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Crew ’71 hosts Monday discussion of documentary

Talent Quest program targets disadvantaged high school

BY ANNE WOOTTON

Simmons, who in turn makes a recommendation to the Corporation, Zimmer said. URC hopes to report to Simmons by mid-December in advance of the Corporation’s February meeting, he said.

URC, composed of administrators, faculty and students, has met behind closed doors since it replaced the Advisory Committee on University Planning in 2003. Monday’s questionand-answer session allowed about 15 community members to learn more about URC’s operations.

“Brown really needs to move to a different economic model, where our level of revenue goes up dramatically” from donations and grants, Zimmer said.

While budgeting within the framework of Simmons’s Plan for Academic Enrichment, URC is “thinking about what to do to generate the type of excite-

As it enters the final year of its three-year trial period, the Talent Quest program is showing promise as a mechanism to make students from high schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas aware about the accessibility of an Ivy League education — specifically one at Brown.

Many people involved with the program agree, though, that there are still many improvements to be made, and some student volunteers said they were given little guidance after Brown asked them to help with recruiting at their high schools.

Talent Quest began in mid-2002 as a collaborative effort among members of the Undergraduate Council of Students, the Office of Admission and Alumni Relations.

The program aims to establish strong relationships with high schools in socioeconomically disadvantaged parts of the country that are historically underrepresented at Brown. The program encourages students to consider pursuing an education at Brown — or anywhere else, particularly selective institutions like Ivy League schools. Without Talent Quest, these students might not realize they have such a choice.

One of the foremost priorities of Talent Quest is to form lasting relationships with the targeted high schools. For this reason, Talent Quest targets younger students instead of juniors who are already starting the college application process.

Associate Director of Admission Andrea van Niekerk created an initial list of 500 potential schools in 2002 by taking into account suggestions from alumni and students and relying on statistics from the admission office about matriculation rates from high schools around the country.

Eventually, she pared it down to the 120 schools that the program currently targets.

The list of targeted schools, some of which still lack school chairs, covers a wide range — it includes urban, suburban and

see URC, page 6

see TALENT QUEST, page 4

BY ANNE WOOTTON

Spencer Crew ’71 emphasized the importance of giving “a human face to slavery” at a screening of the PBS documentary “Unchained Memories” and discussion sponsored by the Committee on Slavery and Justice Monday night. Crew, the executive director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, is speaking tonight at 7:30 in Salomon 001; his lecture is titled “The Fight Against Slavery: The Story of the Underground Railroad.”

The documentary, which is narrated

by Whoopi Goldberg and includes readings by other African-American celebrities, features slave narratives collected in the early 1900s but not discovered by historians until the mid-1950s. Despite the common conception then that oral histories were untrustworthy sources, these narratives — along with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s — helped to change slavery’s depiction in history books forever.

The documentary tells the stories of African-American men and women from around the country who were slaves.

Most were in their eighties when they

see CREW, page 6

First Amendment scholar to speak tonight

BY PHILLIP GARA

One week after President George W. Bush won reelection, reviving widespread concern about a perceived erosion of civil liberties since Sept. 11, 2001, Geoffrey Stone, a First Amendment scholar, will give a speech this evening titled “Civil Liberties in Wartime.”

Stone, the Harry Kalven Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will discuss some of main points in his recent book “Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism.”

Stone’s career has been wide-ranging, distinguished and at times controversial. In the late 1970s, he helped represent the Nazi Party in its suit against the town of Skokie, Ill., which denied the group a permit to hold a demonstration. He also represented former President Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones case and as recently this year wrote an amicus curiae brief opposing the Bush administration in the Guantanamo Bay case. He has been dean of the University of Chicago Law School and provost at the University of Chicago. Earlier in his career, he clerked for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan.

The lecture is being sponsored by Provost Robert Zimmer, who worked with Stone as the deputy provost at Chicago while Stone was the provost. Zimmer said he decided to invite Stone because he feels that “the issue

see STONE, page 4

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Indie artist Pamela Means rocked Andrews Dining Hall Monday night during a free concert sponsored by the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and Queer Alliance.

Provost says ‘bolder and riskier’ budget will spur donations

BY JONATHAN ELLIS

In an effort to attract more donations and grants, the University is channeling funding into areas that will generate publicity and excitement rather than spreading money around, Provost Robert Zimmer said at a University Resources Committee public forum Monday night.

The University is taking “a much bolder and riskier approach to budgeting than Brown has in the past,” Zimmer said.

Working under the belief that increased investment now will bring more cash inflow in the form of donations and grants in the future, URC is assuming that the endowment will jump $400 million by 2009, said Zimmer, URC’s chair. “(2009 is) just around the corner, especially when you have a number like $400 million,” he added.

URC offers budget analysis and recommendations to President Ruth

South Asian Identity Week brings variety of speakers, events

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULET

Coordinators of South Asian Identity Week are hoping to broaden the appeal of the program by involving different groups on campus and hosting a former CNN bureau chief, several acclaimed authors and experts on South Asia for a variety of lectures and forums.

The cultural week, which is in its third year, features lectures, information sessions and discussion forums centered on this year’s theme: “South Asia: Assembling the Mosaic.”

Bharati Kalasapudi ’07, a co-coordinator for the week’s events, said programmers tried to schedule a variety of activities to expose Brown students to the diversity of the South Asian region.

“One of the goals is to highlight the differences and similarities on the subcontinent,” Kalasapudi said. “We hope it helps (students) develop a dialogue … and share experiences.”

Coordinators said they also hope the

week’s events will raise awareness about the search for a South Asian history professor. Filling the position “is a goal for many South Asians on campus,” Kalasapudi said, adding the University currently lacks a faculty member who can adequately fill this role.

“South Asian studies have been neglected here at Brown,” said Vidyasri Putcha ’07, who is the week’s other cocoordinator. “We want to show the University that there is interest in these activities.”

While some events are open to the entire Brown community, other activities are designed primarily for a South Asian audience, Putcha said. One of these forums, scheduled for later this week, will address gender and sexuality from a South Asian perspective, she said.

The week’s events began last Thursday with a convocation ceremony that featured Ravi Kalhan ’96, whom Putcha described as instrumental in the

It’s time for Americans to worry about their rights, according to Tristan Freeman ’06 arts & culture, page 3

City Council reps David Segal and Miguel Luna think there’s a way to help Providence residents column, page 11

development of Third World programs through his work as a Minority Peer Counselor coordinator and promoter of other events on campus for students of color.

Author Suketu Mehta gave a keynote speech that evening, focusing on the “search for home” and identity, a topic that resonates with minorities and South Asians in particular, Kalasapudi said.

Mehta recently garnered literary acclaim for his new book, titled “Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found,” which was published in September.

Mehta’s diverse upbringing and eagerness to speak about the assimilation of immigrants into American culture made him an effective speaker, Kalasapudi said. The South Asian Brown students in attendance, many of whom have parents who are first-generation immigrants or are first-generation

see SOUTH ASIAN, page 4

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS ‘WHY I LEFT BROWN’ 8 p.m. (Wilson 102) — James Panero, art critic and editor of The New Criterion, will discuss his experiences as a graduate student in the History of Art and Architecture department. Sponsored by The Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Brown Spectator.

ETHICAL ISSUES IN A WORLD OF THE GENETIC ELITE 7 p.m. (Salomon 003) — Jeff Poland, visiting professor of bioethics, will lead this panel discussion along with professor of biology and medicine Arthur Landy.

The discussion will feature excerpts from the film “Gattaca.”

LECTURE: RANDY COHEN OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 8 p.m. (Hillel) — Brown Hillel and The Brown Daily Herald will host Randy Cohen, who writes the “Ethicist” column for the New York Times Magazine.

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DINNER — Vegetarian Liz’s Great Vegetable Soup, Chicken Gumbo Soup, Roast Pork Jour Ouvert, Cavatelli Primavera, Red Potatoes with Chive Sauce, Broccoli Cuts, Mashed Butternut Squash, Honey Wheat Bread, Boston Cream Pie.

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Air America comes to Rhode Island, but listeners could lose NPR

BY JONATHAN HERMAN

As Rhode Island NPR affiliate WRNI-AM’s sale has been put on hold due to alleged wrongdoing by its parent station, talk radio powerhouse WHJJ-AM moves into direct competition with WRNI with its recent addition of Air America Radio programming.

WRNI owner Boston University halted the sale of Providence’s WRNI and its sister station, Westerly’s WXNI-AM, in response to an inquiry into the station’s finances by Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 and Attorney General Patrick Lynch ’87, according to the Providence Journal.

Investigations into WRNI’s finances, prompted by the announcement of the sale of WRNI in September, revealed it accumulated a $9.4 million deficit in its first five years of operation since its inception in 1998. A high-profile firing of half of its on-air news staffers and discontinuation of its local news magazine “Focus: Rhode Island,” in late August preceded the attempted sale of WRNI, according to the Journal.

Boston University delayed the sale of WRNI after inquiries into the finances of WRNI and its sister station, Boston-based WBUR-FM, according to Will Keyser, public relations representative for WRNI. WBUR founder and longtime manager Jane Christo resigned in October after accusations concerning “hiring practices, a no-bid contract, use of automobiles, WBUR’s Citizens of the World travel program, and general station spending,” the Journal reported.

“The station continues to function as before any news of the sale occurred,” Keyser said.

However, Linda Evarts ’06, intern at WRNI, witnessed the worry and uncertainty of WRNI’s employees.

“They brought (WRNI) up from infancy, and now they are having it taken out from underneath them,” Evarts said. “They have no idea of what will happen.”

WRNI is heavily understaffed. Consequently, interns such as Evarts perform all the tasks paid employees

would in past years, such as writing stories, editing existing news stories and going to press conferences, Evarts said.

Changes at WHJJ Meanwhile, WHJJ, a Clear Channel-owned commercial radio station, replaced its normal programming with Air America programming from 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 6-8 p.m. and throughout the night when its midday talk show host left for a Boston-based station. WHJJ broadcasts in the Providence metro area and Bristol County, Mass.

Sean Hannity and all other politically conservative talk show hosts were replaced with Air America’s liberalleaning programming to reflect Rhode Island’s political makeup, said WHJJ Program Director Steve Peck.

Talk radio has traditionally been dominated by politically conservative commentary because of its financial success, Peck said.

“The state of Rhode Island is somewhere in the window of either unaffiliated or Democratic,” Peck said.

“There were a lot of people who didn’t listen to talk radio because it is dominated by right-wing rhetoric.”

A business decision was the only motivation behind WHJJ’s decision to switch to a more liberal commentary format, Peck said.

Comedian Al Franken founded Air America Radio, a corporation that produces politically left talk radio programs targeted to entertain and provide commentary, Peck said.

Peck said, “These (Air America) shows are exactly what a Brown student would be interested in listening to. It comes from an ideology that they can agree with.”

Peck projects WHJJ and its new talk format will succeed because of competitor WRNI’s lack of local news coverage and its topic-driven long format.

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

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Talent Quest continued from page 1 rural schools, in 29 states and the District of Columbia. Public, private and parochial schools serving populations of varying socioeconomic status are included.

The program received funding for three years. The money is used in a variety of ways: providing guidance counselors from the schools with airfare and accommodations so that they can visit Brown and get a feel for it themselves, sending periodic mailings to the schools to update them on what’s going on around the University, assisting students who have been accepted but lack the financial means to attend A Day on College Hill and creating a database of the schools in order to track Talent Quest’s success or failure at each of them.

Additionally, the University sponsored programs last year in New Jersey, Connecticut and Los Angeles to get the word out about Brown and other selective institutions. “(The programs) were not Brown-specific, but more public service, intent on providing information about selective schools,” Niekerk said.

Admission officers led another session last weekend in Gallup, N.M., and there is talk of hosting one here at Brown in the future as a potential collaboration among Talent Quest, the Swearer Center and other programs, such as Let’s Get Ready, which provides SAT preparatory classes to high school students who otherwise might not have access to them.

Niekerk was assisted in planning Talent Quest by Rahim Kurji ’05, who was president of UCS at the time. “I did a lot of work getting in touch with students, collecting names,” Kurji said. “People were really ready for a change and were willing to work for it. The University just couldn’t make the commitment of resources before.

The institutional backing (enables us to) establish relationships with these schools on a number of different levels, to show them that it’s a serious commitment on our behalf,” he said.

Kurji also helped recruit current Brown students from Talent Quest schools to visit their high schools over winter break and spread the word about Brown. The students were invited to an informational meeting explaining Talent Quest but beyond that weren’t given many guidelines to follow when visiting their old high schools.

“You have to be flexible and provide what they need,” Niekerk said. “The schools are so different from each other that there isn’t one model — they are receptive to different things.”

“It’s something that I had already been doing informally since my freshman year here at Brown. I figured I was already doing it, so I might as well get involved for Brown,” said Isis Burgos ’05, who visited Union Hill High School — her alma mater — in Union City, N.J. in January.

Burgos spoke to an honors chemistry class there. “I basically explained to the students what it takes to do well in college, then opened it up to questions,” she said. “Financial aid is a big concern. A lot (of students) tend to think that since Brown is so expensive they won’t be able to come

here. I explain that there is financial aid available.”

Interaction with people like Burgos is invaluable to students at high schools like Union City, where only about 40 percent of students go on to college, Talent Quest planners said. Many of that 40 percent end up at state schools, commuting so that they can work part-time to support their families, Burgos said.

“I tell them that if they’re interested in coming up to Brown to visit for a weekend, they should contact me,” she said. “I think two kids that came to stay with me ended up getting in.”

Students were asked to report their experiences to the admission office, though Niekerk said she did not follow up with them — something she regrets. “Time just ran out faster than anyone expected.

I’m intent on not having that happen this year — (students are) volunteering their time,” she said.

“You need to let them know what’s going on.”

Burgos said that lack of followup was a problem. “I didn’t even realize that it was still going on, since I hadn’t heard from them in such a long time,” she said. “But if asked to, I’d definitely go back to my school.”

Laura Gerace ’07 was so disappointed with the lack of contact after the initial meeting that she never ended up visiting her high school, Midwood High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., on behalf of Brown.

“I didn’t actually go through with the whole thing, because it was really disorganized,” Gerace said. “I was really excited about it because not that many people come here from my school. But after that first meeting, there was nothing. There was no follow-up at all.”

Brenda Rubenstein ’07, the high school networking coordinator for the Bruin Club, is working this year as the first student ambassador for the Talent Quest program.

Rubenstein, who came from a Talent Quest school herself, has responsibilities that include making sure that student volunteers make contact with their high

schools and form significant relationships with the guidance counselors there.

“We try to push students to commit to a little more than just a superficial relationship,” she said.

“It’s almost a responsibility that students who come from disadvantaged areas should return the favor and teach people from these areas more about Brown and the college life that surrounds all different scenarios. It’s about being ambassadors to their towns and showing students that they can achieve, they can go to college, they can achieve at college. It’s more than just a Brown thing.”

Alum volunteers play an equally integral role in Talent Quest.

“The affinity groups took a great interest in it,” said Mary Kim Arnold ’95 MFA ’98, director of multicultural and affinity programs for Alumni Relations. The volunteer opportunity has been extended only to alumni of color at this point, Arnold said, because the program is intended partly to give those alumni volunteer opportunities.

Alumni volunteers first establish contact with Talent Quest schools through guidance counselors. They are then responsible for feeling out how their time can best be spent at a given school.

“Some have been very successful in establishing an ongoing relationship and a local presence that schools can call on — a sort of role model position,” said Jennifer Aitken ’96, assistant director of the Brown Alumni Schools Committee. “We’ve been through enough that we’re finding out that (alumni volunteers) may need more structure, a checklist of things to do.”

As is the case with student volunteers, this can be hard to do, since it varies so much from school to school. “You literally need to go and see what specific needs each school has,” Aitken said. “We’re relying on volunteers for feedback on what venues they’ve been able to plug into — it’s fair to say we’re in the evaluative stage.”

UCS’s Admission and Student

Services Committee has its own agenda of modifications that it would like to see made to the Talent Quest program this year.

“There are three different aspects to improving Talent Quest,” said Ari Goodstein ’06, committee chair. “We want to see the program extended to the international level, we want it to be strengthened in rural parts of the country — particularly the South and Midwest — and we want to get teaching alumni involved, because there are a lot of alumni who teach in high schools, and there is no reason not to work though them and network.”

By the end of this year, Niekerk said she hopes to be able to look at what has been accomplished by Talent Quest so far and analyze what works and what doesn’t.

“My feeling is that certain aspects work very well — we have to highlight those and put more resources into them,” she said.

“What makes it problematic is that it’s not a short-term thing. This year will be the first we can say, ‘Is there an appreciable difference?

Why?’ “Talent Quest has different parameters, so measuring is hard.

Maybe we don’t see it (in the statistics), but there’s an alum making connections, being successful in a different way. Not all schools are widely responsive — many are overwhelmed, responsible for hundreds of students. I think one has to be respectful of that. You do what you can to provide resources, but you can’t be petulant,” she said.

Niekerk said she thinks Talent Quest is just an example of the initiatives Brown is committed to and willing to put resources toward.

She cited Sidney Frank’s $100 million donation toward financial aid for Brown’s most disadvantaged students; not only does it have the obvious effect of enabling more of students from Talent Quest schools to attend the University, it “reiterates that point — that this institution is committed to a wider definition of diversity, that it is both interested in and welcoming to kids from different socioeconomic backgrounds,” she said.

Stone

“This is not the same as freedom of speech in the First Amendment, but it is related in spirit in a number of ways.”

In an e-mail to The Herald, Stone wrote that in his book and lectures he hopes to add a historical perspective to the current debate on civil liberties.

“These issues should be of profound importance to college students because the way we respond to terrorism will shape our legacy to future generations. The book and lecture are important because too many people do not have an adequate understanding of our past, so they are unprepared to deal with the challenges they will

face later,” Stone wrote.

“The current situation is far less threatening both to the U.S. and to civil liberties than some of the past episodes, but there are important parallels and the differences would disappear if there were more terrorist attacks,” he wrote.

Stone added that students will play a key role in determining whether we still have freedoms like the First Amendment as well as security in future generations.

“Our commitment to civil liberties is always a work in progress that must be renewed with each generation; that the pressures to sacrifice civil liberties, especially the civil liberties of others, are often

great, and without a willingness to take risks in order to preserve liberty, we lose it,” he wrote.

Zimmer said, “I hope what people will take away is a greater understanding of issues regarding the First Amendment, how it has been applied historically, and how it may influence us going forward.”

Zimmer said it’s possible that Stone’s speech will be the first in a series of lectures on civil liberties.

“I have been thinking about that, and I want to see how this goes and what type of interest there is on campus about it,” he said.

Stone’s lecture is at 6 p.m. in MacMillan 117.

easily relate to Mehta’s message, she said.

The week’s events will also feature a forum tonight on South Asian religion led by Neelima Shukla-Bhatt, a post-doctoral fel-

low in religion at Wellesley College.

The coordinators were interested in bringing Shukla-Bhatt to campus because “religious conflict is a theme for a lot of the world right now” and is a topic with increasing political relevance, Kalasapudi said.

The week will close with a Thursday evening lecture by Anita Pratap, a former South Asia bureau chief for CNN who has spoken with many South Asian leaders and is familiar with many of the economic and social issues of the region, Putcha said.

Putcha said she believes

Pratap has the ability to “really speak to a non-South Asian population.”

Both Kalasapudi and Putcha said they believe there is a strong desire among Brown students for exposure to South Asian culture and issues.

Kalasapudi said the events are attracting attendance figures “pretty similar to last year’s,” including about 65 students who attended Thursday’s convocation.

continued from page 1 of free speech is an extremely important one nationally that needs ongoing attention, and it is important that students are aware of it.”

Zimmer and Stone both emphasized the relevance of First Amendment issues to an academic community.

“It is very important to the health of the University community that there is freedom to openly articulate, discuss and debate all point of views,” Zimmer said.

South Asian continued from page 1 immigrants themselves, could

Herald senior staff writer Robbie Corey-Boulet ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004 · PAGE 5

Pentagon sees urban warfare as unavoidable

‘Fired up’ Kerry returning to Senate

WASHINGTON (Newsday) — The bat-

Democrat John Kerry plans to use his Senate seat and long lists of supporters to remain a major voice in American politics despite losing the presidential race last Tuesday, and he is assessing the feasibility of trying again in 2008, friends and aides said Monday.

Kerry will attend a postelection lame-duck Senate session that begins next week and has said he is “fired up” to play a highly visible role, the friends and aides said.

Aides said Kerry is relishing

tle for Fallujah is exactly the kind of urban combat American forces have struggled to avoid in Iraq, with the potential for bloody, house-to-house fighting and the risk of civilians caught in the crossfire.

But with Iraqi elections barely two months off, U.S. officials facing a make-or-break moment in that nation said they felt they had little choice — even as they acknowledged Monday this may not be the decisive battle against the anti-American insurgents.

“No government can allow terrorists and foreign fighters to use its soil to attack its people and to attack its government,” Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said.

“If Iraq is to be free and a peaceful society, one part of the country cannot remain under the rule of assassins, terrorists and the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime.”

Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, both said they couldn’t rule out the possibility that insurgents would flee Fallujah and regroup in some other city for another showdown. But Rumsfeld said he believes, “Success in Fallujah will deal a blow to the terrorists in the country.”

In April, Marines began an assault on the insurgent stronghold in Fallujah, but were called off when fighting reached a standstill, and after political leaders in Baghdad and Washington got cold feet about the prospect of destabilizing Iraq as the new Iraqi government was taking shape.

Many analysts believe that by letting Fallujah fester, and the insurgency take root there largely unmolested for almost six months, U.S. policy-makers have made it harder to retake the Sunni Muslim city, though that’s what about 15,000 Marines, Army and Iraqi troops set out to do.

They are believed to be up against an insurgent force of about 3,000, a mix of former Saddam loyalists, Sunni fundamentalists, followers of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and others. The insurgents are outnumbered, but they do have the streets of Fallujah on their side, already believed to be heavily mined and lined with the kind of improvised bombs that have been so deadly to U.S. forces up until now.

The nature of the fight also aids the insurgency, experts say. Close-

quarter urban warfare neutralizes many of the American technological advantages. Also, insurgents are likely to mix in with civilians to make themselves more difficult to detect, increasing the likelihood of civilian casualties that could inflame the Iraqi populace.

As many as 100,000 of Fallujah’s residents still may remain in the city, under round-the-clock curfew.

Rumsfeld Monday said he believed that large numbers of Iraqi civilians wouldn’t be killed — “certainly not by U.S. forces,” he said — even as his top U.S. commander in Iraq was predicting a “major confrontation” between U.S.-led troops and the insurgency.

Gen. George Casey said he expected some of the insurgents to fall back into fighting positions in the middle of the city as U.S. troops progressed, though he acknowledged that some insurgents already had managed to flee the city.

Rumsfeld said he couldn’t say for sure whether Zarqawi, a top insurgent leader who has masterminded many of the attacks and beheadings against Americans, was still in Fallujah but he predicted a tough fight.

“Listen, these folks are determined. These are killers. They chop people’s heads off. They’re getting money from around the world. They’re getting recruits,” Rumsfeld said.

In addition, urban combat holds the highest potential for U.S. casualties — as many as 30 percent by some estimates.

Outside analysts agreed with Rumsfeld that there seemed to be little choice but to invade Fallujah now but said the final measure of success won’t come until the Iraqi national elections, scheduled for January.

“The strategic goal of the battle of Fallujah is to set conditions for elections in January,” said retired Army Col. Robert Killebrew, an expert on war-planning. “If the insurgents succeed in disrupting the election to the point that the elections are not effective and not recognized, then we have suffered a major setback.”

Myers acknowledged that the Fallujah strategy had its risks but said the United States believed it was choosing the best course. “If there were a silver bullet,” Myers said, “we’d have shot that a long time ago.”

WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

the prospect of renewed combat with President Bush, fighting such measures as the president’s proposal to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Kerry has spent the better part of the past two years on the campaign trail, meaning his return to Capitol Hill will be something of a reintroduction to colleagues.

Kerry’s plans contrast starkly with the approach taken by former Vice President Al Gore, who all but disappeared from the political scene after losing to Bush in the disputed 2000 presi-

dential election.

Kerry fueled talk about a 2008 bid during remarks at a Washington restaurant Saturday night. He provoked a thunderous reception by reminding about 400 campaign aides and volunteers that Ronald Reagan twice sought the Republican nomination for president before winning it in 1980.

“Sometimes God tests you,” Kerry told the crowd at H20, a restaurant on the Potomac waterfront, according to an

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Parents sue schools over evolution warning sticker ATLANTA (Los Angeles Times) — In Cobb County, outside Atlanta, teachers used to tear pages out of textbooks rather than wrangle with the divisive topic of evolution. Two years ago, the school board reached a more modern compromise: On the inside cover of a biology textbook, a sticker warns that “evolution is a theory, not a fact.”

That solution came under fire Monday in an Atlanta District

Court, where a group of Cobb County parents backed by the American Civil Liberties Union have sued the school system, charging that it has mingled religion with science by using the sticker.

On the first day of what is expected to be a four-day trial, U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper heard from all sides: a parent who said she was outraged when she first saw the

textbook; the Brown University cell biologist who co-wrote the textbook; and a school board member who described the exhausting process of reaching a compromise in a community with a large population of conservative Christians.

Cooper will weigh whether the sticker violates the First Amendment by endorsing reli-

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W. hockey continued from page 12 as opposed to her recent edict of more puck control. Murphy also expects a continued emphasis on the strong Brown defense.

The loss of Ramsay, Drover and Link did not stop the Bears from beating their opponents decisively in both weekend matches. Bruno was dominant in a scrappy game against Cornell on Friday and held a strong shot advantage, 35-11.

Brown’s special teams did not disappoint, as three of the four Bruno goals came on the power play. The penalty-killing unit, though rarely called upon, was also strong and even had several shots on Cornell.

Krissy McManus ’05 had a part in all three power play goals, with one goal and two assists for the night. The other Brown goals were scored by McManus’ linemate Keaton Zucker ’06, Myria Heinhuis ’06 and Hayley Moore ’08. Goalie Marie-Pier Desbiens ’07 made 10 saves for the win.

Colgate was a more difficult opponent, but the Bears triumphed 2-0 in a fast-paced and physical match-up. McManus scored another power play goal

URC continued from page 1 ment and momentum” that will attract that additional revenue, Zimmer added.

The goal is to “give donors the confidence that we’re actually going to do something very good and very exciting with the resources they give us,” Zimmer said. To that end, URC has moved

in the first period, and Kerry Nugent ’05 connected on a slap shot in the third, assisted by cocaptain Katie Guay ’05.

“We’re just hanging around the net,” said McManus about the number of goals that came on the man advantage. “We were hungry for them. We knew we had to get two wins (this weekend).”

In a game filled with penalties, both teams had many offensive chances, but Brown’s goalie combination of O’Hara Shipe ’08 and Stacy Silverman ’08 secured the shutout. As was the case last weekend, and will probably be the case next weekend, all three goalies shared playing time.

The first line of McManus, Link and Zucker contributed significantly to both wins.

Between them, they have scored five of Brown’s 10 goals this season, and they should continue to perform well if Link recovers soon. Other contributing players include three rookie forwards who are getting a substantial amount of ice time: Moore, Christine Holdredge ’08 and Heather Lane ’08 have played in all four of this season’s games.

The Bears are away next weekend, with two important league games against Princeton and Yale.

$7-8 million annually from the administrative sector to the academic sector, he said. “We feel there should be more administrative support, but that won’t generate excitement,” Zimmer added.

But two Resumed Undergraduate Education students told Zimmer they were unhappy about Brown’s lack of financial aid for RUE and transfer students. Zimmer said need-blind admission for transfer students alone would cost $4-5 million per

Evolution gion or entangling religion with government. Although similar disclaimers are used in school districts across the country, their constitutionality has never been tested, said Michael Manely, a plaintiff’s attorney representing the parents against Cobb County.

“It takes a tremendous amount of money and energy to try a case,” Manely said. “If there is a bright lining, it is that the forces against science — the folks that want to take us back to the dark ages — tend to lose far more often.”

Seventy-nine years after John Scope was prosecuted for teaching evolution in a Tennessee classroom, the theory is still rejected by many Southerners.

This is the second time this year that Georgia has been the center of a controversy over the teaching of the subject. In January, state school Superintendent Kathy Cox removed the word “evolution” from Georgia’s teaching standards, calling it a “buzzword that causes a lot of negative reaction.” Under waves of protest from scientist and teachers, Cox reversed her decision a week later.

When the Cobb County School District distributed the biology textbook in 2002, parent Marjorie Rogers testified Monday, she was “stunned” by the tone of certainty in its passages about evolution.

“It presented it just blatantly.

Evolution is a fact. It did happen.

I was outraged,” said Rogers, an attorney and a self-described creationist who believes in the Bible’s story of the origin of life.

She collected 2,300 signatures on a petition demanding that the books “clearly distinguished theory from fact.”

The petition, and publicity that followed, brought the school board under enormous pressure, said Laura Searcy, a school board member, in testimony.

Searcy, a pediatric nurse practitioner, was infuriated a decade ago to discover that her children were not being taught evolution, which she described as “the basis of biological science in the 21st century.” Her discovery that pages had been ripped out of her children’s textbooks led her to run for the school board, she said.

Two years ago, when the biology textbook was introduced, the school board could not ignore the objections of “a large segment of the community,” Searcey said.

After lengthy discussion, the board voted to print a disclaimer

in nonreligious language that, its defenders say, encourages inquiry and critical thinking.

“I looked at it like you would an informed consent,” Searcey said. “You have a large population in your public school system that feels very strongly. The question is, can you be sensitive and tolerant to their very deep moral feelings?”

The disclaimer reads: “This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically considered.”

But the textbook’s co-author, Kenneth Miller, said the disclaimer uses the word “theory” in a colloquial way that suggests it is “a guess, or a little hunch.” In science, theories are overarching explanations — in evolution’s case, “widely supported by millions of facts,” he said. Moreover, he said, it is misleading to single out evolution for scrutiny when all science should be approached with a spirit of inquiry, he said.

“There is nothing special about evolution,” said Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University. “Evolution is as well grounded as our understanding of cell biology or human physiology.”

year, according to University estimates.

That would be on top of an additional $20 million Brown will spend annually once all four undergraduate classes have been admitted with need blind, said Vice President for Finance and Administration Elizabeth Huidekoper.

Zimmer admitted that RUE and transfer student financial aid is not currently a top priority for the University. “It’s very easy inside universities for people to make promises,” he said. “What I can say is we take the problem seriously. … When we feel we can address it, we will.”

Meanwhile, URC continues to work with various sectors of the University to establish additional revenue sources. Zimmer said the

graduate school is looking at ways in which it can generate some of its own funding.

But in response to an undergraduate’s question, Zimmer said profiting from patents and intellectual property was unlikely, because most universities fail to break even on research projects.

Still, the University has created the Office of Brown Technology Partnerships under the Vice President for Research, he said.

Huidekoper said URC has discussed facilities funding twice already this year. The current administration has inherited an ailing physical infrastructure, she said. Though it is difficult to convince donors to fund new underground pipes, money derived from naming existing buildings can be distributed toward infrastructure

rehabilitation, she added.

Zimmer and Huidekoper also responded to an article in the Providence Journal suggesting that New England institutions could lose federal funding due to the region’s lack of support for the Republican Party. GOP control in Washington shouldn’t have an extraordinary effect on grants, Zimmer said, because “universities like Brown don’t do a lot of direct appropriations.”

Still, “It’s one of those factors that could impact us,” Huidekoper said. “I mean, just the general state of the federal budget is something we have to look at,” she added.

Crew

ery was this benign institution, that slave owners were kindly and gave direction to these lost souls,” said James Campbell, associate professor of history and chair of the Committee on Slavery and Justice. “That lasted right until the Civil Rights Movement, which forced a reconceptualization of slavery.”

Crew was a consultant in the late stages of the documentary’s production, but he worked more extensively on the book version of “Unchained Memories.” He told The Herald he hopes by screening the documentary, the slavery and justice committee is continuing to “offer a different access point to discussions about slavery and the impact that people can have to the way (that subject) is approached, including its relevance to today’s world.”

In a short discussion following the screening, audience members contributed thoughtful reactions to the documentary — for example, that the problem of illegitimacy in African-American families today stems from a time when whites were responsible for splitting up slave families, and that slavery is difficult to capture in any sort of Hollywood

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continued from page 1 were interviewed. They recounted their memories of slave auctions, running away, being taken from their families and, for the lucky few, being freed.

One man, asked by his master to kill a fellow slave, decided he would rather flee than commit murder. He took the other slave with him and became one of the 50,000 slaves who escaped each year during the height of slavery in the United States, reflecting with bittersweet satisfaction in his narrative, “Today I is an old man, and my hands ain’t stained with no blood.”

Katie Rowe was a slave on an Oklahoma plantation when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

She recounted the speech her white master delivered to his slaves that afternoon in her narrative: “You darkies know what day this is? This is the fourth day of June, and it is 1865. And you is always going to remember this date, because today, you is free.”

“The old-school historians gave an interpretation that slav-

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis ’06 edits the Metro section. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

smash-hit context.

“The number of people who see these (documentaries) compared to the number who see (blockbusters) — it’s miniscule,” Campbell said. “I don’t ever think I’ve seen a film that does this institution justice. Representing this in literature or film — we have so many narratives in our heads, tropes that are corrupt — we sentimentalize it. (The film) ‘Amistad’ comes close (to representing slavery accurately) — but the hero in ‘Amistad’ was white.”

“You cannot make a successful Hollywood version of this,” Crew agreed.

In response to a question about how to make the memory of slavery more immediate — these narratives were recorded less than a century ago — Crew expressed the need for people to realize the close ties Americans still have to the institution.

“The way slavery defines race has not changed in this country, and in a lot of ways it’s still around,” he said. “You don’t have to go back to the 1860s to see that.”

Herald staff writer Anne Wootton ’08 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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M. hockey continued from page 12 second period and throughout the third, Brown’s forwards got caught low in the offensive zone and were unable to backcheck quickly enough. The errors translated into a seven-goal total for a Cornell offense that had scored seven goals in two of its previous three games.

“It is tough to go in there with a young team, or with any team,” Rowan said of Cornell’s notorious Lynah Rink.

Swon said that for some first-years, playing in front of Cornell’s raucous crowd can be intimidating.

“They definitely have an advantage in their rink,” Swon said. “We played a little timid, and that’s not our style of hockey.”

One element of play that the Bears need to improve upon, according to Swon, is the team’s composure after scoring a goal.

“In both games, we had trouble keeping the other team off the scoreboard right after we scored,” Swon said.

“We score a big goal and are jumping around, and then for us to let one up is disheartening.”

A positive glimmer from the past few games has been the contribution of firstyears. Jeff Prough ’08 scored his first collegiate goal in the

Cornell game, with David Robertson ’08 registering the assist for his first career point.

Robertson later added his first collegiate goal.

As Brown found against Harvard, special teams are going to be an important ingredient in the team’s winning recipe. With more stringent interference and obstruction rules in place, officials have been cracking down on clutching and grabbing, much like the NHL has done in the past few years; thus, power plays and penalty kills will become increasingly crucial to success.

“The officials are calling more penalties this year,” Swon said. “So special teams are definitely an exclamation point. We have two freshmen on the power play, but with Les (Haggett ’05) out, that hurts. But you’ve got to look at the other half: We need to score more even-strength goals.”

Haggett, this year’s captain and one of the team’s leading scorers the past two years, has been out with an injury for the past two games. Antonin Roux ’07 has also missed time with an injury.

The Bears hope to have both players back as they return home this weekend to host Princeton Friday night and Yale Saturday night.

Herald sports editor Ian Cropp ’05 covers men’s hockey. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Kerry continued from page 5 aide. “I’m a fighter, and I’ve come back before.”

Bob Shrum, Kerry’s chief campaign consultant, told reporters during a Democratic panel Monday that Kerry “will not do what Al Gore did after the last election — he will not disappear.”

“He will be active and vocal,” Shrum said. “He has one of the most powerful lists in the Democratic Party and one of the most powerful fund-raising bases in the Democratic Party, and I think he intends to use it to speak out.”

Several Democrats expressed skepticism about Kerry’s plans, saying they believe the party needs a fresh face and must turn a corner. One well-known Democratic operative who worked with the Kerry campaign said opposition to Bush, not excitement about Kerry, was behind the senator’s fund-raising success. “If he thinks he’s going to capitalize on that going forward, he’s in for a surprise,” said the operative, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Another Democrat involved in Kerry’s campaign strategy — who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, in order to be more candid — said: “I can’t imagine people are going to say, ‘It worked pretty well last time. This is what we need next time.’”

Kerry has mostly remained at his Boston home since Election Day and has spent some of that time preparing for his return to

the Senate. The friends and aides said he wants to use his new following and credibility to become a major force on a range of legislation that will extend well beyond his previous portfolio of national security issues.

The senator from Massachusetts is also contemplating establishing a political action committee and perhaps a think tank to elevate his role during the jockeying over the definition and leadership of the Democratic Party. Kerry lost to Bush by three percentage points in the popular vote and by 34 electoral votes. The president carried 31 states to 19 for Kerry.

Shrum made his remarks during an appearance at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with James Carville, chief strategist of President Bill Clinton’s first campaign, and Stan Greenberg, a Democratic pollster. The session started out as a clinical dissection of what went right for Bush and wrong for Kerry.

But it quickly became a blunt, emotional discussion of the future of the Democratic Party — a high-decibel preview of countless conversations that will occur as Democrats try to figure out how to retake the White House after winning only twice in the past seven elections.

“I’m not in denial. Reality hit me,” Carville said. “We need to be born again,” he added, in a play on words connoting both his view that the party needs a fundamental change, as well as the importance of evangelical Christians to Bush.

“We have to treat the disease, not the symptom,” Carville said.

“The purpose of a political party

is to win elections, and we’re not doing that.”

Carville said that the party’s concern about interest groups had resulted in “litanies, not a narrative.”

“The party needs a narrative,” Carville said, adding later that one possibility would to become “an aggressively reform, antiWashington, anti-business-asusual party.”

Greenberg said that big forces had been at work in the election, meaning that mere tinkering was not the answer for Democrats.

He said Bush had cleverly freed himself from the normal standards by which an incumbent is judged.

“In being successful in making the election about security-safety and values,” Greenberg said, “they don’t say, ‘Vote for us because we’re making progress.’

They say, ‘Vote for our worldview.’” Greenberg said that “downscale America, starting with rural voters and cascading with older, blue-collar America, shifted to Bush” in the last 10 days, including some union voters.

“These were people who were not happy about the economy and how it worked for them, but cultural issues and security won out without a real economic alternative,” Greenberg said.

Shrum acknowledged that he hadn’t seen the problems at the time, saying he believed on Election Day and the night before that Kerry would win. “All the polls appeared to be moving in the right direction,” Shrum said. “We thought, ‘We’re ahead in the battleground states, we’ll win in the battleground states.’”

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Judge admonishes Peterson jury REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Los Angeles Times) — Trying to stave off a

potential impasse in the Scott Peterson murder trial, a San Mateo County Superior Court judge admonished the jury to set aside passion, prejudice and personal opinions while attempting to reach a verdict in the 5 1/2month-long case.

“The attitude and conduct of jurors at all times is very important,” Judge Alfred Delucchi told the six-man, six-woman jury as it entered its fourth day of sequestered deliberations. It is rarely helpful for a juror at the beginning of deliberations to express an emphatic opinion on the case.

“Do not hesitate to change your opinion for the purpose of reaching a verdict if you can do so,” he said. “Consider changing methods in deliberations.”

After the judge’s lecture, the jury summoned a variety of physical evidence including an anchor, tidal charts, a plastic bag, a life insurance policy and transcripts of Peterson’s telephone calls to his mistress.

Ohio continued from page 9 the correct precinct.

After all provisional ballots have been passed or rejected, the envelopes will then be opened, Lee said.

“Our system is designed to be bipartisan in every aspect,” Lee said.

But irregularities and problems have cropped up nonetheless.

On Friday, officials in Franklin County — which includes Columbus, the state capital — conceded that they may have improperly counted votes for Bush because of a touch-screen voting system malfunction. A precinct in the county reported that a 4,000vote margin won by Bush appeared to exceed the number of registered voters.

The touch-screen system in

Exactly what prompted the judge’s admonition was unclear.

But some observers said the jury’s desire to review a fresh batch of evidence seemed to indicate that it was back to deliberating the merits of the case.

Outside of the courtroom, Chuck Smith, a former San Mateo County prosecutor, said, “This jury is obviously not getting along.”

“Clearly, there is disagreement and the jury sought help from the judge to try and get the logjam broken,” Smith added.

Court trial analyst Paula Canny agreed.

“That this jury seems to be having difficulty should not be a surprise to anyone,” Canny said. “It is something that happens with a lot of very difficult cases.”

Peterson, 32, who could face the death penalty if convicted, allegedly smothered or strangled his pregnant wife, then used a new boat to dump the corpse into San Francisco Bay on Christmas Eve 2002.

Delucchi denied a defense motion for mistrial on Monday, an

Franklin County is among the oldest and least reliable electronic voting machines in use, said David Dill, a Stanford University computer expert.

Asked how an electronic voting machine could run up nearly 4,000 extra votes, Dill said anything from an internal misalignment to static electricity could cause an error.

“The point is that these machines are nowhere near reliable enough to depend on,” Dill said.

Based on reports that Dill’s organization — VerifiedVoting.org — has received, one precinct in Youngstown, Ohio, recorded a negative 25 million votes, which was discarded from official results. And it was widely reported after Nov. 2 that a North Carolina precinct lost 4,000 votes when a recording device used up all its memory but voters continued to cast ballots on the machine.

hour after several jurors, who had requested to see Peterson’s boat, climbed inside the craft and started rocking it. Defense attorneys called that a violation of state law barring jurors from experimenting with evidence.

The 14-foot aluminum boat is a critical piece of evidence for both sides of the case. Prosecutors have argued that Peterson attached concrete anchors to his wife’s 153pound body before dumping it into the ocean. Laci’s body washed ashore in April near where her husband claims he went fishing the day she disappeared.

Defense attorneys, however, countered that it would have been impossible to heave such a heavy load over the side with out tipping. They also allege that Laci was kidnapped by strangers who framed her husband.

The trouble started shortly after the 14-foot aluminum craft had been hauled to a local garage at the request of jurors who wanted to take a closer look.

In an unusual move, Delucchi decided that he, along with prosecutors and defense attorneys in the case, should witness the jurors’ inspection of he craft.

He also agreed to let a few jurors sit inside it. When they stood up and started shifting their weight from one foot to the other, Delucchi said he “told the jurors that they should keep in mind that they are not in the water, but on land and on a trailer.”

But that wasn’t enough for defense attorney Mark Geragos who argued that Delucchi either allow the jury to watch a video his team produced to demonstrate the boat’s stability on the water, or declare a mistrial.

“I have strenuous objections to jurors sitting in the boat and rocking back and forth,” said Geragos, who felt the action might somehow adversely impact his client’s case. “You can’t do a juror experiment. I’m asking for a mistrial.”

But Delucchi dismissed that argument saying there was no way to predict what conclusions might be drawn from rocking the boat. “I think it works both ways,” Delucchi said, meaning it might just as easily harm the prosecution’s case.

Intramurals continued from page 12 collect ourselves and put everything together on our own. There was really nothing in motion.”

Luckily for the students who participate in intramurals, the student leaders were able to organize the season. Their responsibilities included deciding

Arafat’s wife attacks his aides, setting off a public brawl RAMALLAH, West Bank (The Washington Post) — An old feud

between the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his senior advisers erupted into an extraordinary public brawl Monday after Suha Arafat accused the aides of plotting against her husband and they accused her of blocking access to the ailing leader and withholding information about his health.

The dispute spilled onto the streets outside Arafat’s battered compound here as Palestinians staged a protest against Suha Arafat, 41. Many people in Ramallah said she married Arafat only for his money and disparaged her for moving to Paris four years ago during an Israeli military siege. Some complained she was turning a national tragedy into an international farce.

“Where were you when the president was under siege?” said a placard held aloft by a small group of women at the compound’s entrance. “The patriotic Palestinian woman is in the front lines, not the hotel.”

The uproar began early Monday morning when Suha Arafat, speaking in distraught tones, charged in a phone call to the al-Jazeera television network that aides were conspiring to “bury Abu Ammar alive.” Her husband is widely known among Palestinians as Abu Ammar.

She spoke as the Palestinian leader, 75, was fighting for his life in a military hospital outside Paris, reportedly in a coma and on life-support machines. No official diagnosis of his condition has been released since he arrived at the hospital 11 days ago.

Gen. Christian Estripeau, chief spokesman at the hospital, told reporters that the Palestinian leader was stable but remained in emergency care and could not receive visitors.

Suha Arafat is the Palestinian leader’s one-time secretary and is 34 years his junior. Ever since she married him 14 years ago,

dates for the start of the season, setting registration deadlines and stuffing mailboxes. Without a fulltime coordinator, the students had to field e-mails and calls from team captains hoping to reschedule game times. The student organizers also had to work around construction to the intramural field behind the OMAC, where Fieldturf is being installed.

Without the field and with inconvenient times available on the

she and many top Palestinian officials have been at odds.

Resentment against her is also widespread among other Palestinians, who call her an unfit partner for a man they regard as the embodiment of the Palestinian national cause.

“This woman in the past was not involved in Palestine. She didn’t even care, not even about her husband,” said Manel Shami, 36, who lives a few doors away from Suha Arafat’s family home in Ramallah. The dispute also highlights tensions between the Arafat family’s right to privacy and the desire of the Palestinian public and government to know about his health.

Under French law, Suha Arafat has control over access to her husband and information about his medical condition. A senior Palestinian official, who declined to be quoted by name because of the sensitivity of the controversy, said she has kept out all visitors since Friday.

“I understand the human angle, but he is not just a husband, he’s a head of state, and people need to know his condition,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian parliament. The argument nearly derailed a planned visit to Paris by a group of high-level Palestinians seeking to see Arafat for themselves. The delegation, which included Mahmoud Abbas, general secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, abruptly canceled its trip after Suha Arafat’s televised salvo, then rescheduled it a few hours later.

The officials reached Paris late Monday, but it was unclear if they would be able to see Arafat, according to cabinet minister Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator with Israel.

In view of Arafat’s status among the Palestinian public, the people who have taken temporary command in his absence appear anxious to avoid being accused of usurping his authority.

OMAC roof, Reidy and his coorganizers had to move soccer games to Pembroke Field. The coordinators also had to find and train referees for the games.

“A really important part is the organization of the refs, because without them, the games wouldn’t happen,” said Nolan Shutler ’06, a new coordinator this semester, who started as a referee.

With the addition of Clauss as the new coordinator, the students’ roles remain integral to the program. In addition to needing help during the transition period, Clauss has established a new hierarchy within the administration. By giving more work to an expanded student staff, Clauss can focus on the larger goals of intramurals.

“We feel like there are many Brown kids that could participate, but not that many students participate as we would like, so we would like to increase the number of sports offered, increase the number of teams, increase number of participants,” Reidy said.

“We want to offer new, different kinds of thing” — like a dodgeball tournament.

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Ohio to begin counting provisional ballots this week (Los Angeles Times) — Ohio election

officials said Monday that they would begin later this week the final count of 155,428 provisional ballots and an unknown number of overseas absentee ballots that were cast in the presidential election.

According to the preliminary tally, which included all domestic absentee ballots, Sen. John Kerry lost Ohio by 136,483 votes, Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell said.

Attorneys for the Kerry campaign said Monday that they did not believe the outcome of the Ohio vote — which gave President Bush the electoral votes needed to win — could possibly change; they have discouraged speculation that voting irregularities caused Kerry’s loss.

Nonetheless, the Ohio count is attracting scrutiny by groups who say the election was tainted and that voting equipment in Ohio, Florida, South Carolina and elsewhere was defective. On Friday, three congressional Democrats asked for a federal investigation.

Since the election, Internet sites and political blogs have buzzed with speculation that the vote was manipulated. “Evidence mounts that the vote may have been hacked,” reads the title of one widely circulated Web offering.

Voting machine failures did occur, and long lines in heavily Democratic precincts discour-

M. soccer continued from page 12 Gomez said.

The Bears kept possession of the ball and pressured the Yale defense until the 57:00 mark, when they finally got on the board. Marcos Romaneiro ’05 dribbled the ball through the Yale defense and into clear space. He then threaded a pass through Yale defenders with the outside of his right foot to Kevin Davies ’08, who finished by sending the ball to the opposite corner of the net past Yale’s keeper. The goal was Davies’ second of the season and Romaneiro’s league-leading eighth assist. Davies was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week for his strong offensive play.

Gomez has been a vital asset to the Bears in the last three seasons and has played every minute in goal this season. The Friday night win was Gomez’s 19th career shutout. Although much of the Bears’ success can be attributed to Gomez, Larentowicz has also served as a leader on defense.

Larentowicz has been included in the starting line-up since his freshman year and was named an All-American defender and a three-time All-Ivy honoree.

“In the second half we made an adjustment that worked thanks to Jeff. He had a massive game tonight. That’s an AllAmerican for you,” said Head Coach Mike Noonan.

After their Friday night win, the Bears fell 2-1 to in-state rival University of Rhode Island on Sunday. The loss was the Bears’ second straight loss to URI this season.

Despite the Bears’ confidence and their enthusiasm from their

aged some potential voters. Still, a broad range of experts said that the final vote counts in Ohio and other states could not possibly change the outcome.

Cleveland attorney Mark Griffin, who played a key role in the Kerry campaign’s voter protection efforts in that area, said he did not expect the tallying of provisional or absentee ballots to change anything.

After meeting Monday with Michael Vu, head of the board of elections in Ohio’s Cuyahoga County, Griffin said: “This is really not about changing the outcome. ... It is about making sure every vote counts, particularly people who waited in line three hours.’’

The 2004 Ohio vote was not nearly as close as the disputed Florida results in 2000.

If all of the provisional votes are deemed valid, then Kerry would need 88 percent of them to overcome Bush’s margin of victory, assuming the remaining overseas absentee ballots were split evenly.

But many of the provisional ballots will be tossed out. In past elections, about 10 percent were judged as not coming from legitimately registered voters. What’s more, Blackwell ruled before the election that provisional ballots had to be cast in the correct precinct, and that any cast at the wrong polling place would not be counted.

If 10 percent of the provisional

Yale win, the Rams jumped out to a 2-0 lead early in the second half and never looked back.

After the Rams scored their second goal, Brown pressured the ball in the URI zone. Brown gained possession later in the second half, and Andrew Daniels ’07 scored his fifth goal of the season off an assist from Brian Perry ’06 with 22 minutes to play. Perry set Daniels up for a point-blank chip shot that sailed past the Rams’ goalkeeper with ease.

Despite the Bears’ offensive pressure and defensive support, they were unable to finish the comeback.

“One of our goals this season was to not allow our opponents to score in the first and last five minutes of every half,” Daniels said. “URI did that in both halves, which kind of threw our game off. If it had been a 0-0 game in the second half, we would have had a better chance of winning because of our intensity.”

The Bears never stopped pressuring the Rams’ cage and outshot them 16-9 overall and 12-3 in the second half. Although Brown put the Rams on the defensive for the majority of the second half, Brown could not put a shot in the net.

Gomez recorded six saves, the majority coming in the first half.

If the Bears win next weekend against Dartmouth (3-0-2 Ivy), it would guarantee them at least a share of the Ivy title, which would be their eighth in the last 11 years. If Brown wins next weekend and Princeton beats Yale as well, the three teams would share the Ivy title. If the three teams tie, Princeton would earn the Ivy League’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament by virtue of its wins against Brown and Yale.

ballots are rejected, then Kerry would need to get 97.6 percent of the remaining ones to overcome Bush’s lead.

“There are a lot of conspiracy theory folks out there thinking that — with a machine problem here and a long line problem there and the provisional ballots — the result is in doubt,” said Edward Foley, a professor at Ohio State University’s Moritz College of Law. “I have seen nothing to indicate that the result is in doubt.’’

But Foley said the election revealed problems that need to be remedied.

Counting of the provisional ballots is expected to begin Saturday, although state law allows counties to delay the canvass until Nov. 18, said James Lee, secretary of state spokesman.

Ohio does not face any legal deadline to produce an official total, although in past elections final counts were completed by Dec. 1.

Under state law, each county will examine the provisional ballots, which are sealed in envelopes. Before opening the envelopes, a team of elections officials — split evenly between declared Democrats and Republicans — will decide whether the voter who cast the ballot was registered by the early October deadline and voting in

see OHIO, page 8

Equestrian continued from page 12 Leila Ledsinger ’04.5 and Keefe managed third-place finishes.

Bruno picked up some momentum in the intermediate and novice flat classes.

Roemer continued her strong effort with her first-place showing as point rider, providing Brown with seven valuable points in intermediate flat.

Marissa Geoffroy ’07 followed with a second-place performance in the same category. In novice flat, Bruno was able to place another point rider into first. Burke, the point rider, led the squad with a top finish, followed by Heidi Abrecht ’05 in second and Amy Robinson ’08 in third.

The two walk-trot-canter classes produced satisfactory results, yet no point rider placed in the top three. In the advanced division, Katie Goetz ’08 took second while Kim Mickenberg ’07 finished third.

The beginner division saw Bruno secure two first-place showings from Gabby Gargano ’05 and Anna Mori ’06.

Gargano’s performance was particularly impressive as this was her first time showing in this class.

Brown wrapped up the show in strong fashion, with a first place finish by Aurora Tower ’05 and two second place finishes

by point rider Sarah Morris ’08 and Kelly Qu ’08 in walk-trot.

This was Qu’s first collegiate show.

The effort was there on Saturday, but Bruno was unable to overcome several obstacles, including poor draws for horses, and most point riders did not finish in high positions. Still, the presence of team alums kept spirits high. Current team members enjoyed the company and encouragement of parents and alums, who performed in their own exhibition show.

Although this was not one of the best shows for Brown, the captains were prepared for this outcome because of their previous experiences at Storrs. They emphasized that the show was not a disaster.

“We maintained our lead over the other strong teams in the region and gained more competitive resolve about taking back the lead,” Burke said.

Peddy was also optimistic. “A lot of our new riders have been stepping it up lately and are becoming extremely valuable assets to the team, which is a great sign for the future,” she said.

Brown hopes to take the top spot next Saturday at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.

Herald staff writer Madeleine Marecki ’07 covers the equestrian team. She can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Diverse perspectives The idea of a program to connect current Brown students and alums to students from underrepresented socioeconomic backgrounds is a good one. The Talent Quest program promises to bring socioeconomic and racial diversity to Brown, and it represents a unique opportunity for many members of the Brown community — current students, alums and administrators — to work together to address this need.

But we wonder if the program is addressing these issues as efficiently as possible. We encourage the University to take a close look at the students the Talent Quest Program targets.

Generating a list of schools with high concentrations of students from low-income backgrounds is a good start. But that list doesn’t need to include schools like Phillips Academy or the Bronx High School of Science, a public magnet school that routinely sends dozens of students to the Ivy League.

Some students at prep schools and elite public schools do come from the socioeconomic background the Talent Quest program seeks out. Brown doesn’t need to publicize itself to these students — their high schools will do that on their own.

Brown should dedicate its energy to students and schools where information just won’t get without a concerted effort.

In addition, shortcomings emerging in the program’s formative years will prove disabling if they are not addressed now.

Students said communication from program administrators has been poor, to the point that they are discouraged from recruiting. Administrators say they regret this problem and plan to fix it, and we hope they do.

More alarming, though, is the idea that any particular students have a duty to assist University recruitment efforts. The student ambassador for the program called it “almost a responsibility” for students who come from disadvantaged areas to make students there aware of Brown and encourage them to apply. We hope administrators do not share her sentiment. The responsibility for these tasks falls with the University. Students — of all backgrounds — should want to help, but this impulse should come from their own positive experiences at Brown, not from University pressure.

When students feel Brown is taking advantage of them, their relationship with the University is irreparably harmed. It’s precisely when students have a strong, positive relationship with their school that they will do the best recruiting, with or without the Talent Quest Program.

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LETTERS Bookstaber does not understand satire To the Editor: Upon reading Daniel Bookstaber’s letter jabbing at Ethan Ris ’05 for his suggesting Northeast secession from the United States (“Ris demonstrates Democratic arrogance,” Nov. 8), I was forced to ask myself whether literature is taught effectively in America’s secondary schools. Anyone who has ever read Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” will have recognized Ris’s tone as one suited for satire.

His failure to understand this tone aside, Bookstaber’s suggestion that Ris’s piece embodies a somehow uniquely Democratic “closed-mindedness” is hogwash. I urge him and others to take a long, hard look at the arrogance surrounding

American politics — foreign and domestic — that have prevailed since the rise of the Bush administration. What Bookstaber refers to as a “grand democracy” is a vagary of his and so many others’ perceptions.

With another four years of a democratic process that has been so thoroughly adulterated by the selfserving interests of this administration and those who support it, Ris’s message is written in the same language as the utter lack of humility and the shameless, ever-denigrating pomposity of those who lead this country.

Emir Senturk ’05 Nov. 8

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2004 · PAGE 11

Providence first GUEST COLUMN BY DAVID SEGAL AND MIGUEL LUNA

As of 2000, Providence ranked third-worst in the nation in child poverty and fourth-worst in overall poverty among big cities. Cities from coast to coast have helped combat poverty by passing laws that require that jobs on projects in which the city is invested go to city residents. The dirty little secret is that Providence — unbeknownst to almost all residents, government officials, and developers — has already had a law to that effect on the books. Today, however, that law is not being enforced, and Providence has seen unemployment rise.

In 1985, then-Mayor Vincent Cianci signed the First Source Hiring Ordinance into law. The ordinance mandates that all new jobs that are created as a consequence of city-funded or city-subsidized projects, including those receiving tax concessions, go to qualified Providence residents, unless there is nobody in the city who can perform the needed task.

The ordinance sets up goals for training and hiring women, minorities and the disabled for these jobs. It proposes a mechanism by which the city would collect names of prospective hires who are skilled or interested in particular trades and fields, provides for the advertising of the existence of this list and encourages the creation of job-training programs to teach Providence residents important skills they may be lacking.

The ordinance also requires that $250,000 — which, adjusted for inflation, would be $400,000 today — be allocated annually to fund all of these initiatives. But the money has never been allocated in full, and the ordinance has never been enforced.

A constituent brought the existence of this local-hiring law to our attention a little more than a year ago.

The structures to support its goals were not, and are

not, in place, but we identified $140,000 to be used to facilitate its implementation. The Cicilline administration and the Department of Planning and Development have been actively and earnestly engaged in the effort to finally put into practice this long-languishing program, and this fall the city awarded a contract for a consultant to help us set up the program, with a final report

What Rhode Island and you can do to help increase jobs in the Renaissance City. due in a few months.

Providence is in the midst of a boom in prospective development, much of it likely to receive tax breaks from the city. Over the last 10 years, Providence has approved nearly $200 million in tax breaks for various projects. The value of construction on those projects, when added to the values of various endeavors paid for directly with city money, reaches into the billions of dollars.

There are myriad reasons why it is vital that we keep

this money in Providence — why it be used to create local jobs and provide incomes for local residents. On average, our population is significantly poorer than that of the surrounding area, and a given dollar is more valuable to a poor person than to a rich one.

Unemployment is higher here than in the region on average.

As more and more people compete with one another for particular jobs — as we allow developers to look to a wider and wider region for potential hires — downward pressure on the quality of the jobs grows stronger, wages and benefits fall and profits to developers (mostly from out of state) increase.

Frequently, Providence concedes money to encourage projects that are of much greater value to the state than to the city, as the city taxes property, while the state taxes sales and incomes. Providence needs to make sure that it sees returns commensurate with its investments on these projects, and enforcement of the First Source Ordinance would be a noble start.

The Providence non-profits Direct Action for Rights and Equality and Rhode Island Jobs with Justice have helped lead the push for the enforcement of the First Source Ordinance. In its work on the issue, DARE has begun to collect names and contact information for Providence residents who are looking for jobs in particular fields.

To facilitate our work, DARE’s work and that of the consultant, we ask that those who could volunteer to help us achieve First Source and other sustainable development measures get in touch with DARE, at 3516960 or dare@daretowin.org.

David Segal and Miguel Luna are Providence city councilmen.

Leave it to Bush GUEST COLUMN BY TRISTAN FREEMAN

When we think of the 1950s, we think of “Leave it to Beaver,” Ike, “Rebel Without a Cause” and also cold, soul-sucking religious and social conformity.

Important progressive social developments occurred in the United States during the 1950s, however. Brown v. Board of Education refuted the precedent of “separate but equal.” The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952 removed racial and ethnic quotas to immigration. These important developments toward equality underscored the importance of reaching the “hearts and minds” of nations that may have turned Communist.

By trying to become a worldwide leader in equality, the United States hoped to influence rogue nations inclined toward violence and used that ideological strength as a way to make the world safer for democratic freedoms.

Our current situation with the War on Terror is analogous to what happened in the 1950s. We are in a war to promote the ideals of democracy and freedom abroad. However, the Bush administration has been the catalyst of unprecedented, dangerous erosions to civil rights and civil liberties that are a dangerous affront to our own very basic freedoms in the United States.

The Bush administration has tried to sell to the

world a freedom it halfheartedly protects at home. It’s doublethink at its finest.

President Bush’s Orwellian Patriot Act undermines basic rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.

The Bush administration’s restriction of civil liberties is an affront to the legacy of the 1950s.

Section 802 of the Patriot Act defines “domestic terrorism” as an act “appear(ing) to be intended … to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.” This vague wording functions to criminalize nonviolent political dissent and your right to associate.

The aim of any political association is to change the

policy of the government. Yes, joining an organization as friendly and amiable as your local American Civil Liberties Union chapter is tantamount to terrorism, under the provisions of the Patriot Act. As if the Patriot Act weren’t enough, earlier this year word leaked from the office of Attorney General/Minister of Freedom John Ashcroft about a proposed Patriot Act II. This blockbuster sequel promises more: more repression, more constitutional restrictions on your speech, more fundamental liberties robbed from you. At least it doesn’t cost $9.75.

Bush’s dangerous erosions of civil liberties set a dangerous precedent for your rights in the United States during a time of war. Bush’s erosions of civil liberties make it dangerous for you to associate with like-minded political activists. Bush’s erosions of civil liberties give the enemies of the United States ideological capital to use to paint the United States as an adversary of human freedoms.

If you want to win the war on terror, fight for your liberties here at home.

Tristan Freeman ’06 is president of the Brown chapter of the ACLU.

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SPORTS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 9, 2004 · PAGE 12

Equestrian falls to nemesis UConn

Yale win gives m. soccer Ivy title chance

BY CAMERON STEWART

BY MADELEINE MARECKI

The equestrian team headed to its fourth show of the season — held at the University of Connecticut — looking to reverse the trend of poor performances at UConn in previous years. However, this year proved to be no different, as Brown lost for its second time this year, finishing with 32 points. UConn won the event with 43 points.

The loss also caused Brown to drop in overall regional standings. UConn now has the lead with 154 points, while Brown trails with 152 points. The University of Rhode Island stands at a distant third with 120 points.

The beginning of the show gave reason for optimism — in open fences, Whitney Keefe ’08 captured first, co-captain and point rider Jamie Peddy ’06 took third and a trio of Bruno riders registered top-three finishes in intermediate fences.

Jess Mendelson ’07 headlined the group with her second place performance, and Jade Palomino ’07 and point rider Rachel Roemer ’06 both secured third place in their respective divisions.

Brown struggled in the next two classes, unable to place a point rider in the top three of either class. Co-captain Galyn Burke ’05 and Amy Cameron ’08 were able to contribute to the effort with strong performances in novice fences — both placed second. In open flat, co-captain

see EQUESTRIAN, page 9

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Kevin Davies ’08 scored the deciding goal in the men’s soccer team’s win over Yale, earning Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors.

Delphina Thomas / Herald

BY HELEN LURYI

The women’s ice hockey team picked up two wins at home this weekend, despite injuries to three key players in the past week. On Friday, the Bears handily beat Cornell 4-1, and they

to win. Although the team was primarily on the defensive throughout the first half, its intensity in the second half brought home a win.

“We were playing to win, not tie,” said goalie Chris Gomez ’05.

“We knew this game was very important.”

Yale began the game with solid control of the ball and continuous possession in Brown’s defensive side. Despite Yale’s control and poise, the Bears did not break and allowed only one shot throughout the entire game, which Gomez saved. The Bears came out strong in the beginning of the second half and strategically planned to have the wind to their backs.

“We made a choice to play with the wind in our favor. … We knew it was going to pay off,”

see M. SOCCER, page 9

Upstate N.Y. games leave m. icers down

BY IAN CROPP

There was no snow on the ground in upstate New York this past weekend, but the men’s ice hockey team still received a cold reception from two ECAC rivals.

After carrying a 2-1 lead late into the third period, the Bears lost to Colgate University 3-2 in overtime on Friday. Brown then fell apart defensively late in the game against Cornell on Saturday, losing 7-2.

This particular road trip has been an historical thorn in the side of the Bears, with the team only earning one point in 12 games over the last six years.

“It is one of the toughest road trips in college hockey,” said Chris Swon ’05. “We could have used some points.”

Against Colgate, Brown scored with under a minute left to play in the second period to tie the game and then took the lead early in the third period.

Brian Ihnacak ’07 scored both goals with the same crafty stick work that earned him 10 goals last year.

For most of the third period, Brown’s forechecking and neutral zone play stymied the Colgate offense. With three minutes left, however, Colgate knotted the game at two with a goal that deflected off a leg in front of the net.

“In the third period, we set up our defensive forecheck and they really couldn’t even get it out of their zone for a while,” said goalkeeper Scott Rowan

Key injuries unable to keep w. ice hockey out of win column

Jessica Link ’05 and her linemates have accounted for five of Brown’s 10 goals this season.

The men’s soccer team (8-6-2, 4-2 Ivy League) faced fierce competition this weekend, winning the more important game against Yale, 1-0, but losing to the University of Rhode Island, 2-1.

The cold and windy Friday night game against the Bulldogs was crucial to Brown’s standing in the Ivy League; it granted Brown sole possession of second place in the Ivies and helped compensate for Ivy losses earlier this year.

Consequently, the Bears will face Dartmouth next weekend to compete for a share of the Ivy title.

“We knew we had to put in 90 minutes,” said Jeff Larentowicz ’05. “Once we scored, their shoulders dropped.”

After losing two Ivy League games earlier this season, the Bears understood the importance of their game Friday night and came to the field determined

continued their dominant play on Saturday with a 2-0 victory against Colgate University.

Injuries to three veteran starters will pose some challenges for the Bears. In the season opener at the University of Maine, forward Margaret Ramsay ’06 punctured a tendon in her leg on the point of a skate blade, putting her on the injured list for at least a couple of months. Last Friday against Cornell, defenseman Ashlee Drover ’06 left the ice early in the second period with a separated shoulder. To top it off, in the third period of Saturday’s game against Colgate, Jessica Link ’05, the Bears’ top scorer last season, suffered a high ankle sprain.

Though Drover and Link will likely be able to play again in a few weeks, the injuries will force some changes in the team’s game, according to Head Coach Digit Murphy.

With Ramsay, Drover and Link out of the lineup for now, some of the younger Bears will get playing time and experience sooner than expected. For example, with Drover’s absence from the blue line, defenders Lauren Deeb ’07 and Ann Brophy ’07 are seeing more ice time on pairings with the team’s stalwarts.

“We’re going to make the best of it. Injuries make a team better, because you have to play up to a higher level,” Murphy said.

Murphy intends to put more emphasis on what she calls executing the team concept. While this has been a focus of Brown’s game for a few years, according to Murphy, it is especially vital when some of those star players are injured.

Another change, says Murphy, may be a return to the Bears’ previous dump-and-chase system,

see W. HOCKEY, page 6

’05. “Then they got a lucky goal and that changed the game.”

The game went to a fiveminute sudden-death overtime, during which Colgate’s gamewinning goal came on a power play.

It was a letdown for Brown that the game even reached overtime — after relinquishing its late lead, Bruno had many opportunities to win the game.

Among the chances was a Brown two-man advantage that came and went without a goal.

“We had a two-on-one break, some power plays at the end of the game and in overtime, but their goalie played well,” Swon said. “It was a little disappointing — we had a lead on the road, and we let two points slip away.”

Following last week’s stellar performance against Harvard, Rowan had another impressive outing against Colgate, saving 26 shots.

On Saturday, it was Rowan who kept the Bears in the game, as he was peppered by 40 Cornell shots, many of which came on the power play and during odd-man rushes.

“Scott is playing awesome. 72 doesn’t sound like that, but we really hung him out to dry,” Swon said.

For the first two periods, Brown played catch-up with Cornell, pulling to within 2-1 and then 3-2 after being down two goals. But at the end of the

see M. HOCKEY, page 7

Student supervisors keep intramural sports running smoothly

BY ANNE DUGGAN

Even though the intramural director left in March and a replacement was not named until September, the fall intramural season has gone off without a hitch, thanks to the efforts of three students.

It wasn’t until Sept. 10 that Intramural and Facility Coordinator Diana Clauss was named to her position; before then, only Matthew Tsimikas, assistant athletic director of physical education, intramurals and club sports, supervised the intramurals.

Tsimikas’ job, which includes supervising the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center, leaves him little time for running the intramural program, according to Dave Reidy ’06, a student coordinator.

The previous intramural director, Jay Veilleux, resigned to take a position in Yarmouth, Maine,

leaving only Tsimikas to finish the spring season and organize the fall season.

So in the intervening months until Clauss arrived on campus, students ran the intramural program. Unlike at other larger schools where graduates will be assistants for the undergraduate intramural department, Brown has no graduate assistants to help out.

“A lot of what Peter Cirincione (’06), GJ King (’05) and I do is what grad assistants do at other schools,” said Dave Reidy ’06, a student coordinator. “We don’t have extensive training, and we just do the best we can.”

“The end of last year was okay, because the sports had already started, but the beginning of this year was very tough,” Reidy said. “We had to

see INTRAMURALS, page 8