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Corporation divests from Sudan, sets tuition at $44k

Students rally for divestment outside Corporation meeting

BY ERIC BECK NEWS EDITOR

BY CHLOE LUTTS SENIOR STAFF WRITER

A group of approximately 50 students gathered on the steps of Faunce House at 11:30 Saturday morning to encourage the Corporation — meeting a stone’s throw away in University Hall — to vote for divestment.

The students braving the 28-degree weather were gathered to “let the Corporation know today that Brown is serious about divestment,” said Scott Warren ’09, head of the Brown chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur and a member of the Darfur Action Network, which planned the rally.

Warren said students “just wanted to ... show our support for divestment.”

Warren called for the Corporation to take action and do so promptly, pointing out that 10 more people would die in Darfur while the Corporation was meeting. He praised Harvard and Stanford universities and other schools that have already divested from companies facilitating genocide in Darfur, adding that “Brown University has an opportunity to do the same thing today ... but they can also kill this whole momentum.” Harvard divested $2.4 million from one company, PetroChina, and Stanford divested from four companies.

The decision, Warren said, “should not be complicated. ... Universities should be lining up” to divest, he declared to applause from the assembled students.

The urgent nature of the issue was front see DIVESTMENT, page 6

Class of 2010 pool is larger, more diverse

Number of Asian-American and Latino applicants up, black applicants down

BY STU WOO CAMPUS WATCH EDITOR

With a record-setting 18,298 total applicants for the class of 2010, Brown’s applicant pool is getting larger every year — and more diverse.

Total applications are up 8.2 percent from last year, and all but one minority group saw an increase in applications from last year, according to statistics provided by the Office of Admission.

The number of Asian-American and Latino applicants increased by 11.9 percent and 12 percent, respectively, while American Indian applications increased by 14.1 percent (although they still made up less than 1 percent of the pool).

International applications increased by 7.1 percent.

Brown saw a 4.7 percent decrease in the number of black applicants, but Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 said that is not a cause for concern. see ADMISSIONS, page 6 Editorial: 401.351.3372 Business: 401.351.3260

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Students gathered on the steps of Faunce House on Saturday to demand the University’s divestment from Sudan.

At its February meeting this weekend, the Corporation voted to divest University funds from companies doing business in Sudan in response to the ongoing genocide in the country’s Darfur region. The University’s governing body also approved a 4.7 percent hike in undergraduate tuition and fees, increased the University’s operating budget by 8.2 percent and formally accepted nearly $20 million in gifts.

In an e-mail sent to the Brown community Saturday, President Ruth Simmons called the decision to divest “a critically important and strong statement by the University community regarding our abhorrence of the genocidal actions being supported and undertaken by the Sudanese government.”

The University will exclude from its direct investments any companies “whose business activities can be shown to be supporting and facilitating the Sudanese government in its continuing sponsorship of genocidal actions and human rights violations in Darfur,” according to the e-mail. The University will also require external account managers to exclude such companies from their direct investments.

By deciding to divest from companies doing business in Sudan, the Corporation adhered to Simmons’ recommendation. see CORPORATION, page 6

Senior UCS officer apparently tried to destroy inaccurate, outdated report Printing of mid-year report cost UCS almost $1,000

BY BEN LEUBSDORF METRO EDITOR

A senior member of the Undergraduate Council of Students apparently attempted Saturday night to destroy all copies of a mid-year report to students — 6,000 copies costing almost $1,000 to print — after concerns were raised within UCS about the report’s accuracy and presentation.

The report, which was to be distributed to students through campus mail, consisted of a cover sheet, two pages of committee information and three pages of members’ names and titles in large type.

Much of the information in the members list was outdated, presenting the composition of UCS as of last October, before internal elections held early this semester led to a re-shuffling of senior positions.

Communications Chair Michael Thompson ’07 apparently tried to throw away the reports, though he denies doing so. In an e-mail sent late Saturday night to Academic and Administrative Affairs Chair Tristan Freeman ’07 and later obtained by The Herald, Thompson

indicated he would dispose of them.

“No one who doesn’t now have an electronic or paper copy of the midyear report will ever be able to get one, unless the information is shared by someone who currently has such info,” Thompson wrote. “Every copy of the reports has

been moved to a secure location and I doubt anyone on UCS will ever see them again. This includes all 6 boxes and all the copies that were in the garbage cans.” see REPORT, page 4

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Six thousand copies of the Undergraduate Council of Students’ mid-year report sat undistributed outside the UCS office in Faunce House Sunday.

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“POLITICAL CORRUPTION, YESTERDAY AND TODAY” 7 p.m. , (King House) — Herb Rosenbaum, professor of political science at Hofstra University for 39 years, will speak about political corruption.

LOVE YOUR BODY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES 7:30 p.m. ,(Arnold Lounge) — A discussion will follow a screening of “Real Women Have Curves” as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

“YES WE CAN: BLACK, OUT, PROUD & LOUD — A 21ST CENTURY CIVIL RIGHTS VISION” 8 p.m. ,(List 120) — Ron Buford, director of the campaign that created ads rejected by NBC and CBS in December 2004, will give a talk about his 21st century civil rights vision.

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ARTS & CULTURE

Truncated ‘Laughing Wild’ brings new energy to old themes

BY ALLISSA WICKHAM CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“It’s just too difficult to be alive, isn’t it, and to try to function?”

Uttered at the show’s opening, this line perfectly summed up the tone “Laughing Wild,” the REVIEW of truncated play by awardwinning playw right Christopher Durang performed last Friday and Saturday in the Production Workshop’s upstairs space.

Directed by Karin Freed ’09, this wellexecuted abbreviation coaxed new life into the often-tired themes of modernday discontent and the difficulty of human connection.

Unfolding in three parts, “Laughing Wild” consisted of two monologues and a closing dream sequence. Cut down from its original running time of two hours, this 45-minute version managed to capture accurately the psychological complexities of its two main characters without sacrificing Durang’s humor.

The first monologue, delivered by a woman dressed in black (Ana Carolina Varela ’09), portrays an absurdly unbalanced, self-indulgent individual.

Once settled into her role, Varela kept the audience’s attention by injecting manic outbursts into otherwise calm descriptions of her neurotic episodes. These include assaulting a man over a can of tuna, engaging in a vicious fight with a taxi driver and joining Alcoholics Anonymous solely for acceptance. It is a credit to Varela’s pacing and comedic timing that material begging to be rushed through was not and that the audience came to empathize and laugh along with a potentially irritating and dismissible character.

For the second monologue, Davis Jung ’09 played a man somewhat

meeker than the woman but equally as unable to extract happiness from life.

Having attended a series of “personality workshops,” the man has learned several positive thinking exercises, which he shares with the audience. Unfortunately, even as he performs the exercises during his monologue, they begin to fail him.

This is especially true as he recounts how an irrational woman struck him for refusing to give her access to the tuna fish section at the supermarket. His negative descent continues as he describes the shock he experienced upon learning of the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick Supreme Court ruling, which allowed states to ban homosexual sex acts (during the play’s inception, this ruling was overturned in 2003 in Lawrence v. Texas). Though Jung’s delivery was hesitant at times, the second monologue proved to be a poignant piece that complimented the show’s first half.

In the play’s concluding scene, which included a memorable appearance by Oksana Babchenko ’09 as a traumatized child, the man and woman act out variations of their encounter during the tuna fish incident, all of which end badly. It isn’t until the scene transitions to a dream state that they are able to interact harmoniously with one another and show compassion for each other’s point of view. “Just breathe” is the takeaway lesson here, and the show ends with the characters slowly inhaling and exhaling.

With its sparse structure and plot, excess scenery was not essential to “Laughing Wild,” making it a perfect fit for the upstairs space. Although it did not enjoy a particularly long run, this play carried a powerful punch and served as a thoughtful addition to the spring theater season.

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Med School prof speaks out on relationships Book by Scott Haltzman ’82 MD ’85 garners media attention

BY ARI ROCKLAND-MILLER STAFF WRITER

On Valentine’s Day, New York Times OpEd page readers may have been surprised to find columnist John Tierney’s piece rich with relationship adFEATURE vice. “Tell your wife you adore her. Suggest an activity that’s fun,” Tierney wrote. First-time author Dr. Scott Haltzman ’82 MD ’85, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, was the source of Tierney’s newly acquired relationship wisdom.

Haltzman’s book, “The Secrets of Happily Married Men: Eight Ways To Win Your Wife’s Heart Forever,” has received rave reviews and landed him spots on ABC News’ “Good Morning America” and National Public Radio’s “Here and Now.” Written for real people in real relationships, Haltzman said the book is based on his own experience as a practicing psychiatrist and draws on six years of focused research.

“I really think that the book is going to have an impact on the world,” said Haltzman, who has already heard from couples that read the book aloud to each other every night and use it as a model in their relationship.

Weary of the traditional model of couples therapy, Haltzman believes men and women have innate differences: men are goal-oriented and do not have a natural tendency to talk about their emotions like women do, he said.

“It seemed that what I had learned theoretically and what worked practically were worlds apart, so my goal was to push away the theory a little and describe what really works,” he said.

Haltzman advises men to “make marriage your job” — a notion that he says is unromantic but easy to relate to for all men, many of whom are more successful in their workplaces than in their marriages.

“Most women recognize their man has a lot more relationship potential than Homer Simpson, and they want to know how to tap that potential,” he added.

After Tierney’s op-ed piece, “The Secrets of Happily Married Men” skyrocketed to Amazon.com’s list of top 100 sellers in books. Haltzman said he thinks the book’s popularity will increase as more

people finish reading it and integrate its advice into their relationships.

He noted that although women buy 80 to 90 percent of all relationship books, according to his own estimates, his book has a unique appeal secretsofmarriedmen.com Scott Haltzman ’82 to male buyers. “If I MD’85 can get 50 percent of all buyers to be men, that would be incredible,” he said.

In a culture where men are often seen as “relationship buffoons,” Haltzman said that “just by buying this book, your wife is already going to be happy with you.”

Haltzman said his own wife at first felt “threatened” by the book and its “secrets,” but she enjoyed reading it — the most meaningful praise for Haltzman and a strong sign to him that the book speaks to women as well as men.

“Even if John Tierney liked it, if women didn’t like this book, guys wouldn’t be buying it,” he said.

Though the book rests on Haltzman’s academic research, it is written for a broader commercial audience. He said that finding a balance between “maintaining some academic credibility and writing a book that the public will appreciate” was difficult at times.

Haltzman was particularly reminded of this during a Fox News interview in which he was asked for an opinion on butt implants. “It’s a challenge to keep a serious dialogue, but also to keep it engaging,” he said.

So, is Haltzman’s book only for married men, or could it be of use to a Brown student? While some of the book’s advice is particularly suited for married couples, it contains some general relationship advice “anyone could use,” Haltzman said. It emphasizes that “men shouldn’t have to feel like they have to be feminized” to have a successful relationship, something collegeaged men can appreciate, he said.

However, casual daters need not be too concerned. “With dating, women are more willing to accept a man’s stupid guy stuff,” Haltzman said.

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Report continued from page 1 But Thompson told The Herald Sunday he was only moving the reports out of the UCS office to his room to free up space and that he would not destroy the copies without authorization from UCS’s executive board.

“I sent (the e-mail to Freeman) in the middle of the night.

We say a lot of things we never do,” he said. “I had an emotion, I didn’t act on it. Obviously it’s not that hard to throw out six boxes, and I didn’t.”

Thompson had told The Herald Saturday night that “we might just recycle (the reports).”

Freeman sought to dissuade Thompson from destroying the reports, replying to his e-mail within minutes.

“Don’t try to cover anything up — I’d rather you kept the reports where they are,” wrote Freeman, who was communications chair before Thompson took over earlier this semester. Freeman then forwarded Thompson’s email to President Sarah SaxtonFrump ’07 and Vice President Zachary Townsend ’08.

“UCS as a body is dedicated to full transparency and to communicate with students as frequently as possible,” SaxtonFrump told The Herald Sunday.

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“Any type of cover-up at any time is unacceptable and it is our job ... to hold ourselves responsible.”

Brendan Hickey ’08, an associate member of UCS, said he saw Thompson and Associate Member Mike Williams ’08 carrying boxes of the mid-year report into Harkness House around 10:15 p.m. Hickey told The Herald that Thompson told him the reports were being recycled. The reports had previously been stored in the UCS office in Faunce House.

A reporter from The Herald saw the boxed reports in Thompson’s room in Harkness late Saturday night. The reports were returned to the UCS office early Sunday morning, according to Thompson, who said Sunday night he had been ordered to return them.

The six-page report was first created last October by Freeman and the communications committee, and Freeman said it was completed in early December.

Freeman authorized its printing on Dec. 9 at a total cost of $966, according to a copy of the purchase order from Metcalf Copy Center.

Thompson said he sent the report to be printed around Feb. 10.

By then, the officer listings and committee agendas included in the report had changed due to the re-shuffling of the UCS executive board after the surprise resignations of then-President

Brian Bidadi ’06 and then-AAA Chair David Beckoff ’08 at the beginning of the semester. At that time, Freeman left his post as communications chair and Thompson, formerly vice chair of the communications committee, took over.

The officer listings and committee agendas were not updated in the report as it was printed.

“That sort of slipped through the collective fingers of UCS,” Saxton-Frump said.

Concerns were raised by UCS members not only about the information in the report, but also about the members’ information was presented, in large type spread over three of the report’s six pages.

“Are we really that arrogant as to want our names in enormous text spread over three pages and crass enough to actually do it?” asked Kate Brockwehl ’08, a member of UCS, in an e-mail to the UCS internal mailing list.

Thompson sent the report to the printers at Freeman’s request.

“I didn’t know it was incorrect, I assumed it was correct,” Thompson told The Herald.

“When (Freeman) said, ‘Mike, print this,’ I just did it.”

Freeman agreed. “Yeah, I told Mike to print the reports,” he said.

Both attributed the printing of the incorrect report to the confusion of the transition between Freeman’s tenure as communications chair and Thompson taking over that position at the beginning of February.

“These types of things happen in an organization such as UCS where there is turnover,” Freeman said.

Freeman took responsibility for the mistakes in the report in an e-mail to UCS members Saturday night.

“I accept full responsibility for the quality of the mid-year report.

It should be much, much better than it is,” he wrote. In a second e-mail sent about two hours later, he again took responsibility, writing, “Leadership shuffles are not an excuse to renege on the work we have to do. … As Communications Chair, the buck stopped with me for each and every communications issue we had to deal with.”

Brockwehl, who had initially raised objections to the report, said the situation “is indicative of the trend UCS has towards secrecy despite repeated efforts to change.”

“I think various people involved should consider resigning,” she told The Herald.

It remains unclear what will happen to the reports. Freeman said he believed the best way to distribute the report would be with the last three pages — which contain the incorrect listing of UCS members — removed. But because the report is printed double-sided, it would be impossible to remove the three pages without either leaving an inaccurate partial listing of UCS officers or removing half of the information about committees from the report.

Freeman said no more money should be spent distributing the reports. The printing of $966 was 13 percent of the UCS semester budget of $7,402.40, according to the Undergraduate Finance Board’s Web site.

“We’re going to find ways” to inform students about UCS, he said, “without using any more of students’ money.”

CAMPUS NEWS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2006 · PAGE 5

University to examine undergraduate College

BY THI HO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Concerns about whether the University is addressing the needs of undergraduate students have prompted President Ruth Simmons and Provost Robert Zimmer to set in motion a process to examine the undergraduate College.

The announcement came at a Feb. 7 faculty meeting, after members of the Undergraduate Council of Students expressed frustration with the way administrators were addressing concerns about the level of emphasis placed on the development of undergraduate programs.

Details about the process will be finalized this spring. At the Feb. 7 faculty meeting, Simmons said she had charged Zimmer with leading a committee to conduct the evaluation.

UCS members said they believe the process stems from their own efforts to bring these concerns to Zimmer’s attention.

Zimmer, however, said the process had been in the making for quite some time. “We’re at a stage of evolution, where we can now begin to focus on these issues for academic enrichment,” he said.

“We had a set of less-thansatisfactory meetings with (Zimmer),” said UCS President Sarah Saxton-Frump ’07. She added that none of the questions UCS members posed were addressed directly in meetings between

UCS and Zimmer.

“I had deep concerns about the focus of the University,” said Zachary Townsend ’08, vice president of UCS. “People in UCS and I have been concerned that too much emphasis is going into the Graduate School,” he said. His inquiries into this matter were averted or ignored altogether, he said.

Townsend said he thinks Simmons’ announcement of the process may be a response to pressure from UCS to address undergraduate student needs.

Saxton-Frump voiced similar sentiments. “The provost realizes how crucial the student voice is, that it’s a force to be reckoned with,” she said.

The examination of the College will touch on five major areas: science education, international programs, advising, housing and support for concentrations.

The process also aims to extend the University’s profile on an international level by further integrating international programs into the liberal curriculum, Townsend said.

In addition, the process will evaluate the University’s efforts to provide enough oncampus housing, particularly for upperclassmen, according to Zimmer.

Shortcomings in the advising system have posed a major issue for both faculty and students.

“The curriculum at Brown demands a very high level of advising to work well. The

current advising system is not a structure that is robust enough,” Zimmer said.

Townsend agreed that the current advising system is not as effective as it could be. “The first year (experience) should be experimental. I have not been convinced that the advising system is facilitating that,” Townsend said.

Saxton-Frump suggested that a number of students are turned off from potential concentrations by the inadequacy of the advising system and support for concentrations.

Townsend said he hopes the process will help re-emphasize interest in the undergraduate College. Zimmer agreed the process should address aspects of the College that did not receive adequate attention before.

Some students, however, do not believe that too much emphasis has been diverted from the College in the first place. Diana Huang ’09 said she did not notice any difference between the treatment of the undergraduate College and the Graduate School.

“I feel like Brown is really focused on undergrads and that that’s not a problem,” said Cherie Cummings ’06.

Regardless, Saxton-Frump and Townsend stressed the importance of including students in the evaluation. “The process will not be effective if students are not involved,” Townsend said.

UCS poll touches on plus/minus grading, student feedback In its first student poll under the new executive board, the Undergraduate Council of Students will ask students for feedback on its own operations and the University’s grading system, among other topics.

The 37-question poll, which will begin today and end at midnight on March 3, will be conducted on WebCT. Tristan Freeman ’07, chair of the Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee, said he believes the most important topic the poll addresses is the issue of plus/minus grading.

“I think it is one of the biggest issues the student body and UCS has been faced with and we especially want student feedback on it. The feedback will directly affect how UCS acts to the administration,” he said.

Although the poll asks five questions about grading, it dedicates eight questions — the most to any one topic — to assessing student relations with UCS, which a Herald poll released earlier this month showed to be either largely positive or nonexistent.

The poll also features items on how students feel about testing for sexually transmitted infections “knowing your parents might find out,” cell phone signal strength on campus, how much students would be willing to pay for Brown to purchase renewable energy, the continuation of Napster and whether or not students from low-income backgrounds should get priority for student storage.

—Melanie Duch

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Divestment continued from page 1 and center. Lisbeth Meyers ’06, leader of Brown’s DAN, told gathered students to cheer loudly enough for “the Corporation ... to hear us through the windows.” Warren said that if divestment did not occur until months down the line, tens of thousands more people would die in Darfur.

“While you’re meeting today there are people dying in the Sudan,” Warren said. “The student body at Brown will not allow the University to be invested” in companies facilitating genocide, he added.

Patrick Schmidt, executive director of the national STAND and a Georgetown University senior, was in attendance and spoke of the movement’s importance. He noted that there are “people throughout the world who stand with Brown.” He also reiterated Warren’s point that “it’s not a complicated matter, it’s a question of justice.”

Just before noon, University Chancellor Stephen Robert emerged from University Hall and announced the Corporation’s decision to divest. He directed his address toward the assembled students. “I can’t think of anything more abhorrent or heinous” than the situation in Darfur, he said, “The Corporation has voted to divest ... with a unanimous vote.” He declared investment in companies complicit in genocide “contrary to every value ... that we hold dear.”

Robert also commended the assembled students for being there, saying this is “what Brown students should be doing. ... I wish Brown students would be more involved.”

Warren told The Herald: “We’re thrilled that the University has decided to issue a statement in favor of divesting. ... However, we urge the University to make a list of the companies as soon as possible” to demonstrate its commitment through action, not just words.

In an University-wide email sent after the Corporation meeting Saturday, President Simmons announced the decision to divest, writing, “The administration will proceed to assemble and provide information to the Corporation’s Advisory & Executive Committee regarding companies whose business activities in Sudan can be shown to meet the criteria for supporting and facilitating the Sudanese government in its continuing sponsorship of genocidal actions and human rights violations in Darfur.”

Warren said STAND hopes to work with the administration and that divestment occurs within the next few weeks.

He said he was “encouraged” that this would be the case after Robert made his announcement.

Warren added he was very happy to see coverage of the Corporation’s decision in over 60 newspapers worldwide. The rally drew representatives of the press including a reporter from the Providence Journal and a cameraman from ABC News.

Admissions continued from page 1 “If there is a decline in any group for more than three years, then it’s a concern, but yearly fluctuations are not a cause for worry,” Miller said, adding that this year Brown received the second-highest number of black applicants in its history.

There was also a 24.5 percent increase in the number of students who did not identify their race.

“As America becomes much more multiracial and multicultural, I think students perceive themselves as being not one race, but myriad races, so none of the boxes fit them neatly,” Miller said. Former Dean of Admission Michael Goldberger told The Herald last year most of these applicants are usually white, which Miller said might be true, though he added a closer inspection of the applicants would be needed to determine that.

The most striking difference between the applicant pool to the class of 2009 and 2010 is

Corporation continued from page 1 Prior to the Corporation meeting, Simmons had not publicly announced her position on whether the University should divest.

Earlier this month, the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investing and

the percentage of applications submitted online. Last year, 54 percent of all applications where submitted online, while 71 percent chose the electronic option this year.

“When we first started doing (online applications), people were afraid to push the button and send them here, because they thought they would disappear into the ether,” Miller said. “Now, each successive generation has become more comfortable with computers, and (online applications) are more convenient, too.”

Only 39 percent of the applicant pool is male, compared to 42 percent a year ago.

Miller said the lack of male applicants is a national trend not unique to Brown — many media sources, such as the San Francisco Chronicle and Time Magazine, have reported about the decline of male college students in recent years. At Brown, the applicant pool has been about 55 to 59 percent female for about the past seven years.

62 percent of applicants attend

public schools, 24 percent attend private schools and 9 percent attend parochial schools, while the remaining 5 percent are unknown. These numbers show no significant change from last year.

The proportion of applicants from different U.S. regions stayed similar to last year. The most represented region for applicants is again Southern New England, with 17 percent of applicants from Rhode Island, Massachusetts or Connecticut.

The second-most represented regions are California and the Mid-Atlantic, which include New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which both accounted for 15 percent of applicants. New York followed close behind, with 13 percent of applicants.

7 percent of the applicant pool indicated interest in engineering, while 22 percent expressed interest in the humanities. 34 percent selected math and science and 23 percent picked social science. 13 percent were undecided.

66 percent of the applicants applied for financial aid — the same percentage as last year.

the Brown University Community Council both recommended that the University divest from companies with holdings in Sudan.

In her e-mail, Simmons thanked the ACCRI and the student group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur for their work in support of divestment prior to the Corporation meeting.

Funds have been allocated to improve physical infrastructure, support the University’s libraries and add wireless Internet access to residence halls and more classrooms and public spaces.

Simmons emphasized in her e-mail that, though the University is increasing its budget to support a variety of key initiatives such as improving financial aid expanding the faculty, admin-istrators must be cautious and realistic in the University’s finan-cial planning to account for rapidly rising costs in areas such as energy, facilities, health care and insurance.

“The University must face this challenge and develop a multi-year financial plan that not only supports the Plan for Academic Enrichment, but also creates a stable financial base to support Brown over the long term,” Simmons wrote, noting that administrators have to make choices about which areas to prioritize when allocating the University’s resources.

Increased tuition and budget Also this weekend, the Corporation approved a budget set by the University Resources Committee — which is composed of faculty, students and administrators — and recommended by Simmons.

The cost of a Brown education, including tuition and room and board fees, will rise 4.7 percent to $43,754 next year, with tuition for the Graduate School increasing 5 percent to $33,888.

Tuition and fees generally increase about 5 percent annually.

Last February, the Corporation set undergraduate tuition and fees above $40,000 for the first time.

Responding to a request from the Undergraduate Council of Students for more funding for student activities, the Corporation raised the student activities fee for next year by $10 to $146 per student. Additionally, the Corporation agreed to transfer club sports from the student activities budget to the athletics budget, freeing up student activities money for student groups.

The $664.1 million operating budget for the next fiscal year — comprising the 2006-2007 academic year — is 8.2 percent larger than this year’s budget.

The increase is designed to fund initiatives provided for by the Plan for Academic Enrichment, including a net increase of 15 to 25 faculty members, improvements to faculty salaries, enhanced graduate student stipends, support for need blind admission and an increase in financial aid for transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students.

In her campus-wide e-mail, Simmons announced a variety of infrastructure improvements included in the new budget.

$20 million in donations At each meeting, the Corporation formally accepts all gifts to the University greater than $1 million. This weekend, nine gifts totaling nearly $20 million were accepted by the Corporation.

The gifts support a variety of established initiatives and programs. No gifts to launch entirely new initiatives — such as new buildings, academic centers or other projects — were announced this weekend.

The Corporation also formally established the Joukowsky Family Professorship in Archaeology.

The professorship, funded by Professor Emerita of Old World Archaeology Martha Joukowsky ’58 P’87 and Chancellor Emeritus Artemis Joukowsky ’55 P’87, is designated for the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, which was established in October 2004 with a gift from the Joukowskys.

The Corporation also approved the appointment of Stephen Maiorisi as vice president for Facilities Management.

Maiorisi had been serving as acting vice president of facilities.

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Israel anxious over Hamas-Iran relationship

BY LAURA KING LOS ANGELES TIMES

JERUSALEM — If there is a single recent development that has Israel more rattled than the Islamist group Hamas’ ascent to power in last month’s Palestinian elections, it is the seemingly tightening bonds of friendship between Hamas and Iran.

A visit to the Islamic Republic last week by Hamas’ exiled senior political leader, Khaled Mashaal, set off alarm bells in the Jewish state, generating banner headlines and drawing heated rhetoric from Israeli policymakers.

But a contrarian view has emerged from Israeli intelligence officials, analysts and Western diplomats: that this much-trumpeted relationship between Iran and Hamas may prove to be of exaggerated import.

They cite Hamas’ traditional determination to ward off outside influence and adhere to its own nationalist agenda; fundamental mistrust between Iran’s Shiite leaders and Hamas’ Sunni ones; and the militant group’s desire to nurture ties with moderate Arab governments like Jordan and Egypt as it moves to assume power.

Mashaal’s visit was marked in Israel by front-page photos of a convivial handshake between the Hamas official and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has called for wiping Israel off the map.

Senior Israeli officials portrayed this nascent alliance of Iran, its bitterest foe, and Hamas, which is sworn to the Jewish state’s destruction, as a grave new menace.

“The aim of Israel’s policy should be to prevent Hamas from establishing a government under Iranian influence only a stone’s throw from Jerusalem and Tel Aviv,” declared Yuval Steinitz, the chairman of the Israeli parliament’s influential foreign affairs and defense committee.

Some other observers, however, saw far less cause for

concern.

In terms of the show of friendship with Hamas, “Iran is a scarecrow,” Amos Gilboa, a former senior Israeli military intelligence official, wrote last week in the Maariv newspaper.

The high-profile talks with Hamas, said one Western diplomat, “are a way for the Iranians to jangle everyone’s nerves” at a time of escalating tensions over Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions.

“It’s saber-rattling, but of a kind that really costs Tehran absolutely nothing — this can be portrayed as merely a friendly meeting with a representative of an incoming regional government,” said the diplomat, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

During Mashaal’s visit, officials in Tehran were quoted as expressing willingness to help Hamas withstand the “cruel” blow of reduced U.S. and other Western aid to the Palestinian Authority, though no specific contribution was pledged.

Hamas will indeed be strapped for cash if the United States and European nations carry through with threats to cut the flow of all but humanitarian aid to the Palestinians once a government dominated by the militant group is in place. Nearly half the Palestinian Authority’s budget comes from foreign assistance.

Iran’s past financial aid to Hamas has been relatively minor — largely in the form of arms funneled through Syria, and cash earmarked for terrorist attacks, according to Israeli intelligence.

Hamas halted its campaign of suicide bombings inside Israel more than a year ago, when it entered Palestinian politics at the local level, winning control of key municipalities as it prepared for general elections.

Far more significant is Iran’s support for Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite militia, and even for the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, which carried out all of the halfdozen suicide bombings inside Israel last year.

States’ rights goes center stage at Supreme Court

BY DAVID G. SAVAGE LOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will take up states’ rights — of both the blue- and red-state variety — in a pair of electionlaw cases to be heard this week that could have major effects on the future of American politics.

Tiny Vermont, a true blue state, hopes to restore smalltown democracy by greatly limiting the role of money in politics. If its new spending caps win before the high court, they could change how campaigns are conducted across the nation.

Meanwhile, Texas, the biggest of the red states, is defending its right to redraw its electoral districts to give its GOP majority more seats in Congress. If its extraordinary mid-decade shift wins in the high court, other states have signaled they will do the same.

The pair of cases will also give strong clues about the court’s newest members, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito.

In the Vermont case, Republicans say the freespeech principle in the First Amendment is fundamental to American politics, and that any government-enforced limit on campaign spending is unconstitutional.

Three years ago, the Supreme

Court narrowly upheld the McCain-Feingold Act, which barred big contributions to political parties. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor cast a deciding fifth vote to reject the legal challenge led by Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy voted to strike down these contribution limits on First Amendment grounds. If Roberts and Alito agree with them, the court could rule that contribution limits, as well as spending limits, are unconstitutional.

But the Vermont case is driven by liberal reformers who hope the Supreme Court will reconsider its 30-year old ruling in Buckley v. Valeo. Then, the justices set a confusing, two-part rule that has been law ever since.

First, they said the government may limit contributions to candidates on the theory that it would look corrupt if a politician took a huge sum from a wealthy donor. However, they also said candidates had a free-speech right to spend unlimited sums.

Since then, the nation has seen a relentless rise in campaign spending, as well as the emergence of a new generation of enormously wealthy candidates. Last year, New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent an estimated $80 million of his fortune to

secure his re-election, 10 times more than the campaign of his leading Democratic opponent.

Four years earlier, Bloomberg, a billionaire, spent $75 million to narrowly win the mayor’s office.

Across the Hudson River in New Jersey, voters were treated to a barrage of negative ads paid for by the two wealthy candidates for governor. Democrat Jon Corzine, a former chairman of the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, spent more than $60 million of his own money to win a U.S. Senate seat five years ago. Last year, he spent another $40 million to win the governor’s seat against Republican businessman Douglas Forrester, who spent $30 million on his losing campaign.

And the influence of money is not limited to wealthy candidates or high-profile races. Vermonters held public hearings in which lawmakers candidly admitted that campaign contributions played a major role in what legislative proposals won attention.

“Money does buy access, and we’re kidding ourselves and Vermonters if we deny it,” then-Gov. Howard Dean said in his 1997 inaugural address.

In response, lawmakers passed the first state spending limits for candidates since the Supreme Court voided federal spending limits in Buckley v. Valeo.

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M. hoops continued from page 12 for eight minutes until Jeppesen hit a free throw with 4:25 left in the half. Heading into half time, the Bears trailed 30-21. “(Huffman) was making shots, and then we were relying on the three-pointer and it wasn’t going in anymore,” said Friske of his team, which hit one of nine first-half threes after Huffman’s early outburst. “We had some unforced turnovers, bad shots and we just had no rhythm going on offense.”

After the intermission, the Bears scored on three straight possessions, culminating in a Friske three-pointer to bring the score to 32-28. But the Lions scored six straight to push their lead back up to double digits.

Paced by guard Justin Armstrong,

who scored 13 of his game-high 19 points in the second half, the Lions led by as many as 16 points down the stretch.

Huffman finished with 20 points, hitting six of 13 threepoint attempts. Jeppesen also had 20 points and a team-high seven rebounds.

After a night of poor shooting against Columbia, the Bears came out red hot on Saturday at Cornell’s senior night, connecting on 13 of 18 shots (68.4 percent) in the first half and 24 of 41 (58.5 percent) for the game. The Bears held onto a slim lead late in the game, avenging their loss to the Big Red two weeks earlier and giving them a boost heading into the final weekend against the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.

“The Cornell game was huge,” Jeppesen said. “We have the two top teams (in the

Ivy League) coming up and it was really crucial for us to get the confidence going into this weekend. … It’s always nice to ruin someone else’s senior night, so we had that extra motivation as well.”

The story of the night was Friske, who had 23 points, going 7-for-9 from the field and 8-for9 from the line. Earlier in the season, Friske emerged as one of the Bears’ primary offensive threats, averaging 19.3 points over the last four games of the non-conference schedule. But Friske has struggled during the Ivy schedule and played fewer and fewer minutes. Against Cornell, he got his groove back.

“I was a lot more aggressive,” Friske said. “The Ivy League season’s been kind of frustrating for me, because I had some success and then I was struggling. … I was ready to have a good game.”

Jeppesen said that Friske gave the team a big boost and that his having such a good game late in the season bodes well for the future.

“Scott had a huge game, he carried us,” Jeppesen said. “He can do that — he had some big games earlier this year. He just hit that freshman wall. It’s great for him to get a really good game in the Ivy season, especially near the end, to give him some confidence going into the offseason.”

Friske scored 10 of his points in the first half, leading the Bears in an up-tempo shoot out with the Big Red. Both teams made more shots than they missed (Cornell hit 14 of 27) and the lead changed hands 14 times in the half. After trading buckets for 20 minutes, Brown led Cornell 36-35 heading into the locker rooms.

In the second half, Jeppesen made a fast break layup with 14:54 on the clock that gave the Bears their largest lead of the game at 50-43. Cornell fought back to take the lead when guard Adam Gore made a jumper with 7:42 left to give the Big Red a 57-56 lead. The Bears, however, answered with eight straight

W. icers continued from page 12 defenseman Lauren Deeb ’07, the Bears struggled early on in the defensive end. Fortunately, O’Hara Shipe ’08 shined, making nine saves in the opening period.

The only shot she was unable to keep out of the back of the net was Sarah Butsch’s one-timer, which gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead at 9:47.

The Bears were unable to make a move on offense until the very end of the period, collecting their first and only two shots within the last two minutes.

The Bears battled back though, improving their play after the first intermission. Keaton Zucker ’06 scored the first of her three goals on the weekend at 4:11, skating from behind the net and depositing the puck top shelf to knot the score at 1-1.

“Her goal was just a sniper’s dream,” said Head Coach Digit Murphy. “Zucker has just been amazing and an incredible leader.”

Unfazed, Princeton re-took the lead with just over four minutes remaining in the second period and added another goal just over seven minutes into the third. Down 3-1, the Bears were unable to get back into the game, but Hayley Moore ’08 tacked on a shorthanded goal with eight seconds to play — her

points — five from Friske — to go up 64-57.

The Big Red trailed 67-64 with under a minute to play, and forward Lenny Collins missed a potential game-tying threepointer. Friske and point guard Marcus Becker ’07 then both made free throws to clinch the game.

Huffman had another solid game, scoring 14 points and shooting 4-for-5 from behind the arc. Jeppesen netted 10 points to go along with eight rebounds.

This weekend, the Bears will host the top two teams in the Ivy League standings — Princeton on Friday and Penn on Saturday — to wrap up their season.

Should they win both, they would finish with a .500 record in the Ivies. It would also be their first weekend sweep of the season after so many splits.

“I think everyone’s just excited,” Jeppesen said. “It’s the last (weekend) of the year, and guys are just going to try to leave it all out on the floor, and go into the offseason on a positive note.”

Both games tip off at 7 p.m. at the Pizzitola Center.

20th goal of the season.

“I think we’re a little thin defensively,” Murphy said. “We also need to get at least one more line going offensively.”

Despite the loss, the only scenario that would have prevented Brown from securing home ice in the first round of the ECACHL tournament would have been a loss to Quinnipiac followed by a Harvard win over Clarkson.

On the Bears’ part, posting a win against a Bobcat team in its first year in the ECACHL that had posted only a 3-13-4 record in conference play may not have seemed like a daunting task at first. However, it turned out to be more than difficult.

After a scoreless first period, the Bears took the lead at 14:25 when Zucker banged home Drover’s rebound for a power play goal. That score stood until the second intermission.

Despite the lack of offense for the first two periods, the teams broke out for five third-period goals. Quinnipiac tied the score at one in the second minute, the first of three equalizers for the Bobcats. Brown scored two more goals, by Zucker and Moore, to finish regulation tied at 3, both of which Quinnipiac matched. After a scoreless overtime, the Bears collected a point, which, combined with Harvard’s game-winner with one second remaining in overtime ,gave them the home ice they had sought.

Brown will play host to the sixth seed, Dartmouth, in the first round of the ECACHL tournament. Brown won the first meeting between the teams 3-0, then tied the Big Green 3-3 up in New Hampshire. The Big Green finished with a 9-8-3 record in the ECACHL but is just one season removed from a trip the NCAA Frozen Four.

In order to come up with a win, the Bears will have to reverse their late-season momentum and halt the Big Green’s. Dartmouth had won its last three games before falling to first-place St. Lawrence University Saturday. “(Dartmouth) has been tough as of late,” Murphy said. “They’re a very formidable opponent. We’ll have to bring our ‘A’ game to beat them.”

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M. icers continued from page 12 the puck in front of the Princeton goal and pushed it past Tigers goaltender Eric Leroux for a 1-0 Brown lead.

Princeton was able to tie the game at one with six seconds left in the second period. With forward Brian Carthas pushing the puck up the right side, Kevin Westgarth streaked in on the goal and pushed Carthas’ centering pass by goalkeeper Adam D’Alba ’08.

“We’ve given up tough goals all season,” said forward Joe Bauer ’06. “We told ourselves that we (had) to respond to that (score) and had to forget about it.”

It was clear that Brown had regained its focus on its first power play opportunity of the final period. After a Princeton clear, Hurley found forward Brian McNary ’08 along the left side.

McNary hit forward Eric Slais ’09 with a beautiful pass in front of the net, and Slais hit the back of the net to give Brown back the lead.

Princeton also took advantage of its first power play chance in the final period when Westgarth scored his second goal of the night, making it 2-2 at the 6:08 mark. When the Bears were unable to reset their defense following the goal, forward Mark Masters put the Tigers in front 3-2 just 33 seconds later.

Yet Brown did not throw in the towel. Seven minutes after Princeton’s third goal, forward Antonin Roux ’07 hustled for the rebound after his wraparound was stopped. Roux fed a pass across the crease to Matt Vokes ’09 at the left post, and Vokes backhanded a shot past Leroux to knot the score at three.

There were relatively few scoring chances for either side in the period’s final seven minutes,

and the game went to overtime.

Princeton had the best chance at a game-winner, but Stuart dove in front of the shot. Brown had its seventh tie of the season, and a good one at that.

“The guys really battled through,” Grillo said. “We have to play like we did in spurts tonight, and the things we did well we have to continue.”

The Bears seemed to take Grillo’s advice to heart, completely taking over the first period of their Senior Night tilt with Quinnipiac. At the 9:21 mark, with four seconds left on Bruno’s first power play, defenseman and alternate captain Paul Crosty ’06 sent a slap shot from the left point that worked its way through traffic and past Bobcats goalie Bud Fisher to give Brown a 1-0 lead. The goal was Crosty’s first of the season.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Crosty said. “It’s just good to help the team.”

On the Bears’ second power play opportunity five minutes later, Jeff Prough ’08 crashed the net and had his shot stopped while he was falling down. From his backside, Prough beat Fisher top shelf to put the hosts up two.

“It was just instinct,” Prough said. “The puck was there and I tried to whack it as hard as I could.”

Brown went up 3-0 when Slais scored his second goal of the weekend. After forward Ryan Garbutt ’09’s wrist shot was stopped by Fisher, Slais collected the rebound and put the puck into the net.

Quinnipiac finally got on the board five minutes into the second period when forward Mark Van Vliet’s wraparound attempt found forward David Marshall.

The Bobcats continued to attack, but with five minutes left in the period, Garbutt skated in and sent a wrist shot through

Fisher’s five-hole, becoming the third member of his line — along with Prough and Slais — to score on the night.

Quinnipiac defenseman Matt Sorteberg scored 2:30 into the final period to make it 4-2. Fisher was pulled again late in the third period, and the Bobcats took advantage of the extra attacker when forward Brian Leitch’s shot from the right face-off circle deflected off Stuart and in to cut Brown’s lead to one.

On the subsequent faceoff, with Fisher still pulled, Roux won the puck to Prough. Prough fired a shot from behind center ice that trickled into the empty net, clinching Brown’s first win since Jan. 10 and first conference triumph since Nov. 12.

The top line of Prough, Slais and Garbutt was clearly the difference in the game as the trio combined for four goals and nine points.

“We’ve got a lot of speed and we’re looking to make plays,” Prough said of his line. “Other than that, we’ve just been working hard.”

At the conclusion of the game, Brown honored its six seniors — Bauer, Crosty, goalkeeper Kevin Kliman ’06, defenseman Pete LeCain ’06, forward Rugo Santini ’06 and defenseman Adam Tichauer ’06. Although it was a less-than-ideal regular season for the six, they are still ready to make a run in the ECACHL playoffs, which starts next weekend when the Bears travel to St. Lawrence University for a best-of-three, first-round series.

“This season’s been an emotional one with a lot of ups and downs,” Crosty said. “But we know we can beat anyone.”

W. hoops continued from page 12 Barton ’06 started the game, the first time this season all four had been on the court together.

“It was definitely a very important and special moment to get all the ladies of 2006 on the court together,” Hayes said.

Cornell was playing without star freshman Jeomi Maduka, who was competing at the Heptagonal Championships for the school’s track and field team.

Maduka, who has been named Ivy League Rookie of the Week seven times this season, leads the team with 15.1 and 7.9 rebounds per game.

Brown used a half-court trap to stymie the Big Red, eventually reeling off a 23-2 run to grab an insurmountable 29-11 lead with just over five minutes before intermission.

Cornell also shot very poorly

due to Bruno’s stingy defense, making just five of its 22 attempts in the first half, as Brown built a 17-point halftime lead, 38-21.

The second half was more of the same, as the Cornell guards were continually frustrated by the Bruno defense. “We started to really execute the half-court trap very well in the second half,” Vocell said.

Burr liberally substituted from her bench for the entire second half, as all 15 players on the roster saw game action.

Hayes tied for the game high with 19 points on 6-of-8 shooting, while Kelly chipped in nine points. Vocell added eight and a team-high three assists, while Lena McAfee ’07 came just two points shy of her first career double-double, scoring eight points and grabbing a seasonhigh 10 rebounds.

The Bears will hit the road for the final weekend of the season, traveling south to take on Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2006 · PAGE 10

STAFF EDITORIAL

Mid-year misfire Last week, we criticized the Undergraduate Council of Students for sending out mass e-mails of questionable relevance for much of the student body. But this should not have been interpreted as an invitation to squander $1,000 in printing a mid-year report that was outdated and riddled with errors. It’s too bad this occurred on the very weekend the Corporation approved a UCS-requested hike in the student activities fee paid by all undergraduates.

This latest mini-drama underscores several oft-heard criticisms of UCS that might prevent students from taking an active interest in its members and operations — in particular, that it is a dysfunctional, secretive body prone to infighting that undermines its ability to represent its constituents.

That the mid-year report was printed in the first place was a complete lapse in efficiency and oversight. Common sense dictates that someone should have proofread the document before ordering a run of copies to be distributed to the student body, particularly given the amount of money involved.

The content of the report calls into question how anyone stood to gain from its publication. On two pages, its author managed to condense the work of five committees, relying on broad bullet points such as “Develop Brown winter ‘J-term’ beginning with opportunities for Winter ’05.” Unfortunately, such information would probably be of little interest to a student receiving the mid-year report in February 2006.

The following three pages feature the names, positions and contact information of UCS members. Even if much of this hadn’t been negated by an internal re-shuffling of senior positions earlier this semester, we have to wonder whether Kate Brockwehl ’08 was the only member to question: “Are we really that arrogant as to want our names in enormous text spread over three pages and crass enough to actually do it?”

More frustrating than the inefficiency and lack of substance highlighted by the report, the actions of UCS Communications Chair Michael Thompson ’07 would likely offend even the council’s most enthusiastic supporters.

“No one who doesn’t now have an electronic or paper copy of the midyear report will ever be able to get one,” Thompson wrote in an internal e-mail, later adding, “I doubt anyone on UCS will ever see them again.” This apparent attempt to cover up the blunder does much to undermine UCS’s recent attempts to create a reputation of transparency, honesty and, well, significance.

It’s been a rough start to the semester for UCS. However, we believe most of its members genuinely want to improve life for undergraduates as well as students’ perception of the council. We urge Academic and Administrative Affairs Chair Tristan Freeman ’07 to follow through on his vow to inform students about UCS “without using any more of students’ money.” This would be a small but necessary step in the right direction.

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD EDITORIAL Robbie Corey-Boulet, Editor-in-Chief Justin Elliott, Executive Editor Ben Miller, Executive Editor Stephanie Clark, Senior Editor Katie Lamm, Senior Editor Jonathan Sidhu, Arts & Culture Editor Jane Tanimura, Arts & Culture Editor Stu Woo, Campus Watch Editor Mary-Catherine Lader, Features Editor Ben Leubsdorf, Metro Editor Anne Wootton, Metro Editor Eric Beck, News Editor Patrick Harrison, Opinions Editor Nicholas Swisher, Opinions Editor Stephen Colelli, Sports Editor Christopher Hatfield, Sports Editor Justin Goldman, Asst. Sports Editor Jilane Rodgers, Asst. Sports Editor Charlie Vallely, Asst. Sports Editor PRODUCTION Allison Kwong, Design Editor Taryn Martinez, Copy Desk Chief Lela Spielberg, Copy Desk Chief Mark Brinker, Graphics Editor Joe Nagle, Graphics Editor

JOESPH NAGLE

LETTERS Herald’s T.F. Green coverage instructive To the Editor: I wish to commend the staff at The Herald for the balanced article (“Public access television show blasts T.F. Green Airport for pollution,” Feb. 23) on some of the public’s concerns about T.F. Green Airport.

I am a concerned, airport-affected citizen who has served on the frontlines for citizen advocacy in airport operations and planning over the past six years. While I openly express my sincere appreciation to The Herald, I would also express my disappointment to note that this article represents an apparent exception to the rule when it comes to any public display of criticism of T.F. Green Airport. There remains much to criticize publicly about the administration of our state’s airports by individuals who appear to place private economic development schemes above the essential rights and safety of the public and the protection of our delicate environment, including Narransett Bay. To those closest to the situation, the state appears to be heading toward a possible human, environmental and fiscal crisis of unparalleled magnitude. Unjust, abusive and manipulative

conditions already exist beyond the gates of T.F. Green Airport. These publicly reported conditions have been essentially and/or effectively ignored by our state and federal leaders to date. Time is of the essence for increased public concern. Hopefully, this will not be the last reporting by The Herald of grave public concerns about T.F. Green Airport’s operations in the heart of a densely residential land use area that tens of thousands of Rhode Island citizens call home. The state’s largely-uninformed citizens and elected officials could greatly benefit from an accurate, independent reporting of existing conditions. I am quite confident that a careful, closer look at reality will raise alarming concerns among your readers about many existing conditions which, when viewed in total, appear to indicate grossly insufficient oversight of our state airport planning and operations systems.

Raleigh Jenkins Acting President, Concerned Airport Neighborhoods (CAN) Feb. 23

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CO R R E C T I O N S An article in Thursday’s Herald (“UCS calls for Sudan divestment, debates pluses/minuses at length,” Feb. 23) incorrectly reported that Undergraduate Council of Students Vice President Zachary Townsend ’08 and Tristan Freeman ’07, chair of the Academic and Administrative Affairs Committee, were the sole authors of a resolution opposing the addition of pluses and minuses to the University’s grading system. Secretary Sara Damiano ’08 and Kate Brockwehl ’08, an at-large representative, assisted in drafting the proposal. The same article incorrectly attributed a statement to Freeman regarding the University’s need to target specific companies as part of its potential divestment decision.

An article in Friday’s Herald (“New take on spring break for women’s rugby team,” Feb. 24) incorrectly attributed a quote from captain Jennifer Hustwitt ’07 regarding setbacks the team encountered while fundraising to Head Coach Kerrissa Heffernan.

An article in Friday’s Herald (“Game over: Games House votes to voluntarily dissolve due to lack of membership,” Feb. 24) incorrectly reported that Cooking House will occupy Games House’s current space in Olney next fall. Space for Cooking House has not yet been identified, according to Tal Itzkovich ’06, chair of ResCouncil’s Program House Committee.

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OPINIONS

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2006 · PAGE 11

A modest proposal Brown students share few, if any, academic experiences — it’s time for a change

BY JOEY BORSON OPINIONS COLUMNIST

Last winter break, I spent a night watching the Orange Bowl. Now, I like football, but this was a painfully long four hour saga distinguished only by blown opportunities, mediocre gameplay and a general lack of excitement — at least to me. But I was watching with a room full of Penn State students, who watched their team with a captivation that I had never seen before. Their school was playing on the national stage, and they, along with 40,000 other undergraduates, were cheering their team on together.

Brown simply does not have any equivalent where the entire school is unified behind a common focus; when our football team won the Ivy League Championship, the general reaction of the student body, including myself, was, “Oh, good for them.

Can you pass the salt?” Our lack of academic requirements is a wonderful asset for the pursuit of intellectual knowledge, and yet it prevents any sort of common experience through taking a course alongside the entire first-year (or senior) class. The Undergraduate Council of Students and the Special Events Committee may regularly have campus-wide events, but they are attended by perhaps a 10th of Brown’s population, half of whom are only there to steal the food.

In our search for a sense of

togetherness, the unique traits of our curriculum are usually the first thing to be mentioned. But Brown is hindered by the very device which helps define it. The New Curriculum, established in 1969, allows for great freedom in crafting an education. But that flexibility comes at a price. Since no student is told what to take, there is no common curricular experience that all students can share. And without that experience, we, as a University, lose out.

Brown’s dogma (anything which has been spoken of as fact without question for 35 years, and has its own patron saint in the form of Ira Magaziner ’69, deserves that name) holds the view that each student should be allowed to study whatever interests them in whatever sequence they choose. Unofficially, support for the New Curriculum rests with two propsitions: first, the ability not to take math (or science, history or any other undesired subject) ever again, and second, the fact that any changes to that premise would constitute a betrayal of that entry agreement. There is always talk about looking anew at the curriculum, talk which has recently been applied to the plus/minus debate. But now, nearly four decades into the “New” Curriculum, might it be time to replace that talk with action? I believe it is.

If we as a University are serious about creating a common point of discussion and learning, and if we are serious about continued institutional self-reflection, we should create courses that the entire first-year class — all 1,400 students

— can take at once. This is not a new idea; it encompasses proposals to have more and better defined “introductory” courses, as well as incorporates a theme behind first-year seminars: that of integrating students into the Brown community.

This isn’t a re-invention of the wheel — large courses of several hundred, such as CH 33: “Equilibrium, Rate, and Change” or EC 11: “Principles of Economics,” already exist and already have proven successful at encouraged students to cooperate, coordinate and work together. For students wishing to expand their social horizons, or to make new friends, these courses can be a blessing. And for students just wishing to learn the material, the ability to turn to your roommate or next-door neighbor and talk about a problem or a topic can prove very helpful.

These classes do not have to be a permanent fixture, and they should not be required — but they should be available, and they should be tried. If they fail, students will still have taken what has hopefully been a well-designed and interesting course. But if they succeed, and if this effort overcomes the institutional inertia which would oppose such a development, then Brown might, finally, be able to have a common point of reference. Either way, everyone will have a universal thing to complain about — and a universal Brown experience.

RecycleMania has been proclaimed!

From Feb. 4 to April 8, Brown will wage an epic battle with 93 schools to decide who can be the most “green.”

In last year’s contest, of all the Ivies participating, we only beat Yale and Dartmouth. Environmentalists on campus have vigorously promoted recycling as both cost-effective and beneficial to the environment.

Yet again, the typical Brunonian political melodrama is being played out. A group of idealists propose an emotionally palatable initiative, adopted without question by the student body. In reality, recycling programs are usually not costeffective, and in many cases they actually hurt, rather than help, the environment.

Recycling is not profitable for communities for many reasons. First, large amounts of time must be spent sorting the recyclables initially. The city must then spend the money to have trash collectors pick up each additional bin. Costs are added on as the waste is transported to and processed in the recycling factories.

Once you add on the final cost of bringing the goods back to market as well as the bureaucratic costs, it seems reasonable that businesses would have no interest in buying highly priced recycled goods, and indeed they don’t. This was the dilemma the Environmental Protection Agency faced when it first established percentage goals for the amount of recycled products used by businesses. The environmentalists, clinging to their self-justified moral superiority, promptly forced the businesses to buy the recycled goods.

So just how much money is being lost when communities pursue recycling rather than resorting to landfills? In some

cases, depending on the availability and cost of landfill space, recycling is the best option. However, in most cases it is more efficient to resort to landfills.

New York City spends $200 more per ton of waste to have it recycled than it would if it were simply placed in a landfill. The labor and time costs to sort and clean the recyclables drive up the cost per ton of waste to an estimated $3,000. As incomes rise in the future, the costs of sorting and cleaning recycling will increase because people’s time will become more valuable. Cities around the country are facing this problem, but they are unable to act because of the culturally entrenched pro-recycling rhetoric. Recycling has become an end in itself, and shame on you should you question its benefits.

The prospect of using landfills raises some environmental concerns.

First, the environmental movement’s alarmist rhetoric on the availability of landfill space is completely unfounded.

According to A. Clark Wiseman, an economist at Gonzaga University, if garbage production rates remain constant for the next 1,000 years, all that garbage could be placed in a landfill 100 yards deep and 35 miles on each side. This landfill would occupy only .000199 percent of the nation’s area — hardly an imposition. There are legitimate health concerns concerning the runoff from landfills. However, according to the EPA, the vast majority of landfills pose a negligible health risk. True, there are some bad apples, but those can be rooted out through adequate federal regulation that would come at a lesser cost than mandated recycling programs. In those cases where the costs of placing waste in a landfill are too high, businesses will resort to recycling. In this manner, you

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are getting rid of the same amount of waste, but in a more efficient way.

No one ever considers that in many cases recycling proves detrimental to the environment. To environmental groups, recycling has become an end in itself.

In almost every evaluation of recycling programs, the issue of environmental and monetary costs is skirted by looking at the gross benefits of recycling without subtracting the gross costs. This is further distorted by the fact that environmentalists often place a nearly infinite value on the environment. The result is that even though recycling a ton of newsprint produces an additional 5,000 gallons of waste water, these costs are ignored in favor of looking solely at the perceived environmental benefit of re-using the paper, which of course is estimated to be quite high. It is this irresponsibility with numbers that has produced the mindboggling pro-recycling statistics that are pounded into the heads of fourth graders around the country.

So, instead of participation in programs that could potentially hurt the environment and economy — such as Recyclemania — I propose a new set of measures. First, ramp up environmental regulations on both landfills and on recycling operations to whatever level is deemed socially acceptable. This will make sure that no matter what option is taken, the environment will be protected as we see fit. Second, once the regulations are in place, lift the recycling mandates and allow the free market to decide how much recycling will occur. With these measures, the environment will be protected in the most cost-effective way possible.

Jason Carr ’09 has a vendetta against trees.

Will Guzzardi ’09 and Nick Greenfield ’09 think Tehran is trouble.

Joey Borson ’07 has, on occasion, stolen food from free events.

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BY WILL GUZZARDI AND NICK GREENFIELD Biological agents, nerve gas, dirty bombs and other scary weapons get all the press these days, but the weapon with the most destructive power remains the nuclear weapon. Though the attention paid to nuclear threats has waned, the danger of nuclear arms has only increased in the years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Much of this danger is the fault of horizontal proliferation — the possession of nuclear arms by a wider number of states. While the bipolar structure of the Cold War guaranteed stability, an increasing number of ad hoc coalitions and rogue states offers no such security.

Proliferation is most dangerous when the recipient nation is in an unstable region.

One of the most worrisome examples of this is proliferation in Iran.

In Michal Zapendowski ’07’s column (“Public ready to invade Iran,” Feb. 16) he suggests that allowing Iran to acquire nuclear weapons would stabilize the Middle East, citing the examples of the Cold War and India and Pakistan’s dispute over Kashmir. However, these instances misconstrue the sinister nature of proliferation to Iran.

Iran possesses the Shahab-3 missile, a rocket with sufficient range that any nuclear warheads Iran might develop could certainly reach Israel. This capability would be tremendously destabilizing. Even more dangerous is the prospect that Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations backed

by Iran might strike Israel without fear of reprisal. Israel would certainly be more reluctant to attack terrorist camps within Syria’s borders if the threat of nuclear escalation were on the table.

Even attempted acquisition of nuclear arms by Iran could cause serious tension with Israel. It’s quite likely that Israel, realizing the potential threat of Iranian nuclear weapons, would opt for a preemptive strike to disable Iran’s nascent nuclear program. In fact, Israel undertook a similar move in 1981, destroying Iraqi nuclear reactors to slow that country’s nuclear development. Such a move could easily lead to a serious international crisis or even war.

Zapendowski also argues that “launching a nuclear weapon is a decision that no modern state ... is willing to take,” an argument based on the assumption that all states behave as rational actors.

However, what is rational varies among states and circumstances. This, combined with miscalculations of the international political situation, can lead to a wide spectrum of possible “rational” actions.

The Norwegian rocket incident in 1995 is a perfect example of this. Russia, thinking a Norwegian weather satellite was the beginning of a nuclear attack, nearly launched a massive retaliatory strike.

Such miscalculations by nuclear weapons states are extremely dangerous, and states in which the decision-making powers are concentrated in one man’s hands — autocracies like Iran — are even more likely to make such errors.

History is an important guide to action.

But it is wrong to assume that precedent will hold forever. The precedent of nuclear non-use is still fragile. Principles that seem to hold firm for bipolar power structures such as the Cold War or the India-Pakistan standoff cannot be applied to the complex balance of power in the Middle East. To do so, and to allow Iran to develop nuclear arms, is foolish and potentially deadly.

Why I’m not recycling

BY JASON CARR

Halt nuclear proliferation

SPORTS MONDAY THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FEBRUARY 27, 2006 · PAGE 12

W. basketball caps undefeated home season, routs N.Y. Ivies

One up, one down once again for men’s basketball

BY JUSTIN GOLDMAN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

BY CHARLIE VALLELY ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

With easy wins against Columbia and Cornell this weekend, combined with Princeton’s defeat of Dartmouth on Friday, the firstplace women’s basketball team now controls its own destiny.

The wins also give Brown its first undefeated home season in Ivy League play since the 1983-84 season.

Both the Tigers and Big Green sit a game and a half behind the Bears with one full weekend of competition left. A win Friday at Princeton would clinch a share of the title for the Bears, their first since 1993.

“Being on this court this last time has been a surreal feeling,” said Sarah Hayes ’06 after Saturday’s win. “I don’t think it has hit me that I won’t play another game here.”

On Friday night, the Bears got off to a sluggish start, but then went on a 17-3 stretch to open up a 28-14 lead. During that span, Hayes scored six points, including two put-back layups in heavy traffic.

The Lions answered Brown’s run by knocking down two three-pointers to trim the lead to 28-20 at the half.

“Our defense was not as sharp as it usually is in the first

The men’s basketball team, which has played up-and-down basketball all season, split its weekend games for the fifth time in six weeks of Ivy League play.

The Bears fell to Columbia 68-56 Friday in New York City, shooting only 35.8 percent from the field and suffering an eightminute scoreless drought in the first half. But the Bears bounced back Saturday, beating Cornell on its home floor by a score of 69-64, as forward Scott Friske ’09 broke out of a conferenceschedule slump with 23 points.

Now 9-16 overall and 5-7 in the Ivy League, the Bears split their season series with both the Lions (4-8, 11-14) and Big Red (6-6, 11-15). The Bears have now played five Ivy League opponents two times — and split the season series with all of them.

“We had a really good opportunity to win both of the games again,” said forward

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Sarah Hayes ’06 ensured that the Bears finished their home schedule undefeated for the first time in over two decades by pouring in 43 total points in two games this weekend. half,” said Head Coach Jean Marie Burr.

Much like the first time against the Lions, a 62-39 win on Feb. 11, the Bears began to open things up in the second half. The first time around, Brown outscored the Lions 214 to put the game away. Friday night, a more modest 15-7 spurt was enough to push the margin to 42-27 with just under 16 minutes left to play. During that stretch, Brown turned up its trademark pressure defense,

Heptagonals a success for men’s and women’s squads The men’s and the women’s track teams put on impressive performances this weekend at the indoor track and field Heptagonal Championships.

The women finished in third place with 75 points, just 10 behind second-place Columbia. The men came in fourth and captured four individual crowns.

Runners set the pace for both squads at Heps. Paul Raymond ’08, a football player who recently began running track, took first place in the men’s 60-meter dash with a time of 6.85 seconds.

Raymond’s teammate, Dallas Dissmore ’06, also picked up a win in the 500-meter dash in 1:02.55, almost two full seconds in front of the second-place finisher from Cornell. Captain Jake Golenor ’06 won the shot put easily, out-throwing Yale’s

John Langhauser by over two feet.

On the women’s side, Brown’s 4x800-meter relay team cruised to a threesecond victory on the efforts of Smita Gupta ’08, Naja Ferjan ’07, Kelly Powell ’06 and Anna Willard ’06.

A few Bears even made their way into the record books on Saturday. Brittany Grovey ’06 smashed the women’s triple jump record for Heps with a mark of 43 feet, 4 1/2 inches. High jumper Ray Bobrownicki ’06 took his event for the third straight year, becoming only the third person to ever win the men’s high jump three straight times at indoor Heps.

See tomorrow’s Herald for more Heps coverage.

—Stephen Colelli

BROWN SPORTS SCHEDULE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 M. BASKETBALL: Columbia 68, Brown 56 W. BASKETBALL: Brown 69, Columbia 48 M. HOCKEY: Brown 3, Princeton 3 W. HOCKEY: Princeton 3, Brown 2 W. SQUASH: Yale 9, Brown 0 ( at Howe Cup) W. WATER POLO: No. 11 UC Santa Barbara 11, Brown 6 (Gaucho Invitational) SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 M. BASKETBALL: Brown 69, Cornell 64 W. BASKETBALL: Brown 65, Cornell 52 EQUESTRIAN: Brown 33, UConn 29 M. HOCKEY: Brown 5, Quinnipiac 3 W. HOCKEY: Brown 3, Quinnipiac 3 M. LACROSSE: UMBC 6, Brown 4 W. LACROSSE: Brown 14, Sacred Heart 4 SKIING: 4th (at NCAA Regional Event) W. SQUASH: Dartmouth 8, Brown 1 (at Howe Cup) W. SWIMMING: 6th out of 8 (Ivy League

Championships) W. TENNIS: No. 24 South Carolina 5, Brown 2 W. WATER POLO: No. 1 Southern California 17, Brown 4; Arizona State 11, Brown 3 (Guacho Invitational) SUNDAY , FEBRUARY 26 GYMNASTICS: 4th (at Ivy Classic) SKIING: 1st (at ECSC Regionals) W. SQUASH: Brown 6, Williams 3 (7th place game at Howe Cup) M. TRACK: 4th out of 8 (Heptagonal Championships) W. TRACK: 3rd out of 8 (Heptagonal Championships) W. WATER POLO: Michigan 12, Brown 2; UC Davis 13, Brown 1 (Gaucho Invitational) MONDAY , FEBRUARY 27 SKIING: ECSC Regionals (Waterville Valley, N.H.)

continually forcing turnovers and frustrating the Lion guards.

In particular, guards Colleen Kelly ’06, Anne O’Neal ’08 and Hayes led the defensive pressure, Burr said.

Brown coasted the rest of the second half en route to a 69-48 victory. Hayes led all scorers with 24 points, one shy of her career high. She also grabbed 10 rebounds for the second game in a row. Kelly was the only other player in double figures, scoring 10 for Brown.

Burr attributed the team’s good execution as the reason it could stretch the lead. “I was surprised at how well we executed in the half court,” she said. “Normally, everything flows better for us when we turn the other team over and get in transition, but today we were very good in the half court.”

On Saturday night, Brown honored its quartet of seniors at their final game at the Pizzitola Center. The foursome of Hayes, Kelly, Jackie Vocell ’06 and Julia see W. HOOPS, page 9

Keenan Jeppesen ’08. “Every win you get feels really good, but … our goal (is) to get to the point where we’re not satisfied with splits, we’re only satisfied with sweeps.”

Two weeks after scoring a season-high 86 points against the Lions, the Bears’ offense faltered out of the gate, hitting only seven of 23 shots (30.4 percent) in the first half and scoring only 21 points. “(Columbia) did a good job of mixing their man and zone (defenses) up and that gave us some trouble,” Jeppesen said.

“But other than that, we just didn’t make the plays we needed to.”

The Bears did, however, jump to an early lead, as guard Damon Huffman ’08 sank three straight three-pointers to give the Bears an 11-4 advantage with 15:20 on the clock. But the Lions responded with an 18-2 run, holding the Bears scoreless see M. HOOPS, page 8

W. icers lose Ivy title but gain ECACHL home ice

BY TOM TRUDEAU SPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s ice hockey team had a discouraging final weekend of regular season play. The Bears first fell 3-2 to No. 6 Princeton, squandering their opportunity to share the Ivy League title, then skated to a 3-3 tie against Quinnipiac University, one of the weakest teams in the ECACHL. Despite the disappointing results, Brown’s early season success, combined with Clarkson University’s loss to Harvard, affords the team third place in the conference — good for home ice in the first round. The Bears capped

an otherwise impressive season with a sub-par finish, winning just one of their final seven games.

Bruno finished its regular season with a 10-6-4 record (12-12-5 overall).

“We need to play like we can,” said captain Ashlee Drover ’06.

“We have to show up ready to play, stay consistent and keep our focus, because when we do that we’re unbeatable.”

Brown traveled to Princeton, N.J. for the first game of the weekend knowing that a win would give it a share of the Ivy League title. Playing without see W. ICERS, page 8

Men’s icers snap winless skid in style with tie, win

BY CHRIS MAHR SPORTS STAFF WRITER

For several weeks, the men’s ice hockey team has talked about putting a difficult regular season behind it and shifting its collective focus to the ECACHL playoffs. The team’s wait is finally over, and it will head into the postseason with momentum following a solid 3-3 tie against Princeton on Friday and a 5-3 victory over Quinnipiac University on Saturday.

“We’ve played good hockey but haven’t been rewarded,” said Head Coach Roger Grillo following the win over Quinnipiac. “Tonight we did the little things well, and now we’re looking forward to the playoffs.”

At the start of Friday’s contest, both the Bears and Tigers had trouble establishing offensive rhythm. Brown got its first break

Ashley Hess / Herald

Eric Slais ’09 had four points in two games this weekend. In a 5-3 win over Quinnipiac on Saturday that broke Brown’s 12-game winless streak, Slais had a goal and two assists. after Princeton forward Patrick Neundorfer and defenseman Mike Stuart ’09 got into a scuffle.

Nuendorfer was called for interference and unsportsmanlike conduct, while Stuart was only

called for roughing. Less than 30 seconds into the five-on-four power play, defenseman Sean Hurley ’08 won possession of see M. ICERS, page 9