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Burst pipecauses flooding,damage inMinden HallBY MONIQUE MENESESA bathroom pipe exploded in MindenHall Sunday afternoon, flooding parts ofthe building and soaking students’belongings.

The pipe burst in the bathroom ofroom 707 at 3:50 p.m., causing water tospread through parts of the seventh floorand drip down as far as the basement,according to Mark Nickel, director of theBrown News Service.

Gil Davis ’06, a resident of room 707,said that when he flushed the toilet, thepipe attaching the toilet to the wallbroke. Corrosion had weakened the pipe,said Joe McDevitt of FacilitiesManagement.

After the pipe broke, “water startedspraying horizontally,” Davis said. “Idodged it.”

Davis said he called FacilitiesManagement to inform them about thesituation. During the 20 minutes beforeFacilities Management came, hall resi-dents used towels and plastic containersto barricade the overflow in the bath-room.

McDevitt said he replaced the pipewith non-corrosive brass fittings whilecustodians cleaned up the floors below.Workers will re-plaster the wall tomor-row, he said.

Facilities Management shut down thewater supply to Minden at 5:30 p.m. andrestored it at 6:50 p.m., according to an e-mail sent by Service Response to allMinden residents.

Davis’ roommate, Cameron Colpitts’05, said he was on a bike ride when thepipe broke. Although the carpet in hisroom was saturated by water, Colpittssaid nothing was damaged.

“It’s exciting. More drama,” he said.

Planned highwayredevelopment points toa changing Providence

MemorialcelebratesVranek ’04 asseriousstudent whovalued friendsBY KIRA LESLEYFriends and family gathered inManning Chapel Friday afternoon tocelebrate the life of Francisco MethaVranek ’04, who died in a car accidentin his home town of Tenerife in theCanary Islands while returning tocampus over winter break.

Ann Dill, associate professor ofsociology, remembered Vranek as a“brilliant student” who was masteringthree concentrations — economics,public and private sector organiza-tions and international relations.Vranek also grasped a wide range ofsubjects, including European historyand astronomy, she said.

Vranek always took advantage ofthe opportunities before him andmanaged to take away something pos-itive from difficult situations, Dill said.He used his experiences as an interna-tional student and a student pursuinga career in investment banking toform plans to aid Brown in betterhelping students achieve their poten-tial, she said. He suggested ways that

BY SARA PERKINSThe opportunity to undo a mistake israre, and experts are seizing on thechance to undo some of the mistakes inProvidence’s history, speakers said at anurban studies conference this weekend.

Urban planners attending the secondannual Harriet David GoldbergConference on Urban Affairs Sunday dis-cussed plans to redirect Interstate 195over a new bridge further south of down-town.

The skyline-friendly bridge, justbeyond the Fox Point hurricane barrier,would replace the Providence RiverBridge and elevated highway. I-195 cur-rently cuts off a portion of the waterfrontand isolates the Jewelry District and hos-pitals from the rest of downtown.

Speakers agreed the highway policiesof the 1950s, which threw two majorinterstates together in the middle of anindustrializing city, were a massive mis-take. But with the undoing comes a hostof small but vital opportunities — toreclaim the waterfront, reconnect theneighborhoods and make downtownmore economically viable.

The history of waterfront develop-ment is a sordid one, said Thomas Deller,director of the Providence Department ofPlanning and Development. Providence’sdevelopment has left “our backs turnedto our water, backs turned to our her-

itage,” until the city was “strangled by thehighways,” he said.

The opportunity to remedy historycame when the Providence River Bridgereached the end of its life span. Intendedto last only 40 years and carry half the

BY AMY RUDDLETo understand South Korea’s labormovement, worker experiences must betaken into consideration, said HagenKoo, professor of sociology at theUniversity of Hawaii, in a Friday lecturein Salomon 001.

Koo said it is essential to “see thedevelopment process from the stand-point of human experiences” in order tounderstand Korea’s unique economicgrowth.

“When it comes to Korean labor, oneoften has an image of militant laborstrikes. In many TV scenes of Koreanstrikes we (see) Korean strikers wearingred headbands and red jackets, pumpingtheir fists toward the sky, shouting slo-gans in unison, sitting cross-legged …

and often ending their strikes with a vio-lent clash with the public police,” Koosaid.

These images have created two differ-ent interpretations of the Korean labormovement. Foreign newspapers often“regard Korea as a country with endemicstrikes,” even going so far as to labelSouth Korea a “strike kingdom,” Koosaid.

This interpretation often scares for-eign business investors, who do notwant to be involved with large unionsand choose to move their businesses toother low-wage countries, primarilyChina, Koo said.

However, this view is being chal-

Korean labor movement has evolvedin past decades, speaker says

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A burst pipe in this Minden Hall bathroom started flooding that damaged student property in the building Sunday afternoon.

see URBAN, page 4

Creative Arts Councilhas nurtured manyvisual arts on campusthe past six yearscampus news, page 3

Doug Fretty ’05 saysBush’s research rulesare hurting the UnitedStatescampus news, page 5

Professor Jeff Albertexamines the problemof water in the MiddleEastcolumn, page 7

M. ice hockey has dis-appointing weekend,tying with Union andlosing to RPIsports, page 8

M. basketball securesweekend victories overHarvard andDartmouthsports, page 8

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BY GABRIELLA DOOB The work of the Creative Arts Council has not gone unno-ticed. From a large-scale orchestral performance March6 to the growing body of sculptures on campus, CAC hashad a visible impact on the artistic life of the University.

Created six years ago to “cultivate and support the cre-ative arts,” according to its online mission statement, thecouncil owes much of its recent growth to a $1 millionendowment given by Lawton Wehle Fitt ’74 two yearsago.

Among its many projects, CAC sponsors an artists-in-residence program that brings four to five distinguishedartists to Brown each year for up to one semester, saidRichard Fishman, professor of visual arts and chairmanof CAC.

High-profile figures such as Martin Scorsese, StevenSondheim and Eric Bogosian have also been invited forbriefer visits. Last year, Gordon Willis, the cinematogra-pher for the “Godfather” movies, spoke and conductedworkshops, Fishman said.

CAC also provides significant funding for student andfaculty art projects. Each semester, a $5,000 grant is avail-able to students. The grant drew 80 proposals this year.

CAC hopes to double student grant funds next yearand broaden grant opportunities for faculty, Fishmansaid.

Another prospective project is the creation of a centerfor the creative arts. The center would include studios,performing spaces, multimedia labs and gallery spacesand would be available to students, faculty and artists-in-residence. CAC has submitted a proposal for the cen-ter to the University, Fishman said.

CAC has developed “very, very well” since its estab-lishment six years ago and has increasingly come to rep-resent the range of creative activity on campus, Fishmansaid. Three years ago, an advisory board of alum and par-ent artists was created. The Council itself includes twofaculty at large, two undergraduates, a graduate studentand a representative from the provost’s office, he said.

Fishman also emphasized that CAC hopes to increaseits involvement in community projects. Currently,Fishman is working with students to create a 60-foot-long tile wall at India Point Park. CAC has also begun work

Council sponsorsmultidisciplinaryart initiatives

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The men’s ice hockey game against Union College, which ended in a 2-2 tie, brought students, alums and localfamilies to Meehan Auditorium Friday night. The Bears suffered a 4-0 loss to visiting Rensselaer Polytechnic

amount of traffic it does today,the bridge must be rebuilt.

To Deller, this represents “anopportunity to fix a mistake” andrelocate the highway, he said.

The highway relocation isunderway, with about $200 mil-lion already invested in the proj-ect, said Lambri Zerva of theRhode Island Department ofTransportation. The greatestimprovements will be in the “dri-vability” of the roads, with “chal-lenging” merges and left-hand

exits removed. Spaces to be opened for devel-

opment include the downcityswath I-195 divides, the inter-change where it meets Interstate95 and other waterfront areas.Each site presents unique oppor-tunities and challenges, and thebattle against suburban-style andundesirable development is diffi-cult and ongoing, presenterssaid.

Meanwhile, sites on the EastSide will be spruced up as part ofa larger plan from William WarnerArchitects. The Wickenden Streetoverpass, currently a haven forpigeons, a magnet for graffiti and

a pedestrian nightmare, will beredone with parking, new light-ing and materials resistant topigeons and spray paint.

The pedestrian walkway overI-195 to India Point Park will bereplaced by a more congenial“entry point to the park,” saidWilliam Warner’s GlenFontecchio. Planners will alsoconnect the East Bay Bike Path tothe park via an underpass atIndia Street, he said.

Several designers urged a sec-ond look at plans to demolish thebridge. Colgate Searle, RISD pro-fessor of landscape architecture,presented the “Upcity Crossing”proposal, which would use thebridge to link neighborhoodsacross the river and create amixed-elevation neighborhoodaround the bridge’s ramps.

Fontecchio suggested that thebridge could be rebuilt, using theoriginal pilings, as a pedestrianbridge and for utility lines.

Derek Bradford, RISD profes-sor of landscape architecture,summarized the momentum of

the planning as, “Move onProvidence, move on.” The con-ference was titled “Providence onthe Move: The Highway and theCity.”

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins’06 edits the Metro section. She canbe reached atsperkins@browndailyherald.com.

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Brown could help students pre-pare their resume and interviewstyles and strengthen relationsamong international students,she said.

Dennis Michaud, assistantprofessor of sociology, secondedDill’s description of Vranek as anexceptional student and person,saying, “Metha was one of thesmartest students I ever had.”

Michaud said he and theother students in his class oftenrelied on Vranek to lead discus-sions. He described Vranek asbright, positive and “up.” Vranekwas “just a joy to be with. Just ajoy,” Michaud said.

Faculty reflections were fol-lowed by a photo montageshowing Vranek with many ofhis friends. Captions recountedVranek’s love of fun, travel, andhis family and friends. Photosshowed Vranek giving presentsto his friends, eating at Tokyorestaurant in Providence andsliding down an ice-encasedplayground slide.

Friends remembered Vranekas a constant source of supportand encouragement.

Eric Neuman ’04 recalledVranek’s unusual determination,whether in studying, working tomake himself healthier or help-ing to ease international stu-dents’ transition to college life.

Vranek put a tremendousamount of effort into his jobapplications, writing and rewrit-ing them many times, Neumansaid. Even so, Vranek was alwaysthere when a friend or family

member needed him, makinglate night trips to JohnnyRocket’s and rearranging hisclass schedule so he couldspend more time with his girl-friend of three and a half years,Neuman said. He had a knackfor sensing people’s needs, and“friends always came beforeschool or whatever task occu-pied him,” he said.

Arman Kamenov, who firstmet Vranek at a Swiss boardingschool, said Vranek helped himget through a difficult transitionduring Kamenov’s freshmanyear at Harvard University.Kamenov said his weekly visitswith Vranek eased the lonelinesshe first felt in college. Their longconversations and trips to Viva,for which Vranek sported a tightblack shirt and “sideburnswhich were in need of someserious trimming,” lifted hisspirits, Kamenov said.

“I never had any doubt hewould succeed in whatever heset his mind to in life,” he said.

Vranek had secured his dreamposition in the internationalinvestment firm Deutsche Bankfor after graduation, Neumansaid.

As word of Vranek’s deathspread, the University receivedcalls and letters from around theworld — a testament to the far-reaching impact Vranek had onpeople’s lives, Neuman said.

“He was an amazing personand an amazing friend, and I amgrateful to have been fortunateenough to know him when wedid,” he said.

Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ‘07can be reached atklesley@browndailyherald.com.

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Nathan Marsters was on top of hisgame, stopping 12 shots in thefirst frame and 30 in the game forthe shutout.

After a scoreless first, theEngineers got on the board 11minutes into the second period.RPI captain Scott Basiuk fired aslap shot through traffic from thecenter point that found its wayinto the goal.

The Engineers quickly tookBrown out of the game, scoring 41seconds into the third period on awrist shot by Kirk McDonald fromthe left face-off circle.

It looked like the Bears mightget on the scoreboard with apower play midway through thethird, but the play backfired whenMcDonald blocked a shotattempt, raced down ice on a two-on-one and dished the puck toBen Barr, who tapped his seventhgoal of the season past Danis forthe shorthanded score. To makematters worse, RPI scored itsfourth and final goal a minutelater.

“I’m at a loss for words,” Grillosaid after Saturday’s loss. “Bothnights we came out hard in thefirst period, and both nights wewere flat in the second. We wentfrom playing some real good hock-ey last weekend to playing somepretty average hockey this week-end.”

“This weekend needs to be alearning experience,” Ford said.“But we need to move on. We’restill in the driver’s seat with firstplace in the ECAC.”

Brown remains two pointsahead of Colgate University as itheads into next weekend’s gameson the road against St. Lawrenceand Clarkson universities. TheBears will come home to finishthe regular season, hostingDartmouth College and theUniversity of Vermont.

Hobey Baker Award-hopefulDanis had a season-high 42saves on Friday night and 30saves on Saturday, stopping animpressive 72 of 78 shots facedthis weekend. Grillo said the

goalie’s play was not the reasonfor the team’s disappointingresults.

“I don’t think you can put any-thing on Yann. We didn’t domuch to help him,” he said. “Inmy mind he is still the best goal-tender in the country by far.”

Danis is two games shy ofbreaking the Brown record forcareer wins as a goaltender, cur-rently held at 43 wins, by KevinMcCabe ’77.

lenged by international laborgroups who are “impressed byKorean workers’ fresh militancyand their ability to pose staunchopposition to neoliberalists,”Koo said. Now, Korea is seen as aleader in the international move-ment against neoliberal global-ization, he added.

Koo said this scale of labormilitancy and mass unionizationwas virtually unknown in Koreathree decades ago. Althoughworking conditions were poorduring Korea’s rapid industrial-ization, several incidents havemade the labor movement whatit is today, Koo said.

Inhumane conditions in fac-tories were a way of life duringKorea’s rapid growth. Koreanworkers had “the distinction ofthe longest work week in theworld until a couple of yearsago,” Koo said.

During the 1960s and 1970s,“workers did not speak the lan-guage of exploitation” and didnot have a clear concept of theirrights, Koo said.

This changed in 1970, whenChun Tae-Il, a worker in a smallgarment factory, immolatedhimself during a street protestagainst the injustice he and hisfellow workers received.

“While his body was engulfedin flames, he was holding abooklet of labor standards lawsin his hand, and he was shout-ing, ‘We are not machines — letus rest on Sundays, abide by thelabor standard laws, don’t exploitworkers,’” Koo said.

Chun’s protest became a pow-erful symbol for the workingclass’s call for humane treatmentand the recognition of workers’constitutional rights, Koo said.The self-immolation also drewthe attention of the internationalcommunity and Korean intellec-tuals to the dark side of SouthKorea’s economic growth.

By the 1980s, Korean churchesbegan to help women workers

with a grassroots movement tosupport humane working condi-tions. Korean students later tookover the role of the church,becoming “the most active andpoliticized segment in SouthKorea,” Koo said. During thisdecade, 3,000 to 4,000 studentsleft their universities to go workin factories and help workersrecognize their rights and organ-ize unions, Koo said.

Labor militancy reached newheights in 1987, when the gov-ernment was unable to controlstrikers who were demandingdemocratic reforms.

During the next three months,“the whole country was engulfedby an unprecedented level oflabor unrest. The number oflabor disputes that occurredduring this short period exceed-ed the total number of disputesthat occurred during the pasttwo decades of rapid industrial-ization,” Koo said. This form ofmilitancy and high levels ofunion organization continued tocharacterize the labor move-ment.

Koo said the South Koreangovernment has played a largepart in creating this militancy byusing crude and repressivemethods to reform the labormovement and by punishingworkers for organizing unions.

The Korean state’s recentinstitution of legal frameworksfor resolving labor problems hasthe potential to promote moremature industrial relations andhelp repair the legacy of pastlabor reform neglect, Koo said.

Koo’s speech, entitled “Work,Culture, and Class Identity inKorea,” was the fifth annualChong Wook Lee and VartanGregorian Distinguished Lecture,sponsored by the Thomas J.Watson Institute forInternational Studies. The serieswas designed to promote under-standing between East Asia andthe United States.

Herald staff writer Amy Ruddle’06 can be reached ataruddle@browndailyherald.com.

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The race for the Ivy League titlehas now become a four-teamrace, as Yale fell to Harvard onSaturday night. Princeton (7-1)sits in first place, following aweekend sweep of Cornell andColumbia universities, after amidweek loss to the Quakers.Demonstrating the evenness ofthe league, Princeton neededovertime to knock off the Lions onSaturday. The Bears have a half-game lead over Penn (5-2) for sec-ond place, while Cornell sitsalone in fourth at 5-3, as the teamis in the midst of a three-gameskid.

The Bears will now have achance to capture a share of firstplace this weekend, when it headsto Penn and Princeton. While asweep will guarantee the team atleast a first place tie, two losseswill make a NCAA bid nearlyimpossible.

Herald staff writer Joshua Troy ’04is a former sports editor and coversthe men’s basketball team. He canbe reached at jtroy@browndaily-herald.com.

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But other Minden resi-dents disagreed.

Shara Hegde ’05 lives inroom 607, directly below thepipe break. Hegde said shewas sitting at her computerwhen one of her friends mes-saged her, telling her a pipehad exploded on the seventhfloor.

At that moment, waterstarted pouring down hercloset, onto her mattress andfrom the ceiling of her bath-room, she said. Apart fromclothes and sheets, Hegdesaid she was able to clearmost from items from herroom before they were dam-aged.

Hegde said she was “angry”that there was no immediateresponse from the Universityaddressing the issue.

Nickel said before theUniversity can respond to acall, it needs a “final report onthe damages.”

“The (University’s) firstpriority is to make repairsand restore water services,”he said.

But Molee Leng ’05, ofMinden 507, said she thinksthe University owes Mindenresidents more.

“I think the Universityshould clean the carpets andreplace everything that can’tbe used,” she said. “I don’tthink I’ll be able to use mymattress again.”

Herald staff writer MoniqueMeneses ‘05 is The Herald’s fea-tures editor. She can be reachedat mmeneses@browndailyher-ald.com.

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on a joint project with RISD thatrevolves around the recentremoval of the diseased elmtree “Elmo” from its home out-side the Thomas J. WatsonInstitute for InternationalStudies.

Mark Domino, a graduateassistant working closely withstudents on the “Elm treeproject,” described it asmerging disciplines from artto philosophy around theimage and metaphor of thefelled tree.

The desire to “merge theboundaries” between artforms and support cross-dis-ciplinary initiatives is a par-ticular goal of CAC, Fishmansaid. Even as the council“advocates the growth ofindividual art departmentsand entities,” it also aims to“foster a sense of communityand interrelationship”between disciplines, he said.

Herald staff writer GabriellaDoob ’07 can be reached atg d o o b @ b r o w n d a i l y -herald.com.

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more irritable and impulsiveand generally more senile (Imean this in a medical sense).So when faced with the likelyprospect of a salary cap inbaseball’s near future, as wellas a cap on the length of hisown life, there was practicallyno stopping Steinbrenner fromswooping in on the reboundand getting A-Rod.

I say “practically” becausethere was not a 100-percentlikelihood this would happen,until our friend Aaron Boonetore his ACL playing basketball.Right then and there, it was adone deal. That was it. TheYankees needed a third base-man, they could one-up theRed Sox in a way they had onlyonce done before,Steinbrenner could calm downfor a day and the revolvingdoor of Yankee players couldkeep on spinning, taking with ita player who failed the Yankeesduring the 2003 postseason(Soriano). That is theSteinbrenner way, and youknew it had to happen. It was,for all intents and purposes,already done.

There is a bright side,though. Luckily for everyoneelse in the league, the Yankeesare keeping Derek Jeter atshortstop and moving A-Rod,one of the best defensive short-stops in the league, who ismiles ahead of Jeter, to thirdbase. It is a big time misuse ofresources — Jeter is not justbad at short, but statisticallyone of the worst in terms of hisrange and the effect he has onthe game defensively.

And no longer will A-Rod’slegacy include the accolade of“greatest shortstop ever,”which will please the legions offans A-Rod has just turned intohis enemies. Perhaps he will bethe face of the Yankees, but heis also now the face of base-ball’s biggest problem.

So in April, when you seeBronson Arroyo plunk A-Rod inthe late innings of a blowout,and fans at Fenway are yellingwith glee, don’t be surprised.

For three years now, A-Rodhas had it coming.

Assistant sports editor EricPerlmutter ’06 and his enor-mous contract were acquired byThe Herald when his highschool felt it could not be com-petitive while paying him.

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Artistic enrichmentWith RISD down the Hill and music, theater and visual artdepartments of our own, it’s clear that Brown is positioned inthe midst of a bustling art scene. Tour guides and collegeguidebooks tout Brown as the “creative Ivy,” and it’s a reputa-tion that draws some to the campus. Indeed, Brown studentsare artsy, independent and creative, and the University doesits best to nurture those qualities in some students.

But while the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment aim tofacilitate independent thinking and creativity in the tradition-al academic classroom, financial support for the creative artsis conspicuously absent.

Professor of Visual Art Richard Fishman, chairman of theCreative Arts Council, listed for The Herald what Brown needsto continue to be a viable center of creative activity. As theCAC has prepared its list, President Ruth Simmons has articu-lated hers, but somehow the arts haven’t made it on.

There is no mention in the initiatives of the creative artsspace the CAC has proposed, and requests for a large per-forming space capable of holding a sizeable audience havenot been directly addressed. On a smaller scale, students havetrouble finding music practice rooms at peak times, andreserving studio space in List Art Building is difficult and mustbe done far in advance.

Brown has directed some funds toward the arts in recentyears, renovating the home of Production Workshop and cre-ating a multimedia lab for the Department of Modern Cultureand Media. However, there are other components of the arts— especially traditional visual art and music — that are neg-lected. This serious omission could threaten Brown’s rightfulreputation as the “creative Ivy.”

It’s relieving to see that private ventures such as the CACare stepping up where Brown can’t to support the arts. But asit commits to sweeping reforms of the academic and campuslife of the University, Brown should ensure that private groupsdo not have to bear this burden. When the next incarnation ofthe initiatives arrives in our mailboxes, we hope to see con-crete steps Brown plans to take to preserve the role of the artsat the University.

To the Editor:

Legal adviser to the Palestinian negotiating teamDiana Buttu argues that Palestinian violence can-not end until Israel withdraws from the occupiedterritories (“Advisor to Palestinian government saysend of occupation will stop violence,” Feb. 12). YetIsrael has repeatedly offered to return the greatmajority of the land it conquered amidst a warlaunched against it from those very territories sim-ply in return for peace, only to encounterPalestinian rejections of these offers as “not goodenough.”

Buttu does not mention the myriad statementsby the Palestinian leadership that an Israeli with-drawal will be used as a springboard for the annihi-

lation of the Jewish State. Israel is asked by itsassailants to withdraw to the borders from which itwas attacked. When it refuses to return a small por-tion of the land essential to protect it from futureattacks (in exchange for which it offers an equalamount of land elsewhere), or when it builds a wallto protect its population from repeated, indiscrimi-nate massacres of its civilians, these are used as yetmore excuses to attack it. Buttu asserts that the wallIsrael is building to keep out Palestinian terrorists isa roadblock to peace. I would think that terroristattacks themselves, not efforts to thwart them,would merit that criticism.

Joshua Samson Marcus ‘04Feb. 12

To the Editor:

Professor Barrett Hazeltine should not be criti-cized for bastardizing the Brown curriculum. He issimply an intermediary who facilitates an opportu-nity for students to take advantage of the curricu-lum the administration is supposed to support.Brown professors do not need to be babysitters,which is something Hazeltine understands. If pro-fessors feel the need to execute authority and limitthe potential of the most ambitious and proven stu-dents in the world, then they don’t deserve the priv-ilege of teaching at Brown and should consider aposition as a warden in one of our country’s maxi-mum security prisons.

Chase Hogoboom ’03Feb. 13

To the Editor:

If one were to survey a random selection ofBrown alumni and ask them which professor hadthe biggest affect on their life or career, there is nodoubt that Barrett Hazeltine would top that list.Why? Because he offers that which few professorsat Brown — or elsewhere — are able to: an infec-tious enthusiasm aimed at promoting learning in avariety of subject areas. Professor Hazeltine’s lovefor Brown and his students is unrivalled.

I took several classes with Professor Hazeltinewhile at Brown, including an independent study.There is no doubt in my mind that those courseselections were some of the most important I madeand have served me all too well since graduating.Most alumni would agree.

A decision to uproot Professor Hazeltine’s legacyby limiting how he can teach is a disservice to cur-rent students and an insult to his former studentsand dearest friends. Brown should think long andhard before instituting such restrictions. IraMagaziner would agree.

Benjamin Naftalis ’99Feb. 13

In defense of Professor Hazeltine

Buttu should stop wailing about the wall

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2004 · PAGE 7

Less than two weeks ago, a column by Ellen Hunter (“The Real RaceCandidate,” Feb. 4) ran in this space, declaring that the true perpetra-tors of the race card in American politics are Republicans, as illustratedby George Bush’s subtle appeals to the latent racism of white southernvoters. Indeed, there is an undeniable correlation between race andparty identification, although to blame this solely on right-wing scaretactics strikes me as facile.

The sad fact is that presidential politics in this day and age areinfused with an obsession toward parceling out as many race, sex, ageand class-defined voting blocs as possible, then proceeding to frightenand pander toward these respective groups with little concern for thetruth. This sort of campaigning is very good for politicians, though notso good for the American people.

Conservatives, an increasingly rare breed these days, believe thatpolicy should be enacted in accordance with constitutional principles.The “general welfare clause,” invoked by the left so often in support offaddish social programs, was in fact intended to deny this result. Ratherthan excusing massive entitlement programs designed to buy off cer-tain interest groups — minorities, seniors, the poor — this clause wasoriginally meant to prevent policies not designed to promote the “gen-eral welfare” of the entire population.

However, the temptation to employ a divide-and-conquer strategyon the American electorate is perhaps too powerful for most politiciansto resist. Recent “conservative” presidents, with the notable exceptionof Ronald Reagan, have all too easily demonstrated their willingness totrump law with politics.

And why should they not? For decades, Republicans have made half-hearted attempts to slow the rate of growth of federal entitlements, onlyto be savaged by progressives for “abandoning” one or another defense-less constituency. George Bush has learned his lesson: it pays off hand-somely at the polls when one is “compassionate,” as demonstratedthrough the issuance of well-intentioned but ineffective group benefits.Thus, he unflinchingly calls himself a “conservative” while enacting thelargest and (potentially) most economically devastating entitlementprogram since the days of Richard Nixon.

Such sentimentalized group-benefit policies extend far beyond

Bush’s funding of prescription drugs for seniors. The administration’srecently-repealed steel tariffs would have exacted a terrible toll on thegreater economy, but very well may have won Bush the backing of blue-collar workers in the Midwest.

Similarly, the Bush administration is responsible for a titanic farmbill, including the likes of garbanzo bean subsidies the Newt Gingrich-era Congress eliminated 10 years before. The motivation behind thesetypes of programs is obvious: the farmers are forever indebted to thepresident, while he gambles that the rest of us won’t even notice. Somepoliticians take this strategy even further by claiming that those whooppose their pet projects are uncaring or possibly even personallybiased against the recipients of such aid.

This least-common-denominator approach to identity politics lendsitself naturally to the playing of the race card, on both sides of the polit-ical spectrum. Every idiotic comment Trent Lott utters on the subject ofrace only further motivates Bush to prove he is “compassionate.”Hence, when the issue of affirmative action came before the SupremeCourt, the administration lapsed into wishy-washy “diversity” lan-guage, forgoing an opportunity to take a principled stance against racialpreferences for the good of the entire country. Bush’s insipid attack onquotas was therefore only a lame attempt to appease conservatives byassailing the functional equivalent of a program he supports, not acoded appeal to white racists.

Democrats, as always, continue to break new ground in this race tocarve up and apportion the American electorate. After conducting afilthy smear campaign against Bush’s judicial nominees, depicting themas dangerous, bigoted extremists, Democrats found themselves on thedefensive when the president appointed the distinguished CharlesPickering to the federal bench while Congress was in recess.

Two of the more odious Democratic front-runners (Wesley Clark andHoward Dean) wasted no time in condemning the president forappointing a “racist” judge. They were talking about the same CharlesPickering who spent his career fighting the Klan in the south whenRepublicans (conservatives, back then) were supporting civil rights leg-islation in greater numbers than Democrats.

The left has succeeded in turning Republicans from true conserva-tives into eunnuchs, scared to death of being labeled as “insensitive” or“uncaring” and settling for “compassionate.” The Democrats haveplayed the “identity” card so expertly as to make the other party appearguiltier. But make no mistake; they’re both guilty.

Chris McAuliffe ’05 is a political science concentrator.

Entitlements for all?

Both political parties know

how to play favorites.

CHRIS MCAULIFFE

As Israel continues construction of its separa-tion barrier in the West Bank, and the WhiteHouse hints it may support Israeli Prime MinisterAriel Sharon’s unilateral actions to disassociatefrom the Palestinians, critics are quick (and cor-rect) to be angered by new limits on Palestinianmovement and the apparent appropriation ofsignificant amounts of Palestinian territory. TheInternational Court of Justice in the Hague willsoon host hearings on the legality of this separa-tion, and while Israel will not officially partici-pate, at least one Israeli non-governmentalorganization will appear outside the Court withthe remnants of a bus blown up by Hamas terror-ists, in order to argue that the Israeli measuresconstitute appropriate and necessary policy toprotect the lives of Israeli civilians.

What is sometimes forgotten is that Israel andPalestine compete not only over land but overwater. Much of the eastern Mediterranean is aridor semi-arid, and over the past several decadesthe combined populations of Israel and Palestine(as well as Jordan, which is hydrologically linked)have grown so large that human freshwaterneeds have pushed up against the limits onfreshwater availability in the region.

Nearly all of the water in this landscape isshared water. That is, it overwhelmingly occursin the form of rivers and aquifers that crossgeopolitical boundaries. Israel controls most ofthis water, Jordan somewhat less and Palestineby far the least, on both absolute and per-capitabases. The Israelis and Jordanians struck a ratherprecarious water agreement in their 1994 peacetreaty, but did so largely by pretending thePalestinians did not exist. Meanwhile, it is safe to

assume that no resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will be achieved without an agree-ment on water. That agreement today seems asremote a possibility as ever.

What is so unfortunate about the current vio-lence is that the most efficient way to deal withthe water crisis is to consider the hydrologic sys-tem as a unitary whole, rather than to separatethe resource on a basis that is largely a functionof the distribution of military might. In the not-too-distant future, significant volumes of newfreshwater supply will need to be produced inorder to support human needs. This can occur ina number of ways, including importing waterfrom wetter regions (which has already begun ona small scale with an Israeli contract to buyTurkish river flows and convey them to Israel viaretrofitted oil tankers) and desalinating theMediterranean, among others. But such meas-ures are expensive, and by refusing to politicallyengage, the Israelis and Palestinians are alsorefusing American, European and Japanese for-eign aid reservoirs that could help defray thesenew costs.

Perhaps as the crisis deepens and human suf-fering from freshwater scarcity becomes intoler-able, Israelis and Palestinians will finally realizethey share a common environmental challengethat transcends their political and land disputes.My hope is that they will not wait until then.

Jeff Albert is a lecturer in geological sciences andenvironmental studies. He is a former Israeliwater official and will appear as part of the panel“A Background on the Middle East Water ResourceConflict” Tuesday.

GUEST COLUMN BY PROFESSOR JEFF ALBERT

Dividing the waters

PARIS — Forget the growing shadow of white-collar outsourcing. Forget the scary prospect of along-term “jobless recovery,” and the tastelessjoke running around Macintosh to “Think India.”You see, there’s a new bogeyman on the techstreet, in the form of the remarkable cloningexperiment by South Korean genetic engineerWoo Suk Hwang.

Hwang’s successful cloning of a human stemcell line marks a new frontier in gene therapy. Italso indicates just how far behind Americangenetic research has fallen in the past three years.

Out of 30 human blastocysts (embryonic clus-ters of about 125 cells), the Seoul lab cloned a linethat went on to produce muscle, bone and othertissue. According to the scientific community,such “polypotent” stem cell cultures could even-tually produce heart, lung, brain and nervous tis-sue, possibly reversing the effects of paralysis,Alzheimer’s, diabetes and Parkinson’s.

This breakthrough happened in South Koreaand not the United States because on Aug. 9, 2001,the Bush administration blocked all federal fund-ing of the creation of new stem cell lines. Bushignored protests from the National Institutes ofHealth that the private sector could not adequate-ly fund this important field of research.

The protests from the NIH were prophetic:because venture capitalism favors industries thatbecome profitable quickly, most companiesavoided stem cells. Of those that did invest, mostran out of money after a few years. Even pioneercompanies such as Scotland’s PPC Therapeutics,which cloned the sheep named “Dolly,” are floun-dering. PPC and all its assets will be sold off thisyear.

If things continue under the current federalstranglehold, our best-case scenario is a world-wide genetic sporting tournament in whichAmericans are spectators. The worst-case sce-nario is a marked brain drain from the Americanscientific community. This isn’t like outsourcing,whereby jobs disappear but continue to benefitU.S. companies. Once a Ph.D. is gone, it’s gone.

Oh, the places those Ph.D.s will go! AlreadyChina, England and Israel are developing sophis-ticated cloning research programs. Singapore issurging ahead with a $287 million biotech labcalled — get this — “Biopolis.”

And the Bush administration is only makingmatters worse. Instead of proposing a ban againsthuman cloning, the President’s Council onBioethics has asked Congress to ban all forms ofcloning, an approach that is simply alarmist.

It is clear that council Chairman Leon Kass andPresident Bush see the stem cell debate as a cul-tural war between the reverent and the diabolic.Banning cloning and shunting stem cell advance-ment is simply another plank in the president’sTheocracy Project, the same crusade promotingan unprecedented consitutional affront called theFederal Marriage Amendment.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel.California is proving a small haven for stem cellscientists, who currently enjoy large endowmentsat Stanford University and the University ofCalifornia at San Francisco. In addition, theCalifornia ballot this November will include aproposition for $3 billion in stem cell grants forthe state’s universities. If passed, it will represent abold American effort to stay competitive in theworldwide genetic tournament. Game faces on,Cali voters: if the past is precedent, there’s nodoubt you’ll make the right choice.

Doug Fretty ’05 is spending a semester in Paris,where he is known to the locals as “Mr. (Expletive)Wisconsin.”

A clone of Doug’s own

It looks like Jeb is

as close to a

clone as we’ll get.

GUEST COLUMN BY DOUG FRETTY

BY JAMES FELDMANThe men’s hockey team, ranked 10th inthe nation, suffered two setbacks thisweekend, tying Union College Fridaynight and losing to RensselaerPolytechnic Institute the followingevening.

Brown appeared to be in control ofFriday night’s contest until the final min-utes. The Bears jumped to a 1-0 lead inthe first period when Captain Scott Ford’04 picked up a loose puck in the neutralzone and scored on Union goalie KrisMayotte.

Brown added to its lead five minutesinto the third period, when Cory Caouette’06 beat a Union defenseman to a loosepuck and fed a perfect pass to Chris Swon’05. Swon corralled the puck and fired awrist shot to put Brown up 2-0.

“(Caouette) made the play happen, Iwas just there to finish it,” Swon said.

The Dutchmen did not get on thescoreboard until the final two minutes, 26seconds of the game. Union’s Jason Visserwas able to knock a third rebound pastgoalie Yann Danis ’04 after a scramble infront of the net.

One minute, 20 seconds later, Uniondefenseman Matt Vagvolgyi evened thescore, firing a wrist shot from the pointthat beat a screened Danis on the blockerside.

While Union deserves credit for its per-

severance, Brown Head Coach RogerGrillo said he was disappointed with histeam’s performance in the final period.

“I feel like we had a lot of chances toput the game away,” said Grillo. “We’rebetter then that, and we gave up two badgoals.”

“I think that tonight’s game was prettyevident of what happens when you don’tplay 60 minutes of hockey,” Ford said.“They came out in the second and thirdperiods and they worked hard and theywanted to get that win, and we justpacked it in.”

Brown came out with renewed vigor inthe first period of Saturday’s game againstRPI, but once again, the effort didn’t last.RPI exploded for three third-period goalsto secure a 4-0 victory over the Bears,ending Brown’s six-game streak.

The Bears had several good scoringchances in the first period, but RPI goalie

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

FEBRUARY 16, 2004 · PAGE 8

Blowout wins at Harvard andDartmouth put men’s hoops insecond in Ivies

Nick Neely / Herald

Chris Swon ’05 scored a goal in Friday’s 2-2 tie against Union College at home.Thefollowing night Brown fell to visiting Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 4-0.

We should have seen this coming.Ever since Alex Rodriguez signed his

10-year, $252-million deal back inDecember of 2000, the phrase “A-Rod is a

New York Yankee”was likely to beuttered. Anyonewho knows any-thing at all aboutmarkets, baseball,

and George Steinbrenner could have pre-dicted it might come to fruition.

So when this weekend brought thetrade talks in which A-Rod and an obnox-ious sum of money went to the Yankeesin exchange for Alfonso Soriano and aplayer to be named later, I shouldn’t havebeen surprised. Disappointed in human-ity? I think so. Angry? Definitely. But sur-prised? No way — it was almost like déjàvu, only it had never happened before.

We knew, back in 2000 when A-Rodsigned with the Texas Rangers, that therewas absolutely no way in Grady Littlethat he was going to stay with them for 10

years. He put the team in a financialbind, the pitching just wasn’t there and10 years is too long a stay for an athletelike A-Rod who wants to win. Especiallyin this day and age, where fidelity to one’steam is a laughable concept, his depar-ture was all but certain — it was only amatter of when and where.

We also knew that 2000 was the time ofpeak value of player contracts. $25 mil-lion a year? That’s just gross. I rememberthinking that day, “This man is going tokill baseball.” (More on this in amoment.)

So combine the fact that A-Rod wasgoing somewhere, sometime, with thefact that the market was headed for amajor correction and we have only ahandful of teams that could afford totake on his salary: both New York teams,the Boston Red Sox and the Los AngelesDodgers. There are other rich teams, butafter having had three years sucked intothe black hole in Texas, the “chances ofwinning” criterion was probably highest

on his list, and the Orioles, for example,don’t win.

Fast forward to December of 2003. Thetime had come for A-Rod’s midlife crisis,and Boston was his oasis. We were allgripped by the trade talks — A-Rod toBoston, Manny Ramirez to Texas, andMagglio Ordonez and NomarGarciaparra switching teams. Yet many ofus Red Sox fans were hoping it wouldn’tget done. We didn’t want the Red Sox tobe “the team that killed baseball.” As itturned out, of course, the trade fellthrough, mainly due to money: the RedSox didn’t want to take on so much, andthe players’ union wouldn’t allowRodriguez’s contract to be restructuredso that he cost less.

We now shift to Act Two, in which allhell breaks loose and our supportingactor, George Steinbrenner, goes nuts.After having lost the World Series in 2003,he was out to avenge. He was also older,

BY JOSHUA TROYTo have a shot at winning an Ivy Leaguechampionship in men’s basketball, a teamcannot afford to lose league games to less-er opponents. Yet, with the parity in theconference, this is easier said than done.

With the Bears hitting the road to faceHarvard University and DartmouthCollege, which had two wins between thementering the weekend, the team knew ithad to come away with a sweep. So whenthe buzzer sounded on Saturday night, giv-ing Brown (10-11, 6-2 Ivy) its secondstraight win by at least 20 points, the Bearshad done what they needed to do.

Trailing by one with 15:01 to play in thefirst half against Harvard (2-6, 3-18) Friday,the Bears put together an 11-0 run to take a18-10 lead and never looked back. In thestretch, reigning Ivy League Player of theWeek Patrick Powers ’04 and Jason Forte’05 each drained three-pointers and JamieKilburn ’04 added two baskets.

Over the rest of the half, Brown openedup leads as large as 16 but no smaller thansix. Bruno was supported by a large groupof traveling fans, including parents, alumniand students.

For the half, Powers led the team with 15points, making five three pointers. Kilburnadded 12 points on five of five shooting,while Forte notched nine points. MikeMartin ’04 led the team with five assistsand Luke Ruscoe ’06 had four assists, but itwas point guard Forte who played the piv-otal role in leading the team’s ball move-ment. The Crimson was led by Matt Stehle,who had 10 points, the team’s lone playerin double figures.

“(Powers) came out looking for his shotearly on and got a few three-pointers tofall,” said Head Coach Glenn Miller. “It isnot too often that I will tell Pat that he istaking a bad shot.”

In the second half, it was more of thesame. Forte led the team with 14 second-half points and five assists. His quicknessand dribbling skills created opportunitiesfor teammates, and all five starters reacheddouble figures for the first time in leagueplay. After leading by as many as 25, Brownclosed out the game with a basket by P.J.Flaherty ’07 basket and a 91-67 win. Forte

finished with a game-high 25, with Kilburnand Powers adding 20 and 17, respectively.Martin and Ruscoe each finished with 10apiece. Aside from Forte, all of the startersfinished with at least five rebounds.

“We worked all week on our patience onoffense,” Miller said. “We are at our bestwhen we are willing to make multiple pass-es on a possession, and tonight we didthat.”

Stehle was Harvard’s leading scorer with18 points and tied for the team lead withseven rebounds. Kevin Rogus added 12points and Michael Beal added 10.

On Saturday, the team’s seniors put theirundefeated record against Dartmouth onthe line. The game was another test for thethree seniors (Power, Martin and Kilburn),and they set a new Brown record for winsin a career — 58. With the stage set for atrap game, and the University ofPennsylvania and Princeton University onthe horizon for next weekend, the teamcame out of the gate sluggish despitepromises the night before not to look pastthe struggling Big Green.

“If we get beat by Dartmouth, I’d like tothink it will be because they played betterthan us, not because we were unprepared,”Miller said following the Harvard game.

With a little over four minutes to play inthe first half, the Bears trailed 38-30.Nevertheless, with a potential title on theline, the team recovered and put together a13-0 run to close out the half. Forte, Martinand Powers each drilled shots from beyondthe arc to give Brown a 43-38 lead at themidway point.

For most of the second half, the Bearscontrolled the game, but the Big Greenpulled within eight at 65-58. But down thestretch, Bruno proved to be too much andpicked up an 84-64 victory. Once again,Forte led the team, scoring 23 points anddishing out a team-high five assists. Powersfinished with a double-double with 22points and 12 rebounds. Martin chipped inwith 18 points and four steals, with Kilburnadding 17 points and six boards.Dartmouth was led by Steve Callahan, whoscored 15 points.

A-Rod to the Yankees: it had to happen

Late goals lead to tie, loss atMeehan for m. ice hockey

Weekend Sports Results

Friday, Feb. 13

Men’s Ice Hockey – Brown 2, Union 2Women’s Basketball – Harvard 70, Brown 64Wrestling – Columbia 21, Brown 19Men’s Basketball – Brown 91, Harvard 67

Saturday, Feb. 14

Men’s Tennis – Brown 7, Rutgers 0; Brown 7, URI 0Women’s Ice Hockey – Harvard 5, Brown 2 Women’s Basketball – Brown 78, Dartmouth 68Men’s Ice Hockey – RPI 4, Brown 0Skiing – Second place, MacConnell DivisionMen’s Swimming and Diving – Cornell 128, Brown 113 Wrestling – Cornell 33, Brown 3Men’s Basketball – Brown 84, Dartmouth 64Women’s Water Polo – Brown 14, Wagner 2; Michigan 9,Brown 4

Sunday, Feb. 15

Gymnastics – Brown 190.375, Springfield 183.425Women’s Ice Hockey – Harvard 4, Brown 3 (OT) Women’s Water Polo – Brown 11, Marist 3; Brown 8,George Washington 3

see ICE HOCKEY, page 5 see BASKETBALL, page 5

ERIC PERLMUTTERPERL MUTTERS

see A-ROD, page 5