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Chiu discusses significance of homeland, memories behind her poetry BY KATE GORMAN

The concept of a homeland is not entirely tangible and depends on family, heart and loyalty, said TaiwaneseAmerican performance poet Chia-Ti Chiu during a Sunday afternoon lecture. Chiu interspersed her lecture, titled “Identifying Marks: Shaping ‘Homelands’ Through a Personal and Political Perspective,” with readings of her own poems. The lecture, in Salomon 101, drew about 60 people and was presented as part of Taiwanese Cultural Week. Chiu said an eight-month stay in China, when she studied Mandarin at the University of Beijing during her last year of college, helped her understand her identity. “I am Taiwanese because of my genetics, but also because I choose to personally and politically claim myself as Taiwanese,” Chiu said. “Homeland is not a physical place — it resides inside, it is innate.” “Most people in China are very passionate about not giving Taiwan independence. But their arguments are all the same — people just regurgitate the party line, ‘We are all of the same blood,’” she said. Chiu said she uses some Taiwanese words in her poetry because she likes the cadences they create and because it’s difficult to translate the emotional resonance some Taiwanese words have. Chiu began the lecture with the reading of a poem about growing up in the United States with Taiwanese roots. The poem describes her struggle to balance “these skewed sides” of herself. Chiu said she was not aware as a child of being different until it was pointed out to her by other children. “Kids would point and say, ‘What’s that in your lunchbox?’” she said. “I grew up in a conservative Connecticut suburb. We ate rice where other families ate bread. We spoke Taiwanese in the house and English outside.” As a teenager Chiu said she was “the Asian kid trying to pass as white by going to parties and football games,” but she later blamed whites for stripping her of her ethnic identity. “Blossoms,” the second poem Chiu read, addressed political issues as they related to her childhood. She spoke about having a “strange” name and wanting to change it because she desperately wanted to fit in. Chiu currently teaches yoga at a Bronx high school and art at a middle school, where her pupils don’t face the same racism she did when she was growing up, she said. “They stand up for their heritage in school and proudly yell, “‘I’m Puerto see IRAN, page 4

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University in 2001 he decided to follow through on the policy. “‘This is a neat program, but it’s not being implemented,’” Armstrong said he remembers thinking at the time. “We should enforce requirements, especially when they’re good like this one.” Despite frequent memos and reminders, faculty members are still not checking off the boxes, Armstrong said. “I’m not sure whether that is a reflection of Brown student writing or whether faculty just aren’t aware,” he said. Flaxman said few faculty members use the deficiency column. “These numbers are not indicative of writing in the University as a whole,” she said. Professor of English Kevin McLaughlin said he is “skeptical” about the requirement and has never checked the box, preferring instead to deal with students’ writing problems individually. “You don’t know when you tell someone that they have a writing problem what that will mean for them,” he said. “There are

Rhode Island Secretary of State Matt Brown outlined his program for encouraging voting and improving poll access in the state for a small group in C.V. Starr Auditorium Sunday night. The first-term secretary of state, elected in November 2002, came to state government from voting rights and volunteerism groups. Brown’s first goal, he said, was to institute a centralized voter database for the state using funding from the federal Help America Vote Act. Currently, all cities and towns maintain independent, usually paper-based voter rolls, allowing for extensive fraud and error. The Central Voter Registry should be in place by the end of the year, he said. Plans for the immediate future do not include electronic voting machines, Brown said. ATM-style terminal voting, or Direct Recording Electronic voting, has come under fire from advocacy groups that allege that the lack of paper trail and susceptibility to fraud or external hacking make electronic voting machines a threat to democratic elections. “I made a decision a year ago,” Brown said. “I’m going to let other states make their mistakes with that.” He said he hopes to have electronic voting in place by elections in 2006, since touch-button machines will increase access among blind and otherwise disabled voters. “There is a constitutional right to a private vote,” he said, and blind and disabled people must often rely on the aid of poll workers. Brown said elderly, unhelpful poll workers, political appointees and “local, corrupt, cynical elected offi-

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Performance poet Chia-Ti Chui spoke in Salomon 101 on Sunday as part of Taiwanese Cultural Week. Chui performed some of her original poetry during her lecture.

Writing requirement, previously ignored, is now enforced BY GABRIELLA DOOB

Brown is renowned as a university without rigid academic requirements, but if Dean of the College Paul Armstrong and Director of College Writing Programs Rhoda Flaxman have their way, at least one traditional requirement will be strictly enforced. The University’s writing requirement — specified in the Course Announcement Bulletin — demands that all students demonstrate competence in writing in order to graduate. But according to Flaxman, though the requirement has “been on the books forever,” it has only begun to receive proper attention during the last three semesters. Professors can check a box when submitting grades to indicate that a student’s writing needs improvement. The system gradually “fell through the cracks,” Armstrong said. Professors neglected to check the box when students had writing problems, and even when they did, the registrar never informed students that they had received checks, Flaxman said. Armstrong said when he came to the

Panel participants say creative women encounter uphill struggle in Iran BY KATE GORMAN

With nearly every action, Iranian women fight the status quo and political structure of their country, said Shahrnush Parsipur, an Iranian-born novelist and the University’s first International Writing Fellow. Parsipur spoke Friday during a panel discussion titled “The Ethics of Speaking: First Person Accounts from Women Writers and Artists from Islamic Societies,” part of a week of events sponsored by Brown’s International Writers Project. The five-member panel — made up of writers and filmmakers — drew about 50 people Friday afternoon to the Joukowsky Forum at the Thomas J. Watson Institute

for International Studies. One of the newest obstacles Iranian writers have come across is the United States’ “editing embargo.” “As a publisher it is a fragile time, because there is a lot of conflict in the world today,” said Livia Tenzer, editorial director for Feminist Press in New York. The Office of Foreign Assets Control, which is part of the U.S. Treasury, oversees textual interactions, Tenzer said. “It’s not illegal to publish works from embargoed countries, but it is illegal to provide the services of editing,” she said. But the embargo has not deterred women writers and artists from producing work, nor Tenzer from publishing it, she said.

Terrorism in Spain hits too close for comfort, writes Emily Nemens ’05 column, page 7

Brown’s tuition increases are justified, according to Nate Goralnik ’06 column, page 7

Filmmaker Rabeah Gharrafri, who was born in Iran and grew up in the United States, said she struggles to find a common ground between American and Iranian cultures in her work. “I find that using humor and pathos in storytelling is cross-cultural and defies any language barriers. In my films, I want the audience to feel for the culture they are coming in contact with,” Gharrafri said. But she said she still finds subtitles helpful. “I don’t make films about living in Iran — it will fail on some levels because there is no translation for me,” she said. “I grew up in the U.S. I succeed if I’m true to my own see IRAN, page 3

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THIS MORNING MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2004 · PAGE 2 Coup de Grace Grace Farris

TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS THE FUTURE OF THE UNITED NATIONS: FROM THE PROMISE OF SAN FRANCISCO TO THE REALITY OF BAGHDAD 4 p.m. (Salomon 101) — Sir Brian Urquhart, a retired U.N. under-secretary general, will comment on the state of the United Nations in light of Ralph Bunche’s considerable legacy to that institution.

DEBORAH WILLIS, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE BLACK BODY 6 p.m. (Smith-Buonanno, 106) — Part of "Beauty 2004: A Lecture Series," with support from the Offices of the President, Provost and Director of Institutional Diversity, the Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning, and the Department of Africana studies 114/122.

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Iran continued from page 1 life experiences.” Gharrafri said she is careful not to speak for all Iranians in her films, but with her own voice. One of her films is about a group of Iranian performers who immigrate to New York City, where Fharrafri grew up. Filmmaker Shirin Neshat said she runs into problems with “visual language” in her work. Neshat’s current project, called “Women Without Men,” is based on Parsipur’s novella of the same name. “I have to develop a system of being respectful to the Persian spoken language and culture, while bringing that into a universal iconographic language,” Neshat said. Neshat said she lives in a world of dualities and contradictions. “I’m between violence and beauty, the U.S. and Iran, Eastern culture and Western culture. I see everything in two parts, and my films tell the audience of a world they are attracted to and afraid of. It’s complex, and I leave behind a center,” she said. Different people deal with the pressures of government differently, Neshat said. “Art is my voice and art can empower women. It’s important to know that Islamic women are fighters, and art often reflects their fight,” she said. Parsipur, who is working with Neshat to produce the film version of her novella, said that she often confronts language barriers in her work. “I write in Persian, and there aren’t many English or French-speaking people who know Persian, so my work is always subjected to translation,” she said. Parsipur has written eight works of fiction and a memoir, all of which were banned by the Islamic government and was imprisoned several times for her writing. Her books are available only on the black market in Iran, Parsipur said. Parsipur said her memoir of her time in prison is different from most of her work. “I tried to be objective and neutral in my memoir. The Islamic government banned it anyway,” she said. Like Parsipur, filmmaker and writer Assia Djebar has been affected by the Islamic government. Djebar, who had planned to make a film based in part on the Koran, was censored by the Iranian Ministry of Culture. “Iran needs to reach a common ground that lets women produce artistic work free from political and religious strictures,” she said. Herald staff writer Kate Gorman ’07 can be reached at kgorman@browndailyherald.com.

Creeley reading highlights juncture of poetry, American politics BY KRISTA HACHEY

Poet and Professor of English Robert Creeley read from his work at an event titled “Poets Against the War” in Smith-Buonanno 106 Friday night. The event featured Creeley’s reading and also included student poets and jazz musicians. Introducing Creeley, Professor of English William Keach said the poet “has always been there since the Vietnam War era as a person and as a poet in the movement, fighting against barbarity and corruption.” Creeley’s reading established an intimacy with the audience, which was silent as he read and responded with warm laughter and applause, to his remarks. “The saying, ‘If God wanted us to vote he would have given us candidates’ is not quite as funny as it used to be,” he said. Creeley’s selected poetry explored notions of ownership — how the American habit of “taking care of our things” has come to mean “preventing other people from touching them.” Yet Americans, caught in the turmoil of war, lose that sense of ownership, which becomes “displacing and so bleak,” he said. As an aside, Creeley shed light on the creative process and the forces that dictate his literary decisions. The decision to use one word or language over another is often made based upon visceral feelings that certain choices evoke, he said. Introducing the poem “En Famille,” the poet said, “I don’t know French. I thought ‘En Famille’ was cozy and containing. I just liked the way that sounds.” Toward the end of his reading, Creeley questioned — through a poem titled “Have We Told You All You Thought to Know?” — if witnessing or experiencing suffering is a necessity in life. Addressing the problems of whether war is inevitable and if its absence from human experience is a possibility, the poem asks, “Must humanness be its own reward?” In his introduction, Keach spoke passionately about the need to “reignite the anti-war movement, which had a powerful beginning and then faltered.” The presidential race between Sen. John Kerry (DMass.) and President George W. Bush has created a poor climate for the political process to effect change, Keach said. “I know many of you will vote for Kerry, who was recently quoted as saying that he’s tough and will use the unilateral deployment of troops if necessary,” he said. “It’s

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The presidential race between Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) and President George W. Bush has created a poor climate for the political process to effect change, Keach said. depressing to think he is the alternative to Bush.” Throughout the event — the brainchild of Senior Lecturer in American Civilization Paul Buhle — student musicians, including soloists Justin Bachorik ’06 on piano and Joshua Bronson ’06 on saxophone, performed jazz pieces. The music seemed to echo the sense of collective uncertainty felt during times of risk and upheaval. The second segment showcased student poets and spoken-word artists, including Sage Morgan-Hubbard ’05. Her pieces conveyed her desire to understand how women’s bodies and minds are affected by war and to see a more prominent women’s voice in anti-war activism. “Because we are able to give birth and life, it is harder for us to declare, rage and fight in war,” Morgan-Hubbard told The Herald. Poetry and folk movements have always been a force of resistance during times of war, Morgan-Hubbard said. The most current groups of “poets against the war” came together when First Lady Laura Bush last year canceled a White House symposium that would have included antiwar poets. “It came across as though she was scared that these poets would be too vocal about their political views and speak out at the White House about things, in particular the war that the Bush administration is waging right now,” Morgan-Hubbard said. Morgan-Hubbard said she has long grappled with determining the role of the poetic tradition in the political arena. “It is a way of engaging folks, providing a beat to the movement — it unifies, it sustains, it keeps us going,” she said. Herald staff writer Krista Hachey ’07 can be reached at khachey@browndailyherald.com.

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Writing continued from page 1 many different kinds of writing problems.” Writing skills and comfort levels do vary among students, Armstrong said. “There are lots of different ways of being a great writer and lots of different ways of not being a great writer,” he said. “We care that students are writing well according to the different conventions” of their fields. Accordingly, the English requirement seeks to tailor writing instruction to individual students, Flaxman said. She sends a letter to students with one check reminding them to “pay attention to their writing” and recommending either a writing-based course or a visit to the Writing Center, she said. Flaxman said students with two checks are required to meet with her. She said she asks them to describe their “education in writing” and helps them design a “binding plan for how they’re going to improve.” After students complete their plans, Flaxman erases their checks. Students who fail to meet the conditions of this “contract” can accumulate more checks, preventing them from graduating, Armstrong said. Flaxman said withholding a diploma would be an extreme situation. For the most part, she said, students are eager to improve their writing abilities. About half the students who meet with her “know they’re having difficulty and are eager for help, she said. “Students tend to self-identify,” McLaughlin said. Although Brown does not require any particular

W. hockey continued from page 8 huge saves to keep them in the running.” The Bears out-shot the Tigers 36-17 in the victory. The following afternoon, the best-of-three series resumed. Princeton came out on the attack, in hopes of extending the series to Sunday for a tournament tiebreaker. Princeton got on the board first at 9:32 in the opening period, scoring after a series of blocked shots from inside the crease. The goal was controversial, as the net appeared to have moved off the posts. Still, the 1-0 Tiger advantage remained. The Bears picked up the pace after the goal but could not capitalize on their numerous scoring opportunities at the close of the first. Both teams skated scoreless in the second, while Brown out-shot

writing course, “a lot of students take expository writing classes” by choice, he said. But Flaxman said Brown’s lack of requirements means students don’t have to take the initiative to improve their writing. “It is possible to come to Brown and decide you’re not going to work on your writing” by not taking classes with writing assignments, she said. “There is not much we can do to reach these students.” For students who want to improve their writing but prefer not to take formal writing courses such as EL11: “Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay,” Flaxman said courses with Writing Fellows offer a flexible option. “The best way to reach students is by having them write across the curriculum in courses they are interested in taking,” she said. “Every professor in the University should be a teacher in writing.” While both Armstrong and Flaxman said their work is far from done, more faculty are aware of the writing requirement, and the number of students receiving help with their writing has increased. In the spring of 2003, only 33 students received one check, while eight students received two, Armstrong said. Last fall, 71 students received one check and five students received two, Flaxman said. And the Writing Center “is blossoming,” she added. Still, Flaxman said more resources should be devoted to improving students’ writing, and she hopes they will be included in the budget for President Ruth Simmons’ Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. “Everyone has writing that can be improved,” Flaxman said.

the Tigers 17-11. After a controversial Princeton penalty for interference in front of the Bruno net, the Bears headed into the third with a 5-3 advantage. But Brown could not convert on the power play, and Princeton managed to dump the puck into the Bears’ defensive end to end the advantage. At 5:42, the Tigers widened the deficit with a three-on-two rush. A pass across the crease found an open Tiger attacker, who slapped the puck home for the 2-0 lead. At 11:58, Margaret Ramsay ’06 finally put Brown on the board with a dynamite top-shelf slap from the point off a rebound from assistant captain Katie Guay ’05. Link then tallied Brown’s second goal within two minutes, knotting the game at 2-2. “Ramsay’s goal was what really got us going,” Link said. “After she scored that (goal), we started to roll and got into the flow of the game and just went with it.” After 10 minutes of intense

Taiwanese continued from page 1 Rican’ or ‘I’m Dominican,’” Chiu said. “At 18 I started to want to own my heritage. I went off to Sarah Lawrence (College) and had a burgeoning self-confidence. I wanted to be friends with other Asians — I wanted to shape myself,” she said. In college Chiu went through a “bitingly militant stage” where she renounced everything American, she said. “What I didn’t realize was that my parents had given up their homeland to create one here. When my mom came to one of my performances about institutionalized racism, she said to me, ‘Did I make the wrong decision moving here?’ I was speechless,” she said. During her first year in college, Chiu wrote poetry as an independent study project, she said. Her professor recommended that she turn her work into a show, and she began performing at school and then at New York City nightclubs such as the Nuyorican Poets Café, Gathering of the Tribes, Bluestockings, Bowery Poetry Club and 13 Bar/Lounge. “Poetry and writing was a catharsis. It let me be angry, forgive, forget, and move on,” she said. “Writing is taking me through the process of life.” Herald staff writer Kate Gorman ’07 can be reached at kgorman@browndailyherald.com.

hockey, it was Brown that got the job done at the 8:56 mark. McLaughlin connected with Link outside the Princeton crease, marking the forward’s 28th goal of the season. Heinhuis also earned an assist on this rapidfire play. “I am so proud of the way we played after coming up flat in the first two periods,” Germain said. “We proved we can be a comeback team, and that is a marking of a great team that knows how to play together under pressure.” Germain posted 42 total saves in a stellar weekend performance. Brown out-shot Princeton 80-45 on the series. The sweep sends the Bears to the ECAC semifinals on Saturday and Sunday, when they face Harvard University at Union College. Herald staff writer Lexi Costello ’06 covers women’s ice hockey. She can be reached at lcostello@browndailyherald.com.

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Tobolowsky continued from page 8 going for them except the mystical power of the Rally Monkey, they won the World Series. The next year, however, they must not have made the proper sacrifices, because the monkey forsook them and they finished the season eight games under .500. This year the Angels have added 28 wins with starting pitchers Kelvim Escobar and Bartolo Colon, Jose Guillen and Vladimir Guerrero, perhaps the game’s best all-purpose offensive/defensive threat. Are the Angels an elite team? I don’t know. The real question is, can they appease the mighty monkey? The Astros are not so much of a revelation. They’ve always been decent, but this year, they’re especially intriguing. Craig Biggio and

Brown continued from page 1 cials” often restrict voting access. First-time voters who leave polling stations because they are not receiving help are less likely to come back another time, he said. In some places, “the poll workers are so unhelpful and so rude that (voters) just give up and go home,” he said. Most workers are older people “who are pretty cranky, and who aren’t very competent,” he said. He encouraged “younger, more diverse” people to volunteer at polling stations. The Board of Elections makes “changes based on people with political power telling them what to do,” Brown said. Polling stations will not be instituted at homeless shelters like Traveler’s Aid without substantial public

Jeff Bagwell, back for another year, are the Stockton and Malone of baseball — talented and tenured but on a team with some holes. But there are few holes so large the addition of Andy Pettitte and Roger Clemens to your pitching staff cannot patch them. Add to that young Roy Oswalt, probably still the ace of this staff, and competent pitchers Tim Redding and Wade Miller, as well as the Biggio-Bagwell-Berkman axis, and you have the Cubs’ biggest competition in the NL central division. The Cubs, by the way, are superb this year. Prior, Wood, Maddux, Clement and Zambrano? Pull the infield in — way in. Inside-the-clubhouse-towatch-the-game-on-TV-’causethey-ain’t-gonna-be-needed in. These guys can all win 15 and put a fastball through your skull. Who’s going to win it all? That, I

don’t know. I don’t think the Yankees have any more chance than they have in past years. (Interpret that one at your own risk.) They’ve added A-Rod, but taken him from his position and jettisoned young talent for him. Also, the departed pitchers have left a hole too large for anyone to fill, even Javier Vazquez and Kevin Brown. So who will it be? The Boston Red Sox, revamped with pitcher Curt Schilling and closer Keith Foulke? The Chicago Cubs, with future Hall-of-Fame pitcher Greg Maddux and another year under the belts of young stars Wood, Prior and Zambrano? I’ll go, tentatively, and against history, with the latter, but don’t think I won’t lie about it later if things go sour.

support, he said. The issue of whether students, who live in Rhode Island only temporarily, vote here or in their home states is an “absurd side issue” raised by “people who do not want students to turn out,” Brown said. “I think you should vote wherever you want.” Students who want to be involved in Rhode Island should vote here, he said. The combined force of 75,000 students from seven colleges and universities in the state could be politically unstoppable, he said. Voter apathy is a major problem, he said, and one that simple reminders will not solve. “Far and away the number-one reason why people are disenfranchised is because they disenfranchise themselves,” he said. “People who do not vote are deeply committed to not voting. … They just believe it is a waste

of time. A little reminder is not going to get them to go.” Brown held up pilot highschool civics education programs in Pawtucket and Central Falls as good ways to get young voters involved and challenged attendees to devote serious effort to convincing friends and family to vote. “Talk about what government does that affects them,” he said. Brown’s speech was sponsored by the Brown College Democrats as part of Democracy Awareness Week. “The idea is simply to increase awareness of the various aspects of what voting in a democracy means,” said Ethan Ris ’05, president of the College Democrats.

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A liberal requirement Whether a student plans to become an author, a neurosurgeon or a musician, he or she will need to be able to communicate effectively. The administration’s decision to begin enforcing the writing requirement, then, reflects an institutional understanding that writing is different from other skills Brown students strive to develop and should be treated differently within the curriculum. Requiring graduating students to demonstrate competence in writing is not the same as requiring them to take specific courses and is consistent with the New Curriculum. The writing proficiency requirement can coexist peacefully with the New Curriculum because students can choose how they meet it from among a range of options, including taking an introductory writing course, visiting the Writing Center or enrolling in a course with Writing Fellows in a subject they choose. The only real requirement is that students actively craft plans that both meet their needs and fit their existing interests — something Brown’s open curriculum facilitates in all aspects of academic life. Entrusting students with the responsibility of devising their own plan for improving their writing can work only if all students are given equal chances to do so. If the system is enforced strictly but applied unevenly — if only a few professors use the checks, for example — then cited students are unfairly singled out. Students who step outside the disciplines in which they are most comfortable should not feel they risk punishment if their work does not meet standards unfamiliar to them. And students who arrive at Brown with a weak background in academic writing should not see their lack of experience as a reason to avoid writing-intensive courses. We encourage professors to think about their students’ work when submitting grade reports at the end of the semester and to cite students whose writing needs improvement. The University will not know whether the system works until all instructors begin to participate. And until the University knows that the system works, it cannot begin to improve the system or tailor it to students’ needs.

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LETTERS Meeting transgender “Passion” could incite needs part of the plan anti-Semitism To the Editor:

To the Editor:

I write to clarify the facts reported in your article on housing available to transgender students (“Transgender students to get gender-neutral dorm option,” March 11). As suggested in the article, there have been a number of productive discussions between students and administrators about how we might best meet the needs of transgender students in first-year housing. Brown is fortunate to have a wide array of housing available to first-year students, allowing us to fully integrate transgender students into a number of traditional first-year units, as the need arises. The Office of Residential Life has now submitted recommendations to me for how to inform incoming students that this option, as well as many others, is available to them. Although no action has been taken at this time, we will be considering these recommendations in the coming weeks in order to allow any changes to be implemented for the Class of 2008.

Stephen Beale’s column (“A Passion for Christ,” March 11), gravely misunderstands most critics of “The Passion.” Sure, some people claim that “The Passion of the Christ” is anti-Semitic. Who knows — maybe it is. But any serious commentator isn’t worried so much about the film being anti-Semitic as about it fueling hatred: Anti-Semitism doesn’t need much to be set off, and the biggest biblical movie in 50 years might be a spark. A borderline anti-Semite might well be pushed over said border by such a powerful film, especially as it offers little in the way of redemption. Where were the lines of explanation, such as, “Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer all these things and enter into his glory?” When proselytizing, the disciples are to give equal attention to “Jew and Gentile,” in which the word “Gentile” is the emphasized and surprising command — they still assumed that Jews were their only source of converts. Plenty of “literal” material exists with which Mel (Gibson) could have ensured his movie could not be used as an anti-Semitic vehicle. For some reason he did not use any of it. Perhaps “The Passion” is not an anti-Semitic movie. But it can be used by anti-Semites, and Gibson did nothing to avoid that possibility. Don’t avoid the real issue by focusing on some hyper-sensitive critics. There is something deeper here than what you chose to attack.

David Greene Interim Vice President of Campus Life and Student Services March 12

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2004 · PAGE 7

NATHAN GORALNIK

Friday morning in Madrid

Pesky tuition hikes

GUEST COLUMN BY EMILY NEMENS

People talk about rising tuition like it’s some kind of conspiracy. When I told friends that I was writing a column on the subject, the typical response was, “It’s about time! Tuition is ridiculous!” I disagree. True, fee hikes were more burdensome than usual this year, but these hikes are hardly “ridiculous.” Part of the astronomical rise in tuition since the early 1980s has occurred simply because we are getting more from our educations. As science grows more exact and knowledge becomes more critical to success, the information that professors transmit becomes more valuable than it has ever been before. In today’s knowledge-intensive economy, college graduates enjoy enormous economic benefits over their less-educated peers. This represents a real rise in the value of our degrees. Colleges also furnish a high-technology experience that wasn’t available 20 years ago, and that costs money. Since the informationtechnology revolution began, not only have universities faced the burden of acquiring billions of dollars of computing power and fiber optics, but they’ve also had to replace much of their equipment every few years just to keep up with technological progress. All this adds to the plethora of expensive gadgets students expect to be able to play with when we arrive at school. These factors aside, it is important to realize that colleges almost always raise tuition faster than inflation, even when they’re not providing more quality. Why? Because they suffer from an economic syndrome called Baumol’s cost disease, which afflicts industries whose workers do not grow more efficient. While the knowledge that universities convey has grown more valuable, by all other measures, professors lag desperately behind other professions in efficiency growth. For example, consider doctors. Two hundred years ago, physicians traveled by pony, making house calls for patients for whom they could scarcely provide comfort. Today, however, technological and scientific advances enable a single doctor to read thousands of X-rays or perform countless life-saving operations in a single year. Professors have not made a comparable achievement. Despite decades of practice, it still takes Professor of History Abbott Gleason a full 50 minutes to get

The value of a Brown degree goes up and up. through his Peter the Great lecture. And Professor Emeritus of Engineering Barrett Hazeltine’s efforts notwithstanding, one professor can only teach so many students before he ruins the experience for all of them. That’s trouble for professors, since we pay workers based on how much they accomplish. Doctors’ salaries have risen dramatically because they have learned how to provide better services to more people. But in some cases, professors aren’t doing much more than they were doing during the Middle Ages. So why don’t we pay them 10 sacks of potatoes and a sheep (adjusted for inflation, of course)? The reason is that hospitals and universities compete against each other to attract talent, so universities have to continuously raise professors’ salaries to encourage people to get doctorates, even though professors aren’t doing anything extra to earn it. These costs get passed on to us in the form of tuition hikes. We pay more, but we don’t get more. It can’t be helped. Brown students know all too well that the past few years have been especially difficult for tuition payers, but once again, there is a simple economic explanation. Since the United States’ economic growth nearly ground to a halt in 2001, millions of people have lost their jobs and millions more have watched their savings vanish as stocks lost trillions of dollars of value. These are the same people who are supposed to be financing our educations, and in tough times, donations are about the last thing on the minds of alumni. This year, private colleges have had no choice but to raise tuition by 6 percent to cover their costs. Things went bad even faster at public universities. The economic recession that choked off alumni contributions also bled the tax base, leaving states with gaping budget shortfalls. The result? Tuition went up by 14 percent for state-funded universities this academic year. In his own small way, President George W. Bush has not helped the situation. Remember the death tax? It used to be that the one way to keep the government’s grubby fingers out of your estate was to make tax-deductible donations to institutions of higher learning. But Bush’s 2001 tax relief package will phase out the death tax by 2009, so in many cases there’s nothing to deduct contributions from. Alums are understandably reluctant to fork over chunks of their estate to their alma mater if they can’t write it off their taxes. As always, fewer donations mean higher tuition. Rising college fees are onerous, but ultimately understandable. Colleges could cut tuition, but they would do so at the expense of quality. Nathan Goralnik ’06 is planning to rename Meehan after his puppy.

MADRID — Friday morning and a train blew up yesterday at the museum I get lost in every Wednesday night. The building’s an old hospital, with long tall halls and sight lines that are more than smart; they take your breath away. Class gets out at 6:30 p.m., but I spend an hour every week turning around and around and standing in front of Guernica. The first time I saw it I cried, because it’s huge and gray and painful and flanked with months and months of preparatory sketches, of women and toros crying and screaming. During the civil war, the pain was more than that, it was llorando, gritando. The words translate directly, but they mean more in Spanish. I wanted to understand the Civil War, something I could never know, never more than the tiny viejas in the supermarket, than the mask of a man gritando in 1937, of destroyed buildings whose broken foundations still show on the small streets east of the palace. In the last eight weeks, I have figured out more, why Complutense, my university-turned-battlefrontturned-university again, was built all at once from the same cheap bricks. I saw the political references and caves of “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” I felt a pit in my belly in the little room in the corner of the museum for Nicolas de Leokas, the 23-year-old proto-genius blown up in 1937 by a nationalist bomb. The statue out front, the one I sketched my first day, is called “Un pueblo espanol tiene una calle que camina a las estrellas.” A Spanish town has a street that leads to the stars, because there was nowhere else to go in 1938. I want to cry for them or something more, but it is not mine — I do not understand, could never understand more than the romanticized version of Hemingway, or the sterilized version of my history textbook. I wrote out outlines, hoping they would change things, hoping they would explain the propaganda posters from 1934 I saw last week at Circulo de Bellas

Artes. It helped. The small squares of the graph paper and the winding streets almost completely rebuilt, and I had the thought that I was finally making progress. Friday morning and a train blew up outside the museum I had been at 12 hours earlier. It was once a hospital but now the walls inside are perfect and white and covered with Rothko red, coated in dust from the explosion out back. I went to class in the morning because I didn’t know better, because I’d been up thinking about art and people from home. Walking to class I realized I’d forgotten my metro pass. My professor came in, looking upset, speaking quickly in hushed Spanish. It takes my ears a few minutes to switch to my second language, but I knew instantly he looked too grave to be talking about exams. I asked a classmate, who whispered something about bombs in trains. We didn’t know, so we kept going, talking about Franco’s closed economy and the failed market for Spanish cars and I don’t know what else, because I forgot all my Spanish with worry and watched traffic jams and ambulances out the window at traffic jams and ambulances. Even by me, on the opposite corner of the city, you could hear the sirens all day. It doesn’t feel the same as the last time Spain was blown apart, but I felt the same. I am trying so hard to understand what happened, but it’s not mine to understand. It’s in Spanish and I’m an American who could never understand because I traveled to Spain for Gaudi, reading the romanticized version of life on the plane over. Twelve years of ration tickets, of hunger, of 200 now dead at the train station — there is nothing romantic about that life. It’s not mine to take. But sitting in Madrid, the day after a bomb blew up in the train station I stopped in four times in three days, it’s all I have.

Emily Nemens ’05 is studying in Madrid this semester.

A glimpse of the debate to come GUEST COLUMN BY DOUG FRETTY

The following is an excerpt from the first presidential debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.). MODERATOR: Senator Kerry, you’ve criticized our trade policy and expressed concerns about outsourcing. How would you curb the outsourcing trend? KERRY: I know what it’s like to struggle in America. I fought side by side with a boatful of youths too poor to dodge the draft. On the Mekong Delta they fought to protect America from foreign aggression, just as I will fight to protect America from foreign accountants, radiologists and software tech supporters. I was in Vietnam. MODERATOR: Mr. President, your administration takes a laissez-faire approach to outsourcing. Anything you’d like to say to the workers facing unemployment? BUSH: You want a job at the EPA? You start Monday. If you can, you know, toe the line. MODERATOR: Now, Senator Kerry, you denounce the president’s record on Iraq, yet you voted for the war. How do you justify your stance? KERRY: You see, when the resolution to remove Saddam was introduced, we were misled into believing his regime was an imminent threat. MODERATOR: So you were misled? KERRY: No, I never said that. What I said was that Bush has sacrificed our national security at the altar of the war on terror and the Patriot Act. MODERATOR: But you voted for the Patriot Act, did you not? KERRY: In all fairness, I thought it was a bill to name another airport after Reagan. MODERATOR: On Iraq, Mr. President, voters surely want to know your reaction to the absence of weapons of mass destruction. BUSH: Look. Weapons of mass destruction, programs to develop weapons of mass destruction, plans to create programs to develop weapons of mass destruction, abstinence programs — what’s the difference? I didn’t pilot my F-102 all the way to Tikrit and

hogtie Saddam in his spider hole to be slandered by some liberal senator. MODERATOR: Mr. President, in your second term you would try to make your tax cuts permanent. Why is this the right move for the economy? BUSH: I will make my tax cuts permanent because that money doesn’t belong to Washington. It belongs to the nations who loaned it to Washington. And hardworking Americans deserve their share. MODERATOR: Gentlemen, many voters believe that gay marriage will be a key issue in this election. Please clarify your views. KERRY: I don’t dispute gays’ right to marry. They just have to marry someone of the opposite sex. MODERATOR: You oppose gay marriage, then? KERRY: No — wait. That’s not a fair question. What goes on between consenting adults in a boat on the Mekong Delta is a matter between them and God. MODERATOR: Mr. President? BUSH: Well, you know, I’ve proposed an amendment banning gay marriage. It’s the only way to protect states from having to recognize out-of-state gay marriages. MODERATOR: But doesn’t the Defense of Marriage Act do that? BUSH: No. You see, all the Defense of Marriage Act does is protect states from having to recognize out-ofstate gay marriages. MODERATOR: Any closing words, Mr. President? BUSH: Yes. God bless you, Ralph Nader. You’re my champion. MODERATOR: Senator? KERRY: Listen, I’ve got so many medals on my chest, I can barely stand upright. But I am a strong man, strong enough to lead this country through its economic uncertainty and bloody conflict in Vietnam. MODERATOR: Don’t you mean Iraq, sir? KERRY: No, I never said that.

Doug Fretty ’05 is studying in Paris this semester.

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SPORTS MONDAY MARCH 15, 2004 · PAGE 8

M. ice hockey suffers heartbreaking end to season in loss to Harvard BY MATT LIEBER

Nick Neely / Herald

The women’s ice hockey team celebrates its sweep of Princeton University this weekend to advance to the ECAC semifinals.The Bears will play Harvard University at Union College.

OT win gives women’s icers sweep of Princeton BY LEXI COSTELLO

The women’s ice hockey team (18-10-2, 12-5-1 ECAC) advanced to the ECAC semifinals with a two-game quarterfinal sweep of Princeton University (20-11-2, 12-6-0) Friday and Saturday. On Friday afternoon at Meehan Auditorium, the Bears dominated Princeton, taking the match 2-1 in an impressive exhibition. The following afternoon, the Bears climbed back from 02 disadvantage to top the Tigers 3-2 in overtime. In the first match-up, Brown came out sharp, playing a quicker passing game than the Tigers and dominating control of the puck. But as the period unfolded, Princeton stepped up its game, going shot for shot with the Bears. With less than a minute left in the stanza, both teams posed threats with back-to-back crashes on net. But due to solid goaltending at both ends of the ice, the teams entered the first intermission scoreless. The Tigers stole momentum in the first minutes of the second period, penetrating Brown’s defense with a smart passing game and deep shots on net to force the offensive rushes. But it was Brown’s Jessica Link ’05 who posted the 1-0 lead for the Bears at the 2:03 mark. Kathryn

W E E K E N D S P O R T S R E S U LT S Thursday, March 11 Men’s Tennis: VA Commonwealth 4, Brown 2 Friday, March 12 Women’s Ice Hockey — Brown 2, Princeton 1 ECAC Quarterfinals Men’s Ice Hockey — Harvard 4, Brown 2 ECAC Quarterfinals Women’s Lacrosse — Maryland 21, Brown 6 Baseball — Florida 14, Brown 8 Men’s Tennis — Brown 4, Fresno State 0 Saturday, March 13 Women’s Ice Hockey — Brown 3, Princeton 2 ECAC Quarterfinals Men’s Ice Hockey — Harvard 3, Brown 2 (OT) ECAC Quarterfinals Baseball — Florida 6, Brown 5 (OT) Men’s Lacrosse — Brown 12, Fairfield 7 Women’s Water Polo — Brown 15, Connecticut College 2 Women’s Water Polo — Brown 3, Harvard 1 Men’s Tennis — Brown 4, NC State 0 Sunday, March 14 Softball — Central Connecticut (Postponed to Tuesday) Women’s Lacrosse — Brown 10, Colgate 5 Women’s Tennis — Brown 7, Alabama Birmingham 0 Gymnastics — Brown 191.20, RIC 176.225, Bridgeport 186.10 Baseball — Florida 14, Brown 1

Moos ’07 and Keaton Zucker ’06 earned assists on the play, feeding Link, who sent a floater past a diving Princeton goalie. “We came out knowing we were going to score first,” said Zucker. “We opened with more energy and more want, and that helped us to outplay Princeton the whole game.” The lead fired up the Bears’ offense, and the women dominated the puck for the remainder of the period, out-shooting the Tigers 32-12 in the first 40 minutes of play. Princeton came out strong in the final frame, playing physical, head-to-head hockey. At 11:33, the Tigers leveled the game at one with a rocket shot outside the crease. But Bruno stuffed the late Princeton threat with aggressive defense, and only four minutes later, Zucker netted the game-winner after an onslaught of rebounds. Amy McLaughlin ’05 and Myria Heinhuis ’06 earned assists on the play. “Line for line, we really outmatch Princeton,” said captain and goalie Katie Germain ’04. “This was clear in the first game. Head-to-head we were stronger on almost every play, and their goalie was our biggest challenge because she made some see W. HOCKEY, page 4

The men’s hockey team (15-11-5, 13-7-2 ECAC) lost to Harvard University in the ECAC quarterfinals on Saturday, when Harvard center Tom Cavanagh’s overtime goal at 7:35 broke a 2-2 tie to clinch the series 2-0. The abrupt finish marked a bitter end to the season for the Bears, dashing the high hopes the team and its cast of senior stars had inspired. Despite holding the ECAC lead and top-20 poll rankings for most of the season, Brown managed only one win in the season’s final eight games. “I’m certainly disappointed with the way the last three weeks have gone,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo. “We were playing solid, but obviously not solid enough, and that’s not going to get it done this time of year.” The playoff series started badly for Brown, which was outplayed by Harvard and lost 4-2 in Game 1 Friday night. But on Saturday the team’s spirit was revived. “I’m proud of our guys — I thought they battled hard,” Grillo said of the team’s effort in the final game. Facing elimination, Brown came out skating with a controlled intensity. Shane Mudryk ’04 scored to give Brown an early 1-0 lead. Leading a three-on-two rush into the Harvard zone, Brown center Joe Bauer ’06 fed Mudryk, who wristed the puck from the left wing off the far post to beat Harvard goalie Dov Grumet-Morris cleanly. It was the first goal of the year for Mudryk, whose play had picked up in recent games. “Playing in the playoffs is a whole different style of game. The intensity is a lot higher than the regular season,” said captain Scott Ford ’04. “Players rise up and give efforts, players pay the price and are heroes. Shane Mudryk tonight had a phenomenal night.” After Mudryk’s goal, the Bears seized the moment to pressure the Crimson, drawing three consecutive penalties. The power play showed poise and determination, but shots by Ford and Cory Caouette ’06 rang off Grumet-Morris’s right post. Brown missed the chance to take a controlling lead. “We moved the puck well but couldn’t capitalize,” Grillo said. “Harvard got a little momentum from that point.” The second period opened with a

Crimson blitz, with Brown skaters being beaten to the puck and goalie Yann Danis ’04 making huge save after huge save. Midway through the second, at the center of the Crimson storm, Mudryk found himself with the puck deep in the defensive end and made a heads-up play that resulted in his second goal. Mudryk calmly skated the puck clear from danger, launching a Brown rush and a moment later knocking in a rebound by defenseman Paul Crosty ’05 for a 2-0 lead at 10:36. But Brown could not knock Harvard out, as the Crimson responded seconds later when Tim Pettit deflected a pass by Danis to make the score 2-1. “The shift after a goal is extremely important,” said Harvard’s Tyler Kolarik. The Pettit goal checked the surging Brown crowd and motivated Kolarik, whose power-play goal at 2:06 of the third period tied the score 2-2. Harvard’s special-teams edge was key to its victory. Harvard scored on three of 12 power plays, while Brown converted only once in 11 tries. The Brown power play unit was sharper on Saturday, but not sharp enough. “We had a couple of scoring chances early,” Ford said. “We just weren’t able to capitalize and stretch out our lead.” The season-ending loss set a desolate tone in Brown’s clubhouse. Still, Grillo and the team spoke with pride about the season’s accomplishments. “The whole senior group has been tremendous,” Grillo said. “We’ll miss Yann and each one of them. They put our program on the map and got us in the national picture.” Brown finished the season as co-champion of the Ivy League with 15 wins, including two in the regular season against Harvard. “We appreciate the support during the four years that we’ve been here, from the alumni — especially those who’ve been with us in the bad times and good — as well as the students who’ve been coming out,” Ford said. “It’s been great to have the strong fan support the last couple of games.” Herald staff writer Matt Lieber GS covers men’s ice hockey. He can be reached at mlieber@browndailyherald.com.

MLB’s movers and shakers hope to defy convention, reach World Series Roll out the green tarpaulin! Warm up the President’s arm! Commence “our year” talks in Boston and Chicago, and put Darryl Strawberry back behind bars! Yes, that’s right — spring training ANDREW TOBOLOWSKY is here. TOBO-COP The yearly ritual of March: Major League Baseball spring training. Only this year, things are a little bit different. Baseball has always had a slew of unspoken rules — unbreakable rules, as steadfast as George Washington’s honesty and as immutable as Dick Clark’s face. Rules like “The Houston Astros will be mediocre,” “The Baltimore Orioles will

suck,” “No one but the GM and Bud Selig will be able to name more than three members of the Milwaukee Brewers” and “David Wells will eat the world’s largest hoagie.” This year, though? The times, they are a changin’. What’s going on? Let’s talk about the Orioles first. Last year, it was a moribund team whose best hitter, besides franchise mainstay Melvin Mora, was a guy named Larry Bigbie. The team’s best pitcher, besides “Sir” Sidney Ponson, was a guy named Joe Johnson, who only came to Baltimore from San Francisco late in the season. What happened? Simply this: Someone up there in the organization (presumably with a corncob pipe) finally

could stand no more. It was, at last, time to go out and get some spinach. The Orioles added first-baseman/DH Rafael Palmeiro, who will crack the top-10 list of all-time homerun hitters this year; shortstop Miguel Tejada, who was MVP two years ago and finished strong last year; and catcher Javier Lopez, who resurrected himself terrifically. They also re-signed Sir Sidney to shore up their pitching staff. The Orioles still don’t have much, but with these bats in their lineup, they’re bound to crank a few more. And that’s what baseball is all about — cranking a few more. Also, check out the new-look Angels. Two years ago, with basically nothing see TOBOLOWSKY, page 5