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For 40 percent of TAs, learning to teach starts with learning English

FACULTY EXPANSION THREE YEARS IN first in a five-part series

U. moves into second round of faculty expansion

BY JANE PORTER

International teaching assistants from China, Korea and Vietnam crowded into the small kitchen of Hilary Farrell’s ’05 apartment on Nov. 19, learning how to make pumpkin pie. The event was organized by Farrell and other undergraduate consultants working with foreign graduate students to improve their English communication skills. “Having an interactive way of learning about American culture rather than just watching TV, I think, is incredibly helpful for them,” Farrell said. The Thanksgiving dinner was an informal event that brought together six international graduate students and four undergraduate “consultants” working for the English for International Teaching Assistants program. Nearly 40 percent of the 432 graduate students serving as teaching assistants or teaching classes at Brown this semester are not native English speakers. “Students come at it from a consumer rights aspect because they might have a TA who isn’t in control of the culture or language,” said John Eng-Wong, director of foreign students at the Third World Center. “The ITAs are in a very vulnerable position here.” The ITA program works to respond to

The plan to expand Brown’s faculty by 100 is a centerpiece of the Plan for Academic Enrichment. Now nearing the third anniversary of the Corporation’s approval of the initiatives, the University is well into the hiring process. The Herald examined how four departments have been affected by the faculty expansion. This, the first article of the series, is an overview of the expansion. BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

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Joe Carpenter ’08 used trash cans to bail out a flooded Keeney hallway Sunday night.

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IN BRIEF Campus buildings lose heat for 2 days A leak in a high-temperature hot water heating line forced Facilities Management to shut off heat to a large section of campus on Friday and Saturday while the leak could be bypassed. The heat to campus buildings south of Angell Street was shut off around 4 a.m. Friday and was turned back on around 9 p.m. on Saturday. The affected buildings included buildings on the Main Green, East Campus and Wriston Quad and Keeney Quad. Buildings north of Angell were not affected. According to Carl Weaver, director of physical plant at Facilities Management, the leak was first noticed about two weeks ago, but officials decided to make repairs at a time when it would be “least inconvenient to the campus,” or over Thanksgiving break. He estimated that there were about 300 students remaining on campus over the break, but that hot water should not have been affected by the shut-off. Weaver said that the leak has been bypassed and will be fully repaired in the next few weeks. “Everything’s working well,” he said. An e-mail was sent out Wednesday evening to students living in affected buildings notifying them of the heat shutoff. Weaver said that Facilities only received a few calls complaining about the cold in dorms, all of those from Graduate Center. Andrew Ahn ’08, who spent the break

in Keeney, said it was “(expletive) freezing” at night. He said he “didn’t pay too much attention to” the e-mail notifying residents that the heat would be off, but that he quickly figured out what was going on. But Takuma Nakamoto ’08, also in Keeney, said, “Actually, it wasn’t that cold,” though he did keep a jacket on indoors. — Ben Leubsdorf

Heavy rains flood Keeney Hall, several dorm rooms Despite the valiant efforts of residents, a flood in the ground level of upper Keeney Quad caused some property damage, water-logged rugs and clogged drains at around 8 p.m. Sunday night. Dead leaves clogged a drain at the base of an outer stairwell at the corner of Brown and Charlesfield Streets during the heavy rain, residents said. Rainwater flowed down the stairs, accumulated and ran under the outer door, creating a twoinch-deep body of water. The water flowed as far as 20 feet along the Bronson House hallways and into a bathroom, a converted lounge and several doubles. “It was just a melee,” said Joe Carpenter ’08. Students took a mattress from storage to try to block the flood, while others used trash cans as buckets and tried to scoop water into showers and sinks and into drains in the stairwell, which soon clogged, he said. “I short-circuited my vacuum trying to

suck it up,” said Steve Greene ’08. Unit 1 Resident Counselor Andrew Shield ’07 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald that he and two other residents unclogged the outside drain themselves after waiting half an hour for Facilities Management to respond. After about an hour, facilities management was able to send a team to use a “high-powered vacuum” to drain the hallway, said Albert Ghitis ’08. Ghitis and roommate Greene tried to barricade their door, but water still penetrated and soaked their rug, which “shriveled up and died,” he said. The water was “really close” to electronics and wires in his room, Ghitis said. “We would have all been screwed.” In the converted lounge, the closest room to the door, residents unplugged all electronics and tried to lift everything possible out of the way of the inch-deep water, Shield wrote. Residents said damage in that sophomore triple was the worst. “It’s contained by now,” said a woman who answered the phone at Facilities Management. “There shouldn’t be any further flooding.” “It was fun, kind of,” admitted Elena Gonzalez ’08. Some residents from higher, dryer floors in the dorm wore bathing suits to watch the event and go “surfing,” hallway residents said. “They were like, ‘We’re going surfing in your misery,’” said Brietta Tsang ’08.

Number of high school seniors applying early decision to Brown increases, with new levels of diversity campus news, page 3

Nate Goralnik ’06 thinks that the U.S. dollar’s glory days might be coming to an end column, page 11

In February 2002, when the Corporation endorsed the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment, a key provision called for the addition of 100 new faculty in “incremental positions” — newly created positions that represent a net expansion of the faculty. Almost three years later, roughly 37 of those positions have been filled, about 25 more searches are underway and a second round of allocations is set to begin next semester, according to Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra P’07. Vohra said that for an institution as complex as Brown, “the pace at which this change is going on is unusual.” “It’s now at the point (when) the plan is not just on paper,” he said. “Our faculty size today is higher than it’s ever been.”

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U. remains wary of spamming students with mass e-mails BY BEN LEUBSDORF

Ranging from notices that the heat will be shut off to messages about recruitment opportunities, official mass e-mails are a valuable communications tool, according to University officials. But they say it must be used carefully, because students are overwhelmed by junk e-mail. “The whole purpose is to get information to the campus that they legitimately need, and to do it in a timely way,” said Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service. “It’s information that’s offered with an open hand,” he said, and “it seems to work.” There are two types of Universityapproved mass e-mail. Morning Mail consolidates reminders and announcements about campus events into one daily e-mail. Faculty and staff members can submit announcements for publication in Morning Mail; the Office of Public Affairs and University Relations decides

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Women’s ice hockey team defeats Providence College, bringing home Mayor’s Cup sports, page 12

Gaudette ’05 and Tarpy ’05 find success at NCAA cross country championships in Terre Haute, Ind. sports, page 12

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TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP 5-6:30 p.m. (Wilson 102) — Professor Barbara Tannenbaum will give a course in public speaking and teach the fundamentals of speaking confidently in a public setting.

“GUISES OF THE HISTORIAN IN EARLY CHINESE HISTORIOGRAPHY” 8:30-9 p.m. (Salomon 001) — Wai-Yee Li of Harvard University will deliver a lecture as part of the Kirk Lecture Series, this year on “Writing History in the Ancient World.”

“AMERICAN POLITICS: 2004 AND BEYOND” 7:30 p.m. (MacMillan Hall, Starr Auditorium) — Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist David Broder will give the Gov. Frank Licht Lecture. Broder is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post.

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VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Vegetable Barley Soup, Chicken Okra Gumbo Soup, Jamie’s Spiced Chicken Wings, Baked Manicotti with Tomato Sauce, Corn and Broccoli Casserole, Snickerdoodle Cookies.

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ARTS & CULTURE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 3 CAMPUS NEWS

Early decision applications from African-American students show ‘dramatic’ increase BY KIRA LESLEY

Early decision applications for the Class of 2009 increased about 7 percent this fall and reflected a significant increase in the number of African-American early decision applicants. Brown received approximately 2,030 early decision applications and will mail notifications to applicants Dec. 10. Last year, 28 percent of the 1,898 students who applied early were admitted. Eighty African-American students applied early decision, up from 55 last year, according to Director of Admission Michael Goldberger. Goldberger called the increase — about 45 percent — “pretty dramatic.” The University also received 237 early decision applications from Asian-American students — a slight decrease from last year’s 247 applications. The numbers could change slightly if some students choose to withdraw their early decision applications, and applications sent from other countries may arrive late, even if they are postmarked by the deadline date, Goldberger said. Applications from students planning to concentrate in engineering also rose by 21 percent, and chemistry, physics and computer science saw simi-

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Bynum ’92 reflects on status as National Book Award Finalist BY JONATHAN SIDHU

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum ’92 was named a National Book Award Finalist for her novel “Madeleine is Sleeping,” an imaginative tale she describes as “a part coming-of-age story and part fairy tale.” But perhaps an equally magical tale is the chronicle of the story’s 10-year sculpting process, which began during Bynam’s senior year at Brown. “I was taking a class by Bob Arellaro — a hypertext class. The very opening of the book was actually composed in hypertext,” Bynam said. “I worked on it as my senior thesis. If you go to the library, you will find the early pages of the book,” she added. Each year the National Book Foundation selects five writers in four different categories as National Book Award Finalists to recognize exemplary achievement in writing. Of these finalists, one is named the award winner. This year the National Book Award recipient for fiction was Lily Tuck for “News from Paraguay.” Bynum herself has been published in several publications, including the Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review and Best American Short Stories of 2004. “Madeleine is Sleeping” is her first novel. After graduating from Brown, Bynum began teaching seventh and eighth-grade students in Brooklyn, N.Y. “I took the job thinking that I would have oodles of time to write,” she said. “I had no idea going in what an intense experience teaching is.” Though heavily involved in her teaching, Bynum did take one night class at Columbia University under the instruction of Michael Cunningham. It was Cunningham who suggested that Bynum pursue cre-

ative writing at graduate school. Bynum chose the University of Iowa, a school that has a reputation very different from Brown’s. “At first I had somewhat mixed feelings about going to Iowa. The creative writing program at Brown is so innovative and interested in new approaches to narrative. The unspoken understanding among students at Brown was that Iowa was a cookie-cutter place, churning out boring short-story writers.” Ultimately, however, Bynum’s experiences at Iowa varied significantly from these perceptions. “I still found a lot of different students and teachers who were interested in different approaches to short stories,” she said. Bynum returned to New York City after completing her MFA and started working as a consultant for a nonprofit organization, a job that allowed her the time to “work on the novel and eventually bring it to completion.” “Madeleine is Sleeping” was published in September by Harcourt Incorporated, which ultimately submitted her novel for review by the National Book Foundation. “I had no idea that Harcourt even submitted my book for this award,” she said. Bynum described the initial surprise of being notified of her award nomination. “I was called at my day job, a very unglamorous setting. It was complete incredulity. I mean utter incredulity. I was confused and then I was sort of disbelieving and then I got increasingly excited,” she said. Bynum’s nomination came amidst controversy that the National Book Foundation’s selection criteria were

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Bynum continued from page 3 flawed, particularly because all five fiction finalists were unknown female authors from the New York City area. “People felt we were obscure,” Bynum said. “Suddenly I appeared in the New York Times on a frequent basis. My book didn’t even get reviewed by the New York Times.” At the recent awards banquet where the fiction award winner was announced, Rick Moody, the chair of the selection committee, described the judging process, addressing the criticism that had surrounded it. “He said basically there were all different types of writers. They were looking for language and imagination — those were the two vital things that consti-

tuted excellence,” Bynum said. “It was such a relief to hear all of this negativity responded to.” Though Bynum has received considerable recognition for her novel, she is still a consultant, citing the recognition as reaffirmation to keep writing. “It’s a very lasting vote of confidence,” she said. “Especially because I admire the judges and deeply admire the other books whose company I was in. It gives me hope and courage to keep going,” she said. Bynum provided some advice for aspiring writers at Brown: “At Brown I was constantly surrounded by so much stimulation — an incredible sense of intellectual agitation. Venture into territory that seems more frightening or unknown. That can lead to a lot of inspiration.” Herald staff writer Jonathan Sidhu ’08 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

E-mail continued from page 1 which events go into Morning Mail and which should be placed on the online calendar instead. Official bulk e-mails can also be sent out to a variety of mailing lists by authorized departments. For example, the Dean of the Faculty’s office can send e-mails to faculty members, the Undergraduate Council of Students can message individual classes or all undergraduates, and the Office of the President can e-mail everyone on campus. These departments do not need to secure approval before sending a mass e-mail. Patricia Falcon, coordinator of communications and documentation at Computing and Information Services, said there are “about a dozen” offices with authorization to send mass emails to their relevant mailing lists. She pointed to the introduction of Morning Mail in February 2004 as the reason

that the “use of bulk e-mail has dropped off in the last year,” as announcements formerly made through several individual emails are now consolidated into one. Marisa Quinn, assistant to the president, said there are “definite instances when it makes sense to send” a mass email from the Office of the President, such as the announcement of Sidney Frank’s recent gift or when the president wishes to make a statement on a “campus climate issue.” But Quinn emphasized that “we try to use bulk e-mail in a limited way, understanding that people get a lot of e-mail.” Overuse of mass e-mail represents a serious danger, said John Mozena, the vice president and co-founder of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial E-mail, a national anti-spam organization. Though “it’s not spam” when the University sends out mass e-mails, they will become ineffective if students feel “so carpet-bombed” by them that they

become desensitized and stop reading them, Mozena said. “That’s the danger, but I don’t think the University is coming close to that threshold,” said Tracie Sweeney, senior associate director of the Brown News Service. She cited Morning Mail and the targeted nature of the mailing lists as effective in helping to control the volume of official e-mails to the campus. Nickel said that though there is a risk that students will become desensitized by spam more generally, it “does not arise from the University’s use of bulk email.” Ethan Wingfield ’07, communications coordinator for UCS, agreed that mass e-mail needs to be used “very carefully and wisely” as to not “cheapen its value.” Last year there was a dispute over UCS’s use of mass e-mail after it sent out several campus-wide e-mails on behalf of student groups. But Wingfield said UCS’s communications committee is currently drafting a “comprehensive policy” on UCS’s use of mass e-mail, which will probably be ready in Spring 2005. The University’s efforts to contain the volume of official emails has had mixed reviews. Leni Kwait ’06 said the volume of e-mails from the University “doesn’t really bother me.” But Jeremy Choy ’08 had a simple solution for what he regards as too many e-mails: “two words: trash can.” Choy said he likes Morning Mail and that he reads official messages such as the campus crime alerts and messages from the president, because “it comes when it’s necessary so you know it’s necessary.” But he specifically cited e-mails from the Career Development Center as being overwhelming and unhelpful. “I think they’ve definitely crossed the line,” he said. Kimberly DelGizzo, director of the CDC, said the CDC sends weekly e-mails to each class as well as additional e-mails to the entire student body to announce career-related events or opportunities. The CDC has authorization from the Office of the Dean of the College to use those mailing lists for its emails. “We are always challenged by not wanting to send out too many e-mails,” DelGizzo said. But she said informal conversations with students at Career Services events have led her to believe that many do not read Morning Mail and that individual e-mails are the best way for the CDC to communicate with students. Though DelGizzo said she was wary of overwhelming students, she said, “I also know that we have important information to get out to students, and students tell us this is the best way to do that.” The “intelligent use of emails as a critical communications tool” can be overwhelmed by too many messages, Mozena said. But Nickel said the “University does need to have a certain baseline capacity of getting information to everybody,” and that as long as it is not used as a “blunt club,” it will continue to be effective. Herald staff writer Ben Leubsdorf ’08 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 5

Higher spending by holiday shoppers, but Wal-Mart dampens hopes WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Holiday shoppers spent 10 percent more Friday than they did a year ago, according to early reports, but Wal-Mart Stores Inc. dampened hopes for a strong start to the key retail season by slashing its November sales forecast by more than half. Consumers spent about $8 billion at the nation’s malls and stores the day after Thanksgiving, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, compared with $7.3 billion a year ago, according to the

industry research firm ShopperTrak. Bill Martin, ShopperTrak’s founder and executive vice president of sales, called the results “unusually strong” and credited the gain to this year’s early-bird deep discounts, which created pre-dawn lines at many stores across the country. The National Retail Federation trade group said a survey of 4,670 shoppers showed that each spent an average $265 over the weekend. Overall, the federation estimates that U.S. consumers spent $22.8 billion Friday, Saturday and

Sunday, which represents 10 percent of the $220 billion expected in holiday sales this year. But industry bellwether Wal-Mart, which had earlier predicted sales to grow by 2 to 4 percent for November, on Saturday dropped its forecast to a gain of 0.7 percent. The company said sales last week “fell below plan,” dragging down the month’s results, which should be released within a week.

southern Iraq and also extend west to Fallujah and beyond. “It’s a natural line of drift” for insurgents, he said. “The problem is all roads lead to Latifiyah,” Johnson said, referring to a town near the center of the region. At least 32 Iraqi civilians have been killed in the region in recent months, executed at illegal checkpoints the insurgents have set up, Johnson said. “These

Sun) — Tough-on-crime Alabama could never be accused of going easy on marijuana users. State law allows people convicted three times on simple possession charges to face a sentence of 15 years to life. Any defense claims of medicinal use are flatly rejected. But with the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear arguments Monday in a California case that medical marijuana advocates view as a critical test for their cause, they have found an unlikely ally in Alabama and its equally resolute argument that the federal government should not meddle in state laws. But with the U.S. Supreme Court set to hear arguments Monday in a California case that medical marijuana advocates view as a critical test for their cause, “We take this stuff seriously, and we happen to believe as a matter of (drug) policy that the Californians are wrong, and the feds are right,” Kevin C. Newsom, Alabama’s solicitor general, said in a recent interview. “But we’re here to articulate the state’s long-term interest — and the state’s long-term interest is in Congress’ powers being maintained within appropriate boundaries.” And so Alabama forged an unlikely legal alliance. The state filed a friend of the court brief on behalf of two California women, Angel McClary Raich and Diane Monson, who won a court injunction last year blocking the federal government from prosecuting individuals who use, grow or possess marijuana for medical reasons in accordance with California’s 1996 ballot initiative, the Compassionate Use Act. In its decision from last December, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — which gave conservative-leaning states such as Alabama fits with an earlier decision that the phrase “under God” should be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance — said federal interstate commerce

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Marines widen their net south of Baghdad FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq (Washington Post) — Through the scattered

towns and along the dangerous roads of an area that one commander described as “kind of like the worst place in the world,” U.S. Marines, British soldiers and Iraqi security forces are waging an offensive they say is vastly different from the urban warfare waged elsewhere in Iraq in recent weeks. Unlike the massive military push into the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, or similar assaults on Samarra or Mosul, the operation here in Babil province has involved few firefights. It consists mostly of gathering intelligence and launching raids on homes and suspected weapons caches. Insurgents here are not clustered in urban neighborhoods but scattered over wide areas of what many Iraqis call the “triangle of death.” “We have to go out and hunt them down,” said Col. Ron Johnson, commander of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is conducting Operation Plymouth Rock, so called because it started around Thanksgiving. Beginning on Tuesday, a combined force of more than 5,000 U.S., British and Iraqi troops has mounted raids in a region south of Baghdad that resulted in the detention of more than 130 people. Most recently, the troops have targeted the dusty town of Yusufiyah, where 856 projectiles were discovered, the U.S. military said. Officers say those numbers do not reflect the actual scope of the operation.

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Marine Col. Ron Johnson said Babil province, along major arteries that link Baghdad with southern and western Iraq, was a “natural line of drift” for insurgents who fled a U.S. offensive in Fallujah. U.S. military officials estimate that they could be fighting as many as 6,000 insurgents in the region, most of them disgruntled and unemployed local residents. Among them are said to be former members of the Republican Guard, a key element of Saddam Hussein’s disbanded Iraqi military. Johnson said the strategic importance of northern Babil stems from its geographic location along major transportation arteries that link Baghdad with

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Shopping continued from page 5 Analysts have said consumers who shop at discount stores still feel the pinch of rising costs for food and fuel. “They just have less discretionary income this year,” said Michael Niemera, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers, an industry trade group. National Retail Federation’s survey, conducted by BIGresearch, found that 61 percent of consumers visited a discount chain over the weekend, compared with 44 percent for department stores and 41 for specialty stores. Thirty percent of those surveyed said they bought products on the Internet over the weekend.

In terms of dollars spent, the Friday after Thanksgiving was the biggest shopping day of the year in 2003, displacing the Saturday before Christmas, which had held the top position since 1999, ShopperTrak said. Retailers have nicknamed it Black Friday, because the day’s sales are supposed to push their stores into the black, or profitability, for the first time all year. In what has become an annual rite, dozens of retailers tried to lure customers with early-morning discounts, such as $24 DVD players and $200 personal computers, with such prices expiring by 10 a.m. or noon. “Customers have really responded to these promotions,” ShopperTrak’s Martin said. “They like the early start.”

Faculty continued from page 1 The 100-position expansion represents an increase of 17 percent in the overall size of the faculty, which stood at 577 in the 2001-2002 academic year. When the initiatives were approved, the administration called on departments to submit proposals assessing their status and goals. Departments were faced with the task of making the case for their share of the incremental positions. The president and the provost make all final decisions on the allocations of the 100 incremental positions, but they give “enormous weight” to the recommendations of the Academic Priorities Committee, according to Assistant Provost Brian Casey, who staffs the committee. The APC is chaired by the provost and made up of the senior academic deans, the vice president for research and six senior faculty members, elected by the faculty. It was the job of the APC to evaluate the departmental proposals and “decide where it would be productive for the University to grow,” Vohra said. Both Casey and Vohra said that the APC has made allotments over a wide range of disciplines. According to the Web site of the dean of the faculty, as of September 2004, 32 percent of the incremental allocations went to the life sciences, 29 percent to the humanities, 22 percent to the social sciences and 17 percent to the physical sciences.

ITA continued from page 1 this need for English instruction. Farrell and 10 other undergraduate consultants for the ITA program meet twice weekly with ITAs to help them practice their English speaking skills. “Undergraduates are the pillar of our program,” said Jill Scott, an English instructor with the ITA program. The ITA Program began in 1992, when the university made it a policy to ensure that international TAs have the skills necessary to teach, said Barbara Gourlay, the program’s coordinator. The program evaluates foreign graduate students based on an English proficiency evaluation. A panel composed of an undergraduate student, an English as a second language professional and a department representative evaluates how well each graduate student interacts in a teaching environment based on a presentation. The program is then responsible for matching the student with an ITA English course. “The roles and responsibilities for teaching are different than casual conversation,” Gourlay said. Around 60 foreign graduate students are taking courses with the ITA program this semester. The courses span across five levels of proficiency and focus on oral communication skills such as pronunciation and delivering information effectively in a classroom setting.

Vohra said that though distributing the 100 incremental positions evenly among departments would be the easiest thing to do, “that’s not the way to maximize the effect of this.” “One big area of focus was life sciences ... (because) there was a sense that Brown did not have a big a presence as it should,” Vohra said. He said it was very difficult to make decisions among many strong proposals, but “arguments had to be made — cases had to be made — and that’s what departments did.” Most “departments took a look at where they were and where they wanted to go” and included “a broader strategic view of (their) field,” he said. According to Casey, the APC met several times a week for more than a year before slowing its pace. It was an “extremely long and extremely arduous process to weigh these potentially competing proposals,” he said. The first round of proposals and hiring has produced a particularly significant surge in interdisciplinary programs. “What you saw emerge in the first round were faculty looking to do inter-departmental” projects, Casey said. These include the Environmental Change Initiative, the Humanities Center, the Initiative in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences and the recently approved Program in Commerce, Organizations and Entrepreneurship — all of which are associated with two or more departments. New faculty directors have been hired for both the Environmental Change Initiative and the Spatial

Structures Initiative. This semester the provost called on departments to make a second round of proposals. The APC will collect the proposals and begin to evaluate them in the spring, though “they don’t have the same huge task that they had in 2002 and 2003,” Vohra said. “The competition becomes more and more stiff because fewer positions are left,” he said. After an allocation of a position is made, the hiring process is slow and can be unpredictable. Searches usually take at least a year because ads have to be placed, short lists drawn up and candidates brought to campus, Vohra said. If a department cannot find a high-caliber candidate, searches may be abandoned temporarily. The Target of Opportunity program, which was created as part of the initiatives and allows departments to bypass the normal search process in order to recruit highly desirable candidates, has played a part in the faculty expansion. Out of the 100 planned additions, 25 spots were allocated to the program and about 12 have been filled, Vohra said. The initiatives call for continued — but more modest — expansion of the faculty after the 100 incremental additions. According to Casey, the size and nature of that growth will be determined by how the initiatives develop and “how the (capital) campaign develops.”

Another option for foreign graduate students is the English Language and Acculturation Seminar, a three-week program in August designed to help foreign TAs get accustomed to life in Providence before the academic year begins. “Some of these students step off a plane from Beijing on Saturday and are expected to teach a class on Monday,” said Scott, who coordinated the program. This summer, 21 graduate students in the chemistry, physics and math departments participated in the three-week seminar, which expanded upon a 10-day pilot program held last year. “As a teacher who has a lot of foreign TAs, the August program has been a good investment,” said Joan Lusk, associate professor of chemistry. Lusk helped facilitate the summer ITA program this year and said the experience helped her establish close communication with the 12 international TAs she is working with this semester. Some graduate students seek out individual help. Weiye Li, a second-year economics graduate student from China, works one-on-one with Gourlay to improve her pronunciation skills. “At the beginning it’s kind of tough,” Li said of her experience as a TA for an introductory economics course. “It’s not only the language skill; it’s explaining the logic behind things.” Of the 29 graduate student TAs in the economics department, 26 are international stu-

dents. “TAs with language problems are more comfortable giving technical answers than intuitive answers,” said David Weil, graduate chair and professor in the economics department. “We assign the best teachers to the lowest-level courses.” An upper-level econometrics course is assigned an ITA with weaker English communication skills than an introductory course because undergraduates in the beginner course need clear explanations of basic concepts, he said. Weil hopes next year’s summer program will have enough funding to incorporate graduate students from the economics department. “If the University wants to improve the English skills of its graduate students, it just takes money and time,” he said. In addition to the summer program and ITA courses offered during the year, foreign students are encouraged to use resources provided by the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. Li is currently participating in a two-week program at the Sheridan Center that evaluates her teaching skills and provides her with instructions for improvement. “I think personality makes a big difference — extending yourself to the students,” Li said. “It’s about delivering your experiences to them. It’s kind of a long-term practice.”

Herald senior staff writer Justin Elliott ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

Herald staff writer Jane Porter ’06 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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lar increases, Goldberger said. Although the numbers are small and, making it difficult to judge the significance of these trends, Goldberger said he hopes these numbers reflect a growing interest in the sciences. “One of the areas we were working on was really trying to talk about the sciences,” Goldberger said. The newly redesigned SAT will be offered for the first time in March 2005, and the University expects applicants for the Class of 2010 to submit scores primarily from the new test. Goldberger said he feels it’s unfair to ask students to study for both the new and the old SAT. But the University will make exceptions, if a student was abroad during junior year,

When unnamed Bush administration officials gave the name of CIA official Valerie Plame to syndicated columnist Robert Novak 15 months ago, many in the news media decried what they saw as the possibly illegal “outing” of a secret agent in reprisal for criticism of the administration by her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. What they did not foresee was that the investigation of this alleged crime would end up targeting the media. Two reporters, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of the New York Times — neither of whom had anything to do with the leak to Novak — now face up to 18 months in jail for refusing a court order to testify about their contacts with confidential sources related to the Plame story. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear Cooper and Miller’s appeal Dec. 8. The ultimate result is in doubt, but for now their cases demonstrate an uncomfortable fact of life for Washington reporters: The symbiotic relationship between journalists and confidential sources enjoys less protection under federal law than it does in most states. “I understand the desire to have a reporter privilege,” said Geoffrey Stone, a professor of law at the University of Chicago who specializes in First Amendment issues. “The problem is that there isn’t a privilege currently existing that’s applicable to this situation—yet they have gone around giving people promises of confidentiality.” The Miller and Cooper cases follow that of Providence television reporter Jim Taricani, who was convicted of contempt last week for refusing to reveal who illegally leaked him an FBI surveillance tape of payoffs to a former City Hall official; he faces up to six months in jail. Five other reporters are appealing contempt citations over their refusal to testify about their confidential sources in a federal invasion-ofprivacy lawsuit brought by former nuclear weapons scientist Wen Ho Lee. The basic argument in favor of legal protection for a reporter’s pledge of confidentiality is that the public interest is served by

making sure that whistle-blowers can take their tales of official wrongdoing to the news media without fear of reprisal. In 49 of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia, that argument has carried the day, and a reporter’s privilege of some kind has been recognized either by a “shield law” or by a court decision. Some federal appeals courts have also recognized such a privilege in federal lawsuits brought by private parties. However, the counterargument is that reporters, no less than other citizens, have a duty to tell the authorities about criminal conduct they may have witnessed. And that persuaded five members of the Supreme Court when it ruled in 1972, in Branzburg v. Hayes, that the First Amendment does not protect journalists from being subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. Justice Byron White wrote that there was “no basis for holding that the public interest in law enforcement and in ensuring effective grand jury proceedings is insufficient to override the consequential, but uncertain, burden on news gathering that is said to result from insisting that reporters, like other citizens, respond to relevant questions put to them in the course of a valid grand jury investigation or criminal trial.” There is no federal “shield law,” though Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., has proposed one in the wake of the MillerCooper cases. Chief Judge Thomas Hogan of the U.S. District Court in Washington cited Branzburg in ordering Cooper and Miller to testify. After Branzburg, the Justice Department promised, in effect, not to abuse its power to subpoena reporters. Department guidelines instruct federal prosecutors to seek only the minimum of reporters’ testimony essential to resolve a case, when all other alternatives have been exhausted. But, as Hogan noted in his rulings, those guidelines are voluntary and do not give reporters a right to sue if they think the department has violated them. Hogan added that he believed Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel in charge of the Justice Department’s investigation, had

acted in accordance with the guidelines. In a brief for Cooper and Miller filed with the D.C. Circuit, attorney Floyd Abrams argues Hogan misinterpreted Branzburg, because one of the five justices in the majority, Lewis Powell, wrote a concurring opinion that seemed to say courts should weigh claims of a reporters’ privilege on a case-by-case basis. Fitzgerald counters in his brief that Powell meant only to emphasize that reporters could be protected from bad-faith prosecution, of which there is no evidence here. Abrams notes that much has changed since Branzburg. First, the court seemed to base its decision in part on the fact that only 17 states had shield laws at the time. Also, in 1975, Congress gave the federal courts broad power to create new testimonial privileges, a power the Supreme Court used in 1996 when it said social workers could refuse to testify about what their psychotherapy patients tell them. “We say that (ruling) tracks with the reporter-source relationship,” Abrams said in an interview. He is supported on this point by a friend-of-the-court brief from 23 major news organizations, including the Washington Post. “In the particular situations that these journalists found themselves, there was no option consistent with protecting their journalistic integrity but to fight back as hard as they could,” Abrams said. Some say the press’s position in the Plame case would be stronger if not for the fact that it started with a government leak allegedly calculated to get even with an in-house critic, Wilson— not with a leak from an in-house critic intended to expose government wrongdoing. “This is not to say that the sources should be revealed,” said David Rudenstine, dean of the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. “But here the sources that are at stake represent the government using its power to punish the leaker. ... It’s quite different from the Watergate model.” Abrams, however, argues reporters should have the right to protect sources no matter what

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for example. “I think at the more sophisticated high schools they’ve got consultants telling them to take the new test,” he said. Brown does not currently require applicants to submit a SAT II Writing test score, but 95 percent of applicants in the past have chosen to submit one, Goldberger said. The University is not changing its policy on SAT IIs, but it is possible admission officers might see a decrease in SAT II Writing scores with the New SAT, which requires students to write an essay. Earlier this year, the University sent out information about Brown’s policy on the new SAT to all high schools that had sent applications within the last five years — about 8,000 schools out of 14,000 in the country. Herald senior staff writer Kira Lesley ’07 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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Italy sees political changes as new leadership emerges on right ROME (Los Angeles Times) — The political cartoonists were having a field day. President Bush had just named the first black woman to become secretary of State. And for Italy’s equivalent of the post, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi named the first “black shirt.” Gianfranco Fini, who last week made his debut as Italian foreign

minister at two international conferences, is a former neo-fascist whose political party, the National Alliance, was formed as an heir to the fascists of Benito Mussolini — the Black Shirts, so named because of their uniforms. But, as his appointment as Italy’s top diplomat suggests, Fini has worked hard in recent years to move his party to the mainstream

and shed his own extremist views. A decade ago, he proclaimed Mussolini the greatest statesman of the 20th century. In 2002, Fini recanted the comment, and last year he made a much-photographed trip to Israel and condemned the “absolute evil” of fascism. “We have to condemn the shameful chapters in the history

Abbas calls Palestinian state in 2005 realistic CAIRO, Egypt (Los Angeles Times) —

Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate for the Palestinian Authority presidency, said Sunday that Palestinians wanted to begin negotiating final statehood terms with Israel as soon as possible and hoped to reach an accord by the end of next year. Abbas told reporters after meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo that Palestinians would not accept a temporary solution. “Even a state with interim borders is a waste of time,” he said. Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, said that the creation of a Palestinian state in 2005, as envisioned under the U.S.backed peace plan known as the “road map,” was a realistic goal. “We’re only 13 months away (from the end of 2005), so that’s enough time to negotiate and put an end to this problem,” Abbas said in statements carried on Palestinian television and other Arab media. Israel — which in the wake of former Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat’s recent death has been careful not to make any public statements undermining Abbas, who is considered a moderate — responded cautiously, noting that the “road map” calls for the creation of an interim Palestinian state before a final settlement. “We are committed to the road map, and the road map is both incremental and transi-

Leak continued from page 7 kind of leak they publish. “If Novak were before the court, too, there couldn’t be a different result for him,” Abrams said. But Novak is not before the court, and a key question in the case is why he is not, because he presumably knows the identities of the original leakers. Neither he nor Fitzgerald has been willing to say whether Novak has even been subpoenaed or, if so, whether he has cooperated. One intriguing possibility, noted by several lawyers familiar with the case, is that Novak may have invoked his Fifth Amendment right against selfincrimination, and Fitzgerald has not yet chosen to give him immunity from prosecution to compel his testimony. Both Fitzgerald and James Hamilton, Novak’s attorney, declined to comment for this article. Hamilton said Novak “will not comment.” Since 1982, it has been a federal crime for anyone who has official access to the name of a

tional,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said. Palestinian officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Abbas’ statements did not necessarily constitute a challenge to the terms of the peace blueprint proposed by the Bush administration, the European Community, Russia and the United Nations. The plan languished during the last year of Arafat’s life, amid recriminations by Israel and the Palestinians. Neither side took significant steps to implement its provisions. Abbas, who was accompanied on his Cairo visit by senior Palestinian officials including Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia, said that Palestinians were committed to establishing a “real democracy,” with Jan. 9 elections for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority viewed as a crucial first step. Egypt is expected to play an important role in coming months if Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon moves ahead with his initiative to uproot Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. Sharon had at first intended to implement the pullout without consultations with the Palestinians, but in the wake of Arafat’s death has signaled willingness to coordinate the planned withdrawal with the new Palestinian government. Regev said Sharon was willing to meet with Abbas any time, but he suggested that such an encounter would likely wait until

covert intelligence operative to disclose that name. The offense is punishable by up to 10 years in prison—but notoriously hard to prove beyond a reasonable doubt and rarely prosecuted. The Plame leak struck columnists and editorialists as egregious not only because it might have been illegal, but also because of Wilson’s assertion that his wife’s career was destroyed—and national security was damaged—for political motives. Novak’s column came out July 14, 2003, eight days after Wilson published an oped article in the New York Times decrying the administration’s alleged manipulation of intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen called the leak “Nixonian in its malevolence.” The New York Times editorial page called for an independent counsel to investigate, arguing that Attorney General John Ashcroft was too close to the White House. Ashcroft ultimately acceded, and Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago, took over the case. He is not only trying to determine who leaked to

after the Palestinian elections. “It’s understood that during the process of internal Palestinian elections, it’s not necessarily in a Palestinian politician’s interest to express moderation,” he said. “We’ll let them take the lead on this.” Abbas was quoted as saying in Cairo that Palestinian officials intended to push ahead with a streamlining of the fragmented Palestinian security forces — a measure resisted by Arafat, who often played one branch of the security establishment against another and sought to ensure commanders’ personal loyalty to him. “We want only one legally armed Palestinian force,” Israel Radio quoted Abbas as saying in Cairo. Such reform of the Palestinian security forces — some of whom operate as armed factions — has long been sought by Israel. “That would be positive, from the viewpoint of Israel and the international community,” Regev said. Mubarak offered security assistance for the upcoming Palestinian elections, said presidential spokesman Maged Abdel Fattah. “Egypt is interested in supporting the election process being carried out peacefully,” he said. In addition to the Jan. 9 presidential elections, Palestinians intend to hold municipal council balloting on Dec. 23 and parliamentary elections in May.

Novak. As his investigation has proceeded, he has learned of conversations between administration officials and other reporters, and is trying to figure out if any of these might have resulted in an illegal leak as well. In addition to Cooper and Miller, he has subpoenaed Walter Pincus of The Post and Tim Russert of NBC News. He also approached Post reporter Glenn Kessler. But all negotiated agreements with the prosecutor that enabled them to answer questions without revealing confidential sources. Cooper, too, initially negotiated a deal to testify about his contacts with I. Lewis Libby, an aide to Vice President Dick Cheney; but, after that, Fitzgerald asked for additional testimony, apparently based on new information he had developed about Cooper’s contacts. Fitzgerald wants Miller to testify about her talks with Libby, even though she never wrote a story about Plame. Libby has signed a letter saying he waives his anonymity, but Miller still refuses to talk. Her position is that no such waiver under pressure from a prosecutor can ever be voluntary.

of our people and to try to understand why complacency, collaboration and fear caused no reaction from many Italians in 1938 to the disgraceful, fascist race laws,” he said after donning a yarmulke and lighting the eternal flame at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. Fini’s transformation is part of his steady march to what he hopes will be a seat at the head of government, possibly succeeding Berlusconi as prime minister. A dapper dresser with a professorial mien, Fini serves as deputy prime minister, a post he will retain. “What he says and what he does show that he doesn’t have a black shirt under his doublebreasted suit,” said James Walston, a specialist in Italian politics at the American University in Rome. Fini received support from one unlikely quarter: Israel, where his apology for the fascist past apparently resonated. An Israeli newspaper credited Fini with Italy’s increasingly pro-Israel policies and praised him as the friendliest foreign minister Israel could hope to find in Europe. The National Alliance, which succeeded the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, is Berlusconi’s largest partner in a coalition government that has stayed in office since 2001, longer than any Italian administration since World War II. Besides renaming the party the National Alliance, Fini also managed to double its support in national elections. Berlusconi rewarded Fini for

coalition loyalty by naming him to the Foreign Ministry post, seen as a bid by the prime minister to elicit the National Alliance’s support in a bruising battle to cut taxes. Berlusconi won elections in May 2001 by promising drastically reduced taxes, but he has met with wide opposition in Parliament from those who don’t believe Italy can afford the nearly $8 billion in cuts. Efforts by Fini to appear more mainstream have been helped by the government’s shift to the right. Berlusconi has been a supporter of the Bush administration and its war in Iraq, contrary to Italian public opinion, and has pointed Rome toward Washington, D.C., and away from its traditional European allies. The prime minister also shifted Italian support more to Israel and away from the Palestinians, a departure from previous Italian and European stances. Fini eagerly embraces all of these positions. He was among the few European ministers to denounce Yasser Arafat after the Palestinian leader’s death and has defended the West Bank wall that Israel is building to separate itself from Palestinian areas. Walston and other analysts note that Fini can retain a number of neo-fascist social policies, such as measures to assure job security, that appeal to his base. And other conservative policies that he advocates — such as a tough law that restricts immigration — are part of a movement gaining acceptance in much of Europe.

Cop shoots gunman dead at rave party LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles Times) —

In the latest in a string of violent outbreaks at illegal rave-style parties, a teenager opened fire on a crowd of partygoers late Saturday night, wounding three partygoers and a police officer before the officer shot him dead, Los Angeles Police Department officials said Sunday. Jeremy Andre Cervantes, 19, of Los Angeles had shot and injured three people before he was confronted by the policeman, Mario Cardona, 30, one of about a dozen officers trying to shut down the party, police said. Cardona, a seven-year LAPD veteran, was in stable condition Sunday. Two of the injured partygoers, whose names were not released, were hospitalized in critical condition; the condition of the third was less severe. The shots sent dozens of partygoers, many of them underage, rushing out of the cramped, tiny pool hall where as many as 200 had gathered for hours of dancing, with DJs, drinking and drug use, police said. Police detained and questioned about 100 partygoers at the scene but made no arrests as of Sunday night. In recent weeks, such violence has prompted police and Los Angeles school officials to crack down on the unsupervised “flier” parties, often promoted on middle school and high school campuses with slick, lurid handbills promising sex, illicit drugs and ample alcohol. Saturday’s fatal shooting was the fifth connected with the ille-

gal parties this year in the 77th Street Division and the second at the same building. At a press conference, Assistant Police Chief Jim McDonnell called for greater responsibility from parents, building owners and party planners. “You just wonder where the parents are when they allow their kids to go to these parties,” McDonnell said. “(The promoters) put out these fliers, they jam-pack these kids in there ... then pretty much anything, and everything, goes on.” Word of the parties usually starts on campus, where the glossy fliers, sometimes adorned with pictures of half-naked women, DJs and dancers, spread from hand-to-hand. Each glossy handbill usually lists several phone numbers. During the day, each hot line has a message from a different party promoter pumping up an event: “lots of alcohol” or “a huge dance floor” or “an indoor location.” Promoters tell callers to try back within a small window of time, usually just hours before the beginning of the event, for directions. Some hot lines, police say, only offer Web sites with directions, or lead teens to a person who gives them a map to the party. On one of the hot lines Sunday, the recorded voice of a shaken party promoter called for “peace in the underground.” But in the expletive-laden recording, he also called on partygoers to help make “the scene” even bigger.

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Marijuana continued from page 5 laws should not apply if the drug was not sold, transported across state lines or used for nonmedicinal reasons. The federal government appealed. In papers filed with the Supreme Court, Acting Solicitor General Paul D. Clement argued that carving out a loophole for medical marijuana in drug policy enforcement “undermines Congress’ intent to regulate the drug market to protect public health and safety.” “Marijuana that is grown, distributed and then possessed for personal `medical’ consumption can also, at any step, be sold or distributed for others,” he said. How the Supreme Court rules in Ashcroft v. Raich could have broad implications for the future of the medical use of marijuana. Ten years ago, California was the first state to allow sick patients to medicate themselves with marijuana. Eleven other states now have similar laws — including Montana, where voters adopted a medical marijuana law by a wide margin in this month’s elections as they also voted to re-elect President Bush and ban gay marriage. Voters in two cities — Ann Arbor, Mich., and Columbia, Mo. — also adopted medical marijuana provisions this month. In Ann Arbor, the measure was called into question almost immediately after the city attorney said that state and federal laws banning all marijuana use would continue to control. A similar clash between local and federal control is at the core of the case before the Supreme Court. And that is where Alabama enters the debate, firmly on the side of local control. “Whether California and the other compassionate-use states are `courageous’ — or instead profoundly misguided — is not the point,” Alabama Attorney General Troy King wrote in his friend of the court brief, which was joined by attorneys general from two other southern states, Louisiana and Mississippi. “While (the three) states may not see eye to eye with some of their neighbors concerning the wisdom of decriminalizing marijuana possession and use in certain instances, they support their neighbors’ prerogative in our federalist system to serve as `laboratories for experimentation,”’ King said in his brief, quoting a leading Supreme Court decision from 1995 on states’ rights. Randy Barnett, a Boston University law professor and former Cook County, Ill., prosecutor, will argue Raich’s case before the court on Monday. In an interview, he acknowledged the unlikely bedfellows of conservative states like Alabama and left-leaning pro-marijuana groups also backing his side. “This case stands for the proposition that federalism is not just for conservatives,” Barnett said. “It shows the principled nature of the claim we’re making.” The Supreme Court in recent years has challenged the federal government’s centralized authority in a number of significant cases by striking down congressional acts it views as intruding on what should be the realm of the states. In the 1995 case cited in Alabama’s filing, the court

rejected a federal law that prohibited possessing a gun near a school because the crime had no effect on interstate commerce. In the court’s only previous ruling on medical marijuana three years ago, it said that federal drug laws outlawing marijuana make no exceptions for dispensing the drug for medical use and rejected the appeals of an Oakland, Calif., cannabis cooperative that the federal government had sued to shut down. But the court’s position may not be a hard line. Late last year, the justices refused to review a lower court decision that blocked federal authorities from revoking the licenses of doctors who advised patients that marijuana might help them. Angel Raich and Diane Monson brought their lawsuit against Attorney General John Ashcroft and the then-head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Asa Hutchinson, in the fall of 2002 after a strange, three-hour standoff at Monson’s home in Butte County, Calif., between federal agents and local authorities. It ended with DEA agents cutting down the six marijuana plants growing on Monson’s property over the objections of the local district attorney. Monson stood nearby, reading the text of the Compassionate Use Act, court filings show. “The federal government should be combating terrorism,” Robert Raich, who is Angel Raich’s husband and a medical marijuana activist, said. “That should be it’s priority. It doesn’t need to be going after sick and dying patients.” The lawsuit initially failed in U.S. District Court, but the federal appeals court late last year sided with Raich and Monson. The appeals court decision said the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which regulates interstate trade, should not apply to marijuana that is grown and possessed legally within a single state.

Iraq continued from page 5 are bad guys,” he said. “They don’t care who they kill.” In an office in Latifiyah that used to belong to the city’s police chief, Ishmael Jubouri contended that the insurgents in Babil cared deeply about what they were doing. Jubouri, a member of a prominent Sunni tribe from an area south of Baghdad, is the leader of the Islamic Army in Iraq, one of the armed groups that the Americans and their allies are trying to defeat. The walls of his office are adorned with portraits of rebels killed in fights with U.S. forces, and banners hung around the former police station call for a holy war against the Americans. Jubouri said the Islamic Army, which has kidnapped and executed Iraqi security troops, had thousands of fighters trying to force foreign troops out of the country. “The members of the army believe in the language of weapons,” he said. The Islamic Army, he said, sent a contingent of its fighters to Fallujah but withdrew them about a week ago as U.S.

Bush is urged to break intelligence, security deadlock WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) —

The chairman of the Sept. 11 commission urged Sunday that President Bush intervene to break the congressional deadlock over the panel’s intelligence and domestic security recommendations, warning that failure to pass the plan soon would risk American lives. “He should call in whoever he thinks is necessary and do whatever he can to get this bill through,” said former New Jersey Gov. Thomas H. Kean, a Republican who headed the commission created by Congress to investigate the events leading up to the terrorist attacks in 2001. “This bill will pass. The question is whether it will pass now or after a second attack.” The measure — a carefully crafted compromise between radically different versions of bills passed in October by the House and the Senate — has the support of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney as well as the House and Senate leadership. But on Nov. 20, House Republican leaders refused to bring the compromise up for a vote after some powerful conservative committee chairmen raised strong objections to specific provisions. Kean, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” said that unless the stalemate could be resolved during a lame-duck session of Congress next month, it would be at least six months before the new Congress, to be sworn in in January, would be ready to reconsider the intelligence overhaul that would bring all 15 U.S. intelligence agencies under the control of a new national intelligence director. “I don’t think we can wait that long,” Kean said. In response, White House spokeswoman Pamela Stevens

and Iraqi forces re-established control of the city. “Fallujah was a mistake because it is not possible to fight in a city,” he said. “We want to open more than one front in the same time to disrupt the U.S. forces and defeat them at once. The Latifiyah battle will be more successful than Fallujah because we learn from the mistakes done by our brothers there.” Jubouri said there were few foreigners among the Islamic Army fighters. “The Americans think that everyone who fights is foreign,” he said. “In fact, everyone who fights is an Iraqi. We have Kurds, Arabs, Shiites and Sunnis.” Intelligence gathered by the Americans appeared to be consistent with Jubouri’s claims. Military officials here said they have seen an influx of fighters and weapons since the Fallujah offensive. Maj. Clint Nussberger, the intelligence officer for the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said many of the insurgents were locals who went to Fallujah to fight and then came back. He estimated that between 200 and 500 such fighters returned to the area “with more skills than when they left.”

noted Sunday that “the president has made it clear that he wants to get this legislation passed as quickly as possible and he is going to continue working closely with Congress to make this happen.” She added that “we will have more to say in the days ahead,” but she declined to provide specifics. The two influential House members who spearheaded opposition to the legislation after a House-Senate conference committee had hammered out the compromise reiterated their objections on the Sunday-morning talk shows. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the bill could jeopardize the safety of U.S. troops in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan by denying them timely intelligence about enemy positions from spy satellites. This could mean the difference between “life and death to our people in the field,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.” The measure would compel the Pentagon, which controls about 80 percent of the nation’s $40 billion intelligence budget, to shift much of that authority to a new national intelligence director. Hunter has expressed concerns that under the compromise bill, the chain of command between the intelligence agencies and military personnel on the ground would be ambiguous. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, co-sponsor of the Senate bill, rejected Hunter’s contention, arguing that “battlefield intelligence and joint military intelligence would remain under the control of the Pentagon.” At the same time, she said, the troops — as well as the public at large — would be better protected by

Johnson said the U.S.-led force would take a methodical approach to wiping out the insurgency in north Babil. Last month, a platoon of Marines and Iraqi National Guardsmen established a new police station in a government building on the southern edge of Latifiyah. Although they acknowledged that they did not control the town, U.S. military officials said they would ultimately take it back from the insurgents. “I could take Latifiyah in an afternoon, but why am I going to kill innocent civilians?” Johnson said. Many people in the town said they already feel like they are under attack. The city has no water or electricity, said residents, some of whom described the outages as a form of punishment by the Americans. Insurgents, their faces covered with scarves and masks, had set up numerous checkpoints around the city where they questioned drivers about their background, religion and destination. Schools and official buildings were closed last week, and witnesses said there were no signs of police or Iraqi National Guardsmen in the city.

improved coordination and analysis of intelligence. Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said his opposition stemmed from the compromise legislation’s omission of provisions he had sought, including one that would establish federal standards for drivers’ licenses to prevent them from being issued to illegal immigrants. “What good is reorganizing intelligence if we don’t have homeland security?” Sensenbrenner said on ABC’s “This Week.” The Sept. 11 commission’s vice chairman, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., called this a valid concern, but said it should be addressed in a separate bill rather than hanging up hundreds of provisions in the intelligence legislation — including assistance for police and firefighters and improvements in border and aviation security. Kean said he expected Bush to prevent the measure from being scuttled. “When he says he’s for something, he’s been for it, he’s fought for it, and he’s gotten it passed,” the former governor said. “And my belief is, and my hope is, that he will do the same thing with this bill.” Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a supporter of the compromise bill, agreed that Bush needed to persuade recalcitrant House Republicans to back the measure. And, despite the Pentagon’s concerns about losing authority over intelligence, Roberts said on CNN’s “Late Edition” that the administration must “speak with one voice.” House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., has been criticized for failing to bring to a vote a measure backed by Senate Republicans and, with substantial Democratic support, a majority of House members. Hastert had urged his GOP colleagues to support the bill. His press secretary, John Feehery, noted Sunday that the speaker had held out the possibility of a vote when the lawmakers returned to Washington on Dec. 6. But he said this would depend on a change in positions. “Right now,” Feehery said, “it’s hard to say if anything’s changed.”

M. xc continued from page 12 the season, Gregorek noted it was still a strong performance. “He really went after it and came close to the goal,” Gregorek said. “He was aggressive and only two seconds behind Jeff at the halfway mark. Even though he was a little short of All-American, it doesn’t change that he had a great race and a great season.” The NCAA Championships marked the end of the 2004 cross country season and closed both Gaudette’s and Tarpy’s careers. The two will now switch gears and head into the indoor track season, which will open on Saturday with the Alden Invitational at the OlneyMargolies Athletic Center.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

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Internal filter We’re hard-pressed to think of anyone who likes spam — particularly the kind that comes to e-mail inboxes. The mass e-mails sent by University departments aren’t as bad as fraudulent credit-card offers or advertisements for sexual enhancement miracle pills, but many of them are just as useless. While some of the University’s mass e-mails do pertain to the entire Brown community, such as those addressing campus climate issues, informing us of crime or announcing donations, much of the e-mail cluttering our inboxes on a daily basis does not pertain to most individual students. A University administrator told The Herald that Morning Mail has decreased the number of announcements made via e-mail by compiling all messages into a single e-mail sent every day. However, members of the University community weren’t receiving individual e-mails about all of those events before Morning Mail began last spring. With Morning Mail, announcements that were once sent to a more specific group — one to whom the contents of the message might be particularly relevant — are now being sent to the entire University population. Likewise, the Career Development Center’s enthusiastic messages are sometimes useful, but not when they advertise jobs for which only a small subset of the student body is qualified. Events tailored to a niche audience do not need to be distributed to everyone. It’s not just that we don’t like having our inboxes fill with announcements of jobs we can’t apply for and academic discussions we can’t participate in. When students think of University-sponsored e-mails as spam, they start ignoring them, making it more likely that they’ll miss important messages, such as the one sent last week announcing that the heat in campus buildings would be shut off. There are other avenues to publicize events on campus, including an online events calendar, table-slips and posters. Blanketing the entire student body with often-irrelevant isn’t a good way to get a message out; it’s a good way to teach students how to set their junk mail filter. Student groups target their e-mail announcements to students who have expressed interest by signing up on a list; we should be able to do the same for University announcements. Security alerts and other urgent announcements should still be sent to everyone, but to ensure that these important messages aren’t deleted unread, the University should allow community members to opt out of receiving other mass e-mails.

SHANE WILKERSON

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OPINIONS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 11

NATE GORALNIK

The end of the strong dollar If we take the long view of history the much-discussed $600 billion U.S. current-account deficit should come as no surprise. Some things never change, and one of those is the perennial American desire to live beyond our means — and make someone else pay the bill. In 1626, Dutch colonists swindled the island of Manhattan out of a local Indian tribe for a paltry sum of 60 guilders. In 1862, the government was selling homesteaders 160-acre parcels of land, cleared of its native occupants, for just $18 each. From slavery to Nike sweatshops, the American Dream has been someone else’s burden. So forget everything you’ve heard about Wal-Mart and unfair Chinese competition. The deficit is a statement about the American lifestyle: We’re buying more than we can actually pay for. The proof is in the numbers. To maintain our spending habits, we borrow a whopping $2 billion from abroad — every single day. Bit by multi-billion dollar bit, it adds up: Foreigners now hold over $7 trillion in U.S. debt. According to September’s figures, instead of saving up money to pay them back, we’re blowing 99.8 percent of our income on the biggest spending spree in recorded history. Under normal circumstances, the market would punish us for our excessive borrowing. We’d start having to pay higher and higher interest rates on its debt, if not because lenders don’t trust us to repay them, then because their simply isn’t enough capital out there to satisfy our voracious appetite for it. Instead of spiraling upward, however, American lending rates have plunged to historic lows. Adjusted for inflation, interest rates on many loans remain close to 0 percent, meaning our profligate borrowing habits cost us virtually nothing. It also means the foreigners who lend us money aren’t making a good return, yet they keep on lending anyway. Who is this foreign fairy godmother that is underwriting the U.S. consumption binge? You can look towards Asia’s central bankers, who have bought up hundreds of billions of dollars in American bonds, leaving Americans awash in cheap money. Thanks to insufficient domestic demand, Asian

economies are highly dependent on U.S. export markets, and a strong dollar is necessary to keep their goods cheap for American consumers. The recent weakness of the dollar against the euro, for example, has sent economic growth in Europe screeching to a virtual halt — a fate that Asian central bankers are bent on avoiding. Japan, in particular, has only just begun exporting its way out of a decade-long deflationary spiral, and without strong American demand for its products, its fragile recovery could end overnight. Hence, to maintain a strong dollar, Asia’s central banks have purchased U.S. debt at a feverish pace, and, crucially, at bargain exchange rates. The Bank of Japan,

The perils of borrowing from abroad. for example, has purchased more dollars than any other central bank in history. This lending frenzy has allowed Americans to live magnificently — and unsustainably — beyond their means. Current demand for dollars, economists agree, is untenable, supported only by the intervention of Asian monetary authorities. And even that won’t last forever. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, in a moment of brutal clarity, recently remarked, “Given the size of the current-account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some point.” Peter Schiff, the head of Euro Pacific Capital, told the San Diego Union-Tribune, “I can’t tell anybody to make a long-term investment in the U.S. dollar, in the same way I tried to keep my clients out of dot-com investments in the late 1990s. It’s even more important to get out of the dollar now than it was to get out of Nasdaq in 1999.” The numbers indicate that the market is getting the message: The private sector is increasingly reluctant to

finance American borrowing, and futures prices forecast a significant depreciation of the dollar against the price of gold in coming months. Meanwhile, the dollar has slid dramatically against the euro. The question, as the dollar drifts downward, is how many economies it will take with it. Unfortunately, the coffers of Asia’s central banks, which are now replete with $2 trillion of U.S. debt, and the international financial system, are exposed to great risk. For example, if the dollar falls moderately against the Singapore dollar, Singapore would suffer a capital loss equal to 10 percent of its gross domestic product. For a country like China, whose banking system is already burdened by hundreds of billions of dollars of bad loans, losses of that magnitude could set off a financial crisis. Asian governments could continue to prop up the dollar by purchasing even more U.S. debt, but accumulating additional dollars exposes them to even greater losses down the road, when the house of cards finally collapses. The longer the game goes on, the riskier it gets. On Friday, China indicated that it might be the first to cut its losses and start unl oading its dollar reserves. Americans, meanwhile, have become increasingly sensitive to changes in interest rates as they continue to accumulate near-record levels of debt. So what happens when Asia’s central banks, seeking to make the best of a bad situation, finally jump ship? As foreign lending dries up, we would face a dramatic and unexpected rise in interest rates. Business investment and consumer demand would evaporate as higher borrowing costs squeeze budgets. The United States and Japan, both heavily dependent on U.S. consumers, could slide back into recession, bringing the world economy with them. The Eurozone is already on the brink. Many economists are optimistic that the dollar will make a “soft landing” that gives banks and households time to adjust, but one thing is certain: As interest rates rise, the United States will have to significantly moderate its addiction to borrowing. That’s a lesson that Washington would be wise to learn, and soon. Nate Goralnik ’06 is a suburban tease.

The wild, the innocent and the Auburn Hills scuffle GUEST COLUMN BY JASON NG

By now every person on Earth has seen the video of last Friday’s brawl at Auburn Hills arena, the worst case of fan-player violence at an American sporting event. The image of one of basketball’s “bad guys,” the Detroit Pistons’ Ron Artest, mentally destabilizing before our eyes after being belted with a cup of beer was simply surreal. The idiom “he just snapped” was invented for these kinds of moments. I hope the image of Detroit further establishing itself as one of the top three places in America you don’t want to be caught dead in at night, doesn’t haunt those of you fortunate enough to call D-town home. All sports fans are just a little bit more ashamed of themselves after watching the way fellow fans physically assaulted and demeaned the very people we sometimes live for. It is truly a day of mourning for American sports. Now why does a fight that spawned no major injuries have such vast cultural implications? Brawls have happened before in the NBA as well as in many other pro sports including baseball and hockey (a sport that condones and even celebrates fisticuffs), but this one will produce fundamental changes to the way the NBA is marketed as well. Some pundits are blaming the brawl on hip-hop nation’s cultural values. When a pitcher intentionally hits a batter, sportswriters shrug it off as a problem between individuals. Yet the increased violence in basketball is supposedly due to basketball’s infatuation with building a type of rugged, street credibility and thus embracing hip-hop. Purists decry that not only are the NBA’s individuals flawed — the Philadelphia 76ers’

Allen Iverson is their favorite target — but also the entire set of values the sport embodies is at blame. Artest’s involvement in this fracas just adds to their argument. Not only is Artest the most suspended player in the league, but he’s also a rapper and R&B producer. For the remainder of the now-tarnished NBA season, the NBA will begin to disassociate itself from hip hop. Commercials might no longer feature acts like the Black Eyed Peas and halftime shows will promote safer artists. And just as the NFL shut down the ESPN television

Reassessing the Pacers-Pistons brawl. series “Playmakers” because it was bad marketing for the NFL, the NBA has the weight to end programs like the AND 1 street ball tours which are wildly successful among urban, hip-hop influenced youth. Of course, doing any of this would be incredibly foolish because, more than any other sport, the NBA draws its cultural weight from hip-hop culture. It remains cutting edge because hip hop has embraced it. If the NBA breaks the relationship, don’t be surprised if the youth of America suddenly realize that the NBA’s over-regulat-

ed game is a morass of slow-moving, foul-plagued intervals of poor shooting. Hip-hop culture is not to blame. The fan behavior the league has allowed to fester in its buildings is the major reason for Friday’s incident. Though one beer-lobbing idiot might have physically incited the brawl, it was the entire stadium that pushed Artest to the edge by taunting him throughout, and it was the hundreds of fans that stuck around who jumped into scrums and pelted the Pacers as they left the court. The little push-andshove match between the players was basically over before a fan went and roused the Zen-like Artest, who was lounging on the scorer’s table (which, to be fair, could be construed as either absolute calm or the ultimate insult). If that beer never finds Artest, we would be celebrating his restraint rather than punishing him with the stiffest NBA suspension ever. Yes, this was the worst thing to happen to the NBA. It may not have been a Kennedy assassination or a 9/11 in terms of TV shock value, but for the NBA and David Stern, it may as well have been. Like W, Stern has gone ahead and overreacted to a perceived threat to his institution, attacking violence in his sport by scapegoating Artest. Artest is culpable for the end result, but without Wallace, there is no situation, and without the situation, there is no beer thrower, and without the beer thrower, you do not have Psycho Artest. Jason Ng ’06 is an editor at Post-.

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SPORTS MONDAY NOVEMBER 29, 2004 · PAGE 12

Gaudette ’05 repeats as All-American, Tarpy ’05 also finishes strong at NCAA Nationals BY JILANE RODGERS

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The cross country season finally came to an end for Patrick Tarpy ’05 (left) and Jeff Gaudette ’05 on Monday, when the two ran at the NCAA Nationals in Terre Haute, Ind.

Last Monday, two members of the men’s cross country team represented Brown in Terre Haute, Ind., at the NCAA National Championships. It was a return trip for Jeff Gaudette ’05 and a first-time experience for captain Patrick Tarpy ’05. Gaudette earned All-American honors in 2003 and repeated the feat this year. He finished 29th in a field of 242 runners, crossing the finish line with a time of 31:40.2 for the 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) course. The top 30 finishers in the race who are U.S. citizens are named AllAmericans, meaning the actual cut-off for the honor changes each year. “It’s quite an accomplishment to be AllAmerican twice,” said coach John Gregorek. “Not many collegiate athletes do that at any school. He was so focused the whole season. He ran with confidence in tough conditions, put his head down and never gave up.” Those tough conditions made the Monday race less than ideal for most competitors. Rain had flooded the course in the days before the meet, and the racers dealt with thick mud and standing water up to three inches deep. The patches of long grass and rain-soaked mud resulted in not only slow times, but also a more difficult race. But Gaudette relished the chance to compete on a challenging course. “You just had to know going in that it

W. ice hockey team easily handles Northeastern, wins back Mayor’s Cup BY HELEN LURYI

The women’s ice hockey team came out of Thanksgiving week with home wins over Northeastern University and Providence College. Krissy McManus ’05 and Myria Heinhuis ’06 each had two goals in a 6-1 blowout over Northeastern on Tuesday night. On Saturday, the Bears held off cross-town rival Providence to take back the Mayor’s Cup in a 2-1 victory. Head Coach Digit Murphy was pleased with the results, especially with the contributions of McManus and Heinhuis. The two are tied for the team lead in goals, with five each for the season. This is somewhat more surprising in the case of Heinhuis, a defenseman. “She’s starting to step up her defensive game, which turns into a little more offense for us,” Murphy said. “Also, her shot from the point has been a big help this season.” Heinhuis got the Bears on the board early against Northeastern with a goal at 1:23 of the first period. McManus then scored the first of her two goals and recorded an assist on a goal by Kerry Nugent ’05, giving Bruno a 3-0 lead heading into the locker room. In the second period, Heinhuis added a second goal, which was answered in the last minute by Husky Nikki Petrich. But McManus and Lindsey Glennon ’06 sealed the victory in the third with two more goals. Brown goaltender MariePier Desbiens ’07 made 15 saves, 10 of

which came in the first period. The Providence game saw the return to play of Jessica Link ’05 and Ashlee Drover ’06, both of whom had been out with injuries for three weeks. Murphy made a few rearrangements to fit the two veterans back into the lineup, and the results were good. “Link is one of those players who has the puck all the time, which means she’s keeping it away from the other team,” Murphy said. “And Drover is one of the best defensemen in the ECAC.” Drover’s contribution was visible immediately. Just over a minute into the game, her shot from the point was tipped into the net by Hayley Moore ’08 to put Brown up early again. The goal was Moore’s first in a Brown uniform. The Friars soon retaliated with a shot from Sonny Watrous that got past goalie Stacy Silverman ’08. There was no more scoring until the very end of the second period, when Moore and Katie Guay ’05 assisted on Nugent’s game-winning goal. “That goal was more exciting than mine,” Moore said of Nugent’s score. “Everyone was so pumped up for the Providence game,” Moore said. “We’ve really been coming together as a team.” Murphy credits the leadership of cocaptain Guay and Keaton Zucker ’06 in the team’s recent successes. “Both of them have been playing out of position — they’re wings playing in the center position, which is hard to do on our team,” she said. The efforts of Guay and

would be muddy and prepare for it,” Gaudette said. “I was pretty excited because I know a race in conditions like that makes it tough. It also makes the course slow and diminishes the speed of the milers. You have to rely on strength, and I know I’m a strength runner.” Under the guidance of Gregorek, Gaudette went into the meet knowing that he would have to be patient early in the race. Gaudette said Gregorek’s strategy included staying with the second chase pack and then gradually moving up after the 5-kilometer mark. “Our goal all along was for him to be top-25 this year,” Gregorek said. “We took a look at the course conditions before the race and decided to be a bit conservative. He was about 40th place through the mile, but he ran with confidence and moved up.” A key part of the plan was to pass as many men as possible in the last two miles of the race. While Gaudette had successfully followed this strategy at last year’s Nationals, the gaps between runners were greater this year. He still managed to overtake about 15 runners in the last two kilometers. Gaudette finished only three places behind last year’s runner-up, Ryan Hall of Stanford, and improved his finish nine places from the 2003 meet. “Last year was more surreal since it was my first time,” Gaudette said. “I had no idea what was going on or what to prepare for. This year I felt more prepared and that it was business as usual.” While experience may be a factor in the meet, Tarpy ran aggressively in his first appearance, Gregorek said. Tarpy himself labeled the experience as bittersweet. “It was a goal to run at the NCAAs, so I’m glad I made it there, but it was also a goal to get All-American,” Tarpy said. “I didn’t have my best day and I fell short, which is a disappointment.” Tarpy finished in 68th place with a time of 32:15.3. While it may not have been the finish he and Gregorek had anticipated to

see M. XC, page 9 B ROW N S P O RTS S CO R E B OA R D Monday, November 22 Men’s Cross Country: NCAA Nationals — Jeff Gaudette ’05 (29th place — All-American), Patrick Tarpy ’05 (68th place) Tuesday, November 23

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Myria Heinhuis ’06 scored two goals in the women’s ice hockey team’s 6-1 victory over Northeastern.The defender is tied for the team lead with five goals after scoring one in two seasons. Zucker helped Brown win back the Mayor’s Cup, which Providence has held since beating the Bears in last year’s match-up. The Bears will be in Schenectady, N.Y., next weekend, where they will play two games against Union College. Afterwards, the team will have a month off, resuming play in January.

Football: Ivy League Rookie of the Year — K/P Steve Morgan ’08; All-Ivy First Team — OT Will Burroughs ’05, RB Nick Hartigan ’06, WR Jarrett Schreck ’06, LB Zak DeOssie ’07; All-Ivy Second Team — TE David Turner ’06, CB Jamie Gasparella ’06, OG Alex Jury ’06, DE James Frazier ’07, K Steve Morgan ’08; All-Ivy Honorable Mention — P Steve Morgan ’08 Men’s Basketball: Ivy League Rookie of the Week: Damon Huffman ’08 Women’s Basketball: Brown 64, Fairleigh Dickinson University 60 Women’s Ice Hockey: Brown 6, Northeastern University 1 Friday, November 26 Men’s Ice Hockey: Brown 4, Clarkson University 2 Men’s Squash: No. 2 Harvard 9, Brown 0 Saturday, November 27 Women’s Ice Hockey: Mayor’s Cup — Brown 2, Providence College 1 Women’s Basketball: Binghamton/Time Warner Classic First Round — Brown 66, Robert Morris University 56 Men’s Ice Hockey: Brown 4, St. Lawrence University 1 Sunday, November 28 Women’s Basketball: Binghamton/Time Warner Classic Championship — Brown 68, Binghamton University 50