BY ANNE WOOTTONMETRO EDITOR

The possibility of using Rhode Island School of Design residence halls for Brown housing evaporated after RISD’s housing lottery for the fall semester, ending hopes that the halls could be used to alleviate the University’s current housing shortage. At a March 2 meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students, President Ruth Sim-mons mentioned University administra-tors were looking into this potential so-lution to the housing crunch, which left some students living in converted lounges in Keeney Quadrangle last fall.

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Michener ’06 remembered for her cheer and love of scienceBY CHLOE LUTTSSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Though Alison Michener ’06 had previous-ly considered attending graduate school to study biology, a desire to use her passion for science to benefit others and “work with people” had recently inspired her to consider medical school, according to her thesis adviser, As-sistant Professor of Biology Jennifer Hughes.

It is this passion for bettering the world through sci-ence — combined with a genuine con-cern for those around her — for which Mi-chener will be most remembered at Brown, according to friends and professors inter-viewed by The Herald.

Michener, who was born in Colorado but attended high school in California, where her parents reside, died March 31 while rafting in Peru. She had been vaca-tioning with a close friend, Hae-In Kim ’06.

Shirin Shakir, a student at Harvard Law School, also died in the rafting accident.

Kristi Wharton, an associate profes-sor of medical science who worked closely with Michener, described the senior’s “ad-venturous and upbeat nature” in an e-mail to The Herald. Michener spent a semes-ter abroad in Australia last year and wrote home to friends about her “amazing ex-perience,” which included traveling in the Western outback and rock climbing 10 me-ters above the ground. In these messages,

Justin Elliott / HeraldThe University will no longer attempt to buy Rhode Island School of Design residence halls like this house on the corner of Prospect and Waterman streets.

U. ends bid to use RISD dorms

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Ashley Hess / HeraldStephanie Bruce ’04 runs with the ball at one of the women’s rugby team’s games in Kampala, Uganda over spring break. The team went 5-3 during the 13-day trip.

Women’s rugby makes history with Uganda tripBY KAM SRIPADASTAFF WRITER

Over spring break, the women’s rug-by team made history in Uganda, be-coming not only the first non-African

women’s team to play in East Africa, but also the only team to score points

against the best club in the country. During its 13-day expedition to Kam-pala, Uganda, the team won five out of eight matches against teams from Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda. Off the

pitch, the team worked to promote women’s rugby in Uganda and foster international understanding.

The inspiration for the trip came from captain Jennifer Hustwitt ’07, who spent time in Uganda over the past two summers, most recently through Brown’s Royce Fellowship program doing research about access to second-ary school education.

Last summer, she attended a game that paired a Ugandan women’s rugby

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Providence City Council votes to divest from SudanTax status of Brown Book-store also addressed at meetingBY BEN LEUBSDORFMETRO EDITOR

The City Council unanimously voted to divest from Sudan Thursday night, mak-

ing Providence the first city in the United States to do so, according to the mea-

sure’s backers.The council voted 13-0 in favor of di-

vestment. The ordinance must be passed by the council a second time, on April 20, before it is sent to Mayor David Cicilline ’83 for his signature.

“It is easy to ignore or forget that this genocide is happening,” said Ward 9 City Councilman Miguel Luna, one of the ordi-nance’s sponsors, before the meeting. “We are paying attention because our money is supporting this genocide.”

The genocide in Sudan’s province of Darfur has left an estimated 400,000 dead since early 2003, with many more dis-placed, according to the Washington-based Coalition for International Justice.

The ordinance requires that Provi-dence divest from all companies that “provide revenues to the Sudanese gov-ernment,” do not offer “substantive” benefit to the Sudanese people and have not taken steps to halt the genocide. The city has already identified at least one qualifying investment — $800,000 the city has invested in Alcatel, a French communications company.

Ward 1 City Councilman David Se-gal, co- sponsor of the ordinance, said he hopes Providence’s divestment will spur other cities to do the same.

“We hope that our action will trigger a wave of action on the municipal level around the country,” he said. “We want to do what we can to mitigate what’s happen-ing there.”

The city’s divestment came on the same day that a divestment bill was introduced in the state House of Representatives by five legislators, including Rep. Edith Ajel-lo, D-District 3, whose district includes

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Clinton, focus of presidential rumors, to lecture on women leadersBY STU WOOCAMPUS WATCH EDITOR

It is a safe bet that many students attend-ing Sen. Hillary Clinton’s lecture tomor-row night will be on hand not only to hear what the former first lady has to say, but to also catch a sneak peek of a wom-an who may be the country’s next presi-dent.

Clinton, a New York Democrat, will de-liver the inaugural lecture of the Doherty-Granoff Forum on Women Leaders in Meehan Auditorium tomorrow at 7:45 p.m. She is considered by many political experts, including Professor of Political Science Darrell West, to be the frontrun-ner for the Democratic Party’s presiden-tial nomination in 2008.

“She has all the ingredients of a suc-cessful candidate,” said West, who is also director of the Taubman Center for Pub-lic Policy, a co-sponsor of the lecture.

West said Clinton was chosen to be the inaugural speaker of the forum be-

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DEMANDING A DIALOGUE Members of the Brown community pres-ent an open letter to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., on her Iraq war record OPINIONS 11

GOOD SEIDAthlete of the Week Mary Seid ’06 on co-op cooking and the morality of stealing sweatpants SPORTS 12

NO RECALL HERE“Elected,” a new mockumentary on BTV, pokes fun at UCS in an entertain-ing debut ARTS & CULTURE 3

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AN EVENING WITH MICHAEL SHOWALTER ‘927 p.m. Friday, (Salomon 101) — Michael Showalter ’92, a writer/star of “Wet Hot American Summer,” will deliver a lecture as part of the Ivy Film Festival.

ODD APPETITE NEW MUSIC CONCERT8 p.m. Friday , (Grant Recital Hall) —A cellist and a percussionist synthesize electro-acoustic concert music for your pleasure.

“BLACK GOLD”10 p.m. Friday, (Salomon 101) — Part of the Ivy Film Festival, “Black Gold“ follows the transnational pathway of coffee and the injustices of the trade.

THE BEST OF BROWN AT THE UNDERGROUND9 p.m. Saturday, (The Underground) — WBRU and BSR present a concert, featuring Get Him Eat Him, Saves Nine, The Wilers, Guerilla Funk, Zero the Hero and SMP. Free admission.

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BY KATE GOLDBERGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Kent Haines ’07 and Matt Vascellaro ’07, the creators of “White Brown Friends,” have collaborated once

again to create a hilarious mockumen-tary about student government set at a familiar New England university.

Brown Television’s student-written and produced series “Elected” premiered Wednesday to an enthu-siastic crowd in MacMillan 117.

“Elected” follows a traditional mockumentary style, cutting back and forth between the events that occur in the meeting room of the Undergrad-uate Council of Students and private interviews with each council member. Despite its tradition-al format, it is filled with original wit and hilarious spins on the kinds of characters and relationships that are all too familiar to a college audience.

After UCS’s previous president mysteriously de-parts, former vice-president Jeff (David Dryer ’07), a power glutton who can’t back up his high sense of self-assurance, takes over the job. Dryer pres-ents the character as unbearably irritating while still making the audience laugh.

Jeff often butts heads with Blair (Amanda Park-er ’07), the witty and sarcastic council member who has grown bitter over the incompetence of her UCS colleagues. One source of her irritation is Becky (Katie Bosland ’07), who finds color-coor-dination and list-making the most significant as-pects of student government.

Maura (Emily Roberts ’08) is an exceptionally shy council member whose peculiar tendencies include an elaborate fantasyland and sporting flamboyantly patterned vests and turtlenecks.

Nick Clifford ’08 portrays Trey, the son of a sen-ator who finds himself in UCS because of a drunk-en decision. While the frat boy who never uses his head is an overused character in comedies, Clif-ford’s portrayal does not fall prey to over-exagger-ation but instead captures a believable persona, while still managing to make the audience burst out in laughter.

The premiere episode involves the selection of a new council member. Greg (Haines), the calm and

Med School to change biomedical ethics offeringsBY SARA MOLINAROCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Changes to the Medical School’s biomedical ethics offer-ings will be instituted next year, Med School administrators confirmed this week. Instead of teaching biomedical ethics material through group discussions as part of clerkships in students’ third and fourth years, the material will become primarily classroom-based.

The subject of biomedical ethics is currently covered during hospital clerkships in the format of small group dis-cussions, which are led by professional clinicians with ex-pertise in biomedical ethics, according to Tom Bledsoe, di-rector of the Center for Biomedical Ethics. Next year, how-ever, these discussions will be scaled down, and ethics will be taught in a classroom-based format in a new course for first- and second-year med students called “Doctoring,” Bledsoe said.

The new course was first implemented this year for first-year students, but it only included a brief overview of biomedical ethics material. Next year, “Doctoring” will be offered to second-year students for the first time and will include an extensive study of ethics and ethical problems doctors are likely to face.

Bledsoe praised impending changes to the curriculum.

“If you look across the board about when and how med schools teach ethics, we’re an outlier — the current pro-gram is expensive and time-intensive, so the people at the top have decided that we’re not going to do that anymore.”

Philip Gruppuso, associate dean of medicine, was one of the administrators involved in outlining changes to the curriculum. Gruppuso explained that the biomedical eth-ics program is supported by an endowment from the class of 1951, which was originally intended to “support the ed-ucational topic of humanism in medicine” at both the un-dergraduate and graduate levels. The curriculum shift was intended to ensure that this endowment is being used in the most effective way.

“I know that this change comes in the context of a per-ception that the biomed ethics program is being cut or dis-continued, and that’s not the case at all. It is a change, but it’s an expansive one,” Gruppuso said. “I consider all of this a very positive development in the context of medical edu-cation. It’s about broadening opportunities for students.”

Bledsoe emphasized that the group discussions cur-rently taking place during students’ third- and fourth-year clerkships are highly valuable and will not be eliminated altogether. “There’s the sense that when students are in

Harper’s Lapham addresses TV’s destructive influence on national discourseBY NATHALIE PIERREPONTCONTRIBUTING WRITER

When Lewis Lapham was approached in 1965 about con-sidering a job in television reporting, he “turned it down with contempt.” Having already spent almost a decade as a writer, he thought “television was for children,” Lapham said to an audience in MacMillian 117 on Thurs-day afternoon.

Lapham, who recently retired after nearly 30 years as managing editor of Harper’s Magazine, the country’s old-est political journal, is the author of several books of essays, including “Fortune’s Child,” “Money and Class in Ameri-ca,” “Imperial Masquerade,” “Hotel America,” “Waiting for the Barbarians” and “Theater of War.” As editor, he wrote a monthly essay for Harper’s called “Notebook.” In 1995, he won the National Magazine Award for three of those pieces.

Lapham’s respect for history and traditional literary knowledge was a recurring theme throughout his lecture, which was titled “Observations on 40 Years in the Liter-ary Trade.” In describing the transformation of the me-dia and its effects on his writing career, Lapham claimed

he has “learned more about politics from Machiavelli, Cicero and Shakespeare than from George Will and the New Republic.”

Lapham admitted having a “romantic perception” of the newspaper business when he began his writing career at the San Francisco Examiner in 1957, a year after complet-ing a graduate program at Cambridge University, entering “with literary expectations … a notion that long-form jour-nalism could be raised to low-end literature.”

Although he was hoping to write “longer pieces and to employ various literary devices,” Lapham quickly experi-enced the reality of print journalism when his first story on a local flower show was cut from 4,000 words — “4,000 very beautiful words,” he said — to a mere paragraph. “It was my introduction to editing,” he said.

Before heading to Harper’s Magazine in 1971, where he was almost immediately appointed managing edi-tor, Lapham worked for the Saturday Evening Post and The New York Herald Tribune for six years and two years, respectively.

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the clinical rotations, the ethical issues that they’re facing are not abstract and the students will get the most value from talking about something when they’re directly dealing with it,” Bledsoe said.

Bharati Kalasapudi ’07, a stu-dent in the Program for Liberal Medical Education, said she be-lieves changes to the Med School’s biomedical ethics offerings could improve its curriculum.

“I think it’s great that students are being exposed to ethics early on in their Medical School edu-cation,” she said. But “it’s just im-portant to make sure that that’s something they’re exposed to in their third and fourth years as well,” she added.

The PLME program “does a good job” exposing students to the importance of the “physi-cian-patient” relationship, Kala-sapudi said, adding that talks for first-years effectively convey this material and “emphasize that medicine is not just lab work.” Still, this component of the cur-riculum is “not as strong” in later years, she said, adding that cuts to undergraduate biomedical ethics offerings hurt the Univer-sity’s pre-medical curriculum.

Gruppuso said other chang-es to the teaching of biomedical ethics in the Med School will in-clude the creation of summer re-search assistantships that will fo-cus on humanities and the arts, which includes ethics-related material. Those positions will be-gin this summer.

turns out that I’m 120 beds short for next year,” said Brian Janes, director of RISD’s Residence Life Office. According to Janes, RISD recently gained 500 beds and had the capacity to house about 45 students displaced by Hurri-cane Katrina last fall, which was the reason he anticipated having extra residence hall space next year.

“We did have some vacan-cies — we were able to consoli-date and help out with the Ka-trina students — so that’s what happened to prompt specula-tion and discussion (of renting space to Brown),” Janes said. “That all happened before our lottery process.”

The housing that the Uni-versity might have rented from RISD includes eight houses at the western edge of Brown’s campus on Angell and Prospect streets, according to Janes. One house is across the street from Carrie Tower.

Deanna Chaukos ’08, chair of UCS’s Campus Life Committee who was present at the March UCS meeting in which Simmons mentioned the possibility of uti-lizing RISD residence halls, said the apartment-style nature of the housing was its most appeal-ing feature.

“It might (have been) upper-classmen housing if it’s apart-ment-style, which is something students want more of,” Chaukos said. “I think it’s immensely im-portant that we find some alter-native for housing (in) the mean-time. If building a new residence hall isn’t possible right now, then we’re going to have to find some other alternative,” she added.

The University’s housing crunch has escalated in recent years and is fast becoming a top priority for administrators, ac-cording to David Greene, vice president for campus life and student services.

“We’ve been really squeezed (for housing) for the last couple of years,” Greene said. Minden Hall, formerly a hotel, opened as Brown housing in 2002, but the Univer-sity “absorbed those rooms very quickly,” Greene said.

“We originally thought if we add 150 beds to our housing stock, it might hold us over for a

bit; in fact, it didn’t make much of a dent — the demand is still very high,” he said.

Greene added there are sever-al options that could be pursued to alleviate the housing shortage.

In 2004, the University issued a Request for Proposals to a num-ber of developers and landlords to see if properties they owned or would consider building could be used to house Brown students.

“That came back with some options — some of which we actually used for graduate stu-dents — but that’s one possibili-ty we could continue to explore,” Greene said.

Though there is no “spe-cific plan” in place for building more housing on campus, “we are looking at whether or not we would build residence halls our-selves,” he added.

Greene said the University’s first “big push” to increase hous-ing came about a year and a half ago, when a specially appointed housing task force issued the RFP and advised that housing capac-ity be substantial enough so only seniors move off campus.

“We had a whole idea for stu-dents paved out” to improve fa-cilities over the next few years, Greene said, including construc-tion of the Jonathon Nelson Fit-ness Center, better study space and improved dining halls, but “it’s been apparent to me and others we have to address this situation sooner … in particular because of the number of stu-dents who are interested in be-ing on campus.”

“I think especially the admin-istration’s realized that residenc-es are a huge issue on campus, if not a deterring factor from Brown campus life,” Chaukos said.

The Office of Residential Life approved over 50 applications for off-campus housing in the days before the housing lottery this year, whereas in the past “you had to apply for it earlier to get it,” said Justin Glavis-Bloom ’07, the chair of Residential Council’s lottery committee. RISD has tak-en a similar approach.

“We’ve been approving re-quests for those people who wish to live off campus, so some people have been changing their mind about where they want to live, but … it’s going to be dif-ficult,” Janes said, adding that problems particularly arise in finding housing for new transfer and graduate students.

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Lapham explained that the na-ture of media was changing at the end of the 1960s. “So much was getting replaced by television net-works,” he said.

“The language for print is en-tirely different than the kind of language that is made for televi-sion,” Lapham added. He referred to television communication as re-quiring only “Dick and Jane” lan-guage — a simplistic subject-verb construction. In television, the fo-cus is on what “emotion a picture evokes, not necessarily what the picture is of. … Content is second-ary and there is little cause and ef-fect,” Lapham explained. He add-ed that there is little use of irony, as well as an increase in loose vocab-ulary in broadcast discourse.

This transformation caused a “loss of force of a literary way of thinking,” Lapham said. Following a two-year exile from the magazine in the early 1980s after being fired, he returned to his role as editor of Harper’s determined to change the publication’s structure.

“The expectations of the au-dience had changed,” he said.

Lapham reconstructed the for-mat of the magazine in 1984 to feature only one long and sever-al short articles, because people have less patience, he said.

However, Lapham was sure to maintain the tradition of this 155-year-old monthly, founded by Henry Raymond, who also founded the New York Times, by thoughtfully choosing the main article in each issue.

“The magazine has published a wonderful group of American writ-ers,” he said, citing Herman Mel-ville and Mark Twain as notable contributors. In his selection pro-cess, Lapham determined whether he could “hear a human voice with the first couple pages,” because, he explained, social change de-pends on “language that induces a change of heart.”

The magazine is currently ex-periencing its highest circulation in the last 30 years, according to Lapham.

Having retired just last week, Lapham is planning new endeav-ors to “combat the destructive and diminishing effects of television,” he said.

To do this, he said he hopes to start a new quarterly journal and a weekly radio show. Both are “intended to restore, encourage

(and) fortify the use of history,” which he believes is “absent in the political consciousness.”

The journal will highlight an im-portant idea in current news and use 50 to 60 relevant texts to bring the issues forward in the context of a historical continuum, he said. Lapham believes knowledge and history — “concrete facts on which we can rely” — are essential for ad-equate reasoning. There is “noth-ing to build the future but the lum-ber of the past,” Lapham said.

Following his talk, Lapham took questions from the audi-ence, encouraging members to inquire about political issues. The request elicited inquiries ranging from his reasoning for urging the impeachment of Pres-ident George W. Bush to the mag-azine’s political orientation.

In response to a question on the Internet’s potential for destruc-tion in comparison to television, Lapham said he is unsure, but not completely pessimistic, about the Internet. “The Internet is relative-ly new,” he said. “Whether or not we can make elevated use of it is in question.”

Lapham’s speech was part of the John Hazen White lecture se-ries organized by the Taubman Center for Public Policy.

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collected candidate with previ-ous student government experi-ence under his belt, is clearly the best option. His entry into the council, however, will potential-ly be troubling for a number of reasons, including balancing the job with Becky, his girlfriend of more than two years — a tension that will likely unfold over the re-

maining four half-hour episodes of the season.

Vascellero explained that he and Haines, like many screenwrit-ers, found it “hard to relinquish our baby,” so they decided to be-come producers as well. Dealing with both aspects of the creative process meant “there were always about eight things you had to think about,” explained Haines, but the two were dedicated, dealing with a schedule that demanded at least two hours each night of shooting

and a process that began just be-fore school started this past fall.

The final product reflects this effort and time. But even more obvious is the creative dy-namic that exists between the show’s two creators. The series promises to work both visually and conceptually, with scenes that are fast-paced but not jar-ring and a script that has ease, crispness and wit, shining light on the humorous aspects of the very familiar.

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BY MELANIE DUCHSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Eight-year-old Yocaira Ramos enjoyed celebrating her birth-day Wednesday evening during an event that featured a cake do-nated by chefs-in-training from Johnson and Wales University and a game of pin-the-nose-on-the-clown. “My favorite part was whipping the other kids with balloons,” Ramos said.

Ramos and about 20 other children celebrated their birth-days with 16 Brown students. The party, the second one of its kind this year, was thrown by Operation Happy Birthday, an organization dedicated to tutor-ing and mentoring underprivi-leged children and adolescents and throwing birthday parties for those who would not other-wise have them.

The party was organized by Wilfredo Peréz Jr. ’08, founder of Operation Happy Birthday, and was held in McAuley Village, a transitional apartment facil-ity in Providence that helps sin-gle mothers and their children through phases of homelessness, unemployment and domestic vi-olence, among other things.

Beginning with a song by the Ursa Minors and ending with the children slaughtering bal-loons en masse, the party was “very, very special” for the resi-dents, said Sister Holly Cloutier, resident services coordinator of McAuley Village.

“Just look at (the children’s) faces,” Cloutier said. “They’re delighted. Everyone is delighted with the gifts they got.”

The children were each treat-ed to gifts based on wish lists made in advance. They also re-ceived balloons, games, party hats and noisemakers. Purchase of the gifts was covered by the Swearer Center for Public Ser-vice, Johnson and Wales and pri-vate donors.

Peréz, who has become a mi-

nor celebrity by giving speeches across the country as a part of the Boldly Brown campaign, said though he has gotten private do-nations from people across the country, the party left Operation Happy Birthday “nearly broke.” He is currently in the process of applying for $50,000 in funding to become a nonprofit organi-zation. The Undergraduate Fi-nance Board does not provide funding to Operation Happy Birthday because it is not a cam-pus-based student organization, he said.

Peréz’s path to Brown was tumultuous. He spent much of his childhood homeless and now, though only a sophomore, has had three offers for medi-cal residencies at Stanford Uni-versity. His personal story is so compelling, in fact, that it often overshadows the work he does with Operation Happy Birth-day, a three-year-old program that has already shown the po-tential to develop into a nation-al organization.

“When I gave a speech for Boldly Brown in San Francisco last year, (Mayor Gavin New-som) fell in love with Operation Happy Birthday,” Peréz said. Newsom’s efforts in support of the program mean that the San Francisco branch of Operation Happy Birthday “is going to be-come a government program starting next fiscal year,” Peréz said.

Peréz said he hopes to make the program as well known as or-ganizations like the United Na-tions Children’s Fund because “it’s just as important.” For now, however, he is focused on gath-ering more volunteers, acquir-ing more funding and getting people interested in the project.

Peréz said he got the idea for Operation Happy Birthday sever-al years ago from the Notorious B.I.G. song titled “Juicy.” In the song, the rapper “talked about how bad life was, how Christmas missed us, how birthdays miss us. … So I was like, let’s fix that,” Peréz said.

While many homeless shel-ters are flooded with gifts at Thanksgiving and Christmas, Peréz said donors often over-look birthdays and children over the age of 13, so Opera-tion Birthday focuses on a day “just to celebrate each child,” he said, complete with custom gifts that cater to the children’s interests.

“These kids don’t have the op-portunities other kids have,” he said. “This is a chance for each kid to just celebrate themselves.”

The children were not the only ones who enjoyed the birth-day party, however.

Jay McCarthy GS said he had a lot of fun, adding that it was rewarding to “see the kids’ faces light up.” Watching them “run towards the candles makes you remember when you were eight or nine, because you don’t really get to do that anymore,” McCar-thy said.

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courtesy of Margaret CromwellWilfredo Peréz ’08 and volunteers from his organization Operation Happy Birthday hosted a party Wednesday for underprivileged and homeless Providence children.

Peréz ’08’s Operation Happy Birthday brings gifts to underprivileged childrenWednesday’s party the second of its kind this year

Peréz said he got the idea for Operation Happy Birthday sever-al years ago from the Notorious B.I.G. song titled “Juicy.” In the song, the rapper “talk-ed about how bad life was, how Christmas missed us, how birth-days miss us. … So I was like, let’s fix that,” Peréz said.

Seminar explores ethics of archaeologyTalk part of larger interdisciplinary series addressing ethical standards in academia

BY AIDAN LEVYSTAFF WRITER

Looting at ancient Armenian tombs and the pending litiga-tion regarding the J. Paul Get-ty Museum’s purportedly illic-it acquisition of Italian antiq-uities were among the topics discussed last night as part of “The Dirty Ethics of Archaeolo-gy,” the fourth and final install-ment of “The Academy in Con-text” dinner-colloquia series for the 2005-2006 academic year. Over 30 administrators, faculty and students from the Gradu-ate School gathered at the Fac-ulty Club Thursday night for the event.

The lecture and ensuing dis-cussion, led by Susan Alcock, professor of classics and di-rector of the recently renamed Artemis A. W. Joukowsky and Martha Sharp Joukowsky In-stitute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, and Hima Mal-lampati, an archaeology gradu-ate student at the University of Michigan, stressed the impor-tance of maintaining ethical standards in archaeology.

“I think bringing students from many disciplines together with free food is a great idea,” Alcock told The Herald.

The series, sponsored by the Office of Campus Life and Stu-dent Services, the Graduate Student Council and the Grad School, began in the fall as an effort to promote an interdisci-plinary community by uniting students in a discussion of ethi-cal standards and concerns they would not usually be exposed to, said Sheila Bonde, dean of the Grad School.

Between 40 and 80 grad stu-dents from more than 30 de-partments have attended each seminar. Due to this year’s high attendance rate, the series will continue in the 2006-07 aca-demic year, Bonde said.

“Issues of ethics affect all of us, across the humanities and sciences, and I think the series has had an impact on students,” Bonde said. “It’s important to

talk rather than only having a code of ethics.”

Past talks include a seminar led by author Michael Chorost ’87 and Visiting Assistant Pro-fessor of Computer Science Roger Blumberg on the complex interdependence of modern technology and modern life; a discussion led by best-selling author John Barry ’68 on politics in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the preparation effort for an avian flu pandemic; and a discussion led by Professor of Economics Glenn Loury on the ethics of punishment and mass incarceration in American society.

Jing Song GS, a doctoral candidate in sociology, attended several of the seminars. “They’re fantastic. You meet people from outside your narrow area of concern and have a chance to talk to people outside your department,” she said. “The ethical standards across countries and disciplines are different, and it’s good to be able to talk about them.”

In the introduction to her lecture, Alcock discussed the “surprising murkiness that arch-aeologists have to confront,” from excavating sites ravaged by looters to the dirty dealings of museums and private collectors that traffic valuable artifacts on the black market. “We all face and indirectly face the taintedness and temptation of dirty archaeology,” she said.

Mallampati, who holds a law degree from Stanford University, focused her talk on patrimony litigation, the legal nuances of the antiquity trade and law enforcement issues. She also addressed topics regarding the legality of provenance and the illicit behavior of archaeologists, organized grave-robbers and artifact collectors.

“The topic of ethics in archaeology is a topic that’s not usually discussed in graduate seminars, and opening this field up to the public at large is important,” she said.

third strike, Laabs singled to left to score Anderson. Seid then beat out an infield single that scored Amini. After an RBI walk from catcher Amy Baxter ’08, Wirkowski came through in the clutch once again. She roped a single down the line that scored Seid and Laabs and gave Brown a five-run lead.

Those five runs would be all pitcher Michelle Moses ’09 would need. She was sharp all night, confusing the Blue Dev-il hitters with precise location and varying pitch speed.

“Michelle looked on today,” Leonetti said. “She was getting ahead of almost every hitter and was challenging every hit-

ter. She also worked both sides of the plate very effectively.”

Moses pitched all five in-nings, giving up only four hits while striking out four and walking just one. She set the tone for what was a dominant performance by the Bears in the second game.

“We were all much more re-laxed and we did what we need-ed to do,” she said. “It is defi-nitely great to get a win in front of the home crowd.”

The game was called after five innings due to darkness but still registers as a win for Brown.

Brown will travel down In-terstate 95 this weekend to open up its Ivy League season with double headers against the University of Pennsylvania on Saturday and Princeton on Sunday.

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team against a team from Kenya, and “it was the most inspira-tional game I’ve ever seen,” she wrote in an e-mail to The Her-ald. “It was then that I decided I wanted my team from Brown to experience that.”

The team started planning fundraising in October and pro-jected it would cost over $120,000 to cover all expenses for the trip’s 42 participants, with airfare alone making up approximately $50,000 of that figure, according to Kalie Gold ’08, the treasurer for the trip.

To tackle this financial chal-lenge, the team sponsored a raf-fle using donated prizes — in-cluding a trip to London, a lap-top, an iPod Shuffle and week-ends in vacation cottages. Each athlete was expected to sell 110 tickets at a price of $10 each as a personal contribution. One play-er, who also works at Miko Exot-icwear, did not reach her goal but made up the difference by selling 40 vibrators donated by her em-ployer. She raised approximate-ly $1,200, though her tactic was independent of the team’s effort, Gold said.

During the winter months, the team received financial packages from the Undergraduate Finance Board, Vice President for Cam-pus Life and Student Services David Greene and the Office of the President. Families, anony-mous donors and philanthrop-ic organizations poured thou-sands of dollars into the team’s collection. During a last-minute push in February, players sold reduced-price raffle tickets in dorms and even contributed out of their own bank accounts, rais-ing $10,000 in less than a week and pushing the team’s total to around $95,000.

This sum was enough to cov-er all expenses for the team’s 32 current players, five alums, two coaches and two non-athletes, Da-vid Sobel ’08 and Laura Green ’06, who took photographs and vid-eo footage, respectively, to docu-ment the trip. A team doctor, who covered his own expenses, also ac-companied the players.

At the team’s first game on March 25, the bleachers at the Kyadondo Rugby Club grounds were packed with 3,000 specta-tors, according to Gold. Ugan-dan drummers and dancers performed while the squad lined up. “(It) seemed like the opening celebration in the Olympics,” said Lindsay Joseph ’09. “That’s when it hit us that we were finally playing Uganda, the team we’d only seen pic-tures of and heard scary things about.”

The Kyadondo A side won the first game 32-8, but Brown be-came the first team to ever score points against the squad. Unde-feated in its three-year history, the Uganda team generally routs its competition, typified by its 99-0 victory over Rwanda earlier in the season.

In addition, Brown became the “first non-African women’s team to play in East Africa,” ac-cording to a Jan. 10 team press release.

Gold said the Kyadondo A side featured a wide range of profes-sional and amateur players aged anywhere from 16 to 26.

The game was televised, and Ugandan national newspapers printed articles related to the

events throughout the week, ac-cording to Gold. One such piece, on Planet-Rugby.com, ran with the headline “Ugandan women beat USA tourists” and expressed its disappointment at the small size of the players “from the land of the Kahuna-burger and the chocolate milkshake.”

After the match, the teams joined for dinner, and the Ugan-dan women expressed their sur-prise at the strong playing skills of Brown’s team, Joseph said.

“They couldn’t believe that we had scored on them,” she said. “They said they had expected to walk all over us, but they said we put up a good fight and were surprised by our aggressiveness. It was so inspiring to hear them talk about our team that way.”

The teams often socialized at events hosted by the Ugandan rugby club after the games. The players discussed rugby stereo-types and gender issues, and Jo-seph said “it was so interesting to hear these women who live so far away but had so many similari-ties to us.”

“They play with intensity and passion for a sport that many people there don’t think they should play,” Gold said.

On the days between match-es and practices, the team left its hostel on small trips to near-by areas. The entire team spent a day at a resort, sponsored by the Ugandan team. Later in the week, the women went to a crafts market, rafted on the Nile River and visited a fishing village to speak with families that Hustwitt had met during a previous trip to Uganda.

Village residents reacted fa-vorably to the squad’s presence. One impoverished man praised the team members for being “not another volunteer that showed up once and disappeared and didn’t leave anything sustain-able,” Gold said.

The team also met with rep-resentatives from the nonprofit organizations Right to Play and Kid’s League, both of which work to make sports available to chil-dren in Uganda.

However, Becca Constantine ’09 said the purpose of the trip was “not about changing things, but about learning from them and coming back to share the experience.”

On March 29, it was back to rugby, with Brown’s develop-mental B side facing off against Kyadondo’s B side, which won 12-5.

“It was the most physically demanding game I’ve played in,” Gold said. “It tested everyone on the B side.”

Though there were no injuries during other parts of the trip, several players had collisions or falls during this game, including Joseph, who needed four stitch-es, Gold said.

Because most of the Ugandan women had previous athletic ex-perience with basketball or soccer, they possessed “quickness and athleticism we hadn’t seen any-where else,” Gold said. “It shell-shocked us, but we learned a lot.”

Kyadondo hosted an inter-national tournament on April 1 involving a version of the game that called for seven players on a side instead of the 15 Brown typically fields. The Bears beat Rwanda, Kenya, Kyadondo B and a local Ugandan team before fall-ing again to Kyadondo A 19-0 in the final round.

“It was impressive that we beat those other teams having never played sevens before,” Gold said.

The final game of the trip was held on April 2 against Rwanda, which Brown won.

As for the future of Brown-Ky-adondo matches, “we’re hoping to bring (Kyadondo) here,” Gold said, “but since getting visas is so difficult, we’re hoping to be invit-ed back for 2008.”

Hustwitt said the challenge for the team now is one beyond the physical sport. “The larger goal is that this one-time in-teraction will turn into some sort of partnership,” she wrote. “That is what we face now, as well as how to share, commu-nicate and present our experi-ence in Uganda.”

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cause then I can adapt to oth-er peoples’ needs and rituals. Like this last road trip … once, when we got on the bus, Natalie (Hewitt ’08) sat down in a seat across from me and she asked if she could sit in the seat I was in because she’d been sitting there the whole road trip.

What was the hardest thing for you to adapt to at Brown?

I had to learn how to bal-ance my academics, my per-sonal life and my sport. There have been times where each have been the top priority. Last spring, it was my goal to get top grades because I felt I hadn’t really been performing to my potential since freshman year. It almost killed me, but I did it. But then, because I was more intense about school, it carried over into sports and I became more intense about softball.

How do you guys match up in the Ivy League this season?

I don’t look online; I don’t follow the Ivy League sports Web sites. I don’t want to know other teams’ reputations com-ing into the game. … I don’t know if it helps me, but it defi-nitely keeps it simpler.

Do you keep it simple on the field or do you like to try other positions?

I haven’t tried many other positions. I’ll tell you my biggest secret: I love catching. We have more pitchers than catchers, and when we have to volunteer or get chosen to play catcher for a day, I love it. But I like short-stop. I like being on the infield and dictating the game. Unless it’s a strikeout, you’re involved in the play. Can’t complain ei-ther way.

Do you live with the team?Actually I live in a co-op,

which has been a big growing ex-perience. Learning how to work with other people that have just as a demanding schedule as you do is tough. Getting on the same page can be nearly impossible. You have responsibilities in the house and cooking duties every week.

What’s your favorite thing to cook?

Potato latkes! I’ll make dou-ble and invite the team over. The house is a great place to have my teammates over and socialize with them.

What’s your favorite thing to eat?

My boyfriend asked me that today! I wrote a whole list down. I started with breakfast foods because we were eating Bagel Gourmet. Bagels and lox are a great treat.

What’s one store you would add to Thayer?

I want to keep the bookstore, of course. I read an inspiration-al piece on keeping it indepen-dent, and I think it’s really im-portant. I’d like to see a new smoothie joint open up. As an athlete, I really miss them.

What’s your favorite piece of clothing from the equipment room?

Definitely the black sweat-pants. There’s a story behind that. Once, my sophomore year, when we had a team meeting … we had to do self-evalua-tions and go through a checklist of anything wrong we had done when it came to the team or re-cruiting. At the bottom was a box called “Other” and I checked it and wrote that I had kept the pants over the summer, because I loved them so much instead of turning them in at the end of the season. The coach looked at me and shaking her head was like, “Mary? Are you serious? Take your paper and just go.” It wasn’t the type of confession they were looking for, but I was just trying to be honest.

How has the recent attention felt?

I’ve really been enjoying the honors I’ve received in the past couple of weeks. It’s nice to know that people pay atten-tion, and sometimes people will stop and congratulate me. I’ve been injured for two sea-sons, so it’s been fun. I’m being recognized for what I’m doing to help the team, and so I think it makes me want to push my-self that much harder. It’s hard to play a sport, but I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

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date.“I couldn’t be happier with

the attitude and the ferocity with which the team has engaged training and racing,” he said. “I’m thoroughly impressed with the rapid improvement of a rela-tively young boat.”

Harrison was also undeterred by the team’s schedule, which is one of the most difficult in the na-tion. Brown will race four of the top nine teams in the country

over a five-week span in the com-ing month. Ivy rivals Harvard and Princeton are both ranked in front of the Bears. Boston University and Northeastern University are ranked directly behind Bruno.

“We will face the hardest rac-ing schedule in the country, with four of your five dual races com-ing against the top four teams in the EARC last year,” Harri-son said. “We open up our sea-son against three-time defend-ing national champion Harvard this Sunday at home. It will be an extremely challenging race but one we are prepared for and excited for.”

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dominating the headlines and the scrolls. For the love of pret-zel salt, they’re giving the man a weekly spot on ESPN, “Bonds on Bonds.” Cheater, liar, erstwhile father, get him off the field, for-ever, and tattoo an asterisk on his forehead.

Tom: Hold up, asterisk? First of all, how is that not spelled with an “x?” Secondly, let’s not forget Barry Bonds was the best player in baseball from 1990-1998. He was also the best play-er in baseball in the years that followed. Really big muscles didn’t help other juicers finish with a .609 OBP, as Bonds did in 2004. I mean, I don’t care if his head increased in diameter by 300 percent, his back had acne and he beat women (just kid-ding… not really), I’m still really freakin’ impressed.

Ross: Another Barry apolo-gist in our midst. Maybe you just feel certain kinship with substance abusers, eh, Panama Red? This is the classic argu-ment realignment used for de-fending Barry Bonds and the invasion of Iraq. Point: Barry’s a cheater. Counterpoint: He drops bombs! Point: Iraq didn’t have WMDs. Counterpoint: What, you don’t love freedom? Your double-speak may work on the weak-minded, broseph, but the issue here is whether Bud Selig should investigate Bonds and take punitive action

against him. I say he should, and if Bonds is found to have taken (federally) illegal steroids, then we can start talking about how much they helped him. Maybe they helped a lot, maybe about as much as bleaching your hair helped your sex life back in the day, but let’s cross that bridge when we come to it.

Tom: Why can’t you just say “Barry defender” like a nor-mal person? “Apologist?” Who speaks like that? Someone who mentions Iraq in a sports col-umn, that’s who. Listen, bud, if Bud investigates Bonds all he’ll find is that he saved the sport. While baseball faithfuls like you and I live for Martinez’s hair on HDTV alone, there are count-less others who live for the long ball. Every sport needs a super-hero, or super villain, to be jeal-ous of, be in awe of and piss us all off for being so darn good. Barry obliged. Selig is the one who should be investigated if he in fact chooses to investigate Bonds. It’s not like Barry using ’roids is new news. Did anyone actually not realize that Bonds had been juicing? Selig certainly did and he loved what it did for the game.

Ross: Ken Caminiti, 1996 Na-tional League MVP, known ste-roids user: deceased, age 41. You know what that means? Exactly. Barry Bonds has been dead for months, and Brian Sabean has been using an elaborate system of smoke and mirrors and ho-lograms to convince us that… nevermind. But seriously, ste-roids are dangerous, and we’ve

got plenty of clean moon-shoot-ers. David Ortiz hits the Schil-ling out of the ball every day, and he’s a gorgeous man and a genuinely nice dude. I’d be lying if I didn’t say that Barry is one of the more entertaining players in all of sports, but we have to real-ize that baseball is about more than entertainment value. Kids emulate these men, and the world would be a better place if high-profile athletes like Bonds loved the kids like Trick Daddy. But Barry just loves himself, and I’m done with him.

Tom: As a Yankee fan, it’s my duty to correct you: it’s “Ortiz-fat,” never just “David Ortiz.” And I didn’t know “genuinely nice” people showed up their opponents in such a disgrace-ful bat-flipping manner. Think of the kids! Do we want them emulating obese show boaters like Ortiz-fat or someone who would rather take a walk than hit anything like gentle, consid-erate Barry Bonds? Thank God, Allah, Jeter or whoever your god may be that we have outstand-ing role models like Bonds. Oh, but Barry has been dead for months… dead on the inside. His soul murdered by people like you who keep him from get-ting sleep at night. Speaking of which, isn’t it past your bed-time? How is an old-timer like you able to write at such a high level at such a late hour? Is that a syringe I see on your desk? Hypocrite.

Tom Trudeau ’09 and Ross Trudeau ’06 luh’ da’ kids.

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athletics today. With the amount of money generated by athletic programs and the time commit-ment that certain sports require, many people have argued in favor of paying student-athletes. Pay-ing athletes is often mentioned as a solution to the booster scandals that have involved big name ath-letes such as Maurice Clarett and Chris Webber.

Romar, for one, supported the paying of athletes. He explained that a few of his players did not have the money to afford a suit jacket to attend the awards din-ners they are often required to go to. Hewitt, on the other hand, mentioned that he had wavered on the issue, eventually decid-ing that paying athletes is not the solution to such problems. Since most Division I athletes receive scholarships to play, by paying athletes college administrators could possibly justify no longer granting scholarships.

At a school such as Brown, de-bate on a topic like paying athletes for athletic participation is some-thing that should occur. In the Ivy League, Hewitt’s argument would not hold water since the schools do not grant athletic scholarships. However, it is still an issue that af-fects a vast number of students on campus, and to hear influential coaches discuss the matter on our campus was enlightening.

Going forward, it seems pos-sible that with more publicity, this event could generate the type of crowd that would be appropriate for top coaches in the profession. I am looking forward to the next Fritz Pollard Award winner visit-ing College Hill, I hope, in 2007.

Miller possibly leaving Brown for Hartford

One person who was conspic-uously absent from Wednesday’s event was men’s basketball Head Coach Glen Miller, who has been rumored to be a leading candi-date for the University of Hart-ford’s coaching vacancy. Perhaps Miller had a prior commitment or personal conflict that prevented him from attending; nonetheless it was interesting that the Univer-sity’s men’s basketball coach was not present at an event honoring two of his colleagues.

While his absence certainly does not signify that Miller already has one foot out the door, it also did not reinforce the idea that he will be the head coach at Brown next season. Given Miller’s ties to Connecticut — he coached at the University of Connecticut and was the head man at Connecticut College for six years — it is logical that he would consider an offer if given one.

The director of athletics at Hartford also has ties to UConn. Pat Meiser-McKnett was an asso-ciate athletic director for the Hus-kies for part of the time that Mill-er was an assistant with the men’s team.

If Miller leaves, Brown would lose a good coach. His string of three Ivy League second-place fin-ishes in four years (in 2000-01 and 2002-04) in a league dominated by the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton speaks to his job of turning around Brown’s program.

That said, sometimes a change of scenery can be a good thing for both a coach and a school. Miller has been in charge of the Bears for eight seasons now, and the team has had only one senior each of the past two seasons. Some roster turnover is not uncommon in the Ivy League, in which athletes are not bound to their sport by schol-arship. However, carrying just one senior for two consecutive years is something that usually happens at big-time schools where kids leave early for the NBA.

Despite Miller’s success at Brown, there is a reason that few college coaches stay much longer than a decade at one institution. Af-ter a while, players may start tuning out the coach, or the coach could grow tired of the same situation af-ter such a long period of time. Play-ers may simply become bored with the same system or practices or off-season conditioning program. At an Ivy League school, that can lead to fewer players sticking around for four years.

Whether or not Miller decides to take the job at Hartford, the way the Bears closed out the year in conference play is an encouraging sign no matter who is at the helm next year. Hopefully, it is Miller, but if not, it might be just as well for the men’s basketball team.

The only person Sports Editor Ste-phen Colelli ’08 tunes out is Chris Hatfield ’06.

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cause of her vast expertise relat-ing to its subject matter.

“It’s a forum on female lead-ership, and there’s no better per-son to deliver the inaugural ad-dress than Hillary Clinton,” he said. “She’s shown and demon-strated a track record of leader-ship. She’s a smart and articu-late person. I think there will be a tremendous amount of inter-est in what she has to say.”

Born in 1947, Clinton is a graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, where she met her eventual husband, for-mer President Bill Clinton. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in November 2000, becoming the only First Lady to ever win elected office in American his-tory. She currently serves on the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; the Special Com-mittee on Aging; and the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Though she has yet to offi-cially declare her interest in the presidency, Clinton has already raised $20 million that could be used for a run at the White House — far more than any oth-er potential Democratic con-tender. Though the money is officially pegged for this year’s Senate re-election campaign, Clinton is expected to be eas-ily re-elected and can roll over the unspent dollars for a presi-dential bid. Political experts be-lieve that by the end of 2007, she could raise at least $100 mil-lion — what Federal Election Commission Chairman Michael Toner said he considered to be

the minimum “entry fee … to be considered a serious candidate” in a March 12 Washington Post article.

The Doherty-Granoff Forum on Women Leaders, co-spon-sored by the Taubman Center and Pembroke Center for Teach-ing and Research on Women, was founded this year by Mi-chael Granoff and Ellen Granoff ’83. Michael Granoff said he and

his wife created the forum be-cause they believe females are “the single largest untapped group of leaders” in the coun-try, and the forum could serve to “train the next generation” of women leaders.

“If you think about the future, the purpose of places like Brown is to incubate leaders,” Granoff said. “It’s what the founders of places like Brown were thinking of.”

Brown’s campus.The Brown Corporation, the

University’s highest governing body, voted to divest from Sudan in February. A number of univer-sities around the country, includ-ing the University of California system and Stanford Universi-ty, have divested from Sudan, as have several states, including Or-egon, New Jersey and Illinois.

“I’m proud to live in the city of Providence, the first city in the nation to divest from Sudan,” said Scott Warren ’09, a leader of the Darfur Action Network — the Brown chapter of Students Tak-ing Action Now: Darfur — who was on hand at City Hall before the meeting.

Luna compared the grow-ing Sudan divestment campaign to the 1980s campaign to divest from South Africa.

“I remember back in the 1980s, when an international move-ment pressured South Africa to end apartheid,” Luna said. “We can do the same now to end the genocide.”

In other business, the City Council passed a number of pro-gressive-friendly measures, in-cluding an ordinance allowing city employees to invest in “so-cially responsible” retirement plans and a measure requiring the city to avoid using sweat-shop-produced goods. Both ordi-nances must be passed a second time before becoming law.

The Council also passed an or-dinance requiring the Providence

Public Library, a non-profit pri-vate company, to allow the city to appoint eight members of the 33-member Board of Directors. If the PPL does not comply, it will lose its funding from the city.

Ward 10 City Councilman Luis Aponte said the city and state pro-vide 60 percent of the PPL budget but have no oversight over how that money is spent.

“There has been an unwill-ingness … to accept some small measure of public oversight of how these dollars are spent,” he said.

Segal, a co-sponsor with Apon-te of the ordinance, said the bill has not yet been presented to the PPL Board of Directors because their March 30 meeting was postponed, but he said it will be soon.

The Council also unanimous-ly passed a resolution requesting that Brown have 25 percent of its energy use come from renewable energy sources by 2010 as well as an easement to the University al-lowing it to repair its high-tem-perature hot water system un-

der Hope, Cushing, Thayer and Meeting streets.

But a resolution sponsored by Segal encouraging the Uni-versity “to maintain an inde-pendently-owned and operat-ed bookstore” ran into trouble, as some council members said a bookstore operated by a for-profit firm may generate tax rev-enue for the city.

“Brown’s not paying a dollar” in taxes on the bookstore because the University is a non-profit in-stitution, said Ward 7 City Coun-cilman John Igliozzi. If outsourc-ing the bookstore’s operation to a for-profit firm makes it eligible for the city to tax, he added, “let’s do it.”

“Independent to the people means they don’t pay any taxes,” he continued. “For me as a tax-payer, it means Browns gets a free ride again.”

The resolution was eventu-ally referred to the Committee on Rules for further study af-ter a procedural complaint was cleared up.

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one of which was forwarded to The Herald, Michener’s appre-ciation for the opportunity to travel abroad came across in her descriptions of the natural beauty and uniqueness of the country.

Michener’s scientific curios-ity translated into a consistent-ly impressive classroom perfor-mance, Wharton wrote.

“Alison was a very bright and talented young woman who al-ways had a smile on her face,” Wharton wrote. “She was in-quisitive and asked excellent questions in class. I’ll never for-get how poised she was when she made an oral presentation for class.”

Michener demonstrated the same intelligence and diligent work ethic when pursuing oth-er academic disciplines as well. Associate Professor of English Jim Egan, who taught Michen-er this semester, said he was “blown away” by the “extraordi-nary” independent project she was working on.

Egan said he “got to know her to some extent beyond the classroom” through conversa-tions before class. She possessed a “great warmth and generosity. … She was just such a nice per-son.” He also noted her “very genuine” nature towards ev-eryone she met and her “great sense of humor.”

But, above all, Michener was enamored of science and the possibilities it held for im-proving lives. A student leader in Women in Science and En-gineering, she was researching bacteria in the coastal waters of

Rhode Island for her senior the-sis, developing new culture and genetic analysis techniques in the process. She hoped her re-search would lead to a greater understanding of bacteria pop-ulations and their relationships in marine waters.

Hughes remembered Mi-chener as “extremely bright and very hardworking (although she) also had a really easygoing atti-tude.” Michener was dedicated to her work in the lab and “put in way more hours than she ever needed to,” Hughes said, adding that her co-workers in the lab always enjoyed her company.

Beyond purely academic pursuits, Michener also com-bined her love for science with a strong sense of civic respon-sibility. Michener participat-ed in the Providence Science Outreach Program through the Swearer Center for Pub-lic Service, conducting weekly hands-on science experiments with Providence fifth-graders. Her friend Linnea Sanderson ’06 said Michener was always “very giving and loved the kids” she worked with in the program. She “loved sharing things she was excited about — one of them was science,” Sanderson said.

Sanderson met Michener dur-ing their first year at Brown, when they went on a geology camping trip together, and she offered only fond memories of her friend. “I never remember her saying any-thing negative,” she said. Michen-er cared deeply about her friends, Sanderson continued, recalling her habit of inquiring about their lives with genuine interest when-ever she saw them. Sanderson re-ferred to Michener as “one of the most giving people” she ever en-countered at Brown.

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EDITORIAL/LETTERSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2006 · PAGE 10

A diamond to this year being a “good year in Singapore” for Brown admissions, as well as Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 for successfully dodging the dreaded North Dakota bullet.

Coal to Tristan Freeman ’07 for his “Mission Accomplished” moment during Wednesday night’s UCS meeting, when he de-clared “the plus/minus debate is dead.” We have a feeling that when plus and minus are embroiled in a violent civil war three years down the line, he’ll be singing a different tune.

A cubic zirconium to Wilfredo Peréz Jr. ’08, who became inspired to start a philanthropic nonprofit organization after listening to Notorious B.I.G.’s hit single “Juicy.” Though com-mendable, we wonder why our favorite mid-1990s rap never inspires us to better the lives of others.

A cubic zirconium to the University’s efforts to bring “our ticket distribution into the 21st century for big events,” as praised by Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations. Though we’re all for the end of night-long campouts on the Main Green, perhaps there could be a more convincing face of progress than the three little old ladies distributing tickets in Sayles Hall.

A diamond to the women’s rugby team for spending its spring break tearing down cultural barriers in Uganda. Any ef-fort to dispel the notion that American women — hailing “from the land of the Kahuna-burger and the chocolate milkshake” — are somehow unhealthy is OK by us.

XXXX to Governors State University administrators’ efforts to censor the school’s student newspaper.

A sympathetic diamond to President Ruth Simmons, who lamented that she rarely gets to drive herself on personal er-rands or “go to a drugstore and shop.” We’ll be sure to give you a ring the next time we run out of Diet Cokes and corn nuts in the office.

And lastly, a diamond to the long-awaited opening of neighboring bar Spats, because those Viva-related sirens weren’t quite close enough. And another diamond to the drunken revelers who stormed our office to mark the occa-sion — we would’ve never figured out who was causing that ruckus across the street without your help.

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An article in yesterday’s Herald incorrectly identified Cass Sapir ’01 as a producer of documentaries for the Discovery Channel. He has been associate producer on programs for PBS’s “NOVA” series.

OPINIONS THE BROWN DAILY HERALD · FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2006 · PAGE 11

DEAR SEN. CLINTON,

The undersigned have requested that when you visit our community, you meet with local members of Military Families Speak Out and Dr. Sureya Sayadi, a mem-ber of Code Pink’s Iraqi Woman’s Delega-tion. You have not responded. We must now demand that you meet with them, as you owe them the opportunity to share with you their continued suffering caused by the current occupation of Iraq, which

you and our other congressional leaders are choosing to continue.

As we can see below, your record as a Democratic congressional member epit-omizes the Democratic Party’s capitula-tion to the Bush administration’s agenda around this war and occupation. Your re-cord also reveals that you have failed to represent, much less lead, the bipartisan majority who favor a plan for troop with-drawal beginning now (this according to a poll by WorldPublicOpinion.org taken in early March; the same poll showed that a larger bipartisan majority — 71 percent — rejects the construction of permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq). Some particu-larly disheartening aspects of your voting record include:

Oct. ’02 — passed House Joint Resolution 114, to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.April ’03 — authorized $473.4 billion dollars to the Department of Defense and only $7.3 billion for “Iraq relief and reconstruction.”June ’04 — authorized $510.3 billion to the Department of Defense and only $7.0 billion for “Iraq relief and reconstruction.” Feb. ’05 — stated that United States should not set a deadline for troop withdrawal.

July ’05 — called for increasing the size of the army by 80,000 soldiers.Nov. ’05 — issued a statement in which you admit that voting to authorize the war was a mistake, but also called Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.’s proposal for the immediate withdrawal of troops “a big mistake” and insisted on continuing the U.S. occupation of Iraq indefinitely.Feb. ’06 — authorized $70 billion in tax cuts for fiscal year 2007.

We implore you to begin to heed the antiwar majority by leading the Demo-crats — not through do-nothing criticism and contradictory, legislative complacen-cy, but by advancing a distinctly Demo-cratic alternative for the American military

and for Iraq: bring U.S. troops home. (The March 16 Zogby poll found 72 percent of American troops on the ground in Iraq favor troop withdrawal by the end of this year, with approximately one in four in fa-vor of immediate withdrawal.) Your recent ‘no’ vote to the latest Bush budget for the 2007 fiscal year is a good start. But it is not enough.

Members of our local community, please join us for a teach-in and rally at 5:30 p.m. outside of Meehan Auditori-um to continue expressing our demands and to hear from local members of Mili-tary Families Speak, Sureya Sayadi of the Code Pink Iraqi Women’s Delegation, Brown faculty and students and several other community leaders. It is a small step, but also a crucial time to show your support.

SIGNED, Tony Affigne, Professor of Political Science and Black Studies, Chair of the Department of Political Science, Providence College Susan Allen, Associate Professor of Community Health and SociologyAmerican Friends Service CommitteeCaroline Boswell, graduate student, HistoryMari-Jo Buhle, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor; Professor of American Civilization and HistoryPaul Buhle, Senior Lecturer in American CivilizationLundy Braun, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana StudiesBrown Environmental Action NetworkMelissa Burling, graduate student, HistoryElliott Colla, Assistant Professor of Comparative LiteratureChase Cryn Johannsen, graduate student, History Michael Delucia, Chair of Brown’s Queer Political Action CommitteeAlden Eagle and Nick Shmader on behalf of the Community Coalition for Peace

Cynthia Garcia-Coll, Professor of EducationMatt Garcia, Associate Professor of American Civilization and HistoryAbbott Gleason, Keeney Professor of History, EmeritusGreens for Impact PACMatthew Gutmann, Associate Professor of AnthropologyPaget Henry, Professor of Sociology and Africana StudiesWarren Heyman, Secretary-Treasurer of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union Local 217 Joseph Hogan, Associate Professor of BiostatisticsStan Israel, Head of RI Service Employees International UnionShaun Joseph, International Socialist Organization and graduate student, University of Rhode IslandWilliam Keach, Professor of EnglishArlene Keizer, Associate Professor of American Civilization and EnglishDaniel Kim, Associate Professor of EnglishEric Larson, graduate student, American CivilizationCatherine Lutz, Professor of Anthropology and International RelationsMilitary Families Speak Out - R.I. (Jacque Amoureux and Stephany Kern)Ani Mukherji, American CivilizationMarie Myung-Ok Lee, Visiting Lecturer, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in AmericaOperation Iraqi Freedom, Brown’s antiwar group (Richard Ahl ’09, Dan Bass, Colin Chazen ’09, Vale Cofer-Shabica ’09, Kristin Jordan ’09, Will Lambek ’09, Amy Littlefield ’09, Kelly Nichols ’09, Will Pasley ’07, Chelsea Sharon ’06, Elizabeth Sperber ’06, and Aden Van Noppen ’09) Oxfam (Stella Klemperer ’06, Hope Turner ’08, Heather Vail ’07)Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies; Veteran, United States Army, 1966-1968Roxana Rivera, Director of RI Justice for Janitors, SEIU Local 615. David Segal, Ward 1 City CouncilmanDerek Seidman, graduate student, History Robert Self, Assistant Professor of HistoryNaoko Shibusawa, Assistant Professor of HistoryStacie Taranto, graduate student, History Vazira Zamindar, Assistant Professor of History

An open letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton

¡Ya Basta!

As Clinton visits the University, members of the Brown community demand leadership on Iraq

Puerto Rican Cultural Week reminds us that Puerto Ricans are denied voting rights

BY MICHAEL RAMOS-LYNCHOPINIONS COLUMNIST

The people of Puerto Rico have been victims of colonization and under-rep-resentation since 1493. In its pre-Co-lumbian years, Puerto Rico, then called Borikén, was inhabited by Taínos, indig-enous Amerindian inhabitants, relatives of the Arawakan people. Once it was col-onized by the Spanish, the Taínos were subjected to slavery and died in large numbers. Borikén was dubbed “Puerto Rico,” which means “Rich Port” in Span-ish. Ever since Borikén became Puerto Rico, it has been consistently abused by imperialistic governments.

Last Monday, the Supreme Court de-nied certiorari to attorney Gregorio Igar-tua, who hoped to open U.S. presidential elections to voters in Puerto Rico. Igar-tua said, “For 107 years and 22 presiden-tial elections since Puerto Rico became part of the United States, the American citizens of Puerto Rico have been un-fairly treated.” The U.S. government seems to disagrees with Igartua, as the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals argued in its decision, “The United States must amend the Constitution, or Puerto Rico must become a state before its residents can vote for president.” Solicitor Gener-al Paul Clement argued during the hear-ings, “The appeals court decision is am-ply supported by constitutional text, un-broken tradition and uniform precedent.

No territory has ever participated in any of the 54 presidential elections con-ducted over more than two centuries of American history.”

Despite Clement’s implication, fun-damental differences between territo-ries and states are superficial. The only real difference between living in Puerto Rico and living in the states is that citi-zens of territories are not required to pay income taxes, unlike American citizens who live in the fifty states. Such a min-ute difference does not justify depriving Puerto Rico of a voice, especially when Puerto Rico would prove a significant voice in the American political process. According to Igartua, “Puerto Rico has unique standing, because it is the only U.S. territory that has a population large enough to qualify for Electoral College votes; each state gets one electoral vote for every 500,000 residents. If allowed to vote, Puerto Rico would have eight elec-toral votes, enough to sway a close elec-tion.” U.S. citizens from the 50 states can cast absentee ballots from foreign coun-tries, yet cannot vote if they move to Puerto Rico.

It is obvious that the United States is concerned with the material benefits that stem from “owning” Puerto Rico, at the expense of the rights and happiness of Puerto Rican citizens. Congress made Puerto Ricans official U.S. citizens under the Jones Act of 1917. Similar to the many U.S. state-dwellers, the U.S. citizens of

Puerto Rico are subject to military drafts. Many are voluntarily fighting overseas in Iraq, but they are denied full rights of cit-izenship. Puerto Rico has sent a greater percentage of their men to fight and die for the United States than any state. Puer-to Ricans should have a voice in electing the person who sends them to war.

The higher courts of the United States defend their position on Puerto Rico with legalistic jargon, but their ultimate conclusions are inconsistent with core American values. The American govern-ment continues to promote democratic ideals around the world, but somehow fails to allow some of its own citizens the right to vote. Obviously, it is a com-

plicated legal process to grant Puerto Ri-cans suffrage, but it is obvious based on local sentiment that Puerto Ricans want and deserve such a right. We should ei-ther amend the Constitution (we gave the District of Columbia representation with the 23rd Amendment), or we should consider changing Puerto Rico’s status as

a territory. As a country that supposedly values freedom and equality, we are ob-ligated to give Puerto Rican U.S. citizens the right to vote.

Michael Ramos-Lynch ’09 thinks that Igar-tua should roundhouse kick imperialistic governments in the face.

Clinton’s record epitomizes the

Democratic Party’s capitulation to

the Bush administration’s agenda

around the Iraq war and

occupation.

Puerto Rico has sent a greater

percentage of its men to fight and

die for the United States than any

state. Puerto Ricans should have a

voice in electing the person who

sends them to war.

SPORTS WEEKENDTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD · APRIL 7, 2006 · PAGE 12

Watch out ‘cause it’s time for Richard Ross and Thomas Moore, they’re gonna go ahead and tell you all the score, ‘bout whether double B should be cheered or ab-horred, is he gonna rock the NL West to the core, or is his career done just like Pauley Shore? So check out their expert knowledge and their witty rapport. (The “t” is silent.)

Ross: Errrbody in the Ratty gettin’ tipsy. Barry spiked the punch with HGH. Tru story. April is upon us! Lo, the grass is cut, the Fenway Franks are rotating on the spits and my beloved Base-ball Tonight is now marked by the beautiful nasal intonations of Tino Martinez. But there is no joy in Mudville, not with Barry Bonds

On Wednesday night, Brown hosted a forum featuring two distinguished men’s basketball

coaches: the U n i v e r s i t y of Washing-ton’s Loren-zo Romar and Georgia Tech’s Paul Hewitt. The event was held to honor the two men for being the most recent

selections for the Black Coaches Association’s Male Coach of the Year award. The BCA’s award is named for black pioneer Fritz Pollard ’19, who was induct-ed into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this past summer.

The event was definitely a suc-cess. Both men were informa-tive, interesting and entertaining. It was a pleasure to hear them speak about the challenges and

rewards of coaching at major Di-vision I schools. In addition, the current state of college basket-ball and the disturbing lack of mi-nority coaches in college football and basketball were addressed. During the question-and-answer session, the audience did a com-mendable job of coming up with thoughtful inquiries.

If Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger can ensure this event becomes an annual occurrence featuring the most recent recipi-ent, it will be a boon to Brown ath-letics and the community in gen-eral. Listening to some of college athletics’ top minds discuss these topics is good for campus and will help carry on Pollard’s legacy.

To me, the most interesting topic the two coaches addressed was their opinion on whether or not athletes should be paid to play in college. This is one of the most heated debates in collegiate

BY JILANE RODGERSASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Shortstop Mary Seid ’06 is off to a fast start this season. In the Uni-versity of Maryland, Baltimore County Spring Classic over spring

break, the softball team’s leadoff hit-ter went 11-for-17 (.647) in leading Brown to the tour-

nament title. In the semifinal, she hit her first collegiate home run. The senior, who is concentrat-ing in geology and physics, was named to the all-tournament team and earned tournament co-MVP and Ivy League Player of the Week for her performance. En-tering Thursday’s double-header, Seid was on a 15-game hitting streak.

Herald: How do you keep your-self focused, especially when go-ing on a spring break trip with the team?

Seid: To stay focused, we stay relaxed. And, number one, it’s all about visualization. After the game we do what we call game reports, where we have to eval-uate the other team and our-selves. We identify the strengths and weaknesses of both.

Is it hard to rate yourself?I find I put myself in the sev-

en to 10 range a lot. I know that I work hard not to fall below

that, so I usually don’t find that it’s hard to be objective with my own play. The questions that are hard for me actually are about the whole game and the entire other team. Sometimes I just get in a zone where I’m so focused on what (my team) is doing that it’s hard to take in everything else.

Is there anything specific you do before games to get in that zone?

Rituals help some people through, and they helped me up to this point. But, right now, I am at the point where I can just get out there and play. It’s good be-

BY JUSTIN GOLDMANASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

After 26 games away from Provi-dence, the softball team finally returned home yesterday to host Central Connecticut State Univer-sity in a double-header. Despite a late inning rally, the Blue Devils downed the Bears 8-7 in the first game. Bruno bounced back nice-ly in the second contest though, shutting out Central Conn. 5-0 in five innings. Brown now stands at 10-18 on the season.

“It’s good to be back here,” said Bears Assistant Coach Laura Leonetti. “I think the team feels very comfortable on this field. These games also serve us well because most of our Ivy League games are at home.”

In game one, the Blue Devils got off to a quick 3-0 lead after they loaded the bases with two outs and Melissa Pelletier hit a grounder that shortstop Mary Seid ’06 could not handle, leading to two runs. The next batter, Alison Rossi, hit a clean single up the middle to drive in another run. Pitcher Kristen Schindler ’09 then caused Tra-cy Guerrera to fly out to left to end the inning.

Undaunted, Brown struck back in the bottom of the first and second innings to take a 4-3 lead.

In the bottom of the first, tri-captain Jaimie Wirkowski

’06 singled up the middle and right fielder Kelsey Wilson ’09 doubled over the centerfielder’s head to drive Wirkowski in. In the bottom of the second, designated hitter Linnea Anderson ’09 started an-other rally with a double to right-centerfield. Two batters later, centerfielder Kari Best ’08 hit a single to left that brought in Ander-son. Wirkowski made her presence felt again when she hit a screaming line drive into the left-center-field gap to bring home both Best and Kaitlyn Laabs ’09.

That, however, would be Bruno’s last lead of the game. Central Conn. tied the contest in the third and took the lead for good in the sixth when Pam Shifrin hit a grand slam off Heather Garrison ’09 to give the Blue Devils an 8-4 lead. Gar-rison entered the game in the sixth inning to relieve Schindler, who went five innings giving up four unearned runs and striking out three.

Brown made a seventh in-ning rally, but came up short by one run. Garrison took the loss and Seid suffered an 0-for-4 day at the plate which snapped her 16-game hitting streak.

“I was not as relaxed in the

first game as I had been in oth-ers,” Seid said.

Brown was again the aggres-sor early on in the second game, putting five runs on the board in the second inning, and send-ing 10 batters to the plate. First baseman Ava Amini ’09 started the rally with a double down the right field line. Anderson, who had walked in front of Amini, ad-vanced to third on the hit. After Best reached first on a dropped

BY STEELE WESTSPORTS STAFF WRITER

After another grueling winter training schedule, the men’s crew team will finally get its chance to shine on the biggest dual race of the season Satur-day against Harvard.

The U.S. Collegiate Row-ing Poll, which was released Wednesday, has Brown ranked seventh nationally. More im-portantly, however, the Bears are fourth in the Eastern Asso-ciation of Rowing Colleges be-hind Ivy Rivals No. 1 Princeton and No. 3 Harvard. The rank-ing places great expectations on the team, with the very real possibility of a top-three finish at the Eastern Sprints in May. This reflects the impressive work of the team and coaching staff in maintaining the pro-gram’s lofty status despite the unfortunately high number of injuries and departures during

the 2005 season.The varsity program will be

led by Ben Harrison ’07 and Dave Coughlin ’07 and features a strong supporting cast that in-cludes Steve Van Knotsenberg ’06, an oarsman who spent last summer training with the Ca-nadian national team. The team also welcomes back for the fi-nal time Pat Yu ’06 as coxswain, whose ability to focus the team over the past three seasons has been invaluable.

While acknowledging the prowess of some of last year’s seniors, including Terence Kooyker ’05 and Arden Beddos ’05, co-captain Harrison is ex-cited about the future of Brown rowing.

“We graduated some key contributors last year but we are now standing on the prec-ipice of what may be the best season for a Brown crew team in recent memory,” he said. “The challenge before us is

huge, but with mature execu-tion and continued faith in ourselves and our coaches we can achieve our goals.”

Evan Panich ’07 expressed strong admiration for the squad’s work ethic this year.

“I feel like we’ve trimmed the fat a bit from last year’s squad, and we’ve got 30 guys who are absolutely raring to go,” he said.

What is perhaps most excit-ing for supporters of the pro-gram is the induction of last year’s accomplished freshman squad into the varsity program. Colin Keogh ’08, Garrett Kirk ’08, and Jamie Marcus ’08 have added a strong dimension to the varsity program, bringing the strong discipline instilled under the guidance of fresh-man coach Luke McGee.

Coughlin is also pleased with the team’s work ethic to

ROSS AND TOM TRUDEAUTRU STORY

Ashley Hess / Herald

Jaime Wirkowski ’06 knocked in two runs in Brown’s 5-0 win over Central Connecti-cut yesterday.

Softball opens home season with split vs. Central Conn.

BCA event big success; m. hoops coach Miller gone?

Ashley Hess / Herald

Mary Seid ’06 leads the Bears with a .407 batting average.

M. crew kicks off promising season at home with tough Harvard squad

SS Mary Seid ’06: hitter, chef, swiper of sweatpants

STEPHEN COLELLIBROWN SUGAR

THURSDAY, APRIL 6

SOFTBALL: Central Conn. 8, Brown 7; Brown 5, Central Conn. 0

FRIDAY, APRIL 7

No. 70 M. TENNIS: at PrincetonW. TENNIS: vs. Princeton, 2 p.m., Pizzitola Center

SATURDAY, APRIL 8

BASEBALL: vs. Princeton (DH), 12 p.m., Aldrich Dexter FieldM. CREW: vs. Harvard, 5 p.m.W. CREW: vs. Rutgers EQUESTRIAN: at Zone Championships (Greenfield, Mass.)M. GOLF: at Yale Spring Invitational

GYMNASTICS: at NCAA Regionals (Ann Arbor, Mich.)M. LACROSSE: at YaleW. LACROSSE: at ColumbiaSOFTBALL: at Penn (DH)No. 70 M. TENNIS: at PennW. TENNIS: vs. Penn, 12 p.m., Pizzitola CenterM. & W. TRACK: at ConnecticutW. WATER POLO: vs. Harvard, 12:30 p.m.; vs. Hartwick, 7:30 p.m., Smith Swim Center

SUNDAY, APRIL 9

BASEBALL: vs. Cornell (DH), 12 p.m., Aldrich Dexter FieldM. GOLF: at Yale Spring InvitationalSOFTBALL: at Princeton (DH)W. WATER POLO: vs. Michigan, 12:00 p.m., Smith Swim Center

BROWN SPORTS SCOREBOARD Bonds is a good guy, except when he’s not

see TRUDEAU, page 8

see M. CREW, page 8see COLELLI, page 8

see AOTW, page 7

see SOFTBALL, page 5

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