BY MELISSA PERLMANIt’s hard to teach kids when they’refighting you every step of the way.

But Gilad Muth ’05 did this — andmore — as a tutor for children in inner-city Baltimore this summer.

“It was an intense experience,” hesaid. “It was a challenge because (thechildren) fight you a lot. You butt headswith them so you have to figure out cre-ative ways to get them to enjoy read-ing.”

Muth and six other Brown studentsspent seven weeks working at theBaltimore-based program, SuperKids,helping fourth and fifth gradersimprove their reading and comprehen-sion skills.

The children, all of whom were fromunderprivileged families, were recom-mended by their schools to participatein the program after finishing in the23rd to 50th percentiles of their classes.The program targeted those kids in dan-ger of falling behind during the summermonths, Muth said.

SuperKids has three major compo-nents: Summer Success Reading, the100 Book Challenge and Literacy Links.Summer Success Reading started offeach day with 90 minutes of readingtutorial.

The 100 Book Challenge pushed stu-dents to read as much as they could athome by rewarding and recognizing thetop readers. Each 15-minute block oftime spent reading equaled one book.

The final area, Literacy Links, organ-ized field trips around the city ofBaltimore to places such as the zoo,downtown sailing center, science centerand Port Discovery. A lot of the destina-tions involved reading signs, pamphletsand other objects, Muth said.

“We were giving them the experienceof reading,” he said. “We showed them

that you can read in the classroom andgo to these places and read as well.”

Muth’s specific site location served80 kids and was run by eight teachers,one site coordinator and twoAmeriCorps volunteers. The 10-to-oneratio generated a lot of learning butthere were still discipline problems,Muth said.

Low parental involvement wasanother obstacle for Muth and hispeers. Only around 20 percent of thechildren’s parents showed up on ParentsDay and only 20 of the 1,200 studentshad parents attend the camp’s seminar.

While many parents were uninterest-ed in learning about the camp, Muthsaid others simply could not take the

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A gas leak at the Life Sciences buildingsite on Meeting Street forced the evac-uation of the Bio-Med building Fridaymorning.

Some gas escaped as workers were“realigning gas lines in preparation forgas work,” according to Mark Nickel,director of the Brown News Service.

The scent of the escaped gas waspulled into nearby Bio-Med’s ventila-tion system. The building’s air man-agement system is outside the buildingon its Meeting Street side, next to theLife Sciences construction site,according to Nickel.

“Anytime there’s a smell of gas it’sgood sense and good operating proce-dure to evacuate the building,” Nickelsaid.

The evacuation interrupted severalclasses, which were cancelled ormoved as Brown FacilitiesManagement and the Providence FireDepartment investigated the situation,Nickel said.

Investigators determined Bio-Med’sresearch-oriented air managementsystem picked up the odor of theescaped gas, but no gas actuallyentered the building.

The building re-opened on Fridayafternoon. Similar problems areunlikely to occur during the continu-ing construction, Nickel said.

“I think this was a one-time (occur-rence) owing to the work that wasbeing done outside,” he said.

—Dana Goldstein

Gas leak temporarily closes Bio-Med

Thayer Street ImprovementDistrict alreadya successBY DANA GOLDSTEINNew Thayer Street businesses are alreadyfeeling the effects of the Thayer StreetImprovement District, the recentlyimplemented partnership betweenBrown, the City of Providence and ThayerStreet store owners and landlords thatcould improve the street’s atmosphere.

Richard Weis, manager of BagelGourmet, located at 250 Brook St., saidhe will participate in a variety ofimprovements to enhance his store’s newThayer Street location and the entirestreet. The new shop, Bagel Gourmet Olé,is expected to open next month whereRonzio Pizza was previously located,Weis said.

Bagel Gourmet’s Brook Street locationopened in 1996, but only after the ownersfailed to procure a Thayer Street store-front, Weis said. The operation nowneeds a larger space to accommodate itsbagel baking operation, which requires200 square feet, he said.

As a new Thayer Street tenant, BagelGourmet Olé is participating in the dis-trict’s facelift by partnering with SteveLewinstein, chairman of the TSID.Lewinstein, co-owner of CapstoneProperties, owns five Thayer Street build-ings.

“We’re really trying to improve thestreet but still retain (its) character,”Lewinstein said.

Capstone Properties also manages theempty storefront on the corner of Thayerand Cushing streets where ClarkeFlowers was located until fall of 2002.

Jane Long of Capstone Properties saidshe has received between 200 and 300inquiries about the space since thebeginning of 2003. Many of theseinquiries were from food service estab-lishments, but the shop is not zoned forfood, which Weis found out when heinquired about possible locations forBagel Gourmet Olé.

In keeping with the principles of therevitalization partnership, Lewinsteinwas determined to lease the space to a“specialty retailer,” not just another pizzaplace or national chain.

“You want the uniqueness of the bou-tique-type stores and the character theybring to the street,” he said. “But by thesame token, you need the large tenantsto bring the traffic in. If you have an all-national street, you lose the characterthat keeps it interesting and keeps thestudents shopping.”

At one point, a business owner with astore in New York’s SoHo neighborhoodentered into the deal-making stage withCapstone, but the venture fell through,Long said. Currently, Capstone has a let-ter of intent from a “speciality fashionretailer” with several stores in NewEngland.

“We were really holding out for theright business and we feel we have foundthat now,” Long said.

The former flower shop has under-

Housing crunchleaves studentsin convertedkitchens, slowswaitlist to crawlBY DANIELLE CERNYDespite a housing surplus last semester,this academic year has brought a shortagein on-campus housing, slowing waitlistprocessing to a virtual standstill and leav-ing some students living in convertedkitchens and other makeshift rooms.

Fall waitlist applications became avail-able Friday, but Acting Director ofResidential Life Katherine Tameo said, “Wehave no vacancies that we can offer peo-ple.”

The housing crunch was caused byResLife’s conservative approach to granti-ng off-campus housing this year, in addi-tion to the rising costs of living off-cam-pus, said Jesse Goodman ’04, chairman ofResidential Council.

Last year, too many students weregranted off-campus permission, and thecampus was left with vacant rooms.

“You have to plan to be at either exactly100 percent … or higher in order to makethe financial part of the housing officework,” said Dean for Campus LifeMargaret Jablonski. This year Brown want-ed to fill all 4,642 spaces in the regularhousing inventory that are available forstudents, Jablonski said.

To remedy the shortage, ResLife tem-porarily altered several rooms on campusto hold more students than they were orig-inally designed to house. Twenty-five ofthese converted spaces are still in use,Jablonski said.

As of Friday, the 10 converted triples inPerkins have been turned back into dou-bles. The converted kitchen spaces in NewDorm have also been turned back intokitchens, Tameo said.

These changes were made possiblewhen approximately 35 students unex-pectedly did not return to Brown this

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Classes evacuated MacMillan Hall on Monday morning when a rogue sprinklertripped the building’s fire alarm. Facilities Management removed the sprinkler headfrom MacMillan and staff members are investigating the cause of the malfunction.

see LISCI, page 4

SUMMER STORIES: A CONTINUING SERIES

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Muth ’05 tutors childrenin Baltimore’s inner city

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Fox Point residentscomplain of studentdisrespect, includingurinating on propertymetro,page 3

Despite breakingground, neighborhoodis still concerned aboutLiSci constructionmetro,page 3

To avoid doom, Bushneeds foreign helpwith Iraq, says CharlesFinocchiaro ’05guest column, page 7

Rugby goes 1 for 3 infirst set of matches ofthe season with morerookie assistancesports, page 8

Bashing his own teamworks for Yankeesowner Steinbrenner,says Jon Meachin ’04sports column, page 8

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BY SAMUEL CULVERMore than one month after constructionbegan of the Life Sciences building,neighborhood residents are feeling theeffects of the project, including trafficcongestion, parking problems andincreased noise.

“The neighborhood does have severeconcerns of traffic congestion, blastingand pollution,” said Thomas Goddard,president of the College HillNeighborhood Association. The con-struction has closed portions of OliveStreet between Brown and Thayer streetsindefinitely.

Mark Nickel, director of the BrownNews Service, confirmed the Universityhas received complaints recently fromresidents regarding traffic, noise andcongestion. But those problems are com-mon to any construction project and arenot specific to the Life Sciences site,Nickel said.

“(The University is) ruining the entireEast Side. Real estate values are falling,and it’s a real inconvenience,” said neigh-borhood resident Virginia Riggs.

CHNA, comprised of about 400 fami-lies in the College Hill area, meets at leastonce a month to discuss issues facing theneighborhood. The group addressed itsconcerns in a letter to University trusteesin February. The association askedBrown to reconsider the location of thebuilding and mentioned the possibilityof a site at Rhode Island Hospital.

Putting the Life Sciences building fur-ther downtown would allow theUniversity to better incorporate itselfinto the community, Goddard said.

“The project will meet the needs of theUniversity for now, but they will continueto chop away at the surrounding neigh-borhoods without respect for the com-

munity,” he said. “Real estate values havethe potential to fall, and I know of familieslooking to move because of this project.”

Residents are still concerned aboutthe building’s impact on their neighbor-hood despite University studies claimingthere is no danger associated with thebuilding.

Brown released a study last spring stat-ing that the new building could release upto 6,000 pounds of toxic chemicals a yearand that the structure would not complywith neighborhood noise ordinances.

Brown administration, however, laterrevised the statement and cut the totalemissions of toxic chemicals to 1,500pounds a year and reconfigured aspects

of the building to deal with noise issues.The CHNA’s Web site claims the totalamount of toxic emissions from the Bio-Med and Life Sciences buildings couldexceed 10,000 pounds a year.

Discussion of the Life Sciences build-ing dominates CHNA meetings, Goddardsaid. The members say if they had betterdialogue with the school, controversieslike the Life Sciences building would notarise, he said.

“Brown doesn’t understand entirelywhat we have to say, but we really haven’theard from the students,” Goddard said.He said members of the community wish

Neighborhood feeling the effects ofnew Life Sciences construction

Sara Perkins / Herald

The Life Sciences Building, which was supposed to begin in 2002 and was delayedlargely because of residents’ complaints, is due for completion in 2005.

Urination, noisetop the list ofcomplaints atFox Point forum BY ZOE RIPPLE AND ELLEN WERNECKEComplaining of noise violations and van-dalism — like urinating on property andwalking on top of cars — communitymembers demanded accountability fromBrown students, undergraduate tenantsand their landlords at a Monday nightmeeting sponsored by the Fox PointCitizens Association.

East Side residents called upon Brown’sadministration, Brown’s Department ofPublic Safety and the Providence Police toenforce consequences for neighborhooddisturbances.

Residents also complained of studentsgathering in large groups on streets in theFox Point neighborhood.

John Roney, FPCA president, character-ized the Williams Street area where arecent party led to urinating on propertyand walking on top of cars as “an extraor-dinarily pressing and long-standing prob-lem.”

Although they conceded Universitystudents often had positive interactionswith their neighbors in the past, memberssaid those relations soured and theUniversity has done nothing to preparestudents for off-campus living.

“There was unacceptable and illegalbehavior on Williams Street,” said arearesident Ann Hersch.

Evelyn Lincoln, associate professor ofhistory of art and architecture and a resi-dent of the East Side, stated similar con-cerns and suggested a neighborhoodpatrol to “discipline bands of kids.”

Lincoln later said drawing officers awayfrom more pressing issues throughout thecity because of increased police presenceon the East Side was a concern.

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semester, Jablonski said. Goodman said more spaces

also opened up when ResLifegranted additional off-campuspermission to students afterdetecting the housing short-age early this semester.

On-campus occupancy isabout 3 percent lower in thespring, due to students whowithdraw or study abroad.

Until then, students lookingto switch rooms are going toface a slow process, Jablonskisaid.

ResLife intends to fine tuneand maintain its new housingsystem. “We now have a modelthat we developed that workswith the numbers. There isalways fluctuation in the num-ber of students, especially inAugust, so we’ve been able towork with that and successful-ly open with all of our roomsfull,” Tameo said.

Herald senior staff writerDanielle Cerny ’06 can bereached at dcerny@browndai-lyherald.com.

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are proving that $185 millionwon’t buy you even peace of mind.

Throw in the All-Star Gameinnovation, another idea at whichmost scoffed, and you have easilythe best year of Selig’s run. (Don’tthrow in the Brewers. With hisownership stake in a trust, heinsists he has less to do with themthan most other clubs.)

We are talking, after all, about aman who testified in Congressand had to be reminded that hewas under oath; a man who can-celed the 1994 World Series; whospent so many years denigratinghis own game, even calling BillyBeane’s Oakland Athletics “anaberration.”

But maybe all of that was nec-essary in order to get last year’sCBA. Maybe this year is just thefruit of Selig’s suffering, and oursuffering from his previous lead-ership.

“A lot of people will look overthe economy and say that a leaderis having a good year when thingsare going well and a bad year whenthings aren’t going well, whether ornot you are,” Fehr said. “It seems tome that they are pretty silly.”

Accusations of silliness don’tfaze us, though. “The last weeksshould be spectacular,” Selig said,and we agree.

The Yankees should considerthemselves fortunate that MannyRamirez entered free agency afterthe 2000 season. Back then, freshoff a third straight World Seriestitle, George Steinbrenner actuallylistened to his front office and JoeTorre when making personneldecisions.

Some members of the frontoffice had reservations aboutRamirez’s character, and Torreexpressed his preference for MikeMussina over Ramirez. So the RedSox, not the Yankees, invested $160million in a player who was healthyenough to spend time withEnrique Wilson in a hotel lobby butnot to play an entire weekendseries against a division rival.

Of course, it wouldn’t surpriseus at all if, down the road, TheBoss goes after Ramirez’s explo-sive bat and awful personality.

We’re sorry for the Tigers’ MikeMaroth that he lost his 20th gameFriday night, but there’s one hugebenefit for the rest of us: We’llnever have to read about BrianKingman again.

Kingman was the last pitcher tolose 20 games (8-20 for the 83-79Oakland Athletics in 1980), and hemilked every ounce of publicity hecould over such failure. He attend-ed Friday’s Tigers game inToronto, carrying a voodoo doll,

with the hope of “jinxing” Marothand keeping his name alive.Kingman has done this often inrecent years when pitchersapproached the 20-loss mark. It’sone thing to be a good sport aboutan embarrassing statistic. It’sanother to design your life aroundit. Hopefully, Maroth will conducthimself with more dignity thanKingman.

Former Yankees bust RondellWhite could wind up back eastnext year, but only if the Philliesdon’t collapse. CombustiblePhillies Manager Larry Bowa hastold people how much he likesWhite, an impending free agent.But Bowa also could find himself afree agent if he can’t steer his clubto the NL wild card.

The best September call-upstory, besides Yankees belovedveteran Luis Sojo, might be AaronMiles of the White Sox. The 26-year-old infielder is listed as 5-8but, like most professional ath-letes, isn’t as tall as his listedheight. This marked his ninth yearin the minors before getting thecall Tuesday. ... Fine idea by theMets to make September “fanappreciation month.” Really, theyshould make 2004 “fan apprecia-tion year.” After two straight last-place seasons, with an expectedplummet in their payroll, theyshould freeze their current pricesfor tickets and concessions.

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gone some changes.Lewinstein hired an architectto redesign the space, and theoverall vision is for the newshop to “stand alone” fromthe other stores in its build-ing, Long explained. Thespace has already been trans-formed with glass panelingon the Thayer Street side.

The new TSID was a “hugeselling point” for Capstone asthey sought to find the rightbusiness for the property,Long said.

“It makes it easier to rentthe space to quality tenants— especially the tenants thatare coming in from out ofstate,” Lewinstein said. “Theysee the revitalization plansand the funds that are com-ing in and they get excited.”

Herald senior staff writer DanaGoldstein ’06 can be reached atdgoldstein@browndailyher-ald.com.

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there were more direct lines ofcommunication with the studentbody, not just the administration.

CHNA has lingering doubtsover the contributions this build-ing will make to the neighbor-hood, Goddard said, and withBrown growing as quickly as ever,the crowded conditions onCollege Hill will continue to be aproblem.

“We all stand to suffer from thispoor choice,” Goddard said.

The project, which was sup-posed to begin in 2002 and wasdelayed largely because of resi-dents’ complaints, is due for com-pletion in 2005.

“You are seniors,” Lincolnsaid, addressing the tenants ofone off-campus house. “You arethe most privileged kids. Why areyou treating us like crap?”

She described the students as“behaving awfully.”

“I don’t think Brown studentsneed to be policed,” she said. “Ithink you have the ability topolice yourselves. It’s your neigh-borhood, too.”

Andre McGregor ’04, a mem-ber of the Campus CrimeCommittee and a resident of anoff-campus house targeted withcomplaints during the meeting,told The Herald his neighbors’criticisms were legitimate.

“At times we don’t think thatthere are neighbors around, thatthe community is just made upof Brown students,” McGregorsaid.

But he said neighborhood res-idents, students and theUniversity should reach a middleground that does not put theburden entirely on members ofthe Brown community.

That could come in the formof a welcoming committee orwelcoming barbecue to put faceswith buildings “so it’s not that weignore the house that’s next doorjust because we never see any-body there.”

Off-campus resident AlexisScott ’04.5 said many studentsare unaware of the privilege ofmoving into neighborhoods sur-rounding the University.

“There’s an unspoken transi-tion of moving off campus,” shesaid. Scott also said the nature ofstudent housing in the Fox Pointarea is a source of frictionbetween students and theirneighbors.

“(Students) don’t have theopportunity to form lifelong rela-tionships within their neighbor-hoods,” Scott said.

DPS Chief Paul Verrecchiaacknowledged campus policeofficers “tended to cut studentssome slack” in terms of late-night behavior.

“Unfortunately, that policytranslates into the neighbor-hoods, and it shouldn’t,”Verrecchia said. “When you callus, you’re not supposed to betold, ‘It’s the first week of school,what do you expect?’”

Deborah Dinerman, liaisonfor Community and GovernmentRelations at the University, apol-ogized for the students’ behavior

and acknowledged that commu-nity members were “frustratedand dissatisfied” with studentconduct.

McGregor apologized andoffered to work with communitymembers to improve relations.

“Our first party was not as weexpected it to be,” McGregorsaid, adding that the gatheringwas originally limited to partici-pants of the Brown OutdoorLeadership Training program.

“Another party three blocks upgot broken up, and suddenly 200people showed up,” McGregorsaid.

McGregor said the police toldhim on their first visit to thehouse that the party would beallowed to continue if the vol-ume was turned down.

“When (the police) came thesecond time, we immediatelyshut the party down,” McGregorsaid.

David Pontarelli, from theMayor’s Office of NeighborhoodServices, described limits to thecurrent housing situation andthe inability of East Side resi-dents to get their complaintsheard.

“We need to make the callerresponse system more user-friendly,” Pontarelli said. Afterresidents complained of land-lords not taking responsibility fortheir tenants, he said his officewas coordinating a more sub-stantive beat system with theProvidence Police and reviewingthe current system of fines forneighborhood violations.

“The landlord renting out tostudents doesn’t really careabout a $150 fine,” Pontarellisaid. “We’re going to continuefining the landlord, but we’re alsogoing to start fining the tenants.”

Community members andstudents agreed to meet again onthe issue of off-campus studenthousing before the Novembermeeting of the FPCA.

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“You are seniors.You

are the most privi-

leged kids. Why are

you treating us like

crap?”

Evelyn LincolnAssociate professor of Historyof Art and Architecture and aresident of the East Side

time off work. Muth said he learned a lot

from his experience withSuperKids, but, going into theprogram, he thought he wouldaccomplish a lot more than heactually did.

“As much as we’re trying tochange the world, the truth ofthe matter is that you’re notgoing to,” he said. “You mightonly help the kids from fallingback.”

Herald staff writer MelissaPerlman ’04 can be reached atmperlman@browndailyher-ald.com.

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Pissed offMemo to Brown students upset about parties being

broken up early: Stop peeing on lawns, you idiots!

Getting caught up in the collegial world is nearly

unavoidable at such an insulated University. But it’s

important for students to remember that our actions

affect those around us — the other people who live

and work in Providence. They don’t seem to relish

hoards of drunken kids urinating in their yards or

trampling over their cars. And, frankly, there’s no justi-

fication for it.

At last night’s meeting of the Fox Point Citizens

Association, residents expressed their frustration with

Brown students living off campus. They complained

that students have little respect for the areas they

inhabit or for their neighbors. In many cases, resi-

dents’ grievances are well-founded.

At the same time, locals have to realize that college

students are always going to throw parties. Expecting

any neighborhood with a large number of students to

be a sedate urban enclave is unreasonable. To some

extent, weekend activity comes with the territory.

Vandalism, however, does not. Brown students need

to party off-campus without further damaging town-

gown relations by destroying residents’ property.

When even a handful of University students behave

inappropriately, the rest get pegged as well.

Students throwing parties should make peace with

neighbors first and take complaints seriously. When a

neighbor is considerate enough to call and ask for

music to be turned down — instead of calling the

police — by all means, turn the music down.

Partying is fine. Acting like spoiled brats isn’t.

S H A N E W I L K E R S O N

L E T T E R S

Conservatives, notliberals, are intolerantof diversityTo the Editor:

Re: “Squashing Intellectual Diversity” (Sept. 5)It’s typical for conservatives to accuse liberals of

being stifling and dogmatic when they fail tounderstand that that is the very flaw that conser-vatism suffers from in the first place that draws somany converts to liberalism. If the columnist isuncomfortable in a liberal atmosphere of “bour-geois multiculturalism,” what does that say abouthis own acceptance of diversity? Conservativesoften hide behind flowery rhetoric to make them-selves appear like they support the poor or minori-ties while expressing extreme discontent with anyinstitution that brings them face to face with themon a continual basis.

As for the Hitler reference, the columnist canmention his grandfather as a reason to neverunderstand Hitler, but that argument hasabsolutely no merit: I lost half of my family to theThird Reich’s maniacal machinations, includingdeath camps, and that is precisely the reason whywe must understand people like Hitler and all ofthe extremely rational processes they use tosecure power for themselves. That must neverhappen again. And by saying “Oh, they’re evil,”and dismissing them at that, all we’re doing isexacerbating the problem and ignoring it. Thereare many Hitlers in today’s world (I could name afew) just itching for their chances to seize power,and it’s only by approaching them with full under-standing that we can counter them while they’revulnerable.

Knowledge, not ignorance, is power. And as con-servatives are afraid of society’s underaccepted, lib-erals are afraid of being eradicated, as has hap-pened over and over throughout history underevery single totalitarian regime.

Natalie Smolenski ‘07Sept. 5

Carnevale exaggeratesextent of intellectualindoctrinationTo the Editor:

I write in response to Alex Carnevale’s“Squashing Intellectual Diversity” (Sept. 5). I con-sider his article flawed in two major respects. First,he speaks of Professor of English William Keach’sstyle of tolerance, but dismisses it quickly as notbeing the “norm” as soon as you get to Professor ofPolitical Science P. Terrence Hopmann’s class. Thismakes it apparent to me that he is not familiar withthe study of statistics. One professor being a cer-tain way does not make it so for all, or even manyother professors. I have taken or am taking about15 courses so far, and have yet to run into one ofthese radical debate-stifling types. So I thinkextending his judgment to the community is bothharsh and incorrect.

Secondly, while I agree with his view that the leftis the only truly vocal political wing here, what doeshe want to do about it? I too wish that I could get adifferent point of view sometimes, but you can’tmake people come out and argue. Most people hereare liberal, and nothing short of some wacky affir-mative action is going to change that. The majorityof our professors and students are bright, compas-sionate people who want to make the world a bet-ter place; ergo, they are liberal.

Aaron Fritschner ‘06Sept. 5

C O R R E C T I O NA story in Monday’s Herald incorrectly statedthat Laura Rothenberg ’04 died at the age of20. Rothenberg was 22 years old when shedied in March.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2003 · PAGE 7

ARGUMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FORthe Bush administration to turn over atleast partial power in Iraq to the UN frompositions of idealism and of strengthen-ing international organiza-tions and global stability.

Considering the ideologi-cal makeup of the presentinhabitants of the executivebranch, doing this does notmake a great deal of sense,and it has about as muchchance of being heard as, well, ColinPowell. The “realists” who set Americanforeign policy have no use for high idealsor international cooperation, seeing asthey are determined to treat the rest ofthe world as a Hobbesian war of allagainst all until it becomes one. I, on theother hand, would like to argue thatdumping Iraq on the United Nationswould be in the interests of both theUnited States in general and the presentadministration in particular.

Many comparisons have been madebetween Iraq and Vietnam. I myself havealways thought this was a bit of a stretch.In many of its long-term implications,the situation in Iraq is worse. In the firstplace, the Bush administration has thewonderful foresight to drop half the U.S.

Army on top of one of the few peoples inthe world who have an even stronger tra-dition of resisting and repelling foreignoccupiers than the Vietnamese. And it is

often forgotten that at least atthe beginning of America andVietnam’s long and tortuousencounter, the Vietnameseactually liked us. Mostlybased on their excellent work-ing relationship with theOffice of Strategic Services

during World War II, the Viet Minh viewedthe United States as a friend and a poten-tial ally. Ho Chi Minh quoted theAmerican Declaration of Independencein his Vietnamese version and offered theUnited States commercial concessionsand a naval base for their support.General Vo Nguyen Giap called theVietnamese-American relationship “apleasant duty to dwell upon.” In theMiddle East, the United States has nevereven had that much credibility to throwaway, and it has made an amazing effortto destroy whatever good will actuallyexisted.

Furthermore, in Iraq, the United Statesmust contend with a pool of guerrillasand terrorists far more extensive andorganized than the Viet Cong ever were.The al-Qaida style bombings of theUnited Nations, the Baghdad policeheadquarters, and the Najaf mosque areevidence that if Iraq was not an area inwhich terrorists operated freely before, it

certainly is now. Whatever one says aboutJohn Ashcroft (in my opinion, our centu-ry’s answer to Oliver Cromwell, but that’sjust by the way) and his policies, it seemsmore difficult for al-Qaida to operate inthe United States. But now it doesn’t haveto operate here. Whereas the Sept. 11attacks required years of planning andhundreds of thousands of dollars, now allit takes to kill Americans is a Kalashnikovknockoff and a zealot to point it. While atthis point the death toll is mounting atnowhere near the rate of Vietnam at itsheight, all it takes to get there is misman-agement and bad luck, and the adminis-tration has demonstrated a capacity forboth. Osama bin Laden must be ecstatic.

Now that Bush’s post-Sept. 11 invinci-bility in the polls is beginning to recedeand national security doesn’t look likesuch an area of strength anymore, whatare the neocons to do? Despite DonaldRumsfeld’s protests to the contrary, farmore troops are obviously necessary, andthere isn’t anywhere to get them short ofreinstating the draft, which wouldn’texactly be popular and would be diffi-cult, verging on impossible, for today’sprofessional military. (If I’m wrong, I’llsee you in Toronto.) A new resolutiongiving the United Nations broad powersin Iraq would help counter criticism ofAmerica in Europe and elsewhere andwould possibly ease the way for the like-ly torturous negotiations surroundingRumsfeld’s plan to rearrange America’s

global network of military bases.Considering the American public has thepolitical attention span of a mentallychallenged gnat, such a resolution wouldlikely defuse what may be a major cam-paign issue in 2004. If Iraq becomes afailed state, which it very well may, UNassistance or not, they can use the time-tested tactic of blaming it on Kofi Annanand the French.

Furthermore, this approach has theadded elegance of throwing theEuropeans off balance. If they don’t takeup quite a bit of the load, they look likeineffectual whiners. If they do, they canbe left holding the bag. And if the UnitedStates waits much longer and things getmuch worse, they might do what theydid during Vietnam and say they’ll sitthis one out. Lastly, there’s an issue closeto Dick Cheney’s cold, shriveled heart —that of money. At this point the UnitedStates has its contractors pretty wellestablished in Iraq, and if Jacques Chiractries to kick Kellogg, Brown and Root outof Baghdad, Bush and Co. can paint himas a calculating opportunist takingadvantage of a suffering people strivingto be free.

Several hours after I started writingthis column, the Guardian reported theadministration will enter negotiations onIraq in the Security Council. Good forthem. Some advice, guys: Go and negoti-ate, save some face and then give in tosave your collective posterior.

A quagmire worse than Vietnam awaits us if we don’t seek foreign help

Bush’s go it alone approach isn’t working

Charles Finocchiaro '05 is a concentratorin (deep breath) comparative eastern/western modern european history.

CHARLES FINOCCHIARO

GUEST COLUMNIST

SPORTS TUESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SEPTEMBER 9, 2003 · PAGE 8

Selig finallygetting creditfor Wild Card(Newsday) — The recent slumps of HidekiMatsui and Dontrelle Willis confirm thatthis 2003 baseball season will not be cele-brated for its newcomers. Rather, we’llremember the shocking rises of knownmediocrities.

Think Esteban Loaiza, a leading con-tender for the American League Cy YoungAward. Think Javy Lopez, who we assumedhad retired years ago.

Most of all, though, think Bud Selig. “You have to let me enjoy myself here,” a

jubilant baseball commissioner said earlierthis week. Done, and done. For in his 11thfull year on the job, the 69-year-old Seligsuddenly looks like a visionary. Or, extraor-dinary lucky:

The abundance of teams in contentionunquestionably validates Selig’s pushing ofthe wild-card concept 10 years ago.

The same phenomenon might be linkedto the new basic agreement, signed lastyear when Selig and the players avoided awork stoppage.

The twist to the All-Star Game, grantinghome-field advantage to the winningleague, clearly added some juice to an eventthat had become irrelevant.

Even the Milwaukee Brewers, the teamSelig sort of owns, have played well recent-ly, providing some hope for their trauma-tized fans.

With three weeks left in the regular sea-son, 17 teams have a bona fide chance tomake the playoffs. Of the 15 baseball seriesthis weekend, just one — Detroit-Toronto— has no bearing on October.

Give Bud full props for the concept of thewild card (in conjunction with the thirddivision, which doubled the playoff teamsin each league from two to four). You don’thear anyone complaining about the water-ing down of baseball’s playoff systembecause the postseason doesn’t feelwatered down. This year, at least oneAmerican League team out of the Yankees,Boston, Oakland and Seattle won’t make itinto October. So the bar is still set highenough, so many more cities still careabout baseball. This year’s National Leaguewild-card race is incredible.

“This is what we strove to do,” Selig said.“We didn’t want to give up September.”

How much this September has to dowith Aug. 30, 2002, when the owners andplayers signed off on a new collective-bar-gaining agreement, can’t be determined aseasily. Even Selig spoke with caution on thistopic, saying, “We need more time” as heexpressed his belief that yes, there was aconnection. He also mentioned the impor-tance of the revenue sharing that has takenplace since 1996.

Don Fehr, executive director of the MajorLeague Baseball Players Association, said:“I am not one of those who attributes cau-sation very quickly. Is it a coincidence? TheAngels did win last year. So did the Twins.It’s very difficult to make any judgmentabout effects of a CBA until you get into it.”

From a pure mathematical standpoint,we agree. But emotionally, we see how theKansas City Royals took on about $1 millionin late-season salaries, and we wonderwhether Royals owner David Glass (a noto-rious cheapskate) felt pressure to spendsome of that money he receives under thenew CBA. We wonder the same thing withthe Florida Marlins, who went for it andtook on salary while most of us thoughtthey should be in a dumping mode.

And we see how the Yankees, spendingso very much more than every other team,

M. Ruggers lose to morephysical Norwich UniversityBY IAN CROPPAfter a four-hour bus ride Saturday, theBrown men’s rugby team arrived inNorthfield, Vt., ready to face off againstNorwich University. The team boardedthe bus later after losing two of the threematches.

From the beginning, the much largerand stronger Norwich squad pushedthe Brown A side around the field, win-ning the majority of the scrums.Norwich, which had the advantage ofplaying two matches prior to theirmeeting with Brown, struck first andbuilt a considerable lead going into theend of the first half.

The second half featured a more cohe-sive Brown squad that had only playedtogether in the previous week’s scrim-mage against the Providence men’s club.Coach Jay Fluck ’65 brought a new full-back and inside center to replace injuredplayers and the Bears were able to mountseveral long runs. As the second half woreon, the Bears began to fatigue. When thefinal whistle blew, the packed Norwichcrowd erupted as the squad marched offthe field, defeating the Bears 45-3.

With over half the A side graduatinglast year, many players stepped up andmade their first starting appearances onthe side, including first-years. CaptainJosh Brandt ’04 played with his usualtenacity and Craig Muhlrad ’04 madeseveral nice runs at his debut as insidecenter.

The B side, laden with rookie for-wards and a handful of returning backs,played hard from the opening kickoff.After an impressive goal-line stand,Brown was unable to keep the well-organized Norwich team out of the tryzone. At the half, Fluck opted to testsome of the rookie backs who looked tostage a comeback.

Martain Alvarez ’04 held the back-field together at fly-half, and the Bearswere able to kick for points after aNorwich penalty. But much like the endof the A side game, Brown ran out of gasand Norwich pounded in two late tries,one off of a missed tackle.

In an abbreviated C-side matchBrown held the advantage from thebeginning and saw tries scored byBrandt and Jabari Jason Phipps ’05.Defensively, the C side shut down themostly fresh Norwich C side. After two20-minute halves, Brown registered itsonly win of the day.

Fluck, while not too happy about theother losses, said he was pleased withthe effort put out by all. “We still coulduse about a dozen more forwards,”Fluck said.

The Bears travel to Cambridge thisweekend to play two matches againstthe traditionally strong Harvard squad.

Herald staff writer Ian Cropp ’05 is onthe rugby team. He can be reached aticropp@browndailyherald.com.

Steinbrenner:the motivator?KNOWING WHEN TO SHUT UP IS Avaluable life skill, and apparently onethat George Steinbrenner has yet toacquire, even as his team sits atop the ALEast. However, while much has beenmade of Steinbrenner being a liar, med-

dler and intoxicat-ing presence,George’s anticshave created themost successfulbaseball franchiseover the last 10y e a r s .Steinbrenner maybe one of the mostunderrated moti-vators in all ofbaseball.

Surprisingly, asa team, the Yankshave actually

thrived this year following some of theBoss’s tirades, although several playershave openly expressed their frustrations.Steinbrenner may have the deepestpockets in all of baseball, but he’s also gotthe biggest mouth and the least insecuri-ty about opening it. Apparently someplayers thrive on it and others don’t.

Amid the Yankees’ worst slump of theseason, Steinbrenner said, “We spent alot of money, got the people Joe (Torre)wanted. It’s his team to turn around.” JeffWeaver, for one, got a big paycheck butabsolutely fizzled under the New Yorkspotlight and under a boss who thinkshe’s bullpen-bound at best.

To further clarify his displeasure, “I’mnot happy with them,” Steinbrenner said.“We have to get straightened out. I thinkJoe will get us straightened out. It betterhappen.”

Prior to his comments, the Yankeeslost 12 of 15, a terrible end to May for thesquad. After his public criticism of thesquad, the Yankees went 23-8 until theend of June.

Two nights ago, following two losses tothe archrival Red Sox by a combinedscore of 20-3, Steinbrenner once againdecided to let loose. “A few guys out thereare making a lot of money and not pro-ducing,” he said. “A few guys need a kickin the butt to get going.”

The Yankees responded with a 3-1defeat of the Red Sox, preventing anembarrassing sweep and winning theseason series against their foes 10-9.David Wells, who spent the week inintense arguments with pitching coachMel Stottlemyre about being in poorshape and not working hard enoughbetween starts, pitched seven and a thirdinnings surrendering only one unearnedrun.

After closer Mariano Rivera came inand finished the ninth, Wells had his198th career victory. “Maybe he can getin a little more trouble this week,” short-stop Derek Jeter said with a smile, “andpitch well again.”

Jeter, of course, said this in jest, butone can’t help but think thatSteinbrenner patted himself on the back,watching again as his players stepped upto his public challenge. Steinbrenner hasthe highest expectations of any owner inbaseball and, while there definitely havebeen player and coach tragedies left inhis wake, he deserves more credit for hisrunning of the Yankees than simply foot-ing the bill.

Sports editor Jon Meachin ’04 hails fromNew York City and hopes the Yankeesprovide no reason for furtherSteinbrenner outbursts.

Ian Cropp / Herald

Men’s ruggers Peter Kimball ’04 and Christian Leuning ’04 lift Geoff Gillespie ’04 ashe collects the line-out in practice for matches against Harvard this weekend.

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