BY ZOE RIPPLE“Sophomore slump” isn’t just an empty cliché.

The slump is an observable phenomenon, Universityofficials say.

Although uncomfortable with the term “slump,” JohnSauve, assistant director of psychological services, saidsophomore year “is felt as a more difficult time” thanfreshman year.

Sophomores are “more often struggling with motiva-tion, and trying to figure out concentrations,” he said.

Sophomores often link their concentration with asense of identity, Sauve said, and “if a concentration willdefine who they are, we help them with that.”

Often it’s helpful for students to think about “who youare besides your concentration,” he said.

Concentration choice is tied up in other academicquestions and uncertainties, Sauve said, because manysophomores are wondering, “where do these classes fitin with the rest of my life?”

Some students also come to Sauve because they feelthey should be more motivated academically.

Carol Cohen, associate dean of the college and deanof sophomore studies, said the slump sometimes lastsfor the whole sophomore year.

One characteristic of the phenomenon is asking,“Why am I here?” Cohen said.

Sophomore year is “a collision between the end of anoncommittal freshman year … where there is no pres-sure to make choices” and a time when students’ choic-es about classes can “lead to a concentration, a careerand identifying who you are as a person with what youreducation will be,” Cohen said.

Until sophomore year of college, there is often littleagency associated with education, Cohen said.Sophomores often feel scared and overwhelmed as theytake responsibility for their educations, Cohen said.

Sophomore year is a time when “the rush of college isreplaced with the seriousness of what college is allabout,” she said.

Office hours have been well-attended in the pastweek, Cohen said. Many students have come to her say-ing, “I have no idea why I am here,” Cohen said.

Pressures from parents and family can deepen theslump.

In order to help students discover a direction forthemselves at Brown, Cohen asks them about their aca-demic likes and dislikes. Sometimes students discusstaking time off with Cohen.

“Advisors help you figure out what’s inside you,”Cohen said.

Some students, however, have trouble connectingwith their advisors.

Julia Rappaport ’06 said she had not made connec-

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BY CHARU GUPTAIt’s a long-standing paradox: How can the French eata diet rich in saturated fat, smoke and drink heavily,yet still live as long as anyone else? A Brownresearcher may have found the answer.

Marc Tatar, associate professor of biology, recent-ly completed a study suggesting a chemical in redwine helps prolong life. Tatar’s study tested theimpact of the chemical resveratrol — found in redwine — on the lifespan of fruit flies.

His results, which will be published pending fol-low-up experiments, indicate resveratrol may slowthe aging of the heart, and help to prevent diseasessuch as heart disease, diabetes and osteoporosis.Resveratrol also may delay the signs of physicalaging, he said.

Negative side effects of consuming resveratrol

have yet to be found. Tatar suggested this may bebecause resveratrol is a very unstable compoundthat oxidizes very quickly and thus loses its activity.For example, a bottle of wine left uncorked for sever-al days would not have the same effect on the bodyas a freshly consumed glass, he said.

For this reason, “scientists will need more stablederivatives of the compound for drug phase testing,”Tatar said. Studies testing the impact of resveratrolon the life span of fungus yeast have already begun— but testing on humans is still a long way off, hesaid.

And in the meantime, Tatar cautioned he wouldn’tnecessarily recommend red wine to control thesymptoms of aging. The best solution, he said, is stillexercise and a healthy diet. “Drink red wine if youenjoy it,” he said.

Red wine could prolong life, Brown professor says

WBRU wins alt-rock radio warsin ProvidenceBY JONATHAN HERMANWBRU has won its three-year alt-rock radio ratingswar with Boston-based competitor 103.5 FNX, toppingthe new entrant in the latest round of Arbitron ratings.

After an initial drop when FNX entered theProvidence market in 2000, WBRU has recovered itskey demographic of males aged 18 to 34.

“Anytime a new radio station that is targeting thesame demographic enters the market, you’re going tolose some listeners,” said WBRU General ManagerCate Brandon ’04. “People have checked them out anddecided BRU is better. And we have gotten these lis-teners back.”

From the spring of 2000 to 2002, WBRU’s ratingsdecreased from a 9.7 share to 6.6. FNX’s shareincreased from 4.0 to 6.2 during the same period.

Since then the fortunes of the two stations havereversed.

WBRU is currently ranked fourth in the Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket market among listeners aged 18to 34 with a rating of 8.1. FNX is eighth with a rating of3.1.

A share, or quarter share hour, is a rating thataccounts for number of listeners and the amount oftime they listen.

After the top four stations in a market, advertisingrevenue plummets, Brandon said.

WBRU’s Sunday programming has remained itsmost popular. On Sundays, when WBRU switches for-mats to the “360 Degree Black Experience in Sound,”the station is rated number one in the market. A quar-ter of all Providence radio listeners on Sundays aretuned to WBRU.

WBRU is an independent commercial radio stationoperated by Brown students. The station functions asan educational workshop for Brown students interest-ed in all aspects of the operation of a radio station.

“To be honest, we always thought it was amusingthat here we are college students going to class andrunning a radio station and here are these profession-als who tried to compete with us, ” said StationManager Kate London ’04. “Although we need the rat-ings to compete, we are not all about ratings.”

FNX isn’t the first station to take on WBRU and lose.The Edge, an alternative radio station, began broad-

casting in Providence in 1997, in direct competitionwith WBRU. The station set its sights on overcoming

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GREENERY ON THE GREEN: Students perused plants for sale outside Faunce this week.

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Yale workers get sup-port of over 100 facul-ty after two weeks ofunion strikescampus watch,page 3

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Badass Andy Roddickis America’s next besttennis player, says Chris Hatfield ’06sports column, page 8

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BY KERRY SONIAFreshmen arriving at Yale University this year found anunorthodox welcoming committee awaiting them oncampus — striking union workers.

With “Welcome to Yale” signs around their necks,2,500 clerical, service and maintenance workers beganstriking in the streets of New Haven on Aug. 27 for betterwages, more substantial pension plans and greater jobsecurity.

Although the strike has been peaceful, the blockage ofseveral streets by protesters prompted the arrest of 83people, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, on Aug. 29.Jackson led a march that also included two prominentalumni from Yale, Connecticut Secretary of State SusanBysiewicz and State Attorney General RichardBlumenthal.

In the strike’s latest development, over 100 professorsgathered Monday outside Yale President Richard Levin’soffice to give him a signed letter asking the administra-tion to agree to binding arbitration, which would put theconditions for a new contract in the hands of a neutralparty.

As of yet, Yale has agreed to no such action. According to union spokesman Bill Meyerson, having

the strike during the opening of the fall semester allowedmembers of the community to see they have a majorproblem on campus and that, as long as that problempersists, it will not be “business as usual” at Yale.

The campus is split on the issue.Several professors refused to cross picket lines, taking

their classes off campus as a sign of support for the strik-

ing workers. The administration tried to increase student aware-

ness of the situation as well. “They passed out pamphlets, but people only glanced

at them,” said freshman Ian Bishop. Strikes have become an important part of contract

negotiations at Yale. The last strike took place in Marchwhen 95 percent of service and technical workers andtwo-thirds of the clerical staff walked off their jobs for fivedays.

Strikes have preceded eight of the past 10 contractswith university workers. Yale workers have been workingwithout a new contract since January 2002.

“Yale made a proposal a year and a half ago and hasn’tmoved off it since,” Meyerson said. “They haven’t agreedto binding arbitration.”

The retirement plan is one of the main sources of con-tention. Under the current contract, an average employ-ee of 20 years would retire on $621 per month. Thisamount does not increase over time.

“(The current plan) is not enough to live on,”Meyerson said.

Although some workers have crossed the picket linesto go back to work, union leaders and members of theYale administration differ on their numbers.

Both sides have met several times to negotiate a set-tlement in meetings facilitated by New Haven MayorJohn DeStefano Jr. Union representatives continue to askYale for an agreement to binding arbitration.

A Yale University spokesman did not return repeatedcalls for comment.

BY MERYL ROTHSTEINCell phones are nearly universal on college campuses, butnowhere is that truer than at Morrisville State College inupstate New York.

As part of a comprehensive technology plan, the schoolrecently eliminated landlines in residential halls and dis-tributed cell phones to every student living on campus,said Morrisville Assistant Vice President for TechnologyServices Jean Boland.

Seventeen thousand cell phones were distributed theweekend of Aug. 22, Boland said. The phones come withfeatures designed to replicate those available on land-lines, including free local and incoming calls, voicemail,caller ID and call waiting, she said. But the phones arealso programmed with the Nextel “Direct Connect”walkie-talkie feature, a “push-to-talk” technology that,without dialing, connects users to one another in sec-onds.

The cost of the phone is included in the usual roomand board fee, and students can choose to purchase theirown long-distance plan.

The school, ranked twice as America’s Most Wired two-year college by Yahoo! Internet Life magazine, replacedlandline phones with cellular ones as the third phase of its“college technology strategy,” Boland said.

Earlier phases provided students in 48 fields of studywith laptops and set up the school for entirely wirelesscomputer usage, she said.

Because of the mobility provided by wireless Internetconnection and the new cell phones, “our students can

Morrisville State givesstudents cell phonesto replaces landlines

Yale union workers strike duringopening week of school year

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learn in the space that’s best forthem,” Boland said.

It is estimated that, by 2006,two-thirds of the U.S. workforcewill be mobile, Boland said. Shesaid Morrisville’s program aims togive students a “marketableedge” in this increasingly mobileworkforce.

“We believe we’re the first col-lege in the nation to do this,” shesaid.

Feedback has been “over-whelmingly positive” so far,Boland said.

Sophomore Greg Schwind saidfrom his Morrisville cell phonethat students love having cellphones, particularly to talk withfriends and family.

The faculty, who have yet toreceive cell phones, gave Bolanda round of applause at a recentmeeting, she said.

The next phase in the tech-nology strategy is to expand therole of the cell phone, Bolandsaid. In the “Totally Digital

Environment” phase, phoneswill be used to purchase items inthe bookstore and vendingmachines or for access to thedining hall, she said.

To accommodate the new cellphones, the Morrisville AuxiliaryCorporation, responsible for thenon-academic aspects of the col-lege, hosted a number of trainingsessions to instruct students onusing their phones, said ShannonRichards, marketing manager forthe corporation.

The school also established anauthorized service center to han-dle any problems that may occur,said Jody Williams, computerservice manager for the cellphone and laptop program. Linesat the center were long during thefirst week of school, she said,mostly with students unsure howto use their phones.

Morrisville State College is atwo and four-year residential col-lege in the State University ofNew York system.

Herald senior staff writer MerylRothstein ’06 can be reached atmrothstein@browndailyherald.com.

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tions with many professors orher advisor. This lack of guid-ance is the main difficulty withsophomore year, Rappaportsaid.

Sometimes the slump canmanifest itself as a depression or

severe anxiety, in which case stu-dents might be referred toPsychological Services, Cohensaid. Additional resources forsophomores include otherdeans, Randall Counselors andother University staff.

Herald staff writer Zoe Ripple ’05can be reached atzripple@browndailyherald.com.

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so used, so misunderstood, souncomfortable.

Jim Brown, the Hall of Famerunning back, has been advisingClarett, and Brown says the kidshould think seriously about goingto Grambling to play for DougWilliams. “Kudos to Jim Brown,”Williams told me in a phone con-versation Tuesday, “for showingthat kind of respect to Grambling.I can’t invite him to do anythingbecause it might be tampering atthis point, but if we ever get downthat road, I’d be for it. If he didcome here, he wouldn’t play infront of 100,000. But sometimesplayers, and coaches andrecruiters and agents forget thatyou need to come home.”

Some of you won’t know whatWilliams is talking about, andothers will. There are kids, partic-ularly young black men, whodon’t need to be on campusesthat have 60,000 students, withperhaps 5 percent of them black.It isn’t, to them, ever going to feellike home. It’s not particularlynurturing, no matter how manyassistant coaches and tutorsthere are. Though rural Louisianaitself would likely be a cultureshock for Clarett, an urbanOhioan, at first, life at Gramblingwould not be.

“He wouldn’t be the first kid totransfer here from a big school,who needs to eat some collardgreens and be around some peo-ple who look like his mama,”Williams said. “I could sit himdown. ... Before integration, he’dhave had no other choice.”

What Williams also sees is thatClarett needs not to be cut loose atthis point of his life, even thoughthat may be what’s best for OhioState. And Williams also under-stands what Jim Brown under-stands, which is why you don’thear either of them saying the kid

should legally challenge the NFLor flee to Canada.

“The kid really, really needsanother two years of college foot-ball,” Williams said. “It’s so differ-ent from basketball, even frombaseball where you have instruc-tional leagues and layers of minorleague ball that is still professional.Physically, from what I’ve seen, hisupper body is not there yet. He’sgot good legs, but he’s had shoul-der injuries, which I think arerelated to a lack of upper bodystrength. For his sake and foreverybody’s sake, he needs a cou-ple of more years of college foot-ball and of growing up. I tell kidswith all these big aspirations thesame thing every day.”

It’s silly to question Williamsand Brown on this point. One is aSuper Bowl MVP and the other thegreatest football player ever. IfClarett hadn’t blown off anarranged conversation withanother Super Bowl MVP, MarcusAllen, he’d have heard the sameadvice from Allen.

Clarett isn’t going to be LeBronJames. He’s never going to make asmuch money, never going to be asbig a star, never going to have aslong a career in professionalsports. So he needs to get over it.He’s already led a team to a nation-al championship. The scouts willfind him, just like they foundWalter Payton and Jerry Rice and,well, Doug Williams.

Whether it’s Grambling orHoward or Florida A&M or SouthCarolina State or Jackson State,Clarett needs to find a placewhere he can go to school andplay football and get an uncom-promising tough love that henonetheless would be morereceptive to. He needs to startclean with the NCAA, and for twoyears put himself in an environ-ment that in many respects iswell-suited to letting him try thiscollege and college football thingone more time — with muchhealthier results.

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of attitude. Pete Sampras isarguably the best male tennisplayer ever. Chances are youcould have cared less when hewas playing. Why? He’s a goodguy. He rarely argued calls. Hewas humble. On the other hand,Agassi was probably more popu-lar at the same time because ofhis former bad boy image. Thebattles between Jimmy Connorsand John McEnroe got so muchattention partly because theywere such great players and part-ly because there was a decentchance one of them would attackan official. Let’s put it this way:Could you picture Pete Samprasmaking cameos in “Mr. Deeds”and “Anger Management” likeMcEnroe did? Didn’t think so.Anyways, Roddick knows he’sgood. He is known for screamingat bad calls. His emotions showwhen he plays. Viewers wanttheir winners to fold into a balland cry like Roddick did onSunday rather than give a slighthead-nod like Sampras woulddo. Roddick won’t shy away fromthe spotlight, and that’s what willmake him America’s darling.

Chris Hatfield ’06 wishes he wasreally hot and kinda badass.

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WBRU’s popularity, but rat-ings quickly faltered. The Edgeis no longer a presence inProvidence.

WHJY was WBRU’s firsttaste of direct competition.WHJY’s format incorporatesboth classic and current rock.WHJY was first among listen-ers between 18 and 34 with arating of 11.0 in spring 2003.

PRO-FM is second with 18-to 34-year-old listeners withan AQH share of 8.8. PRO-FMis Providence’s top-50 formatstation owned by CitadelBroadcasting Company.

Hot106 is a hip-hop andR&B station that rose in popu-larity in the 1990s. It was thirdin the spring AQH share with8.7.

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Tech troublesWhen it comes to technology, Brown has many rivals.Most notably, Morrisville State.

Students at the upstate New York college returned toschool this semester to find a wireless campus, cellphones and the promise of a virtually wireless campus.We got some e-mail kiosks and the news that progresstoward going wireless could be rolled back.

Technology at Brown seems to be treading water.Computing and Information Services stepped up effortsto prevent file sharing over the summer and staged amassive mobilization of resources to solve crippling net-work outages during the first week of the semester. Yetplans for progressive goals like online registrationremain vague.

For Brown to undertake all of the same projects as acollege like Morrisville State would be a foolish waste ofresources. But just because Brown is in the middle of atough economic period doesn’t mean the Universityshould allow itself to sink to the bottom among itspeers.

A wireless campus is inevitable. Students already listlack of mobile network access alongside meager work-out facilities and the non-existent student center asBrown’s glaring shortcomings. Going wireless may havewreaked havoc on the network, but the solution isn’t toquit. Soon that will no longer be an option.

High school students will continue to dream of com-ing to Brown whether its technology rivals MorrisvilleState or remains in the 21st century equivalent of theStone Age. President Simmons’ Initiatives for AcademicEnrichment could catapult the University from the mid-dle of the pack of the nation’s top schools into interna-tional preeminence. But technological shortcomings,combined with other campus life failures, will continueto sully Brown’s reputation.

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WHEN I TELL PEOPLE I WAS IN ISRAELfor two months this summer working inthe national ambulance system, MagenDavid Adom, I imagine they envisage mepicking up severed legs on the streets ofJerusalem. Because of themedia coverage, the onlyway most people know ofIsrael is through the lens ofterror and the ongoing con-flict with the Palestinians.However, through my pro-gram, where I was trained tobe an ambulance responder and thenvolunteered in the Tel Aviv area, I cameto realize that Israel is so much morethan that.

Every day, I would go to my local MDAstation early in the morning and get readyfor the day. We would check over theambulances and then wait for calls tocome through. On my ambulance therewas a trained driver and several volun-teers like myself. Almost all the volunteerswere Israeli high school students who doMDA in their spare time. Most calls werenot traumatic incidents — in fact, theoverwhelming majority of my friends andI saw no shootings, bombings or anythingalong those lines the entire summer. Theywere standard incidents like older peoplefalling off beds, chest pains, car accidents,work accidents and fainting incidents. Iwould help with bandaging, setting upequipment, taking blood pressures andpulses, filling out forms and movingstretchers.

My volunteering presented me with anextraordinary cross-section of Israeli soci-ety. The drivers and volunteers came froma broad array of groups. There were left-

wing and right-wing activists, religiousand secular Jews, Israeli settlers, soldiers,Israeli Arabs, teenagers, parents andRussian immigrants. In the ambulance, Ialso got a chance to see the homes, work-

places, nursing homes, farmsand stores where the Israelbeyond the tour bus windowsbegins.

In fact, after being thereonly a few weeks, the securi-ty/peace situation (inHebrew called just “the situa-

tion”) began to recede from my mind.Other problems occupy a central place inthe average Israeli’s mindset. The high-tech bubble burst and the violence hasweakened the economy in recent years,and so many people are out of work.There are persistent disputes betweenreligious and secular Jews, as well asbetween Jews and Israeli Arabs.Economic disparity, cost of living, envi-ronmental issues and traffic are all prob-lems the rest of the world rarely sees, but,to Israelis, they are extremely significant.

Of course, it is impossible to be inIsrael and not be affected by the disputewith the Palestinians. I lived in an immi-grant absorption center in Kfar Sava, asuburb of Tel Aviv located near the 1967Green Line. In the last three years therehave been a few bombing attacks there,and indeed the night I arrived a six-year-old girl was killed by a sniper from theneighboring Palestinian city of Qalqilya.From my building I could see Qalqilyaand the West Bank, and I also saw thelarge “separation fence” being built. Thearea just across the Green Line is also amajor Israeli settlement block, and so Ihappened to meet many settlers.Contrary to the stereotype, almost allwere normal, friendly, rational peoplewho just happen to live in the settle-

ments.The most visible way “the situation”

manifests itself is with the omnipresenceof security. There are security guardsalmost everywhere — I was checked sev-eral times a day at banks, supermarkets,hospitals, cafes, office buildings andtransportation hubs. There are largefences around hospitals, schools and lotsof other public institutions. I realizedthat here in America we take our free-dom of motion for granted. At PennStation in New York, for example, some10,000 people are guarded by a handfulof soldiers. This would be unthinkable inIsrael.

And yet life goes on, largely withoutvisible signs of fear. People in the UnitedStates have a vision of Israelis walkingabout trembling, checking over theirshoulders all the time. I got no sense ofthis. Even though there have been manyhorrific bombings, Israelis use the bussystem all of the time. There is simply noother way to get around. People have notlocked themselves in their houses,stopped going out to clubs or quit travel-ing around the tiny country (with the ter-ritories it’s about the size of New Jersey).For if Israelis were to quit living life nor-mally, as many people did here after Sept.

11, 2001, it would be seen as a victory forterrorism.

There are still so many things to behappy about in Israel these days. I sawyoung mothers watching their childrenplay soccer in the gardens, flocks ofwhite-shirted people heading to syna-gogue on Saturday and children eating icecream while bounding down the streets.People still invite others over for coffee,walk their dogs in the evening and bar-gain for fresh produce. This was the IsraelI started to really love and which I was sothankful to have found through my timespent in the MDA program.

I hope some day there will be peace inthe land, that the terror attacks will stopand that Palestinians will have the free-dom they deserve under their own leader-ship. I have no easy solutions to the prob-lem. Living in Israel made me realize howmuch more complicated it is. Big wordssuch as colonialism, occupation andracism do not begin to convey the realityon the ground. I recommend that thoseinterested visit Israel before they make uptheir minds about these issues becausethis is a spatial conflict over individualhills that cannot be easily intellectualized— to be understood, it must be seen upclose.

For Israelis, the ordinary issues and routines of everyday life endure despite the constant threat of terrorism

A view from the real Israel

Joshua Schulman-Marcus ’04 hails fromEast Meadow, NY.

JOSHUA SCHUL-MAN-MARCUS

GUEST COLUMNIST

And yet life goes on, largely without visible signs of

fear. People in the United States have this vision of

Israelis walking about trembling, checking over their

shoulders all the time. I got no sense of this.

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SEPTEMBER 10, 2003 · PAGE 8

I’M SURE YOU’RE SICK OF HEARINGabout it by now, but Andy Roddick is thefuture of men’s tennis in America. Afterwinning his first Grand Slam at the U.S.Open last weekend and achieving a rank-ing of second in the world, the other A-Rod

has announced hisarrival on sports’grand stage withno plans to leaveanytime soon. “Sowhat,” I’m suresome of you aresaying. “He won aGrand Slam, bigdeal.” My goal hereis to show you whyMr. Roddick will bea star for years tocome.

The first thingyou need to under-

stand is how difficult it is for athletes insports other than the big four — MLB,NFL, NBA, NHL — to become upper-ech-elon stars. Certainly die-hard fans of aparticular sport will know its stars, buttrue crossover success requires more thanwins. To become a household name inother sports, you need a certain extrasomething. As you will see, Roddick hasseveral extra somethings.

The Serve — Americans like theirsports to be awe-inspiring. TheSportsCenter era has made the dunk, thehome run and the big tackle the onlythings some fans want to see. Excitementis what brings fans out to the games today,not necessarily the thrill of seeing a com-petition. Roddick has the most potentweapon in tennis in his monster serveclocked at 149 miles per hour. As muchskill as it takes to play the slower, moredeliberate tennis of clay courts, a playerwith that style has as much of a chance ofwinning America’s heart as professionalsoccer does. Honestly, what tennismoment is better than seeing some poorsap get clowned on the first serve?

The Rival(s) — While Roddick does notyet have the Sampras to his Agassi, thereare plenty of good, young players thathave come into the tennis limelight withRoddick this year. Juan Carlos Ferrero ofSpain and Roger Federer of Switzerlandare ranked first and third in the world andare also in their early 20s. The only thingthat increases an athlete’s profile betterthan absolute dominance is a great rivalry.If these three young stars can all continueto improve, they will be battling eachother for years to come and give us somegreat moments in the process.

The Look — To quote my friend Jill,who was the best tennis player at my highschool, on why she is a fan of A-Rod: “I likeAndy Roddick because he’s an awesometennis player, obviously. He has a killerserve and forehand. He’s also only 21 andthe best newcomer capable of winningmajors, now that Sampras and Agassi aregetting old … and he’s really hot, too, andkinda badass.” Women love this guy. Hehas potential to be the male AnnaKournikova, except he wins. I also want toinclude that he’s dating pop-star hottieMandy Moore, which makes men want tobe him and gives him an even higher pro-file. Don’t think a relationship can reallyhelp your profile? Check how AshtonKutcher is doing these days.

The Attitude — After mentioningSampras we must look at the importance

Where to go?The future ofMaurice Clarett(The Washington Post) — The kid neverseemed as though he wanted to be at OhioState in the first place, and maybe heshouldn’t have been. Even in what onewould think were the best of times, such asthe night of the national championship vic-tory in Arizona, Maurice Clarett didn’tappear particularly happy. He was off to theside, his mind somewhere else, perhapseven wanting to be somewhere else.

He was upset that the school, making somuch money off him, wouldn’t pay for himto travel home to a friend’s funeral. He wasagitated about college football being a one-way street, about the way the adults madeall the money and the kids got used up. A lotof stuff that you have to put up with to playcollege football, Clarett wanted no part ofand it was written all over his face, his bodylanguage, his answers to questions.

The things Clarett objected to are simplyan inextricable part of the culture of collegefootball, and if you feel so strongly about it,then Ohio State isn’t the place you ought tobe. So it is a divorce of convenience now.Coach Jim Tressel said Tuesday that theschool is ready to cut ties with Clarett, thathe would recommend Ohio State releaseClarett from his scholarship. So, it’s over forClarett and Ohio State. The last time he’llhave worn that scarlet-and-gray uniform,he scored the winning touchdown in theFiesta Bowl.

The powers that be at Ohio State feel theyhave no other choice now that Clarett hasbeen formally charged with a misdemeanorfalsification for lying to police about itemsallegedly stolen from his car.

What he had in the car, how a kid withlimited means had use of such a car, whatthe stuff in the car was worth and who stoleit is the undoing of Clarett — just as thethrowback jersey and the Hummer wouldhave been the undoing of his buddy, LeBronJames, except for one difference.

James plays basketball, a sport where thegap between kids and grown men isreduced every day. Clarett plays football, asport where kids aren’t even allowed to playwith grown men for fear they would getmangled. This is the critical point of theClarett story, because if he shot a jumper, hewould have been Carmelo Anthony — oneand gone to the pros. But the NFL isn’t hav-ing him now, isn’t having him next year andis, from all indications, quite happy to dukeit out in a court if that’s what the kid wants.

So where is Clarett supposed to go fromhere? It’s not practical to transfer to anotherDivision I-A school because he’d have to sitout one full season, plus whatever gameshe’ll have to miss as a result of NCAA sanc-tions. Forget about suing the NFL for earlyentry because while he could possibly winthat battle for the next guy, it would notspeed up Clarett’s arrival in the NFL. Hecould play for pay in the Canadian FootballLeague, but the fields up there make oldVeterans Stadium look cushy. It’s a blanketspread atop concrete north of the border.The NFL players I talk to say Clarett shouldabsolutely not go to Canada, lest he ratchetup his chance of serious injury before get-ting a shot at the NFL.

So here’s what he can do, if the NCAAleaves him with a year of eligibility:

Attend a Division I-AA school, where hewouldn’t have to sit out a season. He couldtransfer tomorrow and play next September.I know a coach who would take him in aheartbeat, and a place he might find a warmhug and a kick in the butt upon arrival, aplace where he might not be inclined to feel

see CLARETT, page 5see HATFIELD, page 5

Robertson ’05 tests her skillsagainst international foesBY ROBBY KLABERYou usually do not see Canada andbasketball in the same sentence. Butthat may soon change — thanks toBrown women’s basketball centerHolly Robertson ’05.

After an excellent sophomore sea-son with the Bears, Robertson, a nativeof Cochrane, Canada, attended aregional tryout. She was then selectedas one of only 12 Canadian women toplay for the Canadian Junior NationalTeam.

“Playing for the Canadian NationalTeam and then eventually in theOlympics have been dreams of mineall my life,” Robertson said.

In August, Robertson and the teamparticipated in the Junior Olympics inDaegu, Korea. The Canadian women’steam fought its way to a 3-5 record,competing against teams fromMexico, Thailand, Hungary, Taiwan,Slovenia, Japan, South Africa andSouth Korea.

“It was an honor to be selected frommy country and play in Korea,”Robertson said.

While abroad, she was able to honein on specific aspects of her game andnow hopes to continue developingthese areas at Brown. Robertson said

her Canadian teammates have taughther the importance of doing the bestshe can do in areas she can control,and not to worry about areas outsideher reach. She also wants to maintaina high level of intensity and enthusi-asm throughout the year.

“Two of our top goals for the seasonare to beat Harvard (which placed firstlast year) and win the Ivy Leaguechampionship,” she said.

Robertson averaged 7.4 points and6.6 rebounds last year as she helpedlead Brown to a 15-12 record.

Brown Head Coach Jean Burr saidshe believes that Robertson’s experi-ence with the Junior National Teamwill elevate her game as well as theplay of her teammates.

“Not only is Holly very enthusiasticand fun to play with, she is also a verysolid inside player,” Burr said. “She isvery dedicated whether it be duringtraining, practice or a game. She leadsthrough action. … Her experience ofgoing against some of the best playersat an international level shouldimprove her game,” she said.

“With just three seniors on thisyear’s team, it will be a challengebringing the team together,”Robertson said.

A-Rod: He nowhas Mandy andthe U.S. Open

dspics

Robertson ’05 hopes to build on her experience this summer as a member of theCanadian Junior National Team. Last season she averaged 7.4 points a game.

CHRIS HATFIELDSPORTS GUY