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Faunce House renovation to begin in summer 2009 Plans underway for an expanded campus center

By Sam Byker Senior Staff Writer

With the announcement last week that Boston-based architectural firm Schwartz/Silver has been selected to design the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center in Faunce House, planning for the $15-million renovation is quickly taking shape. The campus center’s construction could result in Faunce being closed for all of the 2009-10 academic year, and, with a host of other projects set to be completed in coming years, will change the daily lives of most Brown students.

The renovations to the J. Walter Wilson Laboratory, located across Waterman Street from Faunce Arch, will accommodate the permanent relocation of many student services as soon as this summer. The Office of Chaplains and Religious Life, University Mailroom and Student Activities Office will move from Faunce to Wilson, along with several other departments coming from other buildings. The move will free up space for Faunce’s renovation, scheduled to begin in the summer of 2009.

Originally, the Plan for Academic Enrichment, President Ruth Simmons’ blueprint for improving academics at Brown, called for a campus center on a much grander scale, said Interim Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. But as other projects, such as the $45-million Nelson Fitness Center, got underway, the construction of a major new building to house the center became less feasible. At the same time, Carey added, “it was becoming increasingly clear that Faunce was lacking in a number of ways.”

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Faunce then and now Faunce opened in 1904 as a center for “the social and religious uses of students of the University,” according to Encyclopedia Brunoniana. It has gone through a number of piecemeal renovations since the 1950s, and might well have faced another this year. The University originally allocated $4 to $5 million for improvements, Carey said, but that funding wouldn’t have allowed for all the University wanted from the building. Then, last February, outgoing Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62 P’91 and several anonymous donors provided $15 million for the project, which quickly moved toward the top of the University’s priority list.

The building has “an amazing history (and) an amazing location,” Carey said, but “a less-than-amazing interior space that has gotten a little bit dreary and drab and run-down and is really in need of some upgrades.”

Some administrators say Leung Gallery exemplifies the best and the worst of Faunce. The spacious room is empty for much of the day. When the gallery is in use, often in the evenings by dance and martial arts groups, it cuts off access between the two wings of the building’s second floor. And, though the groups like it as a practice space, it was never designed for this use, and thus lacks mirrors necessary for dance and a proper floor for martial arts.

In contrast, the Blue Room is so popular during peak hours that many students purchase food and eat it elsewhere, unable to find a table amid the lunchtime rush. Once the cafe closes at 5 p.m., however, the room is practically empty.

Faunce also faces a number of interior problems. “A great deal of what’s going to have to be done as

Professors strap on their dancing shoes Wessel the ‘star’ in Friday’s competition

By Debbie Lehmann Higher Ed Editor

Meara Sharma / Herald

The Vietnamese Students’ Association held a fashion show Saturday night in Sayles Hall.

Julia Beamesderfer ’09 couldn’t quite see Professor of Biology Gary Wessel as the dancing type. But on Friday night, after Wessel performed a fastpaced, feet-stomping jive with Hilary Johnson ’09 in a packed Alumnae Hall, she took that back.

“His moves were smokin’,” said Beamesderfer, a teaching assistant in one of Wessel’s classes. “Who knew he had it in him?”

Wessel and Anderson won Brown’s first ever “Dancing with the Profs,” a competition and dance show based on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars.” The event featured 90-second routines by seven professors paired with students from the Brown Ballroom Dance Club and showed a short video of the training process for each dance. Though continued on page 6

Slavery and Justice chair heads to Stanford

By Scott Lowenstein Metro Editor

James Campbell, professor of Africana studies and chair of the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, is leaving Brown for Stanford University at the end of this academic year, citing family reasons for the move.

Campbell will hold an appointment in the department of history and will also work for Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

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“I am going with great regret and reluctance, but the totality of my personal and family circumstances leads me to believe this is the right decision for me right now,” Campbell said.

Campbell, who received his doctorate from Stanford in 1989, said that his decision to move was largely impacted by affection for his alma mater.

“If it were any other institution inviting me, I wouldn’t even consider (leaving) but I took my degree continued on page 4

Kori Schulman / Herald File Photo

Professor of Africana Studies James Campbell

U. considering flat housing rate Concerns first raised in meeting with UCS

By FRANKLIN KANIN News Editor

Min Wu / Herald

Students must pay an additional $1,108 to live in a suite with a common room, such as those in Young Orchard.

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Gabriel Heymann ’10 lives in his Barbour apartment with two suitemates, and just like many other residents on campus, he has a personal area with a bed, shelves and a desk. But unlike some other rooms, his apartment comes with a bathroom and kitchen, and for those additions he pays $1,108 more for his room than students who live in rooms without those features.

A flat housing fee for all students would resolve this discrepancy. Margaret Klawunn, associate vice president of campus life and dean forstudent life, and Richard Bova, senior associate

grab your mallets Brown’s club polo team takes the field for its debut practice

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dean for residential life, have been discussing how to create such a policy, according to Klawunn.

Concer ns about dif ferent housing rates first came to Klawunn’s attention at a meeting between the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Committee on the Residential Experience last December, she said. Currently, the fee for an apar tment-style dorm with a kitchen and bathroom is $7,066 as opposed to $5,958 for other types of rooms.

There is no “firm timeline” for coming up with a solution to housing rate concerns, Klawunn said, because the matter first came up in the last UCS meeting of the fall semester in December, and Bova and Klawunn have not had suf ficient time to devise a new housing plan.

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Though he said he would prefer that all rooms cost the same, Heymann said he thinks students should have to pay an additional price for a kitchen or bathroom.

“I think the benefits kind of make up for the extra price. I don’t know if it would change people’s decisions,” Heymann said.

Ryan Sims ’11 said having a flat housing rate would not affect his room choice, since he would want the suite-style dorm in any case, but he said a universal rate would allow all students to choose the room they want the most. “I’d probably make the same (housing) decision, but I think that’s a good idea because then anybody has the option of getting a better room,” Sims said Kathrin Sorokko ’10 said the difference in fees does not affect continued on page 4 tomorrow’s weather Expect afternoon flurries, like grants for which you didn’t even apply

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Slicing, dicing at Sarah Doyle

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Trinity Rep’s “Richard III” brings Shakespere’s villain and voyeur to the stage in Providence.

Trinity Rep’s ‘Richard’ kills, delights

By Ben Leubsdorf Staff Writer

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was not a good man. But if anyone in the audience at Trinity Repertory Company’s “Richard III” isn’t sure about his nature, he is quickly educated as Richard woos the Lady Anne over the still-warm body of her father-in-law, the late king Henry VI, whom Richard has just stabbed to death. She spits in his face — and he slowly wipes away and licks up the saliva.

The creepy, intense and gleefully evil portrayal of Richard by

REVIEW Brian McEleney is the heart of the Trinity Rep production that began Jan. 25 and runs through March 2.

McEleney dominates the gory, entertaining play, working the crowd and manipulating characters onstage in a web of political intrigue as he begins a long, bloody climb to the throne.

“Richard III” is the last of four history plays by William Shakespeare about the War of the Roses, the 15th-century civil war between the houses of York and Lancaster for the English throne. Richard and his brother, the Duke of Clarence (Stephen Berenson), work to put their eldest brother Edward (Johnny Lee Davenport) on the throne, killing King Henry VI (Timothy John Smith) and his heir (Charlie Hudson III) in the process.

Edward becomes king, but Richard is not finished with the killing yet, cutting a swath through his family as he strives to become king himself. He reaches the throne only to be reviled as a murderous tyrant and deposed by rebellion.

Trinity Rep tells part of this story by including a section of the third part of “Henry VI” — a trilogy of plays — as a prologue. The script for “Richard III” — one of Shakespeare’s longest plays — is abridged, the entire show running about two and a half hours, with one intermission. It is set on a stark, two-level set of ragged concrete and black metal, with the cast dressed in modern suits and — during battle sequences — camouflage fatigues.

Assault rifles and pistols replace the original swords and daggers, and music by Arcade Fire plays at key moments.

The play opens with the soldiers of the house of York, including Richard and his brothers, attacking the Lancaster king and his followers commando-style, scaling the stage’s scaffolding and then striking. They succeed in wresting away the crown, but Richard is left crippled by his wounds, later represented by a sling on his arm and a brace on his leg.

As peace returns to the land and Edward IV reigns over a happy court, Richard emerges and delivers his famous “Now is the winter of our discontent” soliloquy, which traditionally opens the play as a bitter speech. But here, it is delivered as an ironic toast to his royal brother and the peace he has brought to the realm.

Midway through the speech, Richard snaps his fingers, the lighting changes and he turns to directly address the audience, declaring, “Since I cannot prove a lover / to entertain these fair well-spoken days, / I am determined to prove a villain.”

That twisting of language — the double-meanings piled on one another, as Richard says one thing to the characters around him and quite another to the audience watching — is at the heart of Richard’s highly theatrical style. McEleney pulls it off well, at one point wading into the audience to shake hands, like a politician working a rope line, laughing maniacally.

In the first half of the play, McEleney’s Richard is almost gleeful as he twists the world around him to his design, cheerfully murdering those in his way as he ascends to power. But that glee fades in time.

In the second half, after he has become king, Richard becomes more paranoid and erratic, as he seems to weary of the killing but knows he cannot stop if he wants to keep his crown. He laments, “I am in / So far in blood that sin will pluck on sin.”

Richard is a voyeur as well, standing at the side to watch as brutal murders are carried out on his orders, unable to look away as his plots culminate in gory stabbings, shootings and strangulations. He is a creepy figure, seducing the Lady Anne (Angela Brazil) with a frightening intensity and later wooing his sister-in-law (Queen Elizabeth, played by Phyllis Kay) in order to marry her daughter, giving his prospective mother-in-law a passionate, disturbing kiss.

With Richard occupying such a dominant role in the play, other characters struggle to emerge from his long shadow, though the actors’ performances are solid. Berenson’s pitiful, betrayed Clarence and Davenport’s booming, commanding Edward are quickly left by the wayside as the play speeds ahead. Brazil’s Anne at first holds her own against Richard but then gives in to his feigned love, later becoming a victim of the tyrant as he strangles her in bed. Kay’s Elizabeth is a strong figure, as is the Duchess of York, played by Barbara Meek. But most of Richard’s victims pass through the play without much distinction.

The most vivid of the supporting characters is the Duke of Buckingham (Fred Sullivan Jr.), Richard’s ally who orchestrates his rise to the throne. A plump political operative who wouldn’t be out of place on the campaign trail this election year, he is promised an earldom by Richard as payment for his services — but once Richard becomes king, Buckingham becomes an annoyance at best and a threat at worst. His fate is the same as so many others’.

“Richard III” is well worth the short trip downtown to revel in its title character’s delicious menace.

The play is in the upstairs Chace Theater at Trinity Rep, located at 201 Washington St. Student tickets are available for $15.

The Sarah Doyle Women’s Center Gallery held an opening reception Friday for a new exhibition of works

by Bob Dilworth, visiting lecturer in visual art, entitled “A Work in Progress.” Dilworth’s work will be on display at the Gallery through Feb. 22.

The majority of Dilworth’s pieces in the show consist of painted strips of canvas that have been cut out and glued in a collage-like manner on another piece of canvas. Each of the 11 pieces is titled with the materials used, with names such as “Acrylic Print Cutouts on Canvas Glued to Canvas,” “Monoprint on Arches” and “Monoprint on Stonehenge.” In the seven pieces with cutouts, the artist layers radiant blues and greens with bright reds and oranges on the abstractly shaped cutouts.

On some of these pieces Dilworth incorporated black shapes which, in addition to emphasizing the layering of the bright colors, also seemed to make reference to an ominous human form.

Dilworth also showcased four monoprints, which were more subtle in both size and color. While these works were also abstract, they seemed to be more about the color relationships than the layering of colored material. One particularly

striking piece consisted of vibrant blue spots against a gold field.

The artist previously worked figuratively to explore themes of race, culture, heritage and the way America handles ethnicity, according to Dilworth’s Web site. “Origin is an on-going theme in my work,” he wrote to The Herald. “Where one comes from, how one learns to engage the world, how one is seen and how one sees the world through the eyes of race, culture or ethnicity are crucial to fully realizing one’s goal and destiny in life.”

It is difficult to tell whether he is continuing to explore these themes in these new works because the titles focus only on processes, rather than content, and the works seem entirely abstract. Perhaps titles that indicated the nature or meaning behind his creations would leave viewers less oblivious to the message he wishes to convey.

Nonetheless, Dilworth’s layered process and use of bright colors make the pieces visually striking.

“Every work of art becomes a field for a fictional narrative,” he wrote.

“Anyone can superimpose their history as well as an updated narrative onto this field.”

Dilworth has shown extensively, especially in Rhode Island, in both solo and group exhibitions, including a one-person exhibition at the Newport Art Museum in 2006.

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U. orchestrates Faunce overhaul, move to Wilson Lab continued from page 1 they fix this building is infrastructural,” said University Chaplain Rev. Janet Cooper Nelson. “The roof has always leaked in all the 18 years I’ve been here. ... We were always going to do something (to fix the building). What Steve Robert has made possible is that we’re finally really going to do well at the whole building as opposed to fixing up a section of it.”

A grand reshuffling The renovation of Faunce has been made easier by a grand reshuffling of office space resulting from the Plan for Academic Enrichment.

The completion of the Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences last year provided a new home for several science departments that had formerly occupied J. Walter Wilson. At the same time, it became clear that the renovation of Rhode Island Hall to house the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World would necessitate a new space for the Office of International Programs and other offices housed there. That need, combined with the University’s perennial lack of office space, led planners to propose the centralization of most of the University’s student services — including Psychological Services, the Brown Card Office, the Writing Center, the Writing Fellows program, the Registrar’s Office and the curricular resource and academic support centers, in addition to those listed above — in a renovated J. Walter Wilson.

This summer, the Mailroom will move to J. Walter Wilson, which will open in the fall with a completely redesigned ground-level entrance.

The building’s first floor may include a large glass facade and a wide terrace with steps leading up to it, Cooper Nelson said. Carey said the current mailbox facades will not be used, partly due to mechanical issues.

“It’s a lot of space to be using for mail delivery,” Carey said, “and giving the pressing need ... for space on this campus, that benefit in Faunce House is very great.”

Cooper Nelson will be making the move as well. “The chaplains have been in Faunce since 1953.

This building was built for religious life. And now we’re being evicted,” she said, laughing. In fact, Cooper Nelson insisted, she accepts the need to move. “There’s no way to make of this building what has to happen without clearing out space.

There really isn’t.”

On Wilson, she added, “There are going to be lots of shared spaces that we haven’t had before, lots of interplay for offices that hasn’t been possible, so I think it’s going to be an interesting change in our culture.” The building will also provide seminar rooms for classes during the day and student group meetings at night.

Making it happen With plans for Wilson complet-

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ed, administrators have turned their attention to redesigning Faunce.

Architect selection was initiated last February by the Corporation Committee on Facilities and Design, and the University approached a number of firms. Mark Schatz, a principal at Schwartz/Silver and the project architect in charge of Faunce, was invited for an interview in September 2007. The firm specializes in two types of projects — renovation of historically significant structures and construction of modern buildings. “I think Brown liked the combination of those two things,” Schatz said.

Schwar tz/Silver designed Princeton’s Andlinger Center for the Humanities, which required dramatic interior renovations of two 19th-century buildings while maintaining their outer facades.

Andlinger was hailed as a major success when it opened in 2004, and Schatz highlighted the parallels between Princeton’s center and Faunce. “We thought (the center) had a lot of similar problems (to those) that the Faunce House project has,” Schatz said.

“We’re very happy with our decision to go with Schwartz/Silver,” John Hlafter, Princeton’s university architect, told The Herald. “They combine the ability to do preservation work in existing buildings with a good sense of designing new ones. ... The end result is something that people seem to enjoy, and in the end I think that’s the most important thing.”

To win the contract, the firm had to agree to stick within the University’s $15-million budget, which is quite small for the scope of the project. By contrast, Princeton’s 200,000-square-foot Frist Center, which opened in 2000, came with a $48-million price tag. The renovation of J. Walter Wilson alone will cost $18 million.

Money is tight because Brown is undertaking a number of costly projects, including the $69-million Mind Brain Behavior Building and a $45-million Creative Arts Center, as it simultaneously seeks to hire new faculty members and increase financial aid offerings.

The future of Faunce Schatz says his firm is optimistic nonetheless. Over the past several months it has been soliciting student input in earnest, he said.

Director of Student Activities Ricky Gresh has put together a planning committee composed of administrators, faculty, undergrads and students from the Graduate and Medical schools.

Their first meeting included a tour of Faunce. “I’d never realized how broken up the building was,” said Eleanor Cutler ’10, campus life chair for the Undergraduate Council of Students and a member of the committee. “Trying to hit every spot in the building was difficult and enlightening in a way.”

The committee also met with representatives from Schwartz/ Silver, who gave a presentation about the firm and its ideas for

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Chris Bennett / Herald File Photo

As the University plans to renovate, future students will likely encounter a much different space than is in Faunce House now. the building. They want Faunce to be “not just a space that’s functional, but also a place that has a nice ambience,” said Amy Tan ’09, another committee member. One of the firm’s presenters showed a picture of the lower Blue Room and explained that it could be significantly better. “Everyone in the room chuckled because we all agree with that,” Tan said.

The firm also solicited student input, which members said focused on preserving the Underground, the Blue Room and Faunce’s steps, while improving the building’s flow and adding study space and room for campus groups to meet. They also suggested integrating the campus center with Stuart Theatre, which is next door to Faunce but accessible only from outside.

Over the next month, Gresh said, the committee will solicit further student input at a UCS meeting and through several open forums, seeking to learn what students find lacking in current public spaces.

The pre-design process will continue for most of the semester, with final plans beginning this summer.

But the firm already has a number of ideas. It plans to make Faunce more wheelchair-accessible, to increase natural lighting within the building and to add student space.

Faunce’s facade, however, will remain largely untouched.

Schatz said he has been drawn to the building’s iconic arch. “Almost every student who takes a class during the day has to walk through the archway at some point,” Schatz said.

“It’s both a gateway into the green and also a focal point for visitors.”

The campus center will definitely house an eatery, but its form is still in flux. “Exactly where in the building it should be, what form it should take, what the menu should be is really part of the planning process. But food is central to a campus center, and there’ll be no question about that,” Carey said. Schwartz/

What’s moving to J. Walter Wilson?

With the opening of Frank Hall last year, the former biology laboratory is being turned into office space.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll find there next fall: Chaplain’s Office University Mail Room Student Activities Office Office of International Programs Psychological Services Brown Card Office Writing Center Writing Fellows Registrar’s Office Curricular Resource Center Academic Success Center Silver began talking to Dining Services just last week.

Since most current students will graduate before the center opens in the fall of 2010, construction is a major issue for many. Schatz said the scope of the project prevents it from being accomplished over the summer, and several sources said the University is operating under the assumption that Faunce will be closed for all of the 2009-10 academic year. Carey said it’s too early to say what will happen to Faunce’s current offerings — including the Blue Room and the Underground — during that time, but he insisted administrators will take student input into account.

Carey acknowledged the Blue Room’s popularity, but refused to be pinned down regarding its fate. “I can’t promise something that I don’t know yet,” he said. “But I think what I would say is to reassure people that we’ll be very thoughtful and deliberate about such questions. ...

We’ve done (temporary relocations) in the past, so I don’t see any reason we can’t do that again.”

at Stanford, and I have an opportunity to help rebuild the program in which I was trained,” he said. “That is pretty enticing.”

Campbell shrugged off any suggestion that he was leaving because of resentment or dissatisfaction with the University.

“It is the nature of universities that faculty come and go ... There is nothing unusual about this,” he said, calling the move “bittersweet.”

“Brown has been such a wonderful place for me. I revere our president, and I absolutely adore my colleagues,” Campbell said, adding, “Brown students are, I think, truly unique.”

Campbell’s departure comes close to the start of the University’s response to last year’s report by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, which he chaired. That response has included a new scholarship fund for African students and an effort to raise $10 million for Providence public schools.

“It is in some ways time for me to be going because so many of the recommendations of the slavery and justice committee are just beginning to bear fruit.” Campbell said. “My name was in the paper a lot, but I was one of 17 people on the slavery and justice committee,” adding that many others on campus “are more than able to carry those forward.”

Though he is relocating, Campbell said he would continue to work with his current graduate students until they receive their degrees. Having advisers at different universities is a common practice for humanities graduate students, he said.

Professor of Africana Studies Barr ymore Bogues, chair of the department, praised Campbell’s impact on the department, citing his work with the slavery and justice committee as “very important for the University.”

Finding a replacement for Campbell “is not an instant business,” Bogues said, adding that Campbell’s joint appointments in Africana studies, American civilization and history mean that departments must cooperate in finding Campbell’s replacement.

“You have to wait until someone actually leaves before you start talking about what to do next,” Bogues said. “You have to have a full discussion.”

“It’s definitely a loss for Brown,” said Evan Pulvers ’10, who has taken a class with Campbell and worked on a documentary about civil rights tourism under his guidance. Pulvers said that Campbell is a dedicated teacher and “a great advocate for students.”

“I’ve been at almost every office hour he’s held since I’ve been at Brown,” Pulvers said.

Flat room rate could free student housing choice continued from page 1 her room choice. “I don’t really think about the price,” she said.

The quality of the suite-style housing should also be a factor in price, Heymann said. “They are all too expensive to begin with ... but Young Orchard is so much

nicer (than Barbour),” he said.

Klawunn said Brown’s housing policy is not unique. “It’s pretty common on other campuses to have a number of room rates,” she said.

Brown actually has a less disparate housing rate than most schools, according to Klawunn.

She said while many schools have different rates for different rooms, Brown only has two. The differential is not as much as it is at other schools, she added.

As the semester continues, Klawunn said, she and Bova plan to have more discussions and make more progress on this

concern. “I take it seriously. We don’t want oppor tunities foreclosed because of financial concerns, so we’re tr ying to figure out what we can do to make any type of room a student wants to live in available,” she said. “We have to figure out how we can do that so we can afford it.”

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Though not official, polo team mounts up

By Max Mankin Senior Staff Writer

PORTSMOUTH — “It looks like a little girl’s birthday party,” said Joshua Unseth ’09, one of the newly founded club polo team’s senior members, of the team’s first practice.

Despite lacking a budget or official recognition from the Student Activities Office, Unseth and 22 others packed into cars and drove 40 minutes to get to the indoor polo arena here, where they were outfitted with proper riding gear and horses. For some, it was their first time on a horse, let alone playing polo.

Polo is played worldwide, with teams consisting of three or four players on horseback, depending on whether the match is indoors or outdoors. The goal of the game is to use mallets to hit a plastic or felt ball into the opposing team’s goal on the far end of the field. Outdoor fields are 300 by 160 yards, the equivalent area of about nine football fields, and indoor arenas are smaller.

Of the team’s 23 members, only two had played polo prior to the practice. Nina Frost ’09 is the team’s “token polo player.” While studying abroad last semester in France, she learned to play at a polo club and is offering her expertise to the team. The team is also being trained by polo professional Matthew Fonseca.

“This is our debut practice,” Adam Crego ’09 said. “We’ve been waiting quite awhile for this — it’s quite exciting.”

In fact, the team has been waiting since last spring to start playing. “This is no walk in the park,” Crego said, referring to organizing the group. The team has been coordinating with Agnes and Dan Keating, co-administrators of the Newport Polo Club.

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Polo takes place on 300 by 160 yard fields when played outdoors, though indoor arenas are smaller.

“Agnes Keating is definitely responsible for this happening so quickly because she worked hard with the students at Brown to get them down here,” said Dori Burner, a member of the Newport Polo Club and manager of Fonseca’s polo program.

“If they fill out the proper paperwork and register with the USPA, they will become the Brown Intercollegiate Polo team and play schools like Yale, Cornell, and UConn,” said

Agnes Keating. The USPA is the United States Polo Association.

The team is lucky to be near Fonseca, Burner said. According to Burner, Fonseca, who has a family history of polo, grew up in England and Argentina playing polo with the Gauchos, Argentine polo professionals.

“I believe he’s the highest-ranked polo player in New England curcontinued on page 6

Four professors receive state science funds

By Anne Simons Contributing Writer

Four Brown professors are among the recipients of this year’s grants from the Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council, the group announced Jan. 25.

The Rhode Island Science and Technology Advisory Council, or STAC, awarded grants to nine projects representing 24 researchers, including four Brown professors — Gregor y Crawford, professor of engineering and dean of the engineering division; Laurie Heller, assistant professor of research and lecturer of cognitive and linguistic sciences; Michael Black, professor of computer science; and Wolfgang Peti, assistant professor of medical science, according to the council’s Web site. The projects that won grants covered a broad range of scientific topics, from medicine to the environment.

STAC was created in a 2005 executive order by Gov. Donald Carcieri to advance collaborative research between academia and the public and private sectors. There were 49 proposals submitted this year, said Melissa Withers, director of communications and market development for the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. Each is evaluated on scientific merit, level of collaboration and potential to receive further funding.

The proposals go through intensive

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Professors get grants to: Build a tool to diagnose anemia Improve hearing aids Make better use of video evidence Acquire a new calorimeter

scientific peer review processes to ensure their merit.

This type of collaborative research is strategic for Rhode Island because of its compact geography, Withers said. The state’s “unique ecosystem” allows for the sharing of resources, equipment and personnel that isn’t possible in larger areas, she said.

The program has proven its success, Withers said. A team of scientists researching testicular cancer at Brown and Rhode Island College received a grant from the council in 2007. They later received a follow-up grant of $1.4 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue their work.

Crawford and his team from Rhode Island Hospital are working on a device that can accurately and almost instantly diagnose anemia without a blood test by shining light on the inner lower eyelid.

The reflection can be used to measure hemoglobin levels. Crawford said he thinks STAC recognized the project because it’s applicable to many areas of medicine. It will help identify malnutrition in Third World countries and in poor areas of the United States, he said. Further, anemia signals the presence of other serious conditions, including AIDS, malaria and internal bleeding, Crawford said.

Heller will be working with Kipp Bradford, chief technology officer of hearing aid company Bionica Corp., to develop new hearing aid technologies with their STAC grant.

“Current hearing aids do not work acceptably well,” Heller said.

Bradford said that the team would like to remove background noise that users of hearing aids may experience. Heller said she sees potential for the project to “lay the groundwork for Rhode Island to be the place that supports the biggest hearing aid research.”

Black is par tnered with the Rhode Island State Police in working to extract “high-quality evidence from low-quality video relevant for crime investigations,” according to the council’s Web site.

Peti and his collaborator from the University of Rhode Island will bring a new isothermal titration calorimeter to Rhode Island. The machine will help researchers study proteins, according to the council’s Web site.

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Two researchers get surprise grants The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research has awarded two Brown professors grants of $50,000 for their research on extending the lives of fruit flies, without either professor even having applied for one.

The foundation announced in a Jan. 24 press release that Marc Tatar, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Stephen Helfand, professor of biology, were among the 25 recipients of this year’s Glenn Foundation Awards for biological mechanisms of aging.

Both Tatar and Helfand said their initial reaction upon receiving the unsolicited grant was surprise, followed by happiness.

Helfand called the grant “the most unusual award” he’d ever received. “Normally one has to apply for a grant and it’s a lengthy process,” he said.

Helfand said he plans to use half of the award to study how calorie restriction is connected to the life span of fruit flies, and the other half will be used to study how changes in chromatin, the DNA-protein complex that makes up chromosomes, can affect aging.

In the expensive field of scientific research, this grant was simply “a wonderful drop in the bucket,” Tatar said. Tatar, who has been studying how hormones, particularly insulin, slow the aging process, said the money will likely be put toward the salary of one of his team members.

This grant is especially important in light of what Tatar deemed a nationwide crisis in the lack of federal funding for scientific research, he said.

According to Tatar, Brown has a relatively large number of scientists in the field of gerontology, considering its size, and the program is garnering national attention. Last November The Herald reported that the National Institute of Aging awarded $10 million to a group of Brown researchers for the study of extended care for the elderly.

The head of this team, Vincent Mor MA’86, professor of medical science and chair of the Department of Community Health, said of the grants, “It really is a wonderful contribution to the overall Brown research team.” According to Mor, the University has always had a very strong base in the policy side of aging research, and is now building a strong program in the basic science.

“Brown is really cutting-edge. We have a real opportunity here,” Helfand said of Brown’s large group of aging researchers. “Let’s see what we can do with it.” ­—Kyla Wilkes

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New club polo team looks for funding, works on farm continued from page 5 rently,� she said.

But by the end of the practice, even Fonseca was impressed by the riders’ new skills. “You’ve got the basics of a team here,� he told The Herald from the sidelines of a scrimmage, as he turned to yell, “Sick shot, Josh!�

Though it has an enthusiastic, dedicated set of team members, the group is still in the process of applying to be a recognized team, said Crego, who is coordinating the team with Rachel Griffith ’10. Crego said he hopes to submit a constitution after a team meeting on Tuesday.

Despite not yet having submitted an application, team members still feel as if the University is not going to fund them well. “Is Brown funding us?� Julie Mohamed ’11 asked her teammates on the drive to the polo arena. After some discussion, Unseth said, “Brown won’t fund us.�

Drew Madden ’10, student activities chair for the Undergraduate

Council of Students, told The Herald that the team has not applied for any official status or funding. “We have not spoken with them in any official sense,� he said.

According to Crego, the general resentment appears to stem from the Student Activities Office’s initial response to the polo team’s unofficial inquiries about official sanction. “We were told that we’d get a starting fund of $1,000,� Crego said. “It’s more than just us — I guess volleyball and badminton teams are also applying (for funding). Polo should be funded more than another sport that doesn’t need much money. I mean, what are you going to buy, a freakin’ birdie?�

Because they haven’t applied for University funding yet, some team members, including Unseth, are working once a week at the farm where Fonseca teaches polo to offset the cost of the $50-per-person lessons. “We’re also planning fundraisers to help with the fees,� Crego said.

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Wessel was not exactly light on his toes, but the judges gave his performance rave reviews, calling it not just good but “fantastic.� Though the judges seemed impressed with all the performers, other professors received slightly less glowing comments. “I’d like to have seen a little more connection (between you and your partner),� Russell Monk, the coach of the ballroom club and one of the judges, told Professor of Mathematics Thomas Banchoff, who performed a rumba with Deeksha Gupta ’10. “Your wife must be out there or something.�

He was similarly cheeky with Lecturer in Neuroscience John Stein, who performed a swing routine with Dina Tsukrov ’08. “You swung her really well,�

Monk said, “but I would have liked to see you swing something.�

In addition to guest performances by the ImPulse and Fusion Dance Companies, the event featured a foxtrot by Professor of Histor y Evelyn Hu-Dehart and Jensen Law ’09, a cha cha by Professor of Computer Science Andy van Dam and Patra Jongjitirat ’08, a Viennese waltz by Professor of

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and unreachable. But when you’re teaching a professor, you see they’re just another person who gets nervous and dances off-beat, just like everybody else.�

And some professors said they did indeed get nervous. But despite the sweaty practices and occasional soreness and dizziness, they said the experience has been memorable and enjoyable. “When I first saw people do the dance, there was one move I didn’t think I could ever do in my life,�

Banchoff said. “It’s great to know that something you were scared of can become something you can do with such confidence. I like it when that happens in my courses.�

Banchoff added that he now appreciates dance in a way he “never did before.�

The professors may have enjoyed the challenge of dancing, but the audience that filled Alumnae Hall to the brim simply enjoyed seeing the instructors in action.

Ned Richards, Joan Richards’ son, was sitting with a group of his mother’s friends and family.

Richards’ fans, who filled up nearly half a bleacher, held signs with the words “Go Joan!� as they watched her waltz about the floor in a blue silk and velvet gown. “She was awesome — she was really graceful,� Ned Richards said, adding that his mother’s decision to participate was “totally bizarre.

But that’s what she does.�

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History Joan Richards and Derek Bangle ’10 and a salsa by Associate Dean of Student Life Kisa Takesue ’88 and Ken Estrellas ’10.

Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron initially agreed to participate in the contest but ended up dropping out, said Chihiro Ikegami ’10, a member of the ballroom club who helped organize the event.

The idea for “Dancing with the Profs� came up last year when several members of the ballroom club were discussing how to make their team seem less exclusive. A seven-person committee began organizing the event last May, inviting professors of large lecture classes to participate. “The whole point is seeing your professor do something outside of an academic environment,� said Eva Kolker ’10, who helped organize and emcee the event. “We wanted name recognition because we thought the biggest draw would be people coming to see their own professors.�

Kolker said the easiest part of organizing the event was working with the professors, most of whom began training in the fall. There were “no divas,� she said, and all the professors were “very accommodating� with their schedules. “The best part of this has been realizing that professors are humans, too,� Kolker said. “So often we see them in the academic environment and they’re supersized

WASHINGTON — President Bush waded directly into the presidential campaign in an interview broadcast Sunday, defending Sen. John McCain as a “true conservative� but warning that his onetime rival needs to shore up relations with the Republican Party’s base to take the fight into the general election this fall. “If John is the nominee, he has got some convincing to do to convince people that he is a solid conservative, and I’ll be glad to help him if he is the nominee,� Bush said on “Fox News Sunday.� “But he is a conservative. Look, he is very strong on national defense.

He is tough fiscally. He believes the tax cuts ought to be permanent. He is pro-life. His principles are sound and solid, as far as I’m concerned.�

In his first expansive public discussion of the 2008 election, the president also depicted Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as a political mystery whose muddled foreign policy would have the United States attack an ally and coddle an enemy.

But Bush came to the defense of his Democratic predecessor, rejecting charges that former President Bill Clinton’s campaign comments on behalf of his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., have been racially tinged.

The president’s comments came as McCain of Arizona labored to wrap up the Republican nomination, which seems within reach despite stubborn opposition. Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee took two of three contests Saturday and barely lost a third; he beat McCain handily in Kansas, edged him out in Louisiana and fell just short in Washington state. Although Huckabee remains far behind the senator in the overall delegate count, he vowed again Sunday to remain

in the race. “The Democrats haven’t settled their nominee either, so for us to suddenly act like we have to all step aside and have a coronation instead of an election, that’s the antithesis of everything Republicans are supposed to believe,� Huckabee said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,� one of three morning shows he appeared on before heading to Lynchburg, Va., to visit the late Jerry Falwell’s church. “We believe competition breeds excellence and the lack of it breeds mediocrity.�

At Thomas Road Baptist Church in L ynchburg, Huckabee was called a “dear friend� by Falwell’s son Jonathan. Huckabee spoke briefly and largely steered away from politics in front of a packed crowd of more than 6,000.

Also Sunday, Huckabee’s campaign filed a complaint disputing the results of the election in Washington state, where McCain was declared the winner Saturday night.

McCain won 25.5 percent of the vote to Huckabee’s 23.7 percent.

But only 87 percent of precincts had been counted as of Saturday night — the rest were to be tallied Monday — and Huckabee officials argued that the former governor can still win.

McCain stayed off the trail Sunday but aims to regain momentum in primaries Tuesday in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He picked up the endorsement of the Baltimore Sun, and a Mason-Dixon poll for Virginia newspapers Sunday showed him leading Huckabee in the Old Dominion, 55 percent to 27 percent.

Another remaining opponent, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, said that he is staying in the race to keep his ideas on the table. but that he will make his campaign “leaner and tighter.� He also ruled out an independent run. “Of course, I am committed to fighting for our ideas within the Republican party,� Paul

said on his Web site, “so there will be no third party run.�

Bush’s foray into the campaign debate Sunday broke a silence that, with a few exceptions, was selfimposed as the race has played out over the past year. He eased into the campaign with a couple lines at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Friday, when he tried to reassure the party’s leading activists that the nominee would “carry a conservative banner� — a line interpreted as an attempt to begin rallying the base for McCain.

He largely dispensed with the code in the Fox interview, which was taped at Camp David with Chris Wallace. Although he declined to formally endorse McCain and offered praise for Huckabee as well, the president left little doubt that he sees McCain, his 2000 campaign rival, as his would-be heir. “I know him well,� Bush said. “I know his convictions. I know the principles that drive him and no doubt in my mind, he is a true conservative.�

Bush brushed off their highprofile disagreements over the years on issues such as taxes and interrogation policies, depicting them as natural for any senator. “The question I asked myself, and I hope voters ask, (is) what are the principles by which this person will be making decisions?� As for conservatives who doubt McCain, he said, “If you’re seeking, looking for perfection, you’ll never find that person. I certainly wasn’t a perfect candidate for a lot of folks.�

Bush declined to repeat his prediction that Clinton will win the Democratic nomination but raised questions about Obama’s readiness for the Oval Office. “I certainly don’t know what he believes in,� Bush said. “The only foreign policy thing I remember he said continued on page 8

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Writers could be back in studios by Wednesday Richard Verrier, Claudia Eller and Maria Elena Fernandez Los Angeles T imes

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Movie and television writers began casting their ballots Sunday on whether to end the three-month-old strike, a vote that will likely send the entertainment industry back to work Wednesday.

The action followed Sunday’s unanimous decision by the board and negotiating committee of the Writers Guild of America to bless a tentative contract reached with studios this weekend. The guild’s 10,500 movie and TV writers are then expected to ratify the new three-year agreement within 12 days.

Top show runners, however, were given the green light by the guild to return to work Monday in their capacity as producers, which means they can hire crews and prepare their series to go before the cameras.

Shawn Ryan, the show runner of “The Shield” and “The Unit,” could not wait to go back to work. He spent Sunday night viewing cuts from “The Oaks” pilot, of which he is executive producer, and the last four episodes of “The Shield,” which will begin its final season later this year.

“It’s really unusual,” Ryan said.

“I’ve kind of gotten used to not working. Honestly, I’m very happy that we were able to strike a deal that was fair and was amenable to our side and their side and that we all get to go back and do the work that we love.”

The strike shut down more than 60 shows, idled thousands of production workers and squeezed scores of local businesses that rely heavily upon the entertainment industry for their livelihood.

News of the approaching end to the work stoppage brought a collective sigh of relief across the region.

“It’s thrilling news that the strike may be over,” said Harvey Schwartz, founder of North Hollywood-based 20th Century Props, who estimated his props business lost $250,000 and laid off a dozen employees because of the strike.

Added Michael Page, the manager of Mo’s restaurant on in Burbank: “We’re definitely grateful that the strike is over. We’re right down the street from the studios so it certainly impacted us.”

Crew members were also elated.

“We just want to get back to work,” said Deborah Huss Humphries, a makeup artist. “I’ve missed working.”

The resolution comes in the nick of time to save the Feb. 24 telecast of the Academy Awards, which now can happen without the threat of picketers outside the event, a paucity of stars on the red carpet, and the absence of writers to pen jokes made by presenters. It also means the networks will now be able to begin, albeit at a delay, developing new shows for next season.

At a news conference Sunday at the Writers Guild of America, West headquarters, guild leaders touted their new contract as landmark agreement that demonstrated the union’s new-found clout and secured for writers a foothold in the emerging world of online entertainment.

“This is the best deal the guild has negotiated in 30 years,” said Patric M. Verrone, president of the West

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Coast guild. “It’s not all we hoped for, but it assures us a fair share in the future.”

The agreement doubles the rate that writers are paid for movie and TV shows sold online, establishes the union’s jurisdiction over programming created for the Internet, and for the first time provides payments for entertainment that is streamed on Web sites. It was modeled after a similar agreement studios struck with directors last month.

Verrone and other guild leaders praised the executives who took over the negotiations for the studios, News Corp. President Peter Chernin and Walt Disney Co. Chairman Bob Iger.

“We spent nearly three months with the (studio) labor executives getting nowhere,” Verrone said. “The CEOs involvement was instrumental in getting this deal done.”

Verrone also tipped his hat to a show of solidarity from other unions, especially the Screen Actors Guild, whose members supported writers in boycotting the Golden Globes last month. Actors are poised to enter their own negotiations with studios to replace a contract that expires June 30.

Many had expected the strike would end Monday. But at a membership meeting on Saturday night, Verrone told 3,500 writers that the board would not lift the strike until members would have the opportunity to weigh in Tuesday.

The board had the authority to end the strike Monday. But many members felt that they should first have a say in the matter given that they had voted to authorize the strike in the first place and rigorously supported it on the picket lines.

Under guild rules, members must be given a minimum of 48 hours to vote on whether to end a strike.

Notices went out midday Sunday informing writers that they could cast ballots in person on Tuesday at polling locations on both coasts.

Members unable to vote in person were allow to send proxy ballots beginning Sunday. Results will be announced Tuesday night.

A settlement would also be welcome by TV viewers, who are anxious to see some of their favorite shows return to the air with fresh episodes and are hoping mid-season shows, such as “Lost,” have complete runs.

But first the producers and writers have their work cut out for them.

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, the co-show runners of “Lost” will begin the complicated task Monday of figuring out what they should do with the second half of their season. When the strike began, eight episodes of the fourth season were completed, and the producers don’t know how many new episodes ABC will want to air before the TV season ends in the spring.

“We have to look at all the notes that were taken right before we left in terms of what we’re going to do creatively for the remainder of the season and refresh our memory a little,” Lindelof said. “I feel like we’re sort of native French speakers who have been away from the country for three months and we’re going back to France tomorrow and our diction is gonna be a little sloppy.”

— Staff writer Meg James contributed to this report

Clinton sacks campaign chief and aide

By Anne E. Kornblut and Dan Balz Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton shook up her presidential campaign Sunday, replacing campaign manager and longtime aide Patti Solis Doyle with her former White House chief of staff Maggie Williams in an acknowledgment of the unexpectedly difficult struggle in which she finds herself against Sen. Barack Obama.

The move came on a day when Obama easily won the Maine caucuses, completing a decisive weekend sweep of Democratic contests in four states that gave the senator from Illinois renewed momentum heading into Tuesday’s contests in Maryland, Virginia and the District.

The change at the top of the Clinton campaign has been talked about since last month’s Iowa caucuses, in which the senator from New York placed third and immediately lost her front-runner status.

Still, it came as a surprise to even some senior advisers.

After mounting tensions inside the campaign, fueled by repeated defeats, financial difficulties, inconclusive results on Super Tuesday and Saturday’s coast-to-coast trouncing, Doyle told the staff Sunday that she will step aside.

“Patti Solis Doyle has done an extraordinary job in getting us to this point—within reach of the nomination—and I am enormously grateful for her friendship and her outstanding work,” Clinton said in a statement.

Clinton, effectively tied with Obama in delegates and facing a series of difficult races the rest of this month, is looking to gain any possible advantage to slow her rival’s momentum until the campaign reaches what her aides believe will be friendlier territory in Ohio and Texas on March 4.

On Thursday, she made an unannounced trip to Chapel Hill, N.C., to seek an endorsement from former Sen. John Edwards, who gave up his presidential bid last month. Obama is scheduled to meet with Edwards on a similar mission tonight. Sunday’s move by Clinton came after a week in which she revealed that she had loaned her cash-strapped campaign $5 million last month.

The removal of Doyle, 42, was portrayed as an amicable one initiated by the campaign manager herself. But it gave credence to what some supporters have said for many weeks — that the campaign had spent too much money yielding too little results and that fresh management and advice are needed for what could be a long battle against Obama. Doyle did not tell Clinton how rapidly the campaign was burning through money, according to one campaign

official, who said Clinton learned about her financial constraints only after the New Hampshire primary on Jan. 8.

Doyle told friends that she long ago had assumed that the Super Tuesday primaries would decide the nomination and that she would then seek a different role. By some accounts, the campaign’s January cash crunch undermined her role as manager, and there were tensions with former president Bill Clinton and some of his loyalists.

One senior official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely about the campaign’s inner workings, said, “The dissatisfaction — to the extent there has been — has not been about money.” Asked what the source of dissatisfaction was, this adviser replied, “There is a sense that this is a fatiguing campaign and some new energy primarily was useful.”

On the eve of the New Hampshire primar y, it appeared that Clinton was ready to replace Doyle and make other changes, but some Clinton loyalists said Sunday that the senator’s unexpected victory forestalled widespread changes.

After her win there, the campaign began to expand, with advisers from the Clinton White House and from the Clintons’ vast political network recruited to join the campaign’s tight inner circle.

Williams arrived on what she told friends would be a 30-day assignment to help oversee operations and review the campaign’s management. She did not displace Doyle but there was, according to one account, tension between the two.

By one account, Williams decided early last week to return to her consulting firm, her temporary assignment over. By another, she announced that she was leaving to send a signal to Clinton that the dual management structure was untenable.

Another senior adviser said the

replacement represents a major shift in the dynamics of the campaign, putting much more power into the hands of the campaign manager than Doyle had enjoyed.

Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore’s campaign manager in 2000, said Williams, like Doyle, knows the candidate well and has her full trust. “Maggie’s tough,” she said.

“She knows more than how to make the trains run on time. She knows how to break some heads.”

Doyle, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, was the highestranking Hispanic in a campaign that has come to rely on Hispanic voters to win crucial states such as California and Arizona. Whether her departure will cost Clinton among this vital constituency is a critical question.

Doyle said in a departing note that she intends to remain on as a senior adviser, and one official said she plans to travel occasionally with the candidate. Her brother Danny Solis, a Chicago alderman who volunteered for Clinton, said in a recent telephone interview that his sister’s life in the campaign has been “a struggle.” “She spends a lot of time as a referee,” he said. “And she takes a lot of the punches.”

The campaign long has had a very tight inner circle of Doyle, chief strategist Mark Penn, communications director Howard Wolfson, media adviser Mandy Grunwald and policy director Neera Tanden.

Harold Ickes, former White House deputy chief of staff, has played an increasingly important role.

Since New Hampshire, others have been brought in to help. That group includes Doug Sosnik, former White House political director; Steve Richetti, who served as congressional liaison in the Clinton White House; and Linda Moore Forbes, who also served in the Clinton White House and who is helping nail down endorsements continued on page 8

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21 dead in Baghdad blast on Sunday

By Garrett Therolf and Saif Hameed Los Angeles T imes

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A suicide car bomb killed at least 21 people north of the capital Sunday, hours before U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived to discuss with top commanders how many American troops can be pulled from the country.

The bomber targeted an Iraqi police checkpoint at the entrance of a large open air-market in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad. Thirtytwo people were injured, the U.S. military said.

“There were many bodies scattered, the smoke was dark, it was hard to see and it was dreadful,” said Ali Jassim, a 34-year-old auto mechanic whose uncle was badly injured. “In my whole life, I haven’t seen something like this.”

According to an Iraqi military

source, six of the dead were members of a U.S.-funded volunteer security force of Sunni fighters.

Such forces, which include many former insurgents, have come under sharply increased attacks in recent weeks.

In Baghdad, Gates told reporters he would discuss troop levels with the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus.

Petraeus is expected to testify to Congress in April about possible further cuts in American forces in Iraq should the decrease in violence seen late last year is sustained.

“I will obviously be interested in hearing from General Petraeus about his evaluation -- where he stands and what more work he feels he needs to do before he’s ready to come back with his recommendations,” Gates said.

Meanwhile, U.S. forces investigating bombings this month at two pet markets in the capital raided

Baghdad’s primar y hospital for the developmentally disabled and mentally ill. The military believes the bombings were carried out by two female suicide bombers who suffered from Down syndrome.

A man at the hospital was detained, but the military declined to identify him.

In the town of Fallujah, 35 miles west of Baghdad, a car carrying a woman and young boy exploded Sunday, killing two police officers and injuring three other people, police said.

In Sinjar, in the northern province of Ninevah, al-Qaida in Iraq gunmen killed six security volunteers. Ten insurgents were killed in retaliatory strikes, said Fawaz al-Jarbba, a commander with the area’s volunteer security group.

— Staff writers Caesar Ahmed and Saif Rasheed and special correspondents in Baghdad and Samarra contributed to this report

Clinton sheds aide amid campaign struggle continued from page 7 from superdelegates to the national convention.

Doug Hattaway, a veteran of the Gore campaign, has joined Clinton’s communications operation.

Roy Spence, a longtime friend of both the senator and the former president, has been offering advice on messaging and will play a lead role in overseeing the Texas campaign.

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mains opaque, even to those on the outside willing to be helpful. “They have more walls around them than you’ve seen in many castles,” said one prominent Democrat.

Advisers to the candidates and to Edwards were reluctant to talk about the intense courtship underway. Edwards had harsh words for Clinton during many debates but is said to be torn about a possible endorsement. The meeting between Edwards and Clinton was described as substantive and friendly.

Clinton’s loss Sunday in Maine was not a total surprise to her team,

though she had been leading in some polls.

The candidate tried on Saturday night and Sunday to look past her weekend defeats in Louisiana, Nebraska and Washington state, never mentioning them in her speech at a Democratic Party event in Richmond on Saturday night, nor during her Virginia stop Sunday. Her strategists have said they are pessimistic about how she will do in the Virginia, Maryland and District of Columbia contests.

— Staff writer Peter Slevin contributed to this report

Pentagon chief pushes Europe to share burden in Afghanistan

By Craig Whitlock Washington Post

MUNICH — Defense Secretar y Robert Gates challenged European military leaders and lawmakers Sunday to bolster support for the war in Afghanistan, warning NATO members that an unwillingness to shoulder the burdens of war equally “would effectively destroy the alliance.”

Gates also sought to convince a skeptical European public that failure in Afghanistan would raise the likelihood of terrorist attacks at home. Citing recent attacks and plots by Islamic radicals in London, Madrid, Paris and Barcelona, the Pentagon chief said the threat would grow worse if NATO allowed the Taliban and al-Qaida to resurrect their organizations in South Asia.

“I am concerned that many people on this continent may not comprehend the magnitude of the direct threat to European security,” he said in a speech at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual gathering of European politicians, diplomats and military officials. “Imagine if Islamic terrorists had managed to strike your capitals on the same scale as they struck in New York.”

Gates’ comments were his latest attempt in recent weeks to persuade NATO allies to send more troops to Afghanistan, especially the southern part of the countr y, where fighting has been fierce and the Taliban controls wide swaths of territory. So far, he has been largely unsuccessful, and some NATO members said they were under increasing political pressure to withdraw their forces altogether.

Canada has threatened to pull out its contingent of 2,500 soldiers — mostly based in the southern province of Kandahar — if other NATO members do not offer reinforcements soon.

With no one else filling the gap, the Pentagon recently announced it would send 3,200 more Marines to Afghanistan, but only for a sevenmonth tour.

Gates said too many European countries have been content to participate only in less risky peacekeeping and training operations. Repeating comments he made last week on Capitol Hill, he said NATO risked becoming a “two-tiered alliance” if certain countries, which he did not name, continued to shy away from combat.

“Some allies ought not to have the luxury of opting only for stability and civilian operations, thus forcing other allies to bear a disproportionate share of the fighting and the dying,” he said.

Such remarks have irked some NATO members, who say the Pentagon is unfairly blaming its allies for the inability to win a lasting victory over the Taliban, which controlled most of Afghanistan until the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, and other insurgents.

German officials, in particular, have taken offense. Germany recently agreed to send 200 soldiers to Afghanistan as part of a “quick reaction force,” on top of 3,200 troops already deployed there. But Germany has resisted pleas that it otherwise extend its operations beyond the relatively peaceful northern part of the countr y, where its forces concentrate on reconstruction and training.

Bush weighs in on the campaign, criticizes Obama continued from page 6 was he’s going to attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmadinejad.”

In fact, what Obama said during primar y debates is that that he would be willing to authorize military strikes inside Pakistan if he were to know where Osama bin Laden was, even without permission from the Pakistani government.

Obama said he would be willing to meet with rogue leaders such as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to talk through differences, though he did not embrace him.

“Of course President Bush would attack the one candidate in this race who opposed his disastrous war in Iraq from the start,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton retorted in a statement Sunday. “But Barack Obama doesn’t need any foreign policy advice from the architect of the worst foreign policy decision in a generation.”

Bush offered no criticism of Clinton, and even defended her husband for being so aggressive in promoting her on the campaign trail. “I can understand why President Clinton wants to campaign hard for his wife,” he said. “And, yeah, these accusations that Bill Clinton’s a racist, I think, has been wrong. I just don’t agree with it.”

On other subjects, Bush said he plans to sign a $152 billion economic stimulus package on Wednesday, and left open the possibility that he will take more action if the nation slips further toward recession.

“We’ll just have to play it by ear,”

he said.

He left open the idea that he would freeze U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq after the forces that were sent last year come home this summer if Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Baghdad, determines he needs them to preserve security gains. “My message to the general was: Success is paramount,” he said.

But he dismissed Democrats’ criticism of his effort to reach a long-term security agreement with Iraq, saying it is no different from one he forged with Afghanistan or from those the United States has with scores of other countries. Such an agreement, he said, would not bind the hands of future presidents or lead to permanent bases, as Democrats charge.

“Any president can make the decisions of how many troops we need there,” he said. “I mean, I could have increased troops or decreased troops in Korea and we had a longterm security agreement. And we won’t have permanent bases.”

Asked about a debate in recent days over an interrogation technique known as waterboarding, Bush maintained that any actions his administration has taken were legal, and that he will take only legal actions in the future.

“The American people have got to know that what we did in the past gained information that prevented an attack,” he said. “And for those who criticize what we did in the past, I ask them, which attack would they rather have not ... stopped?”

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Boyd ’10: the best have to win, even if not from Dallas

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continued from page 12 The Crimson tried to chip away at the Bears’ 37-16 halftime lead, at one point hitting three-pointers in three straight possessions, but Brown answered back each time.

Harvard never got closer than 18 points behind in the second half.

As in Friday’s game, Robinson used the final four minutes of the game to play his reserves.

But Robinson, perhaps the most emotional coach in the league, still screamed at his team after it struggled against a Harvard press with about a minute left in the game, despite the lopsided score. After the game, he said that was part of instilling that winning attitude in all his players.

McAndrew was Brown’s leading scorer Saturday night with 14 points.

Williams added 13 and Mullery had nine. Mullery has been starting at center since Mark MacDonald ’08 left a Yale game two weeks ago with a concussion. MacDonald,

who practiced Thursday, played five minutes on Friday and four minutes on Saturday. He said Saturday that he hasn’t felt any more effects from the injury.

Alex Blankenau led Harvard with 14 points on 4-of-8 three-point shooting.

“We feel like we’re most dangerous when we’re all scoring, and I think we did a pretty good job tonight,” said McAndrew, who is now the league’s leading scorer at 16.5 points per game.

Next week, the Bears will be on the road for the first time in three weeks, traveling to University of Pennsylvania on Friday and Princeton on Saturday. McAndrew said he isn’t worried about going on the road after such a long homestand, saying that the team has played some tough non-conference games away from the Pizzitola Center.

Though Robinson was thrilled with this weekend’s wins, he won’t tell his team that he expects another sweep this weekend. Playing on the

road in the Ivy League is different than a homestand, he said.

“I’ve got to think of something new, anyway, because I can’t use the same motivational speech,” he added.

Game notes Guard and captain Damon Huffman ’08 scored eight points against Harvard to move up to 15th place in Brown’s all-time scoring list. He moved up to past Rusty Tyler ’71, who was at the game, providing color commentary for the YES network broadcast. He also hit two threepointers to move into second on Brown’s career three-pointers list.

He needs 14 more to surpass Brian Lloyd ’96.

At a first-half timeout in the Harvard game, men’s soccer midfielder Darren Howerton ’09 hit a half-court shot to win a $100 gift card. This is the second Ivy League weekend sweep of Robinson’s career. The Bears also swept Dartmouth and Harvard at the Pizzitola Center last year.

W. icers fight in tight match against Bobcats continued from page 12 ’10 served the penalty, but the Bobcats capitalized for a power-play goal 1:44 later. The Bears failed to capitalize on a five-on-three advantage that lasted 1:30 in the closing minutes of the first period, and the score remained 1-0 well into the second.

Despite Brown’s pink jerseys, the dominant color of the final 26 minutes of the game was red -- the red glare of the goal light. The Bears tied the score with 5:48 left in the second period, when Hayley Moore ’08 knocked home a rebound off Olewinski’s shot. Van Muyen also picked up an assist on the goal. Quinnipiac went on a power play 14 seconds later and retook the lead with 5:07 left, but Brown rallied to tie the score once again with 2:45 left in the second period when Olewinski and Moore set up Van Muyen right in front of Quinnipiac goalie Tia Wishert, who was unable to make the save.

Both Murphy and Moore said that the strong finish to the second period gave the Bears confidence, but another quick momentum shift to the Bobcats killed that buzz. Brown controlled the puck at the start of the third period and was beginning its attack when Quinnipiac’s Janine Duffy intercepted a pass in her own end, broke up the ice past two Brown defenders, Erica Kromm ’11 and Jenny Cedorchuk ’10, who were pinching up, and lifted a shot over Stock’s right shoulder to give the Bobcats a 3-2 lead 35 seconds into the period.

“That hurt a lot,” Moore said. “We had the momentum, and then for them to get the turnover and capitalize on that two-on-zero (breakaway) was not to our advantage.”

But the Bears fought back. Moore earned her second assist of the game when, during a power play, she sent a pass up to Andrea Hunter ’10. Hunter passed back to Kromm, who rifled a shot over Wishert to tie the game at 5:46. Brown took the lead at 11:00 when Moore found Jaclyn Small ’11 at the left point, who scored the first goal of her career. But Murphy did not take the 4-3 lead for granted.

“I wasn’t confident at all,” she said.

“I kept saying on the bench, ‘Ladies, the game’s not over. You’ve got nine minutes. Get it in deep, one guy high, get it in deep, one guy high,’ and we failed to do it. It’s a young team and they (haven’t been) in that situation and it comes back to bite you.”

Ultimately, the Bobcats roared back for the victory. Brandice Moniz

found a crack between Stock’s glove and the crossbar to tie the game at 13:58. With 3:13 remaining in the game, Antoinette Maldonado found the back of the net to give Quinnipiac a 5-4 lead.

Brown pulled Stock with 1:32 left, but Bruno was unable to put a shot on goal before time ran out.

The Bears unleashed a season-high 54 shots, but Wishert contained Brown’s attack with a 50-save effort.

The Bears hoped to quickly shake off the defeat before facing Princeton the next day.

“We need to learn from what happened today and get motivated and use that our advantage tomorrow,” Moore said. “We need to know that the mistakes we made today can’t be made tomorrow.”

The Bears reduced their number of mistakes, which avoided another loss for the Bears. Brown raced out to a quick 2-0 lead, going on a power play 1:30 into the game and scoring 54 seconds later. Hunter took the puck behind the net, pulling Princeton goalie Kristen Young out of position before passing to Olewinski, who found Moore in front of the net for an easy goal.

It took the Bears only 37 seconds to double the lead when Kath Surbey ’10 collected a pass from Savannah Smith ’09 and slipped the puck just inside the right post.

“It was good to have a two-goal cushion to begin with,” Stock said. “I think after we scored two goals then we sat back a little bit rather than continuing to pressure them.”

Stock held the 2-0 lead for a long time, even through one extended Tigers’ power play that lasted for the final 3:08 of the half, during which she stonewalled the Orange and Black with seven saves.

The barrage of shots finally got to Stock at 9:55 in the second period when Micol Martinelli collected a rebound of a shot that pulled Stock to her right and knocked it in to the other side of the net.

Princeton finally tied the game on a power play early in the third period. Brown missed out on several chances to ice the puck and get fresh legs onto the ice. Murphy said this was a crucial mistake because the Bears play an aggressive style of penalty killing that quickly tires players. At 1:45, Princeton’s Annie Greenwood deflected a shot from the point up and past Stock into the back of the net.

Unlike it did the previous day,

Brown did not collapse after losing the lead. It was the Bears who had the best chances down the stretch.

Moore hit the post on one shot, while Surbey and Maggie Suprey ’11 couldn’t convert on breakaway chances as the clock wound down.

Brown outshot Princeton 3-1 in the five-minute overtime, but could not seal the victory. Simply being able to hold onto the tie was encouraging to the Bears, after they endured tough loss the day before.

“It definitely helps me because in the Quinnipiac game, them coming back from behind was kind of devastating,” Stock said. “I think it was definitely good for our team that we were able to hang on and get a point against Princeton.”

Stock made 47 saves, her secondhighest total of the season, to keep the Bears in a game in which they only produced 21 shots.

“I thought Stock’s performance as usual was pretty strong,” Murphy said. “She just proves every game that if we didn’t have her we would be getting the score run up (on us).”

On the offensive side, Moore’s strong weekend propelled her up the Brown record books. Her two goals and three assists give her 130 career points, passing Kim Insalaco ’03, Jill Graat ’00 and Becky Kellar ’97 for eighth all-time.

This weekend the Bears will hit the road for a long trip to upstate New York against two tough opponents. Brown will face No. 9 Clarkson on Friday and No. 6 St. Lawrence on Saturday. The Bears have a slim chance of making the playoffs, but that does not mean they will pack it in.

“The kids aren’t giving up,” Murphy said. “They will get back, they will play defense, they will be selfless (and) they will block shots.

We’re a tough team. We might not be the most (successful) team, but I think we’re one of the most persevering teams. That’s what I’m the most proud of.”

continued from page 12 just yet. In week 17, Moss captured the single-season touchdown record for receivers, a record that was previously held by one of the league’s finest competitors, Hall-of-Famer Jerry Rice. Moss is actually quite the competitor himself. Only a season ago, Moss essentially quit on his former team, the Oakland Raiders, after publicly stating his tendency to take plays off. It just didn’t seem fair to me that the same Randy Moss was on his way to an undefeated season and what was supposed to be an inevitable Super Bowl win. Then again, playing fair doesn’t seem to be in the New England playbook.

Now, if I may briefly address the hotly debated Spygate. Cheating is cheating, and to hear Pats fans argue otherwise is a waste of everyone’s time. Especially when the people defending Bill Belichick are the same sports fans looking to crucify the likes of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds. I recently heard someone at the Ratty say, “It’s really everyone else’s fault for not protecting their plays.”

You know what? They were right.

If a pitcher suspects an opponent is stealing his signs, he sends a 90 mph fastball at the batter’s head. Frankly, I would be pretty interested to see what the Ray Lewis equivalent to a fastball-to-the-chin looks like. C’mon people, they were videotaping the signals and plays of opposing teams.

What makes matters worse is the fact that the video evidence was destroyed, and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has requested a meeting with the commissioner to discuss the pos-

sibility of a cover-up. Looking past the reasons why the Patriots didn’t deserve to win Super Bowl XLII, I can think of a few reasons why the league benefited from a Patriot loss.

After 18 straight wins this season, the Patriots seemed nothing short of invincible. And while some New Englanders may have expected sports fans across the country to unite in a celebration of greatness, Pats fans were rudely awakened to the reality that most were rooting against their beloved franchise. I tried to tell them that it was nothing personal — that I just couldn’t bring myself to cheer for a team to go undefeated. Would they cheer for the Yankees to go undefeated?

I know that the two scenarios aren’t quite the same, but I’ve never seen people rally against other teams like they seem to do against the Yankees and Patriots. The Yankees don’t happen to be as bad for baseball, however, because despite spending obscene amounts of money on salary, the Yankees don’t win every year.

The Patriots were single-handedly ruining the parity that makes the NFL so great to watch.

Former Commissioner Pete Rozelle once said, “On any given Sunday, any team can win,” but until the Giants shocked the sporting world, that wasn’t the case. Trust me, New England fans, if I can get over Tony Romo’s botched hold in last year’s playoffs, you can get over this. Besides, it’s basketball season now, and this year the Celtics don’t suck.

Jeff Boyd ’10 knows how to spell “Belichick.”

Wrestling team finishes 2-1 on its alumni weekend continued from page 12 his opponent and then letting him escape, in an effort to make up the points he lost in the first period and send the match into overtime. He controlled the rest of the match with this strategy, and with 20 seconds left, Savino was just one more takedown away from evening the score.

But time ran out in the end, and Savino lost the match 15-11.

“I felt like a better wrestler than my opponent but I had a bad first period (trailing) 8-2,” Savino said.

“I felt like I still had a shot and my strategy of taking him down and then letting him go really worked, but I ran out of time in the end.”

Savino was happy with his conditioning, and said he “felt good and strong” when wrestling long matches.

“The team wrestled better as the weekend went on. We did better

against BU and Penn,” Amato said.

“In the Penn match, the guys did not get tired and their conditioning is paying off.”

Two more Bears won points against the Quakers. Chris Musser ’09 defeated Tom Timothy 3-1 at 165 pounds, and at 197, Branden Stearns ’09 won the last match for the team with a decision of 2-1.

The team has three more dual matches left in the season, all against Ivy League schools. Next Saturday, the team will host its last home meet of the season against Harvard at 2:00 p.m. in the Pizzitola. The following weekend they will leave for New York to face off against Cornell and Columbia.

The coach and the captains are optimistic about the next three duals.

“The guys are working hard and they are peaking at the right time,” Amato said.

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Parking solutions Despite Forbes magazine recently rating Providence the 10th most miserable city in the U.S., we think there’s plenty to do in Providence, especially within walking distance of campus. Three movie theaters, six bookshops, dozens of restaurants — We may not be living in Miami or Manhattan, but if you’re looking for something to do on a weekend (besides drinking), you’ll find it.

A car can take you even farther — to a Newport beach, to a Seekonk grocer y store, to a cheap ribs shack in Olneyville or to a bowling alley in War wick, to name a few. Students with cars on campus simply have more options when making weekend plans.

But we think the ugly side of parking in Providence overshadows the benefit of having a car, both for the individual student and for the community as a whole. University administrators calculated correctly in eliminating parking for students on campus. For students with cars, the parking situation has only gotten worse; in the past year, the price of a routine parking violation has increased $5, and though other parts of the city have allowed cars to park overnight, College Hill residents are opposed to the idea.

For those on College Hill collectively, more cars mean more danger for pedestrians on the streets near campus, and, in the long run, more damage done to the environment. Employees will also benefit from less congestion and more parking. Unlike many employees who drive to work, most students can walk to their destinations. Parking has always been one of College Hill residents’ greatest problems with the University — and understandably so. These residents already must tolerate the mess of Brown construction in their neighborhoods, which can’t be as easily controlled as parking on campus. The University rarely has an opportunity to aid its development and town-gown relations at the same time.

Of course, the University should look out for its students. But we think administrators should worr y about other facets of student life.

Unlike a good financial aid package, unlike having enough seats in a classroom, unlike having a responsive Health Ser vices, having a car on campus is a luxur y. And if students have to lose something, we’d rather the loss affect only 250 of them.

Hopefully the change will affect less than 250, since some of the students with cars on campus this year are probably seniors. The change will likely irritate juniors who already have cars on campus. No more trips to Olneyville, we guess. Unless you take the free RIPTA, that is.

University administrators just made a decision to keep parking spots for themselves, while cutting spots for students. In this case, we think the change is good for ever yone.

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Letters The best defense is a good offense To the Editor: I would like to applaud Michael Ramos-Lynch’s ’09 column (“Preventing violent crime at Brown,” Feb. 7).

The absurd “no gun” policy at this school has been in effect long enough, and it takes a lot of courage to overcome the closed-minded, liberal bias that plagues this campus and most other academic communities.

Ramos-Lynch was correct in asserting, “The weapons ban protects assailants at the expense of victims.” By not arming our students, we are essentially surrendering to those who would wish to do us harm. How are we supposed to force criminals to back down with all of these unreasonable rules set by the University? If I’m walking back from a frat party, probably intoxicated, I’m not willing to be a vulnerable target anymore. No way. If some people are offending me with suspicious behavior, they are going to have to answer to my semi-automatic Glock. Ramos-Lynch also makes the insightful argument that, “There will always be guns. The only way to save ourselves from those with guns and evil intentions is to own weapons ourselves.” Now, liberals might whine that the reason we don’t allow guns on campus is because they could potentially escalate an already bad situation, as well as cause accidental harm. To these sissies I point out the study referenced in Lynch’s article: “In a 10-state sample of incarcerated felons interviewed in 1982, 34 percent reported having been ‘scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim.’” Enough said! Argument over! The data is in. More guns mean more safety. Aside from this study, there has been very

limited research or statistics to suggest that the presence of guns creates dangerous environments.

My only problem with Lynch’s article was his failure to address a very practical question: How can we afford all these guns? Lynch points out that a self-defense class can be spendy at $70. Well, unfortunately, guns can cost hundreds of dollars! If we are going to arm our freshmen to the teeth, we need to come up with a good solution. Perhaps the University could cut a useless department (environmental studies?) in order to provide funding for all the guns. We could include a gun category in the personality profiles we send out to incoming freshmen. Along with sleeping habits and favorite music, we can include handgun preference in order to assure roommate compatibility. Maybe, during orientation, we can include a mandatory meeting in paramilitary tactics in order to assure that our campus will be alert and ready at all times.

As students here at Brown, I’m sure we can all agree that college can be a stressful and confusing time. On this roller coaster of emotion, often tainted by hormones, alcohol and drugs, we need to make sure that our beloved community has sufficient firearms to protect us from all the wackos out there.

We have all received the unsettling and unfortunate crime alerts in our e-mail boxes from time to time. Are we going to be scared, sitting ducks? Or are we going to start packing heat?

Matthew Wheeler ’09 Feb. 8

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Rethinking Brown’s attitude toward Venezuela

BY SAUL LUSTGARTEN Opinions Columnist I was not surprised to read about the Center for Latin American Studies’ attempt to bring President Hugo Chavez to campus (“CLAS invites Latino leaders,” Feb. 4). After all, Chavez has been an international celebrity for quite some time now, and is admired by many who believe in his 21st century socialism. As we all know, Chavez is currently one of the most vociferous anti-American politicians in the world, along with his friend Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his mentor Fidel Castro. It is understandable, then, that a university like Brown would want to hear all about Chavez from El Presidente himself. However, I believe Associate Professor of History James Green, Former Sen. Lincoln Chafee and Kendra Fehrer GS are dangerously mistaken when they implicitly assert that the willingness to host Chavez makes Brown a noble pursuer of academic open-mindedness. If anything, bringing Chavez to our campus would deepen Brown’s biased attitude toward Venezuela, and it would invalidate our university’s objectivity in the study of international events.

I believe and support the values of academic freedom and open-mindedness. However, I am skeptical of the belief that one can engage in an open intellectual discussion with current heads of state. Their compromise tends to be toward their political agendas rather than toward truth. I thus find it naive to expect politicians to engage in a “philosophical” discussion of their principles, or to expect them to question what they stand for, as academia properly exercised would require them to do. I would expect someone like Chafee, who has had exposure to both politics and academia, to be

aware of the constraints imposed by political life. This idea has been around ever since Plato noticed the limits of rhetoric, as opposed to dialectics, as a means toward achieving truth.

Therefore, when Green says the upcoming visit from current heads of state is a “big deal” for Brown, I cannot see how this could be the case from an academic viewpoint, if the goal of academia is to actively seek truth.

The only reason left available is graduate student Fehrer’s own validation of the conference, which maintained that the conference puts Brown “on the cutting edge.” With this

has so far led Brown leaves reasons to doubt this principle is actually being exercised. The attempt to bring Chavez to campus feeds this concern, especially if we take into account that last year the center already hosted the Venezuelan ambassador, without ever presenting a different perspective on the Venezuelan situation.

Monday’s editorial (“A spark from South America,” Feb. 4) defends Chavez by claiming he is not politically radical, but merely discourse radical. Although I would be more cautious with this kind of remark (Chavez

There is nothing academic, in the strict sense of the word, about hosting a political act, especially if you leave it unchallenged as the Center for Latin American studies has done so far.

I agree. By receiving such a controversial international figure Brown is indeed placing itself in the center of the action, which is presumably desirable. However, merely doing so lowers Brown’s quality standards and compromises the university’s internationalization ambitions: If our goal is to place Brown in the center stage, then we must at least do so keeping in mind the basic principles of objectivity that rule respectable academia.

I believe that the direction in which CLAS

has indeed taken several radical actions like the continuous harassment of the church, the media, university students, political opponents and multinational companies, along with other kinds of abuses of power which would deserve a separate discussion), I do agree with the editors and with CLAS that hosting Chavez could be an interesting, valuable and memorable experience (especially if his speech lasts the usual six hours).

I oppose, however, the center’s attempts

to disguise such an appearance as a case of academic open-mindedness, because there is nothing academic, in the strict sense of the word, about hosting a political act, especially if you leave it unchallenged as CLAS has done so far. This is at most a case of weak diplomacy.

While it is true that such an appearance would give Brown students the opportunity to hear and challenge the rhetoric themselves, it is also true that most people lack the knowledge to do so (this is especially true in the case of Chavez, who is known for his persuasive abilities). Furthermore, by not providing an equal platform for Chavez’s opponents, CLAS is placing them at a disadvantage before the Brown community and academia. This strategy of CLAS indeed places Brown in the center of attention, but it also reduces our university to the level of sensationalist media, which act as passive facilitators of politicians, rather than active questioners.

I still concur with Plato regarding the limitations of politics as a vehicle for truth.

However, if we are to engage in the game of hosting politicians, I believe we should at least present both sides. Only then can we truly say there is a “willingness of many people in this country to be interested in alternatives in Latin America,” as Green hopes the conference will demonstrate.

If CLAS is really concerned about giving a chance to groups poorly represented in the media, it should perhaps consider ending the so-far biased presentation of Venezuela by bringing a leader of the student movement to the university. Only then should the University begin to consider bringing Chavez to our campus.

Saul Lustgarten ’09 wishes his editor had published this article last week

Yes, we do!

BY MAX CHAIKEN Opinions Columnist Over the past six months, my habit of obsessively surfing the blogosphere for news about Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and the presidential primaries has become a downright addiction. Yes, I’ll admit it: I’m addicted to the Drudge Report. As you can imagine, I haven’t slept much over the past few days. And as an Obama supporter and an organizer on campus, there are a lot of good reasons to be excited. But while I could easily spend this column discussing everything from the results of Super Tuesday to the financial situation of the campaigns, I thought instead that I might take a minute to address what some are calling the “mass messianism” surrounding Barack Obama’s candidacy.

I joined the Students for Barack Obama team in late July and started planning for the semester with a few others in August. I am not a registered Democrat, though I did vote for John Kerry four years ago. I have never been involved in any type of political campaign before. And I have to admit, Barack earned my support through a combination of policy and idealism, vision and substance. I do like the way he speaks.

But with both Clinton and Obama vying for frontrunner status (and at the same time calling themselves underdogs), there have been suggestions that there is something “creepy,” “salvational,” or “messianic” about our movement — you can read ABC News senior national correspondent Jake Tapper’s blog for a summary. There have also been various suggestions that there is no substance to Obama’s policies, and that he focuses too much on inspiring people and not enough on

details. Yet as a supporter and a student, I believe the latter is unfounded, and the former, blatantly myopic.

The criticism that Obama’s policies have no substance is preposterous. A short look at his Web site would quickly disabuse anyone of this notion — you can download dozens of detailed policy proposals discussing specifics of energy, health care, fiscal and educational policy. He holds many events for the specific purpose of discussing policy details, such as the economic summit he held in New Mexico

because his policies lack detail, but rather because he recognizes that what our country, and especially our generation, needs right now is a call to action, not a litany of details.

The power of Obama’s candidacy derives from the fact that he has the ability to inspire individuals to take action and work together for the common good. His candidacy and campaign challenge us not to be distracted by the politics of fear and the natural cynicism bred by seven years of a devastatingly obtuse and narrow-minded presidency and vision, but

“Yes, we can” does not mean that we sit at home and wait for Barack to save our country. It means that we believe in this candidate and this movement, and that we will work relentlessly for that which we know is possible. before Super Tuesday. Having worked as a state legislator and a U.S. senator (and having served in elected office for longer than Clinton), he understands the policy-making process on both a state and national level.

Many people might still argue that his speeches are lofty and that his talk about hope and change is idle or false. It is true that he talks a lot about hope and change. It is also true that oftentimes he aims to inspire audiences rather than convey his intricate knowledge of policy details. But this is not

rather to reach out for what we know to be true and good about our country.

Do we believe that we can work together to overcome the challenges of terrorism and an unjust war that has not made us safer but has reduced our standing around the world?

Yes, we do. Do we believe that we can unite around our common goals, hopes and dreams to finally make progress on issues like energy and the environment, education and health care? Yes, we do. Do we believe that perhaps only once in a generation, a leader with a vi-

sion and the unique power to communicate that vision, comes along to help us make our country great? Yes, we do.

Much has been made lately of the slogan “Yes, we can.” The popular music video featuring celebrities singing one of Barack’s speeches has accumulated over 3 million hits on YouTube in only eight days. Many pundits have noted how this campaign has truly become a movement over the course of the last month. And our movement is sure to draw criticism that somehow we are hoping for too much — that we are investing undue salvational fervor into a political cause or somehow raising Barack to a messianic symbol.

Perhaps then, “Yes, we do” better reflects the true nature of this movement.

“Yes, we can” does not mean that we sit at home and wait for Barack to save our country.

It means that we believe in this candidate and this movement, and that we will work relentlessly for that which we know is possible.

“Yes, we do” mobilized 40 Brown students to volunteer in New Bedford, Mass. days before Super Tuesday. It motivated dozens to trek up to New Hampshire last semester and over winter break. It inspired us to make hundreds, maybe thousands of phone calls to voters over the past few months. It calls a movement of people to action.

If we elect Barack Obama as our next president of the United States, it will not be simply because we have said, “Yes, we can.” Rather, we will have said “Yes, we do” recognize that we can elect Obama, but only if we are willing to work tirelessly to achieve that goal.

Max Chaiken ’09 invites all Brown students to join Students for Barack Obama as they work hard to organize for the Rhode Island primary on March 4

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

As ‘expected,’ m. hoops earns first Ivy sweep

Bears in second place with 4-2 league record

By Stu Woo and Jason Harris Senior Editor and Sports Editor

Mark McAndrew ’08 hasn’t played on a winning basketball team in his three previous seasons at Brown. So when Head Coach Craig Robinson told his players last week that he expected a sweep in this 77 w e e k e n d ’ s Brown Dartmouth 51 series, McAndrew said he was nervous.

71 Brown “It’s a 51 whole new exHarvard perience,” he said of being a favored team.

But perhaps the guard and team captain shouldn’t have worried so much. The Bears easily handled Dartmouth, 77-51, and Harvard, 71-51, at the Pizzitola Center this weekend.

The Bears are now 12-8 overall, already besting last season’s win total of 11. With a 4-2 conference record, Brown is alone in second place in the Ivy League, trailing only 6-0 Cornell.

Robinson, in his second year at Brown, has told reporters all season long about instilling “a culture of winning” in his team after recent disappointments in the Brown basketball program. After this weekend’s games, he said part of that process involved winning games “we were supposed to win.”

This weekend, Brown quickly started that process against Dartmouth (8-12 overall, 1-5 Ivy League) on Friday night. The teams played even basketball for the game’s first

five minutes, with Brown leading 11-9.

But the Bears outscored the Big Green 27-14 for the rest of the first half, keeping Dartmouth from scoring with a stout 2-3 zone defense that forced the Big Green to take jumpers that usually missed.

McAndrew scored 16 of his gamehigh 25 points in the first half, beating defenders on drives to his right side while also hitting fastbreak lay-ups and a pair of three-pointers.

The Bears, who never trailed in the game, entered the second half with a 37-23 lead, and quickly scored with a rare three-pointer from center Matt Mullery ’10.

Dartmouth’s Alex Barnett, who entered the game as the Ivy League’s leading scorer, woke up in the second-half, scoring eight of his teamhigh 10 points. But he was ineffective, shooting five-for-16 from the floor in the game.

The Big Green never threatened for the rest of the half, with Brown scoring easy baskets off turnovers.

With about five minutes left in the game, Robinson started sending in his bench players.

“It’s funny how these games build on themselves,” Robinson said Saturday night, explaining that he was able to rest his starters for the Harvard game.

Brown hit 63.6 percent of their shots, while Dartmouth hit only 40.4 percent. Mullery and forward Scott Friske ’09 each had nine points for the Bears.

On Saturday night, Brown faced a young Harvard squad with a new, much ballyhooed coach in Tommy Amaker, the former Duke star who was the head coach at Michigan for the previous six seasons.

Thanks, N.Y., you just saved the Super Bowl

which has only one senior on the team, shot just 22 percent from the field in the first half. Meanwhile, Brown ran its version of the Princeton offense efficiently, scoring easy lay-ups on backdoor cuts.

The Bears ended the first half on an 18-6 run, with the last five points coming off a Mullery dunk and an Adrian Williams ’11 three-pointer that he hit as he was falling backward.

Let me clarify myself by stating that I am NOT happy for the New York Giants. In fact, I hate the Giants. I can think of only two more teams — the PhiladelJeff Boyd Superbowl Recap phia Eagles and the Washington Redskins — that I would be less pleased to see win the Super Bowl.

As some may have already guessed, I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan. For those of you that have any understanding of the NFC East, you know just how excruciating it was for me to watch Eli Manning hoist the Lombardi trophy over his head, knowing it should have been Tony Romo standing there. Despite the fact that I am a die-hard Cowboys fan, I’m more importantly a football fan. And as a fan of the NFL, I found it absolutely essential for the well-being of the league to have the Patriots lose last week. So on Super Bowl Sunday, I popped a Valium, had a nice long cry, and rooted for the G-Men. And here’s why…

For all the times I’ve had to defend T.O.’s antics to Pats fans, I figured I’d start with Randy Moss.

Even the casual fan can tell that this guy is a freak athlete. Moss is living proof of human evolution, and as such we would expect him to embrace this role with grace and humility, but that just isn’t the Moss we have grown to know and love. I guess you could call it karma, but I see a sort of justice in the fact that Moss didn’t get his ring. Don’t get teary-eyed for the All-Pro wideout

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Mark McAndrew ’08 steered Brown to a sweep this weekend, totaling 39 points.

But even Amaker couldn’t do anything but stand passively on the sideline with his arms folded as he watched his players clang jump-shots off the rim.

Brown got off to an even quicker start against Harvard, starting the game with a 14-4 run. The Bears drove to the basket to get easy layups, while tentative Crimson players settled for tough outside shots that missed.

Harvard (6-15 overall, 1-5 Ivy),

W. icers drop one, tie one over weekend

By Andrew Braca Assistant Sports Editor

The women’s hockey team wore pink jerseys over the weekend in a pair of games at Meehan Auditorium to commemorate the Eastern College Athletic Conference’s 4 Brown Pink at the Rink Quinnipiac 5 campaign and Brown’s Breast Cancer Aware2 Brown ness Week.

Princeton 2 But the Bears couldn’t escape a season-long trend of inconsistency.

Brown suffered a 5-4 loss on Friday to Quinnipiac, which entered with one win in ECAC play. Bruno turned around the following day to tie Princeton 2-2. The Tigers entered the game tied for third in the league standings.

Brown’s record fell to 3-17-5 overall and 2-12-4 in league play.

“This team can play with anyone,” said Head Coach Digit Murphy. “Unfortunately, we play down or up to the level of our opponents. Somehow we have to figure out a way to just play our game regardless of who we’re playing.”

Quinnipiac had all the luck at the onset of Friday’s game. After a shot

by Rylee Olewinski ’08 deflected off of the crossbar in the first minute of the game, Quinnipiac was able to get on the board first. Goaltender Nicole Stock ’09 was whistled for tripping 11:19 into the first period. Stock remained in net while Sasha Van Muyen

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Wearing one of her team’s pink jerseys to support Breast Cancer Awareness Week, captain Hayley Moore ’08 put up two goals and three assists this weekend.

Wrestlers display strength at weekend home meet

By Han Cui Spor ts Staff Writer

The wrestling team hosted three dual meets last weekend in the Pizzitola Center. On Friday, the Bears beat Princeton, 31-10, and Boston University, 23-12. The next day, the team lost 25-9 against No. 25 University of Pennsylvania, despite the support of an additional crowd of about 18 alums who were there for the team’s alumni weekend, according to tri-captain Jeff Schell ’08.

In the first dual of the weekend, Princeton forfeited three of the ten weight classes. The Bears won four of the seven matches that were wrestled with two wins by fall, from Schell in the 133-pound weight class and Leo Saniuk ’09 at 197. Schell went undefeated this weekend, attributing his wins to smarter, mistake-free wrestling. “I was happy to win the match against Penn because I had lost to the same kid (Bryan Ortenzio) at Keystone Classic earlier this season,” Schell said.

In their second dual meet, the Bears were looking for revenge against BU, who beat them last year 22-12. After BU forfeited the 125-pound weight class, Schell and tri-captain Mark Savino ’08 won the next two matches at 133 and 141, which gave the team a 12-point advantage. Savino was tied 5-5 with Joey Whitaker at the end of the

third period, sending the match into overtime. In the second round of overtime, Savino took down Whitaker with one second remaining and ended the match 7-5.

“We got into a scramble and I didn’t even look at the clock,” Savino said. “It wasn’t until later that I was told there was only one second left in the overtime.”

The Bears battled with the Terriers back and forth, but when Matt Gevelinger ’09 defeated Eli Vidal with a major decision, 12-3, the Bears led 20-9 going into the last two matches of the dual. Although the Bears lost in the 197-pound weight class, tri-captain Levon Mock ’08 finished the dual with a close win 7-6 in the heavyweight class, giving Brown a solid 23-12 victor y over the Terriers.

The final dual was against No. 25 Penn. After the Bears lost the first match at 125, Schell stepped in and narrowly defeated his opponent 2-1, which put the Bears right back in the dual.

At 141, Savino started the dual with a take-down, but his opponent saw an opening and got a reversal, dominating the rest of the first period. But Savino got right back into the match in the second period.

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