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Molly Lambert ’05 willdebut original play atthis year’s New Yorkfestivalpage 3

Providence mayoralcandidates hammerout the issues in Fridayafternoon debatepage 5

Professor of PhysicsJohn Marston bringsenvironmentalleadership to Sierra Clubpage 7

Rohan Monga ’06details the life and timesof a varsity athlete atBrownguest column,page 15

Football falls toHarvard on Saturday,falls to 0-1 in the IvyLeaguesports,page 16

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BY JESSICA WEISBERGWhile screaming fans were losing theirvoices at the Brown-Harvard footballgame Saturday, a quieter homecomingcelebration was taking place in the ListArt building. Alumni and students con-vened for the first annual “A Day of theArts at Brown,” an event highlighting theartistic achievements of Brown alumni.

“Alumni in the arts have not beensuccessfully reached by the University,”said Lecturer in Theater, Speech andDance Julie Strandberg, a member of theCreative Arts Council, which sponsoredthe event with Alumni Relations as anattempt to build the relationshipbetween artistic alumni and their almamater.

“There’s an athletic alumni group, butthere’s no such organization to supportartists as a body,” Strandberg said.

The day of readings, films, art exhibi-tions and performances began with apanel discussion, facilitated byStrandberg, in which five distinguishedalumni spoke about career choices inthe creative arts and Brown’s contribu-tion to their lives.

“Brown is the type of place where youhave to find your own way and followyour instincts,” said Paul Heck ’89, cre-ator of the AIDS Music Project, a series of

records that raised money and aware-ness to fight the global epidemic.

Edisa Weeks ’87, artistic director ofENWRAPTURE, a New York City-baseddance company that merges dance andtheatrics to express the beauty and ironyof life, agreed.

“The University gave me the opportu-nity to find and defend who I am as anindividual,” she said.

Other panelists discussed unconven-tional turns in their career paths.

Dorsey James ’83, General Manager ofFamily Tree/Mosaic Media and previ-ously the Senior Vice President of AristaRecords, Inc., said he was an electricalengineering concentrator who stumbledinto the music business “after playingpoker with some guys in the industry.”

Maria Daniels ’89 said she receivedher first job as an archeological photog-rapher in Athens by broaching an idea“completely grounded in fantasy” to aproject coordinator.

Panelists focused on the negativeimpact of entertainment conglomerates,especially in the music industry. Jamessaid the digital availability of music cre-ated managerial problems in companiesthat are “notoriously poorly managed,almost as much so as law firms.”

The “ma and pop” labels were aban-

doned, he said, because with limited rev-enues, large record companies are morelikely to endorse superstar artists ratherthan risk limited funds on smaller enti-ties and new bands.

Heck agreed. “When the music indus-try was run by obsessive people withgood taste it gave rare, interestinggroups a chance to get out there,” hesaid.

Now, he said, “Africa (is) not farenough (away from U.S. pop culture) toavoid Maria Carey and Eminem.”

“‘World Music,’” Heck said, “is solelyan American term. For everyone else inthe world it’s just music.”

Despite these concerns, ZacharyMorfogen ’50 said he is working on twocross-cultural projects sponsored bylarge media companies, “Pandemic —Facing Aids,” and “UnchangedMemories: Readings from the SlaveNarratives.”

As the founder of MorfogenAssociates, an international consultingfirm for cultural institutions, Morfogendescribed himself as an artistic “match-maker.”

Heck said he believes his projectsexist “on the benevolent margin,” sup-

GlobalCrossingchief gave atleast $149Kto BrownBY JULIETTE WALLACKA non-profit organization established bythe CEO of bankrupt and embattledGlobal Crossing, Ltd. and his wife, a Browntrustee, gave the University at least$108,000 in 2000. University officialsdeclined to comment on the full extent ofthe couple’s support.

The organization, the Gary and KarenWinnick Family Foundation, also gave atotal of $40,000 to Brown-RISD Hillel in1998 and 2000, the most recent years forwhich The Herald could obtain financialdocuments. In 1998, the foundation alsogave a $1,000 cash donation to BrownFootball.

Now, two years after those donationsand three years into Karen Winnick’s six-year term as a University trustee, GlobalCrossing and Gary Winnick are wrappedup in a Securities and ExchangeCommission investigation into the com-pany’s accounting practices and allegeddefrauding of shareholders and employ-ees.

Gary Winnick is expected to take theFifth Amendment this week when he testi-fies before the House Energy andCommerce Committee, Time magazinereported Sunday. Records show that he

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Alumni and students convened on Saturday for “A Day of the Arts at Brown,” a series of readings, films, art exhibitions andperformances that shined a spotlight on the artistic achievements of Brown alumni.

Bringing home the arts

see ARTS, page 12

see WINNICK, page 6

BY AMY RUDDLE Derrick Bell, author and professor of law atNew York University, asked Brown stu-dents to consider the merits of living ethi-cal lives during a panel discussionSaturday that examined the dilemmasfaced by upwardly mobile people in themodern age.

The event, entitled “Ethical Ambition:Living a Life of Meaning and Worth,” con-sisted of a brief lecture by Bell in Salomon101, followed by questions from otherpanelists and the audience.

The dilemma Bell presented to theaudience was how to achieve societal stan-dards of success while maintaining per-sonal values. Bell said his new book, forwhich the event was named, “is moreinspirational than instructional,” andshows people how to “maintain theirintegrity while striving for success.”

To reconcile ethics with achievement,people should have a passion for what

Consider themerits of ethicallives, author Belltells students

see BELL, page 12

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BY JOANNE PARKAfter months of anticipation, MollyLambert ’05 is close to realizing adream. She will debut her play “An IceCream Man for All Seasons,” in NewYork at the 2002 Young PlaywrightsFestival, which features plays writtenexclusively by teen playwrights.

Lambert’s play is a comedy based ona chance encounter between two menwho find themselves arguing therespective merits of ice cream and hotdogs on a wintry day in Central Park,she said.

She wrote it when she was a 16-year-old high school senior and submitted itto the festival after she viewed a promo-tional poster at her school.

In the fall of last year, she receivednews that her play was among the threechosen out of nearly 1,100 plays sub-mitted for review for the festival. Sincethen, she has been immersed in revis-ing and preparing her play withDirector Jeremy Dobrish, who hasdirected “Duet!” and “Notions inMotion.”

This is not the first time she hasreceived acclaim for her work. In highschool she presented her plays“Absolutely” and “Superzeroes” at thenationwide Blank Theatre CompanyYoung Playwrights Festival in 2000 and2001. She also wrote plays for theCalifornia Young Playwrights Festival.

Despite her vast experience withplaywriting, Lambert said she isenthused about her current work. “It’sfantastic,” she said.

Lambert said although the commutebetween Providence and New York canbe tedious, she is looking forward to theopening of her play.

“It feels great to know that your writ-ing is just as valid and that you don’thave to be middle-aged to accomplishanything,” Lambert said.

Previous winners at the upcomingfestival include 2002 Academy Awardand Golden Globe nominee KennethLonergan, who directed and wrote thescreenplay for the film “You Can Counton Me,” and 2002 Pulitzer Prize forDrama finalist Rebecca Gilman.

Lambert recalls her meeting with1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winnerand Brown alum Alfred Uhry ’58, who isthe president of the Young PlaywrightsIncorporation, which is hosting the fes-tival.

“I met him last year, and I was psy-ched,” said Lambert. Uhry has wonacclaim for his plays “Driving MissDaisy” and “The Last Night ofBallyhoo.”

The Young Playwrights Incorporationwas founded by Stephen Sondheim, aBroadway composer.

Sondheim was motivated by hiscuriosity as to “where the next genera-

tion of playwrights was supposed tocome from,” said Ruth McKee, a literarymanager at the Young PlaywrightsIncorporation.

Lambert will attend the festivalSondheim started hosting in 1981. Allsubmitters must be under 18.

“The festival gives the best, first pro-fessional production experience forthese young writers,” McKee said.“Teens do not realize that playwriting isan accessible form of writing for youngpeople.”

Lambert’s involvement marks thesecond year in which a Brown studenthas been included in the festival. Jeb

Havens ’03 presented his play“Conference Time” last year.

Lambert, who is considering concen-trating in modern culture and media,said she plans to direct a new film withmembers of the Winebox Theatrecalled, “Cowboys and Indie Kids,”adapted from a script she wrote.

Lambert said her work in theatre andplaywriting is rewarding. “It’s goodwhen you’re doing something youlove.”

The festival will take place at theCherry Lane Theatre in Manhattan, N.Y.The performances are scheduled to runfrom Sept. 27 through Oct. 26.

Lambert ’05 will debut play at 2002 New York festivalThis is not the first time Lambert has received acclaim

for her work. In high school she presented her plays

“Absolutely” and “Superzeroes” at the nationwide Blank

Theatre Company Young Playwrights Festival. She also

wrote plays for the California Young Playwrights

Festival. Despite her vast experience with playwriting,

Lambert said she is enthused about her current work.

“It’s fantastic,” she said.

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BY HANNAH BASCOMThe four top candidates for mayor of Providencedebated affordable housing, improved policing andeducation Friday in Sayles Hall.

The debate was part of the third annual Thomas J.Anton/Frederick Lippitt Conference, titled “TheFuture of Providence.” The four candidates — GreenParty candidate Greg Gerritt, independentChristopher Young, Democrat David Cicilline andRepublican Dave Talan were moderated by MarionOrr, associate professor of political science, urbanstudies and public policy.

Following opening statements, Orr asked the can-didates audience-generated questions on topicsincluding violent crime prevention, the constructionof affordable housing, education and the arts,improvement of the police department and how toimprove minority satisfaction in the city.

For the candidates, the question of violence andeducation were closely related.

Gerritt proposed a counseling system for childrenwho grow up in violent families, and a plan thatwould give released convicts job training, counselingand rehabilitation.

Talan also said improving education was crucialand favored non-violence education and communitypolicing. Cicilline proposed a program that wouldcreate an after-school program with counseling, anEnglish as a Second Language program with classesthat parents and children could take together and apreventative program that included local and statepolice.

Good law enforcement and reduction of firearmavailability is also important, Cicilline said.

All candidates said public schools should be per-sonalized and better funded, and each proposed spe-cific programs for improvement.

Young said the best way to fund education is bytaxing Brown University and other colleges inProvidence.

Cicilline said the Community School system,developed in the Midwest, would be helpful becauseit provides an advising system, creates smaller learn-ing communities and engages parents. Talan said hesupports a school voucher system that would give$3,000 towards any school and relieve overcrowding

in schools. Gerritt said he wants to put schools in neighbor-

hoods, involve parents and organize the communitybetter.

Gerritt was the only candidate who said that artistsshould not receive government subsidies and loftspace, and that improvement of the communitywould be a sufficient help to them.

“They can — if they’re good enough — make a liv-ing,” Gerritt said. “We don’t need to do anything.”

Orr asked several questions about the ProvidencePolice Department and filling the chief’s position per-manently. All the candidates agreed that PPD neededa review board to solve and prevent problems buttheir opinions differed on how to fill the chief posi-tion. Gerritt said the city should conduct a nationalsearch to find a chief from outside Rhode Island.

“The culture of the police department has beeninnappropriate for a long time,” Gerritt said. “Weneed to shake them up.”

Candidates also faced off on the issue of affordablehousing. Talan and Young said they favor more on-campus housing in universities, so apartments andhousing would be free and affordable for families.

Gerritt said the city should use all available spacefor new housing units. “We can be innovative … buildhouses out of tires,” he said.

On the issue of minority opportunity, the candi-dates agreed that communities need to be revitalizedand unified. Cicillini said he will try to makeProvidence citizens “understand that we have aresponsibility to reach out to other members of thecommunity.”

Talan said he opposes bilingual education.“Bilingual education is a scam — many childrennever learn to speak English,” he said.

In their closing statements, the candidates sum-marized their positions and hopes for the comingmayoral term. Talan again stressed education, saying“Public, private, parochial — whatever it takes forchildren to get a good education.”

Cicilline called for a change in Providence govern-ment, where “People are promoted on what theyknow and what they have done rather than who theyknow.”

Gerritt stressed new ideas on housing, crime pre-vention and an economy not based on fossil fuel. Healso promoted community involvement.

“Unless people get out in the streets, the powerfulpeople will continue to control government,” he said.

The conference also featured a Keynote Address byThomas J. Anton on Thursday night and a panel dis-cussion on “Where Cities Should Go in the Future”that preceded the mayoral debate.

Mayoral hopefuls debate education, housing

BY XIYUN YANGThree guest panelists offered different opinions onthe roles city residents and non-city residents play inurban areas during a Friday panel discussion in SaylesHall entitled “Where Cities Should Go In The Future.”

Speakers stressed that cities must attract invest-ments from outsiders while still looking inward tobetter the conditions of city dwellers.

Wilbur Rich, professor of political science atWellesley College, said that with the transformation toa global economy, industries in U.S. cities must com-pete with cheaper, foreign competitors.

The once vibrant mantra of “Made In the USA” haslost its luster, Rich said.

To combat the effects of globalization, mayors mustbe enthusiastic about their cities and become pol-ished salesmen.

“Buddy Cianci is a good model,” Rich said. Citiesneed to shake the old appeals of territoriality and findways to lace the attractiveness of a certain communi-ty with new ideas.

Cities must either “adapt or perish,” Rich said.Susan Fainstein, professor of urban planning at

Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture Planningand Preservation, also stressed that non-residents areintegral to a city’s economy.

People who bring outside investments and contri-butions have more power in a city than that city’s res-idents, and can further racial, economic and socialequalities, she said.

But outside investments don’t automatically flowinto cities.

The construction of a city’s infrastructure is vital toattracting outside investments.

Attempts at downtown construction are usuallyinadequate and built to satisfy the “ambitions of may-ors,” she said.

Panelists also emphasized the importance of edu-cation in relation to cities’ improvement projects.

“Education (is an) investment in the same way asLord and Taylor is an investment” for securing anavailable work force, Fainstein said.

James Jennings, professor of urban and environ-mental policy and planning at Tufts University,agreed with Fainstein on the importance of educa-tion, but said the solidification of communities,financially or otherwise, from the bottom up, is alsoimportant.

Jennings said residents are the basis for bringingabout economic revitalization.

Describing the Demonstration DispositionProgram, which helped rehabilitate 1,900 housingunits in Boston, Jennings said housing and economicdevelopment are inextricably connected.

In economically revitalizing neighborhoods, “resi-dents have to be involved in where cities are going,”Jennings said.

Audience members said they felt the fissurebetween the three panelists’ arguments about city res-idents versus non-residents was engaging.

Paul Lewis GS reduced Rich and Fainstein’s argu-ments into “city prostitution, how well can you sellyourself?”

The panel was part of the conference “TheFuture of Providence,” which also included akeynote address by Mayor Martin J. O’Malley ofBaltimore on Thursday night and a mayoral debateon Friday.

Brown, Ivy League shun NSSE satisfaction surveyBY ROHAN MONGAThe National Survey of Student Engagement is a surveythat obtains information on student satisfaction fromover 600 colleges and universities nationwide, but Brownand the rest of the Ivy League have never participated init.

The survey gathers data for institutional researchand allows universities to gauge student satisfac-tion.

“The NSSE provides customized reports for each uni-versity involved in the survey,” said NSSE AssistantDirector John Hayek.

“In addition, we also compile information fromschools similar to the university in question for com-parative analysis. This information from peer schoolsallows the university to benchmark itself against oth-ers,” he said.

More recently, some colleges and universities haveused NSSE data to improve student life offerings andentice more students to matriculate.

“We are now seeing schemes where schools are startingto use the NSSE more practically, basically in the admis-sions and recruiting process. This gives prospective stu-dents an idea of the various dynamics of each institution,”Hayek said.

He said the NSSE is particularly useful because it com-plements universities’ informally gathered student datawith more comprehensive analysis.

Brown administrators said they don’t participate in

NSSE because they use bi-annual senior surveys to gaugestudent opinion instead.

“We have been using the Survey of Seniors for a verylong time, and the prospect of the NSSE is not veryappealing,” said Katherine Lewis, director of the Office ofInstitutional Research.

“It is hard to make a case for it and switch from some-thing in use for so long,” she said.

Brown’s survey, much like the NSSE, evaluates healthservices, financial aid, career services, the registrar’soffice, computing and the library, according to the OIRWeb site.

It asks “quality of life” questions relating to housing,safety and social life in addition to students’ satisfactionwith program requirements, course offerings, inclusion inthe intellectual community, advising and teaching oppor-tunities.

The University will distribute the surveys amongst sen-iors this spring.

“Apart from the senior survey, Brown does lend itself tomany national organizations which publish statistics andreports assessing the university,” said Mark Nickel of theBrown News Service.

But Hayek said NSSE invites all schools, including theIvy League, to get involved in its survey.

“It is a voluntary decision on the part of the institutionwhether or not to register,” he said.

“Every Ivy League school has been asked to participateand had so far decided against it.”

The debate was organized as part ofthe third annual Thomas J. Anton /Frederick Lippitt Conference, titled“The Future of Providence.”

Guest panelists debated the roles cityresidents and non-city residents play inurban areas at a Friday paneldiscussion in Sayles Hall, part of the‘Future of Providence’ conference thatalso featured a mayoral debate and aspeech by Baltimore Mayor Martin J.O’Malley

Urban progressmust balance city,non-city interests,panelists conclude


sold Global Crossing stock worth more than $734 millionbetween 1998 and 2001, the New York Times reported inFebruary.

Global Crossing, which Gary Winnick established in 1997and took public in 1998, planned to run fiber optic wiresbetween continents to facilitate worldwide communications.

The company announced major losses late in 2001 afteryears of reportedly high profits that propelled the stock’sprice over $60. An SEC investigation into the sudden fail-ure of the business, which up to that point had appearedsuccessful, revealed possible illegal accounting practices.

Despite her husband’s spiraling legal woes, KarenWinnick will complete her six-year term as a member ofthe Brown Corporation, Russell Carey ’91, secretary of theCorporation, told The Herald. Carey would not commenton the Winnicks’ current legal problems.

Winnick is not a University alumna, unlike the majori-ty of Corporation members. But she is the parent ofAlexander Winnick ’00. It is not uncommon forCorporation fellows and trustees to be parents of Brownstudents, Carey said.

The Winnicks were not available for comment. A womanwho answered the phone at their Beverly Hills home saidKaren Winnick would be unavailable until Thursday.

Both Carey and Ronald Vanden Dorpel GS ’71, seniorvice president for advancement, said they would notcomment on the specific nature of the Winnicks’ gifts oron the possibility of continued financial support from thefamily.

Vanden Dorpel said he could not comment on theWinnicks’ support because it is standard policy at all uni-

versities, including Brown, for donor records to remainconfidential unless donors “authorize the disclosure ofthem,” which the Winnicks have not done.

Vanden Dorpel said he doesn’t know Karen Winnick.Through their financial support, the Winnicks were

responsible for the creation of Brown’s WinnickFoundation Literacy Initiative, which is part of theInstitute for Elementary and Secondary Education, saidChris Amirault, director of the IESE.

The two-year-old initiative began during the 2000-2001academic year, Amirault said, and funding for the pro-gram began a year before that. The program, which hashelped researchers in the education department design atraining program for literacy mentors, flourished over thepast two years, he said.

Amirault said representatives from the Swearer Center,the Annenberg Center and the Education Alliance toldhim in 2000 that “the Winnicks would be interested insupporting a program like this.”

Now, with the outcome of the SEC investigation intothe Winnicks’ finances unclear, Amirault said he does notknow if the financial support for his program will contin-ue beyond this year.

But Amirault said he expects the initiative will contin-ue through this year, whether or not the Winnicks’ sup-port continues.

“The education department and the Swearer Centerhave figured out ways to continue for the full year, andwe’re hopeful that in the future we can continue it,” hesaid. “It’s one of the programs at the ISES that we reallyfeel very good about.”

Like the literacy initiative, Brown-RISD Hillel receivedsubstantial funds from the Winnick Foundation.

Rabbi Richard Kirschen declined to comment on howmuch support the Winnicks had given Brown-RISD Hillelor whether he expected their support to continue.

As to the Winnicks’ donations to the University itself,President Ruth Simmons refused to comment, saying thatBrown does “not currently have any concerns about a giftthat we’ve received from anybody.”

But she told The Herald that over time many things canhappen that could cause the University to consider “thewisdom of any particular gift.

“I would not say that, under the current circumstances,given that this is not resolved, that anyone would be inclinedto question whether or not there is anything inappropriatein the gift that we might have received, from anyone on thedocket of donors at Brown,” Simmons said. She said it is notappropriate to “hold that discussion in a public debate.”

But Simmons said the idea of “clean money” can berelated to all facets of the University, not just develop-ment. The University would have no way of knowing ifstudents’ tuition funds are “clean.”

“Should we dismiss you as a student if we determinethat the money with which your tuition was paid wasinappropriate?” she said. “It’s a naïve approach to say thatthere is clean money.”

In addition to providing financial support, GaryWinnick spoke at a University Commencement forum in1999 called “The New Internet Economy.”

That economy has since taken a nosedive, taking withit Global Crossing. At that forum, Gary Winnick wasjoined by Jonathan Sallet ’74, at the time the chief policycounsel of MCI WorldCom, another company currentlybeing investigated for accounting fraud.

Another initiative at Brown’s Institute for Elementaryand Secondary Education, the Making a Civic InvestmentProject, is supported by a $5 million MCI WorldComdonation.

Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack ’05 can be reached [email protected].

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Three study disparities in Miss. DeltaBY ALLISON JOY ROSENDAHLAlthough many students interested inactivism and community health look to vol-unteer abroad or in inner cities, last summerthree Brown students set their sights on theMississippi Delta region.

Heather Clark ’03, Mars Gunja ’03 andPhilip Lederer ’03 traveled to Mississippi toaddress health and socioeconomic issues.

The Mississippi Delta is one of the poorestareas in the country, with a healthcare crisiscomparable to that in many post-colonialcountries, the students said. A legacy ofpoverty and segregation, the detritus of slav-ery and Reconstruction, still exists despitethe Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, theysaid.

Clark said many people at Brown areunaware of conditions in the South, butsince she is from Baton Rouge, La., the situa-tion in the Delta “hits close to home.”

“It blew my mind,” said Gunja, who isfrom Los Angeles, commenting on the expe-rience of learning the facts about the Delta.Urban populations don’t realize what is hap-pening down there, he said.

The problems in the Delta are “not on thenational health radar,” Lederer said.

Health disparities, particularly related toAIDS, heart disease and cancer still existbetween the races and are related to the larg-er problems of segregation and poverty,Lederer said.

There are still towns where railroad tracksseparate white areas from black areas, Clarksaid. There are separate churches and

schools, with most black children going topublic school while whites attend privateschool, she said.

Well paying jobs are also in short supply,with the exception of employment at privateprisons and casinos, whose billboardsadvertise “cash your paycheck all day, everyday,” Clark said.

“Power differences translate into real-lifehealth disparities,” Lederer said.

Perhaps the best example of the intercon-nectedness of health and other communityissues can be seen in the AIDS situation. Thelack of good jobs makes it difficult to buymedication and even to see a doctor, asmany cannot afford a car or even daycare,Lederer said. In particular, the percentage ofblack females with AIDS is on the rise, Gunjasaid.

Public schools, which are predominantlyblack, are poorly funded and have inade-quate health education, Lederer said.

“It’s all intermingled,” he said. One diffi-culty for activists is where to focus — if youfocus on AIDS, then you also have to worryabout housing and transportation, Lederersaid.

The Delta is also a microcosm for the con-nection between racial and health issues inthe United States, Lederer said. The lack ofjobs and the image of the train tracks divid-ing the two communities was “stark,” Gunjasaid, and therefore an “exemplary represen-tation of other problems in America … on a

BY AYANA MORALESTheoretical physicist John BradleyMarston, associate professor of physics,knew from his childhood trips campingand hiking in the Sierra Nevada moun-tains of California that his love forphysics and the environment wouldbecome his life’s work.

He is now chairman of the RhodeIsland Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Raised in northern California,Professor Marston loved to hike andclimb Mount Shasta during his child-hood. Meanwhile, his passion forphysics grew as he played withmachines, disassembling them and thenputting them back together. He alsolearned the basics of electricity from hisfather, an electrical engineer.

Today, Marston still hikes with hiswife and takes yoga classes.

After graduating from the CaliforniaInstitute of Technology and earning hisPh.D. from Princeton in 1989, Marstonwent on to perform post-doctoralresearch at Cornell. He moved to RhodeIsland and joined the Department ofPhysics in 1991.

Marston’s many achievementsinclude an Alfred P. Sloan fellowship andthe National Science Foundation’sNational Young Investigator Award.

When he first came to Rhode Island,he decided on his short walk from hometo the University that action must betaken to improve pedestrian safety. His

passion to create a better environmentfor people led him to join the RhodeIsland Chapter of the Sierra Club.

Marston first joined the Sierra Club,an organization committed to protectingquality of life and the environment, inCalifornia in the 1980s. His continualefforts and commitment earned him theposition of vice chairman of the RhodeIsland Chapter of the Sierra Club in 2000.A volunteer, he now serves as executivechairman of the organization.

Marston has lobbied at the Statehouse for the rights and protection ofpedestrians, the advancement of energy-efficient modes of transportation, reduc-tion of energy consumption and pollu-tion and other issues caused by urbansprawl.

Although much of the Rhode IslandSierra Club’s focus centers on urbanissues, Marston said the organizationalso looks at global problems.Overpopulation and global warming aretwo major problems he said he thinkswill arise this century and must be dealtwith.

The National Science Foundationrecently invited Marston to headline aseries of lectures in October on“Condensed Matter Physics.” He willgive a lecture on the quantum mechan-ics of global warming, in which he willexplain global warming from a physical

Marston chairs Sierra Club chapter

see BRADLEY, page 13see DELTA, page 12

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In primaries, many elected not to vote(Washington Post) — Neither terrorist attacks, a plummetingstock market nor talk of war with Iraq was enough to drivesignificant numbers of Americans to the polls in primaryelections this year, according to a new report.

The survey, conducted by the Committee for the Studyof the American Electorate, found that turnout in thisyear’s gubernatorial and Senate primary elections justmissed setting a record low. Only 17 percent of those oldenough to cast a ballot did so in one of the 37 states thathave held statewide contests this year for both major par-ties.

That’s a bare 0.2 percent more than the record low setduring the 1998 midterm elections — and less than halfthe percentage of those who cast ballots in the 1966 pri-mary elections, a pinnacle of voter participation.

“The events of Sept.11, 2001, or the rekindling of thosesentiments in 2002 may have helped boost patriotic fer-vor, but that did not carry over into political participation,”said Curtis Gans, the study’s director. He noted, however,that voter turnout for the primaries held after July slightlyoutpaced turnout for 1998’s post-July primaries.

This “may mean that voter interest is picking up for thiselection and there may be somewhat higher general elec-tion turnout,” Gans said.

Candidates target overseas voters(L.A. Times) — With the Nov. 5 elections little more than amonth away, both major parties are busily trying to woothat oft-overlooked voter: the U.S. citizen living abroad.

There are about 6 million of them, and their ballots —and the mysteries surrounding the overseas votingprocess — add suspense to what promises to be a closeelection for control of Congress.

Whereas analysts routinely slice and dice the domesticelectorate into any number of demographic categories, noone is quite sure how many overseas Americans bother tovote--or for whom they vote. Republicans claim a majority,extrapolating data from elections scattered across thecountry. But no one knows for sure.

The problems that plagued the counting of overseasballots in 2000 — the missing signatures and postmarksand other technicalities that disqualified ballots inFlorida's infamous presidential recount — appear largelyunresolved. Both parties backed legislation to improve theprocess. But the bills, along with efforts for domestic elec-tion reform, bogged down in partisan debate.

The overseas voting process remains highly decentral-ized, with each state setting requirements and deadlines.In the face of this, Republicans and Democrats are man-ning far-flung operations to inspire civilian expatriates andU.S. military personnel to cast ballots.

A GOP ad in the Paris-based International HeraldTribune contends:“Democrats opposed Republicanreforms to make overseas voting easier. And blockedcountless overseas Americans in Census 2000. Republicansare fixing all that.”

A Democratic ad in the Jerusalem Post says:“Democratsare fighting to secure the future for all Americans, at homeand abroad ... ensuring Social Security, pension and retire-ment security for Americans abroad.”

Sand dump caps DDT contaminationoff California coast, report finds(L.A. Times) — An unprecedented experiment to entomba giant underwater deposit of DDT off SouthernCalifornia’s Palos Verdes Peninsula under tons of cleansand appears to be working, according to a study to bereleased Monday.

The report concludes that the best solution to the con-tinuing DDT pollution in the area may be to bury more ofthe decades-old pesticide dump.

“We are thinking about laying down a layer a foot to afoot and a half thick,” said Frederick K. Schauffler, an envi-ronmental engineer with the U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency.“This report clearly shows that, from atechnical standpoint, this kind of cap is feasible.”

From 1947 to 1971, Montrose Chemical Corp., nearTorrance, Calif., which manufactured DDT, routinely dis-charged the pesticide into sewers that flowed into theocean. Government officials estimate about 1,800 tons ofDDT settled on the sea floor over 17 square miles fanningout from White’s Point off the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

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Demonstrators Laurel Imlay, left, and Deborah Avramsky of Mt. Rainier, Md. wrote slogans on their pregnant belliesduring an anti-war march Sunday in Washington, D.C. Protesters wrapped up three days of demonstrations against theWorld Bank and International Monetary Fund by marching from Washington's Dupont Circle to Vice President DickCheney's residence to rally against a possible war in Iraq.

Protestors rally in D.C. against warWASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Claiming that President Bush ismore interested in grabbing Saddam Hussein’s oilresources than his weapons of mass destruction, severalthousand demonstrators marched through the nation’scapital Sunday to protest a potential attack on Iraq.

‘‘The message is: No war in Iraq. We need inspections,not war; disarmament, not overthrow of the Iraqi regime,’’said Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies, aWashington public-policy group.

A strike against Iraq ‘‘will bring on more terrorism, thedeaths of who knows how many Americans and thedeaths of hundred of thousands of Iraqi citizens,’’ said AlFischman, 74, a retiree from Michigan. ‘‘It will accomplishabsolutely nothing.’’

The protest came as U.S. lawmakers debate how muchlatitude to give Bush in pursuing military action againstIraq, and as U.N. weapons inspectors prepare to meetwith Iraqi officials Monday to lay down demands for theirreturn.

The march, which was peaceful, took demonstratorsup Washington’s ‘‘Embassy Row.’’ It paused briefly at theembassies of countries in the U.N. Security Council, asymbolic plea for them to guide the United States awayfrom war, and ended with a rally outside the residence ofVice President Dick Cheney.

‘‘No blood for oil,’’ the protesters yelled. ‘‘One, two,three, four, we don’t want your oil war.’’

Police estimated that about 2,500 people participated. The protest marked the third day of demonstrations in

Washington against U.S. foreign policy, coinciding withannual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and

the World Bank. Protesters blame the two internationalfinance agencies for setting out loan terms for indigentnations that harm the poor and the environment.

Authorities had prepared for as many as 20,000 pro-testers over the weekend, but far fewer appeared.

On Sunday, the protesters included church groups,suburban families and college students—a more diversecrowd than had appeared at rowdier demonstrations onFriday and Saturday. Those had been dominated by col-lege-age protesters.

‘‘Ordinary folks are opposing the war, not just the rab-ble-rousing kids,’’ said Dave Bort, a 51-year-old electricalengineer from Maryland who wore a three-piece suit.

‘‘There’s a lot of strong opposition in the suburbanneighborhoods to any more killing,’’ said Mike Hanna, 38,an environmental engineer who turned out with fellowparishioners from his Catholic church in Virginia. Theyincluded a lawyer, an occupational therapist and a collegeprofessor.

‘‘There’s been enough killing in the past year. Killing abunch of Iraqis won’t help anything.’’

Ryan Amundson of Hartville, Mo., said he was attend-ing on behalf of 50 people who lost relatives in the Sept. 11terrorist attacks. ‘‘It’s very upsetting to see Sept. 11 used tojustify this war with Iraq,’’ said Amundson, whose broth-er, Craig, 27, died at the Pentagon, where he was workingas a multimedia illustrator for the Army.

‘‘We know many innocent people will die in a war, andwe think that will bring more insecurity than peace. Wedon’t want anyone, anywhere, to have to go through whatwe went through.’’


In Hussein’s younger son, officials see seeds of future troubleWASHINGTON (L. A. Times) — He israrely quoted in the newspaper orshown on television. He has nevergiven an interview and apparent-ly has never delivered a speech inpublic. He is said to stutter.

Most Iraqis, it is said, wouldnot recognize the short, stoutman with a thick mustache if theyencountered him on the street—although two who did tried to killhim recently, according to anopposition group.

Qusai Hussein, 36, the youngerson of Iraqi dictator SaddamHussein, has emerged as a signifi-cant figure in the regime and anobject of growing U.S. concern.He commands key military, secu-rity and intelligence forces and,U.S. officials say, directs lucrativesmuggling networks in violationof United Nations sanctions.

If an invasion killed or dis-lodged his father, Quasi couldwell be left in control of theregime’s deadliest weapons.

A British government reportrevealed last week that the elderHussein may have delegated toQusai authority over Iraq’s sus-pected arsenal of chemical andbiological weapons. The disclo-

sure was the latest sign that Qusaihas eclipsed his infamous olderbrother, Uday, as the Iraqi strong-man’s most trusted aide and heirapparent.

U.S. officials say Qusai’s grow-ing power has emerged as a wildcard as U.N. inspectors plan toreturn to Iraq to search for possi-ble weapons of mass destruc-tion—and as the Bush adminis-tration weighs how best to toppleHussein’s regime.

“If Saddam is knocked outearly, and command and controlbreaks down, then how do theyfire their stuff?” said a senior U.S.intelligence official who isinvolved in the current planning.“Who’s going to push the button?

“Qusai is someone who, A,would be loyal to his father, and,B, if he gives the orders, thoseorders will be followed like hisfather’s,” the official said. “There’scontingency planning going on,and he’s a big part of it.”

According to U.S. and Britishintelligence, Hussein’s regime inrecent years has produced bothbiological and chemical weaponsand can deliver them withartillery shells, free-fall bombs,

sprayers and ballistic missiles.They could be deployed within 45minutes of a decision to do so,officials said.

Would Qusai use them?Former U.N. weapons inspectorTerrance Taylor said he isn’t sure.“These are not Taliban, theologi-cally motivated people,” saidTaylor, now president of theInternational Institute forStrategic Studies-U.S.

“This is a secular ruling clique,a Mafia-type group. They want tosurvive. So they’re going to try tostrike deals.”

Qusai had no known role in hisfather’s past military confronta-tions, including the war againstIran in the 1980s and the invasionof Kuwait in 1990 that led to thePersian Gulf War the followingyear.

But Qusai knows about Iraq’sclandestine weapons programs.Iraqi defectors have told U.S. offi-cials that starting in the mid-1990s, he headed a special unit ofas many as 2,000 men whose jobwas to hinder and hamper U.N.weapons inspectors.

According to these accounts,one team from Qusai’s group

would create traffic jams andother diversions to delay theinspectors, while another teamwould rush to move incriminat-ing records, equipment and otheritems that the inspectors wereseeking.

David Kay, a former U.N.weapons inspector, said Qusaican be seen “lurking in the back-ground” in photographs of keyinspections. Another formerinspector, who asked not to beidentified, said Qusai was part ofa high-level Iraqi committee that“decided what to give up andwhat to conceal. He was involvedup to his eyeballs.”

U.N. inspectors withdrew fromIraq in frustration in December1998 and have yet to return.

Experts say Qusai’s influencehas grown dramatically sincethen, especially in the militaryand security structure of the Iraqipolice state.

Qusai oversees the RepublicanGuard, the best trained andarmed military unit, and theSpecial Security Organization,which is entrusted with protect-ing the president and with hidingany weapons of mass destruc-

tion. The SSO also monitorstelecommunications betweenIraq and the outside world, Iraqiexiles say.

The two posts, as well as arecent appointment to head ofthe northern army, the force thatpresumably would defendBaghdad against an attack fromKurdish areas in the north, giveQusai operational control oversome of the most important unitsin Iraq’s armed services.

Qusai also helps run theMukhabarat, Iraq’s largest andmost dreaded intelligence andinternal security service.

The U.N. Commission onHuman Rights, AmnestyInternational and other human-rights groups have accused theMukhabarat of torturing suspect-ed dissidents or their families.

A former Mukhabarat mem-ber, Khalid al-Janabi, told U.N.investigators last year that mem-bers of a special unit, theTechnical OperationsDirectorate, have raped relativesof suspected opponents and thenused videotape of the sexualassaults to ensure future cooper-ation.

Pentagon to deter Iraq’s use ofchemical, biological weaponsWASHINGTON (Washington Post) —The Pentagon is preparing acampaign aimed at deterringIraqi officers from firing chemi-cal or biological weapons dur-ing a U.S. invasion becauseintelligence officials believePresident Saddam Hussein hasgiven field commanders condi-tional authority to use theweapons in event of an attack,according to defense and intel-ligence officials.

The effort would includemassive leafleting of Iraqi mili-tary positions — a tactic used byU.S. forces during the Gulf Warin 1991 — but also mightemploy covert techniques thatwould enable the U.S. messageto reach Iraqi commanders, theofficials said.

Final authority to useweapons of mass destructionhas resided with Saddam. Butthe Iraqi president’s knowledgethat the United States wouldseek to take down Iraqi com-mand centers and communica-tions systems at the outset ofany military strike means he haslikely given authority for firingchemical and biologicalweapons to his most loyal com-manders in the field, the offi-cials said. They said Saddamissued similar orders before theGulf War.

The sources said, thePentagon plans to appealdirectly to these officers not touse the weapons. One of thebiggest challenges before mili-tary planners is determiningwhich Iraqi military units canbe encouraged to defect inevent of a U.S. invasion andhow to communicate withthem, defense officials havesaid.

A British intelligence reportreleased Tuesday by PrimeMinister Tony Blair said Iraqcould deploy nerve gas andanthrax weapons on 45 min-utes’ notice. It also said Saddammay have delegated authority toorder use of such weapons tohis youngest son, Qusai, who

leads the Republican Guard —elite units that control deployedweapons of mass destruction.

The Pentagon’s campaignwas signaled recently byDefense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld. Testifying before theHouse Armed ServicesCommittee, Rumsfeld said,“Wise Iraqis will not obeyorders to use WMD (weapons ofmass destruction).... The UnitedStates will make clear at theoutset that those who are notguilty of atrocities can play arole in the new Iraq. But if WMDis used, all bets are off.”

Rumsfeld added that if theorder to use chemical or biolog-ical weapons were made bySaddam, “that does not neces-sarily mean his orders would becarried out. He might not haveanything to lose, but thosebeneath him in the chain ofcommand most certainly wouldhave a great deal to lose.”

A Pentagon official saidRumsfeld’s comments “are atleast the start of telling them weare serious.”

After the Gulf War, coalitionforce interrogators learnedSaddam had decided ahead oftime to give commanders thego-ahead to use chemicalweapons if Baghdad’s commu-nications were interrupted.

One administration sourcesaid the Iraqi president issuedspecific orders to use theweapons if “the allies were win-ning the ground war and theyhad crossed a line due west ofthe city of Al-Amarah,” which is200 miles south of Baghdad.Iraqi unit commanders werealso told they should employthe weapons against Iranianforces if they crossed the borderduring the war and moved intoIraq’s Maysan Province, whereAl-Amarah is located.

Although Iraq’s chemicalartillery shells and warheadswere deployed during the war,they were not used. U.S. offi-cials now believe this wasbecause the United States

repeatedly cautioned Iraqbefore the fighting started thatuse of such weapons woulddraw an immediate and possi-bly overwhelming response thatwould topple Saddam frompower.

One reason the Pentagon hasadopted a plan to dissuade Iraqiofficers from ordering the use ofchemical or biological weaponsis that this deterrent has beenrendered moot by the adminis-tration’s decision to makeremoving Saddam the goal ofany military action.

Whether a plan to deter Iraqicommanders from employingthe weapons will work is a mat-ter of disagreement among mil-itary experts.

“They will face a short-termor a long-term problem,” oneformer senior intelligence offi-cial said. “We may come afterthem when the fighting is over.But there may be a Saddam loy-alist with a gun who is threaten-ing to kill him right away if hedoesn’t follow orders.”

Judith Yaphe, an Iraq special-ist at the National DefenseUniversity, said that in 1991,according to documents foundafter the war, Saddam tried topersuade his commanders touse the weapons because theywould be killed anyway. Also,Saddam placed loyalists withthe commanders to enforce hiswishes. “The question is, arethey still there?” she said.

Richard Russell, a CIA areaanalyst who specialized in Iraqand is now at the NationalDefense University, said theeffort to deter individual com-manders “makes sense as anattempt.” But he noted Iraqioperational security was verygood in the Gulf War and “youhave to assume it is much betternow.”

In the Gulf War’s aftermath,U.S. intelligence officialslearned that Iraq had beendeterred from using chemicalweapons by the threat of mas-sive retaliation.

BRUSSELS (Washington Post) —Here in the capital of the newEurope, officials are express-ing emotions ranging fromconcern to alarm to irritation,resentment and anger as theycontemplate the growing gapbetween themselves and theBush administration.

The immediate cause is theadministration’s newlydeclared preemption doctrine,reserving for the United Statesthe right to attack potentialenemies before they strike,and its determination to dealwith Iraq with or withoutinternational support. Onesenior European official saidthe new U.S. message toEurope was: “You havebecome irrelevant, and unlessyou do something dramatic toraise your defense expendi-ture, this is the end. The phoneis not ringing.”

But officials and analystshere say their problems withWashington go much deeperthan the current crisis. Theyfear the Bush administration,in the name of counteringthreats from terrorism andfrom rogue states since theSept. 11 attacks last year, is jet-tisoning the post-World War IIsystem of multilateral institu-tions and coalitions—such asthe U.N. Security Council andthe NATO alliance—that theUnited States helped build, andwhich helped preserve peaceand stability for nearly 60 years.

“The mixture of contain-ment and establishing aninternational rule book by andlarge encouraged democracy,the rule of law and open mar-kets throughout the world,”said Chris Patten, theEuropean Union’s externalaffairs minister, in an inter-view Friday. “Why should any-one think that that approachwas somehow less relevantafter September 11th? I thinkit’s more relevant.”

Rallies by tens of thousands

of anti-war demonstrators inLondon and Rome onSaturday were reminiscent ofprotests of the early 1980s infavor of nuclear disarmamentand against President Reagan’stough stance on the SovietUnion. But here in Brussels,opposition to what is seen asthe administration’s emergingunilateralism comes not justfrom the left but from acrossthe board, and includes thehighest levels of the EU.

“There’s a lot of concern,and it’s growing and it’s notjust the usual suspects, it’sacross the spectrum,” saidJohn Palmer, director of theEuropean Policy Center, aprominent Brussels researchgroup.

Officials concede that theydo not speak with one voice.The views of European leadersrange from British PrimeMinister Tony Blair’s spiritedendorsement of the Bushadministration’s Iraq policy toGerman Chancellor GerhardSchroeder’s equally spiritedcriticism, with FrenchPresident Jacques Chiracsomewhere between. “It’s ourweakness, not America’sstrength, that is the problem,”said Elmar Brok, chairman ofthe European Parliament’s for-eign affairs committee. “Wehave no influence because wehave no common Europeanapproach.”

European feelings havebeen badly bruised in recentmonths. The Europeans saythe administration views themas “Euro wimps” who don’tpull their weight militarily, andwho prefer prevarication toplain-speaking and appease-ment to action. At a recentNATO meeting Warsaw,Defense Secretary DonaldRumsfeld snubbed theGerman defense ministerbecause of Schroeder’s strongopposition to military actionagainst Iraq.

European officials seegrowing gap with U.S.

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West coast cargo ports closedown again in labor disputeLOS ANGELES (L. A. Times) — WestCoast cargo ports were shutdown indefinitely Sunday nightfollowing a chaotic day on thewaterfront that dashed hopes fora truce between dockworkersand shipping lines, now in theirfifth month of troubled contracttalks.

Losses to the trade-depend-ent U.S. economy could quicklyreach into the billions of dollars.The 29 ports, from San Diego toSeattle, handle about half of thenation’s oceangoing cargo,including imports of cars, elec-tronics, garments, housewaresand sporting goods.

Leaders of the InternationalLongshore and WarehouseUnion insisted they had donenothing to provoke the abruptlockout of their members by thePacific Maritime Association,which represents internationalshipping lines and U.S.-basedterminal operators.

But the PMA provided dozensof examples of what it said weredeliberate acts to slow or halt theflow of cargo, such as the failureto fill key equipment operatorpositions and the loss of cargocontainers in terminals. Overall,productivity was down 54 per-cent coast-wide, although itdropped most dramatically inPortland, Ore., and Oakland,Calif., according to figures pro-vided by the association.

A top federal mediator flew toSan Francisco Friday and offeredto help the two sides reach anagreement. The PMA said itwould accept mediation, but theunion maintained its position ofrefusing an intermediary.

After a week of sporadic slow-downs and a 36-hour lockoutthat ended Sunday morning,vessels were already backed upin harbors and being forced toanchor outside the breakwaters.Many more ships were sched-uled to arrive Monday, including23 at the ports of Los Angelesand Long Beach.

“This is bad. Very bad,” saidRobin Lanier, executive directorof the West Coast WaterfrontCoalition, which representsmajor retailers and manufactur-ers that use the ports. “We’vealready got a backed-up situa-tion, and it’s going to get pro-gressively worse. And every-body’s terrified of what this doesto the stock market tomorrow.”

Union members wereincensed by the PMA’s late-after-noon decision to enforce a lock-out and quickly set up picketlines at terminals in Los Angeles

and Long Beach. “They want toplay this game? They can goahead and play it,” said RamonPonce de Leon Jr., president ofILWU Local 13 in Los Angeles.

Ponce de Leon said he hadbeen on the docks all daySunday trying to ensure that jobswere filled. “There is no slow-down,” he said.

Ponce de Leon and otherunion leaders blamed the PMAfor instigating a crisis in thehope that it would lead to feder-al intervention. The mood atLocal 13 headquarters in LosAngeles was grim as unionmembers gathered for picketduty. “We’re going to have menat the gates,” Ponce de Leonsaid. “It’s going to get ugly.”

PMA President JosephMiniace said it would be morecostly for terminals to operateunder a slowdown than it wouldbe to shut down operationsentirely, because union mem-bers would be paid for doing lit-tle or no work.

“I will not pay workers tostrike,” said Miniace, who saidthe lockout would continue untilthe union signs a new contractor agrees to extend its expiredcontract. Any slowdown is sub-ject to arbitration under a con-tract, which would make itunlikely.

An extended shutdown of theWest Coast ports would be eco-nomically devastating, with theimpact worsening the longer theshutdown continues, accordingto a study conducted for thePMA by the Martin Associatesconsulting firm in Lancaster, Pa.

A five-day shutdown wouldcost the national economy anestimated $4.7 billion in lostwages and other costs, accordingto the study. Exporters of perish-able goods, for example, wouldlikely have to ship items by airfreight instead of by sea. But thelarger impact would be on retail-ers, who won’t have the samevolume of goods to sell, and as aresult won’t have as much salesrevenue to fund additional pur-chases.

“The lost sales of the import-ed commodities will have a rip-ple effect throughout thenation’s retail support sector,creating negative impacts insuch support activity as localwarehousing and distribution,advertising, wholesale activityand packaging,” the study noted.

The costs would snowballover time, with a 10-day shut-down costing the economy anestimated $19.4 billion.

Only a small portion of thecargo arriving on the West Coastcould be diverted to Atlanticports, according to MartinAssociates and other experts,because most container vesselsare now too large to fit throughthe Panama Canal.

West Coast ports now handleabout half of the U.S. sea cargo,or double what they handled in1980, and have invested heavilyin cranes, terminals and otherfacilities to handle the rising vol-ume of trade—which has notbeen the case at most Atlanticports.

Ports were closed Friday nightfor what the PMA termed a 36-hour “cooling-off period” afterterminal operators reportedslowdowns up and down thecoast. In some cases, crane oper-ators that normally moved 30containers an hour off shipswere moving only three an hour.The gates reopened Sundaymorning, and both sides saidthey were prepared to put in anormal day.

But the situation deterioratedquickly. One hour after gatesopened at 8 a.m., many jobs hadstill not been filled. Cranes thatwere operated were movingslowly. Truckers, who hoped tomake up for the previous day’sclosure, were backed up two-deep more than a quarter mile atterminals in Los Angeles andLong Beach. After waiting sever-al hours, some drivers made U-turns and left in frustration.

At the new Pier 400 in LosAngeles, the largest containerterminal in the world, a securityguard closed the gates andwaved truckers away at 10 a.m.,saying crane operators had notarrived. The announcement wasgreeted with honking and jeersfrom drivers, some of whom hadalready waited in line more thantwo hours.

Longshore workers areamong the highest-paid unionworkers, making about $80,000to $150,000 annually with over-time. But the fight with the ship-pers and terminal operators isnot about compensation, butabout the union’s continuingability to hold key jobs againstthe threat of technological inno-vations that could weaken itsclout.

Despite increasing volumes ofPacific Rim trade, the shippinglines and terminal operators thatmake up the PMA have beenhurt by an excess of shippingcapacity that has forced them tokeep rates low.

MEXICO CITY (L. A. Times) — Murdercharges brought against threehigh-ranking Mexican army offi-cers for alleged involvement inthe nation’s “dirty war” againstdissidents drew praise here overthe weekend as an importantstep in President Vicente Fox’sfight against institutionalizedcorruption and impunity.

The charges are the firstlodged against army officers inthe disappearance of hundredsof government opponentsthought to have died at thehands of the police and militarybetween the late 1960s and early1980s. They came as Fox, whotook office nearly two years ago,is still striving to deliver on acampaign promise to clean upMexico.

The new charges could lendauthority to Fox’s most impor-tant anti-corruption effort todate: allegations of fraud byunion leaders at Mexico’sstate-owned oil company,Petroleos Mexicanos, orPemex, in having supposedlydiverted $170 million in Pemexfunds to the 2000 presidentialcampaign of the then-rulingInstitutional RevolutionaryParty.

The action by a military tribu-nal last week also could give“coherence and legitimacy” toFox’s campaign to prosecute thePemex and other cases, saidJorge Chabat, a crime and secu-rity expert at the Mexico City-based Center for EconomicResearch and Teaching.

“This clearly gives Fox moreauthority with which to applythe law against civilians, whetherin the dirty war or other matters,”Chabat said. “He can now say thatnot even the military has immuni-ty.”

A military tribunal chargedtwo generals, Mario ArturoAcosta Chaparro and FranciscoQuiroz Hermosillo, who havebeen imprisoned since 2000 ondrug trafficking charges.

A third officer, retired Maj.Francisco Barquin, was arrestedin connection with the deaths of143 people. Relatives and otherwitnesses testified that the miss-ing leftists were last seen in theofficers’ custody.

Noting that there remainunanswered questions sur-rounding the officers’ allegedcrimes, Sergio Aguayo, a politi-cal science professor at Colegiode Mexico, said the charges areimportant because they werebrought against high-rankingplayers in the “security appara-

tus created by the state” tocombat government oppo-nents.

“This investigation will con-tinue, given that there is a socialgrievance that society will con-tinue to insist on pursuing,”Aguayo said.

Other observers, however,including political scientistPamela Starr of the AutonomousTechnological Institute ofMexico, or ITAM, said thecharges might have less to dowith Fox than with an effort bythe Mexican military to “inocu-late itself” against charges ofresponsibility for two massacres,in 1968 and 1971, by serving up“sacrificial victims with littlepolitical risk.”

“These are generals whoalready appear to be definitelyguilty. They were implicated indrug trafficking,” Starr said.

Rosario Ibarra, president ofthe Eureka Committee, a humanrights advocacy group for thefamilies of hundreds of “disap-peared” from past decades, saidthe charges didn’t go far enoughbecause they failed to say whomight have ordered the officersto commit murder.

“This is a plan by the Fox gov-ernment to close these cases,”Ibarra said Sunday.

“They have not even releasedthe names of the 143 people theyare alleged to have made disap-pear.”

Federico Estevez, also anITAM professor, added that thePemex fraud case is the “acidtest” for the Fox government,which swept to victory in July2000 on a tide of public opti-mism that it would fight corrup-tion, past and present.

“This is a plan by the

Fox government to

close these cases ....

They have not even

released the names

of the 143 people

they are alleged to

have made disap-

pear.”

Rosario IbarraEureka Committee President

LOS ANGELES (L. A. Times) — TheWilliams fire in the AngelesNational Forest continued itsslow fade under soggy skiesSunday, but hundreds of MountBaldy Village residentsremained off the mountain asfire officials warned of possibleflare-ups.

The wildfire, which hasburned 36,160 acres and led tothe park’s temporary closure,was 80 percent contained bySunday evening. Once burningon three fronts, the seven-dayblaze has been reduced to onefire head about 1 1/2 miles westof the village.

That front smoldered onSunday under a low pressuresystem that brought drizzle andhigh humidity. Firefighters,meanwhile, continued workingon a fire break to protect thetown in case the flames contin-ued to advance.

Fire officials said the blazemay be fully contained byTuesday, but said conditions arestill volatile. More than 2,000firefighters remain in the forest,and officials said it was tooearly to lift the evacuation orderfor the town’s estimated 900 res-idents.

“We can’t be lulled into com-

placency,” said San BernardinoCounty Fire Capt. JamesWilkins. “The threat is notimminent, but the weathercould change.”

The blaze began eight daysago near Williams Canyon in theSan Gabriel Mountains andquickly spread south and east,at one point stretching 11 milesacross the forest’s steepcanyons and dense forests.

The cause of the blaze is stillunknown, though investigatorshave ruled out campfires andbarbecues as a source. Theinjury toll reached seven onSunday, but no firefighters face

life-threatening injuries. In Mount Baldy Village, the

evacuation has prompted com-plaints from many residentswho have been unable to returnto their homes since being toldto leave Tuesday night.

Many are staying in motels orarea shelters; others are stayingwith relatives and friends. Manysay the evacuation order has beenenforced unevenly, with some res-idents being allowed to stay in thevillage.

“A lot of people were trying todo the right thing, and left thehill only to hear that there’s stillpeople up there that didn’t have

to leave,” said Tom Bailey, whohas been living in a motel withhis wife and 15-year-old son.

Officials said about 100 peo-ple have stayed behind, vowingto protect their homes them-selves. In such cases, there is lit-tle law enforcement can do,they say.

“We can’t slap cuffs on peopleand drag folks from their homes.That’s not what the forest serviceis about,” said Jonetta Holt, aspokesperson for the U.S. ForestService. “Some people will justhandle the risk. Other peopleconsider their lives more impor-tant than their property.”

Drizzle, humidity help turn tide on raging California wildfires

Charges in‘DirtyWar’campaign win praise

Had the Bears successfullykicked an extra point after eachtouchdown — a distance of only 17yards — they would have edged theCrimson 28-26.

Who’s the new guy?There is an old adage in football: ateam is only as good as its backupquarterback. Just ask the St. LouisRams. For the Crimson, their backupquarterback was brilliant. After los-ing senior play caller Neil Rose to anagging injury in the second quarter,Harvard sophomore RyanFitzpatrick put down the clipboardand torched the Bears with his feet,rushing for 131 yards on 20 carries.Fitzpatrick repeatedly found holesup the middle, as an undersizedBrown defensive line could notadjust to contain the mobile quarter-back. Fitzpatrick was also efficient inthe air; completing 62.5% of his pass-es for 113 yards, two for touchdowns.

“Maybe he makes a couple mis-takes,” Estes said. “He didn’t makeany mistakes. He moved the balldownfield; he threw it as well as hecould throw it. The big differencewas when he needed a first down he

could run for it. He did an outstand-ing job.”

Losing the battle,winning the warThough never on the field at thesame time, a friendly rivalry hasdeveloped between standout widereceivers Chas Gessner ’03 andHarvard senior Carl Morris. Both arefrom the state of Maryland anddecided to take their skills to the IvyLeague to bring havoc to undersizedcornerbacks. Before Saturday’sgame, Morris and Gessner were tiedfor receptions per game, both lead-ing the nation. Both are candidatesfor the 2002 Walter Payton Award,presented annually to the best playerin I-AA football. Last year Morrisedged out Gessner for Ivy-Leagueplayer of the Year, leading theCrimson to an undefeated seasonand the Ivy League Title.

Gessner certainly had betternumbers on the afternoon, endingthe day with 10 catches for 150 yardsand two touchdowns. Morris hadeight catches for 93 yards and onetouchdown. Given that his startingquarterback left the game and thatfill-in Fitzpatrick was preoccupiedwith gaining yards in chunks on theground, Morris had fewer opportu-nities. He did however make keyblocks to open up lanes forFitzpatrick down the sideline, one

resulting in 60 yards.

Fourth and EternityTrailing 26-24 late in the fourth quar-ter, Brown, a team known for it’s pro-lific passing game, gained hard yardson the ground in an attempt to keepthe Harvard offense off the field.Fullback Brent Grinna ’04 gained allhis 36 yards in the fourth quarter onfour carries, dragging Harvarddefenders with him. RunningbackAaron Neff ’05 also had two carriestotaling 20 yards. But when the teamneeded a first down to keep a drivealive, the reliable hands of co-cap-tain Gessner caught everything thatwent their way.

With only a few minutes remain-ing, the Bears found themselves onHarvard’s 24-yard line facing a fourthdown and needing four yards.Gessner made a catch across themiddle and was brought down nearthe goal line, creating a 1st and goalwith a Brown touchdown almostcertain to follow. The referees howev-er saw a penalty and flagged the play.The call was offensive pass interfer-ence on a slot receiver that had nobearing on the play, the officials say-ing he intentionally ran his defenderinto another player — similar to apick in basketball. This pushedBrown back 15 yards, facing a fourthand 19 that they did not convert.

Brown had to concede the ball to theCrimson on downs, ending its drive.

In the post game press confer-ence, an irate Coach Estes did nothold back his criticism of the offi-cials, chastising them for calling apenalty one rarely sees on any levelof football.

“It wasn’t even close as far as I’mconcerned,” he said. “I’m probablynot supposed to say anything aboutthe officials, they are the one peoplein the world you’re not allowed totalk about when they have a bad day.That was the difference in the game.”

Had Brown scored on the play,Harvard probably would have hadtime to move down the field, as nei-ther defense was able to contain theother’s offense. Only three puntswere needed between the two teamsthe entire game. Yet in the waningminutes of the game, after theoffense conceded the ball, the Browndefense made one of its rare stops onthe afternoon. Therefore presum-ably another Crimson score wouldnot have followed had Brown scoredon its last drive, preserving the Bears’lead.

Linebacker Joel Barone ’03 ledBrown with 16 tackles and safetyHunter Young ’03 had 13 tackles anda sack

Brown did get the ball back onemore time, deep in its own territory.

The Crimson defense made one ofits rare stops as well, assuring themof another come from behind victo-ry against Brown.

So,So CloseFor Estes and the team, Saturday’sloss was a bitter defeat. The gamestatistics proved that Brown was asgood if not better than Harvard, thedefending Ivy League Champions.Brown’s total offensive output was443 yards to Harvard’s 442. Eachteam scored four touchdowns.Neither team turned the ball over.The Crimson escaped with a victorydecided on a call that should beremembered in infamy by Brownfans.

“You just hate to see those kind ofcalls make the difference in a footballgame,” said Estes after the game.

Brown has a road game nextweekend against the University ofRhode Island. It should provide anopportunity for the Bears to taketheir vengeance on a Rams team thatbeat them last year, and prove theBears are better than their 0-2record.

Sports staff writer JermaineMatheson ’03 is an assistant sportseditor and covers football. He can bereached at [email protected].


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severe, wider scope.”There has been a history of

Northern activists coming into theDelta since the Civil Rights era,Lederer said. “But it’s hard to tellwhat the real changes have been …now the problems are different but

still race related.” The activism-driv-en Civil Rights efforts of the 1960s nolonger receive national attention,Lederer said.

While in Mississippi, Gunja,Clarke and Lederer said theyencountered people doing positivethings for the Delta community.Since black people in the Deltaoften have trouble getting loansfrom banks, one man started ablack credit union that also pro-

vides classes on how to own ahouse, deal with bills and maintaingood credit, Clark said.

The students plan to imple-ment a long-term collaborativeeffort and re-energize an alreadyestablished alliance betweenBrown and Tougaloo College inJackson, Miss., as a springboardfor a project in partnershipbetween the two institutions,Lederer said.


Delta

they do, realize that money does-n’t define success and not be afraidto take risks, Bell said.

“Fight for a cause that surpassesunderstanding,” and learn that it ispossible to “move away from pop-ular consensus,” Bell said.

“There are values in trying tolive ethically that bring guaranteeddividends whether or not you suc-ceed as the world measures suc-cess,” he added.

Bell is known for protesting

unfair hiring practices at HarvardUniversity and at the University ofOregon Law School. Personalactions are often a good way toconvince the world that the major-ity is not always right, he said.

Bell later stressed the impor-tance of introducing an ethicalview of success to others as ameans of combating the material-ism of today’s society.

Audience member Joy Wu ’03asked what responsibility institu-tions such as Brown have to pro-duce not just leaders, but ethicalleaders. Bell responded that innerintegrity must begin before stu-dents start their college education,

but that some guidance and inspi-ration is definitely needed.

Using education and knowledgefor the advancement of social jus-tice causes is of the utmost impor-tance, said fellow panelist andProfessor of History Evelyn Hu-DeHart, director of the Center forthe Study of Race and Ethnicity inAmerica.

“Teaching should not be acareer by default,” Hu-DeHart said.

Both Bell and Hu-DeHart saidincreasing faculty diversity isextremely important. It is essential,Hu-DeHart said, to recognize thatdiversity is more complex thanethnic backgrounds.


Bell

porting a social cause butdependent upon the patronageof large corporations.

An additional discussion per-tained to the relationshipbetween technique and creativity.

Daniels said she believes that“technique is just a means toexplore art.”

Weeks discussed her love oftechnique and the mechanics ofmovement, but recalled a periodof personal reflection after gradu-ating from dance school.

“I had all this formal training,but I had to figure out what wasgenuinely mine,” she said.

As for advice, many panelmembers stressed the impor-

tance of business savvy forartists.

“I wish I took a business oreconomics class,” Weeks said.

“A Day of the Arts at Brown”was organized by theUndergraduate Creative ArtsCouncil, founded last year tosponsor artistic collaborationand increase the voice of stu-dents in decision-making per-taining to the arts. It beganpreparation for the event in thespring of 2002, Strandberg said.

By scheduling the event forhomecoming, the group hopedto entice alumni who had foundtheir niche in the art communityand not the athletic field.

“The point was not to competewith the football game, but toattract alumni who wouldn’t havereturned for the athletic events,”Strandberg said.

The panelists received anenthusiastic response from theaudience, which ranged fromundergraduates to members ofthe Class of 1941.

“The discussion of art andsocial issues was very interest-ing,” said Julie Simon-Thomas’01, “I think it’s important to findcareers that incorporate the arts,which I had difficulty doing as anengineering major.”

“I loved the panel,” saidDorothy Berger Friar ’42.

“The fact that people have thecourage to try new things andexplore their passions is veryexciting,” Friar said.

Strandberg said she was verypleased with the panel.

“They were all typical Brownstudents,” she said. “They are stillre-creating themselves and find-ing new ground to explore.”


Arts

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standpoint. Most people understand the

biology, geology and chemistryof global warming, but fail tounderstand the physical expla-nation at the root of globalwarming, Marston said.

“Global warming is a veryinterdisciplinary problem, butphysics really wises up the moodof it,” he said.

Marston is now researchingstrongly correlated electron sys-tems.

“Like most scientists I like themoment of insight to see some-thing new for the first time,” hesaid. “That’s the moment I livefor.”

Globetrotters). Imagine thepotential revenue that could beraised in a pay-per-view eventfeaturing the arthritic andancient dream team squaring offagainst the current U.S. team.

The younger, less experiencedteam embarrassed itself thor-oughly in the last internationaltournament despite flauntingyouthful superstars such as TracyMcGrady and Paul Pierce. Thepride and egos of these preco-cious stars are probably soscarred from this failed endeavorthat they would take any oppor-tunity provided to prove theirskills. They know that most bas-ketball fans have concluded thatUSA basketball has declined inprowess over the last decade. Notsubscribing to this concept,George Karl’s team is probablyconvinced that it could have wonthe whole tournament if it onlyhad the incentive to contributesome effort.

Now although it is too late forthem to redeem themselves onthe international level, theycould be given the chance toprove that they rank up therewith the dream teams of the past.Although I acknowledge it wouldprobably take someone with thepersuasion powers of Don Kingto coordinate this event, itspotential mass appeal and mar-

ketability is unmatched amongcurrent sports entertainmentoptions.

I think it is clear to everyonethat a match-up between theseprospective teams when the orig-inal Dream Team was in its primewould be no match at all; withMichael Jordan, Magic Johnson,Larry Bird, and other assortedgreats, the current U.S. teamwould not stand a chance. Afteradding ten years to each of theseplayers, the outcome of the gameis definitely uncertain. Anyonewho believes in finesse and a finetouch would subscribe to theidea that the Dream Team wouldcome out on top.

But there are definitely thosefans out there who just cannotget enough of Tracy McGrady’sbounce the ball off the backboardjams. These people probablybelieve that the youth and sheerathleticism of the younger teamwould yield a victory for the glob-ally renowned losers. Personally, Ifeel there is no replacement forunselfish, controlled team play,and therefore the Dream Team’ssuccess would not be hinderedby its advanced age.

No matter what the outcomeof such a spectacle, fans wouldlove it. Let’s bring fun back to thegame of all-star basketball. Let’sbring back the Dream Team.

Adam Stern ’06 hails fromRoslyn, N.Y. and in addition tothis column, covers the women’stennis team.


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Cleaning ‘dirty money’At least one important program through which the University pro-vides support to the local Providence community is in danger of dis-appearing following recent federal government probes into thealleged defrauding of shareholders and employees at Global Crossing,Ltd. The Winnick Foundation Literacy Initiative at Brown’s Institutefor Elementary and Secondary Education is funded by CorporationTrustee Karen Winnick and her husband, Gary Winnick, the CEO ofbankrupt and embattled Global Crossing. Winnick will testify beforethe House Energy and Commerce Committee Sunday regarding alle-gations that he defrauded investors and employees of his fiber opticcommunication company out of hundreds of millions of dollars. Inaddition to the undisclosed amount of money the Winnicks gave tofund their literacy initiative, the Winnick’s non-profit group gave atleast $108,000 to Brown in 2000, $40,000 to Brown-RISD Hillel in 1998and 2000, and $1,000 to Brown football in 1998.

While the issues associated with alleged defrauders donating hun-dreds of thousands of dollars to Brown are disturbing, more troubling isthe fact that without the Winnicks’ support, the IESE Literacy Initiativemay no longer have the financial means necessary to operate. This pro-gram provides literacy training to students in the Providence PublicSchool system, trains local educators in literacy education and recruitsand trains Brown students to serve as literacy tutors to local students.Especially now, as the debate about Brown’s place in the Providencecommunity continues following last semester’s crime wave, programslike the Literacy Initiative must not falter. Regardless of whether or notthe Winnicks acquired their fortune illegally, this program must contin-ue. Global Crossing is now bankrupt and the Winnicks face serious legaltroubles. It is questionable whether Winnick’s civic minded philanthro-py will continue if he is found guilty and loses his fortune.

The responsibility to maintain support for this literacy programlies with the Brown community. The University along with alumniand other donors should step up to the plate and provide the moneythat is needed to continue IESE’s literacy initiative. In fact, this is justone program at Brown that may be forced to shut down in the wakeof recent Enron-like scandals. MCI WorldCom, another companycurrently being investigated for accounting fraud, supported Brown’sMaking a Civic Investment Project through a $5 million donation.

In these troubled economic times, we should focus on maintain-ing support for those programs that resulted from alleged defraudersphilanthropy in addition to seeking to repair the ills that fraudbrought about.

Bridges ’86 not certifiedinterior designerTo the Editor:The Herald’s article “Bridges ’86 wins interiordesign fame,” (9/27) is misleading. Bridges was rec-ognized by Time for her business skills and not herabilities as a designer. While Bridges’ business isbased in New York, she has not met the require-ments for certification as an interior designer asmandated by that state’s legislature.

Noticeably missing after Bridges’ name are theinitials of a professional design association. Theseseek to advance the profession of interior design, aswell as certify that designers in those organizationshave met the standard of safeguarding the public’shealth, safety and well-being. I congratulateBridges for earning recongnition from Time. Iencourage her, and anybody wishing to call them-selves an interior designer, to pursue the properprofessional certification prior to using the title.

James Owen Ross ‘86Sept. 27

Watson Instituteprovides diverse viewson international affairsTo the Editor:I thank The Herald for its coverage of “911+1: ThePerplexities of Security‚” (“‘911+1’ lecturer saysPalestinian suicide bombings can be ‘morally ration-alized,’” 9/23) a multimedia exhibition and series ofpublic events held at the Watson Institute forInternational Studies. I thought our videoconferencewith the American University in Cairo and the HebrewUniversity in Jerusalem would be controversial, or thelecture “America’s War on Terrorism: A MilitaryPerspective” by Admiral Rempt, President of the NavalWar College, would prove the most contentious.

Instead, it was to be a tightly argued and fairlyabstract lecture, “After the Terror” by Ted Honderich,the Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy ofMind and Logic at University College in London thatprovoked three angry letters to the editor. The arti-cle and letters have now caught the surveillant eyeof “Campus Watch‚” the new academic monitoringorganization that collects dossiers on universitiesand professors who do not agree with their views on

the Middle East. Campus Watch translated TheHerald’s coverage into a full-fledged campus uproar.

Notwithstanding the misquotation which head-lines The Herald’s article or the one that ends it, Iam alarmed that the response to its coverage mightstifle one of the most important mandates of thepress and the university: to provide an open yetcritical forum for views which might be antitheticalto one’s own. These past two weeks the WatsonInstitute reached wide to open up the circle of pub-lic discourse on Sept. 11, 2001, including artists,writers, philosophers and military officers. We willcontinue to do so, and we welcome all who areseeking the widest possible range of perspectives.

James Der DerianResearch Professor of International Relations

Sept. 27

TWTP mired inideology, sentimentTo the Editor:Did Associate Dean of the College ArmandoBengochea really assert that “TWTP was intendedfor those groups dramatically underrepresented forthe vast majority of Brown’s history”? (“Studentsdemystify, debate TWTP’s merits,” 9/27) JewishAmericans qualified under that rubric far longerthan Asian Americans or Arab Americans. Did heassert that “the term ‘Third World’ was first used atBrown during the late 1960s as a way for Brown stu-dents to express their solidarity and sympathy forliberation movements in Africa and Latin America”?Either he’s wrong, or those students were as ignorantof history and foreign affairs as students today are.The Second World, of whom only Communist China,Communist Cuba, Communist North Korea andCommunist Vietnam remain, claimed to representthe liberation movements in Africa and LatinAmerica and underwrote virtually all of them.

Did he really assert that “TWTP is based on all formsof repression?” Surely he did not say that. For the moreone reads about TWTP, the clearer it becomes thatwhatever intellectual justification it might once havehad has sunk into a cliché-ridden stew of ideology,sentimentality, racism and social engineering. The fan-tasies of the left at Brown never fail to amaze.

David JosephsonProfessor of Music

Sept. 27

if i were not me i would not be here intexas but maybe in barcelona?

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The life and times of the Brown varsity athleteWill the seven-week rest period corrupt the current balance between academics and extracurriculars?

I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF RESIDING INa room across the hall from a footballplayer. He goes by the name of JamesGasparella, but very recently people wholive in the vicinity of his dwelling havelabeled him the “hermit.” This, of course,is in reference to his day-to-day living habits. Knowingthat the season is heating up,we don’t “bust his balls” toomuch, and understandablyso. From classes in the morn-ing to mandatory football meetings, foot-ball practice and doing homework, Jamiethe Hermit simply has no choice but toexist in such a secluded livelihood. Andbetween all that, he must fit in what heconsiders to be the most important activ-ity of all: “sleep.”

The rare and fleeting sightings of theHermit by his neighbors can be catego-rized by the following: rubbingeyes/yawning on way to bathroom,scurrying off to football practice andcrawling through hallway on way toroom after an exhausting football prac-tice. Sometimes people do knock on hisdoor, only to find a dim-lit room and asquinting Jamie, hair disheveled andclad in boxers, mouthing, “Is it time forpractice?”

The issue regarding obligations andburdens that student athletes must fulfilland toil under throughout a substantialportion of the academic year has recently

received a great deal of attention. This hasbecome increasingly evident in light of thecollective enterprise undertaken by therespective presidents of the Ivies. Theyhave just recently implemented new poli-cies which will be put in effect next year in

an effort to boost participa-tion among student athletesin the broader offerings ofuniversities.

Of the newly institutional-ized policies, I found the

most controversial to unquestionably bethe seven-week rest period. This restperiod basically limits student athletesfrom being subject to mandatory athleticactivity of any kind for seven weeksthroughout the academic year. Whenasked to comment on how the wholeissue came about, Vice President ofCampus Life and Student Services JaninaMontero said that concerns were voicedon “whether even in the Ivies, student-athletes really had an opportunity toimmerse themselves in the broad offer-ings given more and more competitivedemands in sports.”

In light of these developments, I find itsafe to say that the Ivy League — more sothan any other athletic conference — epit-omizes the significance it places uponacademia and co-curricular endeavors. Byestablishing this rule, the Ivy League setsitself apart from other conferences in apursuit to mold better-rounded individu-als. But does this course of action reallyhelp the students?

The domineering objective of the

seven-week rest period is to allow athletesto strike a better balance in their lifestyles.By giving them seven weeks off, adminis-trative officers hope that students willengage themselves in a wide range ofactivities, and — in doing so at the ever-so-liberal Brown — be furnished with acomprehensive and rewarding education.

Common sentiment seems to have itthat during times when a schedule is regi-mented by an active and serious involve-ment in a sport, one becomes relativelyskillful in the management of time. Instark contrast, having too much time andtoo little to do may be the breeding groundfor procrastination and unproductivebehavior.

While the seven-week rest period wasbrought about through a series of talksbetween administrators and athletes

themselves, I feel that administrators areforgetting one very important thing.

The athletes that have it in them tomake it and succeed in college-level ath-letics are usually the ones who have dedi-cated a substantial portion of their lives totheir sporting pursuits. They never hadthe luxury of taking a few weeks off to“chill” and join the chess club in highschool.

While administrators attempt to breaktheir one-track focus, they must under-stand that the mark of an athlete, and forthat matter, anyone who wants to succeedin anything, is focus and determination. Byinstituting the seven-week rest period,Brown is deviating from one of its coreprincipals, that of a liberal education. As afreshman, I find that one of the manyattractive aspects of Brown is that not onlycan you do whatever you want to, but ifthere is something you are already inclinedto pursue, you can just focus on that. Thisseven-week rule comes at the expense ofthe latter choice for the athletes.

So as a result of recent enactments,what will we see? Will we see student ath-letes prancing into the realms of suchgratifying extra-curriculars as basketweaving? Will their academic perform-ance improve or dwindle as they havemore time on their hands? Will spectatorsbe put through lower competition levelsthan those seen in previous years? Andwill teams in the Ivies be able to contendwith universities outside their confer-ence? Montero articulates it best: “Itremains to be seen.”

This is Rohan Monga’s ’06 first column forThe Herald.

I AM SHOCKED AND APPALLED AT THEHerald’s staff editorial (“Students First,”9/25). Its arguments stereotype athletesand insult their abilities to perform in theclassroom. The Herald, like the Council ofIvy League Presidents, in all their wisdom,do not believe that studentsathletes have the ability tochoose what they want to dowith their lives. Rather, theyhave reduced these impressivemen and women to standardsthat rival how the movie “Zoolander” por-trays male models as dumb, easily con-trolled members of society. Athletes aresome of the sharpest, most self-confidentand well-rounded people on this campus.They don’t need to be babied through col-lege by an administration that doesn’twant to listen to their needs.

The first thing to consider is the obvi-ous question of academics. Should therebe more time allotted for student ath-letes to complete their studies? Myanswer is no. If someone is having aproblem in class, there are a number ofoutlets to turn to for assistance. Tutorsand mentors are always available. Manyteams have study groups for first-yearsand members that aren’t performingwell. I know on the football team, CoachEstes emphasizes that “we are a family,and we look out for each other.” Oftentimes younger members on the team willask for help from the older guys. Duringroad games, laptop computers are avail-able for students to complete writtenassignments. There is time given everyweek in which students have the oppor-tunity to complete lab work or attend

seminar classes. Just because studentathletes exercise the bodies does notimply that they neglect their minds. It isdifficult to earn a degree from Brown, nomatter who you are, but that does notmean every second not in class has to be

devoted to studying. It is also important to

address issues of self-confi-dence. The fact that theHerald believes student ath-letes need a rest period so

that they can try to “fit in” is a slap in theface to everything gained from a lifeinvolving healthy competition. Any ath-lete will tell you that her ability to func-tion in stressful situations has improvedgreatly because of the experience pro-vided by athletics. When anyone isforced to perform her best, not onlyagainst the top competition in thenation, but in front of crowds of com-plete strangers filled with writers forlocal, or even national papers, shebecomes a better person. She will be amore confident person when it comestime for a job interview, a more selfassured woman when she is choosing aspouse and an incredible mother whomher kids can look up to.

As far as using the seven-week period tobecome a more well rounded person bypursuing other interests, I again disagreewith the logic of The Herald and Ivy presi-dents. I have had a wonderful experienceat Brown not only academically and ath-letically but also as part of the Brown-RISDand Saint Joseph’s Catholic communities,the Student Security Organization, and theBrown College Republicans, to name afew. For two years now I have had a fullschedule, as I believe many of you havehad, and wouldn’t trade a moment of it for

the world. It is possible to do other thingswhile participating in a varsity sport and-still succeed academically.

Even if student athletes choose not tobe part of any other organization, there isnothing wrong with that. Everyone hasthe ability to do what she wants with herlife, and if she wants to focus solely onsports, then so be it. It is not wrong thatathletes choose not to be part of theHerald or NAVA; they are merely exercis-ing a preference. I could just as easilypoint out how few walk-on players thereare for varsity sports teams. Is the rest ofthe campus terrible because they don’tjoin varsity sports over other activities?Absolutely not!

As for the actual idea of a rest period, Ifind it ridiculous. If athletes can’t trainwhen they want to, then I will echo thewords of Audrey Patton (“Seven-week resthalts athletic success,” 9/27) and call forthe Herald to stop production for sevenweeks as well. While we are at it, why don’twe just cancel all political speakers so thatpolitical science majors have a chance tolearn about medicine? Or we could go astep farther and have a curfew every nightto make sure that no student is out afterdark because they might neglect theirhomework. Athletes not only want toimprove themselves year-round; they

have to in order stay in shape. They owe itto themselves to constantly strive tobecome bigger, faster and stronger. Yearsof physical and mental investment havebeen put in, and the idea that the Ivy pres-idents and The Herald are telling themthat they can’t live how they wish is aninsult to over one-sixth of the studentbody.

I have no doubt that PresidentSimmons will be a great leader for BrownUniversity in the years to come and I havea great amount of respect for her as a per-son. What I do not understand though iswhy she is keeping silent on this issue. She,along with the other Ivy presidents, passedthis rule, and I want to know why. I can’tunderstand how a woman with such aninspiring background would ever stand forthis. She worked extremely hard to getwhere she is now, and I just don’t under-stand why she would keep others fromworking their hardest to excel in some-thing that is important to them. How shecould do this without explanation isbeyond me.

Finally, to The Herald, I ask: why is itbad that some people compare Brownathletics to those of Ohio State? Why isthat bad, but having one of the top the-ater programs in the nation good enoughto brag about on the front page? Why didThe Herald write an editorial that indi-rectly said athletes couldn’t keep up withthe rest of the campus academically,when the athletic graduation rates at thisschool are incredible? I am hurt.Honestly, the one organization I thoughtwould be mature enough to understandthat it is possible to balance academicswith another demanding activity justwrites athletes off as lesser students andlesser people. Why?

Timothy Goobic ’04 is baffled by most peo-ple on this campus.

Seven-week rest period insult to all student athletesVarsity athletics are equally as equipped as all other Brown students to balance work and play

TIMOTHY GOOBICGUEST COLUMN

ROHAN MONGAGUEST COLUMN

“While administrators

attempt to break their one-

track focus, they must

understand that the mark

of an athlete, and for that

matter, anyone who wants

to succeed in anything, is

focus and determination.”

“Even if student athletes

choose not to be part of

any other organization,

there is nothing wrong

with that.”

BY SAMANTHA PLESSERIt was a perfect day for a Homecomingfootball game as the Bears took on thedefending Ivy League champion HarvardCrimson.

It seemed an auspicious beginning forthe Bears as Tristan Murray ’06 ran in atouchdown for three yards on the firstdrive of the game.

The extra point was missed makingthe score 6-0 in favor of Brown.

Brown cemented its lead after a 27-yard touchdown pass from Kyle Slager ‘04to Chas Gessner ’03 in the second quar-ter.

A blocked extra point kick brought thescore to 12-0 Brown on top.

Harvard rallied back however with a25-yard run from Nick Palazzo in the sec-ond quarter to bring the game to withinfive. Brown regained control, however, asquarterback Kyle Slager threw a touch-down pass to Gessner for 60 yards mak-ing the score Brown 18, Harvard 7, afterfailing on a two-point conversionattempt.

Brown’s defense struggled to maintaincontrol of the lead as Harvard pulled towithin five points once again on a one-yard rush by Nick Palazzo after an 85-yard drive.

The Crimson missed also on an extrapoint attempt, the score Brown 18,Harvard 13.

Brown seemed to have at least a tenta-tive grip on the lead going into halftimeuntil quarterback

Ryan Fitzpatrick completed a 19 yard

touchdown pass to Carl Morris makingthe score Harvard 19, Brown 18 after theCrimson too failed on a two-point con-version.

The Bears went to the locker roomtrailing for the first time all game.

In the third quarter, Harvard gainedanother touchdown on a pass from back-up Fitzpatrick to Kyle Cremarosa foreight yards, making the score Harvard 26,Brown 18.

The Bears still had some stirrings oflife in them as they rallied back to withintwo points of tying the game.

Slager completed a nine-yard touch-down pass to Chris Walther ’03 makingthe score Harvard 26, Brown 24 thoughthe Bears again failed on the two-pointconversion.

However, beating the Crimson was notto be.

Although a last ditch effort was madeby the offense to pull ahead, the Bearswent out on downs handing the ball overto Harvard and losing their opportunityto beat the Ivy League champions.

Samantha Plesser ’05 is a contributingwriter and covers the football team.

Tristan Murray ‘06 ran in a

touchdown for three yards

on the first drive of the

game.

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SEPTEMBER 30, 2002 · PAGE 16

BY NICK GOUREVITCHThe men’s soccer team (2-2-1, 0-1 Ivy) fellto Harvard University, 2-1, on Saturdayafternoon at Stevenson Field. Brown cameback from two controversial calls by thereferee late in the first half that put themdown a man and a goal, but it was a sec-ond-half score by the Crimson that sealedthe Bears’ fate.

“We battled pretty well in the secondhalf for being down a man,” said co-cap-tain Adom Crew ’04. “But in the end we hada few mistakes and that cost us the game.”

The loss is Brown’s first in an Ivy Leagueopener since 1996 and represents an earlyblow to the Bears’ chances of winning theirthird consecutive Ivy title.

To start the game, Harvard controlledthe tempo for the initial 25 minutes of thefirst half, but the Brown defense and goal-keeper Chris Gomez ’04 did well to preventHarvard from creating many legitimatechances.

The Bears then began to possess the balland create some offensive pressure in thelatter stages of the opening half. However,their momentum was abruptly stoppedwhen, in the span of two minutes, the ref-eree awarded Harvard with a penalty kickand sent off Seth Quidachay-Swan ’04 witha red card.

The foul that led to the penalty wascalled on Sean Gosselin ’04 for tripping aHarvard forward to the right of the goalnear the end line.

While it appeared as if the Crimsonplayer was fouled, it was questionable as towhether the play was a legitimate enoughof a threat to warrant the penalty kick.

Kevin Ara converted the penalty kick forHarvard, and he was fouled soon after byQuidachay-Swan on a hard tackle that ledto the red card.

The call was difficult to swallow for theBears after the referee chose not to eject aHarvard player for a similarly severe tackleearlier in the game that sent Matt Goldman

’04 flying into the scorer’s table.“The ref’s going to make some deci-

sions, so you can’t really blame him for thegame,” Crew said.

“Next time we just have to go harderand play better.”

Despite the man disadvantage, theBears came out in the second half withdetermination and fire as they sought theequalizer.

They completely dominated the run ofplay and their offensive pressure finallypaid off 20 minutes into the half whenCrew headed down a Bobby Dobbie ’06corner kick into the net to knot the score atone.

About eight minutes later, Harvard, ledby Ara, would not be denied.

The Crimson junior scored his secondgoal of the day when he lobbed a ball overGomez, who was out of position afterblocking an earlier shot.

Immediately after the score, IbrahimDiane ’06 broke through the Harvarddefense and was fouled from behind on ahard challenge.

The Harvard defender, however, wasonly punished with a yellow card as theBears’ suffered again from a lack of consis-tent refereeing.

Brown continued to press the Harvarddefense for the remaining 17 minutes, butin the end came up short. Diane used hisexplosive speed to create a few more scor-ing opportunities later in the half, butcould not convert.

One of Brown’s best chances came in thewaning seconds of the game when KeithCaldwell ’06 made a nifty move to shed hisdefender and put him near the goal, butthe angle was too difficult and the Harvardgoalkeeper made the save to seal the victo-ry.

The Bears hope to use the next threenon-league games to rebound fromSaturday’s disappointing loss and to pre-pare for the heart of the Ivy season.

“We have to try and get in a rhythm andget some momentum going into the rest ofthe Ivy League schedule,” said co-captainDustin Branan ’03.

Brown will meet its in-state rival, theUniversity of Rhode Island, on Tuesdaynight in Kingston before traveling to SanFrancisco for a tournament next week-end.

Sports staff writer Nick Gourevitch ’04 isan assistant sports editor and covers themen’s soccer team.

MICHAEL JORDAN’S RECENT DECISIONto return as a player for the 2002-2003NBA season has not come without criti-cism. Some say that Jordan will beforced to come off the bench and servea limited role with the Wizards. Others

think that HisAirness will suc-cumb to his older,bulkier alter egoHis Tendonitis-ness and he’ll be

sidelined for much of the season.Despite these criticisms Jordan is confi-dent in his decision because he knowshe can still play.

Meanwhile, his longtime friend andopponent Patrick Ewing is retiring as aplayer. He plans to be Jordan’s assistantcoach in Washington, and he claimsthat if need be he could see some on-court action. Although the likelihood ofseeing Jordan and Ewing playingtogether is extremely slim, it sure wouldbe fun to watch. Because all-time greatCharles Barkley is probably bored withhis commentating job by now, he mightbe easily persuaded to join the squad.

All of a sudden it is not so ridiculousto imagine that, with an average age ofabout forty, some core players from the1992 Olympic Dream Team could beseen working together once again. Thisrealization elicits the questions ofwhether or not it is at all feasible to pon-der the comeback of the Dream Team.Further, if the aged basketball godswere reassembled, how would theymatch up against today’s youthful butpathetic USA squad?

On account mostly of the tedium ofeveryday life and love for the game ofbasketball, I do not think it is too farfetched to imagine a partial return ofthe Dream Team. Although, it mighttake some convincing to have old-timegreats like Larry Bird and Clyde Drexlersuit up again, they would probablyaccept the opportunity to relive just aglimmer of the glory they once bathedin continuously.

The other former Dream Teamers, forthe most part, are still playing in thetwilights of their respective careers forvarious teams. Even if they were notcontractually able to join theWashington Wizards with Jordan andEwing, maybe an unofficial exhibitionteam could be formed for pure enter-tainment (like the Harlem

M. soccer drops Ivy opener to HarvardBring back theDream Team

ADAMSTERN

STERN ADAM

Missed extra points, poor late call dooms football

Josh Honeyman / Herald

Men’s soccer was one of four teams to loseto Harvard over the course of the weekend.

All the elements seemed right for aminor upset for the Brown footballteam (0-2, 0-1 Ivy League). Blessedwith superb weather for itsHomecoming game versus archrivalHarvard University (2-0, 1-0), a poised

Bears team camejust short of oustingthe Ivy Leaguechampions, fallingby a score of 26-24. Itwas a troubling

defeat, as oft-inconsequential aspectsof football — extra point kicks and asuspect penalty — decided a gamethat Brown played admirably andprobably deserved to win.

Usually just an afterthought, theextra point attempt would becomecrucial in Saturday’s contest. Brownfailed to convert on every attempt formore points after a touchdown, caus-ing them to score by multiples of sixinstead of seven. They missed an extrapoint kick, had one blocked, and failedon two 2-point conversions.

“Those little things make such a bigdifference in a football game. It’s frus-trating,” said Head Coach Phil Estes.

FootballHarvard 26, BROWN 24

Field HockeyHarvard 3, BROWN 2

Men’s SoccerHarvard 2, BROWN 1

Women’s SoccerHarvard 1, BROWN 0

VolleyballNew Hampshire 3, BROWN 1St. Peters 3, BROWN 2Rutgers 3, BROWN 1

Men’s Water PoloQueens College 15, BROWN 1Princeton 10, BROWN 8BROWN 11, John Hopkins 10BROWN 12, George Washington 10

Women’s Cross CountryPlaced 24th overall at the Iona Meet of Champions

Men’s Cross CountryPlaced 3rd overall at the Iona Meet of Champions

see STERN, page 13

S C O R E B O A R D

see NOTES, page 12

Football suffers adisappointing loss

GAME NOTES

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