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“I am not a racist,” conservative theorist David Horowitz told a packed audiencein Salomon 101.

Horowitz speaks out againststifling of conservative viewsBY JULIETTE WALLACKSelf-proclaimed “scary guy” and conser-vative theorist David Horowitz made hisfirst appearance on campus last night, ina lecture marked by fiery debate and apolite audience.

Horowitz’s lecture in Salomon attract-ed a crowd of 400 people and a heavypolice presence.

“I have been dying to answer ques-tions for two-and-a-half years, but noone would invite me,” Horowitz said.

In spring 2001, Horowitz’s anti-repara-tions advertisement appeared in TheHerald, sparking a month of controversythat split the campus over issues ofracism and free speech. He was invited bythe College Republicans to speak then,but the offer was rescinded amid threatsof violence.

During his 45-minute lecture,Horowitz touched on issues ranging fromliberal bias on college campuses to thereparations debate.

But, he said, “I am not the divisive,inflammatory, racist force” that somemake him out to be and, as a conserva-tive, he is the “target of a campaign of vil-ification” that has “metastasized” atBrown.

“I am not a racist,” he said. Rather, hesaid he feels “that the civil rights move-ment has gone astray in supporting racialpreferences.”

Horowitz began his lecture by describ-ing the ideas behind his Academic Bill ofRights, which calls for universities to keep

political views out of classrooms.Students around the country feel threat-ened by professors’ liberal slants and areunable to express their conservativeviews, he said.

“Students can’t get a good education ifthey’re only telling you half the story,” hesaid. And on campuses where liberalviewpoints are dominating, he said con-servatives are afraid to speak out.

“There are always two sides to issues,”

Undergroundwill reopenwith alcoholBY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETAfter last-minute delays postponed theUnderground’s reopening once again, thebar will serve alcohol for the first time in ayear on Oct. 24, under professional man-agement.

“Everyone is excited and I feel we havecome to a nice balance with the adminis-tration,” said Food and Beverage managerAdam Gerchen ’04. “We think theUnderground will soon be returning to thefull glory of years past.”

The Underground’s managers told TheHerald in mid-September the bar wouldreopen by the beginning of October. Butmanagers postponed the Oct. 3 openingwhen Director of Student Activities DavidInman took an unexpected medical leave.

Inman, who general manager LeslieFriedman ’04 said is the Underground’sstrongest supporter in the administration,had been in charge of the club’s operation.

Dean for Campus Life MargaretJablonski took over Inman’s role, which ledto the delay of the second planned open-ing night, scheduled for Oct. 17 when thebar’s new professional manager, MichaelSantoemmo, had a scheduling conflict,Friedman said.

“The student managers of theUnderground and Dean Inman needed tofinalize the job description for the manag-er, conduct interviews and hire the man-ager,” Jablonski wrote in an e-mail to TheHerald. “Training for all students workingin the pub also needed to happen.”

The University interviewed candidateswho responded to an ad in the ProvidenceJournal for the professional manager posi-tion earlier this year. The hiring of an over-seeing manager not enrolled at Brown wasone of the conditions Inman and Jablonskiestablished for the Underground’s reopen-ing.

Administrators believe Santoemmo’spresence will cut down on underage drink-ing at the Underground, the primary issuethat led to its previous closure, Friedmansaid.

“Genius” alumsreceive $500Kin fundingBY JONATHAN HERMANJim Yong Kim ’83 and Nawal Nour ’84 aretwo of the 24 winners of this year’sMacArthur “genius” grants. Both will receive$500,000 of support over the next five years.

MacArthur Fellows are chosen for theircreativity, individuality and promise for thefuture, said Daniel Socolow, director of theMacArthur Fellows Program.

The awards honor “geniuses,” meaning“people that are doing something so uniquethat the MacArthur Foundation believesthey should continue their research,” Kimsaid. After graduating from Brown, Kimearned an M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard.

The selection process is intensely secre-tive. The Foundation collects letters of rec-ommendation secretly and the candidate’sfirst contact with the Foundation is thephone call telling him that he has won,Socolow said.

Kim was completely shocked when hereceived the phone call from the MacArthurFoundation.

“It’s kind of like a ‘Wizard of Oz’ thing. It’snot a reward for past achievement. It’s tospur you on for the future. They give you aheart or brain,” Kim said.

Kim said he is not sure what he will dowith his prize, but “it has given me a sense ofresponsibility and pressure.”

As Advisor to the Director-General of theWorld Health Organization, Kim is the driv-ing force behind the WHO’s effort to spreadtreatment for HIV in developing nations.The goal of the “3 by 5” program is to getthree million more people HIV-AIDS treat-ment by 2005.

“This is the largest public health initiativein human history. If we can get three millionmore we are going to learn something,” Kimsaid.

Kim’s work with the WHO is only his most

BY JUSTIN ELLIOTTWith negative preconceptions aboutsocial investing, it’s hard to get institu-tional investors like Brown to even lookat all their options.

Robert Bowers, managing director atthe consulting firm CambridgeAssociates LLC, outlined the uphillclimb facing advocates for sociallyresponsible investing in Smith-Buonanno Wednesday afternoon.

Institutions like Brown are in factrunning a risk by not looking at theirsocial investing options, he said.

Bowers said social investing appealsto investors who are “looking for a

source of return that goes beyond thefinancial” or who believe socially desir-able qualities are found in financiallysound companies.

In the past decades “the environ-ment, diversity, human rights, productsafety, workers’ rights, nuclear power,weapons manufacturing and otherissues have emerged as major themes”in social investing, he said.

Because of the varied list of issuesand many strategies — from stockscreening to shareholder resolutions —it is not easy to talk about social invest-

Consulting expert says socialinvesting difficult, but worthwhile

see UNDERGROUND, page 4see HOROWITZ, page 6

see FELLOWSHIPS, page 4

see INVESTING, page 4

Council tacklesUCS/UFB relationsBY KRISTA HACHEYRelations between the UndergraduateFinance Board and the UndergraduateCouncil of Students were at the top of theUCS agenda at its Wednesday meeting.

UFB recently rejected a UCS proposalfor $5,000 to fund campus-wide specialevents, and a Photo Club proposal forfunding to renovate darkroom ventilation.

UCS members explored the roles of theCouncil, UFB and the University in fund-ing student activities and needs. Dan Le’04, chair of UFB, was also present at themeeting.

UCS supported UFB’s denial to fundrenovations to Faunce’s darkrooms, arequest of the Photo Club, said UCSTreasurer Thilakshani Dias ’05, who pre-sented the UCS statement. The document— to be revised and submitted to the

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Current M.I.T. profand RISD alum sayshe created WaterFireto be a one-time eventrisd news, page 3

Students mold woodto build sometimesnon-functionalfurniture risd news, page 3

Unlike undergrads,grad students oftenuse academics toform their social livespage 5

Horowitz fails torespond to somequestions, saysGwyneth Fries ’03.5guest column, page 11

Volleyball takes oneand drops another inweekend Ivy play, mak-ing them 1-4 in leaguesports, page 12

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BY LOUIS TEEWaterFire brings families closer together,someone once told creator Barnaby Evans’75.

Evans said the man told him WaterFire’scalm ambience silenced his family’s argu-ments for the evening.

Evans — currently the artist in residencein the Department of Urban Studies andPlanning at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology — talked about how the con-cept for WaterFire came about and how theevent grew to become one of Providence’sgreatest attractions in a talk Saturday at theRISD Museum.

Evans said his idea of setting theProvidence River alight and showcasingmusic and art got the thumbs up from cityleaders when he responded to a request forcreative ways to commemorate the 10thanniversary of First Night, the city’s annualNew Year’s Eve art festival.

WaterFire was initially intended as a one-time event with a budget of $100 from thelocal government, Evans said. He said heraised funds to pay for the project himself atthe time.

Its successful reception encouraged thecity to make WaterFire a regular event. Nowfinishing its ninth season, WaterFirereceives $25,000 to $30,000 annually in cityfunding, and draws around 70,000 peopleeach time.

Evans said urban art should involve thecommunity in the way WaterFire does.

“The public is (woven) into this piece,” hesaid. “Volunteers come to help light thefires. The fires need to be tended and caredfor, like a novel, community or city.”

WaterFire was meant to have massappeal and be an event the whole family canenjoy, Evans said.

Anna Pomfret, who attended the talk,says WaterFire is a beloved event in her fam-ily, especially for her grandchildren.

“It’s the thing for people to get together toadmire the beauty of the fire, the music,”

she said. “And Providence is beautiful withall the different buildings illuminated.”

This is exactly the reaction Evans is aim-ing for, he said.

“I wanted to bring people to this beauti-ful waterfront park,” he said. “I want tochange people’s behavior to public space.”

Evan said WaterFire was centered on“psychological synesthesia.”

“I wanted to simulate people’s five sensessimultaneously,” he said. “You can walkthrough it, smell it and hear the sound ofcrackling.”

Evans selected a specific wood that emitsa scent and crackles when burnt. To furtherstimulate the sense of hearing, recordedmusic is played to simulate a movie sound-track, Evans said.

“It’s like you are in a movie. I wanted tobreak the dichotomy between audiencesand actors on stage,” he said. “On this urbanstage, we are all participants.”

RISD NEWSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


FACES OF RISD: a series of profiles of randomly selected RISD students WaterFire creator Evans ’75wants Art to touch lives

BY GREG MAZUREKHow do you spend your day?

While many students are still sleep-ing, Brendan Kellogg RISD ’05 and KatieFleming RISD ’05 go to RISD’s furniturestudio around 7:30 a.m. They spend therest of the day dedicated to furnituredesign.

Although Fleming and Kellogg said itis not mandatory for students to spendthis much time in the studio, they enjoywhat they do — so they stay until around11 p.m.

Kellogg is in the initial stages of creat-ing an object he said might serve aseither a bench or a sliding shelf. Hisdesign includes two curved piecesplaced on top of each other.

Both he and Fleming use a designprocess called “belt lamination” thatallows them to form curved shapes outof thin sheets of wood.

The sheets are approximately aneighth of an inch thick, glued togetherand formed over molds. A bag envelopsthe mold and wood, creating a vacuumthat allows the wood to form on themold.

Kellogg created a large mold for hisproject out of several layers of wood. Hesaid he hopes to be able to use it for dif-ferent sized pieces.

“The mold is left to dry for about eighthours,” Fleming said. Afterwards, thecurved piece is formed and can be cutfor use.

In the beginning stages of the project,Kellogg said aesthetic appeal was themost important feature for him.

“I looked for a form that interests me,”he said.

Fleming — who is building an

Fun with furniture at RISD

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Brendan Kellogg RISD ’05 and Katie Fleming RISD ’05 hope to open a furniture shoptogether after graduation.

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WaterFire was initially intended as a one-time event with a budget of $100 from thelocal government, said creator BarnabyEvans ’75.

“(Santoemmo) was our topchoice because he has beenworking with Brown students fora few years now in catering, he iscomfortable with our studentbody … and also has the manage-rial experience the administra-tion wanted,” Friedman said.

Students will be asked to swipetheir Brown ID to both verifytheir status as current studentsand determine whether they can

purchase alcohol. A valid driver’slicense will also be requiredbefore a student can consumedrinks. Once inside the club, stu-dents of legal age will be identi-fied by wristbands.

Friedman said she believes theUnderground may be able toexpand its hours of operation toinclude Thursdays, previously oneof the club’s most popular nights,as early as next semester. In addi-tion to increasing theUnderground’s presence in Brownsocial life, she said she hopes theextra evening will enable the clubto book more musical guests andentertainment.

“The diminished number ofnights of operation makes theavailability of performancespaces on campus much lower

than it had been in years past,”Friedman said. “With only twonights of operation, competitionfor booking has been really high.”

For now, the Underground willopen on Fridays and Saturdaysfrom 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. The stu-dent-run Hourglass Café uses thespace Sundays throughThursdays.

“The Hourglass Café has beenvery successful in this space,”Jablonski said. “Both individualsand groups are benefiting from alate-night space for meetings andstudying where there is also foodavailable.”

Herald staff writer Robbie Corey-Boulet ’07 can be reached [email protected].

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abstract cabinet featuring manycurved pieces of wood — said thedesign was more important toher than its future use.

“What you make doesn’t haveto be functional,” Fleming said.

But they both said they knowthey will make changes to thepieces as production continues.They said they plan to completetheir projects by the end of the

semester.Kellogg’s project, at the

moment, seems less detailedthan Fleming’s.

“Sometimes simple can be themost functional,” Kellogg said.

After the furniture studio clos-es at 11 p.m., Kellogg andFleming said they turn to home-work for their other classes or goto sleep. But they said the hoursthey spend in the studio now willbe well spent if their plans tostart a shop after graduationwork out.

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recent humanitarian endeavor.Kim co-founded Partners inHealth, a nonprofit organizationthat tackles international and localhealth issues.

Partners in Health created aplan that has decreased the cost oftreatment of drug-resistant tuber-culosis by 95 percent in parts ofSiberia and Lima, Peru, accordingto Partner in Health’s Web site.

Its other programs includeefforts to combat AIDS andwomen’s health problems in Haitiand locally in Massachusetts.

“I’m terribly grateful to Brownfor letting me form and work onthese crazy projects,” Kim said. “Ifeel that the education that I got atBrown through the Third WorldCenter and the constant conversa-tion about social justice issues cre-ated the recurring theme of social

justice and equality of medicalcare (in my work).”

Nour, who earned her M.D. andmaster’s in public health atHarvard, told the Harvard Gazetteshe was shocked when theMacArthur Foundation called.

“I actually got heart palpita-tions from sheer delight,” Nourtold the Gazette.

Nour established the AfricanWomen’s Health Practice atBrigham and Women’s Hospital,the first one of its kind — treatinggenitally circumcised women.

She is also the primary authorof the American College ofObstetrics and Gynecology’s guidefor treating circumcised women.

The MacArthur Foundation wascreated in 1978. The FellowsProgram supports the pursuit ofknowledge and creative ideas.

Herald staff writer JonathanHerman ’07 can be reached at [email protected].


Fellowships

ing as a whole, Bowers said.Reams of studies on methods

of social investing, he said, over-whelmingly show that socially-screened portfolios achievereturns equivalent to those ofconventional portfolios. Bowerssaid the traditional argumentthat “any subset will inevitablyunderperform the entire mar-ket” might be valid, but everyfund is acting in a subset simplybecause stock-pickers have theirown personal preferences.

Bowers said companies rightnow focus on quarterly profitsand short-term growth, creatingenormous inefficiency — so ifyou consider yourself a long-term, perpetual investor youneed a sustainable outlook.Social investors believe sociallyresponsible companies mini-

mize long-run risk.“In my mind, it’s one of those

logical things that is baffling —how can environmental andsocial issues not become finan-cial at some point?” he asked.

A truly great investor, Bowerssaid, can tell when the massesare wrong. “With the apprecia-tion and consciousness of these

types of issues, there’s no reasonwhy it can’t be the source of astock picker’s or privateinvestor’s brilliance.”

“What I keep coming backto,” he said, “is it’s so hard to findpeople investing differently. Thisis different.”

Bowers cited several institu-tions, like the RockefellerFoundation, with their ownsocial investing strategies. AtWilliams College, he said alumnican donate to a newly createdsocial investment section in itsendowment.

Bowers predicted that thelevel of social investing “willkeep growing,” although “how itmanifests itself from institutionto institution will vary widely.”

He said he was optimisticbecause more information isavailable to the socially respon-sible investor than 10 years ago,when an investor had to be“wildly committed” to make asocially responsible portfolio.


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BY MONIQUE MENESESGraduate student social life is different from the under-graduate experience, and much more tied to academicwork, students said.

Associate Dean of Student Life CarlaHanson said it is hard for students to social-ize outside their academic departments.

“Grad school demands an incredibleamount from students and this sometimesdoesn’t leave too much room for socializing,”she said.

Julie Trotta GS, a third-year grad student studying geo-physics, said her social life revolves around the people inher department.

“Because we spend so much time together, we tend tocongregate,” she said. “It’s easier to make plans.”

Biology grad student Michael Harrison GS, fourth-yeargrad student and co-president of the Graduate StudentCouncil, said, because it is “so easy for like-minded peopleto stay together,” one of the goals of the GSC is to provideopportunities for grad students to come together acrossdepartments.

Yet many students still find that the majority of theirclosest friends are in the academic departments they arein.

“From my own personal experience a lot of my sociallife at Brown has been about my academic work and theiracademic work,” said Samuel Brenner GS, a fourth-yeargrad student studying in modern American history andco-president of the GSC.

Harrison pointed out that grad student social life is“very different” from the undergraduate social experience.While freshmen in undergraduate school are put in unitsthat define their social focus, he said the social life in grad-uate school focuses on the student’s academic depart-ment.

“It’s different hanging out with people — you talk moreabout the intellectual aspects of your life,” he said.

Trotta said, although there was a general sense of com-munity among grad students, one thing she misses fromher undergrad experience is being able to recognize faceson campus.

“You feel less of a presence because we’re so focused onour studies,” she said.

But social life can mix between the two schools —undergraduate and graduate. Brenner, for one, said he methis fiancée, Claudia Arno ’04, in the Brown UniversityChorus.

Adjustment to grad school is less dramatic than theadjustment to undergraduate school right out of highschool, Hanson said, although grad students face many ofthe same problems, including homesickness and relation-ship troubles. But grad students must also deal with chal-lenging relationships with advisors and diverging roles asboth a TA and a researcher, she said.

Many students told The Herald these issues haven’tposed significant threats to their studies or lives at Browneven though they have confronted or are confrontingthem.

Despite the various opportunities for social interactionon campus, some students prefer not to have a social life,Harrison said.

“They’re just at Brown for the work,” he said.But those who choose to can now go to the new Grad

Student Lounge, which opened in January, to meet otherpeople who are not affiliated with the academic depart-

ment they are in, Brenner said. The GSC has been able to organize various activities

every two weeks on Fridays, Harrison said. The lounge,which includes an entertainment center, a small kitchenand an outdoor terrace, is the venue for social activitiesranging from salsa dancing to movie nights.

“We also hold several social parties throughout theyear,” Brenner said. “There’s the Halloween party and thespring dance, which we hold annually.”

Brenner said the activities were successful on differentlevels. For the major social gatherings like the Halloweenparty, he said a couple hundred students attend each year.But for events like salsa nights, he said 20 to 30 studentsmight show up.

“We get a good turnout,” he said.

Herald senior staff writer, Monique Meneses ’05, can bereached at [email protected].

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Molecular biology grad students Brenda O'Connell GS and Pooja Agrawal GS.

Academics guide gradstudent social life

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he said, but at many colleges now,“there are not really two sides.”

During the question-and-answer period, Brenda Allen, asso-ciate provost and director of insti-tutional diversity, challengedHorowitz to follow through on thatstatement, and extended an invi-tation for Horowitz to come backto campus and debate his viewswith an opponent, such as RandallRobinson, whose writings ignitedthe reparations movement.

“It’s something I’ve been think-ing about for a while,” Allen toldThe Herald after the lecture. Shesaid that while Horowitz’s lecturewas a good way to get a conserva-tive speaker on campus, there arefew opportunities for students tohear from both ends of the politi-cal spectrum or to hear two differ-ent views on issues such as repara-tions.

In a lecture like last night’s, “youhave one point of view talking toan audience,” she said.

Allen said she didn’t agree witheverything Horowitz told the audi-ence, but “it was a good opportu-nity to listen to some things that

were meant to be provocative.”And, she said, though she woulddisagree with some of whatHorowitz said throughout the lec-ture, there were a few things“where, in fact, we’re not so far off.”

Horowitz also told the audiencehe didn’t understand why profes-sors’ political views are allowed toinfiltrate lectures and lessons.

“Unfortunately, we live in a timewhen we can’t trust our professors,all of them,” he said.

After the lecture, President RuthSimmons told The Herald she wasparticularly upset by the “grossgeneralities about Brown” thatHorowitz made. She said she feltHorowitz particularly misrepre-sented the University’s professors.

“Gross generalities aboutBrown do a great disservice,” shesaid.

But Horowitz soon drifted tothe question of reparations, thetopic that divided the campus inspring 2001.

“I had no idea that ‘ten reasons’was going to become what it did,”Horowitz said.

“None of you knows what wasmotivating me to buy that ad,” hesaid. Horowitz defended his posi-tion, saying that just because heopposes reparations does notmake him racist.

“I have black people in my fam-ily,” he said, and used his historyas a civil rights activist since thelate 1940s to defend himselfagainst charges of racism.

The anti-reparations adHorowitz purchased was titled“Ten Reasons Why Reparations forSlavery Is a Bad Idea — And RacistToo,” and it appeared in over 20college newspapers across thecountry. The Herald printed thead on March 13, 2001.

The advertisement set off twodebates — one over whether thecontent of the ad was racist andanother over whether The Heraldshould have printed the ad in thefirst place.

After the quickly formedCoalition of Concerned Studentsstole the entire press run of theMarch 16, 2001 issue of TheHerald, tempers flared, and theUniversity became the stagingground for a national debate overfree speech. The administrationconvened a Faculty Forum todebate the situation, but it did lit-tle to remedy the rifts caused bythe ad. The conflict finally dieddown when students vacatedcampus for Spring Break.

Organizers of last night’s lec-ture were concerned the tempersgenerated two-and-a-half years

ago would reignite withHorowitz’s arrival, and a heavypolice presence indicated precau-tions were taken.

Things went well, said JoeLisska ’04, president of the CollegeRepublicans. With $1,500 given bythe Undergraduate FinanceBoard, the College Republicansco-sponsored the lecture withYoung America’s Foundation, anational organization that pro-motes free speech on college cam-puses.

“The event went better than Ieven hoped,” Lisska said. “I think

this was exactly what theUniversity needed.”

But Simmons was less thanpleased. “I was not happy,” shetold The Herald.

After the lecture, Simmonsasked Horowitz for an apology formisrepresenting Brown. Horowitztold The Herald he apologized,and that Simmons accepted theapology.

Simmons said she realizes thequestions Horowitz attempted tograpple with are “difficult,” butshe disagrees with his claimsabout the modern state of Africaand African Americans in theUnited States.

Both Simmons and membersof the student body said they wereimpressed with how well studentshandled Horowitz, consideringhis history with the University.

“It’s a really outstanding state-ment how well the studentsresponded,” said Rahim Kurji ’05,president of the UndergraduateCouncil of Students.

Horowitz told the audiencethat the reception Brown studentsgave him was the most polite he’sgotten from universities aroundthe country.

“That makes a strong state-ment for us two-and-a-half yearslater,” Kurji said.

Veer Bhavnagri ’05 said he wentinto the lecture worried abouthow Brown students would reactto Horowitz.

“I expected going in thatHorowitz would be able to explainhimself, and I was worried thatthe Brown community would notlet him do that,” Bhavnagri said.But students let Horowitz speakand, in one case, even “shushed” afemale audience member whotried to disrupt the lecture, hesaid.

Bhavnagri said he felt Horowitzwas able to explain himself, butmany of the questions studentslobbed at him during an hour-long question-and-answer periodwere “sort of out of the blue andnot really relevant.”

Horowitz refused to answerquestions asking for his viewsabout the Patriot Act and affirma-tive action, responding that stu-dents would ideally be able to turnto their professors for the conser-vative viewpoint on those issues.

“I’m not a library,” he said.But, Bhavnagri said, “I don’t

think you can really argue withhim. He’s against reparations, andI think most people are againstslave reparations, whether or nothis reasoning was valid or not.”

After the lecture, Horowitz saidhe felt it went “well, except for theend,” when a time crunch forcedmoderator and Dean of theCollege Paul Armstrong to ask forall remaining questions at once.

Herald staff writer Juliette Wallack’05 edits the metro section. She canbe reached at [email protected].


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Brenda Allen,associate provost and director of institutional diversity,challenged David Horowitz on a number of points he made in his speech.

WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


LOS ANGELES (L.A.Times) — Elliott Smith, a singer-songwriterwhose musically seductive, emotionally dark recordingsmade him one of the most acclaimed cult artists of thepast decade — and an unlikely Oscar contender in 1998 —died Tuesday. Smith, 34, was discovered in his Echo Parkapartment with an apparently self-inflicted knife woundand died at Los Angeles County Hospital-USC MedicalCenter, according to the Los Angeles County Coroner’soffice.

In a series of albums beginning in 1994, Smith estab-lished himself as an evocative poet of the tormented soul,pairing scenarios of romantic loss, existential bleaknessand the curse of addiction with engaging, lilting melodies.His spare guitar accompaniment and the eerie, echo-likequality of his vocals reinforced the music’s bittersweetmood.

Although his record sales were modest, Smith enjoyedtremendous respect from his peers and from critics,emerging as his generation’s pre-eminent exponent of thesinger-songwriter tradition.

Although he was stereotyped as a gloomy, introspectiveartist, Smith had broader aims.

“I don’t really have any goals as a songwriter, other thanto show what it’s like to be a person — just like everybodyelse who’s ever played music does,” Smith said in a 1998Los Angeles Times interview. “I don’t feel like my songs areparticularly fragile or revealing.

“They’re songs. It’s not like a diary, and they’re notintended to be any sort of super-intimate confessionalsinger-songwriterish thing. I like the Beatles. Dylan. TheSaints and the Clash. All the good things about what theydid or do is probably the same things that I’m trying to do.”

Friends and colleagues agreed Wednesday that therewas more to Smith — who had been nearing completion

of a new album when he died — than his image as a down-beat troubadour.

“He was incredibly funny and sweet, intellectually rig-orous, someone who really cared about the people aroundhim,” said Luke Wood, an executive at DreamWorksRecords who had worked with Smith for five years. “I real-ly felt he was in a very positive, forward-thinking place. Hereally wanted to get his record out early next year.”

Rob Schnapf, who co-produced his last two albums,said Smith “was a dignified, gentle person and a greatartist.” “I loved making records with him,” he said. ‘’It wasextremely rewarding, and we had fun.”

But the demons Smith wrote about weren’t fiction. “All that stuff is real,” Schnapf said. “That was no game,

that was not a marketing idea. That was real stuff.” Steve Hanft, a filmmaker who directed an experimental

short film for Smith, called “Strange Parallel,” and enlistedSmith to do music for his new movie, “Southlander,” saidhe saw the singer five days before his death. “He justseemed like he was imploding on himself,” Hanft said. “Hewas still really sweet and nice and really smart, but he justseemed like he was starting to cave in physically. He justwasn’t happy.”

Steven Paul Smith was born in Nebraska and spent hisearly childhood in the Dallas area, living with his motherand stepfather and the latter’s children. At 14 he moved toPortland, Ore., to live with his biological father and hisfamily. After graduating from Hampshire College inMassachusetts with a degree in political philosophy, hereturned to Portland and embarked on a period of difficultrelationships, heavy drinking and a musical career.

He played in a punk-rock band called Heatmiser butincreasingly concentrated on solo material in a morereflective style. In 1994 he released his first album, “Roman

Candle,” on the local Cavity Search label. He followed itwith two albums for the Seattle-based Kill Rock Stars labeland began drawing critical notice and a small but intenseand growing audience.

Smith toured extensively and relocated to New York. In1997, director Gus Van Sant prominently deployed fivesongs from Smith’s albums in his film “Good WillHunting,” and introduced one new one, “Miss Misery,”which was nominated for an Academy Award for best orig-inal song. That led to the odd sight of the reticent trouba-dour performing in a white suit on the gala 1998 Oscarstelecast, in competition with the likes of Celine Dion andMichael Bolton.

Smith signed with the prominent Los Angeles labelDreamWorks, and with a bigger budget he began toenhance his sound with orchestral pop elements.

“When you listen to it, it’s very easily digestible,” saidSchnapf, the co-producer of his two DreamWorks albums,“XO” and “Figure 8.” “He made it look really easy. He was agreat musician, in an understated way. A lot of times youcouldn’t take apart his songs. They were this puzzle, thisintricate little puzzle.”

Alhough Smith was disappointed that his recordsweren’t more successful — “XO,” his best seller, sold224,000 copies — he became a popular live performer.Through it all, he continued to struggle with depressionand alcoholism. He made a suicide attempt in 1997 andstayed at a psychiatric hospital. But recent reports hadbeen upbeat.

“On the addiction issues, I think he’d really gotten theupper hand on them,” Wood said. “I can say in all honestythe last few months Elliott has been sober and wasfocused. Sobriety was a major thing for him, because itwas the path to how he was going to close out his record.”

Music star Elliott Smith dies in apparent suicide

administration next week —emphasizes that the University,not UFB, should be financiallyresponsible for building renova-tions.

Dias said UCS’ official backingof UFB will reinforce the needfor the University to act on thematter. The Photo Club has theonly color processing system oncampus and, because of a faultyventilation system, students facea significant danger using toxicchemicals in photo develop-ment. Over $5,000 in equipmenthas, in this way, fallen into dis-use, Dias said.

UFB provided $32,000 infunds to the Photo Club twoyears ago to purchase equip-ment, but the club’s recentrequest for funds raises ques-

tions about where UFB moneyshould and should not go, shesaid.

“UFB provides money for stu-dent activities,” Le said.“Improving the ventilation sys-tem in Faunce does not coincidewith the board’s defined role as afund-provider. UFB would not beliable if someone was harmed —the University would be.”

Turning to UCS’ request forevents funding, UCS AlumniLiaison Justin Sanders ’04 said herespected UFB’s decision to denyUCS the funding. “UFB is incharge of all the delegation ofstudent activities fees and, incontrast, UCS’ role is to repre-sent and advocate student con-cerns,” he said. Without UCS,UFB cannot tell the Universitywhat it can and cannot fund,Sanders said. In this vein, bothgroups work symbiotically oncampus, he said.

UFB’s denial of UCS’ proposalindicates the Board’s concernthat student groups go to theCouncil for funding when turneddown by the Board, said UCSPresident Rahim Kurji ’05.Because UFB is hesitant to trans-fer funds directly to UCS, Kurjisaid he hopes the Board decidesat its meeting tonight to earmark$5,000 for major events shouldthe need arise in the future.

To build class unity andimprove student relations withPresident Ruth Simmons, UCS isdeveloping a class officer pro-gram — an independent socialprogramming board of electedmembers from each class devot-ing “its energies to building classspirit and University pride,”Sanders said.

Kurji said he hopes to see elec-tions for the group next spring.In the meantime, the Office ofthe President, the Office ofCampus Life and the StudentActivities Office are working toaddress community-buildingwithin classes, he added.

UCS, with the Queer Allianceand members of the administra-tion, is sponsoring a lectureseries on diversity and freespeech to educate students onissues of intolerance, Kurji said.“This is a perfect opportunity forcollaboration with studentgroups,” he said. “We hope thatthese events will bring meaning-ful campus-wide dialogue.”

UCS is also inviting communi-ty members to attend a soon-to-be-scheduled meeting withProvost Robert Zimmer, chair ofthe University ResourcesCommittee. Zimmer will presentbudget plans to the Council andsolicit feedback from students.

Senior Class Officer NaiaCucukov ’04 requested use of theUCS listserv to request nomina-tions from student groups for theFeb. 12 Mr. Brown Universitypageant. The fund-raising event

would showcase 12 senior men.Cucukov said she plans to raisemoney by selling pageant calen-dars and holding a raffle to auc-tion off Valentine’s Day dateswith the participants.

The Ad Hoc TransportationManagement AdvisoryCommittee met last week to dis-cuss parking accommodationsand updates to safeRIDE.According to a recent zoningordinance survey, Council mem-ber Jason Holman ’04 said thereare 2,023 available parkingspaces and an excess of 3,000students who want parking.Ways to deal with the probleminclude cutting sophomores outof the parking lottery and work-ing with RIPTA to provide freebus passes. Holman said satelliteparking spaces for rent may alsobe available in East Providence.

To increase UCS visibility oncampus, Council member MelbaMelton ’06 announced a jointUCS-WBRU publicity event totake place Oct. 31 on the MainGreen from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m.WBRU will hand out free concerttickets and CDs while UCS mem-bers talk to students. Dunkin’Donuts has also offered to pitchin and provide its new espressodrinks, she said.

UCS Campus Life CommitteeChair Ari Savitzky ’04 remindedthe Council of architecture firmVenturi, Scott Brown’s upcomingcampus visit and the UCS-guid-ed tour to orient the architects.

“The goal of the tour is toshow them how students movearound on campus, take themthrough some spaces, point outwhat we do in those spaces — itwill be very student-centric,” hesaid.

UCS CommunicationsCommittee Chair Tim Bentley ’04said UCS’ Annual Programspamphlet will soon be availablein student mailboxes.

Herald staff writer Krista Hachey’07 covers the UndergraduateCouncil of Students. She can bereached at [email protected].


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ists’ average salary increases areenough to add four pounds ofgold jewelry. Factoring out all ofthe non-muscle weight gains,there still does seem to be a pushfor more physically fine-tunedathletes who can hit farther, runfaster, tackle harder and breakmore records. There is nothingwrong with any of this, but whenmost of it seems to be masked bya veil of secrecy where JoseCanseco plays the role ofWoodward and Bernstein, integri-ty comes into question.

When Sammy Sosa’s bat spiltinto two, we found out that hemay or may not have been usingcork for any period of time. Thisnot only tarnished his accom-plishments, but also had a trickledown effect, where people beganto ponder if Bonds or McGwirehad been juicing their bats.McGwire had already admitted tousing a substance tantamount tosteroids that was banned in manyother leagues, so it’s not as if therecord he broke was done withabsolute purity.

It’s like what would happen ifthe Red Sox finally win, but it’sonly because some fans kid-napped the Yankees and all NLopponents save the Mets — youget the same enjoyment, only alittle more sleazy.

One can’t help but wonder ifBonds wouldn’t have brokenMcGwire’s record had he not readtoo much Mary Shelley and sub-mitted himself to the whims of aBALCO lab experiment. Maybe hewas using only “supplements”and maybe all of his muscle isnatural, whatever that means, butthere is still some unsettling feel-ing knowing that he may not beallowed to participate in theOlympics, or that what he is tak-ing has similar effects to steroids.

The MLB Player’s Union finallyagreed last summer to acceptdrug testing for illegal steroids.This was a great step, but it won’tstop players from using Andro orother designer steroids. Even withsuch a policy in baseball andother professional sports, the pol-icy does not have enough bite.Using steroids is a violation of arule, and many consider it abreach of honesty. With a two-year ban for steroids, as we haveseen in track and field, some ath-letes are more willing to test theirluck, facing the risk of gettingcaught. A lifetime ban with heavyfines is imperative, as it wouldfurther deter drug usage andincrease the credibility of thesport.

USA Track and Field ChiefExecutive Officer Craig Masback,in addition to confirming thatfour U.S. athletes tested positivefor a new designer steroidtetrahydrogestrinone last sum-mer, sent a letter to the leaders ofmajor U.S. sports asking them tojoin in the growing battle againstdrugs saying, “the situation inwhich we find ourselves is not atrack and field problem or a base-ball problem, but an Americanproblem.”

I couldn’t agree with him more.But steroids are like terrorists: Justwhen you think you’ve found away to eliminate them, they shootright back up in another form.The litany of nutrition supple-ments are harder to regulate thanthe NYSE, especially when play-ers’ unions fight tooth and nail tokeep from subjecting players todoing something we have to do

each time we go to the doctor’soffice: pee in a cup.

Like any sports fan, I lovewatching homeruns fly out of thepark; I love seeing a linebackerdecapitate a quarterback; and Ilove watching Shaquille O’Neillattempt a free throw. I just wish Iknew that those players breakingthe records and hitting twohomeruns against the Red Sox in

game 7 (not to name names) weredrug free. Until those who areguilty are caught and some healthcodes are instituted to keep ath-letes from looking like theGovernator in his younger days,the cloak of uncertainty willremain. OK, I’m calm now.

Ian Cropp ’05 hails from Amherst,NY, where the bars never close.


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It’s like what would happen if the Red Sox

finally win, but it’s only because some fans

kidnapped the Yankees and all NL opponents

save the Mets — you just get the same enjoy-

ment, only a little more sleazy.

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Best behaviorEveryone in the Brown community can agree with one state-ment David Horowitz made Wednesday night — the audienceat his lecture was one of the best behaved either Horowitz ormany in Salomon had ever seen. The 400 students, professorsand administrators who attended Horowitz’s lecture did littleto betray the anger and outright hate many no doubt felt forthe man whose advertisement tore the campus apart two-and-a-half years ago.

With a few exceptions, audience questions were wellthought out, more or less eloquently expressed and fulfilledthe purpose question-and-answer sessions are meant toserve. When an audience member began shouting atHorowitz, she was quickly quieted by those sitting around her.People who disagreed with Horowitz’s views voiced theiropposition during the question-and-answer period ratherthan with disruptions or booing during the lecture itself.

That said, it’s shameful Horowitz may be the first conserva-tive speaker of his prominence in recent memory to lecture atBrown without being heckled, disruptively protested or other-wise harassed. Perhaps students learned from the infantileshouting and leaflet tossing during Richard Perle’s visit thatmade our campus a subject of ridicule. Or maybe the sheermagnitude of the spring 2001 controversy served as an ade-quate warning to would-be protesters on Wednesday aboutthe level of vitriol the sort of shenanigans more or less tolerat-ed at Perle’s lecture — and others — could have potentiallystirred up.

We hope the Horowitz lecture serves as a watershedmoment at Brown, one where students can look back at thesuccessful debate and take cues on how to receive futurespeakers whose views are diametrically opposed to those ofthe vast majority of students. Perhaps by intelligently debat-ing such speakers, rather than shouting at them, the Browncommunity can prove is possible to engage the right withoutjoining it.

University needslarger spaces forpopular lectures

To the Editor:

Because of the limited space in Salomon, I findmyself sitting at my computer typing a letter to theeditor of The Herald instead of listening to DavidHorowitz’s speech on academic freedom. How canBrown claim to be an institution that promotesintellectual stimulation when it only makes this so-called intellectual diversity available to the smallsegment of the student body (not to mention facul-ty or the larger Providence community) that can fitinside the lecture hall of Salomon 101?

Mr. Littenberg-Brown made a valid point (“Theimportance of free speech at Brown,” Oct. 22) whenhe stated that “students and faculty need to attendthe lecture and engage Horowitz intellectually”instead of “shouting down the opponent.”However, how is one able to attend the lecturewhen the Department of Public Safety is instructedto turn away the overflow attendees once Salomonhad reached its unimpressive capacity?

Two years ago a horde of people congregatedoutside Alumnae Hall (myself included) becauseonce again Brown chose an inappropriate venue(Alumnae Hall) for a very prominent speaker(Salman Rushdie). Are the people who organizethese events incapable of doing the basic math thatwould lead them to the very simple conclusion thatmore that 300 people are going to show up to hearthese people speak? Repeated issues like these indi-cate that managerial competence is severely lack-ing at Brown. Why spend huge amounts of moneyto bring speakers like Rushdie and Horowitz toBrown when only a tiny minority is able to benefitfrom their ideas?

Vanessa Beary ‘04Oct. 22

Sox and Cubs fans canponder next year whileeveryone else enjoys agreat World Series

To the Editor:

Mr. Song’s article about the Boston Red Sox andthe Chicago Cubs as the matchup that should havebeen (“Dear commissioner,” Oct. 22), is franklynauseating. This is a World Series for true baseballfans, not for those who learned of Prior, Manny,Castillo and Aaron Boone in October.

Any baseball fan can see this is a matchup thatwill feature a team that was in dead last until a last-minute manager change brought the most miracu-lous of comebacks, the 23-year-old Beckett whocan throw 100 mph and Juan Pierre, arguably thebest lead off hitter with 65 stolen bases. Baseballfans know this is a World Series that will display thetalents of the future Hall of Fame pitcher RogerClemens; Mariano Rivera, the best closer in post-season history; Jeter, with the all-time postseasonhit record; and Williams, with the record for themost postseason homeruns and RBIs.

Nevertheless, to fans caught up in the curse ofthe billy goat and of the Bambino, this World Seriesis a farce. “Does the difference between 26 and 27championships really matter?” Absolutely. “Is any-body rooting for the Florida?” Sixty-five thousandpeople were on Tuesday, through the rain. So to allthe Sox and Cub fans, keep wondering “what if?”and dreaming of a series to decide the second andthird loser. In the meantime, we true baseball fanswill put our lives on hold to glue ourselves in frontof the television to celebrate the 100th birthday ofthe World Series.

Sachin Shah ‘05Oct. 22

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I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE University’sCollege Republicans for bringing DavidHorowitz to campus. Although notable notspecifically on the issue of reparations, hecommanded me to question my politicalviewpoints, and I am pleased to announcethat he in fact reaffirmed much of my think-ing.

As I walked into Salomon, Iwas greeted by a little bluehandbook from Students forAcademic Freedom. Before thelecture began, I flippedthrough the handbook, inwhich there were several repeated state-ments about how professors should notvoice their political biases in teaching, andhow they should treat students equally,regardless of their students’ beliefs andpolitical persuasions. I was pleased toassume that my university was alreadybased on this principle. Surely, I am not theonly liberally minded student who has everpicked up The Brown Spectator.

David Horowitz would have us believe,however, that a particular poll, taken at aparticular moment in time, had found theratio of Democratic to Republican profes-sors at our school to be around 30:1, where-as at other universities the ratio was closerto 10:1. Although later he admitted thatthese polls were not of the soundest statisti-cal integrity, in conjunction with his inaccu-rate labeling of students as liberals andMarxists, this instance suggested an almostparanoid over-categorization of critics asclose-minded enemies. My uneasiness withthis undercurrent grew when he stated his

belief that largely conservative think tankshad to develop in response to universities,which he considers “liberal think tanks.”One student made the point that justbecause many of our professors were liber-als did not mean that they lacked theintegrity to refrain from allowing their polit-ical bias to infest their teaching. It has

always been my understandingthat the statements in the hand-book are the unspoken ethicalassumptions of any rational,open-minded thinker, and I amproud to be involved with a uni-

versity whose faculty would encourage thevocalization of opposing ideas in one of themost welcoming intellectual environments— the classroom.

In my response to Horowitz, I was insult-ed on behalf of the Brown community. Hecontinually dismissed intelligent and broadthinking questions by denying that he hadsaid something the whole room had wit-nessed him stating, by calling our com-ments silly or dismissing us as Marxists orliberals, or by saying that in his infinite wis-dom, he would need several hours to con-sider certain concerns (especially concern-ing one bright young woman’s questionconcerning his stance on the Patriot Act). Ina court of law, you cannot be faulted foryour manner of speech. In a lecture at a uni-versity, you can. Horowitz continually inter-rupted the first speaker, as well as one of theonly African-American students to raisequestions (at which point the mediatingdean felt it necessary to intervene, encour-aging the student), showing how there was adouble standard involved with his commit-ment to the free movement of diverse ideas.

Generally, it was strange to be confrontedwith so much pomp over intellectual diver-

sity when Horowitz seemed to be unawareof a whole body of knowledge and literatureconcerning post-colonial studies — a bodyof literature on which many if not all of myclasses in a wide variety of disciplines hereat Brown have been based. Daniel Schliefer’03.5 asked an intelligent question concern-ing neo-colonialism. In Horowitz’s ad, hecontinually stated that black people inAmerica were the richest black people in theworld. Dan asked if America might not alsobe responsible for the impoverishment ofblack people in Africa as well. Amongalmost all political thinkers, excluding thevery right wing, most people accept thatmultinational corporations, as well as theIMF and World Bank, play a considerablerole in shaping the development of manyAfrican countries. In many cases, theinvolvement of these institutions has beendetrimental to the development of strong,independent governments and economicpolicies. Horowitz’s response basically dis-counted that neo-colonialism was anythingmore than some inflammatory rhetoricdreamed up by Marxists.

The lack of a genuine response to Dan’squestion, as well as a number of other state-ments, gave me the general perception thatDavid Horowitz was not interested inaccepting the idea that history was an intel-lectual construction fashioned for the win-ners by the winners. The view that white,Anglo-Saxon men created the abolitionistmovement discounts any form of uprisingthat has not made it into antiquated texts onAmerican history, in addition to revealing hisbasic misunderstanding of the distinctionbetween positive and negative freedom. IfMr. Horowitz is unable to reach an open-minded (not liberal) perspective on history,how can we expect him to be truly critical of

opposing viewpoints in the present era?I agreed with Horowitz on the point that

we all needed to be responsible for makingsure we read a variety of views concerningour topics of study, and that we needed topromote critical awareness of many per-spectives. One student asked the question,to which he did not have time to respond,“How are we to avoid intellectual manipula-tion?” I would not blame this young womanfor being disenchanted with alternative,conservative viewpoints when Horowitzrepeatedly inflamed statistical informationand then later went back on his words.Intellectual integrity involves not openingone’s mouth to share an un-truth. Horowitzwould have us believe that 100 percent ofinner-city school systems were controlledby liberals, 85 percent of people supportreparations and that our faculty was embar-rassingly liberal.

Horowitz actually stated that he felt hehad no other choice but to publish hisadvertisement, considering the liberal biastoward reparations and the lack of dialogueon campus concerning them. Again, withthis statement, he assumed all liberals agreeon the topic, even though earlier he said heknew the idea of reparations had never beenwholeheartedly embraced by a liberalmovement since its birth several decadesago.

Although my hopes that this evening’slecture would further enlighten me on thereparations dispute were dashed, I didcome away feeling that I had learned some-thing. Other students at my university, con-servative or liberal, believe in intellectualdiversity enough to bring this man to cam-pus and question him. Unfortunately forHorowitz, this evening was truly a liberalmoment.

Horowitz appearance important, but unenlightening

A cautionary tale, inspired by David HorowitzWalking along Hope Street last night, I

passed by an unlit colonial-era house I hadnever noticed before. The door was open.Back in the South, where I’m from, anopen door is a common invitation for apasser-by to come in and visit. After hesi-tating for a second, I entered.

“Hello!” I said in my most non-threat-ening voice. “Anybody home?”I walked through the entrancehall to a closed door. A sliver offlickering light surrounded thedoor’s rim. I knocked, waitedand entered.

An old man’s voice rosefrom a big easy chair in themiddle of the nondescriptroom. “I’ve been expectingyou.” The old man’s chair satacross from another, emptychair. Together, the chairsformed a triangle with a roar-ing fire. “Sit down,” he said. Isat.

“What’s on your mind?” he asked.Something about the situation made

me feel as if I were speaking with an oldfriend. The usual fluff talk just wasn’t nec-essary. I’m not sure why, but a wave ofcomfort and familiarity came over me.

I got right to the point, the one thing I’dbeen thinking about for the past hour.“Horowitz. David Horowitz. He came totalk tonight. You might have heard aboutit.”

“Indeed. What did you think?”“I thought he had some really good

points. From all the campus gossip abouthim, I was expecting some bigoted behe-moth, but he was well-spoken. I didn’tagree with everything he said, but a lot of itwas very thought-provoking. I’m definitelyglad I went.”

“What didn’t you agree with?” the oldman asked.

“Horowitz made the pointthat among Brown professors,there is a 30:1 ratio ofDemocrats to Republicans. Hecompared this to the 10:1average among the 32 elitecolleges he surveyed. While headmitted that voter registra-tion records are a rough guideto a faculty’s political leanings,the statistic definitely gives mepause.”

“Why?”“It seems kind of absurd,” I

said to the old man. “I’mtempted to agree with

Horowitz that such one-sidedness isn’tgood for the school. I mean, take theCollege Republicans. I’ve heard they’resomething of a joke among CollegeRepublicans nationwide. But this isn’ttheir fault. In order to avoid being outcastshere, they’ve had to move really far to theright of the national party line.”

“And you’re worried about the CollegeRepublicans?” he asked.

“Not really. They’re well-spoken andthey stand up for what they believe in. Irespect that. But it makes me wonderwhether the average Democratic, Green orrevolutionary socialist Brown student isn’tsimilarly out of touch.”

The old man paused, letting the silencehang. After a while, he said, “When hespeaks about the need for intellectualdiversity, Horowitz likes to say, ‘You can’tget a good education if you’re only gettinghalf the story.’ If you’ve read any presiden-tial biographies, you know great leaderssurround themselves with people who dis-agree with them.”

“I realize we don’t have a lot of conser-vatives, but I don’t see what’s wrong withthat,” I told him. “Brown is a liberal place.We attract liberal students and faculty. I’mall for affirmative action and racial diversi-ty, but intellectual diversity? I don’t think itreally matters. We’re not that kind ofschool.”

Again the old man paused, collectinghis thoughts. “So you believe in affirmativeaction? You believe it is legal?”

“Sure. The Supreme Court said so thissummer.”

“What reasoning did the SupremeCourt give?”

“Oh, I think I remember. The majorityruling asserted that quotas and point-sys-tems aren’t kosher, but that a universitycan consider a person’s race if it is trying topursue a diversity of perspectives.”

The old man nodded. “Let me presentyou with a series of assumptions.Assumption #1: Would it be safe to say thatif you believe in the legality of affirmativeaction, then you believe in a general diver-sity of perspectives?”

“Yeah. I mean, that’s why the SupremeCourt let affirmative action remain at theUniversity of Michigan. Racial preferencesare justified in the pursuit of a ‘generaldiversity of perspectives,’ like you said.”

“Moving on to Assumption #2: If youbelieve in a general diversity of perspec-tives, then you believe in a diversity ofpolitical perspectives. Do you acceptthat?”

“Yeah. That makes sense.”“We’ve established that Brown is lacking

in intellectual diversity, right?”“Sure.”“So, Assumption #3: If you believe in a

diversity of political perspectives, you dis-approve of Brown’s lack of political diversi-ty.”

“I see what you’re saying. You’re sayingthat if I think affirmative action should belegal, then I should disapprove of Brown’sdearth of political diversity.”

“Or conversely,” the old man respond-ed, “if you’re not outspoken about the lackof Brown’s political diversity, you don’tbelieve affirmative action should be legal.”

“That’s quite a statement,” I said. “Not alot of people are going to like it.”

“But is it false? Are any of my individualassumptions incorrect? People mighthave different reasons for believing inaffirmative action, but if you want it to belegal, then you have only one choice. Ifyou don’t accept that choice, then theSupreme Court doesn’t accept your argu-ments, and affirmative action is down thedrain.”

“I never really thought about it likethat.”

“Exactly. If you support affirmativeaction, then you should be upset by thelack of diverse political perspectives atBrown. If you’re not upset by this, thenyou’re a hypocrite.”

And with that, the old man fell silent.Andrew K. Stein ’06 knows diversity is notblack and white.

Gwyneth Fries ’03.5 hails fromWashington, D.C., and actually owns acopy of Horowitz’s book,“Hating Whitey.”

GWYNETH FRIESGUEST COLUMNIST

ANDREW K. STEIN

MY PLACE ORYOURS?

RECENTLY BANNED SUBSTANCES HAVEbeen a problem in the sports world.

Just thinking about it gives me roid rage.Instead of tearing my Red Sox hat to

shreds, I’ll put mymind to more con-structive matters.I’ve got a great idea:Instead of playingreal sports with thepossibility of drugsbeing used, cut outthe sport and maketaking drugs anactual sport.

We can have aFritos eating con-test that requiresparticipants tosmoke marijuana

before ingesting as manyFritos/Funions/Cheetos in an hour, or anentire night, well whatever, how ever longyou want to, man.

We can have a “let’s see how many bul-lets it takes to fell you” contest. You start bydoing more coke than the Hilton sistersthen watch scenes of “Scarface” and runinto an NRA meeting screaming “Guns killpeople” and see how many shots from a“personal defense mechanism” it takes tobring you to your knees.

Instead of a homerun contest, why don’twe have an impersonation contest, whereyou do your best to look like an EastGerman shot-putter (of either sex). Insteadof sending people to the warning track, youmake some track marks of your own, juic-ing a shot of roids into each muscle groupseveral times a day — just like the governorof California used to — and shrinking yourgenitals to microscopic sizes.

The roid rage, which has, as of late,become America’s past time, extendsbeyond the sport that is America’s pasttime. Track and field used to be one of themost respected sports, with roots datingback before the first Olympics (which pre-dates the rock, paper, scissors world cham-pionships by more than 2,000 years).Arguably, the 100-meter event used to bethe ultimate test of athleticism, thoughwith a spate of drug scandals, it has tran-scended into the ultimate test of findingsomeone to pee in a cup for you. Maybethis is an exaggeration, and it is clear thatnot everyone is out to sacrifice his/hermanliness/womanhood for the love of thegame, but the usage of steroids and otherdrugs by an unknown amount of athletesand the reluctance of a majority to submitto testing diminish the credibility of sports.

With substances building muscles andmaking baseball players as flexible asBush’s foreign relations policy, we lose anelement of reality. It used to be that playerswere superior athletes-people who lookedlike the normal person, but flaunted supe-rior skills. Now it seems like athletes havebecome superior specimens of science.

This year the average weight of theYankees is 200.2 pounds, versus 30 yearsago when it was 189.5 pounds, and even 10years ago with a weight of 191.36 pounds.(Don Zimmer was taken out of the teamaverage for purposes of statistical accuracy,though Roger Clemens and David Wellswere counted to emphasize the author’spoint.) Not all of the increased averageweight, which can be found on nearly allteams in all sports, should be attributed tosteroids.

A good portion of the weight gain is dueto “super sizing” and the vast consumptionof Jared’s sweet onion chicken teriyakifrom Subway, and the fact that the capital-

BY KATHY BABCOCKBrown women’s volleyball (2-11, 1-4 IvyLeague) faced the best and worst the IvyLeague had to offer last weekend, prov-ing the team belongs somewhere in themiddle of the pack. The Bears facedCornell (15-1, 6-0 Ivy League) Friday, los-ing 3-1 in a close match. The next day,the team beat Columbia 3-2 (0-14, 0-6Ivy League) in its first Ivy win of the sea-son.

“I’m very, very happy with our win.There were moments when we shined inboth games. Against Cornell, we hadthem in the third game 25-19,” said KimHighlund ’04. “Really we should havepulled out our game against Cornell. Idon’t think we just played with them. Ithink we played above them in both thesecond and third games which shows thepotential of the team.”

The Bears made an impressive come-back against Columbia. They fell behindin the first two games losing both by ascore of 28-30, but managed to pull outof a deep hole to win the next three towin the match, with 30-22, 30-16 and 15-10 victories.

“We were finally able to do it atColumbia. I think that it was a greatgame because it did go (to) five and wecould have folded in that fifth game,”Highlund said.

It was a record-setting game forHighlund, who tallied her 1,000th careerdig against Columbia. She tallied 18 digsin the contest, a team high that puts hercareer digs at 1,003.

“It was obviously a great accomplish-ment. It’s something I’ve been lookingforward to since my freshman year hop-ing that I could achieve it. Now mybiggest thing is to get at least third (inBrown’s record for career kills). LauraWells is in third with 1,034 digs,”Highlund said. “She was my big rivalwhen I was a freshman and she was ajunior, so it’s a big thing for me to get pasther which unless I get injured I can defi-nitely do.”

Many other players had strongmatches — Elvina Kung ’05 notched 16digs, while Karalyn Kuchenbecker ’06tallied her second double-double of theweekend with 22 kills and 10 digs and LizCvitan ’07 notched 20 kills. Other impor-tant hitters for the Bears were perennialperformer Lauren Gibbs ’06 who had 14kills and Meghan Goria ’06 getting back

into the lineup to record 10 kills. LeighMartin ’06 set nearly everyone up with 62assists on the match and had three killsand six digs herself.

The Bears’ first Ivy win came off atough loss at Cornell the day before fol-lowed by a long bus ride into the city. Inthe first game, the Bears fell 29-31, thenregained the momentum to win the sec-ond game 30-27, tying the match 1-1.But the team lost a close third game 28-30 and ran out of steam in the fourthgame losing 22-30.

Kuchenbecker led the team againstthe Big Red with her first double-doubleof the weekend with 16 kills and 17 digs,uncharacteristically leading the team indigs. Setter Martin also notched a dou-ble-double in the match with 53 assistsand 17 digs, sharing the team lead withKuckenbecker.

Cvitan made 17 kills in the loss, whichwas a personal best for a match until sheshattered it the next day. Gibbs put in astrong showing as well with 15 kills. Kunghad another solid day on defense tallying13 digs while Victoria Kasten ’07 made animpressive showing with 15 digs.

For the first three games of the match,the Bears kept up with the best team inthe Ivies. Brown was unable to finish, butthe scores show two evenly matchedteams. By comparison, their Ivy win thenext day at Columbia is less impressive.

“One of the most frustrating things isthat after almost every match that welost, the other team’s coach has said,‘You’re going to have a phenomenalteam,’ and that’s great, but we know thatwe already are. It’s just a matter of gettingto the next level,” Highlund said.

Bruno has its first home stand in near-ly a month this weekend againstDartmouth and Harvard.

“I definitely hope that it is a turningpoint. … I think it was just a matter ofgetting over that hump of knowing thatwe can do it and knowing that we’re justas good if not better than a lot of theteams in the Ivy League,” Highlund said.“We’ve had this idea that we’re youngerthan other teams. We just have to go outand play like we know we can and theway we play in practice. We have to goout and prove it to people.”

Herald staff writer Kathy Babcock ’05 cov-ers volleyball. She can be reached at [email protected].

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Volleyball picks up first Ivy winversus Lions, loses to Cornell

Sara Perkins / Herald

Kim Highlund ’04 (center) tallied her 1,000th career dig in a win over Columbia.

Keeping it drugfree for 2003

Weather not onside of M. golfBY ADAM ROYSTERComing off a 15-day hiatus from colle-giate competition, the Brown men’s golfteam finished 20th at this week’s NewEngland Championship. The 45-teamfield consisted of Ivy League rivalsHarvard, who took home the bronze witha team total of 624, and Dartmouth, fin-ishing ninth with 640.

Roughing the elements was the hard-est part of the Monday and Tuesdayevent, as wind and rain frazzled almostevery competitor. No player in the fieldfinished with a sub-par score, nor didany team shoot better than 34 shots overpar — the first-place score for theUniversity of Rhode Island.

“It was very cold the first day and itwas windy the second day,” said HeadCoach Ed Hanley. “So the weather defi-nitely had something to do with it.”

Aaron Telch ’07 led the Bears after thefirst 18 holes Monday with a score of 81.Dave Cangemi ’06 was three shotsbehind Telch with 84, and Robert Chen’05 was four shots back with 85. The usu-ally consistent Lanny Benson ’07 andJason Ricketts ’04 had off days withscores of 88 and 87, respectively. As ateam, the Bears, with their highest scorededucted from their total score, finishedMonday with a team total of 337.

The following day saw little improve-ment in scores or weather. Cangemi andBenson trimmed a few shots off theirscores Tuesday, each shooting 80. Telchsaw his score increase slightly to 83 alongwith Chen and Ricketts, who shot 88 and89, respectively. Though the second dayof competition yielded a better teamtotal of 331 for the Bears, the 20th-placefinish with an overall total of 668 was notenough to oust either of the other IvyLeaguers.

An unwanted vacation and continu-ous poor climate conditions havewreaked havoc on the young team. Thelast time the men were on the course fortwo consecutive days of competitive golfwas a month ago at the season’s openingevent, the Dartmouth Invitational.

“That was our first competition in overtwo weeks. Our past two events wererained out and it’s tough jumping backinto tournament play,” Hanley said. “Thelayoff really affected a lot of the guys. Itwas hard to get things going again.”

The Toski Invitational, which wasrained out at the end of September, isbeing made up Monday as a one-dayevent. As the last tournament of the fallseason, the team looks to redeem its poorperformance this week and end this partof the year on a positive note.

“The effort has been there all season,and so has the attitude. Unfortunately,when the tournament starts, we’re justnot clicking on all cylinders,” Hanleysaid.

Herald staff writer Adam Royster ’05.5covers men’s golf. He can be reached [email protected].

IAN CROPPSPORTS GUY

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