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Endowment performs well over threeyear period, beating peer institutions BY JONATHAN ELLIS

on food studies. “We are looking at the food sheds, which are the geographical areas from which nutrients are pooled to feed a population,” she said. During the fall of her junior year, Hill studied abroad in the Italian countryside, where she learned how to make sheep’s milk into cheese and about the importance Europeans place on fresh, homegrown produce. Hill has been working with Associate Director of Dining Services Virginia Dunleavy to promote the link between local farmers and Brown. “We are laying the foundations for what will hopefully become of Brown’s food systems,” Hill said. Rossi said BuDs is happy to work with the interdisciplinary group and that he has also met with the Rhode Island Department of Agriculture to help facilitate the link between local

Brown ranked sixth out of the academic institutions with the 50 largest endowments in return on investment over the last three years, President Ruth Simmons announced at last week’s faculty meeting. The University saw an annual average return of 3.3 percent over the three fiscal years, with the fiscal year ending June 30, according to Elizabeth Huidekoper, vice president for finance and administration. Brown’s figure easily beat the median — a loss of 1.8 percent — for the top 50 academic endowments over the past three fiscal years. The mean was a loss of 1.7 percent, Huidekoper said. The rankings were released in January as part of the National Association of College and University Business Officers Endowment Study. Because the study’s overall results are confidential, Huidekoper would not say which universities ranked higher than Brown. The upward trend comes despite the S&P 500 index’s loss of 11.3 percent over the past three years. “We clearly have a strategy that’s very successful in a bad market,” Huidekoper said. Vice President and Chief Investment Officer Cynthia Frost attributed the endowment’s gains under poor market conditions to a diverse investment portfolio, but she said predictions of poor market performance were not the reason the Brown Investment Office implemented this diversity. “It’s something we always do,” Frost said. “It’s a policy for all seasons. We don’t try to time when the market goes up or down.” Frost said the diversified approach is common to institutions with large endowments. “Yale and Duke (universities) tended to do the best over the long term,” she said. The University has a “huge allocation” in what Frost termed “alternative assets,” including hedge funds, real assets and private equity. Frost said the strategy is neither conser-

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Leaders from student groups attended the second meeting of the Campus Affairs Committee in Leung Gallery Tuesday night.Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services David Greene led a brainstorming session about potential functions of the planned campus center,and Director of Institutional Diversity Brenda Allen led a discussion about pluralism at the University.

New document accompanying transcripts will explain GPA policy BY SARA PERKINS

Students worried about explaining why they have no official grade point average to skeptical human resources and graduate school admissions interviewers will soon have a new ally. The College Curriculum Council has approved a document that clarifies Brown’s policy of not calculating an official GPA for students’ transcripts. The four-paragraph statement explains that while students may choose to make their own GPA calculations, the University has not done so since the introduction of the New Curriculum in 1969. Brown’s “unique grading system” invalidates comparisons to the GPAs given by other schools, according to the statement. “All students and alumni who choose not to compute a GPA on resumes, applications or wherever else it may be requested are acting consistent with Brown’s educational policy,” it reads. The document will be made available to students through the Web site of the Dean of the College and through the Career Development Center, said Dean of the College Paul Armstrong, who chairs the committee. This method of communicating with graduate schools, fellowships and employers has been in development since last October, when the council decided to spend about $100,000 to see GPA,page 4

Student group working to link BuDS, local farmers BY KATE CONSIDINE

Brown Dining Services and an interdisciplinary student group led by Louella Hill ’04 are taking steps to offer students more fresh, locally grown produce. The initiative began last semester with the implementation of the Community Harvest Program, which brought farmers’ markets to Wriston Quadrangle in September and October. “We saw great success with it, and it’s a great thing to interact with the local farmers, “ said Peter Rossi, BuDS assistant director of produce purchasing. According to Rossi, after the program began last fall, the consumption of apples in the dining halls more than doubled, and, according to surveys conducted by the group, students are happy with the new choices. “We have seen a great amount of interest and enthusiasm with this new program,” Hill said. BuDS is also making strides in incorporating locally grown produce into its daily menus. “We try to use local products whenever we can, but it’s hard to plan menus three weeks in advance,” said BuDS Administrative Dietician Bridget Visconti. When the Community Harvest Program was instituted last semester, Rossi and BuDS Executive Chef John O’Shea made changes to the dining menus to incorporate more fresh produce from the market. At the same time, Hill started her senior thesis on community food assessment, as part of her environmental studies concentration with a focus

Reel Big Fish, Blackalicious to play annual Spring Weekend Reel Big Fish and Blackalicious will perform at the April 22 show during this year’s Spring Weekend, according to David Galea, assistant to Reel Big Fish’s agent at The Agency Group in New York. The bands will join Bela Fleck and the Flecktones at the Thursday night performance. Bela Fleck’s representatives confirmed in January that the ensemble is part of the lineup. David Margolius, administrative chair of BCA, would neither confirm nor deny any of the performers officially lined up for the weekend concerts, which will also include a Saturday afternoon show. — Meryl Rothstein

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Dorothy Marcello ’07 says Tikkun speakers misrepresented conflict in Haiti column, page 11

U.S. set dangerous precedent in removing Haitian president, says Arjun Iyengar ’05 column, page 11

Wrestling’s Dies ’04 and Garcia ’04 advance to NCAA tournament sports, page 12

W. skiing finishes sixth at national championship despite poor weather conditions sports, page 12

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THIS MORNING WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2004 · PAGE 2 Coup de Grace Grace Farris

TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS PUBLIC HEALTH AND AIR POLLUTION IN ASIA 12:30 p.m. (McKinney Conference Room,Watson Institute) — with Aaron Cohen, Health Effects Institute. Presented by the International Environmental Health Colloquium.

TRACES: REFLECTIONS ON GERMANY'S PAST AND PRESENT 3 p.m. (Smith-Buonanno 106) — Two documentaries,“Born in Berlin”by Naomi Ben Natan and Leora Kamenetzy (Israel) and “Will My Mother Go Back to Berlin”by Micha Peled (Israel/Germany), will be screened.

Four Years Eddie Ahn

MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Vegetarian Cream of Broccoli Soup, Kale and Linguica Soup, Buffalo Chicken Wings with Bleu Cheese Dressing, Brown Rice Garden Casserole, Carrot Casserole, M&M Cookies, Caribbean Rum Cake, Yogurt Cream Cheese Pie.

VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Corn Chowder, Country Wedding Soup, Chicken Andouille Shrimp Jambalaya, Falafel in Pita, Mandarin Blend Vegetables, M&M Cookies. DINNER — Vegetarian Corn Chowder, Country Wedding Soup, Roast Turkey with Sauce, Asparagus, Rice and Cheese Casserole, Mashed Potatoes, Bread Stuffing, Fresh Vegetable Saute, Green Peas, Olive and Herb Bread, Caribbean Rum Cake.

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Brown’s lecture hall capacity small Families sue compared to peer institutions UCLA over cadaver sales

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When the Brown Lecture Board distributed tickets for filmmaker Spike Lee’s lecture last semester, students lined the halls of Faunce House hours in advance. Hundreds of fans, however, left the building emptyhanded. The problem, students and administrators say, is that Brown lacks something many of its peer institutions already have — an auditorium able to accommodate crowds for big-name speakers and events. “There’s a feeling among the entire board that we need a larger space to hold these lectures,” said Lecture Board Co-President Lindsey Murtagh ’04. “We’re definitely lacking when it comes to space.” Salomon 101, the largest fixed-seating lecture hall on campus, has a capacity of 594 people, according to Mary Sullivan, room coordinator for University events. The next largest, C.V. Starr Auditorium in MacMillan Hall, seats 300, while List Art 120 seats 228 and Salomon 001 seats 224. Alumnae Hall and Sayles Hall, which use temporary seating, have capacities of 653 and 600, respectively, Sullivan said. Brown currently enrolls 7,400 students. Cornell University, with a total enrollment of 19,500 students, has an auditorium capable of holding 6,000 people, as well as a performing arts and lecture center with 1,900 seats and a classroom with a capacity of 760. The large auditorium hosts concerts, university ceremonies and big-name speakers. Yale University, with a total enrollment of 11,200 students, has a 2,700-person auditorium for ceremonies, performances and lectures, while Princeton University, with 6,600 students, has a 1,400-person chapel and a 900-person auditorium for large speeches. Dartmouth College, with 5,200 students, has a 900person auditorium used mostly for performances, although its largest classroom has only 340 seats. Although Princeton often has to simulcast speeches, as it did when Secretary of State Colin Powell visited recently, space concerns “very seldom” occur, said

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Tom Quirk, the school’s conference manager. “Most often people say they’re impressed” with Princeton’s buildings, Quirk said. “Our facilities certainly don’t seem to be falling behind in any way.” Yale press officer Dorie Baker expressed similar sentiments. “In general, we can accommodate the number of people who want to see these speakers,” she said. At Cornell, Chuck Lyons, a conference services accounts representative, said the school “does well for its size” and that space constraints are “very rarely” a concern. Lyons said he was surprised that Brown operates without larger auditoriums. Brown’s situation puts Cornell’s in a far better light, he said. But although Brown may be lagging behind its peers, administrators say they recognize the problem and hope to fix it. David Greene, interim vice president for Campus Life and Student Services, said the need for a larger venue has figured prominently in campus-life planning. Administrators have discussed how such a venue might fit into plans for a campus center, as well as the possibilities of converting current campus facilities or using nearby spaces. “It’s not the easiest problem to solve, but hopefully we can be creative about it and find an effective way to address the issue,” Greene said. At Providence College, where the largest fixed-seating lecture hall holds only 175 people, events are frequently held in local venues, including the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, the Rhode Island Convention Center and Providence hotels. “There’s always a need for more space,” said PC Assistant Director of College Events Deirdre Driscoll. “If we feel the space we have here is inadequate, we try to find alternative space in the Providence area.” The school has a strategic plan in place and will soon

Los Angeles (U-WIRE) — While University of California-Los Angeles officials expressed regret for criminal allegations involving its Willed Body Program at a press conference Monday, relatives of those whose bodies were donated to the program filed a lawsuit against UCLA. UCLA’s attorney, Louis Marlin, said he expects additional lawsuits to be filed against UCLA because of the recent discovery that parts of cadavers donated to the university may have been sold illegally. The new lawsuit seeks class action status and alleges that UCLA officials were aware donated bodies were being sold illegally. Henry Reid, the director of the program, was arrested by university police at his residence in Anaheim on Saturday and charged with grand theft. Ernest Nelson, who is not a UCLA employee, was arrested early Sunday morning in connection with the theft and charged with knowingly receiving stolen property. Reid and Nelson posted $20,000 and $30,000 bail, respectively, and are scheduled for arraignment Tuesday. Police searched the Willed Body Program Department on Monday, searching for more evidence in the case. University officials say Nelson was able to sell body parts with Reid’s help. But Nelson said the story is different and that he cut up nearly 800 cadavers with the full knowledge of UCLA officials along with Reid, according to a Los Angeles Times article published Monday. “I call one of the most prestigious universities in the world, their director gives me the protocol, I follow that protocol, and they charge me with receiving stolen body parts?” Nelson told the Times. “If I wasn’t supposed to be there, why couldn’t they tell me that? It was not done in secret.” Nelson also told the Times he visited UCLA’s body freezer at the Medical Center twice a week, carrying a saw in his

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Endowment continued from page 1 vative nor aggressive, while Huidekoper called it “progressive.” Frost and her team do not make decisions about individual investments, but rather choose external portfolio managers, Huidekoper said. “They won’t say, ‘Let’s buy IBM.’ They say, ‘Let’s use the people who have this particular strategy,’” she said. Frost did not attribute Brown’s success to any single decision. “It’s a sum of doing a lot of things well,” she said. “It’s like hitting a lot of singles rather than going for a home run. “We try not to make any big bets,” she added. “The University can’t afford to have us mess up.” Frost said there is always room for improvement. “Within each investment class, we try to pick the best managers,” she said. The difficulty, she said, is that “the ones that were the best in the past might not be the best going forward.” Huidekoper said the endowment’s success will help Brown’s nascent capital campaign. “I think it’s very effective to have a good investment record as you’re going into a campaign,” she said. “People want to know they’re giving to a place that’s well managed.” The return on the University’s

GPA continued from page 1 remove a GPA calculator from the new Enterprise registrar program, said Jordan ElpernWaxman ’04. “My concern is that the University do its part to make sure that their policy about not calculating GPA is more than a legal fiction,” Elpern-Waxman said. Members of the council disputed whether the statement should be printed on the back of

investment in the most recent year was 6.5 percent, Huidekoper said. The mean return for the top 50 universities was 3.8 percent, she said. Brown’s ranking for the year has not yet been determined, Huidekoper said, though she estimated it would be at least in the top quarter. All of the endowment’s growth in the fiscal year ending June 30 came in the first half of the 2003 calendar year, Huidekoper said. Harvard University saw returns of 12.5 percent in the past fiscal year, the Harvard Crimson reported. Yale University had an 8.8 percent return on investment, according to the Yale Daily News. According to study results publicly available from NACUBO, Brown’s endowment stood at just over $1.46 billion at the end of fiscal year 2003, the 25th largest in the nation but the smallest in the Ivy League. The next-lowest Ivy League endowment was Dartmouth College’s, at 20th in the nation with $2.12 billion. Harvard topped the list with $18.85 billion, while Yale was a distant second at $11.03 billion. Brown continues to make gains this fiscal year. The endowment rose 12.8 percent from July 2003 to January of this year, according to Frost. Huidekoper attributed much of the endowment’s recent success to Frost and her 15-person investment team. “The interesting thing is

official transcripts, to supplement the brief explanation of the grading system that appears there now. Brittany Bagley ’05 said she felt that doing so might hurt students who chose to present their own calculation. “It’s just Brown not undermining its students,” she said. Discussion of the statement’s placement on the transcript will continue, Armstrong said. One concern, voiced by Associate Dean of Biological Sciences Marge Thompson, dealt with the use of GPA by concentrations in determining

Frost did not attribute Brown’s (endowment’s) success to any single decision.“It’s a sum of doing a lot of things well,” she said. “It’s like hitting a lot of singles rather than going for a home run. “We try not to make any big bets,” she added.“The University can’t afford to have us mess up.” (Frost) was hired three years ago,” Huidekoper said. Before coming to Brown, Frost was a portfolio manager for the Duke University Management Company. Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 can be reached at jellis@browndailyherald.com.

honors and thesis eligibility. “There’s just this irony that struck me,” she said. “The honors thing has really been bothering me.” Armstrong said he would review the concentration requirements in the Course Announcement Bulletin and discuss a change with the relevant concentrations and departments. Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06 edits the Metro section. She can be reached at sperkins@browndailyherald.com.

Local food continued from page 1 farmers and distributors. “I have spoken to our distributors and told them that we are interested in local produce, so it forces them to look locally, too,” Rossi said. Hill said she hopes her interdisciplinary group will receive a grant to create an electronic clearinghouse that would facilitate purchasing between Brown and local growers. If the electronic program is developed, it will enable BuDS to look online for local produce and help it plan menus in advance based on what is available. “Brown needs an organic farm and the opportunity for students to take field trips to see the ecology of the state,” Hill said. Yale University is at the forefront of the movement to provide students with fresh and organic produce. The university owns its own organic farm outside New Haven, Conn. Hill said she hopes Brown will soon follow suit. “We eventually want to incorporate local milk, eggs, honey, berries and other vegetables from nearby farms,” she said.

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Literature mediates difficult conversations, author says BY LESLIE KAUFMANN

Literature can be a medium for public conversation, author Nelly Rosario said in a Tuesday night lecture titled “The Great Divide: Haitian-Dominican Relations in Literature.” Her lecture, which drew a crowd of about 30 to Salomon 101, focused on issues such as self-determination, politics and tips for writers. Adam King ’06, co-chair of the Latin American Student Organization, introduced the author. “I wanted to bring in someone new and fresh, and I saw (Rosario’s) book on my shelf and thought she would be perfect,” he told The Herald after the lecture. Rosario received a Bachelor of Arts in environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing from Columbia University. She said the shift in her career aspirations came as she realized writing was more satisfying for her. “I never did my problem sets (in college) until the last minute, because I would stay up late dying and I missed home, so I would just write all these vignettes. It was just my way of travelling back, and before I knew it, it just kept going,” she said. In a lecture that combined personal commentary with readings from her first novel, Rosario encouraged the audience to speak openly about any issue, a concept she said she believes to be the “function of fiction.” “I want to sort of talk about the things that people want to have smokescreens around,” she said in a statement that set the tone for the evening. Rosario read from her first novel, “Song of the Water Saints,” tying the idea of self-rule to her description of her character Graciela. “That was basically her issue — this issue of self-rule, of how do you rule yourself, of how do you take possession of yourself,” she said. Rosario’s novel, which describes Haitian-Dominican relations in the 20th century, follows characters through see ROSARIO, page 8

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Author Nelly Rosario integrated a discussion of Haitian-Dominican relations into readings from her work Tuesday night in Salomon 101.

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WORLD & NATION WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2004 · PAGE 7

Lawmaker’s gay son takes marital vows SAN FRANCISCO (L.A. Times) — The diamond in the ring he held had been passed down by his father. So had his bearing, the stance of a former fighter pilot and Persian Gulf War veteran. But it was the painful distance between father and son that stood at the fore as David Knight, the gay son of California’s leading opponent of same-sex marriage, wed his longtime partner here on Tuesday. “I’m not here to confront my father; I’m here to confront his politics,” the son of Republican State Sen. William “Pete” Knight said carefully. He did not want to hurt his 75-year-old parent, he said, but neither could he “just hide from him.” The middle son of the conservative author of Proposition 22, which defined marriage as being solely between a man and a woman, David Knight, now a 43year-old woodworker, and Joseph Lazzaro, a 39-year-old specialist in interior architecture, kissed and held hands as they were pronounced “spouses for life” under the landmark rotunda where more than 3,600 gay and lesbian couples have married since Feb. 12. The two men, partners for 10 years, live in Baltimore, Md., and had a civil union ceremony two years ago in Vermont. But, they said, they felt compelled to travel to Knight’s home state when San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to samesex couples last month. In a wave of civil disobedience that the elder Knight has denounced as a “sham” and a “sideshow,” gays and lesbians have been married in New Mexico, New York and Oregon, in addition to the ceremonies here that have been solemnized in defiance of state law. Tuesday’s ceremony, conducted at City Hall by a deputy marriage commissioner who gasped, “How brave, how marvelous,” when he was told afterward who the younger Knight was, lent an intensely personal footnote to a highly public issue. Although many parents struggle when they learn that a child is gay or lesbian, most families work through such issues in private. The powerful rift between politician and son, however, has for several years now been a poignant subtext to California’s same-sex marriage debate. Sen. Knight, who represents a solidly conservative Republican district, became nationally famous as the driving force behind Proposition 22 — or the “Knight initiative,” as it was colloquially known — which passed with more than 61 percent of the vote four years ago. His well-funded Proposition 22 Defense and Education Fund has since gone to court to challenge San Francisco’s decision to issue marriage licenses to gays and lesbians.

Judge sentences sniper Muhammad to death MANASSAS, Va. (L.A. Times) — Rejecting pleas for leniency, a judge on Tuesday sentenced John Allen Muhammad to death for leading a two-man sniper team that killed 10 people in random attacks in the Washington, D.C., area. The judge, LeRoy Millette of the Prince William County Circuit Court, could have reduced the sentence to life in prison after a jury recommended that Muhammad be executed. But Millette said he found the Persian Gulf War veteran’s crimes “vile almost beyond comprehension” and concurred with the panel’s verdict, reached in November after a three-week trial. Millette set an execution date of Oct. 14, which likely will be delayed by appeals. Since 1977, when the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty, Virginia has executed 89 prisoners, second only to Texas. “I have nothing to do with this case,”

Muhammad told Millette in a barely audible voice. He added: “You do what you have to do and let me do what I have to do to protect myself.” He nodded to his attorneys in an apparent gesture of thanks. Muhammad was led by two deputy sheriffs into the courtroom, where family members of some of the victims waited silently. Dressed in an orange prison jump suit, his hair bushy and his beard scraggly, Muhammad appeared to be a different person from the clean-shaven man with military bearing and closecropped hair who had sat stoically through his trial in Virginia Beach — showing no emotion or remorse and seldom even acknowledging his attorneys. “There are no winners today,” said Bob Meyers, whose brother, Dean Meyers, a Vietnam veteran, was fatally shot while pumping gas at a Manassas station in October 2002. “This was not a

victory. But it was something that had to happen, and it was done right.” The sniper attacks by Muhammad and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, terrorized Washington, D.C., and suburban Virginia and Maryland — causing school sporting events to be canceled and playgrounds closed. They were arrested Oct. 24, 2002, while sleeping in their car at a Maryland rest stop. In the battered 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, authorities found a semiautomatic Bushmaster rifle with scope, maps of neighborhoods the killers had staked out and a global positioning system. Malvo, a native of Jamaica, was tried separately in Chesapeake, Va., where a jury recommended Dec. 23 he be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Formal sentencing will be held Wednesday. The judge cannot overrule see SNIPER, page 9

Failing to attract industry, reunited Berlin fosters artistic revival

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Rebecca Walther works on a canvas in her studio in Berlin’s Tacheles At House, formerly a shopping arcade and, earlier, an office of the Nazi secret police.The unification of Berlin in the late 1980s promised prosperity that never arrived, leading some developers to believe the city’s future lies in investment in its vibrant counterculture and intellectual life.

BERLIN (Washington Post) — On the third floor of a building in central Berlin recently, an artist put paint to canvas while two young women down the hall talked with a talent agency about getting listed online. One floor below, a theater rolled the first showings of the evening; at street level, Cafe Zapata was thick with patrons and the scent of beer and cigarettes. In the euphoria that followed the breaching of the Berlin Wall, no industrial enterprise with thousands of jobs answered the call to move to Berlin. Nor did any big bank or securities firm. But the city gave birth on its own to places such as the Tacheles Art House, six stories of creative energy in the half-rehabbed hulk of a 1909 shopping arcade. As Berlin searches for the prosperity that unity promised but never delivered, many politicians, academics and business people here wonder if it hasn’t been looking in the wrong place. In this view, Berlin’s future lies in a melding of the city’s vibrant counterculture and intellectual life with developer money, official permits and a continuing surplus of floor space to create jobs and optimism. In vacant buildings across the old East Berlin, outposts like Tacheles have sprung

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Berlin continued from page 7 up, many of them former squatter colonies gone legit. Their stock in trade is art, music, publishing and software. “You can see them as seedbeds,” said Hartmut Haeussermann, a Humboldt University professor who studies Berlin’s post-wall evolution. The city’s best hope are “these developments everywhere in these derelict places.”

Cadavers continued from page 3 hand to disassemble cadavers and collect various body parts to give to clients. The Times also reported Nelson was charged $704,600 for 496 cadavers over a period of six years, according to invoices provided by a law firm representing Nelson. Each cadaver cost roughly $1,400. At a Monday press conference, Marlin said he could neither confirm nor refute Nelson’s story until the investigation had been completed. University officials became skeptical earlier this year when an attorney for Nelson sent a letter demanding that he be paid $241,000 for parts he was forced to return to UCLA. According to a New York Times article published Tuesday, Nelson’s attorney faxed copies of five checks totaling $36,000 that were payable to Reid as part of an effort to back Nelson’s claims. Under federal law, body parts are not supposed to be sold for profit, and bodies are not to be sold for commercial purposes outside the university.

As the wall recedes into history, Berlin has 18 percent unemployment, 1 1/2 times the national rate. Its government struggles under $64 billion in debt. The economy is so lifeless that airports of this largest city (population 3.4 million) in this most populous country of Europe offer not a single nonstop flight to the United States. A speculative construction boom in the 1990s, based on expectations that Berlin would become the new center of Europe, turned some areas into

J. Thomas Rosenthal, chief medical officer of the UCLA Medical Center and associate vice chancellor of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, said for over a year, policies that “would not let body parts effectively leave UCLA” have been in place. An average of 175 people donate their bodies to UCLA’s Willed Body Program each year, and there is currently a waiting list of 11,000 people who have agreed to donate their bodies. “It has always been our intent to treat these people’s remains with dignity and respect,” said Gerald Levey, dean of the UCLA School of Medicine and vice chancellor of UCLA Medical Sciences. “These alleged crimes violate the trust of the donors, their families and UCLA,” Levey said. “We are deeply saddened.” Chancellor Albert Carnesale echoed the sentiments in a statement. “I am, of course, deeply concerned about the emotional pain that this situation has caused the families of those individuals who have donated their bodies. Please know that we are shocked and angered by the despicable behav-

towering galleries of architectural chic. But it did little to address fundamental economic problems left behind by the Cold War division: Berlin hasn’t learned how to live without the huge West and East German subsidies that no longer flow. And big employers have little reason to pay the huge cost of moving here, beyond answering sentimental calls to re-create the Berlin of a century ago — proud national focus not only of government but also business, finance and industry.

ior of those involved,” he said. University police said they had not obtained a warrant for a UCLA employee placed on leave nearly two weeks ago but that they were hoping to question the individual in relation to the case. Monday’s press conference revealed that UCLA’s more than 50-year-old program has been put in a fledgling position — it must completely reform the Willed Body Program even as the criminal investigation proceeds. “We have lots and lots of information that we are going to have to sift through,” said UCPD’s acting Chief Karl Ross, adding that it is going to take roughly one to two weeks to go through the data. Ross said after the information is sorted, police will make a decision as to what actions need to be taken. Reforming the Willed Body Program also will prove difficult because its image has been under fire for close to a decade amid allegations of unethical and illegal practices. In 1996, a lawsuit was filed against UCLA by an attorney representing the families of nearly 18,000 participants who alleged the university handled the bodies “without dignity.”

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add new buildings, she said. Construction crews will break ground on a new performing arts center in April. Brown administrators said the needs and histories of different schools are important factors to consider when comparing facilities. Greene pointed out that many schools need venues to hold lecture classes with enrollments upwards of 1,000 students. Dick Spies, executive vice president for planning, said large auditoriums at several schools are products of fortuitous circumstances or unique demands. “We’re just in the unfortunate position of never having had the circumstances to produce that kind of a facility, and we’re having to deal with it now,” he said. Spies said administrators aren’t ruling out any options at this point. Although Lecture Board mem-

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Rosario continued from page 5 many generations and locations. Though she started out with an autobiographical sketch, in which she described a struggle to define her cultural identity, Rosario said her novel does not contain stories drawn from her experience. “You explore all the sides of yourself and where you’ve been,” she said. Political undertones also ran strong throughout the evening, with Rosario calling the history described in her novel “brutal stuff.” But she said she would not shy away from discussing difficult topics, including the recent political coup and civil unrest in Haiti. Still, she said, “Writing that section (of the novel) was very difficult because it reflects an

Goldman continued from page 12 the Year. With quickness as his main attribute, Nelson is great at getting in the lane, drawing defenders and hitting an open shooter. He is currently second in the A-10 in assists, with 5.4 per game, and third in the A-10 in scoring, with a 20-point average, while shooting 49 percent from the floor. On senior night, when Nelson’s jersey was retired, St. Joseph’s Coach Phil Martelli wept. Nelson might get most of the attention, but he is by no means the only standout on the St. Joseph’s team. Nelson’s backcourt running mate, junior Delonte West, has emerged as one of the nation’s best two-guards. West, a left-handed player, has a beautiful jump shot from inside and outside the three-point line. He also moves extraordinarily well. Two other players worth mentioning are, unsurprisingly, also perimeter players. Pat Carroll is a left-handed version of his brother Matt, who played at Notre Dame last year, while senior Tyrone Barley is the best defender in the conference. Barley is also the source of much of Nelson’s suc-

the circumstances to produce that kind of a facility, and we’re having to deal with it now,” Spies said. bers have informally expressed concerns to administrators, Murtagh said it’s difficult for students to press for such a long-term project. “It’s definitely a need, but it’s not our immediate focus,” she said. “Even if it happened, we wouldn’t be here to see it.” Herald staff writer Zach Barter ’06 edits the Campus Watch section. He can be reached at zbarter@browndailyherald.com.

ugly side of our culture which (makes us) reshape our notion and our perceptions of ourselves.” Rosario also encouraged the writers in the audience to use her as a resource and ask any questions they might have, exclaiming, “Writers, get me while you got me!” She encouraged the writers to develop their own style and to take criticism as learning experiences. When asked by an audience member what she hopes readers will take away from her work, Rosario said, “I’ve had people come and talk to me, and it’s like they read two different books, so as a writer you cannot think about your reader. I think that when you feel like you’re being manipulated by a writer, it’s a delicate thing.” Rosario is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia and at work on her second novel.

cess, according to Martelli. If it had not been for Barley’s tough defense on Nelson in practice, Nelson would not be the player he is today, Martelli has said. Carroll, meanwhile, is a perfect complement to Nelson and West. He has incredible range on his jump shot, shooting 46 percent from behind the arc while averaging 10 points a game. History is also on St. Joe’s side for going deep into the tournament. The last two teams to finish the season undefeated in the regular season were Indiana State in 1979, with Larry Bird, and the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in 1991, with Larry Johnson. Both teams made it to the Final Four. With such incredible parity in college basketball this year, St. Joe’s has been an absolute joy to watch. The Hawks don’t have seven and eight McDonald’s All-Americans on their team like Duke and North Carolina do, but they play hard, trust each other and know how to win. I might be biased as a Philadelphian, but I hope you’ll join me in rooting for the Hawks this March. Philly native Justin Goldman ’07 brings the blue-collar style of his home city to class each day, so don’t

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Wrestling continued from page 12 it to reach the consolation semifinals. Unfortunately, Jenkins reinjured his ankle during the match, forcing him to default the remainder of the tournament. “(Jenkins) showed a lot of grit, wrestling on only three days’ practice,” Amato said. “Had he been playing (a different sport), it’s likely that he would have been unable to participate.” The final senior and placer for the Bears was co-captain Adam Santee ’04 at the 174-pound weight class. Entering the tournament unseeded, Santee was defeated by eventual champion Brad Dillon of Lehigh University, but Santee bounced back to reach the consolation semifinals and earned sixth place in his final match as a collegiate wrestler. “It was great for Adam (to place) — it was great that all four seniors placed, and it’s a tribute to them,” Amato said.

Tennis continued from page 12 ultimately won the tiebreak, handing the Bears a 9-8 loss, but the Bears still held a 1-0 lead in team score heading into the singles. In singles, Brown continued to play excellent tennis, winning the first set in each of the first four singles matches and never looking back. Cerretani, ranked 81st in the nation coming into Sunday’s match, faced 22ndranked Coetzee at number-one singles. Feeding off his and Shamasdin’s close match loss in doubles, Cerretani came out blazing, winning the first set 7-5 before running away with the second set 6-2 for the win. Harris said the win was crucial to helping Cerretani regain his focus and confidence in his game after a straight-set loss to unranked Ravi Pathanjali of Western Michigan March 2. “For Jamie to beat (Coetzee) in straight sets at home is absolutely huge,” Harris said. Goldberg, who hails from

The tournament also left the Bears with something to look forward to next year, with all four sophomores a close match away from placing. “We were in pretty good position Saturday night. Greg Pace (’06), Dan Apello (’06), Mike Ashton (’06) and Lee Beane (’06) all lost Sunday morning (in close matches), and if they had won they would have placed,” Amato said. With a strong core returning next year, the Bears hope they can break into the top four of the EIWA. Meanwhile, Dies and Ciarcia get one more weekend of collegiate wrestling with the opportunity to represent the Bears in the NCAA tournament and chase their dreams of becoming All-Americans. The tournament will be held next week in St. Louis, Mo. Herald staff writer Bernie Gordon ’07 is an assistant sports editor and covers wrestling. He can be reached at bgordon@browndailyherald.com.

Albuquerque, N.M., kept the winning going for Brown, defeating Kowalski 6-4, 6-7, 6-1 to give Brown a 3-0 lead. Shamasdin took out his frustration over the doubles loss on his singles opponent, defeating Akhavan 6-4, 6-2 to seal the win for Brown. Freshman Eric Thomas ’07 continued his excellent play for the Bears, defeating Hodzik in straight sets 6-1, 7-5. Thomas has now won three matches in a row and is 8-3 this spring. Pasanen finished the match for the Bears, coming through with a victory despite dropping his first set. Pasanen defeated Gers 4-6, 6-4, 1-0(5). New Mexico captured its only singles victory at number four, where Stotland defeated Brier 61, 3-6, 6-3. The Bears travel south this weekend for the annual Blue/Gray Tennis Classic in Montgomery, Ala. Herald staff writer Craig McGowan ’07 covers men’s tennis. He can be reached at cmcgowan@browndailyherald.com.

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Swaffield and O’Hear both earned All-American status in the slalom event. The biggest surprise of the week also came on Friday. After recovering from an ACL injury that sidelined her for most of the season, captain Molly Sheinberg ’04 skied extremely well for the Bears, placing 28th overall. Sheinberg finished with a time of 1:55.51. Despite an overall disappointing performance by the women, Sheinberg said she remains optimistic for the future of the team. “We showed up ready to be on the podium, but in ski racing, anything can happen, and for the first time all season, it all happened to our team,” she said. “Luckily, the team is so young. The girls will definitely be able to make adjustments to land on the podium next season.”

came on Friday. After recovering from an ACL injury that sidelined her for most of the season, captain Molly Sheinberg ’04 skied extremely well for the Bears, placing 28th overall. The women return all their top skiers next season, including four All-Americans. “Overall, it was a strong season,” Swaffield said. “We were consistent most of the time because we had, and have, so

Swimming continued from page 12 started off the Bears’ second day of competition. Two events later, Brumberg continued to tally up points by taking fifth place in the 400-yard medley. Flooding the finals heat in the next event, the 100-yard butterfly, Brown swimmers Allen, Zimmerman and Matt DelMastro ’05 finished in third, seventh and eighth places, respectively. Subsequently, 32 points were awarded to Brown when Moors out-touched the second-place finisher in the 200-yard freestyle by three hundredths of a second. Next, DelMastro took the stage again in the 100-yard breaststroke. His time, although twoand-a-half tenths slower than his school-record-breaking performance earlier that day, was good enough to put him at fourth place. The 800-yard freestyle relay team, comprised of Allen, Brumberg, Wang and Moors,

Sniper continued from page 7 the jury and issue the more severe penalty of death. Muhammad’s attorneys made final pleas to spare his life in papers filed Friday and in addressing Millette Tuesday. They said the convicted sniper had been a loving father to three children, had served hon-

placed fourth, signaling the end of competition for the day. Brown was in sixth place after two days, with Princeton leading the pack. Moors kicked off the final day of competition for Brown with a fourth-place finish in the 200yard backstroke. Allen again showed his prowess by breaking his own school record in the preliminaries of the 200-yard butterfly, the final individual event of the meet. Despite swimming a few tenths slower in finals, he finished fifth and managed to take his third top-six finish of the meet. The final points added to Brown’s total came from the 400yard freestyle relay of Moors, Zimmerman, Wang and Allen, but Navy’s first-place points in that event propelled it past the Bears and into sixth place overall. Princeton hung on to win the meet. Head Coach Peter Brown said he was satisfied with his team’s performance. “I thought we made the most of what we had. We were obviously thin in some events,

orably for 10 years in the Army and had been changed by the breakup of his marriage and the resulting loss of his children. “He is not a born killer,” defense attorney Jonathan Shapiro said. “He was subjected to many adversities.” While granting that a jury had found him guilty “of these atrocious crimes,” Shapiro said Muhammad “is not the devil”

Head Coach Peter Brown said he was satisfied with his team’s performance. “I thought we made the most of what we had. We were obviously thin in some events.” and that really hurt us. Recruiting will definitely cure some of those problems as long as the leadership is in place,” he said. The Bears look forward to time off before returning to the pool for off-season training. Herald staff writer Aron Gyuris ’04 covers swimming. He can be reached at agyuris@browndailyherald.com.

and was capable of changing. No clear motive for the sniper attacks was established during Muhammad and Malvo’s trials. But testimony revealed that the pair had asked authorities for $10 million to end the killings, and prosecutors had said the snipers wanted to use the money to set up an all-black colony in Canada founded on racial justice.

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

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Grade point Students’ words carry quite a bit of weight in the Brown community, and as students we are fortunate to have the ear of the administration and faculty. But in the outside world our words don’t mean as much. No matter how loudly we speak in the years following our graduation, we have little to recommend us to admission offices or employers but our newly inked diplomas and transcripts. Yet it is in our explanations of our transcripts — with no official grade point average calculated — that we need to be heard. We are grateful to the College Curriculum Council for producing a statement that explains to employers and graduate schools why University graduates are awarded neither GPAs nor class ranks. Many employers simply do not understand the unique nature of a Brown education and the grading system it requires, and we thank the University for recognizing this problem. However, the statement does no good if it does not carry as much weight as the transcript it accompanies. Instead of asking students to print out or pick up copies of the statement, the University should allow us to request an official copy to be included with transcripts ordered from the Registrar. It’s not that we want to avoid the trip to print out a copy at the library or pick one up at the Career Development Center. Rather, we recognize that in most situations outside College Hill the University’s words carry more weight than its students’. If an explanation of our official transcripts is necessary, then that explanation should look as official as the transcripts themselves. A letter that comes directly from the administration and is included with our certified transcript has the de facto support of the administration and faculty — an endorsement of incalculable value. Coming from the administration, the statement sounds like an explanation. Coming from a single student, it sounds like an excuse. We will leave Brown as beneficiaries of the principles of the New Curriculum. But it lies with the University to provide an institutional definition of the ways the Brown curriculum has shaped us. Allowing us to request that this explanatory letter be included with our transcripts will help the University do so.

NICK SCHADE

LETTERS Saving Brown’s summer storage To the Editor: Emir Senturk is absolutely right when he says that the University’s decision to eliminate on-campus storage for this summer is a disaster (“The fleecing of Brunonia,” March 8). The last weeks of this semester will be a nightmare of logistics and finances as students deal with outside companies charging whatever they want to store their boxes. The fall will be even worse, as those same companies — which have terrible track records on timely returns of boxes — wreak havoc on their customers on a campus-wide scale.

However, Senturk did not go far enough in placing the blame for this impending debacle. The University has cited relatively minor financial benefits (staff for opening the storage spaces and insurance coverage) for its decision to end on-campus storage. The Office of Student Life, the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board ought to immediately pool their resources to cover this cost for the coming summer. And in the future, the storage costs should be built back into the University’s budget. The absence of storage space would greatly diminish students’ quality of life; for a small amount of effort and finances, the Office of Student Life, UCS and UFB could actually fulfill their responsibilities to look out for the student body. Ethan Ris ’05 March 9

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Executive positions cannot be outsourced To the Editor: Yesterday’s letter by Michal Zapendowski (“Column on off-shoring misses humanitarian angle,” March 9) violates common sense when it suggests that corporations should be required to outsource not only low-level jobs such as programming, but also corporate executive jobs. The difference that Zapendowski misses is that low-level technical jobs such as parts production and programming do not require much interaction between the company and the worker. Physical or digital components are concrete things that can be made anywhere, but you have to be at the office to manage a corporation. It is also silly to imply that the government should force companies to outsource executive jobs. There is no reason that the government

should ever force a corporation to hire someone to run an office that he will never enter simply because it buys off-shore auto parts. There is also no reason to assume that there is anything nefarious about outsourcing only unimportant jobs. American companies are naturally going to do most of their important work in America. The bottom line is that most menial jobs that require little or no skill — being a third-rate programmer, all appearances to the contrary, does not require any real skill other than the ability to read and write English — are simply cheaper to perform abroad. Foreigners are more able to accept less pay because of a lower standard of living and are generally happier to do so. The solution for America is not to raise tariffs and impose legislation preventing outsourcing, but to take advantage of our society’s benefits and give Americans the skills they need to perform higher-level jobs. Bernard Gordon ’07 March 9

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OPINIONS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2004 · PAGE 11

ARJUN IYENGAR

Supporting an anti-democratic Haitian coup In Haiti, elected president and talented priest Jean Bertrand Aristide sold himself as a savior to his brutalized people. He has now been forced out by a rebellion in one of the world’s most destitute and corrupt countries. In the past several days, Haiti has experienced, along with looting and general chaos, actual rejoicing over news that Aristide has resigned and fled the country. But weeping would be more appropriate — perhaps not for Aristide, who was a disappointment as the nation's first freely elected president, but certainly for Haiti and its brief experiment with democracy. Although Aristide's supporters described him as an embattled defender of democracy, his opponents (whose political project, beyond the nowfulfilled desire to oust Aristide, is still not discernible) saw him as nothing but the latest in Haiti's long line of autocrats — arguably the worst of those autocrats, some said, for betraying the people's trust after his election. Alone, he negotiated with senior U.S. officials until his departure, insisting that he should serve his elected term, ending in 2006. Just hours before Aristide stepped down, he had gone on local television to say that his resignation was “out of the question.” Finally the pressure from the international community was too much, and he was escorted to the airport in Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, by U.S. Marines at dawn. According to some, he resisted while going up the stairs alongside the aircraft. There have even been allegations made by Aristride’s friends in the U.S. that he was blatantly kidnapped and flown out of the country — a claim heatedly denied by Secretary of State Colin Powell at a recent press conference. Nonetheless, Western countries like France and the United States have been

overwhelmingly happy with Aristride’s “self-imposed exile.” In a statement, President George W. Bush stressed that Aristide's departure would help Haiti break from its past and begin a new chapter. And even United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said the vote to send troops to Haiti showed that the international community was standing by Haitians in their hour of need. Despite Aristide’s blatant misuse of power, the way he was removed from office sets a dangerous precedent for democratic governments everywhere. P.J. Patterson, chairman of the Caribbean regional group Caricom (which had been trying to find a powersharing solution for Aristide and his opposition), has

been the most outspoken critic of the treatment of Aristide. In an interview in Jamaica, he stated, “If you're elected as president of a country, don't depend on the United States to respect the rule of law.” U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) was more blunt. “We are just as much a part of this coup d'etat as the rebels, as the looters, or anyone else,” said Rangel, who explained that the Bush administration “made it abundantly clear that Aristide would do best by leaving the country. Which means that the rebels, the looters ... (were) given to believe that they should never, never, never accept Aristide as the president.” Reflecting on his years of experience in the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, presidential candidate John Kerry (D-Mass.) also criticized the Bush administration, stating that he would have “been prepared to send troops immediately, period.” Though he admitted Aristide was “no picnic,” Kerry would have stopped the rebels from taking over Haiti’s capital. Bush aides dismissed the announcement as Kerry playing politics. If the troops were deployed as Kerry suggested, however, the U.S. might have risked overstretching its already strained resources, stretched as they are to Afghanistan and Iraq. Nonetheless, what lesson has Washington delivered by systematically undermining Aristide all these months, and when the going got tough, strengthening the hand of roving bands of thugs bent on Aristide's unconditional ouster two years before his term was set to expire? That's not how democracy works. While the White House is keen to foster democracy in the Middle East, it seems complacent about projects closer to home.

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Arjun Iyengar ’05 is a biology and international relations concentrator.

Haiti is better off with Aristide gone GUEST COLUMN BY DOROTHY MARCELLO

Friday night’s opening of the Tikkun Community’s National Student Conference in Salomon 101 allowed Tikkun co-chairman Cornel West and guest speaker Medea Benjamin to express their personal views on the political turmoil in the Middle East. Benjamin and West repeatedly stressed the importance of citizens worldwide becoming politically active, lest control of their countries fall entirely in the hands of a wealthy self-promoting elite minority. During their speeches, both West and Benjamin retold the plight of “democratically elected” Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to demonstrate the pertinence of the return of democratic power to the people. Benjamin and West evidently believed Aristide was democratically elected and that the United Statesbacked ouster of Aristide conflicted with the democratic rights of Haitian citizens. They were mistaken. Aristide was not democratically elected for his current presidential term. It is a grave blunder to compare the removal of dictator-like President Aristide to the ignored democratic rights of the Iraqi people. Since the French conceded defeat in 1804, Haitians have, to reference the title of Gandhi’s autobiography, “experimented with truth.” These experiments have yielded the same sad results, time and time again: An elected representative of the people does not always ensure the protection of the majority’s basic rights. The exploitation of corrupt leaders such as Aristide has created a situation not much different from the one prior to the revolution in 1804. An elite group that comprises less than 1 percent of the general population is still in control of over fifty percent of the resources. The majority of Haitians are still impoverished and die from starvation and treatable diseases. The average life expectancy of a Haitian citizen is just

50 years. How could a country that started with such promise become reduced to the status of the poorest country in the Western hemisphere? When Aristide was democratically elected as president in 1991, he was a champion for the Haitian people. He had dared to oppose the brutal and undemocratic Duvalier regime. He also created youth centers and programs to feed and educate the poor. But today, Aristide is one of the many vicious leaders that taint the region’s history. Since Aristide’s return to Haiti in 1994 (with the help of the Clinton administration), he has evolved into the corrupt and vicious leader he is today. He has killed any potential political opposition and rivalry. He even formed his

Tikkun speakers champion a democratically elected thug. own personal gang, the chimères, to terrify Haitian citizens into meek compliance. During the 2000 Haitian presidential election, Aristide used the chimères to intimidate and silence opponents, threaten dissenting voters and stuff the ballot box. He is now a man who callously murders his own countrymen, steals international aid from the same starving people of Haiti he once championed and has furthered the downfall of the Haitian economy. Presently, one U.S. dollar is equivalent to 43 Haitian gourde. Benjamin repeated Aristide’s claim that he was kid-

napped and forced to leave his country when he wanted to “die in the name of democracy.” In reality, the U.S. saved Aristide’s life. The country’s leader was whisked away in an American jet just as the rebels broke through the blockade of Haiti’s capital, Portau-Prince. The rebels would have forced Aristide’s resignation or killed him. Cornel West also denounced the rebels leading the new Haitian revolution, saying that he would not trust anyone utilizing violent methods to claim the government in the name of democracy. West basically compared the rebels to gangsters when, in fact, these rebels are the start of the return of political power to the Haitian people. Despite how criminal these rebels may appear to outsiders ignorant of Haiti’s situation, we in the United States should be the last to pass judgment. Guy Phillipe and the rebels are no guiltier of using violence to liberate their country than their American counterparts of 1776 or their successful Haitian ancestors of 1804. Yes, people’s democratic rights must be protected and upheld. Yes, Americans need to rouse themselves from their dangerously apathetic states. Both these things are true. Yet I can’t help but worry. Despite their strong support of political awareness, Benjamin and West were surprisingly oblivious to Haiti’s troubled state. Though not necessarily deliberately, they misconstrued the facts to bolster their arguments. I cannot sit idly by and allow them to spoon-feed incorrect information, unwittingly persuading students ignorant of Haiti’s situation to support a vicious and murdering politician. Dorothy Marcello ’07 hasn’t sat idly by since before she could walk.

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SPORTS WEDNESDAY MARCH 10, 2004 · PAGE 12

It’s time for St. Joe’s to get some respect

Disappointing finish to strong season for skiers

It’s getting to be my favorite time of the year — March — and the college basketball regular season is over. We get to see the smaller conferences get some recognition as their tournaments JUSTIN GOLDMAN GOLD STANDARD are shown on ESPN, while the big-time conference tournaments position teams for the NCAA Championship. But one of the best stories this season has been a small school with a small player that has simply beaten everyone. With Stanford University’s loss this weekend, tiny Saint Joseph’s University stands alone as the only undefeated team in all of college basketball. On Monday, the West Philadelphia school, with a student body of 3,800, received its first number-one ranking in school history — one that is well deserved. It is almost impossible to beat every opponent you face in this day and age, but that is exactly what the Hawks have done. Some might speculate that the Atlantic 10 is not the best conference, but St. Joseph’s is second in the RPI rankings, with four wins against the top 50 teams in the RPI and 11 other wins against the top 100. The Hawks have beaten third-ranked Gonzaga University on a neutral court, as well as Boston College, Villanova University and the University of California-Berkeley on the road. The Atlantic 10 might not be the ACC, but it is deserves more respect than it is given. The A-10 has three teams in the top 50, while the Pac-10 only has two and the Big Ten three. And now the Hawks are more than a nice story. They play tough defense, holding their opponents to 38-percent shooting (27-percent shooting from behind the three-point line), while allowing a paltry 60 points a game. They press and trap the whole game, most of the time with four perimeter players, and shoot 42 percent from behind the arc. It is impossible not to love them — they really do it all. St. Joseph’s is led by senior Jameer Nelson, undoubtedly the best point guard in the nation and the new favorite for Player of

BY DAN MURRAY

see GOLDMAN, page 8

The men’s swimming season ended this weekend with the Brown team taking seventh place at the Eastern Interscholastic Swimming League Championships at Princeton University. In total, the team posted 14 top-eight swims and 29 finals splashes for an aggregate 640 points, only 19.5 points behind the sixth-place finisher, Navy. Over the course of the meet, swimmers compete each morning for the chance to be among the 24 athletes to return that night. The eight slots in the championship final are especially coveted, but also important are the remaining 16 openings in the consolation and bonus Brown Sports Scoreboard Tuesday, March 9 Women’s Lacrosse: Brown 12, UNH 10 (OT)

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David Dies ’04 took second in his weight class at the EIWA Championships this weekend. He and Nick Ciarcia ’04 will now head to the NCAA Tournament.

Wrestling sends two to NCAAs after EIWA meet BY BERNIE GORDON

The wrestling team had a strong showing this weekend at the EIWA tournament at the University of Pennsylvania, with all four seniors placing in the top six and an eighth-place team finish overall. Based on the results, the team will send co-captains David Dies ’04, who finished second, and Nick Ciarcia ’04, who finished fifth, to the upcoming NCAA tournament. “We wanted to place (as many wrestlers as possible), and two out of 10 is not great, but all 10 guys wrestled as hard as they could, and that’s all you can ask of them,” said Head Coach David Amato. Dies led the Bears, winning his first four matches. His path to the finals included a 4-3 overtime win over Greg Austin of Rutgers and a 1-0 victory over second-seeded Dustin Manotti of Cornell University, who defeated Dies earlier in the season in Ithaca. Facing top-ranked Jesse Jantzen of Harvard University, Dies hung tough but lost the match 5-2. “David Dies had a great tournament. He showed a lot of grit and determination, and he is on course to achieve his ultimate goal, which is, if not to win

Army nips m. swimming for sixth at EISL Championships BY ARON GYURIS

Nationals, to become an All-American,” Amato said. Ciarcia had a rough day in the extremely competitive 184-pound weight class. He entered the tournament as the No. 2 seed but was upset in the second round by Rudy Medini of Rutgers, sending Ciarcia to the consolation bracket. Still, he refused to be discouraged and won three of his next four matches to take fifth. Ciarcia will also represent the Bears at the NCAA tournament, having earned a wild-card bid on the strength of his season performance. “(Ciarcia) had a bad tournament for his standards, (and he’s) probably disappointed, but he’s still going to nationals,” Amato said. The next placer for the Bears was Sean Jenkins ’04, who finished sixth in the 165-pound weight class. Jenkins was suffering from a severe high ankle sprain suffered in last week’s match against Harvard, but wrestled through

The women’s ski team ended its season with a disappointing finish, capturing sixth place last week in the USCSA National Championships in Sugarloaf, Maine. In Wednesday’s giant slalom event, the women faced high winds and an extremely icy track on the race course. Although only three women finished the first run, the team maintained a secondplace position going into the final run, but it could not pull out the win. Nina DiBona ’07 and Stephanie Breakstone ’06 finished their runs at 2:23.94 and 2:27.86, placing 10th and 19th, respectively. Hilary Swaffield ’06 finished 60th overall, after a tough section forced her off the course. Janet Marley-Mauzey ’07 finished her second run of the day in the top 15. But after falling on her first run, she finished 80th overall. Young star Kelly O’Hear ’07 did not complete her giant slalom run. O’Hear was the individual regional champion who led the Bears to a second-place finish in the league two weeks ago. “We knew what we were capable of going into nationals, but we just had bad luck,” she said. “Ski racing is completely unpredictable, and unfortunately the odds did not fall in our favor at nationals.” The Bears finished 10th in the giant slalom, with both DiBona and Breakstone earning All-American status. On Friday, visibility was low, with heavy fog clouding the bottom half of the slalom course. Despite these conditions, O’Hear recovered her dominant style, placing with the fifth-fastest time in her second run. She finished eighth overall in the slalom. Swaffield’s strong skiing earned her 16th place overall, while Marley-Mauzey finished in 23rd place with a time of 1:52.09.

finals. The Brown team’s first finals swim in the tournament came in the 200-yard individual medley. Max Allen ’04 claimed to have not swum the event in five years, but his sixth-place finish overshadowed his alleged inexperience. In the same event, Eric Brumberg ’06 put points on the scoreboard by rounding out the finals heat. Also finishing in the top eight that day was the 400-yard medley relay team with co-captain Jefferson Moors ’04 on backstroke, P.J. Santoro ’04 on breaststroke, Allen on butterfly and co-captain Tim Wang ’05 anchoring the freestyle leg. Their time in the event broke Brown’s previous record. The 200-yard medley relay team’s seventh-place finish, with backstroker Moors, breaststroker Santoro, butterflier Allen and freestyler Matt Zimmerman ’05, see SWIMMING, page 9

M. tennis easily beats ranked New Mexico BY CRAIG MCGOWAN

The 58th-ranked University of New Mexico men’s tennis team came to Providence last Sunday with one thought on its mind — revenge. After suffering a 4-3 home loss to Brown last year, the Lobos were determined to return the favor. But the 52nd-ranked Bears had other ideas en route to a 6-1 victory, which extended their overall record to 10-2 (8-1 in the spring). The match paired two excellent doubles squads against each other. Against 16th-ranked Harvard University March 5, New Mexico captured the doubles point despite losing the match 6-1. “If we could step up and win the doubles, it would kind of break their back,” said Head Coach Jay Harris. Brown’s top doubles team, Jamie Cerretani ’04 and Adil Shamasdin ’05, who were ranked seventh in the nation, entered the match undefeated this spring after capturing the doubles

title at last fall’s ITA Northeast Regional tournament. On Sunday, Brown doubles stayed true to form, playing excellent tennis throughout the match. Nick Goldberg ’05 teamed up with co-captain Ben Brier ’04 to defeat Jasmin Hodzik and Henry Gers 8-3. Zach Pasanen ’06 partnered with cocaptain Kris Goddard ’04 and defeated Divan Coetzee and Hiroud Akhavan, 86. In a match in which the lead changed three times, Pasanen and Goddard seized on two break points to capture the doubles point for Brown. While two wins secured the doubles point for Brown, the closest of the matches was still underway. Cerretani and Shamasdin, matched up against Ryan Stotland and David Kowalski, were behind 3-2 after New Mexico captured two early breaks. From there, both teams held their serve, sending the match to an 8-8 tie. New Mexico see TENNIS, page 9