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BY MOMOKO HIROSEVowing to always live on the first floor, Adam Edwards’04 returned to Brown healthy and ready for class thissemester marking his full recovery from a three-storyfall last semester that left him in a coma.

Edwards fell out of his Olney House window on themorning of Sept. 14. Edwards said the Department ofPublic Safety concluded sleepwalking was probably themain cause of the fall.

Edwards said he does not recall any events of thenight after going to bed. He said he sleepwalks abouttwo or three nights a year, but that it has not been ahuge problem for him.

Edwards had serious injuries from the incident andbriefly slipped into a coma. He underwent surgery andtherapy once a week for his wrist, and also wore a back

Fall victim recoversfrom coma, moves tofirst floor room

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COMPUTER CLUSTERS SOON TO BE OBSOLETE? CIS plans to expand wireless networking to Faunce , the Rock, the SciLi,the Sheridan Center and possibly the Main Green. Here, Stephan Golas '00 works at a computer cluster in the CIT.

Amid security concerns,CIS rolls out plan forcampus-wide wireless network coverageBY AKSHAY KRISHNANBy the end of the semester, students may be able to surfthe Internet while sitting on the Main Green or studyingin the Rock. It’s all part of Computing and InformationServices’ plan to eventually convert the entire campus toa wireless network.

Faunce House, the Rock, the SciLi, the Sheridan Centerand possibly the Main Green will go wireless as early asthe end of April said Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice presidentfor CIS.

This spring’s upgrade is only a trial run for the entirecampus, which will eventually be under a wireless“cloud,” Waite-Franzen said. Students who own laptopsand notebook computers with wireless cards will be ableto access the Internet from these locations. Prices forwireless adapters start around $50.

“When we set up a wireless network, there could beseveral problems and troubleshooting becomes harder,”said Richard Boes, director of network technology for CIS.

The wireless setup will require additional security pre-cautions by CIS, Boes said.

“With the wireless networking comes greater risks of

breaches into the University’s network and a greaterchance of cyber crime, so we will constantly monitor andimprove the system even after its introduction,” he said.

Boes said he expected more students to have wireless-enabled computers in the fall, when CIS plans to furtherexpand coverage.

CIS is still choosing between vendors Cisco Systemsand Proxim to implement the network, Boes said.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CarnegieMellon University both have completely wireless campus-es, Waite-Franzen said.

“Right now at Brown, there isn’t a good enough reasonfor a student to have a laptop,” Waite-Franzen said, citinga lack of places to connect a computer to the Internet. “Bybringing wireless to the University it could really changethings.”

“Students could get together to work on a project at ...the Blue Room, and they will be able to get online andsearch for information,” Waite-Franzen said.

Waite-Franzen spoke to the Undergraduate Council of

see EDWARDS, page 4

BY JULIA ZUCKERMANBrown graduate Sasha Polakow-Suransky ’01 was nameda Rhodes Scholar for 2003, and plans to use the scholar-ship, which brings students from around the world to theUniversity of Oxford, to pursue a doctorate in SouthAfrican history.

Polakow-Suransky graduated magna cum laude with adouble concentration in urban studies and history. AtBrown, he won a Truman Scholarship and the UrbanStudies Department Best Thesis prize, worked for DirectAction for Rights and Equality and was a managing editorof the College Hill Independent.

Professor of Political Science James Morone, his advi-sor, said Polakow-Suransky was “not just a terrific student,but really a terrific all-around person.” He called Polakow-Suransky “a combination of a scholar and a reformer.”

As a first-year in Morone’s City Politics class, which reg-ularly enrolls around 400 students, Polakow-Suranskystood out, Morone said.

Morone praised Polakow-Suransky’s thesis, whichdealt with the incarceration of children in urban America.

Polakow-Suransky bal-anced astute intellectualanalysis with a genuinepassion and concern forhis subjects, Morone said.

While working on histhesis, Polakow-Suranskywas “pure kinetic energy”— so full of thoughts andideas that Morone often“felt like he didn’t needme,” he said.

Polakow-Suransky wasa writing fellow at theAmerican Prospect, apolitical magazine to which Morone contributes.

“He became a colleague very rapidly,” Morone said.“We were tapping each other for ideas quite regularly.”

Polakow-Suransky’s interest in South Africa started

Photo courtesy Harry S. Truman

Scholarship Foundation

Sasha Polakow-Suransky ’01

see RHODES, page 8

Recent grad named Rhodes Scholar

see WIRELESS, page 9

Zucconi ’55,“Mr. Brown”succumbs tocancer The man known to many as “Mr. Brown,” David Zucconi’55, died Wednesday night at Miriam Hospital inProvidence, according to sources close to him. Zucconi,the former executive director of the Brown UniversitySports Foundation, was already battling colon cancerwhen he was diagnosed with cancer of the liver last May.

In the later stages of Zucconi’s illness, when the hospi-tal restricted visits to immediate family only, the Zucconifamily declared Brown as his immediate family andallowed anyone to visit, said Bob Rothenberg ’65, formerUniversity Director of Track and Field and Cross-Country.

And dozens of people came, he said — “alums, stu-dents, friends.”

“I can’t think of anyone who touched more lives atBrown,” Rothenberg said. “He was a friend to so manypeople.”

Zucconi filled a variety of positions in his years atBrown, which spanned over half a century. As an under-graduate, Zucconi played on three varsity teams — foot-ball, basketball and track.

After a few years away from College Hill, during whichhe flew in the Air Force and played six seasons for theProvidence Steamrollers, a minor league football team,Zucconi returned to Brown in 1960. He went on to workin the offices of admission and alumni relations, andhelped build the Brown Sports Foundation.

In October 2002, Zucconi was honored at a Universitybenefit party for his fundraising, which helped securemillions of dollars for Brown.

“It’s fair to say he was Brown’s number one sports fan,”Rothenberg said of Zucconi, who was elected to Brown’sAthletic Hall of Fame.

He also founded the National Alumni Schools Program,now the Brown Alumni Schools Committee, whicharranges interviews for prospective students with alumni.

“If there was a problem, he was the guy to call. He wasthe guy who ran the show. He took care of students,” saidMichael Matthews ’05, a friend of Zucconi’s. “He was oneof the few people I met whose wit and energy wasmatched by his big heart.”

Rothenberg said plans are on the way for a memorialservice and a Mass, but the details are still being workedout.

— Herald staff reports

University ofMichigan’s affirmativeaction case sparksnational debte page 3

Former Co-Director ofHealth Services Dr.Marlene Eckerle diesover breakpage 3

Early decision accept-ance rate stays thesame, tying Brownwith Columbiapage 11

Jaideep Singh ‘03 saysrepublicans abusepublic focus on foreign policy column, page 11

Men’s icers pick uptheir fourth win in arow as part of a theirlongest winning streaksports, page 12

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PHILADELPHIA (U-WIRE) — The University ofPennsylvania filed an appeal of the National LaborRelations Board’s November ruling to allow gradu-ate students in the proposed bargaining unit to holdunion elections. The elections will be held nextmonth, but the results will not be revealed until theNLRB has ruled on the administration’s appeal.

In Penn’s continuing effort to encourage the grad-uate student population to “think about it,” aninformational pamphlet appeared in many gradu-ate students’ mailboxes on Monday. A letter, “GradStudent Union Won’t Serve the Academic Mission,”written by Provost Robert Barchi and UniversityPresident Judith Rodin, was also released via thePenn’s Web-based Almanac on Tuesday.

A compilation of practical reasons for a graduatestudent to oppose unionization, the pamphlet citesstatistics from The Chronicle of Higher Educationthat show nonunion graduate student stipends tobe higher across the disciplines than those of theirunion counterparts. The pamphlet also noted that,should graduate students unionize, they will “onlyreceive union-negotiated benefits during thesemesters when they actually serve as TAs or RAs,”creating an organizational nightmare as their statusand benefits shift from semester to semester.

But the message from the president and provostmade its case on more philosophical grounds.

“Strip away the legal arguments and politicalrhetoric and the unionization question really boilsdown to this: applying for a doctoral or master’sdegree program simply isn’t the same as applying

U. Penn increasesanti-union effort

see U.PENN, page 7

BY JULIA ZUCKERMANThe Supreme Court will hear arguments April 1 in twocases that pose the greatest challenge to affirmativeaction since its inception in the 1970s. The justices areexpected to rule by early summer on the constitutional-ity of the University of Michigan’s affirmative actionpolicies in admission to its undergraduate college andlaw school.

In the cases Gratz and Hamacher v. Bollinger andGrutter v. Bollinger the plaintiffs are white students whowere denied admission to the law school and under-graduate program. Lee Bollinger, the president ofColumbia University, was president of Michigan whenthe lawsuits were first filed. The plaintiffs claim thatMichigan treated them unfairly because its affirmativeaction policy resulted in their being rejected while blackand Latino applicants with similar or weaker academicrecords were admitted.

Director of College Admission Michael Goldbergerconfirmed Brown’s continued support of affirmativeaction.

“Brown has always supported affirmative action. Webelieve in it, we practice it. We’re supportive of theUniversity of Michigan,” he said.

“Educationally, socially, it is so important to learnfrom people who are different from you,” Goldbergersaid. “Race is a very important part of that.”

Michigan determines admission using a numericalsystem that awards points to applicants based on fac-tors including their grade point average, standardizedtest scores, legacy status — and race.

Brown does not use a points system in makingadmission decisions. Goldberger said the difference isdue to the size of the universities and of their applicantpools.

In a Dec. 15 opinions piece in the Washington Post,Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman defended theschool’s practice. “Now is not the time to turn back theclock on decades of progress in higher education. Thereis no effective substitute for the consideration of race asone of many factors in our admissions process,” shewrote.

The Supreme Court previously decided on the issueof affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke case. The courtruled that universities could not use numerical quotasto achieve racial diversity, but endorsed the use of raceas one among many factors in the admission process.

“A ruling overturning Bakke could result in the imme-diate re-segregation of our nation’s top universities,both public and private,” Coleman wrote.

President Bush criticized Michigan’s policies in a tel-evised address last week. “I strongly support diversity ofall kinds, including racial diversity in higher education,”he said. “But the method used by the University ofMichigan to achieve this important goal is fundamen-tally flawed. At their core, the Michigan policies amountto a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizesprospective students based solely on their race.”

The Bush administration filed amicus curiae briefs to

see AFFIRMATIVE, page 6

Supreme Court to hear argumentson affirmative action this springBrown Director of College AdmissionMichael Goldberger confirms theUniversity’s continued support of affirmative action

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brace for eight weeks.“The past few weeks have

been pretty tumultuous,”Edwards said.

“I spent most of vacationresting up and recuperating andfinishing up my doctor’sappointments.”

Edwards added that he hadsevere brain injury that mayhave affected his memory andcognition.

“I haven’t seen how it’s affect-ed me yet,” Edwards said. “But Ithink once classes start, and Ineed to do work and study fortests and all that, I’ll know theeffects it’s had on me,” Edwardssaid.

Edwards plans to remain in asingle, but has moved from the

third floor to the first floor.“I’m going to live on the first

floor for the rest of my life toavoid it happening again,”Edwards said. Edwards said thatone of the main reasons whythere was so much damage wasbecause he landed on Olney’scement patio.

“I know that a student in

AEPi fell from the same height,but he fell into a bush andtherefore didn’t have the sameinjuries that I did,” Edwardssaid.

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

continued from page 1

Edwards Edwards added that he had severe brain

injury that may have affected his memory

and cognition.“I haven’t seen how it’s affect-

ed me yet,” Edwards said.“But I think once

classes start, and I need to do work and

study for tests and all that, I’ll know the

effects it’s had on me,” Edwards said.

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BY ELLEN WERNECKEWhen she was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumorin July 2000, Dr. Marlene Eckerle, former co-director ofHealth Services, reacted in a way some would call extraor-dinary.

“She faced it directly and asked about the odds. Theanswer was 5 percent of patients with this diagnosis live ayear,” said Robin Rose, former Dean of Student Life and aclose friend of Eckerle’s.

“Fifteen minutes later, her response was, ‘Well, some-body has to be part of that 5 percent — why shouldn’t it beme?’”

Eckerle, who died Jan. 15 at her home in Barrington,R.I., at the age of 51, had a way of being optimistic in theface of adverse situations, Rose said.

After the initial diagnosis, Eckerle was in treatment forglioblastoma until last December. During that time, shemaintained her ties to the University — even guest lectur-ing on patient-doctor relations for the Medical School.

Eckerle continued to snorkel and hike, despite multiple

craniotomies that robbed her of her balance and herphysical strength, Rose said. Rose described Eckerle as a“gifted physician” and “avid outdoors person.”

“The fact that she lived two and a half years (after thediagnosis) was nothing short of miraculous,” Rose said.

Dr. Belinda Johnson, director of Psychological Services,said Eckerle had a “wonderful manner that put studentsat ease.”

“She was generous with everyone she interacted with,”Johnson said.

Eckerle’s triumph over her initial diagnosis had muchto do with her “positive view of life,” Johnson said.

“It wasn’t denial,” she said. “She knew it was a bad diag-nosis. But she always tried to find the positive thing in anysituation or any person.” It was this characteristic thatcaused “large numbers of people” to offer their support inthe wake of the diagnosis, she said.

“She inspired us again and again,” Rose said in hereulogy Thursday at the Barrington CongregationalChurch, “by planting a perennial garden and trusting thatshe would have time to enjoy it, by learning to ride a bikeagain.”

“When she planned this service, she told us that shewanted it to be a celebration of life,” Rose said. “I am surethat she is here now. She never did want to miss a party.”

Born in Indiana and educated at Thomas More College,the University of Kentucky and Harvard University,Eckerle came to Brown in 1982 as a Health Services staffmember and became co-director of Health Services in1990 while also serving as the supervising physician in theAdolescent Clinic at Rhode Island Hospital.

Eckerle was also an assistant professor of pediatrics atthe Brown Medical School and was a PLME fellow from1990 to 1994.

Herald staff writer Ellen Wernecke ’06 can be reached [email protected].

Former Co-Director of HealthServices Dr. Marlene Eckerle diesafter two-year struggle with tumor BY SAMANTHA PLESSER

Brown’s new need-blindadmission policy did not dras-tically alter the number ofapplicants accepted earlydecision or the makeup of theclass of 2007 so far, saidDirector of College AdmissionMichael Goldberger.

Early decision applicantswho applied this fall were the first to be consideredunder a completely need-blind policy.

The number of early applicants decreased slightlythis year, from 1,920 for the class of 2006 to 1,871 for2007, he said.

Twenty-six percent of students who applied early thisyear were accepted — the same percentage that wasaccepted last year.

This percentage tied Brown with ColumbiaUniversity for the third lowest acceptance rate in the IvyLeague of the seven schools that reported this informa-tion.

Goldberger said the only notable shift this year wasthe slight increase in the number of minorities whoapplied and the percentage that were accepted.

But he said he would not disclose the specific ethnicand racial breakdown of the early admission poolbefore all members of the class of 2007 have beenaccepted.

Goldberger attributed the increase in minority appli-cants to President Simmons’ new academic enrichmentinitiatives and the University’s improved commitmentto financial aid.

Admission officers were also pleased with the newinitiatives, especially the need-blind policy, he said.Officers always felt some guilt in the past about havingto turn people away for financial reasons, he added.

The need-blind policy has only helped strengthenthe class, which is “a great group,” Goldberger said.“The ones that we admitted were exceptional.”

Early decision applicantsremain constant despiteneed-blind admission

Acceptance rates for early decision apps.

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A female student was robbed Tuesday by four menjust after 9 p.m. near the intersection of Thayer andPower streets. One of the men with his face con-cealed demanded money while another placed anunknown object at her neck. The student was notinjured but had cash and a cell phone stolen. TheDepartment of Public Safety recommended stu-dents use the shuttle and escort services which willrun temporary service until Feb. 4 from 5 p.m. to 1a.m. Normal hours from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. will resumeFeb. 5.

— Herald staff reports

Student robbed

both cases asking the court todeclare Michigan’s practicesunconstitutional but did notask the court to overturn theBakke decision.

Secretary of State ColinPowell dissented, expressingsupport for affirmative actionin a Sunday appearance onCBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Officials at Harvard andPrinceton plan to file amicuscuriae briefs with the SupremeCourt in support of Michigan.Dartmouth is also consideringfiling a brief, The Dartmouthreported.

Associate Professor ofAfricana Studies JamesCampbell said the volume ofapplications to Michiganmakes the points system neces-sary. “Inevitably, they’re goingto resort to formulae,” he said.

The point system only repre-sents the standardization of thesame principles smaller univer-sities use to guide their admis-sion decisions, but “it’s the for-mulae that makes it more con-spicuous and easier to attack,”

he said.Campbell predicted that the

Supreme Court will rule againstMichigan. “This may be thedeath of affirmative action,” hesaid.

He categorized the SupremeCourt case as one step in amovement to the right in U.S.politics that began in 1980.Affirmative action “was notparticularly controversial”when it was first introduced,

but has become increasinglycontroversial since 1980, hesaid.

Campbell said he rejectedthe argument that affirmativeaction gives undue considera-tion to race.

He said criticism of affirma-tive action fails to take intoaccount evidence of continuingracism in the United States. “Ifyou not only look historically,but look at the continuingreproduction of racial inequali-ty today, you can make a pow-erful case for the value of affir-mative action,” he said.

“By any measure, the prefer-ences given in college admis-sions to children of alumni, toathletes and to the scions ofwealthy families are vastlygreater than the preferencesgiven to African Americans,”but those preferences receivemuch less attention than thosebased on race, he said.

Julia Zuckerman ’05 edits theCampus Watch section. She canbe reached at [email protected].

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Affirmative Associate Professor of Africana Studies

James Campbell said the volume of applica-

tions to Michigan makes the points system

necessary.“Inevitably, they’re going to resort

to formulae,” he said. The point system only

represents the standardization of the same

principles smaller universities use to guide

their admission decisions, but “it’s the formu-

lae that makes it more conspicuous and easi-

er to attack,” he said.

for a job,” Rodin and Barchi’s let-ter said. “Graduate studentscome to Penn not to serve asemployees but to become schol-ars in training under a world-class faculty.”

Deputy Provost Peter Connagreed that, far from approach-ing Penn as an employer, “gradu-ate students apply to Penn foracademic reasons — they areevaluated for admission on aca-demic bases and they receiveyears of academic training.”

“We don’t build cars or pro-duce fertilizer, though we mayproduce the research that leadsto more fuel-efficient cars ormore ecologically sensitive fertil-izers,” he said. “We don’t generateprofits or returns to shareholders.… The returns we seek are in abetter-educated, healthier socie-ty.”

Many base their pro-unioniza-tion stance on the suppositionthat, as a “corporate university,”Penn should be treated as a regu-lar corporation and should inturn treat those on its payroll asregular employees.

“They’re concerned about thebottom line,” GraduateEmployees Together-Universityof Pennsylvania co-chairwomanElizabeth Williamson said.

Philadelphia City Controller

Jonathan Saidel, an outspokensupporter of GET-UP’s efforts,suggested that not recognizingthe University as a regular corpo-rate entity with regular corporateresponsibilities is to ignore themodern character of theUniversity.

“The Penn that was originallyenvisioned by Benjamin Franklinwas just a place of learning in aloosely-knit organization,” hesaid. “Today it has ... moreemployees, I believe, than thecity of Philadelphia.”

“The critical point for studentsand faculty alike ... is that highereducation is not an assemblyline,” Conn said, referencingProfessor Emeritus RobertRutman’s letter to the Almanacthat ran alongside the statementfrom Rodin and Barchi. “Eachprogram and each student is dif-

ferent, especially in graduateeducation.

“I think that Professor Rutmanhas put it well in raising ques-tions about whether the formal-ized policies and procedures ofan outside union should beimposed on the flexible andlargely faculty-driven endeavorof graduate scholarship.”

Brown has also appealed aregional NLRB director’s rulingallowing graduate students tohold union elections.

“Brown submits that theBoard’s analysis ... fails to takeinto account the realities of thehigher education environment ...jeopardizing the essential ele-ments of academic freedom andinstitutional independence,which lie at the heart of Americanhigher education,” the appealsaid.

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U. Penn Many base their pro-unionization stance on

the supposition that, as a “corporate univer-

sity,” Penn should be treated as a regular

corporation and should in turn treat those

on its payroll as regular employees.

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early. His parents were anti-apartheid activists who left SouthAfrica before he was born, theBrown News Service reported. Hespent time in South Africa duringhis youth as apartheid was end-

ing and democracy beginning.The Rhodes Scholarship was

established in 1902 through thewill of Cecil Rhodes, the Britishfinancier and statesman whohelped extend the BritishEmpire’s control in South Africa.

Polakow-Suransky told theBrown News Service he plans topursue a career in international

journalism.“He’s going to be a public intel-

lectual for his generation,” saidMorone, predicting that “we’ll getto see and hear from him a lot.”

Herald staff writer JuliaZuckerman ’05 can be reached [email protected].


Rhodes

to note that my WashingtonRedskins were in Super Bowls in1973, 1983 and 1993—but alas, allstreaks must come to an end.

On the other hand, name thelast team to win with a marginaloffense. That one’s a bit easier: the2000 Baltimore Ravens, who didn’tscore an offensive touchdown inthe month of October. The Giantsof the late ’80s and early ’90s did-n’t exactly have offensive firepow-er and yet won two Super Bowls.

Talented offenses also get dis-couraged very quickly when theydon’t score, much like most BrownUniversity males. Last season, the

Rams were stymied by the Patriotsin the first quarter and it took untilthe fourth quarter for their offenseto finally get back into the game.Offenses don’t take punches well,whereas defenses, who are gener-ally more consistent, can give up atouchdown and then come backand play a great game. Just look atthe NFC championship game. TheEagles scored in two plays after along kick return. The Bucsresponded by not giving upanother touchdown the rest of thegame. That’s why I’m picking the

Bucs to win outright. So take thefour points, because taking theunderdog is always a good move,and bet your tuition on TampaBay, because the Bucs defense willslow down the Raiders enough towin the game. Final score will be24-17, Bucs. Now that I’ve guaran-teed a victory, I’m going to thesidelines to put on my man fur anddo some Flex-All 454 commercials.

Jeff Saltman ’03 hails from outsideof Washington, D.C. He is a historyand economics concentrator.


Saltman Talented offenses also get discouraged very

quickly when they don’t score, much like

most Brown University males.


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Students last fall about the wire-less network and the idea waswell received by UCS, she said.

Emre Demirel ’05 said he isexcited about the possibility ofusing his computer across cam-pus.

“When I heard about the wire-

less network at Carnegie Mellonthree years ago, I was hopingBrown would follow. I didn’t thinkI would see it in my time atBrown, but I’m really glad.”

“Cables and wires severelyhandicap technology,” Demirelsaid.

Jonathan Hollinger ’04.5, how-ever, said the University is waybehind other schools technologi-cally.

“Currently there are not many

public Internet terminals aroundcampus. There is no online regis-tration system, et cetera,” he said.

“I take a laptop to class and Ithink with wireless networkingthere will be more and more peo-ple who do so. Internet accessacross campus will be more thangreat,” Hollinger said.

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


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Last night, Brown lost a man whose all-encompassing zealfor Brown, and especially Brown Athletics, earned him theenduring title “Mr. Brown” even when his passion to improveBrown’s athletics led to some missteps.

David Zucconi ’55, with his whirlwind energy and devotionto Brown’s sports teams, merely had to make an appearanceat a football game to dispel alumni fears that school spiritwas a relic of the past.

From his varsity days at Brown — on three teams, notcounting the Brown Rugby Club, which he founded — to his40-plus years of service to the University, Zucconi embodiedall that was Brunonia, on the field and off.

Through his years in admission, development, and, after1985, as executive director of the Brown Sports Foundation,Zucconi was the University’s ultimate ambassador and num-ber one sports fan.

To meet him, friends say, was to understand what Brownsports contributed to campus. And under his fundraisingleadership, Brown Athletics prospered.

But his drive to win nearly cost him everything. Zucconi’sinvolvement in the Sports Foundation took Brown Athletics’image to new heights, but his trangressions nearly broughtall he had worked for down in an instant. Recruiting viola-tions by the Sports Foundation led to Ivy League sanctionsthat punished Zucconi perhaps doubly harshly — Brownfootball lost its chance to defend its 1999 league champi-onship and Zucconi missed out on his opportunity to helpthem do it.

Humbled in responsibilities but not in spirit, Zucconi con-tinued to offer his support from the sidelines and, throughthe Development Office, threw his tremendous energy intofundraising for the University.

Zucconi’s intentions were pure even if his methods werenot. History will forget the lost 2000 season and the sur-rounding scandal. But Mr. Brown will live on in every Brownathlete’s triumph and in the minds of the thousands of peo-ple he has touched.

Mr. Brown

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Grade inflationrampant at Brown

To the Editor:

As a member of the College Curriculum Council,I am deeply troubled by one issue that has becomeprominent over the past several months. New datafrom the Office of Institutional Research, com-bined with the Grade Inflation Report released byPacifica House last November and continuing workby the Sheridan Center, shows a startling trend atBrown: grade inflation has reached staggering pro-portions and shows no sign of stopping.

Grade inflation exists at all Ivies. However,according to data that is freely accessible from theOffice of Institutional Research’s 2002-2003 AnnualReport (http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Institutional_Research/annrep/index.htm),Brown’s inflation is especially severe. For instance,our average undergraduate grade poinnt average(3.54) and the percentage of total letter grades —that is, ABC/NC marks — assigned in the A‚ range(58.1%) are astronomical. Even at Harvard, thenational grade inflation pariah, these figures rest at3.46 and 51%, respectively. Furthermore, in Brownhumanities, the average GPA is 3.64, a ridiculousfigure that makes the assignment of grades in someof these classes meaningless.

Grade inflation is defined as an increase ofgrades over time without a corresponding rise ofacademic achievement. From 1991-1992 to 2001-2002, average GPA and the number of A’s‚ gradesassigned have shown substantial increases at theundergraduate level (GPA jumped from 3.39 to3.54, for instance). In order for these figures to notbe a cause of concern, there must also have beensubstantial increases in student talent and per-formance over the same period of time. But thishas not been the case. There are no benchmarksthat prove that in a single decade, Brown studentsbecame so diligent and gifted that almost three outof every five grades by the end of that period wereinevitably A’s. Our admittance rate is a stable 16 to17 percent, and entering freshmen have not shown

higher test scores, high school grades or other indi-cators that suggest that the Brown student popula-tion has grown significantly more talented or hard-er-working.

The basic conclusion is that many students arereceiving widespread A’s not because they maynecessarily perform at an A level, but ratherbecause of the insidious pressure upon faculty toaward high grades regardless of performance. As aresult, grade inflation distorts assessments of stu-dent achievement while robbing instructors of afair mechanism to evaluate their pupils; it alsosinks the institutional reputation of Brown evenlower, even as we are ridiculed now for being theeasy Ivy, as Sanders Kleinfeld made clear in his col-umn (“Is a ‘plus’ and ‘minus’ grading system bene-ficial?” 1/22). Even more troubling is the manner inwhich grade inflation is treated in public discourse.Many students justify current grading practices byinvoking the New Curriculum — for instance, plus-es and minuses should not be added to transcriptsbecause the New Curriculum forbids it; additional-ly, grade inflation is not an important issuebecause the New Curriculum de-emphasizesgrades. However, ensconcing this defense in thelanguage of the New Curriculum betrays the edu-cational progressiveness that gave rise to curricu-lar reform in the first place. The New Curriculum isan ideal, not an idol, and the enduring capacity forcritical reflection should not be sacrificed on itsaltar.

I encourage the Faculty Executive Committee,Academic Priorities Committee and other govern-ing bodies to examine grade inflation in moredepth. I also invite President Simmons and boththe Graduate and Undergraduate Council ofStudents to consider the issue. The lackadaisicalattitude exhibited towards our grading system isintellectually repugnant and educationally prob-lematic. Grade inflation is expanding, and, if thisinstitution lacks the courage to combat it, then itdeserves to see its national ranking plummet.

Sean L. Yom ‘03Jan. 23

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THE MOST RECENT DEBACLE INVOLV-ING a Southern conservative embarrass-ing both himself and the U.S. Congress heserves illuminated a few points worthnoticing about the approaching social andcultural environment of the United States.

The details are familiar enough by now,but to recap: At a 100th birth-day party for the barely func-tional and generally repug-nant former Sen. StromThurmond, Sen. Trent Lott,then purported successor tothe Senate majority leader-ship, reminisced proudlyabout his state’s backing ofThurmond’s segregationistDixiecrats against HarryTruman in 1948. Lott stated,“If the rest of the country hadfollowed our lead, we wouldn’thave had all these problemsover all these years, either.”

Which “problems,” exactly? Lott spokes-people declined to comment, and, in hiscraven, month-long retreat that followed, henever clarified whether he meant the usualbogeymen lurking under the rhetoric of theReaganites — crack mothers on welfare,carjackers, Black Panthers, etc. — orwhether he was actually brazen enough todefine the sharing of water fountains andswimming pools by blacks and whites associal problems, at least earning him pointsfor sheer idiot audacity. Instead, he apolo-gized in a vein of slithery mendicancy thatwould make his former bete noir BillClinton proud. He even went so far as to

suddenly support affirmative action, whichI suppose is one modern developmentwhose “problem” status we no longer needworry about.

What ensued was alternately hearteningand depressing. The near-immediate out-pouring of scorn from conservative quar-

ters — William Kristol, TheNational Review, AndrewSullivan and others — mixedpolitical pragmatism with agenuine outrage that suchopen and overt racism could bethe chief legislative face of theirparty. They made clear in nouncertain terms that one waseither with them or with theevildoers. This reaction waswelcome, and does whoeverhappens to be with themproud. The same cannot quitebe said for either the WhiteHouse or the white Democratic

establishment. I am opposed to much ofwhat comes out of the Bush administra-tion, but I don’t count either racial intoler-ance or race-baiting as particular faults oftheirs. All indications from inside were thatthe Lott crisis was seen more as a politicalproblem than a moral or philosophical one— too bad, but understandable. At leastthey weren’t acting like Tom Daschle, whoevidently didn’t even see Lott’s disgustingabdication of every decent American valueas a political opportunity, let alone a moralimperative.

So, an ambivalent scorecard, whose elec-toral import will depend mostly on whathappens to Iraq and the economy andwhen. But there is a larger issue at workhere, one avoided even by many of Lott’sstaunchest detractors, and it is arguably of agreater gravity than even nostalgia for Jim

Crow, nauseating as that is. Lott’s apologyfor Thurmond and the Dixiecrats pointsback to a barely concealed regard for Dixieitself — that is, Jefferson Davis’ Confederacy— that calls into question not only whatAmerica’s values should be, but, indeed, theexistence of America itself.

In the past year or so, Attorney GeneralJohn Ashcroft has made himself a ratherobvious punching bag for leftists and civillibertarians by clumsily suggesting, more orless, that the Sept. 11 attacks necessitatedsetting up a Brezhnev-lite security state,with spying mailmen, electronic eyes andthe like. This is ironic, as when his name firstpoisoned the inchoate Bush administration,Ashcroft was a beast of quite the oppositevariety. Nearly two years ago I wrote a col-umn charging that he had not answered(actually, had not even been asked) crucialquestions about his relationship with theCouncil of Conservative Citizens (CCC).This white supremacist group may havelobbied Ashcroft for the release of aMissouri dentist convicted of conspiring tomurder the FBI agents investigating him,just days before Ashcroft’s imminentappointment.

CCC connections to impeachment cru-saders Bob Barr and Tom DeLay had sur-faced briefly in 1998 and now, lo and behold,we hear that Lott not only spoke beforethem, he apparently considered them co-religionists: “The people in this room standfor the right principles and the right philoso-phy,” he told a congregation in 1992, one ofthose “right principles” being ending thelooming impurity of American blood due tomiscegenation. And again, as with theSouthern Partisan magazine, we get the sicknostalgia for the Confederacy, involving nota mere ignorant waving of the flag but anoutright endorsement of Jefferson Davis as

the right kind of politician.That there is a certain romance sur-

rounding the rag-tag Confederate soldierswho outwitted a much larger and betterequipped northern army for longer thananyone should have expected is uncom-fortable, but not entirely beyond the pale.War makes for strange emotions, and I rec-ognize, for example, that the Soviet troopswho stood firm at (then) Stalingrad andLeningrad can be heroes, even if they alsomay have helped implement Stalin’s deathmachine before and after. But romance forthe Confederacy itself is romance for sedi-tion, treason and evil chattel slavery, and noone should let southerners of any politicalpersuasion forget that. Most of all, the factthat some of those who rattled their sabersabout proper displays of patriotism sinceSept. 11 were the same who excused thegrotesque spectacle of blacks having towatch the ol’ stars and bars fly above theirstatehouses is not just nonsensical, it’sinsulting.

The Republicans have more to worryabout than one bad apple. Their greatestpresident freed the slaves and held theUnion together so that it could one dayredress past wrongs and installing a trueregime of human freedom; now there arethose among them who seem to think thatthis, and not only the Dixiecrat loss in1948, was a mistake. The phrase “anti-Americanism” gets bandied about a lotthese days. Well, the rebels who fired onFort Sumter and pressed intoPennsylvania were its very essence, andevery decent and patriotic Americanshould spit upon their hateful and trea-sonous memory. And if this is not said bythe entire political culture, irrespective ofparty, then Trent Lott will not be the onlyone who has much to atone for.

Americans have other things to worry about

THE WAR ON IRAQ IS AN IMPORTANTmatter deserving of the media coverage itreceives. But because it, along with NorthKorea, is a constant in our news cycle,TV-watching Americans are missing themagnitude of some of the Bush adminis-tration’s other decisions.There’s reason to believe thisis by design: the computerdisk that White House opera-tive Karl Rove dropped in apark revealed that Republicancandidates in last November’selections were told to keepthe focus on Iraq and foreignpolicy. The strategy works at atime when Americans areconcerned about nationalsecurity. But here are a fewother things to worry about:

Big BrotherThe administration has set up the TotalInformation Awareness Office in thePentagon. Its job is to look through largedatabases of government records, financialaccounts, travel documents, medical filesand telephone and e-mail records to lookfor suspicious patterns. That means thePentagon can snoop through your creditcard statements and see whom you’vebeen e-mailing. And if that weren’t enoughto get the country riled up (it hasn’t been),President Bush appointed John Poindexter

to be the head of the project (which didn’tspark much protest either.) This is thesame Poindexter who was convicted ofconspiracy, lying to Congress, defraudingthe government and destroying evidencein the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s.

Poindexter’s appointment,which qualifies as a sick joke, isactually a trend: There are twoother Iran-Contra alumni inthe Bush administration.Elliott Abrams, who pleadedguilty to withholding informa-tion from Congress in 1987, issenior director for Near Eastand North African affairs —including the Middle East — atthe White House. Otto Reich,Special Envoy to the WesternHemisphere in the StateDepartment, was responsiblefor an illegal pro-Contra prop-

aganda campaign in Nicaragua. (Well, atleast they didn’t lie about sex.)

TortureCIA agents have been conducting unsa-vory interrogations of prisoners inAfghanistan. According to the WashingtonPost, prisoners who don’t cooperate are“sometimes kept standing or kneeling forhours, in black hoods or spray-paintedgoggles. ... At times they are held in awk-ward, painful positions and deprived ofsleep with a 24-hour bombardment oflights.” Even more troubling are reportsthat the CIA is handing over prisoners toother countries with a list of questions

they’d like answered. These countries,which include Turkey, Morocco andJordan, have fewer qualms about torturingtheir prisoners and State Departmentreports criticize them for it.

RaceNot long after Trent Lott had to step downas Senate majority leader for expressinghis nostalgia for segregation, PresidentBush re-nominated Lott’s friend Rep.Charles Pickering for a federal appellatecourt. Pickering’s nomination was defeat-ed last year after Democrats raised ques-tions about his civil rights record. He has ahistory of opposing interracial marriageand sought to reduce the sentence of asoutherner convicted of cross burning onthe property of an interracial couple. OnMartin Luther King Jr. Day, the presidentsaid, “there is still work to do” on race inAmerica. Is having Mr. Pickering in anappeals court part of this work?

Oil CompaniesAlas, I can’t resist throwing in some-thing about Iraq. MSNBC revealed last

week that big oil companies are alreadyin discussions with the Bush adminis-tration about contracts in a post-Saddam Iraq. This is truly outrageousfor an administration that pays so muchlip service to our purported aims ofenhancing security and furtheringhuman rights in the Middle East. Itlends credence to the idea that we’refighting this war for the wrong reasons,and confirms many of our suspicions.As if unilaterally invading a sovereigncountry without provocation isn’t adangerous enough precedent, we’re offto install a regime that will helpAmerican companies snatch up all theoil contracts before the French, Russianand Chinese companies do.

Like most other liberals, I’m appalledat Bush’s “economic stimulus plan,” hisanti-environment policies, his failure toprosecute corporate criminals and hisanti-affirmative action stance, amongother things. But for Bush, no worriesright now. Fifty-eight percent ofAmerica approves.

Jai Singh ’03 is concentrating inInternational Relations and Economics.

JAI SINGHTHE DEEP END

Our focus on foreign policy plays into the hands of Republicans

As if unilaterally invading a sovereign country without

provocation isn’t a dangerous enough precedent, we’re

off to install a regime that will help American companies

snatch up all the oil contracts before the French, Russian

and Chinese companies do.

Senator Lott’s recent resignation offers an opportunity for politicians to unite against our history of racism

ALEX SCHULMANBORN TO RUN

Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Lott?

Alex Schulman '03 led his fearsome cav-alry through Georgia last summer duringa bloodcurdling Civil War reenactment.

BY BRETT ZARDAThe Bears matched their longest winningstreak of the year with their fourth victoryfollowing a powerful performance againstIona on Tuesday night.

Undefeated in its last six outings, Brownposted its fourth shutout as a team in a 4-0 thrashing. In an impressive collegiatedebut, Scott Rowan ’05 proved effective inguarding the net for the Bears. Rowanrecorded 19 saves in his first appearancefor Bruno in front of more than 900 fans atMeehan Auditorium.

The Bears jumped out quickly with twopower-play goals in the first period byScott Ford ’04 and Les Haggett ’05 provid-ing ample cushion for Rowan to ensure avictory.

A third goal just minutes into the sec-ond period stretched the lead even furtherand gave Keith Kirley ’03 his seventh goalof the season. The scoring ended later thatperiod with yet another power-play goalfor Haggett.

Tuesday’s game marks the second con-secutive game in which the Bears convert-ed on better than 50 percent of their bonusopportunities. In the past two victoriesBruno has scored on seven of 10 power-play chances. Distributing the puck andearning assists in the Iona victory werePaul Esdale ’03, Brent Robinson ’04, Kirleyand Ford.

The win over Iona came on the heels ofa Jan. 18 drumming of Holy Cross. Specialteams were the difference, as the men’s icehockey team (8-6-2) used four power-playgoals and killed all three of the Crusadersextra-man opportunities to defeat HolyCross (10-11-0) 4-2 in an evening game atMeehan Auditorium.

The Crusaders took a 1-0 lead at 13:29of the first period, scoring just three sec-onds after a power-play opportunity hadexpired.

Brown knotted the contest at 1-1 just

1:52 later as leading scorer Haggett tallieda power-play goal for the Bears at 15:21into the first period. Ford and Robinsoneach assisted on the goal, as the two teamsheaded into the first intermission tied atone.

The Bears increased their lead to 4-1 onthe strength of three power-play goals,heading into the final period. Robinsonnotched the first at 10:10 of the second,with Haggett and senior Esdale assisting.Just 3:21 later, Esdale tallied on the man-advantage with Ford and senior Kirleyeach notching assists. The final goal,which came at 16:20 into the period, wasscored by Vince Macri ’04 and was assisted

by Robinson and Haggett. With Macri’sgoal, the Bears remained perfect on thepower play heading into the third.

Holy Cross changed goalies to start thethird, and the Bears were unable to solvefreshman Ben Conway, who was playing inhis first collegiate game. The Crusadersadded a short-handed tally at 8:58 of thefinal period for the final goal of the night.But when the buzzer sounded, the Bearshad notched a 4-2 victory.

The Bears will next lace up againstMerrimack this Saturday, Jan. 25, followedby the 17th annual Mayor’s Cup onTuesday versus Providence.

— With reports from Sports Information

IF YOU’VE LISTENED TO ALL THE TALKcoming out of lovely San Diego this week,you’d think that Bucs’ coach Jon Grudenand Raiders’ coach Bill Callahan were actu-ally playing the game on the field. I haveheard way too many stories on ESPN about

how Gruden knowshis old team andwhether the Bucs gotthe raw end of thedeal when they trad-ed two first rounddraft picks, two sec-ond round picks and$8 million forGruden. The moneywent towardsRaiders’ owner AlDavis’ ever-growingcollection of thosecheap Elvis-imitation

white jumpsuits he likes to wear. With allthis noise about the coaches and the own-ers, the attention has really been divertedfrom where it should be: on the players andthe game itself.

As much as a coach has an effect on ateam, he is not on the field and ultimatelydoesn’t make or botch plays in the game.This week of pre-Super Bowl hoopla —which is an actual word despite my doubts— has had little analysis of the actual gameand frankly much ado about nothing. Yes,Gruden was the Raiders’ coach last week.Yes, some players remain bitter at his sud-den departure from the lovely confines of“The Black Hole” in the Oakland Coliseum.

This game is a classic match-up andshould finally decide what wins a champi-onship, offense or defense. Oakland has thenumber one offense in the league andTampa Bay has the top defense. While theircounterparts, the Oakland defense and theTampa offense, aren’t nearly as strong, theymay decide the game. People have longdebated what wins championships. Theclassical Lombardian thinkers believe that astrong defense and a mistake-free offensemake a win. This is the more conservativeview, but it has worked for many a coach.From Lombardi in the ’50s and ’60s toParcells in the ’80s and ’90s, the strongdefense and mistake-free offense side has agood case.

In recent years, however, the emphasishas shifted from Lombardi’s famed sweeprunning play to the 60-yard bombs comingfrom the arm of great quarterbacks like JoeMontana, Brett Favre and the formerly great— but soon to be working at your local 7-11— Kurt Warner. Bill Walsh really revolution-ized the entire game of football, and don’tworry: he’ll tell you about it whenever hegets the chance. He made offense pass-based and paved the way for a team like theRaiders that throws the ball over 40 times agame. Jerry Rice was on both Walsh’s 49ersand today’s Raiders. Somehow I don’t thinkthat’s just a coincidence.

So what’s the final answer? What does, infact, win championships? Of course, I’mgoing to tell you the absolute unequivocalanswer. It’s defense. This is proven by histo-ry and by just thinking about it. Try to namethe last Super Bowl winner that had a mar-ginal defense. Hard, isn’t it? This is not nec-essarily a defense that is overshadowed bytheir offense like the ’99 Rams who also hada top 10 defense. The last team I can think ofis the 1987 Washington Redskins, who prob-ably shouldn’t have made the playoffs, butgot hot and then crushed the Broncos in theSuper Bowl. On a side note, it’s my sad duty

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

JANUARY 23, 2003 · PAGE 12

Will defensewin the 2003Super Bowl?

dspics

Scott Rowan ’05 made 19 saves against Iona to record the first shutout of his career.

JEFF SALTMANTHE SALT’S TAKE

For recruiters, NCAA football starts now

With 4-0 shutout, men’s ice hockeyextends winning streak to four games

see SALTMAN, page 8

(The Sporting News) — No passes will bethrown nor tackles made in the next fewweeks, but these are among the most impor-tant weeks of the college football year. This iswhen the recruiting season hits the homestretch.

A coach can X and O the night away, buthe won’t win big without great talent. Manyprospects already have committed, but thebiggest fish typically wait until signing day —Feb. 5 this year — to announce their collegechoice. In fact, linebacker Ernie Sims ofNorth Florida Christian High in Tallahassee,the nation’s top player according toRivals100.com, still is shopping around.

Schools look for any edge to secure apledge. The most tangible selling points arefacilities. For instance, Penn State’s recent$93 million expansion of Beaver Stadiumpushed capacity to 107,282 — and includeda new recruiting lounge. Coaches brag aboutshag carpet in locker rooms and pool tablesand PlayStations in players lounges. Theyeven walk players over to the academic cen-ter. But how much of all this really matters toa kid? It’s time to reveal the greatest mythsand truths of the recruiting wars.

What’s a myth:You have to beat your rival on the field. Itabsolutely matters to have a winning pro-gram, but how many times have you heardsomeone claim the winner of a certaingame will gain a big edge in recruiting bat-tles? “Whether we win or lose the IronBowl, we still have as good a chance of get-

ting a guy as Alabama,” says Auburn CoachTommy Tuberville. “I can’t think of manytimes, if ever, the outcome of a game hasswayed a recruit one way or another.”

You must have gleaming facilities. Nodoubt, 100,000-seat stadiums and hangar-sized weight rooms have a big wow factor.But gorgeous facilities are icing on the cakewhen recruits get down to making a collegechoice.

For instance, during Miami’s rise in the1980s, the school had some of the worstfacilities in the nation. It still managed toattract great talent for other reasons. “(Ex-Hurricanes Coach) Jimmy Johnson alwaystold us that winning will take care of recruit-ing,” says Tuberville, a Miami assistant from1986-93.

You need to win your bowl game. Gettingto a bowl is enough — as long as you don’tget blown out.

Academics matter. Recruits always saythe right things about academics being animportant part of their decision. But certain-ly, that isn’t always the case.

Tradition is important. Have you talked toa high school kid lately? His idea of historywas last week’s episode of Fear Factor.Galloping ghosts don’t matter.

What matters:Coaching philosophy. A player has to thinkthere’s a place for him to succeed and dis-play his talents. He won’t go to a school ifhe doesn’t think he’ll fit its offensive ordefensive scheme. “An option quarterback

isn’t going to come here,” says Tuberville,who coaches at a school that features a tra-ditional passing game.

Playing time. Most high school stars thinkthey can play as freshmen. And it’s a coach’sjob to sell a kid on the idea he has a legitchance to play immediately, which is morelikely in the 85-scholarship era than everbefore. It’s also important to a prospect toknow his position isn’t being over-recruited.

Competing for championships. Winningmatters to youngsters, and they want to go toa place where they can battle for a confer-ence’s top spot each year.

TV exposure. Winning leads to attention,which translates into TV coverage. And what18-year-old isn’t going to like the idea ofbeing beamed across the national airwaves?“Telling a kid he can flip on a TV and watchhis highlights each Saturday night is a pow-erful thing,” says recruiting analyst TomLemming.

Academics matter. Recruits

always say the right things

about academics being an

important part of their deci-

sion. But certainly, that isn’t

always the case.

thursday, january 23, 2003

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