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BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETProvidence city workers restored waterto the Graduate Center at approximately6:35 p.m. Wednesday, after a crackedwater main left students without waterfor over 24 hours.

Maintenance crew supervisor TonyPro of the Providence Water Departmenttold The Herald the system was workingas of early Wednesday evening.

The water main broke sometime earlyTuesday afternoon, according toDirector of the Brown News Service MarkNickel.

“Crews had been working all day to fixthe problem,” Nickel said.

“The reason for the repair delay wasthat the problem was located betweentwo other utilities, and it was hard for usto get at,” Pro said.

Repairs fell under the jurisdiction ofthe Providence Water Department,which was “very responsive,” Nickel said.“The crew actually brought in an outsidevendor with special equipment for locat-ing leaks,” he said.

Brown’s Emergency PreparednessCommittee provided students with cardaccess to nearby dormitories so theycould use bathroom facilities, Nickelsaid.

The committee met Tuesday to exam-ine how the University would informstudents of the situation and plannedways for students to have access toshower facilities and drinking water,

Nickel said.The purpose of the committee is “to

plan for and operate during times whenthere are emergency situations,” he said.

The situation is “just a hassle morethan anything else,” said Grad Centerresident Adam Cantor ‘06.

But Cantor said he was satisfied withthe resources Brown provided, which

included bottled water along with thecard access to nearby dorms.

“There’s really not much else they cando, especially if it’s a Providence Waterproblem and not a Brown problem,”Cantor said.

Students were patient about the situa-tion, Nickel said. “I haven’t had anyinformation about complaints,” he said.

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RISD administrationreworks advisingprogram forupperclassmentrisd news, page 3

New online calendar,discussed for years,makes scheduleconflicts less likelycampus news, page 5

Alums and studentsparticipating in politicsshow that young adultscan make a differenceeditorial, page 14

Sean Siperstein ’05thinks RhodeIslanders are modelvoters column, page 15

Women’s hockeymust win 16 games togain entry to tourna-mentsports, page 16

Vranek ’04 diesin car accidentwhile returningto campusFrancisco Vranek ’04, known to friends byhis middle name, Metha, was killed in acar accident on his way back to Brown onSunday, according to UniversityChaplain Janet Cooper Nelson.

A family member notified theUniversity of Vranek’s death and said thefamily has planned services in his home-town of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

The University will meet with Vranek’sfriends to organize services inProvidence to honor his life, Nelson said,but no arrangements have been madeyet. Students in Buxton InternationalHouse, where Vranek lived, intend tocommemorate his life as well and willmake plans in the next few days, saidRaphael Tse ’05.

“It’s a huge tragedy,” Nelson said. “Hehad many, many friends — they wereheartbroken.” Anyone in need of supportshould contact the chaplains, deans orPsychological Services, Nelson said.

— Meryl Rothstein

BY LISA MANDLEThe University will welcome in the fall of2005 the first students admitted to a newpublic policy master’s degree program.

In December, the Alfred A. TaubmanCenter for Public Policy and AmericanInstitutions announced the new master’sdegree program in public policy, afterreceiving approval from theCorporation.

Public policy faculty members beganseeking approval for the program lastspring, said Dean of the Graduate SchoolKaren Newman.

“We felt it was an opportunity to putBrown on the map in the area of publicpolicy,” said Darrell West, professor ofpolitical science and director of theTaubman Center.

New degree programs must passthrough a long series of steps to makesure they are “intellectually rigorous”and the University has the resources tosupport them, Newman said. Programsmust be approved by the GraduateCouncil, the Faculty ExecutiveCommittee and the Corporation, andthe series of approvals was completed inearly December, she said.

Two different master’s degrees will beavailable: a two-year master of publicpolicy degree and a one-year master ofpublic affairs degree. Within the pro-gram, students will be able to focus oneducation policy, health care or urbanpolicy, West said.

The multi-disciplinary degree willallow students to take classes in multiple

departments, including political science,community health, economics and soci-ology, Newman said

The Graduate School expects to enrolla total of 35 students between the twodegree programs once they are fullyestablished, Newman said. Compared toother master’s degree programs atBrown, the public policy program willhave a medium-sized student body, shesaid. The Brown/Trinity Consortium,one of the larger graduate programs,enrolls 55 theater students over threeyears, while the master’s degree in finearts program in creative writing accepts14 students each year, she said.

But compared to public policy pro-

Recent alumsturn topolitics aftergraduationBY SHEELA RAMANPassionate about politics and eager foradventure, some recent Brown gradu-ates have immersed themselves incampaigning, dedicating up to 20hours a day to working for theirfavorite candidates.

According to the graduates, there isnever a dull moment on the campaigntrail, which makes it an ideal place fora twenty-something fresh out of col-lege.

Immediately upon graduating as apolitical science concentrator, AndrewGolodny ’03 took a six-month positionas database manager for Sen. JonathanEdwards’ (D-N.C.) Iowa campaign, andcontinues to travel with Edwards as acampaign assistant. Golodny said hisprime responsibility in Iowa was sort-ing a voter candidate file with 1.5 mil-lion names into specific call lists fordoor-to-door canvassing.

“Working on a campaign justseemed like the perfect thing to do

City workers repair water main break, restore service to Grad Center

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Francisco Vranek ’04.

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Students braved snowy conditions to check classroom assignments on Wednesday, thefirst day of classes.

Public policy master’s program at TaubmanCenter on track for inaugural class in 2005

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RISD considerscollaborating withAS220 on newdarkroom

Student initiative leads to departmentaladvising system reform for upperclassmen

HERALD OPEN HOUSESComing in February

BY ALEXIS KUNSAKThe RISD Student Alliance will decide next weekwhether to help fund a new darkroom at AS220, wherethe old darkroom closed this past summer due to newfire code regulations.

RISD has supported AS220, a downtown arts coop-erative, intermittently since 1994, when PresidentRoger Mandle committed the school to the Coalitionfor Community Development, a citywide initiative tofoster urban growth.

AS220, a non-profit organization, needs about$13,000 to construct the new darkroom on the secondfloor of its Empire Street building. RISD students out-side the photography department do not have accessto campus darkroom facilities and would have to paya membership fee to access the AS220 facility andreceive photographic instruction from AS220 staffmembers.

The proposal is “an opportunity for RISD to partic-ipate in the community by supporting AS220’s incred-ible after-school programs and strong connectionwith the public arts in Providence,” said Blair De St.Croix, director of RISD’s Office of Student Life.

AS220 is an artists’ collective, formed 18 years agoby a group of artists frustrated by the lack of supportand resources available to them in Providence. Thename alternately stands for the words “Artist Space”or “Alternative Space,” and 220 was the original streetaddress when the space was formed on WestminsterStreet, said Melissa Honeybell RISD ’00, an AS220 staffmember.

“The RISD connection has been overlooked onboth sides,” said Shawn Wallace, artistic director atAS220. “But many of the people on our board or thosewho have created events here have come throughRISD as students, professors or administrators.Money from RISD supported the darkroom we had, aswell as video equipment and other supplies.”

This past year, Paul Connelly, associate director ofthe Office of Student Life, held a series of well-attend-ed events at AS220 centered around RISD artists and

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Christina Bertoni is RISD’s new director of academic advising.

BY DANA GOLDSTEINThe RISD administration is establishing centralized aca-demic advising standards a year after the Student Alliancedeclared the issue a priority and surveyed both students andfaculty on ways they thought the system could be improved.

Because only full-time faculty members can serve asofficial academic advisors, new faculty positions might be

created in order to lessen advis-ing loads and provide morepersonal attention, saidChristina Bertoni, who was

appointed to the new position of director of academicadvising last semester.

Academic advising for sophomores, juniors and seniorswill continue to be based within individual departments,with foundation professors serving as advisors for first-yearstudents, Bertoni said.

The director of academic advising position was createdafter the school’s trustees took an interest in the Alliance’sacademic advising concerns and created a committee toexamine the issue, Bertoni said. The job is a part-timeappointment, and Bertoni continues to teach courses, asshe has done at RISD for 27 years. Bertoni also served a 12-year term as dean of Graduate Studies.

“I’m a generalist,” she said. “We’re trying to get a bird’s eyeview of how advising works.”

In the past, RISD students consistently expressed frustra-tion with an advising system so decentralized some stu-dents reported they were not even aware of who their offi-cial academic advisers were, said Suzannah Park, presidentof the Student Alliance.

“Some departments were better at advising than others,”Park said. “That’s what clued us in, from a Student Allianceperspective, that it wasn’t working.”

To address this inequity between departments, Bertonisaid she is surveying the academic advising systems in placewithin each department in order to compile a handbook of“best practices” that can be distributed to all faculty mem-bers.

“We’re incredibly pleased with how this issue has movedforward,” Park said. “We’re absolutely ecstatic that ChristinaBertoni is heading this up and doing an absolutely fabulousjob.”

Official academic advisors are usually teachers of

required studio classes within their department. Eachsemester, they are responsible for meeting with theiradvisees and going over their transcripts and schedules,ensuring that each student completes their departmentalrequirements and their liberal arts requirements in a timelyfashion.

The process can be hampered when advisors are over-loaded. In large departments such as illustration, whichemploy many adjunct professors, advisors may be respon-sible for as many as 30 students, she said.

David Frazer, head of the painting department — whichBertoni praised as one with a strong advising system — saidmore full-time faculty members would help all depart-ments improve their advising systems.

“Having consistent faculty in any department who knowhow the system works is always a plus for students,” he said.

Painting students often switch advisors from semester tosemester as their studio professors change, meaning theiradvisors are always familiar with their current work, Frazersaid. But both Frazer and Bertoni stressed that studentsoften choose to work through their most pressing personalproblems with teachers who are not their official academicadvisors, or who may not even be in their departments.

Other students choose not to seek out advice.“Some students really do not want what they would con-

sider intrusive,” Bertoni said. “Others do want it, but may bereticent to ask for it.”

Bertoni said better advising training for faculty memberswould encourage them to initiate contact with students.

When advisor and advisee just don’t connect, studentsneed to know they have the option to change advisors, Parksaid.

Although Bertoni said she has not had much direct con-tact with students since she moved into her new position,she has begun to reach out this semester, posting a messageon the RISD Daily Jolt and inviting students to visit heroffice with any academic questions or concerns aboutadvising.

“This office is here to provide that sort of neutral, disin-terested service,” Bertoni said.

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

see AS220, page 6

Alexis Kunsak / Herald

AS220 is an artists’ collective formed 18 years ago inresponse to artists’ frustration by the lack of supportand resources available to them in Providence.

ADVISING AT RISD:part one of a two-part series

Services Office met over a periodof six months to decide how to setup the calendar. Using modelsfrom several other universitiesthat use the same calendar soft-ware — including IndianaUniversity-Bloomington, ArizonaState University and theUniversity of Denver — commit-tee members designed a calendartailored to meet Brown’s needs.

“The new calendar has manybenefits and unique features to itthat made it the optimum choice

for Brown,” said Tracie Sweeney,senior associate director of theBrown News Service.

There are a variety of calen-dars to choose from, based onindividual interests. For example,separate calendars list lectures,alumni events and performanc-es. The calendar also includes auser-friendly search feature.

“You can customize a calendarto upload onto a Palm or evenhave an e-mail mailed to youraccount to remind you of anevent,” Wolford said. The calen-dars can be viewed by the day,week, month or year, and includedescriptions of events.

“One of the unique features ofthis calendar is that anybody canadd an event to it,” posting studybreaks, social events and housingdeadlines, Sweeney said.

“These postings will first bereviewed by the News Service,

and then the individual receivesan e-mail telling them whether ornot the event has been posted,”Wolford said.

Certain sections of the calen-dar can be accessed only by peo-ple with a NetID.

“These areas are only meantfor Brown students, and we feelthat these events should be keptwithin the Brown community,”Wolford said.

“We have great hope that thiscalendar will enable the commu-nity to become more involvedwith all the events that this cam-pus has to offer,” she said.

The calendar can be found byclicking on the “Calendars andEvents” link at the bottom of theBrown homepage.

Herald staff writer Sam Culver ’07can be reached [email protected]

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grams at other universities,Brown’s will be small.

“A lot of other programs arelarge, anonymous factories,”West said. Brown will offersmaller classes and more inter-action with professors, he said.

Brown’s program will also bemore policy-oriented than otherprograms, said Chad Galts,communications manager ofthe Graduate School.

Undergraduates will also beable to take advantage of thenew program, West said.Current students at Brown mayinclude a master’s in public pol-icy as part of an integratedB.A./M.A. program, he said.Advanced undergraduates willbe able to enroll in the dozen ormore new classes that will becreated, he said. New facultymembers will also be hired, Westsaid.

The exact number of new fac-ulty will depend on the actualsize of the program, Newman

said. The public policy depart-ment is also working with theSpace Committee to find thespace that it will need for gradu-ate students and post-doctoralfellows.

The expansion will also givethe Taubman Center a “critical

mass” to use the resources italready has available, Newmansaid.

Newman said she expects theprogram to generate incomethrough grants and tuition,which will be “recycled” to sup-port additional students throughfinancial aid.

The new program responds tochanges that are happening inthe workplace, Newman said.“Increasingly, undergraduatesare feeling that four years are notenough,” she said. A master’sdegree in public policy will helpprepare future faculty membersand leaders in the workplace, shesaid.

Other new degree programsbeing developed include anurban education leadership pro-gram and a doctoral program indevelopment studies, Newmansaid. There is also interest in cre-ating computational biology andbioengineering degrees, she said.

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

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Foreign-language videos formerly housed in the MediaCenter on the 14th floor of the Sciences Library have beentransferred to the Language Resource Center, on the sec-ond floor of the Center for Information Technologies. Theeffort to consolidate the University’s foreign-languagevideo collection was completed Jan. 20.

Students and staff were notified by e-mail of the reloca-tion during Winter Break.

Bill Wood, serials manager for the Rockefeller Library,said the reorganization worked toward alleviating theMedia Center’s storage shortage, although the problem stillpersists.

The central location of the Language Resource Centerwill provide students with easy access to videos, Wood said.

Not all of the library’s foreign-language media have been

moved to the Language Resource Center. Foreign-languageperformance pieces are still housed in the Orwig MusicLibrary, said Andrew Ross, director of the LanguageResource Center. Plans are underway to transfer Orwig’scollection to the Language Resource Center in the nearfuture, he said.

The foreign-language video collection is availablethrough Brown’s computer library database Josiah.

Videos are available for three-hour in-house circulationfor students and three-day circulation for professors, Rosssaid.

The foreign-language media collection is being enlargedto address professors’ needs with additional DVD and VHSmedia, he said.

—Jonathan Herman

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Mars mission draws on work ofBrown professors, alumsBY KAVITA MISHRAIt was 1976 when the world first saw images of Mars — red,barren and 35 million miles from Earth.

The first Mars mission began with Tim Mutch, theBrown professor of geologicalsciences who led the Viking mis-sion that brought those images,

and has turned into an expansive program encompassingfour spacecraft and two rovers studying the Red Planet.

Brown professors, who have recently contributed to aEuropean rover mission to Mars, are working steadily tounderstand a planet that is so like Earth — but not quite.

Both Jim Head ’69 Ph.D. and Jack Mustard ’90 Ph.D.,professors of geological sciences, contributed independ-ently to the European Space Agency’s Mars Express, a mis-sion Head called “an imaging experiment.” That mission’srover component, the Beagle 2, failed to send back dataafter its descent last month.

Head said rover missions, with a failure rate above 50percent, are remarkably difficult.

“It’s not like going down to Store 24 and picking up a bagof chips,” he said.

But increased funding for the projects can allow formore testing. Europe’s Mars Express mission — whichincluded both a satellite and a rover — subsisted on asmall budget that did not allow data to be sent back during

U. releases new,comprehensiveonline calendarBY SAM CULVERA new Web calendar aims to address scheduling con-flicts and publicity problems with University events byproviding a central online location for event listings.

The calendar’s activation in mid-January signaledthe end of a long process aimed at uniting faculty, staff,students and alumni with the ability to keep track ofimportant dates.

“This (calendar) is a much-needed addition to theUniversity,” said Kate Wolford RUE ’06, project directorof Campus Life and Student Services. According toWolford, faculty, staff and students at Brown have beenpushing for an easily accessible calendar for sometime.

Last year, a committee created by the Student

see MARS, page 6

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Tim Mutch, professor of geological sciences, led the Vikingmission that returned this image and has grown toencompass four spacecrafts and two rovers exploring theRed Planet.

see CALENDAR, page 4

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the rover’s descent on the planet,so the European scientists “don’tknow what to fix,” he said.

The Beagle 2 would have con-ducted many geochemical exper-iments using tools to help it boreinto the soil. “It’s a shame it didn’twork yet,” Head said.

Mustard, who studies mineralcontent on planets, helpedFrench researchers design aninstrument for the Mars Expressmission that observes materials,such as rocks, using wavelengthsof light undetectable by thehuman eye. This technique allowsscientists to identify mineralsaffected by water and understandthe history of water on the planet.

Now, one month after Beagle 2stopped signaling, NASA’s solar-powered Spirit and Opportunityrovers are sending back the high-est-resolution photographs of theplanet to date.

Scientists say Opportunity, thesecond rover sent to Mars in thismission, is beaming back imagesthat could be the “holy grail” forgeologists. The rover landed in asmall crater and is relayingimages of nearby rock formationsin a terrain completely unlike thesurroundings of Spirit, the roveron the other side of the planet.

David Shean ’04, who is study-ing Mars glaciers with Head,described images sent from therovers as “stunning.” The almost-

identical landscape of the Spiritlanding site to the dry valleys ofAntarctica is particularly striking,he said.

Images from this site show anextremely red landscape, theresult of Mars losing much of itswater to outer space during itsearly volcanic history, saidProfessor of Geological SciencesMalcolm Rutherford.

A few billion years of volcanicmaterial coming to the surfaceand the continuous loss of waterprobably allowed for the rusty,oxidized iron coating of theregion, he said.

To understand the history ofMars, Head said scientists use the“solid rock record,” from whichthey see traces of previous rainfalland water flow on the planet. Butthen a radical change in climateovertook Mars, leaving it in itspresent cold desert state.

Based on images of the planet,Head found remnants of a recent,extreme ice age on Mars similar tothat of Earth, including markingsfrom glaciers and water ice.

Head, Mustard and severalother scientists published theserecent findings in Nature, writingthe cover article of an issue lastmonth.

Understanding changes inMars’ climate history can helpdirect the search for water andultimately life on the Red Planet.By “following” water, scientistsfind proof that primitive life mayhave existed.

The Opportunity site, with

rocks showing remnants of water,is “a smoking gun,” Shean said.

“It’s worth debating — why arewe following the water?” Mustardsaid. On Earth, the existence oflife seems to follow temperaturesbelow the boiling point and abovethe freezing point of liquid water.Although many scientists are“charged up” to search for viablelife on Mars, Mustard said theplanet’s barren landscape indi-cate time shouldn’t be wastedlooking for existing life, but ratherresidual signs of extinct life.

But to accomplish that,Mustard said the need to obtainsamples from Mars will becomemore important, adding that peo-ple shouldn’t be too naïve tobelieve the first samples will showsigns of life.

Mustard’s next mission, onewith a spectroscopic instrumentfor the Mars ReconnaissanceOrbiter, will be launched nextyear.

Its purpose, according to JimGarvin, chief scientist for NASA’sMars Exploration Program, is toisolate deposits where future lab-oratories will visit to search forclues to the building blocks of life.

“In the next five years, we’ll bemuch closer in being able toguide the life question,” Mustardsaid. But,he said the first step is to“inventory, understand and focuson promising areas.”

Herald staff writer Kavita Mishra’04 can be reached [email protected].


Mars

performances, Wallace added,illustrating the RISD-AS220 rela-tionship.

“The proposal is a really goodidea because RISD could be inte-grated into all the functions andartistic events that go on down-town at AS220,” said Amy

Fitzgerald ’05, a Student Alliancemember.

“I’m always pushing the RISDconnection,” Honeybell said. “It isimportant that the school is able toconnect with students from thecity, and multi-disciplinary RISDstudents gain a lot of opportunitiesby coming down to work here.”

AS220 employee MelanieFuest said the AS220 darkroomis an important resource for

RISD students outside the pho-tography department, whomight not otherwise have accessto photography equipment.

“It’s a great thing for RISDstudents to have access toopportunities outside of theirindividual majors,” she said.

Herald staff writer Alexis KunsakRISD ’05 can be reached at [email protected].


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New legislation wouldhelp NASA keep itsbrightest starsWASHINGTON (Washington Post) — In an attempt to avert apossible brain drain at NASA, the House Wednesday sentlegislation to President Bush that would allow the spaceagency to offer larger recruitment and retention bonus-es than are now permitted.

The chief sponsors of the legislation, Rep. SherwoodBoehlert (R-N.Y.) and Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio)hope such changes will help the National Aeronauticsand Space Administration maintain a highly skilled sci-entific and engineering workforce.

“Events of the past year have highlighted NASA’s needto attract and retain the best workforce imaginable,”Boehlert, the chairman of the House ScienceCommittee, said. “And yet NASA is on the brink of losingthe talent that it already has.”

Voinovich, chairman of the Senate GovernmentalAffairs subcommittee on government management, saidthe bill would make it easier for NASA “to compete forthe best minds.” He said NASA personnel policies “aredated and are holding the agency back.”

NASA, which has about 19,000 employees, underwentsubstantial downsizing during the 1990s, and many of itsmost experienced hands are nearing retirement.According to information presented at hearings held byBoehlert and Voinovich, a quarter of the NASA workforcewill be eligible to retire during the next five years. NASAscientists and engineers older than 60 outnumber thoseyounger than 30 by nearly three to one.

In addition to being able to provide higher bonuses tohire and keep employees, the legislation also wouldallow NASA to pay higher than normal salaries to expertswho fill critical technical and professional positions forshort periods.

To help NASA compete for young scientists, engineersand technology experts, the bill would allow the agencyto provide scholarships to students enrolled in certain

Suicide bomber hits Baghdadhotel Wednesday morningBAGHDAD, Iraq (Washington Post) — A suicide bomberdetonated an explosive-packed van disguised as anambulance outside a hotel Wednesday, killing at leastone person and shearing off the building’s facade inwhat residents complained was a grim reminder ofBaghdad’s insecurity.

Witnesses said the vehicle — a white van bearingthe insignia of the Red Crescent Society — barreleddown the street off a busy commercial thoroughfarearound 6:30 a.m., maneuvered past barbed-wirefences and concrete barricades, then detonated afterstopping in front of the Shahin Hotel, where foreigncontractors were staying. Police and security person-nel said they fired at the vehicle as it sped towardthem.

There were conflicting reports on the number of

dead. Witnesses and police said four bodies weretaken from the scene, and the South African ForeignMinistry said one of its citizens was among the dead. Itsaid four others were wounded. But the U.S. militarysaid only one person, the driver of the vehicle, waskilled. It said four Iraqis and a British contractor wereinjured.

One body covered in a sheet and brown blanket layfor hours on a stretcher near the hotel.

Residents said Iraq’s interim labor minister, SamiMajoun, was staying at the hotel, in an upscaleBaghdad neighborhood. Majoun was unhurt, hisbodyguards said, and walked away from the scene. Butalong the street outside the hotel, as they stared sul-

Sen. Kerry’s voting record to draw attacksMANCHESTER, N.H. (Newsday) — As Sen. John Kerry takes asecond step toward the nomination, Republicans arewasting no time trying to define him as far more liber-al than mainstream voters — and a look at Kerry’sSenate voting record shows plenty of grist for thatRepublican line of attack.

Kerry is consistently rated one of the 10 most liberalsenators — more liberal on economic issues than 95percent of his colleagues in a National Journal maga-zine ranking based on 2002 votes. In some rankings,the Republicans delight in pointing out, Kerry is evento the left of liberal icon and fellow Massachusetts Sen.Edward M. Kennedy.

Kerry’s campaign dismisses such numerical rank-ings as misrepresentative, but a look at Kerry’s fourterms in the Senate shows that he has hewed closely tothe liberal stances of his constituents inMassachusetts, with only occasional forays to more

moderate positions, such as supporting balancedbudget caps, welfare limits and school reform.

Kerry supported giving President Bush broad warpowers last year, which put him outside his party’s lib-eral base, but opposed the 1991 Persian Gulf War, a factRepublicans appear sure to highlight, particularly inthe South, where Northeasterners such as Kerry havestruggled to connect even with more moderateDemocrats.

“In the short run, his record is not necessarily a hin-drance, but in the long run, it may be a real problem,”said Nathan Gonzales, political editor for theRothenberg Political Report. “Once President Bushbegins to focus his $100 million-plus, the attack will be,`He’s out of touch, Massachusetts is not indicative ofthe rest of the country and he’s not one of us.’”

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lenly at the wreckage, some res-idents blamed the presence offoreigners, not the minister, forthe attack.

“Since they put up the barbedwire, we knew something wouldhappen to us,” said BasimAbdel-Karim, a 43-year-old elec-trical engineer. “We were afraidthat we would become a target.”

He and others said residentshad complained to the hotelabout housing foreign guestsbut were rebuffed. Some resi-dents said the hotel hadreceived warnings about anattack as long as foreign nation-als stayed there.

“We were waiting for it tohappen, but we didn’t knowwhen,” said Ibrahim al-Washash, a 25-year-old comput-er engineer whose windowswere shattered by the blast. “Any

hotel that houses foreigners istargeted now.”

The blast blew brick acrossthe street, wrecked four cars andshattered windows as far as ahalf-mile away. Burst pipespoured water down the front ofthe three-story hotel, and twobuildings across the street weredamaged.

“I’ve seen four revolutions and alot of things, but never like this,”said Abu Hossam Kamil, 62, wholives down the street. “The bombsare making it difficult. There’s nosafety, no safety whatsoever.”

The car bombing was the first inthe capital since Jan. 18, when 31people were killed in a blast thatdevastated a main gate to the U.S.headquarters in Baghdad. But itcame just a day after a spate ofattacks outside the capital — road-side bombs in Khaldiya andIskandariyah that left six U.S. sol-diers dead and an ambush southof Baghdad that killed two Iraqiemployees of CNN.


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Republican NationalCommittee Chairman EdGillespie previewed that line ofattack last week, saying Kerrywas “out of sync’’ with main-stream voters.

On most social issues, Kerryhas voted straight down the linewith Democratic colleagues.Kerry voted against Bush’s taxcuts, and now wants to repealthem for families making morethan $200,000 a year, whichRepublicans say would be a taxincrease. Kerry also opposedBush’s Medicare prescriptiondrug bill, saying it’s a boon toinsurance and drug companies.

Kerry is staunchly pro-abor-tion rights, promising onlySupreme Court justices whosupport that position. He also isanti-death penalty, but has sup-ported it for some terrorist acts.He threatened to filibuster a billto open Alaska wilderness to oildrilling.

In world affairs, he has showna more middle-of-the-roadapproach, supporting free-tradeagreements. As he fights forthose primary votes now, Kerryhas sought to temper that posi-tion, saying he wants tougherworker and environmental pro-tections as part of trade deals.

Kerry is a member of theSenate Foreign RelationsCommittee and worked onVietnam POW issues with Sen.John McCain (R-Ariz.).

Kerry argues that voters willtire quickly of attempts to demo-nize him as a Northeastern liber-al because they will want to

move past name-calling and“cultural warfare” to substantiveanswers to the nation’s prob-lems.

As for being attacked as a lib-eral, Kerry said, “If being thatmeans I want decent schools forpeople in the South; if being thatmeans I want health care forevery single American, and Iwant a system that makes sense;if being that means I want to bal-ance the budget and be respon-sible fiscally and not leave ourchildren with debt ... I’ll takethat anywhere in the country.”

In a general election cam-paign, Kerry’s campaign isexpected to shift the focus fromhis Senate record by highlightinghis personal story as a decoratedVietnam veteran and formerprosecutor. Norman Ornstein, apolitical analyst at the AmericanEnterprise Institute, said, “If youcan have something thatdemonstrates you’re tough onforeign policy and tough oncrime, that makes it harder atleast to pigeonhole you.”

But Jennifer Duffy of the CookPolitical Report saidRepublicans have been adept at“cherry-picking” Democrats’records for one or two obscurebut potent attack lines. Kerry hasspoken out against a constitu-tional amendment to allow pun-ishment for flag-burning.

Former Georgia Sen. MaxCleland, who lost three limbs inVietnam, is proof that sacrificein combat does not inoculate aDemocrat against charges thatthey are “soft.” Cleland, who hascampaigned with Kerry, lost hisre-election bid after Republicanscriticized him for voting againstthe White House version of thehomeland security bill.


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LONDON (Washington Post) — Ajudicial inquiry cleared PrimeMinister Tony Blair onWednesday of allegationsreported by the BritishBroadcasting Corp. that he andhis aides had exaggerated intel-ligence claims about Iraq’saccess to weapons of massdestruction and drove to suicidea British weapons expert whoraised questions about thoseclaims.

While exonerating Blair, LordBrian Hutton blamed the BBCfor broadcasting what he called“unfounded” allegations lastMay that the government hadpublished a “sexed-up” intelli-gence dossier claiming that Iraqcould launch such weaponswithin 45 minutes of an orderdespite knowing it was probablynot true. After the inquiry find-ings were issued, the BBC chair-man, Gavyn Davies, submittedhis immediate resignation.

Hutton ruled that BBC editorsdid not adequately scrutinizethe allegations before they werebroadcast and that editors andsenior officials — including theBBC’s board of governors — hadfailed to investigate sufficientlyafter Blair and the governmentheatedly denied the report. TheBBC, one of the largest and mostrespected news organizations inthe world, issued an apology forinaccuracies in its originalreport last May 29 but insistedthat most of its reporting hadbeen accurate and in the publicinterest.

The BBC report and the gov-ernment’s reaction set off amajor political controversy hereand led to a chain of events thatresulted in the apparent suicidein July of David Kelly, a weaponsexpert in Britain’s Ministry ofDefense, after he was identifiedpublicly as the source for thestory.

Following the suicide, Blairappointed Hutton, a retired sen-ior judge, to head an independ-ent inquiry.

The outcome was a stunningvictory for Blair, who claimedcomplete vindication. AsHutton released his 328-page

report and 412-page appendix,Blair appeared before the Houseof Commons. Citing Hutton’sstatement that “there was nodishonorable or underhand orduplicitous strategy on the partof the prime minister” in theKelly affair, Blair demanded thatpolitical opponents retractclaims he had lied in denying hehad been involved in leakingKelly’s name to reporters.

But the opponents said thereport left unresolved the ques-tion of why British intelligencehad failed to accurately assessIraq’s weapons programs. “Weare still no closer to determiningwhether this country went towar on a false prospectus,” saidCharles Kennedy, leader of thethird-party Liberal Democrats.

Hutton held more than twomonths of public hearings lastsummer and fall, called 74 wit-nesses — including the primeminister — and published thou-sands of pages of e-mails,memos and other internal docu-ments that gave an unprece-dented look into the govern-ment’s inner workings. His find-ings surprised many lawmakersand analysts, who had expectedhim to apportion blame moreevenly between the governmentand the BBC. Instead, Hutton’sreport seemed to accept virtual-ly without question the govern-ment’s narrative of events anddirected almost all of its fire atthe BBC.

Hutton said the weaponsdossier prepared for release inSeptember 2002 had been theproduct of the top-secret JointIntelligence Committee and,contrary to the BBC report, hadnot been subject to politicalinterference.

Aides in Blair’s DowningStreet office had suggestedstrengthening or clarifying thelanguage of the dossier, butHutton concluded that commit-tee chairman John Scarlett hadhad final say on what it con-tained and had not embellishedits findings.

Hutton concluded that Kellyhad acted improperly in meet-ing with BBC reporter Andrew

Gilligan and discussing intelli-gence matters without officialauthorization. But he saidGilligan’s notes of the meetingdid not substantiate thereporter’s claims that Kelly hadaccused the prime minister’soffice — and specifically AlastairCampbell, the prime minister’sthen-director of communica-tions — of knowingly publishingfalse intelligence data.

Among other things, Huttonfaulted BBC managers for notexamining Gilligan’s notesbefore issuing a vigorousdefense of his report, and forfailing to take into account an e-mail from Gilligan’s editor thatcriticized the journalist’s report-ing methods, “loose use of lan-guage and lack of judgment insome of his phraseology.”

Hutton said the BBC’s boardof governors had been correct in

seeking to defend the independ-ence of the BBC fromCampbell’s emotional attacks,which “raised very considerablythe temperature of the dispute.”But he said the board shouldhave undertaken its own inves-tigation into Gilligan’s notes“rather than relying on theassurances of BBC manage-ment.”

Kelly came forward at the endof June and told his superiors hemay have been the reporter’ssource. His disclosure set off aflurry of government meetings,some of them chaired by Blair,who eventually decided that thegovernment should issue astatement disclosing that anofficial had come forward.Ministry of Defense officialsissued enough details that jour-nalists were able to guess Kelly’sname, which officials then con-

firmed. Hutton said the Ministry of

Defense could have done a bet-ter job of protecting Kelly frompress scrutiny and should havetold him it was preparing to dis-close his identity. But Huttonexonerated officials — includingDefense Secretary Geoff Hoon— of the charge that theiractions were responsible forKelly’s apparent suicide in July.

“Whatever pressures andstrains Dr. Kelly was subject toby the decisions and actionstaken in the weeks before hisdeath, I am satisfied that no onerealized or should have realizedthat these pressures and strainsmight have driven him to takehis own life or contribute to hisdecision to do so,” said Huttonin a 90-minute summary heread to a packed hearing roomon Wednesday afternoon.

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right out of school,” he said. “Notonly do you get to travel, but thecompetitive environment andthe highly qualified people youwork with make it the best train-ing you can get for a career inpolitics. It’s no surprise that somany young college graduatesare behind the scenes of all thesecampaigns.”

Golodny said he remains opti-mistic about the future of theEdwards campaign. Edwardsplaced second in the Jan. 19Iowa caucuses and third inTuesday’s New Hampshire pri-mary.

“In this environment, there isinherent instability that youhave to accept. I plan to contin-ue working for Sen. Edwardsuntil we get the nomination,” hesaid. “After that, we’ll be in theWhite House.”

Evan Parness ’02, also a polit-ical science concentrator, didnot graduate during primaryseason but also jumped intocampaigning right after gradua-tion. Returning to his home stateof New Jersey, he became theexecutive director of the UnionCounty Democratic Committee,which is responsible for politicalraces ranging from school boardand mayor to the current presi-dential nomination, Parnesssaid. Since Gov. JamesMcGreevey has endorsed formerVermont Governor HowardDean, Parness said he and hiscommittee are now workinghard to promote Dean’s cam-paign in New Jersey.

Like Golodny, Parness said heworks with local officials to tar-get the best voters to whom theyshould deliver their candidate’smessage. He also initiates andpromotes party-building activi-ties such as candidate recruit-ment, fundraising and an organ-ization for young Democrats, he

said.Parness said he is not sure if

he has the stamina to work incampaigning for many years.The large amount of traveling,the grueling hours and the factthat work only exists during thecampaign season are all factorsthat make the job ideal for some-one in their early to mid-twen-ties, but not for someone whowants a family and solid income,he said.

“The majority of people work-ing for political campaigns are30 and under. Sure, you have(James) Carville and a coupleother elder statesmen floatingaround, but they are a specialbreed. If you’re going to get intocampaigning, start as soon asyou leave college, because that’swhen your enthusiasm and ded-ication will be greatest.”

Although he has applied tolaw schools for this fall, Parness,who was named one of the 21best political operatives in NewJersey for 2003 by the Web sitepoliticsnj.com, said nothingbeats the rush of campaigningunder pressure — especiallywhen the candidate he is work-ing for wins.

But for someone only seekingthrills, political campaigningwon’t be much fun. “This isn’t ajob for the weak-hearted. You’vereally got to believe in politics asa vehicle for helping people at alllevels and have faith in your can-didates. Or else you’ll burn outin a week,” Parness said.

Golodny expressed a similarsentiment. “Considering theamount of hours you have towork, you had better really likeyour candidate. I personallythink Sen. Edwards is not only agood politician but also a greatperson who I’d like to hang outwith, and that’s what keeps mehere,” he said.

Herald staff writer SheelaRaman ’06 can be reached at [email protected].


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (Washington Post) —Howard Dean replaced his cam-paign manager Wednesday as hetried to retool his candidacy andslow John Kerry’s rush to theDemocratic presidential nomi-nation.

Campaign manager Joe Trippiresigned after Dean promotedRoy Neel, a longtime aide to for-mer Vice President Al Gore, tochief executive officer. Trippihad been credited with organiz-ing the 2003 drive that broughtthe former Vermont governorfrom obscurity to a temporaryposition atop the polls.

Kerry, meanwhile, pivoted offhis back-to-back wins in Iowaand New Hampshire by pickingup key endorsements inMissouri and South Carolina,two of the seven states with themost delegates up for grabs thiscoming Tuesday.

The developments came asthe Democratic candidatesmoved from the retail politics ofNew Hampshire to more nation-ally focused strategies requiredby a crucial run of contests innine states over the next 10 days.

After virtually ignoring theswath of states from SouthCarolina to Arizona, Kerry ispumping in new television ads thisweek, exploiting some of the con-tributions that his early victorieshave helped harvest. After pullinghis ads in the Feb. 3 states, Deanappeared ready to make a stand inthe states immediately beyond,including Michigan, Washingtonand Wisconsin.

The other five candidates —Sens. John Edwards (D-N.C.),Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.)Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, AlSharpton and Rep. DennisKucinch (D-Ohio) — spread outacross the country, looking fortheir opportunities to emerge as

the alternative to theMassachusetts senator.

Dean said in interviews thathe had gained momentum fromfinishing second to Kerry in NewHampshire after stumbling tothird in Iowa. He said Neelwould bring more order to hiscampaign organization.

The former governor toldreporters in a conference callWednesday night that as thefront runner “we suffered enor-mous pressure from opponentsand the media ... that was toughto withstand. ... But we are nowon our way back.”

Dean suggested he would becontent to fish for delegates inthe pool of 269 to be awarded inseven states on Tuesday — andcollect more in the Saturdaycaucuses in Michigan andWashington — while aiming fora victory on Feb. 17 inWisconsin. Dean was heading toMichigan Thursday.

“We compete probably in adifferent way than most folks,we’re looking at delegate count,”he told reporters.

But his congressional sup-porters told him in a conferencecall that he must win one of nextweek’s primaries to remain inthe race, according to campaignsources.

While Kerry dropped intoMissouri to collect the endorse-ments of two former senators, JeanCarnahan and Thomas Eagleton,Edwards began his quest for votesin South Carolina, which he haslabeled a must-win state, and thenjoined Clark in Oklahoma, one ofthe states on which the retiredgeneral has pinned his hopes forstaying viable.

Kerry, running second toEdwards in South Carolina polls,gained the support of Rep. JimClyburn (D-S.C.) the state’s top

African-American officeholderand a former backer of Rep. DickGephardt (D-Mo.) who quit afterIowa.

The Massachusetts senatortold reporters he planned noshift in his message or tactics asthe campaign moves into theSouth, a region where he andDean, both New Englanders,have to show they can challengePresident Bush’s reservoir ofsupport. “It’s the same mes-sage,” he said as he boarded hisplane in Boston.

Several Democratic leaderssaid Kerry still must prove hecan win in the South and moreconservative states such asArizona before he is crowned bya large number of party insiders.Kerry on Wednesday sought toclarify his recent statement thata Democrat could win the WhiteHouse without winning in theSouth. “All I was saying was if AlGore had won New Hampshire,he would have been presidentwithout a Southern state,” Kerrysaid aboard his plane. “I am notsaying that’s the way to run.”

Kerry said he would continueto emphasize both his nationalsecurity credentials as aVietnam veteran and his criti-cism of Bush’s record on healthcare, education and jobs — theissues that worked for him inIowa and New Hampshire.

Kerry said military leadershipwould continue to big a themeof his primary fight and, if hewins, the showdown with Bush.He again called on Bush to comeclean about intelligence used tojustify the Iraq war. “I think theadministration owes the entirecountry a full explanation onthis war, not just their exaggera-tions, but the intelligence fail-ure. It’s their intelligence theyare responsible for it.”

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30-yard line, McNair is called forintentional grounding, setting upa third and long.

On the next play the Titansare called for holding, movingthem all the way back to mid-field and essentially stallingthe drive.

Then, on fourth down, McNairthrows up a jump ball. Widereceiver Drew Bennett has it inhis hands but has it knockedaway. The Patriots hold on, 17-14.

Game Six, 1986 World Series:That Bill Buckner thing. It hap-pened, but let’s not talk about it.We all know the story too wellanyway.

In short, New England issimultaneously home to boththe most fortunate and unfor-tunate professional sportsteams in the United States.

No other city in the UnitedStates can claim that. (Detroit

doesn’t count: the Tigers aren’tunfortunate. They just plainsuck.) All this analysis leads meto make a small request for ourfriends up the road in Foxboro.

Hey, Patriots, whatever it isyou guys have, can you savesome and send it to 4 YawkeyWay starting in April?

Chris Mahr hails from Newton,Mass., and, like many a NewEnglander, is optimistic about theRed Sox in 2004. For now.


degree programs. For each yearthey received a scholarship, stu-dents would be required to servetwo years with NASA. Studentscould not receive a scholarshipfor more than four academicyears, unless the NASA adminis-trator granted a waiver.

The legislation requires NASA

Administrator Sean O’Keefe,before taking advantage of theflexibilities, to submit a workforceplan to employees for commentand to the Office of PersonnelManagement for approval.

Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) and Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) worked with Boehlert toshape the bill, which wasapproved Nov. 24 by the Senate.

Greg Junemann, president ofthe International Federation of

Professional and TechnicalEngineers, praised Boehlert forheeding the union’s initial con-cerns with the measure. Citingrecent legislation that over-hauled personnel systems at thedepartments of Defense andHomeland Security, Junemannsaid, “It certainly is refreshing tosee that the NASA humanresources bill includes concreteprotections for the agency’sworkers.”


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the initial report and said thatthe investor does not have to befrom Southern California.

“McCourt hopes to find a localinvestor, but he’s not required todo that,” the source said. “NewsCorp. just wants out. Theinvestor can be fromKalamazoo.”

With McCourt’s approval nowinevitable and Broad’s late offernot leaving the desk of NewsCorp. Chairman Peter Chernin,Los Angeles Councilman JackWeiss said Tuesday he wouldwithdraw a resolution urging theDodgers and baseball to consid-er local ownership. The Councilhad been expected to vote on theresolution Wednesday.

Weiss said he believed thepreference for a local buyer hadbeen strongly conveyed and thetime had come for the city tounite behind McCourt.


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ish off the season as one of themost competitive teams in thenation.”

The following weekend, Brunofaced ECAC rival St. Lawrence inCanton, NY. The Bears took thefirst of the two game series,defeating the Saints 5-4 in animpressive performance.

St. Lawrence took the go aheadearly, posting a goal less than aminute into regulation. TheBears’ Krissy McManus ’05responded quickly, however,tying the game at one goal afteran onslaught of rebounds.

The Saints took advantage of avulnerable Bruno defense at 17:00,regaining the lead 2-1 going intothe second period, when the Bearscontinued to rally.

In the first two minutes of sec-ond period play, Keaton Zucker’06 netted her seventh of the sea-son with a goal assisted byLindsey Glennon ’06 and Link. St.Lawrence challenged Brown’s

tying goal, however, and regainedthe lead 4-2 with five minutes leftin the heated second frame.

True to character, the Brownwomen found their momentumwhen they needed it most. Theladies scored three straight goalsin the final frame for the 5-4advantage. Halfway through theperiod, Link tallied her 101stpoint of her career with a topshelf goal assisted by Ramsay andZucker.

At the 13:19 mark, Glennonalleviated the deficit with a scor-ing shot from the point. Guaynetted the game winner forBrown at 16:16 on a breakawaygoal assisted by Kerry Nugent ’05.

“We didn’t look at St.Lawrence as the team to beatthat weekend,” said McManus.“Instead, we went out and playedthis game assuming it was ours tolose. This allowed us to abandonour hesitation and we playedwith the most vigor that we havedemonstrated all season.”

The following afternoon, theBears dropped their first gamesince November 29, also marking

their first ECAC defeat in this 8-0Saints’ victory.

Once again, St. Lawrenceopened the game with a quickgo-ahead goal. The Saints postedthree more goals in the first for a4-0 lead, taking 11 shots toBruno’s 10.

The Saints maintained theiroffensive momentum, rallyingfor two more in the second forthe 6-0 advantage.

The deficit widened in thethird to 8-0, with goals markingthe opening and closing of theperiod. The Bears remainedscoreless and continued to tallypenalty minutes, which added totheir defensive struggles.

“Our energy was nothing likethe night before,” said McManus.“St. Lawrence came out hungry,and we didn’t respond quicklyenough which hurt our confi-dence early in the game.”

The Bears face Princeton andColgate this weekend in Bruno’s acrucial weekend of the season. Inorder to qualify for the FrozenFour tournament, the team willneed to win its next 16 games.


Hockey

In short, New

England is simultane-

ously home to the

most fortunate and

unfortunate profes-

sional sports teams

in the United States.

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Our endorsementWe have grown up in an age of ironic detachment, whenany show of enthusiasm is construed as a cliché. It is dif-ficult even to raise the topic of civic engagement withoutfeeling like a public service announcement. But as Brownstudents and alumni have shown us this week, it is possi-ble to be an “engaged young person” and even stifle thequotation marks.

This month, Brown students and young alumni in NewHampshire stood on street corners, knocked on doorsand did all the often-thankless work of grass-roots volun-teers. It is probably fair to say that some of the thingsthey did will not, in fact, make a difference. It is impossi-ble to predict who will sit in the White House one yearfrom now.

But regardless of who wins the Democratic nominationand, ultimately, who wins the presidency, this commit-ment counts. Genuine enthusiasm and engagement inpolitics are not the refuge of the naïve; they represent thebest kind of pragmatism, one that both acknowledgesand challenges the inertia of the system.

Yet meaningful civic engagement takes more thandetermination. It is easy, amid the media circus that sur-rounds this election, to focus only on the ups and downsof the race itself, cheering on a favorite candidate withblind enthusiasm. Bandwagon-jumping is not true par-ticipation, just as declining to pick a single candidatedoes not necessarily signify apathy. We cannot considerour civic duties fulfilled by putting on a button when wehave the capacity to do much more.

A Brown education gives us the tools to make intelli-gent and creative contributions that raise the level ofpublic discourse. The University’s new master’s programin public policy will train a new group of students tobring a heightened level of expertise to Brown’s civicengagement.

No matter what November brings, Brown has alreadywon the campaign against apathy.

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After 48 hours of watching talking heads droneon about New Hampshire, analyzing little maps ofvoter preferences in its first-in-the-nation presi-dential primary, I have had it up to here with theGranite State. And so, I would wager, have manyDemocrats and much of America.

Don’t get me wrong—New Hampshire is a won-derful state. Its natural beauty is breathtaking, andI have thoroughly enjoyed the political experience Igot while canvassing. The grass-roots nature of pol-itics and the fierce independence of most of theelectorate (candidates tend to be judged on a case-by-case basis in addition to ideology and theirstances on the issues) are quite refreshing in thisage of cynical, media-driven campaigns and voterapathy. Indeed, New Hampshire voters might be themost politically engaged in America, particularlywhenever a presidential election cycle begins.

They are just the wrong small-state, civic-mindedNew England voters to be having such extraordinaryinfluence on the course of American history. Andhere Brown can be of some use in correcting the sit-uation. Rhode Island is more than ready to emergefrom Super Tuesday (March 2) anonymity and takecenter stage sometime early in the primary processas N.H. Version 2.0: smaller, more diverse and anoverall resounding improvement.

First, let’s start with the area central to NewHampshire’s current status: an engaged electorateand neighborhood-driven politics. The last time Ilooked, Rhode Island small towns were littered withactive local Democratic organizations and heavypopular participation in matters of governance —the old "town meeting" tradition at the heart ofcolonial American democracy. As far as the person-ality-driven aspect of things is concerned, we live ina state whose attorney general, in the aftermath ofthe Station nightclub fire, a tragedy that attractednational attention, told CNN that in such a tinystate, everyone seemed to have merely one-and-a-

half degrees of separation from those involved inthe incident.

Sure, you say, but given that we’re the mostDemocratic state in the nation as far as presidentialpreferences go, don’t we want states with morepolitical diversity playing a bigger role? Perhaps —until you consider the fact that Rhode Island’s one-party dominance creates an atmosphere that trulyshowcases the diversity of the party as an institu-tion. Indeed, the party runs the gamut from Brown’sown uber-progressive State Rep. Edith Ajello, toestablishment social conservatives like recently-installed State Senate President JosephMontalbano. Let’s also not forget the facts that theelectorate, like a lot of places, is trendingIndependent, and that we have not had aDemocratic governor in nearly a decade.

We’ve also got some things that New Hampshiresimply lacks — namely, cities, racial/ethnic diversi-ty and the complex issues that go with them. Bycities, I don’t just mean places with large popula-tions, but fast-growing municipalities with distinct-ly urban traits, ranging from the ProvidenceRenaissance to the post-industrial-era squalor ofCentral Falls. And given the preeminence of heavilywhite Iowa and New Hampshire and the momen-tum/television-driven nature of the primary cam-paign thereafter, communities of color aren’t exact-ly getting a true chance at grass-roots empower-ment in the party that most mirrors America’s diver-sity in its overall base of support.

Rhode Island, however, is a microcosm of theentire nation. Providence is en route to becoming a

majority-minority city, while the state receivesheavy immigration from all parts of the world. And,as President Ruth Simmons knows all too well afterheading up a task force on the police raid of theirtobacco shop, Rhode Island is home to an histori-cally mistreated Native American tribe, theNarragansett, regularly at odds with the govern-ment over everything from taxes to casino develop-ment.

Most of all, there is the angle of self-promotion andassuredness. That’s right: Rhode Island has….BrownUniversity. As David Horowitz has ranted, roughly 90percent of faculty members who affiliate with a polit-ical party consider themselves liberal, and so is mostof the student body. All in all, we are a diverse com-munity of over six thousand highly-engaged mindswho are prime targets to be actively involved and,indeed, to use the experience as a stepping stone tofurther activities in the realm of public life.Compared to a certain lily-white, tiny Ivy Leagueschool secluded in Hanover and known historically asa bastion of conservatism, Brown wins Rhode Islandthe volunteer-potential award hands-down!

So imagine, if you will, a world where the diverseRhode Island Democratic Party enters the spotlight,candidates spend the fall chatting with students onthe Main Green, and Mayor David Cicilline ’83becomes the most sought-after gay man in America,at least when it comes to political endorsements.Think I’m being unrealistic, and we’re just too tinyand obscure? Perhaps. But then again, NewHampshire and Iowa emerged out of nowhere aswell during the 1970s. And if we stumble en route orface fierce resistance from the Granite State die-hards, we can just bide our time until Buddy getsout of jail and figures out a way to rig the process inour favor.

Sean Siperstein ’05 blogs at Get More Ass, which canbe found at browndemocrats.org/blog.php.

SEAN SIPERSTEIN

SARAH GREEN

Rhode Island: the new New Hampshire

As the spring political season shapes up and we lookforward to the 2004 Presidential campaign, the top pun-dits and political aides will begin creating new catch-phrases, massaging the same old statistics, and givingeach story more spin than Michelle Kwan in a centrifuge.Which tired-out issues will become as dated as shoulderpads? Which will become as timeless as a Chanel suit?And which will fizzle faster than last year’s ’80s craze? Foryou, a guide:

The Stupid Trend Issue. I’m talking newsboy caps. I’mtalking pants that are tapered or in any way pleated. I’mtalking those ankle-length sweatercoats with belts (trustme, you look like you’re wearing a bathrobe). This year’sStupid Trend Issue is outer space. Yes, the pictures comingback from the Mars Rover are spectacular. But no, wedon’t need to spend a trillion dollars to send a humanoidto Mars. No need to mention that this silly idea was pro-posed by the same political party that says we can’t afforduniversal health insurance, even though universal healthinsurance would cost less than a trillion dollars. Let’s justhope the trucker-hat trend fades as fast.

The Little Black Dress Issue. The LBD is your safe betfor any occasion—weddings, bat mitzvahs, yacht chris-tenings. It’s slimming when you’re bloated, it matches allyour shoes, and no one will know when you slosh yourCosmopolitan all down the front (those martini glassescan be so tricky). The LBD issue is one that can be trottedout every election and, with a few well-placed acces-sories, look like new. Yes, dear reader, the LBD issue is theeconomy, this year gussied up with the ever ubiquitousloss of jobs. Last year it was complemented by a bearstock market, and before that, the "new economy." But

take away the chandelier earrings and it’s just the sameold dress.

The It-Makes-You-Look-Fat Issue. You know thatMichael Kors orange dress Jennifer Lopez wore to thisyear’s Golden Globes? The one that looked like some-thing one of Captain Kirk’s alien hotties would wear? Itmay have looked good on the runway, but I’m afraid tosay, it’s one of those things that just doesn’t work in real-ity. In theory, it’s a pretty dress. Likewise, ousting

Saddam Hussein was, in theory, a good plan. But just assomething that seemed like a good idea (keyword: idea)on a 5’10, 114-pound supermodel actually looked likehell on Her Bootyliciousness, so will the reality of war inIraq prove to be an unflattering issue for any politicianwho discusses it. The key difference here is one ofchoice: all the candidates will be compelled to take astance on Iraq. But J.Lo definitely did not have to wearthat dress.

The Ugly Sweater Issue. It was a present, so there wasno getting out of it—you unwrapped the box, and there itwas. You really wanted a mini iPod in leaf green, butinstead you got a yellow chenille turtleneck sweater. Withbrown stripes. That reaches your knees. And now, eventhough you don’t want to, you feel obligated to wear it.This year’s Ugly Sweater Issue—the issue no one really

wants to argue about it, but for some reason, it seems wemust—is gay marriage, replacing a woman’s right tochoose, which held the top spot all through the ’90s. Thepresident claims it was "activist judges" who foisted theUgly Sweater on the American people without a giftreceipt. The Democrats accuse the GOP of knitting up thestriped monstrosity to pander to their right-wing base.Will all the hot-tempered speechmaking by chenille-cladpoliticians ever result in a constitutional amendment?Only one thing is certain: Carson Kressley would neverapprove.

The Jeans Issue. Your jeans are the perfect solution toany couture conundrum—they look hot with heels andchill with Chucks; trendy with that shirt you bought atUrban but claim you made yourself; and they have a nicehabit of making your boohiner look smaller than it reallyis. But admit it—you take them for granted. You pull themon in the morning without even thinking about it. Thenone day the knee rips and you panic. So it goes with theenvironment. Exxon Valdez. The spotted owl. The ArcticNational Wildlife Refuge. When the environment is threat-ened, suddenly we all want a Prius. But as soon as it’scleaned up, just like after your new pair of Levis has tum-bled through a few laundry cycles, we go back to forget-ting. Notice how the fashion magazines only write aboutjeans when they have absolutely nothing else to say? It’sthe same with the environment—you know if CNN’sshowing footage of baby sea turtles they might as well justput up a sign that says, "No One Blown Up Today. Be BackTomorrow."

Sarah Green ’04 really did make that shirt herself.

Fashioning politics

What’s in and what’s out

this election season.

The real campaign should

begin in Rhode Island.

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

JANUARY 29, 2004 · PAGE 16

Pats have whatSox don’t: luck

Yale sweep helpswomen’s hoops stay ontop of Ivy rankings

W. ice hockey ties Dartmouth,splits series with St. Lawrence

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Boston realestate developerset to acquireDodgers

Boston, Mass., is considered by many tobe the sports capital of the world, as well

it should be. Yetfor well over eightd e c a d e s ,Bostonians have

considered themselves to be the haplessvictims of misfortune, thanks to theindelible presence of the Olde TowneTeam.

Year after year, the Red Sox blowanother opportunity to silence 85-year-old demons. Faithful fans have sufferedevery heartbreak and every choke withthe team, and such pessimism and mis-ery has seeped across New England andinto the blood of every fan from SouthKingston, R.I., to Pittsfield, Mass., toBangor, Maine. Never has the agony ofdefeat been more apparent.

At this point I would like to introducethe 2003-2004 New England Patriots.

Am I jumping on a bandwagon? Ofcourse. But after four months of nothingbut winning from the second-most-pop-ular team in New England, it’s myresponsibility to take the success of thePatriots and run with it like many sports-writers before me have done. It wasn’tuntil recently that I began looking at thisyear’s Pats and comparing them to RedSox of years past.

The Patriots seem to have all the goodfortune and all the good breaks the RedSox never seem to get. (Notice the use of“good fortune” rather than “luck” — luckimplies a certain degree of dumbnessand, personal biases aside, the Pats areno victims of dumb luck.) Just look at themost memorable moments for the Patsthis season and compare them to themost memorable moments in recent RedSox history:

Week Seven at Miami: Normally reli-able Dolphins place-kicker Olindo Maremisses not one but two field goals (oneon a block and one on a kick wide right)at the end of regulation and in overtime.The Pats finally capitalize on their newlife with five minutes left in overtime asTom Brady connects with Troy Brown onan 82-yard strike in a 19-13 win.

Game Seven, 2003 ALCS: PedroMartinez goes to two-strike counts onfour straight Yankees hitters in the eighthinning and can retire none of them as theBronx Bombers rally from a 5-2 deficit totie the score at five. The Yanks eventuallywin in extra innings.

Week Nine at Denver: Facing fourthdown in the shadow of his team’s one-yard line late in the fourth quarter andlosing 24-23, Coach Bill Belichick calls foran intentional safety, increasing theBroncos’ lead to 26-23. After the Patriotsdefense forces a three-and-out on theBroncos’ ensuing drive, Tom Brady tossesan 18-yard touchdown pass to DavidGivens to ice a key 30-26 victory.

Game Four, 1999 ALCS: Down 4-3 inthe bottom of the eighth and with JohnValentin on first base, a slow grounder ishit toward Yankees second basemanChuck Knoblauch. He reaches out to tagValentin, misses and throws to first basefor the out at first. Despite never beingtagged, Valentin is called out, the Yankeesget a double play and the Sox are retired.The Yankees go on to win the game andthe series.

Divisional playoffs versus Tennessee:With less than two minutes to go and histeam down 17-14, Steve McNair is drivinghis team toward a seemingly inevitablegame-tying or game-winning score.Facing second down from the Patriots’

see MAHR, page 13

CHRIS MAHRSPORTS COLUMN

(L.A. Times) — Only the formality of a voteby major league owners Thursday standsbetween Boston real estate developerFrank McCourt and control of the LosAngeles Dodgers.

McCourt needs 22 of the 30 owners toapprove his $430-million purchase, butthat vote, to be conducted by conferencecall, became largely academic Tuesdaywhen both the ownership committee andexecutive council endorsed his bid duringseparate conference calls withCommissioner Bud Selig and other base-ball officials.

Because at least half of the clubs arerepresented on the ownership committeeand executive council, those endorse-ments are considered tantamount toapproval by the full ownership.

“It would be very unusual for the clubsto not follow the recommendation of thecommittee,” said Bob DuPuy, baseball’schief operating officer. “Everything is ontrack for the vote Thursday.”

Sources said there are tentative plansfor McCourt and his wife, Jamie, to meetwith the Dodger staff after the conferencecall and then hold a news conference atDodger Stadium.

It is unclear how many immediatechanges McCourt has in mind beyond theappointment of Corey Busch, his transi-tion point man, to a high-ranking positionwith the club. But it is apparent that the11th-hour offer of billionaire Los Angelesdeveloper Eli Broad to buy the club for thesame $430 million, mostly in cash, has notimpeded McCourt’s highly leveraged bid.

Amid concern that has developed inLos Angeles over McCourt’s long-termintentions for the Dodgers and his abilityto operate the club at a competitive level,sources said Mayor James K. Hahn, fol-lowing up the emergence of Broad as apotential local owner, phoned Selig andDuPuy recently to gain a better insightinto baseball’s process.

DuPuy was reluctant to discuss theirconversation but described it as positiveand upbeat.

“There was no attempt by the mayor toundermine McCourt’s ownership,” DuPuysaid. “He was interested in the processand McCourt’s long-term plans and hewondered why McCourt had not been outthere selling himself, and I told him thatwas our decision, that until a sale is final-ized we ask the prospective owner torefrain from media and public comments.I told the mayor that he could blame us ifhe wanted, but the conversation wastotally pleasant.”

McCourt made several trips to LosAngeles early in the sales process in afutile attempt to find local investors. He isfunding the purchase almost entirely withloans, including what had been a $205-million loan from News Corp., the Dodgerowner, until that was reworked last weekin New York to bring McCourt’s proposalmore in line with the industry’s debt-serv-ice rule.

News Corp. will now stay on temporar-ily as a minority owner, with about 20 per-cent of the $205 million converted toequity. However, in the restructured pro-posal, McCourt is required to find aninvestor willing to buy out News Corp.’sequity stake in one to two years. A sourcefamiliar with the transaction corrected

see DODGERS, page 13

The women’s basketball teamcontinued its winning streak Saturdaywith a 75-58 victory over the YaleUniversity Bulldogs.

The win brings their seasonrecord to 9-6 overall and leaves theteam undefeated in the Ivy League.

The Bears took the lead early inthe first half, but Yale caught up by theend of the second quarter to tie thescore at 31.

Led by Tanara Golston ’04 andHolly Robertson ’05, Brown jumped

back quickly in the second half, soonregaining the lead for good. Golstonand Robertson scored 18 and 17points, respectively, during the game,and Lena McAfee ’07 scored a career-high 12 points, nine during the second-half comeback.

The Bears have a big weekendahead, as they take on the Tigers atPrinceton University on Friday and theQuakers at the University ofPennsylvania on Saturday.

— Jinhee Chung

BY LEXI COSTELLO

Women’s ice hockey (8-5-2) tied No. 3Dartmouth 5-5 at Meehan AuditoriumJan. 10.

Dartmouth took the early lead in thefirst period of the ECAC match-up, scor-ing two quick goals within the first 10minutes of play. But the Bears’ defensekept the puck out of their zone for therest of the frame, while forward KatieGuay ’05 trimmed the deficit to onewith her fifth goal of the season.

The Big Green responded quickly toBruno’s threat in the second period,posting its third and fourth goals forDartmouth’s greatest advantage duringthe Ivy battle. After a series of formida-ble penalty kills for the Brown women,Jessica Link ’05 notched her tenth goalof the season, assisted by AmyMcLaughlin ’05.

Trailing 4-2 going into the finalframe, the Bears netted three shots in arow in an unstoppable offensive rush.Margaret Ramsay ’06 set the pace forthe Bruno attack, bringing Brown with-

in one goal only four minutes into thefinal period. Kathryn Moos ’07 added tothe pending comeback a minute later,tying Dartmouth 4-4. McLaughlinnotched her third goal of the season at10:28 of the third period, marking theBears’ first lead in the game.

“When we realize we can capitalizeon opportunities, our momentum andour energy picks up and we score,” saidgoalie Katie Germain ’04. “This come-back was crucial to our season becauseit showed the inexperienced playersthat we can battle any team in thenation.”

Dartmouth tied the game with lessthan five minutes remaining in regula-tion to send the battle into overtime.Neither team scored, however, endingthe game in a thrilling 5-5 tie.

“This was a great opportunity for usto prove ourselves to the ECAC and tothe Ivy League,” said Ramsay. “We cameback as a team which proves more char-acter than anything and gave us themomentum and energy we need to fin-

see HOCKEY, page 13

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