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Targeted hiring helps increase faculty diversity, speed up search process BY CAMDEN AVERY

Increasing faculty diversity is one goal of Brown’s largest faculty expansion in decades; to accomplish this, the University is using a targeted hiring program created as part of the Plan for Academic Enrichment. Of the 100 faculty positions that will be added over the next several years, 25 are allocated to the Target of Opportunity program, which allows departments to bypass the normal search process to specifically recruit scholars they deem “extraordinary.” Brenda Allen, associate provost and director of institutional diversity, said one of the University’s objectives with the Target of Opportunity program “is to bring racial and gender minorities to the faculty.” According to Associate Provost Nancy Dunbar, the program seeks to increase not only racial and gender diversity, but also intellectual diversity. Dunbar said “target” individuals are identified “because of their ability to diversify the intellectual terrain, to provide a unique or diverse perspective.” Typically, the University hires faculty members to fill existing positions, such as when a professor retires or otherwise leaves the University. The Target of Opportunity program, Allen said, allows departments to create new positions to accommodate scholars they choose to recruit. Under the targeted hiring program, departments identify scholars who are “extraordinary,” Allen said, and write a proposal that President Ruth Simmons, the

provost and deans review. If they approve the proposal, departments can begin recruiting. “Whatever it takes to sell the academic environment here, we help the departments to achieve,” Allen said, adding that this sometimes includes taking a candidate to dinner or arranging conversations with other faculty members. The program’s purpose is to allow the University to recruit “outstanding faculty with greater … flexibility,” Allen said. This flexibility is rooted in the program’s expedited hiring process, she said. Target of Opportunity allows the University to identify an individual for immediate hire and avoid the process of committee approval, which slows hiring, she added. Target of Opportunity hiring is faster, according to Allen, because it doesn’t require placing advertisements and forming a pool of candidates to choose from. Renowned author John Edgar Wideman came to campus in September as a Target of Opportunity hire, Allen said. Wideman — who has won an O. Henry Award for short fiction and two PEN/Faulkner Awards — has dual appointments in the departments of Africana studies and English. He is teaching one graduate seminar this academic year. Wideman said his recruitment process “went on for six or four months” — significantly shorter than the standard process. According to Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07, “the (standard hiring) process is actually pretty long. … Many of the

see HIRING, page 4

Red Sox win World Series

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Boston Red Sox fans spilled onto Thayer Street late Wednesday evening after the team won the World Series title, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in the fourth game of the best-of-seven series. Celebrations on College Hill were relatively peaceful, with a heavy police presence keeping things in hand.

Brown fans celebrate peacefully BY MELANIE WOLFGANG

Even the moon was caught wearing red Wednesday evening as the Boston Red Sox earned their first World Series victory since 1918. October’s total lunar eclipse, nicknamed the “Blood Moon” after its reddish hue, may account for the Sox’s seemingly effortless 3-0 shutout of the St. Louis Cardinals. It may also account, in part, for the odd

History dept. building to be relocated to make room for Walk BY JANE PORTER

Peter Green House, the threestory, 10,000-square-foot building that currently houses part of the Department of History, will be moved to a new location to free the space for the planned “Walk” connecting the Pembroke campus to Lincoln Field. At a meeting last Wednesday, representatives of the history department and the planning office discussed the logistics of the move. Built in 1868 and renovated five years ago, Peter Green House is currently home to many of the history department’s offices, its administrative office and a classroom. “We know that it’s going to be moved,” said Professor of

History Tim Harris P’03, acting chair of the department. “It’s going to be inconvenient for those people who have offices there. The hope is that we can minimize inconveniences.” At last week’s meeting, Harris discussed dates and logistics regarding the move with Michael McCormick, director of planning, and Karen Mota, academic department manager for the history department. The building will be moved to accommodate the construction of the Walk, a walkway running parallel to Thayer Street and stretching from Lincoln Field to the Pembroke campus. The Walk will be designed in conjunction with Sidney Frank Hall, a new academic facility that will stand

on Angell Street. It is possible that construction of the Walk will eventually require the University to relocate other buildings as well, McCormick said, but at this point it is unclear whether that will be necessary and which buildings would be affected. Last week’s meeting was a preliminary step in the planning of the move, Harris said. Peter Green House will be moved approximately 250 feet from its current location on Angell Street to the corner of Brown and Angell streets, which is currently the site of a University-owned parking lot. Steel beams will be inserted

see PETER GREEN, page 7

behavior of Brown’s Red Sox fans throughout campus last night. A jubilant crowd gathered outside Josiah’s immediately after the Red Sox clinched the game by throwing out St. Louis’ Edgar Renteria at first base. Less a riot than a celebration, the crowd marched up Thayer Street, linking arms and highfiving car passengers through open windows. Horns blared. Students chanted. Cameras

RISD students use internships, alumni connections to achieve success after graduation risd news, page 3

Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 battles the insidious forces of nature — right in her dorm room column, page 11

flashed. Helicopters circled overhead. Police officers looked on in amusement, sounding their sirens intermittently to keep the crowds from blocking traffic. “Can I get a cigarette for the Red Sox?” one student prompted another as they watched the crowd pass. The group of about 200 stu-

see SOX, page 9

Rising GOP star Jindal ’92 favored to win House seat Jindal, who ran for governor last year, would be only Brown alum in House BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

Bobby Jindal ’92 is not the typical Louisiana politician. The son of Indian immigrants — his birth name was Piyush — CAMPAIGN and a con2 0 0 4 v e r t e d Catholic, Jindal, at only 33, is running for Congress in a district that gave considerable support to former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke in the 1991 governor’s race. Nevertheless, after a meteoric

rise through Louisiana state government, a position in George W. Bush’s administration and a near-win in last year’s gubernatorial race, Jindal, a conservative Republican, is ahead in the race to represent the First Congressional District and is poised to become the only Brunonian in the U.S. House of Representatives. Jindal, who last year was elected to the University’s Board of Trustees, won a Rhodes Scholarship after he graduated magna cum laude from Brown with a degree in biology and public policy. For two years he studied politics at Oxford University, and from there, he rapidly moved from a job as a consultant to

see JINDAL, page 4

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Nate Goralnik ’06 thinks it’s time for America, not the United Nations, to run the world column, page 11

M. tennis ends fall season with successful showing at weekend tournament; one player gets to quarterfinals sports, page 12

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS LIVE ON LINCOLN 9 p.m.-midnight (Lincoln Field) — The annual celebration of autumn will feature live music, free food and student performances.

PERFORMANCE: JAZZ COMBOS 8 p.m. (Grant Recital Hall) — The Brown University jazz combos will perform. Free and open to the public.

ELECTION DEBATE 8 p.m. (Salomon 001) — A debate about election issues between the Brown Democrats, the Brown Republicans and the Students for Liberty, hosted by the Brown Debating Union and the ACLU.

LECTURE: ADDRESSING THE OBESITY CRISIS 4-5 p.m. (CIT) — Representatives of the Department of Community Health and the Brown Medical School will speak about the buregoening obesity crisis and the need to marry science to advocacy.

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LECTURE: DONNA BRAZILE 6:30 p.m. (Salomon 101) — In 2000, Donna Brazile became the first African American woman to head a national presidential campaign. The Democratic strategist will speak about the implications of next week’s presidential election. Jero Matt Vascellaro

MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Hot Turkey Sandwich with Sauce, Mashed Red Potatoes with Garlic, Vegan Tofu Sloppy Joes, Sugar Snap Peas, Tater Tots, Waffle Fries, Chocolate Cherry Upside Down Cake, Sugar Cookies. DINNER — Braised Beef Tips, Baked Sweet Potatoes with Honey and Chives, Corn Soufflé, Sunny Sprouts, Summer Squash, Sourdough Bread, Tapioca, Chocolate Sundae Cake.

VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Mexican Bean Soup, Lobster Bisque, BBQ Beef on a Bun, Eggplant Parmesan Grinder, Cauliflower, Sugar Cookies. DINNER — Vegetarian Mexican Bean Soup, Lobster Bisque, Roast Turkey with Sauce, Vegan Roasted Vegetable Stew, Mashed Potatoes, Stuffing, Whole Kernel Corn, Green Beans, Sourdough Bread, Chocolate Sundae Cake.

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RISD NEWS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2004 · PAGE 3 CAMPUS NEWS

Argentine ecologist to become director of environmental studies BY KATE GORMAN

On Jan. 1, Osvaldo Sala, professor at the School of Agronomy at the University of Buenos Aires, will become the director of the Center for Environmental Studies and director of the Environmental Change Initiative. Sala was chosen at the end of last semester after the retirement of Harold Ward, professor emeritus of environmental studies. Ward founded the center in 1981 and served as its director until last spring. Sala said he wants to add a focus on global studies to complement the strengths of the current department. “I see no big weaknesses in the department, just opportunities to grow in areas such as global environmental sciences, strengthen interdisciplinary studies,” he said. Sala is an internationally recognized ecologist and will bring expertise to Brown, said Caroline Karp, senior lecturer in environmental studies and the interim director of the center. “He has experience working in large programs nationally and internationally — he took a teaching sabbatical at Stanford University and has also worked at Woods Hole,” she said. Sala received his B.Sc. from the University of Buenos Aires and his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Colorado State University. He is currently the secretary general of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, a Paris-based inter-

see SALA, page 5

RISD students enter tough job market, aided by internships and alum connections BY LISHAN SOH

Establishing a career as an artist is notoriously difficult, and RISD students rely heavily on internships and connections with alums to break into the art world. Jacqui Alexander RISD ’05, an illustration major, will start her first formal internship at the Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc. gallery in New York City this winter. She used online resources made available by RISD’s Alumni and Career Services to secure her employment. RISD’s Alumni and Career Services Web site has close to a thousand postings for part-time and full-time jobs, internships and freelance opportunities. “They have an extremely comprehensive database,” Alexander said. Alexander said she was looking forward to integrating her artistic skills with real-world demands, an experience only an internship could give. Alexander also emphasized that the woman who hired her for her internship at the gallery is a RISD graduate. RISD’s career services department is merged with alumni relations, and the two offices share one building. This forms a powerful networking medium for students and alums alike to “get into the artistic circle,” said Tom DesLongchamp RISD ’07, a film, animation and video major. Director of Alumni and Career Services Steven Whitten, who joined RISD’s career services department 18 years ago, said he thinks internships serve as crucial preparation for the working life of a RISD alum, even venturing so far as to say that he would like to see internships made a graduation requirement at the college. According to Whitten, post-graduation surveys conducted by RISD students reveal that around 67 percent

of students in each class do an internship over the course of their undergraduate career, and half of these do at least two. Whitten said these statistics encouraged him. “No experience is more important than an internship experience,” he said. RISD students repeatedly stressed the crucial importance of networking; many attributed more than half of internship and job-search success to having contacts and connections with people working in the field. “It’s all about who you know,” said Jared Zimmerman RISD ’05, a graphic design major who will also receive a special Bachelor of Graphic Design degree in 2006. Zimmerman spent part of last summer interning at the DIY lifestyle magazine Readymade in Berkeley, Calif. Later in the summer, his boss recommended him to an industrial design company, Lunar, which he joined as an intern. Zimmerman said he is confident of an offer of employment should he ever decide to return to the company, but he has his sights set on graduate school for now. RISD students and administrators agree that knowing professionals in the field greatly increases a student’s chance of finding internships and employment upon graduation. But “it’s undeniable that there is a lot of luck involved as well,” DesLongchamp said. Most RISD students establish connections by taking on project-based, commissioned work during the semester and school vacations. DesLongchamp said he tries to work “on as many projects as possible one after another” in order to meet people who can “point me in the right direction.” Students said projects not only help them navigate within the complex professional network of the artistic

see JOBS, page 5

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Jindal continued from page 1 Fortune 50 companies to successive appointments as secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Health and Hospitals, president of the University of Louisiana system and assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services under the Bush administration. When the representative of the First Congressional District, which includes conservative suburbs of New Orleans, resigned to run for the U.S. Senate, Jindal — though he is originally from Baton Rouge — moved to the area fresh off his unexpectedly strong showing in the governor’s race. According to Stephanie Grace ’87, a columnist for the New Orleans TimesPicayune, Jindal’s entry into the race precluded what would typically be a hard fight for a seldomvacant seat. “He’s the virtual incumbent, which is very unusual (for) an open congressional seat,” she said. Jindal’s most prominent opponent, State Rep. Steven Scalise, failed to get any traction and dropped out of the race in August. Jindal is “the 800-pound gorilla, and there’s nothing (Scalise) could do,” Grace said. Jindal’s five remaining opponents “have no money and no one’s ever heard of them,” she said. Now, leading in an uncompetitive race, Jindal is “going through the motions,” Grace said. Jindal has raised over $2 million and spent about $1 million, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by the Center for Responsive Politics’ Web site. The Jindal campaign did not run TV ads until last week and has donated money to Republican

candidates around the country. In last year’s gubernatorial race, Jindal’s first foray into electoral politics, he was a dark horse. He ran on the strength of his resume, conservative values and his charisma. According to Grace, one of the surprises of the race was that “he has really good political instincts, (though) he’d always been a bureaucrat.” In Louisiana’s unique election system, instead of party primaries, every candidate runs in a general primary on Election Day. If no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote, the top two vote-getters advance to a runoff, held a month later. In the gubernatorial primary, Jindal won the clear plurality of the vote, earning 33 percent, with Democratic Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Blanco coming in second with 18 percent. However, Jindal lost the runoff, garnering 48 percent of the vote to Blanco’s 52 percent. Jindal told The Herald last week that he credited his strength in the governor’s race in part to “the value of having detailed policies.” Jindal’s campaign released about 100 pages of point-by-point policy positions about issues facing Louisiana. “I think voters are tired of the traditional politicians that give them easy answers instead of detailed policies,” he said. “It was a risk — many political experts would’ve cautioned us not do it — but I’m proud of the fact and grateful for the fact that voters responded so well to it,” he said. Jindal said some experts blamed his defeat on his failure to strike back when Blanco ran negative ads in the race’s final weeks. “One of the things we felt strongly about is that you can win by telling voters why they should vote for you, not why they should-

n’t vote for your opponent ... and I got no regrets about last year,” he said. Jindal does not hold the political views of a stereotypical Brown alum. He supports President Bush’s policies on terrorism and Iraq, he favors aggressively lowering taxes and he wants the government to crack down on frivolous lawsuits. Jindal, who was president of the Brown College Republicans, said he enjoyed his time at Brown precisely because he was politically outnumbered. “Certainly having a minority viewpoint at Brown forced me to reexamine my beliefs — the basis for those beliefs — and it forced me to learn to explain those beliefs,” he said. Jindal said that “there were certainly quite a few people that were surprised that I had the views I did,” but “I found the Brown community very respectful, even when we disagreed.” But as a student, Jindal said he did not see himself entering politics. He came to Brown as a PLME student, intending to become a practicing physician. But after his time at Oxford, he accepted a string of jobs and ultimately abandoned the idea of medical school. Jindal said he originally decided to enter the gubernatorial race when he saw more and more of his friends leaving Louisiana because of a grim economic picture. “I decided after realizing nobody else was going to talk about the issues I thought were important that it was up to me if I wanted to force those issues to the front,” he said. Grace, the columnist, attributed Jindal’s dominance of the current race in part to the perception that he would wield a lot of influence in Congress. “People see a young, energetic, smart guy ... (who) has a lot of

Washington contacts,” Grace said. “The feeling is that he would be more than your average freshman.” According to Grace, a “carpetbagger” label has not hindered Jindal’s success in the race, largely on account of his popularity. Jindal’s wife is from the First District, but the entire family, including his daughter and infant son, moved there only last February. Grace said Jindal does not often talk about his ethnicity, though she said that some people think he lost votes last year in northern Louisiana because of his race. “I’m sure there are people who are not going to vote for him (this year) because he’s Indian,” she said, but added that she thought others like the idea that Jindal may reflect favorably on Louisiana’s image on racial issues. White

Hiring continued from page 1 people who were just hired were approved a couple of years ago.” Though the Target of Opportunity program accelerates the hiring process, Allen said the standard hiring system is necessary to ensure consideration of less visible professors who might otherwise not be hired by Brown. One-quarter of the 100 planned positions in the Plan for Academic Enrichment are Target of Opportunity openings. Thirty-seven of the 100 faculty positions have already been filled, and during the next four to five years, 10 to 15 will be added annually. But administrators are not sure how many of the new faculty members were hired under the Target of Opportunity program. The calculation of faculty

supremacist and former Klansman David Duke was elected to the state legislature from Metairie, an area in the First Congressional District, in 1989. Duke also reached the runoff in the 1991 gubernatorial election. Jindal told The Herald that if he is elected, he hopes to get on a House committee that deals with health care issues. He said he would try to employ his background in health care to push for Medicaid reform and work for affordable, high-quality insurance for all. Chris McAuliffe ’05, president of the Brown College Republicans, told The Herald he was enthusiastic about Jindal’s success. “I think it’s really cool for us,” McAuliffe said. “I think it will be really good for Brown ... to have a high-profile Republican come from the school.” hired is complicated by how faculty members are categorized — professors can be Target of Opportunity hires, standard Plan for Academic Enrichment hires or replacement hires, Allen said. In addition, some people the University considers to be in one category could also be included in another. The situation is “not disorganized,” Vohra said. “It is, however, complicated by the fact that not each individual we hire corresponds to exactly one position.” Allen said keeping track of faculty hired through the Target of Opportunity program is difficult because there is “too much going on, lots of things are happening simultaneously.” “It’ll take a while” to clarify an exact number of positions filled through the program, she said. Herald staff writer Camden Avery ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Jobs continued from page 3 community, but also allow them to continuously improve as artists. Internships vary in availability and nature across concentrations. Industrial design, graphic design and other design majors are more career-oriented than other students, particularly those with majors in the fine arts, such as painting and sculpture, according to many students. But competition for great internships is intense across disciplines in the art world, students said, emphasizing their commitments to staying competitive in the job market by focusing on improving their artistic skills. Caity Kennedy RISD ’06, a painting major, said students should constantly work on projects so they do not “get stuck” and can continually improve their art. “We work hard to try and get better at what we do, not to try and impress,” Kennedy said. “Attending art school helps us develop our skills so that we can do better in the future.” Kennedy said she is not apprehensive about securing an internship, adding that any competition she does feel only inspires her to improve herself

Sala continued from page 3 disciplinary group of scientists studying environmental issues. To date, Sala’s research has been on grassland ecology, said Jennifer Plaut, program intern at the Center for Environmental Studies. He has recently been studying biodiversity in arid and semi-arid climates in Patagonia, she said. “He is a world-famous scientist, he has experience working on international committees and he will be really valuable here.” Plaut said she expects Sala’s experience working with people from different backgrounds will help him direct the Environmental Change Initiative. As director of the center, Sala will support the existing curriculum and work with the faculty on creating new academic programs that will continue to generate highly respected degrees, Karp said. As director of the Environmental Change Initiative, Sala will look across academic units to generate research programs on subjects such as human impact on the global climate and the effects of climate change on marine life, Karp said. Plaut said Ward had many contacts in Rhode Island who helped deepen the scope of the department; Sala will have to develop his own contacts.

Water polo continued from page 12 Harvard again,” Gall said. “I think that alone is motivation to win.” Regardless of the outcome of these games, the Bears will be back in the pool for more action on Sunday to wrap up the tournament.

as an artist. RISD students also use personal Web sites to enhance their employment prospects. Some students, such as Kennedy, use their Web sites primarily to keep in touch with friends and family from home and to show loved ones their work, but others say the personal sites are necessary public platforms for showcasing their visual credentials, as well as publishing their resumes. Students hope prospective employers will contact them through their Web sites. “Potential employers are able to see all your work at once,” Alexander said. “It’s an online portfolio for anyone’s easy reference.” RISD’s Alumni and Career Services takes time to critique each student’s portfolio. “We want to equip each student with the tools that they need in order to succeed in the real world,” Whitten said. “RISD prides itself in educating our students to think, to know that they are not living in a vacuum. They should possess the necessary skills to be able to strike a balance between their incredible artistic talent and dealing with practical issues in the real world.” “It is so much a part of an artistic education and should most definitely be a professional prerequisite for all RISD students,” Whitten said.

Sala said when he becomes director in January he will listen to faculty and students and not change anything in the department for the first six months. “I am aware of all the good things the center does — the faculty and students have strong connections and there is a high quality of teaching, the center is strongly involved in local environmental issues and I want to preserve all that,” he said. Karp said the center’s current staff expects Sala to organize the center around the interests of Brown faculty and students, rather than changing its focus. “He will see what people here are committed to, and won’t dictate the future,” she said. The Environmental Change Initiative is a part of President Ruth Simmons’ Plan for Academic Enrichment. Sala said with the new initiative Brown will become a destination for people who are interested in the environment. “It will foster interdisciplinary projects, there will be a series of seminars and I am going to bring in guest lecturers and hire three new faculty members,” he said. Sala said the initiative will be primarily geared toward faculty and graduate students, but that it will complement and enrich the undergraduate program by adding new classes to the undergraduate curriculum. Herald staff writer Kate Gorman ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

With a win in the first round against Fordham, Brown will guarantee a top-four finish, which would qualify the Bears for Easterns. That tournament will be held Nov. 13-14 at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. Herald staff writer Caroline Brandon ’07 covers men’s water polo. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Peter Green continued from page 1 underneath the house at frequent enough intervals to enable the structure to be lifted with a hydraulic lift system and rolled up the hill, McCormick said. “We are trying to make the move solve some problems rather than just being in the way,” McCormick said. “We are just beginning that process.” The relocation of Peter Green House might provide an opportunity to construct additional basement space for the department, Harris said. The house will be placed on top of an electrical substation that is being installed underground to serve various buildings in the area — a project McCormick said is badly needed. Peter Green M.A.’80, who received his master’s degree in history, donated funds in 1999 towards the renovation of the building in honor of his late wife, Mary-Jean Mitchell Green, who died of cancer at a young age, Mota said. Green was a trustee at the time of his donation and is still a member of the Corporation. After renovations in 1999 that included repainting and re-carpeting of the interior, installing new bookcases, updating lighting and completing heating and cooling systems, the building was given the name Peter Green House. Large oil paintings of Green and his late wife hang in the foyer of the house. “A good sum of money was invested into this building. It would be a shame now in five years, to throw that money away by tearing down the building,” Mota said. The house boasts handcarved spindles along its staircase, marble fireplaces and cherry wood paneling. “It’s a beautiful old building that has a lot of character to it, and it’s been recently renovated so it’s up to code,” Mota explained. “I don’t see any sense in destroying it. If we need to do anything, moving would be the answer.” The University is moving Peter Green House partly in the interest of historic preservation, but also because preserving small houses allows the

University to stay within zoning restrictions when it builds larger structures such as Frank Hall. Due to zoning restrictions, University buildings located on the periphery of the Brown campus can be no larger than three stories high, McCormick explained. The University is working to consolidate the core by moving smaller houses like Peter Green House to the outskirts of the campus. Freeing up this space will enable larger structures, like Sidney Frank Hall, to be built closer to the campus’s core, making better use of the space available. Peter Green House is one of 105 houses owned by Brown, each lending a great deal to the character of the campus, McCormick said. “The size of the building makes it useful as an academic space,” he added. The move will take place no earlier than the summer of 2006, said McCormick, who is working closely with faculty members to ensure that inconveniences are kept to a minimum. “It would have to be done over the summer,” said Harris. “We could not afford to lose any office space during the year.” At last week’s meeting, Harris, Mota and McCormick discussed the possibility of setting up temporary offices in trailers while the building is being moved. McCormick is currently communicating with house movers and the Providence Building Department to figure out the cost and feasibility of this project. Although Peter Green House is one of the biggest structures the University has attempted to move, McCormick said he hopes the house can be transported in one piece. How and when the building will be moved will be determined by the cost of the Walk and the resources available, said Brendan McNally, special assistant to Executive Vice President for Planning Richard Spies. “There are many questions,” McNally said. “It’s still too early for anyone to know those answers.” Herald staff writer Jane Porter ’06 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

M. soccer continued from page 12 al team greatly diminishes Brown’s chances for an atlarge bid for the NCAA tournament. Postseason aspirations for the Bears hinge upon the Ivy League championship. With a 2-2 record and three games remaining, Brown must win out and hope that the teams with one loss drop a few games. “There is still a glimmer of hope, and we are still fighting,” Diane said. “I believe we can still win the Ivy championship, and there are 26 other guys on the team who feel the same way.” One thing the Bears have working for them is the parity of the Ivy League. Of the 16 Ivy League games played thus far, only two games have been decided by more than two goals. But because each team only plays seven games, even one loss makes it difficult to earn top billing in the league. “Every game (in the league) will be hard-fought. It’s a tooth-and-nail battle to the end,” Wiercinski said. “When there is parity, you expect that one loss won’t cost you the league, but because there are so few games, it can put you out of reach.” As the team moves into the final stretch of the season, the Bears try to maintain a positive outlook. “Morale is really important, because we have a decent amount of disappointing losses,” Wiercinski said. This Saturday, the Bears will try to move up in the Ivy standings as they face a struggling University of Pennsylvania team that is winless in its last four games. Herald sports editor Ian Cropp ’05 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Lawmakers give up on pre-election intel deal WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Lawmakers Wednesday

abandoned efforts to pass legislation restructuring the U.S. intelligence system before Tuesday’s election, with some warning that it may be impossible to reach an agreement even in time for a lame-duck session in mid-November, according to lawmakers and staff members. The four chief House and Senate negotiators failed once again to reach agreement on the extent of budget powers to grant to a new national intelligence director, as part of a major reorganization of the intelligence community. Although both sides vowed to keep talks going, there no longer was a sense of urgency to complete their work before the election, as the White House and congressional leaders had vowed to do after the commission that studied the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks released its report and recommendations this summer. The leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, former New Jersey Republican governor Thomas Kean and former representative Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., have been pushing for quick legislative action, aided by public support from the families of victims of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Some relatives of victims, furious over the impasse, said President Bush and House Republicans who have pushed for controversial additions to the commission’s recommendations would be blamed by voters for the failure to achieve a compromise. Commission member Timothy Roemer, D-Ind., also a former representative, said the effort “looks to be as dead as a doornail.” “The people holding the hammer are the president and a few House Republicans,” Roemer said. But some analysts concluded that Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry do not see the impasse as a major issue in their campaigns, despite previous calls for swift action to strengthen the nation’s intelligence gathering apparatus and reduce the likelihood of another terrorist attack on the United States. Political scientist James Thurber said Wednesday that Bush could have broken the impasse and forced a compromise with a phone call to House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill. Bush’s failure to do so, he said, indicates that the White House does not see the matter’s resolution as being vital to his re-election bid. “The president has been disengaged from efforts on the Hill, especially in the last three weeks,” said Thurber, director of American University’s center for congressional and presidential studies. “He may be listening

to people from the Department of Defense, and in the end he wants it both ways” — being viewed as working for a bill but not pushing so hard as to cause waves in the Pentagon. The talks are over competing 500-page bills that we drafted in response to dozens of recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. Commission leaders and victims’ families favor the Senate bill over the House version, which contains a number of controversial intelligence issues as well as changes to immigration laws. The stalemate stems in part from a turf war over control of the intelligence budget, with advocates of the Pentagon attempting to retain control over $40 billion of annual intelligence spending. The four chief House and Senate conferees intend to resume discussions Thursday on the House’s controversial immigration and law enforcement provisions. On Friday, a nationwide conference call will allow the “big four” leaders of the conference, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, RMich., Rep. Jane Harman, DCalif., Sen. Susan Collins, RMaine, and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., to bring the other six House and 11 Senate conferees up to date on the talks. While the four issued a statement saying they had made some progress, Senate and House aides said late Wednesday that tentative agreements reached earlier on budget authority for the national intelligence director had been reconsidered by the House Republicans. “We were pushed back to where we were last week,” said a senior Senate aide. That triggered a statement from House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calling the conference “a failure.” A sidelight to the negotiations, which some Senate aides say triggered the renewed Republican intransigence, was an unsolicited memo supporting the House proposed budget compromise that was written by Philip Zelikow, the Sept. 11 commission’s executive director. The memo, received last Saturday afternoon by the conferees, “shocked” Kean and Hamilton and angered the Senate bill supporters, according to a source participating in the conference. Both Hamilton and Kean said Monday they still supported the Senate position on budget authority, but described the House proposal as moving toward compromise. Meanwhile, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and quarterback for the proPentagon conferees, has helped publicize the Zelikow memo as a backup for his position.

Partisan suspicions run high in swing states MILWAUKEE (Los Angeles Times) —

The vast open rotunda soared above them as they waited by the hundreds to register and cast absentee ballots inside City Hall, the 19th century landmark modeled after a long-forgotten Dutch guildhall. It was a predominantly black crowd, and people sang “We Shall Overcome.” But Yuri Nielsen was unmoved. Sitting on a hard chair near the front of the line, legal pad on his knee, the 26-year-old Republican Party worker cared about just one thing: Catching the notorious “Cigarette Lady,” who four years ago trolled the city’s homeless shelters trading smokes and beer for votes for Democrats. Now, Nielsen said, he was “looking for any group that comes in with one person telling them what to do.” That, he said, would be “a definite red light for ‘smokes for votes.’” Martha Love, head of the Milwaukee Democratic Party, was indignant. “It’s plantation style,” she said. “He’s just sitting there, watching. It’s an owner mentality.” If Nielsen’s fears seem a bit dramatic, or if Love’s comparison of a poll watcher with a slave owner seems exaggerated, they nonetheless reflect the extraordinarily rancorous and mistrustful atmosphere that pervades battleground states in the final days of the presidential campaign. In Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Oregon and other key states, Democrats and Republicans seem convinced their opponents are bent on stealing the election. “There’s meanness, and it’s coming from the gut, from deep down inside of us,” said Jim Gill, director of adult ministry at St. Joseph’s Church, who has scheduled an ecumenical election-

night prayer service to begin the reconciliation. “It’s about more than issues. There’s a fear about the world, about our country, about moral issues.” Each side sees the Nov. 2 balloting as a critical choice between clashing values and ideas about where the United States should be heading. Each state, precinct and volunteer organization is convinced its efforts alone stand between the nation and a catastrophic miscarriage of electoral justice. Partly, this is a result of the 2000 election, in which George W. Bush lost the popular vote but won in the Electoral College after a heated battle over how the voting had been carried out and the ballots counted. Florida dominated the news, but bitter memories of voting problems linger in other closely contested states. Also, this year’s surge in newly registered voters has come largely from urban areas that are predominantly Democratic and black or Hispanic. In Cleveland and surrounding Cuyahoga County alone, registration has increased five-fold, officials say. Democrats fear GOP machinations to disenfranchise these voters. Republicans fear the new voter lists are rife with fraud. Missouri Republicans, for example, recently accused Democratic groups in St. Louis of filing hundreds of fraudulent voter application cards. “Right now,” Democrat John Bowman recently fired back, Republicans are “trying to take this election from us. But we’re going to monitor this election, we are going to lawyer this election, and we are going to win.” It’s not just party spokesmen who talk that way. Such feelings can be found at the grass roots. Consider Mabel Lee, 71, of St.

Louis, who said she had already cast an absentee ballot for Sen. John F. Kerry. But “how do I know my vote is going to be counted?” she asked. “There was so much trouble last time I want to make sure they count it.” Among Democrats in St. Louis, and especially blacks, that is a common concern. The city experienced election chaos in 2000. A Justice Department investigation concluded that large-scale disenfranchisement of black voters had occurred. This time, while most analysts expect Missouri to go for Bush, Democratic supporters say newly registered voters could change that. Sara Howard, communications director of America Coming Together, a pro-Kerry group, estimated that there were 125,000 new voters in Democratic areas in St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia. Local election officials, operating under a consent decree signed with the Justice Department, insist they are doing their best to avoid problems. “We have had an unprecedented effort to clean up the rolls,” Dario Gambero, chairman of the Election Board, said last week. But those efforts, though lauded by nonpartisan groups, apparently have done little to improve the electoral climate. America Coming Together recently distributed more than 100,000 fliers in black neighborhoods featuring a civil rights-era photograph of a fireman blasting a black man with a fire hose. “This is what they used to do to keep us from voting,” the caption said. On the back, the flier said Republicans were still seeking to block the black vote by breaking

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FDA wrongly approved anthrax vaccine; soldier inoculations must stop, judge rules WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

The Defense Department must immediately stop inoculating soldiers with anthrax vaccine, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the Food and Drug Administration acted improperly when it approved the experimental injections for general use. FDA violated its own rules by approving the vaccine late last year, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan said the mandatory vaccination program— which has inoculated more than 1.2 million soldiers since 1998— is “illegal.” Sullivan wrote that his ban on involuntary vaccination will remain until the FDA reviews the anthrax vaccine properly or until President Bush determines the normal process must be waived due to emergency circumstances. The Defense Department has required many soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to be vaccinated and has punished and sometimes court-martialed those who refused. The department expanded its anthrax and smallpox vaccination programs in July to include troops stationed in Korea and other areas in Asia and Africa, despite complaints from some soldiers that the vaccine made them sick. In a statement, the Defense Department said it is reviewing the decision and will “pause giving anthrax vaccinations until the

legal situation is clarified. ... DoD remains convinced that the anthrax immunization program complies with all the legal requirements and that the anthrax vaccine is safe and effective.” In his decision, Sullivan wrote that the FDA’s approval was invalid because it did not meet required review standards and failed to seek the necessary public comment. “Congress has prohibited the administration of investigational drugs to service members without their consent,” he said. “This Court will not permit the government to circumvent this requirement.” “The men and women of our armed forces deserve the assurance that the vaccines our government compels them to take into their bodies have been tested by the greatest scrutiny of all— public scrutiny. This is the process the FDA in its expert judgment has outlined, and this is the course this court shall compel FDA to follow,” Sullivan wrote. The judge ruled on a suit filed in March 2003 by six service men and women who argued that the FDA never properly reviewed the vaccine for its ability to protect against inhalation anthrax. The suit claimed that the drug was never shown to be effective, and that some vaccinated soldiers

have experienced extreme fatigue, joint pain and temporary memory loss after being vaccinated. The vaccine, made by BioPort of Lansing, Mich., is given as a series of several shots. Mark Zaid, an attorney for the six who has also defended more than a dozen soldiers court-martialed for refusing the vaccine, said one of his clients was a breast-feeding mother who did not think the vaccine was safe for her child. “We will now initiate an effort to ensure the government reverses all punishments that were imposed for refusing an order to take the vaccine,” Zaid said. He also will seek compensation for soldiers who were physically harmed. “As we’ve seen in Iraq, there wasn’t any actual threat from anthrax, so there was never any real need for the vaccine,” Zaid said. Sullivan initially ruled in late 2003 that the FDA had never approved the vaccine and ordered inoculations to stop. Eight days later, the FDA approved the vaccine based on an application made 18 years earlier, and the inoculation program resumed. Wednesday’s ruling concluded the agency did not follow its own rules in deciding the vaccine was safe and effective.

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Partisan continued from page 8 the rules, “like they did in Florida and St. Louis” in 2000. Republicans were furious at what they described as racial demagoguery. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the GOP National Committee, denounced ACT for “using a 40-year-old photo and associating it with the Republican Party to suggest intimidation.” He called the flier “unethical and despicable.” Meanwhile, Missouri GOP leaders accuse St. Louis Democrats of gathering flawed, and sometimes fraudulent, new voter registration applications. In the mayoral primary in 2001, Republicans noted, a number of dead people turned up on city voter rolls, including at least three deceased alderman. And last year, temporary workers from a group called the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, were found to have submitted hundreds of voter applications with invalid names. “It’s a legitimate worry,” said Jack Bartling, an aide to Republican Sen. Christopher S. Bond. But Mike Lueken, one of the two GOP members of the fourmember St. Louis Election Board, said there had been “no intent to commit fraud” on the part of the voter registration groups. “The

M. tennis continued from page 12 and are not dependent upon anyone else.” The team had plenty to keep them busy over the course of the weekend. Matches generally started at 8 a.m., so the team was out on the courts supporting each other from 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. By

Sox continued from page 1 dents continued on, crossing Pembroke Campus and then marching down Brown Street. At one point the “march” quickened into a light jog as an increasing number of students stampeded onto the Main Green, where they quickly formed a large circle, linking arms, bumping chests, singing Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and even lighting a small fire. Wary police officers watching the scene quickly stomped out the fire. Hiro Tanaka ’08 said that “what was momentous” about the Sox’s victory was that their status had always been comparable to “an untied knot” — something was always left undone. Now that it’s finally finished, Tanaka said, “It’s the beginning of a beautiful new history.” He also commented that all Red Sox fans, whether they heard the victory on the radio or watched it on TV with a group of friends, felt a connection between the 1918 Red Sox team and every team the Red Sox had fielded since then. It was as if there was, Tanaka said, “some fiber that ran through them all.” James Tierney ’06, Matthew Nicholson ’07 and Michael Yamartima ’06, all decked out in Red Sox jerseys, were preparing to

rolls are generally in good shape,” he said. “The quality of the cards has been high after we met with (the voter registration groups) to discuss early problems.” Everywhere, it seems, the presidential campaign is awash in reports of fraud, dirty tricks and intimidation. In Ohio, within little more than a week, the Board of Elections in Cuyahoga County received complaints of voters being contacted by people they said claimed to be from the election board: One Cleveland woman said her mother received a call from such a man telling her, falsely, that the location of her polling station had changed. Another woman said two men posing as election officials knocked on her door and said they had come to pick up her absentee ballot. An elderly woman in a suburban senior center complained about a call telling her the Nov. 2 election had been postponed until Nov. 3. “It’s happening more and more,” said Board of Elections Administrator Jane Platten. Michael Hackett, deputy director of the Board of Elections in Franklin County, which includes the capital Columbus, said his office was getting similar calls. At first they were “sporadic,” he said, but now there are “a lot of them.” The Ohio Voter Protection Coalition, an alliance of voter rights groups, plans to look into

the calls. “You can’t believe that people could be that sneaky and backhanded,” said Emilie Karrick, spokeswoman for the coalition. In Florida, where Democrats insist Republican voting officials swayed the election in Bush’s favor four years ago, Democrats have already filed nine lawsuits alleging that state officials — led by Secretary of State Glenda Hood, an appointee of GOP Gov. Jeb Bush, the president’s brother — have conspired to disenfranchise minority and low-income voters. Liberal voting rights activists say Hood blocked the opening of early-voting sites in black communities, for instance, while stacking a list of banned voters with the names of blacks. This spring, Hood tried to keep secret a list of convicted felons — who are not allowed to vote in Florida — who had been removed from the voting rolls; a Florida newspaper obtained the list and found glaring inaccuracies. “They’re trying to scare people away from the polls,” charged Matt Miller, a Florida spokesman for the Kerry campaign. For their part, Republicans have accused Florida Democrats of violating state campaign finance laws by colluding with unions, outside fundraising groups and other supporters. “They’re breaking the law and no one seems to care,” said Mindy Tucker Fletcher, a senior adviser to the Florida Republican Party.

that time, they were all tired from competition, so they joined each other for a meal and watched the Boston Red Sox game. Even when fellow teammates were not playing, the Bears scoped out other matches. Other successes in singles play included Shamasdin and Thomas, who both advanced to the singles round of 16. Shamasdin had to defeat Mikhail Bekker (Penn) 6-4, 6-4 in the sin-

gles round of 32 to advance, while Thomas beat his opponent, Dan Hanegby (SUNY-Binghamton), 76 (4), 6-3. This tournament concluded Bruno’s fall season. In the spring, the team will shift its focus back to taking the Ivy League title.

leave for Boston to be a part of the celebration. “It’s a lot of people acting pretty irresponsible,” Tierney said. Providence Police Officer Michael Harris said that he and his fellow officers certainly expected crowds at Brown, but their real concern was with campuses like the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, where they expected more excessive rioting. If the underdog status of Boston’s team has united America into a so-called “Red Sox Nation,” many fans wonder what will now become of the team that couldn’t. “We won’t rest on our laurels,” said Jessica Kerry ’08. Keith Hankins ’08 noted that the Red Sox don’t expect victory “They earn it,” he said. Many students also posited a link between the long-awaited Red Sox victory and the possibility of success for the Democrats in the presidential election. “Hopefully this is just a prelude to a Nov. 2 victory for Mr. Kerry,” said Dave Bedar ’05. Massachusetts native and Herald staff writer Katie Larkin ’08 echoed Bedar’s comment, saying that the Sox and Democratic victories will “definitely go hand in hand.” Dan Leventhal ’07 and Mark Tumiski ’08 both noted that their grandfathers would have loved to witness a Sox victory at the World

Series. “(My grandfather) always complained they didn’t take the pitchers out soon enough,” Levanthal remembered. Linnea Sanderson ’06, who watched the game with a friend at Tortilla Flats, a bar on Hope Street, commented that both she and her companion were shaking when the game ended. Sanderson’s earliest childhood memory was during the 1986 baseball season when, during a broadcast of the Sox at the World Series, her uncle dropped her. Sanderson noted that the quick victory this year for the Sox “almost made it seem too easy.” And while the apparently effortless win was perhaps less suspenseful than expected, Sanderson added that the team is fun to watch. “The dynamic they have is fabulous,” she said. In the study of geology, Sanderson said, there is a phenomenon known as magnetic reversals, in which magnetic poles “almost switch directions.” Tomorrow morning, Red Sox fans will wake up to a complete reversal of fortunes, Sanderson said. And while the total lunar eclipse won’t occur again until 2007, Red Sox fans everywhere can always look to next season.

Herald staff writer Brooke Wolfe ’07 covers men’s tennis. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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

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Targeting teaching Students here know that Brown lacks some of the trappings of the Ivy League. Our dorms don’t have leather couches in the lounges. Our buildings aren’t ornamented with gargoyles. And most of our professors, while leaders in their fields, aren’t well known outside of their disciplines. The Target of Opportunity program offers the University the chance to both bring in some big names and also diversify the faculty — both things that need to happen. But we worry that not everyone is benefitting from the program. We understand that making the University a competitive research institution requires strengthening the Graduate School and, in many cases, offering Target of Opportunity hires the chance to teach graduate courses. But we must remind administrators that Brown has been successful for a long time precisely because the secondary role of the Graduate School allowed more resources to be allocated to undergraduates, including teaching time and quality. This focus makes Brown unique among elite universities and attracts interesting and talented undergrads, who, as we all know, just keep getting better. From the student’s perspective, the standard hiring procedure seems to work pretty well, since most professors here are passionate about providing information, experiences and resources to their students. So while we recognize everything that Target of Opportunity hire and Professor of Africana Studies and English John Edgar Wideman P’91 brings to the University, we are nervous, because that he is teaching only one course this entire year — and it’s for graduate students. Administrators couldn’t say how many of the new hires were part of the Target of Opportunity program, so we don’t know if Wideman’s teaching load is typical for the new professors. But for undergraduates who came to Brown expecting an enriching and empowering undergraduate experience, it’s disappointing to see publicity about a renowned author joining the faculty and then not be able to take classes with him. A big-name professor who never sets foot in a classroom is a trapping. A big-name professor who brings his skills and experience to students is a major asset. Brown students aren’t here for the tweed, ivy and gargoyles. We’re here for the focus on undergraduate teaching and the dedicated professors — regardless of their resumes.

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LETTERS Solving the student labor problem To the Editor: I write in response to the slew of letters and columns that have been written in regard to the extended hours at some of the on-campus dining facilities. It seems that there is at least one obvious solution: The extra hour from 1 to 2 a.m. during weeknights should be eliminated. Everyone is saying that there are few customers during this time, and it seems to just be a taxing endeavor for the workers to have to stay when they may have classes the next day as well. It sounds as though the same people are working all of the late-night shifts; if they only have to work on Friday and Saturday nights, it might not be as exhausting. The money currently used to pay all the workers during the week could go toward perhaps

doubling the pay of those students during the latenight shifts and perhaps to monitors or police to patrol the facilities while they are open that late. I think it’s a great idea to extend the hours on the weekends. The University is catering to students’ social and academic needs. People will probably continue to use the extra hour to satiate their late nightmunching post-boozing needs, but destructive and rude behavior should never be tolerated. Regardless, I think the issue can be solved by looking at supply and demand in the facilities and maybe some extra monetary incentive. While working for Dining Services is great, I think it is the money that talks. Rachel Kitson ’05 Oct. 27

Columnist slanders undergrad TAs To the Editor: Benjamin Bright-Fishbein (“Undergraduate TAs need to go,” Oct. 25) chides undergraduate teaching assistants for being somehow inherently inferior at educating students than their grad student brethren. In almost every case I have found, undergraduate TAs have taken the class more recently, and because of the competitive nature of the applicant pool, they are bound to be far more motivated than a graduate student who is required to TA a course. For that matter, there is no reason to assume that the average graduate student has taken the course he or she TAs at all, as most students here for grad school did not attend Brown as an undergraduate. Furthermore, Bright-Fishbein insinuates throughout his column that undergraduate TAs somehow replace professors as the primary teaching device. This is ridiculous. Undergraduates supplement the formal instruction of a professor, usually by holding office hours, help sessions or sections. You are, in fact, “paying $40,000 to be taught by the world’s most edu-

cated minds,” and if you need help in addition to this, the guy down the hall who took the class last year and is now an undergraduate TA will be happy to help you, too. Finally, it is an insult to everyone at this university in general, and the biology department in particular, to say that you were “offered the option to be a TA for Bio 20 ... after having taken AP Biology two years prior.” You may have been encouraged to apply, but that is no guarantee you would have gotten the job. A position as a Bio 20 TA is notoriously difficult to get. It has a very competitive and capable applicant pool. Furthermore, to say that Brown “would feel it necessary to hire you to teach a class” is misleading. If you had been hired, you would have overseen labs and held office hours, but certainly would not have been teaching the class. Indeed, if even you think you would have made a terrible teacher, I can guarantee that you would have not been hired. Aaron Myers ‘07 Oct. 26

C O R R E C T I O N An article in Wednesday’s Herald incorrectly identified Dartmouth College’s men’s cross country team as the second-place finisher at the 2003 Pre-

Nationals tournament. Dartmouth actually earned fourth place, and Columbia University placed second.

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OPINIONS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2004 · PAGE 11

NATE GORALNIK

International law, John Wayne style “Forget the United Nations. America should run the world.” It feels delicious when I say it, but most of my friends don’t think I’m being serious. “Nate, keep it in your pants,” they say. Actually, I am serious. America should run the world. Here’s why. First of all, someone should be in charge — I think most Brown students agree with that. A globe left to its own devices is an ugly place, full of African genocides, Arab terrorists, Brazilian trade deficits, Chinese Taiwangrabbers, Japanese whale-eaters, Canadians who club baby seals — really nasty stuff. Rwandan mass graves and Iranian nuclear programs are the price we pay for existing in Hobbesian anarchy. Clearly, then, there is evil in the world and suffering that screams out to a higher power for mercy. That’s where international law comes in. Diplomats in search of peace and prosperity have crafted frameworks, contracts and covenants regulating everything from nuclear proliferation to telecommunications markets, giving the U.N. Security Council the authority to use economic and military means to comply with established norms. Now, liberal internationalists love this stuff. They see the U.N. as a beacon of humanity in the dark and thorny jungle of power politics, and they imagine that the legal documents and file folders wielded by U.N. delegations are going to change the world. The rhetoric in statements like the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights couldn’t be more agreeable to the liberal ear. The mistake that the multilateral girly-men make is not that they believe in universal norms — it is that they trust international bodies to enforce them. Think about it this way: If you believe in international law, you are probably also the kind of person who hates Bush’s military tribunals on the grounds that they are procedurally unjust. Laws, after all, are only as just as the structures that apply and enforce them. That is why the framers of the Constitution took special care to ensure justice and impartiality by setting up a system of checks and balances that separated the legislative, executive and judicial functions of the government. Liberals of the Ashcroft-hating variety start screaming

and hollering every time the Bush administration even mildly abridges the rights of suspected terrorists. My question to them is this: If Ashcroft’s Constitutional vision gives you the creeps, what about the U.N.? The U.N., for example, lacks any meaningful separation of powers between the legislature and the judiciary. The nations that apply the law are the same nations that make the law. And when a legislative assembly is responsible for weighing accusations against its own members, the process becomes hopelessly politicized. Simply recall the bitter debates between Republicans and Democrats over the meaning of the word “is” during the Monica

Why America should run the world. Lewinsky impeachment hearings. The point is that law applied by legislators is not law at all — it’s just politics masquerading as legalism. That’s why the United States did not call out Saddam after he massacred the Kurds in the late 1980s: The two countries were allies against Iran. And then there are conflicts of interest so blatant that they make Enron look like the government of Finland. When member nations decide whether Iran is in compliance with non-proliferation agreements or whether the Sudanese government is resolving the crisis in Darfur, they don’t just have politics to think about; there are also vested interests. With respect to Darfur, New York Times columnist David Brooks observed, “The Russians, who sell military planes to Sudan, decided sanctions would not be in the interests of humanity. The Chinese, whose oil companies have a significant presence in Sudan, threatened a veto.

And so began the great watering-down.” It gets worse. When considering whether a country is violating international agreements, member nations also have to decide whether they’re willing to make the economic and military sacrifices necessary to support the law. What American jury in its right mind would ever convict a defendant of a crime if they knew it was their job to keep him in jail for the next 20 years? No wonder the U.N. failed to call the Rwandan genocide by its proper name — no one was interested in taking casualties in the African interior. International law, then, is a mirage. In Kosovo, NATO circumvented the U.N. (and a likely Russian veto) and bombed Serbia itself. In Rwanda, everyone just kept quiet or lied about what was going on. In the former case, the U.N. was unnecessary; in the latter, it was useless. Japan and Germany both signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 that banned war forever. The rest is history. If the U.N. won’t enforce the law, then there’s no point in waiting for its approval before invading Iraq, establishing a demilitarized zone in Darfur or bombing Iran’s nuclear weapons program. Global politics isn’t “Law & Order” — it’s John Wayne. If you want to see that justice is done, you have to take the law into your own hands. Politely referring pressing crises like nuclear proliferation and ethnic cleansing to international bodies is a surefire way to make sure that nothing gets accomplished. So we face a choice. Should Sudan determine the future of Darfur, or should we? Should developing a nuclear arsenal be up to Iran’s evil mullahs, or should it be up to us? It is natural to get morally squeamish about being the world’s policemen, but liberals need to grow up. Mommy is not going to fix it for us. Only we can. If we fail to act early because we’re too worried about violating diplomatic customs, then we place the fate of the world in the hands of our enemies. As Machiavelli wrote, “Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.” Nate Goralnik ’06 is a rhinestone cowboy.

ALEXANDRA TOUMANOFF

Writer vs. mosquito The other night I had a standoff with a mosquito. I won. The fact that it bit me means nothing. Every warrior has a few wounds. I was sitting in my room calmly doing homework (OK, reading a magazine, but since I want to be a journalist, it’s essentially the same thing) when I heard a high-pitched buzzing that sounded like a competition between Lucille Ball and a lawnmower. I looked up in horror and saw the biggest mosquito I had ever seen knocking itself against my wall. It was the size of a half dollar. “Holy ...” I screamed, leaping out of my seat and flinging Vogue at the wall. The mosquito dodged the magazine as skillfully as a ballet dancer. “Get out!” I yelled. “Bzz, bzzz,” it said. “Make me.” “Look,” I said, lowering my voice conspiratorially. “I can’t make you leave, and you know it. You’re too high up for me to reach. Just please, leave?” “Ha ha,” it said, sticking its stinger out at me. “Bzz.” “Fine,” I said. “Two can play this game.” I left the room and tiptoed around the suite’s common area, pretending to clean and watching reruns on MTV to distract the mosquito. Every five minutes or so, I went back on tiptoe and peered into my room to see if the mosquito had flown away, died or gotten stuck in an old Starbucks cup. But every time I looked, it was still making camp. At 4 a.m. I couldn’t take the ads for “Girls Gone Wild” anymore. I decided if I was this tired, the mosquito must be tired. I shook out the sheets and then carefully wrapped myself up like a mummy so that the

mosquito could not get in. “Ha ha, mosquito thing, try and bite me now,” I thought. Sucker. I woke up with a bite on my nose. The thing had obviously tried to hit me when I was down. It had cheated. Oh, it was war. The next day, the mosquito and I stared at each other once again. Faced with a standoff, I did what any normal strategist, such as Napoleon or Custer, would do. I called my dad.

Hoping that the insect you try to kill with a magazine doesn’t have malaria. “Can you come kill a bug for me?” I whispered. “Why are you whispering?” he said. “It might hear me,” I squeaked. “Bzzz!” said the mosquito. “I have you now, Luke Skywalker.” “I’m 3,000 miles away,” said my father. “Why don’t you kill it?” ”But that would be wrong.” I said. “I couldn’t kill it.” “You were going to let me kill it.” “That’s entirely different.”

My friend walked in a few hours later to see me huddled in the corner wearing every piece of clothing I own and waving a carved stick. “What are you doing?” she asked. “Intimidation,” I told her. I lowered my voice, because it was listening. She looked at me curiously. “That evil mosquito bit my nose,” I told her. “Is that all?” she asked. Then she killed it. She’d definitely become the man of the suite. I could not believe that my opponent was gone. It was a wonderful thing, but still, my victory seemed empty. Perhaps it was because I had let my friend fight my battle for me. Then I spied a giant spider crawling down my wall. I looked toward my suitemate. “If there were no spiders then imagine how many mosquitoes we’d have,” my friend said soothingly. “Spiders are our friends.” Tell that to the maniacal black eight-legged poison saber with too-shiny eyes dangling from the ceiling, rubbing its front legs together. It can’t wait to take a piece out of my nose. “I bet it’s a black widow,” I said. “It’s a daddy long-legs,” my friend said. What does she know? She thinks she knows everything about nature, just because she grew up in upstate New York.

Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 is a political science concentrator.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS THURSDAY OCTOBER 28, 2004 · PAGE 12

With Northerns at home, m. water polo good bet to qualify for Easterns BY CAROLINE BRANDON

As the men’s water polo team’s regular season comes to a close, the run for a championship begins here at home with the Northern Division Championship Tournament, to be held this weekend at the Smith Swim Center. After finishing sixth last year, Brown hopes to qualify for the more competitive Eastern Championships later in November by finishing in the top four. Much to their pleasure, the Bears drew a favorable match-up — as the third seed, Brown will play its first match on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. against Fordham University, a team it beat 15-3 at the beginning of the season. Brown finished in a three-way tie with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Iona College for third in the Eastern conference but got the third-place seed because of a plus-3 goal differential in head-to-head games with the two teams. MIT and Iona are seeded fourth and fifth, respectively. “I think if we play well, we can beat Fordham,” said Head Coach Jason Gall. “But at end-of-theyear tournaments, teams have seen each other play enough that they are able to scout their competition. I expect this game to be a lot closer.” The Bears expected a full week of practice to polish up a few last

things after finishing the season Oct. 20, but Greg Harm ’06 and co-captain Paul D’Avino ’05 suffered injuries, forcing the team to try out some creative and different things in the water. Harm suffered a twisted ankle and fractured foot, while D’Avino received a nasty poke to the eye. Both have been cleared to play this weekend and are expected to do so. “We have had some really good practices this week,” Gall said. “As I have said all year, this is a team — things don’t revolve around one player. Everyone understands they have to be ready to go.” Although Brown has only had two home games this year, Gall believes playing at home gives them a slight advantage. “We anticipate a lot of fans,” Gall said. “But most importantly, being at home gives us more time to rest, and it is comfortable, both in and out of the pool.” If Brown beats Fordham, it will play the winner of the game between Harvard University and Connecticut College at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday. The Bears are out for revenge against likely opponent Harvard, which beat them 6-2 just two weeks ago. If Brown loses to Fordham, it will play the loser of that game at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday. “Of course we want to play

see WATER POLO, page 5

BU hands m. soccer another tough loss, but hope still alive for Ivy title BY IAN CROPP

Coming into Tuesday’s game against Boston University, the men’s soccer team had no streaks to speak of, winning or losing. In a 2-0 loss to the Terriers, Brown (6-5-2) continued its game-to-game ups and downs after a 2-0 victory over Cornell this past Saturday. Brown controlled the ball for most of the first half, but BU tallied the only goal of the first half. “We possessed the ball and moved it around really well, but we were not moving it forward, and we didn’t threaten their goal much,” said assistant coach Scott Wiercinski. “On their goal we made one bad touch and one bad choice, and they got the ball. It wasn’t just one breakdown but a mistake in a couple of different areas.” The loss to the Terriers, in which Brown outplayed BU overall, was reminiscent of many of Brown’s close losses this year. “It kind of stinks, because it was one of those games where you do most of the things correctly and make one or two mistakes and it costs you the game,” said Ibrahim Diane ’06. In addition to the costly defensive letdown in the first half, Brown suffered several offensive lapses. Right after the BU goal, the Bears stormed down the field and Diane crossed a ball into the middle of the field, but two Brown players failed to convert on clear opportunities.

W. tennis sends four players to regional indoor tournament BY PHILIP BUFFUM

The Indoor Tennis Association Northeast Regional Championship is not a tournament that many on the women’s tennis team look toward each year, as the team usually only sends one or two players. But this year, four women qualified for the tournament, giving Brown a much bigger contingent than usual. Brown’s four returning players — captain Alex Arlak ’05, Amanda Saiontz ’07, Michelle Pautler ’07 and Daisy Ames ’07 — competed in the tournament, held this year at the University of Pennsylvania, but came up with only two wins. “It’s pretty much feast or famine,” said Head Coach Paul Wardlaw. “But it’s a good setting, because I got to see us play against the best in the region.” Of all the teams who attended, Wardlaw estimated that just a handful of them sent more players than the Bears. The College of William and Mary, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the University of Maryland each had more than four players at the tournament, Wardlaw said. Of the others,

Virginia Tech and Virgina Commonwealth University had about the same representation as the Bears, but all the other schools only sent one or two players to compete. Arlak won her first match 6-2, 6-1 over Lauren Galatie of Sacred Heart University. She then ran

Judy He / Herald

Alex Arlak ’05 was one of four women from Brown competing at the ITA Northeast Championships last weekend.

into Diana Srebrovic of the University of Virginia, who has been ranked as high as No. 270 in the WTA world tennis rankings. Arlak, who described her play this weekend as “nothing spectacular,” lost to Srebrovic 6-1, 63. The other three Bears all lost in their first matches. The Bears’ other victory came in doubles, with Arlak teaming up with Ames to win 8-5 over a Columbia University pair in the qualifying rounds. However, they then lost 8-2 to the University of West Virginia. Saiontz and Pautler also formed a doubles team, but lost in their first match. The women’s tennis team plays its final fall tournament this weekend at Dartmouth College. The Big Green Invitational, like the ITA, is held indoors. The team is focusing on doubles in preparation for this tournament, according to Wardlaw, who hopes the team can “end on a high note” before taking a short winter break. The team will begin the regular season almost as soon as classes resume next semester, with a home date against Colgate University on Feb. 5.

Shawn Ban / Herald

Ibrahim Diane ’06 and the men’s soccer team face an uphill battle for the Ivy League championship, despite the conference’s parity this season. “Luck has not been on our side, but this year we’ve made our own bad luck at times,” Wiercinski said. “We are paying the piper for not capitalizing on chances we have created.” Brown had fewer scoring chances in the second half, but the game was not out of reach until BU scored with just a little more than three minutes left.

“We didn’t take care of the ball as much and got a little bit overexcited at times,” Wiercinski said. “At times our decisions seemed panicked and not as constructed as they should have been. Our game plan was good, but we failed to execute.” The loss to a mediocre region-

see M. SOCCER, page 7

ITA Northeast brings success for several on m. tennis squad BY BROOKE WOLFE

The men’s tennis team successfully finished a long weekend of tennis at the ITA Regional Championships, competing against the best teams in the region, which included players from Sweden and Switzerland as well as from schools closer to home, like Cornell University. The tournament was not scored as a team meet, but the Bears showed their prowess in singles and doubles against top competition. “As a team we did well and showed some improvement,” said Nicholas Goldberg ’05. Goldberg said he was happy with how he played until his quarterfinal match, when he lost to Harvard University’s Martin Wetze 6-4, 6-4. Goldberg had advanced by beating Jimmy Moore of Columbia University 6-4, 7-5 in the singles round of 64 and then Avid Puranen of Virginia Tech after a grueling split set, 7-6(7), 4-6, 6-3. Goldberg advanced the farthest of the team, but said he “could have played better” in the quarterfinals.

The top doubles team for Bruno was Saurabh Kohli ’08 and Eric Thomas ’07, who advanced to the semifinals. They defeated Georgetown University 8-1, Harvard 8-4, the State University of New YorkBinghamton 8-6 and Pennsylvania State University 84 to advance to the final four. But Harvard had another tough duo in the semis, and the Bears lost 8-4. The duo of Goldberg and Adil Shamasdin ’05 also had a strong doubles performance. The pair defeated Hofstra 8-1 and Cornell 8-2 before falling in a close match in the quarterfinal round to Harvard 9-7. “Both singles and doubles are rewarding in a lot of aspects,” Goldberg said. “Adil and I have a lot of fun when we play together, but there’s something about the strategy of singles that I like — you control your own destiny

see M. TENNIS, page 9 B ROW N S P O RTS S CO R E B OA R D Wednesday, October 28 Women’s Soccer: Brown 1, Providence 0