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Inventive studentworks on display inannual Bell Galleryexhibitionarts & culture, page 3

Taiwanese dancegroup to perform aspart of TaiwaneseCultural Weekarts & culture, page 3

Despite terrorismstriking nearby, Brownstudents in Spain go onwith lives abroadcampus news, page 5

Rob Sand ’05.5 sayship hop might be theDemocrats’ answer asuccessful campaigncolumn, page 11

Jason Forte ’05 earnsPlayer of the Year; bas-ketball has three menmake all-Ivy teamssports, page 12

SASA show exhibits traditional,Western- influenced sides ofSouth Asian culture

BY DANA GOLDSTEINIt’s been almost one year since PresidentRuth Simmons established theUniversity’s Steering Committee onSlavery and Justice and almost eightmonths since Brown Alumni Monthlyreported on it.

But the national media has justcaught on. The Providence Journal wasthe first major newspaper to cover thestory, on March 4, followed by a front-page story in the New York Times March14.

Reactions to the coverage haverevealed a culture clash between theslow-moving, reflective world of acade-mia and the fast-paced, deadline-drivencycle of journalism. At the committee’sfirst event, a Thursday panel featuringfive professors, Committee Chair andProfessor of American CivilizationJames Campbell expressed frustrationwith media coverage of the committee,which he said has focused primarily onthe “sexy” issue of reparations.

The committee is embarking on whatamounts to a two-year research projecton the politically charged issue of theUniversity’s — and the nation’s — legacyof slavery. It is slated to publish recom-mendations in the spring of 2006 abouthow Brown can come to terms with itshistorical ties to the slave trade.

While acknowledging the committeeis “in the position to make an interven-tion in a national debate,” Campbelltold The Herald last week that the mediawill have to wait to find out exactly whatthat intervention will be. “Part of thereason we’re spending the next twoyears is because we don’t know enough— we as individuals and we as a society,”he said.

BY MELISSA PERLMANThings are going well for the men’s clubsoccer team. As an UndergraduateCouncil of Students-funded activity, theteam gets $1,500 each semester. That’senough to buy uniforms and travel tocompetitions each season.

But next season, buying uniformsmight be the least of the club’s problems,according to member John Redgrave ’05.As the Undergraduate Council ofStudents explores transferring jurisdic-tion over all club teams to theDepartment of Athletics, Redgrave saidhe fears his team could be eliminated.

Management of club sports is current-ly divided between the athletics depart-ment and the Undergraduate Council ofStudents. Athletics manages club sportsthat are not duplicated on the varsity orrecreational level, including sailing,rugby and ultimate frisbee, while UCSmanages club sports such as soccer, ten-nis, lacrosse and field hockey.

Clubs controlled by the athleticsdepartment have access to the fieldspace surrounding the Olney-MargoliesAthletics Center, trainers and insurance.Clubs managed by UCS have none ofthese privileges.

If the Faculty Committee on Athleticsand Physical Education approves thetransfer of all club sports management tothe athletics department, as UCS hasproposed, some clubs will likely be elim-inated unless athletics receives a sub-stantial increase in funding, according toMatthew Tsimikas, assistant athleticsdirector.

Adding six more club teams to the ros-

BY SARA PERKINSAt 6:15 a.m. Saturday, Fokion Burgess ’07finished writing the phone number for theNew York City office of the American CivilLiberties Union on his forearm and beganpassing his black markers around on thecharter bus parked outside Faunce Arch.“In case you get arrested,” he explained,then rattled off the number to around 20assorted student activists.

Six hours later, the dreadlocked, tie-dyed first-year student was barely visibleweaving between men trailing giantPalestinian flags, a chanting group ofHaitians supporting their ousted PresidentJean-Bertrand Aristide and a group of smallold ladies with signs attached to their sun-hats who were distributing stickers saying“Stop the War! No Police State!”

An estimated 200 Rhode Islanders, on a

bus caravan organized by the Providencechapter of ANSWER (Act Now to Stop Warand End Racism), attended a march in NewYork City to mark the first anniversary ofthe start of the war in Iraq. The studentswho attended the anti-war protest, one ofseveral in cities around the world, were notall members of any single on-campusorganization. Vanessa Huang ’05, who soldbus tickets, found participants by puttingup fliers and sending information to list-servs, she said.

The event showcased the broad coali-tion of groups and causes that havebecome incorporated into the anti-warmovement and the challenge to campusanti-war organizing at Brown and othercolleges and universities.

BY KRISTA HACHEYThe South Asian Students Associationcalled this year’s cultural show “Masti,”a Hindi word meaning “fun and ener-getic.” The event, held Friday night in apacked Salomon 101, lived up to thename as it showcased 18 acts andincluded nearly 100 performers.

“The show is a representation ofwhat that culture means to many differ-ent students — sometimes this involvessticking strictly to the traditional SouthAsian culture, and sometimes thismeans portraying a culture that fusesboth the South Asian and Americanexperience,” SASA Events CommitteeCo-Chair Seema Vora ’06 told TheHerald.

The night began with a “face-off”

between Kathak, a North Indian classi-cal dance form, and Step, the rhythmicand stomping dance form that is popu-lar within African American communi-ties.

Former Herald Senior Editor KavitaMishra ’04, wearing bells on her anklesand traditional dress, demonstrated thequick footwork of Kathak and engagedin a back-and-forth game of imitationwith the step team, whose black, clunkyboots provided an interesting contrastto Mishra’s bare feet.

Among the first-act performanceswas a short segment of a Varnam, whichchoreographer Arya Shekar ’05.5 said isnormally 35 to 40 minutes long.

NYC protest draws disparate elementsA year later, student anti-war groups struggle with identity

Possible transferof club sports to athletics dept. concernsdepartment,athletes

Slavery andJusticeCommitteebrings nat’lmedia toBrown

Sara Perkins / Herald

Representatives from many differentcauses marched in New York CitySaturday on the first anniversary of thewar in Iraq.

Nick Neely / Herald

Traditional South Asian dances and dress featured prominently in Friday night’s SouthAsian Student Association’s annual cultural show.The two-and-a-half hourperformance featured more than 30 acts and drew an overflow crowd to Salomon 101.

see SASA, page 4

see ANTI-WAR, page 6

Haskins ’04.5makes “DreamJob” finals

On Sunday night’s live episode ofESPN’s “Dream Job,” Maggie Haskins’04.5 learned that she will progress tothe final round of the eliminationseries.

Haskins will compete for a one-yearsportscaster’s contract next Sundaynight at 9 p.m. The winner will be deter-mined by Internet or text message votesfrom viewers during the broadcast. Visitwww.espn.com for information on howto register to vote.

— Herald staff reports

see CLUB SPORTS, page 4

see MEDIA, page 8

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Taiwanese dancetroupe visitingBrown in first NewEngland tourClouds Dance Theatre, a professional Taiwanese dancetroupe, will be performing and hosting a workshop thisweek as part of Taiwan Culture Fest 2004.

The troupe will perform eight pieces over an hourand a half beginning at 8 p.m. in Salomon 101 onTuesday.

At the workshop on Monday, three members of thetroupe will teach the basics of Taiwanese folk dance.

Clouds Dance Theatre has traveled to Holland,Germany and Israel. It aims “to inherit and carry on theart of Taiwanese folk dance and foster professionalartists within Taiwan and to offer audiences a chanceto understand and appreciate Taiwanese folk dancethrough performances,” according to the group’s Website.

Eva Wu ’06, communications chair for the BrownTaiwanese Society and commissioner of special proj-ects for the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese StudentAssociation, saw Clouds Dance Theatre perform inIsrael and was so moved by the performance shethought the group should perform in the United States.“I felt like they touched an international audience,” shesaid.

The group’s program will include Taiwanese aborig-inal and classical dances and mainland Chinesedances.

There has been some controversy over the group’srepertoire because sometimes its dancing is consid-ered too Chinese, Wu said.

Wu said she has worked for nearly a year to bringClouds Dance Theatre to New England.

The group arrived in New England Wednesday and isspending 10 days at several schools, including BrandeisUniversity, Boston University, Smith College, theUniversity of Massachusetts-Amherst and ColumbiaUniversity, in addition to Brown.

The Taiwanese government and the host schools aresponsoring the tour. Clouds Dance Theatre is notcharging the schools for the performances and work-shops, but the schools are providing rooms and foodfor the dancers.

Monday’s workshop is free and will take place at 4p.m. in Leung Gallery. Tuesday’s show is free, and tick-ets are available in the post office.

— Elise Baran

Bell Gallery features studentworks in exhibitionBY MASHA KIRASIROVAThe 2004 Student Exhibition features an eclectic collec-tion as varied in concept as it is in the material andmedia utilized. Animation, sculpture, painting, photog-raphy, furniture, pottery and mixed media works arebrought together in this collage of Brown student talent,currently on display in the David Winton Bell Gallery inthe List Art Center.

The front lobby displays “Chair and 10,000 Pins,” byAmanda Norman ’04, the pins protruding out in a yel-low halo.

In the same room, the animated “First Kiss,” by ChrisSmith ’05, captures the morbid sexual awkwardnessbetween a despondent pair of figures in a macabre stylereminiscent of cartoonist Roman Dirge. “SquirrelWallpaper,” by Beth Brandon ’04, covers the far wall tothe left of “Rorschach in Blot,” by Katherine Mann ’05,an abstract blob of conglomerated little creatures loose-ly defined by sets of cartoonish eyes and ambiguous lit-tle hairs.

The majority of the exhibit is housed in the galleryadjacent to the lobby. In the middle of the room,“Anatomically Correct Passionflower,” knitted byTatyana Yanishevsky ’05.5, floats three feet off theground, attracting visitors with its textured, bulbousmohair sex organs encircled by a large canopy of pat-terned lavender petals.

This seductive creature all but dwarfs its counterpart,“Plant with Root Modules,” another attempt to capturebiological floral aesthetic with yarn.

A corner piece by Jamie Kaufman ’04 precariouslybalances an exploded desk within a mountain of news-paper spanning some 15 feet of vertical space.

Overwhelmed by information, the structure of theorganizational instrument succumbs to violence anddestruction. A similar collegiate frustration is capturedin her peeling chalkboard in the main lobby.

The written text, actually notes from a comparativeliterature class, begins with “I have completed the con-struction of myself” and ends with scribbles, doodlesand bizarre, perplexing queries like “Who is the beast?”

The right side of the board peels and melts, unable tosupport the text, betraying the same weakness underthe stress of information as the desk. A small whiteputty knife, presumably the author’s destructive instru-ment of choice, is wedged against the chalkboard’s bot-tom frame.

Peeking into the interactive video box in the mainhall and powering its rotating crank, one can experiencethe detailed mechanical drawings of Michelle Higa ’04as they move, rotate and click over abstracted urbanskylines. In another technologically inspired mixedmedia composition, “Mapping, Red?” EllenSchneiderman ’05 plays with a range of materials, layer-ing paint over stretched fabric that creates a resem-blance to a topographical map. Using subtle comple-mentary color combinations, Schneiderman respondsto the weave of cloth playing on the pattern but occa-sionally disassociates with it using light application ofoils.

Some of the more comical pieces include a paintingby Zeynep Saygin ’05 of a woman’s breast spilling out ofa dark pink corset. The lush reds and pinks, theprovocative breast and “full Renaissance gear” includ-ing the enormous lace collar, pokes fun at Baroquepainting, particularly Flemish painter Peter PaulRubens. “Some people take their work too seriously,”Saygin said at the opening to explain the joke.

The hyperrealist, starkly light emptiness of “Gas ForLess,” by Anna Knoell ’04, evokes an isolation similar tothat of Edward Hopper. The mouthwatering “Juicy Fruiton Canvas,” by Risa Puno ’04, references abstractexpressionism using sweet-smelling gum instead ofpaint, making one want to not only touch but also gnawat the art on the wall.

These and other remarkable student works will be ondisplay at the Winton Bell Gallery through April 4.

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

The mouthwatering “Juicy Fruit on

Canvas,” by Risa Puno ’04, references

abstract expressionism using sweet-

smelling gum instead of paint, mak-

ing one want to not only touch but

also gnaw at the art on the wall.

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Performed by Shekar andPraveen Basaviah ’05, the piececaptured the intriguing andgraceful forms of the Hindu epicfigures Krishna and Radha.

The two performers movedwith fluidity and startling quick-ness and created a dynamicbetween each other with expres-sive eye glances, coordinated tothe beat of the music.

Dramatic gestures in theVarnam mimic the rhythmicvocal sounds of the “nat-tavungam” technique used inthe music. “The sounds don’tactually mean anything —they’re just important for theiraesthetic,” Shekar said. “It’s anintegral part of the style ofdance and is something everydancer eventually has to learn.”

Shekar, who took a semesteroff last spring to study dance inIndia, said the piece exhibitedher first attempt at choreogra-phy. “In the process I learned abit about myself, my ‘dancesense,’ how I’m trying to devel-op and where I need improve-ment,” she said.

Shekar said SASA participantsstrive every year for communityinvolvement among both SouthAsians at Brown and the studentcommunity at large.

“I think this was the mostpeople I’ve ever seen involved inthe show in my time at Brown,”she said. “It’s also pretty tellingthat each year alumni comeback to see it and support us. It’sa fun challenge to work with somany people, and the best partof it is meeting new people andsolidifying friendships in theprocess.”

Through a series of personalmonologues, members of theSouth Asian Women’s Collective

honored women who have kepttradition in their lives. The stu-dent speakers, who are part of amore progressive generation,shared humorous and heartfeltanecdotes about the ways tradi-tional Hindu views of womenhave put a subtle strain on theirfamily relationships.

“We don’t want to grow up to belike them, but we admire them,”Bharati Kalasapudi ’07 said.

With an accompanyingslideshow, Parendi Mehta ’07described a much-loved grand-mother whose beliefs inarranged marriages and honor-ing the first-born son was dis-tancing for her granddaughters.

When on the phone withMehta’s family, it was her 22-year-old, first-born grandson towhom Mehta’s grandmotherwanted most to talk.

“But as long as she’s smilingon the other half of the world, itdoesn’t matter,” Mehta said.

Neel Shah ’04, an acousticguitar singer/songwriter, per-formed an instrumental guitarpiece inspired by the timbre andmelodic patterns of sitar music.

The second act of the showincluded a fashion show, a med-ley of Bollywood classics andgroup performances infusedwith both Western and Indianmusic and dance. Performers ina bhangra dance routine chore-ographed by Basaviah said, “Weare dhol addicts,” referring tothe principal drum used to cre-ate the beats in bhangra music.

Bhangra is an energetic folkdance from the Punjab region ofIndia and is used to celebratethe seasons and rains, Basaviahtold The Herald. “Indian music,whether it be bhangra, classicalor Bollywood, has been heavilyinfluencing and being influ-enced by western music, likehip-hop,” he said.

Audience members werevocal about their excitement forthe group acts, which includedacrobatic feats with dancerssuspended and swinging fromthe shoulders of other dancers.

“Everyone who hears bhangramusic can’t help but fall in lovewith it,” Basaviah said. “It justmakes you want to get up anddance forever to such tightbeats.”

SASA president RashmiKudesia ’04 told The Herald theannual show allows members ofthe South Asian community toshare a culture that has beensomewhat misrepresented inAmerican society.

“South Asia is entering themainstream American con-sciousness, politically skewedthrough media coverage ofnuclear arming, outsourcingand so forth,” he said.“Culturally, our heritage getsdistorted through the usage ofreligious and ethnic images byMadonna and on lunchboxesand disrespectful clothing andother consumer products.

“Each culture has a lighterside, and the celebratory natureof dance and song in South Asiais a major part of what I hopethe audience perceived,”Kudesia added.

Audience member SamuelHodges ’04 said he knew manyof the performers and that avirtue of the show was its inclu-sion of many students. “Feelingthe excitement coming out ofthe senior dance, as I watchedpeople who I’ve enjoyed to knowover the past four years pour outemotions with the promise oftheir last semester here, reallymoved me,” he said.

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

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ter of 37 varsity teams and sevenclub teams the athletics depart-ment already manages wouldonly decrease each team’s “pieceof the pie” under the existingbudget, he said.

“We know once (team man-agement) switches, it’s going tobe a major struggle for us,”Redgrave said of the club soccerteam. “Since we don’t get muchsupport from the athleticsdepartment, we most likelywould be the first team to becut.”

Tsimikas also questioned thepurpose of UCS-run club teamsthat duplicate varsity and recre-ational sports.

“You don’t want to accept (theclub teams) if they are going tofail,” he said. “To say, ‘C’mondown’ is not fair to the existingteams or the other teams withimages of how it will be.”

Men’s ultimate frisbee cap-tain Josh Ziperstein ’05 said hethinks simply incorporatingclub sports into the athleticsdepartment would not addressthe real problem facing studentswho participate in club athletes.

“There need to be morefields, money and resources,” hesaid. “It won’t solve the problemby just pushing (club sports)over to athletics.”

UCS Student Activities ChairRob Montz ’05 acknowledged

that “people higher up don’tnecessarily want to take themon, because that’s just morestress on their system and morethings they have to worry about.

“But it’s only six new clubsports,” he said. “It wouldn’t be alarge transfer of power, but itwould make it a lot easier at theend of the day.”

He also said that if the trans-fer occurs and the athleticsdepartment declines to fundsome clubs, UCS will fund themas long as necessary.

The primary reason for trans-ferring UCS-managed clubsports to the athletics depart-ment would be current safetyconcerns, according to Montz.

“Some of these teams rightnow will go and compete overthe weekend and we have noidea if they’re gone or not,”Montz said. “If (players) got

hurt, it would mean big prob-lems for the University.”

Tsimikas said that whateverthe ultimate decision is aboutclub sport management, it willbe entirely for the benefit of thestudents.

“Students should trust that(the University is) doing the bestfor the student experience andthe safest and best practices,”Tsimikas said.

“It’s going to take time. Theadministration needs to spendsome (money) to make studentshappy and to put them at ease.”

FCAPE will meet April 16, andTsimikas said he expects a morefinal decision will be made then.

Herald staff writer MelissaPerlman ’04 is an assistant sportseditor. She can be reached atm p e rl m a n @ b row n d a i l y h e r-ald.com.


Club sports Men’s ultimate frisbee captain Josh Ziperstein

’05 said he thinks simply incorporating club

sports into the athletics department would

not address the real problem facing students

who participate in club athletes.

“There need to be more fields, money and

resources,” he said.“It won’t solve the problem

by just pushing (club sports) over to athletics.”

CAMPUS NEWSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


BY LEE CHUWhen bombs exploded on trainsin Madrid, Spain on March 11,killing 202 people, the Office ofInternational Programs relied onreports from Boston Universityprogram directors to ensure thatBrown students studying inMadrid were safe.

All 11 Brown students current-ly in Madrid are studying throughBU’s program. By noon on theday of the bombing, OIP hadreports from BU and all otherprograms hosting Brown stu-dents in Spain that the studentswere accounted for and safe,according to OIP Director KirstinMoritz.

Assistant OIP DirectorChristine Kelly-Vereda, whoadvises students studyingabroad in Spain, e-mailed thestudents to offer Brown’s sup-port. No students responded tothe OIP e-mail, and the OIP tookthe lack of response as confirma-tion that the students were safe,Moritz said.

Students studying abroad arealways asked to contact thedirectors of their programs inemergency situations, Moritzsaid. Since the Sept. 11, 2001 ter-rorist attacks, emergency proce-dures for study abroad programshave been updated yearly, shesaid.

Many study abroad programsnow provide students with cellphones for emergencies and askthem to call home and check inwith personnel as soon as apotentially dangerous situationarises. In case phone connec-tions don’t work, students areadvised to use e-mail. The sys-tem worked quickly and effi-ciently following the Madridbombings, according to Moritz.

Still, Emily Nemens ’05, who isstudying abroad in Madrid,wrote in a March 15 e-mail toThe Herald that she felt “para-noid.”

“I always said I wanted to

move to a big city with a publictransportation system that couldtake care of me, and I think I lostthat on Thursday,” Nemenswrote. “There have been sirensand helicopters for the last threedays, ever since 8:30 (a.m., March11).”

“Outside my window myneighbors are banging pots andpans in solidarity,” Nemenswrote.

The OIP relies on NAFSA:Association of InternationalEducators, which posts safetynews on the Internet, includingU.S. State Department travelwarnings.

Program closings are rare andusually temporary, and they onlyoccur when there is clear evi-dence of ongoing danger, Moritzsaid.

Students are currently prohib-ited from travel abroad to Israel,Kenya, Turkey and Nepal, coun-tries for which the StateDepartment has issued travelwarnings.

But Moritz predicted thatwarnings for all except Israel willhave been revoked by the sum-mer. In the case of a programclosed by an ongoing threat suchas Severe Acute RespiratorySyndrome, arrangements aremade for students to return to theUnited States within one week.

Brown students safe in Madrid;study-abroad programs takeprecautions against crises

Since the Sept. 11,

2001 terrorist

attacks, emergency

procedures for study

abroad programs

have been updated

yearly, said OIP

Director Kirstin

Moritz.

ARTS & CULTURE

Student branch of councilbrings arts to campusBY LESLIE KAUFMANNThe Student Creative ArtsCouncil, a subdivision of theCreative Arts Council, wasrecently established to generatebetter relations between the CACand students and to increaseartistic awareness at Brown.

The CAC is devoted to pro-moting interdisciplinary collabo-ration in the arts on not only acampus level, but on nationaland international levels as well.The SCAC was created to givestudents a voice in its proceed-ings.

“It’s a bridge from the under-graduates to the head (of theCAC),” said SCAC member LainiNemett ’06. “Students are thereto express what we need.”

The SCAC consists of two rep-resentatives from each sector ofthe creative arts on campus,including the departments ofmusic, visual arts and theatre,speech and dance, as well as theProgram in Literary Arts.

“The point is to be interdisci-plinary,” said SCAC memberCorey Solinger ’05. “Right now wehave a lot of VA concentrators,”she added, saying that some pro-grams, such as the Program inthe Literary Arts and theDepartment of Music, are cur-rently underrepresented.

Among its responsibilities, theSCAC plays an active role along-side the CAC in conducting theMini-Grant program, which

sponsors student art projectseach semester.

Nemett said the SCAC is inter-ested in developing a Web siteand an arts festival to promoteartistic awareness on campus.The Web site would boast aforum for artists to communicatewith each other, as well as a cal-endar listing upcoming artsevents on campus and in thecommunity, she said.

“Things don’t get out as muchas they should, and people don’tknow about a lot of cool thingsthat are happening,” she added.

The arts festival would be heldover the course of a weekend andinclude such events as musicaland theatrical performances, aswell as a forum for artists to selltheir work. “I really want to seethe arts festival next semester,”Solinger said. “I think that itcould really bring the campustogether in the arts. We have a lotof really good artists here, and Ifeel like they don’t get seen a lot.”

Through its affiliation with theCAC, the SCAC receives fundingand other resources that are notavailable to other studentgroups. Nemett said she hopes tojoin with other groups to gener-ate an even greater awareness forthe arts on campus. She sees theSCAC as a “blanket group” forother art groups on campus.

“It’s a really amazing thing thatcould happen for the school,” shesaid.

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Socialist networks, unaffiliatedanarchists, anti-occupationHaitians, Filipinos andPalestinians, feminists, racialactivists, gay rights groups, anti-imperialists, anti-corporateactivists and supporters of Rep.Dennis Kucinich’s (D-Ohio) presi-dential bid were amply represent-ed at the event. Organizers esti-mated over 100,000 attendees,while city officials believe therewere significantly fewer. By thetime the rally began at noon,Madison Avenue was either con-gested or packed to a standstillbetween 23rd and 40th Streets,and most of the demonstratorsnever saw the small stage fromwhich speakers and performerswere broadcast.

The 1 p.m. march wound downMadison and up Sixth Avenue forseveral hours, overseen by a siz-able police force. One officer wassurreptitiously allowing partici-pants to leave through his seg-ment of metal fencing around theroute, while most officers adheredto a policy in which marcherscould exit onto the sidewalks orside streets only at severaldesigned points. The officer saidhis chief concern was not the stu-dents and elderly protesters whomhe was mostly allowing through.

“You have to watch out for pro-fessional agitators,” he said, but hesaid he was most concerned about“you know, outside elements.”

Some organizers acknowledgedthat some Americans might fearterrorist involvement in themarch. One group, UnCon 2004,enlisted Burgess and others to dis-

tribute leaflets, urging those whoplanned to protest the RepublicanNational Convention in New YorkCity in September to use exclu-sively non-violent means to avoidlending inadvertent support toPresident George W. Bush.

Jeff Carleton ’03 came to themarch with his girlfriend, a mem-ber of State University of NewYork-Binghamton’s Students forPeace and Justice, which organizesstudents “against occupation andexcessive military spending,”according to one member andwhich brought 16 to 20 students to“crash” at one student’s house onLong Island.

Carleton, who is currently livingin Brooklyn, N.Y., had been one ofseveral students who counteredanti-war protests at Brown bychalking statements like “Don’tBite the Hand That Feeds You” onthe sidewalk outside the SharpeRefectory last March.

“Initially I was all for the war,”he said, but allegations that theBush administration lied aboutand exaggerated intelligence thatsupported the war have left him“kind of in between,” he said.

“Coward,” his girlfriend calledhim with a smile. “You’re sitting onthe fence.”

Emily Rak, a freshman at theUniversity of Vermont, came witha large group, some of whom wereaffiliated with UVM StudentsAgainst the War, others with theInternational SocialistOrganization and still others withlocal Burlington, Vt., groups. “Ittakes lots of campaigning andorganizing to maintain involve-ment” in the anti-war group oncampus, she said.

“There’s a lot of interest, but nota lot of people who come to meet-

ings,” agreed Emily Spare ofColumbia University’s anti-wargroup. “I don’t know why!”

Organizing students aroundnothing more than opposition tothe war has proved increasinglydifficult since the war began, par-ticipants and several Brownactivists said. The necessity offorming coalitions among manygroups can dilute the anti-warmessage or drive away people whooppose the war but do not neces-sarily support the other causesinvolved.

Students Against the War inIraq, formed last year before thestart of the war, changed its nameat the end of the Spring 2003semester to the Student Anti-WarCoalition to reflect a broader

focus.“At the end of last (school) year,

people were really poised to takethe anti-war movement further,because I think we all knew thatthe significance of Iraq was notjust the specific case of the Bushadministration making waragainst Saddam Hussein’s regime,but it was rather symbolic of theirlarger approach to foreign policy,”said Emma Rebhorn ’06, one ofthe students who originally organ-ized SAWI and who helped to leadSAWC until it stopped meeting atthe end of the fall semester.

“This year, there was a lot of dis-array and confusion, and this wasnot unique to Brown — it hap-pened across the country to stu-dent groups, to adult groups, towhoever,” Rebhorn said. “Therewas confusion about how we weregoing to approach the question ofthe U.S. occupation, if people weregoing to call for a multilateraloccupation, a U.N. occupation.”

Rebhorn — who did not attendthis weekend’s march — said theconfusion, coupled with internaldebate about the group’s breadthof focus, caused SAWC member-ship to dwindle.

“I personally was really discour-aged with the group, because thereis absolutely no point, no efficacyin having meetings where thesame five people come,” she said.

The Brown College Democrats,initially members of Brown’s SAWI,officially withdrew from the coali-tion group in the early fall.

“We were in SAWI, and wedecided at the very beginning ofthe last semester to withdraw fromthat … simply because the state ofevents in Iraq had changed suchthat there was no point in beingagainst the war in Iraq anymore,”said Ethan Ris ’05, president of theCollege Democrats, who did notattend the march. The war hadalready happened, Ris said, soopposing it “was like being againstwater.”

Participation by individualmembers of the Democrats, Rissaid, dropped off after the first fewmeetings. “People got pretty disil-lusioned due to sort of dominanceby the ISO,” he said. “To theircredit, (ISO members) were thesort of the instigators of the coali-tion,” but their rhetoric “turnedpeople off.”

“Certainly not the majority, butthe views most energeticallyexpressed (within SAWI) were veryradical and sort of unsatisfactory.… Hoping that U.S. troops die isnot good for anybody,” he said. “Atthe end, there were only two orthree of our hard-core

Democrats” still participating,“mostly to argue.”

Scott Ewing ’05, who attendedthe march, agreed that SAWI’sinclusion of disparate ideologicalelements had driven people away.“I felt ultimately as though themovement was hindered by a lackof activism and that the move-ment also scared off people whowere perhaps opposed to the warbut didn’t want to be associatedwith or forced to be exposed toother fringe issues or groups,” hesaid.

“I think strategically, if onewants to make a statementagainst the war on as big a scale aspossible, it’s not helpful to haveother groups promoting theircauses during the event,” Ewingsaid. As an example, he pointed toa group that had begun chantinggay-rights slogans. “‘No gay JimCrow, homophobia’s got to go,’which is a fine sentiment that hasnothing to do with the Iraq war,”he said.

Incorporating new issues intotheir missions might reducemembership in some activistgroups, but Huang said organizedactivism cannot ignore issues likerace, class, imperialism and glob-alization. On the bus, she distrib-uted an “open letter to activistsconcerning racism in the anti-warmovement” written by ElizabethMartinez, who has taught work-shops at conferences on the sub-ject of “white activists” ignoringissues of race and class, Huangsaid. Huang’s position was reflect-ed by posters at the march thatprotested the “poverty draft” andby the participation of satiricalgroups like “Billionaires for Bush.”

Some campuses are simplyhostile to anti-war group organiz-ing, no matter what the depth orsubject matter, said Dennis Szulcand Damien Scott, two freshmenat St. John’s University who cameto the protest independent of anygroup. “No one wants to maketrouble,” Scott said.

“It’s a controversial issue at asmall Catholic school,” Szulcagreed.

Their friend Melissa Loftus, astudent at the Art Institute of NewYork, said her mostly commuterschool had very few studentorganizations and “no real cam-pus life,” making it an unlikelyplatform for organized oppositionto the war.

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins ’06edits the Metro section. She can bereached at [email protected].


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Organizers estimated there were more than 100,000 march attendees,while city officials believe there were

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Supreme CourtImpartiality RulesDepend onViewpoint WASHINGTON (Los Angeles Times) — In the spring of 1989,Supreme Court Justice Byron White, once a star runningback for the Detroit Lions, was the guest of the Detroit Newsat the annual press dinner of the Gridiron Club. When thepaper’s publisher bought him a drink, White casually askedhow the planned merger of the city’s two newspapers wasgoing.

“It’s before your court,” the publisher informed White. A few weeks later, the justices voted to take up the case —

but without White. He had withdrawn from the delibera-tions, apparently concerned that his having just been theunwitting guest of a party to a case before the court mightcreate an appearance of partiality.

During the same period, Chief Justice William Rehnquistand Justice Antonin Scalia got together once a month toplay poker. Sometimes they were joined by the Reaganadministration’s solicitor general, Charles Fried, the govern-ment’s top lawyer before the Supreme Court. That samespring, Fried strongly urged the justices to overturn the Roev. Wade ruling that legalized abortion. Fried’s poker partnersparticipated fully in the case.

“I was an occasional player. It was very small stakes,”Fried, a Harvard law professor, said last week. “The work ofthe court was not discussed.”

As the two incidents show, and as the current controver-sies over the outside activities of Scalia and Justice RuthBader Ginsburg underscore, the Supreme Court justiceshave quite different views on how they should manage their

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Pharmacists may be allowed todeny morning-after pillST. LOUIS (Los Angeles Times) — Pharmacist Matt Hartwig gota call recently from an employee in a drugstore he owns inrural Missouri. A woman had come in with a prescriptionfor the “morning-after” pill, which can prevent most preg-nancies if taken within three days of unprotected sex.

The pharmacist on duty had refused to sell it to her. Although the federal government classifies the pill as an

emergency contraceptive, the pharmacist said he consid-ered it a form of abortion. He told the woman he wasmorally opposed to providing it. And Hartwig backed himup.

“As a pharmacist, you’re required to do no harm, justlike nurses and doctors are,” he explained. “I believe youhave a right not to fill a prescription if you think it willharm the patient or the unborn child.”

Missouri lawmakers are weighing whether to guaranteethat right in state law.

Legislation filed here and in at least five other stateswould let pharmacists refuse to dispense the morning-after pill without fear of losing their jobs.

Each bill is slightly different, but most aim to shieldpharmacists from lawsuits and protect them from discipli-nary action — both from their bosses and from state regu-latory boards — if they refuse to provide the pill as a mat-ter of conscience. A few offer the same protection to phar-macists who object to other contraceptives, such as birth-control pills.

Abortion-rights advocates say they are baffled by theflurry of legislation in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,North Carolina and Washington, as well as Missouri. Intheir view, even anti-abortion groups should support easyaccess to the morning-after pill because it reducesunwanted pregnancies and thus cuts down on surgicalabortions.

But people who believe life begins at conception viewthe high-dose hormones as baby killers, because they canblock fertilized eggs from implanting in the uterus.

Addressing a Missouri legislative committee this week,Republican state Sen. John Cauthorn declared that phar-macists should not fear punishment for what he calledhaving enough “semblance of character to protect therights of the unborn.”

Abortion-rights advocates counter that pharmacistsshould not be second-guessing patients and their physi-cians. “They have an ethical obligation to meet the needsof the patient,” said Susanne Martinez, vice president ofPlanned Parenthood. “We don’t want to see barriers put infront of women who need a prescription filled. That couldhurt a lot of people.”

Marketed as Plan B and Preven, morning-after pillshave been sold in the United States since 1998, with mod-est success. Barr Pharmaceuticals, which recently boughtthe rights to Plan B, estimates emergency contraceptionsales at $12 million to $15 million a year.

Wal-Mart does not sell the pills. “It’s a business decision,not a moral judgment,” a spokeswoman said. Severalother major chains, including Walgreen’s and CVS, stockPlan B but allow pharmacists to opt out of filling prescrip-tions — as long as they refer the patient to a colleague whowill provide the pills.

In January, however, the Eckerd drugstore chain fired aTexas pharmacist for refusing to sell the emergency con-traceptive to a rape victim, saying he had violated compa-ny policy.

That incident outraged anti-abortion groups — andmade legislation to prevent such firings a priority.

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In the wake of the Times storyabout the committee, news sto-ries and columns appeared lastweek in the Boston Globe, theGuardian of London, USA Today,the Indianapolis Star, theAnchorage Daily News anddozens of other newspapers. FoxNews, the Associated Press, the“Today Show,” local televisionnews stations and several conser-vative radio talk shows alsoreported on the committee’swork.

Professors, students andadministrators involved with thecommittee say they are not sur-prised by the attention their workhas received from the interna-tional media, although some saythey are disappointed by thetenor of the coverage, which hastended to focus on the hot-buttonissue of whether the Universitywill pay financial reparations tothe descendants of slaves.

At the panel Thursday, ten-sions between the media and par-ticipants came to a boil. At onepoint during the question andanswer session, British journalistJoanna Walters, reporting for theGuardian, became so frustratedwith the speakers’ negative char-acterizations of the press that sheprefaced her question with arequest for mercy.

“It’s very easy to blame themedia,” she told the panel. “Butyou let the cat out of the bag, andit’s a hot issue.”

At the event, Campbell voicedparticular frustration with theNew York Times’ story, whichends by quoting Simmons as say-ing, “If the committee comes backand says, ‘Oh it’s been lovely andwe’ve learned a lot,’ but there’snothing in particular that theythink Brown can do or should do,I will be very disappointed.”

Campbell told the audience hefeared the Times’ framing ofSimmons’ statement has led peo-ple to believe that she is pushingthe committee toward advocatingfinancial reparations.

“One of the unfortunate con-clusions that some have drawnfrom the oversimplified presscoverage that we’ve had so far isthat the committee’s conclusionsare somehow predetermined and,worse still, that somehowPresident Simmons is trying topressure us to reach some conclu-sion or other,” Campbell told TheHerald before the event. “I gen-uinely have not the slightestinkling of what she thinks aboutthe question of slave reparations.”

But despite Campbell’s criti-cism of the Times’ coverage, hetold a group of reporters after theevent that the University con-sciously chose to stonewall newsoutlets other than the Times untilthe paper printed its March 14front-page story.

In an interview with TheHerald last week, Campbell, him-self a former journalist, said hewasn’t surprised at the media’srush to frame the issue aroundreparations. American society hastrouble dealing with complexissues and tends to polarizequickly on matters of race, hesaid.

“The committee is going tolearn about the range of differentapproaches to questions of his-torical injustice,” Campbell said.“Monetary reparations seem tobe the model in which discus-sions in the United States todayare framed, but if you look acrossthe world and you look acrosstime, there are a variety of differ-ent ways that societies haveattempted to confront legacies ofhistorical injustice and move for-ward. … We should learn fromthose.”

A number of news stories,including an Associated Pressreport distributed around thecountry, have recalled the repara-tions-related controversy thaterupted at Brown in March 2001,when conservative provocateurDavid Horowitz placed an anti-reparations advertisement in TheHerald. Three days after the adappeared, The Herald’s press runwas stolen by student activists,and campus and nationwide dis-cussions on free speech ensued.

Campbell said the Horowitzincident was “truly lamentable”and informed his early interest inthe committee.

“One of the things theHorowitz ad suggested to us wasthat rather than leave this historyto lie there and an occasional cin-der to burst into flames, that weshould take it on and discuss itwithout fear,” he said.

“We now have said to thecountry that we want to have anopen, searching discussion, andwe will take seriously the opin-ions of people across the politicalspectrum,” he said.

Professor of Political ScienceDarrell West, whose work looks atthe intersection of politics andthe mass media, said that whilethe media might oversimplify theissue, coverage of the committeewill benefit the University. Boththe Boston Globe and USA Todaypublished columns callingSimmons courageous foraddressing the issue of slavery.

“It’s hard for the media tograsp all of the complexities ofthe slavery issue 150 years afterthe fact,” West said. “But it’s easyto grasp onto reparations as therepresentation of that issue.

“I think the news coverage hasbeen pretty positive,” he added. “Ithink Brown is getting a lot ofcredit for tackling this subject.”

Seth Magaziner ’06, one ofthree undergraduate members ofthe committee, was interviewedlast week by the “Today Show”and the Boston Globe. He agreedwith Campbell that the Times’article is too “narrowly focused,”but he said he thinks media cov-erage generally has been posi-tive.

“I knew from the start that thiswas important and somewhatunprecedented,” Magaziner said.“I thought that the media hadbecome bored with the (repara-tions issue), so I was a little sur-prised, but pleasantly surprisedoverall.”

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


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social and professional lives so asto avoid creating an appearance ofpartiality.

Some, like the late White andJustice John Paul Stevens, havebeen especially wary of appearingas though they favored one side orthe other in a legal dispute.

Last spring, for example,Stevens debated dropping out ofthe pending case on affirmativeaction because one of his formerclerks, Jeffrey Lehman, was thedean of the University of Michiganlaw school. A white student’s chal-lenge to the school’s admissionspolicy became the test case for thenational dispute. The other eightjustices “unanimously and veryfirmly” insisted he should stay inthe case, Stevens told lawyers at aChicago bar meeting last summer.

Stevens, a registeredRepublican at the time of hisappointment, has been careful toseparate himself from partisanand ideological causes and main-tained a reputation for independ-ence and impartiality. When hiscolleagues intervened in the 2000Florida election dispute to stop therecount and thereby to ensure that

Republican George W. Bush wouldwin the White House, Stevens wor-ried in dissent that the ultimateloser would be the court’s standingas “an impartial guardian of therule of law.”

But others reject what they seeas a hypersensitivity over potentialconflicts of interests. They stressthat justices have friends who arelawyers and government officialsand insist that those friendshipsdo not prevent a justice fromdeciding legal questions fairly.Harvard’s Fried dismissed the con-cerns over Justice Scalia’s duck-hunting trip with Vice PresidentDick Cheney as “utter garbage. It iscontemptible, election-yeargarbage,” he said.

“Steve Breyer is one of my bestfriends, and he votes against meevery time I appear in court.Washington is a town of govern-ment people, and it is stupid to saythat if they sit together at dinner, itraises some sort of conflict.”

The justices are quick to saythey always prefer not to have towithdraw from a pending casesimply to maintain the appear-ance of impartiality.

Stevens’ decision not to stepaside in the affirmative action caseproved crucial to the outcome.The Michigan policy prevailed on

a 5-4 vote, with Stevens in themajority.

White’s recusal in the Detroitnewspapers case proved crucial,too — and it carried an ironictwist. The justices split 4-4 in thecase, which cleared the way for thenewspaper merger to go forward.

White had been a strongdefender of the anti-trust laws anda likely ally of those who werechallenging the merger. “Theeffect of his recusal was that welost,” said William Schultz, aWashington lawyer who repre-sented the union employees.

As Scalia and Ginsburg havesaid recently, the justices frownupon recusals because of the like-lihood it will create an evenlydivided court. “There is no one toreplace us,” Ginsburg said inresponse to questions about herinvolvement with the NOW LegalDefense Fund.

The better way to maintainimpartiality — and its appearance— experts in legal ethics say, is toavoid the conflicts in the firstplace.

“First and foremost, you shouldavoid putting yourself in situationswhere you need to consider dis-qualification,” said retired LosAngeles Judge David Rothman, theauthor of California’s handbook on


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“Pharmacists are now on thefront line of the abortion issue,”said Denise Burke, staff counselfor Americans United for Life, anational anti-abortion group. “Noone should ever be put in the posi-tion where they have to violatetheir conscience or risk losingtheir job.”

The debate could be moot with-in a few months. Five states havepassed laws allowing pharmaciststo dispense emergency contracep-tion without a prescription. Andfederal officials are consideringletting Plan B be sold over thecounter nationwide.

Yet anti-abortion activists con-tinue to press the issue. They pointout that at least 45 states shielddoctors and nurses who refuse toparticipate in abortions. OnlySouth Dakota explicitly extendsthe same protection to pharma-cists.

In Missouri, pharmacists are

divided on the proposed legisla-tion.

The bill would allow pharma-cists to refuse to transfer a contra-ceptive prescription to anotherdrugstore. That strikes DarranAlberty as unfair to patients. “Atleast you should offer to findanother pharmacy in town thatwould fill it,” he said from behindthe counter at D&H Drug inColumbia, Mo.

Ron Fitzwater, executive direc-tor of the Missouri PharmacyAssociation, says he’s concernedabout the bill’s effect on patients inrural areas. Some small townshave only one druggist, and somewomen don’t have the transporta-tion to reach a bigger city. With aprescription like Plan B, any delayin getting the drug could diminishits effectiveness.

“We support pharmacists’rights,” he said. “The key is ensur-ing patients access.”

Hartwig, who says he opposesabortion, is unsure about the pro-posed bill himself. He personallydoes not view Plan B as abortion;

he considers it contraception. Sowhen the pharmacist at his ruraldrugstore refused to dispense thehormone pill, Hartwig was sympa-thetic — but he made sure anoth-er pharmacist on duty was willingto take the job.

Otherwise, he said, he mighthave driven out himself to makesure the patient received the pillsshe needed.

in the ECAC semifinals againstHarvard, as the team dropped a2-1 decision in double over-time Saturday afternoon inSchenectady, N.Y.

Harvard took the early 1-0lead five minutes into the gamewith a rebounded goal thatcaught captain Katie Germain’04 off guard. After more than10 minutes of head-to-headhockey, Bruno knotted thegame at 1-1 when KeatonZucker ’06 notched her 14thgoal of the season at the 17:05mark.

“We came to the game pre-pared and played that way,”Zucker said. “We kept our edgeand played the game that tookus here.”

The Ivy rivals tradedmomentum back and forth inthe second period, with bothteams collecting several unfin-ished scoring opportunities infront of the net, including twooff-the-post shots. Aggressivedefense at both ends of the icekept the score leveled at onegoing into the third.

The Crimson dominated theBears from the opening face-off in the third, as Brown hadtrouble with its passing gameand getting the quick shots onthe net. Harvard out-shotBruno 12-5 in the period, win-ning the one-on-one battlesand taking more selective shotsfrom outside the crease. Due tostellar goaltending, the gamewas pushed into overtime,

which the two powerhouseshad also played when they metearlier in the season.

Both teams remained score-less in the first 20-minute over-time, but it was Harvard thatscored less than six minutesinto the second to clinch thevictory.

“Saturday’s game was truly agreat battle between two greatteams,” said co-captain KellySheridan ’04. “The puck justwent the wrong way, and Icould not be more proud of theway our team ended the seasonphysically and mentally.”

Harvard went on to defeatSt. Lawrence University 6-1 inthe finals for the ECACChampionship.

The Bears (18-11-2, 12-5-1ECAC) captured fourth place inthe ECAC final standings.

Herald staff writer Lexi Costello’06 covers women’s ice hockey.She can be reached at [email protected].

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ence honors is captain ScottFord ’04, who was named theECAC’s Best DefensiveDefenseman. Ford finished theseason fifth in scoring amongECAC defensemen with 15points, 11 of which came onpower plays. He also was namedFirst Team All-Ivy andHonorable Mention All-ECAC.

“It’s nice to get personal hon-ors, but I would rather see theteam playing right now,” Fordsaid.

Brown’s playoff run was cutshort in the second round of theECAC playoffs by a red-hotHarvard University team, whichwent on to beat DartmouthCollege and Clarkson Universityto win the ECAC championship.

“Harvard hit their stride at the

end of the season, and they areplaying really well right now,”said Ford.

Ford says he’ll greatly missBrown hockey. “It’s very bitter-sweet for me. I am upset thatwe’re finished, but at the sametime we’ve come a long way. Theteam really worked hard togeth-er to put some pride back inBrown hockey.”

Freshman sensation BrianIhnacak ’07 was named both IvyLeague Rookie of the Year andECAC Co-Rookie of the Year, anhonor he shared with Cornellgoaltender David McKee.Ihnacak, who led all rookies inscoring with 30 points, was alsonamed to the ECAC’s All-RookieTeam.

Other Bears to be honoredwere Robinson and Les Haggett’05, who were named to theSecond Team All-Ivy, and VinceMacri ’04, who was an All-IvyHonorable Mention.


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first-period pin of BradyReinke of the University ofWisconsin. Travis Frick ofLehigh knocked Ciarcia out ofthe tournament in the quar-terfinals, after a close 2-1match.

The tournament marks theend of Dies’ and Ciarcia’s col-legiate wresting careers, aswell as the end of the Bears’season.

Dies and Ciarcia were partof a strong senior class, whichled the Bears to an eighth-place finish in the EIWA thisyear.

Herald staff writer BernieGordon ’07 is an assistantsports editor and coverswrestling. He can be reachedat [email protected].


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a few games into the season,earned the first All-Ivy selectionof her career. She was the team’sthird-leading scorer at 11.0points per game and second onthe team in rebounds with 6.6per game. Her .502 field goalpercentage led the Bears andwas sixth in the Ivies.

Hayes, who was last year’s IvyLeague Rookie of the Year, wasthe team’s best rebounder andseventh-best in the Ivy League,with an average of 6.9 rebounds

per game. With her second consecutive

Honorable Mention honors,Hayes also led the Bears in stealswith 2.04 per contest, second-best in the Ivies. A scoring andrebounding threat, Hayes wasthe Bears’ fourth player to aver-age double figures in points,with an average of 10.2 pointsper game.

Herald staff writer Ben Miller ’07covers women’s basketball. Hecan be reached [email protected].


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moot within a few

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L E T T E R S

Image controlThe Committee on Slavery and Justice is big news, whether

or not the University wanted or expected it to be. AndPresident Ruth Simmons’ charge to the committee is momen-tous — to direct a group of individuals to investigate theUniversity’s connection with slavery is certainly an incredibletask. It is difficult for us to fathom how hundreds of years ofwrongdoing and cruelty can be investigated at all or where tostart.

But for all of the attention being paid to the committee, wehave very little knowledge of what the committee is doing andhow it could affect Brown’s future. The University mustacknowledge the danger of leaving the committee’s delibera-tions private when its existence is under such heavy publicscrutiny.

The media focus on monetary reparations is unfortunate.But regardless of the committee’s view of its public image, itmust come to terms with what that image means for theUniversity’s future.

The University is currently embarking on a major capitalcampaign that identifies academics, campus life and financialaid as priorities — nowhere in its initiatives are reparationsfor slavery. The committee must choose how highly it wantsto prioritize Brown’s response to slavery in relation to theInitiatives for Academic Enrichment.

We acknowledge that rectifying the wrongs done by theBrown family could be more important to the University thanthe capital campaign that will guarantee its future. But if thatis the case, the committee and Simmons should publiclyacknowledge it. And if it is not the case, the committee shouldmake that clear, because even if the committee does noteventually recommend that the University pay monetaryreparations, the idea of campaign funds being redirectedtoward reparations could scare off potential donors to theUniversity as long as reparations remain an official option.

Simmons said she will be disappointed if, after two years,the committee does not produce recommendations for actionby the University. We add to Simmons’ concern the belief thatif the committee inadvertently sets back a set of overarchingUniversity initiatives years in the making by allowing its priva-cy to feed into a misleading public image, that, too, would bea shame.

To the Editor:

I was delighted to see the excellent pointbrought up by Ruth Tilley's letter (“Race not theonly division in Brown student body,” March 19).Individuals with disabilities, also, and the chal-lenges we face are too often left out of the dia-logue. This marginalization is world-wide, ofcourse, and by no means limited to Brown, butideally a university such as ours would take stepsto meaningfully include such a large and under-represented minority.

Too often, we are relegated to second-class sta-tus, not by the actual limitations imposed by ourdisabilities themselves, but by the attitudes ofothers. I'm not saying that a week-long forum forincoming disabled first-years is necessarily theright solution (though it might be a nice start),nor can I claim to speak for other students withdisabilities. However, to essentialize any oneaspect of an individual's life, be it economic,racial or physical, undermines the ideals of toler-ance, inclusion and openness which purport tobe so important to Brown.

Matthew Weber ’04March 19

A transitionprogram for thosewith disabilities?

To the Editor:

My concern is not that the presence of white stu-dents would negatively affect the program — Ibelieve TWTP can become an invaluable experiencefor all incoming students. However, significant insti-tutional support is necessary to create a similar inti-mate workshop setting that could accommodate theentire first-year class.

The hour-long “diversity” workshops offered dur-ing orientation cannot approach the three to four-day TWTP experience of intense all-day activities onrace, class, sexuality and gender. In addition, the coreof TWTP is the passionate, dedicated, underpaid orunpaid students and staff who believe fiercely in theprogram's value and necessity. The ratio of first-yearstudents to peer facilitators must be kept in order topreserve the spirit of TWTP.

Rather than simply chastising the coordinators ofTWTP for being exclusory, I hope that its critics willrecognize the intense amount of work and love thatmakes the program possible and support its organiz-ers in bringing this amazing experience to a largercommunity.

Michelle Higa ’04March 19

Keeping the “spirit” ofTWTP intact with whitestudents involved

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Like many others, I almost walked out of MelGibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” The unneces-sary violence was bad enough, but the anti-Semitismand historical absurdities were intolerable.

Among other errors, the ubiquity of Latin in thefilm is just silly, because almost all of the occupyingRomans, recruited from Syria and other west Asianprovinces, would certainly have been speaking Greekor Aramaic. Even worse, the Roman troops were noteven speaking classical Latin — it was Church Latin!

The crucifixion, the focus of the film, was also rid-dled with nonsense. Everybody and their brotherknows that the nails went into the wrists of the cru-cified, not the palms of their hands.

Additionally, in Gibson’s film, Jesus’ smooth, com-pletely formed cross was taken out of pictures from achildren’s Bible storybook. Research done on cruci-fixion has shown that Jesus would not have carriedthe entire cross, just the beam. (The 1975 film “Jesusof Nazareth” does a much better job of portrayingcrucifixion historically.)

Gibson’s recklessness and nonchalant attitudetowards history and scholarship show that the film isnot about portraying what Jesus truly experienced.Rather, it is just another gratuitously violent filminvolving Mel Gibson (for example, “Mad Max,”“Payback,” “Braveheart,” “Lethal Weapon”).

In many films featuring Gibson, the protagonistexperiences torture that no ordinary human wouldhave been able to survive. In “Lethal Weapon,”Gibson’s character is subjected to savage beatingsand electric shock torture, yet in the end he finds thestrength to kick the tar out of the enemy anyway.

This unrealistic depiction of violence finds its wayinto “The Passion.” A person subjected to the beatingand torture depicted in “The Passion” would havebeen at least unconscious and probably dead longbefore reaching Golgotha. But Gibson must keep

Jesus alive and conscious to horrify the audiencewith his own bloodlust. Surely, portrayals of Jesus’crucifixion should be violent — even disturbing — inorder to capture the brutality of Roman occupation.The violence in “The Passion,” however, is so obnox-ious that Jesus’ suffering in the film cannot be takenseriously.

Gibson’s contempt for history and scholarship canalso be blamed for the film’s obvious anti-Semitism,which defenders have had to go through somersaultsto deny.

Film critic Roger Ebert, in his glowing review, sug-

gested that the film is not anti-Semitic because it“reflects a range of behavior on the part of its Jewishcharacters, on balance favorably.”

To be fair, some Jews are presented positively, andthe Roman soldiers who torture Jesus are not shownfavorably.

But random instances of virtue from very minorJewish characters and the cruelty of some namelessRoman characters do little to take away from theoverarching “Roman versus Jew” theme runningthroughout the film. On more than one occasion,Gibson seems to go out of his way to contrast Jewishsadism and barbarism with Roman reason andhumaneness.

When Jesus is arrested and taken to the

Sanhedrin, two Roman soldiers pass by the trial andask about the commotion. One of the High Priest’sguards lies to the Romans about the nature of thearrest because, obviously, if the rational, reasonableRomans were to find out about this Jewish kangaroocourt they would have done something to stop it.

Gibson painstakingly shows Pontius Pilate’s angstabout what to do with Jesus. First, if this was really afilm about Jesus’ suffering, why spend an inordinateamount of time on Pilate’s internal struggles any-way?

Second, Gibson even turns Pilate’s wife, men-tioned in one verse in one gospel, into a major char-acter to reinforce the virtue and goodness of theRomans.

Conversely, Caiaphas, often surrounded by ascreaming crowd of bloodthirsty Jews, is a crudecomic-book villain who, even after Jesus is torn toshreds by Roman whips, coldly tells Pilate to “crucifyhim!” Numerous critics have pointed out that Gibsoncould have taken just as much time to showCaiaphas’ political dilemmas as he did Pilate’s with-out deviating from the gospel accounts ( John 18:14).

As a Protestant, I am embarrassed that thefounder of Protestantism, Martin Luther, was a rabidanti-Semite who used the gospel accounts in his “Onthe Jews and their Lies,” later quoted by the Nazis.

This is one example of the appalling anti-Semitismperpetuated by Christians, and anyone who makes afilm about Jesus’ death should bend over backwardsto put the story in its historical context.

Gibson’s refusal to do that arrogantly denies thereal pain and suffering inflicted on Jews byChristians.

Brian Rainey ’04 should have bought a ticket for“Eurotrip” and snuck in to see “The Passion” so hewould not have given financial support to Gibson.

The Jesus chainsaw massacre

Washington, D.C. — Picture this: On March 25, youwalk into Dream. Dream is Washington, D.C.’s biggesthip-hop club, replete with four floors, VIP suites andnumerous bars. Dream always brings in big acts andhuge, scantily dressed crowds. Last week the YoungGunz performed, and Method Man worked the stage.But tonight is a night like no other. Sean “P. Diddy”Combs will be in attendance and may perform. Thesame goes for Q-Tip. DJ Biz Markie is manning theones-and-twos as you make your way inside. It is trulyan All-Star night at Dream, and the $50 you droppedon your ticket was well worth it.

But the fun doesn’t stop there. Suddenly DemocraticNational Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe is infront of you. You holla at him and nod to his boysbefore you pass by. As you weave through the crowdeddance floor, a Georgia drawl suddenly comes throughthe massive speakers.

Thinking, “No way Andre 3000 and Big Boi are here,”you look up to the stage. But in front of Biz Markie isno member of Outkast, but former President of theUnited States Jimmy Carter. The crowd is getting intoit, giving Jim-E C. mad props as he flips crazy freestylerhymes.

Jim-E C. finishes up his set and replaces Biz Markieat the turntables. The crowd is getting crunk as hescratches through Nas, Biggie Smalls, 50 Cent and, as atribute to his homies, OutKast. But just as he fades into“Rosa Parks,” out steps “the first black President,”sporting Harlem’s finest bling and spitting rhymes intothe mike.

MC Slick Willie Clinton’s appearance sends thecrowd into a frenzy, and you find yourself crushedtowards the stage. The stampede only grows as thenormally corpse-like John Kerry grabs a mike andbegins to battle Clinton, and you feel the last of the airleave your lungs when “The Reverend” joins them andDennis Kucinich starts breakdancing while Jim-E C.

scratches furiously. It is one of the greatest moments inhip-hop. Or politics. Or something.

Now I admit, this match-up seems about as strangeas this Iowa boy trying to write about hip-hop asthough he is a part of it. But unlike me, these hip-hopstars and these legendary Democrats are not faking it.While Bill Clinton may not start rapping, he, TerryMcAuliffe, Jimmy Carter and, supposedly, the wholefield of Democratic candidates will actually be atDream on March 25. P. Diddy, Q. Tip and Biz Markiewill really be there too. Tickets really are $50.

It is an official fundraiser for the DemocraticNational Committee, and Democrats see it as a chance

to get youth and minorities involved with the partyand involved with making donations. It will actually beClinton’s second (public) appearance at Dream, thefirst having been at the first “Young DemocratsUnited.” The fundraiser/concert/party will run until 2a.m. and features an open bar and a buffet. I have noidea what the balance will be like between consumingalcohol, dancing, platform development and grass-roots organizing, but I hope to check it out.

Politicians and Hollywood celebrities now oftenintermingle, and Democrats can find many of their bigdonors on movie sets. Musicians have also been get-ting heavily involved with the Democratic Party. Thiswas perhaps most noticeable in the recent primaries,

with various stars endorsing candidates. Madonnastumped for Wesley Clark, and Coldplay’s Chris Martinendorsed John Kerry in his Grammy acceptancespeech.

Until recently, though, the connection between hip-hop and politics has been less visible. This could bebecause the connection is ignored by mainstreammedia outside of the occasional article on RussellSimmons, but it remains true.

This fundraiser, though, could be the beginning of anew relationship with benefits for both sides. Hip-hophas been a refuge for those ignored and discriminatedagainst by a larger society. If Democrats recognize thehip-hop community as a strong potential constituent,it could lead to greater visibility of and a new address-ing of urban concerns in both heterogenous andhomogenous communities.

Making hip-hop a political issue could bring greaterattention to hip-hop culture, and perhaps the currentemphasis on its more violent elements will end.Perhaps more thoughtful, positive, or politically andsocially concerned members, such as Mos Def,Jurassic 5 and Jonzi-D will be more widely acknowl-edged.

In return, Democrats may gain access to the mas-sive amounts of money associated with many rapstars. But more importantly, they may stop taking theurban vote and the black vote for granted. As morecity-dwellers and minorities get involved with partyactivities, they can influence its direction and pointthe party towards a number of issues it seems to haveforgotten. That would be a win-win for both theDemocratic Party and the country. As would seeing Billand Hillary getting freaky-deaky on the Dream dancfloor.

Rob Sand ’05.5 is spending this semester backup danc-ing for Iowa’s Tom-izzle Hark-nizzle.

BRIAN RAINEY

Reinventing our hip-hopcracy

A callous, inaccurate and

anti-Semitic representa-

tion of Jesus’ last hours.

Democrats make a

play for the J. Kizzle

generation.

ROB SAND

BROWN SPORTS SCOREBOARD

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 22, 2004 · PAGE 12

BY LEXI COSTELLODespite an unfortunate end tothe season with a loss toHarvard University this week-end, the women’s ice hockeyteam took home plenty of hon-ors.

Defenseman AmyMcLaughlin ’05 ends the 2004season with selections to theFirst Team All-ECAC and All-Ivysquads, making her the onlyBear to earn both honors thisyear.

McLaughlin was a huge con-tributor to Brown’s success,playing smart, aggressive offen-

sive and defensive hockey in allof Bruno’s 31 games. This sea-son, she collected 25 points, tal-lying 6 goals and 19 assists.Throughout her career,McLaughlin has notched a totalof 50 points, scoring 14 goalsand collecting 36 assists in 68games.

Also earning postseasonhonors was assistant captainJessica Link ’05, who took homeFirst Team All-Ivy and SecondTeam All-ECAC selections. Linkled Brown with 48 points thisseason, notching 28 goals and20 assists, and finished the

12th-leading point scorer inDivision I, twice earning ECACPlayer of the Week honors. Inher three-year career, Link hastotaled 129 points, with 67 goalsand 62 assists in 97 games.

Forward Krissy McManus ’05was recognized with All-IvyHonorable Mention. As Brown’sthird-leading scorer, McManuscollected 21 points on the sea-son, with 11 goals and 10assists.

The women’s season ended

BY JAMES FELDMANMen’s ice hockey goaltenderYann Danis ’04 added a fewmore accomplishments to anincredible season in net for theBears this week. On Thursday,Danis was named both ECACPlayer and Goaltender of theYear, becoming the first Brownplayer to bring home eitherhonor and the first player everto win both awards in the sameseason.

Danis was also named one of10 finalists for the Hobey Bakeraward, given annually to thebest college hockey player in thenation. The winner of the awardwill be announced April 9 dur-ing the Frozen Four in Boston.

For Danis, it was just a begin-ning to the excitement. OnFriday, he signed a contract withthe Montreal Canadiens of theNational Hockey League.

Danis and teammate BrentRobinson ’04 are currently inHamilton, Ontario, skating withthe Hamilton Bulldogs, theCanadiens’ AHL affiliate.Robinson signed an amateurtry-out contract with theBulldogs.

Danis finished the seasonsecond in the nation with a savepercentage of .942 and third inthe nation with a goals againstaverage of 1.81. In addition tohis save percentage and goalsagainst average, Danis also setschool records of 43 career winsand 13 career shutouts in hisfour seasons with the Bears.

Joining Danis in all-confer-

Mike Braca

Yann Danis ’04 was recently named ECAC Player and Goaltender of the Year. It was also announced on Fridaythat he had signed a contract with the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens through the 2005-2006 season.

Friday, March 19Men’s Tennis: Brown 7, Maryland —Baltimore County 0

Saturday, March 20Men’s Lacrosse: Brown 10, No. 16 UMass 5Women’s Ice Hockey: ECAC Semifinals —Harvard 2, Brown 1 (2 OT)Equestrian: First place at Johnson &Wales, Rehoboth, Mass.Baseball: Appalachian State 6, Brown 1Baseball: Brown 11, Appalachian State 5Gymnastics: ECAC Championships —Penn 193.65, Cornell 192.425, Brown191.225, Yale 191.05, James Madison189.9, William & Mary 189.875Softball: Boston College 3, Brown 2Softball: Brown 9, Maryland — EasternShore 1

Sunday, March 21Women’s Tennis: Boston College 4, Brown0Softball: Brown 3, Maryland 1Softball: Boston College 9, Brown 7Baseball: Appalachian State 6, Brown 5Baseball: Brown 5, Appalachian State 2

Danis ’04signs withHabs, men’sicers rake inhonors

Two w. icers named to All-Ivy asteam falls in ECAC semifinals

M. basketballplaces threeon All-Ivy;Forte ’05named Playerof the YearBY JOSHUA TROYAll season, the men’s basketballteam exceeded expectations.Despite the loss of two of thetop three scorers in school his-tory, the Bears (14-13, 10-4 Ivy)finished the season tied for sec-ond place in the Ivy League andset new school records for con-secutive winning seasons andthe most wins over a four-yearspan. And when it came to end-of-year honors in the IvyLeague, the Bears once againwent above and beyond.

Leading the way was JasonForte ’05, who became the thirdBrown player ever to be namedIvy League Player of the Year,after Peter Moss ’80 and JimTurner ’86. In an exceptionalseason, Forte became the firstBrown player ever to lead theIvies in points (21.4 per game)and assists (5.79 per game) dur-ing the same season, and hewas a unanimous selection tothe First-Team All-Ivy.

Selected for the All-IvySecond Team were PatrickPowers ’04 and Jamie Kilburn’04. Powers finished the seasonas the third-leading scorer (18.0points per game) in the IvyLeague, while tying Forte forthe league lead in steals.Against Columbia University inthe Bears’ second-to-last game,Powers set a new Brown recordfor three-pointers in a season,ending with a total of 77.

Kilburn ended his Browncareer with the Ivy League’sfourth-highest scoring averagefor a season, notching 15.6points per game. He also ledthe league in blocks and fieldgoal percentage, the latter forthe second straight season.

Following the loss of threesenior starters, the Bears willturn to Forte next season tolead them toward that elusiveNCAA berth.

Herald staff writer Joshua Troy’04 covers men’s basketball. Hecan be reached [email protected].

Mitchell ’04 one of fourBears named towomen’s hoops All-IvyBY BEN MILLERThe women’s basketball teamwas rewarded for its second-place Ivy League finish with fourselections to the All-Ivy teams.

Nyema Mitchell ’04 was theBears’ lone selection to the FirstTeam, while Tanara Golston ’04and Holly Robertson ’05 werevoted onto the Second Team.Sarah Hayes ’06 was named anAll-Ivy Honorable Mention, giv-ing the Bears the most All-Ivyplayers in the league.

Mitchell, who was named tothe Second Team All-Ivy in 2002and 2003, led the Bears in pointsper game at 15.5 and was sev-enth in the Ivy League. Mitchellalso led the Bears in blocks pergame at 2.04, good for second inthe Ivies. Her 6.2 rebounds pergame were third for the seasonon the team.

Mitchell ends her career as

the fourth player in school histo-ry to record more than 1,000points and 700 rebounds. In herlast game, she broke the schoolrecord for career games playedwith 107.

Golston, who had an out-standing season spreading theball around, handed out 188assists on the year. Her averageof 7.0 assists per game was sev-enth in the nation and first in theIvies. She retires as Brown’s thirdall-time leading passer with 409assists.

With 12 points per game,Golston was Brown’s secondleading scorer and 12th in theIvies. She was also second on theteam in steals with 1.96 pergame.

Robertson, who worked herway into the starting lineup just

At NCAA’s, Dies ’04 andCiarcia ’04 just short ofAll-American honorsBY BERNIE GORDONBoth Brown wrestling captainsentered this weekend’s NCAAWrestling Championshipsunseeded and departed amongthe top 12 wrestlers for theirrespective weight classes.

Co-captains David Dies ’04and Nick Ciarcia ’04 reachedthe consolation quarterfinalsFriday in St. Louis, MO, losingclose matches to finish justshort of earning All-AmericanHonors. Dies and Ciarciawould have had to win theirfinal matches to be named All-Americans.

Dies, entered at 149 pounds,started off strong with threewins, including a close 6-5 vic-tory over No. 9-seeded TyEustice of the University ofIowa and an 8-3 domination ofNo. 8 Matt Storniolo of

Pennsylvania State University. In the quarterfinals, Dies

faced an old adversary, No. 1-seeded Jesse Jantzen ofHarvard University.

After losing a hard-foughtmatch to Jantzen, 5-2, Diesentered the consolation brack-et, where he dropped a 7-6heartbreaker to Jeff Ecklof ofthe University of Oklahoma.The loss knocked him from thetournament and ended hischances of being named All-American.

Ciarcia, entered at 184pounds, stumbled out of thegate, losing 8-6 to Dan Pitschof Oregon State. But Ciarciacame back strong in the conso-lation bracket, including a

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