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Nearly 40 journalists, soldiers, Marines, activists, authors, bloggers, filmmakers, professors and dedicated students gathered on campus this weekend to discuss coverage of the war in Iraq and the importance of firsthand accounts of war as keys to the public’s understanding of the war.

“Front Lines, First Person: Iraq War Stories,” a two-day conference sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies, brought together some of the world’s most celebrated chroniclers of war and packed them into the Joukowsky Forum for hours of discussion and debate, hoping to create “bridges for conversation” across the fault lines between soldiers and civilians.

“Progress doesn’t take place in the university, in the military or in political circles through blind consent,” said Professor of International Studies James Der Derian, one of the conference’s organizers. “It only happens through contestation — dissent with a willingness to listen to the other.”

Six two-hour sessions Friday and Saturday allowed attendees to hear a wide range of perspectives from 20 panelists, including award-winning blogger and Iraq war veteran Colby Buzzell, military blogger Matthew Burden — aka “Blackfive” — and Deborah Scranton ’84, whose recent film “The War Tapes” won the Tribeca Film Festival’s “Best Documentary” honors and was shortlisted for an Oscar nomination.

In a Saturday morning session on “Reporters and Rapport,” Charles Monroe-Kane, a producer for National Public Radio, praised public media outlets such as NPR over commercially owned media outlets for capturing more personal, in-depth war stories without being “beholden to a Pepsi commercial.”

Members of the Senate, when they approved the use of force in Iraq and, especially, in Afghanistan, had little information about what they were vot-

of President Bush’s policies that threaten women’s rights. The sarcastically toned film included criticisms of abstinence-only sexual education in schools, the withdrawal of millions of dollars in funding from reproductive health clinics nationwide and the Global Gag Rule, a policy that places restrictions on family planning on an international scale.

Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, ex-

U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal ’91.5, R-La., was elected governor of Louisiana Saturday with 54 percent of the vote in an open primary. A former Rhodes Scholar, consultant and congressman, Jindal is the first American of Indian descent elected to a gubernatorial position.

He is also the first to win an open seat outright in Louisiana since 1975, when the state adopted a unique electoral system in which all candidates run against each other in a primary regardless of party. If no candidate garners over 50 percent of the vote, the top two candidates will continue to a run-off.

Jindal’s main competitors in the race were Walter Boasso, a state senator who switched from the Republican to Democratic party in order to run, and businessman John Georges, who also left the Republican Party to run as an independent.

With all precincts reporting, Boasso made the strongest showing among Jindal’s competitors, with 17 percent of the vote.

Jindal will be Louisiana’s first non-white governor since Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback, a black man who held the position for several weeks in 1872 and 1873.

At only 36 years old, Jindal will be the youngest governor in the nation when he takes office in January 2008.

In 2003, Jindal ran for governor but lost to Democrat Kathleen Blanco, who decided not to run for re-election this year after she was widely criticized for her handling of post-Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts. Katrina also cast a wide shadow on the race in the form of the state’s voting population. The total number of voters dropped from 1.4 million in the 2003 gubernatorial race to 1.3 million this year, including a drop from 121,841 to 75,880 voters in New Orleans alone, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported Oct. 21.

Jindal’s victory speech was a mes-

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DJ and producer RJD2 performed solo Friday night as part of the Brown Concert Agency’s fall show.

Politics of ‘hope’ lure Obama supporters

By Brianna Barzola Staf f Writer

“Fired Up and Ready to Go!” chanted the group of students at a crowded Blue State Coffee on Saturday, Oct. 13. Over the course of the night, about 150 students flooded the cafe for “Barack the Mic,” an event hosted by the Brown chapter of Students for Barack Obama. The SFBO was started last spring and is one of about 600 national chapters.

The national SFBO, which is

part of the national campaign organization of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., began as a Facebook group and quickly earned a large following of students who began

FEATURE forming chapters on college campuses nationwide. Because of its quick growth, SFBO was made an official part of the Obama campaign. Sean Eldridge ’09, who worked for the SFBO as national director of development, wanted

Brown to have its own chapter.

He and Adam Axler ’08 founded Brown’s chapter last spring.

“Student groups are usually a separate entity from campaigns, and as far as I know this has never been done,” Eldridge said. “We also wanted to get a headstart on the other campaign groups on campus by starting early.”

The group met during the summer and elected Max Chaiken ’09 as chapter coordinator. continued on page 5

Feminist conference attracts crowd

By Stefanie Angstadt Staff Writer

About 130 student feminist activists from 20 colleges in the region came together at Brown on Saturday with global leaders on women’s rights and members of the Providence community to share thoughts and experiences and to discuss ways to fight gender inequality. The conference, entitled the “Global Leadership Summit: Eliminating Violence, Empowering Women,” featured an array of lectures and workshops

and was co-hosted by the Brown Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and its affiliate, the Feminist Majority Foundation.

Prompted by the success of February’s “Active Bodies, Active Minds: Young Women Making Change” conference on gender equality, the conference kicked off and concluded in Salomon 001.

Its smaller workshops were held throughout Salomon Center.

The day began with a screening of “Global Majority ... Again,” a short film condemning several

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Over 800 disciplinary violations reported last year

By Allison Wentz Contributing Writer

Over 800 alleged violations of the non-academic disciplinary code were processed from July 2006 to June 2007, according to an August 2007 report released by the Office of Student Life. OSL annually makes public a report detailing the resolutions of alleged violations of the University’s Standards of Student Conduct.

Cases are referred to either non-disciplinary or disciplinary dispositions. Non-disciplinary dispositions handle less severe infractions through warnings, mediations or

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Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, Matthew Burden and Eric Rodriguez ’08 discuss the experiences and blogs of soldiers stationed in Iraq.

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FLOWERS OF PRAISE A colloquium celebrating the 150 years of Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” was held on campus.

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BUZZELL ON BLOGS Colby Buzzell, Iraq war military blogger, speaks to The Herald about being praised

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dean’s conferences. Other cases are heard by the Peer Community Standards Board, deans of student life, the University Disciplinary Council or an administrative hearing officer, depending on the nature and severity of the violation.

Two hundred and eighty-six cases were resolved through disciplinary dispositions in the 2006-2007 academic year. Most of these disciplinary resolutions were handled by dean’s hearings, according to the report.

Dean’s hearings resolve cases such as underage drinking, harassment, behavior of a guest and damage to University property and can result in

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MEMORIES OF BHUTTO Maha Atal ‘08 considers former Pakistani P.M. Benazir Bhutto, “Sex and the City” and feminism.

sanctions ranging from a warning to deferred suspension.

Non-disciplinary dispositions were used in 577 cases in the 2006-2007 academic year — 340 more than the previous year. Associate Dean of Student Life Terry Addison said this spike is due to a “huge increase in the number of copyright cases.”

The University is attempting to crack down on illegal downloading of music and movies because of the risk such downloading places on both the student and the University, Addison said. Students receive a warning letter for first offenses and may lose continued on page 5

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FOOTBALL FALLS The football team blew a 31-14 lead against Cornell on Saturday, ultimately falling 38-31.

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The worst name for a party? Poopstock

By Ben Hyman Contributing Writer

T-shirts sporting the words “Poopstock 2007: ‘that’s a horrible name for a party’ ” perfectly captured the slightly irreverent, do-it-yourself aesthetic of the neighborhood-blockparty-for-a-cause that took place on Saturday at the intersection of George and Ives streets.

“We silk-screened them ourselves,” said Sarah Grenzeback ’07.5, one of Poopstock’s organizers. “The idea is to help support Caitie Whelan (’07.5) and the (Merasi) school in whatever way we can.”

This June, Whelan opened the Merasi School in Rajasthan, India, “to provide a community-based education that gives each student the opportunity to ignite and sustain constructive change for the Merasi,” according to the group’s Web site.

The school attempts to counter the caste-based marginalization that threatens the Merasi culture.

To help the Merasi School, where Whelan still serves as director, raise money to reach its current fundraising goal of $15,000, Whelan’s housemates and neighbors decided to organize a party that featured live music, a cake contest and a bike show.

“A group of seven or eight of us started talking about it about a month ago,” said Hannah PepperCunningham ’08. Describing how this idea turned into a reality, PepperCunningham added, “Snowballed would be a very good term.”

Poopstock’s unconventional name came to Pepper-Cunningham fortuitously, when she noticed that a shirt saying “Jopstock” worn by one of her classmates had folded so that

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RJD2, Mr. Lif please at BCA’s fall show

By Charlie Custer Contributing Writer

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Saturday’s Poopstock festival featured an unconventional cake competition.

only “opstock” was visible. “I was just daydreaming,” Pepper-Cunningham said, “and I was like, wouldn’t it be funny if it said Poopstock?”

The cake contest was particularly popular because ‘contestants’ were asked to produce winning cakes for whatever individual categories they decided to create. The results were uniformly hilarious and ranged from “Most Leafy” — a beautiful chocolate cake topped with mint leaves, raspberries and a single green gummy frog — to Tatiana Sverjensky’s ’08 “Most Post-Apocalyptic-DinosaurWetlands” — a mashed-up island of cake surrounded by a sea of blue icing, streaked with red frosting and crawling with plastic dinosaurs. All of the cakes, edible and otherwise, were raffled off at the end of the event.

The bike show was equally unconventional. Both the riders and their bikes were decked out in outlandish costumes and paraded

around the lot to the applause of partygoers.

Vanessa Adams ’08, who adorned herself and her bike in garlands of fake flowers, enthused about Poopstock: “What’s better than baking cakes and dressing my bike up like a garden? We’re having fun, being outside and supporting something that’s really positive.”

Featured at the event were Brown student bands such as Butter Days (for which Herald Senior Editor Jon Sidhu ’08.5 is the drummer) and the Polyps, as well as current and former members of the Old Time String Band, including Josh Lerner ’07, who later switched from banjo to guitar to perform a set of his own.

“What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?” he sang as partygoers bought Merasi School T-shirts that said “Ignite Change” and admired the cakes. Whelan, sitting off to the side and drinking continued on page 4

It’s rare to see a DJ headlining a concert on his own, but that’s exactly what happened Friday night in Alumnae Hall, where DJ and producer RJD2 performed solo as part of the Brown Concert Agency’s fall show. Students gave the soldout show overwhelmingly positive reviews despite a few small technical hitches and a change in the concert lineup.

Underground rapper Doujah Raze, originally scheduled to be the show’s opening act, was forced to cancel his appearance because of the weather, according to a BCA announcement made around half an hour after the show was scheduled to start. But RJD2 and Boston-based rapper Mr. Lif both performed extended sets to make up for Doujah Raze’s cancellation.

Mr. Lif, clad in a black cloak, took the stage less than 15 minutes after the announcement that Doujah Raze would not be appearing, accompanied by DJ, rapper and producer Therapy. Lif’s 50-minute set included most of his betterknown songs and a brief freestyle segment where he traded bars with Therapy. Therapy also performed a solo song, bringing his daughter onstage and rapping several of the verses to her.

Mr. Lif’s songs were often intensely political and laced with opportunities for crowd participation to get the audience excited for RJD2’s performance. He closed the

set with the scathing social critique “Brothaz.” As he left the stage, Mr. Lif told the crowd he was going to report to RJD2 how his set went and assured them “I have kind things to say about you all.”

About 20 minutes later, RJD2 took the stage alone, saying hardly anything before plunging into the first part of his set. He opened with the familiar strains of Jethro Tull’s “Cross-Eyed Mary,” artfully melding the classic tune with a number of other samples to create the first of several free-flowing, ever-evolving instrumental pieces.

RJD2’s performance was oddly staged — most of his time was spent running back and forth between four turntables and a sampler, scratching a record briefly before tossing it aside and running to set up the next one. In the background bizarre but compelling images and videos were projected onto a screen.

Technical troubles arose when RJD2 tried to switch the projected video to a live feed from an onstage camera so that the audience could get a close up view of what he was playing on his sampler. He realized it was too dark on stage to see anything clearly in the video, and his calls for more light initially went unanswered. After several polite requests, a series of increasingly large bribe offers and a final sarcastic shot — “pretty (expletive) please!” — RJD2 vowed to continue the show regardless, and a few minutes later some stage lights came on. continued on page 4

Campus ‘flowers’ this weekend with ‘Rewind’ showcases eye-catching student art Baudelaire in three-day colloquium

By Catherine Goldberg Staff Writer

“Rewind,” the Hillel Gallery Project’s Fall Juried Show, opened Thursday at Brown/RISD Hillel. The show consists of art by Brown and RISD students in a variety of media and will be on display through Nov. 18.

The jurors — Jay-Gould Stuckey ‘90, visiting assistant professor of visual arts at Brown, and Peter Hocking, director of the Office of Public Engagement at RISD and former director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown — did not select works according to an overarching theme. Instead they simply chose the pieces that they felt stood out as particularly strong, said Davia Rabinoff-Goldman RISD’08, one of the show’s coordinators.

Because the jurors selected each piece for its individual merit, a common theme of cleverness, insight and knowledge of the subject matter or materials surfaces. For example, Stephen Neidich ’08 demonstrates his dexterity with the relatively unexplored material of expandable foam, creating a deceivingly soft-looking peach-colored sculpture entitled “Neidich #2,” which resembles a large overflowing blob of gak. The piece, which is intended to also function as a seat, is light-hearted and humorous, invoking notions of candy and childhood through its shape and color.

Annika Schmidt RISD’08 shows facility with wood in “Pear Veneer,” an undulating sculpture made of seemingly delicate, thin wooden shapes.

In addition to the variety of materials presented, the pieces in the show convey a range of tone and emotion.

“Alexander,” a large enchanting Modigliani-esque portrait painted in soft blues and beiges by Victoria Roth ’08, captures a moment of tranquility and calmness for a young man.

“Elk Puke,” a small oil painting on panel by RISD student Charles Immer on the other hand, uses similarly muted colors to delicately render a grotesquely graphic image of an elk, whose transparent skin allows the viewer to see his internal organs, in the process of vomiting.

The show also features works by artists whose works defy traditional categories. In “Puzzle Dress,” Claire Russo ’09 dresses up a recycled bald mannequin with a missing arm in a shimmering blue dress decorated with puzzle pieces. Jennifer Kindell RISD’08 sews together small squares of found cardboard into two columns and paints what appear to be food labels onto each square with gouche.

“Rewind” is a diverse exhibition of the creativity on College Hill. The show will be open at the Brown Hillel Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday noon to 6 p.m.

By Sophia Li Contributing Writer

From Thursday to Saturday, “The Flowering of Baudelaire” commemorated the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Baudelaire’s famed “Les Fleurs du Mal.” The three-day colloquium, in conjunction with the exhibit “Baudelaire & the Arts,” considered the French poet’s work and its relevance to other

forms of art through panel discussions, musical performances, paper presentations and a reading.

A poetry reading by Michael Palmer and Keith Waldrop Thursday evening in filled-to-capacity Grant Recital Hall revealed Baudelaire’s lasting legacy on the genre.

C.D. Wright, professor of english and a MacArthur Prize-winning poet, introduced Michael Palmer as “arguably the most French of

American poets.”

Palmer read selections from his original work, including “Baudelaire Series,” which he told the audience address “a number of tones Baudelaire brought into lyric speech.”

Keith Waldrop, professor of literary arts, succeeded Palmer with a reading of excerpts from his recently published translation of “Les Fleurs du Mal.” Wright called continued on page 5

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b u zzell o n bl o ggi n g the war Colby Buzzell is a combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom who maintained a blog while at war in 2003 and 2004. His entries and some of his other thoughts were compiled into a book called “My War: Killing Time in Iraq,” which won the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize.

Buzzell, a panelist at the weekend’s “Front Lines, First Person: Iraq War Stories” conference held by the Watson Institute for International Studies, sat down with The Herald to talk about war, blogs and the future.

Herald: How did you get started blogging about the war?

Buzzell: I was in Iraq as an infantry soldier when I found out about blogs from an article in Time Magazine. I really decided to start the blog out of boredom.

The tone of your blog is very much like that of a diary. How does it feel to have your personal thoughts printed and read by thousands of readers?

It’s like somebody writing a diary and having it published, and having everyone criticize it, analyze it and dissect it. But I wanted to write honestly. I kept a journal when I was in Iraq and then stopped writing, so when I started to blog it was the same style of writing. You think to yourself, ‘No one’s going to read this,’ but now they are.

Did you encounter any opposition from the U.S. Army for your candidness?

Yeah. This is the first war where soldiers have been online, and they were nervous about this soldier who

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was writing about the war from the front lines. In a way, I became an embedded journalist without knowing or trying, so they were kind of nervous about that because they had no control about what I saw or said.

How did it feel to go from “killing time in Iraq,” part of your book’s title, to killing in Iraq, the object of its pun?

There’s not one truth, there’s not one answer, there’s dual meanings to everything — triple meanings to everything. It was the most boring experience I’ve ever experienced, but at the same time it was the most exciting experience.

Now that you’ve returned, you write periodically for Esquire magazine. Is journalism your new profession?

No, I’m not a journalist, I’m a writer. An aspiring writer. You have to go to school to be a journalist. I just write stories, man. I don’t know what I do. I just write about what I see and what I experience.

The late great novelist Kurt Vonnegut personally endorsed “My War: Killing Time in Iraq,” saying it “is nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war on our behalf in Iraq.”

How does it feel to have one of the greatest authors of our time show such respect for your work?

I’m speechless. I don’t know what to say. When I got the quote I was completely floored — that’s possibly one of the coolest things that’s ever happened to me.

— Chaz Firestone

Volleyball picks up 2 wins at home on weekend continued from page 12 Vaughan ’11 took up on the theme of Brown’s middle blockers dominating play by combining with MandoliniTrummel for nine kills and three blocks to dispatch Columbia, 30-15.

Vaughan finished with six blocks, a career-high 16 kills and .538 hitting percentage for the match. In the fourth game, Rachel Lipman ’08 twice aced Columbia on serves while keeping the Bears steady on defense with 12 digs.

The match ended on a single block by Toman, who finished with 10 kills. Meyers doubled up with 54 assists and 18 digs and Lapinski matched her with 18 digs as well.

Lyndse Yess ’09 was the fourth Bear in double-digit digs with 11.

Saturday’s five-game match against Cornell was a much longer and more intense affair in which the Bears made numerous comebacks.

The Big Red held the lead for most of the first game, but Brown showed glimpses of its comeback magic, tying it up four times before falling 30-26. The Bears had trouble hitting over Cornell’s blockers and making good passes off of Cornell’s serves in the second game, losing again, this time 30-20.

To right the defensive ship, Head Coach Diane Short switched Lapinski back to libero, where Yess had been playing over the weekend. The move put Brown back into one of its standard rotations of the year and that seemed to calm the team’s nerves in the third game.

The Bears vaulted to a 9-4 lead on kills from Vaughan and Kiana Alzate ’10 before the Big Red started playing defense. Brown led by one or two points until the score reached 24-23. Then a well-placed tip by Brianna Williamson ’11 and a kill from Yess gave Bruno a cushion. After a Cornell kill, Mandolini-Trummel put

up two blocks and one kill to finish the next rally before Williamson put down a line shot on a second-touch hit to give the Bears a 28-24 lead.

After a missed serve and another error by Cornell, Brown won the game, 30-24.

That battle was nothing compared to Brown’s next game-winning point.

After the Big Red stormed out to a 27-20 lead on numerous Brown serve-receive errors, the Bears came roaring back on the arms of Toman, Vaughan and Yess and several long Cornell hits that sailed wide.

“We all just got really determined to win and there was a new intensity that we haven’t had all season, which kept us in the game and enabled us to come back,” Yess said.

Tied at 29-29, Brown almost let the match slip away when Cornell put down a kill, but the Big Red’s next serve went long.

The teams traded leads for the next 14 points. At 37-37, the 5-foot 8-inch Meyers came up to the net to put up a huge single block that gave Brown another lead. Cornell then returned the favor to set up another tie.

After such a long game, Brown had run out of substitutions and defensive specialist Lizzie Laundy ’08 had to rotate up to a front-row position. But this wasn’t a concern, Short said, since Laundy practices hitting during practice and “has a lot of confidence.”

On the next play, the set came to Laundy who slapped a kill down to give Brown a 39-38 lead. A MandoliniTrummel hit attempt went long on the next play, and Cornell had a block after that to take the lead 40-39 for their fifth match point. A tip gave Brown the tie and another kill from Yess put it up 41-40.

Then, Cornell returned a serve

by Laundy and Yess, and unexpectedly, immediately played the ball back over the net. Cornell’s back row was caught off guard and bobbled the pass into the raucous crowd at the Pizzitola Sports Center, giving Brown the win. “(L yndse) played ver y well,” Short said. “Her adrenaline was definitely going.” Yess finished the game with eight kills, an impressive statistic considering she played only in the back row before the fourth game. “I knew if we won the fourth game, we’d win the match.”

The fifth game was just as close, and Brown had to battle back from a 12-8 deficit yet again, but Toman smacked down seven kills in the game, including five of Brown’s last nine points.

Down 14-13, Yess was the hero once again, putting down two consecutive kills to give Brown its first match point of the night at 15-14.

Right-side hitter Lillie Cohn ’09 finished off the three-hour match with a cross-court slam and then was mobbed by her teammates.

“I’m really proud of all our subs.

Lillie, Kiana and Lizzie played great,” Lapinski said. Three Bears put up double-doubles in the match. Toman led the team in kills with a careerhigh 21 along with 13 digs. Yess had 11 kills and 21 digs while Meyers matched her 21 digs to go with a career-high 70 assists.

“I’m just overwhelmed,” Toman said after the match. “We had (our hits) down; it didn’t matter what happened.”

Though the fourth game was the longest of this year, Short coached a 48-pointer in 2002, which held the NCAA record at the time when rally scoring had just started.

Next up for the Bears are Dartmouth and Harvard, who will play at the Pizzitola Center this weekend.

RJD2, Mr. Lif play BCA’s fall show continued from page 3 His set consisted almost exclusively of his older songs, barely touching on material from his most recent album, “The Third Hand.”

He told The Herald that because the new album was composed with live instruments instead of samples, he rarely performs songs from it when he isn’t accompanied by his band.

Students seemed to be fine with the omission of RJD2’s more recent

work, and by the time he reached “The Horror,” the most well-known song from his 2002 debut “Deadringer,” students had begun spontaneously crowd-surfing. RJD2 was clearly having a good time himself.

In an inter view, RJD2 told a WBRU-FM reporter that he actually preferred the more intimate setting of small shows like Friday night’s to the larger shows he sometimes plays.

RJD2’s set ended around midnight, almost an hour and a half after it began, but students were clearly satisfied with the performance. “I thought it was great,” said Kate Ganim ’08. Randall Leeds ’09 echoed her sentiment. “That was outrageous,” he said.

Students seemed just as impressed with Mr. Lif’s performance.

“Mr. Lif was (expletive) awesome,” said Owen Schmidt ’10.

Poopstock hits Ives St. continued from page 3 tea from an enormous ceramic cup grounded the frivolity.

Poopstock felt hip, laid-back and improvised. Between 150 and 200 people attended, and the party exceeded its fundraising goal, earning $732 for the Merasi School. Former Herald staff writer Allissa Wickham ’09, referring to her “Most Dolly Parton-esque” cake, might as well have been speaking of Poopstock itself when she said, “It’s very homemade-looking, but I think that gives it character.”

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U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-La.

sage of optimism and change. “I’m asking you to believe that we can turn our state around,” Jindal said in a transcript posted on his campaign Web site. “I’m asking you to give Louisiana another chance.”

Jindal’s first measure will be to pass “real ethics reform with real teeth,” he said in his speech, aimed at corruption in Louisiana’s government. He also ran on a platform of hurricane recovery, health care, economic reform, education, crime and spending.

Brown students rally for ‘hope’ continued from page 1 “Our group on campus is great because we have the national organization’s support and structure, and we have the creativity from students here at Brown,” Chaiken said.

According to Chaiken, the group on campus has about 50 active members who help man tables, attend meetings and canvass in New Hampshire.

“This organization is building up fast because students are taking action and making their voices heard,” Chaiken said. “There is an intangible feeling people get when (Obama) speaks that makes them take action.”

In addition to its listserv, which includes about 300 students, the group’s Facebook page includes 123 members at Brown. The global Facebook group includes over 10,000 members.

On campus, members of the SFBO spend most of their time preparing for their weekly informational meetings, where they talk and ask questions about Obama’s policy issues.

Media Co-Coordinator Nicholas Greene ’10 said the group’s focus is to “teach people about what Obama is doing and what he’s done. We want to show people that he has the right pedigree to be president, and we get a chance to do this with our meetings.”

The meetings are held weekly on Tuesday at 9 p.m. in Wilson 309.

Chaiken and Greene said 35-40 people usually attend.

But group members don’t just want to inform Brown students: they are also active off campus. On several weekends, members have traveled to canvass in New Hampshire.

SFBO members walk door-to-door in residential communities informing the locals on the candidate’s policies.

“They teach us how to go door-to door with and talk to people about the campaign and policy issues,” Greene said, referring to campaign workers at the Portsmouth, N.H., office.

Despite their efforts, the group still senses uncertainty in the general public — as well as on campus — about which candidate to choose.

“I think they’re undecided because there are a lot of people that want to make a good decision, particularly in New Hampshire. Their votes are very influential,” Chaiken said. “To some extent it is the same on campus. As much as our group is growing, I think that students are also undecided and that a large group is apathetic. I hope people will start to get more engaged.”

To showcase student support and creativity, the SFBO hosted “Barack the Mic” on Oct. 13. The first of its kind for the group, the

event included poetry and songs performed by 11 Brown students representing all four class years.

Craig Robinson, men’s basketball head coach and Obama’s brother-in-law, gave a short speech at the start of the event about how important young people are to this campaign.

“Every single one of your votes is going to count. This campaign is about hope and what you guys have to understand is that you’re the hope,” Robinson said to the students crowding the cafe and overflowing onto the sidewalk.

“We were really happy with the turnout at the event,” Chaiken said.

“We had 80 people packed in there at any given time. We saw that people were excited and were really happy that Craig Robinson spoke at the beginning and got people excited.

This is a direction we want to keep going in.”

Graham Browne ’08, chair of the event, was also pleased with the results. “The event was all we could have hoped for and more. It was truly amazing to see Blue State Coffee packed,” he wrote in an e-mail.

“I think it’s very possible that we changed a few minds about Senator Obama, The talent at the school is staggering! I was impressed by each act that performed. The first years were especially impressive.”

Others at the event, though impressed by the amount of student suppor t, were not as pleased with the performances.

“It was cool to see Brown students coming together to be politically active, I don’t think we do it enough,” Sandra Allen ’09 wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “As an audience member who is not entirely decided about which Democratic candidate I’d vote for, I was glad that the MCs and artists weren’t overly preachy about Obama himself, but focused on the artistic aspect of the show,” Allen wrote. But unlike Browne, she was unimpressed by the level of talent. “On an artistic level, I was a little underwhelmed,” Allen wrote.

“But I was glad that the amount of support and applause each artist received did not reflect this.”

According to Chaiken, “Barack the Mic” was the group’s first step toward what they hope will be many similar events to come. The SFBO will participate in a mock presidential debate on Nov. 8, to be hosted by the Brown Dems.

“The decision our country will make in 2008 is one of the most important in history. One of the biggest motivations is getting people involved, to take a stand and do the right thing,” Chaiken said. “Now’s the time. We can re-inspire America to be a country where people want to live. The inspirational thing about this campaign is getting people to take action against policies that only belittle our country.”

Jindal’s parents were immigrants from India who came to Louisiana so Jindal’s mother could attend Louisiana State University. Jindal’s father was the only child of nine in his family to attend high school. In his victory speech, Jindal said his parents “found the American Dream to be alive and well right here in Louisiana.”

Jindal’s parents originally named him Piyush, but as a young child he watched the television show “The Brady Bunch” and changed his name to that of the youngest Brady boy, according to an Oct. 21 article in the Washington Post.

At Brown, Jindal was admitted to the Program in Liberal Medical Education, but he decided to concentrate in biology and public policy instead.

“It was a tradeoff because as a politician I wouldn’t be able to impact people directly like I could as a doctor, but I knew my policies could affect many people every day indirectly,” Jindal told The Herald in 2006. Jindal was the president of the College Republicans while on campus.

After graduating from Brown, he attended Oxford University as a

Rhodes Scholar. Jindal was appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals in 1996, executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare in 1998 and president of the University of Louisiana System in 1999. From 2001 to 2003, he served in the Bush administration as assistant secretary for planning and evaluation of heath and human services.

After his failed bid for governor in 2003, Jindal was elected the next year to Congress as the representative from Louisiana’s 1st District. He was re-elected in 2006.

Bad News Bears: Over 800 displinary cases continued from page 1 Internet access on their personal computer for up to a month for a second offense. On the rare occasion that a third offense occurs, the music industry starts to question the University’s disciplinary policies and may take legal action against the student, Addison explained.

Cases that would normally be handled by the Peer Community Standards Board were referred to non-disciplinary dispositions or dean’s hearings this past academic year because the board was dismantled due to scheduling problems and a lack of student participation, wrote Assistant Dean of Student Life Yolanda Castillo-Appollonio in an email to The Herald. The Peer Community Standards Board deals with minor and first violations including fire alarm incidents, theft and noise complaints and will be resurrected this year as OSL recruits more students to serve on the panel, accord-

ing to Castillo-Appollonio.

Students that are in danger of severe punishment by the University or having their violation noted in their permanent records have the option of presenting their case to one administrator through an administrative hearing or a panel of administrators from the University Disciplinary Council, Addison said.

According to the report, 17 cases were heard by administrative hearings in the last academic year — 11 more than in the previous year.

Sanctions are determined based on the nature of the offense, the evidence and testimony presented and a student’s prior disciplinary record, so the same violation may result in different punishments for different students.

Three of these cases involved the provision of alcohol to prospective students who were underage by students who were also underage and under the influence of alcohol

at the time of the incident. Those three students received different punishments based on their previous records — probation, deferred suspension and a reprimand — but all three were required to write a policy manual for first-years hosting high school students.

Another case involved a student entering another student’s apartment and hiding in the closet, refusing to leave when asked and punching a light fixture. The student was given deferred suspension for the remainder of the term and asked to meet with a dean and write a reflective paper.

OSL releases the report each year not only because it is their responsibility to do so under Rhode Island law, but also because the deans believe students have “a right to know what cases have been handled on campus,” said Margaret Klawunn, associate vice president for campus life and dean of student life.

Baudelaire’s ‘Fleurs du Mal’ turns 150 continued from page 3 Waldrop’s translation, “a new entity that is faithful to Baudelaire ... rather than a pale reflection.”

Friday’s slate of events began with two paper presentations by Susan Bernstein, professor of comparative literature, and Ann Smock, professor of French at University of California at Berkeley. Following the presentation, the floor opened for questions, and an animated dialogue involving both speakers, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Professor of History and Director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities Michael Steinberg ensued.

Other panels and roundtables on Friday and Saturday addressed a diversity of themes, such as “Pornography, Censorship and the Legacy of Les Fleurs du Mal,” “Baudelaire and Ethics” and “Baudelaire and Colonialism.”

“Beyond his own work, there are issues he deals with involving imagination, gender and global consciousness,” said Steinberg, describ-

ing these topics as “key issues of the University and the humanities.”

The John Hay Library exhibit “Baudelaire and the Arts” addresses these thematic elements and represent Baudelaire’s “vast interest in the arts,” said Dominique Coulombe, senior scholarly resources librarian, who curated the exhibit with three graduate students.

“The exhibit is meant to create context for the conference,” Coulombe said, noting the “points of convergence” between the papers and the exhibit’s subject matter.

The collection features poetry and visual art inspired by Baudelaire’s writing, Baudelaire’s translations of others’ writing, translations of Baudelaire’s poetry and examples of artwork that influenced Baudelaire’s poetry. Visitors can also listen to Claude Debussy’s “Le Balcon” and other musical renditions of Baudelaire’s poetry, and one case in the exhibit features illustrations of the rapid modernization of 19thcentury Paris that deeply influenced Baudelaire’s work.

The exhibit uses Baudelaire’s work to trace the development of art through the discourse between writer and writer, city and poet and painting and poem.

Coulombe emphasized the interdisciplinary nature of the exhibit, calling it “an example of a cooperative endeavor among faculty, the humanities center, graduate students, and individual departments.”

This series of events and its exhibit comprised the third annual Fall Humanities Weekend sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Pembroke Center for Women and Teaching and other academic departments.

“The humanities deal with literature, philosophy and art, but also concern everything involving human life. They also inform the sciences in very important ways,” said Steinberg. “(Baudelaire) was a key figure of the 19th century and remains one today,” Steinberg said. “And there is also the old-fashioned idea that poetry is incredibly beautiful.”

M. soccer picks up win over Cornell continued from page 12 the box and defender Rhett Bernstein ’09 headed the ball to the back post. A Cornell defender standing on the goal line attempted to keep the ball out of the net, but Bernstein’s shot found its way over the line anyway.

Just seven minutes later, Brown struck again. David Walls ’11 made a nice run down the right side and played a cross into the box that was headed inside the near post

by Okafor.

Cornell scored one goal in the 76th minute on a free kick. As Paul Grandstrand ’11 was setting up his wall, Dan McKallagat surprised the preoccupied goalie and put the free kick in from 20 yards out. The free kick came as part of a late Cornell push to get back into the game.

“We tend to lose our focus late in games,” Sawyer said. “It wasn’t as bad (against Cornell) as it has been.” After the free kick, Brown surrendered just one other threat-

ening shot, which hit the crossbar.

The Bears next play at Stevenson Field against the University of Pennsylvania at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Though the Quakers are 5-6-2 on the season and 2-1 in the Ivy League, Brown is not taking them lightly.

“It feels good to be in the driver’s seat,” Britner said. “Every game, we are the team everyone is gunning for. We have good confidence but don’t take anything for granted.”

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Heated dialogue, discussion fill Joukowsky during Iraq conference continued from page 1 ing on, former Sen. Lincoln Chafee ’75, now a fellow at the Watson Institute, said during a Friday panel called “The Ground Truth from Iraq to the Beltway and Back.” He said he went to Iraq twice after the invasion to get a first-hand view of the country, instead of the watered-down version shown to politicians. But the second time, he said, the situation was so dangerous that it was difficult to gather good information.

Sgt. 1st Class Toby Nunn, a Canadian citizen currently serving with the U.S. Army, spoke in a live videocast from his base in Iraq about his desire to earn U.S. citizenship through military service, during a Friday session on “What Stories Do and Don’t Get Told and Why.” Brian Palmer ’86, an independent journalist and filmmaker, showed clips of his first film “Full Disclosure: A Reporter’s Journey Toward Truth” and spoke about the importance of context in war reporting during the Saturday morning session.

Eric Rodriguez ’08, who served with the Army in Iraq during 2003 and 2004, recalled his brigade’s humanitarian missions and the comfort and security that serving in the army gave him at the conference’s first session, “The Ground Truth.”

But most conference attendees interviewed by The Herald said the true value of the conference wasn’t in the speeches but in the long questionand-answer periods that followed each session and in unstructured conversations held during breaks.

The second session on Friday — “What Stories Do and Don’t Get Told and Why” — ended in a heated discussion about why the personal stories of soldiers often aren’t told to the public.

Col. David Lapan, a representative of U.S. Marine Corps Public Affairs, pointed to “a desperate lack of groundlevel narratives” in media coverage of the war. But most journalists in the audience didn’t seem to believe him.

“Do you guys really want us to interview these people?” MonroeKane asked Lapan. “(The military) doesn’t really want me to ask an African-American woman who is the first combat helicopter pilot in Afghanistan what it’s really like — they want the hero story. ... They don’t really want to debate about women in combat, they don’t really want to debate about sexism.”

“We don’t want to debate about women in combat because that’s law,” Lapan shot back.

But before Monroe-Kane could respond, author Erin Solaro jumped in to contest what she said are inconsistent and sexist rules governing female participation in military operations, and a shouting match ensued.

“Female soldiers run missions you won’t let female Marines run,” Solaro said. “You’ll borrow them from the Army and stick them in the same damn infantry battalion.” Lapan denied the charge as the heated debate continued.

The dust settled briefly as MonroeKane expanded on his earlier point about a lack of media access to soldiers.

“If the only way I can get to you is to be an embed — and now I’m relying on you to save my life — that’s not journalism,” he said.

“I beg to disagree,” Palmer, the independent journalist who has been embedded with military units, said.

The shouting resumed.

Though the Joukowsky Forum was filled with journalists and soldiers eager to have their voices heard, Brown students in attendance made contributions to the discussion. Students from INTL 1800E: “The Good

Fight: Documentary Work and Social Change” — co-taught by Scranton and fellow event organizer and Associate Professor of International Studies Keith Brown — were required to sit in on the conference for an assignment.

During Nunn’s videocast from Iraq, Jing Xu ’10 drew nods of approval from the audience with her question to the soldier.

“I don’t think any of us doubt that you earned your citizenship,” she said.

“But how do you feel about the fact that the profession that you chose separates you from what most people in the society — what other citizens — can relate to?”

“I never really thought about feeling like I’ve been separated from this society because I became a soldier,” Nunn responded. “I don’t think being Sgt. 1st Class Toby Nunn is the extent of my identity.”

In a later Saturday event, on antiwar activism, International Relations concentrator Lena Buell ’08 capped off the session with a question about verifying content from blogs.

“If we can no longer trust the mainstream media, who are held accountable for everything they publish,” Buell asked, “how do we deal with the question of accountability in this sphere of new media?”

“The common criticism of blogs is that they don’t have editors,” said Der Derian, who has conducted extensive research on new media. “But in some ways, because of the proliferation of blogs, you have 10,000 editors — blogs, checking blogs, checking blogs.”

Burden agreed that readers hold blogs accountable. “I can’t tell you how many times I get asked to fact-check a story,” he said. “I probably have some e-mail right now about it.”

The conference also produced several head-turning moments, ranging from controversial questions to odd comments from panelists.

Jason Hartley, a member of the Army National Guard who published a blog and book about his experiences in Iraq, graphically described the first time he encountered bullet wounds during the war at the Friday session.

“This guy has a wound in his leg and it’s bleeding badly,” Hartley said.

“I see the wound, and the first thing that comes to my mind is ‘vagina’ and ‘sushi.’ ” Confused faces and stifled laughter filled the room.

“Grossly inappropriate, right?”

Hartley said.

A more tense moment arose on Saturday during the first part of a twopart session on “Amplifying Voices and Activism.” Associate Professor of Anthropology Matthew Gutmann and Professor of Anthropology Catherine Lutz, collaborators on an oral history of Iraq war veterans who oppose the war, were fielding questions about their book when Scranton raised her hand from the back of the room.

After telling the story of an interviewee of hers who turned out to be making fraudulent claims about his time at war, Scranton posed a question to Gutmann: “Non-confrontationally, how do you verify those voices of dissent to know that they’ve actually been there and done these things, and that they’re not just making it up?”

“You do it the same way you would with any oral history,” Gutmann replied. “How do I know that any stories are actually true?”

But Scranton pressed Gutmann further, pointing out that he had not done the interviews himself and seeming to imply that the left-leaning academic community might give “a more open reception to dissenting voices.”

“You’re questioning the veracity of these voices and no other voices we’ve heard in the last two days,” Lutz said.

“It’s very interesting to me. You’re framing it as this is a left-liberal audience, the students are going to be willing to believe this but not other things, but why didn’t those students or anybody else question those other soldiers’ words?”

Scranton told The Herald after the exchange that she didn’t intend to question the integrity of Gutmann or Lutz, but she also pointed out that their book was the only work presented at the conference that didn’t make use of first-hand accounts.

“Their project was the only work based on interviews someone else had done,” Scranton said. “For me, with ‘The War Tapes,’ I did it.” Gutmann, who said he felt the conference was skewed toward pro-war and ambivalent viewpoints, told The Herald that it was the circumstances of the question and not the question itself that disappointed him.

“The question in and of itself was fine, but why was it asked in that way just towards me?” he said. “I don’t think it’s an accident.”

Almost every exchange during the two-day conference involved disagreement of some kind, but Saturday’s early session, titled “Reporters and

Rapport,” featured a question-andanswer session during which nearly everyone agreed on the importance of context in reporting.

Palmer showed an eight-minute clip of fighting he shot during his time in Iraq that ended with a soldier shooting a downed Iraqi twice in the head.

Palmer said the mainstream media would likely only show the last seconds of the clip to make soldiers out to be cruel warmongers. But, as the entire clip showed, the Iraqi had posed a dangerous threat to the soldiers.

Monroe-Kane agreed.

“That clip has to be eight minutes,” he said. “But, by God, the commercial media only picks up the last 40 seconds.”

As Saturday evening arrived and panelists began to depart, most said

the conference had been a positive experience.

“A lot of the kids in the class were talking about how it’s the best thing we’ve done at Brown,” Buell, the student who asked about blogs’ credibility, said. “It was enlightening to have all sorts of opinions in a room together, with each side forced to listen to the other side.”

Der Derian agreed.

“There’s been a lot of ideas but also a lot of emotions shared that you don’t normally see in an academic setting,” he said. “Some toes might have been stepped on, but people are going away saying it is the best opportunity they’ve had to learn about these issues. Some have even said it’s the best event, period, they’ve attended on the war.”

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Women’s empowerment, reproductive rights heralded at weekend conference continued from page 1 plained in the opening speech the interdependence of world issues and their relationship with the struggle for women’s rights.

Smeal said women’s rights are often compartmentalized into the realms of moral, religious, personal and choice issues, yet “they are in fact much more than that,” she said.

“What we want people to see is that these issues are not isolated. They are not only interconnected, but sometimes they don’t even make sense if you see them in isolation.”

Smeal criticized the Bush administration’s withdrawal of funding for clinical trials on Mifepristone, a drug that may help treat progesteronerelated breast cancer. The drug has failed to garner support because of controversy surrounding its potential use as an emergency contraceptive.

“Think of the ridiculousness of the fact that we have politicized science,” Smeal said. “My goodness, can you believe that this could happen to us in the year 2007?”

That the administration has “managed to make family planning controversial” was another of Smeal’s criticisms. The government directs money from family planning education to Bush’s abstinence-only program, despite evidence contradicting the effectiveness of this program, Smeal said.

Smeal ended her speech with an appeal for the audience to become politically active. “I firmly believe that if we are going to change the direction of the world, young women must organize,” she said. “I hope you all get mad by the end of this thing — real mad.”

With stirred emotions, the group broke into three separate workshops on global policy, each led by panels of three to four speakers each.

One workshop addressed the global struggle for reproductive rights, arguing that access to safe and legal reproductive health ser-

vices is both a health issue and an economic matter. Panelists shared thoughts and experiences regarding U.S. abstinence-only policies and their role in obstructing the global fight against HIV/AIDS. “The Empowerment of Women as the Key to Economic Development and Reproductive Rights,” another of the morning’s workshops, discussed the key role that women play in sustaining healthy communities and assessed the ways that expanding women’s access to education, economic opportunities and safe, effective family planning services improves the quality of life for those communities.

The third workshop addressed the ways that militarization entrenches violence in a society, with a focus on women civilians living in Darfur, Iraq and Afghanistan. Panel speakers included Scott Warren ’09, executive director of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur, and Feroza Yari, the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Afghan scholarship recipient and a student at Clark University.

Yari told the group of her own struggles with women’s rights in Afghanistan, which included anecdotes about how she and her mother were forced to provide food and shelter to soldiers in battle on an almost daily basis. She also told of some of the forceful threats she and her family received from the Taliban. Her story illustrated how women are disproportionately affected by militarization, especially as modern warfare increasingly disregards civilians’ rights.

“What we (people living in the United States) are hearing about Afghanistan isn’t necessarily true.

Women and children are insecure,” Yari said.

After the morning’s workshops, the group broke for a networking lunch in Petteruti Lounge. The second half of the day consisted of four more workshops, this time with a focus on ways to “think globally” and

“act locally.”

One of the afternoon workshops featured a discussion on why and how women should run for political office.

Led by panelists Jennifer Lawless, assistant professor of political science and a 2006 candidate for the Democratic party nomination for Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District, Rhode Island State Sen. Rhoda Perry P ’91, D-Dist. 3, and Sara Gentile ’09, the group discussed why it is important for women to enter the political arena and contribute their ideas on gender equality. The panel also discussed ways students could develop confidence and leadership skills and put them into practice.

Another workshop addressed the issue of gender-based domestic and global violence. Panelists including Smeal and Yari led the group in a discussion on ways that the issue might be both treated and prevented.

To treat domestic violence, Smeal advocated for an increase in the number of women in law enforcement. “Studies prove it — the more women in our police force, the better the response to domestic violence,” Smeal said.

As for violence prevention, the group debated the root causes of male-perpetrated violence. In particular, it disputed the relationship between drugs and alcohol and violence. Some participants said the link was causal, but others believed that drugs and alcohol only exacerbate men’s predisposition to violent behavior. The discussion ended with an appeal to women, as most participants agreed that empowerment of women — including self-defense training, healthy relationship workshops and a breakdown of gender stereotypes — are the keys to ending violence.

The other workshops included a discussion on current political techniques that are used to limit women’s reproductive rights and a look at transnational activism led by

Joanna Shea O’Brien, public affairs specialist for the Peace Corps.

The day ended with a closing lecture entitled “Reproductive Justice and Human Rights,” beginning with a speech by Luz Rodriguez, co-founder and board-treasurer of SisterSong, an organization that provides a forum for indigenous women and women of color.

Rodriguez appealed to the audience to incorporate indigenous people in discussions on women’s rights. “When we give everyone a voice, what we can do for each other arises,” she said.

During a question-and-answer period, audience members discussed topics such as race, activism on campus and conclusions gathered from the day. The conference ended with a positive, uplifting tone.

Millan AbiNader, a sophomore at Bowdoin College and participant of the summit, told The Herald that the conference was an inspiration to become active and provided a plan on how to do so. “Seeing all of these fascinating, strong women who do so much for gender equality was inspiring,” she said, adding, “the

information was presented in a way that doesn’t scare you off. It gave us concrete ways to make a difference.”

Smeal’s reaction to the day was also forward-looking. “The power of young women is totally under-utilized,” she told the Herald. “They’re the driving force to change the world.”

Summarizing the purpose of the conference, Smeal said, “What we try to do is connect the dots. If you’re upset about Iraq, about global warming, about outsourcing, sweatshops or gay rights, you should participate in this kind of organizing,” she said.

“There is no such thing as a women’s issue,” she said.

The Feminist Majority Foundation started the campus program to help student activists organize and develop their programs, of which the Brown chapter is a part.

“FMF has been a great resource to tap into,” said Alison Cohen ’09, a member of the FMLA at Brown who coordinated last year’s “Active Bodies, Active Minds” conference. “It’s all about working on shaping this next generation of activists,” she said.

Chris Bennett / Herald

Students, faculty and local figures discussed feminist issues at Saturday’s conference.

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Staf f Editorial

Protecting the 1st Amendment In the wake of the Valerie Plame fiasco, journalists still face the threat of subpoeanas and jail time for making information public that, while privileged or private, serves a civic purpose. In an imperative step to protect press freedom, the House of Representatives passed the Free Flow of Information Act — a long-needed federal shield law whose very name suggests a dynamic we assume already exists in American life. Problem is, it’s not enough.

The bill’s bipartisan support and overwhelming passage — with 398 votes in favor and only 21 opposed — suggest that after two years of intermittent assaults on journalists’ freedom to tell the truth unharmed, even legislators realize the importance of giving their (sometimes) adversaries in the press room stronger legal protections. The Senate Judiciary Committee recently approved its own version of the law, and 32 states have passed similar measures at the state level.

Yet the House bill’s language is too weak. A shield law should protect journalists, point-blank, from legal intimidation intended to pressure them into revealing their sources. Instead, the bill sets in stone the current approach toward such situations: Journalists’ sources are sealed, except in cases deemed to involve terrorism, death or, if one amendment is approved, a “trade secret.”

In fact, amendments made to the bill would allow journalists to be designated terrorists based purely on the words they may have written and the sources they may have been associating with. The bill gives the administration some discretion in determining whether information threatens national security.

Of course, under this administration, such “discretion” could turn out to be quite broad.

Thankfully, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s bill, passed 15-2 earlier this month, promises stronger protection. In July 2005 that committee witnessed the catastrophic effects of informal, unprotected reporting rights when experts testified on the issue as former New York Times reporter Judith Miller spent time in jail for refusing to name her source in Plame’s outing as a CIA operative. Confusion and disagreement over journalists’ protections and the ambiguity of anonymity had led to what Time Inc. editor Richard Pearlstine then described to lawmakers as “chaos.”

While Miller served prison time, Time Magazine’s Matt Cooper handed over his Plame notes to the special prosecutor, drawing sharp criticism from colleagues. San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance Williams ’72 and Mark Fainaru-Wada, meanwhile, received an 18-month prison sentence for refusing to reveal the names of those who gave them a window into a world of illegal steriod abuse in professional sports. Such confusion over journalistic protections is a spectre over truth-telling reporters across America.

In our networked society where information lives on the Internet indefinitely, sources are increasingly hesitant to speak on the record about sensitive subjects, whether national security or their smoking habit. But in the bloodstained streets of Bagdad’s Sadr City — and even the winding passages of University Hall — anonymity is essential to the most important stories that we, as journalists, tell. Without a sufficient shield law, whistleblowers would remain in the shadows without recourse, journalists will be forced to tread lightly and, ultimately, the public would suffer.

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Letters Fitness center needs jogging track To the Editor: I agree with Peter Mackie ’59 that the Nelson Fitness Center plans should have included an elevated track (“For want of a jogging track, Oct. 16). He notes that such a feature is “standard fare in any modern fitness facility.” Something that nobody has pointed out in the discussion thus far: Sayles Gymnasium, now Smith-

Buannano, which was built in the first decade of last century, had an elevated indoor track. If the architects 100 years ago did it, why don’t we? The omission is glaring.

Nathan Brower ‘07 Oct. 18

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Corrections Due to an editing error, several comments in an article in Wednesday’s Herald (“Congress may mandate increased U. spending,” Oct. 17) by Lynn Munson, adjunct fellow at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, were misattributed to an interview with The Herald instead of to Munson’s remarks at a Sept. 26 hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.

In an article in Friday’s Herald (“Bergeron’s reshuffling fuels more departures, and questions arise,” Oct. 19), Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Sheila Blumstein is quoted as saying that medical school and law school letters of recommendation have not yet been written by the officials in the Office of the Dean of the College. In fact, 170 letters of recommendation for applicants to medical school were completed over the summer and early this semester, and the office does not complete letters of recommendation for law school applicants, according to Andrew Simmons, associate dean of the College for health and law careers.

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O pinions Monday, October 22, 2007

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Sex and the City, Bhangra-style: the subtleties of female power MAHA ATAL Opinions Columnist

In the summer of 1988, my grandparents bought me a toy drum for my second birthday. I’d just barely learned to walk, and I would march in our driveway or, when the guard would let me, up the pockmarked road to our neighbor’s gate, chanting the campaign song I heard on TV. “Ben-a-zir, Ben-a-zir, Ben-a-zir, Bhut-TO!” shouted the televised supporters. I too shouted “Bhut-TO!” raising my pudgy right arm in emphatic salute on the last syllable.

When Benazir Bhutto first became prime minister of Pakistan in 1988, she was not the only woman on an electoral throne — these were the days of Thatcher’s England. But Margaret Thatcher was a reactionary, promising to undo the cultural damage of the 1960’s.

Harvard and Oxford alum Bhutto was elected promising to continue her father’s legacy of liberal reforms and the marginalization of the religious right. For the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to be endorsing these views was significant, to be electing a woman was extraordinary.

Until I was six, my family spent vacations visiting my grandparents in Pakistan. Young as I was, I have some very clear memories of those summers: the heat and the rain, the leather bound books in my grandfather’s study, jasmine flowers in gated courtyards and bucket baths in cold water. By age four or five, I had enough pre-school education to believe that the U.S.A. was the epitome of modernity in comparison to the old houses and low-tech plumbing I found in Karachi.

But I was also old enough to know about some very pre-modern American traditions. I

knew that when I told my kindergarten class I wanted to be president, everyone laughed.

When the boy sitting next to me took a break from eating Play-Doh to express the same ambition, the teacher patted him on the head approvingly. What was I to make then of the fact that in seemingly backward, low-tech Pakistan, a woman was running for office and winning twice?

By age eight, my desire to be president had become a desire to be Benazir. My teacher asked each student in my all-girls third-grade class to dress up as a famous woman and deliver an autobiographical monologue in per-

often among my peers today.

Most of my female friends wouldn’t think twice about considering themselves equal to the boys in their classes, but they’re also unashamed of the desire to buy shoes or the ambition to have children, and to take time from their careers to raise them. I am less girly than most of these young women, and certainly less motherly, but I like this feminism that seeks to efface binaries in favor of individual choice.

Scary as the bombings which punctuated her arrival on Thursday were, I am excited and optimistic to see Bhutto returning to the

What was I to make then of the fact that in seemingly backward, low-tech Pakistan, a woman was running for office and winning twice? sona. I was Benazir. When she was exiled in 1996 I was devastated.

She represented a special womanhood, and already it was one that I liked. Today, I call this “Sex and the City” feminism: the belief that women can be feminine, beautiful and concerned with beauty and still hold positions of power. It’s the third way between the 1950’s housewife and the bra-burning 1970’s liberationist, and it’s the feminism I see most

country to contest elections in January. Her success will require a lot of behind-the-scenes pressure from the international community, especially the United States (given its links to the power centers of Pakistan, including the military and intelligence), but democracy is now closer in Pakistan than it has been in many years.

More importantly, the return of Benazirfeminism is a symbolic reminder of the subtlety

of such loaded terms as modernism, fundamentalism and secularism, too easily thrown around in our politics today. For Pakistani liberals, Benazir is a reminder that liberal democracy and women’s empowerment have a role in the Muslim world and do not have to come at the expense of everything traditional: Bhutto still wears ethnic dress, covers her head and never plays down her femininity.

For Pakistani conservatives, she is a reminder that Islam does not have to be reactionary, that a good Muslim woman can ally her country with the West. For American observers, she is a reminder that the Muslim world is not only the land of bearded fundamentalists and dictators.

Benazir has always been a politician of these bold cultural promises. Her problem is that she’s twice failed to deliver. Third time is the charm, but it is also the last strike. Between now and January, Bhutto needs to build bridges with old foes and construct a broad coalition to give her government the power to be effective. Once and for all, she needs to make the government transparent, to avoid reopening the unresolved accountability questions that previously led to her fall from power.

With global support to make the January elections safe, secure and fair, the throngs of very real supporters who risked their lives to see Benazir step off the plane might also become the political majority. The liberal-yettraditional image Benazir presents would be a refreshing change from our current image of autocracy, but it would not represent a total revolution in national sentiment.

If my childhood memories are any indication, January might just bring to light a real Pakistan long hidden behind veils and army compounds, but always discernable to those who cared to look.

Maha Atal ’08 is woman, hear her roar.

Fund Baby Bonds, cut Social Security JAMES SHAPIRO Opinions Columnist

On Sept. 28, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., suggested that the government provide each newborn American with a savings account worth $5,000. Clinton quickly abandoned her “Baby Bonds” proposal after it came under fire. Most recently she stated that Baby Bonds weren’t feasible, noting that she has “a million ideas” but “the country can’t afford them all.”

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani labeled Baby Bonds a “socialist idea” and mockingly speculated that Clinton might engrave her likeness on each bond. Giuliani highlighted the most serious flaw in Clinton’s idea — it would entail a $20-billion increase in annual government expenditures.

Clinton’s decision to drop Baby Bonds from her platform is unfortunate. Baby Bonds could actually promote fiscal discipline if they were offset by drastic cuts in Social Security and Medicare payments. Baby Bonds, Social Security and Medicare should all be means-tested with funds only going to truly needy recipients.

Disadvantaged youths are a better investment than wealthy retirees.

Baby Bonds have a historical precedent in the GI Bill, which has helped millions of veterans attend college and buy homes. Baby Bonds would function similarly. The initial $5,000 endowment would appreciate with interest and returns on stocks and bonds. At age 18, youths would be able to withdraw from their accounts in order to pay for college or housing.

The American economy increasingly relies upon service sector jobs that require extensive training. Given the concurrent decrease in low-skilled jobs, the government should do everything in its power to increase enrollment at institutions of higher learning.

Baby Bonds would also help the economy by increasing the savings rate. Twenty billion dollars would be injected into banks, bonds and stocks every year, and the money in each account would remain in savings for 18 years.

people currently pay thousands of dollars per year to subsidize the expenses of affluent retirees. Reallocating funds from Social Security and Medicare’s coffers would divert tax dollars from the wealthiest age demographic to the poorest.

Baby Bonds would also help counter the pernicious notion that younger generations owe a public debt to older generations. Intergenerational obligations should always extend to the future, for two reasons. First, obligations

Clinton’s decision to drop Baby Bonds from her platform is unfortunate. Baby Bonds could actually promote fiscal discipline if they were offset by drastic cuts in Social Security and Medicare payments.

When savings go up, interest rates go down, and companies take out more loans from banks. This tends to fuel economic growth as companies invest their new funds in construction and new employees.

Funding Baby Bonds with entitlement cuts would also lead to a more equitable distribution of tax dollars. Hardworking, low-income

to posterity benefit more people. We can help hundreds of billions of our descendents by cleaning up the environment, spurring economic growth and preventing nuclear war.

Unsustainable entitlement programs impose massive costs on present and future generations and — as finances dwindle — distribute progressively smaller benefits to each suc-

cessive generation. Second, entitlement programs force future generations into an unfair deal. The unborn can’t vote, lobby or donate to political causes. Escalating debts consign posterity to a financial state of affairs that they probably would not willingly accept.

Baby Bonds would also improve existing social welfare programs. The first generation of recipients would enjoy the benefits of private savings accounts. Young people and their parents would be able to appreciate the prosperity that private investments generate.

Baby Bonds might help create a new voting bloc that favors private accounts for retirement and medical expenses.

Eliminating payments to wealthy seniors would fracture support for Social Security and Medicare more generally. If the AARP started losing members, the government could begin to institute necessary reforms, like raising the retirement age, reducing benefits and partially privatizing programs.

People may object that wealthy elderly people paid into the system throughout their working lives and were promised compensation in their later years. Cutting their Social Security payments 100 percent would be unfair. However, preserving Social Security in its current form is unfair to workers and future generations. Affluent elders also still benefit to some degree since, if something horrible happens and they lose all of their assets, they will become eligible for Social Security payments. Unless and until tragedy befalls a rich retiree, she should not drain limited government resources.

James Shapiro ’10 is pandering to the unborn lobby.

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Monday, October 22, 2007

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No. 8 m. soccer starts fast, outruns Big Red in 3-1 win

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Jon Okafor ’11 assisted on the Bears’ eventual game-winning goal Saturday.

By Jason Harris Assistant Sports Editor

Three consecutive overtime games can wear on you, even if you win all of them. So after the Bears’ 3-1 win at Cornell on Saturday, co-captain Matt Britner ’07.5 felt a bit relieved.

“It was nice not to go into overtime,” Britner said.

Brown controlled the match against the Big Red throughout and improved its season record to 10-1-1. The win keeps No. 8 Brown in control of the Ivy League with a 3-0 record, while Cornell’s league record fell to 0-2-1 and 5-5-1 overall.

A week after draining overtime wins against No. 7 Harvard and No. 11 Boston College, the Bears were rested and ready to go against the Big Red. Brown dominated the game from the opening kickoff.

“We didn’t want a letdown,” said co-captain and defender Stephen Sawyer ’09. “Harvard and BC had letdowns after last week. We wanted to put (Cornell) away early.”

The last time Brown had a long layoff between games, it lacked energy and lost to Boston University on Oct. 2 after more than a week between games. That wasn’t the case against Cornell.

Brown scored 9 minutes into the match when, after possessing the ball around the top of Cornell’s 18-yard box, midfielder Jon Okafor ’11 found the ball at his feet and slipped a short pass to forward Dylan Sheehan ’09 at the right side of the 6-yard box. Sheehan found a gap

in the Cornell defense and beat the Big Red goalkeeper Luca Cerretani low to put the Bears ahead 1-0. The goal was Sheehan’s eighth, good for the team lead.

Britner said Brown’s scoring was a team effort.

“All our goals were off pretty good buildup,” he said. “The guys who scored were in good places and they had good composure when the ball came to them in a position to score.”

Brown was able to build its attack by possessing the ball and attacking Cornell’s weaknesses. Bruno exploited Cornell’s 4-3-3 formation by using the flanks to get in between the Big Red’s outside defenders and its center backs.

“We stuck to the game plan,” Sawyer said. “It helped that we had the whole week to prepare.”

The first half ended 1-0, but play was decidedly one-sided. The Bears out-shot Cornell 11-1 in the first 45 minutes of play, and 19-4 for the match.

“We moved the ball well and set the tempo,” Sawyer said.

The domination continued into the second half as Brown extended its lead. Cornell was unable to pressure Bruno, and the Bears were able to use the extra time on the ball to execute their passes.

In the 63rd minute, Brown broke through again. Midfielder Darren Howerton ’09 hit an in-swinging corner kick from the right side into continued on page 5

SCOREBOARD FRIDAY, OCT. 19 Volleyball: Brown 3, Columbia 1 SATURDAY, OCT.20 Football: Cornell 38, Brown 31 OT M. Soccer: Brown 3, Cornell 1 Volleyball: Brown 3, Cornell 2 M. Water Polo: Brown 9, Johns Hopkins 8; Brown 10, No. 20 Princeton 7;

Brown 10, George Washington 3 SUNDAY, OCT. 21 Field Hockey: Cornell 2, Brown 1 W. Soccer: Brown 4, Cornell 0 M. Water Polo: Navy 7. Brown 6

Football’s Ivy hopes take hit in loss at Cornell

By Peter Cipparone Sports Editor

After Buddy Farnham ’10 caught an 18-yard touchdown pass to put the Bears ahead 31-14 late in the third quarter of Saturday’s football game at Cornell, the Bears were feeling good about their chances for a win. Coming off a victory over Princeton, the defending-Ivy League champions, Brown had created a comfortable cushion over the first two-and-a-half quarters by burning the Big Red through the air on numerous occasions.

But as in many of the football team’s losses over the past two years, the team could not close out the game. Brown allowed Cornell to score 17 unanswered points to send the game into overtime, where the Big Red scored first and kept Brown out of the end zone for a remarkable 38-31 comeback victory.

The loss drops Brown to 1-2 in the Ivy League and 2-4 overall, while Cornell is now 1-2 in the league and 4-2 overall.

“I think one of the issues is confidence,” said tri-captain Eric Brewer ’08 of the team’s penchant for narrow losses. “We kind of panicked a little bit when they came back.”

Brown’s defense held firm in the first half, ceding just one touchdown in each quarter. But near the end of the game, the defense could not get off the field. Cornell scored on three straight possessions starting with a rushing touchdown with 1:07 to play in the third quarter. The Bears then watched Cornell finish a 16-play drive with a 14-yard passing

touchdown, and the Big Red tied the game after getting outstanding field position on a punt return and booting a 24-yard field goal with 4:39 to play.

The Bears did not give up points in bunches in the first-half against Cornell or in the Princeton game, but Brewer said Saturday’s opening period loosened up the Bears defense across the field.

“We didn’t really change a whole lot from the Princeton game. (Cornell) just ran a different scheme,” he said. “Our goal was to shut down the run but unfortunately we gave up too much on the ground early in the game. It definitely opened up the play action for them in the second half.”

In overtime, Cornell’s offensive success continued. After seven- and nine-yard passes to get the ball to the Brown five-yard line, running back Randy Barbour barreled into the end zone for his third touchdown of the day.

Needing a touchdown to tie the score and send the game into a second overtime, Brown gained two yards on three passes and faced a fourth-and-eight at the Cornell 23-yard line. With the game’s outcome hanging in the balance, Head Coach Phil Estes called a time out.

Then, he went to his bag of tricks to try and gain a first down and extend the game.

“I threw a swing pass to Bobby (Sewall ’10) and he was going to toss back to me for a screen,” said quarterback Michael Dougherty ’09. “But we weren’t able to complete it.”

Dougherty, the leading passer

in yards per game in Division I-AA, had another spectacular game, going 32-for-55 for 359 yards, with three touchdowns and one interception. He played a spectacular first half, throwing two touchdown passes to Sewall and connecting with Farnham and Paul Raymond ’08 several times.

“I thought we made big plays on third down to get it down the field a few times,” Dougherty said.

“I don’t know if they did too much different in the second half. They played more man (defense) and brought a little more pressure.”

Farnham finished with 132 yards and a touchdown. Raymond had 95 yards and Sewall and Colin Cloherty ’09 chipped in 58 and 55 yards, respectively. But once again, the Bears struggled on the ground without Dereck Knight ’08, who is out for the season with a foot injury. Brown finished with 58 rushing yards on 19 carries, just over three yards per touch. The team’s inability to control the run game contributed to Brown’s inability to close out games, but Dougherty said the lack of a consistent rushing attack is no excuse.

“Throwing is how we get our points and what our offense does best,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if our offense is up 20 (points) or down 20, we have to execute.”

Next week the Bears will look to take down the University of Pennsylvania in front of a Parents Weekend crowd.

“We still have a lot to play for,” Brewer said. “You can’t call it quits in the Ivy League because you never know what’s going to happen.”

Home sweep home: Volleyball takes two

BY Amy Ehrhart Assistant Sports Editor

The volleyball team made an emphatic statement to the rest of the Ivy League this weekend: Don’t mess with Brown on its home court.

After starting the season 0-5 in the Ivy League and 2-13 overall, the Bears were looking to turn around their season in their first league home games against Columbia and Cornell. And that they did: The Bears thrashed the Columbia Lions in four games on Friday and rallied from two games down to beat Cornell in a riveting five-game match on Saturday.

“They were huge team wins, we fought really hard,” said captain Katie Lapinski ’08. “We all stepped up because we were fed up with losing.”

The win against the Lions was spearheaded by middle blocker Julie Mandolini-Trummel ’08, who posted 21 kills and a .633 hitting percentage that barely missed making it into the record books for top five match percentages at Brown.

“It felt pretty incredible. I was in the zone,” Mandolini-Trummel said.

“It feels pretty good, senior year, to know that I still got it.’”

After losing a close first game 30-28, Bruno pounded Columbia 30-20 in the second game. Literally.

Outside hitter Megan Toman ’11 and setter Natalie Meyers ’09 both hit Columbia players in the face with spikes on a 7-3 Brown run that tied the game at 17-17. From there, Mandolini-Trummel went to work, picking apart the Lions’ defense with tips and quick kills to spearhead

Ashley Hess / Herald

The play of Danielle Vaughn ’11 in the middle of Brown’s lineup helped propel the Bears to two Ivy League victories this weekend.

the game-ending 13-3 run. After the Bears went up 24-19, she had three consecutive hits, with the last one hitting a Columbia player so hard in the chest that it bounced back over the net onto Brown’s side.

“We knew they were weak in the

middle,” Mandolini-Trummel said.

“When (Meyers) keeps setting me next after next I just want to keep putting it down.”

In the third game, Danielle continued on page 4