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UCS aims to improve communication with region plan

Considered ‘guts’ by students, easy intro courses have a home in New Curriculum

BY AIDAN LEVY

BY SARA PERKINS

In an effort to jumpstart interaction between the Undergraduate Council of Students and the student body, UCS representatives will be assigned to specific campus regions starting sometime next semester. While the plan is still in its beginning stages, President Joel Payne ’05 believes it will expedite and broaden UCS communication with the Brown community at large.

“This is a vehicle to interact with the student body, because we do a poor job of it now,” Payne said. “It’s hard to reach people when there are only 40 UCS members in charge of the entire student body.”

Payne introduced the plan during his campaign for UCS president last year.

Although it is unrelated to the Department of Public Safety’s new community policing initiative, which divides the campus into smaller regions assigned to specific officers, the spirit of the two initiatives is similar.

Under the new UCS plan, Payne envisions approximately eight UCS representatives assigned to each of four precincts on campus.

A suggestion box would be set up at a prominent post in each region for residents to voice their concerns. In addition, pertinent UCS information would be posted there, including the representatives’ office hours in the UCS office. Once or twice a semester, the representatives in charge of each precinct would hold a regional forum in a town meeting format for residents to discuss problems that need to be rectified. Twice a semester, UCS will compile a campus-wide regional report to facilitate accurate goal-setting, Payne said.

“Your average run-of-the-mill student doesn’t really know us,” Payne said. “It’s all about accessibility, and this will make UCS

between UCS and students strengthens our ability to advocate for them,” he said.

“I think it has the potential to have a great effect, since one of UCS’s perennial issues and shortcomings is communication with the student body. We’ve come a long way in a few years, but we have a long way to go.”

Associate UCS member Melba Melton ’06 said she strongly supports the plan. “It would give representatives more of a responsibility,” Melton said. “In the past, some reps didn’t take the initiative to go

Many of the students who find their way into GE 5: “Mars, Moon and the Earth” are first-years looking to experiment with a new subject or seniors looking to balance rigorous courses with less intense offerings.

Professor of Geological Sciences James Head said he knows that the class he’s taught, with a few interruptions, for more than 20 years, attracts those who will probably never take a geology course again. However, he said he is also “painfully aware that people can go through their career at Brown without ever taking a science course.”

Common student wisdom assigns courses like Head’s and EN 9: “Management of Industrial and Nonprofit Organizations” the pejorative designation “gut course.” But Head and Professor Emeritus of Engineering Barrett Hazeltine, who teaches EN 9, say their courses and similar ones in other departments serve an important purpose that is slightly outside the larger missions of their respective departments.

Large, well-taught, unintimidating courses can serve as an introductory gateway to a discipline, but more often they ensure that students do not leave Brown and its New Curriculum without some grounding in a subject outside of their concentration focus or subjectarea comfort zone, Head and Hazeltine both said.

“Everybody sees it as an important service to the University as a whole,” Head said of GE 5. Though it’s not “a course dedicated to those who are going to major in the field,” GE 5 allows Head to pull in a few recruits and give a

see UCS, page 6

see GUTS, page 8

Julia Zuckerman / Herald

The Marcus Aurelius statue on Lincoln Field became the Headless Horseman for Thursday night’s Live on Lincoln. The Special Events Committee organized the annual event.

much more effective.”

UCS representatives already have at their disposal several methods of communication — door-to-door solicitation, mailbox slips, campus-wide e-mail notices and a standing invitation for any student to attend the Wednesday 8 p.m. meetings in Petteruti Lounge — but Payne said he feels these methods are incomparable to regional representation.

UCS Vice President Charley Cummings ’06 agreed that the more organized plan Payne proposes to foster student-representative relations would be beneficial.

“Anything to increase the dialogue

CAMPAIGN 2004

THE ISSUES HIT HOME

Pro-choice groups work to mobilize students to vote

As Iraq conflict continues, young voters wonder if a draft is coming

BY SUCHI MATHUR

BY DANA GOLDSTEIN

The question of reproductive rights has mobilized student groups concerned with the possible long-term ramifications the presidential election will have on issues such as abortion.

For most students, this will be the first presidential election in which they are eligible to vote. Groups including Students for Choice, the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and the Brown Democrats have been working together since the semester began to organize voter registration drives and encourage students to vote, said Emilee Pressman ’05, co-chair of SFC. SFC, which has an active general body membership of over 50, helped students register and obtain absentee ballots, but its main focus remains informing the

student body about candidates’ stances on abortion.

“Our goal is just to let students know who is the candidate who is pro-choice and who is not,” Pressman said. “Since we’ve already passed absentee ballot deadline, we’re focusing on state elections.”

Along with activities emphasizing voter registration, some groups have invited speakers and planned special events aimed at demonstrating the importance of reproductive rights in this election. SFC had an abortion provider speak at a general body meeting about how difficult obtaining an abortion has become because of political and legal complications, Pressman said.

see PRO-CHOICE, page 6

When former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean visited Brown on Sept. 9, he told The Herald that college students should mobilize against the possibility of a military draft. “(Bush) has now dug himself into a really deep hole, and I think a draft is inevitable if he’s reelected,” Dean said.

The comment might have seemed shocking at the time, but just three weeks later, James Carville, co-host of CNN’s Crossfire and famed Democratic consultant, swung through Rhode Island and echoed the sentiment.

“The army is in a near state of mutiny — they’re calling people up who aren’t showing,” Carville told pro-choice advocates at a Planned Parenthood event in Warwick.

“We’re one conflict away from a draft,” he

Modern Culture and Media offers movies that aren’t available at the local Blockbuster arts & culture, page 3

Herald columnists are making their voices heard, just in time for Tuesday’s election election insert, inside

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warned, naming humanitarian crises and possible conflicts in North Korea, Iran and Pakistan as events that could require a large deployment of U.S. troops at a time when the military is already strained in Iraq and Afghanistan.

One month after Dean’s visit to Brown, the New York Times’ Oct. 3 Week in Review section featured a story about the draft and the attempts by John Kerry’s campaign to assuage voters’ fears about conscription. Times columnist Paul Krugman took the issue up on Oct. 22, arguing that President George W. Bush’s doctrine of pre-emptive warfare “leads to the justified suspicion that after the election, Mr. Bush will seek a large expansion in our military, quite possibly through a return of the

India is condoning autocracy with its position on Burma, writes Arjun Iyengar ’05 column, page 11

W. ice hockey turns to first-year recruits in hopes of rebuilding team after key players graduate sports, page 12

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THIS MORNING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29 , 2004 · PAGE 2 Coreacracy Eddie Ahn

TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS GISPS/ISPS/AIS INFORMATIOIN SESSION 4:30 p.m. (Rhode Island Hall Rm. 116) — Come learn how to design your own class for credit.

BROWN UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA 8 p.m. (Sayles Hall) — The Brown Orchestra will perform pieces from several composers, including Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture” and Debussy’s “La Mer.” Tickets cost $2.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME SALE 10 a.m.-3 p.m. (PO Courtyard) — The Brown theater department will be selling costumes from their stock for low prices.

LECTURE: DERRICK BELL 4:30 p.m. (Smith Buannono 106) — The latest lecture sponsored by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. Bell will speak about “Brown v. Board of Education and the Affirmative Action Dilemma.”

MICHAEL TORKE DISCUSSES HIS MUSIC 4:30 p.m. (Grant Recital Hall) — Visiting composer Michael Torke will discuss “Javelin” and his other music at a public lecture. Torke is one of the leading American composers of his generation. His kinetic, “post-minimalist” works often make hidden reference to popular idiom.

Torke strongly associates pitches and chords with colors; he has often named his pieces for those colors and the moods they evoke.

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MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Shepherd’s Pie, French Green Beans with Tomatoes, Pancakes, French Toast, Home Fries with Garlic, Grilled Breakfast Sausages, Hard Boiled Eggs, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Mocha Angel Dessert.

DINNER — Breaded Pollock Fillets with Tartar Sauce, Rice Pilaf, Asparagus Cuts with Lemon, Baked Acorn Squash, Multigrain Bread, Cajun Apple Cake, Chicken Pesto Pasta.

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ARTS & CULTURE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 3

MCM film series showcases obscure yet worthwhile cinema

BY STEFAN TALMAN

The Modern Culture and Media Cinemateque Film Series exists. That is its brilliance. This is not to say that every film is brilliant or that the entire department is a bastion of brilliance — though some might dispute this. And it is not to toss “brilliance” about with disregard, denigrating its meaning.

The films are shown in Production One — a production space in the department — every Friday at 7 p.m., in the new MCM building at 135 Thayer St. Admission is free.

A few points deserve note.

First, and in true MCM form, the location is fully ironic. Production One is both a screening room and a production facility. The films shown could have been created in the very room in which it is screened. Imposing equipment hangs from the ceiling of the allblack room. The unseen guts of film spill down towards the audience.

Viewing films in Production One feels very authentic, perhaps even a bit bohemian.

Second, the films are somewhat obscure. Unlike those shown by the Brown Film Society in past years, few of the films and directors will ring familiar to those without extensive knowledge of film history. Among the more prominent directors are Bertolucci, Cecil B. DeMille and Spencer Williams. A

see MCM, page 8

Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular lights up Roger Williams Park Zoo

BY ANNE WOOTTON

Only three nights remain of the Roger Williams Park Zoo’s fourth annual Jack O’ Lantern Spectacular, which features over 150,000 pounds of carved, illuminated pumpkins and was hailed by the Library of Congress as a “local legacy.”

The Spectacular was founded by an Oxford, Mass., mailman in 1988. The original show featured 185 jack o’ lanterns carved by local residents that were showcased for one night on a hill behind a local school. Now, more than 5,000 pumpkins are involved, and the trail attracts 80,000 visitors over the course of its one-month run, which ends Sunday.

A team of 30 professional pumpkin carvers — many of whom take leaves of absence from their jobs as plumbers, carpenters, teachers or cooks for the duration of the Spectacular — spend six weeks creating the trail, themed “Around the World” this year. The pumpkins are combined with special lighting, music and 3-D effects for the three-acre trail, which gained national acclaim on CBS’s “Early Show” and CNN. Expect to see glowing scenes of Oktoberfest in Germany, Lance Armstrong in the Tour de France, canals in Venice, Japanese pagodas, the Parthenon in Greece, the Congo and the lost city of Atlantis —even the Lord of the Rings is present, with an entire hobbit-house worth of pumpkins depicting scenes from the trilogy.

“They have a Spongebob Squarepants pumpkin,” chuckled Laura Dunn, public relations specialist at the zoo.

The Spectacular has certain staples — the blazing “Tree of Light” and “Laughing Place,” for example. “(The Laughing Place

has) got a lot of bigger pumpkins and the lighting is fun, and they play this song that’s a mixture of techno and — well, it’s just techno, really,” Dunn said. “We get tons of people calling and asking what that song is.

If you go through, you’ll know the Laughing Place when you see it,” she said.

Visitors will be admitted to the trail from 6-10 p.m. tonight, tomorrow night and on Halloween, rain or shine. “We see all ages,” Dunn said. “It depends on the time of night.

Until 8, it’s a lot of families. After that, we get a lot of couples, college-age kids, people

just, you know, having a good time.”

The trail ends with a tribute to the United States, including a giant pumpkin carved with the Statue of Liberty. Even Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and President George W. Bush are illuminated as pumpkin heads reminding visitors to vote on Tuesday.

Admission to the Spectacular is $12 for adults, and proceeds go toward environmental education and conservation efforts, as well as new exhibit construction and zoo improvements.

Brown and RISD unite over art and free drinks

BY SERENA ROBERTS

The new exhibit at the Hillel Project Gallery at the Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center opened to an excited throng of students last Thursday night.

The party to open the gallery’s first exhibit of the year began with music from the fabulous DJs Josh Koplewicz ’05 and Jon Miller ’05. The opening was a smashing success, with a turnout larger than the committee had expected.

There was great ambiance, free wine and cheese, and something you don’t see every day — RISD students breakdancing in the corridor near the bathroom.

Gallery leaders chose a circus-like theme to adorn the space, replete with tubs of popcorn and publicity posters designed to replicate vintage circus ads.

The décor created quite an effect.

The party’s energy was not only appropriate to celebrate the exhibit’s opening but also the attainment of the committee’s main goal — to unite the Brown and RISD communities artistically and socially. Gallery leader Laura Miller ’05 described this as the show’s most critical objective.

“We wanted to bring RISD and Brown students along with local community members into the gallery, to maximize the use of such a beautiful space on campus,” she said.

Miller said she was “surprised and delighted” that the exhibit brought so many RISD and community members outside the University up the hill to the gallery.

Ilana Schachter ’05, another gallery

see HILLEL, page 9

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IN BRIEF Well-known academic and author Bell to speak today Renowned author Derrick Bell will present the final event today in the yearlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v.

Board of Education Supreme Court case.

Bell is best known for “Race, Racism and American Law,” his 1973 work examining civil rights legislation.

He will deliver a lecture titled “Brown v.

Board of Ed and the Affirmative Action Dilemma.”

Bell, a tenured Harvard Law School professor from 1971 to 1992, gave up his position at the law school in protest of the lack of women of color on the faculty. He is currently a professor at New York University’s law school.

Bell will speak in Smith-Buonanno 106 at 4:30 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, the Office of Institutional Diversity and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

Brown employee assaulted by three men Wednesday afternoon A part-time Brown employee was the victim of a brazen armed robbery that occurred in broad daylight Wednesday.

At approximately 2:30 p.m., three black males, all approximately 18 years old, assaulted the victim while he was walking near the greenhouse on Waterman Street. A campus-wide e-mail from the Department of Public Safety gave this account of the assault: The assault occurred as the victim passed the assailants, one of whom asked the victim “what he was looking at?” “Nothing,” he replied.

Two suspects proceeded to grab the victim by the arms while the third said “Give me your money,” removing a switchblade-style knife with a six-inch blade. The victim gave the suspect his wallet, which contained cash. He was punched in the face twice, which caused swelling under the eyes.

The victim sustained minor injuries and, following an EMS examination, declined further treatment. DPS searched the area but couldn’t find the suspects, who fled going west behind the greenhouse.

— Herald staff reports

Draft continued from page 1 draft.”

Over the past four years, the media has been full of stories of how successful Republicans are in defining their opponents and controversial issues. But in the weeks leading up to the presidential election, Democrats seem to have successfully defined the draft as a campaign issue, despite the fact that both candidates have categorically denied considering a draft. On Oct. 5, the House of Representatives defeated a bill to reinstate conscription, 402-2.

The last draft, instated during the Vietnam War, ended in 1973.

Perhaps more than any other issue, military conscription appeals to the imaginations of young voters dissatisfied with the Bush administration; according to an Annenberg Center poll conducted in early October, 51 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 believe Bush favors reinstating a draft, while only 8 percent believe Kerry does.

Jeremy Russo ’07 is part of that 51 percent. Russo said although he recognizes the draft is a remote possibility, he fears it. “I just hope Kerry’s elected so I don’t have to worry about it,” he said.

To Assistant Professor of Political Science Jennifer Lawless, who teaches PS 114: “Public Opinion and American Democracy,” the draft issue is a perfect example of clever political rhetoric. But the strategy is limited, Lawless noted, because while a wide segment of the population is receptive to Republican talking points on national security, fear of the draft is most cogent among people in their teens and twenties, “and young people are the least likely to go to the polls.”

Lawless and Associate Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller both said the draft issue was unlikely to be a determining factor in voter turnout next Tuesday.

“If any military issue would drive somebody’s vote, it would be the fact that we’re currently in Iraq and things aren’t going so well,” Schiller said. “It’s about what has happened thus far in Iraq and how long we’re going to be there. But the candidates haven’t differentiated on that issue.”

Lawless conceded, however, that the draft is a useful political tool for the Democrats. “It’s at least calling to attention that it’s something that’s possible,” Lawless said. “It makes the military issue real to a lot of people for whom it might not have been.”

One Brown student for whom the “military issue” is always real is Scott Quigley ’05, commander of the Providence College battalion of the Reserve Officer Training Corps. Quigley said he and his fellow cadets have not discussed the possibility of a draft, although they are committed to the idea of a volunteer army in which every solider wants to be serving.

“The bottom line is, as a soldier, all I would ask is that whoever wins this election come Nov. 2, whoever is president, just make sure to take care of the soldiers,” Quigley said. “I don’t care about rhetoric. Are you taking care of the people who are helping to preserve freedom around the world, who are answering the call of whatever any administration asks them to do?”

Schiller emphasized that, in fact, any administration — even a Kerry administration — could find itself faced with the need to put out such a call, though she considers the possibility unlikely.

Like Carville, Schiller said a major humanitarian crisis, especially if the United Nations decided to intervene, could pressure an American president to commit more troops than the military currently has available.

“We are very overextended right now. We do not have enough troops to meet our needs,” Schiller said. “We’re not going to North Korea. That kind of conflict won’t be solved on the ground with force. … But we can’t stop genocide right now, for example, in Sudan. And that has traditionally been one of our responsibilities.”

Schiller said the details of future conflicts would determine whether the American public would support a president who instated a draft. During the Vietnam War, for example, it was not the draft itself that mobilized young people against the war, Schiller said, but the circumstances surrounding the conflict.

“Most Americans had supported the draft up until then, and I would venture that most

Americans support the draft in principle today,” she said. She added that she did not think the American public would support a draft in order to fight the war in Iraq. But today, political decisionmakers and much of the population are removed from the sacrifices of the armed forces, because our volunteer military is disproportionately made up of the socio-economically disadvantaged, Schiller said.

Xander Boutelle ’05 said that because he would like to see the military become a more “egalitarian” institution, he would not necessarily oppose a draft if another conflict were to occur during the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

“I support the Israeli system of every 18-year old, male or female, having to serve for one to two years,” Boutelle said. “At our age, they’re so much more responsible and dedicated to the ideals of their country.”

A 21st-century draft would very likely include women, Schiller said, but perhaps give them different assignments. As for class issues, “there would be enormous political pressure to deny deferments,” she noted. “However, we still have a conscientious-objector deferment, which I assume would be upheld.”

But considering the improbability of conscription, the more immediate concern for this election is what Kerry has called the “back-door draft” of inactive reservists and National Guardsmen who expected to serve domestically for only a few weeks out of each year.

Lawless said the issue is another example of how the Democrats have used the fear of forced military service to their advantage, pointing out that all reservists are aware of the fact that at any given point, they might be asked to serve overseas.

Quigley had this to say to reluctant reservists: “People go into that because the military provides many benefits. … The bottom line is they know what they’re getting into. They’re signing their name on the dotted line because they’re going to be called to serve their country. It’s one of the bottom lines of the military and anything you commit to.”

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein ’06 edits the RISD News section. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 3

Nebulous terrorism standards confuse voters WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) — The U.S.-led war

on terrorism has cost hundreds of billions of dollars, prompted the largest-ever restructuring of the U.S. government and become a central issue in the presidential campaign.

Potential voters are being buried under a deluge of partisan and often contradictory claims about whether Americans are safer now than before Sept.

11, 2001, and even about the nature of the enemy and the war itself.

If Americans are confused, they have good reason to be: their government appears to be just as much in the dark as they are about whether the terror war is succeeding, as President Bush claims, or has actually strengthened the terrorists and further jeopardized the nation, as challenger John F. Kerry asserts.

That’s the case in part because progress in the terror war is hard to define and even harder to measure, especially this early in a struggle that could last for decades, according to terrorism experts in and outside the U.S. government.

It’s also the case because the Bush administration and Congress haven’t corrected fundamental flaws in the way the government measures its progress in the terror war, according to extensive interviews with U.S. officials and outside experts.

Lacking such hard information, the presidential candidates can claim almost whatever they want about the war on terror without fear of being

see TERRORISM, page 6

Uncertainty reigns as ill Arafat heads to France RAMALLAH, West Bank (Los Angeles Times) — With a team of doctors and his wife by his side, ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was being readied to fly to France early Friday for medical treatment.

Arafat, 75, was to be transported by helicopter from his West Bank compound to Jordan, and from there to Paris. A helipad was being readied Thursday night, Palestinian officials said, with workers clearing a courtyard of rubble under the glare of floodlights.

Arafat’s wife, Suha, who lives in Paris, arrived at his headquarters Thursday, and the decision to have him receive medical care in France was announced shortly after. The two, who have a young daughter, have mainly lived apart since the outbreak of the current Palestinian uprising, or intifada, a little more than four years ago.

Arafat has been suffering from stomach pains, fever and nausea for nearly two weeks, his aides say. On Wednesday night, he briefly lapsed into unconsciousness, according to news accounts and Palestinian officials — a development that triggered the urgent attention of doctors, and prompted senior aides to gather at the compound. On Thursday, his condition was said to have stabilized.

News reports said blood tests revealed that Arafat suffered from a low platelet count, which interferes with bloodclotting ability. More tests were needed to determine the reason for that, his doctors told reporters gathered at Arafat’s headquarters, known as the Muqata. Arafat has spent more than two years at the headquarters under effective house arrest by the Israeli government.

Although the Palestinian Authority president was reported to have spent much of Thursday sleeping, he did sit for photographs and video footage shot inside his compound.

Surrounded by doctors and aides and clad in pale-blue pajamas and a dark stocking cap — one of the rare times he did not appear in his trademark military fatigues and checkered keffiyeh headdress — Arafat grinned broadly for the cameras and clasped his doctors’ hands, but he appeared

very pale and shrunken.

The Palestinian leader’s personal doctor, Ashraf Kurdi, told reporters that Arafat was in no immediate danger and was in good condition and high spirits.

In a reversal of past policy, Israel promised that Arafat could return to his compound after medical treatment.

Previously, Israel had not prevented him from leaving, but threatened to demolish the compound if he did. Arafat’s Gaza headquarters were destroyed earlier in the conflict.

Israel characterized its move as a humanitarian gesture.

“Israel will not impose any restrictions” on Arafat’s return to the West Bank following treatment, said Raanan Gissin, an aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said U.S. officials had have been in touch with Palestinian and Israeli officials regarding Arafat’s health and praised the two sides for the “constructive manner” in which they had worked out arrangements for medical treatment.

“These are not political matters. The gentleman is very ill.

We hope he gets the medical care he needs to return to health,” Boucher said.

The cause of Arafat’s infirmity remained unclear. Those close to him have blamed his episodes of fever and nausea on a case of the flu or gallstones. But medical officials said other far more serious ailments could be behind the symptoms.

Professor Yaron Niv, the head of gastrointestinal diseases at Israel’s Beilinson Hospital, said based on descriptions of Arafat’s condition, he could be suffering from a disease of the stomach, colon or gall bladder. Cancer of the gallbladder, for example, is extremely malignant, Niv told Israel Radio.

Aides to Arafat announced earlier that diagnostic tests had ruled out cancer of the digestive tract.

see ARAFAT, page 8

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Pro-choice continued from page 1 The FMLA also sponsored a screening of “Vote for Choice,” a documentary about the March for Women’s Lives, on Tuesday.

Many students think the issue of abortion and reproductive rights is particularly pressing this election because of the connected question of judicial appointments.

“I think that abortion is always an important issue, especially for us who recognize that the next president will probably be appointing two new justices to the Supreme Court,” said Kelly Hall ’06, chair of the Brown Democrats’ legislative committee.

Hall said the Democrats tend to avoid talking about abortion when canvassing in swing states, where opinions are more divided, but amplify it among the generally liberal population of Brown students.

“We use this issue when it’s advantageous, in areas such as Brown’s campus,” she said.

Still, most students, even those who hold strong opinions on abortion, are not mobilizing around the issue, Hall said.

UCS continued from page 1 out and talk to people, and by instating a new plan, they would have no choice but to get involved in the community.”

Next week, UCS will distrib-

“Many students don’t understand how threatened reproductive rights really are,” she said.

“Most students don’t have the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned and George Bush appointing pro-life judges to the Supreme Court in the forefront of their mind.”

Christopher McAuliffe ’05, president of the Brown College Republicans, said the degree to which reproductive rights are at stake in this election is overstated. “Personally, I don’t think that (the issue of abortion) is as important as people think,” he said. “I think the issue of judicial appointments is very important.

“People have a very simplistic view of the abortion issue — they tend to believe that if Republicans appoint conservative judges, abortion will be illegal in the imminent future,” he added.

McAuliffe estimated that the College Republicans are evenly split on the question of abortion.

A host of smaller issues fit under the umbrella topic of reproductive rights, said Gail Cohee, director of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center. “There’s concern about access to birth control and reproductive health,” she said. “This issue of availability of contraceptives is

something many of us never even thought would be an issue.”

Faye Reiff-Pasarew ’05, president of FMLA, and Hall both emphasized that the presidential race is not the only contest in which reproductive rights are at stake. “While the presidency is important, Congress and the Senate are also important in this election,” Reiff-Pasarew said.

Hall also said local elections and candidates remain central in determining the status of reproductive rights. “It’s important to have advocates on the state level as well as national advocates, because so many of the smaller issues under reproductive rights are decided at the state level,” she said.

In an effort to raise awareness about state elections, SFC will be distributing table slips Monday and Tuesday that indicate which local candidates are pro-choice, Pressman said.

Pressman said the issue of reproductive rights encompasses a holistic view of a woman’s life. “If you’re not going to let a woman terminate her pregnancy, are you going to take care of her?” she said. “It goes into welfare and other social issues as well.”

ute an annual report in each student’s mailbox discussing each UCS committee’s agenda for the semester, some of which include electoral reform and negotiations with Brown University Dining Services regarding hours at Josiah’s and the Gate. But Cummings said he feels students also need to be

involved with the development of the community outreach program.

“It’s in the beginning stages of a great idea,” said Cummings.

“To decide how this program would be, we need to have a greater dialogue not just internally with our own reps, but with the community as a whole.”

Terrorism continued from page 5 proven wrong.

But such flaws do more than confuse voters. They undercut the entire war effort, these experts say, by depriving government leaders of a clear understanding of the evolving threat posed by global terrorist organizations such as al-Qaida.

Without such an understanding, they say, the government and its congressional overseers can’t engineer a coordinated and effective response to terrorism in the short term, or the kind of strategic campaign needed to defeat such enemies over the long haul.

“The two candidates often appear so far apart on the issues.

How can this be?” asks Raphael Perl, a senior U.S. terrorism analyst at the government’s Congressional Research Service.

“It’s not that one has his facts right and the other doesn’t. It’s that we lack clear objective goals and standards by which to measure success. And that it is a very, very serious problem.”

A year ago, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld inadvertently brought such concerns into the open when his internal memo on the subject became public.

“Today we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror,” Rumsfeld wrote. “Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas (Islamic schools) and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?”

“Have we fashioned the right mix of rewards, amnesty, protection, and confidence in the U.S.?” Rumsfeld asked. “Does the U.S. need to fashion a broad, integrated plan to stop the next generation of terrorists?”

Conceding he lacked the answers, Rumsfeld asked for an immediate report from his aides, and suggested that maybe the administration needed some kind of bold, new approach to counter global terrorism.

Administration officials had varying responses as to whether Rumsfeld ever got his answers or if anything has changed. But many U.S. counter-terrorism experts said Rumsfeld’s concerns remain valid today.

The administration’s shortcomings in measuring the terror war’s progress were made clear last April after the State Department released its annual “Patterns of Global Terrorism” report, which is mandated by Congress as the nation’s most authoritative assessment of terrorist activity.

Bush administration officials hailed the report as “clear evidence” that they were winning the war on terrorism, noting that significant terrorist attacks and casualties had declined sharply under their watch.

But the report contained serious errors, including simple math mistakes and a cutoff date that excluded dozens of terroristrelated deaths. Democrats said the report was written to serve the administration’s political interests.

The State Department corrected and reissued the report, admitting that terrorist casualties actually had risen significantly, but blamed the mistakes on personnel shortages and an antiquated database.

Terrorism experts say problems with the annual terrorism report go far deeper, and that they are emblematic of institutional shortcomings in the administration’s overall counterterrorism effort.

For years, various U.S. administrations have used widely varying standards when counting terrorist attacks and identifying terrorist groups and their activities overseas, records show.

In some earlier reports, for instance, the State Department included suicide bombings in the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya. But most, if not all, such attacks were left out of this year’s report, despite scores of deaths.

Attacks in U.S.-occupied Iraq also were largely left out of the report, even though some past administrations included similar strikes against U.S. troops on overseas missions, according to Princeton University professor Alan B. Krueger.

Krueger says the State Department has no statistics unit, which subjects its counterterror effort to manipulation by political appointees.

Even if the government came up with reliable report cards on the terrorism war, there are limits to the value of such a “body count” approach, some argue.

Successive administrations have spent too much time counting the number of terrorists captured and attacks thwarted, and not enough on more strategic concerns such as whether the war in Iraq and other U.S. foreign policies are helping or hindering the long-term effort, officials said.

The U.S. effort has broken down on other fronts as well.

Continuing conflicts among the CIA, FBI and Pentagon undermine efforts to identify wasteful spending, misplaced priorities and other inter-agency problems, officials say.

That affects everything from the direction of the overall counterterrorism effort to oversight of the literally thousands of intelligence, law enforcement, military and diplomatic initiatives currently underway, despite indications that some are duplicative, sharply at odds with each other, or even backfiring, officials say.

That’s one reason the Sept. 11 Commission made two of its top priorities the establishment of a national intelligence director and a national counterterrorism center, Chairman Thomas Kean said in an interview.

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Some experts question significance of missing explosives WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — The 377 tons of Iraqi explo-

sives whose reported disappearance has dominated the past few days of presidential campaigning represent only a tiny fraction of the vast quantities of other munitions unaccounted for since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government 18 months ago.

U.S. military commanders estimated last fall that Iraqi military sites contained 650,000 to 1 million tons of explosives, artillery shells, aviation bombs and other ammunition. The Bush administration cited official figures this week showing about 400,000 tons destroyed or in the process of being eliminated. That leaves the whereabouts of more than 250,000 tons unknown.

Against that background, this week’s assertions by Sen. John Kerry’s campaign about the few hundred tons said to have vanished from Iraq’s Qaqaa facility have struck some defense experts as exaggerated.

“There is something truly absurd about focusing on 377 tons of rather ordinary explosives, regardless of what actually happened at al Qaqaa,” Anthony H. Cordesman, a senior analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in an assessment Thursday. “The munitions at al Qaqaa were at most around 0.06 percent of the total.”

Retired Army Gen. Wayne Downing, who served briefly as President Bush’s adviser on counterterrorism and has criticized some aspects of the administration’s performance, said Thursday he considered the missing-explosives issue “bogus.”

Kerry has seized on the incident to press his charge that Bush mishandled the invasion of Iraq, failing, among other things, to secure sites containing dangerous Iraqi munitions, some of which were stored in bunkers marked with International Atomic Energy Agency seals to designate particular international concern.

Bush administration officials have refused to accept a statement issued earlier this month by a senior official of Iraq’s interim government that the munitions disappeared after the April 9, 2003, fall of Baghdad “due to a lack of security.” Iraqi authorities have not offered any supporting evidence, and Bush administration officials have suggested the explosives may have been removed earlier by Iraqi forces.

Several defense analysts said Kerry’s focus on Qaqaa has resonated mainly because the explosives issue has become symbolic of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq, especially its long-running insistence that it has a sufficient number of U.S. forces there.

“The issue has been out there for a long time,” said James Bodner, who helped formulate Iraq policy in the Clinton-era Pentagon. “Are we properly manned to carry out the specific military tasks that need to be accomplished? If the answer is, `Yes, we have enough troops,’ then why are these facilities unguarded?”

Whatever the case, the military significance of the loss, in a country awash with far larger amounts of munitions, is open to question.

The most powerful of the three explosives — HMX — can be used in a trigger for nuclear devices, which is why it had been placed under IAEA seal. But HMX is obtainable elsewhere, and the chief U.S. weapons investigator in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, has acknowledged that the Iraqi stockpile posed no particular concern in this regard.

Matthew Bunn, a Harvard University expert in nuclear weapons and terrorism, said that while he is concerned by the removal of the explosives, he is far more worried by IAEA reports that large quantities of sophisticated equipment, such as electron beam welders, were looted and removed from Iraq’s nuclear weapons program. “That material, which would be quite useful to a nuclear weapons program, was also well known to the United States, was not guarded, and today is probably in hostile hands,” with Iran being a likely recipient, said Bunn, who noted that he has been advising the Kerry campaign but does not speak for it.

HMX and the two other types of explosives reported missing from Qaqaa — RDX and PETN — could also be used in devices targeting U.S. forces in Iraq. But defense officials say the many car bombs and roadside explosive devices that have menaced U.S. forces and other foreigners in Iraq have tended to be constructed from old artillery shells and other munitions, which remain in ample supply in Iraq.

Pentagon officials, attempting to reconstruct a timeline of what might have occurred at Qaqaa, believe they have narrowed the window for the disappearance to a two-month period between mid-March 2003, when the IAEA verified its seals were still in place, and May 2003, when U.S. military search teams arrived at the site and found it had been looted, stripped and vandalized.

The search teams saw none of the explosives that were once under seal.

Although invading U.S. forces never secured the facility, defense officials have disputed the notion that such a large quantity of explosive could have been transported without notice by the U.S. military.

Bolstering the possibility that the munitions were removed before U.S. troops arrived, defense officials say, is the Saddam’s government known practice of shifting weapons from storage facilities into fields and other camouflaged sites to elude U.S. air attacks. One senior defense also said classified U.S. intelligence photos show lots of activity at Qaqaa before U.S. forces reached the site.

The Pentagon has contributed to confusion surrounding the case. John Shaw, deputy undersecretary for international technology and security, told the Washington Times on Wednesday that Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the explosives from Qaqaa. He said Russian special forces troops had

moved many of Saddam’s weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the U.S invasion.

Thursday, other senior defense officials, after reviewing Pentagon intelligence reports, said Shaw’s remarks had no basis in fact.

Other confusion has arisen over how much explosive material had been stored at Qaqaa. The 377-ton figure was cited by Iraq’s interim government in a letter to the IAEA earlier this month first reporting the amount missing.

That figure was based on a Saddam government declaration in July 2003 of what existed at the site. It included about 155 tons of RDX. On Wednesday, ABC News reported that IAEA documents indicated there were only about 3 tons of RDX remaining at Qaqaa in January 2003, two months before the U.S.-led invasion. Thursday, however, IAEA officials said records showed another 138 tons of the RDX were being kept then at a military warehouse used by Qaqaa’s managers at al-Mahaweel, located about 25 miles away. The IAEA has never been able to account for an additional 14 tons in July 2003 Iraqi declaration.

Melissa Fleming, an IAEA spokeswoman, said Thursday that the IAEA warned the United States in April 2003 of concerns about security at Qaqaa. Other U.N. officials said repeated efforts were made for more than a year to get answers from the U.S. government about the explosives and other weaponsrelated materials in store rooms, bunkers and laboratories that had been under U.N. seal before the war.

A fresh request to the Iraqi government generated the Oct. 10 reply that the explosives were no longer at Qaqaa.

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Arafat continued from page 5 Israeli officials have said little in public about the Palestinian leader’s condition, but they have had intensive talks about the potential repercussions if Arafat

Guts continued from page 1 few more students a “fundamental appreciation” of science, he said.

Contrary to rumors, the University is not planning any unusual crackdown on those courses perceived as guts, Dean of the College Paul Armstrong said. “Every university, I am sure, has some courses that are easier than others,” but the process of feedback and review by department heads and the College Curriculum Council ensure that Brown courses maintain an acceptable level of rigor in the amount of reading and frequency and difficulty of assignments, he said.

Armstrong said he steers his first-year advisees towards balance in their schedules by recommending courses with different types of assignments in diverse subjects. Brown students are only required to take four courses each semester because “if you take four courses, you can take

MCM continued from page 3 majority of the films are products of the 1930s and 1940s. The most recently made film, “Friendship’s Death,” comes from the late 1980s.

But what’s really quite astounding is that all of the films are from the rare MCM film archives. These are Brown’s films.

This is what students are paying their sizable tuition for.

In spite of their obscurity, or

W. soccer continued from page 12 very dangerous.”

The Bears continued to be aggressive after the goal, attacking the ball when the Friars tried to move it and trying to control play in the middle third of the field.

“If you have an attacking style of play, the other team is going to cough up (the ball and scoring opportunities),” Pincince said.

During the winning streak, Brown has made improvements on corner kicks and throw-ins.

Over the past three games, the Bears have scored four goals off corner kicks and throw-ins, as opposed to just one over the previous 12 games. The ability to score off corners and throw-ins gives Brown’s offense another dimension that should help it down the stretch.

The Brown defense, led by goalie Hilary Wilson ’06, posted its fourth shutout of the season.

The improved play in the middle third of the field has taken some of the pressure off of the defense — Wilson had five saves in the game, compared to as many as 20

were to die or be forced by ill health to give up his duties.

Palestinians, too, have held a series of consultations, but they have been careful to avoid speculating about what would happen if Arafat did not recover.

Arafat’s associates are secretive about his condition even under normal conditions.

Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom suggested if Arafat were gone from the scene, long-moribund peace efforts could be restarted.

“We always said we would be willing to talk to a Palestinian leadership that was prepared once and for all to bring an end to bloodshed,’’ Shalom told Israel Radio.

four courses that are challenging,” he said.

Hazeltine, who is in semiretirement but still teaches EN 9 and 90, and Head both said they had not changed the number or difficulty of their assignments much over the evolution of their courses, and that they had not been pressured by deans or department chairs to change anything.

EN 9 “is outside the mainstream of engineering,” Hazeltine said. Fundamentally a business practicum, it has remained under the auspices of the department, he said, because engineering accreditation favors business skills and because it might face opposition from administrators if it were established as a department-neutral University Course.

“A lot of people in the administration have a lot of trouble with courses that deal with the real world,” Hazeltine said. EN 9 does not succumb to the “academic temptation to make your material complicated, obscure and esoteric,” he said.

Course selection at Brown is “a

buyer’s market,” Head said. His course enrollment has fluctuated from a high of 420 to a low of 70.

One year, he said, he wondered about the lower-than-usual enrollment until he was reminded that his exam would fall on the last day of the exam period “and no one wants to stay that late.”

Hazeltine said that it is important to him that “people are here because they want to be here.” He uses surveys at the midpoint and at the end of the course to choose which business case studies to use and refine assignments, allowing students to shape the class for the coming year.

In the end, Head said, “you get out of the course what you put into the course,” and though most GE 5 students never take another geology course, several alums now work for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and California Polytechnic University’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

even because of it, the films are worth seeing. These are films that “might” be found at Acme or Estas but would otherwise never have a chance to be seen in full screen, projected through celluloid. Few would see these films unless instructed. The department has gone so far as to sort out what is worth seeing — no effort is required, except to go to the screening. Or to be somewhat cliché, this is the kind of opportunity only available at college — or New York. And not everyone lives in New York.

Third, all screenings use

16mm Xenon Projection. This guarantees warmth of color.

Even the film noir glows. In the relatively small and un-theaterlike space of Production One, an entire wall of the space lights up.

It’s like sitting, however briefly, in the brain of these filmmakers, to see the world as they did. This is how film was meant to be seen.

Tonight’s screening features Andre’ De Toth’s “Ramrod,” followed by Budd Boetticher’s “Seminole.” More information can be found on the MCM department’s Web site.

in earlier games — but defensive players have not let up and remain committed to shutting out opponents.

“We played great defense and shut them out for 90 minutes, and that’s really great,” Pincince said.

The Bears now look ahead to two key league matchups. They travel to the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday looking for their second road win,

then will host Yale University the following week to finish the season. The Bears have a chance to finish second in the Ivy League if they win both games.

“I’m confident we can win out,” said Schreck. “The season’s definitely not over.”

W. hockey continued from page 12 Along with the goalies, the Bears have recruited some promising players: Emilie Bydwell ’08, Heather Lane ’08, Emilie Midtling ’08, Rylee Olewinski ’08 and Hayley Moore ’08.

Brown’s offensive performers from last year started out strong in the Wizards scrimmage, with Kerry Nugent ’05 sinking a power-play goal. Also key for the Bears in the weekend win was Lindsay Glennon ’06, who assisted Nugent’s goal and scored the third on anoth-

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

Herald assistant sports editor Bernie Gordon ’07 covers women’s soccer. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

er power play. The second goal came from a slightly unusual source in defenseman Myria Heinhuis ’06, who put a slap shot into the net.

The Bears’ coaching staff is joined this year by Ali Kenney ’00. Kenney, who spent the last year as an assistant coach with Bowdoin College, will be filling the same position at Brown.

She joins Murphy and fourthyear assistant coach Ryan Stone behind the bench.

The Bears play tonight at 7 p.m. in Orono, Maine.

Herald staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 covers women’s ice hockey. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Rehnquist has surgery for thyroid cancer

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WASHINGTON (The Washington Post) — The chief justice of the U.S.

Supreme Court, William Rehnquist, underwent cancerrelated surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital but plans to return to the bench for oral arguments when the Supreme Court reconvenes Monday, the court announced.

In a brief statement, the court said doctors performed a tracheotomy on Rehnquist on Oct. 23 “in connection with a recent diagnosis of thyroid cancer.”

The news that the chief justice

has a potentially life-threatening condition suddenly threw into doubt the stability of a court whose membership last changed in 1994.

There are various types of thyroid cancer. Some are much more easily treated than others, but all are more difficult to treat in older patients, medical experts said.

Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg declined to comment on the precise nature of Rehnquist’s illness.

The thyroid is a gland near the base of the throat that helps reg-

ulate body temperature and metabolism, as well as maintain normal functioning of the heart and brain. Tumors in the thyroid can sometimes invade the windpipe, or trachea. Generally, doctors use a tracheotomy — making a small hole in the neck to permit air to enter the windpipe directly from the outside — in cases in which, for any reason, a patient has no other way to get air.

Rehnquist, 80, leads a fivemember majority of Republicanappointed justices who regularly steer the law in a conservative

direction.

A court without Rehnquist at its helm would look different depending on who wins the presidency, if the candidates’ professed views on the judiciary are any guide. If President Bush were reelected, the net change might be minimal, because he would probably nominate someone as conservative as Rehnquist. But if Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., were to win, he could have the opportunity to reverse the 5 to 4 advantage conservatives enjoy over liberals.

IRS investigates alleged NAACP political activity WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) —

The Internal Revenue Service has informed the NAACP that it is investigating whether the civil rights organization improperly “intervened in a political campaign” when it posed on its Web site a speech by chairman Julian Bond that condemned the Bush administration’s policies.

The IRS sent a letter to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People informing it of the investigation on Oct. 8, less than a month before Tuesday’s presidential election.

The group has until Nov. 5 to respond.

“I think what’s at issue is our right to criticize the president of the United States,” Bond said Thursday. “The IRS is saying that because I criticized the president’s education policies, his economic policies and his war policies that somehow I placed the tax exemption for the NAACP at risk.”

Bond, a college professor at the University of Virginia and American University, said the tim-

M. hockey continued from page 12 knee and return for a final year of eligibility next season.

As a result, Brown’s defensive corps will be younger but possibly more skilled. The hint of a new look on defense is part of a broader evolution of the Brown team.

“We’ll still have our system of accountability — that keeps you strong on defense,” Grillo said. He indicated that the system would not be different, but that “we’ll adjust it depending on the personnel.”

A key to that defensive personnel will be goalie Scott Rowan ’05.

Before coming to Brown, Rowan was an all-star for two years in the Alberta Junior A league. Rowan and Kevin Kliman ’06 have spent their Brown careers as backups to Danis.

“Right now, Scott is the frontrunner (for starting goalie), but Kevin will have a chance, too,” Grillo said.

The competition both in the Ivy League and ECAC will be tough, as in years past. Harvard will arrive tonight with enormous talent and new Head Coach Ted Donato, a former U.S. Olympian and NHL alum. Brown will host the Crimson tonight at 7 p.m. at Meehan Auditorium.

Herald staff writer Matt Lieber GS covers men’s ice hockey. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

ing of the probe raises questions about the administration’s motives.

Bush’s relationship with the NAACP, the United States’ oldest and largest civil rights organization, has been contentious. He appeared before the group as a candidate for president in 2000, but has rejected all invitations since then.

Asked about the IRS probe, the Bush campaign referred all questions to the agency, which issued a statement from IRS Commissioner Mark W. Everson. Without mentioning the NAACP investigation by name, Everson denied that the agency was politically motivated.

“Law-enforcement decisions at the IRS are made without regard to political considerations,” Everson said.

At issue is a speech Bond delivered on July 11 at the NAACP’s 95th annual convention in Philadelphia.

The speech touched on Bond’s personal history, the history of racial discrimination in America and the Bush administration.

“The NAACP has always been nonpartisan, but that doesn’t mean we’re non-critical. For as long as we’ve existed, whether Democrats or Republican have occupied the White House, we’ve spoken truth to power,” Bond said in the keynote address.

He then went on criticize the administration’s positions on affirmative action, the war in Iraq, civil rights and the economy. “They write a new constitution for Iraq and ignore the constitution here at home,” he said.

“If a president lies about having an affair, they say, “Impeach him!”

If a president lies about going to war, they say, “Re-elect him!”

He spoke about the 2000 election, as he had done in previous addresses to the group.

“We must guarantee the irregularities, suppression, nullification and outright theft of black votes that happened on Election Day 2000 never, ever happen again,” he said.

Bond, a former Georgia state lawmaker, also called on the

group’s members to vote this year.

“You cannot win this race by ignoring race,” he said. “We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes.”

The NAACP could lose its taxexempt status or face a fine if the IRS decides it engaged in political activity. Under the law, nonprofit groups cannot endorse candidates, contribute money or raise funds for them or “distribute statements for or against a particular candidate.”

Even encouraging people to vote for a particular candidate “on the basis of nonpartisan criteria” violates tax laws. The federal tax code also says that organization leaders cannot make “partisan comments” at official events.

But Bond said he was careful in his speech not to explicitly tell NAACP members who to vote for.

“We understand what the tax laws are. We understand what nonpartisan means. We never thought it meant, don’t be critical.”

leader, said, “The gallery provides an outlet for art enthusiasm and appreciation. I was extremely satisfied with the turnout of this reception.

Seeing how many Brown and RISD students attended this opening really makes me feel that this project has been extremely successful.”

Seamus Burns, whose beautiful oil nude portrait appeared in the show, said, “Hillel’s forum is a great means for Brown and RISD students to receive an otherwise unavailable level of publicity.”

Of the show itself, the pieces were half from Brown students and half from RISD students. They covered a diverse range of mediums including oil, furniture, photography, jewelry, pencil and painting on silk. They also displayed a wide range of subjects.

There were many standouts in the exhibition. Guests at the reception responded especially favorably to Burns’ large oil nude portrait, Jon Miller’s suitcase installation and a set of oil paintings by Laini Nemett ’06. Miller’s installation featured a film noir-esque short with appropriated text imposed on the screen as dialogue. Nemett’s small oil paintings — one a self-portrait and one an interior — were lovely and honest.

Gallery leaders said the event was a success and that they hope momentum from this show will carry over to the next two shows.

Art lovers can get all the culture they want at Hillel’s gallery until Nov. 29.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Diamonds and coal A nod of sympathy to St. Mary’s College, which accepted a $112 million donation that turned out not be real. But a diamond to the absolutely brilliant 84-year-old ex-con who escaped to Mexico with some of the money. Let’s hope our $100 million donations stay right here in Providence.

A weekly addition to the pile of coal mounting up for Morning Mail. Thanks for telling us on Thursday morning about a Wednesday event. Montana Wildhack is not happy.

Coal to Attorney General John Ashcroft for not coming to speak at Brown, as was promised on mysterious signs spotted around campus last weekend. And for trampling on civil liberties, immigrants’ rights, due process and the Constitution. Yeah, coal.

A diamond to the Boston Red Sox for winning the World Series. Long time coming, boys, but how sweet it is. Coal to the identity crisis that will sweep New England once the victory sinks in.

But a cubic zirconium to the victory bonfire on the Main Green Thursday night. We liked seeing that Brown fans can act like real sports fans, but it’s too bad it only happens for the Red Sox. Besides, we saw bigger flames at the Main Green 4-20 celebration.

A diamond to Brown’s footballers, who impressed their parents and ours last weekend by beating Cornell for their first league victory this season.

But coal to Dustin Hoffman P’07 for breaking down at the end of his talk. It freaks us out when our parents cry, dude.

A diamond to the great OPPORTUNITIES!!!! available to graduates. We came to Brown hoping to be meat slicers in West Palm Beach, but that was before we found out about the pants-pressing opportunities in neighboring Connecticut. Sign us up!

Finally, a diamond to Eminem’s “Mosh.” It’s about time someone combined Halloween-appropriate attire with voting. Don your hoodies and get to the polls on Tuesday!

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SHANE WILKERSON

LETTERS Barry Fain’s column misleads voters To the Editor: Barry Fain’s column (“One ballot, two elections,” Oct. 27) distorts the truth. Fain asserts his independence and blasts the one-party control of the State Legislature — but he fails to provide all the facts.

First, as pointed out in The Herald’s endorsement of his opponent, State Sen. Rhoda Perry (Oct. 26), Fain has not mentioned his leadership role in the anti-Brown group, the College Hill Neighborhood Association. Second, his candidacy receives tacit support from the Republican Party.

For any independent to be a successful legislator, he must choose a party to generally align with.

After his vicious attacks against Democrat Perry, Fain will have little choice but to align with the Republicans, despite his claims of liberal social positions. Third, Fain has no record on which we can evaluate his claims of being pro-choice, pro-

gay marriage and pro-medical marijuana.

Rhoda Perry has a 14-year record of fighting for exactly these issues and more. She might be one of many Democrats, but she is also one of few progressives. She is a true maverick, an independent and courageous voice.

Finally, Fain bemoans Brown’s structure as stacked against independents. But Brown’s policy prohibits all campaigning, no matter the candidate’s party. Any student group could have invited Fain to campus for an educational discussion of issues. The simple truth is that none have felt compelled to do so.

Fain is misleading voters at Brown about himself and Rhoda Perry, just as he is misleading the rest of the voters in District 3.

Craig Auster ’08 Oct. 28

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OPINIONS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 11

Reinventing my life at Brown GUEST COLUMN BY SAMANTHA PLESSER

I took a vacation from Brown this semester. True, it was mandatory. But here I am, back on Long Island, living at home and wondering: How the hell did I get here?

I’ve tried to write about my experiences these past years in a positive manner, but I always seem to end up sounding like a Lifetime Original Movie. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me, but it always seems when I write like I am coming across as this whining and crazy chick who blames everyone for all the things that have gone wrong with her.

In truth, I blame nobody but myself. Circumstances happen to everyone, bad luck finds even the most prosperous of people and nobody lives a charmed life.

How did I end up here? Psychology major that I am, I could trace my development all the way back to my divorced parents and my troubled home life. But really, I think that’s oversimplifying things.

I could attribute my problems to my relationship with food. Overindulging in it, refusing it altogether, throwing it up — I’ve been through the gamut. Perhaps that is a good place to start, because that was when I began to realize how much I needed some sort of control in my increasingly out-of-control life.

Eating disorders are such a shameful thing. If you have cancer, people feel sorry for you. It is not your fault. There is no shame. Eating disorders are a different beast. They are insidious. They cause you to alienate those you love, lie to those you trust and become someone that you hate.

I hated myself when I was in the throes of anorexia and bulimia. I was slowly killing myself but doing it deliberately. When I finally realized I had no control over what I was doing, those around me didn’t believe me. They thought I could stop when I wanted to. They were angry when I ate and then purged. They felt embarrassed when I refused to dine in public. I was a social disaster, and it was my fault.

Before I went to Brown, I went to the University of Michigan. I ended up there by chance, having really wanted to go to Stanford since before I can remember. I didn’t get in, so Michigan, the school of my relatives, became my school. It was a cold and dreary place, but I was able to amalgamate myself into the environment.

People didn’t see me as the fat kid they had seen in high school.

College, especially in that first year, is the time when you can reinvent yourself without the threat of demons from your past exposing you. So I bought my first pair of Diesel jeans (in a young Long Island Jew’s life, this is a moment akin to losing your virginity) and became a sorority girl. I was ridiculed and taunted and abused by my “sisters,” but I was respected by those around me.

Was it worth it? Was it helpful hearing girls throwing up in the sorority house after every meal? Did it make me stronger? I don’t know. I don’t think I learned very much about sisterhood, but I did learn I did not belong in such an environment. When my sorority sisters were in

Loving and hating Brown at the same time.

Cancun, I was at home applying to transfer. Brown waited.

To me, Brown is a love-hate experience of the most dramatic kind. I felt completely uncomfortable when I was there, always feeling as if I had to measure up to the kids who had been there all four years. I thought I was not smart enough, not rich enough, not good enough to be there.

Yet I never feel as much at ease as when I’m lounging on the Main Green watching the Frisbee being tossed around as girls in their designer clothes stroll by. When I was asked to leave — a good decision, even though I did not agree with it at the time — I decided that I was going to get myself together.

I went to a psychiatric hospital that was right out of a Ken Kesey novel. There was the screaming, the pill lines, the complete isolation, the intense therapy and the straitjackets. These girls were at the end of their rope.

They would not eat, they could not function and I, for one, felt incredibly normal around them.

They became my friends, and I learned from them

that we all have our sob stories. I could not use my past as an excuse anymore for what I did in the future. I left McLean, the illustrious stomping grounds of such notable figures as Marilyn Monroe, James Taylor and Sylvia Plath, and went back home.

More hospitals and therapy followed. I single-handedly kept the drug companies in business with all my prescription medication. And then I found out, two days before my 21st birthday, that I was not allowed back into Brown for the fall semester.

Devastation does not begin to describe how I felt.

Betrayed and abandoned, I was a lost soul. And then, surprisingly, I grew up. I started to network, to apply for internships, to meet people who were the most successful in their fields. And they were an inspiration to me, not because of how much money they made or how wonderful their lives seemed, but because they too all had stories of adversity and tragedy, many of which were far worse than mine.

My life, for better or worse this semester, has been a series of train rides. In and out of New York City I go, working as a gopher for a publishing company and then doing editing and market research for a men’s magazine. Is it stimulating? Not really. Am I getting paid? No. Would I choose to do these things? Not so much. Am I growing up? Hell yes.

I have learned that Brown, and academia in general, is the place for me, but I have also learned that I can exist outside of the Ivory Tower. It seems, at least tentatively, that I have gotten myself somewhat together. I don’t want to be a liability anymore. I don’t want anyone to worry about me instead of worrying about himself or herself. I want to be 21 and act it. And I think that if nothing else, the time off has helped me do so.

I appreciate where I am. “All in all it seems to go / You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” Joni Mitchell sings. And as cliché as that sounds, I believe it. Visiting Brown while I am not enrolled, I see what I was missing when I was a student. I feel the electricity that surrounds everyone. I am privileged to walk among them.

And for the first time, I feel like I belong.

Samantha Plesser is currently reapplying to Brown.

ARJUN IYENGAR

Inopportune visit Myanmar’s military ruler, Senior General Than Shwe, arrived in India on Sunday on a landmark sixday visit to strengthen economic and political ties with Indian President Abdul Kalam and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, two of the few friends his junta has in the world. It was the first such trip by a Burmese leader — the junta refers to the country as Myanmar — to India in nearly 25 years.

The visit, however, was ill-timed, as it came days after Shwe sacked Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, a reformist military intelligence chief who supported talks with detained pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Several hundred intelligence officers were also detained, while businesses under military-intelligence control, including the lucrative black markets on the borders, have been closed or taken over by the junta.

By inviting Shwe at this time and receiving him with all the pomp and circumstance merited for a head of state, India has undermined efforts to promote democratization in Burma.

Nyunt was instrumental in changing the outlook of the governing junta in Burma. Although no one would call him a liberal in the Western sense — he headed the military’s intelligence service — diplomats from outside the world considered him shrewd, pragmatic and less xenophobic than Shwe.

Nyunt was pivotal in managing Burma’s accession into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in 1997. Burma is even going to hold the organization’s rotating chair in 2006. Nyunt also negotiated ceasefires with separatists and announced a “road map to democracy” that envisaged the first national elections

since 1990 and a possible reconciliation with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Some analysts have even said that after Aung San Suu Kyi, Nyunt was the second most popular figure in Burma.

The removal of Nyunt indicates that the junta’s moderates have lost power to the army faction in control not only of the military’s narcotics and gemsmuggling operations but also of government policy.

What Khin Nyunt’s removal really demonstrates is that the only real threat to the junta’s survival comes from within its own ranks.

By welcoming Myanmar’s senior general, India is condoning autocracy.

India, which once openly supported Aung San Suu Kyi, has been quietly wooing the Burmese military leadership in recent years. Analysts say India is keen to engage Burma to offset China’s influence in the region. Delhi has also pushed trade and investment initiatives with Burma since the 1990s as part of its “Look East” policy. India and Myanmar are currently discussing a range of issues including trade, counterterrorism and security.

India wants cooperation from the Burmese regime to contain its insurgency problem in the northeast; some of the Indian separatist militants have wellknown links to the Chin and Kachin ethnic groups in neighboring Burma, which allows them almost-free movement in the heavily forested border area. In the last few weeks alone, a string of explosions have killed scores of people in the Indian states of Assam, Mizoram and Nagaland.

On Saturday, about 150 protesters — mainly women and children — held a demonstration in Delhi against Than Shwe’s visit. One poster indignantly claimed, “It’s a national shame to roll out the red carpet for murder Than Shwe.” Myind Aye, president of the All Burma Students’ League of India, told reporters, “We are totally opposed to this visit.”

While India has every right to hold bilateral talks with Myanmar — as other countries like Thailand and Japan have — the timing of the visit was detrimental to efforts of pro-democracy activists in Burma and abroad. Inviting Shwe right after the dismissal of Prime Minister Nyunt sends the wrong signals to the world community, especially since the Burmese junta attaches great significance to the visit because it is being hosted by the world’s largest democracy, helping legitimize its position.

The danger, as former Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes points out, is that “once the military regime gets international recognition, then it will be very difficult to restore democracy in Burma.”

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

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SPORTS FRIDAY OCTOBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 12

W. soccer win streak at three after win at PC

After loss of elite Class of ’04, m. ice hockey hopes young talent can fill void

BY BERNARD GORDON

How does a hockey team respond to the loss of its ace goalie, top scorer and emotional leader?

Tonight the men’s hockey team opens the season against Harvard University in the first game of a new era for the program.

Last year Brown finished first in the Ivy League with a 13-7-2 record and third in the Eastern College Athletic Conference at 15-11-5. The team enjoyed national top20 rankings for most of the season before losing bitterly to Harvard in the ECAC playoffs. This year, following the graduation of superstar goalie Yann Danis ’04 (now in the Montreal Canadiens’ minor league system) and an outstanding senior class, preseason polls have picked the Bears to finish eighth in the ECAC. But Brown is preparing to compete at the top, with the same goals as last year’s team.

“Our goal is to win an Ivy championship, to win the ECAC and to get to the national tournament,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo.

After the graduation of one of the best classes the men’s ice hockey program has seen, Grillo will be looking for leadership from forwards Mike Meech ’05, captain Les Haggett ’05, Chris Swon ’05, and defenseman assistant captain Gerry Burke ’05.

Several underclassmen will now be counted on to fill the void left by stalwarts like Brent Robinson ’04, Scott Ford ’04 and Vince Macri ’04. Cory Caouette ’06, Antonin Roux ’07 and Sean Dersch ’07 will each need to make big contributions.

For Brian Ihnacak ’07, last year’s freshman star and a key component of the team’s offensive strategy, the season will bring with it a number of challenges, Grillo said.

The women’s soccer team (7-8, 2-3 Ivy League) earned its first road win of the season on Wednesday, defeating Providence College (5-13) 1-0. The Bears have won their last three games, after losing the previous four.

“It was a very big win for us,” said Head Coach Phil Pincince. “We needed to be ready, mentally and physically, to play that game.”

The Bears have a very difficult schedule, playing tough out-of-league opponents such as No. 22 Boston College and last year’s NCAA runner-up, the University of Connecticut. Playing against such talented teams has not been easy for Brown, but Pincince praised his players for not giving in to their frustrations.

“Any time you think you’re getting frustrated, you need to work harder,” Pincince said. “If you give into frustration, you will pay the price. I’m real glad we stuck to hard work and did not give in to frustration.”

The hard work has paid off for the Bears, and they came into the PC game having defeated the College of the Holy Cross and Cornell University.

The Bears knew Providence was going to be a challenging place to play, with a narrow field favoring the Friars’ physical style of soccer and seven seniors playing at home for the last time.

“They were playing with a lot of emotion and a lot of pride,” Pincince said.

The Bears knew they had to strike early to counter that emotion, something they had not done so far this season — they came into the game with no first-half goals the entire season. Less than five minutes into the game, the Bears finally did what they had been threatening to do all season, as Christine Serdjenian ’06 lofted a corner kick to co-captain Meghan Schreck ’06, who buried the shot from five yards out.

“One of the things we wanted to work on was trying to score in the first half,” said Schreck. “It’s really important to score early on, because one goal will lead to more.”

Schreck leads the team in scoring, with 11 points, and has been a leader on the field throughout the season.

“Schreck has always been confident, but now she’s showing a lot more composure,” Pincince said. “Great composure put together with the confidence she has is

BY MATT LIEBER

B ROW N S P O RTS S C H E D U L E Friday, October 29

Saturday, October 30 Men’s Water Polo: vs. Fordham (Northern Championships - Round One), 1:30 p.m., Smith Swim Center Men’s Water Polo: Game 2 (Northern Championships), TBD, Smith Swim Center Women’s Soccer: at Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Men’s Soccer: at Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Women’s Volleyball: at Princeton, Princeton, N.J. Football: at Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Equestrian: at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.

Fencing: at Smith College, Northampton, Mass.

Women’s Tennis: Big Green Invitational, Hanover, N.H. Sunday, October 31 Men’s Water Polo: Game 3 (Northern Championships), TBD, Smith Swim Center Field Hockey: at Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Women’s Ice Hockey: at New Hampshire, Durham, N.H. Women’s Tennis: Big Green Invitational, Hanover, N.H.

“The second year is always tough. The sophomore slump can happen with more attention,” Grillo said. “Once you’ve made a name like Brian has, the competition plays you tougher.”

In July, Ihnacak was drafted by the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins in the ninth round.

Another source of strength will come from the team’s incoming class of freshmen skaters, which was rated as the fourth-best set of new recruits in college hockey by the NHL’s Central Scouting.

“I’m excited about all of (the firstyears). Any and all of them have a chance

to play,” Grillo said. “It’s too early to say who’ll fit in where, but they’ve all got the ability.”

In addition to spots left by the seniors, another spot opened in August when returning defenseman Paul Crosty ’05 suffered a major knee injury during summer play, ending his season before it began.

“Crosty being out for the season is a loss,” Grillo said. “He’s a tough, strong player and a leader.” Crosty, who was to provide the physical force on the blueline, will take the year off to rehabilitate his

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W. icers could dominate ECAC if goaltending answer can be found

see W. SOCCER, page 8

Men’s Ice Hockey: vs. Harvard, 7 p.m., Meehan Auditorium Women’s Ice Hockey: at Maine, 7 p.m., Orono, Maine Women’s Volleyball: at Pennsylvania, 7 p.m., Philadelphia, Pa. Men’s and Women’s Cross Country: Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, 12:30 p.m., Van Cortlandt Park, N.Y.

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Captain Les Haggett ’05 and the rest of the men’s ice hockey team will need to quickly get over the loss of an outstanding senior class in order to compete in the ECAC.

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Kerry Nugent ’05 scored in the women’s ice hockey team’s exhibition with the East Coast Wizards.

BY KATHY BABCOCK

The perennially strong women’s ice hockey team is adding seven recruits this season in an attempt to improve on last season’s 18-11-2 record. After a fourthplace finish in both the Eastern College Athletic Conference and Ivy League, the team is hoping its crew of first-years will be enough to bring the Bears back to the Frozen Four.

“The goal is always for Brown to win a national championship,” said Head Coach Digit Murphy. “We’re top eight in the country every year, and the kids have

chemistry to make it to the Frozen Four.”

The Bears open their season tonight on the road against the University of Maine. Maine’s Black Bears are 1-0-1 this season after two games against the University of Vermont — Maine won the first game 2-0 and tied the second 2-2.

But the Bears will not be going into the match completely unprepared. They played an exhibition game last Saturday against the East Coast Wizards, a noncollegiate, non-professional team made up of many Ivy ice hockey alumni.

Brown alum Katie King ’97 plays for the team, as do past stars from Harvard University, Dartmouth College and Princeton University. The Bears defeated the Wizards 3-0, with all three goalies splitting ice time.

Bruno did not seem to be weakened by the loss of graduated seniors in the opening game, but it might become a factor once the regular season begins.

“We have everyone coming back,” Murphy said. “We’re pretty much looking at a veteran lineup. You lose a little of the leadership, but I think these next two classes, the junior and senior classes, have been really in an impact position since their freshman year.”

Among those graduating seniors was goalie Katie Germain ’04, who was a four-year starter. Brown has recruited two new goalies in addition to MariePier Desbiens ’07, and all three con-

tributed to the shutout against the Wizards, combining for 20 saves. O’Hara Shipe ’08 and Stacy Silverman ’08 got some not-quite-collegiate experience under their pads in the exhibition.

“We’ll probably give all three of them a shot this weekend and see where it takes us,” Murphy said. “We’ll start (Desbiens) in the first game against Maine and maybe see where it goes from there.”

It is currently unclear who the starter will be or if Murphy will alternate between two starters, as she did with Pam Dreyer ’03 and Germain in the 2001-2002 season.

“Hopefully all three of them will get time this weekend, and we’ll be able to make some decisions,” Murphy said.

“Though if they all play well, maybe we just play all three of them every weekend.”

In addition to Germain, the Bears lost several other role players to graduation, among them Marguerite McDonald ’04, Kelly Sheridan ’04 and Katie LaFleur ’04, who were valuable components of the Brown team.

“From an up-front perspective, we lost our fifth and sixth defensemen and our third line center,” Murphy said.

However, the Bears hope that the incoming first-years will help them out.

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