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Providence CityCouncil considerscrackdown onpanhandlerspage 3

David Cicilline ’83begins 25 week walkingtour to build supportfor mayoral bidpage 3

Brett Cohen ’03 sayspeople should be nicerto nerds, geeks andfantasy gamerscolumn,page 11

Ramon Stern ’04 saysacademia and realityare not always on thesame pagecolumn,page 11

Germain ’04, Dreyer’03 keep women’shockey in ECAC titlehuntpage 12

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BY JAMAY LIUStephen Sondheim, one of thegreat musical geniuses ofAmerican theater, spoke abouthis career, his colleagues and hisopinions on matters rangingfrom opera to his criticsWednesday afternoon.

A songwriter and lyricist forshows including “Candide,”“Into the Woods,” “West SideStory” and “A Little NightMusic,” Sondheim receivedstanding ovations from theenthusiastic audience in LeedsTheater at the beginning andend of the discussion, which wasin question and answer format.

Sondheim described how hiscareer began after his parentsdivorced and he moved toPennsylvania with his mother atthe age of 10.

Their neighbor, OscarHammerstein II, a Broadwaylyricist, immediately had a biginfluence on his life, andSondheim said, “I wanted to bewhatever Oscar was.”

Sondheim described how heand two classmates wrote ashow when he was 14, called “ByGeorge.”

“I knew it was brilliant, and Iknew Oscar would want to pro-duce it,” Sondheim said.

Hammerstein told Sondheimit was the worst show he’d everread.

“But, he treated me like a pro-fessional,” Sondheim said. “Hesat down with me one after-noon, and within four hours,we’d gone over about a quarterof the show. In that afternoon, Ilearned more about theater andsongwriting than most do in alifetime.

“Like all good teachers, Oscarwas a gentle prodder, not a hit-ter.”

Sondheim also addressed theprevious remarks he had madeabout opera.

“I don’t mean to disparageopera, but I don’t enjoy it,”Sondheim said. “I enjoy stories.Opera is for people who enjoythe human voice, but that’s notenough for me to go to the the-ater.

“I’m a guy brought up onmovies, on stories. What hap-pens to me at the opera house is,I get bored,” he said.

Sondheim said he has norespect for music reviewers.

“When I get criticism, andwhat is said echoes in my stom-ach, then I’ll change it,” he said.“But other times, when I don’tknow what they’re talking about,I won’t.

“Listen carefully to the peoplewhose opinions you respect –—but don’t do it until the song isformed,” he said. “Otherwise, it’sdisruptive.”

Sondheim emphasized theimportance of getting involvedin every aspect of theater to stu-dent musical writers.

“Be a stage manager, be anactor, if possible,” he said. “Donot put on your show in front offamily and friends in a livingroom, because that’s weighted.Do it in front of strangers.”

Sondheim said good music is“fresh, but inevitable.”

“This is true for any art thattakes place during time,” hesaid. “You want the audience tofeel not only surprise, but thatthat’s the only way for it to havegone.”

The Department of Music, theDepartment of Theater, Speechand Dance and the Creative ArtsCouncil co-sponsored the pro-gram.

Wednesday before Sondheimspoke, the Stephen SondheimScholarship and the StephenSondheim Graduate Fellowshipin the Arts were established inhis name by Marty and PerryGranoff.

“Both will be awarded inhonor of Stephen Sondheim’sincredible career,” SpencerGolub, professor of theater,speech and dance, said.

Herald staff writer Jamay Liu ’05can be reached at jliu@browndai-lyherald.com.

Stephen Sondheim waxes melodic onAmerican theater, critics, inevitability

BRIAN BASKINThis May, the Arabic studies lan-guage program will lose its thirdlecturer in three years, leavingthe program without a replace-ment months after most facultysearches have begun.

In February, the AcademicCouncil, chaired by Dean of theFaculty Mary Fennell, declined tomatch Dartmouth College’s offerof a tenure track position toLecturer Jocelyn Sharlet, whoteaches all six Arabic languagecourses.

The administration has not yetannounced the creation of asearch committee to findSharlet’s replacement, thoughmost faculty searches for the nextacademic year began inDecember or earlier.

Dean of the College PaulArmstrong, who sits on theCouncil, said the lateness of thedecision not to retain Sharletwould not jeopardize the Arabicprogram.

“People are reading this as asign we’re backing off the teach-ing of Arabic,” Armstrong said.“That’s not the case.”

With its decision, theUniversity only postponed itsinevitable responsibility toimprove the state of the program,said Arnold Weinstein, chair ofthe Department of ComparativeLiterature.

At Brown, the Department ofComparative Literature housesthe three Arabic studies coursesper semester, in which 41 stu-dents are currently enrolled.

“I think they made a mistake,”said Arnold Weinstein, of theAcademic Council’s decision notto match Sharlet’s offer. “But Ialso respect (Fennell’s) judg-ment.”

Armstrong said Brown couldnot match Dartmouth’s offerbecause it meant upgradingSharlet’s position from lecturer toassistant professor. TheUniversity requires a full nationalsearch to fill assistant professor-ships, which was not possiblebefore Sharlet accepted the posi-tion at Dartmouth, Weinstein andArmstrong said.

The greater problem,Armstrong said, is the structureof the language program. At peerinstitutions, Arabic language pro-grams are often at the center ofMiddle Eastern studies depart-ments. Such programs experi-ence less turnover than Brown’sArabic studies program becauselecturers can teach Arabic whilestill having the opportunity toresearch or teach Middle Easternculture and history, Armstrongsaid.

Though a lecturer with a mas-ter’s degree would generally fill

such a position, those with Ph.D.smight be attracted to a facultyposition elsewhere, where theycould teach fewer courses andfocus on research as well asteaching, he said.

“She knew she was going to beteaching three courses (eachsemester), but obviously sheaspired for more,” Armstrongsaid.

Sharlet teaches six coursesyearly, which is standard for a lec-turer but two more than a profes-sor teaches. As the only facultymember attached to Arabic stud-ies, she is responsible for manag-ing the program, Sharlet said.

Sharlet said she would haveliked to stay at Brown if theUniversity had been able to makeher a competitive offer.

“It’s definitely a larger work-load than Arabic lecturers atmany institutions,” she said. “The(comparative literature) depart-ment was very supportive aboutthe possibility of investing morein the Arabic program.”

She said she was encouragedto apply for positions at otheruniversities, because professorsin the Comparative LiteratureDepartment expected Brown tomatch any offer.

Weinstein said a departmentsearch committee at Brownselected Sharlet last year beforeshe had completed her doctoraldissertation, beating the fiercecompetition for Arabic languageinstructors with Ph.D.s. Once sheearned her Ph.D. and entered themarket, it was only a matter oftime before another universityoffered a tenure track position,Weinstein said. At that point, thedepartment hoped to present astrong case to the AcademicCouncil and have that offermatched, he said.

Weinstein said he understoodthe Council’s reasoning but wasnevertheless surprised by theirdecision.

“There’s a general academictruism that when people receiveoffers and they’re highly valued,Brown does whatever it can torespond in kind,” Weinstein said.“The president made it clear thatBrown will find ways to avoidbeing raided.”

Weinstein said that since thedepartment, rather than the pro-fessor, requested that theUniversity match the offer, hehoped Comparative Literaturewould demonstrate enough con-fidence in Sharlet’s abilities toconvince the Council to retainher.

“She is highly valued for whatshe did in this department,” hesaid.

BY NEEMA GULIANIThe University is consideringchanging the grading policy atBrown to include pluses andminuses, said Dean of theCollege Paul Armstrong.

Although no firm decisionregarding the grading systemhas been made, the policychange “was worth talkingabout,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong said he is in favorof the change because a recentsurvey given to faculty membersindicated support for such achange. Out of the 160 facultymembers who returned the sur-vey, 82 percent said they wouldbe in favor of the grading policychange, he said.

Only a small number of facul-ty members responded to thesurvey, so it cannot yet be deter-mined if the majority of Brown’sfaculty would be in favor ofadding plusses and minuses tothe grading system, saidRebecca More, director of theSheridan Center for Teachingand Learning.

More said she suspects thatmost of the faculty use plussesand minuses internally whengrading students. But these dis-

tinctions in grades do notappear on official student tran-scripts.

Armstrong said he believesthe change in the grading sys-tem would better enable teach-ers to signal differences in stu-dents’ performances.

“Grades are sending mes-sages,” he said.

Armstrong said he believesthere is not enough distinctionin the messages sent by S/NCgrades and A, B, and C grades.

The majority of studentsreceive an A, B or S as theirsemester grade and the changein policy would “restore the dif-ference between taking a classS/NC and taking a class for agrade,” Armstrong said.

More said grades communi-cate an understanding betweenfaculty and students.

Students have been choosingthe grades over the S/NC optionrecently, More said, citing astudy done by the Office ofInstitutional Research. Thoughshe said she is not sure why thisphenomenon has occurred,More said it is important todetermine if it was a signal thatstudents want more specific

feedback when it comes togrades.

Faculty and students areuncertain whether a change inthe grading policy would havean adverse effect on the learningenvironment at Brown.

Professor of ComputerScience and Chair of the FacultyExecutive Committee JohnSavage said that although he wasunsure if he was in favor of thepolicy change, it would beunfortunate if it caused studentsto reflect too much on gradesbecause “the purpose is to learnthe material.”

Laura Riascos ’04 said plusesand minuses “would disrupt theidea of healthy competitiveness.

“If grading is more complex,competition will become moreexacerbated in a negative way,”she said. “There will be a greaterdivide between people whowant to do really well and peoplewho are more indifferent.”

Herald Opinions ColumnistDmitri Seals ’02 said he isopposed to the change in grad-ing policy because he believes itwill “increase competition

Dean Armstrong, faculty, push forpluses and minuses in grading system

see ARABIC, page 4see GRADES, page 4

U. fails to match offer fortenure track position,Arabic program dwindles

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City Council drafts legislation to restrictpanhandling on City street, including ThayerBY CHRIS BYRNESThe Providence City Council is currently drafting anordinance that would outlaw panhandling, or beggingfor money, that is aggressive in nature. Whether a solic-itation is legal is determined by one of 15 restrictionsand is defined as “aggressive” in eight distinct ways inthe most recent draft of the ordinance.

Councilwoman Rita Williams, who represents Brownstudents and other constituents north of Angell Street,including the northern part of Thayer, spoke of a needto restrict or discourage panhandling.

“Over the years, I think that Thayer Street has been atargeted area. I think that people who do panhandlingon a regular basis see the students as easy targets — assympathetic people who … are advantaged individu-als,” she said.

Williams said that though the proposed ordinancestops short of banning solicitation outright, it willeffectively end the practice.

“I think this will ban panhandling itself. It will banpeople being approached by an individual who theydon’t want to be approached by.”

She suggested that panhandlers might otherwise becharged with some other offense when appropriate,such as loitering or public disturbance.

Bernie Beaudreau, executive director of RhodeIsland Community Food Bank, said the bill would nothave any substantive impact on hunger in RhodeIsland.

“Aggression is aggression,” he said. “I think there’ssome reasonableness about it.”

He said it will be interesting to see how the policeenforce the ordinance if it is passed.

But Beaudreau defended panhandling in general.“If someone has to panhandle money, they are at a

point of desperation. To make it against the law is basi-cally, in my mind, sort of a death sentence.”

Councilman Robert Clarkin, who represents Brownstudents and other constituents south of Angel Street,said in the past the U.S. Supreme Court has struckdown legislation that bans begging for money. It ruledthat people have a right to ask for money, he said.

Though unfamiliar with the specifics of the propos-al, which is currently being debated in a committeethat he does not serve on, Clarkin said he does notthink City Council can pass a law making panhandlingillegal, but “we can restrict it some.”

“If there was some way we can do it, I think it wouldhave a positive effect on Thayer Street,” he added.

Councilman John Igliozzi, who introduced the ordi-nance, could not be reached for comment as of presstime.

The proposed ordinance itself is dual in purpose: itseeks to eliminate all soliciting it deems “aggressive”and restricts specific acts of solicitation.

In eliminating aggressive panhandling, the draftordinance banned behavior that “is likely to cause areasonable person to fear bodily harm to oneself or toanother … or otherwise be intimidated into givingmoney or other thing of value.”

It also would prohibit continued solicitation after anegative response, intentional contact without the per-son’s consent and blocking a person’s safe and free pas-sage of the solicitor.

Also, the draft considers following the person beingsolicited, speaking at unreasonable volumes, or solicit-ing anyone waiting in line to constitute “aggressivemanner.”

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Almond proposes stiffer penalties forfirst-time drunk driving offendersGovernor Lincoln Almond urged the State House JudiciaryCommittee Tuesday to adopt stiffer legislation that wouldmake drunk driving with a blood alcohol level of .08 a mis-demeanor on the first offense.

“It took us 11 years to lower the blood alcohol contentlevel to .08 — I hope it won’t take us 11 years to make thefirst offense a misdemeanor,” he said.

He also called for legislation imposing tougher penal-ties on drivers who refuse to submit to breathalyzer teststo determine if they are driving under the influence ofalcohol.

“Too often, when pulled over by law enforcement offi-cers, drivers refuse to submit to a test to determine if theyare intoxicated,” Almond said.

Currently, Rhode Island law makes it a civil violation fora first-time offender who drives with a blood alcohol levelof .08, following a law passed in July 2000.

The violation currently carries a 45-day license suspen-sion, a fine of $100 to $250 and community service of upto 60 hours. Second-time offenses are a misdemeanorcrime.

For motorists who refuse to submit to blood alcoholcontent tests, Almond proposes raising the minimum fineto between $500 and $1000, up from the current $250 to$500. Additionally, a second violation would constitute amisdemeanor offense and would include a fine of $600 to$1,000 and 10 to 60 hours of community service.

Almond’s discussion follows the arrest of State Rep.Leon Tejada on Mar. 3 for refusing to submit to a breatha-lyzer test.

Patrolman Clarence Gough told the Providence JournalTejada was flashing his lights and honking his horn whiletailgating cars before he pulled him over.

Tejada smelled strongly of alcohol, had bloodshot andwatery eyes and failed a field sobriety test, Gough told theJournal.

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Murderer of 14-year-old Rivera pleadsguilty in Providence Superior CourtDennard Walker, 20, of Providence pleaded guiltyWednesday in Providence County Superior Court to themurder of 14-year-old Jennifer Rivera on May 21, 2000.

He also pleaded guilty to other charges, including con-spiracy to commit murder, carrying a pistol without alicense and obstruction of justice.

The state was prepared to prove that Walker killedRivera because she overheard and might have testifiedabout his plans to avenge the murder of Honda Brown, arelative of his killed only weeks before.

The case against Walker included a long and complicat-ed investigation that included six law enforcement agen-cies, used an undercover Drug Enforcement Agency agentand employed high-tech surveillance equipment broughtin from FBI headquarters.

Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse is proposing anamendment to state law to permit prosecutors to seek asentence of life without parole for anyone who murders awitness to prevent that person’s testimony, according to apress release from the Department of Attorney GeneralWednesday.

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Cicilline kicks off 25 week walking tour of cityneighborhoods, hoping to build supportBY CHRIS BYRNESDemocratic mayoral candidate and state Rep. DavidCicilline ’83 commenced a walking tour of ProvidenceWednesday at the Webster Avenue School, his childhoodelementary school. The tour is scheduled to walk through25 neighborhoods in 25 weeks.

“It is as much about hearing what our citizens have tosay as it is about telling them who I am and what myhopes and plans are for this great city,” Cicilline said.

He praised Providence’s neighborhoods for makingthe city great. And while the downtown area has seendramatic improvement over the past several years, hesaid that the city’s surrounding neighborhoods often lagbehind.

Besides Cicilline, incumbent Mayor Vincent Cianci andGreen Party candidate Greg Gerritt have also launchedcampaigns to win the mayorship.

“The purpose of (the walking tour) is to engage the res-idents of this city … about such things as how we canimprove education, prevent crime, reduce taxes and bringethics and reform to City government,” he said.

Cicilline said that the function of the walking tour wasto help him identify the “real” problems facing city resi-dents, including abandoned housing, decaying play-grounds, insufficient public services, juvenile crime,inadequate business infrastructure and poor traffic con-

ditions.He added that the nature of Providence neighborhoods

has changed, with people feeling increasingly disconnect-ed from each other.

After beginning the tour in the Silver Lake neighbor-hood, he will continue in coming weeks in Elmurst, SouthProvidence, the East Side and Federal Hill, his campaignpress release said.

Cicilline, who announced his candidacy for mayor amonth ago, also at the Webster Avenue School, has repre-sented the East Side in the General Assembly for four two-year terms.

Beginning his career as a public defender inWashington, D.C., he moved back to Providence andestablished a private law practice based on Federal Hill.

A graduate of Brown and of Georgetown Law School,Cicilline hired Chris Bizzacco ’03.5 to manage his cam-paign.

Cicilline told The Herald that his campaign plans tofocus on Providence neighborhoods and how they’ve fall-en behind downtown in the “Providence Renaissance.” Healso plans to stress education, city services, crime andtaxes.

Herald staff writer Chris Byrnes ’04 edits the metro section.He can be reached at cbyrnes@browndailyherald.com.

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If Sharlet were retained as anassistant professor, the next stepwould have been to request a sec-ond position in the Arabic pro-gram to ease her workload.

“We never got that far. Thestumbling block was Jocelyn(Sharlet)’s level,” Weinstein said.“My hunch is that the Universityis willing to move on a secondperson,” but with Sharlet leaving“nobody is willing to come andtake the load she did.”

Armstrong said proposals forthe long-term future of Arabicstudies centered around creatinga second teaching position. Hesaid it has not been determinedwhether either of the positionswould be tenured.

Weinstein said the best solu-tion would be to create a MiddleEastern program or departmentthat allowed professors to focustheir research on Arabic cultureand history, in addition to teach-ing the language. Brown current-ly offers a Middle East Studiesconcentration that requires basiccompetence in a Middle Easternlanguage, though not necessarilyArabic.

Though the Department ofComparative Literature hashoused Arabic for over ten years,Weinstein said the departmentdid so “almost as a courtesy to theUniversity.”

“It’s anomalous for compara-tive literature to teach Arabic,” hesaid. “The only reason we have itis that there’s no Middle Easternprogram.”

If the creation of a new pro-gram or department proves

infeasible, Weinstein said theCenter for Language Studiescould be given the power to cre-ate faculty positions for lan-guages such as Arabic that haveno clear departmental affiliation.

Armstrong said both optionshad been discussed, but theUniversity was not close to mak-ing a decision about the future ofthe program.

Until a permanent solution isfound, Brown’s Arabic programwill suffer, Sharlet said. Since theprogram has only one instructor,the introductory course cannotbe divided into sections. Studentshave fewer chances to speak,causing average and slowerlearners to fall behind as a result,she said.

Herald staff writer Brian Baskin is anews editor. He can be reached atbbaskin@browndailyherald.com.

which is detrimental to educa-tion … It will increase the powergap between teachers and stu-dents.”

Albert Ciao ‘03.5 said theincreased competition that mayresult from the addition of plusesand minuses to the grading sys-tem is not necessarily a badthing.

Pluses and minuses are “prob-

ably a good idea because it wouldbe more accurate,” Ciao said.“Professors could express whatthey think.”

Cameron Colpitts ’05 said hesupported the change becausepluses and minuses are “a betterway to differentiate” betweengrades.

“You need to differentiatebetween people because youwant the best people to get intograduate schools,” he said.

Armstrong said he believesstudents’ obsession with gradesis probably the result of a mis-

conception about the impor-tance of grades to graduateschools and potential employ-ers.

Students are recruited atBrown not only because of theirgrades, Savage said.

Recruitment is “based on theirpersonalities, area of concentra-tion, and the fact that they havealready been chosen by Brown,”he said.

Herald staff writer Neema Guliani ’05can be reached at nguliani@browndai-lyherald.com.

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BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZPresident Ruth Simmons designated agroup of high-ranking University officersas her cabinet, which held the first of itsclosed weekly meetings recently.

Simmons’ cabinet members, who willserve as her chief advisors, were selected“to represent the breadth of theUniversity,” said Laura Freid, executivevice president for public affairs andUniversity relations. All cabinet membersare University administrators.

Cabinet members include ExecutiveVice President for Planning RichardSpies, Vice President for Campus Life andStudent Services Janina Montero,Assistant to the President David Greene,Secretary of the Corporation RussellCarey and Freid.

Dean of the College Paul Armstrong,Dean of the Faculty Mary Fennell, Deanof the Graduate School and ResearchPeder Estrup and Dean of the MedicalSchool Donald Marsh are also members,Freid said.

Robert Zimmer, who assumes the posi-tion of Provost in July, will join the cabi-net, possibly with other new members.The composition of the cabinet will fluc-tuate from semester to semester based onSimmons’ advising needs, Freid said.

The cabinet has held the first of itsweekly meetings, the agenda of which hasnot been disclosed. “The discussions are

not going to be made public,” Freid said.Freid said she anticipates that this

semester’s cabinet meetings will focus onthe implementation of Simmons’ recent-ly approved Proposal for AcademicEnrichment.

Fennell may discuss faculty expansionwith Simmons and Estrup may addressincreased graduate student compensa-tion, Freid said.

Simmons will also begin meeting withan executive committee on a monthlybasis. The committee will be larger thanthe cabinet and will focus on communi-cation rather than advising, Freid said.

The establishment of a cabinet is con-sistent with the administrative organiza-tion at many universities, members ofSimmons’ office said.

At Smith College, Simmons workedwith a comparable group, called theSenior Staff Committee, and at Princetonshe was a member of a presidential advi-sory board also called the cabinet,Greene said.

Former University Presidents GordonGee and Vartan Gregorian met with anoperations committee and executivecommittee, respectively, which servedthe same functions as Simmons’ cabinet,Freid said.

“Every university president has a wayof organizing university officers,” sheadded.

The word cabinet designates a group“in a more confidential position” that,along with an executive, govern the“determination and administration ofaffairs,” according to the Oxford EnglishDictionary.

Herald staff writer Carla Blumenkranz ’05covers the Office of the President. She canbe reached at cblumenkranz@browndai-lyherald.com.

Simmons begins cabinet meetingswith chief University officers

BY BETHANY RALLISComputing and Information Services’March 4 installation of Norton Anti-Virus successfully protected Brown net-work users from threatening e-mailviruses, but it also clogged the networkwith junk mail and delayed mail fromreaching recipients.

The CIS help desk first heard com-plaints that e-mails were not beingreceived on Tuesday, March 5, said CISManager Patricia Falcon.

The program ran smoothly on the firstday of installation, said John Spadaro,associate director of CIS.

Problems with the system began onTuesday when CIS made a change tothe program configuration, allowing itto scan outgoing mail as well as incom-ing.

When spam or junk mail senders seean opening in the mail relay“Brown.edu,” they use it to send theirmail under a Brown address.

“We became a junk mail magnet,”Spadaro said.

The onslaught of junk mail causeddelays in sending and receiving e-mail,as mass e-mailers clogged the networkwith their mail.

In response, CIS closed open relays inthe network. Open relays are those thataccept non-Brown e-mail and are notsecure. But the 24-hour window causedsites that filter junk mail to begin reject-ing e-mails that originated from Brownaccounts.

CIS thought they had solved the prob-lem by closing the relays, but beingblacklisted by the junk mail monitorsthrew them for another loop, he said.

“We removed ourselves from theblacklist,” Spadaro said.

CIS added more relays to process the

backlogged e-mails.On Sunday one of the relays had a

configuration error, causing moredelays, he said.

Spadaro said that since Monday at9:30 a.m. the back up in mail has beendecreasing, and e-mail now seems to berunning smoothly.

No mail has been lost in the backup,and network users should receive alloutdated mail over the next few days, hesaid.

Students found themselves inconve-nienced by the delays.

Jessica Wisdom ’04 said she had beencorresponding with a woman over e-mail about a summer job. “Parts of ourconversation were all out of order,” shesaid.

After Wisdom had been talking to thewoman for a week, she “received an out-dated e-mail from her saying ‘I got yourrequest for information about the job,’”Wisdom said, baffled that this e-mailhad come a week late.

“We all count on e-mail as being areliable way to communicate,” said BrittDoran ’04.

Herald staff writer Bethany Rallis ’04 is acampus news editor. She can be reached abrallis@browndailyherald.com.

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The officers, selected torepresent the breadth of theUniversity, were selected toadvise the president and helpimplement her Proposal forAcademic Enrichment

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Soliciting would be outlawedanywhere that is within 20 feetof a financial institution orATM, unless the owner permitsthe solicitor to do so, at publictoilets, at a vendor that is certi-fied by the city or at a payphone.

Also, according to the draft,panhandling would be illegalwithin 10 feet of the entrance ofa building or 50 yards awayfrom an off-ramp to any free-way.

No one may solicit in a groupof two or more or when aboardany public transportation vehi-cle or stop, the draft ordinancestipulates.

Any violation would be con-sidered a misdemeanor by lawand would carry a punishmentof either a maximum of 30 daysin jail, a fine of up to $500 orboth.

Herald staff writer Chris Byrnes ’04edits the metro section. He can bereached at cbyrnes@browndaily-herald.com.

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saw the movie, hopefully youknow what I’m going to say. Itwas not good, not good at all.

NC - Jayson Williams, Ex-Forward, New Jersey Nets

Williams is quickly moving upthe “not the sharpest tack in thebox” meter with his recently dis-covered actions to cover up his

involvement with the killing ofhis limousine driver, CostasCristofi.

The former NBA star wascharged with manslaughter as aresult of the death on Feb. 14.

However, the charges do notend there.

Williams was charged thispast Monday with hinderingapprehension, two counts ofevidence tampering, one countof witness tampering and onecount of conspiracy to obstructthe law.

Germain was also a member ofTeam Ontario, winning a goldmedal at the Canada WinterGames, and was a standout ath-lete in basketball and soccer, asshe captained both teams andcaptured city championships inboth as well.

Dreyer and Germain havebeen a constant force all season

long, and with the Bears now inthe ECAC Semifinals this week-end at Dartmouth, expectationsare high. Brown hopes not only towin the ECAC tournament, butalso to make a bid at the nationaltitle.

With Dreyer and Germainplaying so well in net, the Bearswill have a legitimate shot.

Sports staff writer Jonathan Bloom’03 edits the sports section. He canbe reached at jbloom@browndai-lyherald.com.

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Final Grade

WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002 · PAGE 7

HARARE, Zimbabwe (Washington Post) — State elections offi-cials Wednesday declared President Robert Mugabe thewinner of a ferociously contested election that manyinternational observers described as deeply flawed andthe opposition’s candidate rejected, saying the vote wasrigged.

Unofficial results showed the 78-year-old Mugabe win-ning a fifth term in a landslide over Morgan Tsvangirai, aformer labor organizer and leader of the oppositionMovement for Democratic Change. With about 3.1 millionof the nation’s 5.6 million registered voters casting ballots,officials said, Mugabe won more than 1.6 million votes toTsvangirai’s 1.2 million.

Several pre-election polls had showed Mugabe trailingTsvangirai, and the announcement Wednesday of thepresident’s wide margin of victory drew prompt accusa-tions by the opposition of fraud. “The Movement forDemocratic Change is firmly of the view that the electionresults do not reflect the true will of the people ofZimbabwe and are consequently illegitimate in the eyes

of the people,” Tsvangirai told reporters here Wednesday.“We therefore do not accept them.”

Likewise, several election monitoring groups castdoubt on the validity of the vote, describing an electoralprocess disfigured by violence, intimidation, mass arrestsand last-minute changes to election laws and logisticsthat effectively disenfranchised tens of thousands of vot-ers. Monitors from a handful of African nations, however,declared the election free and fair.

In Washington, President Bush said the United Statesdoes not recognize the result.

“We do not recognize the outcome of the electionbecause we think it’s flawed,” he told a White House newsconference.

“We are dealing with our friends to figure out how todeal with this flawed election,” he added.

Earlier in the day, Secretary of State Colin Powell saidthe election result did not reflect the will of the people. “Asa result, Mr. Mugabe may claim victory, but not demo-cratic legitimacy,” Powell said in a statement.

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Errors in CAICarticle show littlerespect for ThirdWorld communityTo the Editor:I would like to correct flagrant errors thatappeared in the article “Chinese AmericanConference Opens With a Call for StudentActivism in Political Arena” (3/11). First,the person in the accompanying photo waserroneously identified as keynote speakerEric Tang, when it was workshop speakerProfessor Frank Wu. Second, the articlestates that the Chinese AmericanIntercollegiate Conference (CAIC) was heldat the Westin Hotel. However, if The Heraldwere present Saturday to gather the facts toaccurately write this story, it is puzzling tosay the least how they could have mistakenSmith-Buonanno, where all the workshopswere held, for the Westin Hotel.

Altogether, the carelessness with whichCAIC was covered is perturbing, and at the

same time offensive to those who took thetime to organize and attend the confer-ence. We thank you for the coverage; how-ever, in the future, steps must be taken toensure that Third World events on campusare reported with more care and respect.

Vincent Chong ’03Mar. 13

Cape VerdeanHeritage weekendnot first everTo the Editor:I was amazed when I read the article writ-ten about Cape Verdean HeritageWeekend, because clearly The Herald didnot have the facts straight (“First-everHeritage weekend examines unique CapeVerdean challenges,” 3/11). This was notthe first Cape Verdean Heritage Weekend,because I believe there was one run lastyear by Ana Lyman ’03. Please make sureall facts are correct before running articles.

It’s funny how The Herald makes a specialeffort to disgrace the communities of colorat this school, and fails to acknowledge allthe good works we do as well.

Onyeka Iloabachie ’03Mar. 13

Cartoon offensive,misrepresentsBUPS as sadisticTo the Editor:I could not be more offended by the car-toon, “Give Brown Cops Swords,” (3/13).What a clever way to kick the dead horsetopic of arming Brown Police! It suggeststhat Brown law enforcement is racist, vio-lent and even sadistic. I would like to knowwhat evidence this loaded accusation isbased on. It seems to be nothing short ofconforming to a trend on this campus toquestion any form of authority or order.

Brown fosters a critical environment, bothin its curriculum and its student body. This

was one of the things that drew me to Brown,and I agree that more people need to ques-tion the tradition of racism that still pervadesour social order. But where many Brown stu-dents fail (and particularly where this car-toon has failed) is in going beyond criticismof authority and offering realistic solutions totangible problems. From my understanding,The Herald believes (or at least seeks to con-vince others) that BUPS is racist and evil, andtherefore shouldn’t be armed. The Heraldnaively glosses over the many ways BUPSprotects and serves our community, andassigns little pride to their profession.

I have nothing but respect for BUPS, as“un-trendy” as that might be. From myexperience, they are friendly, committedand dedicated people, and until I have evi-dence otherwise, I will continue to treatthem with the respect and authority theirposition commands. Part of that respectincludes standing up to ignorant, outspo-ken individuals who seek to unfairly cate-gorize them as anything else.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002 · PAGE 10

Once again, the University finds itself searching for a lecturer inthe Arabic studies language program. By choosing not to matchDartmouth College’s offer of a tenure track position to LecturerJocelyn Sharlet, the University’s Academic Council has failed toretain a woman who is, by all credible accounts, an excellentinstructor — and further condemned the Arabic studies pro-gram to an unacceptable period of prolonged instability.

Sadly, the Academic Council’s decision comes at a timewhen the University is renewing its commitment to first-ratescholarship. The beauty of President Ruth Simmons’ Proposalfor Academic Enrichment is precisely that it mandates a com-mitment to attracting and maintaining faculty of the highestcaliber. Moreover, the study of Arabic as a tool of communica-tion is of utmost importance in today’s world, as East-Westrelations increasingly become the key factor in understandingmany of the world’s most serious problems.

To keep Sharlet, the University would have had to upgradeSharlet’s position from lecturer to assistant professor. TheAcademic Council, chaired by Dean of the Faculty MaryFennell, has defended its decision on the basis of Universityregulations which require a national search before awardingassistant professorships. While the Academic Council mayhave done right by sticking to the rules, this instance calledfor sounder judgment and sharper foresight: For the Arabicstudies program to lose its third lecturer in as many years,and the only instructor in the program, demonstrates anunacceptable failure to meet the expectations of first-classteaching and scholarship. At this point, the University will behard-pressed to find a lecturer of any sort to teach Arabic nextyear, let alone an instructor of Sharlet’s ability.

What is worse, had the Academic Council elected to matchSharlet’s offer and retain her, the Arabic studies programwould still have faced formidable challenges. Having only onelecturer to teach six courses places an unreasonable burdenupon that single instructor. Thus, the council should be look-ing to add to, and not subtract from, the program’s teachingroster. Sadly, that roster has fallen from one to none.

Arnold Weinstein, chair of the Department of ComparativeLiterature, was correct to call the Academic Council’s decisiona “mistake.” Despite having the rules on its side, the AcademicCouncil betrayed its ultimate purpose: to strengthen the qual-ity of scholarship and instruction in our classrooms.

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L E T T E R SSimmons, Universitymust not neglect Gradschool needs, concernsTo the Editor:For the past several years, Brown’s Graduate Schoolhas sat on the margins of the University’s agenda.During a fall semester reception in PresidentSimmons’ backyard, she acknowledged her con-cerns about the Graduate School. Simmonspledged to work diligently to increase its statureand improve the financial and academic resourcesavailable to both students and faculty.

The recent approval of the plan for academicenrichment signals the commitment of theadministration and the Corporation to improvingthe experience of the entire Brown family, includ-ing staff, faculty, undergraduates and graduatestudents.The officers of the Graduate SchoolCouncil, which represents the approximately1,350 graduate students at Brown, applaud theactions of the president, her administration andthe Corporation.

We earnestly hope this is the first of many suchmeasures aimed at improving the experience ofBrown graduate students. Increased stipends andlower health care costs will diminish some of thefinancial pressure felt by graduate students.Furthermore, for the first time in the University’shistory, summer funding for graduate students hasbeen included in the operating budget. This hasbeen a top priority of the GSC and the GraduateSchool for several years.

However, we also need to be concerned with thelonger-term positioning of the Graduate School.Attracting the most promising graduate students isan objective that is critical to the educational mis-sion of the University.

It is a necessity for conducting cutting-edgeresearch and effectively teaching the undergradu-ate students. The administration and theCorporation must be vigilant in keeping graduateeducation at Brown a core priority, as it is at ourpeer institutions. The GSC looks forward to workingwith the administration and the Corporation onthis effort.

The task of improving the Graduate School willrequire dedication and time. Last semester’s union-ization movement illustrated the degree to which

graduate students will organize and push for theirconcerns. Nonetheless, the administration mustalso continue to take bold steps to enhance thegraduate student experience.

We hope graduate students will remain activeand show the administration our dedication. Wecontend that an active and vocal graduate studentbody working alongside President Simmons’administration will facilitate necessary improve-ment in the Graduate School, producing successfulBrown graduates with a sense of commitment tothe University.

Aaron Katz GS and Heinrich Hock GSCo-President, Graduate Student Council

Terrence L. Johnson GSVice President, Graduate Student Council

Mar. 13

Inman an advocate ofbold approach tocampus space issuesTo the Editor:I take great exception to the comment about mydefending the status quo in your editorial “ACommon Space” (3/13). In the document I preparedfor the external reviewers dated Oct. 2, 2001, I askeda number of questions for the reviewers to address.

The first was: “Is Faunce House a University cen-ter or a student center?” If it is by definition a studentcenter, then I asked: “Should the space in Faunce bereviewed with reference to the present/future needsof Brown?” If the answer to this question was yes,then I offered a number of suggestions includingmoving the student leadership (UCS, UFB, StudentUnion) to the second floor of Faunce and turning T.F.Green into a student performing arts center thusfreeing up more space in Faunce.

I concluded that “a bold approach to space needsmight be very helpful at this time without waiting forthe construction of a new center, which may or maynot happen. This “bold approach,” I declare emphat-ically, is not defending the “status quo.” I don’t knowwhere The Herald got that misconception.

David InmanDirector of Student Activities

Mar. 13

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002 · PAGE 11

Cool people: be nicer to scientists, nerds, gamersNerds, gamers deserve grudging respect as defenders of rationalism

IT IS A LITTLE-KNOWN FACT THATafter writing “Fantasy Gaming Society andISO should join forces” (10/19/01) I sent aletter of apology to the group I felt hadbeen so unfairly slighted by my associatingit with a club of losers. That’sright – I apologized to theFantasy Gaming Society. (Andit wasn’t a fake apology like,“I’m sorry you’re not cool.”) Irealized that when it comes topolitics, they’re pretty reason-able, even if some of themwould likely vote for CaptainPicard for US President in 2000instead of Al Gore; so would I.And so what if some of theguys don’t shave? I wouldprobably sport a six-inchbeard if I could grow one.

But some good may yetcome out of this trying, Brett-put-his-foot-in-his-mouth ordeal. On Valentine’s Day,shortly after the publication of my first col-umn of this semester, a sophomoreUndergraduate Council of Students repre-sentative pleaded me to try to tolerate oth-ers, as opposed to vilifying them as hategroups that ought to be defunded. “Don’thate, tolerate,” she inadvertently rhymed. Iknew what I had to do: raise awareness ofnegative stereotypes pertaining to scien-tists. After all, as a cool person, it is my

moral duty to empower my social inferiors.Truly, the one remaining group (besides

stupid people and those afflicted withTurret’s syndrome) that it remains sociallyacceptable to stigmatize is the nerdy, and

it is high time someone put astop to this, perhaps in anironic way that gives with theright hand and takes with theleft. Our popular culture is lit-tered with negative portrayalsof scientists, starting with theseemingly innocuous mod-ern-day maven of scienceeducation, Bill Nye theScience Guy. Dressed in aneffeminate costume with anoversized red bow tie, Nye’sfoppish characterization isthe science teacher equiva-lent of an “Uncle Tom” — affa-

ble, eager to please and childlike. And thisis supposed to be “positive.”

Popular media is worse. Can you think ofa film in which a scientist does good, or evenone in which he doesn’t cause everyone’sbloody demise? Take the top-grossing 1996film “Independence Day.” A scientist, Dr.Brakish Okun, played by Brent Spiner (Dataof Star Trek: TNG), is an inept long-hairedweirdo whose failure to control a capturedalien destroys his laboratory, nearly kills thepresident and leads to his own demise. Inthe “Terminator” films, scientists createmachines that attempt to annihilate all ofhumankind. Movie villain Dr. HannibalLecter, once a renowned psychologist, eatspeople without even the decency to first

cook his victims or send the bloody carcass-es to more needy North Koreans.

In “Jurassic Park,” scientists, vain andego-driven, attempt to bring back thedinosaurs, who proceed to run amok,causing property damage and at leastminor psychological trauma on the youngchildren, who in a rare incorrect creativedecision by director Steven Spielberg arenot eaten alive by the raptors on camera.Still, Spielberg redeems himself via thecomputer programmer, played by“Seinfeld’s” Newman (Wayne Knight), as agreedy, grossly overweight villain: a faircharacterization.

An unscientific, rushed, partially-incompetent scan of the top 250 grossingfilms of all time in the Internet MovieDatabase confirms that not one (besidesthe 1997 flick “Contact” and perhaps thedreadful “Twister”) features an overallpositive portrayal of scientists, evenincluding “Batman” or “Mrs. Doubtfire.”It is thus no surprise that scientists areheld in such low esteem by so manyAmericans, who have been so eager toignore the testimony of biologists andremove evolution from the classroom,perhaps fearing that the evil scientists willunleash killer Darwin bugs if they’re per-mitted to grow their ranks. ConsideringHollywood’s anti-science propaganda,one can hardly blame them.

Moreover, rationalism and scienceoften find themselves under attack on tel-evision. Wrote Richard Dawkins, a leadingdefender of science: “The X-Files poses amystery and offers two rival kinds of

explanation, the rational theory and theparanormal theory. And, week after week,the rational explanation loses. But it isonly fiction, a bit of fun, why get so hotunder the collar? Imagine a crime series inwhich, every week, there is a white suspectand a black suspect. And every week, loand behold, the black one turns out tohave done it. Unpardonable, of course.And my point is that you could not defendit by saying: ‘But it’s only fiction, onlyentertainment.’”

So stereotypes are applied to scienceproper, as well as to the nerds who actu-ally do the research. But while most ofthe stereotypes surrounding nerds andfantasy gamers are truthful, some factsare not as well known. For instance,many fantasy gamers travel to the woodsas couples, and do indeed “get it on,” inthe throngs of passion one might evenhear a woman gamer cry out, “Oh, LordVoldemort, oh!”

We should look past their social awk-wardness to see the rational, sometimesrobot-like super mind behind thegamer-babble. Sure, sometimes he’llonly respond to you if you address himin character as Frodo, but when he final-ly does answer, you can be damn surethat either he’ll grab your ring off yourfinger and try to destroy it or he’ll giveyou and your question a fair hearing.With rationalism under assault, theseunlikely heroes may be our last defenseagain the throngs of anti-science andignorance (and Lord Voldemort) thatassail us from all sides.

Ironically, Brett J. Cohen ’03 is also SystemsManager of The Herald, but he is quite thejock. His columns appear on alternateThursdays.

BRETT COHENCHECKMATE!

ONE DAY WHILE I WAS “SURFING THEnet” — Brown lingo for procrastination —I thought I would look at the web site ofthe Office of International Programs. Ifound a list of the reasons to study abroad,but one caught my eye: “The understand-ing of another culture unavail-able to you through academicstudy alone.”

From my perspective, thisstatement reflects a polemicgreater than whether to studyabroad: where do we gatherinformation about an increas-ingly globalized world?Should we read newspapers,academic books or literature?Should we travel, speak toacademics, elites or massesabroad? Where does the mostobjective truth lie? Should werepresent and interpret truthmostly in empirical fact, personal narra-tives or symbols? How can we integrate allof these media into our search for knowl-edge?

The academic world tends to underval-ue lived experience in comparison to writ-ten and statistical knowledge. A century-long Western tradition of rigid rationalitygrounded in the intellectual and scientiststill orients the attitude of many educatedelites toward the truth. An assumption ofthe possibility of obtaining objective truththrough study and the reduction of theworld’s peoples and problems to objects ofdiscourse permeates the media and aca-demia. In such a paradigm, the authorreduces the subjects of his research into

objects; their agency exists only throughhis interpretation.

The monopoly of voice and articula-tion by the academic and educated worldnot only reflects existing power relations,but also assumes a lack of bias and emo-

tional distance of the profes-sional from the events hedescribes. Academia tends tooverestimate the ability of theintellectual to penetrate andanalyze any given communi-ty or society without beinghandicapped by precon-ceived notions. A semblanceof objectivity when describ-ing “the other” or culturesalien to one’s own back-ground requires condition-ing, self-critique and flexibili-ty.

For this very reason, study-abroad experiences, multilingualism, mul-ticulturalism and social acquaintancesacross lines of class, race and ethnicity arenecessary for both personal and academicgrowth. An extended exposure to a foreigncountry and to culturally distinct peoplebreaks down our mutual isolation andignorance of one another and opens thedoors for rational reflection on interna-tional politics and ethnocentrism. Withouthuman experiences to both complementand participate in shaping intellectual dis-course, academia does not extend beyondthe realm of the imaginary.

Though many accuse the advocates ofcosmopolitanism of naiveté, the academ-ic world also commonly divorces itselffrom reality. A world enamored withbooks alone is a world of clouds. In fact,the hollow rhetoric of some humanistsderives primarily from books and aca-

demic study, rather than lived experience.Asserting the importance of the complex-ity of human stories and experience inacademia is not a “hug fest” in the least.One of the most effective ways to exposeharsh, global realities is through livedexperience. Stays in impoverished andwar-torn countries, and conversations ina new language and environment illumi-nate the hatred, agony and difficulties of amulti-dimensional and constantly evolv-ing global order. “Taking the hard line” onthe war in Afghanistan or on Palestinianterrorism in Israel-Palestine does not pre-suppose an understanding of harsh reali-ty. Reacting harshly to complicated anddistant events at times involves the mostacute naiveté of all. There are not onlynaive humanists, but also a large group ofhardliners who purport to understand theworld’s chaos with a cold rationality andaccuse their humanist counterparts of afeminine nostalgia.

Many journalist and academics seekrefuge in the world of empirical fact: the

world of statistics, technology and thebeaming of reports to newsrooms. I donot intend to critique the limits of thesestatistics. Rather, I would like to questionthe conclusions one draws from the utter-ance of numbers. The interpretation ofempirical realities is just as malleable asthat of non-empirical or qualitative data.Without a sharp assessment of the factorsthat give the numbers significance, theexaltation of empirical data can lead to avariety of contradictory interpretations ofthe same events.

Thus, numbers alone, though veryimportant, do not reveal the greater signif-icance of world events without an assess-ment of the human, political and socialcontext from which the journalist or aca-demic extracts statistics.

In short, we must reevaluate the fightfor objectivity in the world of academics.Personal biases exist on a variety of levelsand in peoples of all professional training,races, classes and civilizations. This biasextends to even the most scrupulous aca-demic or journalist.

A network of relationships, family back-ground and value systems shape everyhuman being, no matter how educated.Therefore, we must not distance ourselvesfrom human testimony and lived experi-ence. Instead, we must engage in constantnegotiation among human experience,empirical fact and academic contempla-tion.

Human contact, instead of hinderingrational, objective arguments, serves as aprimary ingredient to turn the writtenword, a graph or a history book into a liv-ing, breathing process. An exaggerateddistance from humanity as an intellectualturns argument, writing and research intoa detached and naive exercise.

Ramon Stern ’04 swears he is writing thiscolumn from personal experience.Seriously!

Objectivity in academia and other power circlesMeshing statistics, written word and human experience

RAMON STERNGONE GLOBAL

“Though many accuse the

advocates of cosmopoli-

tanism of naiveté, the aca-

demic world also common-

ly divorces itself from reali-

ty. A world enamored with

books alone is a world of

clouds.“

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 14, 2002 · PAGE 12

The impenetrable wall of Germain andDreyer keep W. Icers in ECAC title hunt

Agassi, Iverson gettop grades, ESPN’s‘Season On TheBrink’ disappoints

Sir Charles, should ‘role models’ speak their minds?DID YOU HEAR WHAT CHARLES BARKLEYsaid the other day? He accused the Mastersof “blatant racism” aimed at Tiger Woodsbecause the course was lengthened.

In Barkley’s estimation, it was anattempt by the Augusta National Country

Club to “Tiger-proof” the tourna-ment after Woodswon his secondgreen jacket.Augusta, a club

with a not-so-distant tradition of notallowing blacks to play, refused commenton the alleged plot.

It is not important at this time whetherBarkley’s comments were warranted.Barkley is talk. He has been all about talksince before he was an NBA Legend andcontinues to have a gift for the gab.

What is important is not whetherBarkley, the Round Mound of ProfoundSound, is right, but the fact that he said itat all.

This is the same Charles Barkley thatwas ripped on in every sports talk show inthe country after his infamous Nike com-mercial, in which he proclaimed that par-ents, not athletes, are role models. InBarkley’s eyes, he simply played basket-ball. His job was to score points, playdefense and rebound; it was the job of par-ents to raise children.

Needless to say, he caught a whole lot ofheat for those comments. The general feel-ing was that regardless of what he wantedor asked for, Barkley was a role model. Ifhis poster was on a kid’s wall or his shoeson their feet, then he was looked up to and

had better accept the responsibility. Barkley did. He recognized the validity

of the remarks made by those that dis-agreed with him and made some changes.He spoke up for himself, like he alwayshad, and for others, which he hadn’t donebefore.

In fact, he prefaced his remarks aboutTiger and Augusta in Sports Illustrated bysaying that he was only sticking up forWoods, who he said would never speak outfor himself.

“We need black athletes to speak out,”Barkley said. “Michael (Jordan) could do itand Tiger could do it, but you have to bewilling to be ridiculed. I’m willing to beridiculed.”

And that is what Barkley got. The imme-diate response from pretty much every-body in and out of the media was, “Shutup, Charles” or, “Chuck, you don’t knowwhat you are talking about; stick to basket-ball.”

But that is the thing: you can’t have itboth ways. These high-profile athletes,whose salaries have more zeroes than a‘Star Trek’ convention, cannot play bothsides of the fence.

Either we ask of them what we ask ofeveryone else in this country—worryabout yourself, your family and live yourlife the way you want—or we accept theunpopular outcomes that arise when theyexercise the extra power we have giventhem.

What Charles Barkley said may or maynot be true in any single person’s estima-tion, but the fact is that he made a com-ment a role model should make. Do we not

teach children to sometimes make theunpopular decisions and to stand behindwhat they believe in?

That’s, in essence, what Chuck did. Hehad an observation he knew would beunpopular, yet he still spoke his mind. Sowhy is everyone so quick to tell him to shutup?

Is it because he is not simply spoutingthe dry catch phrases of fame: stay inschool, say no to drugs, eat your vegeta-bles, listen to your parents, blah, blah,blah?

This is a script that has been played outmany times before. Mike Jordan heard thesnickers when he joined the Wizards frontoffice. “What is Jordan thinking? He is notqualified to run a franchise.”

Magic Johnson heard it when he startedfranchising meaningful restaurants, storesand movie theaters in low-income, pre-dominantly minority areas.

Muhmoud Abdul-Rauf, formerly knownas Chris Jackson, saw his NBA career brisklycome to a close after he refused to stand forthe National Anthem in 1996 and had somenot-so-patriotic words for America.

Do we want athletes to be merely fig-ureheads with no chance to voice theiropinion? Maybe everyone should simplylead by example like Jackie Robinson.

So Charles, from here on out, don’t ruffleany feathers, don’t criticize anyone, don’tstand up for things you believe in and justto be safe don’t comment on anythingother than basketball. If you can do all that,then there won’t be any more problems.

Any comments, Mr. Barkley? No?Good.

A – ANDRE AGASSI, MEN’S TENNISAgassi, the number one seed, changedhis three-year run of bad luck in theFranklin Templeton Tennis Classic bydefeating Juan Balcells 6-2, 7-6 (2) towin the 50th title of his career. “It

means a lotnow,” said the3 1 - y e a r - o l dAgassi, who lastyear becamethe oldest play-

er to finish in the ATP’s top three sinceJimmy Connors did it in 1984. “Beforethe match you’re really thinking aboutyour opponent and what you need todo. But you get done with it and it kindof hits you,” Agassi said.

By winning two-thirds of his 75finals, Agassi became just the eighthplayer to win 50 championships in theopen era, which began in 1968. Amongactive players, he trails only PeteSampras, who has 63 titles. Many thinkAgassi has been a little bit “womanwhipped” by his wife Steffi Graf thispast year. Agassi withdrew from theAustralian Open because his wristhurt. Translation: his wife wanted himto tend to her needs.

However, since the injury, Andrehas gotten a new trainer to replaceBrad Gilbert, and he seems to be onhis way to the top again. I am lookingfor Agassi to close out the year with atleast one more Grand Slam for hiscareer. I think he will capture the USOpen if he can stay healthy and if SteffiGraf lets him off her leash to play someserious tennis.

B – Allen Iverson, Point Guard,Philadelphia 76ers

The other week, Allen Iverson madea bold statement by saying that histeam is still the best team in theEastern Conference. That night,Iverson came off the bench to torchthe Nets, number one in the confer-ence, for 43 points. Since then, Phillyhas gone 7-1, and Iverson has scored40 or more points in four of thosegames.

Iverson, arguably playing at a levelhigher than anyone in the NBA, is thecatalyst for the Sixers, who are withoutAaron Mckie (sprained knee). I am giv-ing Allen Iverson fine credit becausehe wants to win more than anyone inthe NBA. He also never seems to gettired during games, a testament to hiswill and endurance.

C – “Season On The Brink” - The BobbyKnight Story

For the past four weeks, ESPN hasbeen advertising “A Season On TheBrink” as their first original motionpicture. If you watch ESPN, you knowthat these advertisements were onevery 15 minutes. Looking back, now Isee why. Anyway, the barrage of com-mercials served their purpose wellbecause I could not wait to see themovie. It was an attempt to depict thehighly controversial personality ofKnight through a setting that recreatedthe 1985-86 Indiana Hoosier’s men’sbasketball season.

This was an opportunity to get“behind the scenes” of a man whoseuncontrolled temper sparked thecuriosity of everyone. Well folks, if you

JOHN VERDEAUX ANDREW FRANKTHE FINAL GRADE

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

BY JONATHAN BLOOMAfter two dominating performances overYale last weekend, the women’s ice hockeyteam (22-7-2) will continue its quest for anECAC title this Saturday when it faces offagainst St. Lawrence. In the quarterfinalsagainst Yale, the Bears had stellar playfrom goalies Pam Dreyer ’03 and KatieGermain ’04, who each started a gameagainst the Bulldogs and held their oppo-nent scoreless. The 5-0 and 7-0 shutoutsare symbolic of Dreyer and Germain’s per-formances all season long and represent agood sign of things to come.

Dreyer, an All-Ivy goalie a year ago, wasinitially slated as the starter for this sea-son, before undergoing surgery and latersuffering from mono. This opened thedoor for Germain, who made the most ofher opportunity, constantly improving andgaining confidence as time went on. SinceDreyer’s return, the two have split ice time,with both having great success and put-ting forth strikingly similar results.

Dreyer has started 15 games, compilinga record of 10-3-2, and Germain has start-ed 16 with a mark of 12-4. Their save per-centages have been practically identical,as Dreyer has played at a .92 clip whileGermain has turned shots away at a rate of.921. Dreyer has registered four shutoutsthis season with Germain getting five, andtheir goals against average (GAA) is alsocomparable, at 1.57 and 1.61 respectively.Interestingly though, the two have com-pletely different styles of play, and thisgives the Bears a distinct advantage.

“Teams can’t prepare because they don’tknow who they’ll get,” said Head CoachDigit Murphy. “Pam is more of themethodical goalie – laid back, steady, let-ting the puck come to her, while Katie ismore aggressive, coming out of net and

forcing the action. It makes it tough foropposing teams.”

With a combined effort, Dreyer andGermain have helped lead the Bearsthrough an incredible stretch of play,resulting in 16 wins in their last 18 games.It seems as though Brown has finally hit itsstride, and with the remainder of the ECACtournament and the National tournamentstill to come, the Bears will look to contin-ue to build on that momentum.

“It’s a coach’s dream,” said Murphy onhaving two star goalies for the playoffs.“The team plays well in front of both ofthem … I’m not sure who will start forwhich game, but I expect to split them.They will both see the ice.”

Dreyer, a Human Biology concentratorfrom Eagle River, AK, has had a tremen-dous impact throughout her career in aBrown uniform. After only seeing limitedaction her rookie year, last season she fin-ished first in the nation with a .941 savepercentage and tied for first with sevenshutouts. She was also second in thenation with a 1.61 GAA, and she was anHonorable Mention All-ECAC selection.

Before coming to Brown, Dreyer wasvoted Chugiak High School MVP by team-mates in 1999, All-State HonorableMention, and was selected to play in sen-ior All-Star Game in 1999. She also excelledin her studies, as she was a four-yearmember of the Honor Roll and a three-year member of the National HonorSociety at Chugiak.

Germain, who is from Sarnia, Ontario,was recently named First Team All-Ivy forher play this season. She has been theleague’s top goaltender, maintaining a .949save percentage and a 1.75 GAA in leagueplay. Her overall totals rank first in theECAC-North in GAA and save percentage.

In high school, Germain led the firstgirls’ varsity hockey team at St.Christopher’s School to the OFSSAProvincial Championship in 1999. She wasvoted Most Valuable Player by her team-mates after posting a .95 save percentageand making 385 saves in 31 games (15shutouts). She played on the boys’ highschool team before that, and she was thefirst female in her school’s history toaccomplish that feat.

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Emily Hunt / Herald

In Brown’s two-game sweep over Yale,sending the team into the ECAC semi-finals, goalies Katie Germain ’04 (above)and Pam Dreyer ’03 split time andcombined for 24 saves.

BRADY THOMASGAME TIME

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