BY MERYL ROTHSTEINBob Marley blares as Jodie Miller ’05scrapes remnants of vegan eggplantlasagna into the trash. The lasagna, com-plete with tofu ricotta “cheese,” was part ofthe dinner she and two others had cookedfor roughly 25 people Monday night at theWatermyn co-op.

Watermyn, one of Brown’s two housingcooperatives, includes 15 residents andeight non-residential food co-opers.

Located on Waterman and Governorstreets, the house provides a communal liv-ing and vegetarian/vegan dining experi-ence.

Each night, three co-opers, includingfood co-opers, cook dinner, said AndrewFox ’06. Preparation for the meals, whichare all vegetarian and always include avegan option, begins at around 5 p.m., andare usually served around 7 p.m., when ahorn, likened to a “wounded buffalo” by

housemates, notifies the house that dinneris ready, Fox said.

Most of the house gathers to eat at thelarge, hand-painted table in the diningroom, lined with bookshelves as well ashand-written notes from previous co-opresidents.

These scribblings also line the kitchenwalls, as well as bumper stickers encourag-ing co-opers to “Be Green” and “AbolishNuclear Weapons.”

“The house has a lot of character to it,”said resident Pablo Gaston ’05. “It’s a reallychill environment.”

Dinner conversation ranged from thebenefits of omega-3 — an essential fattyacid found in fish — to the food require-ments of one wheat-allergic co-oper to thesizes of slices of the vegan pumpkin pie, anunusual treat made by one of the twoJohnson and Wales culinary students resid-ing in the house.

Sonya Goddy ’06 said she liked the housebecause of the independence it demands.

“This is completely student-run,” shesaid. “We’re doing it ourselves. And it’sworking.”

Goddy called it an “ideal lifestyle” butsaid that “there are times when the com-munal aspect can get annoying,” like whenhouse meetings take hours in order to take

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BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZThe recent relaxation of last year’s seven-week rest policy for Ivy League athleteshas reopened the conflict between thedemands of Division I athletics andattempts to integrate Brown athletes intothe full range of student life.

The seven-week rest period, institutedby the Council of Ivy Presidents in June2002, mandated that Ivy teams breakfrom team-related activity for sevenweeks per year to allow athletes to pur-sue other aspects of campus life.Following widespread complaints fromcoaches and athletes, the Council modi-fied the policy this June. Teams are stillrequired to take off seven weeks per year,but may break them up by days, ratherthan weeks.

Athletics Director David Roach said hebelieves the rest period is fundamentallyunfair to athletes, no matter how theseven weeks are divided. It hampers theirability to compete with non-Ivy Leagueteams, which are not required to taketime off from practice, and “takes awayfrom the individual’s right to be able toimprove himself,” Roach said.

“People make decisions about whatthey want to do during their four years atcollege, and everyone should be given

BY JONATHAN HERMANA newly-created affiliation betweenBrown and the Marine BiologyLaboratory at Woods Hole will create newgraduate and undergraduate researchopportunities and several new courses.

The affiliation joins Brown and MBL’sresearch and education in biology, bio-medicine and ecology.

MBL Director and CEO William T.Speck and Provost Robert J. Zimmersigned the official agreement Sept. 7.

MBL at Woods Hole is a world-classbiology, biomedicine and ecology labora-

tory dedicated to cutting edge researchand education, according to Speck. MBLstarted as a summer laboratory andteaching facility, located on the intersec-tion of two major oceanic currents.

“A large fraction of the leaders in biolo-gy have spent some time at MBL,”Zimmer said.

The University and MBL will first cre-ate a joint graduate program — givinggraduate students an opportunity to workwith both Brown and MBL scientists,Zimmer said. Students of the graduateprogram will be granted Brown degrees

and have the chance to work at both edu-cational institutions.

“I believe this is really an extraordinaryevent for Brown, and I know the people atMBL feel the same way,” said Biology pro-fessor Mark Bertness, one of the design-ers of the partnership.

“Graduate students at Brown will bevery different (from) graduates from any-where else in that the graduates in theBrown MBL program will not only haveexposure to the Brown faculty and the

West Nile onthe rise; DEMwarns studentsagainst bitesBY JULIETTE WALLACKWith mosquitoes in Rhode Island testingpositive for encephalitis and West NileVirus in the past week, students shouldmake sure to minimize the risk of bites,according to one Department ofEnvironmental Management official.

Eastern equine encephalitis virus hasbeen found in mosquitoes in nearbyWashington County, and West Nile virushas been found statewide, according toStephanie Powell, a spokeswoman forDEM.

“So, absolutely in the area of Brown,”students should take care to minimizerisk, she said.

As of Monday, the DEM has not foundmosquitoes carrying Eastern equineencephalitis in Providence, Powell said.But “we don’t know” whether it could bein bugs in the area.

The possibility of transmission willremain until the first frost kills activemosquitoes, Powell said.

In Washington County, whichincludes South Kingstown, residents arebeing advised to avoid outdoor activities,many of which have been cancelled.

Students can help prevent exposure byavoiding standing water, where mosqui-toes breed, she said. Though there is nostanding water on campus, Powell said,it’s feasible that mosquitoes could breednear the Providence River downtown.

“The best thing for people anywherein Rhode Island until the first hard frostis to protect themselves by wearing longpants and long sleeves,” she said.

There are also certain types of condi-tions that encourage mosquito activity,which students should consider. Thoseconditions include shady areas and highhumidity.

“If you’re just walking around theBrown campus at noon on a sunny day,and it’s windy, there’s less chance than ifyou’re taking a walk in the woods” ofbeing bitten, Powell said.

There have not been any cases ofEastern equine encephalitis or West Nile

Brown’s Watermyn Co-op: vegan dining,communal living and Bob Marley

New Brown-Woods Hole affiliation creates researchopportunities, classes for undergrad and grad students

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West House resident Elizabeth Ochs '06 writes chalk poetry Tuesday morning.

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More questionsabout athletesand student lifeafter new policy

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Dartmouth implements high-techdevice for free long dis-tance callscampus watch,page 3

Women are tooobsessed with bodyimage, says AlexandraToumanoff ’06 column,page 11

Christopher McAuliffe’05 takes a closer lookat Gorbachev’s speechand reputationcolumn, page 11

Volleyball earns firstwin against St. Peter’s,but loses to UNH andGeorgia Statesports, page 12

M. water polo finishesfourth of 10 in tourna-ment, defeatingHarvard rivalssports, page 12

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(U-WIRE) KINGSTON, R.I. — As a result of thenewly enforced party house list,University of Rhode Island students aregoing to have to fight harder for theirright to party in the upcoming months.

Community Patrol Officer AnthonyPelopida said since the list’s enactmenton Sept. 1 of this year, there have been 21houses placed on the list as a result ofhaving large and/or loud parties. Eachhouse on the list is a student residence.

According to the Narragansett PoliceDepartment’s procedure for the partyhouse list, a residence will be placed onthe list if the renters/owners host a largeparty, the renters/owners are uncoopera-tive when police respond to the party orthe police department has receivedrepeated calls of a loud party.

Once on the list, the residents of thehouse remain on the list for 30 days. Ifthe police don’t respond to the residenceagain within those 30 days, they aretaken off the list.

If the police are called to respond to aresidence already on the list, the inhabi-tants of the house will be charged foreach subsequent occurrence and willremain on the list for another 90 days,according to the Narragansett PoliceDepartment procedure for the partyhouse list.

On Mondays, Pelopida and fellowcommunity patrol officer Scott Vallonevisit houses placed on the list over theprevious weekend and give residents acopy of the party house list and proce-dure as well as selected statutes andfines.

Junior Joe Civitello hosted a party onSept. 13 that was broken up byNarragansett police.

Civitello said the officers were respect-ful of him and his roommates and “basi-cally told us that we were going to be puton the party list.”

Although the cops didn’t follow nor-

mal procedure by returning to Civitello’sresidence the following Monday, Civitellosaid they explained the list and how itworks to him and his roommates thenight of the party.

Pelopida said Narragansett police offi-cers do not attempt to explain the listand its procedures at the time a party isbroken up because it is better to speak toresidents when they are sober and in amore passive state of mind.

Junior Kevin Murray hosted a partywith his three roommates on Sept. 19.The Narragansett police told Murray andhis roommate upon the breakup of theparty that they were on the list.

The following Monday, Murray saidNarragansett police did not revisit hishome and added, “I don’t think [the listis] going to do much to curb anyone’spartying. The cops kind of treated us likewe didn’t deserve to know what wasgoing on.”

Senior Tom Sydow hosted a party with

his three roommates that was respondedto on Sept. 26.

Sydow said Narragansett police visitedhis house Monday and gave him theparty house list, the procedures and var-ious statutes and fines.

“I don’t think it’ll help in stopping par-ties. It’ll just get more people to pay finesthey haven’t had to pay in the past,”Sydow commented.

Others thought the list might be effec-tive.

“Actually, I think it’s going to workbecause of all the people I know that areon the list are not going to have anything[within the 30 days]” Civitello said. Headded that in the following weekendssince his party he has seen Narragansettpolice vehicles patrol his streets multipletimes each night.

“I think from the simple fact that it’sbeen a month now and we haven’t goneto any house on the list speaks for itself,”Pelopida said.

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Dartmouthushers in freelong distancephone tech.BY ROBERT COREY-BOULETAlways on the cutting edge of campustechnology, Dartmouth College recent-ly unveiled voice-over Internet proto-col, a new device that allows studentsto make free local and long-distancecalls campus-wide.

Now, without charge, students arefree to plug the $50 “softphone”devices into their computers and makecalls from anywhere on the campusnetwork.

“Wireless or wired, all users need isa headset or handset, some free soft-ware from the Dartmouth Web site,and an assigned phone number inorder to talk on the phone fromDartmouth to anyone, anywhere, any-

URI students fight for the right to partyafter newly enforced party house list

see DARTMOUTH, page 4

(U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Girls are generally better stu-dents than boys, according to a recent study that hasmomentarily settled a major skirmish in the battle of thesexes.

A study that involved 42 industrialized countries, includ-ing the United States, found that girls are better readers thanboys and tend to get better grades. The study was conductedby the Organization for Economic Cooperation andDevelopment.

The study reported that three out five National HonorsSociety members are girls, and that girls outnumber boys 124to 100 in advanced placement courses.

In 2000, 44 percent of girls taking the SAT reported an Aaverage, while 35 percent of boys reported the same. In addi-tion, in 39 out of the 42 industrialized countries involved inthe study, girls earned more university degrees than men. At

the University of Michigan, 51 percent of the students thatreceived undergraduate degrees in 2002 were female.

While women outnumber men in number of bachelor’sdegrees obtained, men still earn more post-undergraduatedegrees than women. In 2002, 56 percent of graduate degreeconferrals and 54 percent of professional degrees went tomen.

“There remains a pipeline issue, for as you go into higherlevels of education, you see fewer levels of female degreecandidates. So, while we might say that girls and women arehighly achieving, we examine whether women are beingafforded the same access to higher education as men are,”said Jeanne Miller, a librarian at the Center for the Educationof Women.

Women get better grades, fewer graduate degrees

see WOMEN, page 4

time,” Public Affairs OfficerSusan Knapp wrote in aSeptember press release.

Dartmouth has becomerenowned in recent years for for-

ward thinking in technology andcommunications, often outdo-ing its peers at more populatedand urban universities.

In 2001, for instance, the uni-versity installed a wireless net-work that covers the entire cam-pus, a feat that other schools likeBrown have only been able toimplement on a smaller, morerestricted scale.

“Shared vision and supportstarting at the top … permits ourprogram to embark upon suchinnovations,” wrote BobJohnson, director of networkservices at Dartmouth to TheHerald in an e-mail. “This start-ed with support for a campus-wide network upgrade and wire-less overlay. We see access tothese technologies bringing thecampus closer together while wemake it easier to communicate.”

Even as early as the 1980s,Dartmouth surpassed its peerswith the widespread incorpora-tion of e-mail communicationinto all elements of campus life,an improvement that precededmost other universities by sever-al years.

The decision to install VoIPwas largely fueled by the realiza-tion that traditional methods fortracking and billing phone callsover such a large, wireless areawere not effective, Dr. DavidKotz, professor of computer sci-ence at Dartmouth, told the NewYork Times. Attempting tocharge wireless long-distancecalls on a campus that servesover 13,000 people resulted in amajor strain on the College’sresources.

This new form of operationcould pose a challenge for theCollege’s wireless network,Johnson said. This is because thetechnological manpowerrequired for audio calls farexceeds the resources neededfor the text-based communica-tion that currently dominatesthe campus.

“The challenge will be …managing bandwidth, billingissues and the lightning pace atwhich these technologies areevolving,” Johnson said, particu-larly if other schools choose toemploy the technology.

Kotz will be gauging both thesystem’s response to this newactivity as well as the way stu-dents incorporate VoIP into theireveryday lives, he told the Times.

“I’m curious to monitor howmuch people use it,” Kotz said.“Are students who have had avery e-mail oriented culturegoing to use it? Will they use itfrom dorm rooms, dining halls,classrooms? Will they makelengthy calls? Long-distancecalls?”

But many students said theywere unsure that it would have agreat impact on their lives atDartmouth.

“I don’t plan on using the sys-tem this year,” sophomore DianaBradford told The Dartmouth. “Ihave a cell phone with manyunused night and weekend min-utes for long distance.”

Junior Liz Vaughan agreed. “Imay not use it really, partlybecause I have a cell phone andthe only place I really go with mycomputer is the library,” shesaid.

The University’s researchcoincides with this study, saidPamela Davis-Kean, assistantresearch scientist for Institutefor Research on Women andGender and the Institute forSocial Research.

“Our research consistentlyshows that girls outperform boysgrade-wise in schools,” Davis-Kean said.

The study released by OECDcited girls’ strength in reading —but University research showsthat girls also do noticeably betterthan boys in math and science, aclaim that has long been disputed.

“We have shown that girls’math grades at their junior year inhigh school are better than that oftheir male counterparts,” Davis-Kean said.

“If you actually look at SATscores, men do better, but therehas been some theory showingthat there’s a restricted range formen who take it. The higher

achieving boys take it. The widerange of girls (both high- and low-achieving) that take the test bringthe overall mean down,” sheadded.

Davis-Kean, who works on theGender Achievement ResearchProgram at ISR, added thatwomen from all achievement lev-els strive to enter higher educa-tion, while only the most accom-plished boys go to college. Men,on average, have a greater oppor-tunity of getting jobs without acollege degree — in fields such asmechanics and construction.

Although the study did notcompare women and boys’ math-ematical and scientific skills,University researchers andadministrators in gender issuesexpressed both concern and hopefor women in math and science.In science and engineering, thepipeline effect is especially notice-able. In 2002, the University’sengineering program conferred 14percent of its doctoral degrees towomen and 24 percent of its mas-ters’ degrees.

“Historically, women tookfewer math classes, but that’s

changing now, which is good.Then, they can go on to be mathand science majors. And also his-torically, women have not done sowell on the math portion of theSAT, but that is also changing.Women are catching up,” saidCinda-Sue Davis, director of theWomen in Science andEngineering Program.

“We work with women in theelementary and high schools. Wehave a large K-12 outreach pro-gram, and we encourage womento go into science and engineeringfields,” Davis said.

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WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Do not be distracted by thepink-and-green sneakers. Oh, they’re cute all right, espe-cially on Diane Johnson, who also is sporting a lime greenpantsuit. She is surrounded by about 100 women wearingvariations of the color theme: hot pink, pale pink, bubblegum, sea green, olive, emerald.

But the living bouquet posing recently on the steps ofCapitol Hill is here for business. They’re all members ofAlpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s oldest black sorority. Oncethe group picture is taken, they spread into the offices oftheir senators and representatives, gently but firmlyreminding them who they are (college-educated profes-sionals), what they do (organize, network and raise lots ofmoney) and what they care about (education, health, equaland civil rights).

“As women of Alpha Kappa Alpha, it’s our responsibilityto say, ‘You can’t fool us with this smoke-and-mirrorsgame,’” says Phyllis Young, president of the local Xi Omegachapter. “‘You can’t play us.’”

The AKAs were in Washington for their Public PolicyConference, which coincided with last weekend’sCongressional Black Caucus conference. And they aren’tthe only sisters in town. The ladies in red are Delta SigmaThetas. Those in royal blue and white are from Zeta PhiBeta; the ones in blue and gold, from Sigma Gamma Rho.

These historic black sororities boast an impressive net-work of professional women who run companies, cam-paigns, families and much more. They represent about500,000 women known and trusted on the grass-roots levelwho stay active and involved for a lifetime.

“People at work kid me because I wear a lot of pink andgreen,” says Doxie McCoy, communications director forDel. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C. Then there’s her gold-and-diamond AKA bracelet. “I wear it all the time.”

Texas Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Eddie BerniceJohnson are AKAs. Civil rights leader Dorothy Height, for-mer Labor Secretary Alexis Herman and presidential candi-date Carol Moseley Braun are Deltas. And that’s just thestart.

“I’m with Senator Clinton’s office — but I’m a soror, too!”Leecia Roberta Eve tells the ladies assembled on theCapitol steps. A collective cheer goes up, and Eve, counselto Hillary Rodham Clinton, jumps into the picture with herAKA sorors.

Then the AKAs troop over to the Russell Office Building,where the junior senator from New York takes time from apacked day to meet and greet and pose with the AKAs

because ... well, because there are a lot of votes and greenin all that pink and green.

Growing up poor in Alabama, Herman never thought ofherself as sorority material. That was for the “other Mobile,”she says; for middle-class, educated black women.

But in 1977, just after Herman moved to Washington, herfriend Dorothy Height told her: Join a graduate chapter ofDelta Sigma Theta.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton , D-N.Y., meets with Linda White, international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, and othermembers, many dressed in the sorority colors, on Capitol Hill.

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MBL faculty but the virtue of whathappens (in Woods Hole) everysummer. They will be exposed toscientists from around the world,”Speck said.

According to Bertness, officialfunding for graduate students hasnot yet been established. Butgrant proposals will be writtensoon and submitted for the pro-gram and could help providefunding as soon as next year.

New undergraduate researchopportunities have not been spec-ified, but they are part of thefuture plans for the affiliation.

“This is a really spectacularopportunity and could be anexciting thing for undergradu-ates,” Bertness said. “Peopleshould be excited to see what hap-pens over the next year.”

The partnership will also givethe MBL scientists an opportunityto teach both undergraduate andgraduate Brown students,Bertness said.

“Many of the scientists workingat their labs want an opportunityto teach,” Zimmer said.

Bertness said classes offered bythe MBL faculty will begin springsemester — greatly increasing theUniversity’s offering in biology,the environmental sciences andengineering.

Before the new agreement wassigned, Brown students studied atMBL through other programs.

For many years, the Universityhas offered the Semester inEnvironmental Science to stu-dents, Speck said.Undergraduates spend a semesterperforming hands-on research inthe environmental sciences at oneof MBL’s facilities.

Many biology and environ-mental science concentratorshave collaborated with MBL tocomplete their senior theses, saidAssociate Professor ofEnvironmental Sciences StevenHamburg.

Jeremy Sinaikin ’00 completedhis senior thesis entitled “TheEffect of Nitrogen andPhosphorous Fertilization on theCation Exchange Capacity ofArctic Soils and Plant NutrientContent” with the help of MBL.

“As the only ecosystem ecolo-gist on campus it is exciting tohave linked up with one of theworld’s premier ecosystemresearch teams,” Hamburg said.

Hamburg was once a studenthimself at MBL. He was an under-graduate student in MBL’s firstecosystem course in 1975.

Speck said MBL consideredpartnering with many other uni-versities.

He said MBL chose Brownbecause “many of the Brown fac-ulty are summer researchers hereand summer teachers here.”

A retreat for professors fromboth institutions is planned forOct. 25 to create more interper-sonal cooperation between Brownand MBL, Bertness said.

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everyone’s opinion into account.“We make the rules,” Gaston

said, although he added that mostresidents break the rules as well.

All the house chores, likesweeping the floors and collect-ing money for food, are dividedbetween the housemates and thefood co-opers. But, “even if peo-ple clean once a week, it still getspretty dirty,” said CaseyKoppelson ’06.

As in many other houses occu-pied by college-aged students,table counters had remnants ofmeals passed, but residents werediligent about cleaning theirplates and wrapping left-overfood for the fridge, often provid-ing the next day’s lunch.

Perhaps the most unusualadditions to the rooms are theextra bodies — Watermyn resi-dents are welcoming to crashers,

Koppelson said.“It’s like living at home and

having a brother,” Miller said.“Like, seven of them.”

Living in the co-op savesroughly $1,300 per semester onhousing. Food co-oping savesmore than $1,000 per semestercompared to the 20-meal plan,Koppelson said.

In order to secure these low

prices, the house buys food, mostof which is organic, in bulk, com-bining orders with the Finlandiaco-op and other smaller food co-oping groups, she said.

Not all the residents ofWatermyn are Brown students,Koppelson said. Other residentsinclude the two students atJohnson and Wales’ culinaryschool, a RISD student, a Brownalumnus and one Providencenative — a poet currently roam-ing Thayer Street, she said.

The house also comes with apractice space and a communalblack cat, Koppelson said.

The Brown Association forCooperative Housing acquiredWatermyn house in 1970 to bepart of a 1969 GroupIndependent Study Project oncooperative living, according toBACH’s Web site.

Herald senior staff writer MerylRothstein ’06 can be reached atmrothstein@browndailyher-ald.com.

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virus on campus, according to Dr.Edward Wheeler, director ofHealth Services at Brown.

It’s important to remember thatmost cases of West Nile virus arenot serious, he said.

“The vast majority of peoplewho are infected may even have amild illness, where they get afever, maybe some headachesand some body aches,” Wheelersaid.

What is more dangerous is thepossibility that West Nile willresult in encephalitis, or swellingof the brain.

“That’s the bad one,” he said.“But most people who get WestNile don’t develop the encephali-tis from it.”

According to the Center forDisease Control and Prevention,Eastern equine encephalitis virusis fatal in 35 percent of cases, mak-ing it one of the most pathogenicmosquito-born diseases in theUnited States.

Powell said Providence officialshave made every effort to keepmosquitoes from breeding,including using pesticides toeradicate nests in storm drains.

Herald staff writer JulietteWallack ’05 edits the metro sec-tion. She can be reached at jwal-lack@browndailyherald.com.

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pant in the South, but this goesbeyond anything I could imagine.

Is there a lesson that can betaken away from a case like this?Well, one lesson that has beentaught ad nauseam, but nobodyhas bothered to learn, is thatsports and alcohol don’t go welltogether. Sure, Coors Light tells usthat beer and football are likeAbbott and Costello, but let’s behonest, we would believe them ifthey told us beer made a greatcologne so long as a pair (or twopairs for that matter) of “Twins”were there to reinforce the mes-sage. If beer and sports are such agreat team, then why do BugSelig’s Brewers make him cringehis bitter beer face year after year?But beer does serve its purpose;how else would Boston Red Soxfans be able to cope with notmaking the playoffs all theseyears?

While drinking may not be thedirect solution, an aspect ofdrinking can be used to quell theproblem of deranged sports, andhopefully make Charlton Hestonproud to support guns inAlabama. Repeated drinking ofalcohol leads to a tolerance,much like suffering repeatedheartbreaks leads to a level of tol-erance of losses. So maybe weshould all root for a bad team andagain adopt another side effect ofdrinking, lowering our expecta-tion levels.

Okay, so maybe there isn’t asolution to the irrational acts weperform in the name of sports.Let’s not look at the big picture,but take things one game at atime. Take for example the WorldSeries. I think the only measureswe can take to avoid Armageddonare declaring martial law inBoston, rescinding the repeal ofthe 18th amendment, or hedgingour bets and just give the Sox theWorld Series.

Ian Cropp ’04 has never had agun near him during sportingevents.

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early 4-1 lead, but NewHampshire quickly closed thegap. Brown’s play was muchcleaner in this game andKaralyn Kuchenbecker ‘06 andLiz Cvitan ‘07 were consistentwith the jump-serve. Brown fellbehind after being tied at 22 andended up behind 27-29, butthey were able to fight back,scoring four in a row to take it31-29. However, Brown wasunable to keep up the intensityin the fourth game. They trailedearly on and, though they wereable to minimize the gap, theywere not able to finish, falling26-30.

“I think we definitely couldhave beaten New Hampshire,”said Lauren Gibbs ‘06. “Weplayed with them the wholetime, but the problem was thatwe didn’t step up and play ourgame; we played to their level.”

Gibbs led the attack with 16kills, trailed closely byKuchenbecker and Cvitan, whoeach had 11. Kuchenbeckeralso tallied 13 digs, giving her adouble-double.

“I’ve been working my con-sistency, playing the game,being confident. Volleyball isvery much a mental sport,”Gibbs said. “My coaches and Ihave been working on stayingconfident, playing our gameand doing everything we can tokeep the ball in the court.”

The next day, Brown cameon the court with a desire towin. The Bears started off withmore discipline than St. Peter’sand capitalized on its oppo-nent’s mistakes. Brown ranaway with the first game for a30-19 win.

The second game was moreevenly matched, as St. Peter’ssettled in. After a back andforth battle, the Bears were ableto go up 30-29. Brown lost theadvantage, but St. Peter’s gotcalled on a carry and the gamewas again tied 32-32 with LeighMartin ’06 serving. She dishedouit a pair of aces giving Browna 34-32 win.

“I do think that we need towin games more decisively, butthe fact that we could do that is asign that we are growing as ateam and that takes a lot of effortto come together and make achange in the way we play andwin this game,” Gibbs said.

Brown seemed to be mental-ly exhausted in the third game.The teams were tied for most ofthe time, but St. Peter’s took thelead after the 20 point mark,resulting in a 26-30 loss for theBears. In the final game of thematch, Bruno grabbed an earlylead and never let go. They won30-22 for a 3-1 victory in thematch.

Cvitan led the team in killswith 16, closely followed byKuchenbecker with 15 kills and19 digs for another double-double. Gibbs tallied nine kills,five block assists and two soloblocks. Her partner in blockingwas Rikki Baldwin ‘07, who tal-lied five block assists as well aseight kills.

“I think we came together asa team,” Gibbs said. “We keptcommunication open on thecourt, and it was just worth itto everybody to get this win.”

Breaking into the win col-umn was a big step for a team,which started the season withsome tough losses.

“We were excited to win, butwe were also upset that it didn’thappen earlier,” Gibbs said.

The team did not fare wellthat night against GeorgiaState, dropping the match 3-0.They fell 25-30 in their first andbest game, then 24-30 andfinally 20-30.

“We just stopped playing.We beat ourselves; it was ourown mistakes,” Gibbs said. “Welet them get a few points on usand then we couldn’t controlthe ball and hit the ball away. Itwas our mistakes.”

Individual performanceswere slightly down as well.Kuchenbecker led the teamwith 11 kills, while Baldwinand Cvitan each notched 10.Gibbs and Baldwin teamed upfor two assisted blocks each.Captain Kim Highlund ‘04 hada personal best with nine digs.Martin continued strong play,notching 34 assists after pick-ing up 48 against NewHampshire and 49 against St.Peter’s.

“We need leadership on thecourt to win,” Gibbs said. “Wejust need to step it up andknow that we can be a winningteam. Knowing that it justtakes playing the entire matchto the best of our abilities.”

Volleyball is away this week-end in the team’s first IvyLeague game of the season,against Yale. Brown split withYale last year winning the firstmatch 3-2 on October 30, 2002,but falling to the Bulldogs 3-2in November.

Herald staff writer KathyBabcock ’05 can be reached atkbabcock@browndailyherald.com.

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The Bears’ offense fell apart anumber of times throughoutthe game–in many situationsbefore a player was able to takea decent shot at goal.

“We had a pretty tentativeoffense, and weren’t organizedearly on,” Clapper said. “Webecame hesitant to attackbecause we were afraid that ifwe lost possession St. Franciswould counterattack andscore.”

In spite of the falteringoffense and defense, goalie JayFantone ’06 kept the Bearsafloat and made a total of elevensaves. Several times he facedone-on-one situations with a St.Francis player on a fast breakand virtually no other defensiveplayers between the ball and thegoal.

“The only one who didn’tback down at all was Jay,”Sandys said. “We let him down,but he had an incredible game.The number of one-on-oneshots he blocked was astound-ing.”

At the end of all four quarters,the scoreboard read 9-3, givingBrown its first loss of the week-end.

It would also be the team’slast. The Bears came out onSunday morning in their gameagainst Bucknell with a desire toprove themselves and play totheir full potential.

“We came out and pressuredthe ball any chance we got, andput the responsibility onBucknell to make somethinghappen,” Clapper said. “Ouraggressive defense fueled ourcounter-attacks and offense,and as a team we played bet-ter.”

Though the game started outas a close match with the differ-ence of only a goal in the firstquarter, the gap on the score-board widened to a decisive winof 11-7. With the defenseincreasingly putting pressure onBucknell’s two leading scorers

and creating counter-attackopportunities for the offense,Grutzmacher added three goalsto Sandys’ two in the first quar-ter, as well as scoring by co-cap-tain Dan Spencer ’04, ThomasPayton ’07, Bourne and Wiener.

The final game of the week-end pitted the Bears againstGeorge Washington to vie forthe fourth place spot in thetournament. Despite an earlylead in the first quarter, thingsdid not look good for Brown asGW took a 4-3 lead by the end ofthe second quarter.

“We were leading in the firstquarter, and then we had ourworst quarter of the entireweekend, in all aspects of thegame,” Clapper said. “Welooked sluggish, we turned overthe ball, and we didn’t chase itdown afterwards.”

The halftime score jolted theteam to make a comeback in thethird quarter, where it regainedcontrol quickly and startedattacking again. An amazing 17saves by Fantone and an aggres-sive defense shut down furtherattempts by GW to score and fedthe offense for counter-attacksthat led to Payton’s goal to catchup on the board and Tiner’s tobreak the tie. Grutzmacher’sgoal five seconds before thebuzzer completed the 9-6 winover GW and boosted Brown toa fourth place finish in the tour-nament.

The team’s next contest is itslast home game of the seasonagainst MIT on Thursday, Oct. 2.

Known to be a fast andaggressive team with a solidgoalkeeper, MIT will force theBears to play up to their utmostpotential both on offense anddefense to come through with awin and a good seed for theEastern Championships.

“We lost to them last year,and it was the worst part of ourseason,” Sandys said. “This year,we are going to take it to them.We want revenge.”

Herald staff writer Jinhee Chung’05 covers men’s water polo. Shecan be reached atjchung@browndailyherald.com.

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against Georgia

State, dropping the

match 3-0.

the opportunity to do so,” hesaid. “If, at any time, they’drather be doing something elsewith the majority of their time,they can do it.”

Still, the rest period remainsin place, and the Council main-tains it is a crucial tool for inte-grating athletes into student life.

In a statement released in

June on behalf of the Council,former Cornell President HunterRawlings III and DartmouthPresident James Wrightdescribed the modified restperiod as “another step in assur-ing that Ivy athletes have ade-quate time not merely for theiracademic pursuits and forsports, but for other co-curricu-lar and personal activities aswell.”

Yet athletes from Brown’smen’s basketball team to itswomen’s lacrosse team asserted

that a seven-week rest period isnot enough time to do anythingbut weaken off-season perform-ance and that, in any case, com-mitment to their teams repre-sent “co-curricular and person-al” choices.

“We were definitely limited inthe things we were able to do asa team,” said Jaime Kilburn ’04,co-captain of the basketballteam, of last year’s seven restweeks. “Some players embracedit, but some felt they were at adisadvantage, especially whenwe played schools outside theIvy League.”

Women’s lacrosse playerDebbie Mendel ’04 said shereturned from study abroad tofind her team’s unity and per-formance unaffected by the

seven dead weeks during theoff-season. But she questionedwhether the perceived dividebetween athletes and non-ath-letes can be resolved by some-thing as simple as a rest period.

Demanding schedules createthe most obvious separationsbetween athletes and the rest ofcampus, Mendel said, but thebiases of non-athletes are alsoto blame.

“I’ve been able to establishrelationships with people out-side of athletics, but I’ve had toprove to them that I can exist onthe same academic level,” shesaid. “If there’s a change in atti-tude, then maybe relationsbetween student-athletes andregular students would be bet-ter.”

But what many academicresearchers advocate is achange in recruitment policies.Two influential recent studies,both conducted by the MellonFoundation, have found a wide-spread, widening dividebetween athletics and academ-ics at the most elite colleges.

Published in William Bowenand James Shulman’s “TheGame of Life” in 2001 andBowen and Sarah Levin’s“Reclaiming the Game” lastmonth, the results of thesestudies suggest that the lack oftrue “scholar-athletes” is due tothe mechanics of the recruit-ment process.

Recruited athletes includedon coach’s lists at admissionoffices earn far lower grades inhigh school and college thannon-athletes and even walk-ons, the more recent studyfound. Recruited athletes alsotend to limit extracurricularactivity to their sport and liveand socialize with other ath-letes, according to the study.

Considering the demands offielding competitive teams, par-ticularly in the Ivy League,which competes in Division I,the “specialization” of athletesmakes sense, Bowen told TheDaily Princetonian.

But it also has its costs. Manystudents who would participatein other extracurricular activi-ties on campus are deniedadmission, for example, andthere are reduced opportunitiesfor non-recruited students toparticipate in intercollegiateathletics, Bowen said.

Competing at a proto-profes-sional level weighs on studentathletes as well, he said — partof the reason the Ivy Councilhas taken a number of meas-ures in recent years to limit theintensity of its athletic pro-grams.

At the same time that it insti-tuted the original seven-weekrest period, the Council alsolowered the maximum numberof recruited football players andraised the academic require-ments for all recruited athletes.

But the rest period was theonly one of these policies togenerate substantial controver-sy, with athletic directors andcoaches insisting that it runscontrary to the realities of field-ing a Division I team — and thebest interests of their athletes.

“From an athlete’s point ofview, education does not neces-sarily have to be in a classroom,”said Digit Murphy, coach of thewomen’s hockey team. “I con-sider myself a teacher at Brown,not just a coach, and I know thatthese kids, when they graduateat Brown, tell me how muchthey learned by being part of ourprogram.”

And they don’t regret it,either, said Men’s Crew CoachPaul Cooke ’89. During Cooke’sfour years on the Brown crewteam, he said he only regrettedone practice — the one the nightbefore graduation.

“I don’t think they’re dividedfrom campus, and I don’t thinkthat’s a negative thing myself,”Cooke said of his team. “In fouryears, I never felt that any of thesacrifices I made weren’t worthit. When you have somethingthat you really have to do, youjust do it.”

Herald staff writer CarlaBlumenkranz ’05 edits the campuswatch section. She can be reachedat cblumenkranz@browndaily-herald.com.

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“I Used to Be aCommittee:Standards andValues at The NewYork Times”

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Scheduling sportsIt comes as a surprise that Brown, of all schools, would attemptto legislate its students’ schedules.

But this is precisely what the University tried to do when in2002 it instituted, along with the rest of the Ivy League, a seven-week rest period for all student athletes. The intent of the restperiod, according to a statement by the Ivy Council, was toallow athletes to pursue “co-curricular and personal activities”— a plainly ridiculous rationale. Athletes already engage in afuller schedule of “co-curricular and personal activities” thanmost other students, and to ask — indeed, demand — that theypursue others is unreasonable and unrealistic.

The Council appears to have conceded this point, andrevised the rest period into oblivion in June. Now teams cantake their seven weeks off on a day-by-day basis, which begsthe question, why keep the policy at all? The occasional day offduring the off-season will not allow athletes to take on othercommitments, even if they want to. Moreover, one must askagain why we would demand that athletes decentralize theirfocus in the first place. No university would ask its musicians,jugglers or writers to drop their primary extracurricular interestfor 49 days each year — why then its athletes?

The fact is, Brown and its peer institutions regard athletics asfundamentally different from all other extra-curricular activi-ties. Specifically, we see athletic achievement as in conflict withacademic achievement — whereas success in a capella, forexample, is seen as complementary to one’s academic pro-gram.

As a result, we tend to regard the behavior that defines ath-letes – participation in sports – as fundamentally in conflictwith academic curiosity and achievement. This is not a fairassumption, and a poor reason for instituting an autocraticpolicy like the seven-week rest period, which goes against thegrain of Brown’s liberal philosophy. If Brown students, athletesincluded, are sophisticated enough to choose their academicprograms, then they are also capable of dealing with thedemands of their extracurricular commitments, no matterwhat hours they require.

Write letters.

DPS can improvesafety with simple,effective changesTo the Editor:

I wanted to make a few additions to your articleon campus safety (“Students feel safe despitestepped up DPS efforts,” Sept. 29).

While I salute whatever the Department of PublicSafety has done to drastically reduce crime over thelast two years, some straightforward campus safetymeasures still need to be taken. I salute the routechanges with the shuttle, but as a 6’2” male, I amalways willing to risk walking alone instead of wait-

ing as a potential target at shuttle stops. It seems asif all too often, shuttle stops lack blue-light phones.

According to the article, DPS has increased itsvisibility on campus. Why then is there always aDPS uniformed security guard or an even moretrained DPS police officer working the front desk atthe Rock? Library employees seem to be adequateat least 12 hours a day, why do DPS officers need tobe there late at night? I am more concerned aboutthe safety of students than books.

Finally, I urge DPS to continue dormitory patrolsfor fire safety. A major dorm fire would be disas-trous in terms of property damage and lives lost.

Joe Griffith ‘05Sept. 30

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

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MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IS SOMETHING ofa curiosity in the modern political world.He is perhaps as despised among ordinaryRussian people as he is beloved by Westernintellectuals. To a casual observer, histransformation must be remarkableindeed. How, after all, has the one-timeleader of one of the most nox-iously repressive regimes ofthe past century become theRenaissance man of choice forthe American intelligentsia? Athis speech on Lincoln Fieldthis Monday, Gorbachevsounded like a professional diplomat,drawing huge applause from a credulousaudience. However, his peculiar remarkson the issue of globalization indicate thathis understanding of why democratic lib-eralism prevailed in the Cold War remainsas puny as his place in history is colossal.

Gorbachev’s legacy is indeed important,though the rush to anoint him as savior ofthe world makes little sense in the contextof history. Introducing Gorbachev,President Ruth Simmons heralded him ashaving “played a central role, and perhapsthe central role, in ending the Cold War.”Gorbachev was different from other Sovietleaders in one respect: When the EasternEuropean nations got a bit rowdy, he,unlike his predecessors, chose not to sendin the tanks. He was not, however, a cham-pion of freedom, by any stretch of theimagination. Tom G. Palmer of the CATOInstitute, a man who spent years distribut-ing banned literature behind the IronCurtain, notes that at the time of the Czech

“Velvet Revolution,” Gorbachev was daysaway from a summit with President GeorgeH. W. Bush and did not want to have freshblood on his hands.

Communism had been crumblinginternationally for years before EasternEurope finally broke free. The difference in

1990 was it was simply tooexpensive for Russia to con-tinue to control the old SovietEmpire by force. Still, few hadpredicted this result just adecade earlier. Before Reaganand Thatcher came to power

in the West, the popular theory was thatthe Brezhnev Doctrine (where commu-nism goes, communism stays) had to beaccepted, that missile defense was a dan-gerous provocation and that socialisteconomies would outperform stagflatingcapitalist ones for the foreseeable future.President Carter told the American peoplethat they were too accustomed to anunsustainably high standard of living andthat they would have to learn to live withless. Then came President Reagan, whoreinvigorated the economy, called evil byits true name and realized that when nego-tiating with a dogmatic and totalitarianregime, America should speak from a posi-tion of strength. He rebuilt the military,taking away the only advantage the SovietUnion ever really had. Ronald Reaganplayed the central role in ending the ColdWar. And he won it.

Simmons also complimentedGorbachev for having “abandoned theinstruments of coercion” during his leader-ship. However, Gorbachev’s central goal inreforming the Soviet Union was to preservecommunism. Perhaps enough revisionisthistory has allowed people to forget that

perestroika was a fundamentally illiberalconcept, a program wherein the commu-nist police cracked down on the few mech-anisms of the free market that had beenallowed to creep up in the Soviet Union.Gorbachev wanted to tackle unacceptablyhigh rates of corruption and alcoholism,but somehow utterly failed to consider thepossibility that those particular economicliabilities were not the disease, but symp-toms of communism itself.

On Monday, Gorbachev got it rightwhen he claimed that “economic global-ization provided the impetus for demo-cratic globalization.” He then went on tocontradict and cloud that eminently rea-sonable statement with a trendy but mean-ingless discourse that set “democracy”against “global corporations,” with enoughreferences to “the people” to make any oldCommunist proud. He blamed the West fornot providing enough aid to poor nationsand for allowing “democracies” to lapseback into authoritarianisms, and heblamed “global corporations” for restrict-ing the ability of governments to respondin the interests of their people. All thisamounts to but a kindler, gentler manifes-tation of the communist belief in the powerof governments to dispense CosmicJustice. It misses the point that it was notdemocracy that led to the success of theWest, but constitutional liberalism.Capitalism, freedom and property rightscannot dispense Cosmic Justice either, but

these instruments do better than any gov-ernment ever has. The major reason whymany undeveloped nations have failed toadvance further is that they have imple-mented democracy without constitutionalliberalism or capitalism.

The central tenet of Gorbachev’sreformed ideology surfaced when heremarked that “some people are trying toimpose one model on all of us … onepanacea cannot be accepted by all.” Itbecame clear that by “some people”,Gorbachev meant developed Westernnations, and by “one model,” he meantdemocratic capitalism. He went on toequate this with the communist imperial-ism of old. Margaret Thatcher brilliantlysummed up this equivocation, stating thatGorbachev’s was essentially that “since noside had won (or, doubtless more impor-tant to Mr. Gorbachev, no side had lost)and no single ideology was sufficient forthe needs of the world today, the search forsolutions must go on.” Such ideas, toThatcher, “represent the articulation of astrategy, common to the left in manycountries, of seeking to escape all blamefor communism and then going on to takecredit for being more pragmatic, modernand insightful about the world whichthose who actually fought communismhave created. It is a pressing need toexpose and defeat both distortions.” Imyself could not have put it better thanthe Iron Lady.

“WHEN BUTTERCUP WAS FIFTEEN,Adella Terrell was easily the most beautifulcreature. Then one day, one of her suitorsexclaimed that without question Adellamust be the most ideal item yet spawned.Adella began to ponder the truth of thestatement. It took her close todawn to finish her inspection,but by that time it was clear toher that the young man hadbeen quite correct in hisassessment. She said, “I amprobably the very first perfectperson in the whole long his-tory of the universe … howlucky I am to be perfect andrich and sought after and sen-sitive and young. Well, ofcourse I will always be sensi-tive, and I’ll always be rich,but I don’t quite see how I amgoing to always be young.”She had begun to fret. The firstworry lines appeared within a fort-night….” Paraphrased from WilliamGoldman’s “The Princess Bride.”

Too many people are obsessed withstaying young. According to the L.A.Times, Botox use has become so prevalentthat Johns Hopkins Medical School doc-tors hold “Botox parties” where God onlyknows what happens. Ridiculous, you say?A 19-year-old Los Angeles friend of mine isalready planning ahead for the crises ofthe future. When we ate lunch together at

the end of August, she told me she hadheard of a girl at UCLA who secretlycharged Botox injections to her parents’credit card, but informed me proudly thatshe herself does not intend to get Botoxuntil she is 30. Because, obviously, to get

injected at 29 years and 364days would be ridiculous.

Last week, assuming I wassafe from superficiality inrational Providence, I voyagedto the mall and was shocked tosee the onslaught of 11-year-old pop divas strutting around,strategically baring G-stringsover the tops of their hip hug-ging jeans and displaying shirtswith raunchy slogans like“Slut” and “My boyfriendthinks I’m studying.”

To make matters worse,most of them buzzed away likechainsaws on cell phones glued

to their yet undeveloped hands. Back in myday, when granny panties still ran rampanton this earth, I was lucky if I negotiatedtime away from my two sisters on myhome phone. I got my first cell phonewhen I was 18, going to college and labor-ing under the delusion that I was stillyoung.

On one hand, we have children dress-ing like they’re auditioning for“Showgirls,” and on the other, we haveadults obsessed with denying the exis-tence of aging and paying good money tohave snake venom immobilize theirfaces. The teeny boppers want to be older.Anybody old enough to legally drink

wants to be younger. It seems that theonly solution for everyone’s self esteemand body dismorphia is to turn 16 andforget their birthdays forever.

But that isn’t the solution either, becausemy sister is 16. She gets straight As andlooks like a model. However, she can’tenjoy her Atkins-diet-produced flat stom-ach because she sees her thighs as too big.Over the summer, she would come into myroom early in the morning while I waspassed out at the ungodly hour of 10 a.m.and say, “Do these jeans make my legs lookbig?” This is not a fun question to answer atany time, but especially not before I’ve hadmy coffee. “No.” I would say, and roll over.Some people say that body language is 50percent of all communication, and to any-one else, this would have been an obvioussign that I wanted to sleep undisturbed —but not to my sister.

“Are you sure?” Victoria said, spinningon her heels in front of my face so that herbutt practically blocked out the sun. “Whatabout from the back?” she pouted. I stillhadn’t had my coffee.

“Yes, I’m sure! Not even from the back!You look stunning. Now go away.”

Five minutes later, she tapped me on theshoulder, having donned a new pair. “Whatabout these?” If looks could kill, I’d beaccused of murder.

I’m just waiting to go home forChristmas to see my youngest sister, who is12, wearing scandalous underwear andwielding a Botox syringe, saying, “Didn’tyou know? Naked is in. I’m practicallyRepublican.” Thank goodness she has towear a uniform during school.

Amid all the chaos, I realized with a chillthat I am about to turn 20 and am, by mod-ern standards, verging on over the hill. I’mstraddling the edge. What is it about beinghuman that makes us care so much aboutbeing young? Nobody, not even Adella ofTerrell, (granted, she was fictional, butWilliam Goldman probably based her onhis wife) who was the model of perfection,was happy with what she was.

But our response to the visual world isso visceral that after Princess Diana diedpainfully in a car crash and left two chil-dren, many people’s response was, “Atleast she died young and beautiful, andthat is how the world will always remem-ber her.”

Christopher McAuliffe ‘05 would likeevery Brown student to look up the word“liberal” in the dictionary.

When you’re over the hill at 20, it seems no one can enjoy the view from the top

ALEXANDRATOUMANOFF

WHAT’S A GIRLGOTTA DO?

Dying to be young

Alexandra Toumanoff ‘06 is too busy aginggracefully to write a tagline. Botox, any-one?

Gorby’s worldWhat Mikhail Gorbachev (and Ruth Simmons) forgot to remember

CHRISTOPHER MCAULIFFE

LIVE FREE OR DIE

On one hand, we have children dressing like they’re

auditioning for “Showgirls,” and on the other, we have

adults obsessed with denying the existence of aging,

and paying good money to have snake venom immobi-

lize their faces.

His understanding of why democratic liberalism pre-

vailed in the Cold War remains as puny as his place

in history is colossal.

BY GRANT SMITHIn what Coach John Gregorak describedas a conservative race, the Brown men’scross country team pulled out a fourthplace finish Saturday at Van CortlandtPark in New York, behind the nationallyranked talent of Iona and La Salle andIvy-League rival Dartmouth.

Aiding in the fourth place finish andcrossing the line in a near tandem forthe Bears were carriers Patrick Tarpy ’05and captain Matthew Emond ’04 withtimes of 26:02.6 and 26:02.9 respective-ly, placing them 17th and 18th overall.Michael DeCoste ’03.5, in his debutafter an arthritic knee injury thatplagued his season last year, turned in atime of 26:17.4, setting him in the topthree finishers for the Bears and 24th inthe rest of the field.

Rounding out the top five for theBears was 34th-place finisher ErikChurchill ’04 (26:28.6) and 43rd-placeJordan Kinley ’06 (26:35.8).

“We didn’t have a good race or a badrace, it was just OK,” Gregorak said.

“This race was not really indicative of

where we are right now. Our main pur-pose was to get a meet on this tracksince it is where the Heptagonal meetwill be held,” he said.

An important aspect of the team’sfinish was missing runner Jeff Gaudette’05, who sat out as a precaution.

“Gaudette is normally one of our topthree runners. If he would have run, wewould have out-placed Dartmouth,”Gregorak said.

Also sitting out for the Bears wereEamonn O’Connor ’04, with a possiblelower-leg stress fracture, and OwenWashburn ’06, who is rehabilitatingfrom a virus.

“What we are looking at for the fol-lowing weeks is a training program thatbegins to incorporate more speed work.It’s too early to ease off the miles, but wewant to start to do less of an aerobicbase workout and more race situa-tions,” Gregorak said.

The Bears will exhibit the results ofthis training when they face off againstthe talented Providence College teamon Oct. 10 in Boston.

LET’S FACE IT, SPORTS MAKE US DOsome pretty irrational things. Think aboutit. Would any person in their right mindjump in front of a piece of rubber travelingat almost 100 miles per hour? How couldsomeone with any self-respect run around

in a circle dodgingpunches thrown tothe head?

Well, these arejust a few of thenormal things thatathletes do. Theinsanity does notstop on the fieldand spectators takeno exception to thehysteria associatedwith sports events.Fans go the extramile, pouring theirhearts into their

teams, hoping that an emotional invest-ment will somehow contribute to a win. Ithink it was the Beatles who once said thatthe love you take is equal to the love youmake, but they were talking about a lesssignificant and more fleeting love.

The love affair that exists between fansand their teams has led to instances thatstretch the boundaries of embarrassment.I’ve seen Buffalo Bills fans tear a MiamiDolphins jersey off an unsuspecting fanand punch him in the face. I’ve heard ofNASCAR fans sneaking out onto the trackthe night before a race to urinate in hopesof making “prettyboy” Jeff Gordon spinout. Soccer hooligans have incited riotsand are no longer able to visit theNetherlands due to a Dutch version of the“Homeland Security Act.” Cities have evendeveloped psychological complexes whilesupporting a team (and I’m not talkingabout the sadomasochism of DetroitTigers fans).

The most destructive action taken byplayers and fans occurs when their teamloses. Having suffered through a litany ofsports travesties (The Music City throw-back, no goal, Superbowl XV-XVIII, the1986 world series, the 1972 U.S-Soviet GoldMedal basketball game, and of course thedefeat of my intramural hockey team in thechampionship), I figured that I’ve brokenenough chairs, or that nothing would pre-vent me from showing empathy. Well Iwould like to thank a man from Pinson,Alabama for raising the bar of sportsspazzes and making John McEnroe looklike Mr. Rodgers on a heavy dose of Valium.

This past Saturday, “die hard” AlabamaCrimson Tide fan Joseph Alan Logan helda gun to his son’s head and pulled the trig-ger while throwing a tantrum afterAlabama lost in double overtime toArkansas. His son, Seth, who had askedhim for a car shortly after the loss, movedhis head away at the last second and wasphysically unharmed. Logan claimed thatthe request upset him because Seth hadwrecked several cars before, and that hisactions were only meant to scare Seth. Iguess if Logan didn’t scare his son enoughby slamming doors, throwing boxes, andbreaking dishes, putting a 9 mm to hisson’s forehead did the trick. But I don’tknow who is more at fault here. Asking fora new car after Pa’s team loses in doubleovertime is like asking Republicans toincrease welfare benefits; you should justknow better.

Logan had been drinking alcohol, whichI’m going to say is a reassuring thought, asI only hope someone would be intoxicatedto care that much about a sporting event. Iknow history and I know pride runs ram-

BY JINHEE CHUNGWith a league game against rival Harvardlast Thursday and the ECAC Tournamentlast weekend, the men’s water polo teambrought another challenging set of match-es to a close on Sunday. The Bears placedfourth out of 10 in the tournament, whichincluded the top teams on the East Coast,behind Princeton, who went undefeated,Navy and St. Francis. They are now 6-5 inthe season.

The team originally expected a toughgame against Harvard, despite the numberof inexperienced players and injuries onthe Crimson team, due to the deep-seededrivalry between the two schools. Yet Browncompletely dominated the pool all fourquarters, shutting down the Harvardoffense to a mere two goals.

“We were surprised at how unmotivatedthey were,” said Pat Sandys ’05. “Usually ina rivalry it’s very close, but they did notstep up their play the entire game.”

Co-captain Doug Grutzmacher ’04shined in the pool, leading the Bears inscoring with five goals and drawing fourejections.

“Doug has had decent games so far thisseason, but until this match had notreached the expectations he had for him-self,” said Coach Todd Clapper. “This gamewas a breakout game for him, and thatmomentum carried to the weekend forhim and for the rest of the team as well.”

Additional scoring by Sean Tiner ’06,Greg Harm ’06 and Sandys, each with twogoals, and Graeme Lee-Wingate ’06 andJohn Bourne ’07 sealed the victory forBrown with a 13-2 win over Harvard.

Only two days later, Brown met Harvardagain in its first match in the ECACTournament. Despite the result of the pre-vious match-up, Harvard once again failedto rise to the occasion and in a mannerreminiscent of Thursday night, the Bearsdefeated the Harvard team with a finalscore of 15-6.

In contrast, the second game of the dayagainst St. Francis proved to be a muchmore difficult contest for the team on allends. Consisting of older players withextensive experience on the internationallevel and known to have inflicted seriousinjuries to many opposing team players,St. Francis used its advantage of size fromthe very beginning and did not hold backthe entire game.

“We were not aggressive whatsoever,”Sandys said. “In such a game we neededthe mindset that whatever they did to us,we would do it right back to them, butinstead they threw us around and we letthem do it.”

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

OCTOBER 1, 2003 · PAGE 12

see CROPP, page 7

Volleyball picks up first win ofthe season against St. Peter’s

Miyako Igari / Herald

Lauren Gibbs ’06 smashes a middle set by Leigh Martin ’06 into St. Peter’s defense.

Without one of its top runners,M. X-country finishes fourth

Craziest rantsof fans, athletes

M. water poloplaces fourth atECAC Tourney

Miyako Igari / Herald

Sean Tiner ’06 had two goals versus Harvardin a 13-2 win prior to ECACs.

IAN CROPPCROPPICAL PARADISE

BY KATHY BABCOCKBrown volleyball (1-7) hosted a tourna-ment this weekend and earned its firstwin of the season against St. Peter’s, butthe team fell to New Hampshire andGeorgia State.

The Bears fell to UNH 3-1 on Friday,beat St. Peter’s 3-1 and lost 3-0 toGeorgia State on Saturday.

“We just played a little bit better thisweekend,” said Coach Diane Short.

Brown started off slow in their firstgame against New Hampshire and did-

n’t communicate their intentions well.The Bears also got aced early on by theWildcats’ Alyson Coler. They picked upthe intensity later in the game, but wereunable to mount a comeback. The sec-ond game was tied half the time, butNew Hampshire took a key time out andpulled away from the Bears, leading forthe last 10 points of the game and even-tually gaining a 27-30 victory.

In the third game, Bruno took an

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see WATER POLO, page 7