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The quietsuccess ofcheerleadingat BrownBY ELLEN WERNECKEIt’s the end of the second week of practices,and the pompoms are coming out.

On a cloudy fall day, the 17 members ofthe Brown cheerleading squad gather in thefreezing-cold gymnastics room on the sec-ond floor of the Pizzitola Sports Center. Theteam has two weeks to prepare for its firstconference game and, with over half of itsmembers new to Brown, there’s a lot ofwork to be done.

Coach Kent Stetson ’01 waits at the door,handing out bright new uniforms.Loosening up before practice starts, teammembers chatter about classes, roommatesand papers. From the sound of their voices,they could be any group of Brown students,as diverse in geography and opinion as thestudent body itself.

“A lot of people think cheerleaders are abunch of girls in skirts running around try-ing to get attention,” says Liz Muscarella’07. Yet there are no skirts to be seen here.The team is collectively dressed in shortsand t-shirts advertising everything fromBillabong to Brown summer studies. And,proving another old chestnut wrong,brunettes well outnumber blondes on thesquad.

At 2 p.m. sharp, Stetson approaches themat and the team rises as one. Bare feet hitthe mat in unison for the beginning warm-up, done to music from the Beastie Boys toChristina Aguilera.

“You’ve got the groove!” Stetson shoutsas the team moves in unison.

Stetson leads his team through jumpingjacks, splits and a variety of stretches. Theystretch everything, he says, especially wristsand ankles, which can be particular pointsof strain for cheerleaders. And they doabdominal work — an average of 400crunches before each practice — whichStetson said is crucial to cheering.

“People tend to use their lower backswhen their stomachs aren’t as strong,”Stetson says. “Whether they’re basing or fly-ing, the team needs strong abdominal mus-cles.”

In between workouts, team membersdiscuss shoulder stands and swap war sto-ries about uniform care. They tend towardinexperience, and Co-Captain JackieBuchwald ’05 calls this “a growing year” forthe Brown team.

“There’s only one senior and two juniorson the squad,” she says. “More than half thesquad is freshmen, and a lot of them don’thave any experience cheerleading.”

Still, Buchwald says she is optimistic.“I think (the team) is going to be great

down the line,” she says.After a couple of minutes, the team

returns to the mat to work on their sidelinedance. Preparing for a practice with theBrown Band, they run through their movesto a tape of the band playing “Smells LikeTeen Spirit.”

“Think about your expressions today,”Stetson says. “Today’s (three-hour) practice

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The Brown cheerleading squad has no rigid cut policy.“If you can attend mandatorypractices and football and basketball games, as well as physically handle our practicesand exemplify school spirit, then you will have a spot on the team,” Coach Kent Stetson’01 says.

BY LELA SPIELBERG The Special Victims Unit is a relatively new branch ofBrown’s Department of Public Safety that provides extraassistance for victims of particularly sensitive crimes,including domestic abuse, rape and hate crimes.

The May 2002 Bratton Report inspired the new division,which reviews safety on college campuses nationwide.

SVU Director Cheryl Ferreira said the department offers amyriad of services, most of them legal in nature. Victims canreceive legal counseling about their specific cases, and SVUemployees can help them obtain restraining orders, securetransportation to court or to the hospital and can accompa-

ny them to appointments with lawyers and detectives.The SVU also works in conjunction with deans and the

Office of Psychological Services to provide emotional coun-seling or any other support victims may need, Ferreira said.

This is the first semester the program has been in full gear,and Ferreira said she hopes anyone who needs these servic-es will feel comfortable seeking them.

She said only a few people have used SVU’s services sofar.

Ferreira is available during the week on the third floor ofthe Department of Public Safety building and at the SarahDoyle Women’s Center on Mondays from noon to 1:30 p.m.

DPS Special Victims Unit assists victims of sensitive crimes

URI graduatestudent unionsupported byschool, stateBY SARAH LABRIEThe movement for the unionization of grad-uate students at universities across thecountry hit Brown close to home recentlywhen the graduate student union at theUniversity of Rhode Island received formalrecognition from the state.

In an effort to gain power within theBrown administration, graduate teachingassistants at Brown began campaigning fora union in 2001. The Brown movementreached a stalemate when the Universitycountered with an appeal to the NationalLabor Relations Board in December of thatyear.

Unlike Brown, faculty members at URIprovided full support for the union effort.Professors at URI are unionized under theAmerican Association of UniversityProfessors, and the unionization of studentsallowed the school to improve graduateeducation because of an increase in state-provided resources, according to one unionrepresentative.

Andrea Cecconi, secretary of URIGraduate Assistants United, said it washarder to get URI students involved with themovement because there was less resist-ance at URI than there is at other schools.

“Most universities had to fight ridicu-lously hard,” Cecconi said.

Members of the union at URI were grant-ed tuition waivers and health insurance as

see CHEERING, page 4

see UNIONS, page 4

University considersRIPTA bus pass only ifit alleviates carcrowding on campusmetro,page 3

City Council memberDavid Segal pursuesovernight parking inProvidencemetro,page 3

Sarah Chiappinelli ’06laments the construc-tion of nail clippersthese dayscolumn, page 9

Conservative Calif.’srace-blind Prop. 54based on ignorance,says Stephen Beale ’04column, page 11

W. soccer gains twovictories with fresh-man goalie’s first show-ings on the fieldsports, page 12

Suspects in Bowenrobbery still at largeBY ZACH BARTERTwo suspects remain at large in the rob-bery of a male Brown student Saturdaynight. The robbery occurred at 8:15 p.m.near the intersection of Hope and Bowenstreets.

The campus community learned of theincident in an e-mail from theDepartment of Public Safety Monday. Theletter asked those with knowledge of theincident to contact the Brown UniversityDetective Unit.

The student reported that two men

see CRIME, page 8

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BY LISA MANDLEJohnson and Wales University,Providence College and Salve ReginaUniversity already have it. And Brownstudents running for UndergraduateCouncil of Students promised to get it.

But when it comes to getting Brownstudents unlimited access to the RhodeIsland Public Transit Authority system,the determining factor is whether themove will reduce cars on campus, saidVice President for AdministrationWalter Hunter.

RIPTA’s University Pass Programallows students to use its statewide net-work of trolleys and buses by showingtheir student ID, said RIPTA Director ofMarketing and Communications KarenMensel. RIPTA began the program twoyears ago and currently has four partic-ipating schools, she said.

Schools join the program after nego-tiating a mutual agreement with RIPTA,she said. Mensel would not commenton the status of Brown’s negotiationswith RIPTA.

Mensel said the UPass Program isworking for students currently involvedwith it. The recent cancellation of the

UCS-promisedRIPTA passesstill not reality

Night parkingan elusive goalfor Segal

see RIPTA, page 8

BY SAMUEL CULVERWhen 22-year-old David Segal ran for WardOne city council member in November, hecampaigned chiefly on a platform toimprove overnight parking in the city. Oneyear into his term, Segal’s goal has yet to bemet, but a pilot overnight parking programto select neighborhoods may begin as earlynext spring — if it dodges some oppositionin the Council.

A committee of council members is cur-rently studying the overnight parking issueand the city has so far sponsored threehearings about parking around the city,Segal said.

“There are pockets throughout the citythat overwhelmingly support a change inpolicy,” Segal said.

As of now, overnight parking is prohibit-ed on city streets. The new pilot policy maybe tested in the spring and allow onlyRhode Island residents with purchased per-mits to park overnight on some streets,according to Segal. The pilot program is notdefinitive, but is something Segal and hiscolleagues continue to pursue, Segal said.

“I see this as a great opportunity to gen-erate revenue for the city. The in-state feeswill bring in a lot of money, but if we extendthis policy to out-of-state car owners, ourfees will be substantially higher,” Segal said.

see SEGAL, page 8

Sorleen Trevino / Herald

RIPTA’s University Pass Program allows students to use its statewide network oftrolleys and buses by showing their student IDs. RIPTA began the program two yearsago and currently has four participating schools.

is about as long as the games we’llbe cheering at.”

The coach stresses the impor-tance of visual aspects and whatthe audience can see. During onedifficult maneuver, he instructshis team to “pretend you’re bal-ancing a chemistry book on yourhead.”

After they master a move, heyells, “That is the attitude we’relooking for!”

But team member Ann Kuo ’07insists cheerleading is not justabout attitude. “We’re not justgirls on the sidelines wavingpompoms,” she says. “We’re notjust there to do cheers.”

In addition to pompoms, theteam also employs giant placardsand meter-long megaphones tostir up fans. Stetson leads histeam through the cheers, push-ing them to work on their enunci-ation, so everyone in the standscan hear their “Beat Harvard!”After the “First and 10, do itagain” cheer, he pauses to explainthe down system in football to aconfused team member.

“Everyone should join in withour cheers,” Kuo says. “We’rethere for the team and thecrowd.”

For many maneuvers,Buchwald counts off from thefront row for her teammates. Thecaptain of her high school cheer-leading team, she says she lookedfor a college with a team.

“I’ve always loved cheerlead-

ing,” she says. “I met the cheer-leaders walking around at theActivities Fair.” Buchwald and herteammates carry on the traditionof patrolling the OMAC during theactivities fair to fill much of theyear’s squad.

Her co-captain, IsabelMartinez ’05, only cheered in jun-ior high. Still, Martinez says sheenjoys participating on the Brownteam because of the “great groupof people.”

“My favorite part is cheerlead-ing at the games,” Martinez says.“When we’re doing stunts and weget the really difficult stuff up, it’sreally rewarding,” she says.

At some point during practicethe group splits up — the threemen and three of the women goto work on stunts, while the rest ofthe team works on their letters.The formation of the word“Brown” in pompoms by threerows of women earned them full-color pictures in a feature forAmerican Cheerleader magazinethis fall — the cheerleadingworld’s equivalent of a rock bandearning a cover story in RollingStone.

Stetson stays with the pairsdoing stunts, working with onetrio — a base, a spotter and a flier— at a time. Stetson demonstratesenthusiastically and drags someextra mats over to make the flier’slanding safer.

“We didn’t do any stunts at thebeginning of the season,” Stetsonsays. “I think we’ve made a lot ofprogress.”

The Brown cheerleading squadhas no rigid cut policy. “If you canattend mandatory practices andfootball and basketball games, aswell as physically handle ourpractices and exemplify schoolspirit, then you will have a spot onthe team,” Stetson says.

New team members have avariety of reasons for joining.Muscarella cheered in middleschool and high school, she says,while Kuo came to an open prac-tice “sort of on a whim.”

“Eventually we’re going to do acompetition, which is exciting,”Kuo says. “And our coach is reallycool.”

Mary Coe ’06, who cheered in

high school, says her favorite partof cheerleading is the combina-tion of “individual and collabora-tive efforts.”

“It looks like this season’s goingto turn out to be great,” she says.“We’ve got two more boys, whichdefinitely makes a difference interms of the stunts we can do.”

Stetson and his team say thebiggest misconception the teamfaces at Brown is that it simplydoes not exist.

“Brown cheerleading is as oldas athletics at Brown,” Stetsonsays. “Our increased visibility oncampus and appearances on localand student television is helpingto dispel this misconception.”

Buchwald says many studentsdon’t know how much time theteam puts in and how athleticthey must be to support theirstunts.

“I and several other membersof the team lift weights,” she says,“and we’re fit people. We’re throw-ing people around, we’re doingcardio.

“It’s like a team sport,” she says.“You have to work together toachieve a goal — it’s just not scor-ing a basket, it’s landing a stunt ordoing a cheer.”

Kuo says her participation“made me respect cheerleadingmore.”

“I think we try to defy thestereotypes of what people thinkcheerleaders are,” she says. “Thestunts we do are really difficult —our job is to make them lookeasy.”

“When you watch the cheer-leaders, it becomes apparent thatthis is a sport where men andwomen athletically work togetheras equals,” Stetson says. “It also isone way in which female andmale students can showcase theirathleticism during other sportsevents.”

Muscarella says there’s onlyone way to respond to critics ofher sport.

“I tell them to come watch agame,” she says.

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

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part of their contract.“People couldn’t live on what

we were being paid,” Cecconi said.She called the unionization effort“purely economic.”

Although members of Brown’sgraduate students’ union strive forsimilar benefits, the motivationsbehind the formation of the twounions differ. Students at Brownfind unionization to be a matter ofdignity and respect, according tothe group’s spokeswoman.

A union would entail “recogni-tion of the difference we make,”said Sheyda Jahanbani GS,spokesperson for the Brown gradstudent union.

Frank Annunziato, executivedirector of the AAUP at URI, calledBrown’s opposition to unioniza-tion a result of “managerial soli-darity.” He argued that the univer-sity perceives the formation of astudent union as a threat toadministrative authority.

“Here, the faculty understandsthat their role is not going to bechallenged,” Annunziato said.

Because URI is a public school,students must seek the authoriza-tion of the state to unionize.Brown and most other privateschools choose to unionize underthe NLRB.

If students at Brown do winunion recognition, they will do soas part of the United Auto Workersunion. The UAW supported NewYork University students in a simi-lar battle two years ago whichresulted in the creation of the firstgraduate student union at a pri-vate university.

The NLRB impounded the bal-lots from a December 2001 voteon whether students at Brownshould officially seek unionauthorization. The results of theelection will not be released untilthe NLRB rules on Brown’s appealand appeals filed by TuftsUniversity, Columbia Universityand the University ofPennsylvania, where similar con-flicts are taking place.

The decision could be handeddown at any time, according toPatricia Gilbert, the associatedirector of information at theNLRB.

“The judgement is at the boardmembers’ discretion,” Gilbert said.

But Jahanbani said she is wor-ried the political makeup of theboard will affect its decision.

“It’s not a labor-supportiveenvironment,” Jahanbani said.“The University is handing theBush administration a victory withits conservative, anti-worker agen-da.”

Annunziato agreed, accusingthe University’s appeal of showing“a lack of creativity and a lack ofimagination.”

“Ruth Simmons is a liberal per-son,” Annunziato said. “Brownshould rethink its perspective onthis.”

To maintain support for theunion movement during theindefinite waiting period, theBrown grad student union hasprotested at trustee meetingsand advertised its cause to gradstudents as well as undergradu-ates.

“We want to establish a com-munity,” Jahabani said.

A ruling in favor of Brown’sappeal will not affect the NYU gradstudents’ union, but it couldpotentially end unionizationefforts involving the NLRB amonggrad students at all private univer-sities.


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Hakem Kharqani visits the cell he lived in for 20 years in the Abu Ghraib prison. More than 30 other men lived in the cellwith him; the filthy, overcrowded conditions led to a host of medical problems, such as tuberculosis.

Ex-prisoners describe horrors,call for justiceABU GHRAIB, IRAQ (Washington Post) — Prisoners werebrought to Iraq’s most feared prison in an ice-cream truck, asoft cone painted on its side. After sentencing at the nearbyRevolutionary Court, following a perfunctory trial, the pris-oners were hustled outside and loaded in the back.

“We were waddling like penguins because of the torture,”recalled Ahmed Mohammed Baqer Attar, a 41-year-oldBaghdad physician. “And then we saw an old ice-creamtruck.”

“It’s hard to believe,” he continued, a smoker’s laugh ris-ing from his chest. “But everything was hard to believe.”

On the short ride to the prison, a forbidding structurethat sprawls over 280 acres about 20 miles west of Baghdad,the men who had just been sentenced to death kissed thosewho had received jail terms and begged them to get word oftheir fate to their families. “They were weeping and trem-bling and they made us swear,” said Karim Hassan Jabbar,45, another physician who spent nine years in the prison.

In the shuddering whispers of this formerly closed socie-ty, Abu Ghraib was known as a colossal dungeon where thesilent screams of its captives became the symbol of state ter-ror. Abu Ghraib was the Iraqi gulag.

Some of those in the ice-cream van, facing 20 years inthis prison rather than death, wondered if they were theunlucky ones. “I felt such agony, such despair, it felt like aknife turning in my stomach,” said Hakem Kharqani, 43, ofthe moment he crossed the prison’s threshold in 1982. Hehad already endured torture at the headquarters of thesecret police in Baghdad, including electric shock. He fearedit would continue without end.

For thousands of political prisoners crudely executed byhanging in its ghoulish death chamber, Abu Ghraib was thefinal station in an excruciatingly brutal system. Thousandsmore who eluded the hangman were forced to survive inovercrowded, putrescent, disease-infested cells where thethreat of violence, including beatings, torture and summaryexecution, was ever-present.

Today, Abu Ghraib’s political prisoners are giving witnessto the apparatus of repression under former presidentSaddam Hussein. The survivors are providing detailed, first-hand testimony, one at a time, about the system’s capriciousbarbarism. A more complete historical accounting is likelyto take years. The prospect of trials, both for the country’sonetime leadership and its functionaries, remains distant.

Among survivors, there is a strong desire that the pain ofAbu Ghraib not be forgotten. They want a new legal systemto exact retribution, and they want the lessons of the past tobe etched into memory as a guarantee of Iraq’s future free-dom.

“The prisoners are Iraq’s best teachers,” said Kharqani. The secret police, dressed in civilian clothes, came for

Kharqani at home. It was just hours after an evening cele-bration at Baghdad’s Alwiya club where his civil engineeringclass marked its graduation. Upon his return from the club,his family showered him with chocolates, an Iraqi tradition.He was the first among seven children to get a university

degree. Away from the neighborhood, in the back of the vehicle,

Kharqani was blindfolded and handcuffed. He was taken tothe headquarters of the Directorate of General Security,where he was chained to a radiator in a corridor outsideinterrogation rooms, a hood still over his head. He couldhear the screams and moans of prisoners undergoing ques-tioning.

“They softened you up by forcing you to listen,” saidAttar, who was arrested after he was summoned from a classon microorganisms to the deputy dean’s office at KufaUniversity. Two agents quietly led him away and then drovehim to Baghdad.

Occasionally, a passing guard whacked the shackled pris-oners with a stick. They flinched at footsteps, barely breath-ing in their shrouded darkness. Some prisoners had alreadysoiled their pants.

After several hours, the prisoners were brought into aninterrogation room. The questions began with the routine:name, age, occupation. Then, an offer to confess now, andavoid the worst. Some prisoners, like Kharqani, had nosense of the charges against them. Others, like Attar, under-stood that admitting to membership in prohibited groups,such as the Shiite Dawa party, meant death.

The word of an informer, the forced confession of afriend or, in some cases, genuine intelligence led to thearrests. Islamicactivists, Communists and Kurds all sharedthe same fate.

Kharqani was the unwitting acquaintance of a studentinvolved in an Islamic opposition group accused of attack-ing Tariq Aziz, then deputy prime minister, with a grenadeas he opened a student conference. Attar moved in reli-giously active student circles at his college in southern Iraq,near the holy city of Najaf.

Abdul Hussein Faraj, 47, who was arrested in 1988,admits now that he was a member of the banned Dawaparty.

Once one member of a family was arrested, other rela-tives were exposed. Kharqani’s younger brother, Raheem,later disappeared, and his father died within a day of beingreleased from the General Security headquarters. The fami-ly suspects he was poisoned.

In the interrogation room, the hoods were removed. Theprisoners had their hands tied behind their backs with cuffsand rope; Faraj’s wrist is still cross-hatched with scars fromwhen he was bound. They were then hoisted by a ropeattached to a hook in the ceiling so they dangled above theground, the tendons in their shoulders tearing under thestrain. The ball and socket in the shoulders of some prison-ers completely rotated, Attar said.

The prisoners were lashed with cables. Clips wereattacked to their earlobes, nipples and genitals and theywere administered electric shocks. When they passed out,as they almost invariably did, they were dragged back to thecorridor and cuffed again to the radiator, a dozen formerprisoners recalled in interviews.

White House to take more controlof Iraq reconstruction

Washington (L.A. Times) — Amid criticism of thePentagon’s role in the Iraqi reconstruction, the Bushadministration is creating an interagency group thatgives the White House more control over decision-mak-ing, officials said Monday.

Many observers described the reorganization as away to shift some authority away from the DefenseDepartment.

White House officials insisted that the creation of theIraq Stabilization Group was little more than a bureau-cratic rejiggering designed to enhance efficiency inWashington and better support the DefenseDepartment, which has exercised nearly total control ofthe military occupation and reconstruction of Iraq.

“It’s common for the National Security Council tocoordinate efforts, interagency efforts,” Bush said dur-ing a brief session with reporters.“And Condi Rice, thenational security adviser, is doing just that.”

Others saw the move as a way to pull some authorityback into the White House and give a greater voice todepartments and agencies unhappy with thePentagon’s predominance.

“It brings it out of the sole province of theDepartment of Defense,” said Andy Fisher, chief of staffto Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., chairman of the SenateForeign Relations Committee, who has argued that theState Department’s role in Iraq should be more promi-nent.“This allows the allocation (of authority) to occurin an interagency way.”

Establishment of the Iraq Stabilization Group comesas Bush’s approval ratings are at their lowest level sincehe took office, with polls showing increasing publicconcern about his foreign policy leadership.

The move is at least the second reorganization ofIraq policymaking since the end of the war. Initially,retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner led the Office ofReconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, but hewas soon replaced by retired Ambassador L. PaulBremer III as head of a restructured Coalition ProvisionalAuthority. As did Garner, Bremer reports directly to thePentagon.

“I think the president has lost confidence in hisnational security team,” said Thomas Mann, a govern-ment expert at the Brookings Institution, a centrist pub-lic policy center in Washington.

“I think he has been genuinely surprised that thepostwar effort has cost as much and gone as badly as ithas,” he said.“This wouldn’t have happened withoutone unhappy camper in the Oval Office.”

The new group will replace the existing “executivesteering group” composed of officials at the assistantsecretary level from the departments of Defense, Stateand Treasury and the CIA. That group has been coordi-nating policy on a day-to-day basis but has not had pol-icymaking authority.

The Iraq Stabilization Group will be one rung higheron the bureaucratic ladder, consisting of undersecre-taries who have some policymaking authority, saidNational Security Council spokesman Sean McCormack.A similar group will be formed to coordinate policy inAfghanistan, he said.

White House officials described the reorganization asa way to “cut though red tape” as the United Statesincreases its involvement and investment in Iraq.Congress is considering Bush’s budget request of anadditional $87 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Our efforts are accelerating in Iraq, and this is a wayto focus in on those areas here in Washington, D.C., asmore resources come in, so that we can do everythingfrom Washington to support the efforts in Iraq,”WhiteHouse spokesman Scott McClellan said.

While McClellan dismissed the idea that powerwould shift from the Pentagon, saying that “nothingchanges in terms of the Coalition Provisional Authorityand the Department of Defense,” other observers dis-agreed. One State Department official who spoke oncondition of anonymity said the move gives theNational Security Council more direct control of recon-struction efforts at the expense of the Pentagon.

Giving the State Department and other agencies aseat at the table will “prevent the Pentagon fromstonewalling or blindsiding people,” the official said.

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San Jose, Calif. (L.A. Times) — Onhis final day of campaigning,Arnold Schwarzenegger toldenthusiastic crowds that theelection-day question is clear-cut: Whether California’sfinances, economy and imageshould languish under Gov.Gray Davis or rebound underthe inspired leadership hevowed to deliver.

The recall, he told about 500people packed into an airplanehangar here, is a popular upris-ing aimed at a cloistered politi-cal class that has lost touch withaverage Californians.

“Tomorrow it is all about thepeople vs. the government, thepoliticians,” he said. “It is thepeople vs. the politicians. Somake sure you go out and vote.”

Schwarzenegger led rallieshere, in Huntington Beach andin San Bernardino, flying up anddown the state in a private jet.Dozens of journalists followedon a separate plane.

For the last several days thecampaign has been dogged bycharges that Schwarzeneggergroped and mistreated womenover a span of three decades.Though he dismissed the accu-sations in some recent cam-paign appearances as “puke pol-itics,” he made no mention ofthem at any of his rallies onMonday. Still, the campaign

dropped in symbolic messagesto portray Schwarzenegger asrespectful of women.

Behind him on the stage herewere no fewer than 50 women,many of them waving signsreading, “Remarkable Womenfor Arnold.” At other momentson the trail, the visuals weren’tso accommodating. At the rallyin Huntington Beach, a youngwoman on stage was wearing abikini. She was given a shirt toput on before Schwarzeneggerarrived for his speech.

Schwarzenegger was intro-duced at all three rallies by hiswife, Maria Shriver, who hasappeared frequently with himon the trail since the chargeswere first published in the LosAngeles Times on Thursday.Family was trumpeted. Shriver’smother, Eunice, joined the cou-ple on stage at the HuntingtonBeach rally, where young menand women holding surfboardsstood in the background, theocean in the distance.Schwarzenegger was given asurfboard as a gift, completewith his likeness.

In her introductions, MariaShriver spoke of the couple’s 17-year marriage and mentionedthat she had told their childrenthat it took “great, greatcourage” for their father “tojump into this race.”

Schwarzeneggerurges voters tochoose his leadership

(L.A. Times) Washington — In adecision that could spur newcompetition, a federal appealscourt on Monday struck downrules allowing cable TV opera-tors to bar rivals from offeringhigh-speed Internet access ontheir networks.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals in San Franciscoordered the FederalCommunications Commissionto treat cable high-speedInternet access similar to theway it treats broadband on tele-phone networks.

Phone companies must allowcompeting Internet serviceproviders — such as EarthLinkInc., AOL Time Warner Inc.’s

America Online and MicrosoftCorp. — to sell high-speedaccess over their systems.

The ruling, which the FCCsaid it would appeal, representsanother legal setback for theagency, which in the last twoyears has seen media ownershiprules and some cable TV regula-tions overturned.

FCC Chairman Michael K.Powell said the latest court rul-ing throws “a monkey wrenchinto the FCC’s efforts to developa vitally important nationalbroadband policy.”

Powell has said that givingcable companies the exclusiveright to sell high-speed accessover their lines encourages

investment in new technolo-gies.

But EarthLink said the deci-sion would lower broadbandprices and spur innovation.

“This is a big victory for con-sumers,” said David Baker, vicepresident for legal and regulato-ry affairs at EarthLink. “Thepractical result of this decisionis that cable broadband will berequired to offer us and anyother ISP (Internet serviceprovider) the ability to offerbroadband to their customers.”

EarthLink was a plaintiff inthe case along with theCalifornia Public UtilitiesCommission and several con-sumer groups.

Court rejects rules barring cable Internet comp.

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The Bears were unable to staywith the speedy Husky squad.Not only was Northeastern afaster team than Brown but theirsuperior passing skills made aBrown comeback virtuallyimpossible.

The Huskies continued topressure the Brown defense andbroke through for three moregoals in the second half.

But Brown realized much ofNortheastern’s success was builton its own mistakes.

“Northeastern had great pass-ing, quick passing, but I don’tthink the game should havebeen 6-1,” Buza said. “Part of ourdownfall was that people cameout of their position and weretrying to do to much and thenweren’t available where weneeded them.”

Much like the Harvard game,Brown’s own ability to transitionthe ball from defense to offensewas less than stellar.

“We passed the ball more toNortheastern than they passedto themselves,” Norris said. “Iactually think some kids gave uptoday, playing wise, after theygot down a couple goals.”

The 6-1 loss certainly hit theBears hard. It was the first timethe defense had given up morethan two goals in a game all year,and it was evident Bruno wasforcing passes. With that inmind, the coaching staff gavethe team Thursday off, and theplayers responded by organizingan activity of their own.

“We went up to the roof andplayed soccer. We went back tohaving fun with each other andnot being so stressed out,” Buzasaid.

On Saturday, a completely dif-ferent Brown team took toWarner Roof to face off againstthe Boston College Eagles.

The Bears jumped on theboard first as Molly Carleton ’04recorded an unassisted goal, giv-ing the Bears a first-half lead forthe first time since Sept. 14against BU. Though BostonCollege answered back quickly,Brown was a completely differ-ent team than the one that facedoff against Northeastern. TheBears passing and transitioningwere much improved, and thedefense once again stoppedcountless Boston Collegeattacks.

With the game still knotted at1-1 in the second half, a Buza

shot almost gave the Bears thelead. While fans heard the famil-iar smack of the ball hitting theback of the goal, it was just atease — Buza’s shot had hit theleft post and went out of bounds.

“We don’t hit the post and wewould have been up 2-1. Eitherway those are momentumswings, that pumped the BCdefense up,” Norris said. Sheadded, “To get up to score wasgreat. We have been strugglingwith that lately and just being inthe circle was good.”

Yet, the rejuvenated Brownsquad could only hang so longwith the Eagles. With 13:50 left inthe game, exhaustion set in forthe Bears and Boston Collegewas able to capitalize, scoringfour goals in the final 15 min-utes.

“I think we played the best weplayed all year for the first 55minutes and then we ran out ofgas for the last 15,” Norris said.“You know against a great teamthey are going to capitalize onthat. Our defense playedextremely well. Katie Noe had arough end of the game, but shealso made some great saves inthe beginning.”

Much like the Northeasterngame, most of the pressure onBrown’s defense came in theform of penalty corners. BostonCollege racked up 21, whileBrown could only muster 4.

Buza noted the ability to getpenalty corners is a sign of astrong team.

“I think that is why those twoteams are ranked. I am sure (theamount of penalty corners) isnot only what they do to us. Theyare extremely good at drawingcorners,” Buza said.

While 38 penalty corners forthe opposing team in two gamesis a daunting figure, Norris notedthe defense “does not panic” asin years past when penalty cor-ners are called.

Though the Boston Collegegame ended in defeat, the Bearsbelieve they are a stronger teamfollowing the past week.

“It’s not fun losing threegames in a row, especially 11-2.But working through thesegames brought us closer as ateam,” Buza said. “We realizedwe needed each other, not justindividual efforts.”

The Bears jump back into IvyLeague play this weekend atColumbia.

Herald staff writer MaggieHaskins ’04 edits the sports sec-tion. She can be reached at [email protected].


Field hockey

at least an opportunity toscore against him now.Teams are still contemplat-ing whether or not Gagne ishuman, but they knowRivera is.

Yankees broadcaster JimKaat, who watches this teamplay as much as anyone, wasdiscussing the missing confi-dence and mystique of thisyear’s squad. He gave the fol-lowing insightful quote: “If Iwere to rank the teams dur-ing the Joe Torre era, I thinkthis is his eighth year, likeone through eight, thiswould be the eighth-bestteam. They won the divisiononly because of their startingpitching. In a short series,they don’t do the little thingslike the other teams did. Joeknows that.”

If anyone missed it lastweek, the entire OaklandColiseum joined in booingthe Jeter/Steinbrenner com-mercial that was played onthe Jumbotron. The discon-tentment with the highest-paid team in all of baseballhas now spread outside ofNew England. And this year,those who don’t want to seeNew York bring home anoth-er trophy will probably gettheir wish.

Marc Lanza ’06 hails fromLeominster, Mass., and ispraying that when this articleis printed the Red Sox will bein the ALCS.


Lanza

with less than five minutes toplay. But the outcome this timewas different, as Brunoregrouped and won in doubleovertime.

After going into halftime 0-0,the Bears came out strong inthe second half, scoring within15 minutes on a goal byMeghan Schreck ’06. ToryManchester ’06 followed upwith another score less than 20minutes later.

The Lions rallied and set thegame into overtime, with theirsecond goal coming off of a shotParodi deflected but stillsqueaked in under the crossbar.

The Bears defeated thedemons of last year’s Princetongame, winning two minutesinto the second overtime with apenalty kick buried in the backof the net by Julie Herrold ’04.

The Bears continue the sea-son on Tuesday at theUniversity of Hartford beforecoming home for a big Ivy-League match Saturday againstPrinceton.


W. socceroctopus or beans?

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RIPTA late night bus betweenProvidence and URI due to safe-ty and liability concerns wasbased on disruptive studentbehavior is “not related” to theUPass Program, she said.

Since last year, UCS VicePresident Diana Jeffery ’04 hasbeen working with Hunter onthe UPass issue. “The Universitysees it not so much as a benefitbut as a necessity to get rid of theparking problem,” Jeffrey said.

Because Brown is not consid-ered a commuter school, theUniversity must decide if joiningUPass will reduce the number ofcars brought to campus, Jefferysaid. Though she would not statethe specific cost, she said theUniversity found RIPTA’s initialoffer “too large” and “not pro-portional” to the number of carsthat would be removed fromcampus for the cost of joiningUPass.

Hunter said the University iscontinuing discussions withRIPTA but will wait for recom-mendations from the Ad HocTransportation ManagementAdvisory Committee before pro-gressing. The committee wascreated to make recommenda-tions to the University todecrease cars on campus. Itsmembers will advise on issuesthat include parking policies andfees, shuttle operations, carpooling incentives and RIPTA’sUPass Program.

University funding for UPass,should Brown join the program,has yet to be determined,Hunter said. Part of the fundingcould come from an increase inUniversity parking fees, he said.

Overnight student parking atBrown costs on-campus stu-dents $320 a year, Hunter said.

“Brown’s prices are very lowcompared to other city schools,”Jeffery said.

Yale University charges the

equivalent of $620.10 for parkingfrom September through Mayfor residential student parking,said a representative of Parkingand Transit at Yale. TheUniversity of California at LosAngeles charges $612 annuallyfor overnight parking, accordingto the UCLA Web site. Around-the-clock student parking fromSeptember to June costs stu-dents between $960 and $1,250at Harvard University, accordingto Harvard’s UniversityOperations Services Web site —up to four times the cost ofBrown parking.

Students were skeptical join-ing UPass would reduce thenumber of cars they brought tocampus. Many students bringcars to participate in off-campussports. Members of the sailingteam said they needed cars toattend practice, which cannot bereached by RIPTA buses.Students on Brown’s equestrianteam were given parking spots atthe stadium because they rely oncars to get to the stables inWarren, R.I., The Herald report-ed earlier this semester.

Brown issued 700 studentpermits this year, Hunter said.But students are not the onlyones responsible for cars oncampus. Providing access to theRIPTA system might have agreater impact on cars broughtby faculty and staff commutinglocally.

The 17-member committee,chaired by Directory of RealEstate and AdministrativeServices Abigail Rider, includesstudent representatives fromUCS, the Graduate StudentCouncil and the shuttle service.

Hunter said the committeewill start meeting this month tobegin submitting recommenda-tions by the end of the semester.The group will decide whether tohold forums open to the public,he said.

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


RIPTA

Foes of the proposedovernight parking policy don’thave faith the city will enforce it.According to Segal, some oppo-nents are convinced the policywould increase car ownership inthe city, crowding city streets andencourage younger drivers topark wherever they want.

But Segal said neighborhoodswould decide which policy theywant in place. Neighborhoodresidents would vote whether toallow overnight parking on theirstreets.

“By making this policy non-uniform, it allows neighbor-hoods that are worried about anincrease in crime and traffic toavoid the issue altogether,” Segalsaid.

Segal’s plans for the city alsoinclude a living wage ordinance.Wages in the city are unable tosupport Providence families,Segal said.

“It is wrong to be operating a

city on the backs of people withsuch low wages. Currently, theProvidence minimum wage isjust above the state of RhodeIsland — $6.75 an hour,” he said.

Segal said he hopes to raiseminimum wage within the nextthree years to $10.19 an hour anddevise incentives for companies.According to Segal, other stateslike ??? have programs that cuttaxes for companies that offerliving wages and healthcare ben-efits to their employees.

“Other companies wouldreceive breaks such as minorityowned businesses and compa-nies that hire locally,” Segal said.

With three years left in histerm, Segal said he hopes tomake an impact. “We have anumber of ideas of how we’regoing to deal with the issues inProvidence, and we’re workinghard to get them passed,” Segalsaid.

When Segal ran for office lastNovember, his campaign plat-form centered on bringingaffordable housing, living wagesand an overnight parking policyto the city.


Segal

approached him shortly afterhe left Meehan Auditorium.After asking the student for thetime, the men struck the stu-dent in the face and demand-ed his wallet. The suspectstook the wallet’s contents andfled north on Hope Street.

The student described theassailants as two college-agemales of medium builddressed in baggy clothing. Thesuspects were with a group ofover a half-dozen other peo-ple, the student reported.

The student was not injuredin the assault.

Both DPS and theProvidence Police Departmentare investigating the incident.DPS officers declined to com-ment, saying they could notdiscuss an open investigation.

Herald staff writer Zach Bartercan be reached [email protected].


Crime

OPINIONS EXTRATHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


Nailed to a cross of mediocrityThe prevalence of mediocre nail clippers in our society shows a preference for compassion over competence

IF YOU’RE GOING TO GO THROUGH ALLthe trouble of making nail clippers, why notmake ones that work? When is the cutting ofexpenses ever worth the consequential dis-satisfaction and frustration of countlessinnocent consumers, who upon purchasingfaulty clippers must experience the dis-heartening failure of a brand-new con-sumer good to perform itsintended purpose? The inabili-ty of a $2 tool to cut cleanlythrough a centimeter of pliablealpha-keratin represents farmore than a poor manicure;chintzy nail clippers reflect theinability of the modern-day shopper to pickup a product, read two to three glitteringgeneralities (works great! leaves you feelingbeautiful! may help prevent all that ails you!)and be wholly convinced it was made bysomeone who cares.

If you have ever used a defective nail clip-per, I’m sure you’re still trying to repress thetragic results: those shredded, if not lethallyserrated, nail ends that catch on anythingand everything they come remotely close to.This degree of insufficiency is not some-thing you should have to be worried aboutwhen paying full price for a mint conditionitem. Nonetheless, post-purchase disap-pointment is a very real and common phe-nomenon, haunting (like a conditionedresponse) every subsequent trip to the drugstore. A problem not exclusive to nail clip-pers, product malfunction paranoia can put

a damper on shopping for anything. Take,for example, those clothing zippers whichunexpectedly develop a series of bumpsafter one or two washes; Take those unas-suming ballpoint pens which acquire thatperpetual ink glob syndrome; Take thoseapples which, while appearing sweet andcrunchy, turn out to be like biting into a

sand castle. There is no way thepeople selling us this stuff didn’tsee these flaws ahead of time.They just saw that we didn’t seethese flaws ahead of time, andfor some reason, that was goodenough.

So, there you are with what HoldenCaulfield would describe as “crummy” nailsand a “phony” nail clipper, gloating over therealization that your nails, inevitably, arejust going to keep growing and that you’rethe one who’s going to have to take care ofthem and all while that dope of a companywho snowed you like this rolls in their mil-lions and billions of you-know-what dollars.What are you to do? Well, some people takethis as an opportunity to switch to scissors.One can thus evade the hassle of discrimi-natory shopping by simply embracing a lit-tle unconventionalism and watching him-self on the corners (to avoid right-anglednails). Other people, not to be beaten in theregimented hygiene game, pursue a trial-and-error strategy, buying one brand afterthe other until striking gold. In the event thesuccessful brand is four or five nail clippersaway, surplus purchases can simply bedonated to a high school art departmentwhere they will turn up in the multimedia

showcase glued to all the other junk peopledonated. And then there are those letter-writing people. They wait six to eight weeksfor an impersonal reply and some couponsfrom Corporation X. Coupons, of course, formore sub-standard products they can thenwrite more letters of complaint about.

Our fingernails deserve better than this. Ifwe are technologically advanced enough asa society that the wear-and-tear which ournails are biologically prepared for is entirelysuperceded by our sophisticated collabora-tions with machinery, then why do we havesuch a problem mastering a two and a quar-ter inch lever? More specifically, why hasn’tthere been greater urgency in the recall ofineffective nail clippers?

An economic survey of the situationmight attribute the glitches in mass pro-duction to, oh, say, “When you’re as rich,multifaceted, and omnipotent as the com-panies pumping out your everyday crapare, it’s just not that big a deal that a fewnail clippers went haywire.” I prefer todraw from Charles Darwin. Let’s say thatCVS equals the Galapagos Islands and thatthe brands Sally Hansen, La Cross and Wet

’n’ Wild are the different species of finches.It just so happens that none of these finch-es’ beaks are genetically conducive to suc-cess. By chance, a Sephora finch, with anextremely precise bite structure, flies downfrom San Francisco and eats all of the foodthe other finches could merely scratch at.Shouldn’t the other finches die out? Maybein Darwin’s day. But in contemporary soci-ety, someone out there is bound to sympa-thize with the unlucky Fringillidae andconstruct a special birdfeeder or some-thing.

There’s nothing more human than fight-ing evolution. It is compassion that drives usto do so, to seek out the unsuccessfulmutants, be them organic or stainless steel,and letting them survive and prevail withthe rest of our thriving planet. The world isan imperfect place, and companies arebound to make mistakes. But who takescare of the maladaptive ducks in the winter-time when the pond freezes over, Mr.Caulfield? Those people out there with thecrummy nails whose compassion for theirfellow man has expanded into a universaltolerance for failed functionalism.

And then there are those letter-writing people. They wait

six to eight weeks for an impersonal reply and some

coupons from Corporation X. Coupons, of course, for more

sub-standard products they can then write more letters of

complaint about.SARAH CHIAPPINELLI

COLUMNIST

Sarah Chiappinelli ‘06 hails from Vermontand swears she’s never bitten her nails.

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Advice you can useCareer Services has long been known as a pit stop forgraduates heading into the financial or tech industries.But for many other Brown students — interested in jobsranging from media to policy — the office provides littletangible support. Those interested in futures outside theCareer Services realm long ago relegated themselves totrudging through Web sites and job listings on their own,submitting resumes and information without formal guid-ance from the University.

Hopefully, this is changing.With greater efforts to publicize existing services and

the hiring of Harvard’s former associate director of CareerServices, the office may be looking into increasing its cloutamong non-finance and consulting-bound students.

But the office still needs to expand its offerings in onekey area — early Career Development.

Brown is not the most career-oriented place. For fouryears, it’s a haven for concentrators in classics, philoso-phy, and modern culture and media. What we hear fromon high relates to the universal application of the liberalarts education, not the nitty-gritty of securing an actualjob. And besides those who deem themselves “Pre-Med”or “Pre-Law,” many students avoid thinking about theirpost-graduate plans until senior year.

Brown will never be a vocational school, or anythinglike it. But in an ever-more competitive job market, it’sunfair to students not to stress summer internships as anintegral part of the college experience. The summersbetween each year of college are perfect opportunities toexplore careers. Increasingly, such experience is vital tolanding a job after graduation.

Exploring esoteric subjects for four years may be fun,but it’ll provide little comfort when you’re sitting at homepost-graduation, weighing options in the local food serv-ice market.

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DURING A DISCUSSION RECENTLYabout the willingness of Brown students tolisten to a dissenting political voice, con-servatives nodded in silent agreementabout the intolerance they had faced atBrown. The two progressivesamong us, however, stronglydisagreed. This small inci-dent led me to question theskewed perspective of theentire student body. Can themajority of students on campus reallybelieve it is getting a reasonably balancededucation? Can these students reallybelieve the political minority is treatedwith respect and dignity?

Brenda Allen, the new director of insti-tutional diversity, couldn’t have put thecampus attitude more succinctly than shedid in a recent Herald article (“Brown’sdirector of institutional diversity ready totake control,” Sept. 17, 2003) announcingher new position:

“Some students have taken issue withthe lack of political diversity on campus.… I’ve gotten lots of e-mails from studentswho are raising all kinds of questionsabout diversity a lot more broadly than wegenerally like to think about them,” Allensaid. “The students are very concernedabout these kinds of issues, and they speakloudly and forcefully about them.”

If the entire point of a diverse studentbody is to allow students to experience

ideas and perspectives from a wide arrayof sources, then why would we shy awayfrom mere questions about political diver-sity, the quintessence of intellectual vari-ance? Admission manuals abound with

glossy photos of a multi-racial,multi-colored student body,while conspicuously leavingabsent information about thedearth of right-wing faculty,students and speakers on cam-

pus. The administrative message seemsloud and clear: Beauty may not only beskin deep, but diversity is.

Where this behavior is most abhorrent isin the place where we most seek anenlightened and rational open-minded-ness — the faculty. It is irrational to expecta completely removed, dispassionateteaching staff, and it would, in fact, beundesirable to have one. Yet it is equallydistasteful to no longer have even the pre-tense of a balanced curricular basis.College is supposed to be the time whenwe are exposed to all of the greatestthinkers who have come before us, to scourtheir texts with a questioning mindset andthen, with our horizons truly widened, toperhaps decide for ourselves what webelieve. Instead, students are faced with abrilliant, highly biased faculty teaching aone-sided view of history, politics, religion,American civilization, gender studies andeven subtly, the sciences. The AC 19, Sec. 2:“Music and Social Movements, 1930-1970”has a reading list composed almost entire-ly of red-covered Communist lyric books,

without so much as a nod to the greatmusician and innovator from the UnitedStates, John Phillip Sousa; a class onwomen’s studies states as fact the capitalistoppression of women throughout the ages;and of course the “public policy” depart-ment fails to recognize there is an alterna-tive policy to large social government pro-grams.

Let me stop here to mention I am notcriticizing any particular political view, butrather commenting upon the glaring lackof intellectual variety offered to the studentbody. As a libertarian on campus, I havemost certainly gotten my money’s worth. Ihave read Mill and Bentham, Rawls andMarx. I have heard several thought-pro-voking lectures from some of the greatestprogressive thinkers of our time. As such, Ihave gotten the opportunity to challengemy assumptions, adjust some slightly, butmainly to gain a fundamental understand-ing for an ideology I can now, more intelli-gently and respectfully, oppose. For thenot-so-bargain price of approximately$150,000, I would think the progressives ofthe student body would want the same.

Yet, the student body, which I generallyadmire and love, has disappointed me themost in this respect. Manning the table formy organization, Students for Liberty, ofwhich the main tenet is respect for indi-vidual personal and property rights, I havereceived dirty looks, the middle finger andfour-letter words not nearly as charmingas love. All this occurs before a discussionhas even commenced, merely for display-

ing a sign stating a devotion to liberty.More threateningly, after writing an opin-ions piece in the spring criticizingDeconstructing Whiteness week, I wassent an e-mail entitled “Before you write inthe BDH…,” containing a computer viruswhich nearly crippled my laptop. Perhapseven more upsetting than these vitriolicresponses, I have by and large encoun-tered a wall of silence. Rather than evenbothering to engage in discussion, themajority of the student body chooses toignore the existence of a dissenting voice.Non left-wing speakers give eloquent,thoughtful speeches to half-empty rooms.One bright sign in all this was the highlyattended “Free Your Mind” conference, atwhich several renowned scholars spoke.Unfortunately, a conference such as thisone is all too rare on Brown’s campus.

Furthermore, to give credit where it isjustly due, there are many professors oncampus who at least attempt to put asidetheir own personal views for a widerexamination, and there are also some stu-dents who acknowledge the bias of thecampus and personally set out to exam-ine the alternatives. But, it is crucial thatBrown as an administration, faculty andstudent body realizes there is a form ofminority discrimination so prevalent andinsidious that we “generally (don’t) like tothink about” it, and that is the politicaldiscrimination against conservative andclassical liberal thinkers. Make the Brownexperience about education, not indoc-trination.

Our education suffers in an environment where diversity doesn’t extend to political viewpoints

Indoctrination, not an education

Laura Schonmuller ’05 hails from TomsRiver, N.J.

LAURASCHONMULLER

GUEST COLUMNIST

Racial privacy: the invention of a conceptCalifornia’s Proposition 54 celebrates ignorance

CONSERVATIVES IN CALIFORNIA HAVEintroduced a new concept to Americanvoters: racial privacy. They have incorpo-rated this idea into the “Racial PrivacyInitiative” which will appear on the ballottoday as Proposition 54. The initiativerepresents an attempt to per-manently end affirmativeaction by making race a mat-ter of privacy. Although theproposition is backed by thebest of intentions it will mostcertainly disable public policyand intensify racial tensions.

The operative language ofthe proposal states the follow-ing: “The state shall not clas-sify any individual by race,ethnicity, color or nationalorigin in the operation ofpublic education, public con-tracting or public employment.” Thisprohibition would apply to all levels ofgovernment in California, all public pro-grams and the university system. Such anunequivocal statement precludes affir-mative action — in keeping with its orig-inal intent — but it also does much more.

In fact, California has already out-lawed affirmative action throughProposition 209 — an amendment to thestate constitution engineered by WardConnerly, who is also the lead figurebehind Proposition 54. Connerly viewsProposition 54 as the corollary to itspredecessor, arguing that, “Since govern-

ment has no reason to classify persons byrace, why should it even ask us for thedata?” Yet preventing government fromcollecting information relating to race isexcessive and unnecessary.Conservatives may disagree with how

government acts on suchknowledge, but they have notprovided any compellingargument as to why govern-ment statistics on race arewrong. Consequently, intheir crusade to terminateaffirmative action, Californiaconservatives are makingignorance a principle of pub-lic policy.

The proposition’s support-ers reply by noting it pro-vides exceptions for medicalresearch and law enforce-

ment. Nevertheless, experts agree themeasure would constrict informationavailable to the government and to thepublic at large. Advocates would have usbelieve the state does not have a legiti-mate interest in knowing the representa-tion of various racial groups in highereducation, or the racial make up of a city,or possible correlations between raceand poverty. Moreover, according toErwin Chemerinsky, a professor at theUniversity of Southern California Schoolof Law, even “academics at state universi-ties could no longer gather informationand do research about race.” For exam-ple, a “law professor at a state schoolcould not gather data about housing dis-crimination based on race.”

Proponents attempt to hide raceunder the shield of privacy. For example,Deroy Murdock of National Reviewwrites, “[W]hat color are you? Black?White? Brown? Yellow? None of my con-cern, you say? If so, why is your ethnicitythe government’s business?” Yet suchreasoning is absurd. We waive whateverright to racial privacy we possess themoment we walk out the front door. Acolorblind legal system may be desirable,but a colorblind society is impossible.Despite their best efforts, liberals andneoconservatives cannot legislate raceout of existence. Race will always remaina prominent category in the psychologyof human interaction. It cannot be ban-ished from the public square. Those whowish to achieve racial harmony shouldfocus on reforming our attitudes towardrace instead of contesting its very exis-tence. For, as Friedrich Nietzscheobserved, suppressed truths becomepoisonous.

California, which recently emerged asthis nation’s first majority-minority state,

can ill-afford to ignore its racial makeup.The architects of the racial privacyproposition have crafted an “experimentagainst reality” which reflects thinkingthat is very liberal in its orientation.Indeed, the pro-privacy Web site, racial-privacy.org, is littered with language bor-rowed from the left. For instance, advo-cacy documents claim race is a “socialconstruct” and point to racial intermar-riage as evidence. Identification withmultiple races, however, no more rulesout the reality of race than citizenship inmany countries nullifies the concept ofcitizenship. And the desire to decon-struct an aspect of social life is a habit ofthe left that, taken to its conclusion, istotalitarian. Thus, the push for racial pri-vacy mixes leftist methods with conser-vative ends to produce a miscarriage ofpublic policy. Flawed in its inception anddangerous in its execution, the RacialPrivacy Initiative makes a virtue of igno-rance and serves as a reminder that goodintentions do not necessarily yield goodgovernment.

Stephen Beale ‘04 is a classics concentratorhailing from Popsfield, Mass.

STEPHEN BEALE

RIGHT WORDS

We waive whatever right to racial privacy we possess the

moment we walk out the front door. A colorblind legal

system may be desirable, but a colorblind society is

impossible. Despite their best efforts, liberals and neo-

conservatives cannot legislate race out of existence.

BY CHRIS MAHR AND BERNARD GORDONFreshman goalie Christina Parodi ’07earned her first two wins last week, as thewomen’s soccer team (6-6-2, 1-1 IvyLeague) overcame key injuries and post-ed a 3-1 win over Providence College (5-4-2) and a thrilling 3-2 double overtimevictory over Ivy League rival Columbia (2-6-1, 0-2 Ivy League).

Parodi had seven saves on the week,helping the Bears to continue theirdefensive dominance, despite theabsence of All-Ivy Goalie Sarah Gervais’04. The Bears have allowed just 10 goalsso far this year, while scoring 17 of theirown.

After losing Co-Captain and leadinggoal-scorer Kristin Ferrell ’04 to a tornACL in a 3-0 loss to Dartmouth Sept. 27,as well as missing Kim LaVere ’06 andMolly Cahan ’04, the Bears knew theyhad to rebound.

“(We) lost some important players,but that doesn’t mean that the season isover,” said Co-Captain Rachel Roberts’04. “It would be a waste of a season togive up now.”

Against Providence on Wednesday,Bruno allowed a mere three shots on goaland only five offensive opportunities inthe box in what was a very physicalmatch.

“We talked about how physical thisgame would be,” said Head Coach PhilPincince. “It’s an in-town rivalry. It was alot like an Ivy League match. We hadthree great training days leading up to thegame.”

According to Pincince, the result ofBruno’s first match without Ferrell couldnot have been better, citing improvedcommunication as the differencebetween the Providence and Dartmouthgames.

“The answer was here tonight on thefield,” Pincince said. “We put to sleep theDartmouth game.”

The team traveled Saturday to NewYork to face Columbia. Reminiscent oflast year’s late-game loss to Princeton,Bruno went up 2-0, only to send thegame into overtime by allowing two goals

DID YOU SEE IT? NOPE, NOT THE SOX.Nope, not the Cubbies. Nope, not thePats showing signs of life. Nope, not eventhe damn Yankees making it look easyagain. I’m talking about soccer —

women’s soccer.Yeah, I didn’t

think so.It’s a shame.

This column wassupposed to be a

plea to the sports masses to watch theWomen’s World Cup Final on Sunday.Now there’s little chance of that (not thatthere was much hope anyway).

With a 3-0 upset loss to Germany, theU.S. women were defeated for the firsttime in 28 tries on home soil, endingtheir chances at defending the cup. Italso ended any hope I had at persuadinga few people to tune into the finals athalftime of this Sunday’s NFL lineup.

So women’s sports will continue inanonymity. Brandi’s bra will remain amere blip on the radar of a sports histo-ry dominated by men.

But, I wasn’t writing to scream forequal rights or whine about the fact thegame was on ESPN2. I wasn’t writing tocry about the end of the WUSA (thewomen’s soccer league that died on theeve of the cup). That would be a bit hyp-ocritical because I never scheduled myweeknights around catching a game onPAX. I just figured I would let a few open-minded sports fans know what they weremissing.

At the pinnacle of any sport lies talent.When that talent is on display any truesports fan will marvel. I don’t watchhockey all year long (I’m from theSouth), but I watch the playoffs and I sitin awe of what I see. The intensity, thepride, the effort and the drama justmakes for good entertainment. Hell, Ieven watched the World Series of Pokerfor about 20 minutes. Add a little nation-al pride into the mix and you’ve got to bedead or stupidly stubborn not to beenthralled.

So yes, I skipped the first few inningsof the Cubs game and my regular dose ofNFL primetime to watch women’s soc-cer. I watched chance after chance slipaway as the United States tried to tie upa 1-0 game. I yelled at the ref on ques-tionable calls and muttered under mybreath at missed opportunities. Then, Iwatched as Germany tacked two goalson in injury time to douse any hopes of arepeat.

I stuck around to see the post-gameinterview with the coach. I listened asshe choked up when asked what shewould tell her team.

I saw the ever-so-shy Mia Hamm hideher tears behind her sleeve. She’s theface behind a movement that missed itsnext chance at catching on.

I watched a 12-year-old girl sadly, yetproudly, lift her sign that read, “MiaHamm inspires me,” just as high as shehad all game.

I, like the rest of the media, timed itwrong. I just assumed we’d win. I wassaving my sales pitch for the finals. NowABC executives are cringing at thethought of their ratings and the rest ofthe sports world missed a chance towatch something special.

The women will play in the third-place game, but rest assured no one willwatch.

Well, almost no one.

Brett Zarda GS hails from Gainesville, Fla.

IF THERE’S ONE THING I HATE TO DO,it’s disappoint. Still, I feel compelled to warnfans and adversaries alike that the 2003Bronx Bombers are not the powerhouse of asquad that ate up the postseason through-

out the mid-to-late1990s. At 101-63,they finished tiedwith the AtlantaBraves for the bestrecord in all of base-ball. Coming off of

three straight wins over Minnesota en routeto a 3-1 ALDS victory, they seem to be carry-ing some momentum into the AmericanLeague Championship Series. Yet thisYankees team, like those of 2001 and 2002,seems to lack the mystique the World SeriesChampion Yankees of the 1990s used tointimidate and clobber opponents.

No one could dispute the team chemistryof Yankee teams of the past, led by the fierycore of Paul O’Neil, Tino Martinez and ScottBrosius. This competitive trio alwaysseemed to will their teammates to successno matter the circumstances. With theirdeparture, the team seems to have lost partof their intimidation factor. The currentnucleus of this year’s team, including DerekJeter, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada andMariano Rivera, is more of a quiet, dispas-sionate group that leads by example. Whilethe team isn’t fraught with bickering anddivision, they do lack a sense of unity.Newcomers Hideki Matsui and AaronBoone act as professionals that come in, getthe job done and go home.

Perhaps the numerous subplots duringthe season contributed to the breakdown ofthe Yankees’ solid chemistry. Dirty laundrywas aired in three separate occasions thisyear, with David Wells kicking off the seasonwith a controversial book, and later on withGeorge Steinbrenner publicly attackingCaptain Jeter and Manager Joe Torre and hisentire coaching staff. Wells angered team-mates and management with his autobiog-raphy that made many controversial state-ments, such as his claim that he pitched hisperfect game “half-drunk” and barely madeit to the field that day. Steinbrenner attackedJeter’s focus and commitment to the gamewhile explaining to the media how he wasdispleased with the rumors of Jeter’s activenightlife. Later on, he proceeded to threatenTorre that everyone’s jobs would be in jeop-ardy if the team didn’t go all the way thisyear. While public criticism of coaches isnothing new for George, it was the first timehe did so during the Torre era, who has beenone of the most beloved coaches in NewYork history.

Closer Mariano Rivera was considered bysome to be the most essential component ofthe World Series Championship teams of1996 and 1998 to 2000. Despite a solid sea-son (40 saves, 1.66 ERA) from Rivera, it isundeniable he has lost much of his domi-nance. Previously, when he entered in theeighth or ninth inning, it was lights-out,game over. He was pretty close to what EricGagne did this season in Los Angeles, exceptfor the frightening goatee and goggles. Dueto some blown saves in some high-profilegames, teams now feel like they still have ashot in the late innings. Boston fans maydeem May 28, 2003, a state holiday, remem-bering when Rivera entered the ninth with a5-1 lead and proceeded to give up four runs.While he’s still an elite pitcher, as demon-strated by his four perfect innings againstthe Twins in the ALDS, teams know there is

SPORTS TUESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

OCTOBER 7, 2003 · PAGE 12

see LANZA, page 7see W. SOCCER, page 7

After injuries, w. soccer wins two

Yankees SU....sceptibleto failure

Opponents prove too much asfield hockey falls 6-1, 5-1

Ben Goddard / Herald

Brown’s defense rushes a Boston College penalty corner. Bruno faced 38 cornerslast week.

A World Cuphalf empty

MARC LANZASPORTS COLUMN

BRETT ZARDASPORTS COLUMN

BY MAGGIE HASKINSFollowing a tough loss at Harvard onSept. 27, the competition didn’t get anyeasier for the Brown field hockey team(5-4, 1-1) last week. The squad facedoff against No. 11 Northeastern onWednesday, losing 6-1. They nextplayed a top 20 foe, No. 16 BostonCollege on Saturday. With the gametied 1-1 with 14 minutes to go, thefloodgates opened, and the Eaglespoured on four goals to win 5-1.

Entering Wednesday’s game againstNortheastern the Bears’ defenseranked No. 11 in the country in goalsagainst, allowing just 1.25 goals pergame. But the Brown defense wasunable to contain the quickNortheastern attack. The Huskiesscored a minute into the game on abreakaway by Liane Dixon. Slipping bysweeper Kristin Vincent ’06, Dixontook on goalie Katie Noe ’05 andscored, giving Northeastern the early1-0 lead. Three minutes later, the Bearsfound themselves down 2-0 following aNortheastern penalty corner. TheHuskies’ third goal was also the resultof a penalty corner. In total

Northeastern racked up 17 corners,while Brown had none.

Following the third goal the Bearscalled a time out to regroup.

“I think (the players) were surprisedwe were down 3-0,” said Head CoachCarolan Norris. “We hadn’t been down3-0 and had that many goals scoredagainst us all year. So I think they werekind of surprised, but once we settleddown we were OK.”

After the time out, the Bears beganto put pressure on the Northeasternmidfielders and backs. LauraKavazanjian ’06 centered the ball toCo-Captain Lizzie Buza ’04, who sweptthe ball into the goal, putting Brown onthe board.

The last 20 minutes of the first halffeatured not only a rejuvenated Browneffort but an attempt by Norris to digdeeper into the Brown bench in aneffort to kick-start an offensive run.

“We put some of the freshmen inwho haven’t been playing and theyreally stepped up. Our upperclassmenwere not getting it,” Norris said.

see FIELD HOCKEY, page 7

tuesday, october 7, 2003

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