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Upstaged by newfitness centers,Bear’s Lair couldsee furtherrenovations innext few yearsBY ERIC BECKEven with the introduction of two newsatellite fitness centers and the intentionof constructing a new $20 million fitnessfacility, administrators indicate that theyare still committed to maintaining theBear’s Lair and making it available to stu-dents.

The Bear’s Lair, located in theGraduate Center, has an expandedschedule that went into effect Mondayafter months of erratic and limited hours.

The Bear’s Lair will be open between 7a.m. and midnight Monday throughThursday, between noon and 9 p.m. onFriday and Saturday and between noonand midnight on Sunday.

The University’s three other fitnesscenters — at the Olney-MargoliesAthletic Center, Keeney Quad and EmeryHall — all have slightly different hours.

The varied opening and closing timesof the four facilities are designed toensure that at least one is open at almostany time a student wants to work out,said David Greene, vice president forcampus life and student services.

The expanded schedule is the result ofan assessment of student demand for thefitness facilities, Greene said.

After the opening of the satellite fit-ness facilities in Keeney and Emery, “wedid not know what the demand would beand what the effect would be on theBear’s Lair by having a new fitness centerwith newer equipment a block away,”Greene said.

“We thought for sure that the mostheavily used facilities would be the twonew ones and that they would detract

BY STU WOOPoker fever is sweeping the nation, andthe bug has hit students at Brown, whohave set up regular games in the LowerBlue Room and dorm lounges aroundcampus. But as popular as poker is —ESPN and Bravo both air shows featur-ing the game — students playing thegame on campus might not know oneimportant thing: playing poker formoney is illegal in Rhode Island.

Terry Addison, associate dean forjudicial affairs, said it is illegal to playpoker for money on campus and urgedall students to stop gambling.

“Whether it’s betting money or bet-ting clothes ... as long as there is a prizein the context of the game, then it’s aform of gambling, and any gamblingnot licensed by the state is prohibited,”he told The Herald in an interview. “Iwould strongly recommend the cessa-tion of poker games for money or anyarticle of value,” he added later via e-mail.

Addison said that this law is not lim-ited to public places, but also applies toprivate property.

“If you and three of your buddieswere sitting in your basement off cam-pus playing poker, it wouldn’t be legal,”he said.

Chapter 11-19 of the Rhode IslandGeneral Laws covers state gamblingand lottery laws. It states that any typeof gambling, except for state-approvedlotteries, is prohibited.

Anybody who participates in a game“for the purpose of exposing, setting forsale or disposing of any money, houses,lands, merchandise, or articles of value... shall be deemed guilty of a felonyand shall be imprisoned not exceedingtwo years or be fined not exceeding twothousand dollars,” RIGL 11-19-1 states.

Addison said he wasn’t sure how theUniversity would punish students whodid not comply with the law, but hesaid DPS officers would probably try tostop the illicit activities.

“If a DPS officer saw what he consid-ered gambling, I would assume theywould say, ‘That’s an illegal activity, youhave to break that up,’” he said.

Despite the illegality of gambling,Addison said that Brown administra-tors do recognize the recent surge inthe popularity of poker and are lookingat modifying University policy to possi-bly allow for poker playing.

Students who have played poker formoney in the past were surprised tohear that the law existed and are nowthinking twice about playing for moneyin the future.

“We have games in the Lower BlueRoom and we always have people walk-ing by and no one really has an issuewith it,” said Scott Goldberg ’05. “SomeDPS officers on duty may have walkedby when we were playing, and they did-n’t seem to have any problems with it.”Goldberg added that he will probably

On-campus poker games play with the law

CNN correspondentheadlines Southeast AsianWeek convocation tonightBY ANNA ABRAMSONWhen Lynsey Le ’06 visited Brown as aprospective student, she attended a stu-dent multicultural show and remem-bers thinking, “This is what I want todo.”

Three years later, Le is followingthrough on that impulse — along withJennella Sambour ’07, she is serving asco-coordinator of Southeast AsianWeek, a series of events celebrating

Southeast Asian culture that startstoday and will run through Nov. 21.

Organizers of the week aim to raiseconsciousness of the Southeast Asianstudent population on campus as wellas global issues concerning SoutheastAsians. The various discussions andshows will “represent the underrepre-sented,” Sambour said. The week is also

NPR’s Liasson ’77says presidentialelection camedown to ‘values’BY CHRISTOPHER CHONNational Public Radio political correspon-dent Mara Liasson ’77 is still digesting theresults of what she described as the longest,most expensive, nastiest and most impor-tant election of our time.

Liasson, whose reports can be heard onNPR’s “All Things Considered” and“Morning Edition,” as well as on Fox NewsChannel’s “Special Report with Brit Hume”and PBS’ “Washington Week,” gave whatwas billed as a “Washington insider’s view”on the presidential election Thursday after-noon in Salomon 101.

“It will have enormous consequences forboth parties, for the future composition ofthe Supreme Court, and perhaps — wedon’t know yet, but perhaps — it is thebeginning of what Karl Rove had called the‘rolling realignment of this country’through perhaps permanent or long-stand-ing Republican majority,” she said.

According to Liasson, Bush and theRepublicans succeeded in keeping thefocus of the election on terrorism, nationalsecurity and “moral values,” while Kerry’sdownfall was his inability to shift the focusto jobs, the economy and health care. Exitpolls showed that “moral values” was themost important factor in determining howvoters made their decisions. Behind moralvalues were jobs, the economy and Iraq.

Moral values “meant gay marriage, abor-tion, maybe a general cultural affinity forGeorge Bush over John Kerry,” she said.“The simplest way to explain this is that(Kerry) was a New England senator with aleft-of-center voting record on defense and

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see POKER, page 8 see LIASSON, page 6

Poet-in-residenceshares work, whichcontemplates the roleand responsibilitiesof being a poetarts & culture, page 3

Sock & Buskin’smesmerizing,compelling “FuckingA” draws full houseon opening night arts & culture, page 3

Production Workshop’s“The Great Show”features clever scriptand story, gooddirectionarts & culture, page 3

Tamilla Mamedova ’07writes of the fear thatnon-Americans haveof a second Bushadministrationcolumn, page 11

Swimming and divingteams prepare forcoming seasons afterlosing key members tograduationsports, page 12

Juliette Wallack / HeraldTaking advantage of newly extended hours at the Bear’s Lair, Scott Wolin ’07 joined a friend to play pool shortly before midnight Thursday.Two new satellite fitness centers opened this fall, and administrators hope to renovate and expand the Bear’s Lair in coming years.

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Hopeless Edwin Chang

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Coreacracy Eddie Ahn

Hope Street Barron Youngsmith

Raw Prawn Kea Johnston

T O D A Y ’ S E V E N T SSOUTHEAST ASIAN WEEK CON-VOCATION LECTURE 6 p.m.(List Art 120) —Betty Nguyen, CNN correspondent,will speak about her experiencesboth as a Vietnamese-Americanand as a news correspondent.

THEATER:“THE GREAT WORK”8-10 p.m. (Production Workshop, 7Young Orchard Avenue ) —Brown’s student-run theater pres-ents this new comedy by MollyLambert ‘05, directed by Brian Faas‘05.

CONCERT: THE GRAHAM COLTONBAND8 p.m. (Sayles Hall) —The Brown Concert Agency pres-ents the Graham Colton Band live inconcert.

THEATER:“FUCKING A”8 p.m. (Production Workshop 7,Young Orchard Ave.) —The latest Sock & Buskin produc-tion, a drama by Pulitzer Prize-win-ning playright Suzan-Lori Parks.

BY JOEL ROZENWritten by Suzan-Lori Parks and directedby Associate Professor of Theatre, Speechand Dance Rebecca Schneider, “FuckingA” debuted last night in Leeds Theatre.With a run extending through Nov. 21,the production achieves a rare feat — in asingle evening, it manages to mesmerizenearly everyone in the audience with adevastating, shatteringly creative pro-duction.

Just a year after Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “Topdog/Underdog” finished itsrun, “Fucking A” was first presented in2003 at New York’s Public Theater anddisplays the potential of a playwright atthe height of her powers.

Drawing on the literary models of herNew England predecessors, Parks findsfor her latest play inspiration in “TheScarlet Letter.” Unlike Hawthorne’s alien-ated adulteress Hester Prynne, however,this contemporary Hester — played here

to sympathetic, earthy effect by CelineJustice ’05 — wears her “A” for a differentreason.

A former scrubwoman, Hester Smithhas agreed to take on the unenviable roleof abortionist in her nameless, fictionaltown and is now subject to the scorn andderision of her neighbors. Hiding underthe “A” that has been branded onto herskin, she fully inhabits her thankless jobto earn the money needed to free her sonfrom prison. Though the audience isnever treated to a glimpse of the abor-tionist in action — there is only so muchgore it can take in this very bloody tale,after all — Hester’s devotion to her causeis signified by the bloodstains pollutingher uniform.

Presiding over this decidedly pro-lifecommunity, the buffoonish, belligerentMayor (James Lowe ’05) happens to havemarried “The Bitch” (Katherine Meister’06), who, years ago, caused the impris-

onment of Hester’s son. Meanwhile, back at the abortion clin-

ic, Hester counts on the moral support ofher friends Canary (Shannon Ware ’04.5),the mayor’s mistress whose main ambi-tion is to replace his sterile wife, and theresident butcher (Michael Smith ’05),who, in his equally sanguine attire, seemsa perfect visual match for an abortionist.

As if the situation didn’t already seemfar-out enough, Parks has laced her emo-tional script with several creative flour-ishes to enhance her play’s offbeat,quirky surrealism — and, perhaps, to ele-vate the allegorical implications ofHester’s predicament.

As a playwright, Parks has made aname for herself as a sort of verbalalchemist, capable of turning metaphys-ical language and her arch sense of sym-bolism into theatrical gold.“Topdog/Underdog” was hailed for thebrilliant, musical pyrotechnics of its dia-logue, and with “Fucking A,” Parks hastaken this musical inclination even fur-ther, and with great results.

Backed by a five-piece jazz band, thecharacters frequently burst into singspielbanter. The tradition of sing-speakingcan trace its roots back to pre-warcabarets in Berlin, when Bertolt Brechtand Weill were transcribing complexphilosophies to the stage, and Parks hasclearly learned from their legacy. Eventhe song titles, “I Am a Whore” and “TheWorking Woman’s Song,” soundBrechtian in the best sense — the actorsare able to surmount their vocal incon-sistencies with dramatic renderings ofthe songs’ witty lyrics. The first night’saudience reacted positively to suchmelodic interruptions, listening andlaughing, spellbound but in on the joke.

Further complicating the story, Parkshas effectively created a new languagefor her script, bits of which can be heardwhenever the women want to hide themeaning of their speech. Incorporated toreflect the women’s foreign estrangementfrom their society, and perhaps to implythe taboo nature of certain “women’sissues” (the words “abortion” and “peri-od” are almost never uttered in English inthe show), the gibberish lines are deliv-ered convincingly by Justice and Ware,and with the necessary irony. To rescuethose unfamiliar with the new lexicon,literal English translations are projectedabove the characters’ heads.

The ensuing Greek tragedy of the sec-ond act is amply and intelligently sup-ported by the actors’ sensitive perform-ances. Justice and Ware are inspired intheir roles, the former turning in a trulyriveting and psychologically complexperformance as the branded abortionist.As the mayor, Lowe is clever and quitefunny, though in some ways he fails tocapture the subtle villainy driving hischaracter’s jokiness.

The breakout performance, however,truly belongs to Biko Eisen-Martin GS,whose muscular frame and complexmood shifts render his interpretation ofHester’s criminal son, Monster, one ofthe evening’s most arresting and memo-rable. In the end, though, “Fucking A” isan ensemble piece, and the cast — withits prison inmates, hunters, and civilians— is one of the strongest in recent mem-ory for a mainstage show.

The mantra Hester keeps repeating toherself while washing a day’s work ofblood off her hands, “We just gotta getthrough the day,” may be Parks’ tragicsummation of the plight of the workingwoman, but by the final scene of thisgripping, gorgeous production, the audi-ence will find itself wishing it had nevergotten through.

BY MADELEINE MARECKIPoets are not mostly profligates — orfools, according to poet Joan Retallack,who read the phrase from her work inprogress entitled “Reinvention ofTruth.” “Then what the hell are they?”she wondered.

On Tuesday night, an audience inthe McCormack Family Theater heardsuch thought-provoking phrases inter-spersed with vivid visual images.Resident poet Retallack sharedexcerpts from three of her projects withabout 30 students, faculty and commu-nity members.

Each reading revolved around theidea of who a poet really is and whatimportance poetry has in the world.Despite having published seven booksof poetry and two of criticism, as wellas winning the America Award for herpiece “MUSICAGE,” Retallack’s uncer-tainty over the mission of the poet isconveyed powerfully in her words.

Retallack opened her presentationwith snippets from “Memnoir.” Shewrote the highly acclaimed book inresponse to the theme “Memoir/Anti-memoir” presented in one issue ofChain Magazine, according to the poet.She admitted her uneasiness with bothideas of memoir and anti-memoir, andattempted to deal with the two con-cepts in her writing. The result was“Memnoir,” which she called “a negoti-ation, not a compromise” of those con-flicting issues.

The text of “Memnoir” is floodedwith questions concerned with how apoet can accurately portray and inter-pret the world. At one point, Retallackasks whether life can be expressed in astory, and then muses that perhaps asong might be better. She questionswhether verbal depiction is even possi-ble, lamenting, “Can a sunrise bedescribed by yards of description?”

Retallack follows these doubts withstunning descriptions that both stunand convince the reader that perhapsthe world can be captured in words.The numerous questions in“Memnoir”are interspersed with “e.g.”and “i.e.,” followed by even morenumerous, vivid visual images.

One section of the poem beautifullydepicts a playground scene. The mostminute details expand into full-colormental portraits within the listener:from a child eating a Mars candy bar to

a pants leg caught in the spokes of abicycle to the child’s father who putstoo much ham in omelettes.

The next reading came fromRetallack’s current work in progress,entitled “Reinvention of Truth,” a year-long project that will end in earlySeptember 2005. Retallack chose pow-erful sections that forced the reader toponder profound questions centeredon truth and its representation, specif-ically through writing and words.

Retallack spoke of “acknowledgingthe gap between realities and represen-tation,” and suggested that the solutionto coping with these confusing con-cepts is through poetry.

When introducing her last reading,Retallack dryly said, “This is the closestto improvisation I will ever come,” elic-iting laughter from audience members.

In this project, Retallack wrote poet-ry on 26 sheets of paper, each labeledwith a letter from the alphabet. Sheread the first line of every page, creat-ing a chaotic sensory experience. Atfirst the constant stream of words wasboth confusing to hear and difficult tomake sense out of. This was the intend-ed effect. Yet, as Retallack continuedreading, the lines from the differentpages began to connect with oneanother.

One line in particular sums up theexperience that is Retallack’s poetry.

“Sorting through one inclinationafter another,” Retallack read. Thosewords reflected exactly what she wasperforming in the piece.

The reading provided those in atten-dance a chance to listen to Retallack’scomplex and stunning work as read byits author. The barrage of profound,wide-reaching questions made thepoetry overwhelming at times. In thesetup of the reading, there was notmuch time to ponder the meaning ofthe lines before hearing the next.However, the event was deeply movingand provoked much thought, particu-larly regarding how poetry can capturelife.

Retallack left the audience ponder-ing more than the importance of poet-ry. She also proposed that poetry canbe directly used by all — poets andnon-poets alike. As she said in readingfrom “Reinvention of Truth,” “Yourmind — you can be the proud owner ofthis formidable machine.”

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ARTS & CULTURETHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

BY JEN SOPCHOCKCHAIProduction Workshop’s “The GreatWork” is impressive — both as a the-atrical production and as a student-written play.

An original play by Molly Lambert’05, “The Great Work” follows the livesof five quirky and troubled youths whospend endless hours together in a poolhouse without adult supervision.Gracie, whose parents have abandonedher for Hawaii, struggles with grief overher aunt’s death. Morris’s parents planto ship him off to Utah in a week afterhe’s arrested for underage drinking.Olive thinks she may be pregnant.Tranq tries to battle clinical depressionby taking up alchemy as a hobby. AndQueenie’s just along for the ride.

Lambert excels at the in-joke banterthat bounces between her characters,but that’s not to say “The Great Work” iswithout its profound undertones. Inher writing, Lambert strikes a perfectlyhumorous chord — without the off-beat brand of humor infused into everyscene, this show would play very muchlike a melodramatic after-school spe-cial.

At first the play presents itself as arealistic day in the life of troubledteens, striking a tone not unlike the film“Garden State.” But Tranq’s poolsidealchemical quest to unlock the uni-verse becomes an eccentrically appro-priate metaphor and supernaturalexperience for all the characters, andthis gives the story an unusual twist.

Lizzie Vieh ’07 as Gracie handles arange of performances well. She issnide and sarcastic one moment buthysterical and on the verge of tears thenext, and it’s all believable. And MaxSilvestri ’05 as Morris is simply hilari-ous.

Both the two actors and the twocharacters they play have a lot of chem-istry together — the audience instantlygets the sense that there’s a lot of per-sonal history behind their interactions.This is made apparent at the start of theplay, but unfortunately, Lambert doesnot cash in on this potential in any sat-isfying way.

Lighting designer ElisabethReinkordt ’05 produces possibly thebest lighting that has been cast uponPW’s stage. Spotlights combine with amisty haze to create the authentic yetslightly surreal atmosphere the playcalls for. And set designer SpencerCollins ’05 actually constructs a poolout of linoleum tiles.

Director Brian Faas ’05 sets a richand vibrant scene, always giving hisactors interesting movements andblocking. The actors fall in frame verywell, almost cinematically — to thepoint of making one wonder just howinfluenced by “Garden State” this showreally is.

Herald staff writer Jen Sopchockchaiedits the Arts & Culture section. She canbe reached at herald@browndailyher-ald.com.

Resident poet Joan Retallackponders the nature of poetry

“The GreatWork” doesmore thandisplaytroubledteens

‘Fucking A’ mesmerizes audience with creative production

some use from the Bear’s Lair,”he added.

Fitness center monitors wereasked to track usage statistics togive administrators an under-standing of how many studentswere using the various facilities,said Julie Richardson ’07, a stu-dent worker at the fitness cen-ters.

“The reality is that thedemand for good fitness equip-ment and good fitness centers ishigh enough that we are notgoing to meet it with the satel-lite fitness centers,” Greenesaid. “It was pretty clear that thedemand was high enough thatwe ought to be committing theresources to having the centersopen more hours.”

The cost of staffing is thebiggest constraint on fitnesscenter schedules, Greene said.He added that he arranged for$25,000 to cover the increasedstaffing for the rest of this aca-demic year.

Greene said he hopes that theUniversity ResourcesCommittee will allocate funds tocover the expanded hours of thefitness centers. But if it doesn’t,he added, he is committed tofinding the money another way.

“We are going to have to findit one way or another, because ifwe are going to have these cen-ters we are going to have to keepthem open,” he said.

While frequent users of theBear’s Lair applaud the newhours, many students areunhappy with the condition ofthe fitness equipment.

Finding a treadmill to use is

especially difficult becausesome have been broken,Richardson said, though shesaid the University recentlyrepaired two treadmills.

She added that she oftenhears complaints about brokenequipment when she works as amonitor at the facility.

The equipment at the Bear’sLair is older than that at the newsatellite centers, but the admin-istration will monitor the equip-ment and repair it as needed,said Matthew Tsimikas, assis-tant director of athletics andphysical education.

Fitness equipment has a lifes-pan of only three years becauseof its heavy use, Greene said. Headded that the University is con-sidering leasing equipmentinstead of purchasing newmachines to ensure that they arereplaced more consistently.

The University will also beadding more accessory equip-ment such as stretching mats,Tsimikas said.

Greene envisions improvingthe Bear’s Lair by doing morethan just replacing outdatedexercise equipment.

“I think the downside of theway we have the Bear’s Lair laidout now is that there is limitedspace for social areas and studyareas,” Greene said.

Improving common areas isespecially important in GradCenter, he said, because itssuites tend to be more isolatedthan other dorms on campus.

Greene’s long-term plan,which he hopes to implement inthe next few years, aims to sepa-rate the fitness component ofthe Bear’s Lair and add spacethat can be used for studyingand socializing, he said.

The biggest change to fitness

facilities at Brown will comewith the new Jonathan M.Nelson Fitness Center. AtConvocation in September,President Ruth Simmonsannounced three donationsworth a total of $20 million tofund the project, and theCorporation approved the siteand authorized the search for anarchitect at its October meeting.

Greene said he expects thenew center to be an “absolutelyfirst-rate fitness facility.”

While most current studentswill not be at Brown to enjoy thenew center when it opens inseveral years, they can takeadvantage of expanded hoursand refreshed equipment at thecurrent facilities.

Anne Troup ’07 is just gladthat she will not have to sneakinto the Bear’s Lair after hours towork out anymore. The newhours fit her schedule just fine,she said.

Herald staff writer Eric Beck ’08can be reached atherald@browndailyherald.com.

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FALLUJAH, Iraq (Los Angeles Times) — The mosque hadbeen taken, but the fire kept coming.

“We’ve got chunks of territory, but these guys(insurgents) are all over the place,” Marine Lt.Brandon Turner said Thursday as he stood amid shat-tered glass and concrete under the green dome of AlKalfa mosque, his fellow Marines resting on a plushred carpet.

“They just keep coming at us.” There is no real pattern to the fighting in Fallujah

— a fierce, chaotic battle that continued to rageThursday, house to house, street to street. But if thereis any accepted truth so far it is this: The insurgentsare not going away easily.

And that truth has a corollary: The Marines aredoing all they can to draw the guerrillas out and killthem.

“The enemy is right where we want him. He’s com-ing to us,” said Lt. Col. Gareth Brandl, commander ofthe 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, which hasexperienced perhaps the toughest fight of all theunits penetrating thecity. “And we’re killing him.”

Many of the 3,000 to 5,000 insurgents estimated tohave been in Fallujah before the invasion are believedto have fled the Sunni Muslim city west of Baghdad.But those who have remained are tenacious, eventhough Marines say they have killed hundreds ofthem.

Guerrilla snipers crouch in buildings and amid therubble. Small squads of insurgents rush Marine posi-tions. Dozens of rocket-propelled grenades havestruck tanks and other military vehicles. A pickuptruck with six guerrillas carrying rocket-propelled

France blamed in Ivorian unrestABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (The Washington Post) — Ivory CoastPresident Laurent Gbagbo Thursday challenged Frenchaccounts of an Ivorian air bombing that killed nineFrench troops and a U.S. aid worker Saturday. He accusedFrance of using the incident as a “pretext” to launch adrastic counter-attack in order to weaken his grip onpower.

In an interview with the Washington Post, Gbagboquestioned whether any French troops had died in thebombing, saying that only an investigation by his govern-ment would clarify the events that led to a massive retali-ation by French military forces.

“I haven’t see any dead bodies,” said Gbagbo, dressedin a dark suit and tie as he sat in the library of his officialresidence. “I didn’t see anything.”

The streets of Abidjan were calmer Thursday, with littleof the looting and street mob scenes that had reignedsince Saturday. But another 700 French citizens left thecommercial capital on the second day of an airlift to Paris,while hundreds of Gbagbo’s supporters still controlledsections of the battle-scarred city.

Gbagbo called the Saturday attack a “pretext” for retal-iation by former colonial rulers intent on undermininghim. He said the French military response was so swiftthat it must have been planned long in advance of theincident.

He also said that without the French intervention,which destroyed the tiny Ivory Coast air force, his govern-ment would have been able to defeat a revolt in the norththat has split the country for the past two years.

The president’s comments were immediately disputedby French authorities here. The French militaryspokesman, Col. Henry Assauvy, said, “It’s absolutelyfalse. I know that the rumor is always that France is alwayspreparing a coup. ... We are not here to prepare a coup.”

Assauvy added that the French became involved mili-tarily last weekend only because the Ivory Coast air force

attacked a position held by French peacekeeper forces.The counterattack destroyed two fighter jets and somehelicopters.

“We attacked the warplanes because we wereattacked,” Assauvy said.

Gbagbo’s comments appeared to be part of a publicrelations push by Ivory Coast officials to portray them-selves as victims in the complex standoff that has pro-voked nearly a week of violent unrest in this West Africancapital.

As calm returned to the streets, the French militaryrelinquished control the international airport and com-mercial flights were set to resume Friday. French troopsalso pulled back from the Hotel d’Ivoire, where their high-ly visible position had stirred protest because of its prox-imity to the home of the president.

But signs of the recent unrest were visible throughoutthe city. Overturned hulls of burned-out cars and truckslay by roadsides, and coils of hastily laid barbed wiresnaked along routes leading to the French military base.Hundreds of supporters of Gbagbo, dubbed “YoungPatriots,” used makeshift barricades such as tree limbs toblock passage to sections of the city where they roamedfreely.

A total of 1,500 French nationals have now flown toParis since the outbreak of violence, and nearly the samenumber early remained camped out at the French mili-tary base awaiting flights.

Until last week, an estimated 15,000 French citizenslived in Ivory Coast, most of them in Abidjan, a city ofwide, tree-lined boulevards that once prompted compar-isons to Paris. Since then, the city has deteriorated with aswiftness that startled many longtime residents.

Lavender Degre, 37, a Zambian who runs a nonprofitgroup here, said mobs looted her son’s school this week.

see GBAGBO, page 9

Resistance to U.S.offensive continues

see RESISTANCE, page 7

social issues, and that was a bighurdle for him to overcome.”

Karl Rove, Bush’s senior advisorand chief political strategist, cen-tered the Republican strategy on“not necessarily reaching out toswing voters, but finding conser-vative voters,” Liasson said. Rove“set out to find the missing fourmillion evangelical voters that hebelieved stayed home in 2000,”she said.

Religious voters have tended toside with the more conservativeRepublican party in the recentpast, but turnout for Bush was

particularly high in this electionbecause of support for gay mar-riage bans, which passed in all 11states with the issue on the ballot.

“Seventy percent of the vote ofregular churchgoers of whateverreligion” voted for Bush, Liassonsaid. “Church attendance is nowbecoming the best indicator ofpartisan preference in America —if you go once a week or more, youare probably a Republican; if yougo once a week or less, you areprobably more secular, and you’rea Democrat.”

Liasson said gay marriagebecame an issue of moral valuesfor conservative and even manymoderate voters. “I really wonderwhat would’ve happened withoutthe Massachusetts state court rul-

ing, without the images on TV ofgay couples getting married in SanFrancisco,” she said.

Whereas in 1992, Pat Buchananbecame “kind of the symbol of aRepublican party gone too far,”Liasson said in this election,Michael Moore and San Franciscomayor Gavin Newsome becamesymbols of a Democratic partygone too far, which turned awaymany moderate voters.

Liasson said Kerry made sever-al mistakes during his campaign,particularly “giving up” early onthe South, a voting bloc whichLiasson called a “red Americafortress.”

“Kerry conceded from the start200 electoral votes,” she said. “Hetried to become the first

Democrat in history to win theWhite House without a singlestate from the Old Confederacyminus Florida. Too much of thecountry was simply off-limits forKerry.”

Liasson also said Kerry lacked a“clear, consistent message” fromthe start and did not respondquickly enough to the Swift BoatVeterans for Truth ad campaign,which attempted to discreditKerry’s conduct as a soldier in theVietnam War.

“I think that the DemocraticNational Convention in Bostonaccomplished only one thing; thatone thing was to tell Americansthat John Kerry had been aVietnam veteran and thereforecould be a commander in chief,”

she said. “But they didn’t doenough other things — they didn’tlay out big ideas, he didn’t run as areform Democrat. That’s all thatBoston communicated, and thatopened him up for the assault thatcame right after that in August,which was the Swift Boat Veteransfor Truth ad campaign. Kerry did-n’t respond fast enough.”

On the other hand, Liassoncalled the Republican campaign a“disciplined, on-messagemachine” which was run like acorporation: “they had a game-plan early on, they never doubtedit, they knew exactly what theywere going to do.” The RepublicanParty understood that in order forBush to win, he had to run like anaggressive challenger and not anincumbent, she said.

“It’s been said often that he ranthe most negative race by anincumbent, and that’s probablytrue,” she said. “And I think theBush campaign decided that wasthe only way he could win.”

This loss for the Democrats is“even more devastating” than theloss in 2000 because theDemocrats “didn’t lose so much asthey got beat,” Liasson said.

“They did turn out their voters,they did meet their targets, theDemocrats were more unified andaggressive and better funded thanever before, but they still couldn’tmake it over the finish line,” shesaid. “And now there’s obviouslygoing to be a lot of soul-searchingand a lot of thinking about thefuture.”

Liasson said the Democrats“have to find a way to talk aboutvalues and morality in a way thatframes debate, instead of justreacting to it. Kerry tried to do it,but I think it’s more than just say-ing ‘family values is valuing fami-lies.’”

The Democrats in 2008 willprobably look for a “red-state gov-ernor who can re-frame the val-ues debate, who can bridge thecultural divide,” she said. Andthough there are many optionssuch as New Mexico Gov. BillRichardson or Virginia Gov. MarkWarner, Liasson said one thingwas certain: “In 2008, no NewEngland senator need apply.”

During the question-and-answer forum, Liasson saidIllinois senator-elect BarackObama is the “true rising star ofthe Democratic party.” She calledhim a skillful and talented politi-cian who transcends race, butsaid he must first serve his time inthe Senate before there can betalk of a possible presidential run.

When asked by a student whyHoward Dean’s scream in Iowahad such a negative impact onthe former presidential candi-date, Liasson said that it was amoment when Dean “just didn’tseem presidential to people.”However, she did not attributeDean’s undoing to his scream, butrather to his losses in Iowa andNew Hampshire.

The focus of Liasson’s preparedlecture, however, was the generalelection.

“In the end, I think Kerry wassimply unable to make the econo-my and jobs and health care thefocus for change, and in the lastweeks, big chunks of low-incomevoters chose to vote their valuesinstead of their economic con-cerns,” Liasson said. “I sat withvoters in Florida who were down-scale, voters that didn’t havehealth insurance, gas prices werecrippling with them, but they real-ly just wanted to talk about schoolprayer and how Kerry was going todo away with it.”

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Newsday) —Palestinian politicians Thursdaytried to fill the void left by thedeath of Yasser Arafat, the father ofa nationalist movement who puthis cause on the world map butwilled his successors a weary,stateless people.

As funeral arrangements fellinto place here and in Egypt, aslate of officials was installed tocontrol the various appendages ofPalestinian authority, all formerlysteered by one of the Middle East’smost enigmatic and influential fig-ures.

Arafat’s titles — president,chairman, faction chief — werepromptly divvied up among hisold guard, with the mantle of lead-ership falling heavily onMahmoud Abbas, a former primeminister who clashed with hisguerrilla comrade and is consid-ered more palatable by Israel andthe United States.

“It will be difficult for thePalestinians to face this criticalmoment,” said Ahmed Ghneim, asenior leader in Arafat’s Fatahmovement. “It will be very difficultfor one person to fill all the posi-tions of Arafat.”

World leaders Thursday calledfor renewed peace talks and bothPalestinians and Israelis recog-nized the potential for chaos or asurprising breakthrough in a con-flict that has claimed over 3,400Palestinian and nearly 1,000 Israelilives since 2000.

“Peace in the Middle East mustbe the international community’shighest priority,” said BritishPrime Minister Tony Blair, who ismeeting with President George W.Bush today in Washington and is

expected to encourage him toengage in fresh negotiations.

Under intense security, Arafatwill be memorialized in Cairotoday, the first state funeral theresince President Anwar Sadat’s cer-emony in 1981. The internationalevent is being held in Egypt soArab leaders will not have to travelto the burial later Friday inRamallah, which is controlled by

Israel. For the past 48 hours, crews

have been clearing Arafat’s rubble-strewn compound in preparationfor their leader’s return, two weeksafter he was airlifted out for thefirst time in nearly three years. Amonument, mosque and helipadwere emerging from the debris last

grenade launchers was spottednear one mosque.

Several snipers on rooftopshalted the advance of a platoonof Marines heading out on footWednesday to attack insurgentsin a mosque where they report-edly had been firing on U.S.troops.

“They seem to be communi-cating with each other,” said 1stSgt. Jose Andrade of CharlieCompany, 1st Battalion, 8thMarine Regiment, as hecrouched on a main street, tak-ing cover. “It makes it harder toget at them.”

Marines on the streets areconstant targets. Troops accus-tomed to getting around on footare being transported about intracked amphibious vehicleswhenever possible. But streetpatrols inevitably must be doneon foot, with no lapse of concen-tration.

“The enemy just pops out ofanywhere and fire off roundsand RPGs,” said Cpl. Adam

Golden. “We’re just looking to gethim when he pops out.”

Marines have advancedthrough more than half ofFallujah. But no one herebelieved Thursday that the citywas close to being under control.

“We’ve still got to imposesecurity,” said Lt. Col. MichaelRamos, commander of the 1stBattalion of the 3rd MarineRegiment.

U.S. forces are doing all theycan to force the guerrillas intothe open.

Army psychological opera-tions teams have been broad-casting Arabic-language tapesexcoriating fighters in the mostexplicit terms.

“Liars and cowards, you arenothing but dogs!” goes the textof one tape, the dog referenceespecially insulting in the Arabworld. “You have no honor! Youhide behind women and chil-dren!”

The idea is not to offend ordi-nary Iraqis, said Army Spc. JoseRincon, who is heading one ofthe psychological operationsteams. “We just want to get theterrorists angry enough tofight.”

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a celebration of diverse culturesnot always visible on campus,both student planners said.

The convocation, which willbe held at 6 p.m. in List Art Center120, features CNN correspondentBetty Nguyen, who has coveredmajor news stories, including thewar in Iraq and the Sept. 11attacks, and is also the co-founder of the non-profit organi-zation Help the Hungry. Her lec-ture is titled “Breaking News:Southeast Asians in theHeadlines.”

Le said she is excited about theopportunity to welcome aSoutheast Asian who is active inthe media because manySoutheast Asian leaders are notvisible in the public sphere.

“We want to bring those fig-ures to the public eye and sayhey, look, we’re finally out here,”she said.

Nguyen’s speech will offerinsight into “what it’s like to be areporter, a woman and aSoutheast Asian,” Sambour said.

Other events include a lecturegiven by Councilman Rithy Uongof Lowell, Mass., at 6 p.m.Monday in Wilson 102. His dis-cussion will address issues suchas access to education, politicalactivism and youth gang vio-lence.

On Wednesday at 5 p.m. inSalomon 001, the SoutheastAsian Series will host a panel dis-cussion on AIDS featuringAdjunct Associate Professor ofAnthropology Patricia Symonds,Assistant Professor of PediatricsDavid Pugatch and Makna Men

GS. Symonds will discuss sextrafficking while Pugatch andMen will share their reflectionson several trips to Cambodia.Sambour emphasized the impor-tance of this type of discussion,saying that AIDS is “an explodingproblem that will only get biggerif we don’t do something.”

The series’ last event, to beheld Nov. 21 in Salomon 101, isthe annual Southeast AsianCultural Show. The show, whichwill feature guest musician AnhThao Le and student perform-ances, offers students the oppor-tunity to “speak and share theirculture,” Sambour said.

The coordinators said theseevents allow Southeast Asians toexhibit their own unique cultureswithout being simply clumpedtogether with all Asians. Still,Sambour said, “within the(Southeast Asian) culture, somany countries and customs arerepresented, which is whatmakes this so interesting.”

The series has been in theworks for a while, coordinatorssaid, and it will mostly focus onSoutheast Asians in the media.Le said while she was initially“hesitant” about contactingpotential speakers, she soonlearned “it’s all about network-ing.”

The project is also the result ofcollaboration between manygroups, Le said. She is the co-chair of the Vietnamese StudentsAssociation, one of the partici-pating organizations. The ThirdWorld Center provided supportfor the entire week, and fundingand support also came fromUniversity departments, individ-uals, the academic deans and theStudent Activities Office, shesaid.

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‘Saving Private Ryan’:A new casualty of theindecency warWASHINGTON (The WashingtonPost) — ABC suits scrambledWednesday to try to contain themutiny among stations thatrefuse to air Thursday night’sbroadcast of the unedited“Saving Private Ryan,” citingindecency concerns.

At press time, ABC stationsowned by Cox Television,Citadel Communications, BeloCorp., Hearst-Argyle and E.W.Scripps, among others, haddeclined to air the 1998Academy Award-winningmovie. They say they’re afraidthe film’s scenes of extreme vio-lence and intense adult lan-guage will lead to sanctions bythe Federal CommunicationsCommission under its new,supersize anti-indecency stan-dards. Among those pre-empt-ing the World War II movie arestations in Dallas (the country’sseventh largest television mar-ket), Atlanta (No. 9), Tampa (No.13), Phoenix (No. 15) andOrlando (No. 20).

Ironically, most of themalready aired “Saving PrivateRyan” when ABC ran it, unedit-ed, to commemorate VeteransDay in 2001 and 2002. Ofcourse, those broadcasts pre-dated the national debut ofJanet Jackson’s breast at theSuper Bowl, for which CBS-owned TV stations will beslapped with a $550,000 inde-cency fine even though CBSinsists it had no prior knowl-edge of the now infamous

“wardrobe malfunction.” ABC has told its affiliate sta-

tions it would cover any fine theFCC might choose to imposeover the movie broadcast.However, should the FCC fine astation, that could be usedagainst it when its licensecomes up for renewal.

“The FederalCommunications Commissionhas changed its standards forcertain content related to pro-gramming broadcast before 10p.m.,” Ray Cole, president ofCitadel Communications, saidin a news release. Citadel’s ABCaffiliates in Des Moines andSioux City, Iowa, and Lincoln,Neb., are pre-empting themovie.

Cole told The TV Columnthat Citadel attempted to get anadvance waiver from the FCCbut the commission refused,saying that stations need to“exercise their own good-faithjudgment.” The FCC declinedto comment on any aspect ofthis story.

“Without an advance waiverfrom the FCC ... we’re not goingto present the movie in primetime,” Cole said. “Under strictinterpretation of the indecencyrules we do not see any waypossible to air this movie. To beput in this position is unfortu-nate, and reflects the timiditythat exists at the commissionright now.”

see RYAN, page 9

Palestinians move to fill Arafat’s roles

see PALESTINE, page 9

offense as a whole these past twoweeks more than usual, and notjust six-on-fives. Going into atournament like Easterns, theteam has undergone “a review ofall aspects of the game,” Gallsaid.

Despite stiff competitionacross the board — Easterns iscomprised of the eight bestteams on the East Coast — theteam is expecting to advancebeyond the first round. Lastyear’s team failed to makeEasterns after a disappointingloss to Iona at Northerns thatwas symbolic of the entire 2003season; two years ago, Brownqualified for and hostedEasterns, finishing in sixth place.

Had the team not qualified forEasterns this year, it would havebeen a major letdown, but if theteam does not win the tourna-

ment, few will call the season afailure.

“Basically, I’m looking for usjust to be able to compete andbuild on the things that we’vebeen working on this season,”Gall said. “I’m definitely lookingto win a couple games, and eventhough winning versus Navywould be an upset, we are notgoing into the game expecting tolose.”

Last year, and to some extentthis year, the team has not beenable to come up with many winsagainst its toughest opponents— for instance, Brown has notbeaten a top 20 opponent this

season. But the team seems tohave left that thought at home.

“They feel like they haven’tplayed their best yet this year asa team,” Gall said. “The guyshave been working hard and Ithink that they feel this is thetime where it’s going to pay off.”

“We haven’t had a ‘great’ winall season in my eyes,” Samsonsaid. “We are definitely thirstyfor that one season-changingwin against a great opponent.”

Herald assistant sports editorEric Perlmutter ’06 covers men’swater polo. He can be reached atherald@browndailyherald.com.

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Wang said he likes theresponsibility of being a cap-tain — a title he also held lastyear — and helping the newfaces get involved in the mix.He also said that he feels theteam will be anchored by a itsupperclassmen.

“We’re still building fromtwo years ago, and it’s gettingto the point where we haveconfidence,” Wang said.

While Brown and his swim-mers share an optimism andexcitement for the approach-ing season, they are also real-istic about the challenge thatfaces them tomorrow.Spearheaded by John Cole,who took last year off in orderto train for the 2004 OlympicTrials, Harvard, as usual, is theearly favorite to win the IvyLeague. The Crimson alsohave the firepower to competeon a national level.

“Not many can hang withhim,” Sharpin said of Cole,who he swam against in highschool.

But there seems to be con-sensus among the Bears thatan early challenge like this willbe a valuable learning experi-ence that will help them figureout where they stand.

“Harvard has a strong team,and it’s a way to gauge howstrong we are,” Hedberg said.

It is also an opportunity forthe Bears to see where theymight need to make adjust-ments in different events tooptimize their talent.

“We’ll see where we canshuffle to have the best line-up,” Sharpin said.

Harvard is a tough start tothe season, but will be a wel-come one, because there is yetanother thing that Brown andhis players agree on: it’s timeto get started.

“We’ve been training sinceOct. 1, and it’s time to seewhere we’re at,” Sharpin said.

At noon Saturday in theSmith Swim Center, they willfind out.

Herald staff writer CharlieVallely ’06 covers swimmingand diving. He can be reachedat herald@browndailyher-ald.com.

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32-member team: seven fresh-men and 15 sophomores. Withthe majority of the large teampossessing only a small amountof Ivy League swimming experi-ence, the early part of the seasoncould be trying but Brown saidhe feels the team is up to thatchallenge.

“We graduated strong seniorclasses on both our men’s andwomen’s teams, so this year’sedition of Brown swimming anddiving is quite different — butthat is what makes collegecoaching so interesting andchallenging,” he noted.

Aside from Chuck and Roach,Jessica Brown ’05 is the onlyother senior on the team. Sincepractices officially began Oct. 1,the seniors have been doingtheir best to set an example forthe younger members of thesquad to follow. The team hastypically been working out sixdays a week, half the time goingtwice a day. Early morning work-outs on Saturdays may bedemanding for many athleticteams, but it comes with the ter-ritory with the swimming anddiving group.

“You like to develop someconfidence, so you need to pre-pare for the competition,”Brown said.

The Bears will find out ifthey’ve prepared enough Nov.19, when they take on Harvardfor the first meet of the season.

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“She is the anchor to thedefense. She really stands outwhen you watch us play.”

Vincent scored most of her sixgoals on corners and alsoearned three assists. Her power-ful hit made her an asset offen-sively, but the majority of herwork was in the backfield, whereshe made five defensive saves.

“I feel very honored,” Vincentsaid. “There are a lot of reallygood players on that (All-Ivy)team, and I feel honored to be intheir company.”

Townsend is a three-yearstarter and has played every-where from back to forward, but

this season she stayed towardthe front of the field. She wasBrown’s second-leading scorerwith three goals and an assist.Townsend was also key on cor-ners and took about half of thehits in the second half of theseason. She not only puts theball in the net but is a strongforce on the field, controllingaction for the team up anddown the field. Townsend andVincent share the talent ofmanipulating the flow of thegame that is vital to a successfulteam.

Boris has played the midfieldfor three years but stepped upthis year by scoring three goals.She is another three-yearstarter, but scored her firstcareer goal this season.

“Lindsay Boris has a tremen-

dous work ethic in games,”Norris said. “She just neverstops, and I think people recog-nize that.”

Most of the coaches judgeplayers on other teams not onlyin how they played against theirteam, but also by observingother games and watching filmthroughout the season.Sometimes coaches feel thatplayers are overlooked, but thisyear Norris was very pleased.She said having standout play-ers is good for the team as awhole.

“It is an individual award, butit reflects the team,” Norris said.

Herald staff writer KathyBabcock ’05 covers field hockey.She can be reached atherald@browndailyherald.com.

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not play poker for money onthe Brown campus or in publicplaces in the future.

Jon Hasebe ’05, who plays inthe Minden Hall lounge, wasalso surprised to hear of thelaw and didn’t fully understandit.

“If you play in a friend’shouse, I really don’t see thedanger in it,” he said. “It’s a funthing to do with your friends.”

He said he understood whysuch a law might be in place,but said gambling is a relative-ly minor problem compared tomisdeeds such as underagedrinking.

“Obviously, (gambling) issomething (you) could getaddicted to,” Hasebe said. “ButI guess it’s better than under-age drinking. If you can comeout and gamble $10 or $20,

then it’s better than gettingreally, really drunk.”

Both Hasebe and Goldbergencouraged the University tochange its policy to allow forpoker playing.

“I think that poker is becom-ing more mainstream and theUniversity should look at itspolicies and possibly updatethem,” Hasebe said.

“You hear of people playingpoker games in home all thetime, and I assumed it waslegal,” Goldberg said.

“I think the policy should beamended. If money is beingexchanged between playersand each player understandsthat they’re going into thegame, taking a risk, and they’renot giving a kickback to thehouse, they should be allowedto play.”

Herald staff writer Stu Woo ’08can be reached ath e r a l d @ b r o w n d a i l y -herald.com.

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The family spent Thursdaymorning in line, waiting to jointhe exodus to Paris.

“My husband is white, andwe’re scared,” she said. “We’vebeen here for 10

years, and this is the firsttime we’re really scared.”

Gbagbo, in the interview,

expressed little concern oversuch departures. “They willcome back,” he said, wagginghis finger in the air. “You mustcome back in three months.They will be there.”

He displayed more worryabout the world’s perception ofthe events of the past week. Ashe explained it, a longtime warwith anti-government rebelswas nearing its end after thegovernment suddenly broke apeace deal Friday and resumed

attacks on rebel positions. Gbagbo said the French mili-

tary intervention had preventedhis forces from finishing the job.The embattled leader, who tookoffice in 2000 after an abortedvote count in national elections,has long maintained that theFrench support the rebellion.

“The government of (FrenchPresident) Jacques Chirac neveraccepted that I have reachedthe position of president,” hesaid.

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In his news release, Cole said,“The inconsistent manner inwhich the FCC is choosing toapply these rules puts TV sta-tions like ours in a most difficultposition. As this relates to ‘SavingPrivate Ryan,’ our concern cen-ters on whether the FCC wouldconsider the context in which theintense adult language andgraphic battleground violence ispresented in the movie.”

According to Cox’s Atlanta sta-tion general manager, GregStone, the company asked ABCfor permission to edit the film orair it outside prime time but wasturned down. According to newsreports, ABC’s broadcast rightspreclude any editing. Cox’s ABCaffiliates in Orlando, Atlanta andCharlotte will not air the movie.

On Atlanta’s WSB-TV Web site,Stone cited the FCC’s March rul-ing that it was both indecent andprofane when NBC broadcastlive Bono exclaiming, “This isreally, really (expletive) brilliant!”as he picked up his trophy at the2003 Golden Globe Awards. Thatsame word comes up often in themovie. The Bono ruling“reversed years of prior policythat the context of language mat-ters,” Stone said.

“The F word is getting zero tol-erance,” Bill Hoffman, generalmanager of Cox’s WFTV, told theOrlando Sentinel Wednesday.“Interest groups are watchingstations and vigilantly policingthem with respect to indecency.”

Belo is pulling the broadcastfrom all four of its ABC stations,in Dallas, Austin, Louisville andHampton-Norfolk. Belo stationsran the movie in 2001 and ‘02,

but “sensitivity to these kind ofmatters has changed over the lastfew years,” Belo Vice PresidentCarey Hendrickson explained toThe TV Column.

“Community tastes are notconstant and change over time.Every time something like thiscomes up, you have to evaluateand re-evaluate; we felt this wasappropriate for this time.”

ABC executives declined todiscuss the matter with The TVColumn. In a statement, the net-work said it was proud to be pre-senting the movie, noting itwould contain 11 advisories,including one at every ad break.

The network has shot anintroduction to Thursday night’sbroadcast, delivered by Sen. JohnMcCain, a Vietnam War veteranand prisoner of war, and HaroldBaumgarten, the WWII veteranwhose story of being a 19-year-old private landing on the beachat Normandy inspired StevenSpielberg to make this movie.

And, in one of those politics-m a k e s - s t r a n g e - b e d f e l l ow smoments, ABC even recruitedParents Television Council pitbull Brent Bozell to put out astatement giving a big thumbs-up to the broadcast.

Bozell is the guy wholaunched the successful cam-paign to get the FCC to declareBono’s Golden Globe commentindecent. He’s also credited withinitiating the letter-writing cam-paign about the Super Bowl inci-dent that so impressed FCCChairman Michael Powell. “Notelevision event has everreceived as many complaintsfrom the American public—over540,000—as the Super BowlXXXVIII halftime show producedby CBS,” Powell marveled in hisstatement accompanying theFCC’s announcement it would

slap CBS stations with thatrecord-setting fine.

“Context is everything,” Bozellsays in the statement. “Weagreed with the FCC on its rulingthat the airing of ‘Schindler’s List’on television was not indecentand we feel that ‘Saving PrivateRyan’ is in the same category. Inboth films, the content is notmeant to shock, nor is it gratu-itous. We applaud ABC for lettingviewers know ahead of timeabout the graphic nature of thefilm and that the film would beuncut.

“We will not be filing an inde-cency complaint with the FCCover the airing of this film,”Bozell added reassuringly.

But Parents Television Councildidn’t attack ABC stations thefirst time they aired “SavingPrivate Ryan.” The AmericanFamily Association, aka the Rev.Donald Wildmon’s conservativewatchdog group, did.

These days the AFA is focusingon trying to get advertisers topromise not to buy time in ABC’snew hit series “DesperateHousewives” because it featuresa housewife who’s having anaffair with her high-school-agegardener and female neighborsdiscussing their relationshipswith their husbands over coffee.But back in 2001, the AFA wentafter ABC over “Saving PrivateRyan,” filing a complaint withthe FCC in hopes it would slapthe stations with an indecencyfine. In its complaint, the AFAnoted the movie’s “violence,bloodshed, language and pro-fanity,” according to a letter ofresponse from the FCC, a copy ofwhich was obtained by The TVColumn.

The FCC denied the AFA’scomplaint. But that was pre-Janet.

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night, in time for the thousands ofPalestinians that are expected toconverge on the city Friday andthroughout the weekend.

Fearing violence, Israel is on itshighest alert status, enforcingstrict closures on the Palestinianterritories and inside Jerusalem,where Friday prayers have oftenturned into rough clashes.

Palestinian authorities too arerushing extra police intoRamallah, to try to

maintain control for a world-wide audience.

Throughout the day, Palestinianofficials stressed their swift andorderly succession. Within hoursof the announcement of Arafat’sdeath, Abbas was elected chair-man of the Palestine LiberationOrganization. He will likely also bea top candidate for president ofthe Palestinian Authority whenelections are held for that post.

In the coming weeks, he’ll workclosely with Prime Minister

Ahmed Qureia, another powerfulArafat deputy, and with the little-known speaker of the parliament,Rauhi Fattouh, who was sworn inas interim president until elec-tions.

“You have just seen how we canuse democracy,” said HassanKreisheh, after he replacedFattouh as the new parliamentspeaker.

Still, the Palestinian constitu-tion is a document in progress —something the Israelis are urgingto be completed before elections.And none of the new leaders car-ries Arafat’s street credibility. Manyyoung Palestinians said Thursdaythey wanted a president whoembodies the fight, rather than thebureaucracy. One of the namesoften mentioned is West BankFatah leader Marwan Barghouti,who is serving multiple life sen-tences in an Israeli jail. Another isFarouk Kaddumi, Arafat’s replace-ment as overall chief of Fatah andan opponent of the Oslo peaceprocess, who is based in Tunisia.

“We are looking for a personlike Arafat to be a tough leader,”said Mohamad Mutair, 26, at the

Kalandia refugee camp outsideRamallah.

There are also potential chal-lenges from militant Islamicgroups such as Hamas, which hascarried out the bulk of the suicidebombings and is popular in theexceptionally restive Gaza Strip.

Israel too has not assured theflexibility that the new regime mayneed to comply with a law thatrequires elections within 60 days.Towns and villages are sealed offby the army and Palestinian offi-cials are calling for internationalelection monitors.

“This is a test for the Israelis,”said Ziad Abu Amr, a Palestiniancabinet member, “to see if they areserious about allowing thePalestinians to continue theirdemocratic life.”

Prime Minister Ariel SharonThursday said there is hope fornew cooperation. But the hard-line leader is insisting on his uni-lateral pullout of Gaza and said“that as long as there are no realsteps to fight terrorism and dis-mantle its infrastructures, therewill be no change in Israel’s poli-cy.”

Palestinecontinued from page 7

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A diamond to Brown’s new and improved “bolder and riskier”approach to its finances. It seems only natural that spendingmore money on things we don’t need would allow us to spendeven more on things we do need. Quick — channel all ourtuition toward moonwalks! On the Main Green! For insideroutsider art!

Coal to Mario Desouza ’05, who broke the standards ofcommunity behavior by leaving his suite door unlocked whilehe took a nap — and got cited for it. You’re an Ivy League stu-dent, Mario. You should know better than to doze off acciden-tally while reading “A Short History of Financial Euphoria.”

A diamond to the triumphant return of Uncrustables toJosiah’s. The next chapter in the 5,000-year history of thepeanut butter and jelly sandwich has finally been written.

A cubic zirconium to mail fraud. It’s definitely illegal, butit’s good to know we’ve got someone watching out for us.

A diamond to trust. But coal to Kenneth Dulgarian forabusing it by lulling his tenants, including Chez Lenore, into afalse sense of security, depriving them of leases and thenevicting them summarily.

Coal to “Ethicist” Randy Cohen for making living the ethicallife sound so darn simple during his lecture. Now we have noexcuse. But a diamond to the short guy for providing the firstlaugh of the night. What a mensch.

A diamond to annoying ringtones for interrupting “ModernGenocide.” But coal to crimes against humanity — we’resending our Nokias to Darfur.

Coal to RISD SOLAR for dashing our dreams. We thought a“solar house” would be something far hotter than the shackyou’re building on the bank of the Providence River.

A diamond to awkward hugs. They’re the perfect way toend any job interview.

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To the Editor:

Marie Hopkins could not be more correctregarding transfer and RUE aid (“RUEing the aid sit-uation,” Nov. 11). I gave up $7,500 a year in aca-demic scholarships when I transferred to Brown.Like all transfers who arrived beginning in the fall of2003, I receive no financial aid from the University.

RUEs receive a shoestring financial aid budget.Transfers used to, as well. On top of all of the otherhumiliations bestowed upon transfer students,whether it is housing inequity or almost no finan-cial aid, Brown, under the leadership of PresidentRuth Simmons, has eliminated all financial aid fortransfer students. It is hypocritical to the extremefor Brown to publicly declare that financial aid isimproving, because while need-blind aid forincoming first-years has been implemented, finan-cial aid for transfer students has been eliminatedentirely.

Transfers are fed up at being ignored, sidelined

and brushed aside. The University should put someof its high-minded rhetoric into action, for achange, and actually strive for some financial aidequality among its students. To do any less lowersBrown to the level of nothing more than anothercorporation striving to best meet its bottom line.Don’t be surprised if many bitter future alums con-veniently forget to donate to the University becausethey were discriminated against in the financial aidprocess while they were students at Brown.

If Brown has any overly troublesome relationswith the city of Providence any time in the nearfuture, bear in mind that Mayor David Cicilline ’83was a transfer student.

Michael Thompson ’07Nov. 11

Lack of transfer and RUE aid a tragedy

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2004 · PAGE 11

While literally every Kerry state touches either water orCanada, the Republicans have a lock on the South and the entireinterior, which gain votes in the Electoral College with every pass-ing census. Last Tuesday, voters in these states turned out inrecord numbers for a roll call of the nation’s great symbols: Faith,Family and Country. The rise of the “moral values” voter presentsa difficult challenge for an enfeebled Democratic Party.

America’s political divide is not a clash between policy campsbut between different ways of life. If the “culture wars” of theReagan years were an argument over culture, that argument isover. As defeated Democrats cast listlessly about, idly contem-plating reform of the Electoral College and contemplating seces-sion to Canada, Republicans are plotting something resemblinggenocide. Having knocked off the Big Two (Kerry and Senateminority leader Tom Daschle), Republicans are seeking to exter-minate the Democrats as a viable political party.

The tactic is simple: deliberate starvation. The red states usedit against the Indians when they wiped out the buffalo and theantelope. Now they’ve turned their guns on the unions, welfarerecipients and trial lawyers whose financing the Democratsdepend on for survival. Once the backbone of the DemocraticParty, the labor movement has been virtually wiped out by con-servative “right-to-work” laws that make union membershipoptional in many states. These laws have enriched CorporateAmerica at the expense of workers, and have placed a severesqueeze on the Democratic Party by depriving unions of billionsof dollars of compulsory dues. Conservative activist GroverNorquist brags, “Every worker who doesn’t join the union isanother worker who doesn’t pay $500 a year to organized labor’spolitical machine.”

With unions as good as dead, the GOP is going after triallawyers, now the Democrats’ biggest contributors. By simplifyingregulations and capping penalties, Republicans have sought toeliminate the big settlements that weaken big business at theexpense of trial lawyers and the Democrats. As governor of Texas,Bush even tried to raise taxes on the law firms that accounted fornearly 80 percent of donations to the Texas Democrats.

Similarly, the Bush agenda will move to eradicate the liveli-hood of bureaucrats, teachers, welfare recipients and environ-mentalists. Every government job outsourced is a likelyDemocratic voter shot in the back. Every federal entitlementreplaced by a private-account scheme makes a child less depend-ent on big government, more invested in big business and lesslikely to vote Democratic. Republicans know that a political partywithout wealthy constituents cannot survive, and they're doingeverything they can to cut the Democrats’ umbilical cord.Liberals, then, must kill or be killed. We have a plan.

The Achilles’ heel of Republican majority rule is the farm sub-sidies that sustain the rural economies of the red states.Mississippi cotton growers, Carolina textile workers and Indianapork farmers all survive on New Deal-era government handoutsthat essentially transfer wealth from the Kerry states to the con-servative heartland. Some federal subsidies literally pay these“hard-working folks” not to grow anything at all.

For all the Republican rhetoric about self-reliance and the freemarket, the steady drip of farm welfare is the only leg ruraleconomies have to stand on. They allow red-state voters to live inan Edenic, Bible-filled, rural cowboy fantasyland and punishthose who don’t share their values. For years, voters in rural stateshave scorned the Democrats who make their way of life possible.

Now, imagine a world in which Democrats have pulled theplug. Rural America would disappear overnight. It literally cannotsurvive without government handouts. Men with cowboy hatswould suddenly find their beloved animals worth Kleenex as vastboatloads of foreign goods flooded grocery stores throughout thenation. Truck drivers with American (or Confederate) flag stickerswould see their lifestyle wiped out.

Left uneducated by Republican budget cuts in rural school dis-tricts, these voters would witness the resurrection of the DustBowl. Rural values would be swapped for the values of refugees asRed State voters begin the mass exodus to the coasts in order tobeg for welfare handouts from “liberal elitists.” So much forrugged individualism!

Democrats cannot defeat the patriotic symbol of the simplefarmer, but they can bankrupt actual farmers. If red-state votersthink the Democrats are the party of sissy dependence on biggovernment, it is time the Democrats showed them what the freemarket really feels like: scorched earth. For too long, “moral val-ues” voters have bit the liberal hand that feeds them. It’s time toput them out on the street. Act now, Democrats, and it will hastenthe day when nothing stands between the joyful union of our twocoasts but a national park.

Nate Goralnik ’06 is the Mobutu Sese Seko to Barron YoungSmith’s’06 Park Chung Hee.

Bleed the red states dry In 2001, two DPS officers violently arrested two

students of color for refusing to show their IDs whilethey were crossing the Main Green on Brown’s “opencampus.” This spring, a DPS officer shoved the vic-tim of a hate crime when the victim ran toward himfor help. Rather than openly reviewing police mis-conduct, the administration pushes such acts ofpolice brutality and racial profiling under the car-pet. Qualms about racial profiling are convenientlydismissed as trivial misunderstandings. Director ofInstitutional Diversity Brenda Allen said, “If (DPS is)responding to calls about a group of students ofcolor, is it the officers whoare engaging in profiling orare they just responding toa call?” The administrationconsistently drums into usthe benefits of militariza-tion on campus.

The Herald also reported that DPS “are alsotrained in skills geared toward avoiding the use offorce. Specifically, the skills taught are “verbal judo”and Kingian non-violence, a negotiating techniquethat uses the methods of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...” In the aftermath of abuse, the mistrust studentshave toward mishandling of power by DPS cannotsimply be appeased by the adoption of “verbal judo”or “Kingian non-violence” tactics. Ironically,“Kingian non-violence” was employed initially as amode of resistance by oppressed people againststate violence and racism. The administration'sencouragement of non-violence methods, whileactively implementing the militarization of thiscampus reflects a confused stance and a doublestandard. Who are the “criminals” at Brown who willdeserve the non-violent tactics, and which of thosewill have guns pointed at them?

The administration stresses often that arming theBrown police ensures the safety of students. Yet pre-emptive militarization, which makes offense a form

of defense, never results in safer conditions. Theresulting climate of fear and suspicion serves only topromote a further escalation of violence. The“crimes” administrators hope to reduce also seemlimited to those that involve some kind of armedrobbery, where vulnerable Brown students are tar-geted by the violent and armed non-Brown “Other.”Other forms of violence that occur within Brown,such as sexual assault and hate crimes, are not metwith similar zeal by the administration.

To date, despite constant requests from students,there are no accessible sexual assault or hate crime

protocols that will encourage vic-tims to report and hold perpetra-tors accountable. Rather thanbreaking down this dividebetween Brown as an elite insti-tution and the rest of Providence,the administration perpetuates it

through its decision to arm DPS. The disregard ofthe impact arming will have on the lives of otherProvidence residents who live in the vicinity ofBrown’s “open campus” is reflected by the adminis-tration’s flagrant disregard of Mayor David Cicilline’s’83 and Ward 1 City Councilman David Segal’s oppo-sition to arming. This isolationist mentality is againreflected in the administration’s decision to armDPS as a more benign alternative to local police.Rather than engage earnestly in community effortsto hold local police more accountable through theProvidence External Review Authority, Browndecides to arm DPS to reduce its reliance on what isdeemed to be the more oppressive local policeforce.

Guns need targets. And most often, these targetswill be those who fit the stereotypical image of“criminal.” The administration needs to stop armingnow and take constructive steps to make us all safer.

Jane Mee Wong ’06.5 is at the end of her rope.

Militarization at Brown

Arming needs

to stop.

Because I am an international student whodoesn’t know enough about the electoral systemor the negative consequences of Bush’s first term,I am not going to discuss the election. I am alsonot going to talk about how wonderful or horribleBush is. Obviously, as a non-citizen on studentvisa, I am not allowed to vote in America. Even if Idid, I probably wouldn’t know what to do since Iam very clearly against Bush (the understatementof the year) but I am also critical of some of Kerry’sstatements and policies. So it was a good thingafter all that I didn't get to vote: I just wouldn’tknow what to do.

What I want to discuss here is a much more cru-cial issue, one that personally affects me and otherinternationals, especially those from “suspicious”countries in Asia and the Middle East.

What the reelection ofBush means to me is morefear and potentially morethreats to my freedom as aforeigner in the UnitedStates today. At this point,I have to say that I havenever faced anything ofthis sort during my life at Brown. I love being here,and I think that most, if not all, international stu-dents would agree with me that our campus is def-initely not hostile to foreign students. If anything, Ifeel very welcome and at home here.

Unfortunately, these good feelings are limitedto the Brown campus — they do not apply in therest of the country. In fact, there have been manyincidents of discrimination and harassment ofinternational students — especially MiddleEasterners, Muslims and anyone who looks like apotential terrorist — in cities throughout America,even on college campuses! How do I know? Apartfrom what I have read in the paper or watched inthe news, which rarely mentions this, I have manyfriends all over America who are international stu-dents. I could write a whole book on their experi-ences, as well as some of my own, so don’t get mestarted.

When I hear or read about Arab-Americans and

American Muslims being deported or sent to jailfor no obvious reason, or about police breakinginto their houses to conduct “a search for suspi-cious material” and many more humiliatingthings like that, I start questioning how much free-dom American citizens have in post-9/11America.

Yusuf Islam — formerly known as Cat Stevensand famous for songs such as “Wild World”— is aBritish citizen who was sent back to Englandbecause his name appears on a list of suspiciouspeople who might have contributed to Muslimcharities that have ties with terrorists. A Swissscholar and a leading international Islamicthinker named Tariq Ramadan, who spoke atBrown a few years ago, has had a similar experi-ence. Named one of Time magazine’s 100 Spiritual

Innovators in 2000, Ramadanaccepted a job at Notre DameUniversity and was to start workthis semester. However, in lateJuly his visa was revoked by theDepartment of HomelandSecurity. No explanation has yetbeen given.

I think all that has been mentioned above is adisgrace for America, and I feel most sorry for theAmerican citizens (for everyone — not just theones being discriminated against) who work hardto solve these problems and still have to deal withsuch issues every day.

I would talk more about my own experiences asa Muslim and a Turkish citizen, but let me justconclude with this: While walking on Thayer thisafternoon, I saw a copy of the Providence Phoenixthat was just distributed today. It has George Bushon the cover with the following words as the title:“Mourning in America.” On the left lower corner ofthe same page, it reads “Be afraid. Be very afraid.”I think the other half of America who didn’t votefor him — and most of the world — already are. Atleast I know that I am.

Tamilla Mamedova ’07 prays that the books shechecks out at the Rock aren’t monitored.

International fear of Bush

Internationals

with reason to fear.

GUEST COLUMN BY JANE MEE WONG

GUEST COLUMN BY NATE GORALNIK AND BARRON YOUNGSMITH

GUEST COLUMN BY TAMILLA MAMEDOVA

BY ERIC PERLMUTTERAll season long, the men’s water poloteam has said that the EasternChampionship is the only tournamentthat truly matters.

Beginning on Saturday, it will be timefor the team to show what it’s got.

“With me being new this year, I thinkit’s taken a little while to get adjusted,but everyone is on the same page now,and everyone has high expectations,”said Head Coach Jason Gall.

Brown enters Easterns, held atBucknell University in Lewisburg,Penn., this weekend, as the fifth-seededteam and will face the United StatesNaval Academy in the first round. Afterthe Bears’ placed third at the NorthernChampionships two weeks ago andearned themselves a trip to Easterns,the team has had two weeks of practiceto prepare for an opponent that isranked 17th in the nation.

The tournament features four teamsfamiliar to Brown — St. Francis College,Harvard, Princeton and the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology— and three teams that Brown has notseen, including Navy.

Fortunately for Bruno, the team ishealthier than it’s been all season andhas enough knowledge of how Navyplays to form a cohesive game plan.

“I tend to think that they’re going tobe a quick team,” Gall said. “They’re agood driving team, which meansthey’ve got good shooters. In the pastthey’ve had a well-conditioned team, sowe’re going to have to make sure thatwe’re playing good counter-attackdefense.”

The team also intends to double-team certain Navy players on the offen-sive end, according to Gall.

Two-meter defender Luke Samson’07 echoed Gall’s emphasis on counter-attack defense and double teams. Hesaid that Navy is a fast and disciplinedteam that does not present too manychances for opponents.

“Navy has one or two dominant play-ers, so going into the game, we know

who we need to focus our attention onif we want to win,” said Samson. “Weneed to capitalize on our opportunities,especially six-on-five, which has givenus some trouble throughout the year.”

Indeed, the six-on-five has beenBrown’s Achilles heel, as the team hasbeen unable to consistently convertman-advantages. In the past, Gall andsome players have said that the prob-lem is not one of preparation, but ofexecution.

So does that shortcoming, one thatcan only be nixed with experience,worry the team going into a tourna-ment without much room for error?

“It would, but our last game was twoweeks ago,” Samson said. “Since then,we have spent a lot of time just on six-on-five, sometimes focusing our entirepractice on it. I think the team is morecomfortable running it now, with all theattention we have recently given it.”

The Bears have focused on the

SPORTS FRIDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

NOVEMBER 12, 2004 · PAGE 12

W. swimminghopes for lastyear’s successwith new faces

Judy He / Herald

Kristen Vincent ’06 was a unanimous first team All-Ivy selection after leading the Bearsin scoring from her sweeper position.

M. water polo ready for East Coast’sbest after two weeks of preparation

All-Ivy honors given tothree from field hockey

BY ADAM ROYSTERComing off an impressive 9-3 seasonlast year, the women’s swimming anddiving team has a great deal to proveheading into the 2004-2005 campaign.Because the team lost some of its topathletes to graduation, the leaders ofthis year’s team have big shoes to fill iflast year’s performance is to be repeat-ed.

Losing All-American HonorableMention and first team All-Ivy LizDaniels ’04 to graduation was a partic-ularly big blow. Compounded with theadditional loss of All-Ivy first teamhonorees Emily McCoy ’04 and LindsayHoban ’04, one has to wonder whetherthe women will sink or swim.

“For any team it’s a sizable loss, notonly in swimming but in leadershipability,” said Head Coach Peter Brown.“We’re just looking for people to movein to fill those roles.”

Jessica Larsen ’06, Mariana Chuck’05 and Michelle Roach ’05 have beenselected as the pre-season captains.Assisting the upperclassmen in leadingthe team will be returning First TeamAll-Ivy selections Lauren Hinkson ’06and Eileen Robinson ’06, the anchorsin the 200-meter and 400-meterfreestyle relay team. Last season’s sec-ond team All-Ivy member ElizabethWong ’06 also returns.

“For what we lost, what we’re gain-ing is considerable,” said BeckyKowalsky ’07. “Though our team maybe a bit younger, we have some verytalented freshmen that are going tosurprise a lot of people.”

There are 22 underclassmen on the

BY CHARLIE VALLELYIn its first meet Saturday against Harvard,the men’s swimming and diving team willbegin its season after almost a month anda half of official preseason practice.

“Our preparation thus far has beenquite good,” said Head Coach PeterBrown. “I like what I’m seeing.”

One of Brown’s swimmers, WilliamHedberg ’06, has been equally encour-aged by the team’s efforts but had otherwords to describe the pre-season.

“We’ve been getting our (butts) kickedpretty regularly through October,” he said.

Brown and his team have been on thesame page so far. Team members andBrown agree that this year’s squad, whichlost four instrumental seniors while tak-ing on an unprecedented eight first-years,has been taking great strides to shape itsidentity.

“This is a completely new team,” saidAndrew Sharpin ’05. “Seniors were astrong point in our lineup last year.”

Most notably, the Bears lost Max Allen’04 and first team All-Ivy selectionJefferson Moors ’04.

But the team remains optimistic, par-ticularly because of the new recruits.Though they will not be able to step intothe shoes of the exiting seniors right away,they provide a necessary asset — depth.

“We’re a much bigger team now,” saidcaptain Tim Wang ’05. “By having morepeople, you create more competition. So Ihave to say that (the first-years) have hada positive impact already.”

“It helps make your team strongerwithin,” Brown said.

In spite of the sizable turnover, thetransition has been made easier by astrong core of juniors and seniors. Brownsaid that he feels that the captains, Mattdel Mastro ’05 and Wang, have made sub-stantial contributions in bringing theteam together.

“They’re good role models and goodstudents,” Brown said, also noting theirleadership by example in the pool. Whenyou have captains like this “things tend tofall into place more readily.”

Harvard meetwill be litmustest for m.swimming

Thursday, November 11

Football: Nick Hartigan ’06 named CoSida District IAcademic All-American

Friday, November 12

Men’s Ice Hockey: vs. Princeton, 7 p.m., MeehanAuditoriumWomen’s Ice Hockey: at PrincetonWomen’s Volleyball: at Columbia

Saturday, November 13

Men’s Swimming and Diving: vs. Harvard, noon, SmithSwim CenterMen’s Ice Hockey: vs. Yale, 7 p.m., Meehan AuditoriumFootball: at DartmouthWomen’s Volleyball: at CornellWomen’s Ice Hockey: at YaleEquestrian: vs. Wesleyan (at Middletown, Conn.)Men’s Water Polo: Eastern Championships (at BucknellUniversity)Men’s and Women’s Cross Country: NCAA RegionalChampionships (at Van Cortlandt Park, N.Y.)

Sunday, November 14

Men’s Soccer: at DartmouthWrestling: Cortland Open (at SUNY Cortland)Men’s Water Polo: Eastern Championships (at BucknellUniversity)

B R O W N S P O R T S S C H E D U L E

Swimming and divingseason preview

see WATER POLO, page 8

BY KATHY BABCOCKThe end of a difficult field hockey sea-son had a silver lining for three Brownjuniors who received All-Ivy honorsearly this week. Kristen Vincent ’06 wasunanimously selected for first team All-Ivy, Brooke Townsend ’06 received sec-ond team honors and Lindsay Boris ’06received an honorable mention.

“I was very pleased,” said HeadCoach Carolan Norris. “To get someoneon first team, second team and honor-able mention represents the team verywell.”

For most of the players, the awardswere a welcome surprise.

“I was surprised. I thought someother people might get it,” Vincent said.“It’s a very big honor.”

As evidence by these awards going tojuniors, Brown’s team will be returning

its strongest players next season. TheBears are only losing three players, oneof whom was injured for most of thispast season, and only one starter, JuliaKelderman ’05.

Last year the Brown recipients of All-Ivy honors were Lizzie Buza ’04, LaurelPierpont ’04 and Meghan Harwood ’04.They were all seniors and had allreceived Ivy honors before. This year’scrop of All-Ivies is likely to receive hon-ors again next year, barring injury.

Vincent is a two-year starter atsweeper and, strangely, was Brown’sleading scorer despite playing farthestback of anyone on the field except thegoalie.

“She’s on our offensive corners, she’son our defensive corners,” Norris said.

see HOCKEY, page 8 see W. SWIM, page 8

see M. SWIM, page 8