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BSR up for mtvU ‘Woodie’

An era ends: Miko closed for good Owner cites ‘mismanagement’

By Alexandra Ulmer Staf f Writer

Video may have killed the radio star, but mtvU is paying homage to one small radio station that rents its air space from the Wheeler School and only broadcasts over the air for 10 hours a day — Brown Student and Community Radio has been nominated as one of the country’s best campus radio stations for mtvU’s fifth annual college music awards, the Woodies. Listeners can vote for their favorite station at mtvU’s Web site until Nov. 7. But voting for BSR is only open until Oct 6., and the college television network will announce the winner out of the 20 nominated stations on Nov. 12. “I think we have a shot, if we can get the word out,” BSR Station Manager John McGarry ’10 said, upon being told of the nomination by The Herald. “We’ve always thought of ourselves as a good station.”

By Nandini Jayakrishna Metro Editor

A locked door, a dark, almost bare interior and a large sign reading “Space for Lease” in red letters. Today, that’s all that greets visitors and customers to what was once Wickenden Street’s popular sex store, Miko Exoticwear. The shop closed this July after

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Vanessa Adams ’08 and Jenny Weissbourd ’08.5 pause while hosting “One Man’s Trash” in the BSR studio this summer.

Panel on U.S.-Russian relations draws crowd of 100 By Sydney Ember Contributing Writer

A panel of five scholars gathered on Monday afternoon to discuss U.S.-Russian policy in light of the recent war in Georgia and Kosovo’s declaration of independence earlier this year. The forum, entitled “Georgia and Kosovo: A New Cold War,” sought to answer a wide range of questions concerning the deterio-

ration of American relations with Russia. Despite inclement weather, nearly 100 students and faculty came to MacMillan 117 for the forum, which marked the start of the Watson Institute for International Studies’ project on Nuclear Dilemmas in the 21st Century. Panel members spoke at length about NATO and the meaning of self-determination for states as it

Sexual health at Brown rises in Trojan ranks By Matthew Varley Higher Ed Editor

Grade point averages may be taboo on Brown’s campus, but this year the University has a 3.31 according to a decidedly non-academic source — the makers of Trojan condoms. Brown ranks 17th out of 139 U.S. colleges and universities in the third annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card, which surveys resources and services available to students. The University moved up 22 places from 2007, when it was ranked 39th. With a 3.50 GPA as calculated by the report card, Stanford University claimed the top spot in the rankings after placing 41st last year, though the school was ranked number four in 2006. Among Ivy League schools, Columbia and Cornell beat Brown to rank second and third in the survey, respectively. “Ivy Leaguers love to be on top,

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After Tannenwald introduced the panel, each member spoke about different aspects of the conflict in Georgia and Kosovo’s recent declaration of independence. “I want to start by saying that whatever happens between Russia and the European nations and the United States, whatever it may be, it will not be a cold war,” said Ab-

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and we’re not talking just academics,” Trojan said on its Web site. According to a Trojan press release, many students surveyed across the country said their health centers had improved over the past year, but a third of students said “they would not contact their health centers with questions about sexual health.” Laurel Foglia ’08.5, who was an M-Sex facilitator in the fall of 2007, said the University “can always do more” to provide sexual education and resources to students. For example, while Foglia said it is “pretty easy to make an appointment and go” for tests for sexually transmitted infections on campus, she added that Health Services could do more to advertise its programs. Foglia also said vending machines that sell condoms, like the one in the gender-neutral bathroom

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relates to Kosovar independence. They agreed that relations between the United States and Russia are deteriorating. Though the forum was not explicitly concerned with nuclear weapons, Nina Tannenwald, one of the co-leaders of the project and the forum’s moderator, said before the event that nuclear issues would inevitably come up because the forum concerned U.S. and Russian relations.

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A study abroad fair on the Main Green Monday showcased options for students hoping to spend time learning away from College Hill.

BYe Bye Bikes DPS cracks down on bicycle corpses abandoned on walkways, with the disabled in mind

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Teen Moms Now Trendy Adrienne Langlois ‘10 asks that students evaluate Sarah Palin’s position on sex education

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a “mismanagement” of funds by the store’s manager — who had quit shortly before then — made it impossible for the business to remain open, owner Jeff Gellman told The Herald. Gellman said that some bills that he thought had been paid had, in fact, not been paid — what he called a “side-effect” of mishandling and not a cause. “You delegate someone to run the company and they’re not paying the bills,” he said. “It was mismanaged.” Gellman first started Miko in 1993 on North Main Street, selling lingerie, sex toys, gifts, books, videos and accessories. Last year he decided to move the store to 268 Wickenden St. — a location with a better layout and greater proximity to Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. College Hill students made up almost 30 percent of the store’s customers, The Herald reported in March 2007. Apart from being a store, Miko also included a resource center where classes and workshops were held to promote healthy sexuality. Gellman acknowledged that after the business moved to its new location he made the mistake of not paying enough attention to it, giving the manager free rein. In early July, after the manager left on very short notice, Gellman said he and the shop’s full-time employees discovered that their health insurance had expired almost two months ago. Upon delving deeper, Gellman said he saw that the business’s expenses were far exceeding its revenues. “As much as we want to do well for the community and change the landscape for masturbation and sex in Providence, we have to earn a profit,” he said, adding that he, his wife and six children are still without health insurance. The store’s closing came as a rude surprise to its workers. Megan Andelloux, a certified sexuality educator and consultant, who conducted classes and workshops at Miko, said the store’s closing was unfortunate both for its continued on page 4

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Green jobs for R.I. discussed at forum By Nandini Jayakrishna Metro Editor

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Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., with Harrison Kreisberg ’10 and Max Chaiken’09 in Cranston.

Biden speaks at Cranston fundraiser Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., spoke to more than 200 guests at the Alpine Country Club in Cranston on Thursday. The private fundraiser for the Obama Victory Fund was thrown by the Rhode Island Democratic Party, which allowed the Brown Democrats to bring along 40 students, free of charge. No word was released on how much money the event raised, but donors were asked to contribute a minimum of $1,000 and a maximum of $28,500 — the most a private donor can contribute to a national political party per calendar year. In addition to the collegians and donors, the event attracted a number of higher-ups in the Rhode Island political scene. Lt. Governor Elizabeth Roberts ’78, Attorney General Patrick Lynch ’87 and Speaker of the House of Representatives William Murphy were in attendance, according to Brown Democrats President Harrison Kreisberg ’10. Biden spoke at length about challenges the campaign would face and the importance of voting for Sen. Barack Obama, said Max Chaiken ’09, deputy field officer for the Rhode Island for Obama campaign, president of Brown Students for Barack Obama and a Herald opinions columnist. “It was part stump speech, part call to action,” Chaiken said. “Even though it seems Barack is ahead in some of the polls, that’s no reason to stop working hard.” Kreisberg said he got a chance to speak briefly with Biden, who expressed enthusiasm and gratitude for the amount of student involvement in the campaign in Rhode Island. — Simon van Zuylen-Wood

Students canvass for Obama in N.H. While most Brown students were dozing, shielded from the heavy rain, 60 Brown Students for Obama gathered at Hope High School early Saturday morning for a canvassing trip to Nashua, N.H. Seventy-two volunteers from Brown, Providence College and Roger Williams University headed up the interstate for one of several national Students for Obama weekends, according to Brown Democrats President Harrison Kreisberg ’10. The goal during such weekends is to canvass door-to-door in highly contested “battleground states” such as Ohio, Florida and what the Obama campaign has labeled Rhode Island’s sister-state, New Hampshire, according to Max Chaiken ’09, deputy field officer for the Rhode Island for Obama campaign, president of Brown Students for Barack Obama and a Herald opinions columnist. Students were given a brief canvassing training before they started knocking on doors. Each student was given a “walk list” of 75 to 100 doors, Chaiken told The Herald, adding that the students got information about the voters they were going to contact. “They are either Democrats who have yet to say who they’re going to vote for (or) independents or moderate Republicans who might have an inclination to be more moderate or not vote for (Republican Presidential Nominee John) McCain.” Chaiken said canvassing was by far the most effective way of reaching voters. “There is a study out that said for every 12 contacts made door-todoor, one (prospective voter) who would not have voted for (a given candidate) is swayed,” Chaiken said. Canvassers who try to start conversations with the voters generally experience more positive responses than negative ones. “There are always people who say ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’” Chaiken said. — Simon van Zuylen-Wood

WARWICK — A key solution to Rhode Island’s economic struggles is increasing awareness of and investing in more “green” jobs for the state’s residents, according to a panel of local experts who gathered at the New England Institute of Technology Saturday. The forum, which attracted almost 100 people from all over the state, including Providence Mayor David Cicilline ’83, was one of several hundred events organized around the country as part of Green Jobs Now, a nonprofit, nonpartisan national day of action spearheaded by environmental groups such as Green For All, 1Sky and the We Campaign. Saturday’s panel, comprised of economists, educators and others passionate about environmental issues, discussed the need to reduce demand for traditional sources of energy and educate the state’s youth about renewable energy technology. Part of the task is to convince consumers and legislators that embracing renewable energy will help create jobs, especially for low-income groups, and will prove healthier and more profitable in the long run, said Joseph Ilaqua, professor of economics at Br yant University. “Green jobs are really not that different from (the jobs) people

have or had before they lost them,” he said. At the start of the event, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., addressed the audience in a short satellite message from Washington, emphasizing his commitment to bringing more green jobs to the state. “I envision a new green economy beckoning us, creating new industries and millions of new jobs to fuel America’s growth and prosperity in the future,” a smiling Whitehouse said. Panelists suggested that possible green jobs in the state include retrofitting existing buildings in the state to make them more energy efficient, installing white roofs that reflect certain types of radiation to help cool the earth and repairing hybrid and electric cars. Steven Kitchin, vice president of corporate education and training at NEIT, said high school graduates, members of various ethnic groups and inmates at the Adult Correctional Institutions must be trained in green technology. “We have to increase our ability to get people to participate in the labor force,” Kitchin said. Many attendees inter viewed by The Herald said the event was successful in kicking off a dialogue about the need to “go green,” policy initiatives and potential challenges in the path of switching over to non-traditional sources of energy. Visiting Assistant Professor of

Mathematics Jessica Millar said she had discovered a new community of like-minded, environmentally conscious people at the event. Millar, who ser ves on Barrington’s Committee for Renewable Energy, said she was able to share her passion for wind energy with several people she met at the event. In the future, she said she might work with some of those people on environmental projects. The event was “a good combination of the practical and the philosophical,” said Keally Dewitt ’04.5, a marketing associate at Solar Wrights, which installs efficient renewable energy systems, including photovoltaic, solar-thermal and wind systems in New England. Dewitt said the knowledge and awareness of green technology in the state must spread from traditional sources — from Brown and other leading institutions — and from independent and nonprofit organizations. Matthew Soursourian ’08, an Urban Studies concentrator who works as a policy associate for Cicilline, said the event energized those who are passionate about environmental issues. Soursourian said young people who come from different educational backgrounds and interests can play a part in helping make Rhode Island greener. “This is the future,” he said. “It’s the next dot-com-type industr y.”

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In Trojan’s war for safe sex, Brown ranks 17th continued from page 1 in Faunce, should be installed in residence halls. According to the Trojan Web site, the “addition of an electronic student opinion poll which allowed students to grade their schools” this year “resulted in a significant rankings shake up.” The survey, which also considered STD and HIV testing ser vices, condom and contraception availability and sexual assault programs in determining the rankings, was conducted by Sperling’s BestPlaces, an independent research firm. The ranking initiative is part of Trojan’s Evolve Campaign, which asserts that “there’s a sexual health crisis happening right here in America” and aims to reverse high rates of STD infection and unplanned pregnancy in the U.S.

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BSR scores in MTV’s top 20 college stations continued from page 1 The award is the first-ever Woodie honoring college radios. According to an mtvU statement, the stations were judged based on the College Media Journal College Radio Awards, Princeton Review Nominations and independent questionnaires. Stations were nominated for “breaking the latest, emerging music (and) acting as pioneers in the industry,” and also for “championing artists before they achieve mainstream success,” the statement said. “Brown’s radio station, BSR, is an example of just that,” mtvU spokesperson Janice Gatti wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. “BSR is great in that it gives listeners a

diverse mixture of music across genres and also brings a steady stream of live music to listeners.” The creativity of BSR’s 50 shows is being rewarded, McGarry said. “You can do anything and everything — storytelling and stuf f you heard in the 1930s.” Music styles aired on the station range from jazz to classical to hiphop, he added. McGarry pointed to the regular Monday night show “Crossroads,” a historical look at blues and folk, and the Wednesday night show “Bike Talk,” hosted by bicycle enthusiasts including some employees of The Hub, a bike shop on Brook Street, as examples of BSR’s originality in features.

Publicity Director Megan Goetsch ’09 has already begun to encourage voting, especially via Facebook and MySpace. “Hopefully the Brown community will support us, as well as the Providence community,” she said. “It is really exciting. It’s great to know that our work is being appreciated,” Goetsch added. Launched in 1997, BSR rents time from the 88.1 FM frequency owned by the Wheeler School. It broadcasts over the air from Faunce House every day between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m, though it airs online 24 hours a day. The award show will air on mtvU on Nov. 19. Last year, 5 million students voted, according to the mtvU statement.

Miko staffers may start nonprofit sex shop continued from page 1 workers and the community. “It wasn’t just the employees losing their jobs,” she said. “Miko

has been an institution that meant something.” In an effort to replace it, Andelloux said she and a fellow employee are looking to open a nonprofit

feminist sex shop — the first of its kind in the countr y — near campus by mid-February. Still, Miko’s loyal patrons said they were terribly disappointed that the store no longer exists. “I was devastated when I found out,” said Amy Littlefield ’09, former post- sex columnist and Female Sexuality Workshop facilitator. “It was a really special place and it’s so sad that it’s gone.” Littlefield said FemSex participants are most upset because Miko, unlike other sex stores, embraced sex education as its mission. The group also took a field trip to the store as part of its class on sex toys. “Miko really worked hard to ensure that ever yone was using the toys safely,” Littlefield said. “Now we don’t know what we’re going to do. We might go to another store in Boston but Miko was a part of Femsex in a way.” But Littlefield, who discovered Miko during her first year at Brown, does see a small ray of hope. “I’ll probably save some money,” she said with a laugh. Littlefield guessed that she spent more than $300 at the store over the course of her Brown career. Like Littlefield, Hilary Emma, a Pawtucket resident walking down Wickenden Street, seemed shocked that the store no longer existed. “Yeah, what the hell is that about?” she said when asked how she felt, adding that she misses “the lady-friendly porn shop.” Miko’s neighbors interviewed by The Herald said they miss the store, too. “It’s unfortunate,” said Michael Boissoneault, manager of Black Lotus Tattoo Studio next door. “Everybody over there was really cool. Any time a small business like that goes under it sucks.” But Gellman has decided to move on. Putting the 15-year-old business behind him, he is now focusing on his dog training business, Solid K9 Training, full-time and has no plans to reopen Miko at a different location. “I’m done buying and selling,” he said. “I’ve found a new passion and I’m going with it.”

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U.S.-Russian relations on the table at Watson discussion continued from page 1 bott Gleason, adjunct professor at the Watson Institute and a professor emeritus of Russian history. Douglas Blum, professor of international relations at Providence College and adjunct professor of International Relations at the Watson Institute, spoke about the historical basis for current Russian military action in Georgia. He said that this action reestablished Russia as a world superpower, putting “the United States right back in its place.” Catherine McArdle Kelleher, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute, discussed the recent problems facing Russia. She said Russia is particularly important because of the upcoming presidential election in the U.S. The increasing tensions on Russia’s southern border and NATO’s expansion are “the political stew that will confront the new American president,” Kelleher said, drawing the discussion back to the U.S. Nikolas Gvosdev, a professor of national security studies at the U.S. Naval War College, also shared arguments for and against the inclusion of Georgia in NATO. Though he said that the United States was in favor of including Georgia in the alliance, he also claimed that the assumption that the U.S. can unilaterally add members to the alliance no longer holds. NATO is in for “a very tough season ahead as it tries to figure out what its purpose is,” he said, referring to the controversy over whether to include more Eastern European countries like Ukraine. The panel also answered questions from the audience regarding Russian economic interests, Israeli-Russian relations and whether recognition of Kosovo’s independence will have a domino effect in the region, among other issues. “We have learned now that spheres of influence are not dead. At the same time, claims of self-determination may be reinvigorated,” Tannenwald said at the end of the forum as the audience loudly applauded the panel. After the forum, Anna Matejcek ’12, who is from the Czech Republic, said she wished “that the speakers had more different views,” though she also praised the panel for focusing on the increasing tension rather than on a potential cold war. Tannenwald said before the event that the Nuclear Dilemmas in the 21st Century project — a joint effort between Tannenwald, Kelleher and Senior Fellow in International Studies Sue Eckert — would attempt to reexamine the current nuclear world order. The leaders hope to offer courses, public lectures, conferences and films in order to educate the community about the future course of nuclear proliferation. “I don’t think it’s going to be a return of the old Cold War, but we’re in a moment when the United States has not been paying as much attention to Russia and Russian interests as possibly it should have,” Tannenwald said. “And so I think there’s a whole set of questions about what the future of U.S. relations with Russia is going to be,” she added. She added that forums like this serve to inform the public about the effects of U.S.-Russian relations on foreign matters including energy policy and self-determination of states.

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A broken bike left on a railing on campus. The Department of Public Safety and Facilities Management are trying to remove bikes attached to walkway railings that obstruct the paths of disabled students and faculty.

Bikes on walkway railings being removed BY Riley Blanton Contributing Writer

The Department of Facilities Management and the Department of Public Safety have undertaken an initiative to remove bicycles secured along walkway railings across campus, which stand in violation of Rhode Island fire safety code, according to Michelle Nuey, the manager of special services at DPS. The walkway railings outside of the Rockefeller and Sciences Libraries and Faunce House have been particularly misused, said Catherine Axe, director of Brown’s Disability Support Services, though abuse is not limited to these locations. DPS officers identify bicycles in violation of the code by marking them with red tags, which bear an explanation of the violation and a request for removal, Nuey said. Bikes that are not removed by their owners

are documented and taken away by Facilities Management. “It’s an issue of a shortage of bike racks at various locations across campus,” Nuey said, adding, “We don’t want to cut locks. Locks are expensive.” Bikes secured to railings not only violate Rhode Island fire code, but cause difficulty for disabled students and faculty who require specific walkways for access to buildings, Axe said. There have been several cases when students have been unable to access walkways. “I often hear from people: ‘This is happening to me on a repeated basis,’ ” Axe said. “You have to provide access. As a university, if that’s how we provide access, then those railings should be free of bikes.” Many students use railings to secure bikes, unaware of the potential consequences. Others say that they

are aware of interfering with traffic on the railways, but use the railings out of necessity. “I’ve had to use the railings quite a few times,” Nareg Aslanian ’11 said. Nareg and Daniel McCormack ’12 both said that space for bikes near Grad Center is frequently unavailable. Facilities Management has replaced some older bike racks with coil-shaped racks with higher capacities in response to the demand. Miller and Metcalf halls have already had the new racks installed and further construction is planned, Nuey said. Heather Johnson GS said that more space could be made in existing racks by removing abandoned bikes. Bikes missing parts and worn from long exposure to inclement weather that are “visibly abandoned,” are being removed as a part of the initiative, Nuey said.

Screening commemorates Burma protests By Isabel Gottlieb News Editor

The PBS Frontline documentar y “Burma: State of Fear” aired in Salomon 001 last night before an audience of about 20 people, followed by a question-and-answer session with Burmese writer and this year’s International Writers Project fellow Ma Thida. The event capped off a week of events recognizing the one-year anniversary of the Saffron Revolution in Burma. The documentary, which originally aired Oct. 31, 2006, features journalist Evan Williams traveling with a guerrilla Burmese resistance army and interviewing political dissidents who oppose the oppressive militar y junta that has controlled Burma since 1962. The film opens with Williams traveling across the Thai border into Burma with the Karen National Union guerilla army. The military had traveled through the area earlier, planting land mines and burning small villages. In the last 20 years, over 3,000 villages have been destroyed by the army and over 700,000 people have fled the country, according to the documentary. The Brown Campaign for Burma, a student group that promotes information about and aid for Burma, organized the event. The

group, according to its Web site, is part of the national U.S. Campaign for Burma, which works to end the military dictatorship in Burma, now known as Myanmar under the current militar y junta. The U.S. Campaign for Burma recognizes the PBS documentary as the most accurate representation of reality in Burma today, said Libby Lucas ’08.5, co-president of the Brown chapter. The Brown Campaign for Burma organized several events over the past week to commemorate the Saffron Revolution of 2007, a series of anti-government protests largely led by the countr y’s Buddhist monks and named after the color of their robes. Lucas said she was not surprised by the low attendance. “We knew it was going to be small because student attention spans only follow what’s in the New York Times,” Lucas said. “Burma is important right now in the face of globalization and the growing disparity between governments who expand in trade and countries who must for feit resources,” Lucas added. “Burma is a perfect example of why we must rethink how trade and human rights are linked and how we need to use this opportunity to improve the lives of people in the global south.”

In the documentar y, Williams also tried to get close to Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League of Democracy who was set to assume the position of prime minister after the 1990 election. She has been under house arrest in solitary confinement almost the entire time since then, and Williams was not allowed to take pictures of her house from the road or inter view many of the people in her party. Many of the political dissidents who agreed to be interviewed had recently been released from prison. But one man who spent seven years in jail as a result of an earlier interview with Williams said he did not regret doing the interview, and thanked Williams for the opportunity to let the world know about the mistreatment and torture in Burmese prisons. One graphic segment of the movie showed the body of a political dissident who had been beaten to death by a “government mob” while walking on the street, and had stitches and bruises all across his face and head. After the movie, Thida answered questions about the gas pipeline that runs through the southeastern part of the country, Myanmar’s relationship with Thailand, India and China, and the government’s continued on page 6

Brown Dining Services recently added a pasta-and-sauce option to the daily menu at the Sharpe Refectory because of “popular demand” from students. This year, the Tastes of the World menu replaced the Trattoria menu, which in the past featured pasta every day. According to the Dining Services Web site, pasta was added to the Bistro line on Monday. Though some Tastes of the World lines offer pasta, pasta has Steve DeLucia / Herald been brought back as a perma- Pasta-and-sauce is back for good. nent fixture at the Ratty. Claire Sidla, director of residential dining, wrote in an e-mail provided to The Herald, “Pasta has been added to the menu for each day (on line D, the Bistro line) ... due to popular demand!” Students, especially those who were accustomed to the Trattoria’s pasta offerings, enthusiastically welcomed pasta’s return on the Bistro line. Carly Traub ’09, a member of the women’s crew team, remarked that she and her teammates had been upset to lose the pasta option, and called its return “awesome.” “Our diets are mostly based off pasta ... We need the carbs,” she said. The women’s crew team is not alone: A table of juniors cheered when they heard of pasta’s return. But Natan Last ’12 said that, as a freshman, he didn’t know pasta used to be a daily option, and isn’t convinced that it should be. “Pasta is not the healthiest choice. It’s better to have variety,” he said. — Anne Speyer

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After Somali pirate hijacking, U.S. bolsters Navy presence By Ellen Knickmeyer Washington Post

CAIRO, Egypt — The U.S. Navy bolstered its force of warships off Somalia on Monday, intensifying its watch over Somali pirates holding a hijacked Ukrainian-operated vessel with crew members, arms and tanks aboard. Lt. Nathan Christensen, a spokesman for the U.S. Navy 5th Fleet, said “there are now several U.S. ships” within eyesight of the hijacked ship, Faina, which according to the Kenyan government was bound for Kenya when it was seized last week. The pirates are negotiating for ransom with the vessel’s owner. Speaking by telephone from Bahrain, Christensen declined to say how exactly many other U.S. warships had joined the USS Howard, a guided-missile destroyer, off Somalia. The U.S. ships were staying in international waters off Somalia, Christensen said, while the Somali pirates kept the Faina within the 12-mile territorial bounds of Somali waters. U.S. sailors remained close enough to see the ship and had

established bridge-to-bridge contact via radio, he said. Somali pirates hijacked the Faina on Thursday, seizing its 21 Ukrainian, Russian and Lithuanian crew members and an arms cargo that included 33 T-72 tanks. Kenya said the tanks and weapons were for its militar y. Pirates have anchored the hijacked vessel a few miles off the Somali town of Hobyo. The U.S. Navy intends to maintain “a vigilant, visual watch of the ship” to make sure pirates don’t tr y to unload the tanks, ammunition and other arms aboard, Christensen WORLD said. “We’re deeply concerned about the cargo and we don’t want it to go into the wrong hands,” he said. Russia has said it is sending a warship as well. Radio France International said Monday it had spoken, apparently by cellphone, with a pirate aboard the Faina, who said at least three warships were near the hijacked ship. “Ships and troops have surrounded us,” said a man identified by RFI as pirate Sugule Ali.

He spoke in Somali. “There’s a lot of unusual movement surrounding us and planes are flying overhead. I warn anyone who might be tempted by any military operation or use of force, if we’re attacked, we’ll defend ourselves, until the last one of us dies.” The man repeated a demand for $20 million in ransom, as well as the release of the ship and the crew. Somali news media reported over the weekend that one of the hostage crew members had died. Pirates told local elders that the man died of problems NEWS related to high blood pressure, according to the Somali news reports. Somali pirates have launched what the International Maritime Bureau calls the biggest surge of piracy on modern record, attacking more than 60 vessels this year off Somalia and in the adjoining Gulf of Aden. The Gulf of Aden, which connects the Indian Ocean to the Suez Canal, is the main shipping route between Asia and the Middle East to Europe. Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991. It is wracked now by fight-

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ing between Islamist fighters and a U.S.-backed force from neighboring Ethiopia that is propping up a largely powerless Somali transitional government. The conflict already has displaced more than 1 million Somalis, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Fighting this week alone has forced at least 16,000 Somalis from their homes, the U.N. refugee agency said. Many desperate Somalis pay smugglers to ferr y them to Yemen, across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia, to escape the violence. But the smugglers typically throw the refugees overboard miles from land. Since August, the bodies of scores of Somali refugees have washed up on Yemen’s shores. On Sunday, the U.N. refugee agency confirmed the deaths of at least 52 more Somalis off Yemen. Somali smugglers had set off Sept. 3 in a ship with at least 100 refugees. The Somali vessel broke down within days, and the smugglers abandoned the drifting vessel and the people aboard, the U.N. refugee agency said in a statement.

Documentary shows life under junta continued from page 5 discouragement of higher education. In response to one audience member who asked what individuals could do about the situation in Myanmar, Thida suggested spending valuable tourism dollars at small, local businesses, rather than the state-owned luxury hotels and package tours most tourists frequent. She also warned tourists not to get the wrong impression of the countr y. “You might not see any guns, any beatings ... but it’s still very brutal there,” she said. Thida took the audience through a slide show of pictures and news clippings about her role in resisting the Myanmar regime. As she scrolled through the old photographs, she identified men and women who have since been imprisoned or murdered. Last week, Ma Thida spoke on government repression in Burma and the Brown Campaign for Burma held a Burmese food sale on the Main Green to raise money for Thirst Action, an organization working to provide clean water to people affected by Cyclone Nargis, which swept through Burma in May. The Brown Campaign for Burma is also organizing a letterwriting campaign to release a friend of Thida’s from prison and is encouraging the University not to invest in companies involved with the military junta.

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Officials worry economy will enter stagnation Candidates play blame game By Michael Fletcher and V. Dion Haynes Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The evidence is mounting: The economy is in a steep slide. Unemployment is at levels not seen in five years. Consumer spending is flat. Many of the sectors that have been fueling the tepid economic growth of the past year are beginning to flag. Exports are softening. Agricultural and other commodity prices are slipping. The question is, how long will the slide last, and how deep will

it go? Congress’s rejection Monday of a $700 billion bailout for the nation’s teetering financial system made such questions even more urgent. Lawmakers have to find an answer. “They now need to get moving or you really will have a serious drop in national income,” said Thomas Ferguson, a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. “We don’t have to rescue Wall Street, but we do have to get credit markets open. You can’t run private enterprise economies without credit. Nothing will work without that.”

Some economists worr y that the nation is in danger of slipping into a self-perpetuating cycle of tight credit, diminished confidence, reduced spending and growing unemployment that will result in a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Even relative optimists say the nation is in for nearly another year of sluggish economic activity, before the housing market hits bottom and things pick up again. “The economy is struggling, to say the least,” said Josh Feinman, chief economist for DB Advisors, Deutsche Bank’s institutional asset-management division. “This

credit crunch that we have has a vice-like grip. The arteries of credit flowing to the economy are severely constricted and we need to free them.” The government released more bad economic news Monday: Consumer spending was up less than 0.1 percent in August, the worst performance since February. That came on top of data last week showing that orders of durable goods are down and sales of new homes are plummeting. Meanwhile, tightening credit has made it harder and more excontinued on page 8

Holy shrine destination for Iraqi widows By Andrea Bruce Washington Post

SHAQLAWA, Iraq — This is the place women come to make wishes. It is a holy shrine in Irbil province, in the mountains of Kurdistan. Muslims call it Sheik Wsu Rahman; Christians know it as Raban Buya. Once a hiding place for people fleeing religious persecution, it now has a picnic area at the bottom and a steep, zigzagging path to a high cave where four women who have just made the ascent are trying to catch their breath before beginning a series of tasks. They all have wishes to make, but Ajeen Ismael, 15, is the main reason they are here. “She was married four months ago,” says Hasiba Siad, 43, Ajeen’s mother-in-law. “We want a baby boy.” Fertility is the wish of most of the shrine’s pilgrims. Nazinine Hassan, 44, slides her sheer white scarf from her head and crumples it into a ball, which quickly loosens as she tosses it into the air. The first task required at the shrine is to throw a head scarf through a natural archway in the cave. Nazinine, whose husband was killed five years ago while he was

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From left, Ajeen Ismael, Niaz Muhammed, Hasiba Siad and Nazinine Hassan hike down the Safeen mountain in Iraq’s Kurdistan region after visiting a religious shrine for good luck. The city of Shaqlawa can be seen below them.

fighting for the pesh merga, the Kurdish army, wishes for money and a way to support herself. After two tries, the scarf catches briefly on a rock, then drops down on the other side. Success. Next, the women duck into a smaller cave, slipping on the waxcovered ground. They light tall, thin candles and stick them onto a rock ledge with melting wax, then carefully leave the cave backward — the key to this second task. Niaz Muhammed, 27, leads the way, teaching Ajeen the ritual. Also a

war widow, Niaz wishes to be married again. The third step is completed only by Ajeen and is the most important one for luck in conceiving a child. She climbs to the top of an angled rock, worn smooth by decades of childless women, and lies on her stomach. Head and hands first, she slides down the rock into the arms of the three older women, who cackle and fall back under her weight. Ajeen slides down twice more without saying a word.

As their laughter dies down, all four women search for small stones on the floor of the cave. Hasiba is the most focused, almost competitive, as she looks for the 14 stones needed for the final task. Seven are thrown to a high, man-made hole on one side of the cave and seven into a hole on the opposite side, facing the entrance. Hasiba, yet another war widow, has breast cancer. Her wish is for good health, she says, before throwing a stone. And for a car.

NASA postpones Hubble telescope servicing mission By Frank Roylance Washington Post

NASA has delayed plans to launch a repair mission to the Hubble Space Telescope because an onboard computer stopped working over the weekend, officials said Monday. The mission, planned for launch Oct. 14, won’t happen until early next year at the soonest. In the meantime, the telescope is unable to transmit any science data to the ground. Engineers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., are working this week to transfer the work of Hubble’s malfunctioning science data downlink computer to a backup system. But the backup has not been tested since Hubble was launched in 1990, and it won’t be known for several days whether the transfer will restore Hubble’s science opera-

tions, said Susan Hendrix, a spokeswoman for the Hubble program at Goddard. Either way, NASA officials said, launch of the servicing mission had to be delayed while engineers assess the problems and plan for possible attempts to repair or replace the computer. Hendrix said the problem arose Saturday night when “Side A” of the telescope’s scientific data downlink computer -- called the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter -- experienced what Hendrix called a “hardware failure.” The telescope went into a “safing” mode, which also shut down the scientific instruments. Side A of the computer had been operating reliably since the observatory was launched. “There is a Side B, and they’re looking at transitioning to Side B,” Hendrix said. That would restore

the telescope’s science observations and downlinks. “They’re hoping to know something by the end of the week,” she said. NASA had planned an Oct. 14 launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on a mission to upgrade and repair Hubble. The long-awaited servicing mission is to be the final visit by astronauts to the orbiting telescope. Their goal is to extend its working life at least five years and to expand its scientific capabilities. The astronauts’ work list already includes replacement of batteries and gyroscopes, the installation of two new scientific instruments and attempts to repair two other instruments that have broken down since the last servicing mission, in 2002. Seven astronauts have been training for more than a year for the $900 million repair mission, and engineers at Goddard have

designed more than 150 tools for the four spacewalkers to use. Now mission planners will have to decide whether to ask astronauts to attempt to replace the failed computer and restore its redundancy by installing a backup that has been in storage on the ground since 1990. If they do, it would require testing for the replacement unit, as well as additional planning and training time. NASA had scheduled five seven-hour spacewalks for astronauts. This final visit to Hubble by astronauts was canceled after the loss of the shuttle Columbia and its crew in 2003. But pressure from the public, scientists and politicians eventually led NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin to reverse course. Atlantis is already on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

By Michael Shear and Dan Balz Washington Post

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Reacting to the House’s defeat of a $700 billion bailout proposal Monday, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain called on Congress to pass a new bill and then sought to blame each other for the deadlock on Capitol Hill. McCain found himself in a particularly awkward position after bragging about his role in building a coalition behind the economic rescue package Monday morning — hours before it was defeated. In a curt statement after the measure was rejected and stocks plummeted, McCain said he had “worked hard to play a constructive role” in its passage and declared that “now is not the time to fix the blame.” But McCain and his top aides then accused Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress of orchestrating the bill’s failure to embarrass McCain, even though many more House Republicans voted “no” than did Democrats. “Sen. Obama and his allies in Congress infused unnecessar y partisanship into the process,” McCain said in a statement to the media during a stop in Iowa. He took no questions. His top domestic policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, later said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for giving an overly partisan speech just before the vote. “Today, when it became clear that he was coming close to having a victory, they killed it,” Holtz-Eakin said. Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, “Today’s inaction in Congress as well as the angr y and hyperpartisan statement released by the McCain campaign are exactly why the American people are disgusted with Washington.” Yet, at a rally in Colorado, Obama highlighted his efforts to improve the plan and sought to link McCain to the economic crisis. “I read the other day that Sen. McCain likes to gamble. He likes to roll those dice. And that’s okay. I enjoy a little friendly game of poker myself every now and then,” Obama said. “But one thing I know is this — we can’t afford to gamble on four more years of the same disastrous economic policies we’ve had for the last eight.” Obama also urged lawmakers to quickly return to the table to stabilize the nation’s economy. Like McCain, Obama had offered cautious support for the measure over the weekend. “Democrats and Republicans in Washington have a responsibility to make sure an emergency rescue package is put forward that can at least stop the immediate problems that we have,” Obama said. “One of the messages I have to Congress is — get this done, Democrats. Republicans, step up to the plate.” The repercussions for the presidential campaign are uncertain and potentially dramatic as both candidates search for the right way to navigate the most severe economic crisis in decades just five weeks before Election Day.

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Bailout may only slow financial deterioration continued from page 7 pensive for many small businesses to borrow money, a process that many analysts say could accelerate with the turmoil on Wall Street. Dee Smith, who runs a small contracting firm that renovates and sells homes in Charlotte, Mich., not far from Lansing, said a bank he has dealt with for more than a decade has decided to finance a smaller share of his projects. While the bank would once give him construction loans for 80 percent of a property’s appraised value, it now will pony up only 75 percent. That might seem like small change, but Smith said it has shaken up his entire business. Because he cannot afford to put out the extra cash, he has laid off four of his six workers. Meanwhile, because of the slowdown in the housing market, he’s been unable to sell three houses that he has renovated. For now, he’s renting them out. “I’m just hanging on until things change,” he said. “But I don’t see that happening for two or three years.” Although some corporations are sitting on large sums of cash — and those with top bond ratings are enjoying favorable access to credit markets — others are paying much more for short-term loans, if they can get them at all. GMAC Financial Services has reduced its mortgage business and cut the number of U.S. auto leases it writes because of the high cost

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of borrowing money. “The cost of funds is atrocious right now,” said Toni Simonetti, GMAC’s vice president for global communications. Bart Dzivi, a northern California lawyer representing financial institutions, said the financial system’s problems will soon wash up on Main Street in a major way. It might take some time, he said, because the change is coming in waves. The first wave forced record numbers of homes into foreclosure, the second took down major financial institutions. The third wave, Dzivi said, will affect the well-off, as their housing values decline. “They’re not going to buy that second Mercedes,” he said. “They won’t take that vacation to Hawaii. Junior’s going to go to Pomona College instead of the University of Southern California.” Many analysts say that the bailout that failed Monday would slow — not reverse — the deterioration in the economy. Things will not correct themselves until the housing market rebounds, they say. “The economy is in bad shape, but it is not because of the problems in the banking system, it is because of the housing crash,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who thinks housing prices will fall well into 2009. “The bailout would have freed up some money. But I never saw a sea change even if it passed. It wasn’t like suddenly we’d be flush with credit.”

Aboubakare falls to strong opponent at nat’l qualifier continued from page 12 “They’re just not good, and their strategy is flawed,” Mansur said. “We just sort of calmed down. There’s a lot of holes in the court.” As for the first-time doubles pairing, Mansur said the two players complement each other’s games. “We play well together. I pound from the baseline and she poaches” at the net, she said. Also finishing on top of her bracket was Tanja Vucetic ’10, who went 3-0 in the C singles bracket. She was scheduled to face Rutgers freshman Mar yana Milchutskey in the finals after beating BU junior Liz Corrao 6-2, 6-2, but since the rain forced the matches inside, there was not enough time to play the finals. Still, Vucetic said she couldn’t complain about her weekend. She lost to Corrao in a tiebreaker in the same tournament two years ago. “That’s definitely a good start to the year,” Vucetic said. “Now everything I’ve been working for in the past year is paying off.” Julie Flanzer ’12 won two three-set matches to finish tied for first in B singles. In A singles, Mansur made it to the finals, but lost 6-0, 6-4 to junior Francine Whu of BU. Assistant Coach Cecily Dubusker noted two other strong freshman performances. After one of

BU’s A doubles duos lost in the semifinals, the players faced off against Catherine Stewar t ’12 and Jenniffer Lee ’12, who were placed in B doubles to start. Despite being up 7-5, Stewart and Lee couldn’t close the deal against BU, losing in a tiebreaker, 9-8. But Dubusker and the players saw a lot of positives. “For two freshmen who weren’t our No. 1 team, that shows a lot of progress,” Dubusker said. Lee said she learned a lot from the contest and saw some clear areas of potential improvement for the new pair. “We didn’t communicate together as well as we could have,” she said. “When we have a chance, we have to go for it. We can’t get hesitant like we did in that match.” Dubusker saw the weekend’s tournament as a good jumping-off point for the year. In addition to using the fall season to get more physically fit, the team should use the time to learn from their matches, she said. “The goal is not to ... win matches necessarily — obviously that’s always the goal — but to learn from wins and to learn from losses,” Dubusker said. “Ever y match that we play in the fall is going to help us.” The Bears travel to Flushing, N.Y. in two weeks to compete in the U.S. Open tournament Oct. 11-13.

W. tennis starts strong continued from page 12 Aboubakare had an opportunity to make the match close in the second set, down 5-3, and leading the game 40-15. Instead, Stanivuk used her physical strength to outhit Aboubakare and capture that game for the match victory. Brown Head Coach Paul Wardlaw said the Baylor player was described by one of her coaches as being like Nuke LaLoosh, the erratic pitcher played by Tim Robbins in “Bull Durham.” “When she’s on, she’d be a good player for the men’s team,” Wardlaw said. Aboubakare said her opponent’s playing style was unusual. “Her ball was a lot heavier. There was more spin with more pace,” she said. “Most girls hit either pace and no spin or they’re only soft, spinny girls, but she was pretty strong.” Wardlaw said this was the first time in his five years at Brown that a player had been invited to the tournament. One of his goals for his players this year, he said, is to face strong out-of-conference opponents both as a team and individually, as Aboubakare did this weekend. “What we need to do as a program is we need to have our players and our team raise the level of our opponents,” Wardlaw said. “East Coast tennis is probably the weakest region, so we gotta get out of the region and play some teams.”

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Economic troubles hurt South Korea By Youkyung Lee and John Glionna Los Angeles T imes

SEOUL, South Korea — The world’s 12th-largest economy is feeling the whipsaw of Wall Street’s collapse. Trading started poorly Tuesday following news that Congress had rejected the $700 billion bailout for the U.S. markets. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index fell 69.96 points, or 4.8 percent, setting an ominous tone. South Korean stocks have stumbled since the string of U.S. bank failures. Monday, the South Korean won plunged to a nearly five-year low against the U.S. dollar, prompting speculation about another round of government intervention to support it. Even though the U.S. economy is in trouble, in times like these

South Koreans still see the dollar as a safe haven. Local banks are having difficulty securing enough of the U.S. currency to satisfy demand. Government officials have cautioned against overreacting. The Korean economy, they say, can bank on its past. South Korea survived its own stock-market train wreck in 1997, when the Asian financial crisis prompted a $58 billion bailout package arranged by the International Monetary Fund. Minister of Strategy and Finance Kang Man-soo told reporters last week that the nation was far healthier now, with strong banks and corporations carrying manageable debt burdens. “I think the Korean government would be able to minimize the negative effect on the economy,” the nation’s top finance official said then.

Others aren’t so sure. Some economists here warn that the Wall Street debacle could prompt foreign investors to withdraw money from South Korean equities, bonds and real estate to compensate for losses in other markets. South Korea depends heavily on exports, especially to the United States, making the country vulnerable to sharp drops in U.S. demand. Economists say the uncertain global market has forced Korea to play a trade balancing act. “Korea’s exports to developing countries, such as China and oil-producing countries, are doing fine,” said Kim Hyun-Wook, a fellow at Korea Development Institute. “As long as the economic downturns of developed countries do not spill over to developing countries that are our trade partners, the effects from the U.S. economy will be limited.”

Apple’s shares take biggest hit in eight years By Michelle Quinn Los Angeles Times

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc.’s shares took their biggest tumble in eight years Monday, falling 18 percent on worries that consumers are slowing their spending on computers and other consumer electronics. Many key technology stocks were punished during a brutal day on Wall Street. Shares of Google Inc. and eBay Inc. each lost 12 percent. Yahoo Inc. ended the day down 11 percent. Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Dell Inc., Activision Blizzard Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. were among other companies hit hard. Apple’s decline, which came after two brokerage companies downgraded their rating on the stock, was the steepest and knocked $20 billion off the Cupertino, Calif., company’s market value. Its shares reached a 52-week low of $100.59 and closed at $105.26, down $22.98. Analysts said the sell-off reflected growing sentiment that Americans have started cutting back on computers, televisions and other

electronics gear. Apple has been on a roll in recent years thanks in large part to the comeback of its Mac business, which has been growing three times as fast as the rest of the computer industry. But RBC Capital Markets analyst Mike Abramsky and Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty each said in research reports Monday that consumer belt-tightening appeared to be hurting Mac sales. They predicted slowing earnings growth for the current quarter and fiscal year, which end Tuesday. Abramsky said that a recent RBC survey found a drop in the number of consumers intending to buy Macs and that “a worsening consumer spending environment” would hurt Apple. Huberty said the computer industry’s brightest spot would be in PCs that cost less than $1,000 -- the low end of the market that Apple largely ignores. Even though it’s slowing down, Apple’s computer business is expected to keep generating double-digit growth through the next year. And the company has other products to

fall back on. The iPod has 71 percent of the digital media player market, and the iPhone, introduced in June 2007, has become the No. 2 selling smart phone in the U.S. Tim Herbert, senior director of marketing at the Consumer Electronic Association, said the electronics industry “is not recession proof, but it’s recession resilient.” For example, he said, sales of flat panel displays this year are up 40 percent over the same period last year. “Many of these products have transitioned from being viewed as luxury products or purely entertainment devices to a true necessity,” he said. Other analysts said Apple’s fate, and the fate of all consumer electronics companies, would depend on the severity of an economic contraction. “No one is immune,” said Shaw Wu of American Technology Research. “What I’m hearing from the distribution chain is that while people didn’t stop buying Macs, iPods and iPhones, they are opting to buy the lower end. At some point, we worry that even that is impacted.”

Guild leaders call for more bargaining By Richard Verrier Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Seeking to jumpstart stalled contract talks with the studios -- and hanging tough at the same time -- Screen Actors Guild leaders called on News Corp. President Peter Chernin and Walt Disney Co. President Bob Iger to revive formal bargaining. In a letter sent Monday and also addressed to the studios’ chief negotiator, J. Nicholas Counter III, SAG President Alan Rosenberg and Executive Director Doug Allen said that the guild’s members were unhappy with the studios’ “final offer” made in June and that putting it to a membership vote would serve “no productive purpose.” The SAG leaders said they hoped the studio executives would take note of the “news” -- alluding to a recent poll in which fewer than 10,000 of the union’s 120,000 members urged the guild to reject the proposed contract and “fight” for a better deal. “It is our fervent hope that this news will encourage you and your colleagues to re-engage in formal bargaining, with the exchange of

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proposals and compromise by both sides necessary to reach agreement. ... What do you say; when can our committees meet face-to-face?” There was no immediate response from studio executives or the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The letter comes after several weeks of unsuccessful efforts by SAG leaders to re-ignite negotiations, which broke off in early July. Amid mounting frustration over the logjam, guild leaders recently signaled to newly elected board members that the union might seek to obtain a strike authorization vote, should the studios, as expected, rebuff the latest overture. Although unions often seek strike authorization votes to gain leverage, the tactic could be risky in the current economic climate. Between the mortgage crisis devastating many homeowners and California’s unemployment rate now at its highest level in 12 years, many in Hollywood see SAG in a considerably weaker position than it was in earlier this year before talks ended. At the same time, with the backing of its members SAG could pres-

ent a real threat to the movie and television industry by virtually shutting down production. The networks are still recovering from the effects of the three-month writers’ strike, and a production shutdown could cripple both them and the studios. Actors have been without a contract since June 30. The two sides are at odds over how much actors should be paid for work distributed over the Internet and whether the union’s contracts should cover all shows created for the Web. Those two issues were singled out in the letter, which sounded a note of compromise along with a warning to studios: “If your intransigence continues, however, our choices become harder and fewer.” The letter was not expected to carry much sway with the studios, which previously dismissed the results of the union’s poll as unrepresentative and accused guild leaders of falsely suggesting that they were engaged in meaningful back-channel talks. The studios have refused to improve upon the contracts already negotiated with writers, directors and a smaller actors union.

Singer ’09: Gatorade or H20? continued from page 12 Marketing gimmick aside, an electrolyte is just a sexy name for any number of common salts or minerals. Body sweat contains these ions along with water, accounting for why it tastes like seawater (don’t act like you’ve never tried it). Additionally, during anaerobic exercise like weightlifting, consuming simple carbohydrates like the sugar contained in sports drinks immediately after working out helps jump-start the process of muscular regeneration. So, while you might not want to water your plants with Gatorade, it turns out it can help rehydrate and reenergize your body fairly effectively. What you may not realize is that drinking ordinar y tap water has many of these benefits as well. Most drinking water is pumped full of minerals and ions, most notably fluoride (it won’t help you recover quicker, but it makes your teeth pretty). Unlike many brands of bottled water, which usually don’t contain nearly as many minerals, the only noticeable differences between tap water and Gatorade are sugar and color.

So what difference does that sugar make? If you are running a marathon, a considerable amount. The difference in ionic density between water and Gatorade is substantial in high-intensity, long-duration exercise when you’re sweating one to three liters of water per hour. There are also some studies that suggest Gatorade lowers body temperature more effectively in exercising athletes, although most of these are associated with the Gatorade Sports Science Institute. However, if you are doing moderately intense exercise for less than an hour, chances are the only differences will be psychological. Basically, for non-extreme athletes, water and Gatorade are equally effective. The fact that the former costs nothing is a plus. But really, even if most people realize that Gatorade and its sports-drink brethren are largely placebos, water will still never replace these drinks. After all, who celebrates victory by dousing their coach with ice water? Ben Singer ’09 waters his plants with “what they crave.”

M. soccer to play Columbia continued from page 12 goalie for the first goal of the game. This is the third game in a row the pair has combined for a goal. Bruno held the 1-0 lead heading into halftime. Not long after the intermission, Jon Okafor ’11 put another tally on the board in the 48th minute. Howerton crossed the ball to the middle of the box where Okafor knocked one in from the right post. Howerton recorded his second assist of the day and fourth of the season. Okafor wasn’t finished, though. In the 60th minute, he received a pass from TJ Thompson ’10 and made a move to beat a Spartan defender before finding the back of the net. The two scorers in this game, Okafor and Bernstein, now lead the team in goals with three apiece. The Bears’ defense held on for the rest of the game for a 3-0 win. Bruno has shut down its opponents with solid defense all season, allowing only four goals, three coming in a 3-1 loss to Charleston. Goalie Jarrett Leech ’09 had six saves and recorded his fourth

win on the year (4-0-1). The defense withstood fiery attacks put up by the Spartans, who out shot the Bears 1611 and had a 7-1 advantage in corner kicks. “We didn’t have as many chances as UNC-Greensboro, but we concentrated more on finishing them — that was key,” Bernstein said. With the defense recording its sixth shutout of the season and the offense finding the back of the net as of late, the men’s soccer team is ready to begin a new chapter in its season. “Once the Ivy League starts, it’s a new season,” Howerton said. “We get everyone’s best. It’s not the same as non-conference.” Despite their success behind solid defense thus far, the Bears know they’ll be up for a fight with every team they face in Ivy League competition. “Going into Ivies, it’s a very physical game, a battle,” Bernstein said. “We’re very well prepared in that respect.” Bruno opens up Ivy League play at home on Saturday as they take on Columbia at 4 p.m. at Stevenson Field.

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Farewell, Miko Faunce installs a condom machine and Brown jumps 22 places in the annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card — so far so good. But Miko Exoticwear is gone. We’re proud of our progress, but here we also owe a tribute to a campus sexual stalwart unfortunately forced out of business. Miko’s closing shows us more than the necessity of good management; it shows us a little about ourselves. While in no way tame, Miko defied the stereotype of seedy sex shop that less-than-sexperts and blushing maidens dare not enter. Among the breakfast joints and boutiques of Wickenden, Miko wasn’t out of place. It sat happy, inviting and in harmony with its neighbors, content to be exactly what it was even though it was alone. That’s how many Brown students find themselves on campus, in the world. We pride ourselves on original thought. But we sometimes find ourselves at dissonance with family, friends from elsewhere — even the very campus that says it cherishes new ideas but often seems more openminded to just certain new ideas. Miko was a maverick here — the Female Sexuality Workshop may now have to take its traditional sex-shop trip to Boston, a facilitator said. Miko’s closing also reflects how students often must temper their fantasies when reality hits them in the face. Just like Brown students who dream big and find practical circumstance reigning them in — say, a hopeful writer deferring her dreams to try to get ahead on student loan payments or an aspiring banker feeling hopeless in the face of the financial crisis — Miko saw its mission brought down, in part, by “mismanagement,” as owner Jeff Gellman told The Herald. “As much as we want to do well for the community and change the landscape for masturbation and sex in Providence, we have to earn a profit,” he said, adding that his family — his wife and six children — are without health insurance. Miko also valued safe sex, a goal shared by Brown’s health educators, generations of Women Peer Counselors and most students shimmying on weekend nights (we hope). Exploration with a safety net is how Brown students should approach their education, and their lives. We want to go far, we want to try what’s new, but we always need to keep our values and wits about us to keep us from serious self-harm. Miko also teaches us to be persistent and not let a failure keep us from dreaming further. Some of its former employees now say they plan to open a nonprofit feminist sex shop near campus next year. Now is a time of crisis and opportunity for students. Take a cue from the lost corner sex shop — stand strong, if alone; dream big, but be real; and, of course, be safe while having fun. Farewell, Miko.

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In the Sept. 22 issue of The Herald, a sports caption incorrectly identified James Develin ’10 as Stephen Peyton ’12. The caption also incorrectly identified the Bears’ opponents: they played the Stony Brook Seawolves, not the Seahawks. An article in Wednesday’s Herald (“Report finds decline in teaching green,” Sept. 24) incorrectly reported that dining services at Salve Regina University serve only food that is grown within a 200-mile radius. In fact, while Salve Regina attempts to serve food grown within a 200-mile radius, currently this “local” food accounts for 30 percent of the daily offerings. In yesterday’s Herald, a sports caption incorrectly identified David Clement ’10 as Patrick Pakan ’12.

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The Brown-ization of Palin MATT AKS Opinions Columnist A little while back, The Herald published a column (“The Palin-ization of Brown,” Sept. 16) which painted a picture of Brown if it were governed by the same principles that seemed to govern the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican Party’s vice presidential nominee. The column was, for the most part, a clever piece of political satire. I believe that there is a place in democracy for that sort of thing, so this column should not necessarily be taken as a direct criticism of that one. However, satire should be accompanied by serious self-reflection. The need for selfreflection is especially pressing in this instance because of how Palin’s nomination has been received by some members of the Brown community. At the recent panel discussion on gender and race in the election, my friend Rita Bullwinkel ’11 expressed her frustration with the refusal of many Brown students to take Palin even remotely seriously. She said she felt that sexism has played a role in the response to Palin, and lamented the fact that “liberals” at Brown could fall prey to such an intolerant view.

When I spoke to Rita later, she cited a conversation with one of her own male friends who felt Palin was chosen (over other, more experienced Republican women) because she is “hot.” This view is not an isolated case: The Herald printed a cartoon depicting Palin that referred to “the hot librarian effect.” The College Hill Independent ran a cartoon

to answer Rita’s question. Rose said that it was absolutely possible that Palin’s nomination had brought out latent sexism among so-called liberals on campus. But Rose also said she thought that the sexist response to Palin was the product of liberals’ frustration with the current state of the election. Perhaps many liberals are exas-

When newspapers at a “liberal” institution like Brown publish sexist cartoons about Sarah Palin, liberals cede a great deal of moral authority. of Palin wearing only a bra and underwear. The cartoon included drawings of several outfits — including a hockey mom outfit and a governor outfit — that one could cut out and paste onto the drawing of Palin. One of the panelists at the discussion, Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose, sought

perated since a Republican has been able to overcome President Bush’s lack of popularity and keep the race close, Rose said. As a result, liberals may be venting their frustrations with inappropriate comments about Palin. It should be obvious that the petty sexism evident in those two cartoons is senseless and

intolerant. I believe that upon reflection, most Brown students would reject the underlying message of the cartoons. Nonetheless, the fact that these cartoons have been condoned reveals serious hypocrisy on the part of Brown students. I certainly hope that the latter of the two explanations offered by Rose is more accurate. If Palin’s reception at Brown has been shaped more by frustration than sexism, then several further points are in order. The election remains extremely close. Fortunately, Obama does seem to hold a slight lead. But it is extremely important that in the final weeks, Democrats do not give Republicans any legitimate basis for criticism. When newspapers at a “liberal” institution like Brown publish sexist cartoons about Sarah Palin, liberals cede a great deal of moral authority. Brown students should also take a closer look at the social forces that have made Sarah Palin such a galvanizing figure. Many of the people who are rallying around Palin would be more than happy to write off anyone with a Brown diploma as “elitist” and “out of touch.” If you, like me, believe that this is a problem, perhaps we ought to be investigating the root causes of American anti-elitism, rather than belittling someone like Palin.

Matt Aks ’11 can’t believe he just defended the Republican Party vice presidential nominee.

Palin and sex ed BY ADRIENNE LANGLOIS Opinions Columnist Say what you will about our politics — you’ve really got to hand it to the United States for producing bizarre trends. We are the country that has produced an insatiable lust for Ugg boots, exorbitantly priced coffee drinks and Tila Tequila. These trends are puzzling, for sure, but occasionally justifiable (I myself will admit to nursing an expensive Frappucino habit.) Yet there is one recent trend that completely boggles me: teen pregnancy. Yes, teen pregnancy. Perhaps “trend” isn’t the right world to describe the proliferation of stories surrounding this topic, but it sure seems like everybody’s talking about it these days. As well as I can trace it, the origins of this recent phenomenon seem to stem from fictional characters, notably, the protagonists in the 2007 films “Juno” and “Knocked Up.” Though only Juno featured a pregnant teen, both films featured likeable, human characters along with warm and fuzzy conclusions. The saga continued when Jamie L ynn Spears, the then-16-year-old star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101,” announced her pregnancy in December 2007, the word of the moment was “shock.” Jamie Lynn declared herself to be “shocked” by the discovery, and her mother, Lynne, echoed similar sentiments (though she was apparently not too shocked to release the story to the press for $1 million). In an apparent attempt to placate the equally shocked parents of their preteen viewership, Nickelodeon considered broadcasting a special on teen sexual health, but the program never materialized. Jamie Lynn

Spears’ pregnancy produced a lot of drama, to the delight of gossip magazine editors, yet she repeatedly received praise from family friends for her strength and supposed motherly qualities. Then, shortly after the birth of Spears’ daughter, came the news of a sudden pregnancy boom in a seemingly ordinary high school. The purported pregnancy pact in a Gloucester, Mass. high school that came to light early this past summer was blamed on a number of causes including Spears, the lack of contraception in Gloucester within a 30-mile radius and even the economic slump plaguing

of Feminists for Life, a group that opposes abortion but supports the use of contraceptives. Yet Palin has repeatedly refused to fund comprehensive sex education programs in Alaskan schools — programs that would endorse the use of contraceptives. Adding to the ambiguity of Palin’s views on teen sexual health is the announcement of her 17-year-old daughter’s pregnancy. Like Jamie Lynn Spears (who reportedly sent a set of designer burp cloths to her fellow teenage mom-to-be, Bristol Palin has planned to marry the father of her child and carry the baby to term. It’s uncertain whether Bristol

Sexual health cannot be effectively dealt with by adopting an inflexible stance or wishing our problems away. Yet Americans ... repeatedly force the subject back under the radar simply because of its complexity. the town. Yet few saw fit to go straight to the source and consider the home life and values of the students themselves. Enter Sarah Palin, newly minted vice presidential nominee for the Republican Party. Palin has drawn fire for many of her policy talking points, but nothing could be stranger than her views on sex education. A pro-life Christian, Palin is also a member

Palin received comprehensive sex education at her school, and thus far the McCain campaign has for the most part kept silent on this issue. Yet Bristol Palin’s situation raises many questions that need to be asked and answered, both about her mother’s political beliefs and about cultural attitudes towards teen pregnancy. Is marriage the only option

for pregnant teen couples? Has Sarah Palin’s support of abstinence-only sex education changed in light of recent events? What are the true effects of sex education and contraceptive availability? What are the responsibilities that pregnancy entails? And what kind of sexual health programs would Sarah Palin promote as vice president? Sexual health cannot be effectively dealt with by adopting an inflexible stance or wishing our problems away. Yet Americans — political figures and ordinary citizens alike — repeatedly force the subject back under the radar simply because of its complexity. Bristol Palin’s pregnancy offers many unique opportunities for all Americans — whether they are running for office or deciding just who they’d like to see in office. It offers parents a chance to sit down with their children and discuss the consequences and options of sexual activity. It provides the media and the American public the opportunity to thoroughly question a potential national leader about her beliefs and practices regarding contraception and sex education. And most importantly, it offers the American public another chance to evaluate cultural perceptions of teen pregnancy. Sex education will most likely not be the issue that decides the election in November, but that doesn’t mean it’s not an issue worth pondering. If Sarah Palin should end up in Washington this Januar y, her ambiguous views may very well end up forming national policy on sexual health issues. Americans — particularly young Americans — should take this opportunity to discuss this issue — as this is one American trend that seems to show no signs of dying.

Adrienne Langlois ’10 urges everyone to practice safe sex and smart voting.

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Hydration: Is It in you?

M. soccer blanks UNCGreensboro By Katie Wood Assistant Sports Editor

With the Ivy League conference play just a week away, the men’s soccer team played one last non-conference season game this weekend. The Bears UNC-Green. 0 were search3 ing for a burst Brown of confidence, according to Darren Howerton ’09, when they faced off against UNCGreensboro (3-5-1) last Saturday night. The Bears (5-2-1) made their best offensive showing of the year, winning 3-0. The defense continued its domination with its sixth shutout on the year as well. “Defensively, every time we get a shutout, we get more confident,” Howerton said. “Scoring three goals gives us confidence too. Overall, we came out more confident as a team.” The Bears jumped off to an early lead in the 16th minute when Howerton sent the ball to the box on a free kick. Rhett Bernstein ’09 got a head on the ball and sent it past the Spartans’

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Rhett Bernstein ’09 helped Brown to its fifth win Saturday with one goal in their 3-0 win.

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Rain can’t hold back women’s tennis in first tournament By Seth Motel Spor ts Staf f Writer

By the end of a seemingly nonstop weekend of tennis, the courts inside the Pizzitola Center were painted with yellow fuzz. The three-day Brown Invitational lasted over 24 hours, featured four women’s tennis teams and provided hundreds of tennis balls that were waiting to be smashed. Bruno kicked off its fall season with the four-team tournament, which featured Boston, Rutgers and Syracuse universi-

ties. Although there are no team scores kept for fall matches, winloss records count for individual players. With A, B and C brackets in singles and A and B brackets in doubles, ever y player got the oppor tunity to play, although the tournament was moved indoors after Tropical Storm Kyle moved in. Veteran players and newcomers from the talented freshman class found success on the courts. Coming from strong doubles backgrounds, Sara Mansur ’09 and Carissa Aboubakare ’12 teamed up

to win the A doubles championship. Mansur was part of a team that was named All-Ivy Honorable Mention two years ago, while Aboubakare and her sister Bianca Aboubakare ’11 were ranked as high as No. 2 in the countr y as juniors two years ago. (The older Aboubakare did not compete in the invitational because she was playing in an All-American qualifying tournament in California.) In the doubles pro sets, Mansur and the younger Aboubakare cruised to an 8-1 victor y over BU and battled past Rutgers, 9-7. They

then faced a Syracuse team in the finals that had been more than a little vocal during the weekend’s competition. In an intense match that featured several shots at people’s heads, Mansur and Aboubakare had to battle back from a 6-4 deficit. Finally, the duo was able to “get into a rhythm,” Mansur said, mastering its defense against Syracuse’s serve-and-volley style. Four games later, Brown took the trophy, 8-6. continued on page 8

While her teammates suffered through a rain-drenched weekend at the Brown Invitational, women’s tennis player Bianca Aboubakare ’11 spent the weekend at Pepperdine University in sunny Malibu, Calif. Aboubakare, who was named the Rookie of the Year last year in the ITA East Region and in the Ivy League, competed in a pre-qualifying weekend battle for a spot to play in the Riviera/ITA Women’s All-American Championships. She was one of 64 players invited to the pre-qualifying tournament with hopes of advancing to the qualifying draw, whose top eight players then compete in the main draw against the top 24 players in the country. Aboubakare needed to win three matches to advance to the qualifying tournament, and she started off sharp. In the first round, she drew Louisiana State senior Mykala Hedberg, the No. 2 singles player on a team that finished 27th in the country

last year. Down 5-3 in the first set, Aboubakare won four games in a row to win 7-5. That set the tone for what would be a back-and-forth match. In the second set, the Brown sophomore was up 5-4, but she lost seven match points, as Hedberg went on to win that set 7-5. In the third, Aboubakare came out firing, putting away her opponent for good with a 6-2 victory. Still, the match took a lot out of Aboubakare, who lost 10 match points to Hedberg before getting the victory. Hedberg “plays a lot better when she’s down,” Aboubakare said. “She was hitting some really great shots on those points.” Only an hour later, Aboubakare faced Baylor sophomore Jelena Stanivuk, ranked No. 97 in the country. Out of energy and playing against an opponent who had won her first match in two sets, Aboubakare fell 6-1, 6-3, eliminating her from the tournament. continued on page 8

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Aboubakare ’11 just misses spot in national tennis championships By Seth Motel Sports Staff Writer

If there’s one thing you gain from being sick, it’s a better appreciation for how much fluid your body actually holds. If someone had told me as a kid that I was over 80 percent water, I wouldn’t buy it. I mean, I’m looking at my arms and legs right now, and they seem pretty dry. So I watch the TV on Sunday and it says that Jay Cutler, the quarterback for the Denver Broncos, is a Type 1 diabetic. Ben Singer High Notes That means his body cannot produce insulin, so he can’t regulate his blood sugar. If he can’t regulate his blood sugar, and his blood glucose levels go too high or too low, he becomes sick and could die. So in between offensive sets, Jay monitors his blood sugar and receives insulin injections so that he can maintain his energy and keep living. The thing that most caught my eye about Cutler’s condition is this (according to the most reputable of sources, Wikipedia): Type 1 diabetic “patients also drink more and are always thirsty.” Then the age-old question raised by Adam Sandler reared its head: Gatorade or water? Which is better? Obviously for Cutler, who has to consider both blood sugar levels and hydration, the answer is more complex. But for those without medical considerations, what’s the difference between these two beverages? A bottle of Gatorade “rehydrates, replenishes, and refuels in ways water can’t,” according to its advertising campaign, attributing its natural advantages to carbohydrates (sugar) and electrolytes. As anybody who has watched “Idiocracy” knows, electrolytes are “what we crave.”

Herald File Photo Bianca Aboubakare ’11 was one of 64 players to earn an invitation to the AllAmerican Invitational, where she competed this weekend in Malibu, Calif.

The women’s soccer team earned its third win of the season and climbed back up to a .500 record after shutting out Dartmouth 1-0 on Sunday up in Hanover, N.H. Sylvia Stone ’11 put in a rebound off a shot by Marybeth Lesbirel ’12 in the back of the net after only 1:38 had passed in the second half for her first goal of the season. Goalkeeper Brenna Hogue ’10 stayed strong in net to keep the Big Green at bay, earning her third shutout of the year with four saves. Bruno’s offense and defense were much more efficient than Dartmouth’s, holding a seven to four advantage in shots on goal offensively, while shutting down the Big Green on defense despite 17-10 overall shot and 11-6 corner kick disadvantages. Stone put three shots on goal for the Bears, and Jamie Mize ’09 added two. Five other Bears pressured Dartmouth’s defense with one shot on goal each. Holy Cross comes to Stevenson Field tomorrow to test Brown before it competes against Ivy foe Columbia in another home game on Saturday night.

— Amy Ehrhart