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BuDS says changes are here to stay after positive student feedback

DPS chief will depart in December

BY MARY-CATHERINE LADER

tional theory and policy and learn how to create a lesson plan, before finally going to bed at 1 or 2 a.m.

According to Marshall, having difficult and violent summer-school students has made her school year experience much easier, because it taught her to be strict. People who have difficult training experiences often have better teaching experiences, Marshall said.

Marshall is just one of many recent graduates who chose to enter a program that provided a crash course in

For the second time in the past decade, Brown’s chief of police will resign and migrate to the Carolinas. Col. Paul Verrecchia, who has served as director of Public Safety since January 1997, recently accepted a position as chief of police at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

“I like the quality of living down there,” Verrecchia told The Herald. “My wife and I have traveled to the Carolinas and we just like it there.”

Verecchia will continue to serve at Brown until Dec. 31, when Capt. Emil Fioravanti will take over as interim chief.

The Department of Public Safety has already set up a search committee to find a replacement, with résumé reviews scheduled for December and interviews expected to begin in January.

When Verecchia served on the accreditation committee for the Medical University of South Carolina several years ago, he made the decision to eventually relocate. The chief of police position opened there last year, but Verrecchia decided not to apply for the job on account of the high level of DPS activity.

Verrecchia, a 21-year veteran of the Providence Police Department and lifetime Providence resident, succeeded former police chief Dennis Boucher, who left Brown to move to North Carolina.

When the position at the College of Charleston opened up last spring, Verrecchia said he quickly decided to apply.

“I want to eventually retire in South Carolina,” he said. “After discussing it with my wife, I decided that it was an opportunity that I didn’t want to let pass.”

However, Verrecchia, 55, does not intend to retire for at least another eight years. He said his new position will entail even more responsibilities than his job at

see TEACH, page 8

see DPS, page 8

From panini grills and street signs to meal credits and local produce, changes implemented by Dining Services this semester have received largely favorable student reviews, much to the satisfaction of BuDS staff members.

The new meal plan, introduced in September, initially created surging crowds at the Sharpe Refectory, and the introduction of local produce through the Sustainable Food Initiative challenged BuDS to reconsider traditional supply methods. But initial glitches were minimal and, according to BuDS Director Gretchen Willis, the changes will stay in place.

“I don’t plan to backtrack on any of them,” Willis said. “I think collectively they’ve made some positive changes for our customers, which is what our goal was.”

The amended meal plan allows students to use three meal credits a day at any time of their choosing rather than within meal zone times. Willis said 200 additional students are on meal plan this semester, a welcome increase after declining numbers in previous semesters. Still, some students are not fully aware of the way the plan works.

“When I go to the Gate and they ask if I want to use points or credit, I don’t really know what they mean,” said Nick Clifford ’08. “So sometimes I just starve.”

Regardless of how well it is understood, Willis said the late-night option of the new

BY AIDAN LEVY

Nick Neely / Herald

Esta’s, Thayer Street’s video rental store, bike store, and gift shop is closing in December. See story, page 3.

Brown grads step into the classroom — as first-time teachers, not students

BY ROBIN STEELE

see BUDS, page 4

ARTS & CULTURE

Production Workshop grants make student artists’ projects possible

On her first day as a high school social studies teacher at the Community School for Social Justice in the South Bronx, Rachel Marshall ’04 had a student curse at her. But that didn’t faze her — as a Teach for America trainee, Marshall had learned to assert authority in the classroom.

The previous summer, Marshall spent five intense weeks at a Teach For America training program. During an average day, she would wake up at 5 a.m., teach a range of subjects at summer school, attend classes in educa-

BY KIM STICKELS

How can the place of art change its meaning and significance? For artist Emily Pudalov ’05, place is an important consideration in her art, helping shed light on hidden meanings.

Pudalov performed her most recent performance piece, “grief,” on the Main Green earlier this month, with aid from a grant provided by Production Workshop.

Production Workshop, a student-run theater that provides support to students who want to produce art outside of “standard theater,” gave Pudalov about $75 to purchase supplies for “grief.” Each semester, PW allots $400 for grants to students.

Past grants have been used for such diverse functions as starting up a literary magazine, buying reels for a film, and publicizing performances. Projects that explore social and political issues are encouraged.

The program has been underused this semester, however. According to grant board member Maya Bruhns ’05, “We have not had many applications yet.”

see PW, page 6

Plan for Academic Enrichment revitalizes political science department with new faculty

BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

The Plan for Academic Enrichment has been a boon at 36 Prospect St. The tan, green-trimmed building across from Carrie Tower that houses the Department of Political Science has welcomed seven new faculty members since the plan was approved in 2002 — four as replacements and three as “incremental” additions provided by the plan.

With another new addition set to arrive next year, there will be a total of 21 faculty members formally associated with the department, up from 17 three academic years ago, according to Professor of Political Science Alan Zuckerman, the chair of the department.

“What we’ve been able to do is to replace all those who’ve retired and to

FACULTY EXPANSION THREE YEARS IN second in a five-part series add as well. ... For this department, the academic enrichment program has only had positives,” Zuckerman said.

The new faculty have revitalized the department, strengthened its reputation and increased its course offerings, according to Zuckerman and other political science faculty members.

For students, the change is primarily felt in the greater range of faculty expertise, producing new courses such as PS 182.42: “Women and Politics,” taught by Assistant Professor of Political Science Jennifer Lawless, and PS 121: “Latin American Politics,”

Sheila Dugan ’07 writes that the United States is not as divided as red and blue states may make it seem opinions, page 11

Alex Carnevale ’05 and Ari Savitzky ’06 square off about Kofi Annan and the oil-for-food program opinions, page 11

see POLI SCI, page 4

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I N S I D E T U E S D AY, N O V E M B E R 3 0 , 2 0 0 4 Thayer Street to lose gift shop, bike rental and video store — all when Esta’s closes in December metro, page 3

taught by Associate Professor of Political Science Richard Snyder. Both professors came to Brown last year.

According to Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller, the past several years’ growth has affected the entire department, including senior faculty.

“We’ve been infused with both energetic younger people and more energetic mid-level people,” Schiller said.

“When you’re around new people who are doing new things, you modernize.”

Schiller said the department has hired “the best people in political science” who have come out of graduate programs at, among others, Harvard, Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. She added that the department has been able to

After winning season, football places nine on All-Ivy teams, four on first team, including Will Burroughs ’05 sports, page 12

Women’s basketball improves to 3-1 after impressive defensive performance in tournament victory sports, page 12

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THIS MORNING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004 · PAGE 2 Five Stories Eddie Ahn

TO D AY ’ S E V E N TS FILM:“LIVING TRADITIONS: SANSKRIT AND RITUAL 4-5 p.m. (Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum) — A screening of “Living Traditions: Sanskrit and Ritual,” which explores community ritual practice and the continuation of the tradition.

“NOT MAKING THE GRADE: RHODE ISLAND’S WELFARE REFORM” 7-9 p.m. (MacMillan 117) — Jenifer Zeigler, policy analyst for the CATO Institute, will give a lecture and answer questions about welfare reform in Rhode Island and around the country.

READING: ERNESTO MESTRE-REED 8 p.m. (McCormack Family Theater, 70 Brown St.) — Cuban-American novelist Ernesto Mestre-Reed will give a reading.

WHAT NOW? PROTECTING WOMEN’S HEALTH IN A SECOND BUSH TERM 7-9 p.m. (Salomon 101) — A discussion concerning women’s health and reproductive rights in light of President Bush’s re-election.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Brown chapter of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, RI NOW and Planned Parenthood.

Hopeless Edwin Chang

MENU SHARPE REFECTORY LUNCH — Popcorn Chicken with Dipping Sauces, Red Rice, Corn and Sweet Pepper Sauté, Pancakes, French Toast, Tater Tots, Kielbasa, Hard Boiled Eggs, Magic Bars, Hot Fudge Pudding Cake, Grilled Chicken Sandwich.

DINNER — Orange Turkey, Au Gratin Potatoes with Fresh Herbs, Herbed Turnips, Fresh Vegetable Mélange, French Bread, Chocolate Pudding, Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting.

VERNEY-WOOLLEY DINING HALL LUNCH — Vegetarian Corn and Tomato Soup, Bean and Bacon Soup, Shaved Steak Sandwich, Linguini with Tomatoes and Basil, Sunny Sprouts, Magic Bars.

DINNER — Vegetarian Corn and Tomato Soup, Bean and Bacon Soup, Pot Roast Jardinière, Vegan Rice and Beans, Roasted Red Potatoes with Shallots, Oregon Blend Vegetables, Asparagus Cuts with Lemon, French Bread, Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting.

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METRO TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004 · PAGE 3

High rent, low sales force Esta’s to close its doors

BY JANE TANIMURA

When students come back from winter break, they’ll notice a vacant building on the corner of Thayer and Olive streets where Esta’s used to be. After 13 years in business, Esta’s — a tri-level store that includes a gift shop that specializes in holistic products, a video rental store and a bike retailer — will close its doors on Dec. 31.

Because of declining sales and higher rent over the past few years, Esta’s owner Kathleen Schleimer decided not to renew her lease, which will run out at the end of this year.

Five years ago, the store used to market over $500,000 a year, Schleimer said. Now, with the exception of the bike store, business has dropped by about 60 percent.

The video store and gift shop now take in only a few hundred dollars a day, she said.

“What used to be a lucrative business is almost nothing now,” she said.

The closing of Esta’s mirrors this year’s drop in sales for various independent stores on Thayer Street. In April, the record store In Your Ear shut down, and the College Hill Bookstore closed its doors this past summer.

Schleimer said the bookstore helped to draw in a lot of customers to Esta’s who now no longer come.

But she attributes most of the decline in business to competition with the Providence Place Mall. Because “parking is abysmal” on Thayer Street, Schleimer said customers would rather go to the mall, where they can do all their shopping at once, than have to park blocks away to get to her store.

Students, who used to constitute the bulk of Esta’s consumer base, are now shopping at the mall instead because transportation is easily accessible to them, Schleimer said.

“To have to give up because I’m defeated is really painful,” she said.

In May 2003, the Thayer Street Improvement District, a committee that includes the University, the city of Providence and Thayer Street property owners, was established with the goal to revitalize the street. Though the group has been working on security enhancements and cosmetic improvements for 18 months, Schleimer said she hasn’t noticed much of a difference.

“The street has gotten no help from the city. I don’t think they care,” she said.

Though she said the street does seem to be cleaner, she said the only cosmetic improvement the city has done for her store was the removal of a tree that was on her property.

Edward Bettencourt, who owns and manages the video store of Esta’s and is a Providence native, said the closing of Esta’s and other hallmark independent stores

see E S T A ’ S, page 6

IN BRIEF City eases parking rules for holiday season In an effort to encourage holiday shopping in Providence, Mayor David Cicilline ’83 has implemented the city’s Relaxed Parking Program for Thayer Street and several other commercial districts.

Motorists will not be ticketed for overtime violations during peak shopping hours at those locations, according to a statement from the mayor’s office.

The program applies to parking spaces that normally have time limitations and metered spaces, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday. It begins today and runs through Jan. 1.

“I want to make the holiday experience as exciting and stress-free as possible for residents and visitors to the city, by relaxing parking restrictions,” Cicilline said in the statement.

Besides Thayer Street, parking restrictions will be lifted at Wayland Square, South Main Street between Wickenden and Packet streets, North Main Street between Thomas Street and Park Row and other areas downtown.

A spokeswoman for the Providence Police

Department confirmed that police will not issue overtime tickets during the specified times.

Cars parked in illegal spaces will still be ticketed, the mayor’s statement said.

— Jonathan Ellis

Sen. Reed pops the question Sorry, ladies. One of Rhode Island’s most eligible bachelors is engaged.

Democratic Sen. Jack Reed, 55, proposed Wednesday to Julia Hart, 39, a coordinator in the Senate’s Interparliamentary Services Office. The couple hasn’t decided on a date for the wedding, which will be the first for both.

Reed was previously married to his job — he was known more for his work on foreign affairs than any flings. He has served in the Senate since 1996.

He first met Hart on a trip to Afghanistan in 2002.

She hails originally from Des Moines, Iowa.

— Herald staff reports, with reports from the Associated Press and Providence Journal

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Poli Sci continued from page 1 better form long-term plans because “we’re not just focusing on one single position every two years.”

The infusion of new faculty has elevated the stature of the department in the field of political science, according to Darrell West, professor of political science and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions.

“We’ve recruited several very strong researchers who are really putting Brown on the map,” West said.

As for concrete evidence of the department’s strengthened faculty, Zuckerman pointed to an increase in faculty publication in more prestigious university presses and political science journals.

Though he described the political science courses at Brown today as “more theoretically informed” than they were five years ago, Zuckerman said the composition of the depart-

ment has stayed about the same with respect to four subfields of political science — American politics, political theory, comparative politics and international relations.

Adding a faculty member in a fifth subfield — political economy — is a future priority of the department, Zuckerman said.

The department previously offered all five subfields as tracks for undergraduate concentrators, but it does not currently include political economy because there are not enough courses available in that area.

After the then-Initiatives for Academic Enrichment were approved in 2002 — including the provision to expand Brown’s faculty by 100 — the departments submitted proposals to the administration that made their cases for allocations in the faculty expansion. According to Zuckerman, the administration has been very supportive of the political science department and has given it almost everything it has asked for.

This semester the administration made a second call for proposals, and Zuckerman said

the department intends to continue growing and will “put in” for this next round of faculty expansion. For the future, there is “a priority in the general area of political economy,” he said.

He said the planning and decisions about the department’s growth came out of several years of internal meetings as well as interaction with the University administration.

Besides wanting high-quality teachers and researchers, Zuckerman said that “there’s a consensus view that we should be strong in all the major areas of political science” rather than try to specialize.

Zuckerman added that when recruiting faculty, besides the usual attractions of Brown, the department has used the academic enrichment plan as a selling point.

“We could tell them about how the University as a whole and the department in specific was growing,” and “they knew they could be a part of the process” of change, he said.

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

BuDS continued from page 1 plan has been enormously popular with customers. The extended hours at Josiah’s and the Gate until 2 a.m., however, have sparked complaints from student BuDS workers over the increased strain of late cleanup and drunken customers.

Willis said she hopes the employees’ experience can be improved. She called better working conditions a priority for next semester, but said that the new closing time is so popular that reneging it seems unlikely.

“We want to make sure that jobs in dining remain attractive to students, because their contribution is really important,” Willis said.

“But we’re busy between 1 and 2 a.m., so it’s an important addition from a customer perspective.

We’re pretty committed to keeping the hours until 2 a.m.”

In addition to more late-night dinners, meals at the Ratty have increased, and the number of purchased meals actually eaten rose 6 percent in the first week of classes to 86 percent — a number that has

remained consistent the entire semester.

“Students are definitely utilizing their meals more aggressively, because now you can swipe in, eat your meal, and say to the cashier, ‘Hey, I’d like to take a to-go meal,’” said Dining Services Associate Director Virginia Dunleavy.

To gauge the success of the Ratty changes, Dunleavy observes plate waste and records waiting times for each line three days a week. She said that after some initial confusion and congestion, the rerouted lines have cut waiting times by a few minutes. But that may be misleading because many students wait in multiple lines, she added. Dunleavy also monitors student response in focus groups and casual conversation.

“People aren’t shy about letting us know what they think,” Willis said. “Some people are like, ‘Don’t take away my cereal! Don’t move my salad dressings!’”

Consistent requests for the return of daily grilled cheese sandwiches caused Willis to put them back on the menu.

Some of the most favorable student feedback has been about the Sustainable Food Initiative and the new Roots and Shoots line in the Ratty.

“That’s all my friends and I eat,” said Elizabeth Fison ’07, referring to Roots and Shoots. “The vegetables are so much better than they were last year.”

Since September, BuDS has served a host of locally grown produce, provided local cider and cereal in the carts at the Sciences Library, Rockefeller Library and Center for Information Technology, and made Rhody Fresh dairy milk available in the Campus Market and other locations — all as part of the Sustainable Food Initiative.

Though many students expressed support for the initiative, most thought its mission was to provide only organic rather than locallygrown food, and said they weren’t aware of the origins of their meals.

“I don’t really notice (the locallygrown food),” said Hubert Tse ’06.

Louella Hill ’04, system coordinator for the initiative, said she is working on spreading awareness and looking into expanding local products to Jo’s and the Gate.

Possibilities include hummus and pizza.

“Student demand is everything,” Hill said. “The more they verbalize it, the more effective we can be.”

Next semester, BuDS will focus on creating a vegan salad bar, a more environmentally friendly togo program, new menu items and an updated Ivy Room, Willis said, in addition to continuing support of the Sustainable Food Initiative.

“We’re trying to get (sustainability) to be a culture in our department, so that all of our employees think this way all the time,” Willis said. “We have a commitment to continuing this … as a way to showcase our commitment to sustainability.”

Herald staff writer Mary-Catherine Lader ’08 can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004 · PAGE 5

Judge dismisses Hatfill suit against N.Y. Times WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

A federal judge in Alexandria, Va., has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a former Army scientist against the New York Times Co. and columnist Nicholas Kristof, ruling Kristof accurately reported that the scientist was a focus of the FBI probe of the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Steven Hatfill, who has been identified by authorities as a “person of interest” in the anthrax-spore mailings that killed five people and sickened 17, filed the suit in July in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. He contended the paper defamed him in a series of Kristof columns that identified him as a “likely culprit.”

But in a decision filed last Wednesday, Chief Judge Claude Hilton said Kristof had not accused Hatfill of guilt and the columnist was correctly reporting that Hatfill was the “overwhelming focus” of the FBI probe as of last fall.

“The principal that an accurate report of ongoing investigation or an allegation of wrongdoing does not carry the implication of guilt has long been recognized ... and it is mandated by the First Amendment,” Hilton wrote. “Indeed, for this reason, courts routinely dismiss libel

claims against defendants who accurately report on investigations.”

Media lawyers and the Times hailed the decision as an important victory for the rights of journalists to report on law enforcement investigations.

“I’m delighted,” Kristof said in an interview Monday. “I think this is good for reporters, but more importantly, I think it’s good for the country.”

Kristof contrasted the decision with recent court rulings in which journalists have been held in contempt for refusing to testify about confidential sources in other investigations. Several face possible jail time. “This has been a difficult time for journalists lately tangling with the law,” Kristof said, “so it’s particularly refreshing to see a judicial opinion that marks a real victory for freedom of the press.”

Hatfill’s lawyer, Victor Glasberg, said he agreed journalists should report on investigations. “But that has nothing to do with what this lawsuit was about,” Glasberg said. “It’s about the things Kristof wrote and the things he implied. The thrust of his articles was that Hatfill was implicated.”

Glasberg would not say whether Hatfill would appeal.

Hatfill, who is unemployed, did not return phone calls seeking comment Monday.

In a series of columns in 2002, Kristof criticized the FBI for failing to pursue aggressively a scientist whom he initially called “Mr. Z.” He wrote that the biodefense community had called Mr. Z a “likely culprit,” partly because the scientist was familiar with anthrax.

Kristof later acknowledged that Mr. Z was Hatfill. He also wrote that Hatfill deserved the “presumption of innocence” and “there is not a shred of traditional physical evidence linking him to the attacks.”

The lawsuit was the latest step in the legal battle waged by Hatfill since Attorney General John Ashcroft publicly called him a person of interest in the anthrax probe in 2002. A former researcher at the Army’s infectious disease research laboratory at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., Hatfill last year sued Ashcroft and the FBI in federal court in the District of Columbia. That lawsuit is pending.

No one has been charged in the investigation of anthraxtainted letters mailed to media and government offices. FBI officials Monday declined to comment on the probe.

At school, designer labels a runway hit WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —

Brandon Singleton was 8 when he first saw the movie “Clueless,” and it changed his life.

He was entranced by the paradise of teen-age consumption the 1995 film portrayed, a Hollywood world of valet parking and designer duds. When he entered Suitland High School in Prince George’s County, Md., four years ago, he was determined to make it his reality.

Now 17, he wears Armani sunglasses inside his mother’s modest townhome as he rattles off his favorite designer brands: Dolce & Gabbana, Coach and “a little Burberry here and there.” His first luxury purchase was shiny black Gucci pants he bought for $450 — all the money he received for his 14th birthday.

“I’m trying to do it big,” he explained.

Unlike the flannel-clad generation before them, today’s teen-agers are indulging more than ever in luxury goods once marketed to adults — and paying grownup prices. Walk the

hallways of high schools across the country, and you’ll find girls toting Louis Vuitton purses and car keys dangling from Burberry chains.

“People are always telling me that I walk through the hallways like it’s a fashion show,” Brandon said. “I tell them: ‘Boo, it’s my fashion show. It’s my runway.’’’

Designer labels account for about 7 percent of U.S. clothing purchases. But among teens, the figure doubles to 14 percent, said Marshal Cohen, chief analyst with the marketing research company NPD Fashionworld.

Marketing experts said those numbers reflect increasingly sophisticated tastes of American teenagers, who spent $191 billion last year: They don’t drink just coffee. They drink grande skim vanilla lattes with extra foam.

Some of the latest ads for designer Marc Jacobs feature youthful, freckled faces.

Versace enlisted pop singer Christina Aguilera to showcase its couture. Dooney & Burke,

see FASHION, page 6

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Fallujah finds yield huge cache of weapons BAGHDAD, Iraq (Los Angeles Times) —

U.S. forces in Iraq seized more than three times as many weapons caches in the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah in the past three weeks than typically are confiscated throughout the country during a given month, according to a new intelligence summary.

Troops discovered weapons at about 350 sites in Fallujah, the report states. That compares to 103 stashes normally found nationwide per month, according to the report, portions of which

Fashion continued from page 5 which makes handbags, has signed teen singer-actress Lindsay Lohan as the face of the brand and gives away her CDs at its flagship stores.

Financing such a lifestyle takes it toll. The average college sophomore has more than $2,000 of credit-card debt, according to Cardweb.com.

College seems far away for Lily Kunin, 16, and several of her friends at Walt Whitman High School in Montgomery County, Md., who discussed their obsessions: Uggs and jeans by Seven for All Mankind, as well as Longchamps’s Le Pliage shoulder bags.

Lily, an admitted clotheshorse, said she has six pairs of Sevens jeans, which are about $150 each.

She also has a pair of this year’s coveted “classic short” lilac Ugg boots. They are backordered on the company’s Web site for $110 and next to impossible to find in stores.

To school, she often wears a Juicy Couture track jacket or pants — she has them in four colors. The pants start at about $75, and the jackets at about $90.

Of course, not everyone dresses as if they were auditioning to be an extra on “The O.C.” According to Cardweb.com, a Frederick, Md., firm that tracks the credit indus-

PW continued from page 1 To acquire funds, a student must fill out a short application describing the project and what materials are required at what cost. A subcommittee of three people approves the grants. The money is distributed until funds are exhausted.

The maximum any student can request per semester is $200.

Pudalov has financed two works using the PW grants — “grief” and “ep01,” a play which explored issues including female body image, electronic voyeurism and “the ways in which Brown women ‘perform’ in their day to day lives.”

For “grief,” Pudalov used a suspended net of feathers to simulate snowfall as she lay quietly, surrounded by whiteness. The piece commemorated a cousin who committed suicide and was found covered in snow in rural Colorado.

Pudalov intentionally performed the piece without explanation. “The searching for explanation and the shock of the audience members (made) them part of the performance too, performing all of the emotions I felt when I found

was reviewed Monday by a Los Angeles Times reporter.

The seizures — amounting to tons of weaponry, from rifles to heavy bombs, from hand grenades to artillery rounds — are part of what U.S. authorities describe as an intelligence and tactical bonanza uncovered in the city 35 miles west of Baghdad, the capital. The munitions were found in homes, mosques, cargo containers, bunkers and other sites.

Among the most novel finds: An ice-cream truck that had been

try, the average high-schooler spends about $66 a week — barely enough for the tiny ID card/coin purse from Dooney & Burke.

But that doesn’t mean designer labels are the sole domain of teenagers with money to burn.

Brandon, an only child raised by a single mother, said he spends his entire paycheck from his parttime job on clothing.

Elizabeth Barnett, a 16-yearold junior at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland, said her parents usually don’t object to paying for high-priced clothes, such as designer jeans or polo shirts. She talked her mother into buying her a blue suede Coach totebag by promising to let her mother borrow it now and then. But trendy extras — such as her pink Von Dutch trucker hat — come out of her pocket.

Lily and several friends said they use money from part-time or summer jobs for purchases or turn to the Bank of their Parents.

And there are plenty of students sporting fake Louis Vuitton purses and wallets.

Also, Cohen, the marketing analyst, said the teen market has begun to fragment, with such products as iPods and camera phones competing for teen-agers’ dollars. And though Elizabeth said she is passionate about fashion, she has to draw the line somewhere.

“Prada is really expensive,” she said. “I’m happy sticking with my Coach and Kate Spade.’’

out that my cousin died,” she wrote in an e-mail.

“By creating an early snowfall in autumn, I hoped to invoke ideas of early death and confusion,” she said. Through her grief, she felt “some kind of beauty or purity … that was simultaneously extremely poignant and extremely difficult to understand.” She conveyed this feeling by her choice to make white the dominant color of the piece.

Performing “grief” helped Pudalov to understand why artists often choose to display their art in traditional spaces, such as museums and galleries. “It’s a scary public world out there and not everyone’s going to understand you,” she said. One of her goals was to expose more Brown students to performance art, which has been an important part of her life.

She also believes it is vital to make art public so the artist can discover deeper meaning in his or her own piece. She said she wanted to show the unity of human experience — how shared emotions bring humans together in the sense that all face death, sorrow, and happiness. “By making art public, we allow the spectators to find things in it we would never be able to see on our own” she said.

converted into a mobile car-bomb factory, complete with all the parts and weaponry needed to turn any vehicle into a weapon on the spot.

“You got a ice-cream truck, it’s loaded with munitions, weapons, equipment to construct a car bomb,” explained one senior U.S. military official here, who declined to be identified. “It could potentially drive anywhere, stop, convert a car into a car bomb and drive away. ... I don’t think there was any ice cream.”

The report also underscores the central role of mosques in the insurgency: 66 out of the city’s 133 mosques were discovered with significant amounts of weapons.

During the battle, mosques often became battle zones, as U.S. forces

exchanged rounds with snipers taking cover in minarets and inside the grounds. Many religious sites were badly damaged.

Before 10,000 U.S. troops and 2,000 Iraqi soldiers and police marched into the city early this month, Fallujah was regarded as the capital of the insurgency in Iraq. The U.S.-led force routed the guerrillas, killing about 2,000 of them, according to U.S. estimates.

At least 51 American soldiers and eight of their Iraqi allies also lost their lives.

U.S. officials still are processing a bounty of seized intelligence material, including suspected telephone records of insurgent cell leaders and their contacts, ledgers of foreign fighters, and data about

insurgents found on computer hard drives, compact discs and other media. Many training manuals and how-to books on making homemade bombs also were found.

Troops discovered eight houses where prisoners were held and likely tortured, the report says. At least one house contained bloodstained walls and floors, bloody handprints and bags of sand used to absorb blood. One house contained unaltered original pictures of the beheading of Kenneth Bigley, a Briton who was kidnapped in Baghdad in September and slain the following month..

U.S. troops also discovered sev-

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Nick Neely / Herald

In the late afternoon light, the Sciences Library stands out.

Esta’s continued from page 3 is leading Thayer Street to lose the charm and creativity that once characterized it.

What used to be a “real funky kind of place” is now “so commercial,” said Nicole Lehourites ’81, who has been shopping at Esta’s for the past three years.

Now the street is dominated by restaurants, Bettencourt said.

“It’s a shame that the entire street has turned into a corporate street, and it has pushed every one of us out,” he said.

Some students have expressed concern that there will no longer be a video store on Thayer Street. Bettencourt said students keep asking him, “Where are we going to go now?”

Although there’s Acme Video on Brook Street and a Blockbuster Video on Main Street, students without cars say it’s a trek to get there.

Kristen Saberre ’07 said that even though she’s a big “movie buff” she probably won’t rent movies anymore while she’s at school because she doesn’t have a car.

“Everything on Thayer Street is at your feet,” she said. “Esta’s is so convenient and nearby.”

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Teach continued from page 1 teaching before placing them in the classroom. From Brown’s Class of 2004, 21 students entered Teach For America, making Brown one of the top 25 most-attended colleges among the 3,500 TFA 2004 Corps members, according to the organization’s Web site.

Brown graduates have also become members of similar programs, such as the New York City Teaching Fellows, which places fellows as teachers in the New York City public school system and enrolls them in a subsidized Master’s of Education program.

Teach for America, a national organization founded in 1990 as part of AmeriCorps, places applicants, most of them recent college graduates, in public school teaching positions in needy areas. No teaching experience is required, but teaching certification requirements vary by region.

TFA corps members are placed in more than 20 urban and rural sites nationwide. As teachers, they receive a regular salary from the school districts in which they work, and often receive full benefits. TFA requires a two-year commitment from its members.

Brown graduates have been involved in Teach for America since its founding 14 years ago, said Emily Del Pino, communications associate for TFA.

According to Kwame Griffith, a recruitment director for TFA and a former corps member, one of the program’s goals is to close the achievement gap. In the short term, the program hopes to get America’s future leaders to spend time teaching in urban and rural public schools to help level the playing field for underprivileged students, he said.

TFA’s long-term goal is that the alumni of the program will enter positions of leadership in which they will be able to affect positive change in the nation’s education system, Griffith said, adding, “We know the achievement gap doesn’t need to exist.”

TFA has set up a network to recruit from many different colleges nationwide. According to Griffith, there are 20 regional directors like himself. Griffith focuses on Cornell, Brown and Syracuse University. TFA also hires campus campaign managers to help with local recruitment efforts.

It was partly because of this heavy on-campus recruiting that Marshall, a history and political science concentrator, began to consider TFA among her post-graduation options.

Marshall said that while she considered going to graduate school like many of her peers, she wanted to do something that felt meaningful in order to “give back.”

“I did not think of myself as a teacher until I started,” Marshall said.

Marshall currently teaches high school sophomores and juniors. TFA’s five-week crash training cannot compare to years of education classes, but it prepared her more than she thought it would, Marshall said.

Marshall said that certain aspects of her TFA experience are atypical because of the school she works for. The Community School for Social Justice is part of a movement to break up large public schools into smaller schools, she said.

According to Marshall, the school emphasizes studentbased learning and projects rather than lectures. She said she is glad that her school allows her to play a supportive advising role for a small group of high school freshmen known as her “family group.” She noted that one downside to the school’s progressive philosophy was a certain amount of chaos and disorganization. The faculty is mostly made up of young progressive teachers, Marshall said.

In order for her students to take her seriously in September, Marshall said she had to be very strict and develop a system of rules. Her students initially questioned her sanity when she gave them a five-page syllabus and demanded that they get a separate binder with dividers for her class, Marshall said.

On an average day, Marshall said that she spends her morning teaching before meeting with her “family group,” with whom she has become very close. One student in the group has thanked her for being there and said that she is like a mother to him, she said. Serious issues have come up within her family group, Marshall said, and at one point, she had to report child abuse.

Marshall said the emotional aspects of her job tend to weigh heavily on her shoulders, even after she has gone home. But she said that it is rewarding to affect students’ lives and believe in students who have never had anyone care about them. “It is really great that I can do that for them,” she said.

But there are distinct lows.

Marshall said the experience can be draining and frustrating.

Many of her friends and others in the program, those who teach in middle schools especially, have had an even more challenging experience, Marshall noted.

Some have been punched, some have quit and some have not even been able to teach, she said, calling her own positive experience unusual.

Marshall also said that although she teaches at a school in which the majority of students are Latino or black, she and her students have been very honest in their discussion of race and cases of racism in history.

Marshall said that because she teaches high school, it is easier to be open and honest with her students.

Marshall said she is paid a full teacher’s salary, receives full benefits and gets to choose between getting a transitional teaching license or pursing a master’s degree, which would give her permanent teaching credentials.

Marshall said there is a good chance she might stay at the Community School for Social Justice for three or four years, primarily because she does not want to abandon her ninthgrade family group before they graduate.

“I used to promise myself that I wouldn’t stay for more than two years,” she said. “I never thought I would love it the way that I do.”

Marshall said that she will likely attend law school after she leaves teaching, but she would like to work on educational policy in Washington, D.C. Like Marshall, Meg Robinson ’04, who concentrated in comparative literature, is considering a law career after she completes her TFA commitment. Although she had worked with children in the past and taught adult education through an ESL program at Brown, Robinson did not seriously consider teaching until the second semester of her senior year.

Robinson was attracted to TFA because she liked the idea of

teaching with a social-justice spin, she said. So she decided to find out if teaching was something she should consider as a career. “Plus I knew I didn’t want to be sitting behind a desk in an office,” Robinson said. “At least teaching is never boring.”

After attending the requisite training “boot camp,” Robinson, like Marshall, was placed in the Bronx. Robinson said there was no way a few weeks could have prepared her to teach but that the training program had put her in touch with resources that have been helpful.

Robinson is now a seventhand eighth-grade English teacher at M.S. 390 in the Bronx.

According to Robinson, on an average day, she wakes up at 5:45 a.m. and arrives at school by 7:30, spending the next hour making photocopies and setting up her classroom. The students trickle in at 8:30, after which Robinson teaches four or six classes each day. Robinson said that although her seventhgraders are far behind academically, she has not had many discipline problems with them.

Her first four or five weeks as a teacher were challenging, Robinson said, noting that her eighth-graders were a tough group. But Robinson said things have gotten significantly better since then. “I like my job,” she said. “The school has plenty of problems, but it’s a pretty good place to be.”

Robinson said she constantly keeps in mind the racial differences between her and her students. But she said the differences haven’t presented any specific challenges, and that her biggest challenge as a new teacher, especially because she looks young, is the constant questioning of her authority.

According to Robinson, one turning point came three weeks into her teaching experience, when some students were yelling and refusing to sit down. They were shouting, “Why don’t you just quit,” said Robinson, who told the students that she was not a quitter and would be there all year. According to Robinson, comments like that are due to the fact that schools like hers have a high rate of turnover among teachers.

Marshall cautioned those considering applying to TFA to make sure they are prepared to handle a challenging and draining experience in which rewards may be few. Marshall said she sees teaching as the most selfless thing she has ever done and that it has made her realize how selfish college life is. But she cautioned that many TFA teachers have very difficult experiences, although the second year is supposed to be better than the first.

“I’m rare,” Marshall said. “Most people aren’t doing as well in terms of their sanity.”

DPS

protocol and efficiency.

“The department will stay on track with all the projects we have going,” he said. “Captain Fioravanti is extremely capable, and I have every confidence in his ability to keep the department on track.”

Lts. Henry Lombardi and Kevin Andrews will jointly assume Fioravanti’s current duties.

Vice President for Administration Walter Hunter said he is confident that DPS will not be deterred by Verrecchia’s

departure. “The arming process will continue as planned,” Hunter said. “We’ve got a really good plan that’s been put in place, and we’ll continue to move along.”

Even though Verrecchia has decided to resign, he said he will miss Brown. “The officers here are among the most professional and most qualified that I have worked with in my entire career in law enforcement,” he said.

“I’ll miss staff and faculty, and I’m genuinely going to miss the students.”

continued from page 1 DPS. He will now oversee fire safety and EMS in addition to organizing patrols for the College of Charleston’s campus, which is larger than Brown’s.

While DPS is currently in the midst of a lengthy and rigorous arming procedure, Verrecchia said his imminent departure will have no negative effect on

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Fallujah continued from page 6 eral crude chemical laboratories, including caches of poisons, toxic substances, beakers, gas masks and other protective gear, where insurgents were believed to be trying to make rudimentary chemical weapons and explosives, officials say. Notes found in the labs indicated that rebels

M. hockey continued from page 12 locker room and really no panic,” Burke said. “When we went out there in the third we got the job done, which is good to see, especially when you have a young team.”

Many of the offensive contributions have come from the younger players, especially the line of Dersch, Antonin Roux ’07 and Brian McNary ’08. And after a slow start, Ihnacak has regained the scoring touch that made him last season’s Ivy League and ECACHL Rookie of the Year.

“Guys are really jelling right now,” Burke said. “The line of Dersch, Roux and McNary has been together since the Yale game (Nov. 13) and had a great

W. hoops continued from page 12 Morris,” Hayes said. “She scored when we needed her to score and really became an offensive spark for us.”

The game did not start well for Bruno, as the Colonials jumped out to an early 6-0 lead.

RMU would not relinquish the lead until Kelly hit a threepointer with under five minutes left in the half, putting Bruno up 25-22. Brown, however, was unable to hold the lead and entered halftime trailing 35-31.

The Bears did not stay in the hole for long, as they started the second half with a 20-3 run.

The run proved to be too much for Robert Morris, as Bruno’s blistering 55.6 field goal percentage in the second half secured the win.

Bruno out-rebounded the Colonials by seven, led by Ashley King-Bischof ’07, who had a career-high 11 rebounds.

Robertson added 10 boards to go along with eight points.

Co-captains Andrea Conrad ’05, who has spent most of her

Football continued from page 12 tallied a team-leading 98 tackles, 53 of which were solo and 11.5 of which went for a loss. DeOssie also proved adept at both pass rushing and pass coverage, recording 3.5 sacks and snagging two interceptions. He was also least likely to be seen on the sideline, playing nearly every defensive snap along with playing special teams as the team’s long snapper and on kickoff coverage.

In his second season as a starter, Frazier made great strides from his defensive end spot, recording 51 tackles on the sea-

were conducting training and research on chemical weapons.

Among the materials present at one laboratory, U.S. officials say, were potassium cyanide and hydrochloric acid, both of which can be used in the production of poisonous gas; sulfuric acid, a possible component in chemical weapons and explosives; and various agricultural fertilizers used in explosives.

It was not clear if any of chemical weapons were deployed dur-

ing the battle for the city, or if any U.S. troops were injured by such weapons.

While much evidence was found about recruitment of foreign fighters, fewer than 30 foreign fighters were among the legions of prisoners taken, the report indicates, which tends to bolster the argument that the insurgency is largely Iraqi in nature. More than 1,000 prisoners from Fallujah are still being held.

weekend.”

On the other side of the puck, defensemen Paul Baier ’08, Sean Hurley ’08 and David Robertson ’08 have helped upset opposing forwards as well as goaltenders.

“Like I said earlier in the season, putting three freshman defensemen into the fire is pretty unusual,” Burke said. “They’ve done a great job. Hurley is on a point streak, Baier is on the first power play and Robertson is on the second power play and penalty kill.”

In net, D’Alba has anchored all three victories, amassing 109 saves while tallying a .965 save percentage, the best in the nation.

“He stepped into net for the Minnesota-Duluth game and played with tons of confidence,” Haggett said. “He’s carried through and is getting the job done.”

The large number of firstyears contributing to the team has not gone unnoticed, a testament to Grillo’s ability to bring new talent to College Hill.

“It shows how well our coach is doing recruiting,” Ihnacak said.

Before taking a break for final exams, Brown will play two more league games, against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Union College team that is undefeated in the ECACHL. “Things are really exciting in the locker room right now,” Haggett said. “Right from the start of the year the bits and pieces were there, but now everyone is really buying into our system (of play) and people seem to be on the same page.”

Brown career battling injuries, and Hayes also made significant contributions. Conrad set a career high in points with 10, while Hayes chipped in 10 and pulled down five rebounds despite missing most of the second half with an ankle injury. Lena McAfee ’07 was a big defensive stopper with four steals.

“It is exciting to see her determination and competitiveness,” Burr said of Conrad’s play. “When she was injured, she really worked on the skills she could work on. That mental toughness through her injuries is very evident now.”

The Bears began their midAtlantic swing by notching their first victory of the season with a 64-60 win over Fairleigh Dickinson University last Tuesday.

After an early seesaw battle, Brown broke a 40-40 tie with a 15-8 run, which put it ahead by seven with just over five minutes remaining. The Knights kept cutting into Bruno’s lead, but a basket from King-Bischof put the Bears back up by five with 1:31 left. Kelly hit four free throws in the last 20 seconds to

son, including a team-leading 14.5 for a loss. His nine sacks also led the team and were secondbest in the Ivy League. Also in his second season as a starter, Gasparella showed marked improvement, recording 58 tackles and two interceptions.

Turner quietly became a reliable receiving option this season, ranking second among Ivy League tight ends with 25 catches for 339 yards and three touchdowns. Two of those scores came in a season-opening win against Albany, when he tallied six catches for 136 yards.

The special teams got a muchneeded boost with the arrival of Morgan. Morgan booted 13 field goals, more than Brown had

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

ice the victory.

“We had three starters foul out with five minutes on clock,” Burr said. “But we had the confidence that if we executed it would put us in position to win. The team got (Kelly) the ball and she was at her best when the pressure was on.”

Kelly led the Bears with a career-high 22 points to go along with seven rebounds and five assists. Robertson notched 15 points and seven rebounds, while Hayes did a little of everything, scoring 11 points, grabbing seven rebounds and recording four steals. KingBischof led Brown’s attack on the offensive boards, grabbing six of the team’s 23 rebounds in Fairleigh Dickenson’s end of the court.

The Bears will look to continue their winning streak this Wednesday, as they host instate rival University of Rhode Island at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center.

Herald staff writer Ben Miller ’07 covers women’s basketball.

He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

totaled in three previous seasons combined. Brown’s third Rookie of the Year in the last 10 seasons also averaged 36.3 yards per punt, 17 times pinning opponents inside their own 20.

After a 6-4 campaign this season, Brown will look to continue its upward trajectory. Despite the graduation of 12 seniors, including Burroughs and three other starters on the offensive line, Brown looks to come back next season hungry for its first Ivy League championship since 1999.

Assistant sports editor Chris Mahr ’07 covers football. He can be reached at herald@browndailyherald.com.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004 · PAGE 10 S T A F F

E D I T O R I A L

Mall? Rats.

Our neighborhood used to be edgy.

Prospective students visiting Brown in years past were able to walk through a commercial district that seemed to reflect the University’s reputation as a place where bohemia collides with the Ivy League. Quirky independent shops such as In Your Ear Records, Atlas Bower Books and the College Hill Bookstore were situated alongside mall favorites such as the Gap and Johnny Rockets.

But now, the Brown Bookstore is the only bookseller on College Hill, and after 19 years on Thayer Street, In Your Ear closed its doors last April. On Dec. 31, concerned Brown students and College Hill residents will have another independent local business to mourn when Esta’s, a holistic gift shop, bicycle repair center and video rental store closes its doors. With its wafting tendrils of incense smoke, resident black cat and room devoted to cult favorite films, Esta’s is truly one of a kind. But its owner, Kathleen Schleimer, said business has declined by 60 percent in recent years, while rent has increased.

Schleimer isn’t the first Thayer Street tenant to tell The Herald that competition from the Providence Place Mall has taken a heavy toll on independent stores in the city. The mall lacks the flavor of Thayer Street, but it offers one thing that is undeniably attractive to rushed shoppers — convenient parking in great abundance.

We don’t want College Hill to become a mall, and unless the neighborhood offers better parking, it will be difficult to convince small-business owners to take a gamble on what appears to be a shopping district in decline. The Thayer Street Improvement District, of which Brown is a member, is focusing on improving the safety and lighting on Thayer Street. This is a good first step, but the rapid mall-ification of our neighborhood calls for more drastic measures. The improvement district includes both tenants and landlords who should sit down together to discuss how the vibrance of Thayer Street can be maintained, perhaps though rent stabilization for long-term mom-and-pop business owners.

From now until Jan. 1, there will be no overtime parking tickets issued on Thayer Street, a temporary fix in honor of the holiday rush. But the parking problem isn’t about to disappear. A parking garage might be an eyesore, but then again, so would be the newest Yankee Candle Company outlet nestled between Urban Outfitters and the Gap.

NICK SCHADE

LETTERS Teaching should be TAs’ first priority To the Editor: I would like to thank The Herald for its article on international teaching assistants (“For 40 percent of TAs, learning to teach starts with learning English,” Nov. 29). It shed light on the problem of TAs with poor English skills.

But the article didn’t address why we have TAs who are still learning English in the first place. I understand acting as a TA helps develop fluency, but it is also important that undergraduate students learn the material in the course.

It seems that international graduate students will be able to learn English in the classes they take

at Brown. Perhaps it would be better if graduate students with poor English skills did not teach courses until their second year at Brown.

I don’t mean to offend any international TAs. I know they are doing their best, but it seems that they should not be put into positions where their English skills compromise their ability to do their jobs.

Mariposa Garth-Pelly ’08 Nov. 29

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OPINIONS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2004 · PAGE 11

SHEILA DUGAN

Beyond political polarization After Nov. 2, our country has imagined itself into two separate nations. Our opposing identities are represented by two colors, red and blue.

In the wake of the election, angry voters have turned to tempting Civil War analogies in order to describe the state of the country. Some have even gone so far as to speak of defecting to Canada.

Meanwhile, others have resorted to a more lively analysis.

In a column published after the election, Maureen Dowd claims, “W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq.” Dowd went on to describe Dick Cheney as a “cuckoo clock” and conservatives as a “loony bunch.”

Always-quotable former Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga., lowering the political dialogue even more, offered the best response to Dowd's rants. “That red-headed woman at the New York Times should not mock anyone’s religion,” he said. “You can see horns just sprouting up through that Technicolor hair.”

Yet many Brown students echo Dowd’s sentiment, floating adjectives like “ignorant” when describing those “red states” in the South.

On the Brown Daily Squeal, one enraged blogger described “Texas and Alabama wallow(ing) in their newly realized neo-conservative dreams (i.e. no homosexuals, horrendous schools, zero social net, and lots of fat people).” Personally, as a Southerner who spent quite a bit of time waddling around Wal-Mart with a Confederate flag draped over my shoulders like a cape, I appreciate the concern, but we will do fine.

But beyond the rhetoric, I do not believe a gaping chasm exists in the American electorate.

Begin with the obvious: Democrats exist in South Carolina and Republicans can be found in New York.

The same goes for any red-blue state pairings. Only three percentage points separated the country from a John Kerry victory. It was no landslide, though after the 2000 election either party would consider any resolution not ending with a Supreme Court decision a triumph. Democrats remained a healthy minority of the electorate in the states that went to Bush even though their presence failed to translate into victories.

As far as the country’s conservatism is concerned, I am not so optimistic as to believe the 2004 presidential election represented a wholesale acceptance of the Republican Party platform. The social conservatism of most Americans, as manifested by the gay marriage bans passed in 11 states, should have been obvious to most before November.

The real surprise came when the media interpreted conservatism as the decisive factor in the election, when the debates really centered on the Iraq war.

Americans tend to be socially conservative, but I doubt they fully understand the philosophies beneath traditional Republican policies, probably due to the lack of a real champion of conservative ideals in Washington.

Despite being handed a pitchfork and horns by the Democrats for his extreme right-wing agenda, George W. Bush fails to meet the standards of those concerned with limited government.

The president is taking only timid steps toward the privatization of social security. He has supported a huge Medicare bill and is indifferent to cutting nondefense spending. The Republican Party has merely combined American’s penchant for government spending with Bible verses.

It is easy for me to be dismissive of the “divide” that people see in this country. After all, my candidate won on Nov. 2, so I don’t feel alienated from the electorate.

Yet I recognize the desire to separate ourselves into digestible little categories. I do the same. I exaggerate the differences between North and South — complaining about the accents and the amount of Kennedys holding office.

On the other hand, I see the danger of lumping people in categories and applying unflattering labels, like “Bible-thumping hick.” It makes us easily dismiss others’ concerns, not forcing us to properly address those issues that divide us.

Shelia Dugan ’07 is a political science concentrator.

Get rid of Kofi before it’s too late GUEST COLUMN BY ALEX CARNEVALE

Over the weekend, the United Nations’ investigation into the oil-for-food scandal revealed that SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan’s son worked for one of the numerous companies investigated as part of the Iraqi oil-forfood scandal. William Safire provided the gotcha in yesterday’s New York Times, describing Annan telling him that his son had been “thoroughly investigated” by the United Nations and there was “nothing to” the allegation. Annan appears to know his own son about as well as he knows how to execute the duties of Secretary General.

This is only the latest in the series of jokes exposing the United Nations as the international hangout for corrupt sycophants.

Earlier this month, Annan received a no-confidence vote from the U.N. employees, primarily because underlings were frustrated he had decided to pardon U.N. refugee chief Ruud Lubbers, who harassed a number of women who worked for him.

Like the various oppressive regimes who sit in the United Nations despite their despicable human rights records, repulsive behavior in the United Nations takes its time catching up to the perpetrators. If someone accuses the United Nations of wrongdoing, it stalls until it has to investigate. When it does investigate, it tries to uncover as little as possible. After all, how does proving an international organization doesn’t aid world peace help an international organization aid world peace?

When the Wall Street Journal came across evidence directly incriminating the director of the U.N. oil-forfood program for taking payoffs for Saddam, Annan’s baffled response was befitting of the glorified bureaucrat he’s become: “If there is evidence, we would investigate it very seriously.” Sigh.

U.N. bureaucrats are pretty much the lowest of the low. They don’t pay their parking tickets, and they spend most of their time kissing ass. When Annan finally took action at the beginning of October, he decided to pay for said investigation with money left over in the oil-forfood program, money that rightfully belongs to the Iraqis the United Nations was trying to help.

The first priority of the United Nations has always

been expanding gigantic, inefficient bureaucratic U.N. programs. When the Clinton administration was preparing strikes against Saddam in 1998, Annan went to Baghdad, telling the United States, “I can do business with him.” Shortly thereafter, oil-for-food was widely expanded. Saddam felt he could manipulate these idiots, and he was right.

The purpose of the oil-for-food program was to allow Iraq to export limited quantities of oil in return for food and medicines for the Iraqi population. The company Annan’s son worked for, Cotecna, was hired in December 1998 to ensure that humanitarian supplies were reaching Iraq.

The U.N. inspectors charged with the responsibility for ensuring that the Baathist regime was not abusing oil-forfood were repeatedly inept. As a former U.N. officer recalled in the Wall Street Journal, inspections “amounted to little more than rubber-stamping whatever contract Saddam's regime initialed.”

If the United States had not gone into Iraq and deposed a dictator, Iraq would have assumed the chair of the U.N. disarmament commission! As Joshua Muravchik noted in a recent piece in everyone’s favorite journal, Commentary, “Year after year, fully half of the governments that Freedom House cites as ‘the worst of the worst’ human-rights violators secure seats on the body overseeing human-rights abuses.”

The blame-America game has gone too far. The Bush administration may not exactly be the most intelligent group of people, but the United Nations has got to go down as the most corrupt, least efficient, most ineffective purveyor of peace the world has ever seen.

President Bush would do right by the oppressed peoples of the world if he told Annan to resign so that someone who actually cares about democracy and human rights could be appointed. Annan’s continuing authority at the United Nations is nothing more than a disgrace.

The best suggestion I have heard is Vaclav Havel, playwright, poet and former president of the Czech Republic, but anyone would be better than Annan.

The shame of Oil-for-Food.

Alex Carnevale ‘05 is an outgoing Herald opinions editor.

ARI SAVITZKY

Share the oil-for-food blame I realized the “oil-for-food scandal” was going into hyperdrive while watching CNN today, when Wolf Blitzer wondered — to no one in particular — whether the most recent developments could spell the end of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s career.

The allegations of corruption and cronyism within the humanitarian oil-for-food program have dogged the United Nations this year. Considering how little Americans care about the United Nations, this “scandal” sure has legs! In fact, the recent revelation, that Annan's son Kojo received payments from an oil-for-food contractor as late as February of this year, provides more evidence that Karl Rove is playing the international media like a pan flute.

Having consolidated power at home, the Bush administration's political hit squad is now going after International targets. Kofi Annan is not his son, and the allegations of corruption have precious little to do with him. As a report

by The Nation notes, corruption in oil-for-food occurred in direct violation of the secretariat's policies. In fact, every oil-for-food contract went before the U.N. Security Council before approval.

The United States, and indeed the entire Security Council, is to blame for this scandal. For example, $4.5 billion in kickbacks flowed to Saddam’s coffers between 1996 and 2003 through trade with Jordan. The United States, far from attempting to stop the illegal money flow, continuously supported a 1991 Security Council resolution not to interfere with Iraqi-Jordanian trade. The cashmoney funneled to Hussein wasn’t intercepted because no Security Council member deigned to upset the tenuous web of political allies who were feeding fat on Iraqi oil. This goes for the United States and Great Britain as much as France. Given the structure of the United

Nations, the buck stops at the Security Council, the only body which could have interdicted Iraqi oil, blockaded trade, and regulated oil-for-food contracts. Mr. Annan’s responsibility was to monitor all oil-for-food contracts and and submit them to the Security Council. He did so, and they did nothing.

And while both Bushes and President Clinton should share the blame for the diplomatic blundering of the 1990s, Dubya is by far the weakest link. His own vice president was the CEO of one of the largest companies rebuilding the oil infrastructure that made oil-for-food possible. In fact, Cheney made a habit of blasting a “sanction-happy” United States to his petro-buddies in the 1990s.

Ironically, most of the damning new info on oil-for-food comes from the Deulfer report, which authoritatively negated claims of Iraqi WMD. So which is the bigger story — Kofi Annan’s constitutional inability to make the Security Council enforce its own regulations, or the fact that Iraq was invaded based on a lie of global proportions? I bet I know what Karl thinks the headline is. Of course, the fact that the inspections regime for which Annan was responsible turned out to be successful can’t possibly be news. Anyone who accuses the Bush administration of violating international law must be too corrupt to be credible.

Step back, and you’ll see a pattern. A prominent political figure or institution is set on the defensive by a wellorchestrated, seemingly endless and ultimately baseless campaign to destroy his credibility and distract from the accusations he is leveling at the Bush administration.

Kofi Annan, meet John Kerry.

U.S. gets indignant when convenient.

Ari Savitzky ’06 is an incoming Herald opinions editor.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SPORTS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30, 2004 · PAGE 12

Strong play from underclassmen brings m. ice hockey back to .500

W. basketball wins Time Warner Classic with dominant defensive play

BY IAN CROPP

Unlike the previous road trip to upstate New York that handed the men’s hockey team two losses, this past weekend’s trek to the Empire State saw the Bears pick up two much-needed league wins. After starting the season 1-3-1 and taking up residence in the ECACHL’s basement, three straight wins have the team back at .500 both overall at 4-4-1 and in the conference at 3-3-1.

On Friday, Brian Ihnacak ’07 scored two goals to help Brown down Clarkson University 4-2. The following night, Sean Dersch ’07 and Ihnacak each netted a pair of goals en route to a 4-1 victory over St. Lawrence University.

“It’s huge going up to the north country and getting two wins,” Ihnacak said.

“We’re finally clicking and trying to live up to our potential.”

Along with Ihnacak, who was named the ECACHL Player of the Week for his five-point performance (he also recorded an assist against Clarkson), Adam D’Alba ’08 earned ECACHL Goalie of the Week honors, stopping 64 of 67 shots on the weekend.

“D’Alba has been playing great,” said assistant captain Gerry Burke ’05. “For a freshman to come in and play the way he’s been playing is impressive.”

The team’s hot streak has it at .500 for the first time all season and puts Brown into a fourth-place tie with Harvard.

“We came off the win over University of Minnesota-Duluth pretty high and we carried that back into our league games and put ourselves back in good position,” said captain Les Haggett ’05. For Haggett, who is from Northwood, N.Y., the two games were somewhat of a homecoming.

“It was great. I got to go home for Thanksgiving, and then my whole family was in the stands for both wins,” he said.

It was not until the third period of both games that the Bears were able to

BY BEN MILLER

Judy He / Herald

Brian Ihnacak ’07 tallied four goals this past weekend, earning him ECACHL Player of the Week honors. He leads the team with seven goals and 11 points. pull away from their opponents. Against Clarkson, Bruno tied the score at 2 in the second period. Mike Meech ’05 scored the game-winner nine minutes into the third period, and Jeff Prough ’08 added an insurance goal six minutes later.

On Saturday, Brown allowed a power

play goal in the first period, but then Dersch scored midway through the second and tallied the game-winner in the third.

“There was that confidence in the

see M. HOCKEY, page 9

After 6-4 season, nine from football team honored with All-Ivy selections

BY CHRIS MAHR

Nick Neely / Herald

Will Burroughs ’05 was one of four members of the football team to earn first team All-Ivy honors.

A week after wrapping up their first winning season in three years, nine members of the football team were honored with All-Ivy selections. Offensive tackle and co-captain Will Burroughs ’05, tailback Nick Hartigan ’06, wide receiver Jarrett Schreck ’06 and linebacker Zak DeOssie ’07 all made the first team, while tight end David Turner ’06, defensive end James Frazier ’06, offensive guard Alex Jury ’06 and defensive back James Gasparella ’06 were named to the second team. In addition, placekicker and punter Steve Morgan ’08 was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year, garnering second team honors for his placekicking and honorable mention for his punting.

In his third year as a starter, Burroughs was the leader of an offensive line that paved the way for the Ivy League’s second-best running attack and third-best offense in overall yardage. Thanks to both Burroughs and Jury, Brown averaged 150 yards per game on the ground and 316.4 total yards per game.

Arguably the biggest beneficiary of Brown’s strong offensive line was Hartigan, who was named to the first team for the second consecutive year.

After setting Brown’s single-season records in 2003 for rushing yards (1,498), touchdowns (16) and points (96), Hartigan had another stellar season. He carried the ball a school-record 323 times for 1,263 yards, breaking his own records with 17 touchdowns and 102 points.

Hartigan needs just 501 rushing yards, nine touchdowns and 58 points next season to set Brown’s all-time records in each of those categories, all held by Michael Malan ’02.

Schreck established himself as one of the league’s top wide receivers this season. He racked up 1,035 receiving yards on 62 catches, including a league-leading 873 yards in Ivy League play. Schreck’s finest game of the year came against rival Harvard, when he had 10 catches for 253 yards, including an 83-yard touchdown catch. His efforts against the Crimson were rewarded with Ivy League Player of the Week honors.

On the other side of the ball, DeOssie continued to display the football genes that his father, Steve, used in his 12-year NFL career. Showing great sideline-tosideline speed on a weekly basis, DeOssie

see FOOTBALL, page 9

Instead of taking a few days off like most students, the women’s basketball team hit the road over Thanksgiving break, capping off a trio of victories with Sunday’s 68-50 win in the championship game of the Binghamton Time Warner Classic against host Binghamton University. After an opening-game loss to Temple University, the wins bring the Bears’ record to 3-1.

“Our defense this past weekend was amazing,” said co-captain Sarah Hayes ’06. “We held both teams to under 60 points, which is always a goal for us. That is very good to be doing at this point in the season.”

The Bears were anchored throughout the weekend by the play of center Holly Robertson ’05, who was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player after scoring 17 points and grabbing a career-high 14 rebounds in the championship game.

“Robertson has a presence,” said Head Coach Jean Marie Burr. “She is tough to play against. She has great court sense and great anticipation. … Every game you know they are going to have to play her and defend her.”

Guard Colleen Kelly ’06 was named to the All-Tournament Team after recording 25 points, 12 assists and nine rebounds in two games.

Although the Bearcats had won their own tournament for the past three years, Bruno quickly proved to be the better team, holding Binghamton to just three first-half field goals en route to taking a 3720 half time lead.

Brown’s first-half dominance also resulted from the excellent three-point shooting of guard Jackie Vocell ’06, who scored 12 of her 16 first-half points from behind the arc.

“It was really a tremendous team effort from starters and the bench,” Burr said.

“We mixed it up, and responded well to changes. Everyone was on the same page with their responsibilities.”

The lead continued to grow in the second half. Robertson scored 11 points after the break, helping Brown pull ahead by as many as 24.

Bruno was especially dominant on the boards, out-rebounding the Bearcats 4529, including a 16-9 edge in offensive rebounds. The Bears also held Binghamton to 27.1 percent shooting for the game.

The Bears reached the championship game by defeating Robert Morris University 66-56 in the opening round on Saturday. Just as Robertson and Vocell came up big in the finals, Kelly was outstanding for the Bears against the Colonials, leading the team with 19 points and eight assists while recording six rebounds.

“She pretty much led us against Robert

see W. HOOPS, page 9

B ROW N S P O RTS RO U N D - U P Monday, November 29 Men’s Ice Hockey: ECACHL Player of the Week — Brian Ihnacak ’07; ECACHL Goalie of the Week — Adam D’Alba ’08 Women’s Ice Hockey: ECACHL Player of the Week — Kerry Nugent ’05 Tuesday, November 30 Men’s Basketball: at Wagner University