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BY DANIELLE CERNYAmerica is dangerously unprepared toimpede future terrorist attacks on U.S.soil, said Senior Fellow in NationalSecurity Studies for the Council on ForeignRelations Stephen E. Flynn at a forumMonday night.

During the forum, “America Still inDanger: The Struggle to Secure HomelandSecurity,” Flynn, who heads the Council’sresearch on homeland defense, discussedthe results of research on the country’spreparedness for future attacks conductedby a panel headed by Flynn.

Flynn said the Bush administrationthinks the way to stop another attack likethose that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, isthrough preemptive strikes, such as anattack on Iraq. The president and hisadministration, Flynn said, believe “this isa much more affordable option than todeal with our vulnerabilities at home.”

Bush’s recent budget proposal allotted$400 billion for the Department ofDefense. In contrast, the administrationset $36 billion aside for homeland security— a 10-to-1 ratio, Flynn said.

A shift in fiscal priority needs to occur,he said.

As the domestic transportation systemcontinues to evolve, the industry hasfocused on efficiency, reliability and lowcosts, while often ignoring security con-cerns, he said.

But with transportation system man-agers set in their methods and the U.S. gov-ernment unable to track every potential ter-rorist threat, Flynn said the country needs tochange its focus to baseline security meas-ures to confront domestic vulnerability.

“The potential risk was viewed the wayshopkeepers view shoplifting — as a natu-ral cost of doing business,” Flynn said.“But on Sept. 11, the tolerance for that costwent out the window.”

International commerce is one suchweak spot that needs to be improved,Flynn said.

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BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZSarah Lamendola ’04 danced, DJed and made homemadevalentines. While she was abroad in New Zealand lastsemester, she sent packages full of art supplies, fingerpaintings and glow-in-the dark sheep back to Brown. Andwhen she died last Wednesday, she left a wide circle offriends drawn together by the happiness and self-confi-dence with which she lived.

“She was so shameless about loving so many differentthings,” said Joe Sills ’04. “She’d really just suck you intoher happiness.”

Childlike without being childish, Lamendola sangkaraoke, blew bubbles and spoke a hybrid of fourth-gradeslang and “Clueless” quotations, friends said. And whilemany other college students struggle to distinguish them-selves, she was fully and authentically her own person,said Elizabeth Ault ’04.

“She’s one of those few people that you appreciated asmuch alive as you do now that she’s passed away,” saidKani Romain ’04. “We definitely had a lot of conversationsabout how unique she was, not in the ‘trying to find your-

self way,’ but in the ‘I know myself way.’”When she called from New Zealand, the whole room

would just explode, “Sarahla’s on the phone!” said KerryMiller ’04, Herald executive editor. “ She just had thateffect on people.”

Sara Read ’04 remembered Lamendola’s expeditions toCVS, where she sampled a different nail polish color foreach finger before she left.

Last year, she typed “free stuff online” into Yahoo,ordered everything from stickers to lawn mower safetyvideos and enjoyed every package, Jessica Purmort ’04said.

Other friends recalled late-night online Jeopardygames with Lamendola while she was abroad and herrelentlessly outgoing nature — and dancing style.

“If she saw someone at a party who was being kind of awallflower, she’d go up to them and say, ‘Hey, do you knowthe shovel?” Read said.

“To be able to talk about her, you have to be tellingridiculous stories,” Erica Dreisbach ’04 said. “To be able tocelebrate her, you have to be having a fun time.”

Eric Rachlin ‘03, who said he only met Lamendola lastyear, has never “gotten so close with someone so fast,” hesaid. “I think she was really happy to meet someone in amath class, to dork it up with.” The two often studiedapplied math late into the night, or did “a.m. in the p.m.,”as they called it, Rachlin said.

But Lamendola’s true academic passion was geo-physics, according to friends and professors. Intent uponpursuing the field, Lamendola had drafted an applicationfor a summer UTRA fellowship with John Hermance, pro-fessor of Geological Sciences.

Lamendola was an excellent researcher and field boss,Hermance wrote in a recommendation letter for theUTRA, and one of his strongest students in Geology 160,“Environmental and Engineering Geophysics.” ButHermance’s admiration for her academic work represents“just the tip of the iceberg of my feelings” aboutLamendola, he wrote in an e-mail to The Herald.

“There’s this feeling that you didn’t get to say goodbye,”

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PROTEST ON THE GREENCold weather did not deter members of the group Students Against the War in Iraqfrom demonstrating Monday on the Main Green.

Flynn says U.S.unprepared forterrorist attacks

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BY JONATHAN ELLISPresident Ruth Simmons discussed cam-pus life issues with the UndergraduateCouncil of Students Monday night. Thecouncil also passed a resolution arguingagainst the proposed addition of plusesand minuses to Brown’s grading systemand a statement on the affirmative actioncontroversy surrounding the University ofMichigan in a meeting that lasted nearlythree hours.

Simmons’ visit was prompted in part bythe impending departure of Vice Presidentfor Campus Life and Student ServicesJanina Montero, who will leave theUniversity this summer to become vicechancellor of student affairs at theUniversity of California at Los Angeles, TheHerald reported in January.

“When (Montero) told me she was leav-ing, one of the things I wanted to do was totake the opportunity to really think aboutwhat we’re doing in student life and findout whether or not there should be somechanges in the way we’re doing things,”Simmons told the Council. Rather thanhiring Montero’s replacement immediate-ly, Simmons said she would wait until thisfall to begin a search.

She will share ideas for campus lifeimprovements during her meeting withthe Corporation next week, she said.

Simmons told Campus Life CommitteeChair Justin Sanders ’04 that the possiblerestructuring of the division would notderail any projects underway.

Renovation of the Ratty is “one of themajor priorities” and planning “has to getmoving this spring,” Simmons said. Theprimary problem will be finding a placewhere students can eat while the Ratty isoffline, she said.

Because of the urgency of such projects,Simmons said she will look to bring some-one to the University “who can keep thingsgoing without any sort of delay. I thinkwe’ve waited so long for some of theseprojects that I’m very concerned that wedo not drop the ball.”

Simmons talkscampus life atUCS meeting

see UCS, page 6

Friends remember Sarah Lamendola ’04 as full of life and laughter

Star of “Widowmaker,”the Cold War Russiansub is on display in theProvidence areametro,page 3

Panelists at a SAWIteach-in say patriot-ism does not justifysupport of Iraq warpage 5

Students “fudge” onresumes by beingeuphemistic aboutprevious experiences page 5

SOFA membersprotest recent hikes infinancial aid loanexpectations guest column, page 11

Both men’s andwomen’s hockeyteams split twogames last weekend.sports, page 12

see LAMENDOLA, page 8

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Cicilline to abolish “tow list”Continuing his pledge to root out corrup-tion in the city government, ProvidenceMayor David Cicilline ’83 announced theabolition of the city’s “tow list” at a pressconference Monday.

The list of a dozen preferred tow truckcompanies hired to conduct the city’s tow-ing fostered political corruption andenriched “a handful of towers,” Cicilline saidduring a press conference at a local towingcompany, according to a spokesperson forCicilline.

He pledged to open towing agreementsto all qualified tow companies and to for-mally establish a Request for Proposals, aprocess by which he said he hopes the citycan arrange to receive a portion of feescollected by towing companies.

The old system, favored by the Cianciadministration, gave tow truck companiestowing privileges without compensatingthe city. The Providence Police Departmentreported 10,000 vehicles were towed attheir request last year.

“We will end — once and for all — thepractices of the past that led to corruptionand favoritism,” Cicilline said.

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The Russian submarine Juliett 484, currently on display in Narragansett Bay, was usedin Paramount’s Cold War thriller “K-19:The Widowmaker.”

Famed Russiansub on displayin Rhode IslandBY ALLISON LOMBARDOAfter serving as an important asset tothe Russian submarine fleet during theCold War, the Juliett 484 — now on dis-play at Collier Point Park — attracts his-tory buffs, tourists and even children’sbirthday parties.

Bob Albee, project manager of theRussian Sub Museum, said he has seena wide range of people travel from nearand far to see the Juliett 484 — the onlySoviet cruise missile submarine on dis-play in the United States.

Collier Point Park, a revitalized greenspace in the industrial area of AllensAvenue, is the submarine’s home. Just15 minutes from College Hill, the sub-marine sits alone in the NarragansettBay and is surrounded only by a smallparking lot and trailer holding the ticketoffice and gift shop. Advertised by roadsigns only, this obscurely-placed attrac-tion has attracted up to 300 visitors a

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day. With 9,150 tourists since itsopening on Aug. 5, 2002, the sub-marine has fascinated explorersfrom over 25 states, Albee said.

The submarine is an importantpiece of Cold War history, accord-ing to John Martin, director ofmarketing and communicationsfor the Saratoga MuseumFoundation Inc. The sub is“unique as the only Russiannuclear-capable sub on display inthe Western hemisphere.”

The submarine is a work inprogress that is being continuallyrestored by anyone who has timeto volunteer. The museum isstaffed by volunteers who act asdocents and provide general safetyand historic information. Broughtto Providence with the help of for-

mer Providence Mayor VincentCianci and now supported by Gov.Donald Carcieri ’65, 50 active vol-unteers keep the project running.

The Juliett 484, as she was laternamed by NATO, is a K-77 — oneof sixteen built by the formerU.S.S.R. and launched in 1965. The330-foot submarine was built atthe beginning of the Cold War andwas in operation for 30 years, untilthe fall of the Berlin Wall. Its firstmission was to target major U.S.cities with missiles, and it had theability to wage a nuclear strike.This diesel-powered submarinecould carry up to four nuclear mis-siles as well as 18 torpedoes.Covered in two inches of rubber,which served as a sound absorber,the Juliett 484 was difficult to track.

According to volunteer Ed DelSanto, who spent part of the ColdWar in a United States submarineand travels from Connecticut tolead tours in his spare time, thesubmarine houses only World WarII technology that was not up topar with that of American sub-marines.

The Juliett 484, whose careerended with aircraft carrier track-ing, was then bought by the Kingof Finland’s son and housed arestaurant in Helsinki. Used in thissummer’s Cold War thriller “K-19:The Widowmaker,” the submarinewas briefly in Halifax, Nova Scotia,for the filming before it went up forauction on eBay.

Bought by the SaratogaFoundation, which also owns thehelicopter associated with formerPresident Richard Nixon’s famousWhite House departure, the sub-marine has benefited during itsstay in Providence from the “coat-tails of tourism and a synergywith Heritage Harbor,” Martinsaid.

Sergei Khrushchev, son of thelate Soviet Premier NikitaKhrushchev and senior fellow atBrown University’s WatsonInstitute for International

Studies, along with his wifeValentina Golenko served as co-chairs of the red-carpet moviepremiere this summer. As a devel-oper of the cruise missilesdeployed on the submarine,Khrushchev now works with thefoundation to build replicas of thecruise missiles, Martin said.

According to Martin,Khrushchev “is a great help to usbecause we want to be very con-scientious in the way we posit themuseum and submarine in termsof not presenting it as a themepark novelty but as a real piece ofhistory.

“We’re not just a bunch of boyswho want to play with an aircraftcarrier,” Martin said.

In light of recent internationalconflicts, Martin said he believesthat the submarine will be impor-tant in giving young people abroader view of history.“Ideologies aside, we survived theCold War and there should besome hope in the fact that wehave peaceful relations withRussia today.”

The nonprofit organization iscurrently striving to acquire andthen convert the USS Saratoga —now at the Newport Naval Stationpier — into a floating memorial,education and family center aswell as tourist attraction inNarragansett Bay. Ironically, theJuliett 484 was the adversary ofthe Saratoga during the Cold War,Martin said.

Although it is undecided ifthere will be a relocation of theexhibit, the development of a newmuseum should take at least fiveto seven years, Martin said. Muchof this “depends on exactly howwaterfront development pro-ceeds after the relocation ofInterstate 95,” Martin said.

Herald staff writer AllisonLombardo ’05 covers metro. Shecan be reached at [email protected].

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BY ELLEN WERNECKEPatriotism should not be an absolute standard even in asituation of war, said Professor of English William Keach,one of four panelists who spoke out against war with IraqMonday night in Salomon 001.

Over a hundred people attended “Campus Forum:Perspectives Against the War on Iraq,” organized byStudents Against the War in Iraq. The forum featured pan-elists from within and beyond the Brown community whogave their opinions on the current situation.

“When you hear things that the government says, takethem with a grain of salt,” said John Rideau, who served inthe U.S. Air Force from 1990 to 1999 and is a member ofVeterans for Peace. “‘Shock and awe’ means they’re killingpeople. ‘Collateral damage’ means they’re killing people.”

Rideau enlisted in the USAF as a linguist because, hesaid, it “sounded like a cool plan. I could be James Bond.

“But in the fine print you had signed on for eight years.And they could call you back (during that period) anytime they wanted.”

Rideau never saw direct combat, but served inGermany and in Korea as a mail carrier and journalistduring his military career. While he was in Korea, “(theU.S.) almost went to war. We were getting ready,” Rideausaid.

“I came to realize that my job (in Korea close to thedemilitarized zone) was to die,” Rideau said. “Our basewas scheduled to be overrun. My job there was to be aname on a plaque in my hometown to piss people off sothey would go and invade.”

Rideau spoke of his friends that had seen Persian GulfWar combat and criticized the military establishment fordismissing Desert Storm-related trauma as “just some-thing in your mind.”

“To protect the troops in Operation Desert Storm fromchemical weapons,” Rideau said, “they used drugs thathad not been given informed consent by the Food and

BY JULIA FELDMEIERMany of the juniors and seniors at today’s Career Fairwill no doubt have read and internalized two seeminglyinnocuous sentences from the Resume Preparation tipsheet distributed by Career Services:

“Your resume is the most important document inyour job search. It makes the first impression — and youmay only get 30 seconds to impress!”

But with the intense competition faced during the jobhunt — and even college admission process — thetemptation to “perfect” this ephemeral chance to dazzleprospective employers or admission officers may leadone to embellish.

And the pressure is mounting, because recent surveysshow that the next few graduating classes may be evenmore likely to do it.

According to a February article in USA Today, “a sur-vey of 12,474 high school students released last Octoberby the Josephson Institute of Ethics found that 43 per-cent of all respondents — and 41 percent of those boundfor college — agreed with the statement ‘A person has tolie or cheat sometimes in order to succeed.’ Two yearsago, 34 percent of all respondents agreed with that state-ment.”

When asked if they lie on their resumes, the prevailingsentiment among Brown seniors is a resounding “no.”

“Lie on my resume?” exclaimed Serin Marshall ’03.5.“I don’t even have the energy to send out my resume,much less lie on it.”

There is, however, some confusion about what consti-tutes lying. Although no one confessed to overtly equiv-ocating on their resumes — there were no instances offabricated extracurricular activities or leadership posi-tions, for example — many attested to taking aeuphemistic approach when drawing up their personaldocuments.

“Of course I’m going to make everything I do soundwonderful,” said Elizabeth Roach ’03. “I mean, techni-cally I was a secretarial assistant for Alumni Relations. Inmy bullets underneath, I wrote that I ‘aided the flow ofcommunication.’ In reality, I stuffed envelopes.

“Somehow I don’t think ‘envelope stuffer’ sounds verymarketable,” she said.

When asked what he thinks about the inclination todress up resumes, Assistant Director of Career ServiceRon Foreman responded with some rhetorical questionsof his own. “What do you think the outside world thinkswhen they see that a college student is, for example, amarketing assistant? Do they think you’ve been makingpresentations to Coca-Cola?” he asked.

Foreman was adamant that he didn’t know of anyinstances in which Brown students had lied on theirresumes, noting that “people do shade here and there,but at Career Services we advise students that it’s notgoing to be in their best interest to go overboard.”

“They’re going to look silly in their interviews,” headded.

In fact, while he seldom sees resume falsifying amongBrown students, Foreman said he often sees just theopposite. Students “don’t know what goes on a resume,so they omit some really interesting projects,” he said.

Yet the seemingly flawless honesty of Brown studentshas its limitations. “Did I lie on my resume? No,” saidone senior who wished to remain anonymous, claiminghe was nurturing a bruised ego after countless rejectionsfrom top investment banks. “But I suppose I did lie onmy cover letter. I said I was fascinated with finance. Intruth, the stock market puts me to sleep faster thanTylenol PM,” he said.

But perhaps Emily Collins ’03 best conveys the atti-tude of many Brown undergraduates. “Resume? Whatresume?” she asked.

Intense competition in job marketoften leads to resume embellishing

Keach, others speakout against Iraqi warin Salomon panel

see TEACH-IN, page 6

“I wrote I ‘aided the flow of communi-

cation.’ In reality, I stuffed envelopes.

Somehow I don’t think ‘envelope

stuffer’ sounds very marketable.”

Representative Andy Golodny’03 asked Simmons if a concerthall was in Brown’s near future.Frances Halsband, the mainarchitect of the University’s mas-ter plan, has identified spaces oncampus available for such largefacilities, but she was unsure if aconcert hall could fit into Brown’sconstruction budget, Simmonssaid.

With a fundraising campaigncoming up, the University willhave a firmer slate of plannedrenovations within the next five tosix months, Simmons added. Shecautioned that a concert facilityhas lower priority than a fitnesscenter, a campus center and ren-ovation of Faunce House and dor-mitories.

Simmons addressed concernsfrom Representative Rob Montz’05 about the recent decision toincrease the loan component ofmany students’ financial aidpackages by $1,000. She said theFinancial Aid Committee dis-cussed all options and set forwardstrong guidelines to protect thestudent experience. Brown’s loanpackage is still comparativelygood among peer institutions,Simmons added, though she said,“it is an onerous burden.”

Tuition will be raised to miti-gate some of the $2.4 millionshortfall in the financial aid budg-et, Simmons said, but she arguedagainst an additional increase tooffset loan sizes. “One of the bal-ancing acts from a competitivestandpoint is not to be the mostexpensive university in our peergroup,” she said.

“As soon as the economy offersus an opportunity to improve ourfinancial aid … we want to,”Simmons said. “If there were anyway for us to reduce that, wewould do it.” The Universitywould have faced extreme trade-offs such as putting academic ini-tiatives on hold or cutting jobs if ithadn’t increased the loans, shesaid. The University’s upcomingfundraising campaign will proba-bly seek $300 million dedicated tofinancial aid, she added.

That campaign is about twoyears away from knowing what itstotal goal will be, Simmons said.Financial aid will compose thelargest portion of fundraising,and money is also needed forcapital projects, faculty hiringand infrastructure improve-ments, Simmons said.

In the meantime, Simmonssaid short-term campus improve-ments would continue, includingthe addition of recreational facili-ties and the recapturing of socialspaces in dorms. She said she isn’tworried about financing plannedconstruction — money will comefrom donors and possibly fromthe issuance of a bond — but get-ting approval from the city forexpansion may be the biggestobstacle.

Associate Member JabariPhipps ’05 told Simmons thatPembroke Campus studentssometimes feel neglected due toless selection at The Gate.Simmons said the University islooking at a smorgasbord ofoptions, including making exist-ing facilities “more accommodat-ing to contemporary tastes.”Halsband is examining the possi-bility of adding a central foodlocation to bridge Pembroke with

the rest of the campus, she added.Students not associated with

UCS also had the opportunity tospeak with Simmons.

Simmons heard a passionaterequest to address textbook costsfrom a student who said she hadto choose classes based on thenumber of books required. Afterthe speech received a round ofapplause from the council,Simmons said she would speakwith Dean of the College PaulArmstrong regarding the issue.The council’s Admission andStudent Services Committee isalso addressing book costs.

UCS President Allen Feliz ’03said the Council’s ExecutiveBoard would continue to meetwith Simmons throughout thesemester.

Simmons was long gone beforethe meeting was over. UCS brokeits precedent of giving members aweek to consider proposed reso-lutions and statements to intro-duce and vote on two “timelyissues.”

UCS first considered a resolu-tion from its Academic andAdministrative Affairs Committeeadvising the College CurriculumCouncil to not recommend theaddition of pluses and minuses toBrown’s grading system. The reso-lution suggests “Brown Universityshould stay true to the tenets andspirit of the New Curriculum …maintain its focus on learningover grades and maintain itsunique academic spirit.”

CCC member Sean Yom ’03added his voice to the mix, notingthat Brown only used pluses andminuses for three years prior tothe New Curriculum. TheGraduate Student Council, withwhich UCS will meet in two

weeks, recently passed a resolu-tion supporting more “nuances”in the grading system, Yom said.

After council members quib-bled about the wording of specif-ic passages and the validity ofdata from a Student OpinionAdvocacy Project survey, the reso-lution passed without debate andonly two dissenting votes.

UCS next considered a state-ment supporting the use of affir-mative action in college admis-sion. Council members weredivided over how to address theUniversity of Michigan’s contro-versial admission system, whichadds a set point value to applica-tions from students of underrep-resented racial minorities. Whilesome representatives wanted toavoid the issue entirely, othersargued that doing so would makethe statement meaningless.

The debate was mired withprocedural issues, increasing ten-sions as the meeting went into thenight. The council finally settledon including the phrase “We do

not support quota systems.” Thestatement passed 10-5 with oneabstention.

Ally Dickie ’03, general manag-er of the Underground, told UCSthe bar has submitted a proposalto the administration and willsoon submit a second detailing arestructuring of management.Under the proposal, theUnderground would institute amembership system to preventunderage drinking.

The Admission and StudentServices Committee hasapproved $200 to help fundMyStudentBody.com, an alcoholawareness Web site, committeechair Rahim Kurji ’05 told TheHerald. Committee members arealso assisting in the public searchfor a senior historian in Latinostudies, Kurji said.

Herald staff writer Jonathan Ellis’06 covers the UndergraduateCouncil of Students. He can bereached at [email protected].

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Drug Administration — drugsthat were supposed to help withnerve agents, but that causedcognitive and muscle damage” tothe soldiers.

Once he left the Air Force,Rideau began speaking againstthe military and, more recently,the potential war with Iraq.

“We’re not ending a war (inIraq),” he said. “We’re starting it.”

He called upon the audienceto treat the military independentof the administration. “This war,there will be some soldiers thatrefuse to serve,” he added.“Support them.

“But support those that aregoing too. Speak badly of theadministration that sends sol-diers over there.”

Professor of English ForrestGander spoke about the role oflanguage in the government andmedia and how it relates to theUnited States’ involvement inIraq.

“Media outlets in Europe referto Saddam Hussein as Hussein,”Gander reminded the audience.“Here, Bush calls him Saddam,related to Sodom and Satan, andthe press just goes along for theride.”

Gander discussed theVietnam-era policy of “disinfor-mation,” where he said the gov-ernment leaks false informationand later denies it. He accusedthe current administration ofmanipulating the nation’s televi-sion viewers.

“Days after Iraq delivered its12,000-page document to theU.N.,” Gander said, “a story wasleaked that Iraq gave al-Qaidapoisonous VX gas. Very soonafter, senior officials told CNNthere was no evidence, but thedamage had been done. (TheBush administration) knowsassertions last longer in the col-lective memory” than disavowals,he said.

Visiting Professor of Historyand scholar with the Center forLatin American StudiesChristopher Gill spoke of the his-torical context behind U.S. inter-vention in Iraq.

Gill said U.S. intervention will“increase political instability andlead to profound human rightsabuses” as it has in Latin America.

“What we’re seeing is a newphase in U.S. imperialism,” he

said. “You should think about thewar on terror in imperialistterms.”

Gill cited previous U.S. inter-ventions in Colombia, a countrythat he has studied in depth, aswell as Cuba, Nicaragua andChile as examples of nationswhere the United States gave“logistic and moral support” todictators responsible for thedeaths of thousands of citizens.

“(Former Chilean dictator)Gen. Augusto Pinochet is respon-sible for thousands of humanrights abuses, but he is not cur-rently on trial or imprisoned,” Gillsaid. “The U.S. put pressure onEngland to let Pinochet gobecause he knows too much”about U.S. involvement in theregion, Gill said.

“The difference between anauthoritarian government and atotalitarian one is that authoritar-ian (governments) are thosefriendly to us,” Gill added.

Gill characterized the currentmedia treatment of confronta-tions with Iraq as “a constant bar-rage of misinformation, of lies”and said he thought the mediawould continue to wholly sup-port U.S. intervention in Iraq.

Keach spoke about the role ofthe current antiwar movement,both nationally and locally.

“The movement at theUniversity and in Providence hascome a long way in the past fewmonths,” he said. Keach advocat-ed the creation of a “movementfor the long run” and cautionedthat “the invasion of Iraq is onlyone step in the Bush administra-tion’s plan.

“People understand that this isnot fundamentally a war aboutdisarming Iraq,” Keach said. “It isrelated to a different war beingwaged at home — over the Bushbudget, over the Bush tax cut res-olution, over the attacks on affir-mative action.”

“It’s very disturbing (in themedia), the questions that are notasked and the pictures that arenot shown,” he said.

“If ‘shock and awe’ is not thename of a terrorist policy, I don’tknow what it is,” Keach said.“This is genocidal terrorist war-fare. It has to be called by itsname, and we’ve got to stop it.”

Herald staff writer EllenWernecke ’06 covers campusactivism. She can be reached [email protected].


Teach-in

WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — President Bush saidMonday that France’s efforts to block NATO consensus onpreparations for war in Iraq were ‘‘shortsighted” andwould ‘‘affect the alliance in a negative way.”

‘‘I don’t understand that decision,” Bush said of actionby France, Belgium and Germany to reject NATO effortsto begin planning for joint protection of Turkey in theevent of war with Iraq. ‘‘I am disappointed that Francewould block NATO from helping a country like Turkeyprepare.”

Bush spoke after a White House meeting withAustralian Prime Minister John Howard, who stronglysupports what he called Bush’s ‘‘strong leadership” to dis-arm Iraq. In unspoken but clear contrast to his feelingsabout French President Jacques Chirac, Bush describedHoward as a ‘‘man of clear vision who sees the threats thefree world faces.”

The NATO controversy was one of several sharp diplo-matic challenges to the U.S. war effort Monday, as weeksof verbal disputes among traditionally close allies crystal-lized into formal statements of disagreement.

Administration hopes of introducing a new U.N. reso-lution next week authorizing the use of force against Iraqappeared to founder on a joint declaration issued bySecurity Council members France, Russia and Germanysaying that U.N. inspectors should be given more time.‘‘There is still an alternative to war,” the declaration said.

U.S. officials insisted the most vocal opponents were inthe minority, and would not derail Bush from a task hetold a religious broadcasters’ convention Monday theUnited States had been ‘‘called” to undertake.

In a speech that was rich in religious references, Bushtold the broadcasters that among the reasons terroristshate the United States is that ‘‘we can worship theAlmighty God the way we see fit.”

Charging that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein hadpositioned troops in population centers to blame the

United States for civilian casualties in the event of war,Bush said that U.S. forces would act ‘‘in the highest moraltraditions of our country. We will try in every way we canto spare innocent life.”

‘‘We owe it to future generations of Americans and cit-izens in freedom-loving countries to see to it that Mr.Saddam Hussein is disarmed,” he said. Referring to ‘‘greatchallenges” at home and abroad, Bush said, ‘‘We’re calledto defend our nation and to lead the world to peace. Andwe will meet both challenges with courage and with con-fidence.”

As a Washington Post-ABC News poll indicated amajority of Americans now support military action evenwithout U.N. approval, provided key allies such as Britainand Australia participate, Bush said after his meeting withHoward that he understood reluctance to go to war. ‘‘I’mthe person who hugs the widows and the mothers if a sonor husband dies,” he said. ‘‘But the risks of doing nothingfar outweigh the risks of doing what it takes to disarmSaddam Hussein.”

Even as NATO was locked in disagreement, the U.N.Security Council appeared headed for a major rupturewhen it meets Friday to hear the latest assessment of Iraqicooperation by U.N. inspection chiefs Hans Blix andMohamed ElBaradei. U.N. sources said China was likelyto join permanent members France and Russia in oppos-ing a cutoff of inspections. That would leave the UnitedStates and Britain in the minority among those with vetopower.

Germany, a nonpermanent member currently servingas council president, and Syria have also declared theiropposition to ending the inspections and moving towarda war resolution.

Although U.S. officials have claimed support from anumber of the rest of NATO’s 15 members, none butBulgaria has said so publicly. Several ambassadors saidthey were trying to keep their heads down, and not

declare a position, while the ‘‘Perm-5” fight it out. ‘‘It’s aMexican standoff,” one said. ‘‘We’re gladly not taking afront-seat position.” This diplomat and others said thatthe situation had overflowed the bounds of diplomacyand become an all-out battle between the two positionsthat boded ill for future council effectiveness.

As the sparring continued, the Bush administrationdismissed a French proposal, being circulated in a nonof-ficial document at the United Nations, for a beefed-upinspection regime. The proposal, sources said, includessending U.N. customs officials to all Iraqi ports and entrypoints to search for banned materials, and to supplementcurrent inspectors searching for weapons of massdestruction with budget and archival experts who couldgo through Iraqi documents. The proposal also suggestsan increase in the number of security personnel protect-ing the inspectors, some of whom could be left behind toguard sites where the Iraqis have been accused of con-cealing banned materials during inspections.

Although Blix and ElBaradei said during a weekendvisit to Baghdad that they had been disappointed in Iraq’sresponse to demands for broader cooperation, Iraq hascontinued to make partial concessions, includingMonday’s announcement that it would allow U-2 aerialsurveillance overflights.

The United States and Britain are mulling differentforms of a new resolution, with the most radical beingoutright authorization to use force against Iraq. Not onlyare France, Russia and China likely to veto such a resolu-tion, it would add to the discomfort of the administra-tion’s key council allies, Britain and Spain, which still holdout hope of council agreement.

Other proposals include a declaration that Iraq is in‘‘material breach” of U.N. resolutions, which the UnitedStates has said it would take as implicit authorization forforce, or a resolution giving Iraq an ultimatum of two to15 days to comply

Bush decries attempt to block war preparations

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was able to get an open shotwhich she sent into the top of thenet. Unable to retaliate, the Bearslost 3-0.

“We’ve been struggling thisseason, but we’ve just got to keepat it, take each game as a prepara-tion for the ECAC,” Nugent said.

The previous night, the Bearsoverpowered the Catamounts 4-1. Bruno came out strong anddominated the first period; how-ever, UVM got on the board firstwith a shot from near the goal onthe right side from Jackie Duerr,assisted by Lindsey Tilbury andHilary Johnson. When the Bearsdid get on the board it was with apretty shot from Katie Guay ’05.Guay pulled back from herdefender and sent a slap shotinto the net high on the right-hand side. Karen Thatcher ’06and Kim Insalaco ’03 assisted. At16:09, Bruno got on board againwhen Keaton Zucker ’06 passedit to Courtney Johnson ’03, whobackhanded the puck into thenet. Jessica Link ’05 also had anassist on the play and the Bearshad taken the lead back forgood.

The second period was score-less though the Bears main-tained a steady pressure on theVermont goal.

In the third, Katie Lafleur ’04scored early when she tipped it inoff a shot from Link at 2:29.Insalaco also assisted. Five min-utes later, Lindsey Glennon ’06took a shot from the left that skit-tered into the goal with Nugentpicking up an assist. The Bearschanged their lineup near theend of the game and had severalstrong attempts, but they werenot able to slip another goal in.Brown won 4-1 with Dreyer in thenet.

The Bears face cross-townrival Providence CollegeWednesday before taking a breakthis weekend.

“It’s not a league game, butwe’re going to work on our sys-tems and get some offensivechances,” Nugent said. “I guesswe’d like to beat them becausewe tied last time, and no onereally won the Mayor’s Cup thisyear, so that would give us somebragging rights.”

Sports staff writer Kathy Babcock ’03covers women’s ice hockey. She canbe reached at kbabcock@browndai-lyheraldcom.


W. hockey

result, NFL commissioner PaulTagliabue is going to propose asituation in which each team getsthe ball once. Teams would havegreat incentive to keep trying toscore a touchdown, because afield goal might not stand up.After the first two possessions, thegame would again become sud-den death.

This would make games endmore like the Fiesta Bowl, whichwas definitely the best game allyear in any sport. The team receiv-ing the ball first would no longerhave such a distinct advantage. Infact, the team getting the ball firstmight be at a disadvantage,because the second team wouldgo for it on fourth downs if theyneeded to score. That’s whyMiami, when given the opportu-nity to get the ball first or second,chose to be second. This system,like that of the NHL, would be agreat move for the NFL. We canonly hope for a day when a SuperBowl would be as exciting as theFiesta Bowl. This system is more aquestion of equity than of enter-tainment, but I think it solves bothaspects relatively easily.

In the end, the two commis-sioners should listen to me and

institute these reforms. Bothreforms would benefit theirrespective sports and make sever-al games more exciting. My nextproposal is to have NBA gamessettled by a slam-dunk competi-tion following the first overtime.In this case maybe Michael Jordanwould have gotten the glory at theend of the All-Star game.

Jeff Saltman ’03 is a history andeconomics concentrator andhails from outside Washington,D.C. He can be reached at [email protected].


Saltman

Dreisbach said. “But, on the otherhand, she was such an amazingperson that I don’t think there arepeople who feel that they didn’tlove her as hard as they couldwhile she was in the room. Youhad to love her as hard as youcould.”

A campus memorial servicewill be held in the coming weeks,according to University ChaplainJanet Cooper Nelson.

Herald staff writer CarlaBlumenkranz ’05 can be reachedat [email protected].


Lamendola

Photo courtesy of Kerry Miller

Friends said Sarah Lamendola ’04loved ice-cream.

This would make

games end more like

the Fiesta Bowl,

which was definitely

the best game all

year in any sport. The

team receiving the

ball first would no

longer have such a

distinct advantage.

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Dutchmen would then send ascare Brown’s way with 1:10remaining, scoring with theirgoalie on the bench. Not anothershot would get by Danis, who fin-ished with 23 saves. On the otherend, Union goalie Kris Mayottestopped 12 of 15 shots.

“Anytime you keep a team tounder 30 shots, you are playingfairly well defensively,” Legg said.“Although we only had 15 shots,we had a lot of opportunities toscore that didn’t show up on thescoresheet.”

An altercation at the end ofthe game resulted in one gamesuspensions for defensemenGerry Burke ’05 and Vince Macri’04, and forward Kirley.

“Losing those three guys forthe RPI game was an unfortunatesituation,” Grillo said. “They arethree of our key players, but theguys who stepped in playedwell.”

As if losing three players was-n’t enough, the Bears had to dealwith the annual RPI. “Big RedFreakout.” The annual game forthe RPI Engineers always draws apacked house and this year gavethe struggling Engineers themotivation they needed to con-tinue their 13-game Freakoutunbeaten streak and end theirabysmal seven-game losingstreak.

“It’s a tough atmosphere toplay in,” Grillo said. “We playedwell, but should have walkedaway with a tie.”

RPI took the first lead of the

game, scoring 11:45 into the firston a power-play goal. Brownwould tie the game a little overthree minutes later on a reboundgoal by Shane Mudryk ’04 andthen take the lead 58 secondsafter as Haggett scored his first oftwo goals. Rugo Santini ’06earned his first collegiate assiston the goal. With 33 secondsremaining in the period, RPIscored to knot the game at two.

As time ran down in the sec-ond, RPI slipped another goal byDanis, but Brown scored early inthe third to tie the game yetagain. As overtime wound down,the game looked like it was goingto end in a tie. But with 7.1 sec-onds left, Ryan Shields threw thepuck in front and it caromed off aBrown player and into the net.

“It was a heartbreaker,” saidKirley, who had to watch thegame from the stands. “(Thegoal) was pure luck on their part,but we sat back and took (theirlosing record) for granted.”

The usually stingy Browndefense allowed RPI to scorethree times with under two min-utes left in a period.

“Letting in those goals at theend hurt a lot,” Grillo said. “Welet them go into the locker roomwith confidence. Recently wehave been up and down, and weall need to get on the samepage.”

The Bears hope to pick up fourpoints this weekend as they faceoff against first-place Cornelland a strong Colgate team.

Sports staff writer Ian Cropp ’04 cov-ers the men’s hockey team. He can bereached at [email protected].


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entered the country by ship,truck and train. The generic con-tainers used in internationalcommerce require five peopleand 15 total man-hours to bethoroughly checked. Checkingevery container that enters U.S.borders would essentially stop alltrade, Flynn said.

To check this unregulated flowof potential terrorist attacks,Flynn said the nation needs totake advantage of new technolo-gy and create systems of filtra-tion, which would include ran-dom searches and training forpeople who directly deal with thepackages to detect anomalies.

Additions to the boxes, Flynnsaid, such as tracking devices andadvanced seals, would cost about$100 to add to every container.Currently, after a container hasbeen searched, it is closed with aweak seal that costs only 50 cents.

What it boils down to is “theproblem of the commons.Everyone wants to see if they canget away without doing much ontheir own part even though tak-ing action would be best for thecommon good,” he said.

“It’s true companies willsearch for the cheapest shippingprices. There will be some issuesabout civil liberties involved, andit would require taking moneyfrom other areas. But we need tohave an adult conversation aboutit now and actually take some(action),” he said.

Flynn said those transporta-tion companies that make suchchanges early and correctly willfind they have an edge.

But “if we don’t make baselinesecurity precautions, security willalways be trumped by market

concerns,” Flynn said.Though Flynn’s discussion

focused on weaknesses in thecurrent U.S. homeland securityplan, he said the country will notbecome secure solely by focusingon its homelands.

“It’s a trade-off. We will neverbe 100 percent safe,” he said.“Regardless of what we do, thesesystems will be very attractive topeople with malicious intents.”

Sept. 11 was a wake-up call, hesaid, and because our securitysituation cannot get much worse,the nation needs to begin takingaction now.

The Watson Institute forInternational Studies sponsoredthe forum.

Herald staff writer DanielleCerny ’06 covers campusactivism. She can be reached [email protected].


Lecture What it boils down to

is “the problem of the

commons. Everyone

wants to see if they

can get away without

doing much on their

own part even

though taking action

would be best for the

common good.”

Stephen E. FlynnSenior Fellow in NationalSecurity Studies for the Councilon Foreign Relations

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Balancing actIn our first editorial of the semester, The Herald encouraged mem-

bers of the Brown community to become active in protesting the

potential war with Iraq. A glance at our content on any given day

proves the campus needed little prodding. It might seem that our

editorial views have bled to the front page, but this is not the case.

The Herald covers events as they occur and prints guest columns

as they are received, but up to this point those who might hold

other viewpoints have been all but invisible.

As war seems more and more imminent, a new question has

been emerging among even those who oppose war in principle:

When is war justified? There are students at Brown who support war

in Iraq, whatever their distaste for war as a concept, but they aren’t

demonstrating on the Main Green, holding forums or expressing

themselves in the pages of The Herald’s opinions section.

Antiwar forums and lectures have a valuable role on campus, but

so do relatively bias-free educational opportunities about the situa-

tion in Iraq.

The possibility of war may trouble those already opposed to it,

but surely even the staunchest antiwar activist would prefer that fel-

low students come around to that point of view by their own facul-

ties.

For a student to be converted by a barrage of antiwar propaganda

is no more intellectually honest than if that same student supports

the war entirely based on President George W. Bush’s speeches.

Monday’s Watson Institute-sponsored forum about homeland

security is an example of the type of educational event the campus

needs. Stephen E. Flynn had his own agenda, but he outlined his

case without excessive rhetoric and with frank acknowledgements

of sacrifices that would need to be made to support his cause.

The community must hear from a variety of viewpoints or it will

remain woefully undereducated and apathetic about the coming

hostilities. If antiwar campus organizations are unable or unwilling

to provide such venues for learning and discussion, then those who

feel war with Iraq is necessary must stand up and be heard, not only

for the good of their cause, but to the benefit of their community.

Historic democraticideals point towardvalidity of euthanasiaTo the Editor:

Regarding Mr. Appel’s op-ed (“How FreeingCarol Carr Will Save Your Death,” Feb. 7), I canonly add a historical anecdote. Patrick Henry ismost famous as an orator, but he also served asgovernor of Virginia, held command of Virginia’srevolutionary militia, and was offered appoint-ments by President Washington to be eitherSecretary of State or Chief Justice of the U.S.Supreme Court (he declined both for reasons ofhealth and family).

On June 6, 1799, suffering from a terminal and

excruciatingly painful gastro-intestinal condition,with the assistance of his physician, Henry endedhis life with a draught of mercury.

I share the moral reservations about suicide heldby Attorney General Ashcroft. But with death immi-nent, better men than the Attorney General havemade decisions that accord curiously with that ofMrs. Carr and her family. That the decision to endone’s own life would be the purview not of the indi-vidual but the state is both an absurd dismissal ofhuman rights and a conceit more fitting for BigBrother than America and democracy. If they donot respect the rights and decisions of others, suchmen who claim to serve the public ought to consid-er those words, “Give me liberty, or give me death,”in a fresh context.

Ed Mahaney-Walter ’05Feb. 9

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“(A) STUDENT WITH ABILITY, IRRESPECTIVEof economic means, just has to be able tocome to Brown. That’s a moral imperative.So I’m very interested in finding ways forstudents who come from the least favor-able circumstances to be able to come toBrown. I never want elite higher educationin this country to become the province ofthe rich.”—Ruth Simmons, BrownUniversity News Service, Nov. 9,2000

“Student loans will increase$1,000 per year for most stu-dents on financial aid and$500 for students in the lowest incomebracket in the 2003-2004 academic year(at the expense of student grants.)” —Brown Daily Herald, “Student loansincrease due to poor economy” (Jan. 24,2003)

Financial aid is the primary link betweenclass and values at Brown. It is the mostimportant means by which an educationalinstitution charging $36,356 annually canbegin to live up to its “moral imperative.” Itis vital for low-income students, for mid-dle-income students, for some upper-mid-dle income students, indeed for the vastmajority of people in this country and theforty percent of students at Brown whocannot begin to afford such a lavish tuition.Need-blind admission, for which theUniversity has received positive publicity

and large donations, including $15 millionlast spring from the Starr Foundation in thelargest gift financial aid has ever received, isa progressive step in Brown’s efforts at eco-nomic morality, and it is a step which weapplaud. It is a step which requires follow-through, both in letter and in spirit.

Two weeks ago, we were informed thatthe Office of Financial Aid was slashing

most student grant packagesby $1,000, with the lowestincome bracket losing $500,and replacing it with debt.Only slim justification wasoffered: The economy is falter-ing. Don’t we know it? Doesn’t

this demand an increase in support tothose most hurt by such an economy?Doesn’t this demand a decrease in debt forthose of us entering a plummeting job mar-ket?

In her inaugural address, Ruth Simmonsstated, “Universities, whether implicitly orotherwise, always, always teach values.They teach values in the way they hire andtreat employees; they teach values in theway they admit students; they teach valuesin the way they set curricula and require-ments.” The firm connection of universityvalues, implicit or otherwise, to universityclass realities — economic morality — is farfrom accomplished.

In 2000, only 9 percent of Brown stu-dents qualified for Pell grants for familieswith incomes below $45,000. Fifty percentof U.S. families have incomes below$42,000. Brown remains economicallyhomogenous and “a province of the rich.”

Brown’s switch from early action to earlydecision hurts applicants who need aid.While accepted students must withdrawapplications from other schools inDecember, they do not receive their aid

offers until spring. Students for whomaffordability counts cannot afford to takeadvantage of the higher acceptance rates inthis program.

Increasing student loans will furtherdeter low-income students from choosingBrown. The New York Times (1/28/03)reports that students, especially from low-income backgrounds, are wishing they hadchosen schools that require less debt.

Another problem is that students onfinancial aid at Brown often feel lost.Freshman orientation and the PeerCounselor program do not adequatelyaddress financial aid, student employmentor issues of class. An elitist atmospheredominates much of the social life at Brown,and we are offered no resources to copewith this jarring transition. There is no cen-tral resource of information, and the officesof the deans, financial aid, loans, bursar,and student employment form an opaque,badly coordinated, difficult-to-navigate,and often hostile system.

The financial aid office maintains thatstudents can support themselves workingonly eight hours a week, an assertion con-tradicted by experience. Employment hasbeen described by Brown as enabling thepurchase of “pizza and CDs.” This flippantattitude mocks the efforts of students whoare struggling to finance tuition, rent,books and food.

While the removal of the work-studyrequirement for freshmen was undertakenwith the best intentions, its effects areproblematic. The program replaces fresh-man work-study with grants, which lessenparents’ first bills by about $2,000. If checkswere sent to students directly, the programcould truly replace work. The needremains, and freshmen workers feel dis-heartened and invalidated.

Brown pays students the lowest wages inthe Ivy League, meaning long hours,exhaustion, the sacrifice of extracurricularinvolvement and a sense of our own dis-posability. We are derided, disrespectedand ignored by student customers at foodservice and other jobs. We are disturbed bylow wages and poor treatment of profes-sional staff in UFS, Facilities Management,and other departments, and see this asinseparable from our own experience.

Some students have expressed a fear offinancial reprisal if they make their voicesheard on these subjects. While we havefaith that this is impossible at Brown, thepresence of the concern is strongly indica-tive of the current climate.

Given all this, what can we feel but aban-doned, betrayed and bullied by the institu-tion which we have worked so hard toattend? Fear, intimidation and alienationare antithetical to a healthy, principled aca-demic community, a community for whichSimmons has worked so passionately.These are not the values of a universitywhich we believe holds respect, equity andopportunity as its deepest priorities andcommitments. The University must makegood on its promise and make Brown asupportive community for all students.

We, as SOFA, call on the administration,the Department of Financial Aid andPresident Simmons personally, to be true totheir legacy of moral clarity, their commit-ment to values and the spirit of need-blindadmission. Find the funding. Obtain fund-ing from budget redistributions, fromalumni drives, from the endowment, frombake sales if need be. Reverse the loanincreases. Do not place an enormouslyincreased burden on the backs of the 40percent of this community least able toshoulder it.

Despite lofty rhetoric, Brown must put its money where its mouth is

BRADY DUNKLEEANNA PURINTON

GUESTCOLUMNISTS

Class, values, and financial aid at Brown

Bush administration a disaster on all frontsFrom race to international relations, Bush has ignored ordinary Americans

ON THE MORNING OF SEPT. 11, 2001,President Bush’s approval ratings neatly rep-resented the basic fact of his presidency:that the American people didn’t want it. Butwhen tragedy struck that day, America suf-fered a case of amnesia. Within a couple ofweeks, Bush’s approval ratings suggestedthat 90 percent of Americans had forgottenthat we were living under themandate of a president withoutmandate. Nowadays we’re pur-suing a failing diplomatic strat-egy on North Korea, chasingshadows in Iraq, ignoring vio-lence in Israel, assaulting racialdiversity on college campuses, gutting pub-lic healthcare, all while running up the mas-sive deficits normally reserved for govern-ments that actually invest in social welfare.

Never before has such fiscal irresponsi-bility been put to so little use. And Dubya’sreceiving a heap of due criticism both athome and abroad. Frantically trying to pla-cate critics who revile his government’smonomaniacal ideological rigidity, Bushinvested a great deal of air time during hisState of the Union address trying to soundnice on issues like spending, the environ-ment and healthcare.

I was almost convinced. At times, it real-ly seemed like it had finally been boiled intoDubya’s noodle that reducing our depend-ence on petroleum, protecting the environ-ment, caring for the sick and the poor andreducing federal spending are all very good

things. He just couldn’t stop talking abouthow nice it would be if our government didall of them. Well, it’s about time! This is allpretty cute coming from a president whoserecord on the issues he discussed in hisState of the Union address is about asabominable as Kim Jong-Il’s haircut. Butnow that the president is preaching the

benefits of a leadership thatcares about America’s future,why won’t he follow his ownadvice?

If Bush knows thatAmericans want him to careabout things like health care

and the environment, why doesn’t he?Maybe it’s just me, but there’s somethingreally repulsive about a president who liesto seniors, telling them that his health careplan will make their lives better when infact he’s only interested in finding publicservices to slash so that he can give a taxbreak to the rich. Or how about his lies oneducation? Again, there’s something dis-turbing about a president whose elixir forfailing schools is to steal their funding.Great idea, Dubs. You’ve got to be suspi-cious when our president looks for ways ofdraining money out of public educationand calls it a victory for America’s children.

Or how about race? Dubya sold out hisown majority leader as soon as the lime-light got too bright: a racist running theparty is O.K. as long as he keeps his mouthshut. He had Colin Powell, the residentblack guy, get on national television tomake Bush look really good on race. Then,only days later, Bush made everyone’s headspin when he declared, “I strongly support

diversity,” only to change his mind mid-sentence and argue that promoting racialdiversity on college campuses is unconsti-tutional. That doesn’t make a whiff of sense,and Bush knows that, but it works to hisadvantage if he can pay lip service tominorities while eliminating the only pub-lic means to achieve racial diversity.

When the Merril Lynch scandal firsterupted into the headlines, Republicansdid everything they could to block the Stateof New York from prosecuting the wrongdo-ers. After Congress passed a corporatereform bill, the administration issued direc-tives ensuring that the spirit of the bill wasreplaced by what Dubya probably thinks ofas “faith-based accounting.” He even gotformer chairman of the S.E.C. Harvey Pitt tosay on national television that the S.E.C.shouldn’t get new funding.

After Sept. 11, 2001, it became clear toeveryone that keeping weapons of massdestruction out of the hands of terroristsshould be our national priority. Again,Bush’s policies have failed to live up to hisrhetoric. Dubya is doing everything he canto destroy the Biological WeaponsConvention. He refuses to get theComprehensive Test Ban Treaty ratified ormake a meaningful effort to keep tacticalnuclear weapons and other fissile materialsout of the hands of terrorists. The result isthat the genie is very much out of the bottlein countries that are too unstable to betrusted with nuclear weapons.

Let’s get right to it. The State of the UnionAddress sounded benevolent, but our gov-ernment shows nothing but contempt forthe security of the poor, for the health of the

elderly, for the rights of women, for the edu-cation of minorities, for the environmentand for our allies in Korea, Europe and theMiddle East. Its policies on all the relevantdomestic issues are geared towards ensur-ing that every rich white male can get intoIvy League schools based on alumni con-nections without having to pay taxes, pro-tect the environment or respect a woman’sdecision to cancel a pregnancy.

Call that a caricature, but you’ll be hard-pressed to give me an example of a Bushpolicy that stood on the side of the sick orthe poor against free-wheeling oppressionby rich, white, Christian fundamentalistcampaign contributors. The last time somany people thought our government wascrazy was when we were slaughteringVietnamese peasants en masse threedecades ago. At the World EconomicForum, Princeton professor Anne-MarieSlaughter smelled a souring of the zeitgeist.A world once focused on the globalizationof human rights now seems preoccupiedwith resisting America. That’s not the way itshould be. America used to stand for free-dom and prosperity. Dubya has given bothof those a bad name. We can’t claim to beliberators while we thumb our noses atinternational conventions on racism, sex-ism, and, ironically, weapons of massdestruction. We never wanted to elect thisguy. We deserve better than this.

Secluded atop College Hill, we often for-get that the mistakes of our governmentcould have dire consequences for ourfutures. Do we want to remain the EvilEmpire forever, or does America stand forsomething more precious than that?

The Herald would like to welcome NateGoralnik ’06 to its columnist staff.

Brady Dunklee ‘04 and Anna Purinton ’03are writing on behalf of Students OnFinancial Aid. For more information, con-tact [email protected].

NATHANGORALNIK

COLUMNIST

IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS THERE HASbeen great talk of reform throughout thecountry. This has come in two forms:Bush’s planned return to a version of“Reaganomics” and the reform of the over-time system in both the NFL and NHL.

While the formermay be of someimportance, thelatter is more of alife-and-death sit-uation. Therevamping of theovertime system inboth leagues couldrevolutionize eachgame, especiallyin the NFL, wherethe proposed planwould also beimplemented in

postseason games.In case you haven’t heard, here is the

proposed plan in the NHL: The NHL isdebating whether to do a World Cup-esque shootout after overtime has finishedto determine a winner. While this could setup players for extreme embarrassment(see Roberto Baggio, 1994), it would alsobring excitement to each overtime game.Right now the system is such that overtimeis played with five players, including thegoalie, on each team. Regardless of theoutcome, each team receives at least onepoint in the standings once it goes intoovertime. If a team scores in overtime andwins the game, it gets two points. Theshootout would occur if neither teamscores in overtime.

This system would add a great amountof excitement to every overtime game. Theoriginal idea of taking a player off the iceand only having a total of five on eachteam was also a good idea. This opened upthe play and led to fewer tied games. Itused to be such that, if a game went intoovertime, the probability of it ending in atie was higher than the probability ofMichael Jackson getting another nose job.The proposed shootout helped make theNHL All-Star game actually entertaining —something that almost never happens,because the final score is more like aBengals/Cardinals football game than likea normal hockey game.

The system’s one flaw is that, like thecurrent system, it would not be used in theplayoffs. This critique, however, isn’t reallyvalid because playoff games go on untilsomeone wins. Each overtime period is 20minutes long, as opposed to five, and itsometime takes until Insomniac Theatercomes on VH1 to finish certain games.During the regular season, the NHL wouldnever let this happen, because it wouldput those teams at a great disadvantage inthe coming games. In the regular season,however, a shootout would add a greatdeal of excitement, making it so that everygame would yield a winner and a loser.

The NFL’s proposed solution to its over-time problem is somewhat similar to whatcollege football has done. As of now in theNFL, the team that gets the ball first is at adistinct advantage. For example, if a teamreceives the ball and starts at its own 35-yard line, it only has to go 30 yards to getinto decent field goal position and win thegame. Once a team has the ball around theother team’s 20, it has zero incentive tokeep trying to go for a touchdown as it mayturn the ball over. These situations makeovertime games very anti-climatic. As a

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Time for anoverhaul ofovertime

dspics

The women’s hockey team is next in action Wednesday night versus Providence College.

Suspensions hurt men’shockey in OT loss to RPI

W. icers vs. Dartmouthfeatures tough hockey

More moneyequals betterAll-Star games

JEFFREY SALTMANTHE SALT’S TAKE

BY JAMIE SHOLEMThe NBA All-Star game is usually a disap-pointment. Caught up in all the streetfests, late-night clubbing, charity events,slam-dunk competitions, three-point con-tests and public relations events, the play-ers often forget why they are there: to playin the All-Star game. Every year, the play-ers look bored running up and down thecourt. Sure, there are a few amazing playswith spectacular dunks, but most of theplayers are merely showcasing their jump-ing abilities. As a Bulls fan, if I saw EddyCurry throwing down too many trickdunks in an All-Star game, I would be wor-ried as to why he wasn’t spending moretime working on his post moves, not hispower dunk. Like I said, I’m a Bulls fan, soI likely will never see any of these eventstake place, especially in an All-Star game.I’m just trying to prove my point that tricksare fun, but a truly competitive All-Stargame would be a true spectacle.

An MJ-Kobe match-up is intriguing andall, but it’s not that intriguing. Neitherplayer will be playing defense in this game,so what’s the point? Honestly, if the worlddidn’t have sportswriters, no one wouldeven worry about whether Kobe would“get the best of Jordan.” A lack of effort iswhat ruins the All-Star game. There is talkof changing the format to a “U.S. vs. TheWorld” format, but will this really changeanything? I don’t know about you, butwatching Peja loaf around against Garnettdoesn’t excite me any more than watchingPeja loaf against any Eastern Conferenceplayer. Fans aren’t stupid, and changingthe format won’t change the fact that noone out there is really trying.

It’s not just the NBA that has problems.Every All-Star game is flawed in some way.MLB had the embarrassing tie this pastyear, but there is some promise on thehorizon. The wheels are in motion on aplan that would award World Series homefield advantage to the team from the MLBAll-Star game-winning league.Unfortunately, this plan will be highly con-tested by the players’ union and will likelynever be put into place. Yet this is exactlywhat baseball needs. The players wouldwant to win because they would have anincentive. The game would matter. Plus,this would add interesting subplots. Forexample, if the Red Sox are out of the play-off race and the Yankees are in the lead,would Nomar intentionally choke to keepthe evil Yanks from securing home fieldadvantage? I would tune in to watch thiswicked awesome American League dramatake place.

The NHL also lacks effort in its All-Stargame. The NFL has — wait a minute, doesanyone even watch the Pro Bowl? So youmight wonder if I’m just going to com-plain or if I’m actually going to give a solu-tion. Well I propose a solid but simpleanswer that will hopefully provide somespark that current All-Star games lack. Justthink about it — what drives nearly allprofessional athletes? MONEY. Give evenlarger cash rewards to the winning All-Starteam’s players. I think the league couldafford the extra price that this wouldrequire because of the increased televi-sion ratings and commercial prices thatthis change would cause. Until this alter-ation is made, be prepared for years ofmediocre All-Star games that almostnever live up to their hype.

Jamie Sholem ‘06 hails from Champaign,Illinois and will continue to hold a grudgeagainst Vince Carter for dissing MJ.

BY IAN CROPPThe Brown men’s hockey team learnedthe importance of mythology this week-end as they split games with both Unionand Rensselaer. On Friday they wereable to defeat a strong Union squad atthe Achilles rink, but on the followingnight — just as Achilles was supposed to— the Bears fell in Troy, N.Y., on a flukeovertime goal.

After scoring in the first, the Bearsadded two more in the third to go ahead3-0. Union scored two goals, but Brownheld on and ended its three-game los-ing streak with the 3-2 win. Despitebeing outshot 11-4 in the first period,the Bears matched the UnionDutchmen in intensity and would scorethe first goal of the game.

Paul Crosty ’05 started the play bysending a pass across the ice to JasonWilson ’03. A few strides later, Wilsoncentered the puck to well-positionedChris Legg ’03 who one-timed it by theUnion goalie.

The second period saw little scoring

action, though both teams continued tobattle in the smaller confines of theAchilles Rink.

“Union has a smaller rink,” saidBrown Head Coach Roger Grillo.“Anywhere you shoot from is going to bea good shot. But on a whole we did agood job of keeping them to the outsideand clearing out rebounds.”

Early in the third period the Bearswould extend their lead to two and thenthree goals. The second goal came on apower play — Scott Ford ’04 got thepuck to leading scorer Les Haggett ’05,who found an open Keith Kirley ’03standing on the doorstep. Kirley easilyslid the puck in the Union net at the2:50 mark. A little over a minute later,Jason Wilson ’03 was the lucky recipientof a deflected Union clearing attemptand converted on a one-on one with theUnion goalie.

Union would spoil the bid by YannDanis ’04 for a shutout at 7:24. The

BY KATHY BABCOCKThe only thing falling harder than thesnow this weekend were the women’sice hockey players, as Brown andDartmouth roughed each other up onSaturday. Brown beat the University ofVermont 4-1 on Friday and lost 3-0 toDartmouth on Saturday. Both gameswere conference counters, leavingBrown 6-4-1 in the ECAC after the week-end and 9-9-4 overall.

“We’ve played (UVM) before. Weknew that the game on Saturday wasgoing to be a lot tougher,” said KerryNugent ’05. “It was good for us to workthe puck around.”

Brown and Dartmouth have a historyof exciting match-ups — Brown defeat-ed Dartmouth in the ECACChampionships last year — and eachteam is both physically aggressive andhighly skilled. Saturday’s game was nota disappointment, as both teams cameout fast and hard, hammering at thegoalies. But at 16:42 a miscommunica-tion between two of the Brown defend-

ers allowed the Big Green’s Gillian Appsto break away for an unassisted goal.Despite several attempts, Brown wasnot able to even the score in the periodand left the ice trailing Dartmouth 1-0.

The Bears and Big Green played anintense second period, forcing bothgoalies to earn their saves. Brown’s PamDreyer ’03 and Dartmouth’s AmyFerguson each tallied 31 saves in thegame.

“It definitely wasn’t a 3-0 game. Theonly thing we can say is that nothingreally bounced our way,” Nugent said.“We had a lot of chances; it was a goodfast-paced game, but we didn’t reallyhave any luck going into the game.”

In the third period, Brown’s luck trulyran out when Correne Bredin sent abouncing shot into the net with anassist from Krista Dornfried in the firstfive minutes of the period. Brown wasunable to even the score, and in thefinal three minutes of the period Bredin

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