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Rhode Island Hospitalfaces third poweroutage this month,looks for solutionspage 3

Mayoral hopeful KevenMcKenna says educa-tion reform is key toimproving Providencepage 3

Sofyan Sultan ’03.5says foreign relationsunderstanding requirescomplex analysisguest column,page 13

Camille Gerwin ’03says only peace willlead to establishmentof a Palestinian stateguest column,page 13

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BY KATIE ROUSHInternationally acclaimed architectsRafael Vinoly and Zaha Hadid spokeWednesday about their different visionsof modern city buildings.

The joint lecture on progressive cityarchitecture discussed how buildingsshould help connect people to the citiesin which they live.

Vinoly, a Uruguay-born architect whodesigned the newly opened KimmelCenter, home to the PhiladelphiaPhilharmonic Orchestra, and Brown’sWatson Institute for InternationalStudies, said he believes architectsshould produce innovative buildings thatcontribute to the progressive atmos-phere of a city.

But other architects think buildingsshould reflect the pre-existing structuresin the city that already affirm the city’ssuccess, he said.

He presented slides of five of his build-ings and explained how each structurereflects his personal approach to archi-tecture.

In each design, Vinoly said he tried toblend public and private spaces. He saidhe sought to achieve “the combination ofdifferent functions of commerce and

high culture, which intersects the pub-lic’s interests with conventionally privatespaces.”

In the Kimmel Center, Vinoly said hecreated a lobby that is used by concert-goers and city dwellers. The one-lobbystructure was used instead of scatteringmany lobbies throughout the buildingthat people rarely use.

This way, Vinoly said, the structure isnot merely a concert hall, but a vibrantnew aspect of city life, and it does notignore the surrounding city.

The external shape of the buildings hedesigns also makes the structuresappealing to the surrounding city, Vinolysaid.

The Kimmel Center has a uniquelycurved roof that “respects the orderlygrid of the city and also captures the dou-ble scale between the low-rise and high-rise buildings it is situated in-between,”he said.

Although the concert hall has a dis-tinct and memorable shape, it respectsand relates to the city around it, headded.

Zaha Hadid, an internationallyrenowned modernist architect, spokeabout her creative intention to “test the

boundaries of architectural design” inevery building she creates and addressedthe issue of construction on the site ofthe former World Trade Center.

Hadid said she focuses on designingconventionally regular structures such asparking lots and car factories to testarchitectural boundaries.

Hadid also talked about her designof Italy’s Rome Museum ofContemporary Art. She said shedesigned the building by includingwavy, river-like patterns to help createfluidity in the building plan.

The museum linked Rome’s ancientpast with its new status as a contempo-rary, modern city, Hadid said.

Hadid said that logistic and socialproblems complicate any possible recon-struction on the site of the old WorldTrade Center. But she added that it hadthe possibility to be an interesting andexciting project.

She stressed the importance of “get-ting quite a few brains involved” in theplanning of the new buildings on thesite.

Herald staff writer Katie Roush ’03 can bereached at [email protected].

Jury selectionbegins in Ciancicorruption trialBY CHRIS BYRNESJury selection began in the corruption trialof Mayor Vincent Cianci in U.S. DistrictCourt Wednesday.

Judge Ernest Torres addressed the 95potential jurors shortly after 9:30 a.m. andinstructed them to avoid watching the newsand reading the newspapers. Only 21 werequestioned Wednesday, and the others willbe interviewed this week, the ProvidenceJournal reported.

Of the 21 jurors examined Wednesday, 16were ruled “tentatively qualified,” and fivewere rejected.

Torres and lawyers for both sides ques-tioned potential jurors to see if they wereassociated with Cianci or had any other pos-sible bias.

Numerous people had connections topolice departments throughout RhodeIsland, a major concern to both parties.Torres frequently asked jury candidates iftheir connections to police would lead themto consider police testimony any more — orless — credible than other testifiers.

One man, a social worker who works inMassachusetts, had testified in numerouscases in which the state sought to claim cus-tody of a child. His experiences testifyingand his cooperation with local policedepartments in those cases contributed tohis dismissal.

A retired naval police officer said Ciancihad attended his 25th wedding anniversary

Despite roadblocks,literature alive inMexico, authorFuentes reportsBY JUAN NUÑEZCelebrated Mexican author Carlos Fuentesand four emerging talents of the Mexicanliterary stage, Jorge Volpi, Ignacio Padilla,Pedro Angel Palou and Cristina RiveraGarza, discussed writing and Mexican liter-ary culture Wednesday in the RochambeauLibrary.

Fuentes praised the writers with whomhe spoke, saying their presence proves thatMexican literary culture is alive, and theirwriting will insure the culture’s survival andcontinuity.

The writers discussed the difficulties ofwriting in Mexico.

“There is a profound editorial crisis inMexico,” Padilla said. At initial publication,only 2,000 copies of “serious” novels arenormally printed, he said.

Padilla also said the very low levels ofbook piracy in Mexico exhibit the “editorialcrisis.” The amount of bootlegged books isusually a reliable indicator of how muchthe public reads, he said.

“It is not profitable to bootleg books,”Padilla said of the situation in Mexico.

Padilla criticized the Mexican literarytradition’s failure to allow for sub-genres.

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see FUENTES page 6

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The new Watson Institute for International Studies was designed by architect Rafael Vinoly,who spoke Wednesday night about craftingprogressive structures to connect people to the cities in which they live.The lecture was part of the 2002 Brown/ProJo conference.

21st-century skylines: 2 world renownedarchitects pitch visions of modern design

Abstract Fantasy Nate Pollard

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McKenna announces platform to faceCianci in mayoral electionsDemocratic mayoral candidate Keven McKenna likes to tellpeople he is the only person to beat Bill Clinton in a presi-dential race.

McKenna, a campaign manager in college, steered theformer U.S. president’s opponent to victory in the contestfor Georgetown University student body president.

Over 20 years later, McKenna finds himself battlinganother political behemoth — embattled Providence MayorVincent Cianci, who is currently on trial in U.S. District Courton federal racketeering charges.

McKenna’s platform emphasizes crime prevention andeducation reform.The candidate told The Herald that “if youdon’t provide safety and education, you don’t have a city.

“Everyone’s responsible, but no one’s responsible,”McKenna said, criticizing the source of Providence’s schoolwoes.

His solution includes a three-semester school term andpublic education through the age of 20. He also suggesteddrawing on the resources of Providence’s numerous col-leges.

He outlined a hard-line crime prevention platform thatincludes imprisoning drug users and fining people caughtstanding idle on public streets.

A person cannot deal drugs if they cannot stop walking,McKenna said.

McKenna maintains that Cianci can be beaten thisNovember, saying the Mayor runs on a “cult of personality”and is not responsible for the downtown revival.

McKenna said that a downtown development commis-sion deserves credit instead.

Cianci “had nothing to do with it. Zero,” McKenna said.McKenna promised to become a people’s mayor — call-

ing himself a populist with his “conservative values and pro-gressive ideals.”

— Chris Byrnes

URI graduate teaching assistants holdelections on unionizationThe National Labor Relations Board conducted a secret bal-lot election Wednesday to determine whether graduate stu-dents employed as teaching and research assistants by theUniversity of Rhode Island will form a union.

Though the results of the ballot have not yet beenreleased, URI administrators expressed a willingness to workwith a union.

If the URI grad students vote in favor of unionization,they will join Graduate Assistants United, a unit of the URIchapter of the American Association of UniversityProfessors.

The mission of GAU, which also represents URI faculty,“is toimprove the working conditions faced by Graduate Assistantsand to improve the quality of Graduate Education at URI,”according to the URI Graduate Student Association’s Web site.

All 587 URI graduate research and teaching assistants areeligible to vote in the secret ballot. In order to unionize, amajority vote in favor of unionization is needed, even if allstudents do not vote.

“URI is a collective bargaining environment,” URIPresident Robert Carothers said in a statement.“We havelearned to make that system work effectively for us, and Ibelieve we can make it work for graduate assistants, too.”

— Chloe Thompson

State reps look to amend ConstitutionBY CHRIS BYRNESRhode Island — a state that prides itself on its liberalism andits “Renaissance” capital city — has distinguished itself in adifferent way for almost 226 years: it is the only state not tohave three separate and co-equal branches of government.

Rhode Island does have executive, legislative and judicialbranches, but it lacks the separation of powers that is foundin the U.S. Constitution, said Peter Hufstader, research direc-tor for Common Cause Rhode Island, an organization thatpromotes clean government.

Despite the results of a non-binding voter referendum in2000 that urged legislators — by a 2-to-1 margin — to estab-lish separate and co-equal branches of government, all billsthat have attempted to create a separation of powers werevoted down.

Last week, a bill sponsored by five Republicans — spear-headed by State Rep. Nicholas Gorham of Coventry — wassent back to the judiciary committee for reconsideration.The vote came after the judiciary committee decided not torecommend the bill and Gorham tried to bring it directly tothe House floor for debate.

This is tantamount to “being sent to prison without a sen-tence,” Gorham told The Herald.

The bill would amend the Rhode Island Constitution tosay the three branches of government are “separate and co-equal, as under the Constitution of the United States.”

It also gives power of appointment, currently held by thelegislature, to the governor and limits the scope of legislativepowers.

A bill identical to Gorham’s, but sponsored by fiveDemocrats — including gubernatorial candidate State Rep.Antonio Pires of Pawtucket and State Rep. Edith Ajello,Brown’s representative — has also not left the HouseJudiciary Committee.

Gorham attributes the difficulty of passing the legislationto House leadership.

“The leadership in the House — they don’t want to debateit,” he said. “How can you defend a position that is essential-ly ‘We do not want the people to decide whether to have sep-arate and co-equal branches of government?

“We are willing and able to debate,” he said.Gorham is currently attempting to bring the issue back to

the House floor by exploiting a parliamentary loophole, hesaid.

Speaker of the House John Harwood, D-Pawtucket, wasout of town and unavailable for comment.

In total, seven pieces of legislation address the separa-tion-of-powers amendment. Gorham and Pires’ bills eachhave identical versions in the Senate.

State Sen. Mary Parella, R-Bristol and Warren, andGorham sponsored bills in each chamber.

Mayoral candidate and State Rep. David Cicilline ’83, D-Providence, sponsored his own bill.

While most of the bills are virtually identical, Parella’sexplicitly prevents legislators from serving concurrent termsin the executive branch. But none of the bills have had anysuccess.

There are many reasons for this stalemate, Hufstader said. He cited State Sen. Minority Leader Denis Algiere, R-

Westerly, as saying separation of powers is not a partisanissue — it’s a good government issue.

Legislators now have significant powers of patronage,Hufstader said. The Speaker of the House and the SenateMajority Leader appoint 412 legislators and 250 members ofthe general public to seats on boards, according to a countlast January, Hufstader said.

RI Hospital suffers another power outageBY EMIR SENTURKRhode Island Hospital lost half its power supply Tuesday inthe latest in a series of outages, forcing the hospital to can-cel elective surgeries and rely on its co-generator for elec-tricity.

The electrical failure, one of many to affect the hospital inrecent years, occurred when repair crews on I-95 and I-195damaged an underground electrical cable.

The damaged cable served as one of the power sources tothe hospital, said Nancy Cawley, senior media relations offi-cer at Rhode Island Hospital.

The hospital is powered simultaneously byNarragansett Electric Company and its own co-genera-tion plant, but it was forced Tuesday to rely solely on itsco-generator, which also powers Women and InfantsHospital.

As a result, the hospital scaled back its operations untilfull power was restored.

“We cancelled elective surgeries today, but everything isback on schedule for tomorrow,” Cawley said Tuesday.

The hospital has taken similar precautionary measuresin the past.

“Our first priority is ensuring safe and appropriatepatient care,” Cawley said.

Tuesday’s failure was the third to affect the hospital thismonth. The installation of a new service cable causedpower to fail for nearly an hour and twenty minutes onApril 1.

On April 10, an electrical circuit malfunction caused apartial power failure in the emergency department andoperating rooms. Only the Davol Building, one of 33 build-ings on the hospital’s campus, was affected.

On both days, the hospital transported several inpatientsand emergency patients to other hospitals until it wasdeemed safe for them to return.

The Providence Fire Department also arrived on thescene with portable generators in case any extra power wasneeded.

Cawley said the hospital’s power troubles date back sev-eral years.

A blackout in September 1999 knocked out the entirehospital’s power supply and raised concerns that the powerfailure may have caused the inadvertent death of onepatient.

“There was an incident in 1999 when a man did expireduring a power outage, but that cannot be directly linked tothe power outage itself,” Cawley said.

The system failed again in January 2000, when severalbuildings became entirely dependent on the hospital’s co-generator, forcing the hospital to shut off all non-essentialequipment.

“A hospital of this magnitude and this size should nothave these problems,” Providence Mayor Vincent Ciancitold the Providence Journal earlier this month.

To ensure power outages do not pose as great a risk asthey have in the past, the hospital has taken steps since the1999 incident to improve its electrical system.

“We are in the midst of an $11 million electrical upgrade,which we anticipate will be completed soon,” Cawley said.

The upgrade includes the addition of two two-megawattgenerators.

“I have a lot of confidence in R.I. Hospital,” Cianci told

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almost 27 years ago. When he said“I don’t know who invited him,”the court erupted in laugher.

He said he didn’t remembermuch about Cianci’s presence,explaining “I was half in the bag”that night.

Although he said he was a closeacquaintance of a former law part-ner of one of the defense lawyers,Torres didn’t dismiss him.

A judge can dismiss a prospec-tive juror if he determines, at therequest of a lawyer, the person isincompetent or biased.

Lawyers for each side receive aset number of peremptory chal-lenges, which allow them to dis-miss a specific juror without show-ing cause.

The process of issuing peremp-tory challenges will commenceafter Torres selects enough quali-fied jurors.

Twelve jurors and six alternateswill eventually decide Cianci’s fate.

One potential juror’s husbandwas once a tow-truck operator,

most recently for the AutomobileAssociation of America. Becausesome of the charges against Cianciinvolve bribery in city regulationof the towing industry, Torresexpressed concern over the poten-tial juror.

After the woman said she hasno knowledge of the exact condi-tions her husband worked in orwhom he was associated with,Torres ruled she not be dismissed.

Many of the jury candidates,who came from all over RhodeIsland, said they knew little aboutOperation Plunder Dome.

One potential juror continuallyreferred to Cianci’s allegedly illegalmembership to the UniversityClub as the “health club” incident,and another woman said all sheknew was that someone involvedin Plunder Dome died recently.She was referring to RosemaryGlancy, a former city employeewho was convicted on PlunderDome charges and died in January2001.

Jury selection is expected tocontinue for the next few days, asboth sides move toward the neces-sary number of tentative jurors.That number is believed to be in

the low 30s.Cianci is on trial for extortion,

mail fraud, bribery and other cor-ruption charges, along with co-defendants Richard Autiello, atowing contractor; Frank Corrente,former Cianci aid; and EdwardVoccola, a convicted felon who hasa lucrative lease agreement withProvidence schools.

Herald staff writer Chris Byrnes ’04edits the metro section. He can bereached at [email protected].

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Cianci

Seth Kerschner / Herald

Mayor Vincent Cianci was in U.S. District Court Wednesday, as defenseand prosecution counsel began jury selection in his corruption trial.

Jury selection is

expected to continue

for the next few days,

as both sides move

toward the necessary

number of tentative

jurors — believed to

be in the low 30s.

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of talent on the team. EricLindros, Theo Fleury, PeterNedved and midseason acqui-sition Pavel Bure all were all-stars at one point. Moreover, atone time or another, Lindros,Fleury and Bure could eachhave been considered the bestplayer in the NHL. Lindros is aconcussion away and Fleury isa drink away from the end oftheir careers, but the moral ofthe story seems to be that if youare a talented player, avoid theRangers at all costs.

The Rangers share MSGwith the Knicks, whose story isalmost as depressing.Although the trend of notmaking the playoffs is new tothe Knicks, this season mightwell be the worst in the team’shistory.

Their coach to start the sea-son, Jeff Van Gundy, quit whenthe team was one game over.500. Currently, they are 20games under .500 and are thethird worst team in the EasternConference.

But to show its managementexpertise, the team signed cur-rent coach Don Chaney to anextension.

Either they believe that thelosing is not Chaney’s fault orthat the team is going to be sobad for the next few years that itdoes not matter who the coachis. For some reason, I am bet-ting on the latter.

The Knicks’ woes continue,as the salaries of Charlie Ward,Allan Houston, Latrell Sprewell

and Marcus Camby combine forover 35 million dollars.

None of these four guys wereall-stars this year, and onlySprewell may have any tradevalue. Apparently, no one otherthan the Knicks thinks thatHouston is worth 100 milliondollars. Maybe the Knicks’problems will be solved if for-mer draft pick Fredrick Weiss,whose only career highlight wasbeing the player Vince Carterdunked over in the Olympics,returns from France. At least itwould give the team some size,as now only Camby, TravisKnight and Felton Spencer areover 6’9’’.

To recap, the payrolls of theKnicks and Rangers combine tobe over 120 million dollars andthe return on the hefty invest-ment is not a single playoffgame.

Yet, undoubtedly, ownershipwill try to spin the respectiveseasons as not being utter fail-ures and still may raise ticketprices for both teams. UnlessArthur Anderson is doing theaccounting, it may be difficultfor any fan not to see the teamsas 2002’s biggest disappoint-ment.

Ironically, both reside inwhat is supposed to be the“World’s Greatest Arena.”Maybe the circus will win a fewgames when it uses the arenaover the summer. In the end, itmay be too late for Mr. Dolan toput the teams back and justproceed to the checkout count-er.

Joshua Troy ’04 hails fromStamford, CT and is a politicalscience concentrator.


Troy

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There is no light summer reading,he said, adding that the rigidscheme of what is published doesnot allow for light reading.

Fuentes said the Mexican gov-ernment failed in its policytoward public libraries. There aremore libraries in the state ofAlabama than in the entire coun-try of Mexico, he said.

Fuentes also spoke about hisupcoming book, “En esto creo”(“In This I Believe”), to be pub-lished in May. The book isFuentes’ personal encyclopedia— he goes through the alphabetand writes on people and con-cepts that are important to him.

Fuentes said the words hefound hardest to define werethose beginning with the letter“z.” Among the words he includ-ed in this chapter were Zacatecas,a Mexican state, and Zurich,where he met Thomas Mann atage 21.

He expressed hesitation at call-ing the text an autobiography,saying that such a genre is veryambiguous, and clarifying that“En esto creo” covered matters

such as criticism, politics and hisfamily.

“This form has allowed for amarriage of genres,” Fuentes said.

Fuentes said his writing hasbeen influenced by Cervantes’“Don Quixote,” which taught himof “the possibilities of the novel,”and Herman Broch’s “TheSleepwalkers.”

“Don Quixote,” Fuentes said, isboth a Byzantine novel and a lovestory, something that had notbeen attempted before. “DonQuixote” “becomes the novel ofnovels,” he said, adding that thework made him aware of thepower and beauty of knowledge.

The authors discussed theprocess of writing, as well as theprocess of reading.

“Writing is the physical act ofthinking,” said Rivera Garza. “Onewrites to discover somethingwhile one writes. One thinks withone’s body.”

“The novel does not exist until

the reader finishes reading it,”Fuentes said, speaking of thesymbiotic relationship betweenreading and writing.

The writers also addressed howthe writing process changes as awriter matures.

Fuentes said one always writesbest when one starts writing.

“One is freer when one isyoung,” Volpi said. As one growsold, one has more technique, hesaid, but that does not necessarilymake for a better product.

The roundtable discussion wasa prelude for “The Geography ofCarlos Fuentes,” an internationalcongress to be held at Brown thisweekend. The congress com-memorates the 40th anniversaryof the publication of his novels“The Death of Artemio Cruz” and“Aura.”

Herald staff writer Juan Nuñez ’03can be reached at [email protected].


Fuentes Fuentes said the Mexican government failed

in its policy toward public libraries. There are

more libraries in the state of Alabama than

in the entire country of Mexico, he said.


couldn’t get anything started as itwas continually stymied byBrown’s tackling and dominationof scrums, rucks and mauls.

Brown’s final score of the daycame from Hannah Thompson’02, who broke through a Smith

lineout on Smith’s own five-metermark to touch the ball down.

The last game of the season —the final one for the team’s 17 sen-iors — is Saturday, Apr. 27, againstWellesley. A-Side kickoff will be at11:00 a.m. with the B-Side gamefollowing at 12:30 p.m. on the fieldbehind the OMAC.

Liz Terry ’02 plays for the women’srugby team.


W. Rugby

He said the power legislatorscan wield is “a remarkable aphro-disiac.”

Hufstader praised Gorham’s leg-islation that was sent back to com-mittee last week because it wouldmake all U.S. Supreme Court deci-sions regarding the separation ofpowers apply to Rhode Island, hesaid.

Prior to this recent legislative

effort, politicians attempted toamend the constitution withoutlegislation by calling for a constitu-tional convention. These effortswere dismissed by the House.

Constitutional conventionsoccur frequently in the state, withthe most recent one occurring in1986. The constitution has beenamended multiple times since then,including efforts in 1992 and 1994.

Herald staff writer Chris Byrnes ’04edits the metro section. He can bereached at [email protected].


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the Journal. “I know they’re trying.They’re certainly spending money.

I’m not going to lose faith in RhodeIsland Hospital. It’s one of the besthospitals in the country,” he said.

Herald staff writer Emir Senturk ’05can be reached at [email protected].


Power


many times I have seen Jordansoar over Ewing, dunking the ballon his head. It is as if Ewingbecame his favorite target. Manya Jordan poster has a bewilderedEwing underneath him.

The only time that Ewing everdid get a whiff of a championship— the first time Jordan retired —he met another Hall of Famer,Hakeem Olajuwon, in the finals,and was even then a John Starksaway winning it all.

That was just it though; JohnStarks and a revolving door ofother second tier players wereEwing’s supporting cast.

He never had a Pippen or aKobe beside him, another reli-able player to pass the ball to outof the constant double-teams.

In his prime, the New YorkKnicks’ front office had theuncanny ability to acquire inef-fective players and coaches. Therewas always someone in Ewing’sway, sometimes a teammate.

Some may say that Ewing is toblame for his shortcomings. Hecertainly does not need our sym-pathy. The NBA has made him amulti-millionaire, yet there ismore to this than money.

He never did figure out exactlywhen that second defender wascoming. Ewing was often criti-cized for shooting too manyjump shots and not reboundingand defending like someone withhis size and ability.

Olajuwon did get the better ofhim in the finals. These are allvalid points. The facts remain,though, that in his prime, Ewinggave his all, putting thoseKnickerbocker teams on his backand always falling a little bitshort.

I will never forget that missedlay-up in the Conference Finalsverses Indiana.

During a game, no playersweats as much as Patrick Ewing.Afterwards, no player lookedmore dejected.

Perhaps that was why he wasso aloof to the media and the fansin New York.

After working so hard, afterbeing criticized so often and sovehemently, it is easy to see whyhe would rather stay silent thanface the disparaging questions ofunscrupulous reporters.

I doubt he would have everbeen good enough for them.The fans in New York had grownaccustomed to winning. TheYankees were already in theirrenaissance and even theRangers won a Stanley Cup.

To this day, fans still harbor illwill towards Ewing for not com-ing through on his promise of avictory in the Eastern ConferenceChampionships.

After 15 seasons, Ewing wasushered out of New York with asmuch fanfare as the vagabondplayer at the end of the bench.The cheers for Ewing whenOrlando played New York lastweek were too little too late.

The past few years have notbeen kind to Ewing. He has

endured countless injuries, hadhis name dragged through themud about sexual impropriety atan Atlanta strip club and gonethrough a painful divorce. It istime for Ewing to call it quits forgood and end his painful careeras a NBA icon, something forwhich he was never well suited.

Perhaps because of thetremendous marketing successthat Michael Jordan hasachieved, we believe that everystar athlete can glow in the lime-light.

This certainly is not the casefor Ewing.

Perhaps it is because he immi-grated to America as a teenagerthat he did not grasp all the coun-try’s subtleties that resulted in hisappearing so uncomfortable infront of the media and fans.

The NBA still uses “I love thisgame” as its catch phrase. I amnot sure Ewing could ever saythat, especially later in his career.

For him, playing basketballseemed burdensome as thesports world harbored on whathe did not accomplish.

The fans in New York tooknotice and antagonized him evenmore when they saw his heartwas not in it, no matter how hardhe worked on the court.

It became hard to discernwhich came first, Ewing’s malaiseor implacable Knick fans.

Ewing will go quietly, neverquite achieving what wasexpected of him, never thegraceful hero to the multitudes.

Hopefully, for his sake, it willbe sooner than later.


Matheson

Women’s GolfOn the women’s links, the Brown

women’s golf team placed seventhout of 17 teams this past weekendat the James Madison UniversityInvitational in Harrisonville, V.A.

Included in the invitational wereIvy contenders Princeton and Yale,who finished third and fourth,respectively. The Bears shot 318-335 — 653 in the two-day event, 20strokes above their rivals.

The tournament got off to a slowstart, with the women teeing off inthe last slot in the midst of torrentialrains. Still finishing strong, by theend of the first round Brown was ina dead tie with the Lady Tigers ofPrinceton.

Though conditions improved

the following day, Brown’s score didnot. “We had trouble finishing,”Tara Fiscella ’03 said. “We’re notpleased, but we learned from it. Itwas a good experience to play withsome top schools, and it reallyhelped us prepare for Ivies thisweekend.”

Fiscella led the Bears and placed12th individually out of 91 playerswith a two-day 156, shooting 76 onSaturday and 80 on Sunday.Elizabeth Carpenter ’04 was also atop 20 finisher for the Bears, placing18th overall after shooting 79-83-162.

Jennifer Bley ’05 continued herstrong season by finishing 30thindividually, shooting a two-day165 (80-85). Rebekah Alfond ’02shot 85-87, and Amy Behrman ’05shot 83-89. They tied for 63rd over-all, carding a two-day 172.

The culmination of the season,the Women’s Ivy Golf

Championship, begins at 8:00 a.m.at Trenton Country Club in WestTrenton, N.J.

With 36 holes the first day and 18holes on the second, the tourna-ment marks the first year of theexpanded 54-hole format on thewomen’s side.

“We are going to need to con-centrate on every shot taken.Basically, we know we can com-pete,” Fiscella said, “but if we cansalvage pars over bogies, and bogiesover double bogies—those strokesare going to add up.”

With two tournament champi-onships behind them, the womenare confident in bringing down Yaleand Princeton, two teams that havealternately won the championshipevery year since 1997.

“As a team we are going to needto put some good rounds together ifwe are going to win, but we can def-initely do it,” Fiscella said.


Golf

WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


I N B R I E F Powell ends Middle East visit, vowscontinued U.S. involvementCAIRO (Washington Post) — As Secretary of State ColinPowell ended his Middle East mission Wednesday, he leftsenior American officials behind and suggested he him-self will return before too long, signaling the Bush admin-istration plans to press on with its new involvement in theIsraeli-Palestinian conflict.

But Powell also left behind widespread doubts abouthow hard it will press. He departed Jerusalem after sixdays without the cease-fire he had been seeking andunable to secure a withdrawal of Israeli forces from WestBank cities and refugee camps, even though PresidentBush demanded repeatedly and publicly that Israel endits invasion immediately.

Apparently sensitive to the impression of failure, Bushhailed Powell’s mission as a success and said during anappearance at the Virginia Military Institute that hisenvoy “made progress toward peace.” Israeli officials alsodepicted the effort as a success — if a modest one — andhailed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s pledge to end hisWest Bank offensive within a week as an accomplishmentfor Powell.

But here in Egypt, officials had a different reading. Afterleaving Jerusalem, Powell flew to Cairo for brief discus-sions with Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher and hisJordanian counterpart, Marwan Muasher. Powell hadbeen scheduled to meet President Hosni Mubarak as well,but the Egyptian leader was unavailable. Egyptian andAmerican officials said he was ill. But his decision not tosee Powell was exceptional, leading some analysts inEgypt to suggest it was sign of Egyptian and Arab dis-pleasure over Powell’s diplomacy.

Powell shook off the missed meeting. But the ability of

Israel to defy the United States could come with a cost toBush’s policy in the Arab world, where American prestigehad already been taking a beating. Saudi Arabia, Egyptand Jordan, as well as other allies, have been undermounting fire at home because of their ties to a U.S. gov-ernment seen as supporting Sharon’s tough policies.

How Powell’s mission affects his own standing remainsunclear, particularly inside the administration. Powellmade a strong case within Bush’s inner circle for launch-ing the initiative. But as he has conducted his mostimportant mission as the United States’ senior diplomat,he has also been careful, in frequent discussions with theWhite House and in public statements, not to get too farout in front of the president.

“My appearance here has shown to both the people ofIsrael, the Palestinians, our Arab friends in the region andthe world that President Bush is going to be playing aleadership role in this by sending his secretary of stateover,” Powell told reporters moments before leavingJerusalem. “I have had his solid support.”

Unlike in the past, little daylight has shown betweenthe White House and State Department in the last fewdays over how to proceed in the Middle East. But it couldemerge anew if there is a disagreement over whether tolean on Sharon in addition pressuring the Palestinianleader, Yasser Arafat.

Already, there have been differences in tone. WhilePowell was pressing Sharon for a pull back last week andraising concerns about the conduct of Israeli soldiers inWest Bank cities, for instance, White House spokesmanAri Fleischer was stressing that Sharon is “a man ofpeace.”

S.C. resists plutonium shipments WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — A bitter dispute betweenthe Bush administration and South Carolina over nuclearwaste disposal broke into the open this week, as theEnergy Department vowed to force the state to beginaccepting cross-country shipments of plutonium nextmonth.

Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham notified Gov. JimHodges, Democrat, late Monday that it was “essential” tobegin the shipments around May 15 to meet a schedulefor closing the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility inColorado by 2006, as part of an agreement with Russia tosimultaneously dispose of plutonium from dismantlednuclear weapons. In all, 34 metric tons of plutonium fromRocky Flats and other facilities, enough to make morethan 4,200 nuclear weapons, would be reprocessed at theEnergy Department’s Savannah River nuclear site, nearAiken, S.C., and then sold as fuel to commercial nuclearreactors.

But Hodges renewed his threat to deploy state troopersor even lie down in the middle of the road if necessary toblock the shipments until he receives a legally bindingguarantee that the weapons-grade plutonium will not bepermanently stored in his state. The governor metTuesday with his public safety director and members ofthe state highway patrol and transport police to discussthe options regarding the plutonium.

“Until there is a legally enforceable agreement thatholds the federal government to its word, I will do every-thing at my disposal to ensure that plutonium does notenter South Carolina,” Hodges said.

Energy Department officials said Tuesday that the

administration has bent over backward to accommodateHodges, meeting virtually every one of his demands —except the legally binding guarantee, which would essen-tially give federal courts authority over an internationalagreement. Joe Davis, a department spokesman, said thegovernment intends to press ahead with the plannedshipments out of a concern for national security, adding:“Armed confrontation serves no useful purpose.”

The controversy underscores the growing tensionsbetween federal authorities and the states over the han-dling and storage of nuclear waste and the problems asso-ciated with safely transporting it over long distances.

Just as Nevada officials are disputing EnergyDepartment claims that it can safely transport and thenstore vast quantities of nuclear waste beneath YuccaMountain, Hodges and other South Carolina officials saythey fear the government’s plans for reprocessing the plu-tonium might fall through, leaving the Savannah Riversite stuck with piles of unwanted plutonium waste. Somestate officials also say that truckloads of plutonium travel-ing more than 1,500 miles through seven or eight statescould become targets for terrorists.

Abraham said the Energy Department “has gone theextra mile” in making concessions to ease the governor’sconcerns — including a pledge to limit the initial ship-ments this year to no more than 3.2 metric tons, a formalcommitment to take the plutonium back if the reprocess-ing plant falls behind schedule or runs into funding trou-ble, and support for legislation to codify the agreement.But Hodges wants the terms of the agreement enteredinto an order from a U.S. district court.

Gas prices continue to soarWASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Gasoline prices, whichhave soared 27 percent in the last three months, are head-ed upward in coming weeks to perhaps the third highestlevel ever, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham saidWednesday.

U.S. gas prices may hit a summer-long average of $1.46for a gallon of unleaded regular, with a one-week peak of$1.55 sometime in May or June, as families take to theroads in warmer weather, Abraham said.

The national average price of a gallon of unleaded reg-ular reached $1.41 Wednesday, up 30 cents since thebeginning of the year. It has increased a variety of reasons.

Chief among them is that the price of crude oil, whichaccounts for 38 percent of the cost of gas, has risen fromabout $18 a barrel a few months ago to about $25.94Wednesday, in part because of cuts in production over thelast year by the Organization of the Petroleum ExportingCountries.

Moreover, the threat of war in the oil-producingMideast and political turmoil in Venezuela, the U.S.’s thirdlargest oil supplier, have pushed pump prices higher, ashas the federally required seasonal shift to cleaner gasblends that occurs every year at this time to combat sum-mer air pollution.

There is a modest amount of good news, however: Thisyear’s summer-long mark is likely to stay below last year’saverage of $1.54, partly because petroleum inventories arehigher this April than they were a year ago.

Abraham said this summer’s highest predicted peak of$1.55 a gallon is also lower than last summer’s top weeklyaverage of $1.70. Although nominally the average price ofgas might be the third highest ever, after adjusting forinflation it would be substantially lower than it wouldhave been two decades ago. But that’s of little import toconsumers who drive into gas stations once or twice aweek and notice prices going up.

U.S. Soldier shot while shopping KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (L. A. Times) — A U.S. Special Forcessoldier was shot in the face by a gunman who rushed upto him and three other Americans as they were shoppingin the crowded downtown bazaar Wednesday in thissouthern desert city.

The soldier was treated at the American military campoutside Kandahar and was in stable condition, a basespokesman said. Witnesses said the gunman escaped onfoot through the warren of narrow alleyways and veg-etable stalls in the Largo Gange market.

It was the first reported incident of an American soldierbeing attacked in a civilian setting since the U.S. militarycampaign in Afghanistan began Oct. 7. Combat, accidents,land mines and aircraft crashes have killed 37 U.S. militarypersonnel since last fall.

Ahmad Walli, a cotton merchant in the bazaar, said thesoldier was examining an ammunition belt at the Insafgun and ammo stall next door when a man emerged frombehind a stack of yellow cotton bales. He shot the soldierin the corner of the mouth. An Afghan standing nearbywas grazed, Walli said.

The American had drifted away from three fellow U.S.soldiers, who were buying ammunition belts in a stalldirectly across the narrow dirt pathway. By the time thethree soldiers reacted and came to the aid of the woundedman, Walli and other merchants said, the assailant had fled.


Judge rules against Ashcrofton Oregon assisted suicide law LOS ANGELES (Washington Post) — A federal judge inPortland ruled Wednesday that the Bush adminis-tration lacks the authority to overturn a voter-backed Oregon law permitting physician-assistedsuicide.

U.S. District Judge Robert Jones scolded AttorneyGeneral John Ashcroft, saying that the federal gov-ernment was attempting to usurp the rights of astate when the Justice Department announced itsintent to prosecute doctors who prescribe lethaldoses of drugs to their terminally ill and dyingpatients.

“The citizens of Oregon, through their demo-cratic initiative process, have chosen to resolve themoral, legal and ethical debate on physician-assist-ed suicide for themselves by voting — not once, buttwice — in favor of the Oregon act,” Jones wrote inhis order.

Jones said Ashcroft attempted to “stifle an ongo-ing, earnest and profound debate in the variousstates concerning physician-assisted suicide,” andthat “with no advance warning ... fired the first shotin the battle between the state of Oregon and thefederal government.”

Oregon is the first and only state to legalizephysician-assisted suicide — an immensely contro-versial practice that raises ethical, medical and reli-gious questions about the appropriate role for doc-tors in hastening or forbidding what advocates call“an early exit.” Wednesday’s decision was a clearvictory for advocates of allowing doctors to pre-scribe drugs to hasten an inevitable death, but thiswill not end the debate in the courts, inWashington, and in hospital corridors.

The Justice Department is considering anappeal, said Robert McCallum, an assistant attor-ney general. It would be heard by the Ninth CircuitCourt in San Francisco, and the process would like-ly take about 18 months. Meanwhile, the Oregonlaw remains in force, and other states are consider-ing similar measures.

McCallum repeated the administration’s con-tention that “assisting suicide is not medicine.”

“Terminally ill patients are among the most vul-

nerable members of our society,” he said. “Medicalstudies make clear that these individuals often suf-fer from undiagnosed depression and inadequatelytreated pain. A just and caring society should do itsbest to assist in coping with the problems thatafflict the terminally ill. It should not abandon orassist in killing them.”

Oregon voters first approved the Death WithDignity Act first in 1994, and then again three yearslater after a failed legal challenge.

Under that law, a patient who seeks a prescrip-tion for lethal drugs must be shown to be mental-ly competent and must have, in the opinion oftwo doctors, less than six months to live. Whiledoctors prescribe the powerful sedatives or nar-cotics, they are not allowed to actually administerthem to cause death. If the patient is incapable oftaking the drugs without aid, a friend or relativemay help.

In the past four years, some 91 people in Oregonhave chosen to end their lives with the help of theirphysicians, according to records kept by the state.

“The system has worked in Oregon,” saidKathryn Tucker, one of the attorneys who defendedthe law in court and the director of legal affairs forthe group Compassion in Dying Federation.

Tucker said that the number of patients chosingsuicide has been relatively low, and that there havenot been allegations of abuse or coercion.

Opponents of physician-assisted suicide, howev-er, decried the court action.

Burke Balch, a director of the National Right toLife Committee, said “the American people do notwant their federal government to facilitate euthana-sia.” Balch said he was confident the decisionwould be reversed on appeal.

Jan LaRue, a director of the Family ResearchCouncil, said, “medicine by definition is the art oftreating and curing. Drugs are for curing, notkilling.”

During the Clinton administration, then-Attorney General Janet Reno concluded that thefederal government could not bar Oregon doctorsfrom prescribing drugs to hasten death.

Lawsuit, book allege LAPD coverup in1997 murder of rapper Biggie SmallsLOS ANGELES (Washington Post) —More than five years have passedsince the shooting death of super-star rapper Christopher Wallace,known as Biggie Smalls, on a busyLos Angeles street in front ofdozens of witnesses, and still therehave been no arrests, no suspectsfingered.

Now two separate documents— a lawsuit filed last week and abook published this month —make a similar allegation con-cerning the apparent lack ofprogress in the case: that the LosAngeles Police Department hasdeliberately ignored leads thatimplicate its own officers.

Those leads, both documentsargue, would take detectives intothe scandal-plagued LAPD, andwould link rogue cops with DeathRow Records and its founder, con-victed felon Suge Knight, who wasengaged in a grudge match withWallace’s record company.

The LAPD captain who issupervising the case denied theallegations and said his detectiveswere continuing to pursue aninvestigation.

In the civil lawsuit — filed April9 against the city of Los Angeles,Police Chief Bernard Parks andtwo former chiefs — lawyers forWallace’s family claim “deliberateindifference” to the rap star’sdeath.

“The defendants intentionally,willfully and recklessly preventeda full and thorough investigationregarding the murder of(Wallace),” the lawsuit states.“This delay was intended to pro-tect the Los Angeles PoliceDepartment, the city of Los

Angeles and the individual defen-dants.”

Such allegations have appearedin published reports in the pastcouple of years. What’s new is thedegree of detail offered by boththe book and lawsuit in support oftheir claims.

The lawsuit contends thatthen-LAPD officer David Mackand his longtime friend AmirMuhammad (also known as HarryBillups) conspired to murderWallace in March 1997, and it sug-gests that they did so at the behestof Death Row honcho Knight.According to the suit, Knightbelieved that Wallace’s East Coastlabel, Bad Boy Entertainment, wasresponsible for the murder ofDeath Row star rapper TupacShakur in 1996 in Las Vegas.

The complaint offers a list ofclues to support its theory.Among them: Mack “was associ-ating socially” with Death Rowexecutives; his car matched thecolor and make of the one fromwhich, witnesses said, the fatalshots were fired; a witness iden-tified Muhammad from a policesketch of the suspected gun-man; and a confidential policeinformant implicated Mack aday after the murder. Mack wasconvicted for a November 1997bank robbery and is serving a14-year sentence.

Wallace, who recorded underthe stage name Notorious B.I.G.,was gunned down as he left amusic industry party at an automuseum in a convoy of cars. Hewas 24.

Capt. Jim Tatreau, who headsLAPD’s robbery-homicide divi-

sion, called the lawsuit’s centralallegation of a coverup “ridicu-lous.”

“Do you think it’s a possibility”that his detectives ignored viabletheories? he asked. “It isn’t. I’d beso happy to be able to develop anyinformation to solve that case. Ifthey were LAPD cops, so be it. Likewe haven’t taken hits before?”

Tatreau was referring to thedamaging Rampart Division scan-dal of the past two years, in whichLAPD officers were found to haveplanted weapons and other evi-dence on suspects and to haveperjured themselves in court. As aresult, at least a dozen officershave quit or were fired from theforce, dozens of convictions havebeen thrown out because of evi-dence tainted by police, and manymillions of dollars have been paidby the city in lawsuits.

The new book, “LAbyrinth,” byjournalist Randall Sullivan, allegesthat the Rampart scandal wasexcessively investigated by theLAPD, while the Wallace murderwas swept under the rug. In part,Sullivan says, this is explained bythe racial politics of Los Angeles,which in the late 1990s was stilltrying to recover from the traumaof the Rodney King police beatingand the O.J. Simpson murder case.

Sullivan asserts that the depart-ment was unwilling to take a hardlook at the Wallace case becausethe officers who would have beenimplicated were black. Nearly allthe officers caught up in theRampart scandal were white, andthe department was not as reluc-tant to investigate them, heargues.


Officer not to blame in Columbine deathGOLDEN, Colo. (L.A.Times) — An inde-pendent investigation releasedWednesday found that a studentslain during the Columbine HighSchool massacre was not killed by apolice officer, as his parents havelong claimed.

The report concluded thatDaniel Rohrbough, 15, was shot byEric Harris, one of two teen gun-men whose rampage killed 12classmates and a teacher threeyears ago.

The 1,200-page report by the ElPaso, Colo., County Sheriff’sDepartment contradicted the offi-cial Columbine investigation onseveral points. That report — issuedby the Jefferson County Sheriff’sDepartment in May 2000 — hasbeen the subject of intense criti-cism and spawned dozens of law-suits.

The controversy surroundingthe investigation led to an unsuc-cessful recall effort against JeffersonCounty Sheriff John Stone.

The El Paso County probe con-cluded that Denver SWAT officerSgt. Dan O’Shea did not accidental-ly kill Rohrbough outside theschool on April 20, 1999. It also saidRohrbough was not killed by gun-man Dylan Klebold, as the JeffersonCounty report concludes. Rather,ballistics evidence shows that thebullet recovered from Rohrbough’s

body was a “textbook match’’ toHarris’ gun, said El Paso SheriffWesley Anderson.

In the worst school shooting inU.S. history, Harris, 18, andKlebold, 17, roamed ColumbineHigh School, tossing homemadebombs and shooting scores ofclassmates. The pair eventuallykilled themselves in the schoollibrary.

El Paso County officials met withthe parents of Daniel Rohrboughfor 2 1/2 hours Wednesday morn-ing to review their findings. BrianRohrbough and Sue Petrone saidthat while the new findings givethem a glimpse for the first time ofwhat happened to their son thatday, it also reinforces what they sayhas been the incompetence ofStone.

“We have been searching for thetruth for three years,’’ said BrianRohrbough. “I think we finally gotthe facts that resemble the truth.The Jefferson County sheriff’s officenever, ever gave us access to thisinformation. But I never gave uphope of finding out what hap-pened. But if this is a victory, there’snothing to celebrate.’’

Stone asked neighboring El PasoCounty last December to investi-gate whether Rohrbough was killedby a police officer. The results werepresented April 10 to the Jefferson

County district attorney’s office. The new investigation hired an

independent ballistics lab inMaryland to retest the bullets firedfrom guns used by Harris, Kleboldand O’Shea.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’sDepartment and a lawyer forO’Shea did not return phone calls.

Rohrbough said Wednesday heregretted naming O’Shea in a law-suit claiming the officer killed theirson in a case of “friendly fire.’’ Thelawsuit, he said, was based oninformation provided by JeffersonCounty, much of which was contra-dicted by the El Paso County report.

Barry Arrington, a lawyer for theRohrbough family, noted that theJefferson County report set DanielRohrbough’s death at a time whenO’Shea was known to be near theboy. That and other information ledthe family to believe the highschool freshman was caught in apolice cross-fire.

In contrast, the El Paso Countyreport concluded that Rohrboughwas killed at least 36 minutesbefore O’Shea was even on thescene. It also accounted for threespent shell casings that came fromO’Shea’s gun that were found nearthe teen. The report said O’Sheawas providing covering fire for twopolicemen who were checking onRohrbough.

Bush administration defendsactions in Venezuelan upheavalWASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Bushadministration officials forcefullydefended themselves Wednesdayagainst criticism that they hadinterfered with the democraticprocess in Venezuela, saying theyhad done their best to respond tofast-moving events about whichthey knew little more than whatthey were seeing on television.Rather than supporting the self-declared government that tem-porarily seized power last weekfrom President Hugo Chavez, offi-cials said, they acted quickly tostem its excesses.

Assistant Secretary of State OttoReich acknowledged the adminis-tration had contacted theVenezuelan businessman installedin Chavez’s place last Friday. Reichsaid he had instructed CharlesShapiro, the U.S. ambassador inCaracas, to call Pedro Carmonathat night to express concern overunconstitutional actions Carmonahad taken, including the dissolu-tion of the Venezuelan NationalAssembly.

Shapiro repeated the messagein a visit to Carmona on Saturdaymorning. “It would have been irre-sponsible not to do it,’’ Reich said.He denied published reports thathe had called Carmona himself orthat the administration hadadvised the military and businessleaders who seized control of thegovernment.

But whatever took place duringlast week’s tumult, the overallresult appeared to be a foreign pol-icy setback for a White Housealready reeling from bruisingevents in the Middle East. Itoccurred in a part of the world thatPresident Bush has said he feelsclosest to, and that he has declaredto be among his administration’shighest priorities.

Not only has Chavez remainedin power, but what had been asteadily growing drumbeat ofdomestic and hemispheric oppo-sition to his increasingly undemo-cratic rule has likely been under-

mined, for the moment at least, bythe anti-democratic tactics ofthose who tried to oust him. Longbefore last week, a number ofadministration officials had saidthey believed that Chavez eventu-ally would fall from the weight ofdomestic, democratic oppositionand that any U.S. involvementwould only postpone that day bylegitimizing his anti-Americanrhetoric.

“We didn’t wink, we didn’t nod,we didn’t insinuate and we didn’tencourage any unconstitutionalchange of government inVenezuela in any way,’’ a senioradministration official said.

But in the view of someinformed observers, the adminis-tration fundamentally misread thebalance of power in a region whereit claims high interest and expert-ise, and believed the anticipatedday of Chavez’s demise hadarrived.

“There was a lot of self-fulfill-ment going on here,’’ said a non-U.S. diplomat with long experi-ence in the region. Although anumber of Venezuelan militaryleaders had criticized Chavez inrecent months, and a massiveanti-Chavez strike had broughtthe country to a halt last week, theadministration “vastly underesti-mated Chavez’s residual strength,’’the diplomat said.

Few Latin American officialsbelieve the United States promot-ed the coup attempt. “Everybodyunderstands that there wasn’t awink or a nod,’’ said one. “But whatthere was was an initial certaintyon their part that (the attempt)would succeed.’’

Skeptics include members ofCongress who have charged that atthe very least the situation washandled amateurishly by appoint-ed officials. Sen. ChristopherDodd, D-Conn., chairman of theForeign Relations subcommitteeon Western Hemisphere affairs,said Tuesday that those handlingthe crisis lacked “adult’’ supervi-

sion while Secretary of State ColinPowell was in the Middle East.

Administration officials havebeen repeatedly asked why they soreadily accepted the statement ofsenior military officers thatChavez had voluntarily resigned.At midday Friday, hours afterChavez had been seen leaving thepresidential palace under militaryescort, and shortly after the resig-nation statement, White Housespokesman Ari Fleischerannounced his voluntary depar-ture as fact.

Asked what independent evi-dence they had, senior officialsoffered several explanations. “Mr.Chavez had been taken away. Hewas in custody,’’ said one. “We hadno evidence to the contrary. Wewere told he was going to be tried.... We were told he was being spir-ited out of the country,’’ most like-ly to Cuba. Later, however, the offi-cial said “even today, we don’t haveall the facts. ... I don’t have any evi-dence for or against.’’

Another high-level official saidthat Fleischer’s statement wasmerely “sharing the informationthat was available,’’ largelythrough the media.

At the same time Friday, howev-er, administration lawyers study-ing the Venezuelan constitutionnoted that presidential resigna-tions are invalid until they areaccepted by the NationalAssembly, which also has the solepower to install a new head ofstate.

“We heard this new interimgovernment was going to disbandthe Assembly and the SupremeCourt,’’ said another senior offi-cial. “We recognized this was inviolation of the constitution andwe could not work with them.’’

By the time Shapiro had twicepassed that message to Carmona,many in the military had also stud-ied the constitution and switchedsides, and he quickly resigned asChavez supporters took to thestreets.

LETTERSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


Dunleavy resortsto ad hominemattacks of authorbased on socio-economic statusTo the Editor:I appreciated the uplifting and positiveargument of Heather Dunleavy ’03 inher column “A Non-Protestor’s ProtestAgainst Apathy” (4/17), in response toWilliam Newman ’04’s column (“Lessstudent activism, more getting laid,”4/11). However, I was disappointedwith the unfair way in which Dunleavydealt with the subject of Newman, thepiece’s author.

In particular, I was upset with thepassage where she states that she“looked up Newman’s picture on thewonderful electronic facebook,” anddiscovered that, “Surprise, surprise:Newman is a white male who attendedan upper-class, private, Catholic highschool.” She then uses this "discovery"to try to discredit both him and thevalidity of his argument.

First of all, Dunleavy is far too quickto generalize and very wrong to assumethat Newman is the pampered, unen-cumbered prince that she seems tothink he is. I certainly do not think thata person’s entire socio-economic statuscan be deduced from their picture and10-word profile in the Brown electronicfacebook.

And what if Newman actually is anupper-class white male? Why shouldthis discredit him from having a legiti-mate point of view? I did not feel theneed to look up Dunleavy in the face-book because I did not think that it wasrelevant.

I applaud Newman for having thechutzpah to share his opinion with theBrown community. I can only hope thatone day at Brown we’ll have a moreopen, free discussion, where the speak-ers of non-majority views aren’t subjectto underhanded, personal attacks.

Justin Slosky ’03April 17

Rowley distortsaims of feminism,disrespectful towomen and JewsTo the Editor:Travis Rowley ’02’s inflammatory col-umn(“If abortion is not murder thannothing is,” 4/17) attempted to demon-strate the immorality and ludicrousnessof believing in a woman’s ability not onlyto make choices in her personal life, butto achieve equality with men. Contraryto Rowley’s views, feminists do not aimto gain “power over men”; rather, femi-nism aims for political, economic andsocial equality for women.

Rowley notes that Sarah Weddingtonexhibited “typical feminist bitterness”because men claim that women are infe-rior to men. Please explain to your femaleprofessors, your female Supreme CourtJustices and Congresswomen and yourfemale friends that they are incapable ofdoing any job as well as any man could.

I think it would serve Rowley to showrespect and grant dignity to the womenin his life by believing that each personcan make life decisions in accordancewith one’s own beliefs, whether it con-cerns abortion or pursuing a career.

Rowley states, “Believe it or not, thereare those out there who will be so arro-gant as to tell you when (life begins).” Heshould curb his own arrogance in assum-ing his own morals and self-righteousnessare superior enough to force upon others.

Also, I found Rowley’s comparison ofthe pro-choice movement to Adolf Hitlerto be a sick and offensive comment thatdisplays incredible disrespect towards themillions of Jews who lost their lives in theHolocaust. Ultimately, I respect Rowley’sright to his own opinion on abortion;however, I refuse anyone’s imposition ofhis/her own values upon me in decidingwhat is right for my own body. Freedom ofchoice is about the fundamental beliefthat each person has the sound ability tomake decisions in his/her life.

Jaimi Gaffe ’02President, Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance

April 17

Rally on Mondayshows solidarityfor State of IsraelTo the Editor:On Monday, I was among more than150,000 Americans who rallied at theCapitol in Washington, D.C., in solidaritywith the Israelis who are suffering fromrelentless Palestinian terror. In the pastfew months the terror has escalated tonew levels of evil.

The Passover massacre killed 27 Jewsand maimed 150 more who were gath-ered at a seder on one of the most sacredand precious nights of the Jewish calen-dar.

The Palestinian homicide bombershave murdered in synagogues, restau-rants, cafés, supermarkets, bus stops andeven in the calm, peaceful streets ofJerusalem.

Yesterday, I rallied in support ofIsrael's reaction to the ongoingPalestinian killers.

The Herald falsely reported the reac-tion to Secretary of Defense PaulWolfowitz's remarks (“Students JoinTens ofThousands at Rally in D.C. toSupport Israel,” 4/15) at Monday’s rally.The Herald claimed that “the largestsplash of the day” was Wolfowitz's com-ments regarding Palestinians who aresuffering.

His comment was hardly the high-light of the rally. I can say that therewere several “large splashes” of the day.The rally, organized within six shortdays, brought well over 150,000 peopletogether. Jews and non-Jews came fromevery corner of this country, from NewYork to Alaska, from Maine to Texas, toshow their proud support of Israel andits Jews.

A wide variety of speakers from allfaiths and religions joined together toshow solidarity with Israel. In theseaspects lie the truly “large splashes” ofthe day.

Another great splash wasNetanyahu's apt observation that,“Arafat is nothing more than Osama binLadin with good P.R.”

To paraphrase from the Rally “asPalestinian terror knows no limit, so

must Israeli response know no limit.” I am proud to be a Jew.

Eliezer Greer ’04April 17

Zionism notracist, reflectsnational self-determinationTo the Editor:Brian Rainey ’02’s argument in “ThePalestinian struggle is one againstapartheid” (4/17) is flawed on manycounts. First, he claims that opinionson suicide bombings should be disre-garded if they are held by Zionists.Obviously it is easy to win an argumentif you can diregard the other side'sopinion.

Second, he criticizes Zionists for try-ing to escape anti-Semitism instead offighting it. That may be the high roadin some abstract sense, but in the realworld, anti-Semitism has been aroundfor millennia.

For a member of a threatenedminority group, it is more realistic toaccept its existence and protect oneselfthan to pretend it can magically evapo-rate.

As for Rainey’s accusation thatZionism is racist, Zionism is, in fact, areflection of the principle of nationalself-determination that has beeninvoked by free nations for decades.Rainey's proposal would turn Israelinto another Yugoslavia.

It is easy to play holier-than-thouand say that creating separate statesout of hostile nations only institution-alizes racism. I would argue that, ifeach side has the security of its ownstate, this is a far more effective road toa long-term rapprochement betweenthese two peoples, a goal that I hopeRainey and I share.

Aaron Sokoloff ’04April 17

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


Searching for both sides of the storyComplexity in foreign relations is not for the faint of heart

ONE OF THE TRAGEDIES OF POST- SEPT.11 United States is that a crass form ofreductionism has become the only accept-able form of discourse on matters of foreignpolicy. In part to mobilize the nation’s emo-tions for wartime, the folks on CNN and thejournalists at the New YorkTimes created for us a neat littleworld in which there are onlytwo sorts of people: the good(us) and the bad (them). Beforeour very eyes, distinctions wereeffectively collapsed, categoriesexpanded and the world suddenly polarizedbetween those who were with us and thosewho were against us. This Manicheanworldview has crippled any meaningfulanalysis of the much more complex worldwe actually happen to live in.

Furthermore, the overwhelming majori-ty of post-Sept. 11 debate in the UnitedStates has taken place within the stiflingparameters of two fundamental assump-tions: those of U.S. benevolence and thepathological hatred that the “other” hasalways felt towards “us.” For many yearsthere U.S. press has tended to perpetuatethe old orientalist stereotype of Muslimsand Arabs. With increasing Americaninvolvement in the Muslim world, thisstereotype has become more useful than

ever before in mobilizing public opinionaround government policy. Policy is thusjustified through a combination of bolddeclarations about our essential benefi-cence and through stereotypes that makethe “other” out to be inherently untrust-

worthy and pathologicallyhostile. After all, if the “other”is made to seem insane, ourinteraction with him is nolonger the relevant factor inexplaining his behavior toward“us.” Thus, the official line is

that those who hate United States hate herbecause of what she is, not what she hasdone. This has in turn exempted theUnited States from really reflecting uponits role on the world stage.

It is imperative to understand that thissloppy reductionist approach not onlyteaches us precious little about the realworld, it also plays into a web of specialinterests as well. The present Israeli gov-ernment, for instance, would like nothingbetter than to ignore the complex historyof the present conflict and focus insteadon how the Palestinians’ gripe with them isall in their irrational Arab heads. Thisexploitation of racist stereotypes is sys-tematically practiced by Israeli spokesmenwho wax on “the Palestinian culture ofdeath” in order to deflect attention awayfrom the fact that such a culture, if it existsat all, was not created in isolation. Thesestereotypes create the impression that,

even if the Israeli government were tomake the concessions that thePalestinians are demanding, it would dolittle to change the Palestinians’ attitudetowards them.

Additionally, since the United States hasnow cast itself as a warrior against terror-ism, states across the world have attempt-ed to convey their own conflicts as battlesin a global war against terrorism in orderto earn U.S. sympathy and support. Thehandy term “terrorism” has been used toobscure realities that are far more complexthan a battle of good against evil. ThusIsrael, in line with its established policy ofcreating an association between itself andthe United States, has now almost mergedinto the U.S. “us” and enjoys nearly thesame sort of unquestioned approval fromthe United States that the United Statesgives itself. The heavily promoted model of

this conflict as yet another manifestationof a fundamental doctrinal clash, whilepolitically useful, is entirely inimical to areal understanding of the issues involved.

So, when Lev Nelson ’04 speaks of the“propagandistic nature” of the Main Greenposters and speaks of “selective inclusionand explanation of facts,” (“Main Greenposters didn’t look at both sides fairly,” 4/10)he should take note that such techniqueshave been practiced for years by nearlyevery major U.S. news organization — onlythe direction of the spin has been different.In the rest of the world both sides of theMideast story are out there for all to see, butin the United States high political stakeshave resulted in the absolute suppression ofthe Palestinian narrative. It has reached thepoint where hearing the “other side” of thestory can be shocking to those who have noexposure to foreign or alternative media.

Meanwhile, mainstream assumptionsremain largely unchallenged. I have yet tohear U.S. news anchors draw the obviousanalogy between the Taliban media policyand that of the Israeli government. Suicidebombings (used first by the Tamil Tigers inSri Lanka for those who think that it’s somesort of Muslim thing) are heavily covered.However, there are no pictures of thecorpses rotting on the streets of Jenin —unless one believes that the Palestiniansmade that one up as well. And if that isindeed what you believe, the question youmust ask yourself now is why.

Sofyan Sultan ’03.5 hails from Karachi,Pakistan. This is his first guest column forThe Herald.

I WAS APPALLED TO READ IN TUESDAY’Sarticle some of the statements made byBrown professors of the internationalrelations department (“WatsonProfessors Debate U.S. Role in Israeli-Palestinian Struggle for Peace”).Professor Posusney’s state-ment that “the current con-flict would end if Israeliforces immediately with-drew and if the United Statesdenied aid to Israel” showedparticular bias and naiveté.She has failed to recall that each timeIsrael has begun to withdraw her tanks,the Palestinians have continued theirsuicide bombings. She shows noacknowledgement that, perhaps if thePalestinians stopped their suicidebombings and acts of terror, then Israelwould then withdraw its tanks.

Israel has an obligation to protect itscitizens against terrorism just as theUnited States is currently trying to dofor its own citizens. Is Israel simply sup-posed to sit back and let terrorists blowup innocent men, women and children?If the United States can go into othercountries to root out terrorists and pro-tect American citizens, then surelyIsrael is not breaking “internationallaw,” as Posusney accuses, for going intoits own territories to search for terroristsand protect Israeli citizens.

Also, I disagree with ProfessorHopmann’s statement that “an absenceof hope for the future and a feeling ofdesperation among civilians fuels con-flict that has led to suicide bombings.”This is a very romanticized view of suchterrorist acts.

When one reads the news and seesthat a suicide bomber killed six people

the very day after U.S. Secretary of StateColin Powell’s arrived in Israel to beginpeace talks, it becomes difficult tobelieve that these suicide bombings aresimply motivated by feelings of despera-tion. One could argue that perhaps the

Palestinians do not seePowell’s visit as hope for thefuture, but suicide bombingshave not gotten them anyfurther in achieving theirpolitical goals and providinga hopeful outlook. Hopmann

is more correct in saying that the con-flict is a “terrible cycle.”

I also question Posusney’s implica-tion that Israel “forcefully” acquired theterritory of a “powerless people,” and Ifind her comparison of Israeli actions tothose of Serbia’s to be a hugely erro-neous. When talking about Israel’sacquisition of territory, Posusney, nodoubt, is referring to the Six Day War inMay 1967. But to call it a forceful actagainst a “powerless people” shows alack of understanding about the histori-cal facts. Perhaps a brief history lessonis in order.

In May 1967, Egyptian, Jordanian andSyrian armies mobilized along Israel’sborders in preparation for a massiveinvasion to eliminate the State of Israel.King Hussein of Jordan launched hisattack from his West Bank, while Syriantroops prepared to descend down theGolan Heights mountain range intonorthern Israel.

Israel was forced to defend herselfand managed to win the war, therebyacquiring Gaza, the West Bank and theGolan Heights. Considering the fact thatthis war was brought on Israel by itsneighbors, one can hardly say that Israelwas acting “forcefully against a power-less people.” The roles were quite theopposite with the neighboring Arabcountries acting aggressively against

Israel. I am all for the creation of a

Palestinian homeland if it means thatthe two states, Palestine and Israel, canlive as peaceful neighbors. I believe thatIsrael shares this sentiment, as it hasoffered the Palestinians Gaza and theWest Bank, which the Palestiniansrejected. Somehow, however, I doubtthat this idyllic vision would become areality with the creation of a Palestinianhomeland, even if the question ofJerusalem were resolved.

Why these doubts? Several reasonscome to mind, my pessimism stemsmainly from the Palestine LiberationOrganization’s charter. Article nine ofthe charter states: “Armed struggle is theonly way to liberate Palestine.” A peace-ful resolution of the conflict seemsimpossible, since the PLO has clearlycommitted itself to violence. Even moredisturbing is Article 15, in which thePLO declares its aim to eliminateZionism. Zionism is a movement for thecreation and maintenance of the state ofIsrael, a Jewish homeland. Therefore, inessence, the PLO is calling for thedestruction of Israel. Obviously it is notthe PLO’s aim to live peacefull, side-by-side with Israel, but rather to eliminateit, which clearly presents a major road-block in peace negotiations.

On the panel of professors, somelauded the involvement of the UnitedStates in the conflict while others criti-cized U.S. support of Israel. I encouragethe involvement of the United States,not only to negotiate a ceasefire and thepossibility of a Palestinian state, butalso to ensure the continued existenceof Israel.

People on the news, and even the pro-fessors on Brown’s panel, refer to theinnocent Palestinian lives taken duringIsrael’s pursuit of terrorists. On the news,I see interviews with Palestinian children

and camera shots of searched houses. I,too, deplore the death of innocent peo-ple. But why does no one seem to showsuch sympathy for the innocent Jewishlives taken in bombing after bombing? Ihave yet to see interviews with Jewishchildren or parents whose families havebeen killed when they, too, were onlyminding their own business, eating in arestaurant, shopping or just riding a bus.

While such interviews have failed toappear, what I have seen emerge duringmy semester in Paris is a growth of out-right anti-Semitism. The violence hasspread far beyond Israel. In these pastfew days a Tunisian synagogue wasbombed and, much closer to me, Jewishteenagers practicing soccer in a suburbof Paris were attacked by assailantsyelling “death to Jews.” I, myself, haveseen swastikas carved into desks andanti-Semitic graffiti.

Even in class, where we were dis-cussing the Holocaust imagery of adance performance we had just seen, aFrench classmate spoke up, objecting tothe class’s interpretations, saying, “It’sstupid how everything always has to bereduced to being related to theHolocaust. Get over it!”

This French classmate actually bringsup a good question: Why is theHolocaust such a frequent topic of dis-cussion, art and education? Why would Ieven mention it in this article? Theanswer is simple: anti-Semitism stillexists and thrives. The continued exis-tence and even growth of anti-Semitismall over the world makes the need for aJewish homeland all the more importantso that history does not repeat itself.

While we follow the conflict in theMiddle East, which I am convinced willeventually lead to a Palestinian state, wemust make sure that Israel, too, ends upsecure and assured of its continuedexistence as a Jewish state.

Camille Gerwin ’03 is an international rela-tions concentrator currently studyingabroad in Paris.

Palestinian state can be created only with peaceThe United States must be involved in Israel, both to negotiate for peace and protect Israeli interests

“If the ‘other’ is made to

seem insane, our interac-

tion with him is no longer

the relevant factor of

explaining his behavior

toward us.”

CAMILLE GERWINGUEST COLUMN

SOFYAN SULTANGUEST COLUMN

D A V I N C H E N G

Diamonds and coalS T A F F E D I T O R I A L

EDITORIAL/LETTERSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


A cubic zirconium to the reappearance of the Harley convention onThayer. The sonorous mating call of revving engines heralds — nopun intended — the coming of summer and firmly establishesleather as a three-season material.

A diamond to the young men and women who traveled from nearand far to get a taste of college life in miniature for ADOCH. Wepromise it’s not always this humid but feel that the bikers more thanmake up for the muggy weather.

Coal to PPD Officer Baroni, badge number 802, for his callous yetjovial manner of parking-ticketry. Saying “too bad!” is really addinginsult to injury, Officer Meanie.

A diamond to Buddy Cianci for keeping his word and greeting prospec-tive students on Wednesday, the eve of his trial. As he said, “there are 24hours in a day”; thanks for giving Brown some of that time.

A diamond to the fabulous round of speakers who have been oncampus recently. Tom Wolfe and his dapper white suits, SarahWeddington in her jaunty red blazer; who said style and substancecould never be reconciled?

Coal to Andrews Dining Hall for not having soft-serve. What, are wesupposed to have our golden grahams straight-up?

A diamond to those who made the trek to Washington, D.C, onMonday and those who will be heading down to the nation’s capitolthis weekend. You put the “act” in activism, baby.

Coal to University climate control. Leaving the heat on until May 1 isa great policy… if you live in Reykjavik.

A diamond to Franzia. Wine in a box: the concept is genius, combin-ing the stackability of the box-form with the heady bouquet of card-board. We hear that ’02 was an excellent year, and complimentsbulky carbohydrates very nicely.

Coal to CH035 for scheduling a two-hour cumulative OrganicChemistry exam the Thursday after Spring Weekend, two weeksbefore the cumulative three-hour final. We know orgo is uninterest-ing, but does it have to be detrimental to one’s social life as well?

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L E T T E R SCharges of anti-Latinodiscrimination in Am.Civ. department unfairTo the Editor:My colleagues and I were sad to read charges of anti-Latino discrimination leveled against the Departmentof American Civilization in The Herald (“Panel address-es lack of Latino professors,” 4/16)

While it is true that the University has not doneenough to recruit and retain Latino Studies faculty, theDepartment of American Civilization has been the onedepartment on campus that has championed thecause of Latino studies. Latino studies was written intothe very first strategic planning document that estab-lished the department. Professor Suzanne Oboler wasthe first hire that American Civilization made after itbecame a department.

Many of the charges leveled at the Department ofAmerican Civilization misrepresent the facts. The diffi-culty Professor Oboler faced in the tenuring processcame from the Committee on Faculty Retention andTenure, which has been consistently hypercritical ofscholars who do interdisciplinary work on race andethnicity. (This has included Asian American studies aswell as Latino studies.) The Department of AmericanCivilization also enthusiastically supported ProfessorPacini Hernandez for tenure and fought tenaciouslyuntil she was granted it. To our true regret, ProfessorPacini-Hernandez accepted an offer at Tufts Universityfor personal as well as professional reasons.

Professor Pulido is a valued colleague who was hiredthis past summer as a one-year, visiting appointment toreplace Professor Oboler, who had been granted a leaveto explore an opportunity at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Because Professor Oboler has not yet notifiedBrown of her intent to return, the Department asked forand was granted a dispensation to waive the require-ments for a new search and to extend ProfessorPulido's appointment for a second year. Unfortunately,Professor Pulido's home institution, Arizona StateUniversity-West, will not allow Professor Pulido toextend his leave there. The Department would bedelighted to have professor Pulido stay for another yearduring which we would conduct a full search for a per-manent replacement for Professor Oboler, if shedecides not to return to Brown.

We share Professor Pulido's frustration at the currentcircumstances. Nevertheless we feel obliged to correctthe suggestion that the department is unwilling toretain more than one Latino studies professor at a time.

While professor Oboler was on campus full-time, thedepartment also hired Professor Pacini-Hernandez.

Although there remains a chance that ProfessorOboler will return next year, the department began inDecember of 2001 to request of the administration thatwe nevertheless have a second Latino studies positionfor 2002-3.

The recruitment and retention of Latino Studiesscholars is a real problem at Brown, but the problemdoes not stem from a conspiracy to deny Brown stu-dents the best scholarship and teaching in Latino stud-ies. Brown needs to plan and develop an ethnic studiesprogram of world-class status, which will attract thebest scholars to teach here, and Brown needs to providethem the supportive intellectual communities in whichto pursue their scholarship. The Department ofAmerican Civilization has always and will continue tofight for this.

Lynn DavidmanAssociate Professor, Interim Director

Department of American CivilizationApril 17

Rainey representsZionism as racismTo the Editor:Brian Rainey's column “The Palestinian struggle is oneagainst apartheid” (4/17) promotes a popular,although incredibly inaccurate, stereotype of Zionismas racism. It perpetuates the ignorant belief that mostJews in Israel are white and that the Israel-Palestine sit-uation follows the standard U.S. power struggle ofwhite vs. non-white.

Anyone who has been to Israel knows this is false.Over half of the Israeli Jewish population has the sameskin color as the Arabs and Palestinians, because manywere expelled from Arab countries after 1948.

While problems exist between these groups and adominant European Jewish elite, they are not compa-rable to the racial struggles propogated by Westernslavery and colonialism. The conflict is not a racial one,but an ethnic, religious and political one.

The charge of racism against Jewish self-determina-tion is ignorant at best and anti-Semitic at worst — aswas the 1975 U.N. Resolution calling Zionism racism,which was revoked in 1991.

Joshua Schulman-Marcus ’04April 17

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD


The importance of making time to respect each otherExamining the never talked about, but ever-present, time crunch on campus

YOU KNOW YOU’VE DONE IT. YOU’VEuttered that priceless phrase: “ I don’t haveenough time.” As college students, andoverachieving ones at that, it is our collec-tive mantra. Do we ever stop and thinkabout what this phrase means? Do we everrealize that not respectingeach other’s time is one of thegreatest sins we commit, asstudents and as people?

There are 24 hours in a day.There are 168 hours in a week.There are 744 in a month with31 days. There are 8,760 in ayear. This is true for every sin-gle human being on this plan-et (the lucky few on Mars willhave 16,464 hours in a year). Ifyou are the busiest person inthe world (and I am quite surethat you are not if you are read-ing my column), you will have8,760 hours in a year, and if you are theleast busy person in this world (again, I amquite sure that you, dear reader, are not),you will also have 8,760 hours in a year.

How we spend our 168 hours is up to us.Very few college students at Brown havetrue obligations (such as an offspring) thatwe simply must devote some portion ofour time to. We are all now old enough thatsociety entrusts us to make decisionsabout our own time. Thus, nearly allBrown students have complete controlover our time decisions. If we want to skipclass and go to the mall, we can. Moredrastically, we are free to choose not to goto class at all, or to drop out of school andlive on Thayer Street. We may not like the

consequences of our decisions, but we arefree and able to make our own decisionsabout our own time.

As we make our decisions, we shouldeach be fully cognizant of the conse-quences of our choices; it is not that we

“don’t have time” for some-thing, but rather that wewould prefer to do somethingelse (sleep, party, watch TV,homework) instead. We mightchoose to do somethingpleasurable in the present inlieu of saving the world, or wemight choose to do certainthings we don’t enjoy (such asunavoidable classes orexams) in order to reach long-term goals. As long as weacknowledge our own priori-ties and decisions about ourtime, it is our time to spend.

When we then go shopping for what to“spend” it on, it is best that the “sellers” tellus what is expected. Your body expects youto sleep so many hours a night and to eatfor a certain amount of time each day.Generally, although you might short-change your body, you know what it is ask-ing of you. Classes and school are prettymuch the same way. In an ideal class, youget a syllabus during the first week, and bythe end of shopping period (pun intend-ed) you have a good sense of the timerequired for the course. We can each thenchoose whether or not to spend time onthat class. The same holds for extracurric-ular activities and, to a certain extent,social life.

Obviously, emergency circumstancescome up, and friends or family will sud-denly need more time; I would hope thatmost of us would choose to lose sleep or

study time to help a friend in need.However, barring an emergency, thedemands on others’ time must be more ofa concern when planning an activity, aca-demic or otherwise.

I had a teacher in high school who toldme she always decided how to vote on aproposed activity for the students bydetermining whether or not it was going tocost us additional time. She would voteagainst even the most carefully construct-ed proposal for us to do something won-derful, like hear a world-renowned speak-er, if we would not be compensated for ourtime (e.g. letting us out of one class). Heridea was that at the beginning of eachterm we were told how much time classesshould take up and that it was unfair of theschool to suddenly demand more from us.At the time, I disagreed with her becausesome of these extra activities would havebeen beneficial. However, now I think heremphasis on respect for her students’ timewas well placed, and all too infrequent inour society.

A second prong of this respect for oth-ers’ time is a respect for how they chooseto spend it. All too often we fall victim todetermining who is “busiest.” In thissense, busy people are the ones with allthe activities, running around from classto lab to meeting to meeting to the libraryto meeting — you get the idea. We, as asociety, think that this person is makingbetter decisions about how to use his orher time than is a person who chooses togo to class, study hard and hang out withfriends the rest of the time.

College is a time for growth into full-fledged adult members of society, and weall recognize that different people havedifferent skills to learn before entering theworld. Some students may want to learnhow to organize a large event, while othersmay want to learn how to foster a long-term, committed relationship. It is fre-quently said that the most importantthings learned at college are done so out-side the classroom through interactionwith peers. Sometimes it comes throughdeep, meaningful and philosophical dis-cussions and sometimes through simplylaughing and having a good time. Eithermode helps us neophyte-functioningmembers of society learn about humannature and other people’s perceptions ofthe world.

Given this argument, shouldn’t the per-son spending more time with his friendsbe perceived as at least equally busy as theone running around from activity to activ-ity? As long as such time decisions areinformed ones, and not made out of sheerinertia, they are equally valid. Rather thanworry about how your neighbors arespending their time, be introspective andquestion your own use of the phrase, “Idon’t have time for that.”

Abby Shoben ’02 didn’t have enough timeto write a good column. Her columnsappear on alternate Thursdays.

I WRITE TO YOU NOW AS A FORMERliberal nonsensical pro-choice feministwho, through the angelic eloquence ofTravis Rowley ’02 (“If abortion is notmurder, then nothing is,” 4/17), has seenthe light. I used to believe that savingtrees was more importantthan saving the life of anunborn fetus. In fact, Iused to spread liberal filthby the truckload. I was acanvasser for a liberal pro-choice lobby that pushedfor abortion rights up to 216 monthsafter birth. My liberal views were simple:women needed the legal right to abortminors if they were ever going to be ableto keep their jobs, keep their friends orstay in school.

Sarah Weddington said that, “womenwho become pregnant had no choice butto leave college and their jobs.” AsRowley pointed out, for women to suc-ceed in the corporate world, “they wouldhave to ignore their natural urge to havechildren.” Yet at the same time, Rowleypoints out that, “the feminist movementdespises women who leave their jobs toraise their kids.”

There is only one solution to this prob-lem: allow women to have childrenwhenever their “natural urges” hit, and

then get rid of them whenever theybecome a pain in the ass. I believed thatnothing was more important to awoman’s liberty than the ability to havean abortion of their non-voting non-adult adolescent post-fetuses.

At this point, you may accuseme of placing a hideously lowvalue on human life. But at thattime, all the liberal radicalismmade sense. Some people wouldargue that nobody knows whenlife begins. However, Webster’s

Dictionary includes the following in itslist of requirements for life: “reproduc-tion, and response to stimuli or adapta-tion to the environment originating fromwithin the organism.”

No child can reproduce before puber-ty, so pre-adolescents are obviously notalive and therefore free to be abortedwithout any apprehension. However,even during adolescence, children do notcount as fully alive. Many do not showsignificant response to outside stimuli.Everyone has at least one self-obsesseddejected teenager in their lives. Have youever tried talking to one? No response tooutside stimuli whatsoever. They areobviously free to be aborted as well.

The final and most demanding qualityfor life is the ability to adapt to one’senvironment. A living human being mustcope with rent payments, income, taxes,car payments, family, friends and manyother challenges the environment poses.These are challenges to which onlyadults can adapt. There are laws in place

for minors, who can’t handle these thingson their own. Therefore, anyone who isnot a legal adult, over the age of 18, is notalive. Parents should be free to aborttheir minor, if he or she interferes withthe parent’s way of life.

However, with the enlightenment I havereceived from Rowley, I now realize howwrong I was. I seriously asked myself:When a new beautiful child has just beenborn from my vagina, could I kill it? Myanswer was no! Could I kill it while it wasstill in my uterus? No! I kept going back-wards through time, looking for when itwould be okay to terminate the life of thechild. And I found that there was never anokay time! Not even when the child wasstill a gamete in my testes!

Rowley showed me the light. He said,“Nobody knows when life begins, soshouldn’t we give life, our most preciousgift, the benefit of the doubt?” One wouldthink so, but instead we have millions ofliberal men who commit the disgusting actof masturbation. These liberals intention-ally terminate millions of potential livesthey started for their own selfish reasons!

Deep down, we all know that mastur-bation is wrong. None of us would mas-turbate in front of our parents. Forget allthe liberal scientific studies you haveheard on the subject of masturbation;the fact that we actively hide it from ourparents proves the immorality of mastur-bation. It’s just that some of us ignore ourmorals and some recognize them.

Do you believe that pleasuring men isworth the risk of killing millions of

unborn children? There should be aresounding “No!” to this question. Self-pleasuring clouds judgment. A lot of pro-choicers take their stand on the mastur-bation issue because they feel sympathytowards the man who masturbates. Theyteach their kids not to take responsibilityfor their filthy liberal actions. Don’tworry about it. It’s no big deal. That pent-up sexuality can be fixed so easily. But it’stime these liberal heathens realize thatshit happens, and people get through it.We must be compassionate, but oursense of what is morally right must notbe clouded. Is it worth risking the murderof millions of potential children becausewe feel pity for one horny guy?

Pro-choicers are blind, liberal, insanepsychos who could never admit they arewrong. Imagine having to accept partialresponsibility for more unjust murdersper ejaculation than Adolf Hitler, whokilled lots of some minority group that Iam too arrogant to even mention! Theyhave made up their sick liberal minds,and I do not write this column for them.

Most sane people realize the immoral-ity of masturbation, but they are tooembarrassed by liberal pro-choice prop-aganda to take the side in which trulybelieve in.

These people need to be convinced ofthe worthiness of their cause: that everysperm is wanted, every sperm is good.Every sperm is needed in your neighbor-hood. Every sperm is useful, every spermis fine. God needs everybody’s: yours andmine.

Jonathan Salomon ’02 is a male studentwho had an abortion last week throughsome freak violation of the laws of physics,and who wishes to not be sued by MontyPython.

If masturbation is not murder, then nothing isPleasure and male empowerment are no justification for the murder of innocent gametes

JONATHANSALOMON

GUEST COLUMN

“As we make our decisions,

we should be fully cog-

nizant of the consequences

of our choices; it is not that

we ‘don’t have time’ for

something, but rather that

we would prefer to do

something else instead.”ABBY SHOBENABSTRACTION

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

APRIL 17, 2002 · PAGE 16

HAVE YOU EVER BOUGHT ONE OFthose “impulse items” as left the gro-cery store? It might have been aNational Enquirer or a new lighter or afuzzy rabbit foot key chain, but, in theend, you probably did not get a lot of

use out of it.Still, it allowedyou to experi-ence the senseof throwingmoney away.Well, try toimagine buying40 million fuzzyrabbit keychains, and youmight just und-erstand what itis like to beC a b l e v i s i o n’s

Charles Dolan and the other owners ofMadison Square Garden, the New YorkRangers and the New York Knicks.

The Rangers have the second high-est payroll in the National HockeyLeague and yet failed to make theplayoffs for the fifth straight year. Toput this in perspective, 16 teams makethe NHL playoffs every year, andsomehow, the Rangers can’t figure outhow to be a part of that mix. In thattime span, the Rangers have had threedifferent coaches, and a fourth will becoming with Monday’s firing of HeadCoach Ron Low. The coaching job isnow so undesirable that 40-plus, agingand injured former superstar MarkMessier would not even consider tak-ing the job. The option of retirement ismore pleasing to him than having tocoach the team. Maybe if the teamthrew in the perks of a walker andpromised to rename the arena MessierSquare Garden he could be convinced.

With coaching changes not seem-ing like viable reasons for theRangers’ failures, the next place tolook would be the players. Sure, theteam is composed of Messier, BrianLeetch and Mike Richter, who allappear to be hung over from the 1994Stanley Cup win, but there is still a lot

see TROY, page 5

BY JESSICA COOPERThe Brown men’s golf team finished sixthoverall in the 19-team field in the NewEngland Division I Championship held at theTriggs Golf Club in Providence.

Posting the lowest score ever shot by aBrown men’s golf team, as well as Sunday’slowest score, the men totaled 294 as a team inthe second round of the tournament, finish-ing with a two-day team score of 613.

“Everybody had first-day problems, butwe came back and showed everyone how wecan play,” said Jason Ricketts ’04. “This defi-nitely gives us a confidence boost going intoIvies this weekend.”

Danny Wallis ’05 had an excellent per-formance, recording the lowest score of the95-man field and posting a two under par 70at the par 72 course.

Co-captain Ed Yoon ’02 led the Bears andfinished seventh overall with a two-day 151(77, 74). Kevin Buchert ’03 shot 73 on the finalday and finished 22nd overall after posting an81 on Saturday.

Wallis finished 28th overall, shooting atwo-day 156, recording over 40 putts on the

first day of play. Ricketts was next for theBears, shooting 85-77-162 to place 51st, whileRobert Chen ’05 turned in a solid 81-81-163to place 57th overall.

With the Ivy League Men’s GolfChampionships taking place this weekend atMetedeconk National Golf Club in Jackson,N.J., the men will finally face the much antic-ipated Penn and Princeton golf teams.

Though the team is hoping to bring homeBrown’s first ever championship, all fivemembers of the team also have a shot to winan individual title.

“We’ll continue to practice and fine-tune,but we are really going to be focusing onrelaxing, feeling confident and taking it oneshot at a time,” Ricketts said.

Hoping to de-throne Princeton after theirthree-year championship streak, the Bearsare confident going into the weekend.

“If we play like we did on Sunday, then noone stands in our way,” Ricketts said. “It’s allgoing to come down to who shows up andplays the best.”

BY LIZ TERRYThe Brown women’s rugby team sweptSmith Saturday by playing some of the mostintense rugby of the season. Both Brownsides were victorious as the A-Side pulledout a narrow 24-19 win while the B-Sidedominated in their 17-0 victory.

Playing in near perfect conditions, the A-Side took the field knowing it would be aclose match. Last fall, the Bears had beatenSmith 26-25 in the New England playoffs.

Brown continued its trend of startinggames on fire as the team jumped out to a12-0 lead with two tries in the first sevenminutes. Just three minutes into the game,the Bears won a scrum, then managed tomove the ball downfield with some amazingpassing. The ball passed through almosthalf the team’s hands before scrumhalfAlexis Thompson ’02 touched the ball downto give Brown the early 5-0 lead.

Brown’s teamwork continued and theteam struck again only four minutes later.Quick ball movement from the backsallowed wing Lindsay Clarida ’04 to find awide-open Stephanie Bruce ’04 looping onthe outside. Bruce ran about 40 metersuntouched for the score and converted thekick after to extend the lead to 12-0.

Frustrated by Brown’s early success, theSmith players dug in their cleats and beganto fight back with an aggressive attack led bytheir scrum. Smith scored two tries in thenext 15 minutes to pull even with the Bearsat 12-12. Brown scored once more whenBruce found a hole between the Smith cen-ters to take a 19-12 lead into halftime.

Although the Bears started the secondhalf off slowly, allowing a Smith score onlyfive minutes in, they soon pulled them-selves together. Seven minutes later, flankerMary Vieira ’02 scored what turned out to bethe winning try off a handoff from Bruce,putting the score at 24-19.

Despite the seesaw nature of the game,Brown finally began to dominate defensive-ly in the second half, a shift that was the keyto the victory. The line, made up of Bruce,Rebecca Vitale ’04, Cecilia Kiely ’04, CorrieSchankler ’02, Clarida and Kristy Zamora ’02attacked the Smith backs with a ferocity thatresulted in lost ground and dropped passes.

The Bear forwards, led by hooker JeanineBaillie ’02.5 and second rows Lindsay Strunk

’03 and Kathleen Pullum ’03, managed toneutralize the Smith scrum which earlier inthe game had been completely dominant.Solid tackling by props Ruth Lindberg ’04and Julie Wolfson ’03 prevented Smith frommoving downfield as it had in the first half.

Despite several last surges from Smith,the Brown defense held strong and theBears emerged victorious. The win provedthat Brown could play a physical gamewhile maintaining its strong teamwork.

The B-Side took the field next and defeat-ed Smith 17-0 in a well-played match. Onceagain, Brown came out ready to play. Led bythe solid running of flyhalf Rebecca Davis’03.5 and wing Meredith Nelson ’02, theBears scored in the first five minutes. Nelsonwove through several defenders beforetouching the ball down. She also convertedthe kick after, putting the score at 7-0.

The Bears struck again when MeganParker-Johnson ’04 took a pass from wingAudrey O’Neill ’04 and drove through theSmith defense to extend the lead to 12-0.

The B-Side’s defense was impenetrablefrom the start of the game. Smith’s offense

Men’s golf takes 6th at NE championships,women take 7th at James Madison invite

Passing of a star:Time for Ewing tocall it a career

A-side women’s ruggers drop Smithin close battle, B-side wins easily

MSG keeps circusin town all year

IN THESE WANING DAYS OF THE NBAregular season, few seem aware that asignificant event could transpire. This isnot surprising. There is definitely a lullin the NBA before the playoffs start.Eighty-two games make for a long sea-

son. The NBAseason limpsacross the finishline unlike anyother. One ofthe league’s bestplayers over thepast decade anda half could pos-sibly be playinghis final profes-sional game.Does anyonecare?

Most of thisseason has been

awash with the hype of Michael Jordanreturning, and rightfully so. He isarguably the greatest player to ever stepfoot on the court. But another playerwho is also considered one of the 50greatest players is pondering retirement— retirement for good. His name isPatrick Ewing. You might have thoughthe retired long ago, but, alas, he stilldons a NBA uniform. It is not the sameblue and orange he wore for 15 years asa member of the New YorkKnickerbockers. Now it is black andblue — somewhat fitting, as a reservefor the Orlando Magic.

It pains me to watch Ewing end hiscareer so poorly. His career is similar tothe NBA regular season. It started off indramatic fashion, full of promise, yetcollapsed under the pressure of expec-tations that were probably set too high.For both, when it finally does reach itsconclusion, there will be a sense ofrelief.

No player was as highly touted at theend of his college career. Ewing is sevenfeet tall and, back then, was a ferociousdefender. Everyone predicted he wouldbe a Hall of Famer and, when drafted bythe New York Knicks in the biggestmedia venue in the world, it looked likethe beginning of a beautiful and pros-perous relationship.

Ewing will be a Hall of Famer. No onecan deny him that. The rest, however,did not go as planned. Yes, he was good,winning the rookie of the year andbeing an 11-time All-star, but nevergood enough, always falling short of thetrue precipice of greatness — a champi-onship. The natives, the fans of NewYork, became restless. The mediabecame impatient. Ewing, never acharismatic figure, ran from it insteadof defending himself.

By the way, this other player I men-tioned earlier, Michael Jordan, hadsomething to do with it. Ewing had themisfortune of playing at the same timeas his Airness, and in the same confer-ence no less, meaning that only onecould ever make the finals. More oftenthan not — actually, each time —Jordan beat him. I can’t tell you how

Emily Hunt / Herald

The women’s rugby team swept SmithCollege with victories on the A and B-sides,24-19 and 17-0 respectively.

dspics

The women’s golf team took seventh out of17 teams at the James Madison Invitational.

S C O R E B O A R DToday’s GamesAwaySoftball at Fairfield. (DH)Baseball at Pace.Baseball at Army.

JOSH TROYWIDE RIGHT

JERMAINE MATHESONGAME TIME

see MATHESON, page 8

see W. RUGBY, page 7

see GOLF, page 8

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