BY DANA AYOUBGray skies and empty gates greeted the 240th OpeningConvocation yesterday. A few hapless students who had-n’t heard Convocation was moved to the OMAC due torain milled aimlessly about the Van Wickle gates.

Welcome, Class of 2007.Those fortunate enough to find their way to the OMAC

heard the last speeches of Orientation, which coveredeverything from the weather to how to think critically.

President Ruth Simmons welcomed all students, staffand faculty, telling them that “memories are not made byfair weather” and she was “just as happy to see you allhere as I would be to see you on the Green.”

Even though it did not rain during Convocation, thedecision was made in the morning to move the eventinside because of morning drizzle.

The ceremonial procession through the Van WickleGates was also initially cancelled, though the Gates wereleft open all day for first-years who wanted to walkthrough.

But after the speeches, Simmons announced that allcould return to the Green as usual for the formal procession of the Class of 2007.

To the entering class, Simmons said “learning will takeplace in these halls and you will be changed for it” whileprofessors “will engage you as partners of learning.” Sheended her proclamation by advising students to “cherishyour time here.”

Professor of History Carolyn Dean delivered thekeynote address, entitled “Critical Thinking.”

Her speech stemmed from an evaluation she receivedlast semester, in which a student criticized her for notdefining critical thinking, even though she demanded itfrom the class.

She found the definition hard to explain and told theincoming class she would try “to get at this elusive thingeveryone says you should and will learn to do and someprofessors have the temerity not to define.”

To clarify the intangible term, Dean related two anec-dotes, the first of which described the multiple ways she

defined herself. Brought up in a household exposed tovarious religions, Dean attended a Jewish school but wastaught how to cross herself correctly before mass.

She also spoke of her first day as a Brown professor,young and nervous, during which a student mistook herfor another student.

“These experiences are pretty banal versions of theconstant and complicated psychological and culturalnegotiations all of us are forced to engage in,” she said.

“They aren’t always pleasant, but they keep you alert.You are forced to think at every minute about where youare and who you are and mostly about who you are not.

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BY ELLEN WERNECKEEven amid a University-wide fiscal crisis and anational economic recession, the Brown Annual Fundcelebrated a record year, exceeding its financial goalsby $700,000.

The Brown Annual Fund experienced a 15 percentincrease in gifts in the past fiscal year, raising a totalof $19.7 million in the period ending June 30.

The success of this year’s campaign was primarilydue to three challenge grants, large gifts dependenton the number of donors who participate in the fund-raiser.

The challenge grants, offered by ChancellorStephen Robert ’62, the Joukowsky family and ananonymous alumnus, increased both the number ofgifts and their amounts, said Annual Fund directorTammie Ruda.

One of the largest areas of growth came fromBrown’s most recent graduates, as the Joukowsky fam-ily challenged the classes of 1993 to 2003 to give to the

Annual Fund. The number of donors from those 10classes alone rose 22 percent from last year, Rudasaid.

“This year’s giving represented an enormous voteof confidence,” said Richard Spies, executive vicepresident for planning and special advisor toPresident Ruth Simmons.

“At a time when the economy was as tough as itwas, for people to step up to increase the level of sup-port shows an incredible boost for the University andwhat the president has proposed,” Spies said.

“The University needs growth (in the Annual Fund)to keep the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment onschedule,” Ruda said, adding that none of theUniversity’s projects are tied directly to the AnnualFund, tuition or other sources of revenue. “We’reunderwriting some of the most exciting projects oncampus right now.”

Brown Annual Fund exceeds goals by $700,000

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BY LISA MANDLEChanges to the first-year unit system designed to eventhe workload for peer counselors led to some unintend-ed consequences, as many counselors faced the daunt-ing task of getting to know 80 or more new students.

This year’s first-years were divided into 22 units withapproximately 80 students in most units, said JenniferBauer ’06, a residential counselor in Emery-Wooley.Bauer has 78 first-years and four counselors in her unit.

Last year the residence halls were divided into about30 units. The counselor-to-student ratio ranged from1:8.7 to 1:20 depending on the unit, said Director ofStudent Life Jean Joyce-Brady.

That spread narrowed this year, with units fallingbetween a 1:15 to 1:22 ratio. The national average coun-selor-to-student ratio is 1:40, Joyce-Brady said.

The restructuring came in response to complaintsfrom counselors about the disparity in the number offirst-years they were responsible for, she said.

But several counselors said that even though the dif-ference in ratios of counselors to first-years shrank thisyear, their overall workload increased with the size oftheir units.

“The kids always have someone to go to, but it is hard-er for counselors to make sure we know all of the first-years,” Bauer said.

There are about 90 counselors, Bauer said. In the past,most units had one residential counselor, one minoritypeer counselor and one woman peer counselor.

Now units have between three and five counselors,with the number of RCs, MPCs and WPCs varying fromunit to unit. Some units must share WPCs, Bauer said.

“Being responsible for 40 students last year was diffi-cult. Having 80 makes it that much harder,” said ZaharaKassam ’05, an MPC in Morriss-Champlin last year.Counselors have to memorize all of their first-years’ facesand get to know something special about each, eventhough there are other counselors in the unit, she said.

The administration intended for each unit’s coun-selors to “work with the ratio model” by having eachcounselor be able to provide support for the entire unit,but focus on bonding with only a portion of their first-years, Joyce-Brady said.

But not everyone got the message.“It may be that communication needs to be strength-

ened,” Joyce-Brady said. “It’s not a reasonable model to

Rainy weather puts a damper on2007 Convocation festivities

Some units swell to80+ students undernew system; peercounselors struggle

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Professor of History Carolyn Dean gave the Convocation address inside the OMAC due to inclement weather. In additionto the changed setting, students were invited to walk through a cardboard cutout of the Van Wickle gates.

Rain and cautiousoptimism bring in thefirst faculty meetingof the yearpage 3

Promoting cross-cultural integration,sophomore counselsSouth African childrenpage 3

John Brougher ’06tells the RIAA to giveup its futile attack onfile sharing column, page 11

Confronting his addi-tion, Ian Cropp ’05explains sports gam-bling’s alluresports column, page 12

Women’s soccerbegins season withthe edge of interna-tional summer playsports, page 12

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BY SARA PERKINSAfter a first day of classes and a hec-tic rained-out convocation, the fac-ulty met Tuesday for the first time inthe 2003-04 academic year. Most ofthe faculty present said they werejust glad to be dry.

That wasn’t all they were thankfulfor.

Following a spring that featuredhard budget cuts and grim economicre-forecasting, the budgeting actual-ly produced a small surplus. TheBrown Annual Fund exceeded itsgoals, investments returned 6.5 per-cent and support for researchincreased 17 percent in the last year,President Ruth Simmons told thoseassembled in Lower Salomon.

The University has hired 33 newfaculty members, and the Class of2007 is the first to be admitted underthe new need-blind admission policy— all positive steps, she said.

Simmons and Provost RobertZimmer outlined the year’s goals andinitiatives, introduced the shuffledadministrative lineup and pointed tothe tangible evidence of summerprogress. “There has been anunprecedented amount of construc-tion across campus — I’m sureyou’ve been inconvenienced by it,”Simmons said.

The University acquired new

Simmons paintsa rosier picturefor the future BY SCHUYLER VON OEYEN

This summer, Elizabeth Ochs ’06 learnedSouth Africa is a land of economicextremes.

While volunteering for Tikkun, a SouthAfrican Jewish organization that promotesracial integration, she visited a co-worker athis home, a shack in one of South Africa’spoor townships. The same day, she movedinto the oceanfront house of an affluentCape Town host family.

“There are hundreds of children in thetownships who have never seen the ocean,”Ochs wrote in a personal statement. “Andlikewise there are hundred(s) of children intown who have never walked through thetownships.”

During her four weeks with Tikkun, Ochsworked as a counselor at two differentcamps for children and volunteered as anadministrative assistant in the programoffice. Her experience was funded primari-ly by the Bronfman Foundation.

Founded four years ago, Tikkun runscross-cultural camps, after-school pro-grams and community centers. Diversityprograms that integrate persons of Jewishdescent with the neighboring African com-munities are paramount to Tikkun’s mis-sion.

At the program’s week-long camp forsixth and seventh graders, Ochs met adiverse group of children. Most of thecampers were black or multi-racial,although there were some Jewish campersas well.

The children faced many initial barriersto cross-cultural interaction, includingboth ethnicity and language. Most of theblack campers spoke the language ofXhosa; the multi-racial campers mainly

spoke Afrikaans, and the Jewish campersspoke English.

“English was the most common lan-guage that everyone knew, but many couldnot speak it well,” Ochs said. “This madethe process of establishing cross-culturalunderstanding more difficult, but theexperience was very rewarding in the end.”

Ochs said she found a Jewish girl cryingon the steps of her bunk bed one nightbecause she was the only non-Xhosaspeaker in her group.

“Integration is not comfortable, but

often people can only begin to struggle withtheir own identities when they are in aplace of discomfort,” Ochs wrote in herstatement.

After consoling the camper, Ochs pairedthe girl with a translation partner, whocould speak both Xhosa and English.

“Such incidents were challenges for thecampers as well as for me as a counselor,”Ochs wrote. “They were crucial to the campexperience as well.”

see OCHS, page 7

Ochs ’06 promotes racial integration in S. AfricaSUMMER STORIES: A CONTINUING SERIES

see FACULTY, page 7Photo courtesy Elizabeth Ochs

Elizabeth Ochs ’06 volunteered as a camp counselor this summer in South Africa forTikkun, a South African Jewish organization that promotes racial integration.

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WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Customs and immigra-tion agents will be trained as air marshals to sig-nificantly boost the number of federal officerswho can protect passenger flights in emergencies,Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge saidTuesday.

But government officials said it was unlikelythat all 5,500 agents of the Bureau of Immigrationand Customs Enforcement would qualify and bedeployed as marshals, partly because it wouldleave no one to do the agents’ work.

Instead, the plan is to have more officers withair marshal training available under high-threatconditions or in the aftermath of a terrorist attack.“This gives us a ‘surge capability,’” Ridge said.“More people being able to do more things whenwe need it.”

In a speech keyed to the second anniversary ofthe Sept. 11 attacks, Ridge also announced newprocedures for questioning passengers arriving atU.S. airports from overseas, initiatives to improvecommunication between federal and local author-ities and a technology program aimed at counter-ing the threat of bioterrorism. He spoke at theAmerican Enterprise Institute, a conservative pub-lic policy center in Washington.

“We’ve made significant progress towardshoring the necessary layers of homeland securitythat have made America safer,” Ridge said. “Andyet clearly our work is not done. In homelandsecurity, we have to be right thousands of times aday. A terrorist only has to be right once.”

The air marshal announcement was part of anongoing internal realignment of the HomelandSecurity Department, created at the beginning ofthe year from 22 disparate government agencies.

Customs, immigrationagents to be trained asair marshals WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-

Conn., accusing President Bush of neglecting the nation’shealth care crisis, unveiled a proposal Tuesday to providecare to 31 million uninsured Americans within 10 years.

On a visit to Broad Acres Elementary School in SilverSpring, Md., the Democratic presidential candidate laidout a detailed health plan that in the early stages would tar-get children, unemployed adults and people over the age of50 who have retired but do not yet qualify for Medicare.

“George W. Bush didn’t create these problems — but hehas turned his back on them, and by doing so, he’s madethem worse,” Lieberman said from a pint-sized lectern inthe school library. “He’s let the sickness and side effects inthe health care system spread and get worse.”

A moderate Democrat who was Al Gore’s running matein 2000, Lieberman said that he has devised the most eco-nomical plan of those offered by the Democratic con-tenders, an assertion supported by independent analystKenneth Thorpe. “My plan will provide coverage to morethan 31 million currently uninsured Americans — at thelowest per person cost of any presidential candidate,”Lieberman said.

Thorpe, a Clinton administration official who teacheshealth care economics at Emory University, estimated thatLieberman’s proposal would cost the federal government$53 billion a year, or $747 billion over the next decade.

According to Thorpe’s analysis, Lieberman’s plan coversabout the same number of uninsured but for significantlyless money, in part because it takes longer to be phased in.A plan offered by Rep. Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., would cost$2.5 trillion over 10 years, and former Vermont governorHoward Dean’s proposal would cost $932 billion, accordingto Thorpe’s analysis.

The plans of Democratic Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., andJohn Edwards, D-N.C., would reach fewer people, Thorpefound.

Like several of his opponents, Lieberman would expandgovernment health programs such as Medicaid and theChildren’s Health Insurance Program, called CHIP, though

he would offer more generous subsidies to middle-incomefamilies. And Lieberman would create two new privateinsurance programs to be administered by the govern-ment.

Modeled after the Federal Employee Health BenefitsProgram, Lieberman’s MediKids and MediChoice wouldoffer guaranteed, comprehensive coverage through large,low-cost purchasing pools. To keep the cost down,Lieberman would cap insurer profits at 2 percent, as thefederal program does now. His aides predicted that insur-ers would be willing to accept limited profits in exchangefor the “tens of thousands, if not millions, of new cus-tomers.”

As president, Lieberman said, he would streamline cost-ly and burdensome paperwork in the medical system andpush for more evidence-based medicine. He would alsoguarantee laid-off workers two months’ insurance andestablish a tax credit for long-term care insurance.

Lieberman made his announcement at Broad Acres tospotlight the school’s health center, which provides com-prehensive physical and mental health care to children anduninsured parents. If elected, he would increase federalgrants for such centers, he said. “I want to see if we canopen thousands more school-based health centers,” hesaid after a tour of the Linkages to Learning center.

Lieberman did not specify where he would find themoney for his health proposal or for a proposed $150 bil-lion American Center for Cures.

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property at 70 Ship St. and is ren-ovating the Horace Mann build-ing, Hill House and Barus andHolley and Metcalf laboratoriesin an effort to improve the physi-cal plant, she said.

Planning for further campusimprovement will result in deci-sions later this year, Simmonssaid. Possible facilities to be dis-cussed include the constructionof a campus center, fitness centerand new dorms. She encouragedfaculty members to participate.

The budget cuts weighedheavily on the proceedings.Simmons lamented the “dracon-ian” measures — including thehiring freeze and departmentalbudget cuts — that were neces-sary last year. “When the eco-nomic climate is bad, otherdominoes get knocked down,”particularly financial aid, shesaid. “I think we did pretty well in

what we were able to preserve.”Simmons also addressed the

University’s relationship with thecity and state. While she jokedabout receiving a fund-raisingrequest from the reelection com-mittee of Mayor David Cicilline’83, she and Richard Spies, execu-tive vice president for planningand senior advisor to the presi-dent, frankly discussed the vol-untary payment of over $1 mil-lion to the city. Part of the pay-ment will be in property taxes onnewly acquired real estate thatwould otherwise be tax exempt.“We’ve made a contribution, andwe can stop it,” Spies said. “We’lldo it as long as it seems sensiblefor the University.

“The mayor has made it clearto us that he wants more cooper-ation. … It’ll be an ongoing dia-logue,” he said.

At the request of GovernorDonald Carcieri ’65, Simmons isalso serving on a panel to investi-gate the Rhode Island State Policeraid on a Narragansett smokeshop in July.

Professor of Biology AnneFausto-Sterling, chair of theFaculty Executive Committee,lauded the success of efforts toincrease faculty diversity, partic-ularly by the Faculty AffairsCommittee, recalling the dayswhen she was one of only a dozentenured females on the faculty.“Change is possible, albeit slow,”she said.

She also highlighted the workof the Academic PrioritiesCommittee, which works to bal-ance the allocation of resourcesto established programs andsmaller, struggling projects.

The meeting ended with areception at the President’sHouse at 55 Power St.

Herald staff writer Sara Perkins’06 can be reached atsperkins@browndailyherald.com.

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and we played well.” The Bears tied Agliani 0-0.While the 3-1-3 record is

something to be proud of, theteam will benefit most from theearly experience. Unlike previousyears when Brown lacks the samegame experience as its oppo-nents in early stages of the sea-son, the team this year has sevengames under its belt. Moreimportantly, all 23 players sawextended time in those games.

“We have gotten to experimentand try different things on thefield. We have a very good under-standing about our capabilities,”Pincince said.

Though the Class of 2007could not attend the trip, the fiveincoming freshmen bonded overthe summer during Brown soccercamp. Early this week the entireteam completed a ropes courseto further team bonding.

Pincince credits much of thepositive attitude and perform-ance of this year’s squad to the

leadership of the team’s 10 sen-iors. The recruiting class of 2004is the first in 10 years to remain inthe program all four years.

“Look at any sport here atBrown,” Pincince said, “the attri-tion rate is 50 percent. You recruita class of 10, you are hoping toget five seniors to stick with it allfour years. This class is all with us.… They have made one heck of acommitment to the program.”

The team, with a legitimateshot at winning the champi-onship, kicks off its Ivy scheduleagainst Dartmouth on Saturday,Sept. 27.

“We want to compete for thetitle. Last year we were in everygame. Princeton won the IvyChampionship and we lost 2-1.We think we are going to take agiant step forward. (The team) isnot hoping to take that step —they are ready to take the step.”

The team will face off againstVermont (2-0) on Stevenson Fieldthis Friday at 7:00 p.m.

Sports editor Maggie Haskins ’04can be reached atmhaskins@browndailyherald.com.

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Planned activities stressed inte-gration and cross-cultural under-standing.

Among the various topicsincluded in the program’s curricu-lum were Israeli custom, Africandance and lectures and education-al workshops discussing problemssuch as the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Ochs encourages other Brownstudents to consider involvementin cross-cultural programs inAfrica, and saw her time withTikkun as a good way to learn howto promote racial integration inthe United States.

“It was a very empoweringexperience to be working there,”Ochs said. “Tikkun is not aboutforcing Jewish principles, butrather about providing a space forcommon dialogue and givingback.”

Herald staff writer Schuyler vonOeyen ’05 can be reached at svo-noeyen@browndailyherald.com.

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You rarely have the luxury of notthinking,” Dean added.

The second story involved aGerman literary critic, MarcelReich-Ranicki, also a survivor ofthe Warsaw ghetto. He wasinvited to a party to honor thepublication of a new Hitlerbiography. The author, however,was Hitler’s Minister forArmaments and WarProduction, and, according toRanicki, “one of the worst warcriminals in the history ofGermany … Albert Speer.”

In this story, Speer andRanicki, the antitheses of oneanother, converse until Speertells Ranicki that Hitler “wouldhave been content with this(book), he would have liked it.”

“If to think critically means tobe highly self-conscious abouthow we must all negotiate ouridentities in complicated wayswhoever we are, how might youapproach this episode?” she

asked the first-years, and thenended with “I’ll leave you tothink about that.”

She told the audience heranecdotes had been a long-winded way of explaining thatyou should question and chal-lenge everything.

The speech was “one of thebetter speeches I’ve heard thisorientation,” said James Kytta’07, although other studentsfound the speech rambling andirrelevant.

“I thought it was a little unfo-cused,” said Josh Cohen ’07,though he found the storyabout the ghetto survivor inter-esting.

Some first-years were gladthey could walk through theGates together, while othersdidn’t believe they might havemissed one of Brown’s mostimportant ceremonies. SaidVanessa Adams ’06, “I’m sure infour years I’ll be glad I did it.”

Herald staff writer Dana Ayoub’05 can be reached at day-oub@browndailyherald.com.

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Sydney, or those of 12 othertests from 1996-2000.

Last Thursday, the day afterThe Times identified Young asthe unnamed athlete from theSydney Games, Rogge sent let-ters to the U.S. OlympicCommittee and the IAAF“strongly urging’’ them to“pursue the matter.’’

Pound, the WADA presi-dent, called last Wednesday forthe IOC to strip the U.S. 400relay team of its medalsbecause of Young’s 1999 test.

Rogge indicated last weekthat the matter is of “extremeurgency.’’ He also said that theIOC stands ready to take “anymeasure or sanction againstany person or party concerneddepending upon the evolutionof this case.’’

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click of a mouse, you can siphonmoney from your Swiss bankaccount to an online gamblingsite “stationed” in Guadalajara.Americans love convenienceand what better way to bet thanon the Internet? Just now, Iplaced a $500 bet on a PopWarner football game, a $1,000bet on Seabiscuit IV to win atYonkers and a $5,000 bet on myfirst intramural flag footballgame.

Yes, betting does heighteninterest in the sports world, butsometimes it drains the purityfrom the game. Just like drinking,it can be done responsibly, butsometimes walking the line isn’teasy.

Assistant sports editor Ian Cropp’05 has never won a bet.

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say that a person needs to know 75students extremely well.”

Brian Lee ’06, an MPC in WestAndrews, said the layout of the res-idence hall and the personalities ofthe people living together are themost important factors in deter-mining how the unit functions.

“The people make the unit, notthe numbers,” Lee said.

“Last year in Keeney there were70 people on three hallways andtwo floors so it was tough to meetpeople because it was so spreadout. This year all of West Andrewsis a unit, so even though it coversfive floors it’s easier to access,” hesaid. With 85 first-years and fivecounselors in his unit this year,

“we have a larger unit but it’s a lottighter” than last year, he said.

Dav Dryer ’07 had no com-plaints about his multi-story unitin West Andrews.

“I think it’s great to have a moremoderate size break down, some-thing between your whole classwhich is unmanageable and yourhallway, where you are friendswith everyone,” Dryer said. Dryersaid the ratio of students to coun-selors in his unit is “perfect” withone counselor per hallway, allow-ing students to find support asindividuals or small groups.

Based on the high turnout forthis year’s “Battle of the Units” dur-ing orientation, “definitely peoplefeel like part of a unit,” Bauer said.

Herald senior staff writer LisaMandle ’06 can be reached atlmandle@browndailyherald.com.

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Spies said this year’s AnnualFund would support “the thingsthat are most important for theUniversity” — from mainte-nance support and financial aidto faculty salaries and improve-ments in computing structure —in keeping with the Initiativesfor Academic Enrichment.

“I think the reason we’ve beensuccessful is that people under-

stand the importance of movingforward with the president’s ini-tiatives,” Spies said. “These goalshave really inspired people tostep up to the plate.”

The Joukowsky family grantwas offered by formerChancellor Artemis JoukowskyJr. ’55, Professor of Old WorldArchaeology and Art MarthaSharp Joukowsky ’58 andMichael Joukowsky ’87.

Herald senior staff writer EllenWernecke ’06 can be reached atewernecke@browndailyherald.com.

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Shaky transitionIt would have been a good idea, if everyone had gotten thememo.

When first-years invaded dorms in past years, somecounselors were charged with transforming multi-storyunits containing 70 or more students into a cohesive com-munity, while others had the relatively easy task of manag-ing 40 students in a few connected hallways.

The administration promised that this year counselorsand first-years would arrive to something different. Andthey did — but not what the Office of Student Life intended.

The office decided to even out the student-to-counselorratio campus-wide, creating larger units where an increasednumber of counselors could oversee smaller, intra-unitgroups. But counselors say they now just feel responsiblefor twice as many first-years.

Getting to know 40 people in a short time is tough. Over80 may be impossible. First-years might not be able to tellthe difference — there were probably just as many partiesand friendly neighbors as in the days of smaller units. Butfor some counselors who remembered their first year, to“work with the ratio model” is to go against tradition, not tomention memories of attentive counselors.

OSL determined the new unit structure well before coun-selor training, yet some counselors still felt overwhelmedand frustrated.

Although the changes to the peer counseling system havebeen couched in impersonal terms of ratios, the larger unitsfundamentally change the way first-years interact with theircounselors.

Counselors can provide support for all of their first-years.But, under the new system, they should concentrate ontruly getting to know only a fraction of their units, ratherthan attempting to meet all first-years equally.

Judging by the reaction of some counselors, that goal wasnever articulated. So counselors reverted to their instincts— to be a friendly face and attentive to everyone undertheir watch, with mixed results.

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Behind the hoopla,Cali. recall is justpolitics as usualTo the Editor:

It is preposterous for Alexandra Toumanoff ’06 tosuggest, as she does, (“And now from the state thatbrought us Ronald Reagan,” Sept. 2) that “the mass-es have snatched the reins of power” in California,or that “Republican bigwigs are apoplectic” aboutthe recall election. U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa, aSan Diego-area Republican who made tens of mil-lions as a car alarm magnate, spent $1 million of hisown money to hire armies of signature gatherers,which made the recall election possible. FormerCalifornia Governor Pete Wilson is the co-chair and

some say the brains behind ArnoldSchwarzenegger's campaign. The Republicanestablishment is only too happy that this is occur-ring, and only too happy to rally around the sup-posedly unconventional movie star/candidate,except for those on the far right who are upsetabout his positions on gay rights and abortion.

To suggest that this election represents somechallenge to the two major parties is also silly.Ninety-six of the 135 candidates are Democrats orRepublicans, and of course the media attentionnow focuses on — surprise! — one prominentRepublican (Schwarzenegger) and one prominentDemocrat (Cruz Bustamente).

The recall may seem novel on the surface, butreally it is still politics as usual.

Peter Ian Asen ’04Sep. 2

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2003 · PAGE 11

I’M A POP FAN. I’LL ADMIT IT FREELY. Ilisten to the music that most people ourage shun like snails shun Morton’sIodized Salt. Teen pop, pop-rock, pop-country, even pop-rap and pop-punk areall genres I embrace. I refer to the host ofTRL as “Carson” as if wewere on a first-name basisand I argue with peopleabout whether the “Stop”remix of Britney Spears’“(You Drive Me) Crazy” wasan improvement or not. Popis more than just music to me — pop is away of life. And that’s precisely why therecent Recording Industry Association ofAmerica crackdowns irk me so much.

The RIAA and others, including movieproduction companies and even com-puter application and game developers,have recently begun stepping up effortsto fight file sharing. Subpoenas havebeen issued, charges have been filedagainst gross violators of copyright lawand the big corporations are gunning foryou. The message is simple: Obey the lawor face the consequences. Although theirtactics are harsh, the core moral issueseems fairly simple, right? Well, it is —but there is also much more to it thanthat.

Is file-sharing stealing? It is, accordingto one of the major assertions of produc-tion companies. They liken using file-sharing programs to shoplifting. And youwon’t see this columnist disagree withthat particular point. Stealing is stealing,

whether you’re taking the newest luxurycar by Lincoln or “In The End” by LinkinPark. I do not, however, share the RIAA’sobsessive need to end file sharing as weknow it with sting operations and litiga-tions. The RIAA fails to understand why

people so eagerly flaunt copy-right law and thus do not knowhow to effectively combat it.

So why do people boot upWinMX instead of going totheir local Wal-Mart? Well, inaddition to Wal-Mart’s unsa-

vory labor practices, there is really onemajor reason why people file-shareinstead of buy: the high prices ofCDs/DVDs/software and it’s a simpleconsumer cost-benefit analyses.

Buying the beautiful Michelle Branch’snew album “Hotel Paper” almost costthis columnist $20. A score full of dollars,gentle readers! That’s like four trips toEast Side Pockets or one-sixth of my EC111 textbook. To put it another way, thiscolumnist (and you all too, no doubt)lack the supply of green to buy a CDevery time we hear a song we like on theradio.

Although it may seem like a cop-outbecause of laziness and a disregard forintellectual property, downloading moreclosely resembles an econometric-styledecision than a legal one. Basic econom-ic theory states that when presented withmultiple choices, we choose the one thatbenefits us the most at the least cost.Considering that many times you wantonly a particular song and not a wholebody of work by an artist, the choice isbetween an already-overpriced albumwith the track you want or the two min-utes it takes to download that one

desired song off of the peer-to-peer net-work. In essence, you are being asked ifone song is worth the $15 to $20 you haveto fork out for a whole CD. Frankly, few ofus would say one song is worth thatmuch unless a strange masked assailantheld us at gunpoint and said “Say thatone song is worth $15 or die.” Even insuch a situation, I’m not sure I would sayit. I mean, Lee Ann Womack’s “I Hope YouDance” was a horrific album. Listening toevery non-title track was like eating card-board boxes, but without the reassuringsweetness.

Because of this inherent problem withcurrent media retail pricing, sending elitecyber-SWAT teams into campuses mayscare some file sharers into hiding, but itwill not fix the fundamental problem.1984-style music police notwithstanding,pop fans like myself are still put in a terri-ble bind — most of the songs we listen toare by one-hit wonder bands. Buying thealbum would be like throwing yourmoney into a garbage bin, burning thetrash and then burying the bin inMozambique. High-profile arrests andteams of anti-piracy lawyers are a short-term solution, at best, to the file sharingproblem.

The most likely long-term answer tofile-sharing is simple and is already slowly

gaining popularity — legal alternatives toKazaa, LimeWire and their many clones.The focus on individual tracks and the lowprices have already made Apple’s iTunesincredibly popular, giving you the abilityto download a song for a buck. In this way,would-be MP3 pirates can get theirfavorite melodies without shelling out thebuckets of cash for a whole album. Similarpay sites are cropping up for both musicand movies, but so far most of the iTunes-alikes lack a wide selection, have a con-fusing interface and/or require a sub-scription-style commitment. Muchimprovement must be done before thesesites become viable alternatives to getting“The Matrix: Reloaded” from a guy inSingapore that has an early release VCDburned on his computer.

To the RIAA and their corporate allieswho bemoan “mounting losses” — wakeup: File sharing is here to stay. Shamingoffenders hasn’t worked yet, nor hasincessant whining about revenue decreas-es; after all, how does one feel pity for amultibillion-dollar industry’s financialplight? Stop sending in the cavalry andget a long-term solution. You want tomake money, fine — corner the marketon file sharing alternatives. The key wordhere is choice, my rich RIAA friends, notcrackdown.

AROUND THE WORLD, MILLIONS OFpeople are sick and dying of diseases likecancer, diabetes and AIDS while Americanpharmaceutical companies race againstthe clock to develop the medicines neces-sary to save their lives. Given the financialand legal risks involved, the work drugmakers do is heroic. To bring a single drugto the market, drug makershave to spend an average of$802 million on research anddevelopment, conduct over adecade of rigorous clinical tri-als and assume enormouslegal liabilities. To make mat-ters worse, drug makers onlyfully recover the costs on 30percent of new drugs. Evenfirst-rate drug maker Bristol-Meyers Squibb spent $16.5billion between 1990 and 2002without making a singlebreakthrough. However,charging relatively high priceshas enabled drug companies to recovertheir costs and maintain adequate cashflow to continue to research and developthe medicines that will make the differ-ence between life and death for millions ofcurrent and future disease victims.

But while American pharmaceuticalcompanies continue to make life-savingaccomplishments at a feverish pace, they

find themselves increasingly under attackby selfish and misguided politicians fromaround the world who demand access toAmerican miracle drugs but refuse to payfor them. Recent calls to violate Americanpatents by producing cheaper generic ver-sions of American drugs are only the latestin a systematic effort by the world commu-

nity to extract freebies fromdrug makers. Already, countrieslike France and Canada haveimposed rigid price controlsthat allow their citizens to pur-chase American drugs far belowtheir true market value. Thus,Americans are forced to bearthe burden of paying forresearch and development ofnew drugs while the rest of theworld reaps the benefits.

With experts predicting thathealthcare will gobble up 18percent of America’s annualeconomic output by 2012, it’s

about time our government forced othercountries to end the price control scam thatallows them to live like parasites off of cut-rate American drugs while we foot the billfor research and development. Instead, amajority coalition of mostly Democrats inthe House of Representatives recentlypassed a hopelessly misguided bill thatwould allow Americans to take part in thatscam by re-importing cut-rate drugs frompharmacists in Canada and elsewhere.While drug makers wage war against dis-ease, Democrats and liberal Republicans

seem intent on waging war against drugmakers.

The House bill has scary implicationsfor the long-term health of America andthe world. The Food and DrugAdministration has emphasized it has noway of verifying the authenticity or thequality of drugs imported from othercountries. Canadian middlemen couldpass unsafe or ineffective imitations pur-chased from factories in Asia and Africaonto unsuspecting American customers.According to the American MedicalAssociation, importing drugs fromunknown foreign sources “makes patientharm a real possibility.”

The House bill would also harm con-sumers in foreign local markets. Re-importation would give foreign pharma-cists an incentive to export their invento-ries to the rich American market, whichwould create shortages in local marketsall over the globe. Treatments wouldbecome unavailable to those who needthem most.

Already, American drug companies arealmost totally unable to generate cashflow abroad. While America makes uponly 50 percent of the global pharmaceu-ticals market, it generates the vast majori-ty of its profits. If Americans, too, wereallowed to consume drugs purchased atan artificially depressed price, revenuesfor drug makers would plunge, starvingthem of the cash flow necessary to financeresearch and development. Drug makerswould be forced to cancel programs to

develop potentially life-saving treatmentsfor diseases like cancer and AIDS.Furthermore, as lower wholesale priceseat away at drug makers’ gross margin,treatments that today only generate asmall profit would likely become unprof-itable. Drug companies, seeking to down-size, would be forced to either take thesedrugs off the market or raise prices signif-icantly. The result would be a shortage oflife-saving medicine.

Fortunately, the House bill isn’t likely tosurvive the upcoming Senate vote. Fifty-three senators recently signed a lettercondemning the bill, and SenateRepublicans find pressure from the phar-maceutical lobby hard to resist.

Our politicians should know by now agovernment can’t simply fix the price of acommodity at whatever amount it desireswithout causing serious imbalances ofsupply and demand. But with healthcarecosts consuming an ever-growing share ofour national income, price controls willcontinue to be one of those bad ideas thatnever seems to die.

By developing safe, effective medi-cines, drug makers are making some ofthe most important achievements inhuman history. No cause has ever been sopressing or so universal as the fightagainst disease. Left-wing demagogueswho attack drug companies in the nameof the sick and the dying will only maketheir lot worse in the end. Let’s make surepharmaceuticals have all of the funds theyneed to continue saving lives.

Nate Goralnik ‘06 is already homesickfor Arizona.

Importing pharmaceuticals from Canada is bad for our health

The RIAA and their corporate allies must rethink their strategy to fight P2P

File sharing is here to stay

John Brougher '06 loves swashbucklingand is entering his second semester as anopinions columnist.

Cheaper medicine means less medicine

Stealing is stealing, whether you’re taking the newest lux-

ury car by Lincoln or “In The End” by Linkin Park. I do not,

however, share the RIAA’s obsessive need to end file-shar-

ing as we know it with sting operations and litigations.

NATE GORALNIKORDERS FROM

THE BOSS

JOHN BROUGHER

CAN’T STOP THE BROCK

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SEPTEMBER 3, 2003 · PAGE 12

Photo courtesy of Brown Sports Information

Hayley Sennott ’04 scored in the 3-2 victory over Wacker Munich.

BEFORE THIS SUMMER I DIDN’T KNOWwhat Texas Hold’em was. Then I saw theWorld Championship of Poker, whichranked second in airtime behind somestory about a basketball player. I neverthought a card game would ever be alluring

enough to watchon television, butthrow cold hardcash into the mixand I and most ofAmerica wouldwatch just aboutanything, evenhigh stakesYahtzee.

You don’t needto be a historymajor to realizegambling has beenin the blood ofAmericans ever

since the formation of the nation. Judgingby the sheer enormity of the industry, itseems like the lucrative industry/addictivehabit is showing few signs of abating.Similar to many of the acts consideredvices, gambling has been given the euphe-mism of entertainment by those who sup-port it. From the local lottery to the fantasyfootball league to Foxwoods casino, gam-bling is hard to escape.

Though there are many forms of gam-bling, sports gambling has become one ofthe most popular for many good reasons.Every sports fan is a self-proclaimedgenius. With a high level of assurance hecan tell you why some 8th round draft pickwill prove to be more useful than a new boxof jock straps, how Michael Vick’s injurywill affect the Falcons and whether or notKobe Bryant is guilty. It only follows thenthat with such profound knowledge,money can be made, so the bet is made,although the unforeseen last minute fieldgoal ends up proving the sports geniusdead wrong.

Pride, which happens to be one of theseven deadly sins, is a close cousin of gam-bling. Many people are proud of theirsports team — or just too blind to realizethere is no hope — and can be lured intothe most ludicrous bets (for reference,check the case of my wallet vs. Super Bowl25-28). Betting with these sorry sacks istantamount to stealing, but at least it won’tput you in a cell with Buddy Cianci.

Sports betting usually has an excitinggame deciding the outcome of the bet.Casinos, also quite popular, fill the sameniche, although games like baseball are alot slower than roulette and it takes a fewhours to lose your paycheck, not a fewspins. But sometimes the casino games arenot interesting enough, or rigged, so whenthe “Guess the number behind my back,”or “Which hand is it?” game wears thin, afootball game becomes a bit more enticing.

In most sports sections, you can find thelatest line giving the over/under points ateam is favored. It was not established toconsole the horrible teams and their woe-ful fans (although as a Buffalo Bills andBoston Red Sox fan, I have little else tocling onto), but to provide the gamblingworld with a more attractive contest.Honestly, who would bet on a baseballgame between the New York Yankees andthe Detroit Tigers without a 15-run spread?

In recent years, the Internet has revo-lutionized sports gambling. Betting usedto require going to purchase a ticket, oreven calling a bookie, but now with the

IOC to crackdown ondoping(L.A. Times) — The International OlympicCommittee, in a clear signal of urgencyand import, proposed Monday that it workwith the World Anti-Doping Agency tojointly investigate the case of U.S. sprinterJerome Young, who competed in the 2000Sydney Olympics despite testing positivethe year before for a banned steroid.

The case could mean the loss of the goldmedals won by the U.S. 400-meter relayteam in Sydney, Australia.

“In combining the experience and forceof both organizations, the IOC believesthat better results can be achieved,’’ theIOC said in a statement.

A clear indication of the matter’s signif-icance is that IOC President Jacques Roggeissued the proposal as he appearedMonday at a ceremony in Beijing with sen-ior Chinese government and leadingOlympic officials to formally launch themarketing program for the 2008 SummerGames, expected to generate unprece-dented Games-related business opportu-nities.

“The letter to WADA is a further stephighlighting the importance that the IOCgives to this case,’’ the IOC statement said.

WADA President Dick Pound said in atelephone interview, “We welcome thiscontinuing close cooperation with the IOCin the fight against drugs in sport. We willcertainly be more than willing to help inthis matter.’’

The proposal for a joint inquiry wasissued one day after Young won a secondgold medal at the world track and fieldchampionships in Paris, anchoring thewinning U.S. 400 relay. Last Tuesday, hewon the individual 400 title.

In Sydney, Young ran the first leg in theopening and semifinal rounds of the 400relay. He and five others won gold whenthe U.S. team, anchored by MichaelJohnson, cruised to an easy victory in thefinals.

Young, 27, of Fort Worth, acknowledgedlast Thursday that he tested positive in1999. The next day, he said he had “nevercommitted a doping offense’’ — a distinc-tion that stops well short of a denial thathe was the unidentified Olympic goldmedalist who tested positive before theGames, was initially found liable of a dop-ing violation, then on appeal was clearedto compete by USA Track & Field. Thehearing and appeal process was conduct-ed in secret.

The case for years has fueled suspicionsoutside the United States that U.S. author-ities were engaged in a cover-up. U.S. offi-cials say they were merely abiding by con-fidentiality rules, not furthering a cover-up.

Without his successful appeal, Youngfaced the likelihood of a two-year suspen-sion that would have kept him out of the2000 Games.

Because the USATF hearing and appealwere conducted in secret, theInternational Assn. of AthleticsFederations — track’s worldwide govern-ing body — had no chance to review thecase before Sydney. In nandrolone-relatedcases involving athletes from othernations, even those cleared by theirnational federations, the IAAF had acted tobar competitors from the Sydney Games.

In January, the Swiss-based Court ofArbitration for Sport ruled USATF did nothave to disclose to the IAAF details of theunnamed U.S. athlete who competed in

see IOC, page 9see CROPP, page 9

W. soccer European tourBY MAGGIE HASKINSThis year the Brown women’s soccerteam started its season a bit differently— by playing seven exhibition games inEurope. On Aug. 14 the 23 returningsoccer players touched down in Londonfor a 12-day romp through Europe thatsaw the Bears dominate its foreign com-petition in four countries before fadingon the Italian leg of their trip.

This is not the first time the team hastraveled abroad. According to NCAADivision I rules a team is allowed to playabroad once every four years. Last time,Brown visited Canada, England,Holland, Germany, France andBelgium. This trip found Brown visitingEngland, Germany, Austria, Switzerlandand Italy.

Brown kicked off its trip with apounding of the Queens Park Rangers7-0. The dominating was truly an entireteam effort with seven different Bearsscoring in the game. Meghan Schreck’06, Dana Muhlfelder ’06 and KristinFerrell ’04 opened up a 3-0 in the firsthalf, and Tory Manchester ’06, JamieJohnson ’06, Rachel Roberts ’04 andJulie Herrold ’04 all found the back ofthe net in the second.

The Bears followed their strongopening by attending a professionalmatch of West Ham United vs. SheffieldUnited. The next day the team traveledto Salzburg, Austria, and took on TSVPfersee. Sarah Gervais ’04 recordedanother shutout in goal but the Brownoffense was unable to score, ending thegame in a 0-0 tie.

In Game 3 of the trip the Bears beganexercising some of last year’s demons inMunich, Germany. With a 2-1 lead ongoals by Kim Hagner ’05 and HayleySennott ’04 after the first half, the Bearsopponents’ Wacker Munich tied thegame 2-2. Bucking a trend —last year

the Bears lost seven games by one goal –the team snatched a victory in the clos-ing minutes on a goal by ChristineSerdjenian ’06.

On Aug. 19 the Bears faced off againstFC Berne, a Swiss 1st Division Team, inSwitzerland. Playing in the main stadi-um with a capacity of 15,000, the Bearsdestroyed Berne, winning 7-0.

With a 3-0-1 record the team headingto Italy on Friday, Aug. 22 and began agrueling three-game stretch in threedays. The team proved their mettle ineach of the matches. The only contro-versy of the trip came in the first gamein Italy against Bardolino. With theBears down 1-0 and surging at 35 min-utes into the second half the Italian offi-cial ended the game. With translators inhand Head Coach Phil Pincince wastold the Italian coach had asked the offi-cial to end the game 10 minutes early topreserve his teams victory. Controversyaside, the Bears played their best gamethat evening with over 750 Italian fanswatching.

Less than 24 hours later the Bearswere on the field again in Lanzo, Italy,taking on Como 2000 in 98-degree heat— not the only challenge that day.

“When we got (to the field) we foundout the field was real small, only 60yards across,” Pincince said. “The fieldsize made it a very physical game.”

The game ended in a tie but therewas no rest for the Brown team as itplayed the final game of the trip againstAgliani in Fanano, Italy, at 10:15 the nextmorning. Once again heat — 103degrees — and an ill-sized field greetedthe Bears.

“It was the biggest field we played on.Nobody complained though. It justmade us tougher. We just sucked it up

see W. SOCCER, page 7

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