BY SARA PERKINS Aborting a planned Parents Weekendrally, negotiators for the union represent-ing 90 library workers announced Fridayafternoon that they had reached a tenta-tive five-year contract agreement with theUniversity.

United Service and Allied Workers ofRhode Island representative KarenMcAninch left the Rockefeller Librarynegotiations just prior to signing theagreement to announce the terms of theproposed contract, which will face a“pretty pro-forma” authorization vote ofthe union members, probably on today,before it is officially signed. The contractwill include a 2.25 percent wage increasethis year, changes in health insurance co-payments in 2007 — the last year of thecontract — and an agreement by theUniversity to leave the library hours asthey are now and give six months’ warn-ing before reopening contract negotia-tions on the subject.

Vice President for AdministrationWalter Hunter praised the tentative agree-ment in an e-mail to the Herald Sunday.

“This new collective bargaining agree-ment permits the leadership of the libraryto make the informed decisions neces-sary to ensure that our libraries remain avital scholarly resource, and outlines apackage of wages, benefits and workingconditions that is fair to the union mem-bers and the rest of the University com-munity,” he wrote.

The library workers’ last contractexpired in September 2002; it was extend-ed into early 2003, but since then, libraryworkers have worked without a contract.In two years of negotiations, the unionand the University have been unable toreach agreement, primarily due to dis-agreements about the University’s pro-posed reorganization of the libraries,under which individual workers wouldeach be responsible for a variety of tasks— including shelving, cataloguing anddesk staffing. Workers have contendedthat the reorganization would force themto do more work without a correspondingpay increase and would take away the sta-bility of their schedules.

Librarians and student workers do notbelong to the union and are not involvedin the contract.

The union and the Student LaborAlliance had planned a Friday afternoonrally on the Main Green, including a dis-play of about 1,000 student-signed cardsexpressing support for the library work-ers, during a Parents Weekend coffee.

“If the administration won’t listen tostudents, they’ll listen to parents,” said Te-Ping Chen ’07.

The rally was not part of a threat tostrike, said Chris Hu ’06, but an attempt to“get negotiations moving again.”

“We would hope that parents wouldask questions of President (Ruth)Simmons, asking why this has gone on solong,” said Debra Nelson-Danielson, asenior library reference specialist and analternate negotiator who stayed with the

BY MELANIE WOLFGANGTwo-time Academy Award winner andseven-time nominee Dustin Hoffman P’07confessed to a packed audience Saturdaynight that he was “a failure.”

“A Conversation with Dustin Hoffman,”sponsored by the Creative Arts Council andset in the Pizzitola Sports Center, began withthe actor’s insistence that he was “not a lec-turer.” He defined a lecturer as a teacher,someone who knows. “I never did and stilldon’t know,” he said.

The event was moderated by MichaelOvitz P’05, co-founder of the Creative ArtistsAgency.

Hoffman, who did not graduate from col-lege, said he took an acting class during hisbrief time at a community college after afriend informed him, “Nobody flunks act-ing. It’s like gym.”

So began a lifetime of on-screen and on-stage achievements. And for all his talk offailure, Hoffman appeared, at 67 years old, aman rich with experience.

The self-proclaimed “authentic ignora-mus” began the evening with a quote frompoet e.e. cummings and ended it, in tears,with a quote on art appreciation fromRainer Maria Rilke.

His conversation was layered with wordsof advice for aspiring actors, entertainingHollywood anecdotes — like the time hefooled fellow actor Jon Voight while dressedlike a woman for his role in “Tootsie” — andcommentary on everything from the presi-dential election to the notion of original sin.

Hoffman, who grew up in Los Angelesbefore moving to New York to pursue acting,said in response to a question from theaudience that if he weren’t an actor hewould probably be a director. One of his firston-stage appearances was in a GertrudeStein play at Sarah Lawrence College.

A student from the audience asked

Hoffman how he, in his early twenties, couldhope to perform with all the knowledge andexperience of his elders. Hoffman, inresponse, pointed to Marlon Brando’sacclaimed performance, at only 29 yearsold, in “On the Waterfront.”

A lot happens in your twenties, he said,referring to the Friday night keynote lectureby Chris Matthews P’05. “I always tell mykids it’s the question-mark decade.” He alsorecommended turning to the “big guys andthe big gals” of literature, which is how he“got a taste of what (he) was really going tofeel emotionally” when he was older.”

His talk was filled with other words ofwisdom for up-and-coming artists.Hoffman, a father of six, said he shapes hison-screen characters by considering firstwhat they are not. “I think in acting, like inlife, you keep chipping away at what youdon’t like,” he said.

His experience dressing as a woman in“Tootsie” taught him much about thefemale experience. Noting that he was ableto pick out his own breast size for the part,he said, “You want to feel in-scale. You wantto feel attractive. You want to feel sexy. Youdo. Believe me.”

He then related a particularly movingexperience he had on the set of “Tootsie”when, in costume as a woman, he wasapproached by a group of men. After look-ing Hoffman up and down, the men sum-marily “erased” him, turning their attentionto younger and more attractive women.Hoffman said the shock of the experiencesent him crying to his wife, to whom he con-fessed that he’d done that to women before.“I was brought up that way. I had to havetrophy girls,” he said.

He also pointed to the wide criticism ofPresident George W. Bush, who he said was“not dumb” but was also “not intellectual”or introspective. “We are a flawed species,”

he said. He was quick to add, however, thathe was a Kerry supporter.

In an interview with The Herald beforethe event, Hoffman said he found he hadmuch in common with politicians. “Theywear the same kind of makeup I do whenI’m working. They have the same costumedesigners fitting them for colors. They havebetter writers than I do.”

“And what’s marvelous is that the politi-cians act like they own (writers’ lines) – likean actor is supposed to,” he said. He found itinteresting that politicians could use theirpolitical status to, in a sense, become enter-tainers.

“We know the actor’s the actor,” he said.“The actor is out there telling you, ‘I’m lying.I’m not really this character.’” In contrast,the politician “is one of the great liars,”Hoffman said — but also therefore one ofthe great actors.

“The bottom line for a politician is to beelected and then re-elected,” Hoffman said,referring to an idea put forward by politicaltheorist Noam Chomsky. The desire to bere-elected, he said, causes politicians’ fre-quent hedging. “It’s by nature, I think, disin-genuous,” he said. “More and more in mylifetime.”

Moving to something a little less serious,Hoffman told The Herald that “God hasalready shifted his affection” from theYankees to the Red Sox. “We’ll see if he putson a Red Sox jersey or not,” he added.

Kristen Greider ’08 said she thoughtHoffman “was very truthful” and she appre-ciated his use of “raw imagery.” She referredto his use of the image of an umbilical cordwhen speaking about the difficulty ofdivorce in response to a question about“Kramer vs. Kramer.” Recalling how his ownexperience with divorce informed the devel-

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Simmons fieldsparents’questions inSunday sessionBY AIDAN LEVYIn her annual Sunday morning ParentsWeekend session, President RuthSimmons discussed ongoing develop-ments in the Plan for AcademicEnrichment and answered questions ontopics including financial aid, the engi-neering program and the accessibilityof the campus to students with disabili-ties.

Simmons addressed a packed crowdof parents, students and faculty mem-bers in a tent set up on the Main GreenSunday at 11 a.m.

During the question-and-answersession, Simmons first addressed aquestion about accessibility on andaround campus. Many of Brown’s olderbuildings are not equipped to accom-modate students with disabilities.

“This is expensive and hard to do, butwe aim to bring all buildings into com-pliance,” Simmons said. “With newerbuildings it’s much easier.”

Richard Spies, executive vice presi-dent for planning, said the University

Hoffman P’07 tells actors to expect — and embrace — failure

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Nick Neely / HeraldCalling himself a “failure,” Dustin Hoffman P’07 spoke Saturday evening to a capacityParents Weekend crowd at the Pizzitola Sports Center.

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Chris Matthews P’05tells parents thattheir children shouldenjoy their twenties— he didcampus news, page 3

Med school advisorto retire after firstsemester, says he isconsideringconsulting campus news, page 3

Brown rips studentsoff with undergradteaching assistants,writes BenjaminBright-Fishbein ’07column, page 7

M. soccer beatsCornell University 2-0in Homecoming gameafter making first goallate in first halfsports, page 8

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INFO SESSION: KYOTO CENTERFOR JAPANESE STUDIES4-5 p.m. (Rhode Island Hall 107) —Assistant to the Director FusakoShore and Senior Lecturer in EastAsian Studies Yuko Jackson will dis-cuss Brown’s program in Kyoto,Japan.

“WORDSWORTH’S EMPIRE”5 p.m. (Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall) —David Simpson of the University ofCalifornia-Davis will deliver a lec-ture as part of the “Situating theHumanities” series.

“FAIR ELECTIONS? INTERNATION-AL MONITORING OF THE 2004U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION”7 p.m. (Smith-Buonanno 106) —Kwesi Addae, an internationallyrenowned democracy activist fromGhana, and Jason Mark, director ofcommunications of the organiza-tion Global Exchange, will speakabout the “Fair Election” program,which will monitor the U.S. electoralprocess this year.

PANEL: ASIAN-AMERICAN VOT-ING7-8 p.m. (Wilson 101) —A panel discussion about low Asian-American voter turnout and votereducation for the 2004 presidentialrace.

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FUNDING AND FELLOWSHIPS5-6 p.m. (Rhode Island Hall 116) —A comprehensive info session onfunding and fellowship opportuni-ties. Representatives from theSwearer Center, the ResourceCenter and the Dean of the CollegeFellowships Office will speak.

“THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELEC-TION AND THE FUTURE OF THEENVIRONMENT”7-9 p.m. (Salomon 101) —Eight panelists representing wide-ranging disciplinary and ideologicalviewpoints will discuss the implica-tions of a Bush or Kerry administra-tion on the future of the environ-ment.

BY CHRISTOPHER CHONChris Matthews P’05 had a message for stu-dents Friday evening, and it had nothing todo with politics: Do something in yourtwenties that will be worth remembering forthe rest of your life.

Best known as a political commentator,Matthews, host of MSNBC’s “Hardball withChris Matthews,” delivered the ParentsWeekend keynote lecture to a packed SaylesHall audience made up mostly of visitingparents.

A distinguished journalist, political com-mentator and best-selling author describedas a “cultural icon” by President RuthSimmons during her introduction,Matthews shared his experiences as a tradedevelopment advisor in the Kingdom ofSwaziland during his stint with the PeaceCorps in the late 1960s, emphasizing to stu-dents the importance of the experiences oftheir twenties.

“What are you going to do?” he asked thestudents in the audience. “It’s how you’regoing to grow up and how you’re going tomake the decisions to make you grow up.You’re always going to look back on yourtwenties as the times when you did the bigthings, the life-changing things — not justgrad school and law school and things —the wild things you’re going to do in yourtwenties.

“I can tell you, if you’re lucky, your twen-ties will be wild — wild as hell,” he said.

Matthews said that experience and “find-ing stuff that memories are made of” are anintegral part of growing up. He recounted a

trip he took with his sons to meet a friend inVietnam and a brief stop they made inBerlin.

“I’m a student of World War II, and (I)realized I knew where Hitler had his bunker.I took (my sons) to where I knew Hitler hadcommitted suicide,” Matthews said. “Andwe all took a leak. I want my kids whenthey’re 90 years old to remember when theywere in their teens they pissed on Hitler’sgrave. Those little memories make all thedifference.”

Matthews said there was a “bite in theair” during the 1960s — “the bite thatthings matter.” He attributed the “bite” tothe looming draft.

“You knew that even your dad wasn’tgoing to protect you,” he said. “How’s thatfor a feeling? Nobody was going to protectyou. You were going to get drafted, you’regoing to Vietnam and your name would endup on a casket list.”

Because of the draft, Matthews said hewas confronted with a decision: becomingan enlistee, a draftee, a resister or aCanadian or going to federal prison. “Thoseare the decisions people actually made inmy era,” he said.

Matthews recalled sitting on a parkbench in Montreal one day and making a listof things he could do. “I made a decisionwhich changed my life,” he said. “And fortwo years between the ages of 23 and 25, Ispent a good part of my time riding aroundthe dirt roads, the remote bush, the Africanbush, of Swaziland in Africa on a Suzuki 120motorcycle. I was teaching 200 people how

to be better businessmen, African traders.”Matthews had decided to join the Peace

Corps and began work as a trade develop-ment advisor. “I would just walk into theirstores and tell them, ‘Let’s learn how to dobusiness better.’ And on my more romanticmoments, I thought of myself as a bourgeoisChe Guevara. He was selling revolution inSouth America; I was selling bookkeepingand capitalism in Southern Africa.”

During his two years in the Peace Corps,Matthews traveled around on his Suzukimotorcycle teaching business in Swaziland,hitchhiked alone through Africa, went on a26-hour bus ride with chickens and goats,fell in love with Indian cities, spent a dayfishing in a lake “so big you couldn’t seeland,” closed the bar one night with friendsin Zanzibar and spent “days in the perfectsand, just hanging out.”

He said the experiences shaped the restof his life.

“It was, in a way, a rite of passage for me.It got me out of my world and into another,”he said. “My grandmother looked into myeyes a couple years after I got back, and shesaw me coming to Washington and gettingthese jobs and everything. She looked me inthe eyes and said, ‘It was Africa, wasn’t it?’”

After his speech, Matthews took ques-tions from the audience.

“That was softball,” he said. “Now we goto hardball.”

While he successfully avoided the topicfor the most part during his prepared lec-

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Pre-medadvisor Ripleyto retire afterthis semesterBY SARA PERKINSAssociate Dean of the College RobertRipley, the University’s advisor to pre-medical students, will retire this spring,he announced in an e-mail to pre-medstudents on Thursday.

“I’m 64. It’s time, just like the Beatlessong,” he told The Herald on Sunday, hisbirthday.

Ripley will use his vacation time inJanuary and February and retire officiallyin March. The search for his replacementwill be launched immediately, said Deanof the College Paul Armstrong, who saidhe was “pretty confident” that a new asso-ciate dean could be hired by March. InJanuary and February, other associatedeans will fill the gap, he said.

Since taking over pre-med advisingduties from an overtaxed dean in 1974,Ripley has guided students through theprocess of fulfilling pre-medical require-ments and applying to medical schools,while challenging them to really considerwhether they are interested in and readyfor medicine, students said.

“One thing he does is constantly makesyou think whether you want to be a doc-tor or not. He doesn’t just hand the perfectpre-med application to you right away,”said Christopher Sha ’06.

In keynote, Matthews P’05 talks aboutroad from Peace Corps to politics

see MATTHEWS, page 5see RIPLEY, page 5

“We play as a unit betweenJames Frazier (’06), StephenStorrs (’06), Greg Burlin (’06), PatCurran (’06), and then we substi-tute Paul Kaminski (’05), MikeStefannacci (’05) and CaseyDougan (’07),” Estes said. “We’rerotating our guys, keeping themfresh so that they’re always going100 miles per hour. They’re allgetting a lot of playing time andwe don’t feel like we have anyletdowns with one group of guysthat go in there.”

The game showed the kind ofmoxie that Brown will need nextweek as it takes on the undefeat-ed University of PennsylvaniaQuakers next Saturday.

“What’s nice is that the teamwent through some adverse situ-ations, they stuck together as ateam and when they had tomake the plays they made theplays,” Estes said. “They justkeep grinding things out, and ifwe can do that we will continueto be successful.”

Herald staff writer Chris Mahr’07 covers football. He can bereached at herald@browndaily-herald.com.

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team late into the nightThursday, partly because thenegotiators were accidentallylocked into the Rock.

As about 30 workers and stu-dents began making their wayfrom the Rock Friday, Ellen CrimLech-Moore, a senior acquisi-tions associate, stopped them toannounce that a tentative agree-ment had been reached. Theworkers continued to the greento thank student organizers andcelebrate.

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has implemented a plan to effectthese changes within the next sixyears. “There ought to beimprovements every year,” hetold The Herald after the session.The project has already cost inexcess of $1 million and will costmany millions more to complete,he said.

One parent inquired about thescarcity of Latino faculty mem-bers. Simmons said theUniversity is pushing to attractmore culturally diverse scholars,especially Latinos, and cited thehelp of Marta Tienda, a memberof the Brown Board of Trustees.

“We’re working very hard,”Simmons said. “Whenever we getan opportunity, we go after thesepeople aggressively.”

Another parent asked aboutexpanding economic diversity torepresent students from lower-income families to a greaterdegree. “Our goal is to identifystudents of extraordinary intel-lectual capacity. Period,” shesaid. “A child born into this worldin poverty should not have hisintellectual capacity stigmatizedby the contents of his purse.”Simmons also referred to SidneyFrank’s recent $100 million dona-tion, which will fund scholar-ships to eliminate student loansfor certain low-income students.

Another parent discussed hisqualms about the restrictionsimposed on engineering concen-trators. Simmons defendedBrown’s program. Having craftedan engineering program at SmithCollege, where she served aspresident, she said she realizesthat there are “particular man-dates in the field of engineeringthat require a certain curricu-

lum.” In addition, she said that“most universities are boxed in,”due to constraints established bythe Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology, thenational engineering accredita-tion organization. Brown satisfiesABET requirements and allowsstudents to “combine pure engi-neering with liberal learning.” Asfar as a loosening of those restric-tions goes, “ABET is reluctant toreduce the requirements,” shesaid.

Provost Robert Zimmer fieldeda question from a parent whorecounted a memory of hearingChristopher Reeve P’02 deliver apowerful Parents Weekendkeynote lecture three years agoand asked about Brown’s involve-ment with stem cell research.

Zimmer said Brown facultymembers are not currently per-forming research specificallyrelated to stem cells. “It’s not acentrally driven agenda,” he said.“We’re actively engaged, but we’refollowing the faculty.”

In her 20-minute speech,Simmons discussed ongoingdevelopments in the Plan forAcademic Enrichment and reiter-ated Brown’s continuing commit-ment to foster risk-taking and“help students learn to seethrough the haze.”

In the spirit of intellectual con-tention she outlined three yearsago in her first convocationaddress, Simmons issued a simi-lar injunction to students, sayingthat in her eyes, they have a dutyas members of the Brown com-munity to not “merely study,” butto “invest their humanity” — this,she said, “is the heart of our aca-demic experience.”

Simmons highlighted thediversity of the student body, fac-ulty and opportunities at Brown,even extending into the realm offashion with the “stunning vari-

ety of clothing styles” on campus.She alluded to the myriad of

research projects Brown studentsand faculty are heavily involvedwith, such as Louella Hill ’04,food systems coordinator forBrown Dining Services, whoturned her senior thesis into amovement to introduce locally-grown food to Brown dining.Simmons cited Hill’s work as aprimary influence on theincrease in students on meal planthis year.

Other accomplishmentsSimmons discussed wererenowned poet and Professor ofEnglish C.D. Wright’s recent dis-tinction as a MacArthurFoundation Fellow andNeuroscience department chairJohn Donoghue’s DiscoverMagazine Innovation Award forhis work on Braingate, a neuro-prosthetic device that allows theparalyzed to control a computerusing brain commands — theultimate goal being the restora-tion of full independence to theparalyzed.

When asked what her “biggestworries and challenges” are,Simmons replied by discussingher relationship with the stu-dents. “I feel very much like aparent to all of my students,” shesaid. “I want to make sure that allstudents get the maximum bene-fit of their time here. So I worryabout that unexpected thing,what we can’t foresee or predict,and I’m constantly nagging myassociates to plan for it.”

In the future, she said, shehopes students will make a differ-ence but that they will do it withmore than their emotions.

“We need to mend the differ-ences between people,” she said.“Brown needs to hold onto theprominence and preeminence ofreason in everything instead ofletting emotion take over.”

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Brown sends an average of 180students to medical school everyyear, Ripley said. He has around1,200 appointments per year withmedical school hopefuls.

Because Brown pre-medicalstudents have to pick a concentra-tion and fulfill its requirements inaddition to the requirements formedical school, the pre-med advi-sor has to help students balancethe demands of both. “My goal foreveryone is to make sure they getan education,” Ripley said.

Ripley said that his reputationfor sometimes-harsh honesty wasearned, but necessary. “The rumorwas that I was really tough. I’vealways been a tough coach, but if Ipushed too hard, I did it for you,”he told The Herald.

“He really challenged studentsand was very honest with them,”said Justin Chan ’05. “I don’t think Iwould have gotten as far if he was-n’t as challenging.”

Ripley’s departure has been inthe works for several years, he said.“I’ve been talking about it. If youask any pre-med, the rumor hasbeen floating around for three orfour years.”

“We’ve been talking about thepossibility for a while now, but I gothis actual letter announcing hisretirement on Thursday,”Armstrong said.

Students and Armstrong saidRipley’s experience and connec-tions at top medical schools will bemissed. “He has a really excellentrecord of getting students acceptedto top-notch medical schools. Wethink he’s done an excellent job,and we’ll miss him,” Armstrongsaid.

Some students, including thosestill in the process of applying tomedical schools this winter, mayfeel left on their own by Ripley’sdeparture, Chan said. “I think thatpeople who were planning to applynext year are a little more anxious,because we don’t know when theschool will find a replacement orwhether his replacement will knowas much and be as familiar with

the med school community.”Ripley said he plans to travel,

first to visit his son in India, and isconsidering a move into consult-ing. The first year, he said, he plansto just have fun.

Students said that for better orfor worse, they will remember histough love. “I was told that I shouldbe nervous about meeting withhim, but I liked him. He was veryhonest and open about what youneeded to get into medical school,”said Ashley Schomer ’06.

Herald news editor Sara Perkins ’06can be reached atherald@browndailyherald.com.

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ture, politics quickly became thesubject of interest during the briefquestion-and-answer forum.

Matthews said manyAmericans are voting misin-formed, calling this year’s electionbased on “bad intel,” but said hedoes not think the Bush adminis-tration deliberately misinformedthe public — he said he thinks VicePresident Dick Cheney believed he

was telling the truth when Cheneysuggested there was a connectionbetween Sept. 11 and Iraq.

Matthews said Rep. DickGephardt, D-Mo., would be a bet-ter vice presidential running matefor John Kerry than John Edwardsis, noting that Kerry and Edwardsare not likely to win any states inthe South, including Edwards’native North Carolina, but are inclose competition with PresidentGeorge W. Bush in the industrialMidwest, where Gephardt is popu-lar.

He also praised Howard Dean,

telling a self-proclaimed“Deaniac” in the audience that hercandidate’s clear position againstthe war in Iraq, rather than hisinfamous “scream” following theIowa caucuses, was the reason hefailed to win the nomination.Matthews said he liked Dean somuch because he had “clarity” and“guts.”

“Say what you believe and letthe country catch up to you,” hesaid. “Don’t try to catch up to thecountry, because then you’ll justbe another spinner. And you mightas well go in my business.”

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opment of the movie, Hoffmansaid a relationship that connectstwo people in love cannot easily becut off, even when both partieswant it to end.

Joe Gosha ’75 said that Hoffman“capsulized in two or three sen-tences what it takes most actorsyears and years to learn” when hespoke about the power of “being inthe moment.”

“Seeing his passion at this event

instructs me as to why he is sopowerful as an actor,” Gosha said.

Spencer Golub P’05, chair ofthe Department of Theatre,Speech and Dance, and MichaelSilverman, chair of theDepartment of Modern Cultureand Media, presented Hoffmanwith the Creative Arts Council’sDistinguished Visiting ArtistAward for his portrayal of “themarginalized eccentric, thesocial outcast and the moderneveryman.”

The event was organized byMichael Ovitz P’05 and KimberlyOvitz ’05, who wanted to bring

real artists of different types tocampus as a resource for stu-dents in the arts.

Hoffman ended the eveningby apologizing to President RuthSimmons, who sat looking veryamused in the front row. “I’msorry I’m a bad boy sometimes,”he said, in reference to his semi-scandalous Hollywood stories.“At some point we’ll have a drinkand we’ll go out and boogie,” hepromised.

Herald staff writer MelanieWolfgang ’07 can be reached at her-ald@browndailyherald.com.

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S H A N E W I L K E R S O N

Closing the bookIt’s been years since Brown’s library workers began negotiatingwith University officials, hoping to secure the terms of theiremployment for the next several years.

It’s also been years since Brown’s library workers began work-ing without a contract, hoping that the agreement proposed bythe University would suit their demands.

On Friday, union officials announced that an agreement hadbeen reached and that library workers — the 90 represented bythe union — would probably sign the proposed agreement laterthis week.

That announcement turned a planned worker-support rallythat coincided with Parents Weekend into a celebration of theend of two years of negotiations that went into this contract.

The University’s workers deserve to be treated just as fairly asthe students here, and officials’ decision to compromise with theunion on many of its demands was ultimately a good one. Wecommend both parties for working together to reach a decision.

But we further commend the library workers for realizinghow desperately the University depends on their skills. Thoughunion members could have gone on strike anytime afterOctober 2002, they didn’t — despite threatening a walkout mul-tiple times. While we’d like to think that’s because they knew theUniversity would shut down without them, they more likely didnot strike because they knew it would hurt their cause. But nomatter what their reason for avoiding a strike, we are grateful.

The library is the center of any university — it’s the physicalhome of knowledge and research. For the University not toshow the employees who work there the consideration theydeserve is to devalue everything the library does.

The negotiations were no doubt frustrating — indeed, bothsides expressed frustration that things were not moving morequickly. But we sincerely hope that the extra time it took toreach an agreement was worth it — that both sides are reason-ably satisfied and will remain so for years to come.

We understand that contract negotiations are complicatedand that neither side will ever feel as though it got everything itwanted and deserved. But with negotiators coming to an agree-ment without disrupting the academic life of the Universitystudents and faculty are getting much of what they want anddeserve: a library that stays open. Reaching an agreement andlooking ahead will benefit everyone in the long run — no mat-ter what side of the table they sit on.

To the Editor:

In response to the letter from Danish Aziz ’05(“Student workers should consider a strike,” Oct.21), clearly Aziz has never worked a day in his life ifhe thinks it is a no-brainer to quit a well-paying joband be unemployed for an indeterminate amountof time.

This is not an option for students not financiallysupported by their parents. While a strike is all verynice and romantic the repercussions are quite dire.We would be fired. For reasons mentioned before,this is not feasible. We are, unfortunately, replace-able.

Johnson and Wales University students alreadywork shifts at Jo's that formerly belonged to Brownstudents, and in response to the extended hours,the Gate has hired JWU students as well. The lossof student jobs on campus would have serious

repercussions on student employment.Furthermore, how dare Aziz claim that working atthe Gate is “foolishly toiling away” and that helpingout friends and fellow workers is a “misguidedattempt at worker solidarity” — that comment isboth infuriating and insulting to the workers whohave committed time to keeping the Gate opera-tional for all the people who come in drunk and stu-pid late at night. Yes, there has been vomit in ourunits ... and feces. The BuDS student managementteam would desperately like to reach a compro-mise, and we hope for constructive cooperationfrom our peers.

Suggesting everyone quit their jobs is akin to say-ing “let them eat cake” — unrealistic, simplistic andtotally inflammatory.

Rachel Paster ‘05BuDS Office Manager

Oct. 22

A strike is not an option for student workers

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2004 · PAGE 7

As a student who works at Brown University DiningServices told to consider finding other jobs, I would like toexplain why we do not.

Many of us find our work very fulfilling — only the par-ticularly awful conditions this semester have changed ourrelationship with our work. Many of us do hold other jobs— a few of us are even your TAs — and yet we’ve still cho-sen to keep our BuDS jobs.

The camaraderie, the chance to learn about a side of theservice community often ignored at Brown, the pay andeven the sense of pride in making a damn good sandwich:These are all reasons for us to stay in our jobs.

What’s unacceptable are the new conditions broughtabout by staying open until 2 a.m. There were always, ofcourse, drunks, messes, the occasional rude or belligerentcustomer and a sleep deficit.

This was tolerable, evenoccasionally laughable, andwe still had enough energy toenjoy being at the Gate, ineach other’s company andmaking people’s food. Thatwas when the Gate closed at 1 a.m.

Coincidentally, parties also get out around 1 a.m. Thismeans that while previously we had the occasional milddrunk, now there is a full hour every night of every week-end when, between 1 and 2 a.m., hordes of students, total-ly trashed, get a hankering for some wonderful Gate pizzaor a Chicken Carberry and head right on down.

We can’t ask people not to get drunk (How unfair wouldthat be?), but we also can’t reason with a drunk who is bel-ligerent, puking or even defacating all over a place we usedto take pride in.

The Undergraduate Council of Students and the Officeof Student Life have refused to post police officers to help

control any excessive acts, though a few officers have beengenerously stopping by the Gate more often of their ownvolition since an assault on two student workers two weeksago by a sober individual.

We like the Gate. We even like the overwhelming major-ity of our customers. But what are we to do?

UCS’s sole decision so far, to my best knowledge, hasbeen to resolve to start a marketing campaign to changecampus culture — to tell you all, “Appreciate BuDS workersmore — Don’t be mean.”

Some of us are hopeful, but more than a little skeptical,and not only because a column by Aaron Fritschner ’06(“Overworked,” Oct. 20) is the only thing that’s found itsway into print thus far. We have invited UCS members tostaff the Gate some weekend and see the conditions for

themselves, but although they haveexpressed great enthusiasm, theyhave not yet done so.

We do appreciate that UCS hasrealized something of the gravity ofthis issue. We hope to keep workingwith UCS, and hopefully its mar-

keting campaign will change a campus where studentworkers now feel disregarded and degraded. A place thatwas once a comfortable environment is now a place wherewe resent our customers, even the good ones, because weare dead tired. We are trying to keep the place together withless staff and more customers. We are holding on because ifwe quit, no one wins.

We want to keep working at BuDS. But this extra hour isextraneous during the week and a hell that none of youwould want to work in during the weekend.

Brian Corcoran ‘06 is the subject of forthcoming “60Minutes” profile.

I may be remiss, but I do not think I am alone in say-ing that the cost of a Brown education and all its trap-pings is a bitter pill to swallow in exchange for these fouryears.

Don’t get me wrong: the value of the friendships wegain easily transcends the $40,000 price, and the degree’scachet is beyond question. But still, somewhere deep inmy vigilantly suspicious, reptilian brain I can’t help won-dering whether the costs I actually incur each semesterresemble in any way the amount I see on the bill. Whenyou get down to it, the only thing I can really be sure ofconcerning finances at Brown is that I, my parents andmy future self can always be asked to pay a little bit more.

The one scrap of consolation I get, as the CollegeBoard reported last week, is that all students are in thesame sinking boat. According to the report, in 2004,tuition at all types of colleges — public universities, pri-vate colleges and community colleges — rose markedlyyet again. Though the rate of increase was lower than lastyear's, it exceeded all other hikes in more than a decade.Now, for the first time, the average tuition tops $20,000 atprivate universities, $5,000 at public universities and

$2,000 at community colleges. There are a variety of explanations for the rising price

of college. Health care has become more expensive; statefunding of public universities has declined; endowmentshave shrunk due to the volatility of the stock market;schools have been spending more on lavish expansionsof technology and facilities; and some universities, suchas Brown, have made the transition to need-blind admis-sion policies, which require more resources.

Yet the underlying problem is more complicated.Federal funding for Pell grants, the cornerstone of finan-cial aid for low-income students, has expanded insuffi-ciently to accommodate the growing demand. As aresult, the actual amount given out to eligible students in2003 was 1 percent lower than a year earlier. To makematters worse, Pell grants now cover only 23 percent ofthe cost for a public university, compared to 35 percentin 1980. At the same time, a shift toward funding merit-based scholarships has disproportionately benefited themiddle and upper classes, leaving poorer students with acrippling onus of loans.

Disadvantaged students in Rhode Island suffer thisproblem acutely. In the National Center for Public Policyand Higher Education's report “Measuring Up 2004,” thestate received a grade of “F” in affordability. The sumeffect of these changes is to further crowd out the lowerclasses from college, consigning them to significantlylower-paying jobs. While the benefit of a bachelor’sdegree has always been demonstrable, the salary gapbetween high-school-educated workers and collegegraduates has never been greater. As it becomes less pos-sible for poor students to attend college, social stratifica-tion becomes unavoidable. Even elite institutions thattrumpet their diversity recognize this fact and are seek-ing to rectify it. Benefactors such as our own belovedSidney Frank have initiated genuine efforts to enrollmore truly low-income students through grants, notloans. Frank’s $100 million gift should make inroads onthis problem.

A more rational approach might be to cut costs. Iknow quite personally the extent of inefficiency amongIvy League schools from my summers working in thearchives of the University of Pennsylvania. Due to a fam-ily connection, I profited from a high-paying job that wasin no way necessary, subsidized by the tuitions of stu-dents who had never even heard of the Penn archives, letalone the lucrative position of “student assistant.”

As grateful as I am for the privilege of studying atBrown, I, like many students, have trouble getting overthe exorbitant costs. And if that's the case for a firmlymiddle-class student like me, the prospects for anyone ina less propitious position are almost unimaginably,dauntingly bleak.

Benjamin Carlson ’07 thanks Penn kids for their dough.

Crowding outthe poor

The barriers to

a college education.

Why I work at the Gate

Working for BuDS,

weekends are hell.

In deo speramus. We hope in God — or, failing that,undergraduate teaching assistants.

Last fall, as a first-semester freshman in an upper-level biology class, I was offered the option to be a TAfor BI 20: “Foundation of Living Systems,” after havingtaken AP Biology two years prior. I should have done it.The $700 a semester is a fair amount. I could have madesome money, even spiced up my resume for gradschool. I could conceivably have taught my own RC. Toobad my students would have gotten shafted; I'd havemade a terrible teacher.

The mere thought that Brown, one of the most pres-tigious, well-endowed schools in the country, wouldfeel it necessary to hire me to teach a class is, well,insane. That any student would pay $40,000 for peertutoring that he or she could probably conscript for freeis equally unreasonable.

It would seem that the administration is cheating itsstudents in an attempt to save money. I am paying to betaught by the world's most educated minds, not the guydown the hall. When I walk out of class I want to beelectrified, sailing around the room, bouncing off thewalls. Maybe this only hap-pens in my own academic fan-tasy, but it definitely isn’tgoing to happen under thetutelage of the guy I eat mymeals with at the Ratty.

Brown would argue that wesimply do not have enough graduate students to coverevery section here. Even if this is the case, then the onusis still on the administration to fix this mistake. So whatif our graduate-to-undergraduate ratio is small com-pared to similar institutions? True, the Plan forAcademic Enrichment spells out a plan for the expan-sion of the graduate school, but this change needs tohappen now. No class should be deemed so introducto-ry that it doesn’t qualify to have an graduate TA.

Clearly I have nothing against the undergraduate TAsthemselves. It is a great experience and a wonderfulopportunity for them. Indeed, they’re acting as any log-ical member of a market system would. The ones I’vehad have been earnest and likeable, and I have enjoyedlearning from them a great deal. But if learning to teachis so important to them, then they should work for the

programs that really need them: inner-city highschools, private tutoring or any of the other outlets forteaching Brown offers. We as Brown students shouldn’tbe paying our friends, and when my parents write mytuition check, that certainly isn’t their intention.

Professors must think undergraduate TAs are a god-send. Now they can focus on those things that makethem passionate about teaching and disregard thoseboring topics that their students never seem to compre-hend. Oh god, I don’t ever have to worry about drillingthe Krebs cycle or correlational fallacy again, he says. Ican just leave it to my teaching assistant. But if a TA getsto deal with the problem, then might the professor for-get the importance of drilling it? Might he not think hewas a brilliant teacher because he never had to dealwith his failure to get the idea across? Thus, undergrad-uate TAs can conceivably decrease the quality of theteaching of professors.

A strange argument the administration makes is thatother universities are doing this too, and that this justi-fies our program. Well, as any Jewish mama would say: Idon't care if all the other kids are doing it. If the

University of Chicagojumped off the BrooklynBridge, would Brown jump,too?

Undergraduate studentsfor a sane TA policy shouldunionize. The National

Labor Relations Board might have ruled against Browngraduate students unionizing in a case this summer,but it didn’t say a thing about undergrads. We deserve asmuch compensation as graduate students for the workwe do. And when the union leaders approach theadministration for a pay raise, it would effectively endthe practice of hiring undergraduate TAs: No sane per-son would choose an undergraduate over a graduatestudent if their fees were the same. Then Brown wouldhire scabs to cross the picket lines. Wouldn’t it be greatto have a similar situation to the one our peer institu-tion in New Haven blue had last year? We’d make all thepapers, and Brown would never hire undergraduate TAsagain.

Benjamin Bright-Fishbein ’07 mastered living systems.

Undergraduate TAs need to go

Brown needs to end its

practice of undergrad TAs.

GUEST COLUMN BY BENJAMIN BRIGHT-FISHBEIN

BENJAMIN CARLSON

GUEST COLUMN BY BRIAN CORCORAN

BY CHRIS MAHRAided by three touchdown passesfrom Anthony Vita ’07, the foot-ball team earned its first IvyLeague win of the season, defeat-ing a tough Cornell Universitysquad 21-17 Saturday afternoon.

Looking every bit the seasonedveteran in his first collegiate start,quarterback Vita was 15-of-30 for219 yards and three touchdownpasses on a day when All-Ivy tail-back Nick Hartigan ’06 was heldto just 88 yards on 24 carries.Despite an inconsistent first half,Vita did his best work late, throw-ing two of his three scores in thefourth quarter.

“I never felt at any point thatAnthony wasn’t reading thingswell,” said Head Coach Phil Estes.“He had the confidence, he kepton plugging and he did a nicejob.”

Cornell grabbed the momen-tum early thanks in large part toquarterback Ryan Kuhn and adefense that prevented Brownfrom attaining any offensive con-sistency. A 40-yard Cornell fieldgoal made it 3-0 with 3:21 left inthe first quarter.

It took until late in the first halffor the Bears to get into the endzone. Starting deep in its own ter-ritory, Brown drove 88 yards innine plays, capped off by a nifty19-yard touchdown catch by tightend Matt Krevis ’07 in which hetiptoed along the sideline enroute to the end zone.

Toward the end of the first half,Brown was driving again, only tohave its momentum stunted by a

Cornell interception. Six playslater Kuhn plunged into the endzone to give the Big Red a 10-7advantage at the half.

“That’s the biggest thing weneed to do, cut down onturnovers and big plays,” Estessaid. “We need to sustain drivesand keep our defense off thefield as much as possible.”

Midway through the thirdquarter, the defense made thefirst of several big plays on theafternoon when safety RashadCollins ’06 intercepted a pass inthe end zone. But on the ensuingplay Hartigan fumbled, givingthe ball right back to Cornell. A23-yard touchdown scramble byKuhn followed to give Cornell a17-7 lead.

Despite the dishearteningturn of events, Brown rallied onits next drive. In 14 plays, theBears marched down the field ona drive that culminated in an 11-yard touchdown strike from Vitato Jarrett Schreck ’06 near thestart of the fourth quarter.

“I decided that we were goingto throw it (downfield) and makeplays, throw some screens to mixit up, and things started towork,” Estes said.

Despite the Brown score,Cornell seemed to get the edgeright back when AnthonyJackson returned the followingkickoff to the Brown 46-yardline. The Bears have had troublecovering kicks in recent games.

“The design of a kickoff is sothat you can force them to redi-rect with people coming down tomake plays,” Estes said. “Whatwe have to do is get those guysrunning once again. We can’tcontinue (to) get the momentumand score and let the big playcome back.”

Still, even with the great fieldposition, the Big Red could notscore and turned the ball over ondowns, despite picking up firstdowns on two third-and-longsituations.

With the game hanging in thebalance, Vita took control of theoffense, showing an air of confi-dence belying his inexperienceat quarterback.

“I just wanted to lead theteam down and get us goingagain,” Vita said. “I just tried tomake the plays I know I canmake, settle down and get thewin.”

After a 12-yard hookup toSchreck on third-and-seven earlyin the drive, a screen pass left toHartigan exploited a Cornell blitzfor a 20-yard gain, and Vita sur-prised the Big Red defense with a19-yard keeper to the 17-yardline. Following a sack, Vita foundEfren Blackledge ’06 in the rightcorner of the end zone for whatproved to be the game-winningtouchdown.

“(Efren) made a great play.The great thing was he beat thecorner,” Estes said.

Cornell’s last two drives wentnowhere, giving Brown theHomecoming weekend win.Vita’s play was particularlyimportant, as Brown has strug-

gled to find consistent play fromthe quarterback position thus farwith both Vita and JoeDiGiacomo ’07 seeing time.

“If I felt like we were gettinggood momentum with Anthony,then we were going to play Joe atsome point to keep his reps andkeep his head in the game, but itjust didn’t happen that way,”Estes said. “If I felt that Anthonywas really struggling, then Imight have gone back to Joe.”

The efforts of the defensewere similarly hard to overlook.As a unit, the defense recordedan impressive six sacks and onetakeaway. Six false start penal-ties by the Cornell offensive linecould also be attributed to thedefense’s dominance.

“We move and shift rightbefore the snap to get set for thecadence,” said linebacker ZackDeOssie ’07. “It’s a huge part ofour defense to catch the offenseoff guard. Our front four isabsolutely incredible getting offthe ball, and they just make iteasier for (the linebackers) to getthrough that line and get pres-sure.”

Even with the loss of JessieHawkins ’04 to graduation, thedefensive line in Brown’s 4-4alignment continues to perform,as its reputation as one of the IvyLeague’s best front fours growsby the week.

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

OCTOBER 25, 2004 · PAGE 8

BY JUSTIN GOLDMANThe women’s soccer teamnotched its second consecutivewin on Saturday night, defeatingthe Cornell University Big Red 3-0 at Stevenson Field. The winimproved the Bears to 2-3 in theIvy League, good for fifth placein the league.

Brown continued its greatplay at home, as the teamimproved to 6-1 at StevensonField. “Playing at home gives usan advantage,” said KathrynMoos ’07. “You always want toperform well in front of thehome crowd.”

The Bears opened the scoringjust 1:12 in when co-captainMeghan Schreck ’06 scored thefirst of her two goals. Schreckcapitalized off a nice throw-infrom Jill Mansfield ’07 and theinability of the Big Red to clearthe ball. Schreck controlled aricochet off Moos’ head and putthe ball into the far corner of thenet.

Getting a goal early in thegame gave the Bears a lot of con-fidence. “When we score first, weplay quite well,” said HeadCoach Phil Pincince.

By scoring first, the Bears wereable to gain momentum and dic-tate play.

The defense played extraordi-narily well, allowing few shots ongoal, and Hilary Wilson ’06 con-tinued her great play in net,notching her third shutout of theseason. “Hilary was very focusedin net,” Pincince said. “She didn’tget many shots, but she madethe saves she had to.”

Schreck was also quick to notehow well the defense played.“Our experienced outside backshave helped us a lot,” she said.“Also, our sweeper, Kim (Lavere’06), controls the backfield forus.”

The Bears added anotherscore early in the second half.Just 56 seconds in, Lavere sent along pass down the sideline toMoos, who beat a defender anddrove to the net. Moos easily putthe ball in the open net by thecharging Cornell goalkeeper forher fourth goal of the season.

The game marked the returnof Brown co-captain MichelleSriwongtong ’05 to the startinglineup. “Michelle has great visionand is able to keep the teamtogether. She is a leader and isable to read the game very well,”Pincince said.

The win gives the Bearsmomentum going into their finalthree games. “Winning these

past two games has definitelygiven us confidence for the restof the season,” Schreck said. Theexperience the Bears havegained by winning close contestslike this one will come in handy.

The Bears look to show howmuch they have grown onWednesday at 3 p.m., when theyface Providence College atStevenson Field.

Herald staff writer JustinGoldman ’07 covers women’s soc-cer. He can be reached at her-ald@browndailyherald.com.

BY BROOKE WOLFEThe men’s soccer team contin-ued to dominate CornellUniversity Saturday, taking itsfifth straight game over the BigRed with a 2-0 Homecoming win.The win improves Brown’s IvyLeague record to 2-2, while theteam’s overall record is now 6-4-2.

Andrew Daniels ’07 started thescoring with 10 minutes left inthe first half, netting his fourthgoal in the last five games.Laurent Manuel ’08 ran the balldown the sideline and crossed itto Daniels for a header. Cornellgoalkeeper Dave Mahoneycaught the ball but was takenback over the goal line with theforce of the kick, and the refereeruled it a goal. Keith Caldwell ’06also earned an assist on the goal.

Brown’s well-rounded offensekept Mahoney, a transfer fromBrown, on his toes, forcing him tocome up with six saves. Despitethe pressure on goal, Brownclung to a 1-0 lead going intohalftime.

Marcos Romaneiro ’05.5scored Brown’s second goal toseal the win with 15 minutes left.After warding off a handful ofCornell defenders, Romaneirowas able to sneak a low shot pastthe keeper. Both Kevin Davies ’08and Jamie Granger ’06 earnedassists on the goal. Romaneiroremains Brown’s leading scorerwith 12 points, 11 of which havecome in the last five games.

After the goal, the Brown

defense sat back and kept theball away from the Big Red. ButHead Coach Mike Noonan didnot like the fact that the Bears lettheir guard down a bit.

“Our strategy was to keep theball on the ground and make useof wide spaces,” Noonan said.“We accomplished that in thefirst half, but the second half isanother story.”

Brown’s defense was able tosmother the Cornell attackenough to keep goalie ChrisGomez ’05 from being too busyin net — he only faced two shotsduring the game.

Brown must now prepare fortwo games this week on Tuesdayand Saturday against BostonUniversity and the University ofPennsylvania, respectively.

“We have to work on Mondayto get ready for Boston(University),” Noonan said. “Wedidn’t have our best performancetoday, but we are happy with awin.”

Despite the team’s two Ivylosses prior to the win overCornell, the team, currently sixthin league standings, is still shoot-ing for an Ivy League title.

“We’re going to take it onegame at a time and do what ittakes to win,” said Ibrahim Diane’06. “We still believe we can (winthe Ivy League) — we just need tocome out strong again.”

Herald staff writer Brooke Wolfe’07 can be reached atherald@browndailyherald.com.

Friday, October 22

Women’s Volleyball: Brown 3, Dartmouth1

Saturday, October 23

Field Hockey: Brown 2, Cornell 1Football: Brown 21, Cornell 17Men’s Soccer: Brown 2, Cornell 0Women’s Soccer: Brown 3, Cornell 0Women’s Volleyball: Harvard 3, Brown 1

Sunday, October 24

Men’s Crew: Head of the Charles Regatta -10th place, Championship Fours; 14thplace, Championship EightsWomen’s Crew: Head of the CharlesRegatta — 10th place, ChampionshipFours; 9th place, Championship EightsMen’s Golf: Brown 615, Dartmouth 623Women’s Golf: Bucknell Invite — 4th place

Monday, October 25

Men’s Tennis: Wilson/ITA Fall RegionalChampionships, Virginia Tech Women’s Tennis: Wilson/ITA Fall RegionalChampionships, University ofPennsylvania

B R O W N S P O R T S S C O R E B O A R D

Second-half rally, strong ‘D’give football first Ivy win

Nick Neely / Herald

Zak DeOssie ’07 led the Browndefense with 12 tackles (10 solo),in a strong performance againstCornell this Saturday.

Juliana Wu / Herald

Meghan Schreck ’06 scored twogoals in Brown’s 3-0 victory overCornell on Saturday night.

M. soccer rights ship,evens Ivy record withshutout win over Cornell

see FOOTBALL, page 4

W. soccer rides smotheringdefense to 3-0 Ivy victory