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Simmons plans to teach after capital campaign launches BY MICHAEL RUDERMAN

President Ruth Simmons plans on teaching at Brown, but it might be a while before students can shop her course. When Simmons was appointed the 18th president of the University, she was given faculty appointments in comparative literature and Africana studies. But it will be a few more years before she has time to fill these roles, she wrote in an email to The Herald. With the responsibilities of undertaking a capital campaign and running the University, teaching undergraduates would prove difficult. “I would love to be able to teach when the campaign is well launched, which should be in a couple of years,” she wrote. Simmons wrote she would likely lead a course in francophone literature, crosslisted in the comparative literature and Africana studies departments. Due to the “uncertainty” of her schedule, she wrote, “It would be prudent to have someone co-teach with me.” Simmons would add teaching responsibilities to the 70 to 100 hours per week university presidents typically work, according to Stephen Nelson, a research associate in the Education Department whose area of specialty is the university presidency. “The demands are so great that it prevents presidents from teaching, especially if there is a crisis or a campaign,” Nelson said. During campaigns, presidents spend about half their time off campus raising funds and much of their on-campus time preparing for fundraising events and meetings, he said. see SIMMONS, page 4

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Journalist Rubén Martínez delivered the keynote address at Latino History Month Convocation, cosponsored by The Herald, last night in MacMillan 117. Martínez discussed his struggle to define his identity as a Latino growing up in Los Angeles, Calif.

Latino History Month Convocation speaker tells audience he struggled to define his identity BY STEPHANIE CLARK

The borders of the United States are beginning to be redefined to include immigrants, said Rubén Martínez, keynote speaker for the Latino History Month Convocation, co-sponsored by The Herald. Martínez, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, poet and performer who grew up in Los Angeles, Calif., gave a talk enti-

ous backgrounds in outreach work. Jablonski said she doesn’t expect a significant drop in the number of hours available for outreach, but said she does expect the waiting time for students trying to get appointments to decrease. This is especially important when students can’t accurately assess their own mental states, Jui said. Although Psych Services has someone on call 24 hours a day, Jui said he did not make use of that service the first time he called because he did not realize how pressing his situation was. “They expect you to be pretty honest, but when you’re down, it’s pretty hard to be honest with yourself,” he said. Having access to a psychotherapist sooner would

He spoke about his own struggle to find an identity, beginning with growing up in California, which “was a very WASPy environment when I was growing up,” Martínez said. “I tried to do as the Romans, or in this case, the California WASPs.” He learned to speak English with no accent and to mispronounce his name in order to Americanize it. In later parts of his life, Martínez said he found himself part of a movement of cultural nationalism in Los Angeles, mentored by a “founding generation of Chicano artists that was coming into its own.” He also traveled to El Salvador in the midst of that country’s civil war. “The lesson I learned in El Salvador was quite different than the lesson I learned in L.A.,” Martínez said. “In L.A. ... I learned about color. In El Salvador I learned about class.” Martínez cited both of these experiences as crucial to his understanding of being Latino. “When you put divisions of class alongside divisions of race, or the color of your skin, you come to a much better understanding about the way the world really works and what the struggle is all about,” he said. The borders between cultures are blending, Martínez said. He mentioned the example of Tijuana, Mexico, where white American, Latino and African American cultures are inextricably mixed. “Tijuana is a cultural hall of mirrors, where each door you walk through leads to a different world,” he said.

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tled “The New Americas: How Migrants Have Changed the U.S.,” which focused on divisions in the United States and the changing definitions of individual and societal identity. It’s difficult for Latinos to establish an identity “in this topsy-turvy country we live in,” Martínez said. “It’s hard to find a place to plant your feet, to feel one, to feel whole.”

Psychological Services addresses increased demand with reorganization BY KIRA LESLEY

When Jonathan Jui ’07 felt depressed earlier this year, he called Psychological Services to make an appointment with a psychotherapist. He was told he would have to wait one or two weeks at the least. Two days later, Jui had an emotional breakdown, he said, and had to call Emergency Medical Services for assistance. With more students asking for clinical appointments than at any other time during the past 15 years, Psych Services’ staff is unable to meet their needs, according to Belinda Johnson, director of Psych Services. But a planned restructuring of the department will allow Johnson’s staff to provide appointments more quickly, she said. After assessing the situation, Psych

Services decided last month to eliminate the Assistant Director for Outreach position, the job Kent Yrchik-Shoemaker performed for 16 years, Johnson said. In place of that position, Psych Services is hiring another psychotherapist. The search to fill the position is currently underway, and Johnson said she expects to have hired someone by the start of next semester. With Yrchik-Shoemaker’s position eliminated, responsibility for the outreach portion of Psych Services’ program will be spread over several psychotherapists, Johnson said. Dean for Campus Life Margaret Jablonski said that in some ways the change will be advantageous for outreach into the Brown community, because different therapists can draw on their vari-

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I N S I D E T U E S D AY, M A RC H 2 3 , 2 0 0 4 Students go to Boston Market restaurants to protest suppliers’ treatment of workers metro, page 3

Korean Adoptee Mentoring Program connects mentees with Korean heritage campus news, page 5

M. lacrosse struggles over weekend but looks ahead to continuing season sports extra, page 9

Ari Savitzky ’06 says it’s the community’s responsibility to stop hate crimes column, page 11

M. tennis shakes up doubles pairs, still finds success in weekend matches sports, page 12

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THIS MORNING TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2004 · PAGE 2 Coup de Grace Grace Farris

TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS “SKULL VERSUS BONES: WHO WILL WIN THE FIRST PLANETARY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION?” 7:30 p.m. (Sayles Hall) — Chief political correspondent and columnist for Newsweek magazine Howard Fineman will give the inaugural Governor Frank Licht Lecture. Sponsored by the Alfred A.Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions.

TAIWANESE CLOUDS DANCE THEATRE PERFORMANCE 8 p.m. (Salomon 101) — Clouds Dance Theatre will perform traditional Taiwanese and Chinese folk dance as part of its New England Campuses tour.

Four Years Eddie Ahn

MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Vegetarian Corn Chowder, Chicken Noodle Soup, Fried Fish Sandwich, Corn with Beans,Tomatoes and Spices, Fresh Vegetable Artichoke Melange, Chocolate Flake Cookies, Mexican Ribbon Cake, Lemon Yogurt Pie.

VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Spinach and Mushroom Soup, Chicken and Rice Soup, French Taco Sandwich, Tomato Quiche, Mexican Succotash, Chocolate Flake Cookies.

DINNER — Vegetarian Corn Chowder, Chicken Noodle Soup, Lemon Broiled Chicken, Spanish Steak, Egg Foo Young, Sticky Rice, Ginger Sugar Snap Peas and Carrots, Whole Beets, Rosemary Bread, Chocolate Flake Cookies, Mexican Ribbon Cake, Lemon Yogurt Pie.

DINNER — Vegetarian Spinach and Mushroom Soup, Chicken and Rice Soup, Orange Turkey, Vegan BBQ Tempeh, Rice Pilaf with Zucchini, Broccoli Cuts, Fresh Vegetable Saute, Rosemary Bread, Mexican Ribbon Cake.

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METRO TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2004 · PAGE 3

Brown students protest anti-unionization tactics of Boston Market’s main supplier BY JONATHAN HERMAN

Members of the Brown Labor Alliance have protested food supplier Chef Solutions’ allegedly coercive antiunionization tactics by distributing leaflets at local Boston Market restaurants this month. Chef Solutions is a chief supplier to the restaurant chain. Seth Leibson ’05 and Chris Hu ’06 organized BLA’s effort in affiliation with the United Auto Workers and with help from other campus organizations, such as MeCHA and the Latin American Students Association. “We are making them stop their illegal practices and allow free and fair election (on whether to unionize),” Leibson said. On March 15, Providence police officers escorted Brenda Rubenstein ’07 and Madeliene Lipshie-Williams ’07 out of a shopping area on North Main Street that includes a Boston Market. “The police asked us to move to the sidewalk, and the manager presented them with an official lease showing that the curb we were standing on was private property,” Rubenstein wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. According to UAW organizer Peggy Sharey, managers at Chef Solution’s factory in North Haven, Conn., have used sexual abuse, physical assaults and death threats to intimidate the predominately immigrant Latina women from unionizing. “What we have seen in this company are some of the worst tactics we have seen for 30 years,” Sharey said. “The reason that we are supporting this consumer boycott is because this company is one of the most unethical we have seen in decades.” Susan Zerin, director of corporate communications

for Chef Solutions, said the violations were committed before Chef Solutions owned the North Haven plant. “The issues of the North Haven plant are mostly legacy issues that predate our ownership of the plant. Since acquiring the North Haven plant, we have hired new management,” Zerin said. Chef Solutions is owned by the parent company Lufthansa. After a reorganization, Lufthansa handed U.S. food services, including ownership of the North Haven factory, to its subsidiary Chef Solutions, Sharey said. “Lufthansa has owned the factory the whole time,” said Sharey. “This company has never admitted that they have done anything wrong. How can you ever create an environment where (employees) can exercise their free choice to unionize?” The National Labor Relations Board has charged Chef Solutions with 29 law violations and invalidated an employee election held in 2001 in which a majority voted against adopting a union, according to the UAW. “These are all issues that were part of the original complaint. We signed a settlement two years ago. We have hired new management (at the North Haven plant),” Zerin said. “We signed a settlement agreement and are in negotiation with the union about when to hold the election and have been ready for the past year.” The UAW maintains that continued tactics of fear make an election unfair. Chef Solutions has made it clear that it will not tolerate a union, Sharey said. “If the company had any sincerity about turning over see PROTEST, page 4

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Simmons continued from page 1 “The pressures on (Simmons) to run Brown well are enormous. Having not taught here yet, it will be very difficult for her to get back into the classroom,” he said. Nelson estimated that teaching a course requires at least eight hours of work per week, inside and outside the classroom. University presidents often have to delegate more responsibility to their senior leadership teams if they return to the classroom, he said. Former Brown presidents who have taught courses include Vartan Gregorian, who served from 1989 to 1997. President E. Gordon Gee, who preceded Simmons, did not teach during his two-year tenure. A number of presidents at Brown’s peer institutions teach despite the demands of their positions. Harvard University President Lawrence Summers teaches a first-year seminar on globalization. This past fall was his first

Protest continued from page 3 a new leaf, they would have no problem having a public debate instead of making the workers feel like they are at risk,” she said. Chef Solutions produces prepared foods for multiple restaurants and fast-food chains in

KAMP continued from page 5 “They are going through this exploration with the kids,” Kim said. Koh said some people find adopting children of a different ethnicity or race inappropriate and think pairing Korean adoptees with parents of a differ-

semester teaching the course, which he plans to offer next year, said Beth Withers, assistant to the president. Summers’ class of 12 to 15 students meets once a week. Columbia University President Lee Bollinger, who has been teaching since his first semester on campus, leads a popular political science class entitled “Freedom of Speech and Press,” which attracts over 150 students, said Ayodeji Perrin, a graduate coordinator for the political science department. The lecture class meets twice a week. At smaller colleges, some presidents have also found the time to teach. Outgoing Middlebury College President John McCardell, who specializes in United States history, teaches a course, according to the school’s Web site. But a number of university presidents do not teach, including Yale University President Richard Levin and Wesleyan University President Douglas Bennet. Traditionally Catholic colleges tend to have presidents who

teach, Nelson said. Rev. Edward Malloy at Notre Dame, who has served as president of the university since 1986, is a full professor in theology and teaches a firstyear seminar every semester, in addition to living in an undergraduate residence hall. Under Malloy’s leadership, the school recently completed a campaign that raised $1.1 billion, according to Notre Dame’s Web site. When a university president teaches, it often signals to the faculty that the president understands the demands of their positions, Nelson said. The practice of teaching courses also builds respect for the president among students, he said. Teaching may also prove beneficial to university fundraising, Nelson said. “President Simmons has to be able to sell Brown, and if she can say that she knows the students in the classroom, with some donors, that could be incredibly effective,” he said.

America, including Boston Market. The UAW is boycotting Boston Market because it was one of the few companies that unequivocally supported Chef Solutions, according to Sharey. BLA members said they will continue to distribute flyers urging customers to boycott the restaurant. “Since standing on the public sidewalk by the entrance of the shopping plaza would be as

effective as not flyering at all, from here on in, we intend to continue flyering in front of Boston Market (each day) until the manager does call the police on us,” Rubenstein wrote. Representatives from Boston Market did not return calls for comment.

ent ethnic background causes adoptees to feel alienated from their culture. “Some people walk into KAMP with stereotypes that adopted children don’t grow up in a normal way,” he added. “Once you’re engaged in the program you realize that it doesn’t matter what race you are as long as you have a loving and caring family.” Kim said KAMP aims to pro-

vide its participants a sense of comfort and community in the “uniform” surroundings of Rhode Island, rather than simply knowledge about Korean culture. “It gives kids someone to identify with. My mentee is always sad to leave and asks to sleep over.”

Herald staff writer Michael Ruderman ’07 can be reached at mruderman@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Jonathan Herman ’07 can be reached at jherman@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Gabriella Doob ’07 can be reached at gdoob@browndailyherald.com.

Psych continued from page 1 have been helpful, he said. But Jui said he also sees the importance of the outreach side of Pysch Services. The workshops and small group activities that were a part of outreach under Yrchik-Shoemaker helped students feel more comfortable about going to Psych Services, Jui said. Kirsten Spalding ’04 also said she saw value in the outreach programs. Spalding, who went to Psych Services for anxiety problems several times her first year, said that although her experiences at Psych Services have been “very, very positive,” she thinks the outreach position was “absolutely critical” to the department functioning. The programs currently operating through Psych Services will not be cut because of the elimination of the position, Johnson said. But Spalding said the loss of Yrchik-Shoemaker will have a deep impact. According to Spalding, YrchikShoemaker helped establish student projects such as Brown Mental Wellness, which Spalding co-founded with Keally Dewitt ’04 and Beth Marlowe ’04. He also strived to decrease the stigma associated with seeking psychological help. Allowing students realize that going to Psych Services was not something to be ashamed of helped prevent some from developing more serious problems, Spalding said. Over time, as new classes enter Brown, the lack of an outreach position may lead to a decrease in student awareness and use of Psych Services, Spalding said. But the staff of Psych Services has “reached the limit of what we’re able to manage,” Johnson said. It’s highly unusual for colleges to support a full-time outreach position in their mental health care programs, Johnson said, and when it became clear that the increase in demand for clinical appointments was a trend —

rather than a temporary spike — department administrators decided Psych Services could no longer sustain the full-time outreach position. The increase in student demand for mental health care mirrors a national trend, Johnson said. One reason for this trend could be advances in treatment of serious mental health problems — with better treatments and medicine, students whose mental health problems would previously have interfered with their achievement are now coping better and being admitted to selective colleges such as Brown, Johnson said. Jablonksi added that as seeking the help of a mental health professional has become more accepted in American society, many students now enter Brown seeing a therapist on a regular basis. Once on campus, they want to continue with regular clinical appointments. But despite a reduction in the stigma attached to the mental health profession, Dewitt said she still knows many students who are afraid to go to Psych Services. For these students, she said, outreach is crucial. “There must be more interaction of Psychological Services and the community,” she said. Dewitt added that Psych Services’ capacity to deal with long-term mental health problems should be strengthened. She said she feels Psych Services can assist students with shortterm problems, such as temporary test anxiety, but when it came to dealing with her depression, “I pretty much had to navigate the waters myself,” she said. Spalding said she found Psych Services helpful in setting her up with a long-term psychotherapist at Butler Hospital for an affordable price. Still, once a student gets used to seeing a therapist at Psych Services, it can be hard to make the transition to a therapist outside Brown, she said. “If you find someone at Psychological Services you like to see, it can be a problem,” Jui said. Brown students are allowed up to five free visits to Psych Services per year, but Jui said he feels in some cases this is not enough. For students with long-term problems, having Psych Services limit the number of free visits they can have per year is not a good idea, Jui said. “You can’t judge a person’s health by the number of visits they’ve had,” he said. Jablonski said she would like to increase the number of free visits allotted to students each year, but in order to do so, Psych Services might have to hire one or more psychotherapists beyond the one who will start work this fall if all goes as planned. Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ’07 can be reached at klesley@browndailyherald.com.

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CAMPUS NEWS TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2004 · PAGE 5

Students mentors help Korean adoptees discover their heritage BY GABRIELLA DOOB

Adopted children often belong to a different ethnic group from their adoptive parents, creating challenges that organizations such as the Korean Adoptee Mentoring Program seek to address, said Chris Koh ’06, a co-assistant coordinator of KAMP. The group, now in its third year of operation, aims to give Korean adoptees a sense of their cultural identity by pairing them with Brown student mentors, said Jennifer Kim ’04, also a co-assistant coordinator. As a Category III student group, KAMP receives full funding from the University. About 25 student members from Brown, 80 percent of them with some Korean language skills, work one-on-one with mentees between the ages of 2 and 16, Kim said. Each week the mentor and mentee meet to talk, engage in activities and learn about Korean culture. “It’s like a big-brother or big-sister relationship,” she said. The children enjoy eating Korean food or watching Korean movies, but Korean culture is not forced upon them if they aren’t interested in learning about it, Kim said. A number of older students are reluctant to come to meetings, Koh said. “They think, ‘I don’t need to know about Korean culture.’” According to Koh, younger students tend to be more receptive and interested in learning about their heritage. “Many of these kids are growing up in a non-Korean, non-Asian world,” said John Brougher ’06, a KAMP mentor and himself a Korean adoptee. “Lots of them are having identity issues.” According to Koh, most students don’t raise these issues readily. KAMP’s organizers are planning to start another program within KAMP for older mentees who want to discuss issues of ethnic identity and grapple with the questions that come up as a minority student growing up with a family of a different ethnic background, Koh said. Besides individual meetings between student mentors and their mentees, KAMP organizes culturally themed group events every month. There is usually an organized activity, such as demonstrations of tae kwon do or fan dancing, Kim said.

KAMP also recently took part in an intercollegiate conference involving several nearby schools, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Wellesley College. The conference featured lectures by professors, psychiatrists and Korean adoptees. Koh said the event “spread awareness about KAMP-like programs” and received positive responses from participants.

According to Kim, it’s not only mentees who benefit from KAMP’s work. “I met 95 percent of my Korean friends here through KAMP,” she said. The group’s frequent meetings promote community building among students and help mentors explore issues that affect their lives as much as those of their mentees. see KAMP, page 4

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A Korean Adoptee Mentoring Program volunteer works with his mentee. KAMP pairs student mentors with young Korean adoptees to maintain links to Korean language and culture.

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Martinez continued from page 1 He called the border between the United States and Mexico more of “a sieve” than a wall, which the United States is attempting to make it. “Influences are being thrown in all directions,” he said. It is this mixture of cultures, he said, that makes many Americans uncomfortable. “It’s a little too much for the yuppie couple ... to listen to the same music their nanny listens to.” He discussed proposed U.S. legislation that would decrease the number of immigrants from Latin American countries to be allowed into the United States, saying, “What they’re talking about is not just an economic thing, but a cultural thing.” Martínez chalked up Americans’ discomfort with immigrants to an inability to reconcile “a virulent hatred of the other” with “the welcome embrace” proclaimed by the Statue of Liberty. He called it the “great battle in the American soul.” He cited the current debate over gay marriage as another example of fear of the other, saying, “What is it that makes us lash out at someone for the color of their skin, for the way they speak English, for the way they express their love? That is the question Americans have to be responsible to answer.” He said racial issues in this country are not only two-sided, as some seem to think they are. “You’re redefining what color is in this country,” he said to the audience. “Latinos are in between. They’re not black or white, they’re in between.” Spreading the message is the most important thing, said Martínez, even to those who may not agree. “Ultimately, we’re going to have to change some minds.” He concluded by

saying, “Let us get the message out that the immigrant is not the other but is the self of this nation.” Martínez’s speech was preceded by student speakers Frinny Polanco ’07 as the freshman speaker and Luis Campillo ’04 as the Senior Reflections speaker. Armando García ’06 also read a poem. Polanco, who was born in the Dominican Republic and then moved to Boston, emphasized her achievements in the face of doubt. Although she is “overjoyed” to be part of the Brown community, she said she is also disappointed with the decrease in the number of Latino students at Brown in the past several years. “It’s important to be surrounded by Latino people,” she said, saying that it was hard to be the only Latino in her dorm. Campillo’s speech stressed community and helping one’s neighbors, as well as the importance of education. “As we pursue our dreams ... we must remember our obligation and our need to give back to our community,” he said. He also emphasized the disparity between the education levels of Latinos in the United States, calling it the most important thing to work on. “As young Latinos, we are not only pulling our own weight but also the weight of those who have helped us get where we are,” he said. This year’s Latino History Month, themed “Challenging the Future: Nuevas Visiones, Novas Historias,” is intended to “help Latinos come together as a community, not to be separated between Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and South Americans,” Latino History Month CoProgrammer Maritza Santibáñez ’06 told The Herald. Herald staff writer Stephanie Clark ’07 can be reached at sclark@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2004 · PAGE 7

Administration rebuts ex-official’s accusations WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) — An anxious White

House scrambled Monday to rebut allegations in a new book that President George W. Bush had failed to take the threat of terrorism seriously before the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington. In an unusually strong response, the White House sent top-ranking officials to television news and talk radio programs to counter accusations from Richard Clarke, the Bush administration’s former counter-terrorism chief. The daylong attack on Clarke and his book demonstrated that his criticism could threaten the president’s credibility on his signature issue — his efforts against terrorism — at the start of what is already an incendiary re-election campaign. Clarke’s charges set the stage for what is likely to be a week of recrimination, as an independent commission created by Congress begins Tuesday to question top Clinton and Bush administration officials over what they did and did not do to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States. Throughout the day Monday, Bush remained largely out of sight inside the West Wing, emerging only for a photo op that excluded reporters. Meanwhile, from morning to night, publicly and privately, White House officials tried to turn the credibility question around by criticizing Clarke, suggesting he was unhappy about bureaucratic changes that had diminished his access to the president. “He wasn’t in the loop, frankly, on a lot of this stuff,” Vice President Dick Cheney told radio host Rush Limbaugh. White House officials, including National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, even suggested that Clarke — who served as counter-terrorism chief for the eight years of the Clinton administration before Rice asked him to stay on — bore some responsibility for not doing enough to recognize the danger of terrorism. “He had been the counter-terrorism czar when the embassies were bombed in 1998,” Rice told NBC’s “Today Show,” referring to the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. “He was the counter-terrorism czar when the (U.S.S.) Cole was bombed in 2000. He was the counter-terrorism czar for the see CLARKE, page 8

Killing of Hamas leader draws condemnation, protests GAZA CITY (Los Angeles Times) — Israel’s assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin sparked international condemnation Monday and denials from the United States that it approved the killing as tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters flooded the streets here demanding revenge. Palestinians raised their fists in anger and chanted, “By blood, by soul, we sacrifice for you,” as they followed Yassin’s funeral procession along a 15-block stretch of Gaza City. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon defended Israel’s helicopter attack on the wheelchair-bound Yassin as he left a mosque as an act of self-defense against terrorism. “This morning the state of Israel struck at the head of Palestinian terrorist murderers. The ideological essence of this man was one — the murder and the killing of Jews wherever they may be, and the destruction of Israel,” Sharon told fellow Likud Party members of the Knesset. “The war against terrorism isn’t over, and it will continue every day and everywhere.” The Israeli security cabinet endorsed Yassin’s assassination last week — part of Israel’s controversial policy of “targeted killings” of militant leaders — following a double suicide bombing at the Israeli port of Ashdod that killed 10 workers. Bush administration officials, who met Monday in Washington with Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, denied that the United States had advance notice of Israel’s assassination plan. While U.S. officials described Yassin’s killing as “not helpful,” they also reiterated what they called Israel’s right to self-defense. “Hamas is a terrorist organization,” White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. European Union leaders and United Nations SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan condemned the assassination, saying it would further cripple efforts to settle the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “Such actions are not only contrary to international law, but they do not do anything to help the search for a peaceful solution,” Annan said. British Foreign Minister Jack Straw labeled the action “unjustified,” and Javier Solana, foreign-policy chief for the E.U., said the move would hurt peace efforts. Palestinian officials said they planned to appeal for help to the U.N. Security Council. “What happened today was very dangerous. Even more dangerous is what may follow from this operation,” said Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Korei, speaking to reporters following a Cabinet meeting devoted almost

solely to the attack. On the streets of Gaza, people poured out of their homes to mourn Yassin’s death and promise vengeance. From the Al-Omari mosque on the street where Yassin was killed to the cemetery where he was buried, men waved flags and banners of Palestinian resistance groups — the green of Hamas mixing with the trademark yellow of AlAqsa Martyrs Brigade, black of Islamic Jihad and red of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine — as vanmounted speakers urged people to remember the “martyrs” and masked militants fired Kalashnikovs in the air. “All Palestinians are joined as one today,” said Amir AlGazawi, 42 and unemployed, looking out over the sea of faces. “Israel may have tanks. They may have Apache helicopters and F-16s. But we have our blood, our dignity and our beliefs. And they can’t kill that.” “We are going to defend ourselves and continue our armed struggle,” said Mahmoud Al-Zahar, a physician and Hamas political leader, walking in the crowd. “Even if they kill all the Palestinian people, the next generation will spring up to fight.” Al-Zahar and Abdelaziz Rantisi, a top-level Hamas spokesman who survived an Israeli assassination attempt last summer and has spent much of the time since in hiding, took the risky step of appearing in public at the funeral. An Israeli surveillance drone circled overhead as Yassin’s banner-draped casket passed through the densely packed streets on the shoulders of young men. Mourners surged forward to touch the casket. The smell of petroleum emanated from clumps of ash and steel wires, the remnants of tires that people had burned every few hundred feet on the road after learning about the Israeli attack. Yassin was fired upon by an Israeli helicopter as he left early morning prayers. The missile attack also killed seven other people, including Yassin’s two bodyguards. Following Monday’s attack, security remained high around Israel. The government barred Palestinians from entering from the West Bank and Gaza Strip and stepped up precautions at Israeli facilities abroad. The Gaza Strip is already under tight controls; unlike the West Bank, it is completely enclosed by a fence and the Mediterranean Sea. In the West Bank, schools and businesses were closed for a one-day general strike, and demonstrations involving thousands of Palestinians erupted in some of the biggest cities. In a sign of widespread mourning, Palestinian radio stations carried news and readings from the Koran, but no music.

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NCAA continued from page 12 light, it is Martelli’s extended stay within it that will make the results of the weekend most difficult to swallow. He has quickly become the most annoying person to listen to on television. I have not witnessed such a heavy dose of foolishness and selfadoration since watching “Rich Girls,” and somehow insipid narcissism is much more tolerable in the person of a fetching young celebrity than in a bitter, aging college basketball coach soaking up his 15 minutes like a thirsty sponge. My main beef with St. Joe’s is not that its coach doesn’t look like Ally Hilfiger, but that the team has not done enough to merit the defensive whining he ceaselessly offers on its behalf. If the way the Hawks squeaked by Texas Tech wasn’t unconvincing enough, just peruse their regular season schedule in

search of an impressive road win. Or any impressive win. The only victory against a top-25 team was a season-opening defeat of Gonzaga, a win that looked much better before Nevada slaughtered the Bulldogs by 19 points in Gonzaga’s home state of Washington on Saturday. The problem with seeding this tournament is that three pretty good teams — Stanford, St. Joseph’s and Gonzaga — managed to avoid difficult games almost entirely over the course of the season, except to play each other. The result was a one-loss season for the first two teams and a two-loss season for Gonzaga (who lost its games against the other two). These three seasons yielded three amazing records that told us absolutely nothing. The truth is coming out in the tournament, and the truth is that these are not elite basketball programs. Alabama never had Tiger Woods sit at half-court for one of its games,

but it did play four against top10 teams. That’s why Alabama was more prepared for its battle with Tiger’s alma mater than Stanford was prepared for Alabama, and that’s why Alabama won the game. Winning nail-biters against Washington State is great television, but it doesn’t really get you ready for big-time athletes like those on underrated Alabama. St. Joseph’s still has a chance to disprove the maxim that a team must play tough competition before the tournament or enter it with a low seed to have a chance to go deep. The Hawks get their next chance against Wake Forest, alma mater of their new archenemy, the audacious Billy Packer. In the meantime, I’ll try hard to avoid the crowing of Coach Martelli until I’ve fully healed from the beating my bracket took this weekend. Luke Meier ’04 obviously isn’t winning his pool this year.

Baseball continued from page 9 Next week, the Bears will swing through Virginia for Spring Break, playing games against Virginia Military Institute, the University of Virginia and George Mason University. Brown opens the Ivy

Clarke continued from page 7 entire period in which the alQaeda plot was being hatched that ended up in Sept. 11, 2001,” Rice said. White House spokesman Scott McClellan was even more blunt during his daily noon briefing: “Dick Clarke was here for some eight years. This administration was here for some 230 days before the attacks on Sept. 11.” Clarke’s criticism creates political problems for the White House because it is an authoritative, insider account that could be perceived as a credible attack on the administration’s handling of the war on terrorism. The thrust of Clarke’s criticism is that the Bush administration ignored repeated warnings about al-Qaeda before Sept. 11 — and has pursued misguided policies ever since — because it was obsessed with Iraq. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Monday, Clarke repeated an account relayed in his book of a Sept. 12, 2001, encounter with the president. In that conversation, Clarke said, Bush told him — in front of four National Security Council colleagues — to look for an Iraq connection to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Clarke already had told the president that years of investigation had found no links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. “I told him that. (CIA Director) George Tenet told him that,” Clarke said in the interview. “So if they are saying (the Sept. 12 conversation) didn’t happen and they are calling into question my credibility, then they have to explain the mass hallucination that must have occurred when four other people saw and heard it happen.” The White House has responded by casting Clarke as a man nursing grudges because he did not get the attention, status or rank he thought he deserved. “I suppose he may have a grudge to bear there, since he probably wanted a more promi-

League season April 3 with a doubleheader at Columbia University, followed by a doubleheader at the University of Pennsylvania April 4. Herald staff writer Chris Hatfield ’06 edits the sports section and covers baseball. He can be reached at chatfield@browndailyherald.com.

nent position than (Rice) was prepared to give him,” Cheney said. One of Clarke’s main criticisms of the Bush administration is that senior officials, including Rice, did not respond to his calls for a meeting of Bush’s top advisers to discuss al-Qaeda. For instance, Clarke said, he wrote to Bush on Jan. 25, 2001, immediately after Bush took office, and asked for an urgent meeting to discuss what he perceived to be the imminent threat of an al-Qaeda attack. “I even underlined the word ‘urgent,’ because it was urgent,” Clarke said. “And they didn’t have it until Sept. 4,” just one week before the attacks. “I think they didn’t have terrorism as a high priority on their agenda when they came in. They had Star Wars, China and Iraq on the agenda. I think they accepted that it was important, but they didn’t accept it as being urgent. And it was urgent.” Clarke also complained that he did not get to brief the president himself on the issue until after the Sept. 11 attacks. Administration officials responded Monday by saying that Bush had decided to operate his National Security Council staff differently from President Bill Clinton’s, and that Clarke seemed to see the changes as a demotion. While Clarke had been able to brief Clinton directly, Bush chose to have his daily intelligence briefing delivered by Tenet. They also argued that Clarke’s anti-terrorism proposals were inadequate, and that no meeting of top officials was held because Rice had asked Clarke to come up with a strategy not just to “roll back” al-Qaeda, but to eliminate it. Administration officials also noted that Clarke had resigned shortly after he was turned down for the job of deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. And they pointed out that he is a close friend of another former Bush administration official, Rand Beers, who now is the chief foreign policy adviser to presumed Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass).

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Bears recover from first-game losses during Appalachian State series, prepare for Ivy competition BY CHRIS HATFIELD

The baseball team picked up its first two wins of the season this weekend, going 2-2 against Appalachian State University in twin doubleheaders. It was the second straight weekend the Bears squared off against a more battle-tested foe, as ASU had already played 17 games, posting a 2-15 record. After a 15-hour bus ride down to Boone, N.C., the Bears dropped the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader before picking up their first win in the nightcap. They did the same on Sunday, bringing their record on the season to 2-5. “This was a good team to see where we stood right now,” said Danny Hughes ’06. “They’ve played a bunch of games already, but they were still a team we felt we could beat and that we could measure ourselves against.” In game one on Saturday, Brown was unable to muster much offense and ultimately lost the game 6-1. ASU starter Nick Peterson pitched his second complete game of the season, holding Brown to just five hits over seven innings. Brown’s lone run was scored when Hughes drove in leftfielder Bobby Wiginton ’05 during the sixth inning. Wiginton was two for three in the game and the only Brown player with multiple hits. James Cramphin ’06 took the loss after pitching five and a third innings, giving up all six runs. Game two was a much different story, as the Bears’ bats came alive with 11 runs wile their pitchers held ASU to just 5 runs. The middle of the lineup did much of the heavy lifting, as the 3-4-5 combo of captain Bobby Deeb ’04, Hughes and shortstop Jeff Nichols ’05 combined for five runs and nine RBIs on sevenfor-10 hitting. Starter Shaun McNamara ’06 picked up Bruno’s first win, going five and twothirds, scattering five hits and fanning six. He held the Mountaineers to just two hits in the first five innings before fading in the sixth. Catcher Chris Jernigan ’05 hit his first home run of the year, while third baseman Chris Contrino ’05 added two hits. “I was throwing strikes early in the count. They were aggressive early (in the game), so getting the first pitch over was key. Unlike (in our game against) Florida, they were swinging early in the count. … I had to be a lit-

tle bit sharper,” McNamara said. The first game on Sunday was a back-and-forth battle, with ASU eventually coming out on top 6-5. The Bears held 2-0 and 5-3 leads in the game, but the Mountaineers put three across in the sixth inning to seal the victory. Nichols went three for three, scoring two runs and driving in another. Contrino, Hughes and Paul Christian ’06 all had two hits, with Contrino and Hughes driving in one and two runs, respectively. Chris Davidson ’05 took the loss, going four innings and giving up four earned runs. Robert Dykehouse ’07, who saw duty at both catcher and left field this weekend, had a triple, driving in the other Brown run. The difference in the second game on Sunday was on the mound, as Clint Dykehouse ’07, Robert’s twin brother, went the distance, giving up two runs, one earned, in seven innings. He struck out six while scattering six hits. Captain James Lowe ’05 went two for three, driving in two runs, with Hughes, Nichols and Christian driving in a run apiece. Wiginton and Contrino also had two hits each. While the loss of PreSeason Ivy League Player of the Year Matt Kutler ’04 to injury was a tough blow, several Bears seem to be stepping up at the plate. The Bears also lost starting pitcher Joel DeMaria ’04 to arm surgery heading into the season. Hughes, Contrino and Wiginton lead the Bears in batting average, all three hitting over .400. On the mound, Clint Dykehouse and Brian Tews ’07 have been putting in quality innings. “With a couple guys getting hurt, it gave opportunities for a few different guys to play. So far the guys up and down the lineup have had to step up and pick up a little slack. That looks like what’s happening right now,” Hughes said. “Different guys who haven’t had a shot (to play) in the past are showing what they’re able to do.” Hughes put together two consecutive solid weekends, as he already has 12 RBI while hitting .550. He’s slugging an outstanding .850, and his onbase percentage of .640 is also the best on the team. By comparison, Hughes had eight hits, two runs and two RBI all of last season. see BASEBALL, page 8

“Dream Job” recap: Maggie Haskins ’04.5 steps it up BY BRETT ZARDA

Each week the finalists for ESPN’s reality show “Dream Job” compete for a position as the next “SportsCenter” anchor. Still alive in the competition is Brown’s own Maggie Haskins ’04.5. In the fifth week of the competition, the six remaining contestants anchored two segments of “SportsCenter” highlights, the second of which they received live, on-air. In addition to the highlights, the contestants participated in a five-question test of their sports knowledge. Here’s how I ranked the individual performances of each contestant for this week: 1. Mike Hall: Handled the impromptu highlight better than the rest. Only real blunder was pronouncing the “X” in Xavier as a hard X. Receives bonus points for allegedly striking a love connection with the only female left on the show (Haskins). Not bad, Mike, not bad. “Dream Job” meets “Treasure Island” — now we’re talking. 2. Haskins: I said last week that Haskins needed a Frank Reich-like comeback. She delivered, and I promptly placed my foot in my mouth. And don’t think I’m just blowing smoke

(see past rankings). Her on-air performance was her best yet by far, and her writing continues to be the strongest in the competition. The comeback kid is still the underdog going into the finals, but she certainly put the remaining three amigos on notice. 3. Zachariah Selwyn: Belongs with Hall and Haskins as this week’s medal winners. Dropped to third place based on his inability to name three starting Red Sox pitchers. Call it a geographical bias. Despite the faux pas, he’s still my pick to win it all. I wonder if they’d write a maximum hair length clause into his contract? 4. Aaron Levine: A surprisingly weak performance by Levine, who appeared flustered for the first time and fumbled several lines. This week might have cost him the competition, assuming the other three don’t “Buckner” it next week. I’m not sure if I’m impressed or disturbed that he knew the women’s basketball team from Harvard was the only No. 16 seed to upset a No. 1 seed in the Big Dance. 5. Casey Stern (eliminated): Stern’s performances have steadily declined to match his

diminutive height. Unfortunately for him, that’s pretty low. He fumbled names, repeated catchphrases and mispronounced Xavier after watching Hall receive a lashing for the same mistake just moments before. His 1 for 5 on the quiz certainly didn’t help. Sadly, the dream is over for the little engine that couldn’t. 6. Kelly Milligan (eliminated): Didn’t do a bad job, but he just doesn’t fit as a “SportsCenter” anchor. He might be a good door-to-door salesman, but he lacks the I-could-see-myselfdrinking-a-beer-with-him quality so many “SportsCenter” anchors have. Maybe Fox News has a spot for him. He also couldn’t name three starting infielders for the Yankees. That’s like not knowing the three colors on the American flag. Sad, my friends, sad. Tune in next Sunday at 9 p.m. for the final two-hour episode. Viewers can vote for Haskins — or any other contestant of their choice — at www.espn.com. Herald staff writer Brett Zarda GS covers ESPN’s “Dream Job.” He can be reached at bzarda@browndailyherald.com.

Men’s lacrosse defeats UMass-Amherst 10-5 behind leadership of Towers ‘04 BY BEN MILLER

Despite a last-minute change of venue, the men’s lacrosse team downed the University of Massachusetts-Amherst 10-5, behind five goals from captain Charles Towers ’04. The game against the 16thranked Minutemen was scheduled to be the Bears’ first home game of the year but, due to the snowfall earlier in the week, had to be moved to Harvard University’s Jordan Field, in Cambridge, Mass. “The kids were disappointed that we had to play on the road again, but we didn’t want to make any excuses,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson. At first, it looked as if UMass’s strong defense would hold Brown’s offense in check, as the Bears fell behind 2-0 with four and a half minutes left in the first quarter. But Brown responded shortly after, as David Madeira ’07 found the net on a pass from Chris Mucciolo ’05 to end the first quarter down by only one goal. Madeira, who has started all four games, scoring five goals and adding an assist, has given the kind of performances Nelson said he did not expect from the firstyear for a few more seasons. “We knew when we recruited David Madeira he could be a great player here,” said Nelson. “We think he’s gotten there sooner due to consistent hard work. We hoped he would be this good.”

Brown took advantage of three UMass penalties to tie the score on a behind-the-back goal by Towers with 9:54 left in the half. He would add another one just a few minutes later to put the Bears ahead 3-2, a lead they would not relinquish. Alex Buckley ’07 added an unassisted goal to give the Bears a 4-2 halftime lead. “Towers and the players with experience started to take over,” Nelson said. The Bears started off the second half red-hot, scoring twice to give Brown six unanswered goals and a 6-2 lead. The Minutemen, however, refused to quit and cut the lead to one, making the score 6-5 on three straight goals. Once again, Towers stepped up, scoring his second extra-man goal of the day with 46 seconds left on a pass from Kyle Wailes ’06. As Brown’s leading passer, Wailes has notched 12 assists on the season, an average of three per game. “Charlie does a lot more than score goals for us,” Nelson said. “He plays inside off the ball, so most of his goals must come in off feeds.” With a slim 7-5 lead entering the final period, the Bears knew they were in dangerous territory. Just two weeks prior they had taken a 9-5 lead into the fourth quarter against the University of Vermont, only to watch it slowly disappear behind three straight goals from the Catamounts. But the Bears destroyed any hope of a UMass comeback as a

goal from Mucciolo and two more from Towers sealed the 10-5 win. “We were playing very smart,” Nelson said. “We have been working on being a better fourth-quarter team, and I think all the hard work these kids have been putting in shows. The offense knew when to give the defense a break, and that was a big reason why we were able to shut them out in the second and fourth quarters.” When the Minutemen did get the ball on their offensive half, the Bears’ defense quickly shot them down. Mike Levin ’04 had another solid game in goal, saving eight of 26 shots and only allowing five goals. Bobby Shields ’07 also came up big for the defense, scooping up four ground balls. Kirk Teatom ’05 played a major role in allowing the Bears to maintain possession of the ball by winning 11 out of the 18 faceoffs, including six out of eight in the first half. The Bears face another significant challenge this Saturday when they face Loyola College of Maryland. The Greyhounds, who are perennially a top-10 team in the nation, are currently 2-2 on the season, having defeated Towson University and the University of Notre Dame and lost to Duke University and Hofstra University. Herald staff writer Ben Miller ’07 covers men’s lacrosse. He can be reached at bmiller@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Getting help It is of the utmost importance that the University use what financial resources it has efficiently, and it follows that Psychological Services has undergone a reorganization to maximize the availability of therapists to students. The community’s mental and emotional needs are not ones to be taken lightly. But the recent actions Psych Services has taken to serve students seem a little drastic. To go from having a full-time outreach director to having none at all is not necessarily an improvement. Though administrators say outreach work will be spread among the therapists — including the new one whose position will take the place of the outreach director’s — we have our doubts as to the efficacy of this plan. Psych Services certainly did not mean to do students any harm, but we wonder if therapists trained in the art of working one-on-one with patients will be able to reach out the entire community. These therapists who must now include outreach among their responsibilities are booked solid almost every day, and considering their busy scyhedules, we doubt whether outreach is the most effective use of their time. If they can’t see all the patients who want and need appointments, how will they also publicize events, plan new programming and expand awareness of Psych Services? One of primary responsibilities of Psych Services is to provide students with therapy, whether it’s one-time counseling or longer-term arrangements. But there are undoubtedly students who do not know Psych Services is available to provide them with these services. Facilitating public awareness was the function of the outreach director, and we believe Psych Services went too far in eliminating the position. It isn’t clear whether administrators considered reducing outreach to a part-time position and adding a part-time therapist. With this plan, more demand for appointments could be met, without sacrificing student knowledge of their availability.

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LETTERS Changes to TWTP should be decided publicly To the Editor: It was with dismay that I read about the administration’s back-door decision to open TWTP to all students last year (“Administrators did not disclose opening of TWTP to white students,” March 19). This controversial decision should have been made public to Brown students, incoming first-years and campus publications. Instead, a dean readily admits that the decision should have been made public, but adds that Brown cannot afford to invite all students to TWTP. Saying that a white first-year can attend if he or she asks permission first is a laughable and sneaky cop-out. How is an incoming student to know about TWTP if he or she is not given the information before arriving to campus? This clandestine move by the University appears to have been designed to thwart criticism from both supporters and detractors. My own opinion is that TWTP can include all first-years in most discussions and still reserve some for students of color only, but that aside, I continue to find Brown’s lack of courage in

addressing this issue appalling to the extreme. A recommendation on this issue was made four years ago, but the University conveniently ignored it. I specifically point to the report of the Visiting Committee on Diversity in 2000, which can be viewed on the George Street Journal Web site. Regarding TWTP, that committee recommended the removal of the often ambiguous “third world” name from both the program and the center and the integration of TWTP into the regular orientation. While the report’s less controversial recommendations were welcomed and implemented almost immediately, a discussion about whether to invite all students to discussions of racism and classism at TWTP has been ignored — at least in public. It’s time to show some leadership on issues of race that hit campus each spring. Kristina Arvanitis ’02 March 22

C O R R E C T I O N In an article in Friday’s paper covering a that she did not believe white students were panel discussion on the University’s conpermitted to attend the Third World nections to the slave trade, Rhode Island Transition Program when she attended as a College Professor J. Stanley Lemons’ name first-year and worked as a minority peer was misspelled. counselor. Higa actually told a Herald reporter she was not expressly told that The same article also inaccurately reported white students could attend. the number of people in the audience. About 350 people attended, according to The article also incorrectly reported that the Brown News Service, not 100 as reportHiga attended TWTP in 2000 and was an ed. MPC in 2001. She attended TWTP in 1999 and was an MPC in 2000. Another article in Friday’s paper (“Administrators did not disclose opening of TWTP to white students”) contained an incorrect paraphrase. In the article, Michelle Higa ’04 is paraphrased as saying

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2004 · PAGE 11

ARI SAVITZKY

How to deal with hate speech Students received an email one month ago from administrators saying that “a number of Brown students were involved in an altercation after words were exchanged about homophobic remarks made by one of the students.” This incident might not have been reported to Public Safety, let alone the student body, if it hadn’t escalated to violence. But in dorms, on quads, and between the lines of Campus Safety emails, hate speech happens at Brown, and you probably don’t even know it. Brown is a world whose lifeblood is free thought and expression. But speech, in the era of diversity, has gained new power to both produce insight and to savage one’s neighbors. Slurs are scrawled on student’s doors and yelled at campus pedestrians, and they are often met with complacency in the name of free speech. Suffering and fear are not unfortunate byproducts of spirited debate. But how can speech be regulated? For the answer we turn to Alexander Meiklejohn, Brown Professor, Dean, and class of 1893. In 1954, shortly after the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Meiklejohn told the Senate subcommittee on Constitutional rights that the First Amendment “declares that with respect to political belief, political discussion, political advocacy, political planning, our citizens are sovereign.” The amendment allows the state “to limit the freedom of men as they go about the management of their private, their non-political, affairs.” This now famous bifurcation of speech into the political and the private is known as the Meiklejohn interpretation of the First Amendment. Universities — including Meiklejohn’s alma mater — do well to follow the spirit of his interpretation. It’s easy to feel squeamish about being “thought police” or to ignore what seems intractable. But separating the personally damaging speech from the logically

impaired is crucial to Brown’s present and future. In the marketplace of ideas, David Horowitz continues to trade in bullplop. First he expounded the illogic of reparations-as-racism, and now cries about the lack of “Academic Freedom” on today’s college campuses. But the Meiklejohn interpretation offers a noteworthy distinction between Horowitz’s two brands of manure. A right to freedom from someone else’s political views is antithetical to the Meiklejohn interpretation. But squelching someone’s claim to such a right would be as well. What about Mr. Horowitz’s earlier argu-

Brown should heed Alexander Meiklejohn, Class of 1893 ment that “reparations are a bad idea — and racist too”? Part politics, part race baiting, this unholy fusion might not warrant total protection. As statements move across Meiklejohn’s spectrum, institutions and academic communities are increasingly empowered to regulate their content. Meiklejohn thus defines both what is protected and what isn’t. The Daily Jolt poster who says “Aren’t you the people who got f—-ing burned in ovens in Europe during the 40’s?” deserves little protection when Jolters vote to remove that post. By the time we get to language intended to hurt and intimidate, we have moved to private, regulatable speech, whose penumbra includes fraud, libel, verbal abuse and the panhistoric dictionary of violence and suppression which

comprises hate speech. Some may recall that the Supreme Court upheld the rights of the Nazi party to march in Skokie, Illinois. Hate speech is different. It is not a profession of one’s public beliefs so much as it is an attack on another person. Political speech, Meiklejohn might say, is the spirit which giveth civic life. A slur is seldom a political statement. Yet we seem reluctant to come down too hard on those who threaten other students with well-worn smears. Meiklejohn can’t procure us a perfect equilibrium of freedoms. But he is clear: we need not protect non-political speech which harms members of our microcosm. In fact we are obligated, as President Simmons told the Student Body last Wednesday, to confront our neighbors. Big institutions like simple rules, and unless students demand change, there will be none. The Roger Williams College Republicans, perpetual political pass blockers for the radical right, are peddling free speech to the Associated Press, and they are not alone. Orientation programs, disciplinary procedures, and police investigations must reflect the fact that some speech is intolerable. But real change is dependent on you standing up when someone says something wrong. Perhaps this is the approach that Meiklejohn might find most satisfactory — combating speech with speech. A University can change its rules, but only a friend can change a person’s heart, and too often we are silent. It is thus apropos that Meiklejohn has been immortalized in Brown’s peer advising program, for the boy who cries “fag” is most successfully reproached by his suitemate. Brown can and must fight hate speech, but only you can make that task obsolete. Ari Savitzky ’06 combats speech with writing.

ERIC MAYER

Whither the liberal nation? Recently, Ralph Nader held a correspondence with The Nation, the liberal newsmagazine that has supported him for years, regarding his presidential candidacy. This correspondence, made up of a series of articles including “An Open Letter to Ralph Nader” (Feb. 16) and “Ralph Nader Replies: Whither The Nation?” (March 8), reveals one assumption, among others, that both parties share. Namely, that philosophic liberalism — that is, liberalism based upon sincere belief and (if we’re lucky) thought rather than political exploitation — is the only coherent answer to the treachery of the Bush administration and to conservatism in general. The Nation and Nader, however, disagree on a more semantic point: whether the electable flavor of philosophic liberalism — the phrase itself an oxymoron and descriptive of political, rather than philosophic liberalism — is more advantageous than the ideologically consistent flavor. In “An Open Letter to Ralph Nader,” The Nation argues that we should vote Democratic because “there is a level of passionate volunteerism at the grassroots of the Democratic Party not seen since 1968.” The Nation’s reference to 1968 is apt: In that election year, the electable Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic candidacy over the ideologically consistent Eugene McCarthy for similar reasons to the ones that guaranteed Kerry victory over Howard Dean and that will guarantee Kerry a much larger piece of the voter pie than Nader in November. In each of these situations, being “too” liberal — which, as evidenced by the numerous ways Nader, Dean and McCarthy better represent liberalism than their Washington-spawned opponents, simply means being liberal to begin with — is seen as a hindrance to pragmatic goals, such as electing a Democrat to the presidency.

John Kerry’s liberalism, widely distorted by both Right and Left, is politically motivated and untrue to the principles of the liberal ideology. Studying Kerry, we discover that American political liberalism is something of a pop-culture liberalism, centering around intellectually shallow debates of inconsequential Washington decisions. The things that make Kerry liberal in the one-dimensional eyes of the media — his mild, politically-motivated support for affirmative action (minority votes), gay rights (homosexual votes) and abortion rights (female votes) — coexist with a voting record that isn’t nearly as liberal as his “I can do Dean better than Dean” candidacy would lead us to

Nader and The Nation offer flawed arguments for liberalism in ’04. believe. His defense record, despite the conservative attack it will continue to suffer, is one such example: a closer look reveals that each time Kerry was asked to spend more tax dollars on our offensive military he was all too willing to oblige. If, as The Nation maintains, philosophic liberalism is what is needed and Kerry best represents that, then it follows that his decisions should have best represented philosophic liberals. I haven’t met one person I’d describe as a “liberal” — political, philosophic, you name it — who spoke glowingly of the military-industrial complex, so I’ll assume

Kerry’s pumping of money into that institution breaks with the party line somewhat. Nader’s candidacy, then, leads us to an intriguing question: If it is the nature of partisan ideology to be alternately used or abandoned for the purpose of attaining pragmatic goals whenever it is convenient, then should partisan ideology, ideally, be depended upon at all? Predictably, this question is not answered by either The Nation or Nader in their correspondence. What is clear to both The Nation and Nader, however, is what particular partisan ideology shouldn’t be depended upon. Nader says, of the Democrats: “Jefferson’s party ... has become very good at electing very bad Republicans all by itself.” Thus, the problem with philosophic liberalism is political conservatism, which, according to Nader, political liberalism has become. The Nation echoes the dismissal of political conservatism without Nader’s conflation: “George W. Bush has led us into an illegal pre-emptive war, and his defeat is critical.” This statement aligns with Nader’s in terms of pinpointing conservatism as problematic to the infallible truths of liberalism. Neither The Nation nor Nader gives philosophic liberals much motivation to vote. A vote for Nader, while technically representing liberal ideology better, is widely believed to be a vote for Bush. Even with a representative of political liberalism (like Hubert Humphrey in 1968 or Kerry today) in the candidacy, victory cannot be assured: It was Richard Nixon, as we all know, who won in 1968. The Nation fails to reference this historical point, and in so doing, makes a mockery of the pragmatic judgment that motivates its argument. Eric Mayer ’05 is a card-carrying meta-liberal.

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SPORTS TUESDAY MARCH 23, 2004 · PAGE 12

Men’s tennis sweeps University of MarylandBaltimore 7-0

Is St. Joseph’s next upset in NCAA?

BY CRAIG MCGOWAN

After a wild weekend of secondround NCAA tournament action, it seems absolutely necessary for a recap, and who better to provide it than the LUKE MEIER wr iter SPORTS COLUMNIST currently at the bottom of The Herald sports staff pool? A thousand things caught my eye as I roamed my apartment from couch to chair to fridge and back this weekend, all of them basketball-related and most of them pleasant. Atop the unpleasant list was the shuddering realization that neither of my two picks for the national championship game (Mississippi State over Gonzaga!) survived the first weekend. Ouch. Even better teams than the ones I picked suffered, though, making the second round a truly wild one that more than made up for the snooze-fest that was Round 1. It’s hard to remember the last time two No. 1 seeds have failed to make the Sweet 16, but this year’s mediocre crop definitely had the potential from the beginning. Stanford University, the team deemed best in the country by sports writers and coaches of America, fell to the University of Alabama. Kentucky, given the highest seed in the tournament field, fell to the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Both Stanford and Kentucky had the chance to bail themselves out with last-second three-point attempts. Both missed, swiftly and unexpectedly making Alabama the happiest state in the union. Maybe people will stop caring so much about that fading Alabama-Auburn football rivalry now that it’s becoming a basketball state. Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the two No.1 seeds exiting the tournament in Round 2 is that neither was St. Joseph’s University. Don’t get me wrong. I love small schools, undersized teams and Jameer Nelson’s arms. I just can’t fall for St. Joe’s. They say they’re not playing against those who say they’re overrated, but I think they’re lying. And if they are, they’re playing against me, because that team is barely in the top 20. Head Coach Phil Martelli called CBS analyst Billy Packer a “jackass” for suggesting that his team was not one of the four best in the country, so I can only ponder what words he might use to describe me if I had the chance to evaluate his team in the national spotlight. Speaking of the national spot-

Feeding off its excellent performance two weeks ago at the Blue/Gray Invitational, the men’s tennis team extended its spring record to 11-2 Friday with a convincing win over the University of MarylandBaltimore County. The Bears dominated the match from the start, winning by a final score of 7-0. “Coming off of last weekend, this was a match we knew we should win,” said co-captain Jamie Cerretani ’04. The Bears, who moved up to 43rd in the national rankings, controlled the entire match, never giving the Retrievers of UMBC a chance to assert themselves. Brown shuffled its normal doubles lineup for the match, giving different players a chance to get on the court. Cerretani and Adil Shamasdin ’05 usually play together, forming the seventh-ranked doubles team in the nation. But for this match, Cerretani partnered with co-captain Ben Brier ’04 and Shamasdin teamed with Nick Goldberg ’05. Eric Thomas ’07 and Zach Pasanen ’06 comprised Brown’s third doubles team. Goldberg and Shamasdin took some time to get up to speed in their match against James Tyler and Michael Keller. Brown fell into an early 1-3 hole, but Goldberg and Shamasdin held serve from there to make the score 4-5. The Bears then went on a 4-0 run, breaking UMBC’s serve twice en route to an 8-5 victory. Cerretani and Brier had little trouble in quickly defeating their UMBC opponents 8-1, while Thomas and Pasanen blanked their opponents 8-0 to sweep the doubles point for Brown. Cerretani and Brier are ranked 50th nationally in doubles, making Cerretani one of the only players in the nation to be ranked on two doubles teams. “As a team, we came out and played well today. The guys real-

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Ben Brier ’04 and the men’s tennis team dominated the University of Maryland-Baltimore this past weekend 7-0. ly support each other so much,” said Head Coach Jay Harris. In singles, any hopes the Retrievers had for a comeback were quickly dashed. Goldberg dominated his opponent, Luis Baraldi, in their singles match, winning 6-0, 6-1 in less than an hour to put Brown up 2-0. “I wanted to start off strong for the team,” Goldberg said after his match. The Bears kept the momentum rolling, winning every singles match in straight sets. Brier jumped to an early lead on Keller, capitalizing on his service points and scoring two breaks to win the first set 6-1 and the second 6-2. Shamasdin

clinched the win for Brown, fighting out a win in his first set 6-4 before controlling the second set 6-3 to earn the win over Mikhail Kouznetsov. Having clinched the win, the Bears could have relaxed and coasted through the rest of the match. Instead, the Bears kept their concentration and notched some big wins in the process. Cerretani improved his singles record to 18-8 with a dominating win over Tyler at number-one singles 6-0, 6-1. The match was extended with by several long rallies, which Cerretani was able to win on the way to his victory.

Thomas continued his excellent freshman season, defeating Djan Gusmao 6-2, 6-0. Thomas is now 15-7 in singles play this year. Pasanen closed out the match by defeating Albert Hardja 6-4, 6-0. Down 3-4 in the first set, Pasanen rallied behind his teammate’s support and won the next nine games for the victory. Brown returns to the court to take on 56th-ranked Virginia Tech on March 27 at the Pizzitola Sports Center. Herald staff writer Craig McGowan ’07 covers men’s tennis. He can be reached at cmcgowan@browndailyherald.com.

Daniels ’04 one of five w. swimmers to earn First Team All-Ivy honors at league championships BY CHRIS MAHR

The women’s swimming and diving team capped off its respectable 11-3 season (4-3 Ivy League) by taking fourth at the Ivy League Championships Feb. 26-28 in Cambridge, Mass. The meet was an exemplary one for co-captain Liz Daniels ’04, who took first in the 50 and 100-yard freestyle events and was a member of Brown’s winning 200 and 400-yard freestyle

relay teams. Daniels’ performance at the Ivy Championships earned her both Swimmer of the Meet and First Team All-Ivy honors. Daniels was the only Ivy Leaguer to automatically qualify for the NCAA Championships in the 50-yard freestyle. Daniels was not the only swimmer to garner First Team All-Ivy honors. Co-captain

Emily McCoy ’04, Lauren Hinkson ’06 and Eileen Robinson ’06 all made the First Team with their performances on the 200 and 400-yard freestyle relay teams. Lindsay Hoban ’04 joined her four teammates on the First Team with a first-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke. Three weeks after the Ivy Championships, Daniels trav-

eled to College Station, Texas, for the NCAA Championships, where she finished 15th out of 71 swimmers in the preliminary rounds of the 50-yard freestyle and placed 16th in the consolation finals.

see NCAA, page 8 Herald staff writer Chris Mahr ’07 is an assistant sports editor and covers women’s swimming. He can be reached at cmahr@browndailyherald.com.

B ROW N S P O RTS S C H E D U L E Tuesday, March 23 Softball: Holy Cross, POSTPONED