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BY DANA GOLDSTEINDon’t compromise, be friends with co-workers with and give back to commu-nity, Dave Eggers advised a crowd ofabout 200 students Sunday night atRISD’s Bayard Ewing Building.

Eggers, the author of the bestselling2000 memoir “A Heartbreaking Work ofStaggering Genius” and the founder ofthe magazines McSweeney’s and TheBeliever, is usually known for his uncon-ventional and self-aware narrative style.But in Sunday night’s lecture, sponsoredby the RISD Department of GraphicDesign, Eggers treated the audience to acomputer slide show of his work as adesigner and a history of his experience

in the publishing business.Eggers said he was trained as an artist

from the age of eight and until age 22aspired to be a painter. But after twoyears studying painting at the Universityof Illinois — “Was that anyone’s back-up?” he joked with the audience —Eggers became frustrated with his pro-fessors’ conventionality and switched toa major in journalism. Eggers said hejoined the daily student newspaper,where he cut his teeth as a designer,photographer and writer.

After college and the death of his par-ents, Eggers moved to San Francisco,Calif., the setting of “A HeartbreakingWork of Staggering Genius,” where he

lived with and cared for his youngerbrother. Eggers said he was able to usethe experience he gleaned laying out hiscollege daily newspaper on a Macintoshoperating system to work for five yearsas a “Mac temp” in the Bay Area. Amongother jobs, he designed congratulatorycertificates for employees of Pac Bell, aWest Coast telephone company.

Eggers moved on to become the edi-torial cartoonist for the magazine SanFrancisco Weekly and eventually starteda graphic design firm with a friend fromhigh school. Despite their lack of realexperience, Eggers said he and his part-ner had a way with their clients.

“We’d just go in and lie about every-thing we knew and could do,” he said.“We’d screw up huge jobs all the time,but we charged about 10 percent ofeveryone else.”

In 1993, Eggers and several more highschool friends founded Might, a month-ly magazine focusing on unconvention-al feature writing geared toward GenXers. Following the conventional wis-dom of the publishing industry, Eggerssaid the staff attempted to reach a circu-lation of 100,000 by compromising edi-torial standards in order to appeal toadvertisers. Might attracted attention,but the magazine folded after 16 issueswithout turning a profit. Eggers said theexperience left him with a profound dis-taste for forcing good writing to besqueezed onto pages among advertise-

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Levingerprofessorshipfilled weeksafter familyfiles lawsuitBY LISA MANDLEJust three weeks after the Levinger FamilyTrust filed a lawsuit against Brown claimingthe University waited too long to fill anendowed professorship in the Levingername, the Corporation appointed Professorof Medicine Alfred Buxton the Ruth andPaul Levinger Professor of CardiologySaturday.

The Levinger lawsuit, filed before Brownnamed Buxton to the chair, claims Brownwaited too long to name someone to theendowed professorship and requests thatthe donation, plus interest, be given toanother institution. The funds are currentlyvalued at more than $2 million, according todocuments filed in the Providence SuperiorCourt by Brown.

The timing of the appointment relative tothe lawsuit is “coincidental,” said VicePresident and General Counsel for BrownBeverly Ledbetter.

According to the lawsuit, in 1978 then-President Howard Swearer asked PaulLevinger, president of the Speidel, Inc.,watchband company in East Providenceand a local philanthropist, for a $1 milliondonation to the Medical School for theestablishment of an endowed professor-ship.

Based on Swearer’s request, Levingeramended his trust to provide for the estab-lishment of a professorship after the deathsof him and his wife.

Levinger died in 1981 and his wife, Ruth,died in 1994. In late 1994, Brown receivedapproximately $1.2 million for the profes-sorship.

According to the suit, Brown decided notto appoint anyone to the position until anew chair of medicine had been named butdid not inform the trustees of this decision.In the response filed with ProvidenceSuperior Court, Brown neither admits nordenies that the trustees were not informed.

When the lawsuit was filed in early

Corporationendorsescampus lifeinitiatives

Eggers tells RISD audience how he makes his mark

BY SARAH LABRIEAt its meeting Saturday, the BrownCorporation set the University’s budgetsand announced the hiring of three high-profile professors.

The Corporation set the University’sEducation and General budget for 2005at $414.3 million, a $29.6 million increaseover last year’s budget.

The increase will go to support need-blind admission for undergraduates aswell as improvements in the graduateprogram, according to a University press

release. The budget will also aid otherelements of the Plan for AcademicEnrichment.

The increase was suggested by theUniversity Resources Committee andendorsed by President Ruth Simmons,said Russell Carey, vice president andsecretary of the University.

Changes in the budget for 2005include a 4.9 percent rise in undergradu-ate tuition and fees for the 2004-2005academic year, setting total charges forundergraduates at $39,808.

Undergraduate tuition will rise by 5 per-cent to $30,672. The budget for financialaid for undergraduates will increase by 8percent.

The Corporation also appointed threenew senior faculty members and namedseveral professors to endowed chairs.

Writer and literary theorist John EdgarWideman was named the Asa MesserProfessor and Professor of English andAfricana Studies. Wideman is a two-time

Tuition hike, new professorsapproved at Corporation meeting

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETThe construction of a campus center, ren-ovation of the Sharpe Refectory, libraryimprovements and an increase inUniversity-sponsored housing wereamong the proposals approved by theBrown Corporation at its meeting thispast weekend.

The proposals, passed as part of thePlan for Academic Enrichment, cap twoyears of research and debate and willdirectly influence the upcoming capitalcampaign spearheaded by President RuthSimmons, administrators said.

These proposals expand upon themore general initiatives of theCorporation’s 2002 meeting, said InterimVice President for Campus Life andStudent Services David Greene.

“Two years ago we had a fairly concen-trated set of proposals that were designedto jumpstart a larger process,” Greenesaid. “This is the larger process.”

Specific plans for a campus center willbe based on the research of Venturi, ScottBrown and Associates, an architecture

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A crowd of more than 200 gathered at RISD’s Bayard Ewing Building to hear aspeech by Dave Eggers, author of “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.”Eggers is the founder ofthe magazines McSweeney’s and The Believer.

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ImPulse dance company off tostrong start after weekend offirst auditionsBY MERYL ROTHSTEINAs a second-semester senior and agraduate student, imPulse co-foundersNefertiti Jáquez ’04 and Rishi Sanyal GShave a lot of people wondering whythey are starting a new dance companynow.

But such concerns are baseless,Sanyal said. “Why not now?” he said.

ImPulse is a new student-run dancecompany featuring jazz, hip-hop, mod-ern, ballet, lyrical and cultural dance.

The company, which theUndergraduate Council of Studentsconstituted as a Category I studentgroup Feb. 12, is intended to remedy the“dire need” for a diverse dance groupwith entirely student dancers and cho-reographers, Jáquez said.

Sanyal said he found so many“potential dancers that didn’t knowwhat to do with that passion.”

“I didn’t feel like there was much ofan outlet for it,” he said.

A lot of the serious dance groups atBrown — such as Fusion DanceCompany and MEZCLA — are veryselective, said Stanley Voigt ’06, afounding “imPulsee.”

The addition of new, equally selec-tive and serious groups “gives moreopportunities for students to be seriousabout dancing,” he said.

ImPulse will serve as a “separate out-let” for those in the dance communityfrustrated by the limited options,Jáquez said.

Sanyal said he envisions the compa-ny as a “close, tight-knit family ofdancers” who are “very happy to workand learn from each other and share thestage with each other.”

Though the choreography willemphasize jazz and hip-hop, there willalso be an opportunity to incorporate avariety of dance types, like salsa and fla-

menco, Jáquez said.Roughly 40 students came to the

imPulse auditions on Friday, and sevenwere accepted, she said.

Everyone who auditioned was“absolutely amazing,” but becausemuch of the semester has alreadypassed, a small group was the only wayshe and Sanyal could give dancers theirfull attention, she said.

They chose the seven dancers basedon “personality and stage presence”rather than technical skills, she said.“You can’t train a person to be a per-former,” she said.

ImPulse is scheduled to perform in acollaborative exhibition this semesterwith Soul Cypher, SugarCane, Fusion,the Break Dancing Club, MEZCLA andWhat’s on Tap?, among others, Jáquezsaid.

The show, the first of its kind, is “real-ly going to define where the dance com-munity is at Brown,” she said.

In preparation for the performance,the group will meet two or three timeseach week for two or three hours, withmore frequent practice as the showapproaches, she said.

The show will be a major step in thesix-month planning process that wentinto imPulse.

Jáquez and Sanyal decided to startthe group while co-choreographing adance for MEZCLA, of which Jáquez ispresident. They drafted a constitutionand mission statement over winterbreak and presented their documentsand a list of signatures to UCS inFebruary, Jáquez said. She called theprocess “kind of excruciating” and “alittle heart-wrenching,” but thus far thegroup has been received with “openarms,” she said.

Hillel exhibit pushes limits of artistic expressionBY MASHA KIRASIROVAThe new Glenn and Darcy Weiner Centerfor Brown Hillel was dedicated last weekamid controversy generated by a series ofchallenging artistic statements.

“To a Blind God,” parts 1 and 2, aretwo of the titles displayed in the newmixed media exhibit “For the Children,”by Ana Weiner, which opened Friday inthe building’s main lobby. The exhibitcomes on the heels of another Hillelshow, by artist Robert Cronin.

Aside from generating their share ofstrong reactions, the two exhibits havelittle in common. Unlike Cronin’s sexual-ly provocative “candles” represented aslarge, soft pink shapes with holes, “Forthe Children” is the artistic expression ofa mother grieving the loss of her two chil-dren.

The “children” are the very Glenn andDarcy whose names appear on the build-ing’s facade. After they died in a planecrash, their father and mother —Connecticut artist Ana Weiner — decidedto honor their memory with a gift and amessage to the Brown Hillel community.While the gift has been celebrated andwelcomed, the message is not immedi-ately clear.

Upon entrance, the visitor is confront-ed by a holographic image of a fetus ofambiguous gender that appears and dis-appears inside the mirrored amorphousdarkness of an upturned pyramid. Thepyramid’s sharp metallic contour isfocused on a single sharp point creatinga sense of precarious balance. The differ-

ence in media from the heavy steel to theephemeral visual effect of holographicand lenticular panels creates an interest-ing, albeit frightening, effect. The babymoves in the metal frame, creating aneerie, interactive illusion.

The walls of the central hallway, whichhave been described by at least one com-munity member as looking like “a torturechamber,” display bleak gray and dark-green painting and sculptures.Tormented puppets are suspended withwire, and ghastly pale faces in white dra-matic makeup stare at the viewer amidgothic black and white stripes, spikes,barbed wire and other metal protrusions.They are sometimes crossed out or oth-erwise obstructed with metal and text.

Weiner’s experiments with text areoften more challenging than the imagesthemselves. Near one of the paintings,the words “pain,” “agonize,” “mutilate,”“crucify” and “punish” spill out of theframe onto the walls. Though always vis-ible, the text challenges the meaning ofreadability. Against the wall, a largemetal work entitled “To a Blind God part2” presents rows of Braille crumbling andagain spilling out of the frame in anunintelligible dotted chaos.

The new Glen and Darcy WeinerCenter pushes the limits of acceptableartistic expression acceptable in a holyplace.

Herald staff writer Masha Kirasirova ’05can be reached [email protected].

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Academy Awards wrap-upBest picture:“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”Best director: Peter Jackson (“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King”)Best actor: Sean Penn (“Mystic River”)Best actress: Charlize Theron (“Monster”)Best supporting actor: Tim Robbins (“Mystic River”)Best supporting actress: Renee Zellweger (“Cold Mountain”)

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As for the future, Sanyal saidhe hopes the group will grow to20 or 25 dancers who will put onone or two shows each year,including further collabora-tions.

Most of all, he said he hopes itremains a “great way (for stu-dents) to share their love ofdancing with other students.”

Herald staff writer MerylRothstein ’06 edits the Arts &Culture section. She can bereached at [email protected].

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winner of the PEN/Faulkneraward, a MacArthur Fellowshiprecipient and the winner of the2000 O. Henry Award for bestshort story. He is coming toBrown after teaching at theUniversity of Massachusetts-Amherst since 1986. After gradu-ating from the University ofPennsylvania, Wideman was thesecond African American to win aRhodes Scholarship for study atOxford University.

In the anthropology depart-ment, Stephen Houston, one ofthe nation’s leading experts onMayan studies, will begin atBrown July 1. Houston has taughtat Brigham Young University forthe past 11 years. His areas ofresearch include Mayan writingand language, as well as ancientarchitecture and religion.

Wayne Bowen, associate biolo-gy professor at Brown from 1989-1991, will return to the Universityas a professor of medical sciencebeginning in October. He cur-rently works in the drug designand synthesis unit of the NationalInstitute of Diabetes andDigestive and Kidney Diseases atthe National Institutes of Health.He is chief of the receptor bio-chemistry and pharmacologyunit at the institution. He is cur-rently engaged in the study of thebrain, specifically on the effectsof opiate drugs and biochemistryof sigma receptors.

Bowen is a graduate of MorganState College and CornellUniversity, where he received aPh.D. in biochemistry and neu-ropharmacology. He served aspresident of the NIH BlackScientists Association in 2001.

“President Simmons was veryenthusiastic about all three ofthem,” said Carey of the newlyappointed professors.

The Corporation also namedassociate professor of neuro-science David Berson ’75 theSidney A. Fox and DorotheaDoctors Fox Professor ofOpthalmology and VisualSciences and Professor ofNeuroscience. Berson specializesin the study of the neurons of theretina and was the lead author ofa 2002 paper that was the first toidentify the eye cell that runs thebody’s circadian clock. Bersonholds an A.B. in psychology fromBrown and a Ph.D. fromMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology in neuroanatomy.

The Ruth and Paul LevingerProfessorship, recently the sub-ject of a lawsuit filed against theUniversity, was also filled. TheCorporation named cardiologistand medical professor AlfredBuxton the Levinger Professor ofCardiology. The nominationcomes after the Levinger FamilyTrust filed suit against theUniversity earlier this year forwaiting too long to award theposition.

The $1.2 million endowmentwas presented to the University

in 1981. The lawsuit accuses theUniversity of delaying the searchto fill the position for nine yearsafter the chair had been estab-lished. The suit has not yet beenresolved.

Buxton is the director ofarrhythmia services and the elec-trophysiology laboratory atRhode Island Hospital. He holdsan A.B. from the University ofRochester and an M.D. from theUniversity of Pennsylvania.

Endowed assistant professor-ships were awarded to JenniferHughes and George Yap. Hughesand Yap were both namedManning Assistant Professors,Hughes in the Department ofBiology. Yap was named an assis-tant professor of medical science.

Carey said Saturday’s meetingmarked the end of a three-dayperiod of smaller meetingsattended by members of the cor-poration committee. Last weekalso marked the first meetings ofthe newly instituted advisorycouncils, he said. The councils,made up of parents, facultymembers and alumni, met to dis-cuss topics including admissions,athletics, diversity, computingand the library.

“They are intended to bring ina wider group of people to beinvolved in the corporationmeeting,” Carey said. Some of thetopics discussed were lateraddressed at the Corporationmeeting.

At the meetings, membersorganized their agendas andcame up with ways to advise sen-ior department officers, he said.

Other changes implemented atthe February meeting include theapproval of the full budget. Inpast years, only the tuition wasdetermined in February, and totalchanges in budget were calculat-ed in May at commencement.

According to Carey, Simmonsproposed the change because itallows the University to planmore effectively for the comingyear.

Herald staff writer Sarah LaBrie’07 can be reached [email protected].


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February, the professorship wasunfilled. The lawsuit alleges thatBrown had a reasonable amountof time — nine years — to fill theposition had the University been“truly committed.” Brown deniesthese allegations in its response,filed Wednesday.

Edward Shapiro, a lawyer forthe Levinger trust, said that therewas no original time agreementfor the establishment of the pro-fessorship, but the “complaintspeaks for itself.” Shapiro wouldnot say when the most recentattempt to discuss the appoint-ment with Brown occurred.

Late last week, Mark Nickel,director of the Brown NewsService, told The Herald adminis-trators expected to name some-one to the chair during the cur-rent academic year. On Saturdayafternoon, after the winterCorporation meeting, the

University announced it hadnamed Buxton to the professor-ship.

Ledbetter said the wait to fillthe position was in part a result ofhaving “a very young medicalschool,” which was transitioningfrom a focus on teaching toinclude research as well.Professorships are designed toshowcase individuals with dis-tinctions in research, she said,and the University had to wait tofind a good fit.

“You don’t just run out andestablish and create and find,”she said

“The search was ongoing allthe time,” Ledbetter said. Brownhad come very close to makingappointments in the past, shesaid.

In October 2003, the Universityanticipated that it would make anappointment by February 2004,but the University had the sameanticipation in February 2003 forOctober of that year, she added.

The University also had to wait

for approval from theCorporation before announcingthe appointment, Ledbetter said.

Buxton is an electrophysiolo-gist who has done pioneeringresearch in sudden cardiac deathand cardiac arrhythmias,Ledbetter said. He has been atBrown since 1999, she said.

The Providence Journal report-ed that Levinger has given morethan $5 million to Brown. BothNickel and Ledbetter said theydid not know about any dona-tions from Levinger in addition tothe $1.2 million for the professor-ship.

Shapiro could not be reachedfor comment Sunday regardingthe future of the lawsuit.Ledbetter said she could not pre-dict what would happen becauseshe had not yet spoken with theLevinger family’s counsel.

Staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06 is TheHerald’s design editor. She can bereached at [email protected].


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HarlemRenaissanceinfuses annualBrown NightBY STEPHANIE CLARKJazz music and a sense of history filled Leung GallerySunday night as the Organization of United AfricanPeoples celebrated the sixth annual Brown Night. Theevent, organized by first-year representatives of OUAP,was themed “Harlem Renaissance” and featured per-formances of music and poetry.

The event began with a poem by Damian Ramsey ’07about problems facing black people today and “how it isto live in an urban environment,” Ramsey told TheHerald after the performance. Ramsey’s poem was fol-lowed by an untitled poem by Mica Bayard ’07.

C.J. Hunt ’07 performed a spoken word poem by GilScott Heron, a black poet and jazz musician from the1960s and 1970s, and accompanied himself on drums.The poem, “Evolution of a Black Man,” focused on howfar black people have come through history.

Paul Dorsainvil ’07 read an original monologue aboutthe current political unrest in Haiti, saying that Timemagazine called the two sides involved in the conflicts“monsters and cannibals.”

“I’m either a monster or a cannibal. Those don’t seemlike very good choices, but that’s what Time magazinehas labeled me,” said Dorsainvil, who is of Haitiandescent. He also said, “Light-skinned blacks, dark-skinned blacks and mulattos fight to assert their black-ness every day on this campus.”

The night continued with several other poems andmusical performances. The primarily jazz music includ-ed “Satin Doll” by Duke Ellington and “Ready For Love”by India.Arie. Between acts, the semiformal atmospherewas enhanced by a live jazz band and appetizers.

The evening concluded with a slide show featuringblack and white photos of first-years in OUAP, accompa-nied by recorded music by Billie Holiday.

The event was organized by OUAP freshmen repre-sentatives Jalle Dafa ’07 and Devonne Heyward ’07. Dafaalso played the saxophone to “Mack the Knife” and“Summertime” while Tracey Martin ’07 sang.

The theme of the evening was chosen because “theHarlem Renaissance was an exciting time in history forAfrican Americans,” Dafa said. “We wanted to mimicthat with the music and poetry presented tonight.” Shesaid the slide show of OUAP members also representedthe artwork that flourished during the HarlemRenaissance.

Heyward said the night “went extremely well.”“I’m very proud of the turn-out in terms of partici-

pants and audience members,” she said. Approximately 75 people attended the event, which

has been in preparatory stages for about six weeks,according to Dafa. Despite some technical glitches earlyon, Dafa said she though the event was “totally success-ful.”

First-year seminars finding places inconcentration requirementsBY MICHAEL RUDERMANNow in their second year, first-year seminars havebecome a new staple of the Brown curriculum, and somedepartments are incorporating these new classes intotheir concentration requirements.

“A lot of the seminars currently offered do counttoward the concentration requirements,” said Dean ofFreshman Studies Armando Bengochea. “We wantdepartments to design courses that fit into the depart-ment curriculum.”

This year, 52 seminars were offered, providing 1,000spaces for interested first-years. “The program has beenamazingly successful,” Bengochea said.

But negotiating with departments to create these smallclasses has been difficult, and some departments havebeen more responsive than others in creating seminars.

The Department of Economics only offers one semi-nar, this semester’s EC18: “Economics on a BroadCanvas.” This course does not fit any concentrationrequirement for the department.

“It’s interesting stuff, but it wouldn’t count towards theconcentration,” said Assistant Professor of EconomicsEnrico Spolaore, who also serves as a concentration advi-sor.

Hard sciences departments are also offering seminarsthat fulfill concentration requirements. The Department

of Geology offered four seminars this year, and “a geo con-centrator can count one of the first-year seminars towardtheir concentration,” said Professor of GeologicalSciences Jan Tullis, who also serves as a concentrationadvisor.

Similarly, the Department of Biology offered five first-year seminars this year, and students are able to countone seminar toward their concentration.

Faculty in each department are responsible for deter-mining concentration requirements, and some depart-ments might not yet have voted on whether to count first-year seminars, Bengochea said. Other departments havenot yet formally changed their requirements.

Professor of Political Science Darrell West, director ofthe A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy andAmerican Institutions, said his department will count itsseminars as elective courses. But the Department ofPublic Policy’s guide for concentrators lists courses thatcount toward the concentration, and first-year seminarsare yet to appear on this listing.

“That list is to provide guidance. There are other class-es that we count. It’s not an exclusive list,” West said.

AC15: “Jews and Whiteness” was offered through thecollaboration of the American Civilization and Judaic

Josh Miller

Students gathered Saturday in Leung Gallery for the seventh annual Entrepreneurship Forum, presented by theEntrepreneurship Program and Career Development Center.Tom First ’89, founder, executive chairman and chiefmarketing officer of ELEVEN Technology, Ed Valentini, founder and chief operating officer of Cell Based Delivery Inc.,Jody Adams ’79, co-owner and chief of Rialto Charles Hotel, and Scott Ganeles ’86, chief operating officer of I-Deal, sat onthe keynote panel moderated by Adjunct Lecturer in Engineering Josef Mittleman ’72,“Marketing Mavericks: SetYourself Apart!”“I think that students who were new to entrepreneurship were able to flatten some of the myths,”Mittleman said afterward.“It’s more about achievement than about money.”

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Search continuesfor 18 crewmembers of tankerWASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — The Coast Guard searchedthe cold waters of the Atlantic until nightfall Sunday for18 missing crew members of a 570-foot tanker thatsank off the coast of Virginia, but no more survivorswere found.

The Bow Mariner exploded Saturday night, leavingthree crew members dead, six injured and 18 missing.The ship was loaded with ethanol.

Coast Guard officials were not optimistic that theywould find any of the men, but they said the searchwould resume Monday morning.

The Norwegian owners of the ship said Sunday thatthey hoped to determine soon the cause of the blast.The Coast Guard is investigating, although all signspointed to an accident.

“The explosion must have been significant for a shipof this size to sink. There were a lot of separate roomsthat would have normally kept her afloat,” said JanHammer, a senior vice president with Odfjell, the Oslo-based company that owns the ship. “I think it will beknown today or tomorrow what caused it. We havesome theories.”

The Coast Guard received a radio call from the BowMariner at 6:10 p.m. Saturday, alerting them to theexplosion about 55 miles east of Chincoteague, Va.“That was the last contact we had with them,” CoastGuard Chief Petty Officer Steve Carleton said.

A Coast Guard helicopter picked up six survivors in alifeboat Saturday night. Two were suffering fromhypothermia because of the frigid temperatures of theAtlantic Ocean. Rescue efforts continued Sunday withtwo Coast Guard cutters, a motor lifeboat and air sur-veillance. “As long as there is hope, we will continue tosearch,” Carleton said.

The Bow Mariner’s 27-member crew included 24Filipinos and three Greeks.

The survivors, all from the Philippines, were taken toSentara Norfolk General Hospital, where they weretreated for petroleum contamination and exposure.

Aristide resigns; peacekeepingforce forming in HaitiPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Washington Post) — President Jean-Bertrand Aristide resigned and flew into exile on Sunday,bowing to a three-week rebel offensive and increasing pres-sure from the United States and other governments that heleave office.

At the White House, President Bush said he had orderedthe deployment of U.S. Marines to be the lead element in aU.N. peacekeeping force in the country, wracked by a newround of gunfire, looting and mayhem after Aristide left atdawn. Aristide’s departure came after rebels sworn to ousthim had taken over more than half of the country, withmore than 70 people killed.

Boniface Alexandre, the head of Haiti’s highest court,announced at midmorning he was taking office as interimpresident as required by the constitution. “The task will notbe an easy one,” said Alexandre, who spoke at a ceremonyattended by the U.S. and French ambassadors. “Haiti is incrisis. ... It needs all its sons and daughters. No one shouldtake justice into their own hands.”

Alexandre and a seven-member council of prominentcitizens, including members of Aristide’s party and theopposition, were to select a new prime minister and forman interim government—part of a U.S.-backed power-shar-ing plan that Aristide had agreed to earlier this month in thehopes of preserving his presidency.

Guy Philippe, 36, the leader of rebel forces that began anarmed insurrection against Aristide Feb. 5, said on localradio Sunday afternoon that his forces would supportAlexandre and cooperate with international peacekeepers.“It is not time for fighting anymore,” said Philippe, a formerarmy officer and police chief who had vowed to capture orkill Aristide if he didn’t step down.

It was the second time Aristide, 50, a former RomanCatholic priest, had been forced out of the presidency andinto exile.

Aristide, whose resistance to the brutal Duvalier familydictatorship helped bring it down in 1986, became thecountry’s first freely elected president in 1990. But a militarycoup forced him into exile seven months after he took officepromising to lift up Haiti’s poor majority. The Clinton

administration sent 23,000 U.S. troops to Haiti in 1994 torestore him to power, and invested $2.3 billion to helpestablish a new police force and rebuild the country of 8million.

But Aristide, re-elected in November 2000, had fallen outof favor with foreign governments and international organ-izations for his increasingly authoritarian style. A broad-based civic opposition, accusing Aristide of ruining theeconomy, corruption, and political intimidation, had alsocalled for his resignation.

Aristide left Port-au-Prince at 6:15 a.m., escorted by U.S.security forces as he left the National Palace, U.S. officialssaid. A U.S. government aircraft flew him to the neighboringisland of Antigua, then to the Central African Republic, anda final destination not yet determined, according to U.S.officials.

Prime Minister Yvon Neptune read a statement byAristide, quoting the president as saying he resigned toavoid further bloodshed. “Today is a very difficult day.... Iam determined to respect the constitution,” the statementsaid. “The constitution should not sink in the blood of theHaitian people.”

“I know it is not what the vast majority of Haitians wishedwould have happened,” said Neptune, who will serve asprime minister until a replacement is named by the interimcouncil.

Witnesses said some rebel forces arrived in the capitalSunday afternoon and manned roadblocks alongside policewho were trying to stop the angry rampage that erupted asnews spread of Aristide’s departure. Armed supporters ofAristide, who abandoned office three years into his five-yearterm, marauded all day through this city of 1.3 million peo-ple.

Black smoke billowed overhead as entire city blocks ofgas stations, stores and banks burned. Gunfire echoedaround the hills that rise sharply from the center of the city,located on the Caribbean. Witnesses saw a dozen or morebodies lying in the streets and local radio reported that3,000 inmates had been released from the national peniten-tiary.


firm with “extensive experienceworking on campuses at otheruniversities like Brown,” Greenesaid.

After meeting with variousgroups on campus and studyingpatterns of space usage andfoot traffic, the company puttogether a series of analysesand plans for a campus center.The University has reviewedthese plans, but the structureand location for the center hasnot been determined, Greenesaid.

The University has not devel-oped plans for the building of afitness center or the renovationof the Ratty, but the approval ofthe Corporation will allow thisprocess to go forward, Greenesaid.

Renovations will bring theRatty up to modern buildingcodes and “enhance greatly thequality of dining experience atBrown,” according to aUniversity press release.

Greene said he expects theUniversity to detail plans withinthe next month to expandundergraduate housing anddevelop a program for housinggraduate and medical students.

The goal as outlined in thePlan for Academic Enrichmentis to house about 300 moreundergraduates in an attemptto limit off-campus housing toseniors, as well as provide hous-ing for 400 to 500 graduate andmedical students, according to

the press release.At least two groups of con-

sultants have looked at ways forthe University to expand hous-ing both on and off College Hill,said Chancellor StephenRobert. The possibilitiesinclude both building and landacquisitions, he said.

Robert, who has spent thelast four months fundraising forthe capital campaign, said theCorporation’s approval will givedirection to the fundraising.

“The more solid our plansare and the more we’ve alreadyexecuted on those plans, theeasier it is to raise money,” hesaid.

The efforts that arose out ofthe 2002 meeting “have excitedalumni, parents and othergivers and have made fundrais-ing go much better,” Robertsaid. “The new proposals willtake us that much further.”

But much of the actual con-

struction of these campus lifeimprovements is dependentupon campaign donations,Robert said. A large part of theconstruction “will essentiallystart when we get the gift thatallows us to go forward,” hesaid.

Both Robert and Greene saidthe approvals reflected anenthusiastic endorsement ofSimmons’ initiatives.

“I think the reason theCorporation felt confident inapproving (the proposals) isbecause we’re so pleased withwhat’s been happening with theimprovements since 2002,”Robert said. He called the newproposals “some of the mostsweeping new programs inexpansion we’ve seen in many adecade.”

Undergraduate Council ofStudents President Rahim Kurji’05 said he was pleased with theCorporation’s decisions. Kurji,who serves on the Student LifeTask Force committee andworked closely with adminis-trators in developing the plansfor campus life improvements,said the Corporation was veryresponsive to student feedback.

“I was very impressed withthe level of insight and the levelof commitment,” he said.“They’d taken to heart a lot ofthings we recommended, andthey’d really done their home-work.”

Herald staff writer RobbieCorey-Boulet ’07 can be reachedat [email protected].


Campus life

ments, photographs and otherdistractions.

Eggers said most of the Mighteditors were offered jobs at big-name glossy magazines in NewYork, which they accepted afteryears of waiting tables andtemping.

For nine months Eggersworked at the men’s magazineEsquire, where he experiencedcorporate culture first hand.“For any of you interested intalking about corporate maga-zines, you can come talk to me,”he told the audience. “There areadvantages and disadvantages,but for me, there were mostlydisadvantages.”

Eggers said he had plenty ofidle time while on staff atEsquire, and he used it to beginwork on McSweeney’s and “AHeartbreaking Work ofStaggering Genius.” Both proj-ects took advantage, he said, of“Esquire’s time and their laserprinter and their fax machine.”

McSweeney’s began as “ahaven for the kinds of misfit sto-ries” rejected from glossy maga-zines, Eggers said. He explainedthat in creating the magazine’sdistinctive look, he was inspiredby 19th century medical texts,Bibles and textbooks, with theirbold, centered type and directinvitations to readers, askingthem to explore the texts within.Garamond 3, the font Eggerschose for the first McSweeney’scover, continues to be associat-ed with the magazine and thegenre of witty, unconventionalwriting contained within it.

Eggers said he usedMcSweeney’s to bring to fruitionthe ideas he gleaned after hisfrustrating publishing experi-ences at Might and Esquire. Togive writers the ability to designthe way their texts were present-ed, some issues of McSweeney’scontained small, one-articlebooklets surrounded by a com-mon cover. The seventh issue ofthe magazine was a cardboardbox with a rubber band aroundit. Inside were separate book-lets, each containing one article.

But high-concept design canbe expensive and painstaking,Eggers said. Many of his projectsare manufactured at a smallprinting press in Iceland, andthe cardboard box issue ofMcSweeney’s almost didn’tmake it to the United States dur-ing the 2001 anthrax scarebecause of the white powdercovering each rubber band. Tosolve the problem, the 17,000rubber bands were put througha washing machine, Eggers said.

Unlike McSweeney’s, Eggers’new magazine, The Believer,does not change its design fromissue to issue. In fact, Eggerssaid, to cut costs, the monthlymagazine uses the same tem-plate for each issue and has astaff of one — Andrew Leland, aformer McSweeney’s intern whodropped out of Oberlin Collegeto accept the job.

In addition to his publishingand writing projects, Eggers andhis staff run 826 Valencia Street,a space in San Francisco thathouses the offices ofMcSweeney’s and a tutoringcenter for local children. Therent, Eggers said, is supportedby a “pirate supplies” shop runout of the building. Eggers saidan East Coast branch of thetutoring center will open soonin Brooklyn, called 826 NYC, andwill contain a “superhero sup-plies” store.

During the question-and-answer session, Eggers said ifauthors cannot get their bookspublished, they should self-publish, even though they willonly be able to sell a maximumof 2,000 copies.

“You should do it yourselfbefore you die,” he said, addingthat for the staff of his publica-tions, success is not measuredin terms of scale. “We talk to thepeople we want to talk to, weseem to have influence amongthose people we like. And itdoesn’t really have to be morethan that.”

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein’06 edits the RISD News section.She can be reached at [email protected].


Eggers

Studies departments. The semi-nar counts for neither depart-ment’s concentration, accordingto the departments’ Web sites.

But because first and second-year students have not had todeclare concentrations, thedepartments offering these semi-nars have not had to confront theissue. “We haven’t had to face thisyet,” Tullis said.

Already some departmentshave shown interest in expandingtheir first-year seminar offerings.The Department of English plans

on offering 11 seminars next year,Bengochea said.

Bengochea said he hopesother departments will increasethe number and quality of theirfirst-year seminars. “We wouldlike the departments to ownthese courses and have thembecome important parts of theircurricula,” he said.

Brown is the only school thatoffers first-year seminars that arenot required, according toBengochea.

Herald staff writer MichaelRuderman ’07 can be reached [email protected].


SeminarsRenovations will

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With Luke Ruscoe ’06 chipping inwith six points and six boards, thestarters combined for all 40 of theteam’s first-half points and all but10 of the team’s total minutes.

“We came out in the first halflike a mature team, playing hardand playing defense,” Miller said.

In the second half, Brownagain got off to a hot start, open-ing on a 16-4 run for a 56-33 lead.With the Bears playing well onboth ends of the court, the BigGreen got no closer than 16 overthe rest the game, and Brownpicked up a 77-54 victory. Powersled the team in scoring in thesecond half as well, finishingwith 25 points and seven boards.Martin and Kilburn finished with15 and 14, respectively. The winalso preserved the Class of 2004’sundefeated record againstDartmouth.

“It has been an adjustment forme in becoming one of the firstor second options,” Powers said.

Prior to Saturday’s game,Brown celebrated its SeniorNight, honoring Kilburn, Martin,Powers and team managerRobert Humm ’04. All four wereindividually ushered to centercourt, where they stood withCoach Miller and their familiesand received a framed photo-graph.

“I hope (the younger players)learned (from me) to work ashard as you can every day,”Martin said. “To be able to playwith your teammates every dayand form that kind of relation-ship is unique, and outside ofteam sports, there are not a lot ofplaces you can form that rela-tionship.”

Once the game got underway,the Bears maintained the high

level of energy resonatingthrough the Pizzitola SportsCenter and built a 22-16 leadwith 14 minutes to go in the half.At that point, Powers took overthe game and went on a run,scoring 11 points in two minutesand two seconds, including threethree-pointers. Forte followedwith two baskets of his own, andBruno found itself with an 18-point lead. By the time Powersdrained a three-pointer with 1:07on the clock, Brown had sur-passed Dartmouth’s total scorefrom the previous night, on itsway to a 57-37 halftime lead.

For the second straight game,all three seniors were in doublefigures in scoring by intermis-sion. Powers led the team with16, followed by Martin with 14and Kilburn with 10. Fortechipped in with nine points andseven assists, and Ruscoedrained two three-pointers. As ateam, the Bears shot nearly 70percent for the half, making eightof 14 threes.

In the second half, defense wasnot at a premium, and both teamsput up over forty points. Still, theoutcome of the game was never indoubt, and Brown reached 100points thanks to the free throws ofMarcus Becker ’07 with 24.8 sec-onds to play. The final score, 100-83, was closer than the play of thegame indicated.

“I want to be a team more likeDuke,” Miller said. “I don’t care ifthey are All-Americans or not.Every possession, they are play-ing like the score is tied. Theyhave that kind of discipline. Ourgoal here is to win champi-onships, so we will have to get tothat type of discipline.”

Powers again led the team inscoring, finishing with 27 points.His five three-pointers left himfive shy of the single-seasonBrown record, which he guaran-

teed he would break next week-end. Forte and Kilburn each fin-ished with double-doubles — 24points and 10 assists for Forteand 17 points and 14 reboundsfor Kilburn. Kilburn also finishedwith four blocks for the secondstraight game. The other starters,Martin and Ruscoe, ended up with15 and 9 points, respectively.

“It is nice to go out with Mikeand Jamie and get one last win athome,” Powers said. “That iswhat really means the most. Wecan take a lot of pride in wherethe program is at today.”

“This is my last home game,and I definitely wanted to go outon a good note,” Kilburn said.“More than anything, I wanted tomake sure we got the win, but itwas an emotional night, and Iwanted to make sure I wasfocused enough to play well.”

With road games at Columbiaand Cornell universities loomingnext weekend, the Bears willhope to win out and havePrinceton University drop atleast one game before it faces theUniversity of Pennsylvania.Besides the Ivy League title, theteam will be playing for otherteam and individual records. Inaddition to the title, the seniorsare trying to extend the recordfor most wins in a four-yearspan, currently sitting at 62.

Individually, Powers will begunning for the three-pointrecord, and Forte will be trying tobecome the first player in IvyLeague history to lead the leaguein assists and scoring in leagueplay. He currently sits in first inboth categories and is a favoriteto win Player of the Year.

Herald staff writer Joshua Troy ’04is a former sports editor and cov-ers men’s basketball. He can bereached at [email protected].


Basketball

indictment ruptures the damand releases a tidal wave.Perhaps memories locked andhidden in a corner are rediscov-ered through the accusations ofanother. Maybe over time, thewounds have healed slightly.Maybe with healing, vulnerabili-ty transforms itself into thecourage to face one’s attackerand demand retribution.

What psychological switch istriggered allowing one to con-front his or her fears? If I throw astone, will you cast one of yourown? Does the concept of mobbehavior translate to a victim’sability to confront his or herpast? Alcoholics meet regularlyto discuss with others thatwhich afflicts them all. Is thisaccumulation of accusationsone large AA meeting for womenabused by jocks in Boulder? Isthe first accuser merely the pushthat allows so many to move for-ward?

If so, then why do the accu-sations remain centered in theRockies? Wouldn’t this scandalprovide cover for womennationwide to cry foul againstthe infractions that must per-vade every institution? Whendid all the football players whocan’t grasp the lack of ambigui-ty in the term “no” all relocateto Boulder? I find it hard tobelieve that sex is only used andabused by Gary Barnett’s pro-

gram.There are many reasons that

the states of Florida andCalifornia dominate the collegefootball landscape. Blondes andbikinis have been a recruitmenttool for longer than a strongwishbone offense or the needfor depth at corner have. Andwhen they are revered as gods,I’m certain players at other insti-tutions incorrectly assume thatevery girl on campus wants asample of the starting right tack-le.

But, if so, where are the rest ofthe complaints? Why haven’tthese women decided to jumpon? Who stopped the snowballin Boulder? Why does the rest ofDivision I football receive a freepass while the Colorado pro-gram receives the spanking itrightfully deserves? Is the band-wagon not capable of pickingsomeone up on the East Coast,or does it have a limited seatingcapacity? I just don’t get it.

To true sports aficionados,bandwagon fans are one stepabove those who hope to “see agood game.” They’re afforded lit-tle respect, dismissed as fickleand branded as such for life. Icontend that this bandwagon inColorado must not and shouldnot be so branded. Thesewomen, and those still hesitantto jump on, deserve justice.

Still, the paradox that is band-wagon behavior perplexes me.

Brett Zarda GS hails fromOrlando, Fla.

shots, and Macri scored Brown’ssixth goal on a combination withFord and Robinson.

“Before the game, we said ‘let’smake it a good one,’” Grillo saidabout the final regular seasongame for the team’s seven seniors.The seniors recognized their par-ents in a pre-game ceremony forSenior Night.

Grillo spoke about the season’schallenges and its promise: “Wedidn’t get too high (with our suc-cess) this season, but we got toolow sometimes.

“You taste that success, and it’sgood, real good. You get a littletaste of that negativity, those los-ing nights, and it hurts. It was hardto pull out of it. (Saturday) we did,and last night was an importantstep.”

With the big win on Saturdaythe Bears are standing taller, moreconfident they can deliver somebig playoff goals.

“We’re looking forward to play-ing at home,” Ford said. “We’vedone well here, and we hope thestudents will come out and get thisplace rocking.”

Brown will play HarvardUniversity or Vermont March 12and 13 at Meehan, where the teamis 7-2-2.

Herald staff writer Matt Lieber GScovers men’s ice hockey. He can bereached at [email protected].


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Teaching professorsThis weekend, the Corporation announced the hiring of threenew faculty members, all of whom are highly accomplished andhigh-profile. Bringing to Brown the literary accolades of JohnEdgar Wideman, the epigraphic expertise of Stephen Houstonand the leading neuropharmacology of Wayne Bowen repre-sents a major accomplishment for the University, and one thatpromises to offer benefits for many here.

But we are concerned that many of us might never see thesebenefits. The Plan for Academic Enrichment, which theCorporation formally endorsed this weekend, describes an insti-tution that aspires to become a major research powerhouse,with increased funding for multidisciplinary centers, the hardsciences and graduate education. Brown is a university college,not a research institution, and while this stature might havemade some elements of its existence more difficult, it’s alsoendowed us with excellent teaching.

Wideman, Houston and Bowen might be excellent teachers— they certainly have excellent things to teach their students.But it’s conceivable that academic names of this caliber mightdemand special treatment from the University in the form ofreduced course loads, teaching assignments biased towardgraduate students and time off for research.

We’ve been blessed by the school’s attitude toward teaching— professors here work harder and in closer contact withundergraduates than faculty members at many top researchuniversities. The rare opportunity to work closely with superbfaculty is one of the reasons many of us are here.

But as Brown continues to distinguish itself, it must take carenot to let the faculty become divided between the big nameswho headline University press releases and the rank-and-fileprofessors who actually teach and work with us. The superstarshould be invested in his or her teaching as much as the juniorfaculty member striving for tenure and the professor emerituswho no longer feels the need to publish.

We all want to go to a school with big-name professors, wherewe can learn from the experts in their fields. But we don’t wantto go to a school where the stars build upon their expertise inoffices far removed from undergraduate life. We trust theadministration to give undergraduates access to the academicgiants they are bringing to our campus.

To the Editor:

Shane Wilkerson’s editorial cartoon (Feb. 26) wasa poor attempt at humor, and worse, it showed adouble standard when it comes to racial stereo-types. I am surprised the Brown Daily Herald print-ed a cartoon depicting how applicants for theRoger Williams University whites-only scholarshipmust pass (or fail?) a dance test to prove that theyare white enough.

Why doesn’t The Herald print a comic with asimilar caption: “Applicants for blacks-only schol-arships must play in a basketball game to provethey’re black enough.” Wouldn’t that be funny? Onecan imagine the uproar on campus such a comicwould incite.

Michael Pozar ’06Feb. 26

“My Best Effort,” by Will Newman and BarronYoungsmith routinely crosses lines. The comic isoften explicitly sexual and implicitly sexist. But thelatest strip (Feb. 27) crosses an entirely differentline.

Imagine the following comic: In the first panel,our main character checks out an attractive girl butis scolded by a friend: “She’s off limits, she’s black!”(Offended already? You should be. But read on.) Bythe third panel, the white protagonist has donnedblackface and is drawn with an exaggerated bottomlip and elongated arms. Seeing this, the girl pro-claims, “Do me now!”

I cannot imagine that the Brown communitywould for a second turn a blind eye to such a bla-tant and extremely offensive stereotype. Yet when Iopened The Herald this Friday, this is exactly thesort of strip I read. But instead of stereotyping race,it dealt with disability, which was no less appalling.

There has been much contention at Brownrecently regarding “hate speech.” If anything quali-fies as hate speech, this should be it. I am an advo-cate of free speech, but I was shocked that a mod-erated publication as The Herald would print sucha thing. I hope that in the future The Herald willknow better.

Donald Tetto ‘06Feb. 29

Herald comics and cartoons are in poor taste

To the editor:

I was astounded when I read Stephen Beale’s col-umn (“The Gay Marriage Myth,” Feb. 26). His argu-ment that childless straight marriages are only validbecause they retain their procreative potential isbreathtakingly inhumane. Are we to revert to thegood ol’ days when barren women were divorced?When women put themselves through endless psy-chological torment for the sake of conceiving chil-dren? When polygamy, not monogamy, was therule, and men would take additional wives toincrease their procreative potential?

“Family” does not mean what it used to, and itnever had that strong of a definition to begin with.Committed, loving gay couples give birth or adopt,or have surrogate mothers carry children. High

mortality rates, especially among mothers in child-birth, often meant that children were raised by rela-tives or people other than their parents. Is that sortof guardianship illegitimate as well? I would muchrather be raised by a loving gay couple who foughttheir whole lives just to have me than be the acci-dent product of a union between two unpreparedheterosexuals.

For all the statistics and sophistry, Beale’s col-umn comes down to the tired argument that “gaymarriage is unnatural and makes me uncomfort-able, so it should be illegal.” Fortunately, this type oflogic doesn’t hold up well under scrutiny.

Natalie Smolenski ’07Feb. 26

Beale’s sense of family is dysfunctional

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


There were some troubling distortions of fact in“Shopping period, limited funds leave some classesshort on TAs” (Feb. 27). The article contained the fol-lowing paraphrase of a statement attributed to Dean ofthe Graduate School Karen Newman:

“(T)he Department of Chemistry has lost fundingfrom the Graduate School to hire TAs because of declin-ing undergraduate enrollment in chemistry classes.The TA funds were transferred to other departments —particularly those in the social sciences — that haveexperienced rising undergraduate enrollments.”

This statement is a blatant misrepresentation of thefacts.

I have taught CH36: “Organic Chemistry” lectureand/or laboratory, the second half of the organic chem-istry sequence, for most of the last 10 years. Over thelast three years, the numbers of students assigned tothe required laboratory have increased:

Semester I, 2001: 165 studentsSemester I, 2002: 200 studentsSemester I, 2003: 251 students

These numbers, which are indisputable, representsuccessive 20 percent and 25 percent increases inundergraduate enrollments in the CH36 lab each year.Based on current enrollments in CH35 (more than 400students), enrollments in CH36 are projected toincrease again by an additional 20 to 30 percent nextacademic year.

CH36 is the third course in the sequence of CH33,CH35 and CH36, required of essentially all pre-meds aswell as many physical and biological science majors.Some students also take an additional introductory, orremedial, non-laboratory course, CH10. Since the2001-2002 academic year, enrollments in all introduc-tory chemistry courses combined have increased anaggregate 45 percent and 10 percent in semesters I andII, respectively. Looking at the longer term, since 1998-1999, when we first moved from the antiquated Metcalfinto the modern MacMillan laboratories, total labora-tory enrollments have remained essentially constant.

In spite of these dramatic short-term enrollmentincreases and stable long-term trends, last year the TAallotment for the Chemistry Department was reduced

from 33 to 26 TAs, corresponding to a greater than 20percent reduction. The University has no plans tochange the department’s allotment of graduate TAs for2004.

The chemistry department, like many BrownDepartments, also uses undergraduate TAs. Support forundergraduate TAs was initially cut last year from 30slots to 0, then temporarily restored to 25 by theprovost. Undergraduate TAs not only supervise weeklylaboratory sections, they also may run problem ses-sions, or correct quizzes and problem sets.

There are many reasons to encourage the judicioususe of undergraduate TAs. Such students provide excel-lent role models, and the opportunity for collaborativelearning enriches the educational experience of bothstudents and undergraduate TAs. In the past, theUniversity has been happy to make use of such cheap

labor — an undergraduate TA is paid a small fraction ofa typical graduate TA stipend, and there is no need tocover either health care expenses or tuition for suchstudents.

On the other hand, undergraduate TAs in the chem-istry department do not grade exams and they teachonly one laboratory section per week, half the graduateteaching load. Scheduling undergraduate lab TAs canalso be very difficult. Unlike chemistry graduate stu-dents, prospective undergraduate TAs have many com-peting afternoon obligations – sports teams, EMTschedules, classes, and even their own laboratorycourses.

The “shopping period” described in The Herald storyis largely an irrelevant issue for most students takingcore chemistry courses. Most of these students areenrolled in the chemistry sequence to fulfill a premed-ical course requirement or to obtain the prerequisitesfor higher-level courses required for their concentra-

tion. Once they have entered Brown, their progression

through the chemistry sequence is more or less pre-dictable. Indeed, nearly two out of every five enteringstudents enroll in an introductory chemistry course.Last semester, more than one in seven Brown studentswere enrolled in at least one chemistry course.Moreover, these students do not have the option ofenrolling two weeks late for a laboratory. Some stu-dents may drop the course after one or two-hourexams. Nonetheless, these students must still beassigned places in the lab at the beginning of thesemester. Often as many as five to 10 students per yearchoose to complete the laboratory without taking thefinal exam.

Shortages of TAs can have serious consequences.Many students will recall that as many as 17 students inCH36 had to be placed on a laboratory waiting list atthe beginning of last semester before a sufficient num-ber of additional undergraduate TAs could be identifiedto staff the laboratory. All these students were eventu-ally placed in the laboratory, but only after overcrowd-ing each section to the mandated safety limits andallowing some students to work in what amounted toan only partially supervised laboratory section. Unlikelecture courses, the number of students in a single lab-oratory section is limited physically by the number oflab benches in a room. Adding more students meansadding more lab sections and appointing more TAs tosupervise them. One cannot just find a bigger roomsomewhere else on campus.

Next year’s enrollment increases coupled with theprolongation of cuts in the TA allotment could result inwaiting lists of 60 to 80 students for the organic chem-istry laboratory. This would not only be uncon-scionable, it will leave such students wondering whomthey should see in order to get some of the “academicenrichment” that they have been promised.

The allocation of scarce human and financialresources will always be a problem at Brown. It cannotbe handled in a balanced and rational manner, howev-er, when confounded by official disinformation.

Professor David Cane is the Vernon K. Krieble Professorof Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry at Brown.

What sucking sound?In 1992, independent presidential candidate Ross

Perot won 19 percent of the popular vote predictingthat freer trade would lead to a “giant sucking sound ofjobs being pulled out of this country.” Instead,President Bill Clinton passed numerous free tradeagreements during his time in the White House, andthe result was an economic boom that brought unem-ployment to unseen depths.

But with hard times comes the inevitable search foreconomic scapegoats. With yet another George Bushpresiding over yet another election-year jobless recov-ery, 1992 is in the air once more, and the protectionistparty-poopers are at it again. This time, the fear is thatAmericans will have their jobs outsourced to lower-wage countries like India. Foreign competition alreadyate up America’s manufacturing base, we are told. Nowwe’re losing high-paying jobs like information technol-ogy!

Let’s put this new “sucking sound” to the test. SinceIndia is stealing American jobs, the unemployment rateis floating up into the double digits, right? Wrong.Unemployment is actually falling. It is true that we arelosing info-tech jobs at an unusual pace, but many ofthose jobs were the ephemeral residue of the tech bub-ble of the 1990s. It’s only natural that those jobs are dis-appearing now that the bubble has burst. Other factors,such as the weak economy and the prohibitive cost ofemployee benefits, provide a far more compellingexplanation for American employers’ continued reluc-tance to hire.

The important point is that “churn” in the job marketis natural and ongoing. In an economy as vibrant asours, millions of jobs are destroyed and millions moreare created every year as the economy grows and

changes. Many of the changes that most people attrib-ute to globalization are in fact the results of this naturalprocess.

Consider the myth that foreign competition has evis-cerated our manufacturing and agricultural base. You’dfigure that real-goods production now makes up only asliver of the U.S. economy, right? Wrong again. It turnsout that real-goods production as a share of the econo-my remains close to all-time highs. If these sectors areshedding jobs, it’s not because of Chinese competition.It’s because technological progress has made themunnecessary. That’s why we’re at Brown preparing toenter the intellectual labor force instead of toiling on

the family farm.Outsourcing helps fuel economic progress because it

means that now labor, not just goods, are tradeable.Hence, firms can achieve lower production costs andmake more goods more cheaply available to more peo-ple — a utilitarian dream. For example, outsourcingpromises to reduce health care costs for all Americansbecause Indian radiologists can read our X-rays morecheaply than will American doctors. It is this dynamismthat allows our standard of living to scale ever-higherplateaus.

True, economic progress is often terrifying for fami-lies caught in the fault lines of economic change, but itis inevitable, even without outsourcing. Shall we then

ban commercial aviation in order to save the jobs ofrailroad workers? One need only look at Japan’s eco-nomic troubles to see what can happen when countrieswaste billions of dollars on life support for “zombie”companies whose heyday is long past.

But, “What about the trade deficit?” many ask. Yes,we import lots of foreign goods, but that’s hardly a signthat we’re losing out to foreign competition. We’re alsothe world’s largest exporter. Furthermore, outsourcinghas the paradoxical effect of enhancing the competitiveedge of American companies, because it allows them totake advantage of low-cost foreign labor.

Maintaining full employment is the Federal Reserve’sjob; it has nothing to do with outsourcing or trade. Tounderstand why, think of national economies as indi-viduals. People don’t stop working just because theycan trade the fruits of their labor. On the contrary, that’swhy people work. The trade barriers that many protec-tionist worrywarts propose to block out foreign-madegoods would also prevent us from selling our goods onthe world market. That’s a recipe for more — not less —unemployment.

As Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspanrecently noted, if anything threatens our position at thehelm of the global economy, it is our declining educa-tional standards. Americans will need ongoing jobtraining to remain afloat in today’s rapidly changingeconomy. With or without outsourcing, high-payingjobs will only go to highly productive workers who cando them. American high school dropouts need notapply. In this area, perhaps a little foreign competitionis just what the doctor ordered.

Nate Goralnik ’06 wishes everyone a frisky March 1.

The need for more Chemistry teaching assistants

NATE GORALNIK

Protectionists exaggerate

the harms of outsourcing.

Declining class sizes are

not the cause of fewer

TAs in MacMillan.

GUEST COLUMN BY PROFESSOR DAVID CANE

BY JOSHUA TROYAlthough Brown does not control its owndestiny as far as capturing an elusiveNCAA tournament berth, the men’s bas-ketball team still needed a weekendsweep to have any chance of winning ashare of the Ivy League championship.With the two last-place teams cominginto Providence for the final home standof the year, the Bears took care of busi-ness and did not trail for a single secondover the course of the two games.

Ten-plus point wins over DartmouthCollege and Harvard University helpedkeep the Bears (13-12, 9-3 Ivy League) insecond place in the conference, clinchfour consecutive winning Ivy seasons forthe first time in school history and pushthe team over .500 for the first time all

season.“The three seniors have meant so

much to our program,” said Head CoachGlen Miller. “This was a big weekend forthem, and they all had good games as faras putting points on the board. This wasa culmination of all of their hard workover four years.”

The team shut out Dartmouth (3-23,1-11) for the first five and a half minutesof the game and jumped out to 14-0 and21-3 leads. After the fast start, the Bearsled by no less than nine for the rest of thegame.

Despite scoring only two points in thefirst half, Jason Forte ’05 pulled downfour rebounds and dished out eightassists on his way to the first Browntriple-double in over 16 years. By the endof regulation, Forte had 11 points, 12rebounds and 10 assists.

Also putting up strong first-half num-bers on the way to Bruno’s 40-29 leadwere Jamie Kilburn ’04, Mike Martin ’04and Patrick Powers ’04. Each playerreached double figures in scoring in thefirst half, with Powers adding 12 andMartin and Kilburn scoring 10 apiece.

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 1, 2004 · PAGE 12

BY MATT LIEBERIn a thrilling performance, the men’s hockeyteam (15-9-5, 13-7-2 ECAC) won 6-0 overthe University of Vermont (9-15-4, 7-14-1)on Saturday, halting a four-game losingstreak while clinching the Ivy League co-championship. After a narrow 3-0 loss toDartmouth College (13-8-9, 11-4-7) Friday,the team’s seniors led the Bears to end aslump and break out offensively.

The win over Vermont earned Brown aweek’s rest and home ice for the playoffs.Brown finished third in the ECAC and tiedfor first with Cornell University for the IvyLeague championship. The regular seasonresults were the team’s best in nineyears,and equal to the best of any Brownteam in the 32-year-old ECAC era.

As much as anything, though, the winwas a big mental lift for the team and itsoffense in particular. A four-game losingstreak, including three shutouts, burdenedthe minds of Brown’s scorers, causing awk-ward, indeliberate play around the goal,and ate at team confidence.

Against Dartmouth Saturday night,Brown was confronted with an unwelcomebit of role reversal. Dartmouth had theopportunistic offense and a hot goaltender.

The Big Green grabbed a 1-0 lead whenEric Przepiorka’s deflection got past goalieYann Danis ’04 at 9:38 after a Brown defen-sive lapse. The Bears put 31 shots onDartmouth goalie Dan Yacey but lacked thefinishing touch. Dartmouth added twoempty net scores in the final minute. “It wasa defensive battle — Brown did a good job,and it could have gone either way,”Dartmouth Coach Bob Gaudet said.

“It’s a confidence issue,” Head CoachRoger Grillo said after the loss toDartmouth. “We’re just not capitalizing onour chances.”

“Guys have been holding their sticks toohard,” assistant captain Brent Robinson ’04said.

Scoring woes aside, Brown’s overall gamenever collapsed during the mini-slide. “I’mnot encouraged by losing — we’re better

than that — but I was encouraged by theway our guys battled and competed,” Grillosaid. “When we get a bounce, we’ll explode.”

And explode is what the Bears did againstVermont, equaling their total output fromthe prior six games. Captain Scott Ford ’04led the offense with two goals and fourpoints, using smarts at the point in additionto his thunderous slap shot and combiningwith Robinson, who also had a four-pointnight. The win was also the 13th shutoutand 43rd win for Danis, who needs onemore win to become Brown’s all-time careerleader.

“We established ourselves early there,”said Ford, whose power play goal at 3:56gave Brown a 1-0 lead. Assisting on the goalwere Robinson and Vince Macri ’04, whosaw his shooting lane blocked, spun and fedto Ford.

Nick Ringstad ’04 scored at 13:53 to giveBrown a 2-0 lead at the end of the first peri-od.

Bruno’s determination was unrelentingin the second period, as it took a 5-0 lead.Ford added his sixth goal of the season on ablistering slapshot off a seeing-eye passfrom Brian Ihnacak ’07, and Robinsonscored at 8:49 while Vermont’s ArtFemenella was serving a minor penalty.

“It was good to open the floodgates a bitand ... put some pucks in the net,” Ford said.

Then came a scary moment. The 6’ 7”Femenella emerged from the penalty boxand collided with Brown defenseman PaulCrosty ’05, cutting the giant freshman, send-ing blood spurting across the ice and silenc-ing the crowd. The fallen Catamountgripped his arm, stanched the flow andskated to his bench for help. He was treatedby Vermont trainers and taken to a localhospital for surgery on a severed artery.

After the bloody scare and a Vermonttimeout, Brown resumed its same dominat-ing play. Mike Meech ’05 added his seventhgoal of the season at 11:43 to put Brown up5-0. In the third period, Danis stopped 14

Since Dec. 7, 2001, six women haveaccused men linked to University ofColorado football of rape.

One is an isolated case. Two is a dis-turbing trend.Three is a scandal.Is six a bandwag-on?

Why choosenow to call out

this collection of meathead “give-me-it-it’s-mine” monsters with a pension forsexual misconduct? Did the environmentof sex, strippers and Smirnoff not exist atColorado before 2001? Did previous play-

ers not expect the recreational benefitsoften afforded Division I football playersas a portion of their daily stipend? IsColorado the first school to have theseproblems? If not, then what happened?Why now?

Why does one allegation of sexual mis-conduct inevitably spark others to followsuit? Several accusations stem fromevents of years ago yet remained burieduntil recently. Why did Colorado allowthese savages to continue on their path ofunobstructed degradation for so long?

I realize I lack the experience toempathize with the gravity of the victims’

situations. I don’t presume to understandwhat a victim of such an unforgivable actmust feel, or no longer feel. I appreciatethat such an incident scars one eternally.I by no means am implying that I doubtthe validity of these claims. I just want tounderstand.

What makes people jump on the band-wagon?

This form of snowballing is by nomeans unprecedented. Bill Clinton,Michael Jackson and the entire Catholicpriesthood understand well that one

Men’s ice hockey endswinless streak with 6-0drubbing of Vermont

Jeremy Kay / Herald

Assistant captain Brent Robinson ’04 had a goal and three assists in Brown’s 6-0 victoryover the University of Vermont at Meehan Auditorium Saturday night.The win was thefinal home game for the senior class that revitalized Brown hockey.

University of Colorado scandal: Where does the bandwagon stop?

Scoreboard

Friday Feb. 27

Men’s Basketball: Brown 77, Dartmouth 54Men’s Ice Hockey: Dartmouth 3, Brown 0 Women’s Basketball: Dartmouth 74, Brown 59 Women’s Ice Hockey: Brown 4, Vermont 0

Saturday Feb. 28

Women’s Tennis: Brown 6, Seton Hall 1 Women’s Lacrosse: Brown 15 Fairfield 3 (exhibition)Men’s Lacrosse: Brown 10, Sacred Heart 5Women’s Ice Hockey: Dartmouth 3, Brown 2 Women’s Basketball: Brown 95, Harvard 70 Men’s Ice Hockey: Brown 6, Vermont 0 Men’s Basketball: Brown 100, Harvard 83 Women’s Swimming: Fourth at Ivy ChampionshipsWomen’s Water Polo: Brown 9, Iona 7; Brown 15, St.Francis 1 Fencing: Ninth at IFA Championships

Sunday Feb. 29

Men’s Tennis: Brown 7, Hofstra 0 Gymnastics: Third at Ivy League Classic Women’s Tennis: Brown 5, Rutgers 2 Men’s Track: Fourth (tie) at HeptagonalChampionshipsWomen’s Track: Third at Heptagonal Championships

Sweep of final home weekendkeeps hope for Ivy title, NCAAbid alive for men’s basketball

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