BY ANDREW JACOBSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Steve Greene ’08 isn’t happy with his cell phone service. “In my room, I can only

talk in the corners,” the Sears House resident said. “I swear, only in corners. I

can’t just stand against the wall — I have to physically lean into the corners,” he added.

Greene’s complaint is not unique. Last month, 52 percent of 1,749 respondents in a WebCT poll from the Undergraduate Council of Students reported they need-ed “better signal strength.” But figuring out which service is best depends on who you ask and what they might be selling.

While the UCS poll ranked Cingular first in customer satisfaction, with 61 per-cent of users satisfied, Dana Harris, man-ager of the year-old Brown Wireless store at 220 Thayer St., tells a different story. Harris said his store used to sell Cingular but chose not to renew its contract with the provider after receiving a large num-ber of complaints from students about dropped calls.

Brown Wireless now offers only T-Mo-bile, Nextel and Boost Mobile. Of these,

Harris said T-Mobile is best: “It’s bet-ter reception, and a better deal for your money.” He estimated that 80 percent of the Brown students he deals with end up buying T-Mobile.

Unlike Cingular, T-Mobile’s Web site provides a detailed coverage map. The area of campus bounded by Bowen, Hope, George and Prospect streets earns a four on a scale that ranges from zero to five, with five being the best rating. Most

other areas of campus rate a 3, including Keeney, Wriston and Vartan Gregorian Quadrangles and Barbour Hall.

Despite Harris’s praise and optimistic coverage maps, T-Mobile still fails to sat-isfy a majority of its Brown subscribers, according to UCS poll results. This frus-tration with service, T-Mobile or other-wise, can sometimes lead to one place —

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U. approves divestment blacklist, lifts Israel travel banBY ERIC BECKNEWS EDITOR

The Brown Corporation’s Advisory and Executive Committee Friday endorsed a list of six companies doing business in Sudan to be excluded from the Univer-sity’s direct investments in response to ongoing genocide in the country’s Dar-fur region. The endorsement of the list makes it official University policy.

The A&E committee also approved a re-vised undergraduate international travel policy that will allow students to study or travel abroad in locations on the U.S. De-partment of State Travel Warning list, in-cluding Israel.

The six companies to be excluded from the University’s investments are ABB Ltd., Alcatel, PetroChina, Siemens, Sinopec and Tatneft.

The Corporation first approved di-vestment at its Feb. 25 meeting. Admin-istrators worked in conjunction with the University’s Advisory Committee on Cor-porate Responsibility in Investing and the group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur to develop the list of companies to be excluded from the University’s in-vestments.

Prior to the Corporation’s decision to divest, the ACCRI recommended divest-ment from nine companies it determined provided revenue to the Sudanese govern-ment. Three of those companies were re-moved from the blacklist endorsed by the A&E committee, with approval from the ACCRI, according to Executive Vice Presi-dent for Finance and Administration Eliz-abeth Huidekoper. The three companies were Marathon Oil, Total SA and Petronas.

“The ACCRI was included in the process of gathering additional information on the nine companies. By the time the final rec-

BY SIMMI AUJLASENIOR STAFF WRITER

A man drove his car into the main en-trance of Andreas Restaurant early Fri-day evening after the owner of the res-taurant had asked him to leave, causing minor damage.

The man, who seemed intoxicated, entered the Thayer Street restaurant around 5 p.m. and began “mumbling and ranting” to customers, according to Manager Shaina Brais. When Andreas’ owner asked the man to leave, he be-came belligerent.

The suspect left the restaurant and got into his car, a Ford Explorer, ac-cording to Brais. He proceeded to re-verse out of a parking spot outside of Shanghai and drive into the entrance of Andreas on the corner of Thayer and Meeting streets, according to Brais.

He then reversed away from the restaurant and drove down Thayer Street. Passersby and restaurant pa-trons took note of the license plate

number and reported it to the Provi-dence Police Department.

The car shattered the glass in the front door and damaged the doorframe, Brais said. She said she did not know if there was any damage to the restau-rant’s foundation or how much repairs would cost. A temporary wood cover-ing is in place until further repairs can be made.

Brais said the suspect was in a wheel-chair and was approximately 40 years old. She said she had seen him on Thay-er Street before and remembered that the man had visited Andreas last sum-mer. At that time, he mumbled under his breath while he ate at the restaurant and was “a little belligerent,” she said.

“We kept an eye on him and he left (after his meal),” Brais said. On Friday the man did not eat at the restaurant.

As of Sunday evening, the PPD had not found the suspect or his car, Brais said.

The PPD could not be reached for comment.

Man drives car into Andreas

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Bear’s Lair may become social space BY SARAH GELLERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

In response to the recent report of the University’s Ad Hoc Committee to Re-view Social Events Policy, the Bear’s Lair in the Graduate Center and other areas may be renovated for use as so-cial spaces.

The committee, which was creat-ed in November following hospitaliza-tions and media coverage related to Sex Power God and a party the preceding night at which shots were fired, sought to evaluate social functions and relat-ed University policies. One of its major recommendations was to “identify and create additional social event space,” according to the committee report, which was released earlier this month. Among other recommendations, the

report called for more venues for small-er functions drawing between 75 to 100 or 150 to 250 people and suggested that historic spaces such as Sayles Hall not be used for certain events.

“The renovation of the Bear’s Lair as a social space is the most likely and feasible change,” said Kevin McDonald ’08, a member of the Campus Life Com-mittee of the Undergraduate Council of Students who is working on recom-mendations for proposed changes to the Bear’s Lair.

Other spaces being considered for renovations are Andrews Dining Hall, the meeting room in the Inn at Brown and the Ivy Room, according to David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services. “The Bear’s Lair has been considered as a good possible social space,” Greene said. “Students

already enjoy the space; I think there’s a way to make better use of it.”

Unlike proposed renovations to Faunce House, changes to the Bear’s Lair and the other potential spaces will not create more common and lounge space. They will in-stead be focused on adding suitable ven-ues for student parties.

The lounge adjacent to the exercise equipment, which contains a bar, is currently underused and would serve as an ideal party space, McDonald said.

see BEAR’S LAIR, page 4

James Sattin / HeraldThe Bear’s Lair is one of several on-campus areas identified by the University as a potential space for social activities.

Jacob Melrose / HeraldBrown University Gilbert and Sullivan presented “The Pirates of Penzance” over the weekend.

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RICK RASHID OF MICROSOFT GUEST LECTURE & RAFFLE4 p.m., (MacMillan 117) — Rick Rashid, senior vice president of research for Microsoft, will lecture on the growth of Microsoft’s research, the impact it has had on the computer science community and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the technology field.

BROWN-YALE HEALTH POLICY FORUM 6:15 p.m. , (Sayles Hall) — The Brown-Yale Health Policy Forum will provide the opportunity for students to present a policy on HIV/AIDS and state health care to leaders and experts in the health policy world.

CLOSING PANEL ON DOCUMENTARY FILM AND HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS8 p.m. , (MacMillan 117) — Three panelists will discuss fimmaking and activism at the culmination of the Human Rights Film Festival.

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BY VERONICA YUCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Friday night’s performance of “The Pirates of Penzance,” put on by Brown University Gilbert

and Sullivan, offered exceptional comedic acting performances, re-sulting in a compelling version of

the operetta that pleased the half-capacity crowd gathered in Salomon 101.

One of Gilbert and Sullivan’s more famous works, “The Pirates of Penzance” is about an ap-prenticed pirate, Frederic, the conundrums of his love life and his conflicting loyalties to his pirate comrades and his country.

Although the operetta’s plot ended suddenly and a little confusingly, the musical and comedic performances by all the cast members made up for this minor flaw. In particular, the male leads, Jonathan Ichikawa GS and Alexander Ebin ’07, displayed their wondrous singing and acting abil-ities as the Pirate King and Frederic, respectively. Ichikawa’s deeper, more resonating voice com-plemented Ebin’s clear tenor.

The orchestra pit supported the actors with cheerful melodies showcasing fluttering winds,

Humor-laden ‘Pirates’ features strong comedic acting

REVIEW

From rape list to gender-neutral housing, film documents Brown’s activist historyBY STEWART DEARINGSTAFF WRITER

Alison Klayman ’06 and Julia Liu ’06, creators of a new documentary titled “Women’s Only,” hope to change the face of student activism at Brown by making current stu-dents more aware of their predecessors’ efforts. The film screened on Saturday at Wilson 102 to a half-capacity crowd of administrators, students and alums.

Funded by a C.V. Starr National Service Fellowship and the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, the film chronicles the history of Brown stu-dent activism over the past 50 years, focusing especial-ly on race and gender issues. It examines these themes through interviews with alums and administrators.

Klayman and Liu told the crowd they hope to inspire others to action with the film, as well as educate incom-ing students about Brown’s historical involvement in so-cial activism.

The film begins with the story of black female activ-ists at Pembroke College who staged a walkout in the early 1970s to protest the low number of black students enrolled at the college.

Through several interviews with participants of the walkout, the film explains the culture shock that these women faced at Pembroke. Their college made little ef-fort to accommodate them, and as the film explains, did not understand why it should.

The activists also explain that they did not feel com-fortable working within the confines of the administra-tion’s complaint system because it did not acknowledge the legitimacy of their demands.

“The attitude of the administration was, ‘Why do you need help? You are lucky to be here,’” one activist says in the film.

The movie explains that during the walkout, female activists at Pembroke, along with black men at Brown, left their dorms and refused to return until both Brown and Pembroke pledged to increase their enrollment of black students to 11 percent.

The walkout drew national attention, but as the film states, only 7 percent of Brown’s class of 2009 identifies as black.

Jumping to the 1990s, the film then focuses on the ef-

Klezmerpalooza 2006 rocks the shtetlBY NINA CRUZCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Bands with clever names like New Kids on the Shtetl, Wild-Katz and Brown’s own Yarmulkazi came from all over New England and from as far away as Chicago for Saturday’s

Klezmerpalooza 2006, the first of what may become an annual festival. The event, which was held at Alumnae Hall and took nearly a

year to organize, showcased traditional and not-so-tradi-tional selections of Jewish klezmer music.

New Kids on the Shtetl started the afternoon off with a talented clarinetist playing a complicated, high-pitched melody over a simple bass line, sedated drums and a key-board. The musicians, who hail from the Eastman School of Music, presided over smooth changes in dynamics and tempo and took the audience through songs that were markedly different from the normal klezmer sound.

In “Zorn Diona,” a muted, stilted trumpet called out over a sinister bass line and the occasional cymbal roll. The drums gradually picked up tempo as the trumpet

see PIRATES, page 6

see FILM, page 4

PW play offers absurd look at entrance to paradiseBY JEAN YVES CHAINONSTAFF WRITER

“Eternity Placement Opportunity” recounts the sto-ries of five unique candidates called upon for an eter-

nal spot in heaven. Production Workshop’s latest performance, directed by Brendan Pelsue ’08, carries the audience through

a fast-paced, innovative comedy rich with eccentrici-ties in only 20 minutes. The play’s fine-tuned rhythm and relentless humor sends the audience into delirious amusement.

The production, written by Rory and Brendan Pel-sue, opens on an empty stage with the sound of tearing tape punctuating the background. A custodian appears and slowly crosses the stage, applying thick red tape across the floor. Halfway across the stage, he pauses, sneers at the audience and then resumes.

Two exceedingly uninterested employees, Blanche and Bill (Christina Perkins ’08 and Adam Keller ’06.5), follow the custodian with a large orange box, setting the scene for the Eternity Placement Opportunity Incorpo-ration. Within the box is an audio instruction tape.

“The following is a brief disclaimer: Hello, and wel-come to your final judgment,” Blanche announces matter-of-factly to the audience, reading from a “Final Judgment” brochure. She calls out five names: Simon Putrane (Henry Clarendon ’06), Gal Rivers (Kori Schul-man ’08), Vicki Prouess (Rachel Cronin ’08), Edith Mc-Dune (Lizzie Vieh ’07) and Jeff Claxton (Kurt Roediger ’07). The lanky, gum-chewing Bill nonchalantly beck-

ons the puzzled nominees behind the red line.To gain entrance to the heavenly kingdom, each

must follow the audiotape’s instruction: “Tell the story of a negative experience you have had and are generally unwilling to share with others.”

Thus, each character recounts colorful excerpts of embarrassing experiences. Simon Putrane narrates his late return to a whorehouse he frequented as a youth. Gal Rivers is a mascara-smeared, destitute woman who once performed a provocative song-and-dance routine, called “Busted,” in front of her Church congregation.

Vicky Prouess, who is relatively naïve and obnox-ious, recalls a trivial incident in a parking lot. This leads to one of the funniest and most surprising moments in the play, when a shrill scream suddenly and unexpect-edly pierces the room. What ensues is a lightning-quick appearance of a short-skirted, hysterical woman who splatters the contents of a trashcan all over the floor be-fore being wrestled off-stage by her husband.

The audience had just a few moments to compre-

REVIEW

see KLEZMER, page 6

Jean Yves Chainon / Herald“Eternity Placement Opporrtunity” packs humor and well-acted performances into a brief production.

REVIEW

see ETERNITY, page 8

This area was formerly used for the Hourglass Café, which has since moved to the Un-derground in Faunce.

The changes required to turn the Bear’s Lair into a so-cial space would be minor, ac-cording to McDonald. The Uni-versity would need to install grates to protect the exercise areas, but no other major reno-vations would be necessary.

McDonald said this space would be ideal because it is on campus and close to stu-dent residences. The Univer-sity would likely rent out the area for use by fraternities and sororities, student groups and even students who “just want to throw a party,” McDonald said.

None of the proposed ren-ovations have been finalized, but McDonald said they could happen as soon as next fall.

McDonald explained these renovations are meant as part of an interim solution to meet students’ current need for social space. “The reno-vations are not supposed to be a permanent solution by any means. I know that UCS Campus Life would like to see a total overhaul of the Bear’s Lair and more social spaces,” McDonald said. But larger changes, he added, will take more time.

As a result of a lack of social space on campus, the report stated that students are of-ten forced to throw parties in

their rooms, which are not big enough for large gatherings. The report also found that few spaces exist on campus for large-scale social events and suggested the University try to remedy this problem in the future planning and design of on-campus construction and renovation projects.

Other renovations to the Bear’s Lair are being con-sidered. These include aes-thetic improvements and a re-organization of the space to expand its uses, accord-ing to UCS Campus Life Chair Deanna Chaukos ’08. Mc-Donald suggested that the ex-ercise machines could be re-arranged to make the games room more accessible. These possible changes are unre-lated to attempts to turn the Bear’s Lair into a party space.

Because these changes have not yet been determined, the cost is unknown and no money has been allocated.

Lauren Engel ’08, who is president of the Brown Band and often studies in the Bear’s Lair lounge, said she “would definitely be willing to use this area for party space if it were available.”

“This is one of the few open spaces on campus. It’s really nice,” she added.

Owen Washburn ’06, who works at the Bear’s Lair gym, said he believes the space is currently underused.

“My friends come here to play pool sometimes, that’s about it,” he said.

Washburn would like to see renovations to the Bear’s Lair. “The lighting could be differ-ent, anything which would make it seem less like a big cement block.”

Both Engel and Washburn cited Grad Center and the campus’s overall structure as problematic.

“This is a difficult campus to work with,” Engel said, re-ferring to the lack of adequate party space.

Washburn has similar con-cerns. “The underlying prob-lem is that Grad Center is just terrible. It’s a horrible design.”

ommendation was forwarded to the A&E committee for a vote, the ACCRI was in agreement with the list,” Huidekoper wrote Sunday in an e-mail to The Herald.

The University is not current-ly directly invested in any of the six companies, so the divestment

decision only means that the University’s investment manag-ers will be directed not to invest University funds in these compa-nies in the future.

The divestment decision only affects direct investments, leav-ing the possibility that the Uni-versity could be invested in blacklisted companies through mutual funds. “We will immedi-ately inform all of our managers of the Corporation vote and in-

form those managing commin-gled funds of our concern and encourage them to divest or not invest in any of these compa-nies,” Huidekoper wrote.

Administrators will continue to research other companies and will add to or revise the divestment policy with the A&E committee’s approval, Huidekoper wrote.

In other business, the re-vised international travel policy approved by the A&E commit-tee will allow students to study abroad in countries listed on the U.S. Department of State Travel Warning list.

Previously, the University would not allow the transfer of academic credit from programs located in countries on the warning list.

According to the new policy, “(the) University does not rec-ommend that students travel to countries where a U.S. Depart-ment of State Travel Warning is in effect,” but travel to these countries may be approved if students and their parents sign a supplemental waiver in addi-tion to the existing waiver re-quired from all students study-ing abroad.

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the top of the Sciences Library. “Everybody says there’s a Cin-

gular antenna up there, and that’s why their service is so good,” said Tess Bolder ’07, a “very dissatis-fied” Verizon subscriber. Rob-ert Perreira, associate director of computing and information sys-tems, confirmed the rumor.

The SciLi antenna originally serviced AT&T Wireless, he said, but switched to Cingular when the companies merged in No-vember 2004. But Perreira’s guess about the antenna’s origins is as good as anyone’s. “It’s been here longer than I have, and that’s all I know,” the five-year employee of the University said.

In addition to its seat atop the SciLi, Cingular also offers Brown students, staff and fac-ulty special discounts as a re-sult of a contract Brown signed with AT&T Wireless in 2004. The University chose to sign with AT&T over four other bidders because it offered the best pric-es and coverage, Perreira said.

The discounts, which are avail-able through a link on the Web site for Computing and Infor-mation Services, include $25 online credit, a 50 percent dis-count on phone accessories and free shipping on phones.

Still, not everyone is happy with Cingular. “I have a lot of trou-ble with Cingular — especially in buildings, really any building,” said Casey Pearlman ’09.

Perreira said such complaints are not uncommon. “Most of the campus has very good Cingular service, but when you get into the buildings it gets spotty,” he said. “The lower you go, the lower the signal.”

To solve this problem, Per-reira suggests that students make more use of their dorm phones, using them “to call other students and for pizza.” Though Brown equips each room with one phone jack and free local calls, the prevalence of cell phones has led to de-creased use of room phones, as evidenced by the mere 40 per-cent of dorm phone numbers that have voicemail accounts. “I never use my room phone, and I don’t know anyone that does,”

Pearlman said.The combination of student

resistance to ground lines and in-evitably imperfect cell phone ser-vice can put the average on-cam-pus phone user in a bind. George Washington University, located in Washington, D.C., has come up with a partial solution to this problem.

In the summer of 2004, GWU hired a private company to test the signal strength of six different service providers in all campus buildings. Since then, students have had available to them a de-tailed map of the results.

“I can’t really make calls from my dorm that much, but I know exactly where I can go to get a good signal,” Jeff Stricker, a soph-omore at GWU, said. “My service is far from perfect, but at least I know what to expect.”

But whether a refined cover-age map would help Brown stu-dents remains questionable. “I don’t need a map to tell me where I get good service and bad service, I already know that,” Greene said. For now, Greene said, he’d just like to use his cell phone some-where other than in the corners of his Sears double.

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forts of student activists who used bathroom graffiti at the Rockefell-er Library to protest the Univer-sity’s lackadaisical sexual harass-ment policies. As the film explains, in 1991, women made a list on a bathroom wall of male students whom they accused of rape.

One of the students involved in this effort, Jesselyn Brown ’92, says in the film that the writing indicat-ed the administration’s failure to take sexual assault seriously.

“The bathroom walls were a last resort for these women be-cause the system wasn’t work-ing,” she says.

The film also indicates that the lists became an issue of men’s rights as well because the ac-cused were denied due process in the allegations.

The University painted over the lists several times, the film explains, pushing enraged stu-dents to action. A group of four

students who spearheaded the protest movement were inter-viewed by the New York Times and appeared on the Phil Dona-hue Show.

National media attention caused the University to re-examine its sex-ual assault policies, but the film ar-gues more needs to be done.

The final portion of the film focuses on the efforts of students lobbying for gender-neutral hous-ing for first-years.

The University initially agreed to place a statement on its first-year housing requests providing gender-neutral housing as an op-tion, according to the film. Yet, as the film shows, a few weeks be-fore the forms were sent to en-rolled students, the University removed the option and replaced it with a statement of its non-dis-crimination policy.

The film indicates, however, that the form still encourages transgender students to speak with the administration if they have specific housing needs.

Activists involved in this cause note that national media atten-

tion detracted from their effort. Luke Woodward ’04 states in the film that a Times article may have made the new policy more diffi-cult for Brown to accept.

Throughout, the film stresses the continuing nature of activ-ism at Brown as both a frustrat-ing and rewarding endeavor.

Gail Cohee, the current direc-tor of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, emphasizes in the film that the nature of a four-year in-stitution makes activism difficult to sustain.

“It is frustrating because you see students come in with the same problems year after year, but at the same time they are all part of the continuum of activ-ism,” she says in the film.

By sharing these stories, the creators of “Women’s Only” hope to rectify this problem facing activism at Brown, keeping the memories of successes and fail-ures alive. The student creators said at the event they hope the film will become a part of the standard program for both new students and administrators.

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BY ANNE WOOTTONMETRO EDITOR

Many streets in downtown Prov-idence are narrow, flanked by five-story buildings that leave

lasting im-pressions of their stately 19th-century architecture.

W a l k i n g down Westminster Street ear-lier this month with Providence Journal columnist David Brus-sat and Ward 1 City Councilman David Segal, I passed a modern furniture and home décor store, a brand-new outpost of the Los Angeles-based retailer American Apparel, an upscale boutique promising “hot shoes for cool people” and the construction site for One Ten, one of several high-rise condominium towers currently planned for downtown Providence.

None of this was here 15 years ago. Back then, Rhode Island ar-chitect Bill Warner was still put-ting the final touches on plans to pull up the bridge over the river that runs along the bottom of College Hill and which today is straddled by the looming Prov-idence Place Mall. In fact, ac-cording to Brussat, the plan to uncover the river was an after-thought of an entirely different plan conceived in 1978 to help revitalize downtown.

“The fact that the river was

opened up was really quite mar-velous, because basically it was an aesthetic piggy-back on a transportation project,” Brussat said.

The federal government paid over 80 percent of the cost of moving the bridge, leaving the state to come up with the rest. But aesthetic aspects of the proj-ect, such as the cobbled river walks and pedestrian bridges, were funded entirely by the fed-eral government — and Provi-dence acquired, at no cost, the most visible element in an ur-ban revitalization process that drew national attention over the next decade.

Providence’s so-called “Re-naissance” came in the wake of a prolonged economic depression in the city that lasted for much of the 20th century. Mills and cot-ton plants left Providence for the South in first part of the 1900s, and residents migrated to the suburbs.

“There was just nothing go-ing on in downtown Provi-dence,” Brussat said. “Whereas a lot of other cities that had more diversified economies basical-ly ripped up their downtowns — and had enough money to — Providence didn’t have enough money even to (match the fed-eral government with funds for special nationwide urban revi-talization programs).”

Brussat continued, “(Provi-dence) had gone through the

Depression (and) World War II years with no maintenance — a lot of it looked like crap. It just hadn’t been up-kept.”

Still, he said, “there are few places that I know of this size that have this type of fabric.” Much of downtown Providence is included on the National Reg-ister of Historic Places, and the city offers one of the most gen-erous tax credits in the nation for development in historic buildings.

In 1959, the city hired con-sultants to come up with an ex-tensive plan for downtown de-velopment. The program, called “Providence 1970,” included plans to tear down City Hall, the train station and numerous other buildings, in addition to putting aluminum facades on the classical buildings that help make downtown Providence what it is today.

Though the former Provi-dence Journal building on West-minster Street was, in fact, cov-ered in aluminum until 1984, and Westminster itself was con-verted to a pedestrian mall for several decades, most of the plans of “Providence 1970” were fortunately never realized.

“There was no money to de-molish anything, (and) there was no money to put anything up once you’d demolished it,” Segal said.

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REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK

Left behind to catch up in a big wayReflections on a walking tour of the ‘Renaissance City’

BY NAOMI SMITHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Though faculty and admin-istrators seemed to agree with the overall mission of the newly proposed Integra-tive Science and Engineering Program, several raised con-cerns about its implemen-tation during a forum held Thursday afternoon in Salo-mon 001. Around 60 faculty members attended the fo-rum, which was moderated by Professor of English Leon-ard Tennenhouse and aimed to encourage open dialogue about the pros and cons of the program as well as pos-sible alternatives.

Provost Robert Zimmer opened the discussion by outlining the original aims of the program, which he said operate on three levels. In ad-dition to creating “an educa-tional program that reflects the evolution of science in a multidisciplinary direction,” the program also aims “to widen the hype for science students at Brown” and “use our capacity for innovation in this area to increase our attractiveness and distinc-tiveness to science students in high school,” he said.

The program, which has not been approved and has received mixed faculty reac-tion since it was proposed last semester, would admit its first batch of 60 students in 2008 to a program in mul-tidisciplinary science edu-cation. In addition to a set of new introductory cours-es, students in the program would be guaranteed at least one summer research oppor-tunity.

Zimmer said though he believes in the program’s ulti-mate goals, its realization has been marred with infrastruc-

ture concerns such as hous-ing constraints, which he called “already critical.” He said halving the number of students admitted to the pro-gram might impose less of a problem for the University.

“But I think Brown has the opportunity and the capac-ity to make a really bold edu-cational statement,” he said. “If we don’t, we’re just leaving the field open for somebody else to do it.”

Professor of Biology Anne Fausto-Sterling agreed with Zimmer on this point. “I think I can speak for all of us in saying that there is a great opportunity to do something great with science education at Brown,” she said.

But she added the pro-posal itself is “exceedingly vague” in how exactly it aims to “widen the pipeline for sciences at Brown.” She sug-gested alternatives that could make use of Brown’s existing resources, such as backing the “half-dozen small, under-supported multidisciplinary concentrations.” She also suggested that the University “dedicate (itself ) to develop-ing two or three really stellar introductory science courses that are available to most stu-dents.”

Many other faculty mem-bers shared the view that the proposed Integrative Sci-ence and Engineering Pro-gram had identified impor-tant goals for the sciences at Brown, including increasing science recruitment and re-tention, but that there may be other ways to achieve them.

One such faculty mem-ber, who preferred to remain anonymous, said: “Why stop at 30 or 60 students? Let’s make it 120. Let’s give fellow-

Some faculty still wary of Science Cohort proposal

Students plan to devote summer to MIT synthetic biology competitionBY KYLE MCGOURTYSTAFF WRITER

Studying genetically engineered cells might not be everyone’s ide-al summer activity, but a group of Brown students may spend their summer doing just that. John Cumbers GS, a native of Great Britain and graduate student in the Department of Bio-Med, is currently recruiting students to participate in a nine-month re-search competition in the field of synthetic biology that will end in November.

The International Geneti-cally Engineered Machine com-petition at Massachusetts Insti-tute of Technology concludes with a “jamboree” of scientific presentations. Thirteen teams competed in 2005, but this year over 25 are interested in com-peting. Previous winners have been published in Nature, a sci-entific journal.

As of today, Brown’s team is composed of 13 undergradu-ates and two graduates, all of whom will stay at the Universi-ty this summer to participate in the research.

Synthetic biology is a new field within the scientific communi-ty, and its most prominent col-legiate competition, iGEM, only started in 2003.

“Now that we have mapped out the genome, suddenly biol-ogy becomes mathematical, and

it obtains an aspect of engineer-ing,” Cumbers said.

The goal of the competition is to construct a biological ma-chine to test iGEM’s hypothesis that “Simple biological systems can be built from standard inter-changeable parts and operated in living cells.”

One member of the team, Megan Schmidt ’08, described its task as “trying to build a ma-chine, but instead of using nuts and bolts, we use nucleotides and proteins.”

Gary Wessel, professor of bi-ology and iGEM team faculty ad-viser, described synthetic biology as “making use of the cell to do new activities.”

“It’s creative biology,” he added.

Faculty members will play an integral role in the iGEM team’s research by offering intellectual support and laboratory assis-tance, Wessel said. He will be working with the team over the summer.

“Our only limitation is creativ-ity,” he said.

The team has already en-listed the support of 14 faculty members from over eight de-partments. The team’s faculty liaison, Victoria Lattanzi ’07, emphasized the importance of cross-disciplinary research in the project. The team’s 15 stu-dents represent nine concen-trations, ranging from compu-

tational biology to electrical en-gineering to commerce, organi-zations and entrepreneurship.

The iGEM team is currently in the process of soliciting finan-cial support. “We are hoping for money from different depart-ments within the University,” Lattanzi said.

Cumbers said he would like to see $40,000 raised for the compe-tition. “Keep in mind that $27,000 of that is going towards student stipends for their summer resi-dence,” he said.

The team plans to financial-ly support eight of its current 15 students over the summer. An application for these eight spots will be formulated by the iGEM team’s faculty board.

The team is also looking for do-nations from alums and others, Lattanzi said. The squad is also searching for funding from private organizations outside Brown, but members would not disclose the names of any potential sponsors.

Even as they solicit funding, team members are still debat-ing what machine they will at-tempt to build over the summer. “We have about 10 ideas so far,” Schmidt said.

A few ideas are receiving more consideration than others.

Cumbers specializes in the study of aging. He wants to devel-op a project in which a cell’s age

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pizzicato and trumpet and oboe solos. The pit and singers per-formed as an ensemble, never drowning one another out and always playing together.

The other main characters, Major-General Stanley and Ma-bel, played by Samuel Baltimore ’05 and Michelle Menard ’06, re-spectively, also impressed the audience with their vocal abili-ties. Baltimore sang his song, titled “I am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General,” with incredible speed and articula-tion while maintaining his Brit-

ish accent. Menard, despite her petite stature, out-sang every-one else on the stage with her amazing range and clarity.

Generally, the entire cast acted well, with each member adding its own bits of humor to each dramatic scene — charac-teristic of a Gilbert and Sullivan production. For instance, when the pirates held the Major hos-tage, one pirate outstretched his hand and gently stroked the Major’s bald head. These come-dic touches elicited even more laughter from the audience than the silly dialogue.

As director Ron Beimel ’06 explained, “Being one of the top three most famous Gilbert and Sullivan productions, it has

been done several times and has acquired many traditions. So I wanted to take these tradi-tions and do them differently. My goal was to make the show as funny as possible.”

Beimel fulfilled his goal, playing a particularly instru-mental role in the success of the production: in addition to serv-ing as director, he was also con-ductor and musical director.

The operetta concluded on an ironically happy note, a com-mon characteristic of Gilbert and Sullivan productions, as every pirate physically carried away a wife for himself. The au-dience left the theater in high spirits, much like the maraud-ing swashbucklers themselves.

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struggled to emerge, and the fragmented sounds of all the in-struments swirled together into a surprising melody, building up to a crescendo that immediate-ly began to fade into the end of the song. They finished their set with “A Hot New One.” Filled with trumpet, clarinet and drum solos, the song followed a quick tempo all the way to the end, finishing on a high note — literally.

The Jewish Music Trio from the New England Conservatory took the stage next.

Though the program stated the group was composed of two trombones and an accordion, the actual combo was one trom-bone and one accordion. Many of the songs were meant to sound mournful, and the feeling was palpale. Like two old friends, the instruments complemented each other well. The accordion played slow, penetrating, emotional sounds, wallowing in unforgetta-

ble sadness, while the trombone acted as the hopeful will to car-ry on — bringing up the tempo, breaking off on tangents and try-ing to make the accordion forget its sadness for a while.

WildKatz, a klezmer band from Northwestern University, boasted the only bassoon and the first vo-calist of the day. The group played what it called “old-school klezmer,” which was very lively. Vocalist Raysh Weiss was not the central element of the songs in which she performed; rather, she was another instrument in the WildKatz ensem-ble. The audience clapped along to several of the group’s songs.

During the WildKatz set, some of the young children in the audi-ence formed a sort of hora-style line and danced up and down the aisles, couples waltzed in the back of the room and a barefoot guy danced by himself in a very animated fashion.

Finally, Yarmulkazi took the stage. The group performed songs in mixed time signatures, one in 1/7 and another, called “Say You Are a Woodcutter” by Alan Gor-don ’06, in 1/13, a fast time sig-

nature. In one song, “Bessarabi-an Honga,” the group substitut-ed the drum set for a conga. The flowing melody was punctuated by short, staccato notes on the violin, trills on the flute and an engaging electric bass line. “Der Alter Tsigayer” was folksy with fun vocals sung by Anna Schnur-Fishman ’09. Yarmulkazi finished up its performance with “The Epsteins,” a song that sounded pleasantly like the entire band was tumbling down a mountain.

At the end of the perfor-mance, which also signaled the end of Klezmerpalooza 2006, all of the bands took the stage to-gether to play “We Are All Broth-ers.” And what’s louder than one person playing klezmer music? Seventeen people play-ing klezmer music. Luckily, oth-er musicians successfully man-aged to stay out of the way of the four trombonists, and the song was an energetic end to a fun concert.

The event was supported by Brown Hillel, the Creative Arts Council and the Department of Music.

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can be determined by its color. After adding certain genetic se-quences, “the cell would emit a different color light each time it divides.”

Lattanzi is interested in a project in which cells har-ness the production of alkane, “which is a potential energy substitute,” she said.

The team is forming a jour-nal club to narrow down its proposal. “The journal club will discuss previous publica-tions and try to narrow down our project’s focus for this sum-

mer,” Schmidt said. “We are not committed to any project at this point,” she added.

Past iGEM projects include E. coli photography, developed by the University of Texas, Aus-tin. In this project, E. coli was engineered to respond to light, enabling researchers to create photographs using bacteria.

Certain ethical questions are attached to the field of synthetic biology, and one po-sition on Brown’s iGEM team will be dedicated solely to studying the ethical implica-tions of its research, Cumbers said.

“We will develop responsible research and be aware of possi-ble consequences,” he added.

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Traffic exiting off Interstate 95 merged straight from the highway to Memorial Boule-vard, culminating in an inter-section known at the time as Suicide Circle.

“It had, like, seven streets heading into it,” Brussat said.

“There are a lot of traffic patterns (in Providence) that are noticeably insane in a lot of spots,” Segal said. He men-tioned as a possible cause the city’s former traffic engineer, a “favored secretary” of for-mer Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci.

“He decided one day to make her traffic engineer with-out any credentials — I don’t think she went to college at all,” Segal said, adding that she is “probably responsible for the deaths of dozens of people over the last 20 years.” The city has since hired a traffic engi-neer with proper credentials, he said.

“Buddy was a good politi-cian,” Brussat said. “When the federal government wanted to offer him $140 million he used to say, ‘Am I going to stand in the way of this, or am I not going to stand in the way of this?’”

Brussat, like many, acknowl-edges that Cianci was “partly good” for the city because “he was a very good salesman for the things that he wanted to

do.” “But even those things that

he wanted to do, he would put up so many subterranean road blocks — he was always, ‘You gotta hire this person as the landscaper, you gotta do this, or you gotta do that — you gotta give money to my campaign,’” Brussat said. He called the pace at which Buff Chace’s early downtown developments proceeded as “glacial” because of Cianci’s machinations.

“Buddy’s influence was sim-ply to preside over a structure that made things very difficult to happen. Instead of one-stop shopping you’d have to go into various fiefdoms and you’d have to hire someone who understood the fiefdom, and by one stratagem or another you’d have to promise to hire this guy to do the electricity,” Brussat said.

Machinations or not, down-town Providence is experienc-ing a development boom. Brus-sat credited developers for tak-ing risks in the first place that made today’s market possible.

Segal was quick to point out the tremendous rewards that developments like Chace’s could bring in the future.

“So maybe he’s forward-thinking, but it is a huge risk,” Brussat said. “Everyone says, ‘When’s the real estate bubble going to break?’ — well, maybe it’s not going to break, maybe it’s just going to stagnate. But if it does burst, all this is just dead weight.”

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Top U.N. members try to break stalemate on IranBY COLUM LYNCHWASHINGTON POST

UNITED NATIONS — The Securi-ty Council’s five permanent mem-bers and Germany will hold a high-level meeting Monday in New York to try to break an impasse over the international response to the Ira-nian nuclear crisis.

The meeting comes as U.S. and European diplomats have failed during two weeks of negotiations to overcome Chinese and Russian objections to a Security Council statement demanding Iran stop its nuclear-enrichment activities and cooperate with the Interna-tional Atomic Energy Agency. R. Nicholas Burns, the undersecre-tary of state for political affairs, and top foreign affairs officials from the five other governments are expected to attend.

U.S. and European officials say they will try to assuage Russian and Chinese fears that the adoption of the statement will inevitably lead to harsh punitive measures against Iran. “We’re not hellbent on going to war, we’re not hellbent on im-posing sanctions,” said a senior State Department official familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity be-cause the talks are supposed to be confidential. “We’re hellbent on having the Iranians return to the negotiations, like the Russians and the Chinese want.”

Moscow’s opposition to a Secu-rity Council declaration has hard-

ened in recent weeks as senior U.S. officials, including Burns, have publicly threatened to press for targeted sanctions against Iran’s rulers if they ignore the 15-nation council’s call for a freeze on the nation’s uranium-enrichment activities.

Russian diplomats say they are concerned that a U.S.-backed Eu-ropean draft, which sets a two-week deadline for Tehran to stop enrichment activities and agree to more intrusive U.N. inspections, provides too little time to test Iran’s cooperation. Russia’s U.N. ambas-sador, Andrei Denisov, mockingly told the Associated Press on Fri-day: “Let’s just imagine that we adopt it and today we issued that statement — then what happens after two weeks? In such a pace, we’ll start bombing in June.”

Monday’s meeting, which will be held at the British mission, was scheduled in response to a request by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to hold talks outside the Security Council to map out the United Nations’ long-term strat-egy for persuading Iran to scale back its nuclear activities.

An evening meeting, which will include the U.N. ambassadors for the six governments, will focus on reaching a deal on the presidential statement.

A second senior Bush adminis-tration official, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, de-nied an AP report Saturday sug-gesting that Britain was consider-

ing proposing Monday to resolve the standoff through talks among the council’s five veto-wielding members, Germany and Iran. “The report is absolutely false,” the U.S. official said. “We checked with the Brits and they were stupefied by that report, and they never heard of it. No one has made that pro-posal and we wouldn’t accept it.”

The standoff hinges on wheth-er the Iran crisis should be han-dled by the Vienna-based Inter-national Atomic Energy Agency or the Security Council, which can impose sanctions or use force. Russia and China have in-sisted that the IAEA take the lead, while the United States, France and Britain say that Iran will stop its activities only if faced with the threat of sanctions.

Some council members say the European proposal for a two-week deadline for IAEA Director Gener-al Mohamed ElBaradei to report to the council on Iran’s cooperation is too short. China prefers four to six weeks. Russia opposes any re-port until the IAEA meets in June.

China said Friday that it would accept a continuing role for the U.N. council in managing the nuclear crisis. U.N. Ambassador Wang Guangya said he had of-fered a compromise to bridge the gap between Russia and the coun-cil’s three major Western powers. Under the plan, ElBaradei would report on Iran to the 35-mem-ber IAEA board and the Security Council.

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Supreme Court will confront two Sixth Amendment casesBY DON LEE

LOS ANGELES TIMES

YONGKANG, China — About once a month, Ying Guangwu tucks some cash inside his black shirt, slings a knapsack over his back and hits the road.

The square-jawed 33-year-old doesn’t always know where he’s headed or when he’ll return. But he knows exactly what he’s look-ing for: tons of scrap metal.

A pen-shaped magnet in his pocket helps him determine the quality of some metals. In De-cember, Ying spent two weeks in Guangdong Province, a 20-hour bus drive away, rummaging through factory warehouses and scrap yards. He bought 10 tons of tin ingots, lead cables and im-ported scrap, shipping them by trucks to his wife, Lin Li. She sort-ed the stuff inside their two-story home before reselling it to metal traders and recyclers in town.

Ying and Lin, high school graduates, earned about $25,000 last year — more than what many Chinese doctors and law-yers make.

“I didn’t want to do this when I was young. It seemed stupid to me,” says the second-generation scrap collector, whose sun-burnt face bears the mark of 10 years on China’s dusty streets. But his father took the right path, Ying says. “This is turning trash into treasure.”

China’s voracious appetite for metals is convulsing the world. It has led to economic booms in some nations and crime waves in others by so-called urban min-ers who steal metals from hous-es and public buildings. China’s runaway economy needs the metals to build railroads, office towers, cars and appliances.

The Middle Kingdom is now the world’s biggest consumer of copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, steel and aluminum.

China’s hunger has boost-ed mineral-rich nations, from copper-laden Chile to Austra-lia, which has vast iron depos-its. Prices of new and used lead, copper, nickel and other metals have tripled or more in the last few years, triggering a worldwide scramble for the commodities.

Chinese state-owned mining companies are prowling the plan-et for fresh supplies, while armies of people like Ying and Lin spend their days hunting for castaway metals from typewriter letterheads to 30-foot-long aluminum missile casings.

Nowhere in China is the crav-ing for metals more evident than Yongkang. This landlocked city in southeast China’s Zhejiang Prov-ince calls itself the hardware cap-ital. With a population of about 530,000, Yongkang boasts some 10,000 hardware businesses, nearly all of them private family enterprises.

Yongkang is legendary for itinerant tinkerers who mend-ed pots and pans for a living. Today, countless homes, store-fronts, junkyards and factories

carry on that tradition, buying, selling and recycling more than 600,000 tons of scrap metal every year. The city’s streets are teem-ing with tractors, trucks and bi-cycles hauling metal rods, coils and sheets.

Many head for Yongkang’s scrap-metal market, an outdoor bazaar. More than 400 garage-sized warehouses are filled with scrap collected from across the world: crushed beer cans from Japan, fuel pumps and used car parts from the West, air-condi-tioning condensers from north-east China.

On a recent afternoon, Ying Su-fang sat stooped outside Stall 287, meticulously separating printers’ lead pieces no bigger than grains of rice.

The lead was shipped to her from her husband, who was for-aging for scrap about 1,000 miles away — not far from the Vietnam border. Last year Lin and her hus-band earned more than $7,000, their best take in 10 years.

“That’s not bad,” says the 44-year-old.

But it has come at a price. Ying, who is unrelated to Ying Guang-wu, grumbles about the grimy, sometimes punishing work.

She has never become ac-customed to her husband being away for long stretches. He has been gone for the last month, leaving her and their middle-school daughter at home.

“I chose this business because 60 percent to 70 percent of peo-ple in our village are doing this,” she says. “This is how we make money. ... I don’t know what else to do.”

Across the Pacific, George Adams Jr. is also cashing in on one of the greatest commodity booms in modern times. He is the owner of Adams Steel, a scrap metal dealer in Anaheim, Calif., that shreds used cars, washing machines and dryers down to the size of a wallet. The crushed met-al is loaded onto trucks and con-tainers that are shipped to trad-ers across the world. Much of it winds up in China, in the hands of millions of scrap traders like Ying.

Adams’ annual sales now ex-ceed $100 million. Last year he bought scrap yards in Southern California, installed more shred-ding equipment and added 70 employees to boost his workforce to 500.

He has a lot of competition. Thieves have ripped apart ball-park fences in Des Moines, Iowa, and stripped copper from ca-thedral domes in Cleveland. In Buenos Aires, people have made away with bronze plaques on boulevards and copper wires from utility companies. And from England to India to Malaysia, tens of thousands of manhole covers have vanished.

“They’re taking copper out of brand-new houses in Southern California,” says Carl Clark, Ad-ams Steel’s plant manager. Such stolen copper pipes and wires don’t need to be recycled; they

are bundled together and sold to brokers who send them all over the world, where they fetch triple the prices of a few years ago.

“An actual copper penny to-day is worth more as scrap than its face value,” Clark says. (The one-cent piece today is made of zinc and copper.)

The crime spree has resulted in deaths as people have fallen down manholes, and has caused such concern that countries like Argentina placed restrictions on the export of scrap metals.

The price of iron ore, a ma-jor ingredient in steel, jumped 71 percent in the last year alone, sharply cutting steel produc-ers’ margins. But with China ac-counting for one-fourth of the world’s steel production last year — and half of all iron ore imports — Beijing is demanding that iron ore exporters put a lid on prices.

“The Chinese are flexing their market power,” says Ruth Strop-piana, an economist at Moody’s Economy.com in Sydney. “The China factor,” she adds, “has been absolutely huge” for Aus-tralia, Brazil, Chile and other re-source-rich nations.

Chinese towns like Yongkang also have benefited, although the metal boom has taken a heavy toll on China’s environment and workers. Pollution-spewing met-al factories have degraded rivers and lands.

In Yongkang, government of-ficials have shut down dozens of the 1,000-plus smelters in the city, say plant managers. Author-ities also have toughened rules on imported scrap metals, pro-hibiting car motors, for exam-ple, if they have oil in them, says Du Huanzheng, a metals expert at Zhejiang Institute of Industry and Commerce.

Still, China’s imports of scrap metal surged nearly 30 percent last year, Du says, and the trend is not likely to abate soon, least of all in Yongkang.

Ying Zhiang’s family has been in the scrap metal business for several generations. About 20 years ago, Ying collected scrap as he traveled the country fix-ing scales for merchants. “Even though products can get old and useless, the metal in them still has value,” he said.

Now 52, Ying runs Yongya Copper Industrial Co., one of China’s leading copper produc-ers and recyclers. His company ships 100 tons of the metal a day. He buys most of his scrap cop-per from dealers in town and the nearby port city of Taizhou.

In Yongya’s warehouse, red-capped workers moved bales of scrap wires, and others in street clothes picked up the smallest of loose copper on the ground. Ying says he is considering collect-ing scrap himself again, because prices have soared beyond belief. A decade ago, he was buying a metric ton of copper in China for about $625. Now it costs 10 times that amount.

“The numbers are out of this world,” he says.

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BY DAVID G. SAVAGELOS ANGELES TIMES

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears poised to make it far harder to prosecute cases of domestic violence when vic-tims are unwilling or unable to testify in court.

On Monday, the court will hear the appeals of two men who were convicted of assault-ing women based, in one case, on a recorded 911 call, and in the other, on a police officer’s testimony of what the victim told him.

Over the past two decades, prosecutors in domestic-vio-lence and child-abuse cases have relied heavily on testimo-ny by police officers and coun-selors who interviewed the vic-tims when those victims could not or would not appear in court.

But those prosecutions have a formidable foe in Justice An-tonin Scalia. He insists the Con-stitution guarantees all defen-dants a right to confront their accusers in court, and he sees no basis for an exception in cases of domestic violence or child abuse.

Two years ago, Scalia wrote an opinion for the court that all but barred the use of out-of-court statements at trials when the victim fails to testify.

The only sure test of wheth-er “testimonial statements” are reliable, Scalia concluded, “is the one the Constitution actu-ally prescribes: confrontation.” As he noted, the Sixth Amend-ment says, “In all criminal pros-ecutions, the accused shall en-joy the right ... to be confront-ed with the witnesses against him.”

His opinion in that case, Crawford v. Washington, sent a bolt through prosecution units around the nation.

“It had a huge impact,” said Victoria Adams, the deputy

who heads the Family Violence Division for the Los Angeles County district attorney’s of-fice. “In most of our cases, the victims are reluctant or afraid to testify.”

Since the Crawford decision, she said, prosecutors have re-lied more on recorded 911 calls and on “spontaneous” state-ments given to police officers who arrive at a crime scene. The theory is that these state-ments — which some refer to as a “cry for help” — are uniquely revealing and distinct from for-mal testimony and, therefore, should be allowed in court.

But the Supreme Court ap-pears ready to close that option in the pair of cases to be heard Monday. Scalia spoke for a 7-2 majority in the Crawford case, and the two dissenters — Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor — are now gone.

The National Network to End Domestic Violence and several women’s rights groups filed a brief that warns the court about the dire impact of requiring in-court testimony in all cases.

“This would make it very difficult, if not impossible, to prosecute the vast majority of domestic violence cases,” said Joan Meier, a law professor at George Washington University, who helped write the group’s brief. The victims are “trauma-tized and terrorized by the de-fendants themselves, and they can threaten them so they don’t testify,” she said. One study found that many victims are threatened with having their children kidnapped if they tes-tify, she said.

Prosecutors in 27 states have joined with the Bush admin-istration in urging the court to permit the use of 911 tapes and crime scene statements in do-mestic violence cases.

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percentage on the year.The win will give the Bears

some momentum heading into a difficult West Coast swing over Spring Break. The trip will pit Brown against nation-ally ranked foes such as No. 14 ranked University of Califor-nia, Davis and No. 6 University of California, Berkeley. Bruno

will also face some stiff com-petition in Santa Clara Uni-versity, Pacific University and Sonoma State University, with doubleheaders against the lat-ter two.

“Everyone is really excit-ed to mix it up out in Califor-nia next week and beat some teams that aren’t expecting it,” Deggelman said.

After the break, the Bears will face the Crimson again in their much-anticipated home opener April 8.

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ships to all science students entering Brown, and let’s stop there.”

However, some faculty said they believe this solution does not address the multidisci-plinary demands of science today. Professor of Chemis-try Peter Weber said a global problem such as energy “falls between disciplines, and this is what Brown stands for. We are stepping up to the task; we need to move boldly forward.”

Professor of Biology Jona-

than Waage, formerly a “vocal critic” of the proposal, con-curred that the faculty now has the opportunity to move for-ward with the proposal, mak-ing it an exercise in “collabora-tive research and collaborative learning.”

More pragmatic concerns about science recruitment and retention at Brown were em-phasized by Associate Dean of the College David Targan and Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Miller said Brown needs “a program that is distinct and dif-ferentiates us from other insti-tutions. We need to be able to define as clearly as we can the place of science at Brown.”

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In most states, trial judges permit the use of “spontaneous statements” given to a police offi-cer at a crime scene. Other states specifically allow the use of “ex-cited utterances,” such as an emergency call to a 911 operator.

Civil libertarians and crimi-nal defense lawyers in briefs filed with the court urged the justices to uphold the confrontation right set out in the Constitution.

In 1980, the high court opened the door to using “hearsay” state-ments in court when they were judged to be “reliable.” A tape re-cording of a crime victim’s words, for example, would be consid-ered reliable.

But shortly after joining the court in 1986, Scalia disagreed and began arguing that the Sixth Amendment requires a “face-to-face confrontation” in court when a witness accuses a person of a crime. He dissented when-ever the justices upheld special rules that allowed children who were said to have suffered sexual abuse to testify behind screens or on closed-circuit television.

Liberal justices, including John Paul Stevens, and conser-vative Clarence Thomas, who joined the court in 1991, agreed with this view, and by 2004, Scalia had built a large majority for his opinion in the Crawford case.

“In this country, we haven’t allowed people to be prosecut-ed based just on what someone said to a cop on the street,” said University of Michigan law pro-fessor Richard Friedman, who is representing one of the two men whose cases will be heard Monday. “There is not a domes-tic-violence exception to the Constitution.”

He has proposed that the court adopt a simple rule: A statement made to a police officer or a gov-ernment agent accusing some-one of a crime is “testimonial” and cannot be used in court un-less the accuser appears to be cross-examined.

In Crawford v. Washington, the court overturned the assault conviction of a man who was found guilty based on his wife’s recorded statement at a police station. Scalia said such “testi-monial statements” may not be used against a defendant if the witness refuses to testify, but he did not define what was a testi-monial statement.

The court agreed to hear the two new cases to resolve that question.

In first case to be heard Mon-day, a recorded call to a 911 op-erator near Seattle provided the testimony that convicted Adrian Davis of violating a restraining order. “He’s here jumpin’ on me again,” a woman later identified as Michelle McCottry told the operator. Her ex-boyfriend was there, she said, and “he’s using

his fists.”She failed to appear at the tri-

al, but a prosecutor played the tape for the jury. “She left her testimony on the day this hap-pened,” the prosecutor said. “It is right here in her voice.” The de-fense lawyer objected, saying Da-vis had a right to cross-examine the witness in court.

The Washington State Su-preme Court upheld Davis’ con-viction and said that an emergen-cy report or an “excited utterance” is different from the “testimonial statements” Scalia referred to in his Crawford opinion.

The second case began when two police officers responded to a domestic disturbance call in Peru, Indiana. At first, Amy Ham-mon appeared too scared to talk. But when one officer took her to the front porch, she said her hus-band, in a rage, had thrown fur-niture and a lamp at her and had shoved her into the broken glass on the floor.

She, too, did not testify, but based on the officer’s account of her words, Hershel Hammon was convicted of domestic bat-tery. The Indiana Supreme Court upheld the conviction and said the crime scene report was not a “testimonial statement.”

After hearing arguments Mon-day in Davis v. Washington and Hammon v. Indiana, the justices will meet behind closed doors and vote on the outcome. An-nouncement of the rulings is ex-pected by June.

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Voting machine whistle-blower faces theft chargesBY HEMMY SOLOS ANGELES TIMES

LOS ANGELES — A whistle-blow-er to some people, a thief to oth-ers, Stephen Heller says he’s a regular guy, not an activist or a member of any political group.

But charged last month in Los Angeles with three felonies for al-legedly stealing damaging doc-uments about voting-machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems, Heller has become a hero to digital-rights and politi-cal activists who say he helped expose a threat to the election system.

“My wife would never de-scribe me as someone on the front lines of anything, and I wouldn’t either,” Heller said in a recent interview. “I’m not po-litically active, except I’ve voted since I was 18.”

Prosecutors say Heller, a 43-year-old actor and resident of Van Nuys, a neighborhood northwest of downtown, took more than 500 pages of Diebold-related documents, including memos from the company’s at-torneys at the Jones Day law firm. The memos suggested that the company might have bro-ken state law by providing Al-ameda County with voting ma-chines that had not been certi-fied by the state.

“This case is not about whis-tle-blowing. It’s about theft of at-torney-client privileged materi-al from an attorney’s office,” Los Angeles County district attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.

But activists and bloggers — including the California Vot-er Foundation; Black Box Vot-ing, an electronic voting group; and the liberal www.huffing-tonpost.com Web site — say the

purloined documents, some of which turned up on The Oakland Tribune’s Web site, helped spur a state crackdown on Diebold.

“People should be thanking Stephen Heller, because ulti-mately he helped our secretary of state stop illegal acts by Diebold,” said Cindy Coen, legal director of the Electronic Frontier Founda-tion, a digital-rights group based in San Francisco.

Heller has pleaded not guilty to three counts of felony access to computer data, commercial burglary and receiving stolen property. Although state law pro-tects whistle-blowers from retali-ation by employers, it does not preclude criminal prosecution.

On the advice of his lawyer, Heller declined to discuss the facts of his case, but he agreed to talk more generally. Brought up in a small dairy-farming town in upstate New York, Heller moved to Los Angeles in 1997 after years of waiting tables and perform-ing in small theaters in Chicago. Heller said he had stopped just short of finishing a theater degree at DePaul University to dedicate himself to an acting career.

In Los Angeles, he managed to land a few small roles on televi-sion shows and in commercials. But acting failed to pay the bills, so he brushed up on his typing skills and found work as a word processor.

He lives in a one-story home with his wife, an actress and writer who also works as a word processor.

Heller began a three-month stint as a temporary worker at the Los Angeles office of Jones Day in December 2003. One of his assignments was transcrib-ing an attorney’s tapes on le-gal issues facing a major client: Diebold.

The name was familiar thanks to media attention surrounding the company and its new touch-screen voting systems. Heller, a news junkie, said he had had no prior dealings with the company.

Bev Harris, founder of Black Box Voting, told investigators that Heller met her in a park in Ventura County in early 2004 and slipped her the documents, which she turned over to the sec-retary of state and The Oakland Tribune.

“What Stephen did was the best of citizenry,” Harris said.

Harris and fellow activist Jim March, later joined by the state attorney general, had sued Diebold in 2003 for allegedly fail-ing to certify the voting system.

The lawsuit gained traction when Diebold’s touch-screen systems failed in March 2004. Because of a battery drain, the screens could not display the proper ballot, and poll workers in San Diego County had to turn away some early voters. Alameda County residents had to use pa-per ballots.

Diebold eventually settled the lawsuit for $2.6 million. The state banned use of its machines, but the ban was reversed this year and the machines were certified for use in 17 counties.

Gibbons said Heller’s theft had nothing to do with either the at-torney general’s lawsuit or a later investigation of Diebold by the secretary of state’s office. Mem-bers of a state commission con-sidering the ban on Diebold, however, did question witnesses about the leaked documents.

Jones Day sued The Oakland Tribune over the leak, but later dropped the case and referred the alleged theft to authorities.

Diebold declined to comment on Heller’s prosecution.

hend what had happened be-fore the screams resounded again from offstage, provoking another wave of laughter.

The audience’s uproar and the play’s tension culminate with Edith McDune, an “emotional goal counselor” who is a play-wright in her spare time. She pos-sesses a fierce stare and overdone graveness, rapidly seducing the audience. The effect is doubled when she calls on three audience members to participate in the performance of one of the plays she has written. She distributes roles varying from an “emotion-ally troubled former drug-ad-dict” to a presumably autobio-graphical character named Pau-la, who is also an emotional goal counselor.

This episode ends with Edith McDune kicking out

one of the participants for his “poor performance,” once again eliciting laughter from the audience.

“Eternity Placement Op-portunity” had only one dark spot: frustratingly, it lasted only 20 minutes.

Claxton’s story is omitted as Blanche shuts off the audio-tape and the lights dim out in-exorably over his whining fig-ure caught between the white-bloused Bill and Blanche, shrieking one final “Goddamn it!” His final judgment has been pronounced: he shall not enter heaven.

The somewhat abrupt end-ing may leave the spectator wishing for more, with a stom-ach still aching from laughing so hard in the previous scenes.

In the end, the play gains more than it loses from this concise structure, which keeps audience members on the edge of their seats.

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away. Brett Garber scored two of his four goals in the quar-ter, and the UMass defense clamped down, allowing just a goal from midfielder and co-captain Will McGettigan ’06 in the quarter. The Minutemen outscored the hosts 3-1 en route to the 13-9 win.

“We took good shots and good possessions,” Nelson said of Brown’s performance. “They just grouped together goals more than we did with those two little gaps in the first and fourth quarters. They had a couple spurts that were too long and too productive.”

With Buckley and Madeira healthy and pacing the attack, Bruno’s offense should be a force to be reckoned with the rest of the season. The attack could improve even more once the younger players gain expe-rience down the road.

“I think they’re coming along really well,” Buckley said of the younger attackmen. “Dave and I have some experience, so we have that advantage of teach-ing them. It’s going to take some games for those guys to figure out what Division I la-crosse is, and I think we’re go-ing to be fine once that hap-pens.”

The defense did struggle at times Saturday, allowing 13 goals, but it was not an entirely dismal performance. The Bears struggled mainly with fast breaks, but they did not strug-gle with defending the Minute-men’s base offense.

“They scored the majori-ty of their goals in transition,

but we didn’t have too much trouble with their settled of-fense,” McGettigan said. “Our coaches have been stressing that the middies pick up their guys from the inside-out and not look at the ball, which is something we’ll work on in practice.”

Nelson said he was sur-prised at the speed of the Min-utemen’s transition offense and will make sure to be more prepared next time he faces that type of offense.

“UMass didn’t have that

kind of transition the last time we saw them,” he said. “A cou-ple of their goals came off the faceoff, which we haven’t seen a lot of this year. We have to make sure we’re getting back and picking up better.”

Over spring break, the Bears travel to the Midwest for their final two non-conference games of the season against the Ohio State University on March 25 and the University of Notre Dame on March 29. Bruno be-gins its Ivy season at Yale on April 8.

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Kumantsov. The third and fourth singles

matches were pushed to three sets, but Thomas and Ratnam both lost their third sets 6-2 to give the Islanders the match. The only singles win was a 6-3, 6-2 victory by Kohli at fifth singles.

The Bears lost their last match of the tournament to South Alabama, again by a score of 4-2. The doubles point went to Brown, with Charm and Lee taking the first doubles match 8-5 and Thomas and Garland powering by their opponents 8-1 at third doubles.

But the doubles point again proved insufficient, as the Jaguars won four of the singles matches. Hanegby gave up the first singles match 6-3, 6-4 to Monte Tucker, and Charm dropped the second singles match 7-5, 6-2 to No. 94 Jack Baker.

Thomas found himself in

a familiar position during his three-set match at third singles, but this time he emerged with the win, taking the tiebreaker set 6-2. The fourth and fifth singles matches were also extended to three sets, but Kohli and Lee ul-timately fell.

“All the matches we lost were really close,” Kohli said. “We planned the points well, but we didn’t execute them as well as we would have liked.”

Getting right back into the swing of things, the Bears will play three southern opponents over spring break. Sunday, they travel to Richmond, Va., to play No. 26 Virginia Common-wealth University, a finalist in the Blue/Gray Classic. Follow-ing that, they will face No. 22 North Carolina State University and No. 31 Wake Forest Univer-sity on Wednesday and Thurs-day, respectively.

According to Gresh, the team needs to work on its transitions from the baseline to the net and focus on coming to the net more. “We need to stay more ag-gressive,” he said.

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have and I will not forget it.”In his first match on Thurs-

day, Savino wrestled against Matt Lebe of West Virginia Uni-versity, the tournament’s fourth seed. After falling behind ear-ly when Lebe scored two take-downs in the first period, Savi-no tried to mount a comeback late but could not close the gap. He eventually succumbed by a score of 10-2.

Savino fell behind early in part because of his relative inex-perience at such a major com-petition. The event, held in the 20,000-seat Ford Center, draws large, enthusiastic crowds each day. With nearly 860 matches to complete over four days, eight matches are held simultaneous-ly on mats stretching from one end of the floor to the other. For a first-time competitor, it can take a bit of time to adjust to the whirlwind atmosphere.

“I was a little overwhelmed at first,” Savino said. “With 16,000 people there I think my nerves got the better of me. I think I could have wrestled better (against Lebe). I just didn’t go out and wrestle my game and I froze up a bit (after falling be-hind). … I wish I would have been here last year (so I would know what to expect).”

Savino rebounded nicely, however. He received a bye into the round of 24, where Oregon State University’s Tony Hook, the nation’s 16th-ranked wres-tler, awaited him on Friday. In

what has been the theme of Sa-vino’s season, though, he end-ed up dropping a hard-fought match, 8-7, in the waning sec-onds. After he broke a 5-5 tie with a two-point takedown with 30 seconds left, Hook recorded a reversal and a takedown with under 10 seconds to go to seal the victory.

Throughout the year, Savi-no has encountered one bout of bad luck after another. He dropped three matches this season by a single point in reg-ulation, and he dropped three more in overtime.

“There were five points scored in the last 30 seconds but it just didn’t go my way,” Sa-vino said. “It was disheartening. I’m still pretty bummed about it. I wrestled great. … For the fans, it was a great match to watch.”

Although Savino walked away from the last match of his colle-giate career with a loss, simply qualifying for nationals was a longtime goal of his. Addition-ally, among the close losses Sa-vino suffered this year, he also boasts a victory over the wres-tler who took fifth at nationals this year. The 11th-ranked wres-tler in the nation, Lehigh’s Der-ek Zinck, knocked off the third, fifth and ninth seeds on his way to fifth. However, at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Asso-ciation Championships, Savino bumped Zinck from the win-ners’ bracket with a 3-2 victory.

“That was a huge win for me,” Savino said of the victo-ry over Zinck. Watching Zinck’s run through nationals further validated what Savino already knew. “It just shows that I was

right there with (the top wres-tlers). If a few matches here or there go the other way, who knows? I know what it’s like to be on both ends of close matches.”

Despite having to deal with difficulties trying to get from Providence to Oklahoma, in-cluding odd travel times and a lack of direct flights, Savino de-scribed his experience at colle-giate wrestling’s premier event in glowing terms. About 20 al-ums gathered to cheer Savino on, and the New Jersey native’s parents also made the trip to the Midwest. Additionally, each wrestler is provided with a small gift bag that Savino said was, to say the least, well stocked.

“First off, it was a surreal ex-perience,” he said. “The gifts … and the free t-shirts were cool, and it was great just to be out there among the best (wres-tlers) in the nation.”

Now that his trip to nation-als is complete, Savino will not, in fact, be headed to Dis-ney World. He is off to Jamaica for the first spring break trip of his collegiate career to relax after the long season. Howev-er, he said his trip to nation-als is something he will always remember.

“Wrestling my first match, someone from Oklahoma (Uni-versity) was wrestling next to me,” Savino said. “He must have done something well because this big roar went up from the crowd. Normally, I’m pretty fo-cused in during my match but I heard the cheering that time … (the national competition) was awesome to be a part of.”

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ty’s plans to market its science offerings to top high school can-didates from diverse backgrounds. If approved, the program, which has since been named the Integrative Science and En-gineering Program, would serve as part of an effort to address the trend of top science students switching to other fields upon arriving at college — an issue President Ruth Simmons referred to in September as “a national problem.”

Concern for national higher education trends aside, Brown also stands to gain considerably from successful implementa-tion of the ISEP, a point underscored several times during a fo-rum held Thursday afternoon regarding the program. In addi-tion to making “a bold educational statement,” the ISEP — a multidisciplinary program that would require students to com-plete a set of introductory courses and guarantee them coveted summer research funding — would “widen the hype for sci-ence students at Brown” and “increase our attractiveness and distinctiveness to science students in high school,” according to Provost Robert Zimmer.

We see this as a logical goal that is seemingly in line with other University initiatives. The Division of Biology and Medi-cine, which includes the Brown Medical School, received a 14.5 percent budget increase during the most recent meeting of the Brown Corporation in February. It is no secret that administra-tors are looking to market Brown as a science-friendly institu-tion that can rival other longstanding science strongholds.

But as Brown makes these initial forays into what will pre-sumably become a long-term focus on scientific programs, poor planning could derail such ambitious aims before they even get off the ground. Zimmer and several faculty members, seem well aware of this possibility. The program, which would admit 60 additional students in 2008, would enhance the bur-dens already placed on the University’s infrastructural resourc-es, most notably its current housing shortage.

We see Zimmer’s suggestion that the number of students ad-mitted under the ISEP be cut in half as somewhat shortsighted. Though this approach might circumvent immediate problems, resource-related issues will only resurface, particularly if the University’s initiatives to expand the sciences prove successful. Instead, we hope the University will consider the suggestions of Professor of Biology Anne Fausto-Sterling, who argued that the University should make use of existing resources like “un-der-supported multidisciplinary concentrations” in expanding its presence among top science universities.

The University seems enthusiastic about drawing attention to its progress in the sciences. But if initiatives like the ISEP are not well thought out from the beginning, such exposure might highlight Brown’s shortcomings instead.

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An article in Friday’s Herald (“RUE group forms board to enhance presence on campus,” March 17) incorrectly stated that Teresa Tanzi ’07, the former president of the Resumed Undergraduate Students Association, stepped down to give birth to her fourth child. Tanzi stepped down to give birth to her first child.

OPINIONS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MONDAY, MARCH 20, 2006 · PAGE 11

BY MAHA ATALOPINIONS COLUMNIST

In his March 6 lecture on class in America, New York Times columnist Da-vid Brooks emphasized the importance of cultural factors in structuring social mobility. He described a new economic elite of bourgeois-bohemians who pass on their hyper-ambition and social skills to their children, creating a hereditary meritocracy. The economically poor can-not become the economically rich because they lack cultural and social capital that, para-doxically, they are barred from ac-cessing by their economic status.

Brooks is not the first to make this claim. In the 19th century, the theory that eco-nomic failure came from a lack of nec-essary cultural values was invoked by apologists for class disparity. The mor-ally deserving, according to this school of thought, would rise naturally to the economic top. But the need for changes in values simultaneously justified social and cultural philanthropy on the part of bourgeois progressives. They harnessed a conservative claim to legitimate a lib-eral cause.

While Brooks dealt specifically with class in America, the notion that cul-ture is the driving force behind econom-ic class has global implications. Cultur-al differences can explain the “class” of

nations in the global economy. Brooks described the lack of social trust that thwarted attempts to move post-Sovi-et Russia to capitalism. He cited culture as the reason “the Jews and the Chinese seem to succeed wherever they go.”

But cultural determinism often be-comes an excuse to write off nations deemed culturally unfit to succeed. Such an argument underlies America’s consis-tent reluctance to intervene on behalf of human rights in cases of war crimes or

government oppression. In the 1990s, the American government’s refusal to in-tervene in the Rwandan genocide was an economic choice: intervention was ex-pensive and largely agricultural Rwanda seemed unlikely to successfully join the world economy and “pay for itself” in the long run.

Today, the case of the ongoing Dar-fur genocide, presents a similar prob-lem. Where the culture of the mass pop-ulace seems distant from modern capi-talism, where the nation presents little economic incentive in the way of access to resources or contracts, the oppressive government is an important partner for

American investors.Economically successful nations

must be rational economic actors. But does “rational” commitment to econom-ics mean that nations where culture is thwarting economic development, or where dictatorial or corrupt govern-ments are enforcing “uneconomic” cul-ture, have to be left behind?

Liberal humanitarians often argue against this logic from a moral, altruistic perspective. In a recent discussion of the

Darfur genocide, humanitarian activ-ist John Prendergast urged Brown stu-dents to get politi-cians behind Amer-ican intervention in the Sudan on moral grounds, to “shame” them out of their economic rational-ism. But why does liberal humanitari-anism have to run

counter to economics?Nineteenth century liberal philan-

thropists used economic rather than moral language. Liberal internationalists today are often derided as idealists whose “touchy-feely” rhetoric is incompatible with realpolitic. Leftists who think eco-nomically, notably Marxists, do so by valorizing a shift away from the existing capitalist system. I wonder, though, if we can frame humanitarian aid or interven-tion as furthering our economic goals within the existing global capitalist sys-tem, culturally improving the “class” of nations and thus the global economy.

For example, education for women in

the Islamic world is economically valu-able to both these nations and to the West because it lays a cultural value sys-tem of prizing the economic potential of all members of society. A more equi-table society would allow these nations to maximize their human resources and become more valuable contributors to the global economy.

A similar case could be made for Western involvement to promote human rights or improved health care systems in areas of Asia or Africa that don’t seem valuable to us now but might be made so by the cultivation of social capital. Cul-tures that value individual life tend to value individual livelihood too. This is a brand of aid that is economically bene-ficial to both donors and recipients and that will continue to generate interest in the long term.

What is needed is liberal altruism with an economic rationale that emphasizes the economic benefits of gender equality and public education instead of merely promoting Western ideas as moral goods in themselves

This logic of liberal capitalism can go beyond economics to global geopoli-tics. The final victory in any “war on ter-ror” will come with the eradication of the incentive among individuals to join such networks, an incentive that stems at present from a perceived lack of eco-nomic opportunity, a sense of being left behind. Bringing the lower “classes” of nations along on the economic ride is the key to national security.

Maha Atal ’08 is a bleeding-heart liberal with a stone-cold conservative brain.

Show me the money

Students talking action now: Darfur

Liberals should emphasize the economic benefits of progressive policies in the existing capitalist system

Supporters of intervention in Darfur lack concrete policy proposals behind their rhetoric

BY LAURA MARTINOPINIONS COLUMNIST

Supporting “action” in Darfur is now the fashionable thing to do on elite lib-eral campuses, yet what do people really mean when they ask for action from the United States government? The United Nations has already taken decisive action in Sudan, including the passing of mul-tiple Security Council resolutions. If res-olutions 1556, 1564, 1590 and 1591 have proven ineffective, then what options are left for the United States government? The United Nations has already called for the government of Sudan to disarm the Jan-jaweed militias and bring justice to lead-ers, implemented a military flight ban over the Darfur region and established a United Nations Mission in Sudan consist-ing of up to 10,000 military personnel and 715 civilian police who are meant to sup-port the implementation of the Compre-hensive Peace Agreement for Sudan. Col-lege campuses, with their nebulous calls for action, have not defined what exactly U.S. government “action” should be. Per-haps U.S. military action is the best op-tion, but campuses are afraid to promote this viewpoint, due to their antipathy for President Bush and the Iraq war.

President George W. Bush met with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan this February to discuss the need for more peacekeepers in Darfur. Since then, Bush

has called to double the size of the NATO force in Sudan. The Senate followed suit by passing Resolution 383, calling for NATO involvement in the region. Bush also requested $123 million for peace-keeping in Darfur, which would go to-wards maintenance of airlift, fuel and camps. On March 2, the Senate unani-mously called upon the president to ini-tiate a NATO no-fly zone to help deploy a NATO bridging force.

Organizations such as the Dar-fur Action Network call for an immedi-ate response from the U.S. govern-ment. They request further NATO ac-tion in the area, increased no-fly zones, at least $200 million for Afri-can Union peace-keepers operat-ing in the area and passage of the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act. The DPAA calls for increased U.S. funding of NATO and peacekeepers, blocking assets and restricting the visas of Sudanese officials and Janjaweed militia commanders and denying port access to ships carrying Su-danese oil.

To further complicate the situation, many Sudanese citizens are against a U.N.

presence. On March 8, thousands of peo-ple marched through Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, to protest against U.N. plans to take over peacekeeping operations in Dar-fur. Protests were encouraged by violent rhetoric in Islamic newspapers. Many be-lieve the country’s sovereignty is at stake, and militia groups have warned of a holy war. Mohamed Elsamani, Sudan’s min-ister of state for foreign affairs, said Su-dan is unwilling to accept the presence of

Western troops in any U.N. intervention, stating, “Regarding the bad conduct or treatment of some, whatever linked with the UN or individual countries like Amer-ica, how it is treating people in Guanta-namo, how the allies are treating people in Iraq, in Abu Ghraib prison, or killing ci-vilians — it is not a process which will be accepted in Sudan.”

Those calling for action from the U.S.

government need to be clearer with what the definition of “action” really is. It is ob-vious and that the world must respond to horrible human-rights atrocities that are occurring in Darfur. Yet Bush and the U.S. armed forces are left unable to take deci-sive action because of the lack of political support for the war in Iraq.

The United Nations has already passed numerous resolutions against the Darfur genocide, yet these have not proven ef-

fective means. Military action in Sudan, if it is to happen simultaneous-ly with the war in Iraq, must be fully backed by U.S. citizens. This situa-tion seems unlikely, giv-en the current admin-istration’s plummeting popularity. If those call-ing for action against genocide are only pro-posing that America issue a few meaning-

less paper statements with disapproving rhetoric, consider it done. Talking about the importance of human rights is the easy part. But if global citizens really care about stopping genocide, heavy-handed military intervention must be considered before it’s too late.

Laura Martin ’06 thinks “Peace Corps” is an oxymoron.

Does commitment to economics

mean that nations where culture is

thwarting economic development

have to be left behind?

People are afraid to promote

U.S. military intervention in

Darfur due to their antipathy for

President Bush and the Iraq war.

BY ERIN FRAUENHOFERSPORTS STAFF WRITER

Last week was “Tennis Week” in Alabama, and the men’s tennis team was a part of it, competing in the Blue/Gray Tennis Clas-sic. No. 53 Brown fell 4-2 to No. 32 Boi-se State University in the first round on Thursday before losing by the same score to No. 73 Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi on Friday and the No. 33 Univer-sity of South Alabama in the consolation round on Sunday.

“We played good doubles, but we needed to play more intensely in singles,” said Assistant Coach Jamie Gresh.

After rain delayed Thursday’s match against Boise State, the players jumped straight into singles play. The doubles matches, usually played first, would only be played if the Bears and the Bron-cos were tied with three singles victories each.

But Boise State took the four singles victories it needed to win the match, mak-ing doubles play unnecessary. Co-captain Phil Charm ’06, Saurabh Kohli ’08 and Chris Lee ’09 dropped their matches in straight sets at second, fifth and sixth sin-gles, and Eric Thomas ’07 lost his match at third singles, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, to Clancy Shields.

Brown did, however, get a great per-formance at first singles from No. 70 Dan Hanegby ’07, who faced off against the other Shields brother, No. 23 Luke. De-spite the difference in ranks between the two, Hanegby defeated Shields in straight

sets, 6-4, 6-4.The Bears’ other singles victory came

at fourth singles, as Basu Ratnam ’09 over-powered Steve Robertson 6-3, 6-1.

“We messed up towards the end,” Koh-li said. “We lost some crucial points. We didn’t close the match.”

The next day, the Bears faced Texas A&M Corpus Christi in the consolation round. The match started with promise, as Brown took the doubles point. The Bears’ second doubles pair of Hanegby and Kohli and the third doubles pair of Thomas and Sam Garland ’09 soundly de-feated their opponents 8-4.

In singles play, however, the Islanders pulled out four wins to take the match. At first singles, Hanegby fell to No. 43 Raul Morant-Rivas 6-2, 6-4. Charm also lost to a ranked player, dropping his match at second singles 6-3, 6-2 to No. 125 Andrey

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD · MARCH 20, 2006 · PAGE 12

BY CHRIS MAHRSPORTS STAFF WRITER

Despite hat tricks from attackmen Alex Buckley ’07 and Dave Madeira ’07, the men’s lacrosse team was unable to up-set No. 7 University of Massachusetts-Amherst, falling to the Minutemen 13-9 Saturday at Stevenson Field.

It was a hard-fought contest, as each team appeared to be at the top of its game. In the end, however, UMass was able to utilize its experience and blaz-ing speed to drop Brown to 2-3 on the season. Despite the setback, the Bears seemed satisfied with their performance and believe it was the latest step in their rapid improvement.

“I thought we actually played very well and showed that we’re getting bet-ter. We didn’t make a whole lot of mis-takes except allowing some transition goals,” said Head Coach Scott Nelson. “If that’s the seventh-ranked team in the country then we’re not that far away from being that good.”

Bruno had both Buckley and Madei-ra healthy for the first time this season, and their impact was felt from the open-ing faceoff. Buckley, playing in his first game of the year, opened the scoring with his first tally of the season and then assisted on Madeira’s eighth goal of the year, putting Brown up 2-0.

Following Madeira’s score, UMass showed why it deserves its high rank-ing. Taking advantage of their superior quickness, the Minutemen scored four unanswered goals — most of which were in transition and generated from faceoffs — and finished the period with a 4-2 advantage.

Both Buckley and Madeira scored in the second quarter as well, reinforcing the effect their presence had on the offense.

“I had a pretty good preseason and played well in the fall, and (this) being

my first game back, I wanted to make an impact,” Buckley said. “After I (got by) my man once I figured I might as well keep going.”

However, UMass netted three scores of its own in the quarter. The Minute-men attackers often ran right around the Bears’ defenders on their way to the goal. Once they neared the net, UMass’ excellent passing led to easy looks and goals.

Down 7-4 at the break, Brown came out strong after intermission with goals from Buckley and attackman Will Da-

vis ’07. Unfortunately, the Bears could not get the elusive tying goal. UMass showed off an impressive man-up unit, converting on both its opportunities in the period and netting an even-strength goal as well. Co-captain Kyle Wailes ’06 scored midway through the period, and Madeira scored his third goal of the day toward the end, making it 10-8 after 45 minutes.

The final period belonged to the visi-tors from Amherst, who finally pulled

Minutemen too quick, m. lax falls 13-9 W. water polo tops rival Crimson in 3-2 defensive battle

FRIDAY, MARCH 17

W. LACROSSE: Temple 16, Brown 11M. TENNIS: No. 73 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 4, No. 53 Brown 2W. WATER POLO: Brown 3, Harvard 2

SATURDAY, MARCH 18

EQUESTRIAN: 1st place (at Johnson and Wales)M. LACROSSE: No. 7 UMass-Amherst 13, Brown 9M. TENNIS: No. 33 So. Alabama 4, No. 53 Brown 2

SUNDAY, MARCH 19

GYMNASTICS: Yale 189.225, Brown 188.075, URI 187.425, Southern Conn. 183.525W. LACROSSE: Delaware 9, Brown 8 (OT)

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Alex Buckley ’07 scored three goals in his first game back from an injury.

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Michael Savino ’06 made his first trip to the NCAA wrestling championships last week, barely losing an 8-7 match to the 11th-ranked wrestler in his weight class.

Savino ’06 doesn’t leave NCAAs empty-handed, despite losses

It’s 4-2 déjà vu for m. tennis at Alabama’s Blue/Gray Classic

BY AMY EHRHARTSPORTS STAFF WRITER

The women’s water polo team avenged a season-ending loss to Harvard last year with a 3-2 win against the Crim-son Saturday in Cambridge. Bruno im-proved to 4-9 on the year and is now ranked sixth in the Collegiate Water Polo Association poll, two spots ahead of Harvard, which fell to 6-5. The top six are all pretty close, and playoff placement is still very much up in the air.

Harvard drew first blood, but the Bears rebounded quickly off of two goals by Paige Lansing ’07 in the sec-ond quarter. Her tallies gave the Bears a lead they would not relinquish.

“It meant a lot to beat our number one rival,” Lansing said.

Her first goal came on a four-meter penalty shot drawn by Caitlin Fahey ’07, and the second was a counterat-tack on a cross-court pass from Rory Stanton ’09. Lansing leads the team in goals with 21 and is tied with Fahey for the team lead in assists with nine.

Fahey got the Bears’ third and game-winning goal in the third quar-ter off of a Stanton rebound that hit the crossbar.

“We executed our game plan very well, especially on defense. Paige played really well and Caitlin stepped up. We’re looking to work more on our offense in the next few weeks,” said Elizabeth Balassone ’07.

Anne Deggelman ’08 had another superb effort in goal. She stopped eight shots to add to her excellent 0.457 save

BY STEPHEN COLELLISPORTS EDITOR

While most of the country watched the first round of the NCAA Men’s Basket-ball Tournament on Thursday and Fri-day, the NCAA was holding another, less publicized championship tournament. The Division I Wrestling Championships were held in Oklahoma City, Okla., over the weekend, and they included a rep-

resentative from Brown. Capping off his collegiate career, 157-pounder Michael Savino ’06 went 0-2 at the national com-petition, but not without making one of the nation’s best grapplers sweat.

“No one likes losing, least of all me,” Savino said. “It was a great honor to compete at nationals though. It’s an experience that a lot of guys will never

see M. TENNIS, page 9

see M. LAX, page 9

see SAVINO, page 9

see W. POLO, page 8