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BY MICHAEL RUDERMANThe Laborers’ New England RegionOrganizing Fund has charged theUniversity with condoning unfair laborpractices stemming from an incident atthe construction site for the newFacilities Management offices on LloydAvenue.

According to a letter sent to PresidentRuth Simmons by Regional OrganizingDirector Nick Manocchio, the Universityhired contractors who, over the summer,

interfered with workers’ rights by lockingthem into their job site during breaks,preventing them from meeting withunion officials.

The National Labor Relations Boardhas assigned an investigator to test thevalidity of the charges. Vice President forAdministration Walter Hunter expectsthe investigation to conclude in a matterof weeks.

“We’re pretty confident that the inves-tigation will be thorough and impartialand conclude that the charges againstBrown have no weight,” Hunter said.

If the charge is upheld, the Universitycould face fines and a possible order tocease and desist any unfair labor prac-tices.

The NLRB charge implicates theUniversity and two non-union firmsBrown hired — Cranshaw Construction,a contractor hired by the University, andD’Agostino and Associates, a masonrysubcontractor hired by Cranshaw.

The labor union accuses theUniversity, and specifically Simmons, ofinaction “to stop or change the offendingbehavior,” in the charge. The labor unioncites the actions of the D’Agostino sub-contractors as violating the NationalLabor Relations Act.

“It’s pretty clear that Brown is notresponsible for the actions of a subcon-tractor, under a contractor,” Hunter said.“We don’t have any control over the laborrelations policies of a contractor’s sub-contractor.”

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ResCounciladvocatesmore coedhousingBY MONIQUE MENESESNext semester’s housing lottery will offeran unprecedented number of coed suiteoptions if the Office of Residential Lifeapproves a proposal passed atResCouncil’s Tuesday meeting.

The five-page coed suite proposal rec-ommends that “all suites in Minden,Barbour, Young Orchard, and theGraduate Center be designated optional-ly coed in the upcoming lottery.”

The only suites currently available tocoed groups are those in VartanGregorian Quad and Morris-Champlin, aswell as a limited number on WristonQuad.

ResCouncil will “almost certainly”send the proposal to Dean for CampusLife Margaret Jablonski and ResLife today,said Jesse Goodman ’04, ResCouncilchair.

“In my opinion, this recommendationwill result in some level of expansion thatwill affect the lottery for next year,”Goodman said.

Jablonski told The Herald she is infavor of offering a “reasonable amount”of coed suites and is open to recommen-dations from ResCouncil about the extentof these offerings.

But, Jablonski added, she will not makea final decision about this year’s coedoptions until the Residential LifeCommittee, co-chaired by Goodman andAssistant Dean of Student Life SalvadorMena, submits a report on the result oflast year’s lottery.

The Committee will complete itsreport within the coming weeks,Jablonski said.

ResCouncil’s proposal in favor of morecoed suites cites council surveys thatshow more students would choose coed

BY ELLEN WERNECKEWould you pay to keep your GPA asecret?

The College Curriculum Councilvoted unanimously Tuesday not to rec-ommend that grade point averages beadded to official or internal transcriptsin implementation of the new comput-erized registration and transcript sys-tem, despite an estimated $100,000price tag.

Dean of the College and CCC ChairPaul Armstrong said Vice President forComputing and Information ServicesEllen Waite-Franzen quoted him theestimated price, which would includenot only removal of GPA computation,but also changes to reflect the currenttuition credit system.

Armstrong called the current policyof GPA non-computation “a symbol of

the New Curriculum” and evidence thatthe University is a “wonderfully idiosyn-cratic place.”

“As (Associate Professor of Chemistryand Biochemistry) William Suggs said atour last meeting, we’ve been wonderingwhat the cost of the New Curriculumwas,” Armstrong said, “and we found it.”

“Not calculating the GPA is a smallthing, but it’s a significant difference in away that would be a shame to give up,”he added.

Armstrong said, “It’s not a very largeprice to pay to signal we’re puttinglearning first.”

“The GPA at Brown is meaningless,”said Associate Professor of sociologyAnn Dill. “I don’t know any employerworth working for who will deny you an

CCC votes to keep GPA off transcripts

BY ZACH BARTERDuring Geoff Nyarota’s tenure as editor-in-chief of Zimbabwe’s only independentdaily newspaper, his office was bombed,his printing presses were destroyed and hewas arrested six times. But through it all,the Daily News never missed an issue.

Nyarota, now a Nieman Fellow atHarvard University, spoke about his careerin journalism and challenges currentlyfacing Zimbabwe before an over-capacitycrowd of 130 students in Wilson HallTuesday night. Nyarota’s talk was the sec-ond in a series of lectures sponsored byThe Herald and was co-sponsored by theAfrica Group.

After the government fired him fromposts at two other state-controlled papers,Nyarota founded the Daily News on ashoe-string budget in 1999.

“I had the sense that the people ofZimbabwe were totally disillusioned withthe government media,” Nyarota said.“The Daily News became a runaway suc-cess almost from day one.”

The Daily News quickly becameZimbabwe’s best-selling paper. But its crit-icism of President Robert Mugabe andefforts to expose corruption led to a gov-

Journalistdiscusseschallengesto free press

see RESCOUNCIL, page 7

see ZIMBABWE, page 4

University faces labor charges

see UNION, page 6see CCC, page 6

UPenn studentsquestion newspaper’s“racially insensitive”crime coveragecampus watch, page 3

Student suesNorthwestern forfailed grade and lackof diploma campus watch, page 3

No need to congratu-late selves for listen-ing like first-graders,says McAuliffe ’05column, page 9

Sarah Green ’04 saysstudents, faculty andU. show some biasagainst transferscolumn, page 11

Volleyball picks up sec-ond league win againstBig Green, but bleedsdefeat with Crimsonsports, page 12

Sara Perkins / Herald

When editor of the Daily News, Zimbabwean Geoff Nyarota was arrested on six occasions between 2000 and 2002. He received twodeath threats, his office was bombed and the paper's printing press was destroyed. Nyarota captivated a packed house in Wilson 102on Tuesday night.

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BY SARA PERKINSA beginning-of-the-semester spike in on-campus crimeat the University of Pennsylvania has focused criticismon the campus newspaper, the Daily Pennsylvanian.Students have criticized the independent paper forover-reporting crime in a racially insensitive mannerand for running the name and photograph of an under-graduate accused of a sexual assault.

The Pennsylvanian reported that there were 15 rob-beries on or near campus between Aug. 27 and Sept. 23.At Brown, only four robberies have been reported to theDepartment of Public Safety since Aug. 27, includingone armed robbery on Oct. 26, according to AssistantManager for Special Services Michelle Nuey.

Students have told the Pennsylvanian that thepaper’s coverage is “perpetrating a culture of feararound campus” and “demonizing west Philadelphia,”said Amy Potter, the executive editor of the paper.

Students Quanisha Smith and Andrine Wilson wrotea guest column that appeared in the Pennsylvanian onOct. 8, in which they accused the paper of sensational-izing its crime reports to get readership. “Individuals’current racial and class prejudices are only going to bejustified and reinforced by the prevalence of these arti-cles,” they wrote.

Smith and Wilson also set up an open Internet dis-cussion group at Yahoo.com called “Be About It” to con-tinue talks of race and crime coverage at the university.

The articles that sparked the most criticism con-cerned a dormitory sexual assault. In the early morningof Sept. 28, a female student reported she woke up to

find a male intruder fondling her, according to thePennsylvanian. University police reported they hadmade an arrest in the case on Sept. 30.

After learning that an African-American sophomorein the Wharton School had been arraigned for theassault, the Pennsylvanian printed his name, class yearand a smiling photograph of him on Oct. 2. The accusedwas a resident of the same dormitory as the victim,Harnwell College House.

The next day, the headline “Harnwell residents exer-cise caution; emails sent throughout dorm remindedstudents to lock doors” ran next to his grim mug shot.

Participants in an Oct. 3 rally at a Fox News broadcaston campus took issue with what they perceived as alack of sensitivity to race in the Pennsylvanian’s cover-age.

“For a large part of American history, the connota-tions of a black male have been lock your doors, clutchyour purse,” UPenn senior Darcy Richie told thePennsylvanian. “It’s so blind to then put on the frontpage an image of a black man next to the words ‘lockyour doors.’”

Other students also felt the accused student’s reputa-tion would be damaged before he was proven guilty. “Byposting one’s picture and name in the paper, it sociallyimplies that one is guilty,” Smith and Wilson wrote.

Potter defended the paper’s right to print the photos. “We’ve listened to what the community has offered us

as feedback. Whether we agree with it or not, we’re going

UPenn “crime wave” putsspotlight on campus reporting

Northwesternstudent suesover gradeBY SARAH LABRIE A former Northwestern University student who was deniedhis diploma because of a failing grade has pressed chargesagainst both the university and the assistant professor thatissued the grade.

Anton Rozenbaum transferred to Northwestern in 2000.He was scheduled to graduate with the class of 2002 whena dispute over a biology exam during the winter quarter ofthat year led Assistant Professor Erik Sontheimer to accuseRozenbaum of cheating.

Rozenbaum claimed in his lawsuit that the failing graderesulting from Sontheimer’s accusation kept him fromgraduating and will prevent him from going to graduateschool. He is suing for more than $50,000 in damages, aswell as his diploma. He also wants the original grade placedback on his transcript and other academic records, theChicago Tribune reported.

The conflict arose from a meeting between Rozenbaumand Sontheimer, his biology professor, in May 2002.Rozenbaum stated in court documents that, after receivinga B-plus on his biology exam, he scheduled the meeting “tobetter understand the material” and that he took notes onthe test during his discussion with Sontheimer, accordingto The Daily Northwestern.

Rozenbaum admitted he had previously questionedSontheimer’s grading policy, but denied requesting hisgrade be changed. According to court documents,Sontheimer lowered Rozenbaum’s grade from a B-plus toan F, claiming Rozenbaum tried to change his answers after

see GRADES, page 4see UPENN, page 4

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the test had already been scoredin order to receive a better grade.

Rozenbaum met with CraigBina, associate dean of theWeinberg College of Arts andSciences, in June to counterSontheimer’s accusation. Courtdocuments imply Bina refusedto believe Rozenbaum, statinghe felt “it was unlikely that a pro-fessor would lie to him as aresult of this argument and usu-ally it was the students that liedto get extra points,” The Dailyreported.

In the lawsuit, Rozenbaum

accuses Northwestern of failing tofollow university protocol byaccepting the failing grade with-out the authority of a schoolprovost.

The university plans to deny allcharges, according to VicePresident of University RelationsAlan Cubbage.

“We believe the lawsuit to bewithout merit and we will defendthe university and the professorvigorously in court,” Cubbagesaid.

The date for the trial will be setat a hearing in February.

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

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ernment crackdown.“It became a challenge for

journalists to work inZimbabwe,” Nyarota said. “(Thegovernment) wanted all theseissues to be swept under the car-pet, and the independent pressrefused to comply.”

The government responded tothe allegations by portraying thepaper as the mouthpiece ofWestern interests, Nyarota said,“as if Africans do not have thecapacity to think for themselves,as if an African with an emptystomach needs George Bush totell him he’s hungry.”

Nyarota was dismissed fromhis position in December 2002.Fearing for his safety, he fled toSouth Africa and was offered tobe a Nieman Fellow at Harvard.Nyarota’s fellowship and visa endin December, and he said he doesnot know what he will do afterthat.

The Daily News has since beenforced to shut down as a result ofits refusal to register with the gov-ernment under restrictive newmedia laws.

Although the nation is suffer-ing under Mugabe, change mustultimately come fromZimbabweans themselves,Nyarota said.

“I think it will come. The peo-

ple have their backs against thewall. They cannot retreat anymore,” Nyarota said.

When an audience memberasked whether U.S. militaryintervention would solve the cri-sis, Nyarota said the role of theinternational community mustbe to prepare Zimbabweans forreconstruction followingMugabe’s departure from office.

“Press here tends to concen-trate on issues American, andsometimes they totally ignore theplight of millions of people in ourpart of the world,” Nyarota said.

Following the lecture,Medicine Mavhondo ’07, whogrew up in Zimbabwe, told theaudience about the decay of theeducation system under Mugabe.

“My fellow countrymen needhelp, in the education sectorespecially,” Mavhondo said. “If aZimbabwean can have a broadmind, a liberal mind ... somedaywe will see the realization of thebeautiful Zimbabwe I knew 10years ago.”

Audience member Chris Hu’06 said the lecture made himrealize how much Americans takea free press for granted.

“In other parts of the worldjournalism is a very dangerousprofession,” Hu said. “This sort ofput it in perspective.”

Herald senior staff writer ZachBarter ’06 can be reached [email protected].


Zimbabwe

to listen,” she told The Herald. At the beginning of the semes-

ter, crime reporting was, unfortu-nately, a large part of thePennsylvanian’s coverage, shesaid. Since then, the crime ratehas fallen, and, in turn, so hascrime reporting.

“I don’t even feel like we shouldhave to say that we have racialunderstanding,” she said. “Wehad no malicious intentions withanything we ran.

“(But) it’s worthwhile to goback and figure out why theywould say that (we lack racialunderstanding),” Potter added.“Maybe there’s something we canfix.”

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins’06 is the photo editor. She can bereached at [email protected].


UPenn “I don’t even feel like

we should have to say

that we have racial

understanding,” she

said.“We had no mali-

cious intentions with

anything we ran.

“(But) it’s worthwhile

to go back and figure

out why they would

say that (we lack

racial understand-

ing),” Potter added.

LOS ANGELES (L.A. Times) — Anunrelenting wildfire jumped afire line Tuesday in the SanBernardino Mountains andheaded toward Lake Arrowhead,devouring homes and disease-wracked forests in its path.Downcast fire officials said theyappeared to be losing their bat-tle for the alpine resort region.

The blaze, potentially cata-strophic, was just one of severalmajor fires that have burnedclose to 900 square miles ofSouthern California in the pastweek, leaving 16 people deadand destroying at least 2,000homes. Others raged fromVentura County to Mexico, forc-ing tens of thousands of addi-tional evacuations and threat-ening communities, includingthe Stevenson Ranch subdivi-sion in northern Los AngelesCounty.

Fire destroyed most of thehamlet of Cuyamaca in theCleveland National Forest eastof San Diego, authorities theresaid.

A shift in the weather broughtcooling marine breezes to soot-caked fire crews, helping arrestsome fires, but fanning others innew and treacherous directions.

As exhausted firefightersstruggled to gain some measureof control over the fires, thehead of the U.S. Forest Servicesounded downhearted.

“It isn’t getting better yet,”Dale N. Bosworth said in aninterview with the Los AngelesTimes in Sacramento. “It’s prettygrim.”

Smoke filled the skiesthroughout much of SouthernCalifornia, turning the sky arange of otherworldly colorsfrom a putrid grayish yellow tosalmon pink. Close to the fires,eyes stung, lungs ached.

Residents of threatened com-munities, many of whom movedto the fringe of wilderness toescape urban stress, were con-fronted with life-and-deathdecisions and wrenchingheartache.

In the town of RunningSprings, along Rim of the WorldHighway between LakeArrowhead and Big Bear, local

fire Battalion Chief Ben Wilkinswas besieged with telephonecalls from anxious residentswho had evacuated and wantedstatus reports on their homesand properties.

Wilkins, who recently boughta 3-story log home in RunningSprings, was sympathetic butfrank. “I fully expect to lose myhome today,” he told the callers.“That’s the reality of the wholething,” he said. “But I’ve gotinsurance, and I’ll rebuild. Ourmain concern is that no oneloses their life here.”

Besides threatening homes,the fire at Stevenson Ranchendangered the Old Glory Oaktree, where an activist spent 71

days nearly a year ago in aneffort to save the tree from aroad-widening project.

“It’s gonna be gone,” saidNathan Gonzales, a spokesmanfor the Los Angeles County FireDepartment.

In Washington, House andSenate negotiators tentativelyagreed to provide $500 millionin emergency funding to helpthe Federal EmergencyManagement Agency respond tothe California wildfires, as wellas to Hurricane Isabel.

The spending was proposedby Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif.,who called it a “down payment”on the amount that will beneeded to repair and rebuild.

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WASHINGTON (L.A.Times) — Thenewly retired head of the StateDepartment’s intelligencearm said Tuesday the U.S.intelligence community“badly underperformed” foryears in assessing Iraq’sweapons of mass destructionand should accept responsi-bility for its failure.

The assessment by Carl W.Ford Jr., former assistant sec-retary of State for intelligenceand research, marked the firsttime a senior official involvedin preparing the prewarassessments on Iraq hasacknowledged that seriousintelligence errors were made.

The assessment by Carl W.Ford Jr., former assistant sec-retary of State for intelligenceand research, marked the firsttime a senior official involvedin preparing the prewarassessments on Iraq hasacknowledged that seriousintelligence errors were made.

Prior to the war, the intelli-gence community assessedthat Iraq possessed biologicaland chemical weapons andthat Saddam Hussein hadrestarted a nuclear weaponsprogram. After nearly sixmonths of occupation, nosuch weapons of massdestruction have been discov-ered in Iraq.

The intelligence communi-ty “has to bear the majorresponsibility for WMD infor-mation in Iraq and other intel-ligence failures,” Ford, aVietnam veteran who workedfor years in U.S. military intel-ligence, the CIA and theDefense Department andretired Oct. 3, said in twointerviews with The Times.“We badly under-performedfor a number of years, and theinformation we were givingthe policy community was offthe mark.”

Ford could not pinpointwhat had gone wrong, but thequestion, he said, must beanswered.

The entire intelligencecommunity—including Fordand the bureau he ran—should have done a better jobof ferreting out the truthabout Iraq’s capabilities, hesaid. The first step in improv-ing the performance of theagencies, he added, is toadmit error.

“It’s sort of like the first stepin a 12-step program,” he said.“You have to have thatmoment of clarity to realizethat you’ve got a problem. Wein the community have notyet accepted that we have aproblem. The worst thing, forme, is we could do better. ...We can do far better with thepeople, the leadership and themoney we’ve got. It’s the lost

opportunities I find trou-bling.”

Ford’s comments contrastsharply with the defiant state-ments by other senior admin-istration officials, includingPresident Bush.

At a news conferenceTuesday, Bush defended theintelligence on Iraq and notedthat much of it preceded histaking office.

“We took action basedupon good, solid intelligence,”Bush said. “It was the rightthing to do to make Americamore secure and the worldmore peaceful.”

CIA Director George J.Tenet has vigorously defendedthe community’s performanceand disputed any suggestionthat its prewar conclusionswere wrong.

Tenet has apologized forallowing discredited allega-tions about Hussein seekinguranium from Africa — sup-posedly for nuclear weapons— to be included in Bush’sState of the Union address.But recently, agency officialssaid that an exhaustive inter-nal review nearing comple-tion validates their work onIraq and has yet to turn up anyevidence that their prewarconclusions were flawed.

Asked for comment onFord’s remarks Tuesday, CIAspokesman Bill Harlow said:“It is entirely premature toreach conclusions about theaccuracy of prewar judgmentsabout the status of Iraq’sweapons of mass destructionefforts. The difficulty in locat-ing highly compartmented,secret weapons programs in acountry that was extensivelybombed and looted shouldnot be underestimated.”

Harlow said that while theagency awaits the conclusionsof David Kay, the chief U.S.weapons hunter in Iraq, whois writing a report on his find-ings, “we continue to believethat the work of the intelli-gence community on IraqWMD was solid.”

Contrary to charges bysome critics that the adminis-tration politicized the intelli-gence, Ford argued that theintelligence community — acollection of agencies includ-ing the Central IntelligenceAgency, the DefenseIntelligence Agency, theNational Security Agency, theNational Imagery andMapping Agency and Ford’sbureau at the StateDepartment — cannot blameits failure on pressure fromthe administration.

Analysts “are trainedalmost from birth” how to deal

Intelligenceveteran criticizesagencies in Iraq

Wildfire heads toward arrowhead

(Washington Post) — One of the strongest geomagnetic storms inyears will hit Earth Wednesday at midday with potentially dis-ruptive effects on spacecraft, satellite communications, electri-cal power grids and pipelines, according to space weather fore-casters and solar scientists.

A gigantic solar flare exploded from a sunspot on the sun’ssurface Tuesday at 5:54 a.m. EST, blasting energy and matter intospace and sending billions of tons of hot gas and charged parti-cles straight toward Earth at almost 5 million mph.

When the storm gets here, it will cause a rapid global changein the magnetic field, scientists said, setting the stage for effectsranging from possible power grid shutdowns to cell phone out-ages and dazzling displays of northern lights in the skies farthersouth than usual.

Larry Combs of the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration’s Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo.,said the geomagnetic storm will be much more severe than twoothers that reached Earth in the last five days.

The storm, which will likely last 18 to 24 hours, will periodi-cally reach the highest level on NOAA’s space weather scale,Combs said in a telephone interview.

The solar outbursts have already caused a series of radioblackouts, including a pronounced one Tuesday morning thatresulted from what one scientist called “the strongest flare we’veseen in the past 30 years.” The blackouts, which primarily affectaircraft traveling at far northern or southern latitudes, couldcontinue for weeks, scientists said.

The solar eruption is “headed straight for us like a freighttrain,” said John Kohl, a solar astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. Twosimilar eruptions — known as coronal mass ejections — thatswept past Earth in recent days “hit with only a glancing blow.”

Managers of satellites and utilities were taking protectiveactions to mitigate possible power surges. see IRAQ, page 7

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A firefighter, near Lake Arrowhead, turns away from the heat.

interview because you won’t givethem a meaningless number,”she said.

Professor of Biology JonathanWaage said GPA computationhas always been difficult atBrown because of theUniversity’s policies onSatisfactory/No Credit coursesand the dropping of No Creditsfrom student transcripts.

“We recognized (with the for-mation of the New Curriculum)that this issue would always bewith us,” said UniversityRegistrar Michael Pesta, addingthat the Enterprise system’scapability to calculate the GPAinternally should not distract theUniversity from its principles.

“The registrar does not havean open GPA, a hidden GPA orany GPA,” Pesta said. “If we’ve gotone and we display it and say itdoesn’t matter, that creates con-flict,” he said.

“I have a number of studentswho come from institutionswhere a GPA is not computed,”said Senior Lecturer in educationEileen Landay. “Brown has a rep-

utation of being willing to admitstudents on criteria besidesgrades and GPA,” she said.

Despite the unanimous rec-ommendation, some committeemembers developed stickershock. Samuel Brenner GS saidmost graduate students’response to paying for non-com-putation was one of “indigna-tion.”

“Students don’t necessarilyshare that view that $100,000 isnot a lot of money,” Brenner said.

Chief among issues related toGPA computation was the effectof the current policy on studentsseeking jobs or other positionsfor which a GPA may need to beprovided. Waage suggested theCareer Development Office pro-vide documentation to employ-ers on non-computation.

“Students do calculate the GPAon their own,” he said, “but youcan get a 4.0 very easily by takingall but one or two courses S/NC.”

Jordan Elpern-Waxman ’04suggested Brown communicatebetter to employers that officialnon-computation is a Brownpolicy, not an individual choice.

“Employers think a résuméwithout a GPA means that theapplicant is hiding something,”he said.

Committee members agreedstudents would still be allowed tocalculate GPA for outside pur-poses, but that they would rec-ommend the University notcompute the GPA.

“Everyone who needs to cal-culate a GPA will do so,” Brennersaid.

Later at the meeting, Pestaunveiled his proposed newschedule of standard meetingtimes.

Pesta said a current classroomcrunch and the impending facul-ty increase under the Initiativesfor Academic Enrichmentcaused his office to re-evaluatethe current schedule.

Of the 165 rooms available oncampus, Pesta said only 98 areunder the control of theRegistrar, with individual depart-ments, libraries and laboratoriescontrolling the remainder. TheUniversity used to trade withdepartments for space, he added,until it realized “the spaces wegot were never as good as thespaces we gave out.”

“Often we have 80 or 90 roomsbeing used at the same time,”Pesta said. “We’re pretty muchmaxed out then.”

Often, faculty demands deter-mine the course schedule,including requests for moreclasses that meet twice weeklyand fewer Friday classes, Pestasaid. He said he had to turn downapplications for I hour (10:30-11:50 a.m.) and J hour (1-2:20p.m.) classes for this semesterdue to a lack of space.

“Everyone wants to teachTuesdays and Thursdays from 10a.m. to 2 p.m.,” Pesta said. “Iknow you can have your pick ofclasses at eight in the morning,”he added, noting that many ofBrown’s counterparts in theAmerican Association ofUniversities, an exclusive groupof Category I research universi-ties, offer 7:30 a.m. classes.

“There’s lots of pressure not tohave afternoon classes becauseof athletics,” Pesta said, “andonce-a-week seminars that con-flict with graduate students’ col-loquia.”

Under Pesta’s new schedule,

an additional block would beadded to Tuesday and Thursdaymornings, and the existing 50-minute blocks on Monday andWednesday afternoons would beconverted to two 80-minuteblocks. Seminars would meet 4 to6:20 p.m. Monday throughThursday and 1 to 3:20 p.m.Friday.

“Over the next few years, weneed to find more smaller class-rooms for more smaller classes,”Pesta said, “assuming I’m notgetting a new building with 50classrooms. The faculty is grow-ing faster than the infrastruc-ture,” he said.

Executive Vice President andSenior Advisor for the PresidentRichard Spies, who attended themeeting, said there are “no clearadvocates” for new classroomspace, but the administration isstill aware of the need.

“We talk about space everytime we renovate or talk about anew building,” Spies said, addingthat the administration was“constantly” looking into dual-use spaces that could be class-rooms by day and study or meet-ing spaces by night.

Professor of ComputerScience Steven Reiss expressedconcern about the elimination oftwo 50-minute blocks

“CS students stay up half thenight,” he said. “The earliest wecould get students (for a non-required course) is 11 a.m.”

Brenner suggested graduatestudents would be happy withmore evening seminars,although they might conflict withundergraduate events.

Wagge said the real issue wasnot the number of rooms avail-able, but keeping those rooms inusable condition.

“We have unbelievably archa-ic teaching facilities,” he said. “Ifthe room isn’t dark enough (toshow slides) or if students arefalling asleep because it’s 96degrees in the room, that’s a verydifficult academic problem.”

Herald senior staff writer EllenWernecke ’06 can be reached [email protected].

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Will Collette, strategicresearcher for the union, said thecharges were brought against theUniversity to pressure the schoolinto hiring only union contrac-tors.

The charge focuses on theevents of July 31, 2003, whichCollette characterized as “the cli-max of a summer’s worth ofabuse.”

On the day in question, unionrepresentatives approached theconstruction site and attemptedto speak to construction workersabout “the benefits of joining theunion,” Manocchio wrote in a let-ter to The Herald.

The union members found thatthe gate to the job site was lockedbefore their arrival. The unioninterpreted this as a “lock-in” ofthe 20 workers at the FacilitiesManagement building project.

According to Hunter in a letterhe wrote to Manocchio, the gatewas locked to prevent anyonefrom entering “the work site with-out permission, without hardhats, and without checking in atthe job trailer. … There is no rea-son for the Laborers’ organizers toenter construction sites; theywould be trespassing and expos-ing the contractor to significantliability when they do so.”

“A construction site is not opento the public. It’s a dangerousplace,” Hunter told The Herald.

The union also alleges thatD’Agostino manager Paul Costathreatened to “set up a workerlineup to see who supported theunion and who did not,” accord-ing to the charge. If a worker hadsided with the union, Costaallegedly threatened to fire theworker on the spot. The lineup didnot take place.

The contractors hired by theUniversity are accused in unionflyers distributed aroundProvidence of employing daylaborers who are not given appro-priate rights on the job site. Thesetemporary workers were hiredfrom Labor Ready Inc., whichManocchio characterized as “oneof the most notorious and preda-tory temporary employmentagencies in the country” in a letterto Simmons.

The union spread flyers accus-ing the University of unfair laborpractices, including preventingthe D’Agostino workers’ right toorganize. The flyers containedimages of prisoners behind bars,black protesters during the civilrights movement, and Simmons’head shot.

Collette said the unionattempted to meet with Simmonson repeated occasions, but shewould not talk to them.

“Why (Simmons) would allowthese injustices to take place inher own institution, her ownbackyard, and not talk to us is amystery,” he said.

“I thought with her history andreputation, she would appreciatethe injustice being done to theseimmigrant workers. I guess Ithought wrong,” Manocchiowrote in a press release.

Simmons did not return an e-mail seeking comment.

The University awards themajority of its construction workto union contractors and does notforesee changing these practicesin the near future, Hunter said.

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


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with political pressure to tailortheir conclusions to bolster poli-cymakers’ views, Ford said in twolengthy telephone interviews.“We push back on political pres-sure and the only problem iswhen there’s a weasel in theintelligence community whodoes not have the backbone (tostand fast) and starts giving thepolicymakers what they want tohear.”

Ford said, he suspected theremay have been such “weasels,”analysts who succumbed to thevery human temptation to findevidence to support the prevail-ing political view. But if so, Fordsaid, he does not know who theyare. “I certainly wouldn’t say thatkey members of the intelligencecommunity leadership that Iworked with were weasels,” Fordsaid.

Nevertheless, “When you havepolicymakers going astray asthey did on Iraq, the principalproblem has to be with intelli-gence. If somebody gives thembad information, nothing butbad can happen after that... andthe intelligence community gavethem bad information.”

Though there were dissenterswhose views were ignored, Fordsaid, “the majority view pre-vailed, and that (view) waswrong.”

The Bureau of Intelligenceand Research, known as INR,functions as an independentintelligence analysis agencyinside the State Department.Unlike the CIA or most otheragencies, it does not haveemployees, satellites or sensorscollecting raw intelligence. Butit does have its own experts onregions and issues who performseparate analysis on informa-tion gathered by others.

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Head Coach Diane Short laidout the key to a successful sea-son for Brown.

“We need to play greatdefense and we need to be astrong serving team,” Shortsaid.

“Anytime that we can mini-mize our errors plays a big rolein winning. We did serve verywell, so that helped out a lot,”Gibbs said. “We minimized ourerrors — that was the mostimportant part of that game.”

Bruno was not able to repeatits success against Dartmouththe next day against Harvard,although the team came outfighting, winning the first game30-22 and battling throughoutthe second in a 27-30 loss.

But the second game shiftedmomentum in favor of theCrimson, and Brown droppedthe last two games, 23-30 and24-30.

“I think during Harvard webeat ourselves,” Gibbs said. “Itwasn’t really anything that theydid. It wasn’t that they were toopowerful; it was just that afterthe second game we couldn’tbring it back together.”

Elvina Kung ’05 led the teamdefensively, coming up bigwith 28 digs. Highlund also hada great game, bringing her tothird for career digs in theBrown record books.

“I think that the team isdoing awesome defensively,”Gibbs said. “Our blocks stillneed some work, but as far asdigging goes in the back Kim(Highlund) and Elvina (Kung)are picking up pretty mucheverything that the otherteams’ offenses have to throwat us.”

Gibbs led the offense with20 kills and three blocks.Kuchenbecker had anotherdouble-double with 15 killsand 10 digs. Phenom Cvitanadded 11 kills and four blocks,and Martin had 54 assists inthe loss.

After their mixed successlast week, the Bears will facethe University ofPennsylvania and Princetonat home this weekend, twomatches that will likely deter-mine if they close out the sea-son well or sink back into theabyss.

“I think that with a youngteam, it takes time and it takespractice, and we’ve been work-ing hard,” Gibbs said.“Everybody, with this practice,is becoming more confident.”

Herald staff writer KathyBabcock ’05 covers volleyball.She can be reached at [email protected].


Volleyball

housing if it were available.In last year’s lottery, no

mixed-gender groups with soph-omores were able to select coedhousing, according to the pro-posal. As a result, the housingselection process failed “toencourage friendships betweenindividuals of different genders,both in the dorms and on therest of campus,” ResCouncilargues in the proposal.

According to the proposal,one of the limits on coed hous-ing options has been adminis-trators’ concerns about creatingcoed bathrooms in Minden,Young Orchard, Barbour andGrad Center.

In response, ResCouncil’s pro-posal suggests that students whochoose to live in coed environ-ments do so with the under-standing they will share bath-rooms with members of theopposite sex.

ResCouncil has also expressed

concerns that coed suites willcompromise the summer wait-list, since students cannot beplaced in them without theirconsent.

To resolve this problem, theproposal suggests adding acheckbox to the summer waitlistcontract giving students theoption of accepting coed hous-ing. This option may actuallyalleviate in part the “artificialshortages” that result fromResCouncil’s current coed hous-ing policy, according to the pro-posal.

Goodman said, after themeeting that students in searchof coed housing next year havesomething to be optimisticabout, despite the University’spast reluctance to expand coedhousing options.

“The University is completelyfailing in this respect,” he said.“It has been dragging its feet fora long time.”

Herald senior staff writerMonique Meneses ’05 can bereached at [email protected].


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the brown daily heraldL E C T U R E S E R I E S

“Cracking the Code:Journalism in aWorld of Secrets”Marie Brenner talksReportingCurrently a writer-at-large forVanity Fair, Brenner was a staffwriter at The New Yorker and acontributing editor at New York.Her work has appeared extensive-ly in Vogue. Her explosive articleon Jeffrey Wigand and the tobac-co wars, one of the longest andmost compelling reports inVanity Fair’s history, became thebasis of the1999 feature film, TheInsider, starring Al Pacino andRussell Crowe. Her investigationinto the Enronscandals madenational news when Senator PeterFitzgerald used it to question wit-nesses testifying before a Senatecommittee. “The Enron Wars” willbe a film, which Sydney Pollackwill direct. Brenner is the author offive books, including the New YorkTimes extended paperback best-seller, Great Dames: What ILearned From Older Women,and the best-selling House ofDreams: The Binghams ofLouisville.

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doesn’t seem so important. Formostly the wrong reasons, theLakers are the story of the NBAseason. And Jackson, who italways appears can quiet thestormiest waters, isn’t so certainabout the ship as it prepares toset sail. “It’s a role that’s totallyuncharted,” he said Friday night,before the latest Shaq-Kobedustup. “This one is filled withall kinds of things that could goon and a whole lot of suspicionsand hopes. We could be any-thing from a team that could win65, 70 games to a team thatcould implode in some ways. Idon’t think we will, but that’s myoptimistic viewpoint.”

And it’s increasingly possiblethat this will be the last seasonthat Jackson, or whoever iscoaching the Lakers, will field ateam with Shaq and Kobe on it.

When a player as savvy asBryant says he wants to test freeagency, it’s not an academic pur-suit. He wants to see what otherteams are interested and whathe can cook up somewhere else.A lot of folks think that some-where else is Memphis, whereJerry West, whom Bryantadmires greatly, runs the show.But of course the field is going toexpand. Who wouldn’t moveheaven and earth to try to getBryant? Presuming he is free toplay after his trial, Bryant can goanywhere he wants; maybe anew start will be exactly what heneeds. He’s got three champi-onship rings, so it’s not like heneeds another right away to val-

idate his career. Any team he’son is an instant contender, justthe way Michael Jordan madeany team an instant contenderwhen he was 25 years old. AndKobe, just 25, can play some-place where he doesn’t have toacquiesce to Shaq’s wishes.What, Kobe couldn’t go toPhoenix or Atlanta? Kobe could-n’t go someplace and team upwith the suddenly available PatRiley?

And then, Shaq and Kobe willhave what each claims he wants,no matter that neither has won achampionship without theother.

But for now, they’ve got todeal with this mess they’ve cre-ated.

Without question, Bryant isn’tin the kind of shape, coming offknee and shoulder surgery, tolaunch jumpers and play hisusual acrobatic style. So Shaq is100 percent right in his initialcriticism, that Bryant needs touse his teammates more untilhe’s fit. And Shaq clearly resentsthat Kobe, already perceived byeven his peers as aloof and self-centered, put the team in thiscircus position in the first place.

ButShaq could have andshould have just let Kobe’scomments slide this once. If

Kobe is agitated and hypersen-sitive, shouldn’t Shaq under-stand this one time? Shaq isthere every day at practice andin the locker room, and heknows what pressure Kobe isunder. Shaq, like the rest of us,heard Kobe say that every day isa bad day, as he awaits a trialthat could land him in prison.Shouldn’t Shaq have been abetter teammate and calledKobe in privately and set himstraight, instead of telling himpublicly to get out?

The Lakers, with Jackson atthe wheel, have a way of gettingback on course, of fighting oneday and hugging the next andnot really suffering any greatrepercussions. And withMalone and Payton excitedabout the prospect of winningthat elusive NBA champi-onship, perhaps this is just onemore squabble that Shaq andKobe can put to rest when thelights are turned on tonight andthere is an opponent on a bas-ketball court. But with eachoutburst, it’s beginning to feelmore and more serious, as ifthey genuinely don’t want toplay with one another, thatwhat we’re about to watch,instead of being a prelude, isquite possibly a finale.


Kobe

New England Championshipstwo weeks ago, when they wonthe meet for the first time inBrown’s history.

Brown followed the win with arunner-up finish to Yale at lastweekend’s CCRI Invite. TheBears were competing with asquad of one sophomore andfour freshmen. The team was ledby the third-place finish ofMadeleine Marecki ’07.Marecki’s time of 19:31 was herfastest 5K ever.

In the race, Wemple assignedeach of the five runners to a spe-cific Yale athlete. By matching upindividuals, Wemple said hehoped one-on-one victorieswould translate into a team victo-

ry. The Bears, however, came upshort and lost to Yale by threepoints.

Wemple said he was not dis-couraged by the outcome of therace strategy and plans to use itagain in the HeptagonalChampionships.

“It is Yale that we will be racingagain, but for third place thistime,” Wemple said. “We’ll haveto win the individual battles.Even though we lost at CCRI, itwas very close and illustrates howone person can make such a bigdifference.”

The HeptagonalChampionships will be held atVan Cortlandt Park in New YorkCity on Oct. 31.

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


WXC

mary nurse and then return to thedugout.

We know how this story ends,and now we also know howGrady’s tenure with the Sox ends. Itwas almost as if Grady’s Game 7mishap was a sign from the gods— no matter what it seems the Soxwill achieve, old school Gradywon’t be the man to take themthere. Game 7 completely epito-mized the conflict, on the grandestand most costly of scales.

The bottom line is that every

statistically unsound move Gradymakes goes a little way towardundermining a statistically soundteam. The sabermetric ideology ishere to stay, at least for the nextseveral years, and, in this respect,Grady Little was a clear misfit inthe organization in this respect.

So was he released because ofhis Game 7 performance? Theanswer is yes — but only becausewhat happened there representedmuch more than just one decision.

Eric Perlmutter ’06 hails fromChappaqua, N.Y., and he promisesthis is his last column on the RedSox until spring training … maybe.


Perlmutter

And then, Shaq and Kobe will have what

each claims he wants, no matter that nei-

ther has won a championship without the

other. But for now, they’ve got to deal with

this mess they’ve created.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


AFTER EXHIBITING RELATIVELY GOODbehavior at last week’s lecture by DavidHorowitz, Brown students, faculty andadministrators have been quick to congrat-ulate themselves. The collective campusmonologue of self-praise over the past fewdays has seemed to articulate somethingakin to “we suffered intolerable provocationat the hands of a controversial, racist, war-mongering madman, yet we are so intellec-tually mature that we chose not to riot, wetourselves, abscond with school papers orcommit other various felonies. Are we not amodel community?”

No, actually, we are not. Even asHorowitz was uttering his closing words, theaisles were filling up with students offeringone insipid question after another, their pri-mary unifying characteristic being ademonstrated incapacity for any sort ofinward examination. Indeed, much of thecampus response in the following days con-tinued the trend of conspicuouslydenouncing Horowitz as the mortalenemy of humankind. This is dis-turbing not because I, for a singleminute, expect the entire Browncommunity to fall in line behindHorowitz’s ideology. Rather,the response is upsetting inthat it seems to have missedthe entire point of hisappearance, which wasnot about reparations,affirmative action, thePatriot Act or any otherpolicy position, so muchas it was about intellectu-al diversity.

Intellectual diversity isnot a partisan issue, nor is itnegotiable for any truly open-minded individual. If diversity

of thoughts and opinions is not importantto universities, they may as well close down.David Horowitz’s purpose last Wednesdaywas to prove how lacking Brown is in thiscrucially important ideal. His method wasto advance mainstream conservative andclassical liberal critiques of the issues aboutwhich the prevailing dogma at elite schoolsis most intractable: the politics of race andgender.

The fact that many students and admin-istrators were so aghast at Horowitz’s widelyheld opinions on such matters proves notthat he is an extremist, a racist or any otherepithet the intellectual elite would like tohurl at him, but rather that Brown has failedmiserably in a centrally important aspect ofits academic mission. Why, as Horowitz

asked, do we not have professors herewho will provide critiques similar to

his own (and most likely makemore apt use of statistics)? Whyare course reading lists loadedwith Cornell West, EdwardSaid and Earl OfariHutchinson, while theBrown Bookstore stocks nota single copy of books byThomas Sowell, DineshD’Souza or Shelby Steele?

When an entire intellec-tual movement is so slightedin elite culture, it is no surprisethat insiders should come to

see its adherents as slightly strange, defec-tive or possibly evil. What happened in thespring of 2001 proves that an examination ofthis phenomenon is not simply academic.Just last week, at the interracial datingforum, one panelist claimed Brown is not a“safe space.” His reasoning? “Because ofDavid Horowitz, because of the CollegeRepublicans.” Thankfully, another panelistchided him for these remarks, but it remainstrue that large subsets of the Brown com-munity persist in turning the University intoa political party that recognizes protectionsfor designated victim groups, while remain-ing hostile to individuals who seek intellec-tual creeds outside of the elite leftist ortho-doxy.

Perhaps the most upsetting recent mani-

festation of this psychology of fear wasAssociate Provost and Director ofInstitutional Diversity Brenda Allen’sappearance at a meeting of the Coalition forSocial Justice. Allen paid the mandatory lipservice to “intellectual diversity” beforedenouncing the Horowitz event as utterlyworthless and “a waste of time.” GivenAllen’s title, her remarks represent the pin-nacle of inappropriate behavior for anadministrator, and the lack of a swift repri-mand reflects an astonishing double stan-dard. If, say, a Brown dean had offered that itwas “a shame” that some students may havefelt enlightened after a lecture by AlSharpton, would Brown officialdom have

remained so silent? As adirector of unqualified

“diversity,” Allen’s shallow public pro-nouncements on “good” and “bad” ways tothink are an unacceptable abuse of her posi-tion. I await her apology on behalf of anystudent who found some value in DavidHorowitz’s speech.

Essentially, Brown has evolved very littlesince the infamous Herald theft. True, theHorowitz event went down without anyserious disturbance, but the entire commu-nity had pretty much been “called out” bythe College Republicans to behave decentlyin the presence of some of the highest-rank-ing members of the Brown administration.The fact that we can listen as politely asmost first graders does not call for self-con-gratulation. Rather, we must ponder why,when the ever-so-occasional conservative

comes to speak at Brown, the issue seemsalways to be his or her right to be here. Wemust ask why Brown does not evenacknowledge its failure in the area of intel-lectual diversity, even when ideologies withcenturies of intellectual tradition and mil-lions of adherents are met with the samekind of ignorance and fear that JoeMcCarthy may have shown to a Hollywoodcommunist.

Maybe when David Horowitz’s harshestcritics bother to learn what a conservativeactually is, their erstwhile intellectual mas-turbation will evolve into truly constructivecriticism. When this happens, their argu-ments will demand all of our engagement,and ideological exchanges at Brown mayonce again breed true wisdom.

IN THE LAST THREE WEEKS I HAVE askedout six gorgeous women. All six womenrejected me. “I would love to, but I’m cur-rently dating someone.” Fair enough.Unless you’re making it up, in which caseyou are just mean.

I just don’t have the energy or time anymore. When I ask women out Iusually do it in some odd,funny, time-consuming way.This method usually stemsfrom my own insecurities inverbal interactions, but theynonetheless seem very successful in pleas-ing the girl. My latest interest received a let-ter in the Rock. I had never talked to herbefore and I wrote her a little note that readsomething like the following:

“I don’t know you, but you’re beautiful— truly gorgeous. I would come up andtalk to you but I am rather socially awk-ward. I would shower you with other com-pliments but I don’t actually know you.Thanks. Judah — the awkward-lookingwhite dude sitting behind you with anARMY shirt on.”

When she got up to go to the bathroom Iplaced the note on her book and sat backdown. She ended up having a boyfriendbut thought receiving the letter was truly“wonderful.” That is just one tactic, howev-er. I called up an African-American womanfriend of mine and without pausing, askedher, “Do you date white dudes?” That got agood laugh.

Once I asked out a girl who told me shehad too much baggage from a previousrelationship to get involved with me. I invit-ed her over and when she entered the roomI gave her two suitcases and asked her tostand there for a few seconds. Then I tookthe literal baggage from her hands and

asked her if we could go outnow. She was a tad confusedwith my intention, but after abrief explanatory note of themetaphor, I kissed her. I havetaken a girl on a picnic consist-

ing of a two-liter bottle of Diet Coke and M& M’s. Who doesn’t like diet soda andchocolate? Another time I was invited todinner and thought I should bring wine.The problem is I don’t know anything aboutwine. Plus, it is so cliché — wine has no flairor personality. Instead, I showed up with 12different candy bars and asked her to pickone, so instead of wine, I brought dessert.

On a different occasion I wrote a rhymefor a girl and asked her to appear on theMain Green at noon where I rapped it forher. One time, I showed up at a girl’s door at2:30 in the morning knocking very softly soas not to wake anyone up. After 20 minutesshe finally appeared in her pajamas, whereshe was greeted by the question, “I waswondering if it would be too much of aninconvenience to kiss you?” I couldn’tsleep, what was I going to do?

Why I am telling you these things? Afterall, it’s risky, since revealing my tactics maylessen their idiosyncratic effect.

First of all, most of the ideas I come upwith are rooted in the fact that I am inse-

cure. I come up with humorous/sweetthings to do in hopes that girls will see pastmy awkwardness and appreciate thethought, and in turn appreciate me. Thesethings tend to make women feel reallygood. You can see it in their eyes as theyflirtatiously laugh at you or you can hear it

in their words as they tell you, “That mademy day.” Great. Right?

I want someone to make my day. I’mtired of pursuing girls. I’m tired of havingconversations with women in which theyconfess to me that they would never askout dudes — “It’s just weird,” they say. I’mtired of having to be the one who lays it outthere and tries to make something happen.I want girls to come up to me — to leave melittle notes, buy me chocolate or take mybaggage away. If it makes you feel good, itprobably would make me feel good. Asidefrom making a direct request for women tostart creatively asking me out, I want toencourage women in general to becomemore active in the dating process — do notbe a passive participant. If you like some-body, ask him out. Gentlemen will appreci-ate it and it will even the playing field. Thatsaid, guys, don’t assume if a woman asksyou out that it is an invitation for a “freehook-up.” She might just want to get to

know you better. In the last few weeks, in spite of all my

rejections, I have come to realize that Ideserve a banging girl in every respect —physically, emotionally and intellectually. Iwon’t settle for less. I am not looking forcheap hook-ups or bullshit game playing. I

just don’t have the time or patience for it. I know most people probably feel the

same way — they are just too scared or toonervous to admit it. Or maybe they thinkhaving a girlfriend/boyfriend is too muchwork (save the six girls I asked out, ofcourse). I find it highly unlikely that collegekids can feel satisfied getting drunk andhooking up with random people everyweekend. Something is missing.

So, this is a call to arms. Don’t settle forbullshit. Pursue your interests. Tell thatdude at the Ratty sitting next to you thatyou think he’s cute. Buy him some choco-late and ask him out. It might not work butat the worst you will have a humorousstory to tell to your friends. Girls need tobecome more active and guys need tobecome more creative. Make someonesmile and laugh. You like doing those twothings, don’t you?

Go out there and make someone’s day —mine included.

Christopher McAuliffe ’05 is, in fact, an optimist.

JUDAH LAKINGUEST COLUMNIST

The final word on Horowitz

I find it highly unlikely that college kids can feel satisfied

getting drunk and hooking up with random people

every weekend. Something is missing.

Facing our fear of intimacy with creativityAn old-fashioned trial and error approach to love might just work

The fact that we can listen as politely as most first graders does not call for self-con-

gratulation. Rather, we must ponder why, when the ever-so-occasional conservative

comes to speak at Brown, the issue seems always to be his or her right to be here.

Last week’s lecture should make us wonder why conservatives have to defend their right to speak here

Judah Lakin ‘04.5 hails from Cleveland,Ohio.

christophermcauliffelive free

or die

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Money well spentIs the New Curriculum worth $100,000?

Many employers request a GPA on applications, and

sample resumes at Brown’s own Career Services list

GPA. But the CCC is doing the right thing when it

shells out six figures to keep GPA out of the University.

It’s a small price to pay in the short-run to protect our

values as a University.

While students today often look at college as one

step closer to a job, this philosophy is in opposition to

the University’s emphasis on pure intellectual growth.

And as much as graduate programs focus heavily on

grades, a quick look at one’s GPA should not be the way

to admission. Though it is a small statement that a

Brown student cannot be reduced to a number, keep-

ing GPA out of the immediate picture forces one to

look closer at the entire person reflected in the appli-

cation.

Although GPA takes up a single line on a transcript,

its addition would represent one more chip away at the

values of the New Curriculum that have been slowly

fading as Brown students become more and more pre-

professional. It becomes slightly easier to imagine

adding class rank, pluses and minuses, a required class

to the curriculum or a dozen other modifications that

by themselves seem petty, but taken together trans-

form Brown into something it vowed not to be 34 years

ago.

The counter-argument, of course, is that $100,000 is

a lot to spend on purely ideological grounds. But when

it comes to something that defines the University as an

institution, that sum shouldn’t matter in the long run.

Deconstructingwhiteness forum asksracist questions

To the Editor:

Re: “Students deconstruct the nature of white-ness,” Oct. 27.

I was disturbed to read that the question “Doesbeing white automatically make you racist?” wasboth proposed and contested. Only at Brown.That’s got to be one of the most absurd, racist andoffensive opinions I’ve ever heard. In a similar vein,perhaps we should hold a forum entitled “Blacks:Aren’t they good at basketball?” or “What makesAsians excel in mathematics?”

Webster’s says that racism is “discrimination orprejudice based on race.” Notice absence of thewords “by white people” at the end, an omissionwith which I wholeheartedly agree.

Aaron Fritschner ’06Oct. 28

Herald coverage ofenvironmentalconference insufficient

To the Editor:

Last weekend (Oct. 24-26) the BrownEnvironmental Action Network hosted a NortheastEnvironmental Conference, which was attended byover 100 students from 12 different schools andinvolved a full weekend of activities. Unfortunately,it was barely covered by The Herald. The confer-ence, which was open to the entire Brown commu-nity and all students in the Northeast, involved 10workshops on a range of topics; networking andcoalition-building opportunities; lectures by envi-ronmental activists; and delicious vegetarian food.It was organized entirely by students and took a fullyear to plan.

Nevertheless, despite BEAN’s efforts to informthe Herald prior to the conference, The Herald onlymade reference to the conference once, in its cover-age of the conference’s keynote address by RossGelbspan (“Environmental journalist warns of pol-lution’s dire consequences at Saturday’s confer-ence,” Oct. 27) and neglected to expound on thedetails of the weekend events or the conference’sconnection with the Brown Environmental ActionNetwork.

As a newspaper by and for Brown students, TheHerald has a responsibility to report such impres-sive student efforts to create change on campus, inthe region and beyond, so as to encourage currentand future student activism and to recognize theamazing outcome of collaborative student organiz-ing at Brown.

Deborah Lapidus ’05Oct. 28

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


SCANDAL ERUPTED LAST WEEK WHEN Aconfidential memo was leaked to theCalifornia press (a report meant for theRegents of UC Berkeley’s eyes only) thatreported that hundreds of places wereoffered in Berkeley’s class of 2006, andagain in the class of 2007, to applicantswith abysmal SAT scores (combined ver-bal/math scores starting at 601) and thatseveral thousand applicants with scoresabove 1400 were rejected. A few days later,UCLA’s almost identical admission anom-alies also hit the papers.

California banned affirmative actionfrom UC admission’s decisions severalyears ago, and though the leaked reports donot themselves give racial breakdowns ofthe students in the controversial admitsand rejects, further research did deter-mine the majority of the very low SATscore acceptances were minorities,raising suspicions that Berkeley andUCLA admission committees havedone an end-run around thestate’s affirmative action ban.

Although UCLA andBerkeley made these deci-sions with nothing buthonorable inten-tions, they may ulti-mately have done adisservice to thosethey most want tohelp. The UCs offerthe most prestigiousof California’s state-college degrees, butthey are notCalifornia’s only pub-licly funded schools of

higher education. California has an exten-sive “State University” system (it includesschools such as Cal State LA) and the stateuniversity campuses provide extremelylow-cost, high quality university educa-tion through the Ph.D. level. But, StateUniversity degrees do not have the “wow”factor that UC diplomas add to theirgraduate’s credentials. That factor derivesto a large extent from the common per-ception that only California’s brighteststudents are offered the opportunity toattend a UC. What happens to the wow,especially for minority students at theUCs, when their SAT scores are perceivedto be lower? Certainly minorities will notbe helped by a public perception that

lower standards were applied to theirracial or ethnic group’s applications.

But there is another concern here,too. It looks as if these admissionscommittees will give close scrutinyto characteristics and qualifica-

tions other than SATs if an appli-cant is a minority, but a whiteapplicant must perform at ahigh level on the SAT to be

considered a viable candi-date, in a sense lumpingwhites together. It seemssociety’s antidote for

healing one prejudice issometimes to replace itwith another.

But blindly and hypo-critically assuming thatwhites are blessed with power, privilege,

money or, in some other way, a fast ticketto easy street is also stereotyping and hyp-ocritical. Assuming a person of any race,including white, automatically sharesopportunities, or shares characteristicsbesides humanity and skin color, isridiculous.

During class discussions at Brown, Isometimes find I have the urge to hang myhead because I am white. The consensusseems to be that I, and others equallymelanin-challenged, must own up to avileness and snobbish racism towardminorities that permeates each of us in thewomb, grows stronger through the yearsand will continue to grow until we confessand lower our heads in shame, regardlessof who any of us are as individuals. Peoplewho shared my skin color did horriblethings to people who didn’t. It does notmean that I performed these actions orthat I know anyone who did. It does notmake me rich — or racist.

As a matter of fact, it does not make meanything, except a girl who sunburns easi-ly. Everyone I know at Brown feels thatprejudice and racism should not exist.Unfortunately, it seems as though part of awidely accepted solution is vilifying a dif-ferent race. Problems develop when weassume anything about a person basedsolely on her skin color. We are all individ-uals.

I read “Informal discussion centers onracism, self-identification” (Oct. 28) in TheHerald yesterday, an article that describedthe most recent event in DeconstructingWhiteness Week. Quotations and the

descriptions from it show it may be, albeitunwittingly, exacerbating racial tensions.

The event posed questions like “How doyou contribute to whiteness?” and “Whatis the distinction between whiteness andwhite people?” The questions insinuatethat individuality may be less relevant forwhites. We have to be careful because pin-ning characteristics on a race is part ofhow we got into this whole prejudice messin the first place.

Another part of the discussion “encour-aged those in attendance to examine theirown racial prejudices.” Ironically, thiswhole discussion seemed to further racialprejudice against whites by insinuatingthat if they are white, they are racist.

But the most potentially detrimentalroadblock to eradicating racial prejudicewas this: “Special significance was placedon the need for minorities and white peo-ple to be especially aware of latent racismin daily conversation.”

This only encourages people to seeprejudice where quite possibly there isn’tany, and if people are constantly listeningfor it, how are we supposed to leave itbehind?

Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed ofequality and of people being judged based on their character. We look to hiswords for inspiration. I cannot believe hemeant granting privileges to any one raceand denying them to another.Racism is never okay. While prejudice stillsadly clings like a sticky spider’s web tosome parts of society, re-directing ittoward a different group is not what will

make it disappear. Assessingindividuals individually may.

The unintended consequences of racial categorization

Exploring bias against transfer students, part IILAST WEEK I WROTE ABOUT CONCRETEways in which the University couldimprove the sad lives of transfer students.This week I want to address somethingthat’s harder to quantify: bias againsttransfer students. It’s difficult to show tan-gible evidence of the kind of unseen butpervasive bias that Virginia Woolf oncedescribed as an “aroma,” but there aretimes when bias will flare up in more visi-ble ways — from faculty, students or theUniversity as an institution.

One day, you go after class to the officeof your Distinguished Professor to discussthe day’s lecture. DP leans back in hischair, starts chatting you up. You confessthat you’re a transfer. A cloud passes overDP’s face. Where from? he wants to know.Georgetown? (We don’t know why heassumes this. Confused, we try to ignorethe randomness of his guess.)Connecticut College. “Wee-heh-hell-lll. ‘Connecticut College’” — youcan hear the quotation marks in hisvoice — “is a veh-herrrry differentplace than Browwwwwn.” Younotice that the DistinguishedProfessor has made a com-mon error in saying “differ-ent than” instead of thegrammatically correct“different from,” butbecause you are not anarrogant snob, you saynothing as you are dis-creetly waved from hisoffice like a bad smell.

Hence, the “aroma”— you can’t see it, butit stinks.

Nor are studentsimmune from resent-ing transfers. While, on the

whole, I have felt welcomed by the stu-dents at Brown, and find them (no matterhow many years they’ve been here) tohave in common their intelligence, cre-ativity and passion (stroke, stroke), thereis the occasional vitriolic diatribe to thecontrary, such as the following comment:“Brown is well known as THE place forthose who are able and willing to takeresponsibility for making their own indi-vidual choices and charting their ownindividual paths. If you don’t want tothrive and be content at Brown, why theheck would you want to be a studenthere?”

This comment was posted on TheHerald Web site in response to my columnlast week, and it displays just the kind ofbias against transfers I want to indict. Sothank you, “student,” as you signed your

letter, for helping me in this. Whocharts a more individual path, who

takes more responsibility for theirchoices than transfer students?We rearranged our whole livesbecause we thought we could

thrive at Brown, and we dowant to be content here! And

of course, life will alwayspresent challenges; howev-

er, if the unnecessarychallenges transfersface were mini-mized, we would bebetter able to get onwith the challengewe came to Brownto pursue: learning.

For an example ofi n s t i t u t i o n a l i z e dchallenges, I refer you

to the Office of UndergraduateAdmissions: I called them to check on arumor that financial aid is not available totransfers. All they would say is, “Financialaid is limited for transfer students.” WhenI asked if it was limited more than forother students, she said, “More than forfreshmen.” When I asked in what way, shesaid she couldn’t tell me or she’d have tokill me. Actually, she just said she couldn’ttell me.

On the Office of UndergraduateAdmissions Web site, under financial aid,under “special groups,” it says transfersare admitted on a need-blind basis, butthat the budget for transfers is limited (asis the budget for international students).Isn’t that a contradiction? Furthermore,transfers can’t apply for financial aid ifthey were accepted without it; i.e. if twodays after you accept Brown’s offer ofadmission, both your parents lose theirjobs at Enron and you’re up the prover-bial creek without so much as a Teva san-dal for a floatation device. But, if youwere admitted to Brown as a freshman,and your dad (Ken Lay) is suddenly out ofwork, financial aid can be yours. Whoknows why? Maybe transfers, along withinternational students (whose financialaid status parallels the status of transferstudents, and who are also, apparently,“special,” along with students whose par-ents are drug addicts), are simply a nec-essary, revenue-producing unsightlinessfor the University.

Student and faculty bias against trans-fers, even though they probably aren’taware of it, affects how transfers interactwith Brown as an institution. It is stu-dents and faculty who run many of the

programs whichmake applying (not to

mention getting in) more difficult fortransfers than nontransfers.

Even the format of these programspunishes transfer students: Perhaps notintentionally, but it is punishment all thesame. For example, the Writing Fellowsprogram has a yearly admissions cycle,beginning in March. When, as a prospec-tive transfer, I called their office to seeabout applying to the program, I was told(over and over … what can I say, I’m apersistent little twerp) that I was too late.“But I went to a different school inMarch!” I cried. Finally, I was told: “Look,if we let you apply now it wouldn’t be fair.We’d be giving you special treatment!”

But having two application cycles ormore flexible application procedures sothat the 200 students who transfer toBrown each year could at least have thechance to take part in the programshouldn’t be seen as special treatment,but rather as equal opportunity.

I could go on. I have more examples:horror stories of transfers housed inlounges or squeezed into freshmen dou-bles, or the sad tale of the promised butmythical “transfer directory” …

But fortunately for you, the reader, TheHerald has a word limit. Let me just con-clude by saying that around a ninth or atenth of Brown students transferred here.So why don’t we transfers have our ownliberation movement? C’mon people. Iwant a listserv. I want a flag. I want a coolacronym. I want a fringe militaristicmovement that threatens to discredit thecenter.

But seriously.If Brown cannot have faith in the

transfer students it admits, then it shouldchange its admission policies so that itcan have faith in them.Sarah Green ‘04 is still glad she transferred.

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toumanoff

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better than cats

Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 still believes we should burn avocados for fuel instead of oil.

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

OCTOBER 29, 2003 · PAGE 12

GRADY LITTLE DIDN’T HAVE A PRAYERat keeping his job. He still had his confi-dence, he still had his dignity — he even hadsupport from some players — yet GradyLittle had almost no shot of retaining his jobas manager of the Red Sox.

But believe it ornot, his declinestarted before therecent postseasondebacle. His deci-sion to leave PedroMartinez in for theeighth inning ofgame seven of theALCS, only to seehim get batteredlike chicken simplyepitomized what itis that the Red Soxfront office can nolonger stand.

Grady isn’t a stats guy, plain and simple.He’s an old school manager who goes withhis gut and defers to his partially informedconscience when making decisions.Contrast this with the front office, which hastransformed itself into a sabermetric, num-ber-crunching machine, and the divide isclear as day.

Grady was brought in during the transi-tional period between the firing of formerGeneral Manager Dan Duquette and thepromotion of current GM Theo Epstein.Mike Port was acting as interim GM at thetime, and the sabermetric philosophy hadyet to be implemented. Bill James, who haspractically cornered the market on beingcalled a “statistical guru,” was still out on thestreets, and sabermetrics, at least in Boston,hadn’t hit the big time.

In other words, it made sense for the Soxto hire Grady at the time, knowing full wellwhat he was capable of as a traditional man-ager. What they did not know was that thedirection of managing would change sodrastically during Grady’s tenure.

A year later, Theo and his supportingcast, comprised of some of the founders ofsabermetrics, were given the opportunity torun the franchise based on their academicstudy of baseball. For the first time BillJames and his disciples had significant con-trol over a major league team, an influencethat was obvious during this last off-season.

A big reason the Sox loaded up on leftyhitters, for example, is that they ran thenumbers and found that lefties hit for muchbetter averages in Fenway than on the road.A quick look at the team’s home and awaynumbers reveals how right this analysis was— the Sox hit 53 points better at home thanon the road.

Alas, old school Grady Little was to be themanager in the dugout, with a year remain-ing on his contract. He couldn’t be forced tochange his managerial style because thatwould be asking too much of a man. So theseason began with this tension of ideologyunresolved, and with the front office frus-trated that a year’s worth of baseball man-agement would be farther from perfect thanthey preferred. Indeed, Grady managed ashe likes to manage, and statistically fool-hardy moves abounded.

Fast forward to the eighth inning ofGame 7 of the ALCS. Grady sends Pedroback onto the mound to the surprise ofmany who assumed he would be yankedafter throwing exactly 100 pitches.Opponents hit .364 off Pedro this year afterhis 105th pitch — even Tony Clark could hitPedro in the late innings.

I can imagine the front office’s reactionwhen Grady visited the mound, only to soft-ly ask how Pedro was doing, like an infir-

(The Washington Post) — This time it’s differ-ent. It’s nasty, and it’s pointed, and if thislatest episode isn’t the end of Shaq andKobe, you can certainly see the edge of thecliff from here.

The NBA season began last night, andalready Shaq and Kobe have taken thegloves off and started throwing haymakersat one another, with Shaq concluding thatKobe should just get out.

If Phil Jackson thought going into lastweekend that there was a possibility thatthe Lakers might implode from the stressof Bryant’s sexual assault trial and trying toincorporate Karl Malone and Gary Paytoninto the lineup, what in the world must hethink after Bryant and Shaq verballysquared off with each other Sunday nightafter practice?

Here are the highlights. Shaq said Friday night after the presea-

son finale in Las Vegas that Kobe mightwant to pass more and shoot fewerjumpers until his legs are strong enough totake and make jumpers.

Kobe answered, “I know how to play myguard spot. He can worry about the lowpost, and I’ll worry about the perimeter.”

Shaq, Sunday night, lowered the boom,saying, “As we start this new season, (stuffhas) got to be done right. If you don’t likeit, then you can opt out next year. If it’sgoing to be my team, I’ll voice my opinion.If he don’t like it, he can opt out. ... Just askKarl and Gary why they came here. Oneperson, not two. One. Period. I’m nottelling him (Bryant) how to play his posi-tion. I’m just telling him how to play teamball.”

I know what you’re thinking, that Kobeand Shaq do this all the time, argue andfuss in public and then Jackson comes inand works his magic and the two biggeststars in the game kiss and make up and theLakers keep winning.

But this seems so much more con-frontational, even personal. Of course,Kobe and Shaq will make up for the cam-eras, maybe even by the time you read this.Somebody will blame it all on the mediaand try to build a case that this will bringthe Lakers closer. And you shouldn’tbelieve a word of it.

At a time when he is quite literally fight-ing for his life, Kobe Bryant is not going totake kindly to being told by Shaq, essen-tially, to get out. Repeatedly, Kobe has saidhe will “opt out” of his current deal andtest the free agent market after this season.And now Shaq is calling Kobe’s bluff,before the season even begins. It’s not thatthey’ve hated or even disliked each other,but each likes getting under the other’sskin. But as is often the case with thesethings, the horseplay got too rough. Now,feelings are bound to be hurt. Suddenly,the locker room may not be big enough forthe two of them.

One reason Kobe has been flirting withfree agency is that he wonders if he can goelsewhere and win a title without Shaq.And likewise, Shaq would like nothingmore that winning a championship thisseason without Kobe.

Kobe believes an out-of-shape Shaqwas ungrateful last year when Kobe car-ried the team on his back in late Februaryand early March. Shaq believes Kobe is anelitist and aloof kid who has been handedeverything and, as of right now, isn’t phys-ically prepared to step into his usual roleas the NBA season begins.

Suddenly, the debut of LeBron James

see PERLMUTTER, page 8

Approachingthe end of anera in L.A.?

Brown defeats Big Green,unable to topple Crimson

Little not bigenough for Sox

see KOBE, page 8

W. cross country healthy, readyto take on top teams at HepsBY MELISSA PERLMANWhen two of the top teams in the nationare in your league, the competition canbe pretty tough. It is precisely this levelof competition the Brown women’s crosscountry team will face this week at theHeptagonal Championships. Brown willbe competing against the entire IvyLeague, including the Columbia andPrinceton squads, both ranked in thenation’s top 15.

Coach Rick Wemple said he is look-ing forward to the high level of compe-tition.

“It gives each of our individual ath-letes a chance to see how they stack upon a national, as well as league, scale,”Wemple said.

The team has had a rough road get-ting here, as the season has been filledwith sicknesses and injuries. But theBears say they are finally at full strengthwith an almost complete squad, thoughthe team will continue to miss the pres-ence of Nora Sullivan ’06, who is out for

the season with a stress fracture. Anya Davidson ’06, who led the Bears

at the New England Championshipswith a top 10 finish, is expected to leadthe team once again. She will be accom-panied by teammate Meredith Crocker’05, returning from a foot injury.

Wemple said he hopes Davidson andCrocker will guide Brown to a third-place finish in the meet, given thatplacement in the top two spots will benearly impossible.

“I think it will be a shoot-outbetween Princeton and Columbia,”Wemple said. “Both teams are strongand have close packs. They are nationalclass teams, so third place will bebetween Yale and us, as long as we runwhat we are capable of.”

Brown is going into the HeptagonalChampionships with positive momen-tum, Wemple said. The Bears had theirbest finish thus far in the year at the

BY KATHY BABCOCKBrown women’s volleyball (3-12, 2-5 IvyLeague) picked up its second league winof the season Friday night, defeatingDartmouth (7-12, 1-7 Ivy League) 3-1.But the Bears were unable to sweep itsIvy foes, falling to Harvard (6-12, 5-3 IvyLeague) the next day 3-1 in a hard-fought match.

The Bears seem to have turned a cor-ner, earning splits the last two week-ends. After breaking into the win col-umn for the first time against St. Peter’son Sept. 27, the team endured anotherlosing streak until last weekend againstColumbia.

“It feels like the team finally started tocome together on the court,” saidLauren Gibbs ’06. “You can never antici-pate if you’re going to win or not, butwe’re going to play better.”

Bruno dominated the first gameagainst Dartmouth, winning 30-18, andfought off the Big Green in the second

for a 31-29 victory. The Bears weredefeated in the third 25-30, but ulti-mately refocused to win the final game30-24.

Karalyn Kuchenbecker ’06 led theBears against the Big Green with her sev-enth double-double of the season.Kuchenbecker tallied 17 kills and 19digs, both match highs.

The youngsters performed well, withRikki Baldwin ’07 and Liz Cvitan ’07both recording 13 kills; Baldwin addedfive blocks as well. Gibbs, a consistentperformer, notched 12 kills, while KimHighlund ’04 moved closer to the recordbooks with 14 digs and Leigh Martin ’06notched a double-double with 13 digsand 51 assists.

Kuchenbecker and Baldwin bothmade five service aces, an unusuallyhigh number for the Bears.

After the first game of the season,

Nick Neely / Herald

Lauren Gibbs ’06 and Kim Highlund ’04 celebrate Bruno’s victory over Dartmouthon Friday night. Over the weekend Highlund moved into third place for careerdigs at Brown.

see WXC, page 8

see VOLLEYBALL, page 7

ERIC PERLMUTTERPERL MUTTERS

wednesday, october 29, 2003

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