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Library workers reach tentative contract agreement

Simmons fields parents’ questions in Sunday session

BY SARA PERKINS

BY AIDAN LEVY

Aborting a planned Parents Weekend rally, negotiators for the union representing 90 library workers announced Friday afternoon that they had reached a tentative five-year contract agreement with the University. United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island representative Karen McAninch left the Rockefeller Library negotiations just prior to signing the agreement to announce the terms of the proposed contract, which will face a “pretty pro-forma” authorization vote of the union members, probably on today, before it is officially signed. The contract will include a 2.25 percent wage increase this year, changes in health insurance copayments in 2007 — the last year of the contract — and an agreement by the University to leave the library hours as they are now and give six months’ warning before reopening contract negotiations on the subject. Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter praised the tentative agreement in an e-mail to the Herald Sunday. “This new collective bargaining agreement permits the leadership of the library to make the informed decisions necessary to ensure that our libraries remain a vital scholarly resource, and outlines a package of wages, benefits and working conditions that is fair to the union members and the rest of the University community,” he wrote. The library workers’ last contract expired in September 2002; it was extended into early 2003, but since then, library workers have worked without a contract. In two years of negotiations, the union and the University have been unable to reach agreement, primarily due to disagreements about the University’s proposed reorganization of the libraries, under which individual workers would each be responsible for a variety of tasks — including shelving, cataloguing and desk staffing. Workers have contended that the reorganization would force them to do more work without a corresponding pay increase and would take away the stability of their schedules. Librarians and student workers do not belong to the union and are not involved in the contract. The union and the Student Labor Alliance had planned a Friday afternoon rally on the Main Green, including a display of about 1,000 student-signed cards expressing support for the library workers, during a Parents Weekend coffee. “If the administration won’t listen to students, they’ll listen to parents,” said TePing Chen ’07. The rally was not part of a threat to strike, said Chris Hu ’06, but an attempt to “get negotiations moving again.” “We would hope that parents would ask questions of President (Ruth) Simmons, asking why this has gone on so long,” said Debra Nelson-Danielson, a senior library reference specialist and an alternate negotiator who stayed with the

In her annual Sunday morning Parents Weekend session, President Ruth Simmons discussed ongoing developments in the Plan for Academic Enrichment and answered questions on topics including financial aid, the engineering program and the accessibility of the campus to students with disabilities. Simmons addressed a packed crowd of parents, students and faculty members in a tent set up on the Main Green Sunday at 11 a.m. During the question-and-answer session, Simmons first addressed a question about accessibility on and around campus. Many of Brown’s older buildings are not equipped to accommodate students with disabilities. “This is expensive and hard to do, but we aim to bring all buildings into compliance,” Simmons said. “With newer buildings it’s much easier.” Richard Spies, executive vice president for planning, said the University

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Calling himself a “failure,” Dustin Hoffman P’07 spoke Saturday evening to a capacity Parents Weekend crowd at the Pizzitola Sports Center.

Hoffman P’07 tells actors to expect — and embrace — failure BY MELANIE WOLFGANG

Two-time Academy Award winner and seven-time nominee Dustin Hoffman P’07 confessed to a packed audience Saturday night that he was “a failure.” “A Conversation with Dustin Hoffman,” sponsored by the Creative Arts Council and set in the Pizzitola Sports Center, began with the actor’s insistence that he was “not a lecturer.” He defined a lecturer as a teacher, someone who knows. “I never did and still don’t know,” he said. The event was moderated by Michael Ovitz P’05, co-founder of the Creative Artists Agency. Hoffman, who did not graduate from college, said he took an acting class during his brief time at a community college after a friend informed him, “Nobody flunks acting. It’s like gym.” So began a lifetime of on-screen and onstage achievements. And for all his talk of failure, Hoffman appeared, at 67 years old, a man rich with experience. The self-proclaimed “authentic ignoramus” began the evening with a quote from poet e.e. cummings and ended it, in tears, with a quote on art appreciation from Rainer Maria Rilke. His conversation was layered with words of advice for aspiring actors, entertaining Hollywood anecdotes — like the time he fooled fellow actor Jon Voight while dressed like a woman for his role in “Tootsie” — and commentary on everything from the presidential election to the notion of original sin. Hoffman, who grew up in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue acting, said in response to a question from the audience that if he weren’t an actor he would probably be a director. One of his first on-stage appearances was in a Gertrude Stein play at Sarah Lawrence College. A student from the audience asked

Hoffman how he, in his early twenties, could hope to perform with all the knowledge and experience of his elders. Hoffman, in response, pointed to Marlon Brando’s acclaimed performance, at only 29 years old, in “On the Waterfront.” A lot happens in your twenties, he said, referring to the Friday night keynote lecture by Chris Matthews P’05. “I always tell my kids it’s the question-mark decade.” He also recommended turning to the “big guys and the big gals” of literature, which is how he “got a taste of what (he) was really going to feel emotionally” when he was older.” His talk was filled with other words of wisdom for up-and-coming artists. Hoffman, a father of six, said he shapes his on-screen characters by considering first what they are not. “I think in acting, like in life, you keep chipping away at what you don’t like,” he said. His experience dressing as a woman in “Tootsie” taught him much about the female experience. Noting that he was able to pick out his own breast size for the part, he said, “You want to feel in-scale. You want to feel attractive. You want to feel sexy. You do. Believe me.” He then related a particularly moving experience he had on the set of “Tootsie” when, in costume as a woman, he was approached by a group of men. After looking Hoffman up and down, the men summarily “erased” him, turning their attention to younger and more attractive women. Hoffman said the shock of the experience sent him crying to his wife, to whom he confessed that he’d done that to women before. “I was brought up that way. I had to have trophy girls,” he said. He also pointed to the wide criticism of President George W. Bush, who he said was “not dumb” but was also “not intellectual” or introspective. “We are a flawed species,”

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he said. He was quick to add, however, that he was a Kerry supporter. In an interview with The Herald before the event, Hoffman said he found he had much in common with politicians. “They wear the same kind of makeup I do when I’m working. They have the same costume designers fitting them for colors. They have better writers than I do.” “And what’s marvelous is that the politicians act like they own (writers’ lines) – like an actor is supposed to,” he said. He found it interesting that politicians could use their political status to, in a sense, become entertainers. “We know the actor’s the actor,” he said. “The actor is out there telling you, ‘I’m lying. I’m not really this character.’” In contrast, the politician “is one of the great liars,” Hoffman said — but also therefore one of the great actors. “The bottom line for a politician is to be elected and then re-elected,” Hoffman said, referring to an idea put forward by political theorist Noam Chomsky. The desire to be re-elected, he said, causes politicians’ frequent hedging. “It’s by nature, I think, disingenuous,” he said. “More and more in my lifetime.” Moving to something a little less serious, Hoffman told The Herald that “God has already shifted his affection” from the Yankees to the Red Sox. “We’ll see if he puts on a Red Sox jersey or not,” he added. Kristen Greider ’08 said she thought Hoffman “was very truthful” and she appreciated his use of “raw imagery.” She referred to his use of the image of an umbilical cord when speaking about the difficulty of divorce in response to a question about “Kramer vs. Kramer.” Recalling how his own experience with divorce informed the devel-

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M. soccer beats Cornell University 2-0 in Homecoming game after making first goal late in first half sports, page 8

Football earns Homecoming victory over Cornell with assistance of Anthony Vita ’07 sports, page 8

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS INFO SESSION: KYOTO CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES 4-5 p.m. (Rhode Island Hall 107) — Assistant to the Director Fusako Shore and Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies Yuko Jackson will discuss Brown’s program in Kyoto, Japan. “WORDSWORTH’S EMPIRE” 5 p.m. (Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall) — David Simpson of the University of California-Davis will deliver a lecture as part of the “Situating the Humanities” series.

“FAIR ELECTIONS? INTERNATIONAL MONITORING OF THE 2004 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION” 7 p.m. (Smith-Buonanno 106) — Kwesi Addae, an internationally renowned democracy activist from Ghana, and Jason Mark, director of communications of the organization Global Exchange, will speak about the “Fair Election” program, which will monitor the U.S. electoral process this year.

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PANEL: ASIAN-AMERICAN VOTING 7-8 p.m. (Wilson 101) — A panel discussion about low AsianAmerican voter turnout and voter education for the 2004 presidential race.

TOMORROW ’S EVENTS Jero Matt Vascellaro FUNDING AND FELLOWSHIPS 5-6 p.m. (Rhode Island Hall 116) — A comprehensive info session on funding and fellowship opportunities. Representatives from the Swearer Center, the Resource Center and the Dean of the College Fellowships Office will speak.

“THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THE FUTURE OF THE ENVIRONMENT” 7-9 p.m. (Salomon 101) — Eight panelists representing wideranging disciplinary and ideological viewpoints will discuss the implications of a Bush or Kerry administration on the future of the environment.

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Pre-med advisor Ripley to retire after this semester BY SARA PERKINS

Associate Dean of the College Robert Ripley, the University’s advisor to premedical students, will retire this spring, he announced in an e-mail to pre-med students on Thursday. “I’m 64. It’s time, just like the Beatles song,” he told The Herald on Sunday, his birthday. Ripley will use his vacation time in January and February and retire officially in March. The search for his replacement will be launched immediately, said Dean of the College Paul Armstrong, who said he was “pretty confident” that a new associate dean could be hired by March. In January and February, other associate deans will fill the gap, he said. Since taking over pre-med advising duties from an overtaxed dean in 1974, Ripley has guided students through the process of fulfilling pre-medical requirements and applying to medical schools, while challenging them to really consider whether they are interested in and ready for medicine, students said. “One thing he does is constantly makes you think whether you want to be a doctor or not. He doesn’t just hand the perfect pre-med application to you right away,” said Christopher Sha ’06.

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In keynote, Matthews P’05 talks about road from Peace Corps to politics BY CHRISTOPHER CHON

Chris Matthews P’05 had a message for students Friday evening, and it had nothing to do with politics: Do something in your twenties that will be worth remembering for the rest of your life. Best known as a political commentator, Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” delivered the Parents Weekend keynote lecture to a packed Sayles Hall audience made up mostly of visiting parents. A distinguished journalist, political commentator and best-selling author described as a “cultural icon” by President Ruth Simmons during her introduction, Matthews shared his experiences as a trade development advisor in the Kingdom of Swaziland during his stint with the Peace Corps in the late 1960s, emphasizing to students the importance of the experiences of their twenties. “What are you going to do?” he asked the students in the audience. “It’s how you’re going to grow up and how you’re going to make the decisions to make you grow up. You’re always going to look back on your twenties as the times when you did the big things, the life-changing things — not just grad school and law school and things — the wild things you’re going to do in your twenties. “I can tell you, if you’re lucky, your twenties will be wild — wild as hell,” he said. Matthews said that experience and “finding stuff that memories are made of” are an integral part of growing up. He recounted a

trip he took with his sons to meet a friend in Vietnam and a brief stop they made in Berlin. “I’m a student of World War II, and (I) realized I knew where Hitler had his bunker. I took (my sons) to where I knew Hitler had committed suicide,” Matthews said. “And we all took a leak. I want my kids when they’re 90 years old to remember when they were in their teens they pissed on Hitler’s grave. Those little memories make all the difference.” Matthews said there was a “bite in the air” during the 1960s — “the bite that things matter.” He attributed the “bite” to the looming draft. “You knew that even your dad wasn’t going to protect you,” he said. “How’s that for a feeling? Nobody was going to protect you. You were going to get drafted, you’re going to Vietnam and your name would end up on a casket list.” Because of the draft, Matthews said he was confronted with a decision: becoming an enlistee, a draftee, a resister or a Canadian or going to federal prison. “Those are the decisions people actually made in my era,” he said. Matthews recalled sitting on a park bench in Montreal one day and making a list of things he could do. “I made a decision which changed my life,” he said. “And for two years between the ages of 23 and 25, I spent a good part of my time riding around the dirt roads, the remote bush, the African bush, of Swaziland in Africa on a Suzuki 120 motorcycle. I was teaching 200 people how

to be better businessmen, African traders.” Matthews had decided to join the Peace Corps and began work as a trade development advisor. “I would just walk into their stores and tell them, ‘Let’s learn how to do business better.’ And on my more romantic moments, I thought of myself as a bourgeois Che Guevara. He was selling revolution in South America; I was selling bookkeeping and capitalism in Southern Africa.” During his two years in the Peace Corps, Matthews traveled around on his Suzuki motorcycle teaching business in Swaziland, hitchhiked alone through Africa, went on a 26-hour bus ride with chickens and goats, fell in love with Indian cities, spent a day fishing in a lake “so big you couldn’t see land,” closed the bar one night with friends in Zanzibar and spent “days in the perfect sand, just hanging out.” He said the experiences shaped the rest of his life. “It was, in a way, a rite of passage for me. It got me out of my world and into another,” he said. “My grandmother looked into my eyes a couple years after I got back, and she saw me coming to Washington and getting these jobs and everything. She looked me in the eyes and said, ‘It was Africa, wasn’t it?’” After his speech, Matthews took questions from the audience. “That was softball,” he said. “Now we go to hardball.” While he successfully avoided the topic for the most part during his prepared lec-

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Simmons has implemented a plan to effect these changes within the next six years. “There ought to be improvements every year,” he told The Herald after the session. The project has already cost in excess of $1 million and will cost many millions more to complete, he said. One parent inquired about the scarcity of Latino faculty members. Simmons said the University is pushing to attract more culturally diverse scholars, especially Latinos, and cited the help of Marta Tienda, a member of the Brown Board of Trustees. “We’re working very hard,” Simmons said. “Whenever we get an opportunity, we go after these people aggressively.” Another parent asked about expanding economic diversity to represent students from lowerincome families to a greater degree. “Our goal is to identify students of extraordinary intellectual capacity. Period,” she said. “A child born into this world in poverty should not have his intellectual capacity stigmatized by the contents of his purse.” Simmons also referred to Sidney Frank’s recent $100 million donation, which will fund scholarships to eliminate student loans for certain low-income students. Another parent discussed his qualms about the restrictions imposed on engineering concentrators. Simmons defended Brown’s program. Having crafted an engineering program at Smith College, where she served as president, she said she realizes that there are “particular mandates in the field of engineering that require a certain curricu-

lum.” In addition, she said that “most universities are boxed in,” due to constraints established by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, the national engineering accreditation organization. Brown satisfies ABET requirements and allows students to “combine pure engineering with liberal learning.” As far as a loosening of those restrictions goes, “ABET is reluctant to reduce the requirements,” she said. Provost Robert Zimmer fielded a question from a parent who recounted a memory of hearing Christopher Reeve P’02 deliver a powerful Parents Weekend keynote lecture three years ago and asked about Brown’s involvement with stem cell research. Zimmer said Brown faculty members are not currently performing research specifically related to stem cells. “It’s not a centrally driven agenda,” he said. “We’re actively engaged, but we’re following the faculty.” In her 20-minute speech, Simmons discussed ongoing developments in the Plan for Academic Enrichment and reiterated Brown’s continuing commitment to foster risk-taking and “help students learn to see through the haze.” In the spirit of intellectual contention she outlined three years ago in her first convocation address, Simmons issued a similar injunction to students, saying that in her eyes, they have a duty as members of the Brown community to not “merely study,” but to “invest their humanity” — this, she said, “is the heart of our academic experience.” Simmons highlighted the diversity of the student body, faculty and opportunities at Brown, even extending into the realm of fashion with the “stunning vari-

ety of clothing styles” on campus. She alluded to the myriad of research projects Brown students and faculty are heavily involved with, such as Louella Hill ’04, food systems coordinator for Brown Dining Services, who turned her senior thesis into a movement to introduce locallygrown food to Brown dining. Simmons cited Hill’s work as a primary influence on the increase in students on meal plan this year. Other accomplishments Simmons discussed were renowned poet and Professor of English C.D. Wright’s recent distinction as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and Neuroscience department chair John Donoghue’s Discover Magazine Innovation Award for his work on Braingate, a neuroprosthetic device that allows the paralyzed to control a computer using brain commands — the ultimate goal being the restoration of full independence to the paralyzed. When asked what her “biggest worries and challenges” are, Simmons replied by discussing her relationship with the students. “I feel very much like a parent to all of my students,” she said. “I want to make sure that all students get the maximum benefit of their time here. So I worry about that unexpected thing, what we can’t foresee or predict, and I’m constantly nagging my associates to plan for it.” In the future, she said, she hopes students will make a difference but that they will do it with more than their emotions. “We need to mend the differences between people,” she said. “Brown needs to hold onto the prominence and preeminence of reason in everything instead of letting emotion take over.”

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team late into the night Thursday, partly because the negotiators were accidentally locked into the Rock. As about 30 workers and students began making their way from the Rock Friday, Ellen Crim Lech-Moore, a senior acquisitions associate, stopped them to announce that a tentative agreement had been reached. The workers continued to the green to thank student organizers and celebrate.

“We play as a unit between James Frazier (’06), Stephen Storrs (’06), Greg Burlin (’06), Pat Curran (’06), and then we substitute Paul Kaminski (’05), Mike Stefannacci (’05) and Casey Dougan (’07),” Estes said. “We’re rotating our guys, keeping them fresh so that they’re always going 100 miles per hour. They’re all getting a lot of playing time and we don’t feel like we have any letdowns with one group of guys that go in there.”

The game showed the kind of moxie that Brown will need next week as it takes on the undefeated University of Pennsylvania Quakers next Saturday. “What’s nice is that the team went through some adverse situations, they stuck together as a team and when they had to make the plays they made the plays,” Estes said. “They just keep grinding things out, and if we can do that we will continue to be successful.”

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Herald staff writer Chris Mahr ’07 covers football. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Matthews continued from page 3 ture, politics quickly became the subject of interest during the brief question-and-answer forum. Matthews said many Americans are voting misinformed, calling this year’s election based on “bad intel,” but said he does not think the Bush administration deliberately misinformed the public — he said he thinks Vice President Dick Cheney believed he

Hoffman continued from page 1 opment of the movie, Hoffman said a relationship that connects two people in love cannot easily be cut off, even when both parties want it to end. Joe Gosha ’75 said that Hoffman “capsulized in two or three sentences what it takes most actors years and years to learn” when he spoke about the power of “being in the moment.” “Seeing his passion at this event

Ripley continued from page 3 Brown sends an average of 180 students to medical school every year, Ripley said. He has around 1,200 appointments per year with medical school hopefuls. Because Brown pre-medical students have to pick a concentration and fulfill its requirements in addition to the requirements for medical school, the pre-med advisor has to help students balance the demands of both. “My goal for everyone is to make sure they get an education,” Ripley said. Ripley said that his reputation for sometimes-harsh honesty was earned, but necessary. “The rumor was that I was really tough. I’ve always been a tough coach, but if I pushed too hard, I did it for you,” he told The Herald. “He really challenged students and was very honest with them,” said Justin Chan ’05. “I don’t think I would have gotten as far if he wasn’t as challenging.”

was telling the truth when Cheney suggested there was a connection between Sept. 11 and Iraq. Matthews said Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., would be a better vice presidential running mate for John Kerry than John Edwards is, noting that Kerry and Edwards are not likely to win any states in the South, including Edwards’ native North Carolina, but are in close competition with President George W. Bush in the industrial Midwest, where Gephardt is popular. He also praised Howard Dean,

telling a self-proclaimed “Deaniac” in the audience that her candidate’s clear position against the war in Iraq, rather than his infamous “scream” following the Iowa caucuses, was the reason he failed to win the nomination. Matthews said he liked Dean so much because he had “clarity” and “guts.” “Say what you believe and let the country catch up to you,” he said. “Don’t try to catch up to the country, because then you’ll just be another spinner. And you might as well go in my business.”

instructs me as to why he is so powerful as an actor,” Gosha said. Spencer Golub P’05, chair of the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, and Michael Silverman, chair of the Department of Modern Culture and Media, presented Hoffman with the Creative Arts Council’s Distinguished Visiting Artist Award for his portrayal of “the marginalized eccentric, the social outcast and the modern everyman.” The event was organized by Michael Ovitz P’05 and Kimberly Ovitz ’05, who wanted to bring

real artists of different types to campus as a resource for students in the arts. Hoffman ended the evening by apologizing to President Ruth Simmons, who sat looking very amused in the front row. “I’m sorry I’m a bad boy sometimes,” he said, in reference to his semiscandalous Hollywood stories. “At some point we’ll have a drink and we’ll go out and boogie,” he promised.

Ripley’s departure has been in the works for several years, he said. “I’ve been talking about it. If you ask any pre-med, the rumor has been floating around for three or four years.” “We’ve been talking about the possibility for a while now, but I got his actual letter announcing his retirement on Thursday,” Armstrong said. Students and Armstrong said Ripley’s experience and connections at top medical schools will be missed. “He has a really excellent record of getting students accepted to top-notch medical schools. We think he’s done an excellent job, and we’ll miss him,” Armstrong said. Some students, including those still in the process of applying to medical schools this winter, may feel left on their own by Ripley’s departure, Chan said. “I think that people who were planning to apply next year are a little more anxious, because we don’t know when the school will find a replacement or whether his replacement will know as much and be as familiar with

the med school community.” Ripley said he plans to travel, first to visit his son in India, and is considering a move into consulting. The first year, he said, he plans to just have fun. Students said that for better or for worse, they will remember his tough love. “I was told that I should be nervous about meeting with him, but I liked him. He was very honest and open about what you needed to get into medical school,” said Ashley Schomer ’06.

Herald staff writer Melanie Wolfgang ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Herald news editor Sara Perkins ’06 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Closing the book It’s been years since Brown’s library workers began negotiating with University officials, hoping to secure the terms of their employment for the next several years. It’s also been years since Brown’s library workers began working without a contract, hoping that the agreement proposed by the University would suit their demands. On Friday, union officials announced that an agreement had been reached and that library workers — the 90 represented by the union — would probably sign the proposed agreement later this week. That announcement turned a planned worker-support rally that coincided with Parents Weekend into a celebration of the end of two years of negotiations that went into this contract. The University’s workers deserve to be treated just as fairly as the students here, and officials’ decision to compromise with the union on many of its demands was ultimately a good one. We commend both parties for working together to reach a decision. But we further commend the library workers for realizing how desperately the University depends on their skills. Though union members could have gone on strike anytime after October 2002, they didn’t — despite threatening a walkout multiple times. While we’d like to think that’s because they knew the University would shut down without them, they more likely did not strike because they knew it would hurt their cause. But no matter what their reason for avoiding a strike, we are grateful. The library is the center of any university — it’s the physical home of knowledge and research. For the University not to show the employees who work there the consideration they deserve is to devalue everything the library does. The negotiations were no doubt frustrating — indeed, both sides expressed frustration that things were not moving more quickly. But we sincerely hope that the extra time it took to reach an agreement was worth it — that both sides are reasonably satisfied and will remain so for years to come. We understand that contract negotiations are complicated and that neither side will ever feel as though it got everything it wanted and deserved. But with negotiators coming to an agreement without disrupting the academic life of the University students and faculty are getting much of what they want and deserve: a library that stays open. Reaching an agreement and looking ahead will benefit everyone in the long run — no matter what side of the table they sit on.

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LETTERS A strike is not an option for student workers To the Editor: In response to the letter from Danish Aziz ’05 (“Student workers should consider a strike,” Oct. 21), clearly Aziz has never worked a day in his life if he thinks it is a no-brainer to quit a well-paying job and be unemployed for an indeterminate amount of time. This is not an option for students not financially supported by their parents. While a strike is all very nice and romantic the repercussions are quite dire. We would be fired. For reasons mentioned before, this is not feasible. We are, unfortunately, replaceable. Johnson and Wales University students already work shifts at Jo's that formerly belonged to Brown students, and in response to the extended hours, the Gate has hired JWU students as well. The loss of student jobs on campus would have serious

repercussions on student employment. Furthermore, how dare Aziz claim that working at the Gate is “foolishly toiling away” and that helping out friends and fellow workers is a “misguided attempt at worker solidarity” — that comment is both infuriating and insulting to the workers who have committed time to keeping the Gate operational for all the people who come in drunk and stupid late at night. Yes, there has been vomit in our units ... and feces. The BuDS student management team would desperately like to reach a compromise, and we hope for constructive cooperation from our peers. Suggesting everyone quit their jobs is akin to saying “let them eat cake” — unrealistic, simplistic and totally inflammatory. Rachel Paster ‘05 BuDS Office Manager Oct. 22

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OPINIONS MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2004 · PAGE 7

BENJAMIN CARLSON

Crowding out the poor I may be remiss, but I do not think I am alone in saying that the cost of a Brown education and all its trappings is a bitter pill to swallow in exchange for these four years. Don’t get me wrong: the value of the friendships we gain easily transcends the $40,000 price, and the degree’s cachet is beyond question. But still, somewhere deep in my vigilantly suspicious, reptilian brain I can’t help wondering whether the costs I actually incur each semester resemble in any way the amount I see on the bill. When you get down to it, the only thing I can really be sure of concerning finances at Brown is that I, my parents and my future self can always be asked to pay a little bit more. The one scrap of consolation I get, as the College Board reported last week, is that all students are in the same sinking boat. According to the report, in 2004, tuition at all types of colleges — public universities, private colleges and community colleges — rose markedly yet again. Though the rate of increase was lower than last year's, it exceeded all other hikes in more than a decade. Now, for the first time, the average tuition tops $20,000 at private universities, $5,000 at public universities and

The barriers to a college education. $2,000 at community colleges. There are a variety of explanations for the rising price of college. Health care has become more expensive; state funding of public universities has declined; endowments have shrunk due to the volatility of the stock market; schools have been spending more on lavish expansions of technology and facilities; and some universities, such as Brown, have made the transition to need-blind admission policies, which require more resources. Yet the underlying problem is more complicated. Federal funding for Pell grants, the cornerstone of financial aid for low-income students, has expanded insufficiently to accommodate the growing demand. As a result, the actual amount given out to eligible students in 2003 was 1 percent lower than a year earlier. To make matters worse, Pell grants now cover only 23 percent of the cost for a public university, compared to 35 percent in 1980. At the same time, a shift toward funding meritbased scholarships has disproportionately benefited the middle and upper classes, leaving poorer students with a crippling onus of loans. Disadvantaged students in Rhode Island suffer this problem acutely. In the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education's report “Measuring Up 2004,” the state received a grade of “F” in affordability. The sum effect of these changes is to further crowd out the lower classes from college, consigning them to significantly lower-paying jobs. While the benefit of a bachelor’s degree has always been demonstrable, the salary gap between high-school-educated workers and college graduates has never been greater. As it becomes less possible for poor students to attend college, social stratification becomes unavoidable. Even elite institutions that trumpet their diversity recognize this fact and are seeking to rectify it. Benefactors such as our own beloved Sidney Frank have initiated genuine efforts to enroll more truly low-income students through grants, not loans. Frank’s $100 million gift should make inroads on this problem. A more rational approach might be to cut costs. I know quite personally the extent of inefficiency among Ivy League schools from my summers working in the archives of the University of Pennsylvania. Due to a family connection, I profited from a high-paying job that was in no way necessary, subsidized by the tuitions of students who had never even heard of the Penn archives, let alone the lucrative position of “student assistant.” As grateful as I am for the privilege of studying at Brown, I, like many students, have trouble getting over the exorbitant costs. And if that's the case for a firmly middle-class student like me, the prospects for anyone in a less propitious position are almost unimaginably, dauntingly bleak. Benjamin Carlson ’07 thanks Penn kids for their dough.

Why I work at the Gate GUEST COLUMN BY BRIAN CORCORAN

As a student who works at Brown University Dining Services told to consider finding other jobs, I would like to explain why we do not. Many of us find our work very fulfilling — only the particularly awful conditions this semester have changed our relationship with our work. Many of us do hold other jobs — a few of us are even your TAs — and yet we’ve still chosen to keep our BuDS jobs. The camaraderie, the chance to learn about a side of the service community often ignored at Brown, the pay and even the sense of pride in making a damn good sandwich: These are all reasons for us to stay in our jobs. What’s unacceptable are the new conditions brought about by staying open until 2 a.m. There were always, of course, drunks, messes, the occasional rude or belligerent customer and a sleep deficit. This was tolerable, even occasionally laughable, and we still had enough energy to enjoy being at the Gate, in each other’s company and making people’s food. That was when the Gate closed at 1 a.m. Coincidentally, parties also get out around 1 a.m. This means that while previously we had the occasional mild drunk, now there is a full hour every night of every weekend when, between 1 and 2 a.m., hordes of students, totally trashed, get a hankering for some wonderful Gate pizza or a Chicken Carberry and head right on down. We can’t ask people not to get drunk (How unfair would that be?), but we also can’t reason with a drunk who is belligerent, puking or even defacating all over a place we used to take pride in. The Undergraduate Council of Students and the Office of Student Life have refused to post police officers to help

control any excessive acts, though a few officers have been generously stopping by the Gate more often of their own volition since an assault on two student workers two weeks ago by a sober individual. We like the Gate. We even like the overwhelming majority of our customers. But what are we to do? UCS’s sole decision so far, to my best knowledge, has been to resolve to start a marketing campaign to change campus culture — to tell you all, “Appreciate BuDS workers more — Don’t be mean.” Some of us are hopeful, but more than a little skeptical, and not only because a column by Aaron Fritschner ’06 (“Overworked,” Oct. 20) is the only thing that’s found its way into print thus far. We have invited UCS members to staff the Gate some weekend and see the conditions for themselves, but although they have expressed great enthusiasm, they have not yet done so. We do appreciate that UCS has realized something of the gravity of this issue. We hope to keep working with UCS, and hopefully its marketing campaign will change a campus where student workers now feel disregarded and degraded. A place that was once a comfortable environment is now a place where we resent our customers, even the good ones, because we are dead tired. We are trying to keep the place together with less staff and more customers. We are holding on because if we quit, no one wins. We want to keep working at BuDS. But this extra hour is extraneous during the week and a hell that none of you would want to work in during the weekend.

Working for BuDS, weekends are hell.

Brian Corcoran ‘06 is the subject of forthcoming “60 Minutes” profile.

Undergraduate TAs need to go GUEST COLUMN BY BENJAMIN BRIGHT-FISHBEIN

In deo speramus. We hope in God — or, failing that, undergraduate teaching assistants. Last fall, as a first-semester freshman in an upperlevel biology class, I was offered the option to be a TA for BI 20: “Foundation of Living Systems,” after having taken AP Biology two years prior. I should have done it. The $700 a semester is a fair amount. I could have made some money, even spiced up my resume for grad school. I could conceivably have taught my own RC. Too bad my students would have gotten shafted; I'd have made a terrible teacher. The mere thought that Brown, one of the most prestigious, well-endowed schools in the country, would feel it necessary to hire me to teach a class is, well, insane. That any student would pay $40,000 for peer tutoring that he or she could probably conscript for free is equally unreasonable. It would seem that the administration is cheating its students in an attempt to save money. I am paying to be taught by the world's most educated minds, not the guy down the hall. When I walk out of class I want to be electrified, sailing around the room, bouncing off the walls. Maybe this only happens in my own academic fantasy, but it definitely isn’t going to happen under the tutelage of the guy I eat my meals with at the Ratty. Brown would argue that we simply do not have enough graduate students to cover every section here. Even if this is the case, then the onus is still on the administration to fix this mistake. So what if our graduate-to-undergraduate ratio is small compared to similar institutions? True, the Plan for Academic Enrichment spells out a plan for the expansion of the graduate school, but this change needs to happen now. No class should be deemed so introductory that it doesn’t qualify to have an graduate TA. Clearly I have nothing against the undergraduate TAs themselves. It is a great experience and a wonderful opportunity for them. Indeed, they’re acting as any logical member of a market system would. The ones I’ve had have been earnest and likeable, and I have enjoyed learning from them a great deal. But if learning to teach is so important to them, then they should work for the

programs that really need them: inner-city high schools, private tutoring or any of the other outlets for teaching Brown offers. We as Brown students shouldn’t be paying our friends, and when my parents write my tuition check, that certainly isn’t their intention. Professors must think undergraduate TAs are a godsend. Now they can focus on those things that make them passionate about teaching and disregard those boring topics that their students never seem to comprehend. Oh god, I don’t ever have to worry about drilling the Krebs cycle or correlational fallacy again, he says. I can just leave it to my teaching assistant. But if a TA gets to deal with the problem, then might the professor forget the importance of drilling it? Might he not think he was a brilliant teacher because he never had to deal with his failure to get the idea across? Thus, undergraduate TAs can conceivably decrease the quality of the teaching of professors. A strange argument the administration makes is that other universities are doing this too, and that this justifies our program. Well, as any Jewish mama would say: I don't care if all the other kids are doing it. If the University of Chicago jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would Brown jump, too? Undergraduate students for a sane TA policy should unionize. The National Labor Relations Board might have ruled against Brown graduate students unionizing in a case this summer, but it didn’t say a thing about undergrads. We deserve as much compensation as graduate students for the work we do. And when the union leaders approach the administration for a pay raise, it would effectively end the practice of hiring undergraduate TAs: No sane person would choose an undergraduate over a graduate student if their fees were the same. Then Brown would hire scabs to cross the picket lines. Wouldn’t it be great to have a similar situation to the one our peer institution in New Haven blue had last year? We’d make all the papers, and Brown would never hire undergraduate TAs again.

Brown needs to end its

practice of undergrad TAs.

Benjamin Bright-Fishbein ’07 mastered living systems.

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SPORTS MONDAY OCTOBER 25, 2004 · PAGE 8

M. soccer rights ship, evens Ivy record with shutout win over Cornell

Second-half rally, strong ‘D’ give football first Ivy win

BY BROOKE WOLFE

Aided by three touchdown passes from Anthony Vita ’07, the football team earned its first Ivy League win of the season, defeating a tough Cornell University squad 21-17 Saturday afternoon. Looking every bit the seasoned veteran in his first collegiate start, quarterback Vita was 15-of-30 for 219 yards and three touchdown passes on a day when All-Ivy tailback Nick Hartigan ’06 was held to just 88 yards on 24 carries. Despite an inconsistent first half, Vita did his best work late, throwing two of his three scores in the fourth quarter. “I never felt at any point that Anthony wasn’t reading things well,” said Head Coach Phil Estes. “He had the confidence, he kept on plugging and he did a nice job.” Cornell grabbed the momentum early thanks in large part to quarterback Ryan Kuhn and a defense that prevented Brown from attaining any offensive consistency. A 40-yard Cornell field goal made it 3-0 with 3:21 left in the first quarter. It took until late in the first half for the Bears to get into the end zone. Starting deep in its own territory, Brown drove 88 yards in nine plays, capped off by a nifty 19-yard touchdown catch by tight end Matt Krevis ’07 in which he tiptoed along the sideline en route to the end zone. Toward the end of the first half, Brown was driving again, only to have its momentum stunted by a

The men’s soccer team continued to dominate Cornell University Saturday, taking its fifth straight game over the Big Red with a 2-0 Homecoming win. The win improves Brown’s Ivy League record to 2-2, while the team’s overall record is now 6-42. Andrew Daniels ’07 started the scoring with 10 minutes left in the first half, netting his fourth goal in the last five games. Laurent Manuel ’08 ran the ball down the sideline and crossed it to Daniels for a header. Cornell goalkeeper Dave Mahoney caught the ball but was taken back over the goal line with the force of the kick, and the referee ruled it a goal. Keith Caldwell ’06 also earned an assist on the goal. Brown’s well-rounded offense kept Mahoney, a transfer from Brown, on his toes, forcing him to come up with six saves. Despite the pressure on goal, Brown clung to a 1-0 lead going into halftime. Marcos Romaneiro ’05.5 scored Brown’s second goal to seal the win with 15 minutes left. After warding off a handful of Cornell defenders, Romaneiro was able to sneak a low shot past the keeper. Both Kevin Davies ’08 and Jamie Granger ’06 earned assists on the goal. Romaneiro remains Brown’s leading scorer with 12 points, 11 of which have come in the last five games. After the goal, the Brown

defense sat back and kept the ball away from the Big Red. But Head Coach Mike Noonan did not like the fact that the Bears let their guard down a bit. “Our strategy was to keep the ball on the ground and make use of wide spaces,” Noonan said. “We accomplished that in the first half, but the second half is another story.” Brown’s defense was able to smother the Cornell attack enough to keep goalie Chris Gomez ’05 from being too busy in net — he only faced two shots during the game. Brown must now prepare for two games this week on Tuesday and Saturday against Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. “We have to work on Monday to get ready for Boston (University),” Noonan said. “We didn’t have our best performance today, but we are happy with a win.” Despite the team’s two Ivy losses prior to the win over Cornell, the team, currently sixth in league standings, is still shooting for an Ivy League title. “We’re going to take it one game at a time and do what it takes to win,” said Ibrahim Diane ’06. “We still believe we can (win the Ivy League) — we just need to come out strong again.” Herald staff writer Brooke Wolfe ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

BY CHRIS MAHR

W. soccer rides smothering defense to 3-0 Ivy victory BY JUSTIN GOLDMAN

The women’s soccer team notched its second consecutive win on Saturday night, defeating the Cornell University Big Red 30 at Stevenson Field. The win improved the Bears to 2-3 in the Ivy League, good for fifth place in the league. Brown continued its great play at home, as the team improved to 6-1 at Stevenson Field. “Playing at home gives us an advantage,” said Kathryn Moos ’07. “You always want to perform well in front of the home crowd.” The Bears opened the scoring just 1:12 in when co-captain Meghan Schreck ’06 scored the first of her two goals. Schreck capitalized off a nice throw-in from Jill Mansfield ’07 and the inability of the Big Red to clear the ball. Schreck controlled a ricochet off Moos’ head and put the ball into the far corner of the net. Getting a goal early in the game gave the Bears a lot of confidence. “When we score first, we play quite well,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. By scoring first, the Bears were able to gain momentum and dictate play.

The defense played extraordinarily well, allowing few shots on goal, and Hilary Wilson ’06 continued her great play in net, notching her third shutout of the season. “Hilary was very focused in net,” Pincince said. “She didn’t get many shots, but she made the saves she had to.” Schreck was also quick to note how well the defense played. “Our experienced outside backs have helped us a lot,” she said. “Also, our sweeper, Kim (Lavere ’06), controls the backfield for us.” The Bears added another score early in the second half. Just 56 seconds in, Lavere sent a long pass down the sideline to Moos, who beat a defender and drove to the net. Moos easily put the ball in the open net by the charging Cornell goalkeeper for her fourth goal of the season. The game marked the return of Brown co-captain Michelle Sriwongtong ’05 to the starting lineup. “Michelle has great vision and is able to keep the team together. She is a leader and is able to read the game very well,” Pincince said. The win gives the Bears momentum going into their final three games. “Winning these

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Meghan Schreck ’06 scored two goals in Brown’s 3-0 victory over Cornell on Saturday night. past two games has definitely given us confidence for the rest of the season,” Schreck said. The experience the Bears have gained by winning close contests like this one will come in handy. The Bears look to show how much they have grown on Wednesday at 3 p.m., when they face Providence College at Stevenson Field. Herald staff writer Justin Goldman ’07 covers women’s soccer. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Cornell interception. Six plays later Kuhn plunged into the end zone to give the Big Red a 10-7 advantage at the half. “That’s the biggest thing we need to do, cut down on turnovers and big plays,” Estes said. “We need to sustain drives and keep our defense off the field as much as possible.” Midway through the third quarter, the defense made the first of several big plays on the afternoon when safety Rashad Collins ’06 intercepted a pass in the end zone. But on the ensuing play Hartigan fumbled, giving the ball right back to Cornell. A 23-yard touchdown scramble by Kuhn followed to give Cornell a 17-7 lead. Despite the disheartening turn of events, Brown rallied on its next drive. In 14 plays, the Bears marched down the field on a drive that culminated in an 11yard touchdown strike from Vita to Jarrett Schreck ’06 near the start of the fourth quarter. “I decided that we were going to throw it (downfield) and make plays, throw some screens to mix it up, and things started to work,” Estes said. Despite the Brown score, Cornell seemed to get the edge right back when Anthony Jackson returned the following kickoff to the Brown 46-yard line. The Bears have had trouble covering kicks in recent games. “The design of a kickoff is so that you can force them to redirect with people coming down to make plays,” Estes said. “What we have to do is get those guys running once again. We can’t continue (to) get the momentum and score and let the big play come back.” Still, even with the great field position, the Big Red could not score and turned the ball over on downs, despite picking up first downs on two third-and-long situations. With the game hanging in the balance, Vita took control of the offense, showing an air of confidence belying his inexperience at quarterback. “I just wanted to lead the team down and get us going again,” Vita said. “I just tried to make the plays I know I can make, settle down and get the win.” After a 12-yard hookup to Schreck on third-and-seven early in the drive, a screen pass left to Hartigan exploited a Cornell blitz for a 20-yard gain, and Vita surprised the Big Red defense with a 19-yard keeper to the 17-yard line. Following a sack, Vita found Efren Blackledge ’06 in the right corner of the end zone for what proved to be the game-winning touchdown. “(Efren) made a great play. The great thing was he beat the corner,” Estes said. Cornell’s last two drives went nowhere, giving Brown the Homecoming weekend win. Vita’s play was particularly important, as Brown has strug-

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Zak DeOssie ’07 led the Brown defense with 12 tackles (10 solo), in a strong performance against Cornell this Saturday. gled to find consistent play from the quarterback position thus far with both Vita and Joe DiGiacomo ’07 seeing time. “If I felt like we were getting good momentum with Anthony, then we were going to play Joe at some point to keep his reps and keep his head in the game, but it just didn’t happen that way,” Estes said. “If I felt that Anthony was really struggling, then I might have gone back to Joe.” The efforts of the defense were similarly hard to overlook. As a unit, the defense recorded an impressive six sacks and one takeaway. Six false start penalties by the Cornell offensive line could also be attributed to the defense’s dominance. “We move and shift right before the snap to get set for the cadence,” said linebacker Zack DeOssie ’07. “It’s a huge part of our defense to catch the offense off guard. Our front four is absolutely incredible getting off the ball, and they just make it easier for (the linebackers) to get through that line and get pressure.” Even with the loss of Jessie Hawkins ’04 to graduation, the defensive line in Brown’s 4-4 alignment continues to perform, as its reputation as one of the Ivy League’s best front fours grows by the week.

see FOOTBALL, page 4 B ROW N S P O RTS S CO R E B OA R D Friday, October 22 Women’s Volleyball: Brown 3, Dartmouth 1 Saturday, October 23 Field Hockey: Brown 2, Cornell 1 Football: Brown 21, Cornell 17 Men’s Soccer: Brown 2, Cornell 0 Women’s Soccer: Brown 3, Cornell 0 Women’s Volleyball: Harvard 3, Brown 1 Sunday, October 24 Men’s Crew: Head of the Charles Regatta 10th place, Championship Fours; 14th place, Championship Eights Women’s Crew: Head of the Charles Regatta — 10th place, Championship Fours; 9th place, Championship Eights Men’s Golf: Brown 615, Dartmouth 623 Women’s Golf: Bucknell Invite — 4th place Monday, October 25 Men’s Tennis: Wilson/ITA Fall Regional Championships, Virginia Tech Women’s Tennis: Wilson/ITA Fall Regional Championships, University of Pennsylvania