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Volume CXLIII, No. 26

Emergency alert system loudly makes its debut

Bill Clinton rallies for wife at Bryant U.

7,000 text messages accompany siren test

By Nandini Jayakrishna Senior Staf f Writer

SMITHFIELD — Hillary Clinton, “a world-class change-maker,” is the presidential candidate who can best serve the needs of future generations, her husband, former President Bill Clinton, told about 2,600 supporters at Br yant University’s Chace Athletic Center Thursday afternoon.

As the state’s primar y on March 4 draws closer, presidential candidates are vying for Rhode Islanders’ support like never before. Last Sunday, Hillar y Clinton, the Democratic senator from New York, attended a rally with more than 4,100 people at Rhode Island College. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Michelle Obama, wife of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., also attended rallies in War wick this month.

Clinton began his address by thanking Rhode Island, which many Democrats have lately referred to as “Clinton Countr y,” for its long-standing support of the family.

“No state in America has been better to me and to our family,” he said.

The former president emphasized that he is campaigning for Hillary Clinton not because she is his wife, but because he believes she is best prepared to be the country’s next president.

At noon yesterday, as a knot of professors climbed the Faunce House steps for lunch and a few straggling students rushed to class in Sayles and Wilson halls, a high, clear tone rose over the Main Green, hung in the air for about fifteen seconds, and stopped.

Students, for the most part, con-

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Former President Bill Clinton spoke Thursday to about 2,600 supporters at Bryant University.

“I do love her, but I also love my country,” he said.

Clinton said his wife’s experiences working for the Children’s Defense Fund in Massachusetts and spearheading school reform programs in Arkansas show her commitment to bettering the lives of the less privileged, the neglected and the abused.

Speaking to a crowd of mostly college students, Clinton said his wife has the “right ideas for your future.”

Unlike Hillar y Clinton, who criticized Obama a few times in her speech at RIC last week, Clinton praised Obama for “inspiring people” and raising money suc-

By Matthew Varley Staff Writer

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cessfully over the Internet.

But Clinton said it is important for the next president to realize that today’s economy is very different from that of the 1990s ­— a fact, he said, “the other campaign” does not recognize.

“Here’s the problem with the American economy: 90 percent of the benefits in this decade have gone to the top 10 percent of owners,” he said.

Clinton said the number of new jobs has fallen significantly in the past decade, as nearly five million people have been forced out of the middle class into poverty. continued on page 4

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For Ivy admission, athletes face a different standard The Academic Index keeps the bar high

to each student in the eight-school athletics conference, whether he or she is an athlete or not, based on a formula that factors in standardized test scores and high school class rank or grade-point average. The standard is higher than normal NCAA Division I eligibility requirements.

Ever y Ivy League school has an average AI for its student body.

For varsity athletes, that average must remain within one standard deviation of each school’s overall average.

In addition, each athlete must have a minimum AI to be admitted

By Jason Harris Spor ts Editor

The Office of Admission is busy these days, processing applications and selecting the best students for the class of 2012. The office is also sorting through the files of prospective varsity athletes, but for them, the office must consider one more thing.

The Academic Index system governs Ivy League institutions when it comes to accepting recruited athletes. The AI is a number assigned

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SPOTLIGHT

In R.I., a new fight for same-sex rights

Local rights group seeks more protection

By Rachel Ardnt Metro Editor

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Dean Cycon, who owns an organic coffee company, spoke on fair trade.

noisseur,” said Herrmann, who used the words “smooth” and “smoky” in describing the different brews. “I do love coffee, but I drink it more for the taste. I don’t need the caffeine.”

As the tasting began to pick up steam, a separate event in Macmillan 117 concluded and throngs of attendees followed their noses to the savory aromas. Dean Cycon, the owner of Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee, raised his voice above the caffeine-fueled conversations to announce the start

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tinued on their way. Some eating outside stopped talking to gaze in the direction of the sound. Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron, crossing the Green with a colleague, paused briefly and continued into Faunce.

Campus officials hope to not have a campus emergency that would necessitate the use of the tone, broadcast by sirens atop three University buildings. Luckily, as a voice message following the sound made clear, yesterday’s alert was only a test.

By Sam Byker Senior Staff Writer

Students educate palates and minds at coffee event Students and community members sipped exotic beverages from paper cups in the lobby of Macmillan Hall Thursday evening, debating the relative merits of each variety. The atmosphere suggested a wine tasting, but they were sampling fine coffees from around the developing world.

Six thermoses of fair-trade coffee from Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Sumatra, Ethiopia and Papa New Guinea lined a table in the front of the lobby beside a bowl of dark chocolate-coated java beans, all brought to Brown by the owner of an organic coffee company who spoke after the tasting.

Becca Coleman ’10 tasted the Papa New Guinea blend. She said she had “never really noticed the difference in coffee” varieties before the night’s tasting, but identified the Guatemala brew as “less bitter” and better tasting.

Nick Herrmann ’09, who tried four coffees, said the Sumatra was his favorite.

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When Susan Heroux was diagnosed with congestive hear t failure last Februar y, she and her partner, Stacey, had to worry about more than her health. The couple had to consider whether it would be worth it for Stacey to take time off work and risk losing her job if Susan’s condition worsened.

The two married in Massachusetts last year but live in Rhode Island, where same-sex married couples lack most of the rights granted to heterosexual married couples — including the right to take a leave of absence to care for an ailing spouse. “Right now, domestic partners have a limited set of rights,” says Jenn Steinfeld, director of Marriage Equality RI, a group that supports equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, including the legalization of same-sex marriage.

“Many of those (rights) have

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been contested in court,” Steinfeld says. She adds that even individuals who formally allow their same-sex partners to make health care decisions for them have been denied their rights and haven’t been able to make medical decisions for their partners.

The ability to take time off from work to be with a loved one who is sick is “something most people take for granted,” Heroux says. “It’s about fairness.”

mpc applications Matt Aks ’11 says the Minority Peer Counselor program doesn’t have to accept white students

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The right to divorce The Herouxs and couples like them have publicized their situations and garnered media attention for an issue that is increasingly on the public radar.

But a new marriage rights issue has recently come to the fore.

Last December, Margaret Chambers and Cassandra Ormiston, a Rhode Island couple continued on page 4

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Balloons, mistresses at French Film Festival

By Andrea Savdie Assistant Arts & Culture Editor

Courtesy of risd.edu

A “soft wall” is on display at the RISD Museum.

RISD Museum weaves some alternative fashions

BY Robin Steele Arts& Culture Editor

A dress woven out of cassette tape, memoirs stitched into a quilt and 23-karat gold printed onto fabric are all on display as part of the RISD

REVIEW Museum’s new exhibit “Evolution/ Revolution: The Arts and Crafts in Contemporar y Fashion and Textiles.”

The exhibit features the works of an international selection of textile-based artists from the U.S., Europe, South and Central America, and Japan, according to exhibition notes written by Joanne Dolan Ingersoll, curator of costume and textiles at the Museum. Textiles dating from the Arts and Crafts Movement — a 19th and early 20th century British movement that emphasized traditional handmade processes in the face of the Industrial Revolution — are on display side-by-side with the contemporary works that the movement has inspired.

The artists featured in the show “grapple with mass production and consumerism” and use “‘stateof-the-art’ technology as well as traditional methods” to “redefine what ‘handmade’ means,” Ingersoll wrote in the exhibition notes. “The exhibition is organized around the themes of Storytelling, Experimentation and Materials, Collaboration, and Art and Life — key ideas that spring from the Arts and Crafts spirit.”

The highlight of the show was the dramatic “Red Zipper Dress” by American designer Cat Chow. The red strapless, floor-length dress, which Chow created in 1999, features a 100 yard zipper that coils up the entire length of the dress.

According to exhibition notes, the dress is actually wearable and “the act of putting it on is something of a performance.”

Another set of unique creations on display are Tess Giberson’s rough, simplistic “Feather Dress” and “Cardinal Dress.” The dresses are designed to convey stories.

“Cardinal” is a black dress emblazoned with a dramatic red cardinal with words embedded in its tail feathers. “Feather” is a white dress embroidered with poetry written by the artist’s sister, and is the first in a collection of ten dresses entitled “A Glance Can Launch a Memory.” According to exhibition notes, the passage relates part of a story about the “impermanence of nature and life.”

Artist Shelly Fox’s white “Showgirl” dress, from her Philadelphia Florist collection, also relates to storytelling. The dress was inspired by pages from a diary found at a flea market, containing notes and old newspaper clippings, which are on display next to the piece. Fox’s collection focuses on “intimacy, memory and honoring the past,” according to exhibition notes.

Not far from Fox’s piece hangs a vintage quilt given new meaning in 2007 by Natalie Chanin of the company Alabama Chanin, who embroidered the quilt with excerpts from the stories of former textile workers, according to exhibition notes.

The show also featured fabrics and dresses made from unusual and experimental materials. A dress by artist Alyce Santoro, a RISD alum, entitled “Silent” is made from woven cassette tape, dubbed “sonic fabric,” creating a dark, reflective surface.

The “Animation” series by Joan Morris and Michele Ratte experiments with printing gold onto fabric.

Mexican artist Carla Fernandez, of the Taller Flora company, has several pieces on display made out of a dark, hairlike fabric. According to the exhibition notes, it takes two months to make one piece of the fabric — a laborous process in which wool is soaked with mud, brushed and “agitated” with feet over several weeks.

Other experimental textiles on display included a paper and polyester blend by Sophie Roet and a fabric giving the illusion of being covered in feathers, made by artist Catherine Hammerton.

For those who haven’t had the chance to sample the 11th annual Providence French Film Festival, there is no need to worry. According to Erika Balsom GS, a student in the Department of Modern Culture and Media and one of the directors of this year’s festival, “some of the star films” will be screened this weekend.

The festival, which kicked off Feb. 21 and will run through Sunday, features a wide variety of genres, including three documentaries, a collection of six short films and several comedies and dramas.

So far, the festival has taken audiences from the magical world of “The Red Balloon” — the timeless children’s tale of a young boy who “discovers a stray balloon that seems to have a mind of its own” — to the AIDS outbreak in 1984 Paris with “The Witnesses,” according to the festival Web site.

The screening of Claude Chabrol’s “The Girl Cut in Two” was particularly popular with Providence audiences, said Richard Manning, MCM film archivist and one of the festival’s directors. “That didn’t surprise us,” he said. “(Chabrol) has been a favorite among film festival audiences.”

Created in 1956 by Albert Lamorisse, “The Red Balloon” was recently restored and is “available for the first time in almost a decade,” according to the festival’s Web site.

The festival presented both the original version of the film and an adult remake by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. Hou’s film is set in Paris and tells the story of a single mother who takes in a Taiwanese babysitter to help care for her young son. The baby sitter and the boy find themselves being followed by a red balloon as they journey through the streets of the city. Both versions of the film have enjoyed strong turnout, Manning said.

Directed by Andre Techine, “The Witnesses,” starring the festival’s featured guest, Michel Blanc, is one of Manning’s favorite films in this year’s festival, he said. Techine, who has directed several films dealing with themes of homosexuality, explores the impact of the unknown virus as it hits the Parisian gay community and follows the responses of a group of friends to the disease.

According to the festival’s Web site, the film’s strength lies in the cast’s ability to portray the complexities of their reactions, so that “no character would be easily reduced to one and only one response.” “The Witnesses” will be screened again tomorrow at 2:15 p.m., followed by a 4:30 panel with Blanc, whom Balsom describes as “the Robin Williams of France.”

Both Manning and Balsom named “Terror’s Advocate,” directed by Barbet Schroeder, among their top picks for this year’s festival. The documentary takes viewers through the life of politically controversial French attorney Jacques Verges, who has defended figures such as Carlos the Jackal and Yasser Arafat.

“I think it tackles a really fascinating but difficult subject,” Balsom said.

“It’s good at pulling out the contradictions that surround (Verges) without becoming overly judgmental.”

However, Balsom predicted that Catherine Breillat’s “The Last Mistress,” which is set to be screened today at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7:00, will have the largest turnout this weekend. Set in 18th century France, “Mis-

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The French Film Festival will run at the Cable Car Cinema through Sunday. tress” centers on a virginal, aristocratic girl set to marry a libertine whose mistress is “the great love of his life,” Balsom said. According to Balsom, Breillat is known as a controversial filmmaker who frequently deals with issues of sexuality.

The films are selected by a committee primarily made up of people from the MCM department and the Department of French Studies, Balsom said. Members present their film selections for the festival and the committee then narrows the list down, she said. However, the final lineup rarely matches the original list of films because distributors and studios often have agreements for release schedules, Manning said.

Manning founded the festival in

1998 along with a former lecturer in French Studies, Sylvie Toux, who proposed the idea. For the first two years, the festival only presented films on Saturdays and Sundays throughout April until the first weekend in May, Manning said. But because audiences waned toward the end of the festival, the scheduling and dates were changed.

“We were losing people who had to study for finals or preferred the good weather to sitting in the Cable Car watching French movies,” Manning said.

Tickets are available at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 S. Main St., starting at 11 a.m. on the day of the showing.

General admission is $8 and a student ticket costs $6.

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From R.I. to Mass., samesex couples seek equality continued from page 1 who married in Massachusetts in 2004, were denied a petition for divorce in a case that made it to the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

The ruling, on a 3-2 vote, said that to grant the divorce, the Family Court would have to first recognize the marriage, but the state may not recognize “the marriage of two persons of the same sex who were purportedly married in another state.” The Court also argued that the meaning of the word “marriage” voids the couple’s petition for divorce.

The ruling sparked outrage among marriage-rights advocates in Rhode Island and drew a heated dissent from state Justice Paul Suttell, who called it “incongruous” that a Rhode Island samesex couple married outside of the state cannot get divorced, but a resident in an “incestuous or bigamous marriage ... is entitled to divorce.” But Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 lauded the decision.

“It has always been clear to me that Rhode Island law was designed to permit marriage — and therefore divorce — only between a man and a woman,” he said in the statement released on the same day of the ruling.

Massachusetts is the only U.S. state where same-sex couples can legally get married. Between May 17, 2004, when same-sex marriage was legalized in the state, and August 2007, 10,400 samesex couples were married, making up about 8 percent of the total marriages in the state in that time period, according to the state’s Department of Public Health.

In 2006, Rhode Island samesex couples were granted the right to get married in Massachusetts.

New legislation Now, marriage-rights advocates are boosting their efforts to obtain equal rights for same-sex couples in Rhode Island.

At a Feb. 13 press conference, Marriage Equality RI introduced its 2008 platform, which includes the Compassion for All Families Act, proposing legislation that aims to obtain “protection for domestic partners.”

If the legislation is passed, same-sex couples in Rhode Island would be granted the right to “unpaid medical leave from work if a partner becomes ill, visiting in a nursing home ... and funeral planning,” Steinfeld says.

There are “over 430 state rights that relate to marriage,” Steinfeld says, but same-sex couples are granted few.

In response to the December Supreme Court decision, MERI also publicized the “equal divorce bill,” which would allow divorces like the one denied to Chambers

and Ormiston. The bill is suppor ted by the American Civil Liberties Union.

“It’s a pretty obvious bill,” Susan Heroux says.

On Tuesday, four state senators introduced such a bill. If passed, it would allow a family court to have jurisdiction on same-sex divorce cases.

This legislation is part of the effort to “amend a few state laws to make sure domestic partners are treated the same way as married couples,” Steven Brown, director of the Rhode Island affiliate of the ACLU, says, though he adds that the state is still years away from legalizing same-sex marriage.

The state needs to give same-sex couples “some of the safeguards that are currently available to the majority,” Susan Heroux says. “It’s about taking some of the laws that are available to married couples and making sure they’re available to domestic partners.”

The group “certainly (doesn’t) have the support in the governor’s office to pass a marriage bill this year,” Steinfeld says, explaining that Carcieri is adamantly opposed to same-sex marriage rights. Instead, Steinfield says, MERI is pushing “to win marriage in 2011.”

The Carcieri roadblock It has been an uphill battle for equal marriage rights. A bill that would legalize samesex marriage in Rhode Island has been introduced ever y year since 1996, Steinfeld says, and there isn’t much hope of getting it passed until a new governor is in office.

“I don’t know why anyone would want to prohibit people who are validly married from getting divorced,” Brown says.

“I don’t think (Carcieri is) looking at the fact that this opposition is not just about an idea,” Susan Heroux says. “It’s about real people’s lives.”

Only a small minority of couples are affected by the December court decision, but “for those who are,” Brown says, “it really is a devastating decision where they’re left in legal limbo.”

The Supreme Court showed some sensitivity to how its decision could affect Rhode Islanders.

“We know that sometimes our decisions result in palpable hardship to the persons affected by them,” the Court’s opinion reads.

“It is, however, a fundamental principle of jurisprudence that a court has no power to grant relief in the absence of jurisdiction.”

“When two people love each other they should be entitled to get the benefits that a statesanctioned marriage provides,” Brown says. It’s a “matter of basic fairness.”

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Bill Clinton visits R.I. to rally for Hillary continued from page 1 He said his wife is committed to providing health care to every American, making college more af fordable, creating millions of “green-collar” jobs for people “at all education levels,” investing in science and technology and fighting global warming.

Hillar y Clinton has worked across party lines to bring about positive change in the past and will continue to do so as president, her husband said.

Clinton also spoke about his wife’s goal to utilize the resources being wasted in Iraq to win the war on terror against al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

“There is a danger to your future,” he said. “We still haven’t caught the people who did (the Sept. 11 attacks) because we put six times the resources in Iraq as in Afghanistan.”

Attacking President Bush, Clinton said sometimes the president

can easily become isolated from the public and “forget what life is like for real Americans.”

“Look at the damage done in Bush’s second term,” he said, making reference to the president’s inadequate response to the plight of Hurricane Katrina victims.

Some Bryant students at the rally said Clinton spoke to the crowd on a human level by narrating anecdotes and offering clear explanations of his wife’s policy ideas.

Heather Greenwood, a Bryant senior, said the president’s speech swayed her toward Hillary Clinton, who seems to have “reasonable, logical” ideas.

But Greenwood said she will still look into Clinton’s positions more closely before casting her vote.

Clinton’s stop in Rhode Island was a “positive thing” for his wife’s campaign because Rhode Islanders admire him and “remember how much better” the state was during his presidency, said Craig Auster ’08, one of the co-leaders of Brown

Students for Hillary.

Jeremy Feigenbaum ’11, another member of Brown Students for Hillary, said he liked that Clinton explained many of his wife’s positions — instead of simply asking people to vote for her.

Ann-Marie Grilli, a Clinton supporter from North Providence, said the former president has not “lost his touch” and connects well with his audience.

“He always speaks ver y specifically,” Grilli said. “He doesn’t ramble.”

Melinda Voci, another supporter at the rally, said she came all the way from Dallas “to show Hillary that Texas is 100 percent behind her.”

“The Latino community will not fall prey (to) the union pressure to vote for Obama,” she added. A Feb. 23 poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports, a private public opinion company, showed Clinton leading Obama by 15 points in Rhode Island.

U.’s new siren system makes a loud debut continued from page 1 In fact, this test was the first of the new siren system and the culmination of almost a year of work on the project. Administrators first broached the idea in the wake of the April 2007 Virginia Tech massacre, in which a student gunman killed 32 people before taking his own life.

At that time, the University was already considering an electronic mass-notification system, said Vice President of Administration and Chief Risk Officer Walter Hunter. That discussion resulted in the purchase of a system from MIR3, Inc. — now in place — which can alert students through e-mail, text messages, voice messages and even fax.

After Virginia Tech, Hunter said, “We thought about some more traditional approaches toward alerting the community, and that’s when we started thinking about a siren.”

A working group with representatives from Brown, the Providence Emergency Management Agency and Providence’s police, fire and communications departments met weekly over the summer to hammer out technical requirements.

City Councilman Seth Yurdin drafted an ordinance to approve and regulate the system, which mandated community involvement in the process and placed the siren’s use under the authority of PEMA. “It’s really important to keep students safe but at the same time we have to make sure that whatever’s used has the corresponding procedures to keep the neighborhood in the loop,” he told the Providence Journal in a Sept.

6 article. Yurdin did not return calls and e-mails seeking comment for this story.

There was no organized opposition to the project, Hunter said, and after the law’s passage Brown set to work with the city to get the sirens, manufactured by Whelen Engineering Company, up and running.

This is only a test “Brown just sent me a text!” exclaimed a student on the Faunce steps several minutes before the alert. “Brown siren test today at 12:00 noon,” it read. “This is only a test.

There is no emergency.”

The text messages were only a small part of the media blitz launched by administrators in the days leading up to the test. Hunter sent an e-mail to the Brown community on Monday. Two days later, students

were reminded by Morning Mail and the Providence Journal ran an article announcing the test. On Thursday, students received 9 a.m. e-mails from Brown Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety Mark Porter warning them again. At the same time, the city began calling local residents through its reverse 911 system to notify them of the test. And at 11:52 a.m., 7,000 text messages were sent through MIR3.

The constant reminders contributed to an air of anticipation. Many students felt the test itself didn’t live up.

“It was anti-climactic,” said Barbara Petersen ’10.

“That’s not that loud,” agreed Becca Coleman ’10. “I was ready to have my ears blasted off.”

All students interviewed by The Herald agreed that a siren system was a good idea, but some questioned its implementation. Many said the test was inaudible inside classrooms and residence halls, especially on Pembroke Campus. Few could understand the voice message that followed, which clarified that there was no emergency.

“I don’t know if it would be effective in an emergency situation.

It wasn’t loud enough,” Petersen said.

Hunter said hearing the siren inside isn’t “as critical,” because “it’s primarily to get people from outside inside anyway.” Its primary message, he said, is, “There’s something serious. Go inside and get additional information.” In an emergency, that information would be provided by MIR3, which would be activated in conjunction with the siren.

According to Hunter, the University only envisions three scenarios in which the siren would be used: a hostile intruder on campus, a toxic chemical release nearby or a natural disaster such as a tornado.

Once activated, each siren sounds at 110 decibels. Hunter said Brown employees stationed at Davol Square — southeast of campus in the Jewelry District — and Brown Stadium — northwest in a residential neighborhood — both reported hearing the sound.

Securing consensus In securing the siren’s approval from the city and preparing for Thursday’s test, Brown has been engaged in months of dialogue with its neighbors.

For the most part, College Hill

Neighborhood Association President William Touret said, residents were ambivalent. “I don’t think anybody thought it was a great idea, but I don’t think anyone was ... up in arms about it,” he said. “Nobody wants to do anything that might detract from prevention or saving lives” in a major emergency.

Administrators met with the College Hill and Fox Point neighborhood associations as well as local schools.

Hunter said they encountered little opposition.

City oversight was an important factor in the CHNA’s decision not to oppose the project, Touret said. “I would certainly rather have the city overseeing it than letting Brown put in its own system that it designed — and then lets say Wheeler School puts in a system of its own design, and then Moses Brown puts in a system of its own design, RISD puts in one of its own design, and they’re all different, incompatible and going off at different times.”

In preparation for the test, the University sent e-mails to neighbors and distributed flyers door-to-door.

Touret was pleasantly surprised by the tone itself. “The decibel level was less than I expected,” he said.

“And believe me, I’m not urging them to turn it up.”

Alarming Thayer Certain locations on and around campus were affected far more than others by the test. Several blocks of Thayer Street located across from the Brown Office Building, which has a siren mounted on its roof, were among them. Though the University had distributed flyers informing local businesses about the test twice in the past month, many workers said they’d had no prior warning, and some felt unnerved.

“It was too intense,” said a Tealuxe employee who called himself Buttons Downard. “It does need to be heard, but this was like, ‘A bomb’s coming, and you’re going to die.’ ” Manager Jen Chaves added, “I was looking around, like, ‘are we supposed to be running somewhere?’”

“It was pretty post-apocalyptic,” Katrina Clark, a customer, chimed in.

Nice Slice employee Chris Annunziato was taken aback by the sound.

“We thought it was part of a song at first; then we got bummed that it wasn’t, and then we all agreed that Brown was terrorizing us,” he said.

“It’s audio terrorism.”

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Actor Kal Penn stumps for Obama on Thayer The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama hit Thayer Street Thursday in the form of an actor best known for portraying a brilliant and often senseless stoner.

But unlike the character he portrays in the “Harold and Kumar” movies, actor Kal Penn was mostly business in urging the roughly 70 students at Blue State Coffee to canvass for the Illinois senator.

“Something that’s really pheAdam Robbins / Herald nomenal, I think, is seeing everyKal Penn spoke at Blue State Coffee. one from the senator’s senior policy staffers to the 16-year-old intern that can’t even vote yet are knocking on people’s doors and making calls,” he said, as Obama campaign staffers passed out canvassing sign-up sheets to audience members.

Penn, wearing a black fleece jacket with an Obama logo, took questions from the crowd for about half an hour, answering many with details about the candidate’s platform and Senate record.

He stuck to one of the main points of Obama’s campaign: That the first-term senator can bring citizens together like no other candidate.

“Something that really motivated me (to join the campaign) was that there’s such an incredible amount of experience that Senator Obama’s had in bringing people together and achieving what other candidates only talk about,” Penn said.

Penn, currently a visiting professor of Asian-American studies at the University of Pennsylvania, has been campaigning for the Democratic presidential candidate since December, according to Obama’s campaign Web site. He has been primarily speaking to college students around the nation; he visited universities in Wisconsin and Ohio earlier this month.

Though Penn’s talk was mostly serious, he did keep the crowd’s interest with his passionate manner of speaking and some spontaneous humor. One attendee asked him what he thought Obama’s weaknesses were.

“I’m probably really biased to answer that question,” Penn responded, drawing laughs from the audience. “But you know, the more questions I ask, the more impressed I am by him.”

The actor also planned to visit Bryant University, Rhode Island College and the University of Rhode Island today, ahead of the state’s primary elections next Tuesday, according to a press release announcing his Ocean State tour.

The Rhode Island visit was arranged Tuesday, said Harrison Kreisberg ’10, a spokesman for Students for Barack Obama.

Obama will visit the state tomorrow, to speak at Rhode Island College at noon.

— Stu Woo

Love your genes, event encourages As a part of the “signature event” for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Health Services ran the Great Jeans Giveaway this week, encouraging students to donate clothing that makes them feel uncomfortable with their body image.

The event, which ran Tuesday through Thursday, is a means of promoting eating disorder awareness and a healthy body image, said Heather Bell, nutritionist at Health Services.

Approximately 25 people donated clothes in the campus post office over the three days, and there were also donation bins in campus dining halls throughout the week.

NEDA, the country’s largest non-profit eating disorder awareness group, has been coordinating the nationwide event for 20 years.

In accordance with their slogan — “Be comfortable in your genes.

Wear jeans that fit the TRUE you” — NEDA urges everyone to accept his or her own natural, genetically-based body shape and size.

According to the group’s Web site, NEDA also places emphasis on the role of genetics in eating disorders to underscore the fact that “eating disorders are serious illnesses, not choices.” NEDA emphasizes genetics’ essential role in determining one’s body type. Health Services ran the event to “raise awareness about eating disorders and let people know that treatments are available,” Bell said.

The donation table at the post office was stocked with flyers presenting information on female and male eating disorders and the media’s role in influencing body image.

Ken Morales ’09, a student employee at Health Services, said that some college students may not see eating and body image disorders as adult issues, and that they are often feminized.

“There are misconceptions that eating disorders are a young, female issue,” he said. “People often think it’s more of a high school thing.”

But nutritionists are realizing that there should be more emphasis on the rising number of males with eating disorders, Morales said.

Those who dropped off clothes received a free NEDA t-shirt, and the donated clothing will be given to Rhode Island-based charities.

— Eli Piette

Eco-friendliness saves cash, speakers tell R.I. businesses ‘Green is the new black,’ speaker says

By Alex Roehrkasse Senior Staf f Writer

When it comes to business, green guru Joel Makower thinks the idea of sustainability is a lot like teenage sex.

“Everybody says they’re doing it but hardly anybody is, and the people who are doing it aren’t doing it ver y well,” said Makower, chairman and executive editor at Greener World Media, in his keynote address yesterday at the 2008 Green Technology Conference.

The conference, held by the Brown Forum for Enterprise at the Rhode Island Convention Center downtown, drew together businessmen, academics, activists and students. It addressed the need for aggressive strides toward energy efficiency and environmental responsibility and the technologies that are making that goal increasingly achievable.

The clear take-home message for businesses was that smart energy and environmental practices don’t necessarily undercut the bottom line. In his address, Makower cited several examples in which the world’s biggest brands have flexed their “ecomagination” to develop ideas that are both responsible and profitable.

Companies like Toyota, which just built its eighth zero-waste plant, and Safeway, which recently converted its 1000-truck fleet to run on biofuels, of fer proof that “going green” is not just a fad, he said.

Makower also joked about the inundation of popular portrayals of sustainability — the new “s-

word” — with catchphrases and hot-button words and images.

Makower first heard the phrase “Green is the new black” to explain the profitability of sustainability in business circles. Later, he noticed other publications using the same phrase ad nauseam — but substituting “black” with virtually ever y color in the rainbow. Makower also garnered several guffaws from conference participants when he displayed an August 2006 cover of Fortune magazine with the bold headline “Wal-Mart Saves the Planet.”

Never theless, the recent global fascination with sustainability and renewable energy has been backed by ef fective technologies and strategies, Makower argued. For example, the field of biomimicr y, which he described as how one “basically (takes) advantage of mother nature’s 3.5 billion years worth of” research and development, presents an exciting new technological frontier. A recent design for an energy-efficient fan blade was inspired by the structure of a conch shell.

Moreover, environmentally innovative ideas don’t have to be flashy or expensive, said Makower, who cited a program run by Honda that converts World War II motors and fits them to bicycles in developing countries.

“They understand that mobility leads to sustainability,” Makower said of Honda.

Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri ’65 spoke briefly at the outset of the conference. Frequently referring to renewable energy alternatives as “attractive” and “competitive,” he seemed to make an appeal to the businesses continued on page 6

Go home, officers tell brawlers

By Max Mankin Senior Staf f Writer

The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Feb. 14 and Feb. 20. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus.

CRIME LOG DPS does not divulge information on open cases that are currently under investigation by the department, PPD or the Office of Student Life. DPS maintains a daily log of all shift activity and general service calls which can be viewed during business hours at its headquarters, located at 75 Charlesfield St. Sunday, Feb. 17: 1:26 a.m. Of ficers were dispatched for a report of a fight on Lincoln Field involving several males and a female. Upon arrival, they observed several individuals arguing. The parties were all separated, instructed to head home and stay away from each other for the rest of the night. The parties dispersed without further incident. The matter has been turned over to the Office of Student Life.

Tuesday, Feb. 19: 1:03 p.m. A student said that Feb. 19 at 12:05 p.m. was the last time he saw his computer in his office in the Orwig Music Center. He left and returned 50 minutes later, at 12:55 p.m., and noticed his computer continued on page 6

Turkish MP speaks on Kurds’ struggle

By Dana Teppert Staf f Writer

Sebahat Tuncel, a Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament, spoke about the his people’s struggle for democratic rights in Turkey in a mostly-full MacMillan 117 Thursday night, before a crowd which included students and Providence residents, among them members of the local Kurdish community.

The event was co-sponsored by the Amnesty International chapters of Brown and Providence.

Marcia Lieberman, coordinator of the Providence chapter of Amnesty, and Professor of History Engin Akarli introduced Tuncel.

Akarli said that Tuncel’s election to the Turkish Parliament has introduced women’s voices and sensibilities to Turkish political life, which is often dominated by a patriarchal system. He added that he hoped that she might one day be prime minister of Turkey.

Tuncel currently ser ves as the vice co-chair and Istanbul deputy of the Democratic Society Party, a pro-Kurdish nationalist par ty.

Tuncel said that the DSP is the

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Sebahat Tuncel, a Kurdish member of the Turkish Parliament, spoke Thursday. fifth pro-Kurdish party to form in Turkey — its predecessors have all been shut down by the government of Turkey. Tuncel spoke about the problems that face Turkey and the Kurdish people in the countr y’s ef for ts to fur ther democratize and in addressing the “Kurdish problem.”

“We come from a very long distance, one of the most beautiful countries of the world — however, also a country which is encountering very serious problems,” Tuncel said, speaking through an inter-

preter. She said that her personal histor y is ver y much related to the current political situation in Turkey.

The Democratic Society Party faces threats of closure from the Turkish government, she said.

Hundreds of its members have already been arrested, while many more are being interrogated for allegedly belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a militant Kurdish organization. continued on page 6

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Carcieri ’65 encourages green businesses continued from page 5 present to help lead the state’s local push for better environmental practices.

“This is a topic whose time has come,” Carcieri said. “This is a ver y exciting time because I have always felt — and I spent my whole career in business — that there is actually an intersection and a ‘complementarianism,’ if you will, of clean, green and business.”

Carcieri described a new state initiative to commit 20 percent of Rhode Island’s energy consumption to renewable energy sources by 2015. Therefore, offshore wind farms, solar power and wave power all present possible investment opportunities in the state, Carcieri said. He also referred to Cape Wind, a proposed offshore wind farm project in Nantucket Sound that has been stalled for nearly seven years amid fierce public debate.

“We need to move for ward,” Carcieri said. “I think at the end of the day we need a strategy not only as a state but as a nation to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.”

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Energy Future: Greener Fuels, Greener Vehicles” — he learned that in 1908, Henr y Ford had developed a vehicle that ran on both gas and ethanol.

“He foresaw at that point the need to have a renewable, sustainable source of fuel,” Carcieri said.

“So here we are 100 years later revisiting in a serious way what a visionary saw 100 years ago in the development of the Model-T.” Businesses should formulate strategies not just based on financial gains and losses, but on carbon emissions and energy consumption as well, said fellow speaker Steven Hamburg, director of the Global Environment Program at the Watson Institute for International Studies and associate professor of Environmental Studies.

Only by using this “triple booking” system can companies develop sound environmental practices, Hamburg said, adding that Brown is increasingly formulating its development policies in these terms.

Several students from local universities were also present at yesterday’s event, some of whom had had their classes canceled so that they could attend. Olivia Rapp, a junior at the Rhode Island School of Design, came with other students from her gardening studio. She said the class is currently

researching compost practices and urban farming, with the ultimate goal of designing better gardening tools.

Hamburg challenged each conference participant to come up with at least one concrete business idea that would increase energy efficiency or reduce carbon emissions at their institution. He also echoed the idea that Rhode Island’s concentration of eager minds can help drive innovation in green technologies, policies and practices.

“We have the knowledge to do it,” Hamburg said. “We simply have to have the chutzpah to ask the questions and put forth the solutions, and we can really change the nature of the economy.”

But making environmentally responsible business decisions is often difficult, Makower said, because, unlike rules for certifying organic food and green construction, environmentally responsible business practices and principles are not well codified. Makower laid out a set of fundamental business rules that go beyond the laws of the state and the marketplace to include the laws of nature.

Still, he noted the fundamental quandar y in green business — answering the question: “What is good enough?”

“If the cannibal uses a fork, is that progress?” Makower asked.

Cash box, wallets and grad student’s car go missing continued from page 5 missing. He said he did not lock his office. There are no suspects at this time.

2:05 p.m. DPS and PPD officers were dispatched for the report of a stolen laptop. A University employee reported that sometime between 11:55 a.m. and 1:20 p.m., an unknown party took a laptop computer from his cubicle at 3 Davol Square. A possible male suspect was seen earlier near the west entrance.

He was holding the door open as people left and was later seen in the center stairway. Officers checked the building and found no sign of the suspect.

10:26 p.m. A graduate student stated he parked his vehicle in Lot 2 on Jan. 20 around 10 p.m. He returned to Providence on Feb. 19 around 10 p.m. and the vehicle was missing. Providence Police arrived at the scene and spoke with the complainant. There are no suspects at this time.

Wednesday, Feb. 20:

9:52 a.m. An employee reported that sometime between 3:20 p.m. on Feb. 19 and 4 a.m. on Feb. 20, four leather chairs were taken from the President’s Dining Room in the Sharpe Refectory.

10:40 a.m. The complainant reported that sometime between 12:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 20, an unknown person or group broke into the Production Workshop Box Office in TF Green Hall and stole a cash box which contained approximately $400. The burglars smashed out the glass service window at the box office. The door handle was also pulled off; it was on the floor in the hallway. Officers took photos of the area and the damage and transported the evidence to DPS headquarters. Facilities Management also responded to the scene to board up the window.

10:05 p.m. A part time employee of Dining Services reported that her wallet was taken from her jacket which she had hung up on the coat rack in the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall. There are no suspects at this time.

Turkish MP addresses the ‘Kurdish question’ at length continued from page 5 The DSP is a small but powerful opposition faction in the Turkish Parliament, Tuncel said, that pushes for further democratization of Turkey. Her party asks that all the people of Turkey, including the Kurds, be able to express their cultures.

Though Turkey is multicultural, she said, growing attitudes within the countr y that emphasize the concept of a “single nation and single language” threaten this tradition of multiculturalism. These monolithic conceptions of the state are a barrier to democracy, she added.

Tuncel also addressed the “Kurdish question” in Turkey at length. The discrimination that the Kurdish population in Turkey faces is a serious problem, she said, that goes back to the creation of the Turkish state 85 years ago.

Half of the total Kurdish population worldwide lives in Turkey — about 20 million people, according to Tuncel. Almost 4,000 Kurdish villages have been evacuated and tens of thousands of people have been faced with forced migration, and thousands more have been put in prisons. And until 1991, the use of the Kurdish language was forbidden in Turkey.

Tuncel stressed that the characterization of the Kurdish question as a matter of terrorism wrongly portrays the issue. “The depiction of the problem as a terror problem enhances (it) rather than (bringing) a solution,” she said. The PKK is a consequence of larger issues, she added, and not the actual problem.

The Kurdish people, she said, want to freely use their language and express their culture. Tuncel said her party would like to en-

gage in a cultural dialogue about these issues. “The solution to the problem lies in listening to what the Kurdish people really want,” she said.

Tuncel said that Turkey’s recent militar y operations in Northern Iraq against the PKK have given rise to significant tension. Those militar y operations, “which (are) supported by the U.S. government, to which many European countries remain silent, hamper feelings of fraternity” between the Kurds and the rest of the Turkish people, she added.

Addressing the issue of the PKK’s demands for a Kurdish state, Tuncel said, “the Kurdish people in Turkey would like to live with the Turkish people in the same country.” They simply demand freedom of expression, she said.

At the end of the speech, Tuncel said she is in the U.S. to demand solidarity. “I believe that regardless of our geographical location in the world, as the oppressed people of the world we should be united, as the oppressors are.” She added that she hopes Americans will speak out against the crossborder operations that Turkey is conducting in Iraq.

Tuncel also answered questions after her speech, several of which were asked in Kurdish.

Azim Clik, a leader of the New England Kurdish Association, said after the event that the group was ver y glad that they brought Tuncel to Providence. He said that he also believes in the importance of a peaceful democratic solution to the problems in Turkey.

Amy Tan ’09, a board member of Amnesty International, said that she believed there’s an obvious interest in the Brown and local community about the Kurdish issue in Turkey.

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Court won’t ban law penalizing (Los Angeles Times) — A federal appeals court on Thursday refused to block a controversial Arizona law that shuts down businesses for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants.

The action by the three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco clears the way for the statute to be enforced beginning Saturday.

In a brief order, the judges said that business and immigrant-rights groups had not shown an adequate need for delaying enforcement of the law.

After the measure went into effect Jan. 1, county prosecutors said they would not file any cases until March 1 to allow the courts time to decide on whether to issue the injunction. A trial court judge earlier this month found the law to be constitutional.

The 9th circuit panel will consider that issue at hearings later this spring, but would not be expected to rule for many months. Passed overwhelmingly by the Arizona legislature, the law places any company found to have knowingly hired an illegal immigrant on probation. If the company is found in violation of the law again, its business license is automatically revoked, ending its ability to operate in the state.

At least four other states are working on bills modeled on the Arizona law. Business groups have opposed the measure, warning it would force them to discriminate against Hispanics and drive them from Arizona.

Some companies have said they are not expanding in the state as long as the law remains in effect.

Farrell Quinlan, a spokesman for many of the business groups that are challenging the Arizona law, said in a statement that getting an injunction was always a long shot.

“We remain confident that when the appeals court considers the merits of our case, it will find the Arizona law unconstitutional on multiple grounds,” he said.

— Nicholas Riccardi

Turkey promises limits on Iraq invasion ANKARA, Turkey (Los Angeles Times) — Civilian and military leaders here assured U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Thursday that Turkey’s incursion into northern Iraq would be limited to redoubts occupied by Kurdish separatists, but offered no guarantees on how soon their troops would withdraw.

In meetings with Turkish officials, Gates said he pushed for the operation to be wrapped up as quickly as possible and for the Turks to more clearly explain to the Iraqi government the size and scope of the offensive.

The Turkish military, which has long battled Kurdish separatists who strike at Turkey from bases in the mountains of northern Iraq, launched the large-scale ground operation last week backed by artillery and warplanes.

The fighting has angered America’s Iraqi allies and raised concerns that fighting will spread in a relatively stable area of Iraq.

Gates had previously urged the operation to end after a week or two.

But he told reporters traveling with him back to Washington that the Turks gave no timetable for their withdrawal.

“In the sessions that we had there was no specific mention of a date,” he said. “I think they got our message though.”

In a joint news conference with Gates, however, Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul appeared to signal a longer schedule than the Bush administration had hoped for Gonul noted that Turkish soldiers were operating in difficult winter conditions and he insisted the offensive would continue “as long as is necessary” to destroy the infrastructure of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK. Gonul insisted Turkish troops were avoiding civilian areas and only attacking known bases for PKK fighters.

“Turkish soldiers entered the area of no civilian dwelling, no village, nothing, only PKK camps and establishments,” Gonul said.

Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said all Turkish officials with whom Gates met, including President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Edrogan, repeated that message.

The Bush administration has important leverage over Turkey, having agreed in November to greatly increase the amount of U.S. intelligence provided on PKK movements. Turkish officials say the information is essential to their operations in northern Iraq.

But Gates said he did not raise the issue of suspending the intelligence cooperation, saying he believes Turkey has a legitimate security threat from PKK guerrillas.

“We have shared interests here,” Gates said. “I think those interests are not advanced by making threats or by threatening to cut off intelligence.”

In Washington, Gates’ comments were echoed by President Bush. He told a news conference that “the Turks, the Americans and the Iraqis, including the Iraqi Kurds, share a common enemy in the PKK,” but urged that the Turkish incursion “must be limited and must be temporary in nature.”

The U.S. has declared the PKK a terrorist organization and pressed the Kurdish regional government in northern Iraq to pursue PKK fighters more aggressively. Gonul also thanked the U.S. for “opening Iraqi airspace” to Turkey.

But the Baghdad government and Kurdish regional authorities have in recent days condemned the Turkish offensive, saying it violates Iraqi sovereignty.

Gates acknowledged the dispute had put the U.S. in a difficult position, sandwiched between two allies. But despite the rising rhetoric on both sides, Gates said he believed renewed talks between the two countries, which included a delegation of Turkish officials visiting Baghdad on Tuesday, would lower tensions.

— Peter Spiegel

U.S. officials warn Europe of growing missile threat

By Kim Murphy Los Angeles T imes

LONDON -- With American officials working to close a deal on a missile defense system in Europe, the head of the U.S. program warned Thursday that Iran is within two or three years of producing a missile that could reach most European capitals.

“They’re already flying missiles that exceed what they would need in a fight with Israel. Why? Why do they continue this progression in terms of range of missiles? It’s something we need to think about,” Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III, director of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, told a conference here on missile defense.

The message was aimed at staving off skepticism in Europe and clinching a deal for radar and interceptor sites in the Czech Republic and Poland. It underscored increasing concern among defense experts that while attention has focused on nuclear proliferation, nations such as China, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan and India have made significant strides in developing missiles that can reach far beyond their immediate neighbors.

“Our short-range defenses could protect Rome and Athens,” Obering said, but warned that London, Paris and Brussels would remain vulnerable “against an Iranian (intermediate-range missile) threat.”

Many in Europe have expressed doubts that Iran would target European cities. But Obering said it was possible to imagine as little as seven years from now a nuclear-armed Iran shutting off oil shipments in the Persian Gulf, or al-Qaida militants seizing freighters off Europe and arming them with nucleartipped Scud missiles “to punish the West for invasion of Muslim holy lands.”

The timing of the warning was hardly coincidental, as Bush administration officials this week were attempting through talks in Washington to clear the last hurdles for agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic on a U.S.-run system of interceptor missiles and radar in Europe.

The Czech Foreign Ministry official in charge of security policy, Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova, predicted the deal could be signed as early as next month’s NATO summit in Bucharest and ratified by the Czech parliament by summer.

But Russia remains vigorously opposed to what it sees as a permanent new U.S. military infrastructure near its borders in Central Europe, and there are concerns on the continent about further alienating Iran and Russia. Some critics have questioned the wisdom of allowing the U.S., rather than the European Union or NATO, to take the lead in defending Europe against such missiles.

Malcolm Chalmers, a onetime foreign policy adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said the decision to locate the system in former Warsaw Pact nations may have sparked opposition in Moscow that otherwise “would be much less vociferous.”

“Did we only deploy it there because that’s the only place available?” said Chalmers, who is now a fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, which sponsored Thursday’s conference.

Some Europeans have questioned whether Iran represents a genuine threat to Europe, and have accused the Bush administration of undermining existing arms control agreements by proceeding unilaterally on missile defense.

“This is firstly and foremostly an American choice, and should be taken as such,” said Yves Boyer,

deputy director of the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. “It has not been requested by any European state and ... it does not answer the critical need for Europeans to process their own assessment of strategic capabilities.”

Jane Sharp, senior research fellow in defense studies at London’s King’s College, said the Bush administration has cost the West a once-cooperative relationship with Russia.

“Even if ballistic missile defense did look credible to a potential adversary, they’re still destabilizing, because the logical response for any adversary for a credible defenseis to acquire more offensive capability -this is what the Russians are telling us every day,” she said.

The Bush administration has not reached an agreement with either Poland or the Czech Republic on the proposed system. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek met Wednesday at the White House with President Bush, but withheld his approval, citing remaining differences on environmental standards for the radar equipment. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is scheduled to visit Bush on March 10.

U.S. negotiators are due in Poland on Friday to discuss modernizing that country’s military, a key Polish request in the missile defense talks.

President Bush said in a news conference Thursday that he still hopes to persuade the Russian government to drop its opposition. “I believe it’s in our interests to try to figure out a way for the Russians to understand the system is not aimed at them, but aimed at the real threats of the 21st century,” Bush said.

— Staff writers Paul Richter in Washington and Janet Stobart in London contributed to this report.

Airstrikes kill 18 in Gaza after rockets hit Israel

By Griffe Witte Washington Post

JERUSALEM — Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip on Thursday killed at least 18 Palestinians — including five children — as Palestinian gunmen fired 45 rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel. Israel warned that Hamas’s use of more sophisticated rockets could trigger a full-scale invasion.

Israel carried out 11 airstrikes in northern Gaza that officials said were aimed at rocket-launching sites and Hamas fighters. But four boys playing soccer, the youngest of whom was 8 years old, were also killed in the strikes, according to Palestinian hospital officials. One other child was also killed, along with two adult civilians. At least nine of the others who died Thursday were fighters, the officials said.

The Israeli military said Palestinian rocket and mortar fire injured two Israelis.

Seven rockets have landed in the city of Ashkelon in the past two days, prompting accusations from Israeli officials that Hamas is using more formidable rockets than it has in the past. Ashkelon, a coastal city of about 120,000 people, is six miles north of Gaza. Israeli officials said the rockets that landed there have been Iranian-made, Grad-style rockets, which have

a longer range and are considered more lethal than the relatively crude Qassam rockets that Hamas has traditionally used.

“What we saw today was really an escalation,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel, asserting that the greater range of the Grad rockets means that “a quarter of a million Israeli citizens are in danger.”

Mekel indicated that a stronger Israeli response may be in the offing.

“Israel left Gaza not in order to return to it. However, the continuation of terror may put Israel in a position where we have no choice,” he said.

Israel pulled its settlers out of Gaza in 2005. Last June, Hamas seized control, ending a power-sharing deal with the secular Fatah party, which favors negotiations with Israel. Since then, the volume of rocket fire has increased and pressure has grown on the Israeli government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to topple Hamas, a radical Islamic movement that has both a military wing and a network of social services, and that seeks to eradicate Israel.

Olmert, traveling in Japan on Thursday, said Israel is “at the height of this battle.”

“We are taking painful blows and we will hit back with even more painful blows,” he said.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to visit Israel next

week to prod Israel and the Fatahled Palestinian Authority to continue peace negotiations. Israeli officials said her visit could end up delaying any major Israeli offensive in Gaza.

Thursday’s violence brought the two-day death toll to at least 28, including an Israeli college student killed Wednesday, and the intensifying hostilities seemed likely to complicate any efforts to forge a peace deal this year. A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority accused Israel’s government of trying “to destroy the peace process.”

Many Gazans stayed off the streets Thursday to avoid being caught in the wrong place during an airstrike. “The mounting number of casualties is disturbing to everyone.

People are seriously scared that this is becoming an all-out kind of war. It’s really disturbing,” said Eyad Sarraj, head of Gaza Community Mental Health.

On the Israeli side, residents were also seeking assistance to deal with the stress of the attacks. Leah Malul, spokeswomen for the Barzilay Hospital in Ashkelon, said Thursday evening that 72 people were admitted for treatment of symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. “The population of Ashkelon is living under fear,” Malul said. “As a result of these rockets, people are losing their senses.”

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Bernanke says U.S. is not facing stagflation

By Neil Irwin Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The economy is not close to a 1970s-style mix of stagnant growth and high inflation, Federal Reser ve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Thursday, but he painted a generally dour outlook and cautioned that the downturn is likely to cause some small banks to go under.

“I don’t anticipate stagflation,” Bernanke told the Senate banking committee, during his semiannual repor t to Congress on monetar y policy. Some analysts have become increasingly worried about that possibility after recent high readings on inflation and weak readings on growth. “I don’t think we’re anywhere near the situation that prevailed in the 1970s,” he said.

As Bernanke spoke, new data and activity on financial markets underscored the risks that the economy is facing. The Com-

merce Depar tment said that the gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, rose only 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter, disappointing analysts. The Labor Department said that the number of new unemployment claims rose to their second-highest weekly level since Hurricane Katrina.

Almost ever y piece of economic data that has come out this week has been worse than economists had projected.

Those signs of a weaker economy led investors to buy up ultrasafe government bonds, driving the yield on two-year Treasuries down 0.18 percentage points to 1.82 percent, its lowest level in more than a month. The dollar fell to a new low against the euro for the third straight day, and the stock market was off 0.9 percent, as measured by the Standard & Poor’s 500 index. continued on page 9

Fencer Alevi ’10 expects top results in Regionals continued from page 12 fencer had finished first?

I couldn’t think of anyone who won last year or the year before, but I wasn’t really thinking about it. With the first girl, I thought — I can beat her, I’ve beaten her before. And then the second girl came and I thought — I have to beat her, she knocked me off last year. And it was like that with every girl. It was a really good day.

I was really focused.

Do you see the same girls often?

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other. We all say hi and congratulate each other at the end of a match. We’re friends, but we have to compete against each other.

What are your expectations for Regionals?

As a team, we did so much better than we expected this year.

It’s been a really exciting season.

We beat Harvard, who were the NCAA champs a few years ago, so that was a big highlight. We expect a lot of girls to qualify (for NCAA Championships) this year.

Last year we finished in the top 20, but we could definitely be one of the top teams this year. Maybe not top eight, but up there.

AI standardizes Ivy athlete recruiting continued from page 1 to an Ivy League school. But athletes below the minimum AI could be admitted if his or her AI is below this floor for a non-athletic reason.

The system is unique to the Ivy League, which distinguishes itself from other Division I schools because it does not offer athletic scholarships. It was first implemented in 1985 because of changes in admissions. Before 1985, there were no regulations governing recruiting of high school athletes.

“In the 60s, 70s and early 80s the Ivy League had gone through a lot of changes in admissions,” said Jeff Orleans, the outgoing executive director of the Council of Ivy Group Presidents. “We started admitting women, stopped being exclusively white, had more public school graduates and became need blind.”

The AI was devised and implemented by the Ivy presidents as a “basic, common way of approaching recruiting student-athletes” and a way of providing a “common vocabulary,” Orleans said.

Furthermore, the AI attempts to ensure that recruited athletes are up to Ivy League academic snuff.

“My sense was that it was an attempt to level the recruiting playing field so schools were recruiting students that were more representative academically of the student population,” said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73.

At first, the AI applied only to the football, men’s basketball and men’s hockey teams, Orleans said.

In those sports, the class of 1990 was the first in which all athletes from those three sports had to meet AI requirements.

Orleans said that over the years, the system has been tweaked repeatedly. Twice, the number of football players to be admitted at each school has been reduced. Orleans said the size of football teams were reduced and that Ivy League presidents wanted to give their admission deans more freedom as their institutions became more selective.

In 1994, a system of “banding”

was implemented, Orleans said.

There are four bands — similar to a quartile system — that each encompass a range of AI scores.

Ever y year, each varsity sports team is allowed a certain number of players in each band. This system attempts to prevent “boosting,” in which one student with a high AI could balance a number of students with low AIs. A big change came in 2002, when the presidents decided to include all varsity sports in the AI. The rule also sets a rolling fouryear limit on how many varsity athletes a school sponsors, Orleans said. Club sports that are not under the league’s jurisdiction, such as equestrian, skiing and sailing, are not included under any of these regulations.

The system achieves oversight by mandating that the AIs of all athletes at any given school be shared with the admission deans of the seven other schools, Orleans aid.

As its history makes evident, the system is often reevaluated, and not everyone is always happy with it.

“It certainly has faults,” said men’s soccer Head Coach Mike Noonan, “but I haven’t been presented with something better.”

Though the AI creates a formulaic aspect to admission, there is still a lot of freedom for admission offices.

“My feeling is that each institution is autonomous within guidelines and can do what they want,” said Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger, who was Brown’s director of admission before taking his current position. “Each individual (admissions) officer makes decisions based on (an athlete’s) character and what they bring to the institution.”

Miller had a similar assessment, calling the AI a “macro measure.”

“It is a set of bars and each institution makes its own decisions. It’s not formulaic,” he said.

Noonan said he felt the system was important for maintaining academic standards as well, though it can be a hindrance to his recruiting.

“It’s a tool that is used and it’s

more effective than ineffective at making sure that the academic integrity of the league is adhered to.”

Though athletes are considered for admission based on their entire application, the Depar tment of Athletics has to follow more rigid guidelines than do other University departments that try to recruit students.

There is no league-wide policy regarding admissions for musicians, who are also highly sought.

At Brown, if students have pursued music in high school, they send in a CD with their application, which the admission office then sends to the music department for evaluation.

Assistant Director of Admission Momoho Takao, the liaison to the music department, said the department gives a rating to the CD and sends it back to the admissions office.

“The music department gives a rating, and if that rating is strong, it helps them,” Takao said. “We don’t set a bar. We don’t have a specific number. It’s not as concrete (as athletics). Most Brown students are in the top 10 percent (of their class) in high school. It is important to have music be the same. It is also important to campus to have a healthy musical community.”

Goldberger used a slightly different 10 percent marker as a yardstick for athletes.

“The typical athlete would be in the top 10 percent of students going to college,” he said, though he was skeptical of using class rank as a formulaic measure for admission because it varies so widely among high schools.

In the case of both music and athletics, department priorities also factor into the admissions decision.

“It is not only if they are a talented musician, but if they are a certain type of musician,” Takao said.

The music department provides a list of priority instruments to the admissions office every year based on need. The admissions office and music department stay in close contact before and throughout the admissions process, especially regarding instruments high on the priority list.

In athletics, the AI must be kept in consideration. The AI only requires that total varsity athlete population average out to within one standard deviation of the general population, so there is a lot of flexibility among individuals and teams.

As students graduate, it leaves holes in certain positions, making these positions priorities.

Individual teams “think in fouryear cycles,” Miller said.

Each team is also aware of the AI and what their team goal should be.

“We try to come up with admissions patterns for teams that let them have a consistency and predictability,” Miller said.

Still, both Miller and Goldberger admitted that not all teams may be equal in terms of their AI contribution. Within the system, schools can privilege certain teams if they choose, admitting students with lower AIs as long as they are balanced by another team. This prioritizing occurs on a school-by-school and year-by-year basis.

Squash player Adam Greenberg ’10 said he doesn’t favor the AI system because he thinks potential recruits’ low AIs have kept them from being admitted.

“I don’t like the system because it does not favor my team,” Greenberg said. “But I think the system as a whole is effective at what its trying to do.”

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Garland ’09 rediscovers his game Boyd ’10: NBA’s Eastern continued from page 12 his competitive nature, joining his state championship baseball team as a walk-on that spring.

“I had always been a fan of baseball. I love the game,” Garland said.

“I had to beg the coach to let me try out, but by the end of the season, I was batting seventh in the lineup and became a relief pitcher for the team.”

With college right around the corner, Bruno wanted Garland with a racquet in his hand, not a baseball bat and helmet, so he decided to be a part of the tennis team and end his baseball career after one successful high school season.

But success followed this athlete in every sport at every school.

Though his first year on the team was a huge success, and culminated in an Ivy League Championship, Garland began to question his dedication to the team.

“I had been playing for so, so long.” Garland said. “I didn’t feel like I had to improve my game at all, and that’s where the initial signs of being burnt out began.”

This change in the self-professed “soldier of the tennis team” was visible to Gardner, his teammate and long-time friend.

“Sam puts so much behind every point, by the end of the season, you could see he was drained,” Gardner said. “I don’t think he believes very much in pacing himself, and that’s a great thing, but it can really wear you down, and it wore Sam down until he had nothing left.”

Garland’s decision to step down from the team shocked all the players, especially one former high school competitor.

“I already knew that Sam was a good guy, and it made me consider Brown more so because I knew him,” said teammate Nathaniel Gorham ’10. “I was bummed when I found out he wasn’t playing. It was a disappointing surprise.”

The surprise hit the coaches just as hard. Gresh was a close confidant to Garland throughout his decision-making process and was ultimately shocked at his final decision.

“My initial reaction was sadness.

I knew this team was going to miss his presence not only on, but also off the court,” Gresh wrote in an e-mail. “I knew as a coach I would miss him because Sam is the type of guy you want to be around, competitive and easy-going.”

In his year off, Garland barely picked up a racquet, but the bonds he had with the players remained strong as he was present at every single match and could be heard cheering for his ex-teammates.

“I supported the team, but never once regretted my decision. As much as the guys would work on me to re-join the team, at that point in time, I didn’t believe that I would ever play again,” Garland said.

In his time off, he also entertained thoughts of heading back to the diamond, hoping to possibly play for Brown baseball. He started working on his skills again and attended some baseball academies back home in Florida, intent on not playing tennis ever again.

And he may not have played again, if it hadn’t been for a summer job teaching tennis to younger kids at the Moses Brown Tennis Camp with Gardner and Gresh.

Throughout the camp, the former tennis player became increasingly eager to get back on the court competitively.

“Slowly, I began to realize how much I missed it,” Garland said.

“Honestly, it was those young kids that brought my love for tennis back. I missed the competition, the guys, the team bonding ... I even missed the fitness.”

Gardner could sense the eagerness in his friend to get back on the court.

“It’s more like a feeling of getting on the court and feeling in control. When you’re teaching, you’re reminded of how much you know and how much you’ve put into the game,” Gardner said. “It’s a huge part of your life, and when your teaching it every day, that becomes undeniable.”

After that experience, it was straight back to the courts for Garland, but after an entire year off, it wasn’t an easy transition

Bernanke: Stagflation?

Please, not a chance continued from page 8 At a news conference, President Bush said, “I don’t think we’re headed to a recession, but no question we’re in a slowdown.” He criticized a bill in Congress that he said would bail out housing speculators and indicated that he wanted to let the $152 billion stimulus bill he signed earlier this month have a chance to work before considering a second one.

In his second straight day of congressional testimony, Bernanke repeatedly made clear that he believes the greatest risk facing the economy is slower growth — not high inflation. He said that policymakers have fewer options for responding to the situation than they did in 2001, amid the dot-com crash.

Then, the government was running large surpluses, which left more room to cut taxes or increase spending. And inflation was ver y low, giving the Fed leeway to cut interest rates. Finally, world credit

markets held up well through that downturn, so Fed rate cuts resulted in lower borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, which is how they are intended to stimulate the economy.

“Am I hearing you correctly that we’re in actually — we’re in a worse position today to respond to this than we were eight years ago?” asked the committee’s chairman, Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.

“I think that’s fair,” said Bernanke. “In that both fiscal and monetar y face some additional constraints.”

And when asked whether he expects the downturn to result in bank failures, his response was similarly bereft of rose-colored glasses.

“There probably will be some bank failures,” Bernanke said.

“There are, for example, some small, or, in many cases, (newly created) banks that are heavily invested in real estate in locales where prices have fallen and therefore they would be under some pressure.”

back to the game he had recently re-discovered.

“He definitely had some rust in his game,” Gresh said. “I talked to him about improving a little bit every day, he needed constant repetition at a high level. I knew he would come back sooner or later.”

And it was definitely sooner rather than later, as Garland’s game has escalated to an entirely new level.

“I am trying to play as big as I can, being very aggressive, really going for the first serve as hard as I can, because, why not?” Garland said.

Gresh can see the new fire that has been lit underneath his player that can only be attributed to the time he took off.

“I personally think that the year off was necessary for Sam’s development as a player. He was burntout physically and emotionally, he needed to step away from the sport to really find himself,” Gresh said.

“He appreciates tennis so much more now, and his game is only going to get better.”

With the Ivy League season is about to get underway, Garland has the intensity, tenacity and skills to lead this Bruno team to a third Ivy title in four years. With a newfound appreciation for the sport, he is trying to share this knowledge with his teammates.

“He’s got the same intensity from his freshman year, but he’s more intent on spreading it around,” Gardner said. “He’s not holding back anymore, when he’s mad he’ll tell you and when he’s excited he’ll pump his fist, run over to your side of the court — whatever it takes to let you know, he’s there.”

Garland’s sabbatical helped him find a better tennis game and a better self.

“Finally, I am at a level of play where I can appreciate what I am doing and just relax, and because of that, I am playing the best tennis I have ever played,” Garland said “Coming back to the team is great, I missed the guys and am trying to help them relax. I want them to just play the game and not stress so much ... right now is a time to just truly enjoy it.”

teams getting by too easily continued from page 12

roster in either the East or West, and for argument’s sake, let’s assume that these All-Stars account for the majority of elite talent in the league.

Of these 78 players, 62 are currently active, as former greats like John Stockton and David Robinson (both from the Western Conference) have since retired.

One might assume that these remaining 62 All-Stars are distributed relatively evenly between the two conferences, as both the East and West All-Star teams receive an equal number of roster spots each year. But over the last few seasons, more and more of these superstars have migrated west.

Presently, there are upwards of 40 All-Stars, both former and current, playing in the Western Conference, while fewer than two dozen remain on rosters in the East. In other words, over the last few seasons, Western Conference teams have accumulated nearly twice the firepower of their Eastern Conference rivals.

In most cases, teams in the West have at least two or three of these All-Stars that can share the load on any given night (Dallas now has six), while franchises in the East are lucky to have one. It’s no wonder the East is having trouble competing. Someone please tell me who is supposed to pick up the slack in Milwaukee if Michael Redd is having an off night. Or who is going to take over a game in Toronto if Chris Bosh gets injured? Or who is going to run the show in Philly if ... wait, sorry. I forget who’s playing in Philly now.

This consolidation of talent translates to tangible success on the court. As of last night, only five teams in the East had winning records. But conveniently for the rest of the conference, eight teams earn a trip to the playoffs every season, which means that three playoff spots in the East will be filled by teams with losing records.

I wish I could tell you that this

has never happened before, but in each of the past two seasons, the East has sent one or more sub-.500 teams to the postseason. Conversely, only five teams in the West have losing records. That’s half as many as the Eastern Conference. Interestingly enough, if the playoffs were to start today, the Denver Nuggets, Portland Trailblazers and Sacramento Kings would all miss the playoffs in the West, but each of those team’s records is strong enough to clinch a playoff spot in the East.

When comparing the East and West, a team’s overall record might not be the best indicator of conference strength. Perhaps a more telling statistic would be a team’s winning percentage against opponents from the other conference. After the recent road trips around the league, two-thirds of the teams in the West have winning records against their Eastern counterparts.

Meanwhile, only four teams in the East have managed to amass more wins than losses against their rivals out West, as of last night. On a broader scale, the entire Western Conference has a .574 winning percentage against the East, a number that jumps to .602 when you subtract the Celtics’ freakish 18-3 nonconference record. Simply put, the disparity between the East and West has reached epic proportions, and for any fan with a team in the West, the situation is utterly frustrating.

Don’t give up on the East just yet, though. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that these things tend to move in cycles. Granted, the West has won seven of the last nine NBA titles. But if I remember correctly, eight of the previous 10 before that went to teams from the Eastern Conference (that guy Jordan might have had something to do with that).

So just sit tight, sports fans ­— order might be restored to the basketball universe soon enough.

Jeff Boyd ’10 thinks Mark Cuban should be the new commissioner of the Texas Basketball League.

Exotic coffee tastings highlight fair trade continued from page 1 of his lecture about the coffee.

Cycon, who has an advanced law degree from Yale with a focus on international indigenous rights and environmental justice, spoke about the social implications of the world’s coffee trade. While discussing the importance of purchasing fair-trade beans, images from his travels to coffee-growing regions worldwide flashed on the screen behind him.

“Coffee is a really wonderful microcosm of all possible social justice issues,” Cycon said. “Every major struggle of globalization is being enacted right in that cup of coffee, and yet there’s not a lot of information available about that.”

Cycon’s 2007 book, “Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee,” emphasizes the implications of the coffee trade for women’s rights, indigenous populations, the environment and the global economy, he said.

Most coffee farmers are “a great distance both from majority culture and the world” both geographically and ideologically, he said, and therefore “are not really active participants in world trade.” He added that in the coffee industry, growers

often receive low prices for their product because many middlemen come between them and the final buyers of the beans. His company purchases beans directly from growers to bring higher profits to the farmers, he said.

Under the certified fair trade model, farmers must organize into “democratic and transparent cooperatives” and “actively participate in the management of their own affairs,” Cycon said. Among the notable features of the fair trade model is a rule that women must be allowed to “join into decisionmaking on economic and political matters” in regions where their voices are generally suppressed, he added.

Fair trade-certified importers must pay a minimum price for coffee in any given region, Cycon said, noting that the system helps protect farmers against price fluctuations of coffee in a sometimes-volatile world market. He said many companies including Dean’s Beans pay “way more than is required” and added that his company gives 6 percent of its profit share to the farmers who sell them the beans.

“I’m in it to make a living, not make a killing,” Cycon said.

His company also invests in the third-world villages from which they directly import coffee.

“Paying people money is good, but it’s not enough ... We take a deeper involvement in the communities we work in,” Cycon said.

Dean’s Beans helps coffee farmers identify “developmental priorities” and then assists in the effort “to design a project to address one of those priorities that the farmers can manage and run themselves,” Cycon said.

His company has helped implement programs of conflict resolution, reforestation and clean-water access and also helped set up “the first cafe-roasting operation in Nicaragua” with proceeds that support a local clinic.

“Social justice is not about formulas and it’s not about labels.” Cycon said, noting that a number of organizations adopt the fair- trade label largely for marketing purposes.

“Social justice is a process that can be effectuated and manifested in any form. I just chose business because ... it’s the largest engine of activity in this planet. It’s the nastiest, and if businesses don’t change the fundamental way that they behave, we’re down the tube,” he said.

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Staf f Editorial

Diamonds and coal A flat, extra-shiny diamond to the guy checking himself out in the BioMed Center windows on our front page Wednesday. We’re sure the professors behind the windows envied those stunna shades.

Coal to Wi-Fi in the whole SciLi. That wireless proximity will kill off our productivity.

A diamond to Brian Casey, former assistant provost, for being chosen as the next pwesident of DePauw University.

Coal to Mike Huckabee who, when confronted with the fact that it is mathematically impossible for him to win the Republican presidential nomination, retorted that he “majored in miracles, not math.” In this town, Mike, we prefer to say “concentrated,” thank you very much.

An interminable diamond to Associate Dean of Biological Sciences Marjorie Thompson ’74 PhD’79 P’02 P’07 P’09, for her broad musical and academic talents — and for having possibly the longest title we’ve ever printed.

OK, fine; as long as we’re at it, a rambling diamond to former Rhode Island Senator and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies Lincoln Chafee ’75, too.

A cubic zirconium to Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron to help with the cost of boosting advising. We know you asked for a diamond, but we took it down a notch. As you said, “of course, you always ask for a lot more than what you get,” anyway.

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Coal to the student who compared living on Wriston Quadrangle to living in New York City. Does this make Cooking House Hell’s Kitchen?

Against our better judgment, a diamond to Bill O’Reilly. The Factor recapped Yale’s Sex Week last night, but naturally, it’s the Sex Power God footage that O’Reilly showed. What, Bill, ran out of falafel?

Coal to hostile intruders, toxic chemicals and natural disasters. You’re to blame for University officials waking us up yesterday — at noon.

Diamond to the University to help pay off the 35,000 cents it spent sending out 7,000 emergency system text messages.

Coal to the flu. And “audio terrorism.”

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Energy efficient light bulbs must be handled with care To the Editor: The energy efficient light bulbs found nearly unanimously over Brown’s campus are a welcomed presence.

More light, less energy — a perfect formula. However, we should all be aware that we do need to be careful with these bulbs. In short, don’t break them. If you do, you might have to deal with mercury poisoning at levels that put tuna fish to shame. (An average bulb has five mg of mercury, while tuna has 60 micrograms per an average serving of six ounces, meaning these light bulbs have about 100 times more mercury than the fish.) Due to the high levels of hazardous waste within the bulbs, they should also be disposed of properly. I’m sure that many people aren’t aware (I know I certainly wasn’t until recently) of the dangers that simply throwing them into the trash can pose.

With that said, the environmental benefits of the light bulbs are astounding — you could hardly ask for better than 50 to 80% less energy usage while getting the same light output. But breaking one of them requires you to leave the room for at least 20 minutes, wipe the shards up with a wet rag, put them in a plastic bag and then recycle them. And there’s no guarantee that you won’t have missed some of the glass.

All in all, let’s just be careful. I’d hate to see these bulbs lose status because of complications regarding the waste within them. Hopefully Brown will give students a way to recycle the bulbs as Facilities Management does for faculty members.

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Correction An article in last Tuesday’s Herald (“Segall ‘01 makes House bid,” Feb. 26) incorrectly stated that, if Joshua Segall ’01 wins the election, he would be the only alum serving in Congress. Daniel Maffei ‘90 is also running for Congress in the 2008 elections in New York’s 25th Congressional District.

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The biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen

BY WILLIAM MARTIN Guest Columnist A critical element of Hillary Clinton’s pitch to primary voters has been her political toughness and acumen, her supposedly peerless ability to weather criticism and run an effective campaign. Given the negligible differences between her policies and those of Barack Obama, this is a powerful appeal: Voters in the Democratic primaries are increasingly looking ahead to the general elections and considering the need to defeat John McCain.

Clinton would have us believe she’s the best person for that task. “I’m tested and I’m proven,” she told a New Hampshire audience shortly before winning the state. “Anybody that we nominate is going to be thrown right into that blaze, the inferno known as the general election ... The fact that I’ve been through the fires makes it far less likely that they are going to be able to do to me what they tend to do to anybody we nominate.”

As a matter of fact, Clinton’s seasoned political team has repeatedly demonstrated its incompetence, and the senator herself is largely to blame. One of the most notable examples is the involvement of public relations guru Mark Penn as Clinton’s chief strategist.

Penn has been the architect of numerous failed strategies employed by the Clinton team.

First, he counseled reliance upon the aura of inevitability that his candidate possessed at one time, simultaneously compounding voter dissatisfaction and lulling the campaign into a false sense of premature victory. As a result, Obama was able to launch a strong challenge for the nomination while the Clinton machine ignored him.

Second, even as polls and focus groups revealed that Clinton needed to appear more

likable and human, Penn advised her to rely on cold recitation of facts, figures and policies.

Clinton’s show of emotion on the eve of the New Hampshire primary was one of the most effective maneuvers of her entire campaign, but it was precisely the kind of display Penn had hoped to prevent.

Finally, Penn was one of the chief advisers who called for the release of blatantly false attack ads against Obama — a move that introduced unprecedented vitriol into a previously civil contest and tarnished the reputations of all involved. The campaign distributed literature accusing Obama of being covertly anti-choice, based on a vote of “present” he had registered on an abortion bill before the

sailable aura of integrity, attacking on baseless grounds will just make them seem like the villains. Nevertheless, Penn has retained his post, and has seen his influence diminish only slightly despite his repeated failures.

Not every member of Clinton’s inept inner circle has been so lucky. Earlier this month, her campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle resigned — forced out, according to campaign staff, after a long history of mismanagement.

During Clinton’s 2000 Senate campaign, Solis Doyle somehow managed to spend a whopping $30 million on the race. Any capable politician would have let her go immediately, but Clinton allowed her to stay on and run her presidential campaign, where Solis Doyle

Clinton’s seasoned political team has repeatedly demonstrated its incompetence, and the senator herself is largely to blame.

Illinois State Senate. As it turned out, he had made that vote at the behest of Planned Parenthood. Other advertisements lashed Obama for recognizing the Republicans’ unearned image as the “party of ideas” and attempted to tie him to conservative policies he has consistently disavowed.

Clinton, Penn and the other major figures in the campaign may have convinced themselves that these distortions are part of the hard-headed approach that’s necessary to achieve victory. But if they get a chance to go head to head with McCain and his nearly unas-

became notorious for ignoring donors and advisors.

Clinton’s campaign is now free from Solis Doyle’s extravagant ineptitude, but it’s still riddled with negligence. Last week, it was revealed that the Clinton campaign hadn’t registered a full list of delegate candidates for the Pennsylvania primary, one of the large upcoming contests that it’s counting on winning.

Thanks to arcane party rules, this sloppiness won’t cost her directly, but it proves once more that the Clinton team is simply unqualified to wage a general campaign.

And then there’s Bill. Initially, the Clinton team intended to sideline the former president, invoking the memory of “the fat years of Bill” without giving him any chance to overshadow his wife. In easy hindsight, this looks brilliant. But the Clinton campaign failed to rein in Slick Willy, and the result has been a real mess. He has alienated journalists, belittled black voters and twisted Obama’s words again and again, essentially echoing the wildly inaccurate smear campaign that Penn championed.

Supposedly, this is all excusable: Bill is rushing to his wife’s defense just like any loyal hubby would. He’s just a little overzealous, that’s all. But by Hillary’s own admission, the criticism the Democrats toss at each other during the primary is nothing compared to the excoriation the winner will endure during the general election. Bill has been whipped into a frenzy simply by Obama’s mild criticism of Hillary’s legislative record, and the result has been disastrous. It’s hard to imagine the damage he’ll do when his wife is once again in the crosshairs of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.

None of this makes a Clinton-McCain contest in November a foregone conclusion. But Clinton’s record of repeated blunders certainly belies her claims of battle-tested political ability, and makes her a questionable choice for anyone worried about the possibility of a McCain presidency. Fortunately, Democratic voters are a lot smarter than Clinton and her campaign have given them credit for. Exit polls from Obama’s recent Wisconsin win favored him as the candidate most likely to win in November. When Rhode Island Democrats go to the polls on March 4, they would do well to exercise the same skepticism and foresight.

William Martin ’10 is just a little overzealous

In defense of the Minority Peer Counselor program

BY Matt Aks Guest Columnist The Herald recently reported that Annalisa Wilde’s ’11 application to become the first white Minority Peer Counselor had not been accepted (“Wilde’s ’11 bid to become first white MPC falls short for now,” Feb. 27).

The article showed that Wilde’s motives were genuine, that she had at least some qualifications and that her effort was courageous. I certainly do not think Wilde deserves to be criticized for applying. However, I am somewhat bothered by the scorn that the MPC program has received as a result. Two letters to the editor published the following day struck me as shortsighted and unfair to the MPC program. While it is unclear whether the Third World Center took Wilde’s race into account when considering her application, the MPC program should be afforded a great deal of autonomy in selecting its counselors — and could justifiably use race as a criterion.

Both letters to the editor tried to portray an exclusive MPC program as self-contradictory. The authors implied that by focusing specifically on historically marginalized groups, these programs merely reinforce the boundaries that history has constructed. And the authors held that by excluding certain groups from participation, these programs practice the very thing they seek to combat — discrimination. One of the letters went so far as to equate the use of race as a criterion for an MPC position to the segregated bathrooms of the Jim Crow south.

The views expressed in these letters rely

on an impoverished understanding of both histor y and present realities. The United States’ greatest advancements in social justice have only occurred in the past fifty years, and the preceding periods were marked by vast inequalities and injustices. It should go without saying that the United States is far from a just society today, and that many forms of discrimination based on ethnic background, gender and sexual orientation continue. This systemic discrimination

to claim resources or positions traditionally allotted to members of historically marginalized groups. I am certainly sympathetic to the causes the program attempts to advance. But I did not apply to become an MPC because, given my background as a white male, I understand that I would lack credibility with many of the students I would be expected to advise. This fact is not “insulting and demeaning to students of color,” as one letter suggested, but reflects a more realistic

While it is unclear whether the Third World Center took Wilde’s race into account when considering her application, the MPC program should be afforded a great deal of autonomy in selecting its counselors — and could justifiably use race as a criterion. posed, and continues to pose, a major threat to the collective identities of certain groups.

Programs that seek to foster group identities among these marginalized communities are certainly a logical and fair response.

Moreover, it is critical to remember that what makes the MPC program unique is that the counselors occupy a position of authority within the University. One can be deeply committed to social justice and still be reluctant

understanding of the role of an MPC. I have never been the victim of a serious instance of racial discrimination. It would be more “insulting and demeaning” to assume I could effectively counsel minority students.

Similarly, as a Jew I would not show up at a Catholic confessional, climb into the side of the booth reser ved for the priest, and expect people to start pouring out their sins. Certainly, if a Catholic friend wanted

to speak to me about an issue in his or her life, I would listen attentively and offer the best advice I could. But it is naive to suggest that cross-cultural understanding is somehow prevented because the discussion took place in a dorm room, and not a confessional booth. In order to be a good citizen in a diverse society, one need not feel compelled to integrate every single culturally homogenous institution.

Diversity flourishes when individual identities are respected and celebrated.

Homogenous institutions are not always automatically antithetical to the goal of diversity. These institutions can give people positive reinforcement and assurance that allows them to be proud and forthright about their identities when they encounter people of different backgrounds. Insofar as the MPC program allows members of minority groups to feel more comfortable on campus, it facilitates diversity.

The MPC program deserves a great deal of deference in deciding whom it selects as its counselors. If it is concerned that a white MPC would struggle to connect with an array of minority students, or that the precedent of allowing a white MPC would undermine the program as a whole, then I respect that decision. I furthermore trust that MPCs are deeply committed to a diverse and just campus, and that they fully consider the implications of their decisions when choosing new counselors. To liken the exclusivity of the MPC program to the Jim Crow south strikes me as absurd, and trivializes the important work that MPCs do.

Matt Aks ’11 is applying to be a WMJPC (White Male Jewish Peer Counselor)

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Friday, February 29, 2008

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD

After burnout, Garland ’10 returns with new fervor

By Meagan Garza Contributing Writer

Last weekend, as the Bears suffered lopsided losses to Wake Forest and Davidson, Sam Garland ’09 was a bright spot.

With some extra pep in his step, Garland tried to coach his teammates on the fine line between fun and frustration, a lesson he learned last year when he decided to step down from the men’s tennis team for an entire year.

Walking through the Van Wickle Gates in August of 2005, Garland was excited to play tennis for the Bears.

Entering as a No. 17 nationallyranked tennis player, Garland was a vital addition to the team, picking up two Ivy League-clinching matches in his first year against Columbia and Yale that propelled the team to its second consecutive Ivy Championship honors.

Immeasurable success for Garland came quickly, but was anticlimactic. He stopped looking for ways to improve, and began to lose his passion for the game. This led to his decision to leave the Ivy League Championship team his sophomore year.

After a year-long break where he picked up a racquet a mere four

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times, Garland aided Assistant Coach Jamie Gresh in a children’s tennis camp over the summer of 2007.

There, his love and passion for the game slowly began to resurface.

Having been out of practice for the longest time since he started playing at age seven, Garland had a tough time keeping pace at tryouts this past fall, but his newfound determination helped him speed past the walk-ons and reclaim his spot on the Bruno team.

“When he came back for preseason, I think ever yone raised their level of play,” said teammate Noah Gardner ’09. “You could tell how happy he was to be back, and that was the best part of seeing him out there.”

Garland has been through a lot of emotional turmoil with the tennis team these past couple of years.

As a child, Garland played non-stop tennis. He trained at numerous academies in his home state of Florida, aided his high school team to multiple state championships and topped the charts at No. 7 in the state for his individual play. As his senior year of high school began, the initial signs of burnout began to surface and Garland sought other areas to unleash continued on page 9

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Sam Garland’s ’10 return to the tennis court has given the men’s team a big boost in its bid for a third Ivy League title in four years.

On her way to first, Alevi ’10 gets revenge with her saber

By Anne Deggelman Contributing Writer

Randy Alevi ’10 is skilled with the saber, the fastest of the three fencing styles. As a result, Alevi has helped lead the Brown fencing team to victor y throughout the season.

Alevi, named Second Team AllIvy earlier this season, became the first Brown fencer ever to finish first in the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships last weekend, the oldest collegiate fencing tournament. On Wednesday, Alevi was named First Team All-Northeast Fencing Conference for the 2007-08 season.

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For her success, Alevi has earned an equally impressive honor: She is now also The Herald’s Athlete of the Week.

Herald: You were recently the first Brown fencer to come in first place at the IFA Championships – How did that feel?

ATHLETE OF Alevi: It was cool. It doesn’t give me any advantage in (the NCAA) Regionals, but it’s good momentum. (Laughs). I hope this doesn’t jinx me.

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There are three weapons in fencing — the epee, the foil, and the saber. I do the saber. For each weapon, we have three starters, so nine starters total. The starting lineup of our team goes against the starters of another team. There are 27 matches total, so whoever gets THE WEEK 14 (wins) first wins. Some tournaments are based off of individual events, like this one I just won, and Regionals and championships.

In those, they look at individual records and figure out how the teams score overall, like in swimming or tennis.

What were your expectations for this tournament?

I came in really carefree — I was thinking more about Regionals coming up. I just showed up and fenced. I really didn’t expect to come this far. It was a long day.

We started at 9 a.m. and finished at 8 p.m. It was pretty cool though, a big highlight. Last year, I finished in the top eight, I think fifth. But I got knocked out last year by a girl that I beat this year to make it to the top four.

Were you aware that this was the first time any Brown continued on page 8

In the midst of many painful hours spent studying for my organic chemistry exam, I was able to reserve a few minutes the other night to catch up on some Jeff Boyd Spor tsCenter Boyd’s Void and check in on my favorite NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks.

For a fleeting moment I was pretty excited to see that the Mavs were only two games out of the top spot in the West, until I realized that this was only good enough to earn them the sixth seed in the conference.

That’s right, sixth. In fact, the top nine teams in the Western Conference, one of which will unfortunately miss the playoffs, are separated by a mere six games.

Meanwhile, teams with losing records in the East, like Philadelphia and New Jersey, sit comfortably in playoff spots, 19 games out of first.

While I’m both interested and anxious to watch the playoff picture unfold, watching basketball this season has crushed the hope I recently had about an Eastern Conference revival. With the emergence of young superstars like LeBron James, Dwayne Wade and Dwight Howard, on top of the acquisition of Kevin Garnett, it appeared that the East was on the verge of leveling the playing field. But the overall trend of difference-makers heading West has kept the balance of power west of the Mississippi.

But who or what is responsible for this disparity between the conferences? The recent blockbuster trades that have sent the likes of Shaquille O’Neal and Jason Kidd (thanks, New Jersey!) to Western Conference powerhouses has led me to believe that perhaps the problem is simply a depletion of talent in the East and a consolidation of superstars in the West.

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Winter sport athletes pick up awards Bruno sports racked several awards this past weekend, as winter teams are rounding into form in the season’s homestretch.

Women’s hockey captain Hayley Moore ’08 was selected to the All-Ivy First Team for her outstanding season. She had 13 goals and 15 assists in her senior season, giving her 130 points for her Brown career. She is now in eighth place in Bears points history. Moore was also named First Team All-Ivy in her sophomore season, when she scored 25 goals and had 18 assists.

This week, Moore — who had never missed a game in her collegiate career — was also selected to compete in the Frozen Four Skills Challenge on April 11 in Denver. The competition is in its third year and includes only players who, as seniors, have just finished their collegiate careers.

Moore was joined on the All-Ivy team by goalie and Herald Contributing Writer Nicole Stock ’09, who earned Second Team honors.

Stock’s 1,004 saves this season marked the first time any Bear has gone over the 1,000-save marker. Like Moore, Stock has been durable and is in the midst of a 38-game consecutive start streak.

Gymnast Jennifer Sobuta ’09 received the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association’s Coach’s Choice award this week for her showing last weekend at the Ivy Classic. Sobuta has been the gymnastics team’s top performer all season, and proved that again on Sunday by leading the Bears in three different categories. Sobuta came in first on the uneven bars, tied for ninth on the vault, and placed second in the all around with a total score of 37.950.

— Jason Harris

Ashley Hess / Herald File Photo

Women’s hockey goalie Nicole Stock ’09 was named Second Team All-Ivy for her role as the anchor on the Brown defense. Stock broke the Brown record for saves in a game, 66, in a game against Mercyhurst this season.