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The Thayer Street Improvement District plans to revitalize the commercial street with better security, lighting and sanitation.

BY MONIQUE MENESESNext time you walk down Thayer, makesure to take a second look.

The Thayer Street Improvement District,a project headed by members of the Browncommunity, business owners and membersof the Providence community, has kickedoff plans to revitalize Thayer Street. Somechanges since May 2003 include additionalsecurity, additional lighting and improvedsanitation.

Deborah Dinerman, Brown’s communityand government relations liaison, said theTSID project began in 2000, in response togrowing problems with sanitation, safetyand the overall condition of the street.

Mike Shore, the owner of the spacesoccupied by student-frequented Thayer

hangouts like Johnny Rockets and Kabob-n-Curry, compared the area five years agoto Thayer Street today.

“People didn’t come to Thayer Street atnight or if they were alone because theywere afraid back then,” Shore said. “Parentsand students visiting Brown were often dis-illusioned by the drug dealers and punkswho surrounded Brown’s campus. Today,however, the streets are much cleaner and Ibelieve both students and parents feel saferon campus.”

Shore’s business partner, MarkLeventhal, said Thayer is an indelible partof Brown’s image.

“There is a symbiotic relationshipbetween Brown, its students and ThayerStreet,” he said. “Students come to Brownbecause of what is around Brown — what ithas to offer both socially and environmen-tally.”

The TSID project is targeting the areathat spans from Bowen to Watermanstreets. The most observable changes,Dinerman said, include improvements tothe streets’ security and sanitation.

Both Shore and Leventhal agree thechanges have been good for the Browncommunity and have benefited their busi-nesses as a result.

“People are noticing that Thayer Street isdefinitely much cleaner now,” Shore said.“At Johnny Rockets, for example, manymore families are coming. More studentsfrom surrounding high schools and middleschools are coming after school to grab aCoke. Parents are allowing them to comebecause the element of fear is not thereanymore.”

Although the administration and busi-ness owners seem to be seeing and feelingthe effects of the changes, many returningstudents told The Herald they did not

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New booklet docu-ments the state ofRhode Island’s historywith the slave tradepage 3

Two Brown studentsspend the summer inSouth Africa interningwith the Bafokeng Kingpage 3

Cecilia Kiely ’04 tellsus why students thinkGeo 5 is a humanities classcolumn, page 11

Republicans are usinglegal but lethal meth-ods to take over, saysYoungsmith ’04column, page 11

A look at the sailingteam’s successes anda preview of the NFL’sfirst weeksports, page 12

BY JULIAN LEICHTYThe non-profit organization Teachfor America, one of the largestemployers of recent Brown grads,recently lost a portion of itsAmeriCorps funding, potentiallyputting teacher stipends in jeopardy.

The budget gap has left Teach forAmerica unsure of how it will fundstipends for the program’s nearly2,000 teachers. But the organizationhas promised to provide the funds tothis year’s group, which includeseight members of the class of 2003.Each Teach for America recruit cur-rently receives $4,725 every year fortheir own education.

Teach for America received about5 percent of its funding fromAmeriCorps last year, according toChristina An, Northeast recruitmentdirector for Teach for America.

“We were definitely given verbalcommitments, and then this hap-pened — it was definitely a shock,”An said of the July 11 notificationsent by the Corporation for Nationaland Community Service, whichfunds AmeriCorps programs. Theform letter said its grant “was notselected for funding.”

Teach for America is committedto providing all current recruits withtheir educational awards this year,An said. The lost funding has been“replaced by public and private

Lack of fundingmay result in loststipends at Teachfor America

BY JONATHAN HERMANRahim Kurji ’05, president of theUndergraduate Council of Students,began UCS’s first meeting of the academ-ic year by commenting on the Council’sinefficient past and potentially brightfuture to an audience of mainly first-years.

The Council discussed limiting thelength of its meetings, but came to noconclusion after input from over a dozenUCS members. A decision was post-poned until the next executive session.

Elections for first-year representativesto UCS will be held Sept. 15 and Sept. 16online. Candidates must attend an infor-mational session on Monday or Tuesday,collect 50 signatures from fellow first-years and complete a mission statement

by Sept. 12.The Associate Chair of the

Undergraduate Finance Board will beelected at the Sept. 10 UCS meetingbecause the elected associate chairrecently resigned.

“It was encouraging to hear that a lotof the issues that people brought up wereareas we were working on,” said InterimVice President for Student Life DavidGreene. “It was good to see all the peoplehere, particularly the first-years.”

Kurji echoed Greene’s sentiment.First-years have “been here for a week

and you guys have already realized theproblems we have been dealing with foryears,” he said.

Network atfull capacityafter outageBY JONATHAN ELLISAfter viruses, firewall glitches and a stu-dent’s incorrectly configured equipmentcaused campus Internet outages overthe past two weeks, the University’s com-puting network has returned to normaloperations, said Alan Usas, executivedirector of academic and network sys-tems and services for Computing andInformation Services.

In the latest network mishap, a stu-dent who tried to set up a wireless accesspoint but incorrectly configured it inad-vertently cut off several residents ofGoddard House from the Internet, Usassaid. CIS worked with the student to cor-rect the problem, he said.

Personal routers or wireless accesspoints, which allow more than one com-puter to benefit from a single ethernetjack, can often cause network problems.

“Ideally, we’d prefer no (wirelessaccess points) installed in the dorms,”Usas said. “We have to visit the policy onthat,” he added.

Meanwhile, Brown’s own wireless net-work has not grown from its initial roll-out last spring, and expansion has beendelayed by other projects, said EllenWaite-Franzen, vice president for CIS.

Prior to Commencement in May, 160different users logged on to the wirelessservice, said Richard Boes, director ofnetwork technology.

Usas said he understood studentsmight wish to use a router in their rooms,such as to connect video game consolesto the Internet. But he urged students tocall the Help Desk first to assess theirplans. “We may have to ask you to dis-connect it,” he said.

Network problems caused by stu-dents’ personal equipment occur aboutfour times a year, Boes said.

That trend will continue as routersand wireless access points become more

UCS President Kurji ’05 reflects onpast and projects a bright future

Thayer St. set to improve

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BY HANNAH BASCOMNimisha Parikh ’04 and Mia Locks ’05may be the only Brown students whocan claim to have planned a royalenthronement ceremony this summer.

Their journey began last spring whenthey heard about two internships withthe Royal Bafokeng Nation in SouthAfrica through the Watson Institute forInternational Studies.

Princess Tirelo Molotlegi, sister ofKing Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi, who wasenthroned as the 36th Bafokeng king onAug. 16, requested help planning theceremony and offered two internshipsthrough Dr. Susan Cook, visiting assis-tant professor of research at the WatsonInstitute and a personal consultant forKing Molotlegi.

Parikh and Locks were accepted forthe positions and departed for SouthAfrica in mid-June.

Upon arriving in Johannesburg, thegirls were immediately given the royaltreatment when they were picked up atthe airport by their own driver. After atwo-and-a-half hour drive to Phokeng,the largest city in the Bafokeng region,they arrived at the King’s home.

“People think kings live in a palace,”Parikh said, “but it’s not. It’s a really nicesuburban house.”

The royal estate did come completewith a helicopter pad, a gas station andother necessities for the monarch’spolitical and personal life. Parikh andLocks also had their own 15-bedroomhouse to themselves.

Parikh and Locks took over twomonths before the enthronement cere-mony working with members of theroyal family to coordinate the event andgala dinner afterwards.

“We did anything and everything,”Parikh said. “We would work 11-hourdays doing everything from organizing

the décor to inviting VIP guests tospeech writing to taste testing food.”

Much of the event was planned tostimulate the local economy. Villages,which were each required to sacrificesomething to the cause, contributedmost of the food at the event. Other foodwas purchased from local suppliers.Companies hired from Johannesburgworked with local laborers and usedlocals as interns.

“The King wanted to do more thanput people to work doing paperwork,”Locks said. “He was interested in a skillstransfer program. Companies reallytaught skills that allowed the people tobe upwardly mobile.”

The event, attended by 20,000 people,was the first enthronement ceremony totake place in the Bafokeng Nation in 50years.

During the enthronement celebra-tion, which drew international mediaattention, a Yale University a capellagroup performed and 1,000 schoolchild-ren presented the history of the nation.

The nation held the lavish event inpart to draw investors to the tribe andwork toward self-sufficiency, Parikhsaid.

Besides coordinating the enthrone-ment, Parikh and Locks spent time in

Brown students help enthrone a kingSUMMER STORIES: A CONTINUING SERIES

Photo courtesy Watson Institute

Mia Locks ’05 and Nimisha Parikh ’04 helped plan an enthronement ceremony inSouth Africa through an internship with King Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi, also pictured.

see PROFILE, page 5

New bookletexamines R.I.slave tradeBY DANA AYOUBRhode Island, founded by those escapingpersecution, ironically had the largestenslaved population in all of New Englandduring the 18th century.

A new interpretive 10-page bookletaddressing this paradox — “Rhode Islandand the African Slave Trade: John Brown andthe Colonial Economy of Slavery” — wasreleased by the Rhode Island HistoricalSociety on Aug. 28, the 40th anniversary ofthe March on Washington.

The booklet’s publication “is anotherimportant step forward in acknowledgingthe full, complex human history” of JohnBrown, said Bernard Fishman, executivedirector of the Historical Society, during anevent held last Thursday at the John BrownHouse. “Some of the soul of Rhode Islandexists in (John Brown’s) house, and it isstained at the root,” he added.

It describes how John Brown, a promi-nent Providence merchant and congress-man, not only participated in the Africanslave trade but protected and defended it.John Brown was brother to Nicholas Brown,the University’s namesake. AlthoughNicholas was involved in the slave trade, heleft it after several debacles.

John Brown, however, remained astaunch advocate. Even after slave tradingwas banned from American ports, he con-tinued to embark on voyages and becamethe first American to go to trial for disobey-ing this law.

The booklet also illustrates the promi-nence of slavery in Rhode Island. Most ofthe goods Rhode Island traded in the Southand West Indies were grown by slaves onplantations in southern Rhode Island.

Even abolitionists were forced to useproducts somehow tainted by slavery.Moses Brown, brother to John and Nicholas

see BOOK, page 9

sources,” she said.Future recruits might not get

the educational funding. “Without funding for the edu-

cational grants, we’re going tomiss out on a lot of people whocan’t afford to teach for twoyears,” Jonas Chartock, executivedirector of Teach for AmericaHouston, told the HoustonChronicle.

An told The Herald that Teachfor America officials are lookinginto “loan forgiveness and for-bearance” to continue fundingthe educational grants.

Mars Gunja ’03 is currentlyteaching life sciences at PrescottMiddle School in Baton Rouge,La. “The fact that AmeriCorps

dropped (Teach for America) is abit surprising, but does not havemuch effect, if any at all, on themorale and mission of currentcorps members,” Gunja wrote inan e-mail.

The government “has proveditself again to be untrustworthyin its commitments,” but hewrote the effect on the programwould be minimal. “People onlydo this because they believe inthe mission,” he wrote, but notedthat scholarship money is proba-bly a consideration for lower-income applicants.

Stephen Goldsmith, chair ofthe Corporation for National andCommunity Service, told Timemagazine he was not pleased hisorganization defunded Teach forAmerica.

“We’ll try to get this rectified inthe 2004 budget year or before,”he told the magazine.

Sandy Scott, a spokeswomanfor the Corporation for Nationaland Community Service, told theHouston Chronicle, “We wish wewere able to support many otherorganizations, but we can’tbecause we are maximizingenrollment given our budget.”

“Teach for America’s dilemmais one of the most dramaticexamples of the unhappy state ofthe Corporation for National andCommunity Service,” Elizabeth

Hollander, executive director ofCampus Compact, told TheHerald. Campus Compact is acoalition located at Brown, ofover 900 college and universitypresidents committed to thecivic purposes of higher educa-tion.

Hollander said hundreds ofAmeriCorps supporters are inWashington, D.C., this week, giv-ing testimony in hopes of secur-ing emergency funding forAmeriCorps’ overall $200 millionshortfall caused by theCorporation for National andCommunity Service’s misman-agement. In addition to lackingfunding for Teach for America’seducation stipend, the corpora-tion may be unable to fund20,000 of 50,000 AmeriCorpspositions, she said.

The U.S. Senate has voted toappropriate $100 million to helpsupport AmeriCorps, but theU.S. House of Representativeshas not.

Some representatives areopposed to AmeriCorps itself,saying the government shouldn’tpay people to serve, but its sup-porters say that without thesmall amount of supportAmeriCorps provides — a $4,725education award and annual liv-ing allowance of $9,300 — onlythe well-off could afford to vol-unteer.

More than 190 college anduniversity presidents, includingPresident Ruth Simmons, signeda July 14 letter to President Bushrequesting he support a $200million emergency funding toAmeriCorps. That is the amountneeded to “ensure that 50,000AmeriCorps positions — thesame number as in previousyears,” remain, according to theletter.

“The bad side of this is goodprograms are being badly hurt,”Hollander said. “The good side isthat the service movement hasgotten organized politically morethan I’ve ever seen before,” shesaid.

Herald staff writer Julian Leichty’06 can be reached atjleichty@browndailyherald.com.

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affordable, Usas said.With Internet outages

reduced to “sporadic” individualcases, which is the normal level,Usas said he was glad the prob-lems did not spread further.

“With patience, we were ableto get through a pretty toughperiod,” he said.

When students moved backinto dorms, the newmyConnection system allowedCIS to block over 800 problemat-ic computers from the network,

Usas said. The blocked comput-ers were either infected with orvulnerable to the worms respon-sible for two network shutdownsthat occurred on Aug. 26, hesaid.

Forty computers still harbor-ing either the Blaster or Welchiaworms are currently blockedfrom the network, Usas said. CISHelp Desk members are trackingdown those machines to disin-fect them.

Herald staff writer JonathanEllis ’06 covers technology atBrown. He can be reached at jel-lis@browndailyherald.com.

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the community promoting theceremony and doing volunteerwork.

“We went to high schools andgave motivational speeches tonot only promote the enthrone-ment ceremony but also to pro-mote education and communityinvolvement,” Parikh said.

They also visited AIDSorphanages and squatters’camps. Parikh said visiting theshantytowns was “emotionallydraining and mentally chal-lenging,” due to the profoundlevel of poverty and high inci-dence of AIDS in those commu-nities.

“We would do communitywork (in the squatters’ camps),go back to our place and try todigest everything while trying towork,” she said. “We had to figureout what tablecloths to use, hadmillions of dollars to fund thisevent, but on the other handyou’re pulled to people who don’thave food on their table. How doyou justify it?”

Herald staff writer HannahBascom ’05 can be reached athbascom@browndailyherald.com.

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notice the new and improvedThayer.

“The only thing new aboutThayer that I’ve seen is the newtanning place,” said Ragan Kenner’04. “Thayer could be cleaner.”

Dinerman said improvementsof a larger scale would take placein the near future. She said pro-posals included the removal ofutility poles, garbage can renewal,new planters (placed on a higherlevel to lessen littering), a stan-dardized logo throughout thestreet, new signage and new park-ing areas.

“Small things, however, go along way,” she said.

Herald senior staff writerMonique Meneses ’05 can bereached at mmeneses@browndai-lyherald.com.

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The revitalization effort hopes to brings new business to Thayer Street.

The new schedule of theBear’s Lair was also announced.It will now be open Mondaythrough Thursday, 7 a.m. tomidnight, Friday from 7 a.m. to6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to mid-night.

UCS also hopes to improvedisability services availablethroughout the University. Kurjioutlined a plan to make all build-

ings handicapped accessible,pointing out that even the firstUCS meeting was inaccessible tohandicapped students.

Plans to improve UCS’s visibili-ty and connection to the commu-nity received much support. UCSmembers touted their past suc-cesses, including the installationof e-mail kiosks across campus.

UCS plans to improve rela-tions with the student bodythrough a two-pronged effort:contacting the presidents andleaders of student organizationsand meeting students in the resi-dential and dining halls.

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dated, the New York Post mightimplode. With just two TDs,Shockey is the most over-hypedloudmouth since the “RoundMound of Rebound.” KurtWarner will return to form,remembering he is a real quar-terback, not a bag-boy dressedas a quarterback for Halloween,and lead St. Louis to a crucialearly-season road win.

BUFFALO (-1) over thePatriots — After starting lastseason O-for-the-Patriots, Ihave still not learned anything.If you combined the best attrib-utes from all of the RB’s on theNew England roster it wouldbarely result in a quality NFLrunning back. Furthermore,releasing captain Lawyer Milloywas like sprinkling blood in thewater before swimming withsharks. Plus, nothing will moti-vate Drew Bledsoe like theopportunity to show-up his for-mer team, while wearing theSuper Bowl ring he essentiallystole from them.

STEELERS (-5.5) over theRavens — When examining theRavens, I just have to wonderwhether Brian Billick bothers tolearn the name of his startingQB, since he will probably havehim on the bench by the timekickoff lands. Clearly, releasingTrent Dilfer seems like a smartmove in retrospect. With theBaltimore offensive being gen-erously labeled as limited, ifTommy “XFL Relic” Maddox canreach the end zone twice thatshould be enough to guaranteevictory.

PANTHERS (-4) over theJaguars — It is never a good signwhen a team calls a press con-ference and the media is notsure whether it is to announcethe team’s captain has beentraded or will remain the start-ing quarterback. Mark Brunnellmay want to head toJacksonville’s Career Services tostart preparing that resume. Asfor Carolina, Julius Peppers canstart a new iron man-streak forgames played without testing

positive for steroids. If he reach-es 12 games, he gets a “Skip aDrug Test” card.

DOLPHINS (-14) over theTexans — David Carr was sackedmore times last season thenJenna Jameson — I countedwhen watching her “E! TrueHollywood Story” — and to helphim the Texans drafted two QB’s.One of the two, Drew Henson,may actually be even better thenCarr. Carr was further rewardedby getting to play the AFC ProBowl defense, a.k.a. theDolphins, in Week One.Fourteen points is a large spreadbut Ricky Williams has hadalmost eight months to dwell onthe fact the closest he came tothe playoffs last year was talkingto Mike Ditka on the phoneabout the ’85 Bears.

Colts (+1.5) over the BROWNS— The “Help Wanted” sign up inCleveland is for anyone to comeand play linebacker. With themoney they are paying TimCouch to sit on the bench,maybe they ought to try lininghim up in the middle of the D.This game will test my faith inPeyton Manning becoming aHall of Fame quarterback. Hehas the best receiver in the gameand one of the best runningbacks, and if they don’t startwinning more, maybe he shouldswitch with Eli and lead OleMiss where there is less pres-sure.

Broncos (-6) over the BEN-GALS (LOCK OF THE WEEK) —Cincinnati had its best off-sea-son since the end of the ColdWar, but they are still the teamthat excels at finding a new wayto lose each week. They will bebetter, but the playoffs are still afew years down the road. Aninteresting side bet would bewhich will take longer, therebuilding of the Bengals or therebuilding of Iraq? Denver, onthe other hand, will put its fatein the hands of Cardinal rejectJake Plummer. Watch out forAshley Lelie to become seriousTD threat with “The Snake”throwing to him.

LIONS (-4) over the Cardinals— First, I dedicate this part of

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SUVs.Though he is not isolated from

the student population entirely, ityet is good for the semiprofes-sional athlete to be treated as anextraordinary human being enti-tled to perquisites not normallyavailable to pencil-necked geeks.

That’s where the school presi-dent comes in. Coach’s list goeson to

F) Arrange the annual fallcookout at the university presi-dent’s estate, making sure he hasenough four-wheelers for playersto use.

Ha, and you thought big-timeathletics was about X’s and O’s.

And now we come to those all-important academics.

Coach is involved even in thataspect of semiprofessional life.He must…

G) Prepare a syllabus for myCoaching Theory class, whichmeets once a semester — if it isn’training — and find a replacementclass for the kids who werescheduled to take Welding 101.

Coach’s university presidentwimped out on the Welding 101class. He excised it from theschool curriculum because of theSt. Bonaventure incident. TheBonnies’ president lost his jobwhen it was revealed that theschool admitted a player on thebasis of junior college academicrecords that included a weldingcertificate.

“But not to worry,” Coach says.“We’ve still got Shop 100 andAdvanced Shop 101. Shop iswhere they teach you to make achair. Advanced Shop is whereyou learn to paint it.”

Such arrangements might sug-gest our great universities cutcorners in favor of athletics overacademics. They might suggestthe tail wags the dog. They mighteven suggest that great universi-ties have lost sight of their pur-pose.

Ha. Coach reminds us thatsports is the university’s purpose.

It’s the most visible aspect of theschool. Every Saturday, there are100,000 painted-face people withseason tickets making fools ofthemselves for Hummer H2 StateU. Compare that, he says, withthe number of people who ponyup big bucks to watch geeks peerinto microscopes. See?

People who considerhypocrisy unpleasant might notlike the 21st century world of col-lege sports. But it’s the world thatis. It sure keeps Coach busy: “Somuch to do in this profession andso little time.”

At that moment, for instance,Coach had to run.

“Got a strategic-planningmeeting with my staff. No, notgame plans. We’re working up alist of things that could go horri-bly wrong. Shootings, stabbings,drug busts, rapes, NCAA copscoming to town, athletic direc-tors and presidents throwing youunder the train, strippers order-ing one of everything off theroom service menu.

“For all that, we need to beprepared with a long list ofcoaches’ alibis. Dave Bliss, RickNeuheisel, Mike Price, JimHarrick and Jim Harrick Jr. will beour guest lecturers. Tomorrow’smeeting is on staff relations.Nolan Richardson III will moder-ate.”

Here I ask Coach if he mightinvite Larry Eustachy, anotherman who had recent experiencewith the problems that come upin the modern game.

“Yes,” Coach says, “we’vewatched Larry for years now. Andwe’ve asked him to speak to ourstaff on warming down with co-eds after road games. I’ll takenotes for you.”

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the column to all those individ-uals who are stuck with this astheir regional game. The onlyareas of interest are seeing thedebut of Charles Rogers and thepossibility of Arizona beingdropped down to the NCAA withOklahoma moving up, a la thePremier League. Between theLions last season, the RedWings’ early playoff exit and theTigers this season, a loss herecould put the city of Detroit onsuicide watch.

PACKERS (-5.5) over theVikings — Fortunately this gameis not in Minnesota, otherwiseBrett Favre would feel obligatedto under-perform and lose to aless talented team. While GreenBay should win, the Vikings willbe better. It is almost impossiblefor Daunte to match his 30-plusturnovers and Randy Moss haspromised to try on 75 percent ofthe plays this year.

CHIEFS (-5.5) over theChargers — Sports Illustratedpicked the Chiefs to go to theSuper Bowl and while it wouldbe great to see Dick Vermeil cryagain, I don’t see that in theirfuture. Still, Priest Holmes isdoing more than anyone else torestore faith in the CatholicChurch and leading his team toan opening week win would def-initely help the cause. As a sidenote, David Boston now official-ly weighs a metric ton and toclear up any confusion, he isbrought to the games in a horsetrailer, and he is not the “horsetrailer player of the game.”

Falcons (+2) over the COW-BOYS — The Dallas off-seasonhas been filled with intrigue. Whowill Parcells start at QB? Who willreplace Emmitt? Has Jerry Jonesalready been embalmed? IsParcells actually a homosexual?As the regular season starts, onlysome of these questions havebeen answered and the team isstill mediocre. But like seniorswith freshmen, he lives by athree-year plan and I have totalfaith that in 2005 the Cowboyswill be contenders. (Note: I refuseto acknowledge the Vick injury; itis still too painful.)

SEAHAWKS (-3) over theSaints — I am picking Seattle togo to the playoffs based on the“They have talent, so theyshould be good” theory, madefamous by New York Mets’ fansfor the past five years. With MikeHolmgren coaching, MattHasselbeck throwing, ShaunAlexander running and KorenRobinson receiving, the defensemight not need to stop anyone,instead just slow them downfrom scoring too quickly. By thesame theory, New Orleansshould be decent as well, only

hampered by the temptations ofBourbon Street.

49ERS (-7) over the Bears —With Mariucci back in Michigan,San Francisco fans can be happyto know that Terrell Owens willnow be more active in coachingthe team. His first act will be tomake celebration practicemandatory. Even with aninjured back, Jeff Garcia equalstwo Kordell Stewarts and withChicago remaining away fromSoldiers’ Field for another game,San Fran should coast.

Raiders (+3) over the TITANS— People talk about an EastCoast media bias, but after read-ing some predictions, I believethere is a Tennessee bias. TheTitans added free agents withless talent than Keanu Reeves,they play a tougher schedulethan last year and are still a“Music City Miracle” away frombeing a perennial underachiev-

er. Moreover, Oakland kept itsgeriatric squad intact and thebiggest concerns for this teamare gout and the timeliness ofsocial security checks. The“Silver and Black” won in theAFC Championship Game lastyear and this Sunday should beno different.

Buccaneers (+3) over theEAGLES — To top her MTV VMAkiss with Madonna and her rolein the NFL’s kickoff specialtoday, Britney will also head toPhilly for the first Monday NightFootball game of the year andwill make out with John Maddenand Al Michaels. As for thegame, Tampa is the defendingchamp and until they areknocked off, I will stick withthem.

Joshua Troy ’04 hails fromStamford, Conn., and is a politi-cal science concentrator.

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Troy 2 Oakland kept its geriatric squad intact and

the biggest concerns for this team are gout

and the timeliness of social security checks.

The “Silver and Black” won in the AFC

Championship Game last year and this

Sunday should be no different.

and avid abolitionist, invested ina textile factory that used cottongrown by slaves, according to thebooklet.

In 1755, about 11.5 percent ofRhode Island’s population wasblack, most of which were slaves.Large farms developed due to therich soil and temperate climate,creating a demand for slaves.

Mayor David Cicilline ’83 saidthe project “represents a new

city,” one that is “inclusive,thoughtful, honest.” He said hehoped “fewer people will beignorant about this history afterthis project.”

Diane Johnson, first vice pres-ident of the Historical Society,said that through the project “wewill all learn more, we willbecome enriched as individualsand therefore enriched as a com-munity.”

Herald staff writer Dana Ayoub’05 can be reached at day-oub@browndailyherald.com.

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Stay focusedAt the semester’s first Undergraduate Council of Students

meeting last night, UCS President Rahim Kurji ’05 outlined a

familiar plan — to make the council more efficient this time

around. Student government officials have touted this goal for

years, but it’s hard to reign in an organization populated

mainly by idealists.

Last year’s Council made some headway. Instead of pontifi-

cating endlessly about racism, classism, sexism and other

social ills, members did what student government should do:

focus on short-term projects that can tangibly affect the qual-

ity of student life. Over the year, the Council secured the

future installation of campus e-mail kiosks, installed addi-

tional free weights at the Bear’s Lair and created a list of

underrepresented high schools for the Office of Admission.

It’s now up to Kurji and other members of the Council to

keep the organization focused. To be an effective student gov-

ernment, UCS must often sacrifice loftier, unworkable aspira-

tions for more realistic ones.

When Kurji ran for president last semester, he said he

would chart concrete goals for UCS, while remaining commit-

ted to issues of equality and social justice. It’s now time to

begin following through on some of those plans, which

included 24-hour study spaces and snack bars, increased

handicapped access across campus, additional computer

clusters and e-mail kiosks and a program in which students

could use meal credits at any time of the day.

But abstract goals outlined by Kurji, such as fostering

“meaningful dialogue” on campus, should not eclipse more

practical initiatives. Battles for idealistic causes should be

fought — just not completely by UCS.

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THIS EVENING, WHILE PLAYING POKERin my Grad Center suite with a deck ofofficial Iraq’s Most Wanted Playing cardsand talking about theupcoming release of twofilms about Alexander TheGreat, I was simultaneouslymulling over a recent Heraldopinion column about howCalifornian democracy isbest served by an election that is “moreentertaining and accessible to the publicthan a Broadway show” and ruminatingabout how the ancient Romans used tomix war, elections and entertainment –all while stacking the deck in my favoragainst my suitemates – but I realized allof these things are, if not intimately relat-ed, able to touch on a few importantpoints about today’s world.

Firstly, pop entertainment mirrors ournational subconscious. The 1980s pro-duced a slew of films about lone warriorsfighting against faceless machines, innercity gangs and Gotham-City like urbandecay (representing in the real world chic‘rugged individuals’ fighting the commonfears of, respectively, out of control apoc-alyptic Cold War technology, inner citygangs and Gotham-city like urban decay).Today, we’ve returned to epic films aboutconquerors and superheroes – witnessthe disquieting choice the President has

to make between equality and securitywhen dangerous mutants walk amongAmericans in “X-Men 2.” Witness not one,

but two tortured Alexanders(Leonardo DiCaprio and ColinFarrell) conquering Iraq withblitzkrieg speed and remakingthe Middle East in theirWestern image. Witness“Terminator 3’s” thematic

assertion that the coming reign of thou-sands of marching, robotic ArnoldSchwarzenneggers across first Californiaand then the rest of the nation is asinevitable as the relentless march of timeitself.

Secondly, if you want to draw parallelsbetween my poker strategy and the globalgame Karl Rove (who is not completely incharge of all Republicans in the country,but is more able to decide strategy than Iam) is playing – then you only need tolook to the language pundits all across thecountry are using: Bush’s trump card isnational security, Bill Simon finally decid-ed to fold, Rove wishes he could bet on afinal round against Howard Dean, etc.

These are all idioms commonly used todescribe nonviolent conflicts, but I’d liketo draw your attention to an importantelement of the Republican ‘poker’ strate-gy as of late: The deck is being stacked.Through loopholes and legal means, ofcourse, the system is edging towardsRove’s vision of a lasting Republicanmajority.

Consider the following situations: Bill

Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 was moti-vated almost solely by partisanship,though it was somewhat grounded in alegal claim of perjury. In the 2000 elec-tion, the final Supreme Court decisionwas split along partisan lines. Eventhough a recount would not have yieldedenough votes to swing Florida into the‘blue,’ nobody can deny the politicalnature of the situation and the verdict,nor the potentially non-democratic rami-fications of the Court having say in anelection.

In 2003, Texas legislators actuallypacked up and left the state to live in amotel over the border in order to opposethe Republican redistricting plan thatwould create a safely RepublicanCongressional district, thus tipping thescales in Congress further towards theright.

Once again, while this is totally legal,gerrymandering is a subtle threat to bal-anced democracy. Most obviously andrecently, Republicans have exploited thenaïve and bubbly character of California’stwisted electoral system like Kobe Bryant

on a first-year from Stanford. While it istotally legal and incredibly popular, mostpeople one talks to will concede there is aslightly embarrassing, guilty feeling thatcomes with the knowledge that the RecallInitiative is gently at odds with the demo-cratic ideal of elected officials servingterms when chosen for office by the pub-lic.

All of this amounts to a situation whereone must be incredibly wary of the guydealing the Iraq Playing Cards. Sure, thepublic has often blown off these incidentsas just more strange hands in a crazygame of poker – but the stakes are seriousenough to merit a good look at the meth-ods behind the madness. This may notadd up to a degeneration of democracyon the order of the Roman republic slid-ing into the role of a voterless, imperialconquering machine, guided by muscularmen in togas bearing fasces, but thenagain I think I saw a movie about thatonce and it was pretty entertaining. On aside note, I’d recommend to anyoneArnold Schwarzennegger’s 1970 filmdebut, “Hercules in New York.”

I’M GLAD THAT I’M OFF MEAL PLAN this year. Not only do I anticipate savingmoney by purchasing veggie burgers andcooking them myself instead of payingsomeone else to cook them for me, butnow I don’t have to be obsessed with “mealcredit.” I wouldn’t say I stressed about it forthe past three years, but it wassomething that was always inthe back of my mind. It wasactually the only part of thatvague list of obligations I everfollowed through on: I shoulddo my work, I should work out,I should go to Jo’s and spend my $3.65. If Iwasn’t taking advantage of all the academ-ic opportunities available to me here atBrown, I might as well be getting the mostout of my meal plan.

Now one reason I’ve felt like I am notmaking the most of my education is that Inever go to office hours and I only sit inthe front of the class when I take classeswith my overachieving (or visuallyimpaired) friends. But the other reason Ifeel as though I am not getting the mostout of my education is that I feel like aslacker. I do all of my work (OK, I do all mywritten work). But I’m an English major.Sophomore year I was interviewed for arandom phone survey about housing. Theinterviewer asked some background ques-tions— year, dorm, concentration:“English.”

“Is that your only concentration?” Maybe it was a standard follow-up

question. Maybe if I had said I was major-ing in physics he might still have won-dered if I had a second major.

One night during our sophomorespring, my roommate was searching for a

class to fill some type ofhumanities requirement forher biomedical engineeringconcentration. Looking upfrom her course book, sheturned to me and asked, “IsGeo 5 a humanities class?”

Being a college student, the first thing I didwhen I was finished making fun of her wasput this quote up on my AIM profile. Then,because I’m a Brown student, I decon-structed the statement to figure out exact-ly why I thought it was funny and whatattitudes it conveyed. First, geology isclearly a science (the department even hasthe unambiguous official title of “geologi-cal sciences”). We’re not talking about psy-chology or linguistics, disciplines thatstraddle the line. Unless it was a classcalled “How We Feel about Rocks” or “Lavathrough Literature,” I can’t see how onecould even wonder about whether “Mars,Moon and the Earth” qualified as ahumanities class. But Geo 5 has potentialfor being mistakenly classified because itis commonly considered a gut, and I havefound that many people operate under theassumption that humanities classes areinherently less difficult than sciencecourses.

Obviously I don’t see the humanities =easy equation like many of my fellow stu-

dents, but I have internalized this idea thathumanities classes are easier than scienceclasses, and this is why I have come toidentify as a slacker. As a biology major youhave options. You can be the genius — youwork in labs and win awards from founda-tions. Or you can be the hard worker, animage you can project simply by complain-ing about your orgo exams and walkingaround with your heavy books. But if youare an English major you have to be thegenius. You must be a brilliant writer and“dress like an English major” (don’t ask mehow, I’ve been told that I don’t) and readgood books. So if you don’t fancy yourself abrilliant writer, you embrace the role ofslacker (although you may still feel likeusing words like “fancy” as verbs becauseyou think it’s funny, although you hesitateto say it’s ironic because while you thoughtyou understood irony in high schoolEnglish class, college has made you feellike your grasp on the concept is inade-quate and you avoid identifying anythingas “ironic” for fear of being ridiculed likeAlanis Morissette). It’s easier to play intothe idea that you never have any workbecause the idea of a hard-working Englishconcentrator just seems sad.

And this translates into the commonperception that a humanities degree is lessuseful/valuable than one in chemistry orcomputer science. Answering theQuestion (“What’s your major?”) guaran-tees a history or English major a worriedglance and everyone’s favorite follow-upquestion: “So, what are you going to dowith that?” Apparently my only option isbecoming a teacher (because a largemajority of people have never consideredthat one might use an English degree tobecome a writer, I am not surprised thatthey have also never considered that Imight do any number of things that mayor may not be directly related to the studyof literature).

I have decided I want to be that personwho writes the blurbs on the back of cere-al boxes, soy milk cartons, potato chipbags. “Our products contain only thefinest ingredients.” Those ingredients willprobably include things like “natamycin”and maybe if I took more science classesI’d know what that was and how it “pro-tects flavor,” but then I would probablywant to stop eating veggie burgers, or atleast go back to paying someone to takethe veggie burger out of the box for me.

Cecilia Kiely ‘04 doesn’t even take politi-cal science classes. This is her first col-umn for The Herald.

An English concentrator stops doing all the reading, but that’s not why she’s not getting respect

The slow erosion of democracy in America

Now that’s entertainment

Barron Youngsmith ’06 is sometimes for-getful when it comes to responsibility.

When satisfactory work doesn’t get credit

Republicans have exploited the naïve and bubbly char-

acter of California’s twisted electoral system like Kobe

Bryant on a first-year from Stanford.

BARRON YOUNGSMITH

GUEST COLUMNIST

CECILIA KIELY

GUEST COLUMNIST

I have internalized this idea that humanities classes are

easier than science classes, and this is why I have come to

identify as a slacker.

BY WARD YOUNGDespite a late start due to ice onNarragansett Bay well into February, theBrown sailing team ended its mostimpressive season to date. Heading intoNationals at Detroit as favorites, thewomen finished an impressive seventhout of 18 teams from across the country,despite some setbacks and frustratingwind conditions. The coed team, consis-tently ranked in the top ten, ended theseason at ninth.

By Nationals in late May the womenwere ranked in the top three of the coun-try and vying for the top spot.

In April, Brown hosted 18 teams forthe New England Women’sChampionship out of Edgewood YachtClub. The women flourished at theirhome venue and sailed to victory with acomfortable 35-point lead over No. 3Yale and 17 points over No. 2 Harvard.

All-American Whitney Besse ’03 fin-ished third in A division, with crewsJessica Malkin ’05 and Christina Starr’06, and All-American EmmaLichtenstein ’03 finished first in B divi-sion with crews Louise Sherman ’05 andMarisa Ihara ’03, who also received All-American honors.

At Nationals, Anne Davidson ’05 andKate Henderson ’05 also sailed for thewomen.

The coed Bears fared well at the NewEngland Dinghy Championship, hostedby MIT and Harvard, where they finishedfifth in a very competitive 17-team fleet.All-American Chris Ashley ’04 and All-American Crew Alison Berenback ’04sailed well and finished sixth in A divi-sion, while Besse and Malkin finishedfifth in B division. With help from a verysupportive mascot, it was the first time

the Brown coed team qualified fornationals in several years.

Coed Nationals presented severalchallenges for the sailors, includingstrong currents and highly variable windconditions. The Bears responded withconsistent performances throughout theregatta to finish ninth in the country.Ashley and Berenback sailed to a sev-enth-place finish in A division. The Bearsfinished 11th in B division thanks to the

efforts of Besse, Malkin, Ihara, Starr andPatrick Rynne ’05.

“It was great to watch our team cometogether and succeed the way it did atthe end of the season,” said Avi Robbins’04.5. “The team worked hard to get tonationals and none of us could havedone it on our own.”

Ward Young ’05 is a member of the sail-ing team.

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

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THE KICKOFF OF THE NFL SEASONtonight also marks the return of my foot-ball picks’ column. Coming off last sea-son when I went 107-97-3 and 10-4 withmy “locks of the week,” including a run ofeight straight, I only had to release one

assistant sportseditor because ofsalary cap con-straints.

Foregoing theusual pre-picksrant, here aresome Super Bowl,MVP and rookiepredictions.

AFC East:Miami Dolphins,New EnglandPatriots, BuffaloBills, New York

JetsAFC North: Pittsburgh Steelers,

Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns,Cincinnati Bengals

AFC South: Indianapolis Colts,Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars,Houston Texans

AFC West: Oakland Raiders, DenverBroncos, Kansas City Chiefs, San DiegoChargers

Wild Card Teams: Patriots, BillsConference Championship Game:

Dolphins vs. ColtsAFC Champion: DolphinsNFC East: Philadelphia Eagles,

Washington Redskins, New York Giants,Dallas Cowboys

NFC North: Green Bay Packers,Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions,Chicago Bears

NFC South: Tampa Bay Buccaneers,Atlanta Falcons, New Orleans Saints,Carolina Panthers

NFC West: St. Louis Rams, SeattleSeahawks, San Francisco 49ers, ArizonaCardinals

Wild Card Teams: Falcons, SeahawksConference Championship Game:

Rams vs. BuccaneersNFC Champion: RamsSuper Bowl Champions: RamsOffensive MVP: Ricky WilliamsDefensive MVP: Ray LewisOffensive Rookie of the Year: Charles

RogersDefensive Rookie of the Year: Terrell

SuggsCoach of the Year: Dave WannstedtThese picks have been made against

the Skybook odds and as always are forrecreational purposes only. As all truesports fans recognize, only flipping acoin can accurately predict the winnerevery time. (Home team in CAPS.)

Last Season — 107-97-3Jets (+3) over the REDSKINS — Dan

Snyder did his best “Pirates of theCaribbean” impression this off-season,pillaging anything available from theJets, including John Hall, LaveranuesColes, Chad Morton, the guy who doesthe pre-game introductions and KenO’Brien’s first born child. Consequently,even with the loss of Chad Pennington,this is a game New York will be pumpedup to play. Washington will finish theyear with a better record, but Air Spurrierwill take a few weeks to get off the groundand the Jets need to win at least onegame before losing 15 straight.

Rams (+1) over the GIANTS — Theonly people getting more press right nowthan Jeremy Shockey are Demi Mooreand Ashton Kutcher, and neither of themseems to really deserve it. If all three ever

(The Sporting News) — It’s football sea-son again. So we’re waiting for MauriceClarett to suit up. At this moment, theyoung running back is using his downtime to restock his CD tray and askdirections to an Ohio State classroom,any classroom, preferably a classroomin which classwork is not necessarilydone all by your lonesome.

Clarett is a great one, of course, andfor the great ones great amounts ofslack are cut. Soon he will resume hisprofessional career. (Oops, wait a sec-ond. My bad. Pros get money, not CDs,SUVs and grades.) He may become thefirst semipro player ever to win theHeisman Trophy in six games.

After all, as we’ve learned from MarkCuban, owner of the NBA’s Mavericks,superstars who get sideways with thelaw are so appealing to the sucker-a-minute class as to be “great” for busi-ness and, it follows, irresistible toHeisman voters.

Anyway, with the sound of breakingbones again rending the air, I hearfrom The Coach. “School has begun,”says my friend, long in the business ofbuilding character through intercolle-giate sports, “and we’re busy with thetypical stuff.”

As at all institutions of higher learn-

ing in the 21st century, Coach’s laundrylist of Things To Do begins with:

A) Make sure all of our players haveproperly registered their firearms withlocal authorities.

B) Find out where the best fraterni-ty/sorority parties will be held —because without an active social life oncampus, athletes feel isolated fromordinary students.

So Coach begins early to… C) Line up our recruiting visits for

the fall, based, naturally, on the near-est/best strip clubs.

In this day of $75,000 Hummer H2sin the hands of teen-aged prodigies,not even semiprofessional athletesshould be subjected to the shame ofbeing seen (whisper this next word)walking. Part of Coach’s job, then, isto…

D) Set up leases with a local cardealer for players who need wheels,with on-board TVs, stereo systems andwet bars optional.

Once those wheels have beenobtained, Coach…

E) Distributes all old equipment andT-shirts, sweatshirts and warmups tothe players who drive the roomiest

see FOOTBALL, page 8see TROY, page 7

Success at Nationals bodes well for sailing

Looking aheadto NFL Week 1

JOSHUA TROYWIDE RIGHT

Photo courtesy Brown Sailing

Captain Joshua Jackson ’04 and Tee Suraphongchai ’04 will lead the Brown sailing team with high expectations for the fall seasonafter a strong showing at Nationals.

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