UCS calls for increase instudent activities feeBY LAURA SUPKOFFSTAFF WRITER

Margaret Klawunn, interim dean forcampus life, and David Greene, vicepresident for campus life and studentservices, told the UndergraduateCouncil of Students at its Wednesdaymeeting that they are considering aResidential Life Council proposal tomake some Grad Center suites coedoptional.

The proposal would convert 285 bedsin four- and five-person suites in GradCenter into coed optional housing. Theadministration sought the opinion ofUCS members as well as the rest of thestudent body. “We want to take this tothe broader community,” Greene said.

The conversion of the suites wouldmean a 35 percent to 40 percent increasein coed optional housing on campus,according to Adam Deitch ’05, a memberof ResCouncil.

Greene said he worried about rushingthe proposal through in time for thisyear’s housing lottery — applications forthe first segment, five- and seven-personsuites, are due March 11. “One of thethings we can’t be sure of is if we’re goingto miss why making 280 beds coedoptional is not a good idea,” Greene said.

UCS also unanimously approved aresolution that calls for a $20 increase inthe student activities fee to account for adramatic rise in the number of studentgroups over the last year.

There has been no increase in the fee,

other than a special raise exclusivelyfunding the Special Events Committee,since 2000. After the proposed $20 raise,the resolution provides a formula toadjust the fee annually, which is “just arecommendation for the StudentActivities Committee to use,” saidStudent Activities Committee ChairSarah Saxton-Frump ’07.

UCS passed a statement of supportconcerning renewable energy that offi-cially puts UCS behind the BrownEnvironmental Action Network’s effortsto bring renewable energy onto cam-pus.

Also at the meeting, six students werechosen to serve on the UCS ElectionsBoard. Divya Kumariah ’07, KevinMcDonald ’08, Avram Robbins ’05, JacobMcAuliffe ’06, Ashley Noreuil ’06.5 andSarah Lester ’08 will represent the non-UCS community on the board, whichwill have extra work this year in deter-mining election policies in light of themany recommendations made by theElections Review Commission.

Vance Hynes ’05, John Gillis ’07 and DaveBronfman ’07 will serve as the UCS mem-bers on the board, which will be chaired by

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U. rejects Israel divestment proposalBY CHRISTOPHER CHONSTAFF WRITER

President Ruth Simmons accepted a rec-ommendation of the Advisory Committeeon Corporate Responsibility in Investingand rejected the proposal for divestmentfrom Israel set forth by Anti-Racist Actionand promoted by a coalition of groups ata protest Feb. 11.

The ACCRI recommended thatSimmons reject ARA’s proposal for divest-ment from Israel, all Israeli corporationsand any U.S. corporations doing businesswith Israel, according to a copy of theACCRI’s report provided to The Herald byMarisa Quinn, assistant to the president.

“Members of the ACCRI agree unani-mously that the proposed divesture didnot meet the standards set in (the ACCRICharter), and consequently we advisethat you do not accept the recommenda-tion for divesture,” ACCRI Chair andProfessor Emeritus of EnvironmentalStudies Harold Ward wrote in the Feb. 15document to Simmons.

Quinn confirmed in an e-mail to TheHerald that Simmons accepted the com-mittee’s recommendation. Simmons’ let-ter to ARA “conveys the University’s posi-tion on this issue,” Quinn wrote in her e-mail.

Ward declined to comment.ACCRI Charter paragraph 1-e-vii says

divestment is appropriate only when it“will likely have a positive impact towardcorrecting the specified social harm andno other effective means of achieving apositive impact within a reasonable timeappears to exist.”

The charter, part of the faculty rulesand regulations, also says divestmentshould be recommended “when the com-pany in question contributes to socialharm so grave that it would be inconsis-tent with the goals and principles of theUniversity to accept funds from thatsource.”

In a private letter addressed to ARAmember Dara Bayer ’08, Simmonsexplained her decision to accept the

ACCRI’s recommendation and rejectARA’s demands for divestment, Quinnsaid.

Bayer and ARA, however, refused toprovide Simmons’ letter to The Herald.

ARA did not have an official commentabout the president’s decision. Bayer saidthe group will give its official responseand disclose the president’s letter earlynext week.

The group is not disclosing the letteruntil next week because “(ARA’s) specificrequest (to Simmons) was for a publicresponse, and she hasn’t given that to us.By not making a public response, she has-n’t been accountable to the Brown com-munity,” Bayer said.

On Feb. 7, ARA, the DemocraticSolidarity Committee and Brown Alumnifor Divestment submitted their demandsfor the University to divest from Israeland all corporations doing business withIsrael.

U. officialsdiscusspossibility ofcoed GradCenter suites

New HumanitiesCenter director tobring ‘dynamism’to job

BY STU WOOSENIOR STAFF WRITER

If Brown was looking for a world-classscholar to head its new CogutHumanities Center, the Universityappears to have found the right personfor the job.

“Michael Steinberg will bringdynamism and excitement to the newHumanities Center,” wrote Professor ofHistory and current Humanities CenterDirector Carolyn Dean in an e-mail toThe Herald. “He is a reputed scholar inboth music and history, and the idealperson to lead a Center devoted to pro-moting interdisciplinarity and cross-cultural exchange.”

Currently a professor of modernEuropean history at CornellUniversity, Steinberg won the JohnSimon Guggenheim MemorialFoundation Fellowship and the BerlinPrize Fellowship of the AmericanAcademy in Berlin, and in 2003-2004,he was also the Anna Maria KellenFellow at the Academy. A well-regard-ed author, he won the Austrian nation-al history prize in 2001 for his book“Austria as Theater and Ideology: TheMeaning of the Salzburg Festival.” Amusic scholar as well, he is currentlythe associate editor of the MusicalQuarterly.

Steinberg’s resume impressed theCorporation, which named Steinbergthe first director of the CogutHumanities Center on Saturday. The

CONTINUING CORPORATION COVERAGETODAY:Cogut Humanities Center director appointed.TOMORROW:$20 million gift for new professorships

see STEINBERG, page 7

Wilson Hall was evacuated Wednesdayafter a sprinkler head on the first floorbroke around 10:35 a.m. and sprayedwater for about 10 minutes.

“We had one of our electriciansenter the building to do some work,”said Carl Weaver, director of physicalplant at Facilities Management. “As heentered the building with his ladder,the ladder hit the sprinkler head and itwent off.”

“Those things are very sensitive,”said Lt. Brazil of the Providence FireDepartment, part of an engine compa-ny dispatched to the scene. The fire-fighters left after they verified there wasno sign of fire.

Students and faculty inside thebuilding heard a loud bang and thesound of water spraying from the ceil-ing near the back of the main entrancearea on the first floor. The alarm sound-ed a few seconds later and the buildingemptied.

“Well, it’s not a swimming pool.That’s a good thing,” a firefighter at the

scene told a group of evacuated stu-dents.

The front entrance and part of thefirst floor of Wilson were briefly closedso the water could be cleaned up, saidStephen Morin, director of environ-mental health and safety.

Personnel from FacilitiesManagement could be seen bringing aheavy-duty vacuum cleaner into thebuilding, and outside contractors werebrought in to repair the sprinkler and“to do some advanced dehumidifica-tion for a basement telecommunica-tions area,” Morin said.

There was “a fair amount of waterintrusion” in Wilson 102, Weaver said,as well as some water intrusion in thebasement telephone room.

The cost of the cleanup effort willnot be known for several days, he said.

“We’re going to chalk this up to anabsolutely understandable accident,”Weaver said.

— Ben Leubsdorf

Broken sprinkler in Wilson Hall forces evacuation

Matt Lent / Herald

UCS is considering making suites in Grad Center coed next year.

see DIVESTMENT, page 9

HOROWITZ RETURNSState legislators sponsoringacademic bill of rights based onconservative activist’s model

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Despite polls showing support for the

plan slipping, Bush is confident he is win-ning the first phase of the public debateover Social Security and has no plans tosignificantly alter his strategy for enactingthe most dramatic changes ever to thevenerable system, according to seniorWhite House officials who have talked toBush. Several congressional Republicans,however, said they do not share Bush’soptimism and questioned his strategy forenacting changes this year.

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ANNE RICHARDS (INTERNATIONALRESCUE COMMITTEE) ON THE TSUNA-MI AND U.S. RESPONSE7 p.m. (Wilson 102) —Anne C. Richard, vice president ofInternational Rescue Committee, willspeak about the tsunami, the U.S.response and the future of U.S. develop-ment policy. Before IRC, Richard waschief advisor to Secretary of StateMadeleine Albright.

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Horowitz promotes ‘academicbill of rights’ in R.I. SenateBY SHAWN BANSTAFF WRITER

Controversy is looming over theproposal of a bill in the StateSenate that would establish anacademic bill of rights forRhode Island’s three state col-leges.

The bill is modeled on a draftacademic bill of rights designedby Students for AcademicFreedom, a national organiza-tion with ties to conservativeactivist and author DavidHorowitz.

Republican senators LeoBlais and Kevin Breene andDemocrats Michael Damianiand Leonidas Raptakis pro-posed 2005-S 0392, “An ActRelating to Higher Education,”on Feb. 10.

The bill includes a clausedirecting the Rhode IslandBoard of Governors for HigherEducation to “adopt an aca-demic bill of rights designed toensure the academic freedom ofstudents and faculty at thestate’s institutions of higherlearning, such that grading andhiring will not be tainted byconsideration of the political,religious, or nonreligious beliefsof students or faculty, anddesigned to ensure that thestate’s educational campusesare an environment of open dis-course lacking any quality ofindoctrination.”

The bill would affect theUniversity of Rhode Island,Rhode Island College and theCommunity College of RhodeIsland.

The chain of events that ledto the introduction of the billbegan in a fall 2004 class atRhode Island College. BillFelkner, a graduate student in

social work, received a failinggrade from James Ryzcek, direc-tor of field education in theSchool of Social Work, in “Policyand Organizing.” Felkner dis-agreed with the professor’sopinion regarding educationalbenefits for people on welfare.

The case received local pub-licity, and Brian Bishop, a talkshow host on WLKW-AM, con-tacted Breene to push for anacademic bill of rights.

Horowitz, who has been avocal proponent of the academ-ic bill of rights, has a historywith Brown. In March 2001, TheHerald printed an advertise-ment submitted by Horowitztitled “Ten Reasons WhyReparations for Blacks is a BadIdea for Blacks — and Racist,Too!” A student coalition con-demned The Herald’s decisionto print the ad and removed4,000 copies of the paper fromdistribution points. Horowitzlater gave a lecture at Brown inOctober 2003 titled “AcademicFreedom: A Vanishing Ideal atBrown.”

Brad Shipp, national fielddirector of SAF, said the organi-zation supported the bill butwas not making any efforts todirectly lobby for it. “Academicfreedom is an important issue,and we support the bill. But Icertainly have not spoken to thefour senators,” he said.

One organization opposingthe bill is the AmericanAssociation of UniversityProfessors. The AAUP released astatement in December 2003condemning SAF’s draft legisla-tion as a threat to academicfreedom.

see HOROWITZ, page 4

University endowment returns up in 2004BY MARY-CATHERINE LADERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

University endowments expe-rienced unusually high invest-ment returns in 2004, averag-ing 15.1 percent, according to areport released in January. Thereport, compiled by theNational Association of Collegeand University BusinessOfficers, surveyed 741American institutions whoseendowments had a combinedvalue of $267.2 billion — thelargest value in the 33-year his-tory of the study.

Institutions with smallerendowments typically use theNACUBO report first as abenchmark of success andthen as a guide for selectinginvestment managers, accord-ing to NACUBO Public AffairsManager Damon Manetta. Lastyear’s increase was the greatestsince 1998, but given losses inrecent years, the five-year aver-age return of 3.8 percent stillrepresents an overall decline inendowment value whenadjusted for inflation. “Thisone-year spike is an unusualcircumstance,” Manetta said.

Of the schools included inthe study, those that investedmore heavily in stocks andequities performed better thanthose with more significant

bond holdings. However, thisanalysis is slightly simplisticfor institutions such as Brown,whose endowments are over $1billion and generally managedby investment offices ratherthan a university board com-mittee.

“NACUBO data is useful tosome extent, but each school isunique and its investments aretailored to its own require-ments,” wrote Vice Presidentand Chief Investment OfficerCynthia Frost in an e-mail.

Frost and Executive VicePresident for Finance and

Administration ElizabethHuidekoper both said theywere pleased with Brown’s 16.1percent return on investmentfor fiscal year 2004, which out-performed the NACUBO medi-an.

While the report noted thatresults did reflect a generaleconomic upturn, individualinvestment strategies areimportant. Larger endowmentshave successfully invested lessin traditional areas and “moretowards types of alternative

BY NICOLE SUMMERSCONTRIBUTING WRITER

How long has it been sinceyou last used marijuana inany form? How much moneywould you estimate youspend on marijuana in atypical week?

These are just two of themany questions posed tocollege students by e-TOKE.com, an online surveydesigned to let studentsexamine their personal mar-

ijuana use and see how itcompares to that of studentsat their own college and inthe rest of the country.

E-TOKE, which stands forElectronic THC OnlineKnowledge Experience, wasdeveloped by Scott Walters,assistant professor of behav-ioral sciences at theUniversity of Texas School ofPublic Health and Douglas

e-TOKE.com scoresstudents’ pot use

see E-TOKE, page 9

see ENDOWMENT, page 4

investment, like hedge funds,private equity and internationalequity,” Manetta said.

“We did better than if youjust had all the money in anindex fund,” Huidekoper said.“It’s not just economic upturn,but also because of asset alloca-tion and good managers.”

Brown’s Investment Office,headed by Frost, manages the$1.65 billion endowment bydetermining long-term goalsand asset allocation, but leavesindividual investment decisionsto external managers selectedthrough a “stringent due dili-gence process” and accordingto specific criteria — includingsocial responsibility, Frost said.She said there have been nomajor changes in investmentssince divestment from tobaccostocks in September 2003.

Alternatively, HarvardUniversity, which has anendowment of $22.1 billion thatranks first in terms of totalvalue, and the University ofTexas, ranked third at $10.3 bil-lion, both have internal man-agement companies. However,

compensation for these compa-nies’ managers has created con-troversy, most recently atHarvard ManagementCompany, where the six high-est-paid managers received acombined $100 million in com-pensation in 2003. The HMCmade headlines in Januarywhen President and ChiefExecutive Officer Jack R. Meyerannounced he would leave tostart a private fund.

With the smallest endow-ment in the Ivy League fordecades — ranked 25th overall— Brown’s Investment Officefaces different challenges.

“Since we have a smallerendowment, we aren’t asaggressive as some other (insti-tutions),” Huidekoper said.“Brown’s strategy is to invest alittle more defensively thansome other institutions, andthat’s the InvestmentCommittee of the Corporationthat makes that call.”

Frost described the portfolioas “designed for all seasons”through wide diversificationthat supports endowment-spending power in the long run.Last weekend the Corporationapproved the contribution of$66.7 million of the endowmentto the University’s 2005-2006

operating budget — an endow-ment draw of approximately5.27 percent. Last year’s strongreturns had little impact on thatdecision, because endowmentgrowth is “more relevant to thelong-term financial plan” thanthe yearly budget, Huidekopersaid.

According to Huidekoper, theper-student endowment of$219,000 — up from $195,000last year — better indicatesBrown’s ability to support stu-dents with its endowment,compared to peer institutions,because of the University’ssmaller student population.Still, the University has beenbehind by a wide margin fordecades.

“It is highly unlikely that wecan catch up with any of ourpeers through superior invest-ment returns alone,” Frost said.“To close the gap Brown needsexceptional fundraising.”

Although Huidekoper saidsubstantially increasing theendowment is a goal in the longrun, she and Frost are pleasedwith what the 2004 results meanfor Brown.

“Most importantly, theUniversity is on firmer financialfooting than one year prior,”Frost said.

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Frank Annunziato, executivedirector of the University ofRhode Island chapter of theAAUP, said the bill would curtailthe very freedoms it claims toprotect. “We oppose this bill,because it’s not what it says it is.It is designed to create academ-ic chaos and invite attacks onprofessors,” he said.

He cited the clause “quality ofindoctrination” in the bill assomething that could be mis-construed to “prevent profes-sors from raising tough ques-tions.”

Annunziato also said therewas no need for additional leg-islation, as most universitiesalready have internal policiesgoverning academic freedom.“Every institution has policiesin place to protect students. Wedon’t need more legislationenshrining this. We do not needto be monitored in this way.This bill is designed to makeeveryone into milquetoast,” hesaid.

In an interview with TheHerald, Horowitz dismissed thearguments given by the AAUP as“spurious.”

He said the AAUP had vestedinterests in preventing the aca-demic bill of rights frombecoming law. “These peopleare insecure and they’re scaredof hiring peers who disagreewith them. Entrenched powernever gives up without a fight,and they’re not going to give upeasily,” he said.

Horowitz argued the billwould protect the principle ofacademic freedom in universi-ties, pointing to the high ratio ofliberals to conservatives in facul-ties as evidence of imbalance.“Students are only getting oneside of the story, and you can’tget a good education that way,with a one-sided faculty,” hesaid.

He cited Brown as an exam-ple of an institution that hasbegun to recognize the impor-tance of academic freedom. TheUndergraduate Council ofStudents passed a resolution onacademic freedom modeled onthe academic bill of rights inApril 2004, and President Ruth

Simmons addressed academicdiversity in her Spring SemesterOpening Address on Feb. 1.

“Ruth Simmons, who I have alot of respect for even thoughher political views are very dif-ferent from mine, has taken thelead in supporting intellectualdiversity. Steps need to be takento protect institutions likeBrown,” Horowitz said.

Similar legislation has beenproposed in a number of states,including Ohio and Tennessee.Only one state, Colorado, haspassed such a bill so far, while asimilar bill is currently beingdeliberated in the U.S. House ofRepresentatives.

The Rhode Island SenateCommittee for Education iscurrently deliberating the billbefore it goes on the calendar.Both SAF and AAUP said repre-sentatives would attend hear-ings when dates are announced.

“Whether the bill passes thistime, I don’t know. But in thelong run, I think eventually it’llbe passed. Academic freedom isan inevitability,” Horowitz said.

Annunziato was more bluntabout his hopes for the bill. “Ihope that it gets killed,” he said.

Horowitzcontinued from page 3

Endowmentcontinued from page 3

BY ERIC BECKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

The University will spend morethan $155 million over the nexttwo years and nearly $335 mil-lion over the next five years onbuildings and infrastructureimprovements. The ambitiouscapital improvements and grow-ing overall budget — increased8.2 percent for next year —require aggressive fundraising,administrators said at a facultymeeting Tuesday.

The capital budget of $155million for the next two years,set by the Corporation at itsmeeting last weekend, will allowthe University to complete reno-vations to Pembroke Hall andthe Sciences Library and theconstruction of the Life Sciencesbuilding, in addition to improve-ments to infrastructure and firesafety in buildings around cam-pus, said Elizabeth Huidekoper,executive vice president forfinance and administration.

The University’s five-year cap-ital plan estimates building con-struction and improvementstotaling $333.6 million,Huidekoper said. The plan callsfor construction of Sidney E.Frank Hall and the NelsonFitness Center and ongoinginfrastructure improvementsand renovations to student lifeand academic spaces, she said.

Huidekoper told the facultythat the two-year budgetincludes architectural planningfor Frank Hall and the fitnesscenter, but ground will not bebroken until full funding issecured — probably not withinthe next two years. But PresidentRuth Simmons said the timelinewas still uncertain.

To fund the capital projectsand overall increased spending,the Corporation approved atuition increase of 4.9 percent —raising the cost of a Brown edu-cation above $40,000. But thetuition hike is only part of the

new income.Huidekoper said an increase

in the endowment is necessaryto fund the University’s futureplans, citing the need to raise$40 million in endowment thisyear.

Susan Howitt, associate vicepresident for budget and plan-ning, wrote in an e-mail to TheHerald that the University’slong-term plan calls for a $400million increase in the endow-ment by 2009, including the $40million to be raised this year.

Gifts totaling $65 million stillneed to be secured to fund thecapital improvements in thefive-year plan, Howitt wrote.

The endowment for SidneyFrank Scholars will pay out $2.25million next year, according tothe report.

The budget also assumes theBrown Annual Fund will grow by10 percent next year, providing$27 million in unrestricted rev-enue, according to the URCreport.

To cover the $155.2 millioncapital budget for the next twoyears, the University will borrow$105 million, Huidekoper said,adding that the balance willcome from existing borrowedfunds, reserved money, the oper-ating budget and gifts totaling$25 million.

The loans will be paid off by2011, meeting the Corporation’srequirement that the University’sbudget be balanced in five toseven years, she said.

In other business, the facultyvoted Tuesday to add a secondstaff member to the URC.

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Capital projects call for aggressive fundraising

Former Dean of the FacultyMary Fennell has been select-ed as one of three finalists inOhio State University’s searchfor a new executive dean of itsColleges of Arts and Sciences.Fennell, a professor of sociolo-gy and community health,recently returned from a roundof interviews on the Columbuscampus in mid-February.

The executive dean oversees41 departments and schoolswith over 1,000 faculty, accord-ing to the OSU Web site.

OSU opened the position toapplicants last year followingthe former executive dean’sretirement on June 30. Thesearch, headed by a searchcommittee appointed by theOSU provost, will come to aclose early this month.

After submitting their appli-cations and undergoing pre-screening interviews, the threefinalists were chosen to visitthe OSU campus and partici-pate in open forum interviewswith faculty, staff and students.

“Attendance at the openforums has been remarkablygood,” said Melinda Nelson,assistant executive dean ofOSU’s Colleges of Arts andSciences and the search coor-dinator. The forums weredesigned to allow candidates15 minutes to describe their

backgrounds and interest inthe position, with an addition-al 45 minutes of question-and-answer from the audience.

Following the three visits,the search committee willmake its recommendation tothe provost, who will make thefinal decision. Two of the par-ticipants — including Fennell— have completed their visits,with the third candidatescheduled to complete hisfinal visit on March 9. Theprovost will announce thedecision shortly thereafter.

The other two finalists hailfrom the University ofWashington and OSU itself,according to the OSU Web site.

Fennell served at Brown asdean of the faculty for fouryears, beginning in 2000. Sheresigned at the end of the2003-2004 academic year andwas replaced June 1 byProfessor of Economics RajivVohra P’07. As dean of the fac-ulty, Fennell worked to pre-pare academic departmentsand other academic units foran increase in faculty size byreviewing each department’sinstructional and researchprograms.

Fennell declined to com-ment.

— Emily McAteer

Fennell finalist forOhio State opening

Patrick Davidson, who, as theAssociated Press described it,“manhandled” Wake guard ChrisPaul, drawing a foul nearly imme-diately. He was pulled just two min-utes later to an ovation by the Dukefans.

While Davidson may have littlein common physically with Ingram,there seems to be little differencebetween the two. In fact, just look atthe stat line. For Davidson: fiveminutes played, no shots, nopoints, no rebounds, one foul. ForIngram: four minutes played, noshots, no points, one rebound, fivefouls.

The change in fan behavior hasbeen possibly the worst result ofthis new play style. The Templenatives continued a legacy of poorPhiladelphia sportsmanship, spit-ting on and taunting Bryant as helay on the court in pain, while Dukegave a standing ovation to a guywho is 996 career points away from1,000.

It seems clear to me that whilewhat Chaney did was wrong, andhe deserves whatever suspension ishanded down by the NCAA, he isfar from the only offender. It’sunfortunate that it took the prema-ture end to a young man’s basket-ball career for this problem to cometo light. I can only hope that thisincident sparks a motion to returnto the pure athletic, fundamentalgame that was first envisionedwhen those peach baskets werehung in that Springfield, Mass.,gym back in 1895.

At 6’6” and 250 pounds, sports edi-tor Ben Miller ’07 nonethelessmaintains a reputation devoid ofgoon tactics in Brown intramuralbasketball.

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center was renamed after alead donation from DeborahCogut and Craig Cogut ’75.

As the appointed directorof the center, Steinberg saidhis goal is to promote col-laboration between thehumanities departments atBrown.

“We’re going to start by giv-ing the Brown faculty themost opportunities that wecan to use the center to pro-mote their research and tomake the center a place forcollaboration and for dia-logue for the humanities,”Steinberg said. “The humani-ties really do depend on con-versation.”

Steinberg said all humani-ties departments would beinvolved with the center,although he also invites fac-ulty from other departmentsand institutions to partici-pate.

“We’re also to hoping tostart conversation with otherinstitutions like the WatsonInstitute and PembrokeCenter,” Steinberg said.

The center would also hostseminars and social events,Steinberg said.

This will be Steinberg’s firstteaching stint at Brown.Along with his duties asdirector of the new center,Steinberg will also be a pro-fessor of history and music,although he does not yetknow what he will teach thisfall.

Steinberg said the strengthof the humanities depart-ments at Brown, as well as thePlan for AcademicEnrichment, made it an easychoice for him to accept thejob.

“I (thought the job) wastotally irresistible,” Steinbergsaid. “I was thrilled whenthey asked me to do it. I thinkit’s been the most exciting jobin the country for a couple ofyears, and I think Brown is awonderful place.”

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Charley Cummings ’06.Kumariah will be the stu-

dent representative to theUniversity ResourcesCommittee. The BrownUndergraduate CommunityCouncil student positions werealso announced. Emma Tai’07.5 and Robert Klaber ’07 willbe representatives for twoyears, and the one-year posi-tions will be filled by KateBrandt ’07 and Teresa Tanzi’07. After the one-year term,

Brandt’s and Tanzi’s positionswill become two-year posts aswell, staggering the elections.

Dave Beckoff ’08 was elect-ed the newest voting memberof UCS in internal elections,replacing Natalie Schmid ’06,the former chair of theCampus Life Committee, whoresigned for personal reasons.Ben Creo ’07, formerly theappointments chair, was elect-ed to Schmid’s position asCampus Life chair. His now-vacant position has not yetbeen filled due to a questionconcerning the ability of aBUCC member to serve on theUCS executive board.

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In a document claiming“Israel = White Supremacy,” thegroups wrote that “any Zionist— that is anyone equatingJewish identity and heritagewith defense of the state andruling class of Israel — is anaccomplice of white suprema-cy and empire.” The documentalso said the groups would “notrelent until the undemocraticinstitutions on this campus areshaken; we will not stop untilour tuition is no longer used tosupport injustice here andoverseas in Palestine.”

ARA’s demands were for-warded to the ACCRI, which ismade up of three students,three elected faculty membersand three alums. The ACCRIsubsequently submitted itsreport to Simmons.

Although the ACCRI as abody had no official comment,Zachary Teutsch ’05, a studentmember of the ACCRI, said hepersonally thinks Simmonsmade the correct decision insupporting the ACCRI’s recom-mendation.

“The proposal for divesture

was imprecise and includedthe vast majority of Fortune500 companies that do busi-ness in the world,” Teutschsaid. “Most of those companiesare not particularly or directlyculpable for any of the prob-lems that exist today. They wereasking for the University todivest from hundreds of com-panies, almost every majorcompany you could think of.”

Companies targeted by ARAincluded were Microsoft, AT&T,Morgan Stanley, GeneralElectric, Time Warner andRoyal Crown Cola. ARA alsotargeted military contractorssuch as Textron, Raytheon andCaterpillar.

Still, Teutsch applaudedARA’s efforts to push theUniversity to be more sociallyresponsible.

“I understand their deeppassion and sense of moralpurpose. I just disagree on thisspecific issue and hope that asthey spend more time lookinginto the issues more deeply,they can understand the spe-cific impacts of divestment as atool,” Teutsch said. “In somecases, divesture is absolutelythe correct and only moralresponse. This didn’t appear tobe one of them.”

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With O’Hear’s and Swaffield’soutstanding performances thisseason, they stand a good chanceto make the U.S. National worldcup team, Leblanc said.

The team also features Elgort,Janet Marly-Mauzy ’07, JamieJohnson ’06, Mallory Taub ’08 andMeaghan Casey ’08, who will skias an alternate.

“Sophie Elgort and JanetMarley-Mauzy are both prettyimportant, because they have(each) been our third finisherpretty consistently,” Swaffieldsaid.

“I want to keep skiing how Ihave been and keep putting insome good results for the team,”Elgort said.

The Bears will leave onMonday for McCall, Idaho.Competition will begin on March9 and continue through March 12.

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tending style).”While Danis is a more stylisti-

cally graceful goaltender, D’Albahas remarkable reaction speedand the uncanny ability to stoppucks even when he appears tobe out of position. “Adam reliesmore on his raw talent. He hasamazing reflexes and his skillshave really shown through,”Haggett said.

“I don’t know if you’re evergoing to replace a Hobey Bakerfinalist like Yann Danis,” Grillosaid. “But right now, Adam isway ahead of where Yann was atthe same age. Adam’s improve-ment is going to be a matter ofhow he develops physically andmentally over the next fewyears.”

While D’Alba’s coach did notwant to speculate the goalie’spotential, his captain had somethoughts.

“I have no doubt that asD’Alba gets more experience, hewill become one of the bestgoaltenders in the nation,”Haggett said.

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Van Sickle, acting dean of stu-dents at San Diego StateUniversity. The program’scounterpart is e-CHUG.com,which surveys students abouttheir alcohol use. E-CHUG iscurrently used by 117 collegesaround the country and hasproved successful in makingstudents aware of the amountof alcohol they consume,Walters said.

The e-TOKE site is designedto “give students very specificfeedback that they can use todecide if they should cutdown (their use),” Walterssaid. The idea is that studentswho use marijuana will takethe survey and more accurate-ly assess their behavior, whichwill then influence them toseek help. At the end of thesurvey, students are providedwith the contact informationof a professional at theirschool with whom they cantalk if they are concerned

about their use. The program also aims to

make students aware that noteveryone is using marijuana.“The perceived culture normand the actual cultural normare different variables,” saidJane Jones, coordinator ofalcohol and other drug educa-tion at Colgate University,which is one of six schoolswhere e-TOKE is being tested.

The other institutions areSan Diego State, DukeUniversity, Texas A&MUniversity, the University ofNebraska and the Universityof San Diego.

If the program proves suc-cessful, it will be marketed tocolleges and universitiesaround the country for $575 ayear starting at the end ofMarch.

Walters said e-TOKE is partof a growing effort to addressthe increasing presence ofmarijuana on college campus-es. A study conducted by theHarvard School of PublicHealth in 2001 revealed thatfrom 1993 to 2001, the per-centage of college students

who use marijuana went upfrom 23 percent to 30 percent.

While studies show increas-ing marijuana use among col-lege students, some collegesmight not want to subscribeto e-TOKE because it couldserve as bad public relations ifit appears they are advertisinga marijuana problem on theircampus, Walters said.

Brown has not consideredthe possibility of subscribingto e-TOKE if it is marketed,said Frances Mantak, directorof health education. TheUniversity has a program sim-ilar to e-CHUG calledMyStudentBody.com, whichgives students the opportuni-ty to examine their personalbehaviors and beliefs regard-ing alcohol, STDs and tobac-co. MyStudentBody.com hasbeen a helpful resource forBrown students, but it hasbeen a challenge to get peopleto use it, Mantak said.

Though Brown has not sub-scribed to e-TOKE, anyonecan go to the Web site andtake a survey at www.e-TOKE.com.

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Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services DavidGreene and Dean for Campus Life Margaret Klawunnannounced at Wednesday’s UCS meeting that the Office ofStudent Life is considering turning 285 beds in Grad Center intooptional coed housing. They are soliciting student input, theysaid, before making a final decision.

Under their proposal, only suites with bathrooms that arelockable from the interior can be considered for coed housing.ResCouncil has recommended making all of Grad Center coedfor two years running, but without success. The issue preventingStudent Life from making all Grad Center suites optionally coed,they say, is one of privacy.

For members of the administration who haven’t spent muchtime recently in dorms on campus, we have some details we’dlike to share. The exterior doors of multi-toilet restrooms, foundin dorms such as Andrews, Keeney and New Dorm, have beenduly equipped with the all-important locks … which have thenbeen duct-taped to allow open access. The setup is very conven-ient for taking showers — fumbling for a key with a towel on isjust so awkward — and for answering nature’s call when visitinga friend in a different dorm. More importantly, the fact that all600 students living in Keeney — male and female — can accessany bathroom in the building hasn’t proved to be a problem.

The lesson here is that students create situations they arecomfortable with. In dorms across campus, many bathroomshave become coed by default without complaint, while else-where students live on same-sex hallways. Ultimately, sharing asuite of singles with between three and five students of their ownchoosing will afford students far more privacy — regardless ofthe gender make-up of the suite — than is available in many ofthe other dorms. With coed housing as limited as it currently is,especially for rising sophomores, it is not uncommon for coedgroups of friends to split along gender lines and make up the dif-ference with students they are not as close with. Single-sex suitesare no guarantee of a comfortable bathroom situation.

If the whole issue of coed housing really hinges on lockingbathroom doors, what is stopping the University from installingproper locks in Grad Center? If money is the issue, why don’t wejust switch the Grad Center locks with the ones in Keeney bath-rooms, since those aren’t being used anyway?

But this is just our two cents. We encourage the rest of you toshare your opinions with the Office of Student Life atOSL@brown.edu.

Unlocking Grad Center

To the Editor:

I read with interest Neale Mahoney’s screed,“Dismissing the Anti-Brown,” (Feb. 24). Mahoneytrundles off to Princeton University and finds his“grand expectations” stymied. Regrettably, he can-not discern the caricatured student he imagines —an effete fancy boy prancing around among“Beamers and Mercedes, cuff links and caviar,”preparing to join up with those wicked I-bankersand likeminded conservatives.

Well. I suppose I don’t like Princetonians anymore than Neale Mahoney does. But if I went gam-boling off in search of a stereotype, looked aroundintently, and could not find it, I would concludethat such a stereotype is probably off the mark.

This is not the tack that Mr. Mahoney takes.“Princeton students are lame,” he writes. “Notlame for their identity, but lame because they shy

away from it.” Brunonians, on the other hand,“live their politics” (a little to the left of ChairmanMao, I’d wager). They have a “funky edge.”“Princeton is no anti-Brown,” he concludes. “We’redifferent, not only for our political standing butalso for the conviction and commitment we bring.So what is the anti-Brown? Is it Harvard, Yale, ormaybe Dartmouth?”

Ah, yes, old Dartmouth College. At present, I’mspending my last year up here on the HanoverPlain, and I can assure Neale Mahoney thatDartmouth is, in fact, the Anti-Brown. Dartmouthstudents are not shrill, pretentious, doctrinaire orinsufferable. Most of all, they do not just plainsuck.

Joseph RagoHanover, N. H.

Feb. 25

Dartmouth student weighs in on the anti-Brown

To the Editor:

Major construction plans and faculty hiringsget the headlines, but it seems Adam Nelson has-n’t been paying much attention to the changesthat don’t make The Herald (“Little improve-ments mean a lot,” Mar. 3). In the last five years,particularly since Ruth Simmon’s arrival, Brownhas made a concerted, conscious effort toimprove the superficial quality of college life.

The creation of satellite fitness centers,increased security officers at night and openaccess to wireless networks are all recent and

appreciated changes. Furthermore, anyone whoexperienced the Ratty, V-Dub and Pembrokedorms during the turn of the millennium will tellyou how lucky we are today. Of course, not everydesire can be instantly gratified (I think we’re allholding our breath for 2-ply), but in a period ofambitious expansion and growing financial aid,Brown’s creature comforts have distinctlyimproved.

Xander Boutelle ‘05Feb. 25

Brown’s quality of life has been improving

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Not-art is the new Art

The cab drivers in New York, I am told, were mostangry about Jean-Claude and Christo’s “The Gates”project in Central Park.

Why? They were angry that $20 million was usedfor such a superfluous exercise in aesthetics. ThatJean-Claude and Christo financed the project them-selves didn’t matter. Unlike the perhaps equallypointless (or not?) works safely isolated from themasses — in the Met, Whitney, and as if tucked awayin maximum-security prison, the Dia-Beacon —“The Gates” punished park users in saffron orange.

Was it art? No. After the New York Times proudlycalled “The Gates” the most important public artproject of the 21st century, the perspective shiftedfrom viewing “The Gates” as art to viewing them asspectacle. The last New York Times review I read atfirst dismissed “The Gates” as any kind of aestheticproject — large, awkwardly proportioned rectan-gles? Saffron orange? Police barricades? Instead, itquickly lapsed into a commentary on the quiet andexcited hubbub of New Yorkers and tourists walkingthrough the park, feeling themselves part of some-thing “larger than them.” Nice. The country fair hada similar effect when I was a child. Against late-August dusk, the orange and red churning gleam of“the Zipper,” cotton candy flavored red and blue,and cute yellow duckies that you could pick up andpet. So soft!

Not. Art. Does it matter? No. It brought New Yorkers

together into some semblance of a community — afeat rarely seen and commendable. It brought moretourists to New York, bringing the city badly neededtax revenue — perhaps Bloomberg can now affordsocial services.

Does it open a super-secret, back-door loopholeinto the world of art? Yes. Not-art is the new Art.

Here, buried in the middle of my opinion, is thepoint: I want you to consider Brown’s new LifeSciences building art. Only at night. Stand on

Thayer or Meeting Street after dark and look up. Amassive grid of dark steel girders climbs into the sky,recollecting Sol LeWitt’s white structural sculptures— the steel cuts a grid, ordering Providence’s bluedusk like Anges Martin’s rigid paintings.

But these references are partially obscured.White, translucent plastic covers the building’s fronttwo-thirds. Inside, bare, hanging light bulbs glarethrough the night. The effect is sublime: The struc-ture emits a subtle white glow through the entirenight. Such an exercise, on this scale, recollectsJean-Claude and Christo’s draping of the Reichstagwith a similar material. Yet their material was leftlargely to sway in the wind, as if a giant curtain hadclosed on Germany’s past, consciously remindingGerman tourists of this fact. We might read theReichstag project as Germans’ collective ventureinto the future — closing a literal curtain on Act Oneof their history. Dismantling the project, openingthe curtain, they entered Act Two.

The Life Sciences Project, plastic tightly grippingits steel structure, seeks not to draw a curtain onthe past, but openly protect the future. It acknowl-edges both its strengths — the powerful steelbeams — and its weaknesses — its exposure to thechilly winds of Ivy elitism. Scaffolding, irregularlyclimbing the Project’s sides, quietly echoes its innerstructure. Irregular, fragile and ephemeral, the scaf-folding works not to emulate but to express theProject’s weaknesses within the grander scale ofhuman history. The Project places its emotions onthe outside.

Jean Claude and Christo’s Reichstag Project did-n’t glow. The Life Sciences Project, glowing throughthe night — expensive, but unlike The Gates, hold-ing an innate greater purpose (Science! Progress!)subtly illuminates the Providence skyline as a bea-con of the future.

Stefan Talman ’05: clever, witty, pretentious.

Why can’t we be friends?It was an early Saturday morning last

October when I found myself leavingPhiladelphia by train, trapped next to agroup of Brown and Penn students. As wemade our way to the Philly suburb wherewe’d soon be canvassing door-to-door, Ithought to myself how we, students fromtwo different schools, were united for theday: We were there together to help Sen.John Kerry get elected.

But soon conversations between stu-dents of different schools took the formof mini-competitions, and my pridefulfeelings of unity evaporated. The Pennstudents chided us for taking all of ourclasses pass-fail and for having it easy;the Brown kids defended themselves byalluding to Penn as a place for no-funworkaholics.

Overhearing the petty contest, a class-mate said to me: “I don’t get this schoolrivalry thing. As students, as young peo-ple, we have so much more in commonthan we do differences. There’s so muchmore that binds us together than thatdivides us. Why the hostility?”

Looking back on nearly two years ofcollege life, my classmate’s words stillmaintain their relevance. School rivalriesare immature, misinformed and, worst ofall, grounded in stereotypes and general-ities. By engaging in the type of emptyrhetoric I heard on the train that morn-ing, we take what we don’t know aboutanother place and, instead of trying to

understand it or relate to it, degrade it asmuch as possible. Or we take the bestqualities of our own environment andexaggerate them in an attempt to charac-terize our whole school population. Bothexercises begin as competition andthrive on misunderstanding and igno-rance.

But college is where we go to combatignorance, isn’t it? Here, the goal isn’t justto learn, it’s to learn about new people,places and ideas and accept these once-foreign subjects with an open mind. As

supposedly mature college students, wemight be quick to shake our heads at aracial joke rooted in stereotypes, but weare likely to applaud a mode of thinkingthat generalizes students at other col-leges in the same misinformed way.

Take Neale Mahoney’s “Dismissing theanti-Brown” (Feb. 24). In this opinionscolumn, Mahoney gives us his strangepseudo-ethnography, which he conduct-ed while visiting Princeton for a week-

end. His goal: to compare Brown stu-dents with Princeton students, and figureout which group is better. His results?Princeton students are “lame,” whileBrown students stand out in their “con-viction and commitment” to politicaland ideological causes.

Now, I don’t think that the author actu-ally believes that all Princeton studentsare lame, but it seems that he does thinkthat most are. He also believes that mostare conservative. And preppy. And filthyrich. By the same token, in comparison,

Mahoney explains that most Brown stu-dents are free-spirited, liberal andslightly poorer. Which makes us, what,cooler?

What’s so dangerous here is not justthat Mahoney dismisses an entire groupof students as lame. It’s that he uses thesame tactic, reversed, to paint a brighterpicture of the students on this campusthan the one they actually deserve. Bydeclaring that all Brown students show

“conviction and commitment” to human-itarian causes, citing the charity tables inthe post office as an example, Mahoneyattempts to simplify our student body asnear-perfect, as though we have achievedthe pinnacle of political activism. Thetruth is that a large percentage of stu-dents here do not engage in any activismor service in the community, and by say-ing they do, Mahoney fails to look inwardat our student body and critique it hon-estly. If we keep turning away from ourshortcomings, we can never reflect onthose shortcomings to ultimately makechange for the better.

My point here is not just that stereo-types are bad. Most of us agree that theyare. But when we talk about college rival-ries, we continue to condone languagethat employs these generalities. The truthis that college students may have more incommon than people in any other agecohort. Whether attending a communitycollege or a so-called upper-tier school,whether in the Midwest or in NewEngland, students can find unity in theirdedication, to some extent, to the pursuitof learning and self-growth, in theirknowledge that they will play a role in thefuture successes or failures of this world.

That goes for any college student, nomatter what the school.

Joshua Lerner ’07 is a Princeton studentin disguise.

JOSHUA LERNER

We might be quick to shake our heads at aracial joke rooted in stereotypes, but weare likely to applaud a mode of thinkingthat generalizes students at other collegesin the same misinformed way.

I want you to considerBrown’s new Life Sciencesbuilding art. Only at night.

Stand on Thayer or MeetingStreet after dark and look up.

GUEST COLUMN BY STEFAN TALMAN

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MARCH 3, 2005 · PAGE 12

BY JUSTIN AMOAHSTAFF WRITER

The women’s skiing team has qualified forthe USCSA National Championships afterfinishing in first place in the giant slalomlast weekend at the USCSA EasternRegional Championships. With their timeof 6:25.89, the Bears wound up on top forthe third straight week.

Even though three Brown skiers fell, theBears still managed to come in fifth in theslalom with a team time of 5:09.99. Brownfinished the weekend third overall, behindMacConnell Division rivals University ofMassachusetts-Amherst and BostonCollege.

After leading the Bears to the top spot inthe MacConnell Division in the regularseason and finishing the season last weekwith her first win of the season in theslalom, Kelly O’Hear ’07 led the Bears witha second-place finish in the giant slalom.Her combined two-run time of 1:25.29 lefther just 0.62 seconds out of first.

“She skied really well, was solid and wasfor sure the leader of the team,” said co-captain Hilary Swaffield ’06.

Swaffield and Sophie Elgort ’08 showedthat the Bears continue to be a threat in thegiant slalom by finishing fourth and 12th,respectively.

“I was pretty consistent this weekend,

but it was really stressful on Saturdaybecause three of our top five girls fell, so Iknew I had to finish the run pretty fast,”Elgort said.

Still feeling the effects of a knee injuryshe suffered last year, Elgort was the Bears’most consistent competitor over the week-end, also finishing 10th in the slalom.

“She managed to grit her teeth and sticka couple super-solid runs in for us,” saidHead Coach Michael Leblanc.

“She’s doing amazing, considering she’sin pain half the time,” Swaffield added.

At Nationals, the skiers will have to accli-matize quickly to both Idaho, where theywill race at an altitude of 7,000 feet, and thetough competition.

“The Western kids are going to have abig advantage in that aspect,” Leblanc said.

The Bears will face off against 16 otherschools, including Sierra Nevada College,which features three ex-World Cup skiers.

“The top-five times coming from ourregion are some of the most competitiveteams that are going to be there, and SierraNevada is the only team we need to be con-cerned about,” Swaffield said.

Despite the hefty competition, Swaffieldsaid it is very likely the Bears will finish inthe top three.

Leblanc agreed. “There is absolutely achance that we can do something atNationals, but it’s going to take an extremeamount of focus,” he said.

Also up for grabs will be a spot on theU.S. National World Cup team, Leblancsaid. The international competitors fromSierra Nevada will not be able to qualify forthe spot, giving Swaffield and O’Hear, theteam’s top skiers, extra incentive.

Swaffield, whose sister, Whitney, quali-fied for the U.S. World Cup team last yearwhile competing for Plymouth StateUniversity, said she thinks she and O’Hearhave a good chance at Nationals.

“Considering that Kelly and I have beenplacing in the top five pretty consistently,her in both events and me especially in thegiant slalom, I think that we both have agood chance of making top five atNationals,” Swaffield said.

BY JAMES FELDMANCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Men’s hockey Head Coach Roger Grilloknew he had big skates to fill last springfollowing the graduation of Yann Danis’04, Brown’s All-American goaltenderand Hobey Baker Award finalist. If youhad asked Grillo who would replaceDanis as the starting goaltender, it isunlikely that his answer would havebeen Adam D’Alba ’08.

Yet so far this season, it has been thefirst-year from Glencoe, Ill. who hascarried the Bears at times. D’Alba hasamassed an impressive 12-8-2 record in22 appearances in net for the Bears.Heading into this weekend’s playoffseries against Rensselaer PolytechnicInstitute, D’Alba sports a save percent-age of .932, third-best in the country,and is ranked 12th in the nation with a2.05 goals against average.

D’Alba’s dominance in net has comeas a complete surprise, considering thathe was the third-string goaltenderbehind Scott Rowan ’05 and KevinKliman ’06 at the start of the season. Itdidn’t take long for D’Alba to crack the

starting lineup, though, and he madethe most of his collegiate debut, stop-ping 44 shots in a 2-1 win over then-No.7 University of Minnesota-Duluth.D’Alba turned heads around the leagueby remaining unbeaten in his first sevenstarts at 6-0-1.

“We knew Adam would make animpact, but we didn’t think it would beright away,” said Grillo. “He’d playedwell at the level he was at before Brown(Junior A), but it is a jump up to playcollege hockey.”

D’Alba, however, had his eye on thestarting job all along. “I came in with amindset where I expected to be thestarter. I didn’t want to come in and be abackup goalie,” he said.

His stellar goaltending has won himvarious honors this season. He has beennamed the ECACHL’s Goaltender of theWeek three times, Rookie of the Weektwice, and in late January, he receivedU.S. College Hockey Online’s DefensivePlayer of the Week award.

“D’Alba’s been a great addition to ourteam. He has played with confidencesince his very first game, and that reallycarries through to the rest of the team,”said captain Les Haggett ’05.

D’Alba knew there would be addedpressure in the shadow of a hockeygreat like Danis. “Yann did extraordi-nary things for the program,” he said.D’Alba even sites Danis, who now playsfor the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL,as one of the reasons he chose to cometo Brown. “The Brown hockey programhas produced a lot of great goalies likeYann, and I hope that I can bring thatkind of success, too,” D’Alba said.

While D’Alba has put up numbers asa freshman similar to those of Danisduring his record-setting senior year,the two goalies play with distinctly dif-ferent styles.

“Yann was a more polished goal-tender,” Haggett said. “He was all aboutcutting down (the shooter’s) angles andhe had perfected the butterfly (goal-

Anyone who has ever played an organizedgame of basketball can spot them theinstant they step on the court. Their movesare as acrobatic as a gorilla’s, and their drib-

bling skills are asgood as RobSchneider’s nextmovie. In a gamefilled with graceand athleticism,

these players are like the goofy kid with twoleft feet at the high school dance. No, I’mnot talking about Shawn Bradley. The play-ers I’m describing are the “goons,” or“enforcers.”

The enforcer is a stock character in theworld of sports archetypes. Generally foundin hockey rinks, he (or she) is best describedas an intimidator whose lack of athletic skilland grace is made up for with sheer nasti-ness and physicality. They beat and check,push and foul, leaving a trail of bruises andwounds in their wake.

Unfortunately for basketball, theenforcers are trading their skates for hightops and invading the hardwood. This darksecret came to light last week when JohnChaney, the Hall of Fame coach of TempleUniversity, inserted Nehemiah Ingram intoa game against St. Joseph’s University.

Ingram promptly picked up more foulsthan minutes played and was disqualifiedafter just four minutes. But Ingram man-aged to do more to change the game of bas-ketball in his four minutes on the court thananyone since Kermit Washington punchedRudy Tomjanovich in an NBA game back in1977.

For those not familiar with the story,Ingram knocked St. Joe’s senior John Bryantto the ground. The collision resulted in abroken right arm for the forward, endingboth his season and his career. After thegame Chaney admitted that he put Ingramin the game with instructions to foul as away of protesting what the Temple coachbelieved were illegal screens set by theHawks. In that same press conference, healso formally labeled Ingram a “goon” andfinally acknowledged what has been a dis-appointing trend in the college game.

Anyone who has watched men’s colle-giate basketball over the past few years hasbeen well aware of the seemingly endlessparade of unathletic squads whose sole tal-ent is playing rough and physical. Whileannouncers heap praise on these teams asbeing “blue-collar,” it is time to recognizethem for what they are: just plain dirty. Ablue-collar play in basketball is leaping

across the court for a loose ball, shadowinga guard up and down the court, or fightingto keep position with a good, clean box-outand then leaping up into the air to corralthe offensive board. Just because you canhack and hold someone does not makeyou hardnosed.

While there are many offenders of thissort in the college game, there are a few inparticular that come to mind. The bestexample of thugs is not just a team, it’s anentire conference: the Big Ten. Made up offootball powers such as Michigan,Wisconsin, and Ohio State, the conferencefields many teams that play what is closerto football than the graceful game createdby James Naismith. The 11-team confer-ence has gotten better in recent years dueto a changing of the guard at a few schools(most notably Wisconsin), but it still hassome games that could make a hockeyplayer cringe.

Duke University is little better. Theschool that featured Matt Christensen —who was in school for longer than VanWilder — has also displayed “goon tactics”as of late. In a Feb. 20 win over Wake Forest,Coach Mike Krzyzewski started guard

Following victory at Regionals, skiinglooks for top three finish at Nationals

The goon takes over in college hoops

D’Alba ’08 admirably fillingskates of Danis ’04 in goal

Judy He / Herald

With a save percentage of .932 and 2.05goals against average, Adam D’Alba ’08 iscontinuing the legacy of stellar Browngoaltending left by Yann Danis ’04.

Men’s ICE HOCKEY

Team ECACHL Pts. Overall

1. Cornell 18-2-2 38 22-4-3

2. Harvard 15-5-2 32 18-8-3

3. Colgate 14-5-3 31 20-9-3

4. Vermont 13-6-3 29 17-11-4

5. Dartmouth 14-8-0 28 17-10-3

6. Brown 9-11-2 20 14-12-3

7. St. Lawrence 9-12-1 19 14-16-2

8. Union 8-13-1 17 12-18-2

9. Clarkson 7-13-2 16 11-18-3

10. Princeton 6-14-2 14 8-18-3

10. RPI 6-15-1 13 14-18-2

12. Yale 3-18-1 7 4-23-2

Women’s ICE HOCKEY

Team ECACHL Pts. Overall

1. Harvard 17-1-2 36 20-6-3

2. Dartmouth 16-4-0 32 23-5-0

3. St. Lawrence 14-3-3 31 24-4-4

4. Yale 12-7-1 25 14-14-1

5. Princeton 10-7-3 23 16-8-5

5. Brown 11-8-1 23 14-13-2

7. Colgate 9-7-4 22 14-13-4

8. Clarkson 7-12-1 15 12-14-6

9. Cornell 3-16-1 7 3-21-3

10. Vermont 3-17-0 6 5-24-3

11. Union 0-20-0 0 5-25-1

ECACHL STANDINGS

THURSDAY, MARCH 3

AWARDS

Women’s ICE HOCKEY: O’Hara Shipe ’08, ECACHLGoaltender of the Week Honors (2/28)

SPORTS SCOREBOARD

dspics

After a fourth-place finish in giant slalomat Regionals this weekend, Hilary Swaffield’06 will travel to the slopes of McCall, Idahofor Nationals with six other Brown skiiers.

BEN MILLERTHE CHAMPAGNE

OF COLUMNS

see MILLER, page 7

see SKIING, page 9see M. HOCKEY, page 9