BY VINAY GANTI Nationally recognized television news analyst Chris Matthews played hardball with his audience Saturday in a lecture about U.S. foreign policy and military action after Sept. 11. The United States should take on a foreign policy stance of a “coiled rat- tlesnake,” he said. Matthews said the United States should be reactive and judicious when provoked, just like a rat- tlesnake, which does not attack without provocation. When attacked, the coun- try should not surrender until it van- quishes its opponents. Matthews said the United States would benefit from the “high moral advantage” this “rattlesnake” foreign policy brings with it. Matthews said he approves of the actions of the U.S. government to find the people responsible for the terrorist attacks and bring them to justice, but said he is afraid of what actions may take place after Osama bin Laden and other members of Al Qaeda are found. He said former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill spoke about two types of success — initial and ultimate. Though the United States may be succeeding initially, Matthews said he is unsure if the country’s actions will ultimately be successful. When asked about his position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Matthews said he disagreed with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s actions as they will simply increase the hatred Arab nations have toward Israel. He added that the United States does not need to be Israel’s big brother, and that the U.S. government should focus on helping other Middle Eastern nations as well. Matthews said he fears the neocon- servative “pencil necks” in Washington, D.C., who want to enter into long-term wars fighting one country after another. He said phrases and labels, such as “axis of evil,” simply tell the world the United States is “looking for trouble.” “I didn’t like the fights in high school,” he said, and added that he does not understand why some bureaucrats and politicians are so belligerent. With such pro-war policies, “why do we need embassies in the world? Just shut them down,” Matthews said, as the embassies will become targets for fur- ther terrorist strikes. “You do have to take that one risk,” Matthews said, of allowing the United States’ enemies the chance to attack first. The United States should remain involved in foreign affairs on a diplo- matic level but should avoid long-term alliances and entanglements as they eventually lead to war, he said. “We are a country of reluctant war- riors,” he said. Americans fight when they absolutely have to, but when the fighting is over, they gladly return home to resume their previous lives, Matthews said. “We want a war to come home from,” Allie Silverman / Herald MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spoke Saturday about U.S. foreign policy after Sept. 11. THE BROWN DAILY HERALD An independent newspaper serving the Brown community since 1891 APRIL 8, 2002 Volume CXXXVII, No. 45 www.browndailyherald.com MONDAY INSIDE MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2002 TODAY’S FORECAST Kevin Kramp ’02 unveils his fashion designs in Saturday show in List center page 3 NAVA uses benefit concert to get out the word on opposing the U.S. war on terror page 5 Author Tariq Ramadan addresses the changing role of Islamic values in American society page 5 Abraham Young ’04 says Brown students must make efforts in Providence community guest column, page 11 Men’s tennis rolls over Penn and Princeton, gets off to best Ivy start in team history page 12 windy high 56 low 45 BY BRIAN BASKIN Delta Tau will return to campus next year fol- lowing a decision by Director of Residential Life Donald Desrochers to end the fraterni- ty’s five-year housing ban. The fraternity will most likely occupy part of Sears House, though the University has not made an official decision, said Michael Blitstein ’03, program house chair for Residential Council. ResCouncil voted 8-0-2 to recommend housing for Delta Tau in late February. Blitstein said Delta Tau’s commitment to community service, sponsoring of campus- wide events and fulfillment of program house requirements contributed to the Council’s decision. ResCouncil voted to remove Delta Tau from campus in 1997 after ResLife accused the fraternity of damaging University prop- Matthews: US must adopt ‘coiled snake’ defense see MATTHEWS, page 4 BY WILL HURWITZ Jarat Chopra, a research associate for the Watson Institute for International Studies, remains stranded in war-torn Ramallah this morning, ten days after the Israeli army’s invasion interrupted his peace- keeping mission. Some reports say Chopra is one of hun- dreds of internationals trapped by the Israeli invasion of the West Bank. Chopra traveled to the Middle East as a consultant to the British government and part of an international team to study peace between Israel and Palestine, said Tanja Hohe, visiting fellow for the Watson Institute for International Studies, who is in daily phone contact with Chopra. Chopra intended to return to Brown after spring break, but instead finds him- self sleeping on the floor without clean drinking water and little to eat. Hohe last spoke to Chopra Sunday night. “Things are getting worse,” she said. “He is down to one meal a day. They are running out of water.” Chopra is staying in a two-story house with two Americans. “They said the water is spoiled. It smells,” Hohe said. “They are confined to the house.” Hohe added that Chopra is lucky to have electricity and a working phone. Chopra did not answer his phone at 9:30 a.m. in Ramallah this morning. Chopra tried to leave Ramallah Stranded in Ramallah, U.’s Chopra awaits end of Israeli army offensive see CHOPRA, page 6 Delta Tau can move back on campus, ResLife announces U. likely to face lawsuit seeking reparations, reports indicate see DELTA TAU, page 6 BY ANDY GOLODNY Reports from the national Reparations Coordinating Committee indicate the group will likely sue Brown for monetary compensation relating to the University’s alleged historical role in the slave trade. In an editorial written in the New York Times last week, Harvard Professor of Law Charles Ogletree named Brown, Yale and Harvard Law School as “probable targets” in a reparations lawsuit to be filed later this year. The schools “made headlines recently as the beneficiaries of grants and endow- ments traced back to slavery,” Ogletree wrote. Mark Nickel, director of the Brown News Service, said Brown has no response because no lawsuit has been filed yet. The RCC is made up of a number of prominent black leaders including attor- neys Randall Robinson and Johnnie Cochran and Harvard Professor of Afro- American Studies Cornel West. The reparations movement gained steam last year with the publication of Robinson’s “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks.” Ogletree told the Harvard Crimson that the RCC’s goal in filing the suits is to “cre- ate opportunity for discussion of slavery and its impact on culture and society as well as how we can move forward as a nation to remove barriers and work for equality to stop racial disparity.” Sources disagree about the strength of the link between Brown’s endowment and slavery. According to a Brown News Service report, John Brown was the member of the prominent Rhode Island Brown family most involved in the slave trade. The University itself was not named after John Brown, but after his nephew, Nicholas Brown Jr., who donated $5,000 in 1804, forty years after the University was founded. “The Browns were not uniform in their attitudes or their actions regarding slav- ery,” the report says. Nicholas Brown Jr. and his brother Moses Brown had both joined the aboli- tionist movement, and Moses became a Quaker and started a Providence aboli- tionist society, the report says. The clearest connection linking the University to slavery is that four slaves were likely used to build University Hall during its 1770 construction. It is unclear how all of this historical evi- dence will stack up in a courtroom, but Ogletree made clear in his editorial that the RCC will go forward with the suit. “Reparations litigation will show what slavery meant, how it was prof- itable and how it has continued to affect the opportunities of millions of black Americans.” Anti-reparations critics say the suits should not be brought about at all. “This is a shakedown operation, a frivo- lous scam,” said David Horowitz, author of see LAWSUIT, page 6
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BY VINAY GANTINationally recognized television newsanalyst Chris Matthews played hardballwith his audience Saturday in a lectureabout U.S. foreign policy and militaryaction after Sept. 11.
The United States should take on aforeign policy stance of a “coiled rat-tlesnake,” he said. Matthews said theUnited States should be reactive andjudicious when provoked, just like a rat-tlesnake, which does not attack withoutprovocation. When attacked, the coun-try should not surrender until it van-quishes its opponents.
Matthews said the United Stateswould benefit from the “high moraladvantage” this “rattlesnake” foreignpolicy brings with it.
Matthews said he approves of theactions of the U.S. government to findthe people responsible for the terroristattacks and bring them to justice, butsaid he is afraid of what actions maytake place after Osama bin Laden andother members of Al Qaeda are found.
He said former British PrimeMinister Winston Churchill spokeabout two types of success — initial andultimate. Though the United States maybe succeeding initially, Matthews saidhe is unsure if the country’s actions willultimately be successful.
When asked about his position onthe Israeli-Palestinian conflict,Matthews said he disagreed with IsraeliPrime Minister Ariel Sharon’s actions asthey will simply increase the hatredArab nations have toward Israel. He
added that the United States does notneed to be Israel’s big brother, and thatthe U.S. government should focus onhelping other Middle Eastern nations aswell.
Matthews said he fears the neocon-servative “pencil necks” in Washington,D.C., who want to enter into long-termwars fighting one country after another.He said phrases and labels, such as “axisof evil,” simply tell the world the UnitedStates is “looking for trouble.”
“I didn’t like the fights in highschool,” he said, and added that he doesnot understand why some bureaucratsand politicians are so belligerent.
With such pro-war policies, “why dowe need embassies in the world? Justshut them down,” Matthews said, as theembassies will become targets for fur-ther terrorist strikes.
“You do have to take that one risk,”Matthews said, of allowing the UnitedStates’ enemies the chance to attackfirst.
The United States should remaininvolved in foreign affairs on a diplo-matic level but should avoid long-termalliances and entanglements as theyeventually lead to war, he said.
“We are a country of reluctant war-riors,” he said. Americans fight whenthey absolutely have to, but when thefighting is over, they gladly return hometo resume their previous lives,Matthews said.
“We want a war to come home from,”
Allie Silverman / Herald
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spoke Saturday about U.S. foreign policy after Sept. 11.
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Kevin Kramp ’02unveils his fashiondesigns in Saturdayshow in List centerpage 3
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Author Tariq Ramadanaddresses the changingrole of Islamic values inAmerican societypage 5
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BY BRIAN BASKINDelta Tau will return to campus next year fol-lowing a decision by Director of ResidentialLife Donald Desrochers to end the fraterni-ty’s five-year housing ban.
The fraternity will most likely occupy partof Sears House, though the University hasnot made an official decision, said MichaelBlitstein ’03, program house chair forResidential Council. ResCouncil voted 8-0-2to recommend housing for Delta Tau in lateFebruary.
Blitstein said Delta Tau’s commitment tocommunity service, sponsoring of campus-wide events and fulfillment of programhouse requirements contributed to theCouncil’s decision.
ResCouncil voted to remove Delta Taufrom campus in 1997 after ResLife accusedthe fraternity of damaging University prop-
Matthews: US must adopt‘coiled snake’ defense
see MATTHEWS, page 4
BY WILL HURWITZJarat Chopra, a research associate for theWatson Institute for International Studies,remains stranded in war-torn Ramallahthis morning, ten days after the Israeliarmy’s invasion interrupted his peace-keeping mission.
Some reports say Chopra is one of hun-dreds of internationals trapped by theIsraeli invasion of the West Bank.
Chopra traveled to the Middle East asa consultant to the British governmentand part of an international team tostudy peace between Israel andPalestine, said Tanja Hohe, visiting fellowfor the Watson Institute for InternationalStudies, who is in daily phone contactwith Chopra.
Chopra intended to return to Brownafter spring break, but instead finds him-self sleeping on the floor without cleandrinking water and little to eat.
Hohe last spoke to Chopra Sundaynight. “Things are getting worse,” she said.“He is down to one meal a day. They arerunning out of water.”
Chopra is staying in a two-story housewith two Americans.
“They said the water is spoiled. Itsmells,” Hohe said. “They are confined tothe house.”
Hohe added that Chopra is lucky tohave electricity and a working phone.
Chopra did not answer his phone at9:30 a.m. in Ramallah this morning.
Chopra tried to leave Ramallah
Stranded inRamallah, U.’sChopra awaitsend of Israeliarmy offensive
see CHOPRA, page 6
Delta Tau canmove back oncampus, ResLifeannounces
U. likely to facelawsuit seekingreparations,reports indicate
see DELTA TAU, page 6
BY ANDY GOLODNYReports from the national ReparationsCoordinating Committee indicate thegroup will likely sue Brown for monetarycompensation relating to the University’salleged historical role in the slave trade.
In an editorial written in the New YorkTimes last week, Harvard Professor of LawCharles Ogletree named Brown, Yale andHarvard Law School as “probable targets”in a reparations lawsuit to be filed laterthis year.
The schools “made headlines recentlyas the beneficiaries of grants and endow-ments traced back to slavery,” Ogletreewrote.
Mark Nickel, director of the BrownNews Service, said Brown has no responsebecause no lawsuit has been filed yet.
The RCC is made up of a number ofprominent black leaders including attor-neys Randall Robinson and JohnnieCochran and Harvard Professor of Afro-American Studies Cornel West.
The reparations movement gainedsteam last year with the publication ofRobinson’s “The Debt: What America Owesto Blacks.”
Ogletree told the Harvard Crimson thatthe RCC’s goal in filing the suits is to “cre-ate opportunity for discussion of slaveryand its impact on culture and society aswell as how we can move forward as anation to remove barriers and work forequality to stop racial disparity.”
Sources disagree about the strength ofthe link between Brown’s endowment andslavery.
According to a Brown News Servicereport, John Brown was the member of theprominent Rhode Island Brown familymost involved in the slave trade.
The University itself was not namedafter John Brown, but after his nephew,Nicholas Brown Jr., who donated $5,000 in1804, forty years after the University wasfounded.
“The Browns were not uniform in theirattitudes or their actions regarding slav-ery,” the report says.
Nicholas Brown Jr. and his brotherMoses Brown had both joined the aboli-tionist movement, and Moses became aQuaker and started a Providence aboli-tionist society, the report says.
The clearest connection linking theUniversity to slavery is that four slaveswere likely used to build University Hallduring its 1770 construction.
It is unclear how all of this historical evi-dence will stack up in a courtroom, butOgletree made clear in his editorial thatthe RCC will go forward with the suit.
“Reparations litigation will showwhat slavery meant, how it was prof-itable and how it has continued to affectthe opportunities of millions of blackAmericans.”
Anti-reparations critics say the suitsshould not be brought about at all.
“This is a shakedown operation, a frivo-lous scam,” said David Horowitz, author of
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C A L E N D A RSEMINAR —”Applications of Modeling and Simulation in ComputationalBiology,” Russell Schwartz, Celera Genomics. CIT Lubrano, noon.
LECTURE — “On Becoming Modern,” Nicholas Onuf, Florida StateUniversity. Watson Institute 353, noon.
LECTURE — ”Applications of Quantal Response Equilibrium to Auctionsand Information Aggregation,” Tom Palfrey, Caltech. Robinson Hall 301, 4p.m.
LECTURE —”Spatial-time Series Models for Air Pollution Research,” ScottZeger, John Hopkins University. Arnold Lab, 4 p.m.
COLLOQUIUM —”Sketch of a Theory of Human Spatial Memory,” TimothyMcNamara, Vanderbilt University. Metcalf Lab 129, 4 p.m.
LECTURE —”International Administration and Local Political Legitimacy inEast Timor,” Tanja Hohe, visiting scholar. Watson Institute 353, 4 p.m.
COLLOQUIUM — “Viruses, Vesicles and Multi-Electron Bubbles: TheThomson Problem Revisted,” David Nelson, Harvard University. Barus &Holley 168, 4:30 p.m.
SEMINAR — professional development for advanced graduate students.Sharpe Refectory, 5 p.m.
PANEL DISCUSSION —“ The Changing Face of National Service in theWake of September 11,” Matt Dunne ‘92, AmeriCorps; Alan Khazei, CityYear; Susan Stroud, Swearer Center., MacMillan, Starr Auditorium 7 p.m.
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BY JUAN NUÑEZ AND LAURA RIASCOSImagine Radiohead — circa OK Computer— manifested as an article of clothing. Justas the group posited what the future mightsound like, Kevin Kramp ’02 offered aninteresting array of avant-garde, edgy out-fits in a fashion show held Saturday night atList Art Center.
Kramp’s female designs were builtaround a single variation of the tube dress,which rendered the show repetitive andderivative. This dress was presented in twolengths: a long one that went down to theknee and a shorter one that barely coveredthe girls’ buttocks.
The short dresses raised the question ofthe role of functionality in fashion, sinceany of the wearer’s movements could resultin overexposure. Sitting down would not befeasible.
Kramp said that functionality and fash-ion are often two separate entities.
“Functionality is not always the founda-tion for a critique of fashion. That is not therole of fashion,” Kramp said. “Fashion is forme something really exciting and reallybeautiful.
“Whether someone can sit down whenwearing a garment is not my first consider-ation when designing,” he continued.“Comfort in clothing is a concern for peo-ple who are concerned about comfort.”
Kramp said the collection was guided bytwo principles — transparency and layer-ing and a general experimentation withcolor. Donatella Versace’s 1998 fall couture
show served as the inspiration for the col-lection’s notion of layer and transparency,while Kramp’s painting experience guidedhis occasional selection of flourescenttones.
The strength of Kramp’s play withshades upon shades of transparent and iri-descent fabrics made up for the collection’slack of originality in cut and style. In mostof the designs, there were deliberate tearsin the middle organza layer, which exposedKramp’s artful play with vivid colors offolded satin and organza. One particularlystriking variation of the dress combinedpurple satin, purple and pink organza andbrown nylon tulle.
This experimentation with fabrics,although imaginative, proved somewhatrepetitive because of its presence in mostof the designs. However, the contrast intextures gave the dresses their futuristic,synthetic feel. The metallic shine of thetulle contrasted alluringly with the sparkleof the organza and the discreet gloss of thesatin.
Kramp’s juxtaposition of perfect, geo-metrical stitching with raw and asymmet-rical hemlines contributed to the collec-tion’s informal feel. In contrast, the white,visible zippers detracted from the aestheticof the overall ensembles; they were toolarge to allow the natural folds of the gar-ments to conform to the women’s con-tours.
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ARTS & CULTURE REVIEW
Kramp ’02 puts edgy duds on runway in List Center fashion show
Courtesy of Christopher Kramp
The work of Kevin Kramp ’02, which went on display during a Saturday fashion show inList Art Center, brings back the tube dress in new materials and with added layers.see FASHION, page 7
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Matthews said, and thusAmericans do not favor “monoto-nous Orwellian wars” thatdestroy what is “truly American.”
Matthews discussed theeffects of the events of Sept. 11 onhow Americans behave.
Matthews said post-Sept. 11New York City reminded him ofpost-World War II Berlin becauseof the shell-shocked atmosphere.
He said he is “troubled, yethappy” about present-dayAmerica, and said he saw manyunderlying American character-istics surface after the terroristattacks.
“We’re individuals that cometogether for a cause,” he saidabout the newfound rise innational unity.
National courage has risen sig-nificantly as a result of the terror-ist attacks, Matthews said. Theactions of the firefighters andpolice officers during and afterthe terrorist attacks were a dis-play of the bravery of U.S. citi-zens, Matthews said.
“This country does react
extremely well to attack,”Matthews said.
When he was a kid, Matthewssaid, the most admired career forboys was firefighting, and themost popular profession for girlswas nursing. He said after Sept.11, U.S. citizens have once againplaced those two professions asthe most heroic and moral jobs towhich a person can aspire. TheUnited States has returned to thevalue system of when he wasborn, Matthews said.
“I’m not talking about B.S. ide-alism, I’m talking about humanidealism,” he said, and hestressed the importance ofAmericans choosing occupationsthat help others.
Matthews is the host ofMSNBC’s “Hardball with ChrisMatthews” and author of therecently published “Now Let MeTell You What I Really Think.” He isa nationally syndicated columnistfor the San Francisco Chronicle.
He held a book signing afterthe discussion in the lobby ofSalomon, where the lecture tookplace.
Herald staff writer Vinay Ganti ’05can be reached at [email protected].
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Matthews
BY CRYSTAL Z.Y. NGIn a Friday lecture to a mixed Muslim and non-Muslimaudience, Tariq Ramadan spoke about building bridgesbetween Islamic values and Western culture.
Ramadan said the question of the Muslim identity inthe Western world is the biggest challenge facing today’syoung generations.
“Is the Western society my society?” he urged studentsto ask themselves. “Am I at home?”
A Swiss-born philosopher who teaches at the College ofGeneva and the University of Fribourg, Ramadan is thegrandson of Hasan al-Banna, the 1928 founder of theMuslim Brotherhood, a movement promoting a return totraditional Islamic values. He was named one of 100 inno-vators by Time magazine in 2000 for his book “To Be aEuropean Muslim,” which questioned the traditionaldichotomy between Islamic and Western beliefs.
Ramadan spoke at length about the need for Muslimsto reach out to people of other cultures and said that theIslamic and U.S. cultures need not be at odds.
Individuals can be both good Muslims and goodAmericans, he said. Muslims need to integrate Americanvalues that are consistent with Islamic principles intotheir beliefs and create bridges with non-Muslims,Ramadan said.
Education, he said, needs to be examined andreformed so Muslims growing up in America can retaintheir Islamic principles.
Ramadan also talked about how the experience ofMuslims in America has changed.
When the first wave of Muslim immigrants came toAmerica, Muslims adopted an attitude of protection andnon-assimilation, he said. But that practice no longerholds true for today’s generation of Muslim Americans, hesaid.
“Protection is okay for the first generation, but it’s nolonger okay for the second, third or fourth generations —having the American experience changes it,” he said.
Ramadan pointed to his own childhood as an exampleof the kind of identity conflict facing many youngMuslims. Growing up in Switzerland, Ramadan said hewas educated in Islam from an Egyptian perspective.
He said this phenomenon of fragmentation has creat-ed an identity crisis among Muslims that must beaddressed.
Ramadan said the Sept. 11 attacks complicated thequestion of Muslim identity in the United States. He saidthe image of Islam was negative even before Sept. 11,making it even more important now for Muslims to speakup and rectify negative conceptions of their culture.
Though many observers tie the image of Islam to vio-lence and the current Israel-Palestine conflict, Ramadansaid Muslims must remember the essential principles oftheir religion and culture.
He called attempts to separate the Islamic communityfrom the rest of society impractical. “You can’t isolateyourself from the American culture,” he said.
Ramadan asked students to look within themselves,find their true personalities and stand strong. “Muslimstoday in this society are not confident,” he said. “Thistrend is coming from inside.”
Using parables from the Koran, Ramadan emphasizedthe teachings of Islam pertaining to the cultivation of theindividual.
“Our essential teaching of Islam is: change your heartbefore you change the world,” he said.
Zeba Huq ’04, president of the Brown Muslim StudentsAssociation, said she was happy with the lecture. “It wasinteresting to understand his arguments and get aglimpse of the issues that affect the Western community,”she said.
After hearing Ramadan speak at a conference last year,Huq and other members of BMSA decided to bring theprofessor to campus, she said.
Herald staff writer Crystal Z.Y. Ng ’05 can be reached [email protected].
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Author/prof: The time to build bridgesbetween Muslim and US culture is now
Josh Apte / Herald
Swiss-born author and professor Tariq Ramadan spokeabout Muslim values in American society Saturday.
I N B R I E F
NAVA holds benefit concert to raiseawareness in anti-war campaignNot Another Victim Anywhere held a benefit concertThursday and a series of workshops Friday afternoon as partof its effort to raise awareness about various aspects of therecent U.S. military action against suspected terrorist groups.
“We wanted to get the anti-war message out in as manypolitical ways as possible,”said Shaun Joseph ‘02.“We want-ed to have a couple events that would expose the war onterror’s dangerous effect on lots of areas of life at home andabroad.”
In order to accomplish these goals, NAVA hosted a seriesof six workshops that explored the topics of “Labor After 9-11,”“The Israel-Palestine Conflict,”“Anti-War Veterans,”“TheAfghan Refugee Crisis,”“The Attack on Immigrant Rights”and “Iraq.”
Joseph, who attended the Israel-Palestine Conflict work-shop, said audience members expressed a variety of opin-ions about relations in the Middle East. After Rhode IslandRepublican congressional candidate Rod Driver showedvideo footage of the effect of Israeli occupation onPalestinians, those attending the workshop launched into adebate, Joseph said.
He described the audience as “running the politicalgamut.”
Thursday’s concert, which raised funds for Afghanrefugees, hosted local musicians performing hip-hop, folkand rock. Held in the Upstairs Production Workshop, theevent raised about $150 for Focus, an international emer-gency response organization, Joseph said.
Although NAVA has no on-campus events planned for thenear future, the group is preparing for an April 20 demon-stration in Washington, D.C., that will focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
But Joseph said the group’s work has just begun.“We need people to know that the “war on terror”doesn’t
only mean the war in Afghanistan,”he said.“It means theattack on immigrant rights; it means that Israel has an excuseto come down harder on the Palestinians.
“We need people to understand,”he said.— Elena Lesley
Walk-a-thon raises hundreds forKarina Lago ’95 scholarship fundThe sixth annual Karina Lago ’95 Memorial Scholarship Walk-a-thon attracted nearly 15 walkers Saturday and raisedbetween $600 and $700, said walk-a-thon co-coordinatorRosanna Castro ’04.
Sigma Lamba Upsilon/Señoritas Latinas Unidas sororityhosts the annual event during Latino History Month to main-tain the scholarship, said Castro, president of the sorority.
Lago was a first-year graduate student at the FletcherSchool of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University inNovember 1996 when she was killed by a car while joggingon the Tufts campus, said Alexandra Ocampo ’02, a sororitymember.
While at Brown, Lago was a member of the honors societyPhi Beta Kappa, a minority peer counselor and an interna-tional relations and Portuguese and Brazilian studies con-centrator, Ocampo said.
Originally a member of the class of 1998, Ocampo metand knew Lago during her freshman year.“She was such awonderful part of the Brown community,”Ocampo said.
— Kavita Mishra
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Thursday when the Israeliarmy lifted curfew for aboutthree hours. But the armyturned him away before hecould escape.
Hohe said Chopra will try toleave again soon. “There is arumor of curfew lifting” againtoday, she said.
Professor of Political ScienceTerrence Hopmann said he didnot talk to Chopra, but he did talkto others who have.
Chopra, who Hopmann saidholds both British and Canadianpassports, has contacted theBritish government.
“There’s not much else we cando,” Hopmann said. “Complaintshave been made to the highestinternational levels.”
With reports of the Israeliarmy shooting at United Nationsaid workers, it is unlikelyChopra’s limited food andspoiled water supplies will bereplenished anytime soon,Hopmann said.
Even U.N. officials wearingblue aid-worker helmets havebeen targets of Israeli bullets, he
said.U.N. officials for the Relief and
Works Agency for PalestineRefugees told The Herald thismorning that providing neededaid to Ramallah has proven diffi-cult.
“There is a problem of foodbecause of the long-time closureof the area,” a U.N. official toldThe Herald.
Another U.N. official saidmovement was “very, veryrestricted” for aid missions. “Inmany cases, we fail to go and pro-vide assistance to places inRamallah,” he added.
The official said Israel hasstopped and searched every vehi-cle, even diplomatic ones provid-ing aid.
These searches, he said,breach a previous U.N.-Israeliagreement.
Though the official said theIsraeli army has delayed, stoppedand, in some cases, turned awayU.N. aid trucks, the greatest dan-ger in Ramallah right now is vio-lence — bombs and stay bullets— not starvation.
But he warned that the lack ofprovisions could become a seri-ous problem.
“The situation is difficult anddeteriorating,” he said.
The U.N. is not the only organ-ization having difficulty supply-ing humanitarian aid. UrielMasad, spokesperson for the RedCross in Israel, told The Heraldthis morning that Israeli authori-ties are making it difficult formedical supplies to reach placeslike Ramallah.
“Hospitals are running out ofoxygen cylinders and blood,” hesaid. “There is enough in the WestBank to supply all the hospitals.”
The University is not involvedin any attempt to return Choprasafely, said Mark Nickel, directorof the Brown News Service.
“As far as I know, theUniversity hasn’t contacted him,”Nickel said.
Hopmann said he is not awareof any University involvement inhelping Chopra, but said “peopleat much higher levels” are tryingto intervene.
But the fighting might not endanytime soon.
Hopmann said PresidentGeorge Bush’s recent call to haltthe violence in the Middle Eastmay be too late.
“He should have intervened along time ago,” Hopmann said.Hopmann, an expert on conflictprevention and resolution, addedthat Secretary of State ColinPowell, who will visit with Araband European leaders next week,is Bush’s most competent foreignpolicy expert.
Hopmann said other coun-tries might not take Powell’s visitseriously, but said he hopedPowell would successfully initi-ate an end to the violence onboth sides.
Chopra, who studies inter-national law, society andorganization, and peace opera-tions, was involved in a U.N.mission to create a new gov-ernment in East Timor in 1999-00, according to the WatsonInstitute for InternationalStudies Web site.
He teaches a senior thesisseminar in international rela-tions.
Chopra received a master’sdegree and a doctorate from theUniversity of Cambridge in inter-national studies.
Herald executive editor WillHurwitz ’03 can be reached at [email protected].
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erty. The University wanted DeltaTau to wait until all undergradu-ates involved in the 1997 incidentshad left the University beforegranting on-campus permission.
ResCouncil voted 10-1-1 inspring 2001 to allow the fraternityon campus, but ResLife overturnedthe decision.
“They felt as if we started theprocess too late, and they ques-tioned our intentions,” said RoyCho ’03, President of Delta Tau.
This year, Delta Tau made astronger effort to fulfill theUniversity’s requirements to returnto campus, Cho said. Delta Taubegan performing community serv-ice at a soup kitchen in Septemberand held outreach programs forcommunity safety and drug abuse.
“We were very proactive this yearin terms of what we could do tochange our perception,” Cho said.
Cho said an on-campus housewould improve the fraternity’sunity and help the pledge process.
Herald staff writer Brian Baskin ’04is a news editor.He can be reached [email protected].
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“Uncivil Wars: The ControversyOver Reparations for Slavery.”
“You just can’t try cases aftereveryone involved is dead,” hesaid. “What they are doing is totake a crime committed 150 yearsago and using it to make moneyfor people today.”
The lawsuit would not be with-out precedent.
Deadria Farmer-Paellmann, aNew York legal researcher andactivist, filed a reparations suit infederal court against three com-panies last month.
The claim stems from thecompanies’ past involvementwith slavery.
The companies, insuranceagent Aetna, railroad group CSXand FleetBoston Financial, arebeing sued because they “con-spired with slave traders, witheach other and other entitiesand institutions to knowinglyfacilitate crimes against human-ity, and to further illicitly profitfrom slave labor,” the lawsuitalleges.
The class action lawsuit wasfiled on behalf of the 35 million
decedents of African slaves livingin the United States. It does notseek a specific dollar amount, butestimates the total value of slavelabor between 1790 and 1860 as$1.4 trillion in today’s money. Thesuit reserves the right to includeup to another hundred compa-nies in the claim.
Brown University is also men-tioned in Farmer-Paellmann’slawsuit as one of several“esteemed and celebrated insti-tutions of learning which had itsorigins in the profits derived fromthe slave trade.”
The Brown family was alsoincluded because of its connec-tion to FleetBoston, which takesits corporate ancestry fromProvidence Bank, which wasfounded by John Brown.
“Providence Bank lent sub-stantial sums to Brown, thusfinancing and profiting from thefounder’s illegal slave trading …(and) also collected custom feesdue from ships transportingslaves, thus, further profitingfrom the slave trade,” the suitalleges.
Herald staff writer Andy Golodny’03 edits the campus news section.He can be reached [email protected].
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accustomed to running in theback of the pack and coming frombehind, felt the race was comfort-able and well paced. She used thatcomfort to her advantage and tookoff in the last 400 meters to clock inthe blazing time.
Also running an extremelycompetitive race was KatherineKosub ’04 in the 800 meters. Herrace tactic of going out fast andholding on was perfectly execut-ed. “I like being out in front,” shesaid. “This way when I hear peo-ple coming up behind me, I runfaster.”
Kosub led until the last 200meters, finishing second with atime of 2:16. Her time, however,does not do her justice becauseof the turbulent homestretch,which made it feel like the racerswere running into a wall.
Caci Cambruzzi ’04 and LauraHughes ’02 followed closely inthird and fourth with times of2:18 and 2:19, respectively. Moreyalso finished second in the 3000meters.
Brown came away with threemore victories in the sprintevents. Alexis Hall ’05 won the100-meter dash against the windin a time of 12.83 and then joinedClaudine Compass ’02, AyannaAndrew ’02 and Julia Stevenson’04 in the 4x100-meter relay,coming away with a strong victo-ry.
Keely Tharp ’03 won a windy200-meter race with a time of27:14.
The cold conditions werenumbing to her legs and it wasnot until 100 meters into the racethat she said she finally feltwarm.
According to Head CoachRobert Johnson, it was a meetwhere strength was needed andprevailed.
“Everyone is upping the inten-sity,” Tharp said. “It is alreadyshowing up in meets and hope-fully will all come together atHeps.”
Hale and Morey will compete atthe prestigious Sea Ray meet at theUniversity of Tennessee thisupcoming Friday in the 800- and1500-meter races. Hale says thecompetition will be fierce, becauseit is midseason and the competi-tors should be in top shape.
She and Morey will then jointhe rest of the team at home onSaturday in the Brown Five-TeamInvitational. The meet will takeplace on the newly renovatedtrack in the Brown Stadium.
The Bears are looking to winagain this weekend and see a vic-tory as key.
“Spring season is short, andwith only three meets left untilHeps we have to work hard nowin order to bring back the gold,”said Basia Dabrowski ’04.
Sports staff writer MelissaPerlman ’03 covers women’s track.She can be reached at [email protected].
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Kramp’s male designs werecounterparts to the female gar-ments. Not only was their con-struction similar — the shirts asfitted and layered as the dressesand equally unfinished in theiredges — but the rampant playwith color was also present. Thedesign of the shirts seemed tosuggest that the lower and middlelayers were cut in a more ortho-dox fashion than the outer layers.
With their high necklines andseven-eighth sleeves, the outerlayers almost suggested a shirtput on backwards, adding to adeconstructionist feel.
Oddly, the most striking of thedesigns were sober, neutralpieces, reminiscent of Jil Sander’sminimalist design. Kramp intend-ed these garments to act as“breathers” from the “color explo-sion” and they departed com-pletely from the theme of the col-lection.
The relative absence of coloronly highlighted Kramp’s eye fortexture æ a white muslin dressthat was inviting in its fuzziness, afitted knit shirt with exposed
seams that, from a distance,seemed like magnified mesh orblown-up linen threads.
The models were well chosen,representing all beauty types,although they at times appearedto lack confidence as theystrolled down the catwalk. Theywere diffident when they shouldhave been arrogant, more inter-ested in posing for the camerasthan in interacting with the audi-ence.
Also noteworthy was the deca-dent makeup — designed byWhitney Braunstein ’05, JustineDurrett ’03, Lindsay Rhodes ’02and Joy Wu ’03 — which was char-acterized by heavy eyeliner on theboys and intense blushes on thegirls.
The lighting and sound werequite simple, but made excellentuse of List’s resources. The avail-able space of List’s second floorwas impressively turned into acatwalk by placing four rows ofchairs, two parallel to each wall,facing the center. The simplicityof the layout allowed the audi-ence to concentrate on the mod-els and Kramp’s sexy, messypieces.
Herald staff writer Juan Nuñez’03 can be reached at
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Courtesy of Chritopher Kramp
Kramp’s mens’ fashions made use of rampant play of color.
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put in a very good effort. It’s notquite there yet, but he did have avery good finish to his race,” hesaid.
Some underclassmen gavegood performances in the 5000-meter run. Jeff Gaudette ’05 spedto first place with a time of14:32.50 and Matt Emond ’04
took third with a time of 14:43.03. “This was Matt’s first time back
on the track in a while (due toinjury), and he gave a very goodeffort,” Johnson said.
The Bears grabbed two morethird-place finishes, in the 110-meter high hurdles and the 100-meter dash. Daveed Diggs ’04 hur-dled to a time of 15.17, and P.J.Morris ’02 sprinted a time of 11.74.
“I think it’s only a matter oftime before we start to seeimprovement, and we will see
lots as the season goes on,”Thomas said. “We’re in bettershape now than we were at thispoint in the indoor season, andwe’re in good standing for thenext couple of meets coming up.”
The next challenge for Brownwill be this coming Saturday in itshome invitational.
Sports staff writer JoannaGrossman ’03 covers men’s track.She can be reached at [email protected].
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received what she had coming toher — about a Benz less than themen’s winner.
The same thing happened toher sister Venus at Wimbledon thisyear. She pocketed $52,923 lessthan men’s champ GoranIvanisevic, and Capriati took home$29,300 less than Gustavo Kuertenat last year’s French Open.
See, the dinosaurs in charge oftennis have a way of compensat-ing its athletes that is “interest-ing” at best. The motto must be“Advantage, Men.”
The men, who play a brand ofpower tennis with 120-mph acesand rallies that begin and endwith the serve, are inexcusablypaid more than the women.
The women’s tour has every-thing: a new controversy everyweek, amazing storylines withthe likes of Seles, Capriati, theWilliams sisters, Hingis and AnnaKournikova, rallies that are longand impressive, matches that are
intense yet fluid and that’s noteven mentioning the outfits.
Fortunately, it looks like thingsmay be changing. Just thisWednesday, the organizers of theFrench Open announced that thegap between the men and thewomen is closing. The men’schampion will earn $686,135 andthe women’s champ will earn$668,981, a marked improvementfrom last year.
It is worth noting that not alltournaments are behind thetimes. The powers that be at theU.S. and Australian Opens knowa little something. There, the menand women receive the samepaychecks; at least in Americaand Down Under, the men andwomen are at deuce.
It almost seems fantasticalthat in 2002 women’s tennis play-ers are paid less than their malecounterparts. Tennis is one ofthose sports where the men cando nothing the women can’t. Themen don’t set themselves apartby dunking or hitting 450-fthome runs. They don’t put onpads and hit each other at fullspeed. They don’t even sweat
more. The only real difference is the
length of the matches. The menplay five sets and the women onlyplay three. But that doesn’t makea difference; length of matchesmeans about as much as a MikeTyson apology. The dictionary islonger than Huck Finn, but whichone is a better read?
And the women have the sta-tistics to back up their gripe. Lastyear, for the first time, morewomen’s than men’s matcheswere played on Center Court atthe U.S.Open. The TV ratings forthe U.S., French and AustralianOpen finals over the last twoyears have been dominated bythe females. In a recent survey byMSNBC, 70 percent of therespondents preferred thewomen’s game to the men’s.
Let’s face it, the women’s gamehas stronger personalities, AnnaKournikova, edge-of-your-seatpoints, more exciting matches,the Williams sisters (plus father)and the clincher — body-huggingmulti-colored dresses.
Looks like a straight-set tri-umph for the women.
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WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2002 · PAGE 9
BOGOTA, Colombia (L.A. Times) — Two bombs rippedthrough a strip of nightclubs and restaurants in aprovincial Colombian capital early Sunday, killing atleast 12 people and fueling fears of stepped-up terrorattacks in urban centers.
Police said the first bomb exploded at 1:08 a.m.Sunday in a parking lot in the most popular entertain-ment district of Villavicencio, 45 miles southeast of thecapital city of Bogota. Minutes later and just yardsaway, a car packed with 150 pounds of dynamite blewup, dismembering many of the victims. Authorities saidmore than 70 people were treated in nearby hospitalsand several were in critical condition.
None of Colombia’s armed groups claimed responsi-bility for the attack, but military and police chiefsquickly singled out the Marxist-inspired RevolutionaryArmed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, as the likely cul-prits. The 17,000-strong guerrilla group has carried outa sabotage campaign since February in retaliation forPresident Andres Pastrana’s decision to end peace talksand send government troops into a southern rebelhaven.
“The way this attack was carried out points towardthem,” said Chief Prosecutor Luis Camilo Osorio, refer-ring to the 38-year-old insurgency. “It’s a possibilitywe’re not dismissing.”
Video images from the scene showed twisted carframes in a street carpeted by glass shards and rubble.Several building facades collapsed, and crumpled bar-room furniture littered the sidewalks.
Police said the first blast was meant to drawanguished spectators closer to the scene so that thesecond bomb would claim more victims.
Pastrana traveled with top military advisers toVillavicencio on Sunday to devise security measuresaimed at thwarting further terror attacks.
Speaking to reporters later, the president offered a$45,000 reward for information leading to the capture ofthe bombers.
“We’re going to pursue these terrorists wherever theyare. They’re not going to find a hiding place anywherein the world,” Pastrana said, adding that nine teen-agers were among the dead.
The attack also kindled fears that Colombia’s bloodycivil conflict is spilling into city streets. Until recently,the conflict mostly consisted of territorial battlesfought between the rebels and their ultra-right paramil-itary foes for control of drug crops and gun-runningroutes.
But in January, suspected FARC militias detonated abicycle bomb in front of a Bogota cafeteria, killing sixcivilians, including a small child.
Colombian clubs targeted in fatal bombings
NABLUS, West Bank (L.A. Times) — Israeli troops and helicoptershammered away Sunday at determined but weakeningPalestinian resistance in Nablus and in the Jenin refugeecamp, the prime remaining targets of an Israeli militaryunder international pressure to curtail its West Bank offen-sive.
Israeli forces gained ground in both conflict zones,according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. At least 30Palestinians have been killed in house-to-house combathere in the past two days, including a legendary chief whofell Sunday as his forces retreated in a warren of under-ground tunnels and winding alleys.
A senior Israeli general predicted that the assault on bothstrongholds could wind down as soon as Monday.
At Israel’s northern border, Hezbollah guerrillas inLebanon unleashed another barrage of mortar and antitankfire into Israel, wounding six Israeli soldiers. That elicited acounterattack with artillery and rockets and an Israeli warn-ing to Syria, which supports the guerrillas and permits theiractivity in Lebanon.
And on the increasingly sensitive political front, Israelileaders defended their West Bank incursion a day after PrimeMinister Ariel Sharon rebuffed President Bush’s call for Israelto withdraw from Palestinian territories without delay.
"This is a fateful battle," Sharon said at a Cabinet meetingSunday, "a war for our homes."
But Sharon and his top aides sent conciliatory signals aswell, saying they hope to finish the operation soon. Israelileaders hinted that pullbacks could occur in calmer areasand announced the temporary lifting of curfews in citiesincluding Ramallah, the site of Palestinian AuthorityPresident Yasser Arafat’s battered headquarters, and thetown of Jenin, near the embattled refugee camp.
"Our time is running out" because of Bush administrationrequests and this week’s diplomatic mission by U.S.Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Defense MinisterBinyamin Ben-Eliezer told Israel radio. "But we will not pullout only to return soon."
The military cannot move more quickly, Israeli leadersargued, because it must uproot the infrastructure of terroristgroups while refraining from aerial and artillery bombard-ments to minimize civilian casualties. Israeli defense officialswarned that an abrupt withdrawal — as demanded byEuropean and Arab governments — could result in anotherround of Palestinian terrorism and Israeli retaliation.
"Now everybody wants us to get out of the territories,"said Maj. Gen. Dan Harel, operations chief of the Israeliarmy. "If we do it too soon, another wave of terror will hitIsraeli cities and streets. And we’ll go back in again.Paradoxically, if we stay in, we can do more to put an end toterrorism."
The crackdown has been a success, Harel said, noting thatintelligence reports of suicide bomb plots in Palestinian ter-ritory have dropped dramatically. After near-daily suicideattacks killed 128 Israelis in March, a week has gone by with-out a major suicide bombing.
Since the offensive was unleashed March 28, about 12
Israelis and 200 Palestinians have died in the hostilities,Harel told reporters. About 1,300 Palestinians are being heldby Israelis, who have identified 500 to 600 prisoners involvedin terrorism and 60 to 70 hard-core terrorists, he said. Israeliforces say they also have dismantled more than 10 labs ded-icated to preparing terrorist explosives.
Palestinians say civilians have been undeserving victimsof the violence and destruction. Their plight caused the for-eign ministers of Spain and Belgium to warn Sunday that theEuropean Union will consider sanctions if the Sharon gov-ernment does not relent.
Discussions of a cease-fire seemed fanciful, though, amidthe blood and hate in war zones such as Nablus, the biggestand most militant West Bank city, where close-quarters com-bat felled three Palestinian leaders Sunday.
Ahmad Tabouk died about noon in the casbah, the oldmarket area where he was undisputed top dog. Tabouk com-manded his own armed militant group after years as a fearedchieftain of the Fatah movement during the first intifada inthe late 1980s and early ‘90s.
Tabouk was cut down in the street during an exchange offire with Israeli infantry. His body lay face down, clad in blackjeans, sweatshirt and holster, a pile of trash burning nearby.
Anguished fighters tried to retrieve Tabouk’s corpse. Agunman darted from a narrow lane toward his fallen leaderas another shouted for protective fire: "Cover, cover!"
Before reaching Tabouk’s corpse, the fighter was hit andwent down, blood pouring from his mouth and leg. His com-rades dragged him away.
"Hurry up, hurry up!" yelled a Palestinian. "Give mesomething to carry him on. He’s alive, he’s alive!" Wearingblack ski masks and green headbands, fighters fired frombehind sandbags, pressed themselves against stone wallsand sprinted through underground tunnels. A fightercrouched in a tunnel over a car battery with wires in hishands, ready to set off an explosive booby trap if the Israelisapproached. In the windows of hillside homes, Palestinianwomen and children cheered on the men with shouts of"God is great!"
Two other leaders were killed in Nablus as the Israelispressed forward, their generals predicting they would soondominate most of the casbah. Palestinian legislator HussamKhader remained defiant, though.
"No matter what Sharon does, he will never be able to killthe spirit of the Palestinians," Khader said in a telephoneinterview. "The resistance will still continue."
In the Jenin camp, five Palestinians approached Israelisoldiers, offered to surrender but then attempted a suicidebomb attack. The five were gunned down, and one wasblown up when the explosives strapped to him went off,army officials said. There were no Israeli casualties.
The death toll in the refugee camp is close to 100, accord-ing to Palestinian sources. Fighters were being pushed intothe center of the camp amid helicopter barrages but weredetermined to fight to the death, said Jamal Shati, anotherPalestinian legislator.
"It’s a real war of annihilation," Shati said.
Israeli army forces pound remainingtargets in Nablus, Jenin refugee camp
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New shareholder lawsuit to targetEnron’s investment banks, law firms(L.A. Times) — Investment banks and law firms that helpedEnron Corp. create the off-the-books partnerships that lieat the heart of the company’s collapse will be targeted ina sweeping legal action expected to be filed Monday byaggrieved Enron shareholders.
The court papers — which will name nine investmentbanks, two law firms and several individuals — portraythe Wall Street firms as deeply involved in an effort to dis-guise the company’s deteriorating financial conditionfrom shareholders, rating agencies and other outsiders.
The allegations will come in the form of a consolidatedcomplaint scheduled to be filed in federal court inHouston by the University of California Board of Regents,the lead plaintiff in the previously filed class-action casethat had named only Enron executives and accountingfirm Andersen. The plaintiffs claim to have lost more than$25 billion when Enron’s stock price shriveled from itsAugust 2000 peak of almost $91 to its current 33 cents.
The shareholders claim the Wall Street firms intention-ally designed a series of sham transactions that let Enronmask its worsening finances by moving millions of dollarsof debt off its balance sheet.
The dealings made the company seem to be profitableand hid the severe financial risks it was taking. The lawsuitalso alleges that top Wall Street executives profited per-sonally from some of the transactions.
Thirty-eight percent of Americanssedentary in leisure time, study saysWASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Nearly 40 percent ofAmerican adults are sedentary in their leisure time, basi-cally never exercising. In contrast, about 30 percent exer-cise on a regular basis, either vigorously several times aweek, or even more often at lower intensity. The rest dosomething in between.
Those are among the findings of a survey, whoseresults will help the federal government track behaviorsin the American population in the coming decades.
Regular exercise is more common in men than inwomen. It is also more common in the young and in thebetter educated. Whites are more likely to exercise regu-larly or vigorously than blacks or Hispanics.
The information was collected as part of the NationalHealth Interview Survey, which is conducted by theNational Center for Health Statistics.
Since 1957, interviewers have queried a representativesample of Americans about their health. In 1997, the sur-vey was extensively revised and new exercise questionswere added.
People had been asked about leisure-time activities insome previous surveys. Now, however, the subject will bepart of every year’s survey, and the questions won’tchange, said Charlotte Schoenborn, the demographer atthe National Center for Health Statistics who was themain author of the report. This will produce data that canbe compared year to year, over long periods of time.
“Light-moderate physical activity” was defined as activ-ity causing a light sweat and a slight increase in breathingor heart rate.“Vigorous activity” causes heavy sweatingand large increases in breathing or heart rate. Only activi-ty done during leisure time—not on the job, in house-work or as transportation—was counted.
The new data are the combined results of the 1997 and1998 surveys, in which a total of 68,556 people were inter-viewed. Most of the results have a margin of error of lessthan 1 percent. Among the findings:
Sixty-two percent of adults reported doing “at leastsome” exercise. This category was very inclusive: any light-moderate or vigorous activity lasting at least 10 minutesqualified, regardless of how often a person did it.
Among men, 65 percent engaged in “at least some”exercise; women, 59 percent; people 18 to 24 years old,70 percent; people older than 75, 39 percent. Amongwhites, 66 percent of people did “at least some” exercise;Asians, 62 percent; blacks, 50 percent; and Hispanics, 47percent.
About 38 percent of adults are entirely sedentary intheir leisure hours. For women, it’s 41 percent; men, 35percent; for people below poverty level, 57 percent; forpeople with incomes at least four times higher thanpoverty level, 24 percent; for southerners, 44 percent; fornortheasterners, 38 percent; for westerners, 32 percent.
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Imprisoned by warS T A F F E D I T O R I A L
EDITORIAL/LETTERSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2002 · PAGE 10
Watson Institute for International Studies Research Associate JaratChopra went to Palestine two weeks ago to advise the British govern-ment on peacekeeping. It’s safe to say the 37 year-old got more thanhe bargained for when Israeli forces invaded the city of Ramallah,where he was stationed.
The Israeli invasion of Ramallah and the subsequent war has prevent-ed Chopra from returning home to Providence and subjected him andothers to unacceptably inhumane conditions that directly violate theprovisions of the Geneva Convention. Chopra, a British and Canadiancitizen, has been confined to a two-story house for ten days with twoAmericans, eating only crackers, pistachio nuts and pasta. He eats onemeal a day, and his supply of spoiled water is running low. He sleeps onthe floor to avoid bullets. Tanks, Israeli soldiers and a 24-hour curfewimposed by the occupying army keep him from leaving the house.
Article 35 of the Geneva Convention states that “all protected per-sons who may desire to leave the territory at the outset of, or duringa conflict, shall be entitled to do so, unless their departure is con-trary to the national interests of the State.” Twice last week, Chopraand other internationals attempted to leave Ramallah during theperiods of time that the Israeli occupying army lifted the curfew. Thesecond time he tried to escape, Chopra waited two hours only to besent back by Israeli soldiers firing guns. The soldiers did not tellChopra why he was being prohibited from crossing the border,where a representative from the British consulate was waiting forhim on the other side.
The Geneva Convention also states that “upon request, represen-tatives of the Protecting Power shall … be furnished with the reasonsfor refusal of any request for permission to leave the territory.”Chopra was told by the soldiers at the checkpoint that the authorityto let him through that checkpoint did not lie with them, but was notgiven a reason for his further detainment.
Regardless of international law, the holding of Chopra and hun-dreds of other internationals against their will by the Israeli occupy-ing army is unjust, inhumane and unnecessary. The conditions underwhich he is forced to live are deplorable and dangerous. It is alsounfortunate that the University has yet to take any action to contactChopra or use its influence to help him flee the war zone. WhileBrown may not have as much sway as the British government, astatement in support of a faculty member is called for. The Israeliinvasion of the West Bank has taken many lives, and there are count-less victims. One of Brown’s own is a victim, and his story is troubling.We offer Chopra our support and look forward to his escape from thewar zone and a peaceful and expedient solution to the conflict.
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Schulman ignores thesocio-economic issuesbehind Mideast CrisisTo the Editor:Alex Schulman’s generalization of Arab-Muslimsocieties in the Middle East vis-a-vis Israel bluntlysubstitutes an understanding of the social andpolitical realities of Islam with a vapid polemic thatimplies that only through the “mosque and Mullah”may entire populations of Muslims articulate theirpolitical praxis(“The limits of the Arab/Israeli con-flict,” 4/5).
Schulman argues that the Middle East conflict isessentially a religious one. This ignores the dis-parate economic and geopolitical strands ofengagement that lie deeply embedded in theregion. Islam, seen as a dynamic discourse com-prising not only different texts and principles butalso the lived experiences of Muslims across timeand space, does not ipso facto claim to destroy theJewish nation. Only with rampant unemployment,corrupt and repressive regimes (most of them secu-lar in spirit if not in letter), social unrest and a selec-tive interpretation of Islamic texts in the last half
century have the phenomena of suicide bombersand other jihadist-Islamist groups risen. Seldom isthe invocation of Allah alone enough to motivateyoung Arabs to kill and maim. Combined withother social, economic and political grievances,however, it is the most visible — but not necessari-ly most powerful.
Furthermore, when Schulman claims thatMuslim populations are “locked into cycles of reli-gious extremism,” he overplays the role of radicalIslam in states such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq,where the secular calculus of political autocracy,rather than the holy word of the Qur’an, justifiesdictatorship. His alliterative claim that Muslimsrelay negative emotions through the “mosque andMullah” is not only wrong, it misses the entirepoint. A combination of distinct factors are at playin the Middle East; simply because the mosque andMullah are the most media-driven symbols doesnot necessarily mean the religion they symbolizeinherently plays any more role than geopolitics.
I agree with Schulman’s conclusion that the cur-rent situation in Israel is untenable. But I find itpuzzling, even disturbing, to witness how he cameto that deduction.
Sean L. Yom ’03April 5
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Problems of a “God named by whatever name”Exploring the ecumenical implications of John Rockefeller Jr.’s creed
I FIND MYSELF SPENDING A LOT OFtime in the lobby of the Rock — not buying90 percent of the textbooks you’reassigned will do that to you. The other day,in one of my moments of sleep-deprived,overworked stupor, I actually read thewords attached to the wallthat stands opposite thereserve desk: John RockefellerJr.’s “I Believe.” These words inparticular stood out to me:
“I believe in an all-wise andall-loving God, named bywhatever name.”
This statement clearlyreflects syncretic and ecu-menical values. By syncretic, Imean forming ones own reli-giosity from a fusion of others.By ecumenical, I mean seek-ing to create communitybetween sects and faiths. Both of these arefairly urgent concerns for me. They are thetwo related implications of one of thebasic structuring principles of my reli-gious upbringing, expressed in the dictum“all roads lead to the truth.” This is, likemuch in religion, beautifully vague — doesit mean that all traditions are equallyvalid? That all lead to truths that, whileexpressed differently, are nonethelessidentical in meaning? That each gives atruth, which is a portion of the truth?
I am not yet certain which of these read-ings, if any, is the correct one. But onething is clear to me: there is somethingwrong with the idea of believing in a God“named by whatever name.” The intentionis good, but it errs in asserting as a pre-
existing object of belief thatthe distinction between theGods of various faiths is mere-ly nominal.
This assertion dependsupon the assumption that theapparent differences are falsedifferences, and behind theappearance of difference liesthe reality of identity. What itpromotes is a spirit of com-promise: “At least we can agreethat there is a God, by whatev-er name.” Compromises ofthis sort clearly achieve a
minimal level of tolerance and leave nofurther need for conversation. Indeed, it ispremised on a view of the other that isalien to the very conditions of real com-munication, which is the basis of real ecu-menism.
When I assume that I know you before Ieven get to know you, I cannot really com-municate with you, or the dialogue is in aspirit of knowing, cynical irony or one ofpatronizing pedantry. In neither case do Icome to terms with you in the authenticmoment of your existence that you arenow living. My words are aimed beyondyou, at some deeper “you” I have pre-judged into existence; they miss the “you”
that you are right now.When I assume I know that about which
I speak, I am engaged in a monologue.Genuine dialogue depends on the earnest-ness with which I pursue the reality of theother. It requires the suspension of totaliz-ing explanations which turn the other intoa given, pre-known quantity. This is not tosay I renounce belief in the explanationsby which I understand myself and theworld in which I move, but rather that Icease to assume that my interpretations ofthose explanations already tell me what isimportant to know about the people Iencounter.
When we really communicate, we areopen to being transformed. We are vulner-able to being touched, moved, hurt,taught. This requires not just a willingness,but a willfulness to be changed by the dia-logue. If I am to be changed by others andtheir beliefs, then it is no good to believe ina God “named by whatever name.” I giveGod the name or names that are meaning-ful to me, that have special value for me,that matter to me. And then I come for-ward and speak them in public, and whenothers speak other names in reply, I listen.Then the conversation can begin.
I assume, indeed I hope, that others willcome forward with their own names andtheir own meanings — with their ownbeliefs that challenge mine. While we mayin the end find that these beliefs are com-patible, and that our many names refer toone truth, this cannot be assumed. It mustemerge at the conclusion of a conversa-
tion whose end is not known by those whobegin it. This process must take placeagain and again in the encounters of realindividuals. It is not like a math problem,to be solved once and for all, and onlyreproduced infinitely; every time it is aris-es, it arises anew, and must be dealt withas such. To inscribe a public tribute to aGod “named by whatever name” is in factoffensive to a genuine ecumenism.
True community is not built primarilyon shared beliefs. It is not built on the willtowards homogeneity and compromise,towards a resolution of conflict throughagreement on some middling principle socommon that none can take offense. Trueinter-religious community does not arisefrom a common truth. We do not cometogether and speak with respect, curiosityand care because, secretly, we know wehave the same God. We come together andspeak because, publicly, we know we sharethe same world. It is from this sharedworld and the conversations that beginwhen we discover one another, in our dis-tinctness, in our difference.
Out of this difference, communicationand community arise — things that, beingcommon activities, are held in common,though they are composed of discourse onthe very nature of our differences. And it isin this common conversation, this shareddialogue, that those of us who are movedby a spirit of syncretism may hope for, butnever assume and seldom expect, the rev-elation of a true unity of the many, manynames of God.
If Nick Shere ‘04’s scholarship checks hadbeen sent to the correct address, this col-umn would never have been written.
TWO MONTHS AGO, AT THE 11THAnnual Action Conference for the RhodeIsland Campaign to Eliminate ChildhoodPoverty, over 500 community leaders, rang-ing from a Professor of Labor History at URIto the founder of People to EndHomelessness, watched as fourreverends onstage graciouslyreceived plaques. They read: “Inrecognition of your inspiringand continuing leadershipthrough non-violent directaction in challenging RhodeIsland’s political powers to fund affordablehousing for our state’s low-income people.”These four reverends were voluntarily arrest-ed this past December at a sit-in of 15 clergymembers at the downtown statehouse. Thisbold act of protest was organized inresponse to the governor’s announcementthat vital affordable housing funds — finallygranted after endless lobbying by advocates— would now be frozen.
Currently in Rhode Island, while 42 per-cent of food recipients have to choosebetween paying rent or buying food, 43 per-cent of those that “go hungry” are childrenunder the age of 18. The state of RhodeIsland has had, since the 1980s, the fastestgrowing income inequality between the richand the poor; since the 1970s, the averageincome of the poorest fifth of families in R.I.has decreased by 9 percent, while the aver-age income of the richest fifth of families hasincreased by 71 percent. There are dozens ofadvocacy groups and organizations such asthe Coalition for the Homeless, the R.I.Community Food Bank, People to EndHomelessness, many religious communitiesand leaders and Family Resources
Community Action, to name a few, that havebattled relentlessly for action and an end tothe neglect and apathy of the R.I. govern-ment toward the state’s growing poverty.
In Cranston, many families and their chil-dren regularly go hungry because the only
food stamp agency, which wascreated only after protests andpleas for an office accessible bypublic transportation, refusesto open on nights or weekends.However, these are the onlytimes feasible for working par-
ents to go to the office and apply for stamps.Now, the government is even threatening toclose that office because there are (very sur-prisingly) “not enough clients.”
Nick, a man in his early thirties, who hasbeen struggling to find a job amidst thecountry’s recession and cannot afford thedramatically rising rent costs in Providence,has been forced to travel from shelter toshelter every night seeking an open bed. Hedreads the tremendously stressful, unpleas-ant atmosphere of the shelters (which, theword is, characterizes all under-funded,overwhelmed shelters), but other obstaclespreventing him from sheltered nights are theinflux of families on the street that receivepriority, and the shelters’ reluctance to takeon the liability of his epilepsy. When I spokewith him over a bowl of soup at Amos House,he further predicted that the frequency of hisseizures will dramatically increase in thenext year because, as a result of the ’96Welfare Reform, his health coverage willsoon expire, and he will have to switch to lesseffective epilepsy medication.
If you stay for a couple of nights at theTravelers Aid downtown — not only a guid-ance and aid center, but also a makeshiftovernight space for those who cannot findshelter — you will witness a good number offamilies with their children lying on the floor
for a night’s rest. In some of these cases, oneor both parents work, but still cannot affordto pay the rent. Elsewhere in Rhode Island,other families, while managing to pay rent,have been forced to decide whether to “heator eat.” In other words: do they feed theirchildren, or keep the household heater onduring the cold season?
Are these conditions simply the unfortu-nate but inevitable byproduct of winnersand losers in the free market economy? Orcan the United States, “the greatest countryon earth,” do better for its own people?“Poverty USA” (a national advertising cam-paign that attempts to draw attention toAmerica’s forgotten state) reports, “amongthe richest nations in the world, the UnitedStates still has one of the highest child pover-ty rates of any industrialized country,” with22.4 percent of its children below povertylevel. This unsettling statistic of more thanone out of five children in poverty is higherthan that of the United Kingdom (19.8 per-cent), Canada (15.5 percent), France (7.9percent) and the overwhelming majority ofthe world’s industrialized countries.
For America’s “forgotten” people in pover-ty, what role has our government taken?According to Nancy Gewirtz, the director ofThe Poverty Institute of R.I. and a scholar oftax and budget functions of government,“We have heard over and over again fromour elected officials that during these timesof recession, we all have to make sacrifices tobalance the state budget; however, to datethe ideas being proposed focus on balancingthe budget by cutting programs for thosefamilies least able to afford it.”
American politics is swayed by the voiceof its influential masses. The vast majority ofAmericans, especially those in the uppereconomic tier, do not hold images of pover-ty in their immediate consciousnessbecause they are ignorant of this world, or
chose to ignore it. We, undergraduate stu-dents at Brown University, only a few stepsaway from filling the various sectors andleadership roles of society, will soon be partof this “influential mass.” If there is hope andoptimism for a college of open-minded indi-viduals to look compassionately into theface of poverty with willingness, then it ishere at Brown.
There is great inconsistency and adichotomy here in Providence: MoneyMagazine ranked Providence as the num-ber-one place to live in the Northeast: “OnNBC’s hit drama “Providence,” the RhodeIsland capital is cast as an idyllic town with aclean, sparkling river, colonial-style homesand well-groomed lawns. That’s not very farfrom the truth these days.” Even with push-ing from advocates and community leaders,in the public view the fast gentrification ofthe city, the sprouting up of condo high-rises, the sharp rise in property values andrents, in the public view, is not correlated tothe demise of conditions for Providence’sgrowing lower classes.
The war going on beyond the Van Wicklegates is a war of a voice unheard. Thewounds of poverty mount in the dark cor-ners of America, overlooked by the nationalagenda. By listening, learning and casting aspotlight of your own consciousness overthese dark corners, we can become a posi-tive force in the battle. Dharma MasterCheng Yen, the founder of the TaiwaneseTzu-Chi charity movement that hasbloomed worldwide, urges all to help intheir local communities, “thus, they earnlove and respect from neighbors.” We canbridge the gap between the notion ofProvidence as the “best place to live,” andthe unfortunate reality of poverty, by join-ing the ranks of those who contemplate theforgotten state and strive to debunk theignorance and uncover the forgotten.
Abraham Young ’04 is part of the BreaksProject, a group dealing with povertyissues, run through the Swearer Center.
There is a war going on right down the HillBrown students must take a more active role in the local struggle against poverty
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SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
APRIL 8, 2002 · PAGE 12
BY JESSE WARRENThe men’s tennis team (11-9 overall, 2-0conference) is off to its best Ivy Leaguestart ever with two clear-cut 5-2 victoriesover Princeton and the University ofPennsylvania this weekend.
“We had two matches on the road,”said Jamie Cerretani ’04. “To get two winsin this situation is definitely a positive.”
The Bears got momentum early onFriday against Princeton when theyquickly grabbed two out of the three dou-bles matches and the doubles point, gain-ing a 1-0 lead. Bruno never trailed for therest of the day.
The team took four of six singlesmatches with wins coming from co-cap-tain Nick Malone ’02 (6-4, 6-2) at the sec-ond singles spot, Cerretani (7-6, 6-2) atthird singles, co-captain Chris Drake ’03at number four singles, and AdilShamasdin ’05. After dominating hisopponent in the first set, Nick Goldberg’05 eventually lost in three sets (6-1, 3-6,2-6) at the number six singles position.Justin Natale ’03 also lost at first singles(3-6, 1-6).
“Everyone, including freshmen playingtheir first Ivy League matches ever, elevat-ed his game,” Cerretani said. “We reallywanted a win for Brown and Brown ten-nis.”
Saturday’s matches ended with thesame result, but the Bears fell behindearly, losing the doubles point. With onedoubles win for each team, the decidingmatch came down to Malone andShamasdin. The squad played tough, butwith a loud and vocal crowd rootingagainst them, they could not pull off thewin.
After a five-minute break between thedoubles and singles points, the Bearsregrouped. The team stormed back on thecourts and took five out of the six singlesmatches.
Drake was the first to win his matchand evened the score 1-1 with his 6-1, 6-0victory. Drake was soon followed by
Cerretani and Malone, who won theirmatches 6-2, 6-3 and 6-1, 6-2 respectively.
“We didn’t wait around for anything,”Cerretani said. “We went out and won oursingles matches.”
But Penn inched a little closer whenNatale lost against Penn’s top player in atight two sets, 4-6, 4-6.
Brown quickly responded, and notlong after the Natale loss, Shamasdinwalked off the court with a 7-5, 6-2match-clinching victory. Goldberg, stillplaying at number six singles eventhough the Bears had already won, addedanother singles victory with a third-settiebreak win.
The Bears were ranked higher nation-ally then both squads, but this is the firsttime the Bears have come out of this
weekend 2-0. “The wins really settled our nerves,”
Malone said. “Princeton is a tough open-er and has always been a tough team inthe past.”
The Bears have a full week of tennisahead of them. The team will take on No.50 Yale at home on Tuesday at 2 p.m., fol-lowed by Cornell and Columbia on Fridayand Saturday.
“We are looking for three wins in thenext week, but we need to take each, oneat a time,” Malone said. “If we respectthem, like we do for each team we play,we should be able to get three victories.”
Assistant Sports editor Jesse Warren ’04covers men’s tennis. He can be reached [email protected].
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The Brown men’s tennis team defeated Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania 5-2each, starting its Ivy schedule 2-0.
DID YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED TOSerena Williams last week? She wasrobbed. She had $71,000 snatched rightout of her purse, by (get this) the WTA.
On Saturday, after winning theNasdaq 100Open instraight setsagainst Jenn-ifer Capriati,Williams rec-eived a checkfor $385,000.Quite a size-able amountof money forone week ofwork, but farless than the$ 4 5 6 , 0 0 0
awarded to the men’s winner AndreAgassi.
No, Willams was not penalized forbreaking her racket, making obscenegestures towards the crowd or evencriticizing a line judge. She just
BY MELISSA PERLMANThe women’s track and field team handledthe cold, the wind and the competition inBoston this past weekend.
The Bears are on a mission to show theIvy League that they mean business thisseason and succeeded in doing so in theirfirst competition as a full squad. They tal-lied an outstanding score of 77 points,while Harvard and Dartmouth trailed with73 and 42, respectively.
“We are still training really hard, and tobeat Harvard and Dartmouth now leads tothe fact that we will win the HeptagonalChampionships,” said Co-Captain MaryHale ’02.
Because of the windy conditions, theathletes’ times were not as important asthe places they earned. Hale, however, wasnot affected by the elements and posted a4:33.20 in the 1500 meters on her way to afirst place finish. Her time is a personalrecord and puts her number nine on theBrown top-10 record board.
Angie Morey ’02 led for the first three lapsof the 1500-meter race, breaking the windand allowing Hale to draft off of her. Hale,
Trying to keepmen’s, women’spay on serve
Obliterating Penn and Princeton,men’stennis gets off to best Ivy start ever
Hoya offensive barrage provestoo much for men’s lacrosse
Weather hampersmen’s track inlackluster meet
Women’s trackovercomes harshconditions in win
BY JOANNA GROSSMANOn Saturday the men’s track team made thetrek up to Harvard to compete against theCrimson and the Big Green of Dartmouth.Despite some good efforts, the Bears fin-ished third in the contest. The cold andwindy weather undoubtedly played a partin some of the performances.
Tim Russell ’05 finished second in thediscus, with a throw of 152’3. “This was avery good highlight for us, in terms of hav-ing someone perform like this while we aretrying to rebuild the throws program,” saidhead coach Robert Johnson.
Tri-captain Sean Thomas ’03 waspleased with some of the outcomes aswell.
“We had some really good performanc-es from some people, and that’s reallygood to see this early in the season, espe-cially considering the weather,” he said.
In the triple jump, Brown jumpers cap-tured second and third place. Thomas andEric Shrock ’03 jumped 45’5” and 43’10”respectively. “We had some pretty goodefforts and some solid attempts, but it justwasn’t quite there. The weather probablyplayed a factor in this event,” Johnson said.
In the 400 meter run, Johnson felt thattri-captain Ed Smith ’02 had a good race,finishing third with a time of 49.61. “He
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BY JERMAINE MATHESONThe 20th-ranked men’s lacrosse team (3-5) suffered a 16-6 road loss to fifth rankedGeorgetown on Saturday. The unbeatenHoyas limited a usually proficient Brownoffense to only 27 shots compared to 66by Georgetown. Though disappointing,the loss does not jeopardize Brown’shopes of making it to the postseason,which Brown can still do by winning theIvy League outright.
In front of their home fans, the Hoyascommenced the game with an offensivebarrage, with 19 shots compared to onlytwo for Brown in the first quarter. GoalieMike Levin ‘04 made eight saves and theBears found themselves down only 2-0after the first quarter. In the second quar-ter, Brown put two scores on the boardwith a goal by Brian Miller ’04 with MattKelley ’02 assisting and an unassisted goalby Chazz Woodson ’05, ending the secondquarter with the score 5-2 in favor ofGeorgetown. Brown could be satisfiedbeing behind by three goals at halftimeafter not playing the first half up to itsstandards.
The third quarter was a continuationof more stifling defense by Georgetown.The Hoyas, one of the better defensiveteams in Division I, demonstrated whythey are undefeated. Brown did register
two more goals in the third period withback-to-back goals by JonathonThompson ’03 and Matt Kelley ’02 withRichard Tuohey ’04 assisting.Georgetown, however, scored five timesin the quarter and expanded its lead to a10-4 margin. Perhaps it was due tofatigue from a long road trip, but Brownwas clearly out-hustled by Georgetown,who picked up almost twice as manygroundballs, 56 to 29.
The final quarter had six more Hoyagoals compared to two Brown goals byThompson and Richard Mormile ’02assisted by Mike Albarelli ‘02 and Millerrespectively. After allowing his 14th goal,goalie Levin called it an early day andgave some net-minding time to AlexSchultes ‘03 and Nicholas Gentilesco ‘05.Levin made 16 saves overall and keptBrown in the game until late in the thirdperiod.
Losing by 10 goals is never a good sign.Brown has some adjustments to makebefore its next game. The Bears return tohome action versus Harvard onWednesday night. The Ivy League game isessentially a must-win game for Brown.
Sports staff writer Jermaine Matheson ’02covers men’s lacrosse and can be reachedat [email protected].
BaseballPenn 14, BROWN 12BROWN 2, Penn 1Men’s CrewBROWN beats Boston UniversityWomen’s CrewBROWN beats RadcliffeEquestrianBROWN wins regionalsMen’s LacrosseGeorgetown 16, BROWN 6Women’s LacrosseBROWN 15, Columbia 4Women’s Water PoloBROWN 14, Conn. College 2BROWN 11, Umass 8BROWN 11, Harvard 8
Men’s TennisBROWN 5, Princeton 2BROWN 5, Penn 2Women’s TennisBROWN 4, Princeton 3Penn 7, BROWN 0Men’s Track & Field BROWN finishes 3rd vs.Harvard, DartmouthWomen’s Track & Field BROWN finishes 1st vs.Harvard, DartmouthSoftballHarvard 4, BROWN 2 Harvard 3, BROWN 1Dartmouth 9, BROWN 1BROWN 3, Dartmouth 1
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