required to focus directly on improving tribal wellbeing.

“Essentially the native corporations are no different than any other corporations,” said Evon Peter, the former chief of an Alaskan tribe that chose not to form a corporation. “They’re looking for ways to profit their corporation.”

The latest frontier for the Alaska Native companies is Iraq.

Half a dozen Alaska Native companies showed up for the first major industry conference on Iraq reconstruction held in November, and several companies have registered with lobbyists this year.

Nana Pacific was among the most aggressive. Reiser said that Nana visited several members of the Alaska delegation, including Stevens, to make sure the representatives were aware of the company’s interests in bidding in Iraq.

In its final form, the Iraq

rebuilding bill contained tough measures requiring full and open competition on contracts.

But Stevens, congressional sources said, made sure that the bill also specifically exempted small businesses from those requirements — including Alaska Native corporations.

“We helped make sure there was language (in the bill),” Reiser said. “We wanted to make sure that the sole sourcing was preserved, so we worked with Sen. Stevens’ staff and the Congressional delegations.”

A Nana lobbyist then approached Shaw, who was helping plan the rebuilding of communications and transportation in Iraq. At first, Shaw was skeptical that an Alaska company could help out. But when he learned of their exemption from competitive bidding, he realized that they could be used to let contracts quickly.

Speed was most important in the dredging of Umm Qasr, Iraq’s only port. Nana had paired up with SSA Marine, a family-run Seattle company that is one of the largest port-operations companies in the world.

SSA was one of the first companies to win one of the controversial, limited bid contracts from the U.S. Agency for International Development after President Bush declared an end to major hostilities in May.

Shaw said that using Nana’s no-bid abilities seemed ideal given the pressing need for more dredging at the port before control of Iraq is handed over on July 1.

Nana also is expected to join with other companies to build an emergency communications network in Baghdad, the capital.

“We wanted to light a fire under Umm Qasr, and this was a way to do it,” Shaw said.

“The key question will be, looking back on July 1st, how much will Nana have put in place? My suspicion is we’ll see a very impressive array of things in place.”

Nana said that negotiations between the contracting officer at the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority and the company were tough, and that the final price would be fair.

Still, critics wonder why the bid was not put out to competition. And they question how the government can be sure that it has received the best price.

“This represents a real problem,” said Bill Allison, a spokesman for the Center for Public Integrity. “When a company can get a contract without going through the competitive bidding process, where is the public accountability? Do taxpayers really know that they’re getting the most building for the buck?”

critically look at how the world is working and to understand it and make initiative to change it in all areas,” said Benj Kamm ’06, who helped organize the conference.

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Body parts continued from page 7 single body can be used to make products worth more than $200,000.

At medical schools, the task of procuring bodies, preserving them and keeping records often falls not to professors but to nonacademic technicians who trained as morticians or worked their way up through the ranks.

“We don’t keep a count on bodies,” said Carmine Clemente, a UCLA professor and longtime editor of the famous anatomy text, Gray’s Anatomy. “That’s not our responsibility. We are the teachers. They are the technicians. We don’t check whether we have all the cadavers, all the arms, all the heads.”

Typically the technicians have been at the center of the cadaver scandals, as appears to be the case at UCLA. At the University of CaliforniaIrvine medical school in 1999, Christopher Brown had an impressive title — director of the

Track continued from page 12 with a time of 25.50, but failed to advance to finals. Also missing the qualifying standard by a few spots was Cambruzzi, with a time of 5:04.50 in the mile.

Lynch, the only Brown athlete competing in the field events,

Perlmutter continued from page 12 he was dissatisfied, but still handled his biz. But last year, like Chinese water torture, it just got to him — he lost it on the sidelines more frequently, was less productive and reportedly wasn’t putting as much work into his game.

More than ever, Owens’ psyche is fragile, and the Ravens somehow missed that point — chalk it up to Head Coach Brian Billick’s cockiness. There are people who think that Billick and Ray Lewis can make Owens ignore his own dissatisfaction, or at least suppress its effects. Still, this messy aftermath is what everyone needs in order to realize how childish and difficult Owens truly is.

Perhaps the most ridiculous part of this episode is that T.O. got himself into this mess, plain and simple. He missed the dead-

willed body program. But he earned just $33,000 a year. He was fired after it was discovered during a routine audit that he had charged the university for a trip to Phoenix and sold six spines to a hospital there for $5,000. The check was made out to a company owned by a business associate.

UCI auditors could account for only 121 of the 441 cadavers donated to the Willed Body Program for medical and scientific research from 1995 through 1999, indicating that there were record-keeping problems before Brown became head of the program. UCI could not identify four cadavers in its morgue.

In addition, families may have received the wrong remains or been improperly billed for the return of their relatives’ ashes.

About 20 lawsuits against UCI are pending, but Brown was never prosecuted.

Neither was Allen Tyler, who headed the cadaver program at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He lost his job in 2002 and was suspected of selling bodies. In a single transac-

tion, he made more than $4,000 selling 232 fingernails and 35 toenails to a pharmaceutical company in Salt Lake City.

The scandal was still being investigated when he died of cancer in January.

Besides his duties at the medical school, Tyler also freelanced in the tissue industry. He would help companies across the United States procure body parts, prepare specimens for seminars or, in the case of one client in Lake Elsinore, Calif., Michael Francis Brown, cut up bodies to be sold in pieces.

Brown had achieved synergy in the illegal body parts trade. He ran three businesses: a funeral home, a crematory and a biotech company. Instead of cremating corpses — delivered from funeral homes and a Riverside County contract to cremate local indigents — he sold their heads, torsos and other parts.

In 2002, he pleaded guilty to 66 counts of unlawful mutilation.

Prosecutors estimated that he stole parts from 133 bodies, earning $465,000 between 1999 and

threw for 42-11 1/2 feet in the shot put event. She placed fourth in her flight, but out of the top 10 overall.

The five women will return to training with their teammates in preparation for the upcoming outdoor season. Brown will travel to North Carolina over spring break for warmer training weather as well as to compete at the Raleigh Relays. The Bears will be

aiming for a higher finish than last year’s fourth place at the Heptagonal Championships at Brown in May.

line. If he wanted so badly to go to Philly or at least to control his own destiny, he should have followed the rules. All he had to do was tell his agent to get on it. It’s amazing to me that this is really a paragraph in an article about an NFL player — we tell these things to kids, not 30-somethings.

And Terrell, don’t whine about how you weren’t told about the new deadline (it was moved up slightly in recent years), because most of the rest of the league got it. If you want to control your life, do it.

The unfortunate thing here is that Owens will probably get his way in the end. The Ravens can rescind the trade or keep him and wait on the result of a grievance filed by Owens’ agent. If he is somehow released from the Ravens’ clutches, he would likely end up in Philly due to the fact that his days as a Niner are absolutely over. It’s hard to root for a guy who doesn’t take responsibility, perks up only

Herald staff writer Melissa Perlman ’04 is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s track and field. She can be reached at mperlman@browndailyherald.com.

It’s hard to root for a guy who doesn’t take responsibility, perks up only when it’s too late and is probably going to whine his way to happiness. when it’s too late and is probably going to whine his way to happiness.

Maybe our boy T.O. can catch balls and put fans in the seats. He might even be able to rally a team to another level if the conditions were perfect, but for T.O., it seems no conditions will ever be perfect enough.

Assistant sports editor Eric Perlmutter ’06 is concentrating in physics.

2001.

He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Some loved ones are still waiting for closure.

In February 2001, Ruth Storr, a post office clerk in San Diego, lost her 82-year-old mother. A local funeral home sent the body to Brown for cremation. An urn was returned. “I said goodbye to my mom,” Storr said. “I thought everything was OK.” But more than two years later, Storr found out that her mother’s body had been used for parts. She is still trying to get everything back.

“I have no idea what’s in my mother’s urn,” she said. “It could be a dead dog, cigarette ashes, burnt newspaper. Who knows? I can’t throw it away. Whoever got part of my mom’s ashes, I wouldn’t want her thrown away.”

Such scandals spurred calls for better oversight. UCI, for one, tightened its written procedures and policies, established an advisory group, created a system for tracking body parts, increased supervision and upped the pay

Basketball continued from page 12 team the Bears’ post players. It proved to be quite effective, as the Big Red outscored the Bears 15-5 over the last four minutes of the half to take a 31-29 lead into the break.

At halftime, Head Coach Jean Marie Burr told the Bears they had to do a better job on the boards.

“There were too many second looks, too many free throws,” said Burr. “We had to make better use of our athleticism.”

At first, it did not look as if the Bears were heeding Burr’s advice, as Cornell built up a five-point lead, with just over 15 minutes to go. But suddenly, the Bears came to life, ripping off a 24-6 run, including a Robertson layup with nine minutes left to give the Bears their first lead since the first half.

With a 61-48 lead and 2:09 left in the game, Mitchell committed her fifth foul, sending her to the bench. She was given a standing ovation and thanked by the announcer for four great years.

Mitchell, who scored nine points and added 11 rebounds, ends her career as the Bears’ all-time leader in games played, with 107. She finishes her career as Brown’s seventh all-time leading scorer with 1,248 points, fifth all-time

for a new director.

Then-Gov. Gray Davis signed a bill in 2000 calling for better documentation of willed bodies and made it a crime to knowingly return the wrong remains to family members. It says that after body parts are used for medical research, the parts or their ashes are to be returned to relatives at no charge. The law also requires coroners to receive consent from a representative of a dead person before releasing a body or body part for scientific purposes.

Another law that went into effect this year requires hospitals, organ-procurement organizations and tissue banks to advise donors of their right to prohibit their tissues from going to forprofit companies.

Yet some aspects of the body parts industry remain loosely regulated. It is illegal to sell body parts for profit. But tissue brokers have found ways to make money.

“You can be paid money for handling fees, sterilizations, shaping the material,” Caplan said, adding that those prices can amount to “gouging.”

leading rebounder with 776 and third all-time leading shot-blocker with 211.

In what one radio broadcaster called “one of the classiest moves I have seen in 22 years of covering sports,” Burr took the other three seniors out on successive dead balls.

Each was given a standing ovation, and hugs were exchanged as they made their way to the bench.

The last to come out was Golston, who recorded 18 points and five assists on the night. The Ivy Leader in assists per game with seven, Golston ends Ivy play as seventh in the nation in assists. She ends her career as third all-time at Brown for assists with 409.

Burr said this year’s seniors each adding something different to the program. “You see a combination of experience, dedication and work ethic,” she said. “You have a threeyear captain in Miranda, Tanara is a leader and court general, you have Nyema’s dominance and Ragan’s ability to come in as a defensive stopper.”

The Bears’ final standing will depend on Tuesday night’s game between Harvard University and Dartmouth College.

If the visiting Crimson upset the Big Green, Brown gets second place outright. On the other hand, a Dartmouth win creates a two-way tie for second place.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Extreme moderation That the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a divisive issue is an extreme understatement. In a Herald opinion column Feb. 12, organizers of a panel discussion on the conflict lamented what they viewed as a polemical debate that quickly turned “combative and emotional” while failing to accomplish the panel’s intended aim of creating a constructive conversation based on mutual understanding. In the context of this bitterly polarized political conversation, the Tikkun Community, which advocates what co-chair Michael Lerner called a “progressive, middle path,” is an anomaly.

Tikkun advocates a moderate solution, but most importantly it advocates critical thinking and facilitates discussion and understanding between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian voices. It is troubling when academics, who are supposed to be masters of critical thinking, abandon that principle in favor of sentiment. But it is all the more refreshing when seemingly dissimilar leaders such as prominent intellectual Cornel West and Rabbi Lerner can come together in support of a common cause.

Hundreds of students from Brown and other universities came together this weekend to hear West, Lerner and other speakers articulate Tikkun’s message of tolerance. Advocacy of tolerance may seem cliché, but in the environment of extreme hate and fear that pervades discussion of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, it cannot be taken for granted.

Tikkun calls for two independent, autonomous states based on borders in place before 1967. The most forceful proponents of Israeli and Palestinian nationalism see this path as unacceptable, and they seem willing to settle for nothing less than the total disenfranchisement of their opponents. Their reconciliation may be impossible. Nevertheless, we encourage representatives of the most extreme positions to continue to engage each other at Brown.

February’s panel discussion might have been “combative” and “emotional,” but in this respect, it precisely reflects the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian debate. Taking a lesson from Tikkun — no matter how much both sides might condemn its political platform — we advocate that Israeli and Palestinian nationalists at Brown take their capacity to communicate with their ideological antitheses as a measure of their success.

SHANE WILKERSON

LETTERS Seven steps to recycling perfection To the Editor: After reading the campus news piece about the RecycleMania Competition at Brown (“Brown Down in the Race to Recycle Against Other Universities,” March 3), we, Brown’s recycling coordinators, have received a number of questions about Brown’s recycling program. Here are some helpful tips for recycling at Brown: 1. Brown can only recycle plastics that have the numbers 1 and 2 on the bottom. Unfortunately, all other plastics must be thrown in the trash bin.

2. Please remove the caps from bottles. Place the caps in the trash bin and the bottles in the mixed containers bin.

3. Milk cartons that are made of shiny paper cannot be recycled, nor can the Colombo yogurt con-

tainers.

4. Plastic milk cartons, however, can be recycled.

5. Mixed office paper, which includes standard paper of all colors, goes in the blue office paper bins.

6. The red newspaper bins are for all paper other than standard paper. This includes newspapers, magazines, slightly thicker paper, cereal box-like cardboard containers, etc.

7. Staples and the windows in envelopes can also go in the paper recycling bins.

Thanks for your help and participation. Let’s make the most of the weeks to come. Show the rest of the field why Brown is green!

Nadia Diamond-Smith ’06 and Chris Bennett ’07 March 4

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OPINIONS MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2004 · PAGE 11

The fleecing of Brunonia GUEST COLUMN BY EMIR SENTURK

It was only a year ago when Peter, a long-time friend of mine presently at the University of Rochester, sat with me over a cup of coffee to discuss our semi-annual gripes with one another. While my complaints focused largely on chemistry and the desire to change my cologne, his were far more practical. Peter’s sole concern was that of having to haul his entire life from his room at school back to his room at home or else seek out an all-hassles-included student storage service that would interfere with his final exam study schedule.

When I informed Peter of the storage that our dear Brunonia offered us over the summer, he shook his head and smiled.

“That’s because you go to Brown,” he said. “You guys always forget: Brown is not just a prestigious, Ivy League university that creates the leaders of tomorrow. If that’s all Brown is supposed to be, it wouldn’t have such things as storage. Only at Brown will the students ever be treated well enough to have storage.

“Only at Brown will the administration and staff know of the stresses of university life so as to provide a service like that,” he said.

If only Peter were here now to hear the cracks of a distant, yet approaching, thunder.

As the student body incurs more and more expenses, their quality of life on campus will decrease. The most recent examples of this upsetting phenomenon are recent tuition hikes, the planned elimination of oncampus parking, diminishing library resources and the potential stamping out of club sports.

Perhaps the most alarming and unspoken of lacera-

tions of campus life is the loss of any form of on-campus storage for this and all summers to follow. The pains of this cutback, if not felt now, will hit hard very, very soon.

Along with the yearly cost of plane tickets and attendance at Brown incurred by those who live outside New England and the United States, the three-month-oneweek summer vacation we are granted will now have a price tag of its own. Not only will we have to actively search for a storage provider, but we will also have to

Brown’s decline is marked by its soon-to-be-gone summer storage space. pay the four-month fee and handle any ensuing affairs during the most inopportune part of the year.

The last thing I’d want to be doing while crunching numbers and reviewing a semester’s worth of material to make the last four months worthwhile is packup my life into cardboard boxes. If I lived outside the Northeast or happened to be an international student, I might even take the added burden personally. Removal of oncampus storage altogether can only cannibalize the quality of life and the geographic and socioeconomic diversity for which this fine institution has been global-

ly lauded.

The deterioration of what has been referred to in academic circles as the “Brown experience” has even grander implications. New generations of dissatisfied alumni will not be more willing or motivated to give back to their alma mater. As fewer students and their parents from around the world wish to fork out the necessary dough, grants to the University from organizations that have repeatedly cited it as a hub of personal, intellectual and social growth will decline. A sick cycle of both fiscal and academic loss will be set in order, accomplishing precisely the opposite of that for which the administration hoped when they made the decision to cut back in the wrong places.

As Brown students, the often-twisted notions of money, careers and success with which U.S. News & World Report and friends associate us may lead to an eviction at some point in our lives, as most landlords may not want to rent a room to a tree-hugging, all-loving communist. More likely, however, is that the independent, altruistic and socially conscious character that often defines us will contribute toward a propensity to move our lives from one place to another. But this is no excuse for Brown itself to evict us at the end of an indisputably difficult academic year. The time has come to make something of the organization and action that comprise the other side of that which is expected of us.

We’ve done it in the past — the only way to get our storage back is to act on it.

Emir Senturk ’05 is a former Herald reporter.

PETER IAN ASEN

Gesturing forward, marching backward D. David Beckman, a technical writer who lost his job with Microsoft in 2001, began working as a meat slicer in a Seattle suburb last year after months of trying to unsuccessfully find work in IT. Where he once made $40-45 an hour for Microsoft, his new job in the deli of a Fred Meyer department store started at $8 an hour.

Last Sunday, Thomas Friedman wrote glowingly in the New York Times about the heartwarming experience of meeting young Indian men and women in a Bangalore call center whose lives seemed on the right track thanks to their new $200 to $300-a-month jobs working for American companies.

“It is inevitable in a networked world that our economy is going to shed certain low-wage, low-prestige jobs,” Friedman concluded. “To the extent that they go to places like India or Pakistan — where they are viewed as high-wage, high-prestige jobs — we make not only a more prosperous world, but a safer world for our own 20-year-olds.”

The allusion to safety came after Friedman wondered aloud how the presence of these sorts of jobs in the Palestinian territories could dampen the violence in the Middle East. Of course, this sort of imagining remains a pipe dream, because $200-$300-a-month jobs are only available in the global South to those who are highly educated and speak English.

The following day, Nate Goralnik wrote in these pages dismissing fears about offshore outsourcing (or “offshoring,” as it is known) in information technology, in which he shared not only Friedman’s argument but also his air of inevitability.

“True, economic progress is often terrifying for families caught in the fault lines of economic change,” Goralnik wrote, making clear that his was not such a family, “but it is inevitable, even without outsourcing. Shall we then ban commercial aviation in order to save the jobs of railroad workers?”

Globalization’s most powerful myth is that it is fueled by an onward march that is not only unstoppable but also all for the best. After all, who wants to give up airplanes and go back to railroads, right?

Some do indeed benefit from offshoring in IT — arguably, consumers, and certainly, CEOs and stockholders — but while these folks move from railroads

to airplanes, the workers who lose their jobs will be struggling even to afford the bus.

And even as consumers may benefit, the ranks of those who are able to consume nonessential products will slowly recede as American corporations make their U.S. operations ever-leaner and meaner.

When job loss was concentrated during the 1980s and 90s in manufacturing, the conventional wisdom was that innovations in new and growing industries like IT would create jobs that were better than what had been lost.

Now that IT and other service jobs are beginning to leave the country, the next line of defense for ardent globalizers is to claim that these are “low-wage, lowprestige jobs.”

As high-paying IT jobs continue to leave the country, pundits show little concern.

Friedman may be right that the new presence of many IT and other service jobs in India has had a positive impact on the lives of some Indians. But he is wrong in describing the jobs that are leaving the United States as low-wage and low-prestige. A study released last year by Forrester Research predicts that 3.3 million high-tech, financial and other white-collar service sector jobs will have been outsourced offshore in the next decade, up from just under a halfmillion gone by 2002.

Although this wave has just begun, in Washington State, one of the nation’s hubs for the industry, the unemployment rate among IT workers is currently 10.3 percent. And the people who are affected have

one or more degrees in computer science and are losing jobs that pay in the high five figures. They are thousands upon thousands of David Beckmans, and their ranks are only going to swell.

A March 2003 internal summit broadcast of a speech given by IBM executives to its 2,000 human resource managers on the company’s plans to accelerate offshoring made national news, when it was leaked to the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers (WashTech), a union of IT workers, and reported on by the Times and others in July.

In the speech, IBM’s incoming human relations director Tom Lynch cited the company’s awareness of plans among competitors to increase offshoring as part of IBM’s rationale. He specifically mentioned a Microsoft presentation, also leaked earlier in the year, which had urged human resource managers to “pick a project to offshore today.” Lynch also told human resource managers at IBM to be ready for the tensions that would ensue when IBM employees would be asked to train their Chinese, Indian and other foreign replacements.

Figuring out how to remedy this situation is difficult, largely because the current system so forcefully pits the interests of workers in the United States and those in the global South against each other.

However, it is certain that American corporations should not be allowed to pay college-educated Indian workers at rates that are less than one-tenth what their American counterparts make.

American taxpayers should not be giving out tax subsidies to the same corporations that move jobs out of the country to satisfy their own bottom line.

And workers in IT, including Brown students who are about to enter the industry, should become aware of and involved with the efforts of groups like WashTech and the Alliance@IBM, which are organizing at workplaces and in the political arena to save IT jobs.

Tech workers must unite to look after their own jobs, because no one is going to do it for them.

Peter Ian Asen ’04 is starting to think that choosing Africana studies rather than CS was a good career move.

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SPORTS MONDAY MARCH 8, 2004 · PAGE 12

Record-breaking Golston ’04 leads Bears to seasonending home sweep

BY BEN MILLER

It was a record weekend for the women’s basketball team, and especially its four seniors, as it completed a weekend sweep of Columbia University, 76-66, and Cornell University, 68-51.

The Bears finish the Ivy Season at 9-5 (16-11 overall), having won eight of their last nine games, guaranteeing them at least a share of second place.

The game against Columbia was a special night for Bears point guard Tanara Golston ’04. Golston came into that game with 173 assists on the year, four shy of the Brown record for assists in a season and six shy of the Ivy League record.

Golston quickly made it clear that these marks would not stand much longer, as she recorded three assists in the first six minutes, including one spectacular play. With just under 16 minutes left, Golston, driving into the lane, saw defenders coming, spun, and flipped the ball over her shoulder, hitting Nyema Mitchell ’04 in stride for an uncontested layup. The basket was Mitchell’s 500th career field goal.

The assists record would fall later in the half. With 2:11 left, Golston again drove through the lane and dished the ball off to captain Miranda Craigwell ’04 for an easy layup. The basket was Craigwell’s first in seven games, as she had been sidelined with a knee injury.

“I could not have written the script for that any better,” Craigwell said. “I’m grateful that I was the one who hit the record-breaker. (Golston) and I have a history, and it was nice to be able to put her into the record books.”

The game stopped for a few minutes as Golston was given a standing ovation by the crowd and was presented with the ball. Her teammates gathered around her as she passed the ball around, making sure everyone planted a kiss on the leather.

“I wanted everyone on the team to know that (the record) was a part of them,” Golston said. “They consciously tried to get in position for my passes to score.”

Meanwhile, the Bears were in control of the game, never trailing in the first half. Despite a somewhat sloppy half, the Bears took an eight-point lead into the intermission, 34-26.

After the break, it was all Golston, as she scored 17 of the Bears’ 42 secondhalf points. Columbia could not stop the Bears defensively, especially in the paint, as the Bears scored 44 of their 76 points in the lane.

Golston, who dished out 10 assists and scored 21 points on eight of 12 shooting, was one of four Bears in double figures.

Robertson added 18 points and eight boards, while Mitchell and Colleen Kelly ’06 added 14 and 10 points respectively.

Sarah Hayes ’06 broke the double-digit mark in rebounds with 10.

The win over Columbia gives the Bears a victory over every Ivy opponent for the first time since the 1992-93 season.

The next night was Senior Night for the Bears, as they faced the Cornell team, which they had previously defeated 6956. Before the game, all four Brown seniors — Craigwell, Golston, Ragan Kenner ’04 and Mitchell — were brought to halfcourt with family members to be presented with balloons, a framed montage of pictures and a flower.

The game started out as a back-andforth contest, as both teams looked sluggish. With the score deadlocked with eight minutes remaining, a wide-open three from Kelly and lay-ups from Robertson and Mitchell gave the Bears a 24-16 lead.

Cornell responded by going to a zone defense, designed to double- and triplesee BASKETBALL, page 9

Five stars represent w. indoor track at ECAC Championship, set top-10 marks

BY MELISSA PERLMAN

Five Brown women, not yet ready to end their 2004 indoor track and field seasons, traveled to the Reggie Lewis Track in Boston this weekend to compete at the competitive Eastern College Athletic Conference Championship. Lauren Linder ’04, Katherine Kosub ’04, Caci Cambruzzi ’04, Naja Ferjan ’07 and Jill Lynch ’05 competed against some of the best athletes in the conference with hopes of ending the indoor season with a bang.

Kosub saw the meet as an opportunity to improve her time in the mile and finish her final indoor track season with a race she was proud of. “The last mile race I ran I was disappointed with, and I wanted to prove to myself that I could run the event,” she said.

By placing fourth in the second preliminary heat in 4:55.76, Kosub not only set a personal record for the mile, but she also nearly surpassed her fastest time for the outdoor 1500-meter race, an event measured 109 meters shorter than the mile.

Kosub’s time moves her into the eighth spot on Brown’s top-10 performances list.

“I wasn’t fully convinced that I was a miler, but after this race I am sure (that I am), and I am looking forward to the

1500-meter during outdoor,” Kosub said.

Kosub and Ferjan were the only two Bears to qualify for finals in their respective events on Sunday. While Kosub decided not to return for the second day of competition because of Brown’s annual Gala Saturday night, Ferjan did, and it paid off.

After finishing third in the preliminary heat for the 500-meter run on Saturday with a time of 74:73, Ferjan came back to run a 73.70 on Sunday. Ferjan’s time was good enough for sixth place overall at the meet and puts her at number two on Brown’s all-time top-10 list. She has already put her mark on Brown’s record books, as she ranks third all-time in the 800-meter run with her time of 2:09.63, which she ran earlier in the season.

“One of the reasons Naja has been able to make an impact so soon is because she came in with some pretty high accomplishments,” said mid-distance and distance coach Rick Wemple. “The other reason is that she is a very aggressive racer.

She’s not afraid to mix it up out there.”

Meanwhile, Linder represented the sprints squad for Brown. She placed third in the preliminary for the 200-meter run see TRACK, page 9

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Tanara Golston ’04 broke the Ivy League record for assists in a season against Cornell University Saturday night.

Crybaby T.O. and his attitude need to take a timeout

BY ERIC PERLMUTTER

If you have been following the NFL offseason lately, one that has literally been “on crack” for some players, then you are aware of the controversy involving wide receiver Terrell Owens — one that is, quite frankly, is his own stupid fault.

Let me quickly recap: Owens forgot to properly notify the San Francisco 49ers that he wanted to void the final ERIC PERLMUTTER three years of his PERL MUTTERS contract and was consequently stuck on the 49ers with a contract that paid him millions short of what he would have fetched in the open market.

Because his rights still belonged to the Niners, Owens was then dealt to the Baltimore Ravens, a team of which he apparently wanted little part. Staying true to his reputation as a man of overwhelming class, he proclaimed that he would not show up to the Ravens’ physical and demanded some sort of reconciliation involving a trade to the Philadelphia Eagles. Clearly, times were tough for baby Terrell.

What I want to know is this: did the Ravens really think they could pull this off cleanly? Certainly, there is no dispute over the value of Owens as a football player. Aside from the obvious performance-related statistics, he can make the big catch (see the 1998 play-

offs versus Green Bay), his genetic code is free of the “Randy Moss gene” for taking plays off and he hasn’t fumbled in three years.

But what has become most clear over the last couple years is that Owens’ happiness depends on more than his numbers. If you are going to trade for Owens, you better make damn sure he wants to play for your team, especially when he’s in talks with another team for whom he would love to play. Earlier in his career, see PERLMUTTER, page 9

B ROWN S PORTS S COREBOARD Friday, March 5 Women’s Basketball: Brown 76, Columbia 66 Gymnastics: at RIC with Springfield, cancelled Men’s Basketball: Columbia 81, Brown 74 Saturday, March 6 Women’s Ice Hockey: Princeton 6, Brown 3 Women’s Basketball: Brown 68, Cornell 51 Men’s Basketball: Brown 69, Cornell 66 Softball: Seton Hall 11, Brown 4 Softball: Towson 3, Brown 1 Men’s Lacrosse: Brown 9, Vermont 8 Men’s Swimming: Seventh Place, EISL Championships Sunday, March 7 Men’s Tennis: Brown 6, New Mexico 1 Women’s Ice Hockey: Brown 5, Yale 1 Softball: Brown 6, Towson 3 Softball: Brown 2, Seton Hall 1 Wrestling: 8th place, EIWA Championship, Philadelphia, Penn.