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At best U.S. stateschools, budgetarycrises force cut backs,tuition hikespage 3

Minden Hall residentssay lack of interior suite doors makes forlack of privacypage 5

For Hope College first-years,environmental interestis a way of life page 5

Nick Noon ’05 says student workersdeserve respect fromtheir peerscolumn, page 11

Scoring goals fromBrazil to Brown,Eduardo Romaneiro ’03stars for men’s soccersports, page 12

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BY JULIA ZUCKERMANPerformance poet Staceyann Chinbrought a packed Salomon audience toits feet Wednesday evening at the convo-cation for Multiracial Heritage Week.

Chin, a Jamaican national of Chineseand African descent, performed severalpoems on topics ranging from racism tosex to her relationship with her family.She talked and joked with the audiencein between the poems.

In “Cross-fire,” she described her mul-tifaceted identity: “Most people are sur-prised my father is Chinese / like there’sa preconditioned look for the half-Chinese / lesbian poet who is alsoJamaican but lives in Far Rockaway,Queens.”

Chin often abandoned the micro-phone to perform and at times left thestage to interact more directly with audi-ence members. Some of her poemsincorporated humor and references topop culture, which drew loud apprecia-tion from the audience.

“I believe Pinky and the Brain arerevolutionaries, because every nightthey try to take over the world,” shesaid in one poem. “Like them, I believethere will always be something to fightfor.”

Chin has performed in one-womanshows Off-Broadway and won slampoetry competitions in New York andChicago. She performed on HBO’s “DefPoetry,” and is currently rehearsing for alive version of the Russell Simmons showon Broadway.

In a question-and-answer session,Chin said she has a strained relationshipwith the predominantly white lesbiancommunity. She said she struggles tobring up issues of race in the queer com-munity but is not accepted as a lesbianin minority communities or in Jamaica,where she grew up.

“I have pieces of me that belong todifferent places,” she said. “I feel like Idon’t fit in anywhere.”

Now that she is successful and gainingfame, Chen finds herself accepted and“claimed” by many communities,including Chinese Americans andJamaicans, she said. But she said shewonders if those communities wouldaccept her if she were not as successful.

The theme for the 12th annualMultiracial Heritage Week is “Unweavingthe Myth.” Programmer Megan Asaka‘03, introduced the evening’s speakers.

First-year speaker Bali Kumar ’06 and

Senior Reflections Speakers Sidra Durst’03 and Lenox Waciuma Wanjohi ’03spoke about their own experiences asmultiracial students. Members of theBrown Organization of Multiracial andBiracial Students read a compilation ofpoetry and statements BOMBS mem-bers wrote in response to the question,“How do you identify today?”

The speakers all emphasized the diffi-culty of finding a place in a society thatrequires clear divisions between racialcategories, with many expressing frus-tration at having to choose just oneracial identity for the U.S. census.

Durst said multiracial people all finddifferent answers to questions of identi-ty. She said to multiracial students whoare beginning to ask these questions,“Remember that there are no boxes, andyou need to shape your identity as yourown.”

Chin ended the convocation on thesame note, with her poem “If only out ofvanity.”

The poem ended: “I want to go downin history / in a chapter marked miscel-laneous / because the writers could find/ no other way to categorize me. / In thisworld where classification is key / I wantto erase the straight lines / So I can beme.”

Herald staff writer Julia Zuckerman ‘05can be reached at jzuckerman@browndai-lyherald.com.

Jason White / Herald

Poet Staceyann Chin, right, a Jamaican national of Chinese and African descent, performed for a packed audience in Salomon 101Wednesday night. Senior Waciuma Wanjohi ’03, left, also spoke about his experience as a multiracial student at Brown.

Exploring multi-heritage

Library staffagrees todeal, won’tstage FridaywalkoutBY JULIETTE WALLACKUniversity officials and union representa-tives reached a tentative agreement lateWednesday night that should prevent aFriday walkout by library staff members.

Ninety union members will vote on theagreement at 11:30 a.m. today, said KarenMcAninch, business agent of ServiceEmployees International Union Local 134,but the union will recommend to its mem-bers that they not walk out. Though thefive union representatives involved innegotiations have the authority to approvethe agreement without a vote, McAninchsaid they felt it was important to consultwith the members, who make up morethan half of the library system’s staff.

It took nine hours of negotiations forthe University and the union to come tothe tentative agreement, the details ofwhich McAninch declined to reveal untilafter today’s vote. But the lengthy discus-sions left the two entities “in a more posi-tive place,” she said.

The union’s goal in negotiating was “tofigure out a way to put a more positivefocus on the whole process,” McAninch

Across the EastSide, University-owned buildingssit vacantBY ZACH BARTERIn the midst of growing talk of a housingshortage, the University currently controls14 vacant or unused buildings scatteredaround College Hill that have fallen intovarious stages of disrepair.

“Some of them are in pretty bad shape,”said Michael McCormick, director of plan-ning in the Office of FacilitiesManagement. “It would take a lot of workand money to reoccupy any of these build-ings.”

The buildings, 13 of which are houses,were at one time inhabited but have notbeen occupied in the recent past, saidThomas Raso, assistant director of theOffice of Rental Facilities, which currentlymanages 35 occupied off-campus proper-ties.

The unused buildings include fourhouses on Benevolent Street; three houseson Charlesfield Street; two houses each onBrook, Brown and Waterman streets; andthe Old Stone Bank on South Main Street,

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Poet Staceyann Chin woweda Salomon crown Wednesdaynight with her performanceof poems that addressedissues ranging from racism tosex to family life

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BY JONATHAN ELLISWith a lagging economy and slipping state tax rev-enues, some of the nation’s elite public universitiesare feeling the squeeze of budgetary cutbacks.

With states cutting university budgets, institu-tions have been forced to raise tuition fees atincreasingly faster rates. Overall, four-year publicinstitutions hiked their rates by 9.6 percent for thisacademic year, according to the College Board.

California slashed funding for the University ofCalifornia system by 3 percent from the previous fis-cal year. Gov. Gray Davis authorized additional cutsfor the middle of the year.

It’s not up to the universities to allocate their less-ened resources, said Brad Hayward, spokespersonfor the UC system. Instead, the state mandates theareas of reduced funding, Hayward said.

The state downsized research program supportby 10 percent and cut back K-12 outreach programseven further, Hayward said. The outreach programsallow universities to work with disadvantaged pub-lic schools to improve classroom teaching and toincrease students’ chances of getting into college.

The outreach programs are now operating with60 percent of their former state funding, UCLA’sDaily Bruin reported.

Although the affected programs are important,the goal of the distribution of the cutbacks was to“protect the core instructional program,” Haywardsaid. “The average undergraduate student shouldnot feel” the effects of the cuts.

But with California facing a $10 billion deficit, theUC system is “still confronting a very difficult budg-et,” Hayward said. There will likely be additionalbudget decreases in coming years, he added.

Hayward said there hasn’t been a reduction inapplications to the UC system due to its financialsituation. In fact, he said, because of a rapid growth

Budget deficitsforce state schoolsto cut funding,raise tuition

Universities move to restrict file sharingBY DYLAN BROWNSharing music and movies through programs like Kazaaand LimeWire has always been illegal, but until recentlythere were rarely any consequences. To protect theirbandwidth and their endowments, universities arerestricting and even banning students from networks forfile sharing.

Princeton University warned its students against allow-ing their file-sharing programs to upload more than onefile at a time. Those students who do not comply areplaced on the slower part of the network, according to theDaily Princetonian.

The University of Southern California took muchstronger actions. A month ago, the university told stu-dents that they could lose access to the computer networkfor a year if caught trading copyrighted files over the uni-versity network. Students received an e-mail saying theyrisk the “complete loss of access to the USC computer sys-tem and both disciplinary and legal sanctions.”

Kazaa and LimeWire, two of the most popular peer-to-peer networks, use technology that lets users connect toone another. These companies do not maintain centraldatabases of music and movie files, so it is harder for themusic and film industry to shut them down.

When you do a search on one of these programs, youbasically ask your “neighbor,” any other user connected atthe same time, if they have a file, and if they don’t thenthey ask their “neighbor,” and so on, said Professor ofComputer Science Eliezer Upfal.

Peer-to-peer file sharing changed the way the Brownnetwork is used — instead of the traffic going from Brownoutside the network, the traffic is coming into the Brownnetwork from outside, said Richard Boes, director ofNetwork Technology for Computing and InformationServices

Because the network is being used up by so muchexternal traffic, “what you experience inside the institu-tion is a slowdown,” said Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice presi-dent for CIS.

But people who use these peer-to-peer networks canvoluntarily prevent large numbers of other users fromdownloading files off their computer. If this were to hap-pen at Brown the network would speed up, Boes said.

Music and motion picture companies asked a federaljudge to find “the custodians of Kazaa liable for con-tributing to copyright infringement,” the New York Timesreported.

LimeWire has yet to be sued because it uses theGnutella network, which is different from the “Fast Track”

proprietary software designed only for media files thatKazaa uses.

“When you’re on the (Gnutella) network you have nocontact with us. It operates completely independentlyfrom any central location,” said Adam Fisk ’99.5, a pro-grammer at LimeWire.

But that hasn’t stopped the Recording IndustryAssociation of America and Motion Picture Association ofAmerica from hiring agents to search peer-to-peer net-works and determine if users are downloading copyright-ed material, said Waite-Franzen.

Brown’s CIS receives reports from RIAA and MPAAagents daily, said Paul Asadoorian, Internet security engi-neer for CIS. These reports contain the IP (internet proto-col) addresses of people caught trading copyrighted files,the name of the file, the method of sharing the personused to get it, the violation and what action the agentsexpect CIS to take in order to comply with the law.

Today, all CIS is asked to do is get the student to stopsharing the file, Waite-Franzen said.

But if an agent hired by the music or film industry noti-fies CIS that a student is downloading copyrighted mate-rial, CIS is obligated by law to notify and remove that stu-dent from the network until the file is no longer beingshared, Waite-Franzen said.

“We are in a transition process right now, because we’rehiring an information technology security officer,” Waite-Franzen said. After CIS hires the new officer, they “willtake a close look at the policy and work with the Provost,the academic deans, other deans, the vice president fromStudent Affairs and the students to really craft what (the)policy should be,” she said.

Cracking down on file sharing may be more complicat-ed than removing individual users.

While it would be physically possible to determine whosee BUDGETS, page 6

see FILE SHARING, page 6

“If the University makes a statement

that says you’re not allowed to

download, I’m OK with that, because

it’s an academic institution.”

Deepa Kumaraiah ’03

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inappropriate, but it also con-fuses me.

Using smokeless tobaccoduring a baseball game is cur-rently the prerogative of theplayers, and one that a numberseen to exercise. While I don’tprofess to know the tobaccopolicy of the MLB or any othersport for that matter, I can saythat for practical purposes,most sports don’t even need apolicy.

How feasible would it be fora quarterback to use chewingtobacco when in all likelihoodhe’ll end up swallowing someof the spit and doing his bestLinda Blair impression? MaybeI’ve lived a sheltered life, butI’ve never seen a hockey playertaking a cigarette to the face-off circle or a basketball playertaking a drag with one handand dunking with the other.Even Olympic snowboardersrealize that using tobacco oreven marijuana should waituntil after the event.

The act of using a tobaccoproduct diminishes the profes-sional aspect of the sport. Iknow these people are paidmillions of dollars and bring inthe bucks for their company,but when was the last timeanyone saw Michael Eisnerwalk into a board meeting witha briefcase in one hand and atin of dip in the other?Presenting this public imagestands only to hurt the MLB(not to mention place the play-ers at a risk to lose half theirjaw or even their life). If I sawour president smoking or dip-ping while meeting the primeminister of Malaysia, suffice itto say I’d probably elect a deadperson over him. Much like anyprivate organization, the MLBis free to endorse whateverpolicies it likes, although if itdesires a certain level ofrespectability and support, itwould behoove the MLB to

encourage professionalism.Ethics aside, it makes little

sense for baseball players touse chewing tobacco. It’sassumed that most athleteswant to perform to their high-est ability, and will do all with-in their power, legal or illegal,to attain maximum perform-ance. So why then, would abaseball player choose to dip? Iknow they want to be relaxedwhen on the field, but howpractical is it to divert theirattention to concentrating onsuspending the natural actionof swallowing? Personally I’drather give my undividedattention to running to firstbase.

According to the Center forthe Advancement of Health,the nicotine in smokelesstobacco hampers an individ-ual’s ability to perform com-plex tasks that require handand body movements to adjustto new visual feedback. TheCenter warns that tobacco useon the job can reduce and indi-viduals ability to learn andadapt his or her performance.It wouldn’t make sense for aperson operating heavymachinery to use chewingtobacco because that’s obvi-ously their job, but that doesn’tmean baseball players shouldhave to refrain from it — ohwait, I forgot, playing baseballis their job.

I can only hope that for itsown sake that the MLB will dosomething to address this issue.Even if like baseball, chewingtobacco is a part of our culture,I still don’t think that it permitsprofessional baseball players toexpose the fans to a habit theymay not want to see. Sure, welive in a free country and can dowhat we want, but we don’talways have to bring our per-sonal lives into the public.Baseball needs to take a stepforward and kick the habit.

Ian Cropp ’05 hails fromBuffalo, N.Y., and sold his soulto the devil to acquire DrewBledsoe.

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Cropp

McCormick said.Facilities Management is

responsible for the buildings’upkeep and maintenance.

“We don’t spend a lot ofmoney on routine mainte-nance,” said McCormick, “butwe do try to take care of themwhen something comes up.”

McCormick was unable togive the annual cost of maintain-ing the properties.

Facilities Managementrecently performed significantexterior renovations on the twoproperties located on either sideof the Department of PublicSafety office at 75 CharlesfieldSt., but the properties’ upkeeprarely requires extensive efforts,said John Noonan, associate vicepresident of FacilitiesManagement.

The buildings are likely toremain unused unless a compre-hensive project is undertaken tobring them up to standard,McCormick said.

“For us to reoccupy the build-ings, we have to bring (them) upto current codes, and that can bea pretty expensive proposition,”

he said.He also said that the differ-

ences in building regulations forresidential and administrativefacilities make it difficult for theUniversity to convert the spaces.For example, he said, convertedbuildings would require sprin-kler systems, fire detectionupgrades, elevators, handicapaccessibility, restrooms on eachfloor and two enclosed stair tow-ers.

A University “master plan”currently under developmentwill consider potential uses forBrown’s small houses and build-ings, Noonan said.

“Part of the scope of the mas-ter plan is to evaluate all campusbuildings as to their current useand to develop a plan to utilizeall of the available space for thebest needs of the University,”Noonan said.

He said the plan, which wasfirst developed this past sum-mer, will likely take 12 to 18months to complete. Until then,he said, it is unlikely that thebuildings will be put back intouse.

“We don’t renovate buildingsthat we don’t use,” Noonan said.“So once the use is determined,the appropriate renovations willbe undertaken.”

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I N B R I E F

Minden Hall residents say missingdoors makes for lack of privacyThe University has informed Minden Hall suite residentswho lack interior doors that they must install them ontheir own if they want them, the residents said.

The lack of doors “is not a fire hazard,” said DeanThomas Forsberg, associate director of student life. Everysuite has a locking door separating it from the corridor, headded.

The lack of doors within suites is not as much an issueof safety as it is of privacy, said Minden Hall residentMichael Pickford ’05.

Leaving the installation of doors up to the residents isasking students to do the University’s job, said NiketaWilliams ’05.Williams lives in a three-person suite in MindenHall. No doors have been installed between the rooms.

From what Williams has seen, the doors within thesuites are narrower than the standard size. Williams said itseems like the University has withheld the necessary fundsto fully prepare Minden Hall for students.

Minden Hall was renovated this past summer to pro-vide 145 beds, Forsberg said.

Donald Reaves, former executive vice president forfinance and administration, suggested earlier this year thatMinden Hall would not be a dormitory for long, but Reaveshas since left the University. Elizabeth Huidekoper, execu-tive vice president for finance and administration, said sheknows nothing about the subject since she has been herefor only a week.

Forsberg said he expects that Minden Hall will be usedfor housing next year, although he has no knowledge offuture plans.Director of Residential Life Donald Desrochers declinedThe Herald’s numerous requests for interviews.

— Lisa Mandle

Informal program gives ES lovers some HopeBY CARLA BLUMENKRANZIt’s no accident that at least 12 of the 58 first-years wholive in Hope College are taking ES11, “EnvironmentalIssues: Policy and Science.” The department has housedall of its CAP advisees together for the past 20 yearsthrough an informal program that bears some resem-blance to the Office of Student Life’s proposed cluster sys-tem.

Professor of Environmental Studies Harold Ward initi-ated the housing policy in the early 1980s as an experi-ment in energy conservation, he said. At that time, hisCAP course students attempted to engage their unit in anenergy-conscious lifestyle, dimming lights and loweringthe heat, he said.

The program was discontinued, and Ward no longerteaches ES11, but Environmental Studies continues tohouse its CAP students in Hope. Donald Desrochers,associate dean of residential life, has been instrumental inmaintaining this policy, Ward said.

Desrochers declined The Herald’s numerous requestsfor interviews.

Caroline Karp, senior lecturer in EnvironmentalStudies, recently started teaching ES11 and manages thecourse’s unique housing policy. This year, about 50 first-years selected ES11 as their top-choice CAP course, shesaid. From that group, the department selected about 12students to participate in the program and to live togeth-er in Hope.

All first-year students who request ES11 as their CAPcourse know they may be housed together before theymake their choice, Ward said. During the summer beforetheir first year, both the CAP course description and a let-ter sent to students who show an early interest inEnvironmental Studies discuss this housing policy, hesaid.

And as long as first-year students continue to supportthe program, Environmental Studies will maintain it,Karp said. She did, however, express some reservations

about identifying potential Environmental Studies con-centrators so early on.

“There are some things to hesitate about, because theycan become too insular,” she said of her advisees. “Youcan get them to narrow their interests when they’re waytoo young to be doing that.”

Karp described the concentration of ES11 students ashaving a “cluster effect.” In fact, it is similar to the Living

Jason White / Herald

Elizabeth Forsyth ’06 lives in Hope College, where 12 of 58first-year students are enrolled in ES11.The dorm acts asan informal cluster for environmentally-minded students.

see HOPE, page 7

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was sharing what, the processwould be extremely time con-suming and beyond the meansof CIS, Boes said. CIS can makesure that critical traffic, such ase-mail, has priority on the net-work.

Everything else is “first comefirst serve,” Boes said.

Deepa Kumaraiah ’03 saidthat “most if not all of” herfriends share copyrighted mate-rial.

“I feel like I’m an exception tothe rule,” but “if the Universitymakes a statement that saysyou’re not allowed to download,I’m OK with that, because it’s anacademic institution,” she said.

Appealing to individual stu-dents’ morality may not workeither — students don’t thinkthey’re hurting anyone whenthey share music and movies,said Caroline Bersak ’03.

“I don’t see it causing anyhuge issue in the university,” shesaid.

Other students don’t believeintellectual property has anymonetary value.

“I believe that intellectualproperty should be free” andthat “sharing information is aright,” said Seth Kane ’03.

But if an artist sues for copy-right infringement, then Brown,not the individual who down-loaded a file, would be heldliable because Brown providesthe Internet service on its net-work that made file sharing pos-sible, Waite-Franzen said.

But if CIS blocks an illegal filefrom being shared Brown cannotbe held liable for damages, shesaid.

Students can also block otherusers from downloading theirfiles. If copyrighted material ison a student’s hard drive but noton the file sharing network,agents would not be able to findthem and the network wouldperform better, Waite-Franzensaid.

“I’m not condoning this, butyou ought to know people areout there looking,” she said.

Under current U.S. law, thetrading or changing of any copy-righted material, such as moviesor music, into a new format suchas MP3, without permission, isillegal, said Suzanne Dawley,senior network software special-ist for CIS.

The operators of peer-to-peerfile sharing networks see thingsdifferently.

“Our hope would be that uni-versities would see beyond themore immediate and obviouscopyright infringement issuesand see the possible educationaladvantages” that Gnutella offers,Fisk said. “We see ourselves asdoing much more.”

LimeWire would prefer not tohave anything to do with copy-right infringement, Fisk said.The company is working tobreak into the market of distrib-utive processing, which usesnetworks like Gnutella to distrib-ute news information andmedia.

“It can evolve in many differ-ent directions,” Fisk said.

Large companies could useprograms like LimeWire to act asan intranet to share informationwithin the company, Upfal said.

Peer-to-peer networks arealso “very important for democ-racy movement and gettingaround censorship,” becauseonce information is on the net-work, it is hard to get off, he said.

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in the college-age population inCalifornia, UC enrollment willincrease by as much as 40 percentin the next decade — the equiva-lent of adding another UCBerkeley and UCLA.

That projected growth is animportant factor in budgetingdecisions, Hayward said, but thestate has historically been willingto provide full funding for enroll-ment growth.

For the University of Virginia,budget cuts weren’t enough tooffset the state’s $1.5 billiondeficit. The university faces a 13percent cutback in its budget forthe next two years, the Chronicleof Higher Education reported.Gov. Mark Warner mandated the$33.8 million reduction.

The school reduced fundingfor its library, computer labs andmaintenance services, theChronicle reported. The schoolalso approved a tuition increasefor the upcoming spring semes-ter, though it is not yet clear howlarge it will be.

The University of NorthCarolina, threatened with cuts of$70.6 million, could fire 781employees of the UNC system,including 200 faculty members.

The state of Michigan has ahuge deficit, but its effects haven’tyet been felt at the University ofMichigan, said MichiganPresident Mary Sue Coleman. Shetold the Michigan Daily that she islooking for ways to save money inthe university’s infrastructure toavoid excessive tuition increases.

Herald staff writer JonathanEllis ’06 can be reached at jel-lis@browndailyherald.com.

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and Learning Clusters the Officeof Student Life proposed forMorris-Champlin and Emery-Woolley Halls.

Slated to begin this fall, theproposed cluster system wouldhave integrated 417 studentsfrom all four class years into twocommunities centered on well-ness and community service. Theplan was abruptly pulled off thetable in January 2002.

Meanwhile, EnvironmentalStudies’ variation on the clustersystem remains intact.

Julia Wolfson ’06, who isenrolled in ES11 and lives in

Hope, said one of the course’steaching assistants told her“it’s an unspoken tradition thatES students live in Hope,” shesaid.

So far, she said she prefers herliving situation to a standardunit. “I find that because thereare so many of us in the dorm, wecan talk about things that comeup in class,” she said.

Wolfson added, though, thather unit mates who are notinvolved in the EnvironmentalStudies program may feel exclud-ed. “We stick together,” she saidof the ES11 students.

Herald staff writer CarlaBlumenkranz ’05 can be reachedat cblumenkranz@browndaily-herald.com.

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said. The union’s members are con-

cerned over a planned reorgani-zation of the library system thatcould result in longer hours andless job specificity. The unionizedworkers’ three-year-old contractexpired at the end of September,and the union was requesting afour-month extension and a 5percent raise. The last offer theUniversity had made beforeWednesday night was a one-month extension and a 2.5 per-cent raise.

“Ultimately, this whole reor-ganization isn’t going to work

unless we are both working onit,” McAninch said, andWednesday’s negotiations indi-cated that a “positive process” ofdiscussion might be possible.

The negotiations did notaddress the reorganizationdirectly, McAninch said. Rather,“we’re putting together a frame-work for discussion. We’re hopingit’s going to become more con-structive.”

McAninch said she anticipatesmember approval of the tentativeagreement which will allow thelibraries to remain open. “Thegun is no longer at anybody’shead,” she said.

Herald staff writer JulietteWallack ’05 can be reached atjwallack@browndailyherald.com.

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WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2002 · PAGE 8

(Washington Post) — Authorities said Wednesday night theyare seeking two “persons of interest” in connection withthe deadly sniper shootings that have terrorized theWashington area, and federal agents Wednesday searcheda yard behind a home 2,800 miles away in Tacoma, Wash.,for bullet fragments that may be connected to at least oneof the men.

One man is a former soldier at Fort Lewis, Wash., andboth are potential suspects in the case, several high-rank-ing officials said. Local and federal officials characterizedthe men as the strongest lead in the case so far.

“We’re keeping our fingers crossed,” said a senior FBIofficial said. “This is several steps forward, and it’sstronger than the others we’ve been looking at.”

Some investigators cautioned, however, that there isdisagreement about whether the men might be involvedin the shootings. “It’s too early to tell,” said one mid-levelFBI agent.

The West Coast developments occurred on a daywhen the fatal shooting of a Montgomery County, Md.,bus driver was ballistically linked to the sniper responsi-ble for nine other killings in the Washington area. Detailsemerged of a second letter that threatened children anddemanded money, as area children were shepherded toschool by fearful parents and Maryland Gov. ParrisGlendening said he might deploy National Guard troopsto protect polling places if the sniper was still at largeNov. 5.

The investigation took an abrupt turn Wednesday nightwith the announcement by Montgomery County PoliceCapt. Nancy Demme that there had been “a developmentthat’s leading us down another road.”

The development apparently involved the search byfederal agents of the yard in Tacoma. After combing theyard with metal detectors and hauling off a tree stump,the agents packed up and departed without confirming

reports that their search was linked to the Washingtonsniper.

The apparent shift of the probe to the West Coast wasconfirmed by commanders at Fort Lewis, an Army basejust south of Tacoma, who said the FBI informed themthat a man who recently left the Army after 15 years wasbeing investigated in connection with the sniper case.

FBI agents began searching at 10:30 a.m. Pacific timeafter approaching the Tacoma Police Department.

According to Tacoma police, about 15 agents workedthroughout the day, at one point getting assistance fromthe police department’s bomb squad. As of 4:30 p.m.Pacific time, the bomb squad was no longer involved.Tacoma police said they do not have a direct hand in theinvestigation but have been providing site security at theresidence.

“The focus of the investigation has been outside of thehouse,” said James Mattheis, a Tacoma police spokesman.“The focus has been on the yard.”

A senior FBI official said the search was connected tothe two men being sought by authorities in connectionwith the sniper shootings. “None of this is by accident,”the official said.

The search in Tacoma resulted in the discovery of atleast one possible bullet fragment that was found in thetree stump on the property, and the stump was removedfor analysis, a law enforcement source said.

Mike Bouchard, a special agent with the Bureau ofAlcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and Montgomery CountyPolice Chief Charles Moose confirmed Wednesday thatTuesday’s slaying of bus driver Conrad Johnson, 35, ofOxon Hill, Md., had been ballistically linked to the othersniper killings. Sources said the letter found near thescene of Johnson’s slaying was much like one foundtacked to a tree in Ashland, Va., where the sniper shot andwounded a man Saturday.

Police seek 2 in sniper caseAshcroft advocates enforcement, notlegislation, to plug information leaksWASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Attorney General JohnAshcroft has told Congress that “rigorous investigation”and “vigorous enforcement” of current criminal laws — notnew secrecy legislation — is the best way to combat leaksof classified information.

In a report required by the fiscal 2002 intelligenceauthorization bill that was sent to Congress on Tuesday,Ashcroft said an interagency study of current laws andleaks of classified information has determined that “cur-rent statutes provide a legal basis to prosecute those whoengage in unauthorized disclosures, if they can be identi-fied.”

A new law, the attorney general went on,“couldenhance our investigative efforts” but it is “unclear” howmuch that legislation would improve the government’sability “to identify those who engage in unauthorized dis-closures of classified information or (deter) such activity.”

Only once in the past 50 years has anyone been convict-ed of leaking classified information when espionage was notinvolved, Ashcroft noted. Rather than a new law, he called fora unified administration-wide effort to meet the problem,saying “we must entertain new approaches to deter, identifyand punish those who engage in the practice.”

In 2000, Congress passed legislation written by Sen.Richard Shelby, R-Ala., then chairman of the SenateSelect Committee on Intelligence, that broadened thelaw to cover any leaked classified information even ifespionage was not involved. After a lobbying effort bycivil liberties groups and the media, which argued that itwould chill the press’s ability to collect information fromgovernment officials, then-President Bill Clinton vetoedthe measure.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (Washington Post) —Even in the postwar mayhem ofthe early 1990s in Afghanistan,when anti-Soviet militia forcesroamed the countryside robbingand killing at will, the gunmanknown as “Zardat’s Dog” was asingular study in perversity.

According to government pros-ecutors and more than 30 com-plainants, Abdullah Shah con-ducted a personal reign of terrorin several provinces. He murderedhis neighbors, tortured his wives,extorted money from travelersand bit them ferociously—hencehis nickname. He kidnapped vil-lagers for ransom, dumpedcorpses in wells and set a busloadof refugee families on fire.

So when Shah, 37, was convict-ed of multiple violent crimes andsentenced to death last week by anational security court here,many Afghans cheered the verdictas a milestone for the country’sfledgling justice system and apotential model for prosecutingother war crimes that flourishedin the chaotic period before theTaliban takeover in 1996.

But international human rightsmonitors here charge that theproceedings against Shah were sobiased and deeply flawed that thecase might instead undermineefforts to bring to justice formermilitia leaders who allegedlycommitted or ordered a range ofcrimes and atrocities over thepast decade.

Among other problems in theShah case: One judge was dis-missed for bribery; the defendanthad no attorney; and the SupremeCourt virtually ordered the death

penalty in his retrial after he wasinitially sentenced to 20 years inprison.

Moreover, prosecutors madeno effort to determine whetherShah, a gunman for severalIslamic militia groups, had actedunder orders.

“This is the first time a war crim-inal has been brought to justice,and it shows that the people arewilling to come forward to get it,”said Nader Naderi, Afghan directorof the International Human RightsLaw Group. “But the way the trialwas conducted, it also shows thatour current laws and courts do nothave the capacity to deal with warcrimes. The system is just not readyto go beyond one man and look atwhat lay behind him.”

As told by numerous witnessesand victims, the story of Shah—who denied all the chargesagainst him in court and in aprison interview Tuesday—is anepic of cruelty, greed and violencecarried out by someone whoseaccess to weapons and power in aperiod of civil conflict gave himimpunity from capture and pun-ishment.

Witnesses from the Paghmandistrict, west of Kabul, whereShah led a band of gunmen undermilitia leader Abdurrab RasulSayyaf in the early 1990s,described Shah shooting a farmerdead after extorting huge sumsfrom him and killing numerousother villagers, whose bodies hedumped down a deep well.

Amanullah Sahi, 53, a retiredaviation instructor and Paghmannative, recounted in court howShah and several armed associ-

ates appeared at his son’s wed-ding in 1992, tried to kidnap thegroom for ransom and then shothim dead. Sahi and otherPaghman residents alsodescribed an infamous incidentin which Shah and his menstopped a bus full of ethnicHazara refugees, killed all the pas-sengers by firing rockets at thebus, then poured fuel on the bod-ies and burned them.

“These were assassins whoseoccupation was killing. They hadweapons in the name of holy war(against the Soviet army), butthey used them to kill poor peo-ple,” Sahi said in an interviewTuesday, sobbing and burying hisface in his turban cloth as herecalled his son’s violent death.

The Paghman residents saidthey tried repeatedly to seek helpfrom authorities, to no avail. Atone point, they said, DefenseMinister Ahmed Shah Massoudsent troops to raid Shah’s home,but Shah escaped. After theTaliban came to power, Sahi said,he complained again to officials,but Shah intimidated local policeand had him arrested andwhipped until he lost conscious-ness.

Interviewed Tuesday in aprison operated by the nationalintelligence police, Shah saidthese accusations were all untrue,and that Sahi and his friends hadfabricated them because of “pre-vious hostility” to him. He saidthey had been supporters of theSoviet-backed government of1989-92, whereas he had been a“staunch fighter” in the anti-com-munist resistance.

Conviction indicts Afghan justice as biased

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THE BROWN DAILY HERALDYOU KNOW YOU WANT TO AND IF YOU FOR SOME REASON DECIDE THAT YOU WON’T MY SISTER WILL EAT YOU

Brown urgently needsenterprise system, butprice not the focusTo the Editor:By focusing so prominently on budget matters andthe experience of some of Brown’s peers in upgrad-ing their systems, The Herald’s editorial (“Polishingthe Rock,” 10/22) and coverage (“CIS, libraries layout financial needs for campus wire upgrades,”10/22) of my presentation before the AdvisoryCommittee on University Planning missed thepoint of what is now underway in CIS. ACUP wasmeeting to discuss the enterprise system project,not to review its budget.

While it may be true that some universities haveinstalled enterprise systems for $10 million andothers have spent $100 million, it is not accurate tosuggest that Brown is considering an investment ofas much as $100 million.

In fact, I have provided the ACUP with a cost ofbetween $15 million and $23 million. But to citeeven that more reasonable figure would be to getthings out of order. The first step is to identify anenterprise system that is right for Brown, and that iswhat CIS and other offices in the University aredoing right now.

Brown urgently needs an enterprise system. Wenow have more than 40 separate computing sys-tems to conduct the University’s financial, adminis-trative and academic business.

Most of these systems do not “talk” to each other.Many were installed before the current studentbody was born. They are expensive and time-con-suming to maintain, and they do not provide theUniversity with the information and analysis itneeds for efficient administration and timely deci-sion-making.

Three vendors — Oracle, Peoplesoft andSCT/Banner — will come to campus this fall todemonstrate their enterprise system products.

Their demonstrations will be driven by a set ofrequirements established by 82 employees rep-resenting the major administrative and academ-ic sectors of the University. Brown’s 100-pageRFP provides the vendors with in depth exam-ples of what the University would like to seedemonstrated for admission, benefits, develop-ment, financial aid, human resources, payroll,research administration, student administrationand technology. After the demonstrations, ourteams will meet to review the results. We antici-pate selecting a vendor early in the springsemester.

Ellen Waite-FranzenVice President, Computing and Information Systems

Oct. 23

Tarazi coverage biasedagainst PalestiniansTo the Editor:I am disappointed with the way The Herald pre-sented the Tarazi lecture (“From a PalestinianPerspective,” 10/22). Choosing to feature in thesubhead that “some audience members expressedfrustration” biases the reader’s opinion and showsone-sided journalism.

Many students saw the event as a fresh alterna-tive to what is presented in the mainstream mediatoday, but this view was not mentioned. TheHerald’s choice to emphasize the hostility felt by“some” people, when that is clearly not the subjectof the article, suggests rejection of the Palestinianperspective.

I was hoping that The Herald would take a moreimpartial, objective stance, or at least represent theviews of the whole Brown community, not just aselect few.

Noura Alturki ‘05Oct. 23

The University’s renovation of Minden Hall ensured that nearly 150students would not be made homeless by Brown’s ever-loominghousing crunch. While it is heartening that administrators tookstrides to house these students in a University-owned dorm, it isunfortunate that students there live in rooms without interior doors.

To add insult to injury, the University recently told Minden Hallresidents that those students who want doors must install the doorsthemselves.

It is unacceptable that the University renovated a dorm for habita-tion without having the foresight — or, perhaps, the willingness toallocate the necessary funds — to provide students with one of themost fundamental features of a living environment.

It is just as unreasonable — and perhaps ridiculous — for theUniversity to expect that students who want basic privacy shouldhave to purchase a door and install it themselves. Everyone needsprivacy and quiet, and the suggestion that the only way students canachieve these needs is to trek to a hardware store, buy a door, drilland screws, bring the equipment back to Brown and install it isabsurd. The University has long claimed that it wants to keep stu-dents on campus for six semesters to foster community values —failing to provide doors is not a very good way to encourage studentsto stay on campus.

And the need for doors isn’t Minden’s only problem. Many stu-dents living in Minden are off meal plan, but the kitchen facilities areless than adequate. Minden touts a giant kitchen with four refrigera-tors, four microwaves and no stove. Minden residents who want toenjoy a homemade dinner behind closed doors are completely out ofluck.

Some parts of Minden are certainly worthy of praise. Studentshave lauded the University for turning the building into a clean andspacious dorm, but Brown must not skimp on making Minden into afully livable dorm.

The lack of doors is likely to be a long-term problem if theUniversity refuses to install them. Donald Reaves, former executivevice president for finance and administration, suggested earlier thisyear that Minden Hall would not be a dormitory for long, but nowUniversity officials are looking to keep Minden around for anotheryear. By most recent accounts, Minden will be a dorm for at leastthree more semesters — the University should spend the money andmake the effort to ensure Minden residents enjoy the same privacyas other members of the community.

The soft parade

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2002 · PAGE 11

Student workers deserve courtesy from peersGate workers are not mean people — they would just like to be treated with respect

LET’S BE HONEST: THERE IS LITTLElove between Gate customers and work-ers. I know this because I work at theGate and probably dislike somebodyyou know for no other reason than ourinteraction at the sandwich counter.Perhaps you don’t like me.Then again, maybe I don’tlike you.

Of all the realms of Brownstudent life that I have expe-rienced, I have never seenpeople so eager to be dis-pleased and pointlessly cruelas at the Gate. Of course,when people are engaged inserious debate about issuesthat they are passionateabout, cruelty can oftenresult from their passion.And I respect that. But losingyour temper in a discussion aboutracism or the possibly impending WorldWar III is far different than blowing upupon learning that there is no Americancheese (which happens more than youwould think).

In the interest of being fair, I amhappy to admit that a portion of theproblem belongs to me and my fellowGate employees. As the person workingfor you, it is our responsibility to take allof your attitude and complaints with asmile and then hand you your pizza. Inprevious jobs, I have been able to dealwith this a little better. The difference isthat I am now working for other Brownstudents and am more sensitive. It is not

just a random person walking into work;it is somebody I will see in class the nextday, and I can’t get away from feelinglike if I let somebody be blatantly rudeto me, I have lost part of my dignity as aBrown student. It is difficult to see peo-

ple on the green the morn-ing after you have let themwalk on top of you.

So yes, I am a little quickto get pissed due to this sen-sitivity. If somebody comesup to the counter, spouts offthe 10 things they want ontheir sandwich and thenwalks away, I will probablyroll my eyes or say some-thing obnoxious just loudenough for them to hear.Sometimes I just work a lit-tle slower (ok, a lot slower).

And when people treat running out ofgrilled chicken like a hospital running ofof O-negative, I often silently celebratetheir disappointment. I have accidental-ly on purpose shot somebody with aspray bottle and made a sandwich a lit-tle too crispy, but I have NEVER crossedthe ultimate passive aggressive line:spitting in food.

I can understand the inclination. Iwas once told by a customer that I wasborn a worker and that my childrenwould probably serve his. A customeronce remarked about my friend: “Wow,looks like Gate boy is moving a littleslowly today.” Another friend had abagel thrown at her. And these are notuneducated fools doing this. Hardly. Justignorant Brown students.

While Gate workers are responsible

for some of the hostility in the establish-ment, we clearly are not responsible forthe majority of it. A big part of the prob-lem is that some people have beentaught that they are somehow on a high-er level than those serving them. Seeingme toss pizza dough, as opposed to get-ting on the shuttle, immediatelychanges the way people interact withme. They treat me like I am (gasp) aworker, and if I’m just a worker, wellthen, most forms of social graces areexpendable.

This doesn’t just happen at the Gate.Have you seen the way people treat theVDUB employees? I am ashamed tothink of the opinion these people haveof Brown students. Students roll theireyes and talk to them like they are tod-dlers. They complain that UFS workersin general are bitter and hostile, butdon’t look at their own culpability. If Ihad to stay working at the Gate for morethan my four years here, I can’t imaginehow withdrawn and hostile I’d be, for noreason other than having to put up withpeople that think “thank you” is some-thing you say when you get a present forChristmas, not a plate of food.

When addressing the issues thatplague certain Gate customers, there aretwo separate problems. First, there isthe previously discussed harsh attitude,which, granted may partially stem fromemployee negativity. There is also, how-ever, the blatant disregard that cus-tomers demonstrate on a regular basis.

Right now, my biggest pet peeve inthe world is Gate customers who do notthrow their trash away after eating.There are seven trash cans inside the

Gate and it is impossible to exit withoutpassing by one of them. Yet, at the end ofthe night, half eaten sandwiches andpizza are on the tables and old newspa-pers are on the floor.

It only takes me a few minutes toclean this up, but it is the assumptionbehind it that bothers me, the idea thatit is my job to pick up after you. Yes, it isin my job description to make sure theGate is clean before I go home, and Iknow that many people seek comfort inthis. “Dude, it’s what he gets paid for.”But there is a line somewhere here. It isthe escort driver’s job to drive youaround on campus. That doesn’t meanthat you ask the escort driver to driveyou in circles around the Main Green fortwo hours.

I don’t want to come off sounding likeI’m on an “I hate Gate customers” tirade,because I’m not. For every 10 customersthat come into the Gate, I’d say only threeare obnoxious. But those are the three thatstick with me. However, some of myfavorite people on campus are the name-less friends whom I smile at in the streetsand between class; friends that I madewhile making them a sandwich. I lovethese Pembrokers and hope they love me.

And if you don’t want to be my friend,that’s cool too. Tell me what you want (aplease at the end is a very nice bonus tothe sandwich order), and I’ll smile, I’llmake it, I’ll hand it to you. And then yousay, “Thank you.” These are not compli-cated things I am asking, and certainlynot things that apply just at the Gate.

Try these new courteous techniquesat CVS. Or even Via Via. No love isrequired, just courtesy.

Nick Noon ’05 estimates that he has madeover 4,000 sandwiches as a Brown student.

WE ALL KNOW THAT THE BROWNlibraries have problems. There aren’tenough books or copies of books, no placeto put those that we already have and thelibraries close before many of us wouldlike. There is another problem, however, ofwhich most of you may not beaware and from which all oth-ers depend. The library sys-tem’s administration (a sepa-rate entity than theUniversity’s administration)has lost touch with the needsof the community it serves and has falleninto the unfortunate habit of making uni-lateral decisions with little or no consider-ation for either users or staff.

A case in point is the proposed reorgan-ization of the libraries. A number of yearsago, the library’s administration unveiledits plan for the future, “MODEL.” Changesin staffing and departmental structuresare to be made in order to promote a morecollegial and collaborative environmentfor staff and administration. The tradition-al employer and employee responsibilitiesand relationships are to be replaced with astructure of “self managed teams.”

This is being done, we are told, to allowthe library to “commit its resources to newwork as well as to critical, enduring servic-es…. [W]e must work differently” in orderto create the library of the 21st century.Now that sounds very nice, almost inspira-tional, but before you accept the conceptof reorganization without prejudice, apply

some analysis to the problem. Ask somequestions. What exactly are the immediateends of the specific changes the libraryadministration has actually proposed?How will they improve the quality of serv-ice that you receive at Brown’s libraries?

We wish you luck with get-ting your answers. Theemployees of Brown’s librarieshave been trying to pry thoseessential clarifications out ofthe administration for yearsnow and have received noth-

ing more than vague, feel-good rhetoricand assurances in response.

MODEL will do little to promote the col-laborative utopia imagined by administra-tors. What it does is eliminate clear cut jobdescriptions and departmental structures,and replaces them with vague, open-ended language about duties and tanglednetworks of managerial responsibility.

Let’s be clear on one important matter.The University’s library staff does notoppose staffing or organizational changeson principle or in application. The SEIULocal 134 Union is not trying to stand inthe way of change. This is an intelligent,well-educated staff, many of them Browngraduates, and we recognize that changemay be desirable.

We do object to the reorganization planformulated by the library’s administrationbecause we have been asked to accept itlargely sight unseen, and no one hasoffered any compelling justification for it.This library’s administration has had along history of applying cosmetic fixes toconceal its shortcomings, and it appearsthat we are to witness to another.

Staff have long suggested change, inparticular more administrative accounta-bility for decisions and policies. MODELensures that administrators will be evenless responsive to the needs of users andstaff. Staff complained that the beaurocra-cy was inefficient and suggested that it bestreamlined. MODEL provides for a struc-ture so irrational that people working sideby side in the same space will find them-selves working for different supervisors.

Change to conform to the current pop-ular academic or corporate structuraltrends, change to give the impression ofdynamic leadership or change simplybecause other libraries have made thesame change does not serve the best inter-ests of the library users, its staff or theBrown community as a whole.

As some of you may know, theUniversity and the union are currentlynegotiating a new contract. At the outset,the union requested that the reorganiza-tion plan not be bundled with discussionsof wages, health benefits and other peren-nial employment issues. The University’snegotiating team refused, and as a conse-quence, negotiations have been boggeddown by the minutiae of problematic jobdescriptions and other matters best left toanother venue.

In order to expedite matters and toallow more time for the University to pres-ent the details of the proposed reorganiza-tion, the union has proposed to theUniversity that the present contract beextended four months with a five percentpay increase retroactive to Oct. 1. We alsostrongly urge that other members of theBrown community be included in discus-

sions about the advisability and imple-mentation of the reorganization plan. Thisis far too important an issue to be leftentirely in the hands of either the library’sadministration or the union.

Should the University’s negotiatingcommittee refuse this offer or refuse tomake a reasonable counter offer in thesame spirit of this proposal, we have nochoice but to go on strike the followingday. The union membership has agreedthat it is not in our best interests or thoseof the community at large to continue thestrike beyond 5:00 p.m. on Friday. We arefrustrated by the current stalemate, but wealso understand the importance ofParents’ Weekend to many here and haveno wish to spoil the evening’s activities.

This is not a decision that any of theunion staff take lightly, nor should you. Astrike of even a day means no pay for thatday. It means a disruption of services forthe Brown community. This is not just amatter of management versus union, it isnot even just an issue of social conscience.Every member of the Brown communityhas a very real stake here.

Students are paying upwards of $30,000a year to this institution. You have the rightto ask whether any of the changes nowproposed by the library’s administrationserve your interest and that of other librarypatrons, and you have a right to somethingbetter than meaningless platitudes andjargon. Exactly what is the library of the21st century? Demand a definition fromanyone who throws out that phrase to you.Above all, demand that the library serveyour priorities and not those of out-of-touch administrators.

Thomas Allen Ph.D ’94, Penina G. Posner ’92and Richard Dittman ’00 are members ofSEIU local 134.

Library reorganization the wrong MODEL for changeStudents should question whether library administrative changes serve their interests

NICK NOONBROWN INTRUDER

THOMAS S. ALLENPENINA G. POSNERRICHARD DITTMAN

GUEST COLUMN

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

OCTOBER 24, 2002 · PAGE 12

BY SHARA HEGDEFrom pickup soccer games in Brazil tohelping the Brown men’s soccer team tovictory, Eduardo Romaneiro ’03 has trav-eled a long way to pursue his dreams.

“It’s been my goal for a long time to goto school and getmy degree in theUnited States,”Edu said.

While pursuinghis degree, Edu

has found the time to be a force on themen’s soccer team. Last week againstProvidence College, he scored two goals tolead the team to a 2-0 shutout of the Friars.

Edu grew up in Brazil and has playedsoccer pretty much all his life.

“In Brazil, soccer is part of the culture,”he said. “I think that I’ve been playingsince I could walk.”

His family moved from Brazil to NewJersey before his junior year in high school.Edu enjoyed a strong high school careerearning many accolades, but played in aleague with a low level of competition. Tohelp elevate his status in the eyes ofrecruiters, he spent time playing in theSpanish League and dabbled with clubteams. He chose Brown because of thecoaching staff’s dedication to winning.

“When I came here on my visit and metwith the coaches, they were committed tobeing the first Ivy League team to win anational championship,” Edu said. “It wasa lofty goal, but I could see the dedicationand determination they had to be the bestteam that they could.”

Edu has seen his share of ups anddowns since coming to Brown.

“My attitude toward the sport has notalways been the greatest,” he said. “Butthis year, with the team we have, I’m morefocused and dedicated to winning.”

The Bears are 4-4-4 this year, playing a

schedule packed with strong opponents.But the team has lost some close contestsand has been hurt by injuries to key play-ers.

“There have been a lot of games that wecould have won,” Edu said. “We have peo-ple stepping up every game but we need towork on doing it collectively to win thoseclose games.”

As his career winds down, Edu is look-ing to finish this season on a strong note.

“We have an extremely talented teamthis year and anyone could be starting,” hesaid. “It’s been a lot of fun because we’re allfriends and hopefully we can put somewins together the rest of the season.

After Brown, Edu, a business economicsand international relations concentrator,plans to work in investment banking orconsulting. However, he will always lookback fondly on his days at Brown.

“As a senior, you look back and you real-ize just how much fun it was,” he said. “Itgoes by way too fast.”

Sports staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 writes ath-lete of the week features. She can be reachedat shegde@browndailyherald.com.

OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS I’VE SEENa good number of pictures and video clipsof baseball players. While I’m glad to see ateam other than the Yankees playing inOctober, there are some things I’m not tooenthused to see. Looking at a baseball

player with a lipfull of chewingtobacco isn’t exact-ly what I considerappealing or enter-taining. Last time Ichecked, baseballwas a sport playedby professionals,not a poster childfor the tobaccoindustry.

When I playedlittle league base-ball and filled mymouth with “Big

League Chew” bubble gum, I was underthe impression that the professionals werealso chewing gum, albeit in their lower lip.Now I realize that what fills their curiouslyswollen lips is actually a mix of fiberglass,tobacco and other yummy stuff. This newenlightenment has changed my view ofbaseball and it’s strange relationship withtobacco. The use of chewing tobacco dur-ing a baseball game not only strikes me as

SOMEBODY HELP ME OUT — ARE THEREany open spots in the acting classes here atBrown? Because Latrell Sprewell just mighthave what it takes to fill one.

His most recent drama is as follows:Sprewell arrived at training camp and

notified the teamthat he injured hishand two weeksbefore in an acci-dent on his yacht.It turned out to be

a broken hand, and he underwent suc-cessful surgery. Days later, the New YorkPost reported that two eyewitnesses sawSprewell hurt his hand because of anerrant punch — Sprewell’s phantom acci-dent, it seemed, was a cover-up.

The Knicks, perhaps influenced by thisnews, fined Sprewell a whopping $250,000and suspended him until he can make “apositive contribution” much like childrenare told in preschool. Sprewell and hislawyer are now suing the New York Post onlibel charges for about $40 million.

Given his past and his irresponsiblebehavior, Sprewell is looking awfully child-ish in this case. During his Knicks career,he has been late to games, skipped theentire 1999 preseason without explanationand had minor run-ins with the New Yorkmedia. I don’t fault Scott Layden, theKnicks General Manager, for throwing thefine on Sprewell, for he has tried othergentler tactics in the past that clearly havenot strangled Sprewell’s mischief (punvery much intended). Spree was oncefined $2,500 for missing a pregame shoot-around. This is also the amount of moneytrapped in his cornrows.

Layden and his staff are at a breakingpoint with Sprewell, and it is admirablethat they are ready to put discipline beforewinning. As a star player, Sprewell has aresponsibility to notify the team when hebelieves he may be injured. Even if he didnot think it was broken, that should notpreclude him from giving him and theteam their best shot at winning. What costis it to Sprewell if he tells the team imme-diately? Nothing, of course – simplechance is a fault of no one.

This shifty behavior lends credence tothe New York Post report over whichSprewell is suing. Perhaps he kept it asecret because he was ashamed of his ownrecklessness.

Regardless of the veracity of the story, Idon’t blame Layden for being swayed bythe report, if indeed he was, when hehanded down the fine. I acknowledge thatthe New York Post is not God’s diary, butwith all of the hiccups in Sprewell’s past,the level of suspicion is naturally higher.

The relationship between Sprewell andthe Knicks is effectively over. Sprewell andLayden have been exchanging barbs allweek, so it would not surprise me ifSprewell has played his last game in NewYork. A trade would be in the best interestof both parties.

Teams need to do a better job of evalu-ating character and team chemistry beforethey begin inflating payroll with over-weight babies. Latrell Sprewell is undoubt-edly a talented player with enough heartand hustle to field a whole team. Pro bas-ketball, however, is not played one-on-one, and until players like Sprewell can fig-ure out the concept of responsibility, theywill remain ticking time bombs of imma-turity.

No spots left in acting? That’s alright —there’s always room in “Rocks for Jocks.”

Unlike Carl Everett, Eric “Pizzahead”Perlmutter ’06 believes in dinosaurs andthe moon landing.

It’s time for ashopping Spree

Chew on this:MLB needs toditch the dip

Josh Honeyman / Herald

Athlete of the week Edu Romaneiro ‘03 has scored three goals this season for the men’ssoccer team.

Soccer takes Edu ’03from Brazil to Brown Women’s, men’s

soccer fall in a pairof close matchesThe women’s soccer team (5-6-2, 0-3-1) fell tothe ninth ranked Princeton University (12-0-0, 5-0-0) Tigers, 2-1, in an Ivy League contestSaturday afternoon in Princeton, N.J.

Brown jumped out to an early 1-0 lead just6:40 into the contest as Michaela Sewall ’04connected with Caitlin Carey ’03.

The Bears were leading at the half, andheld onto the 1-0 lead until the 70th minutewhen Princeton notched the equalizer.

The Tigers scored the go-ahead goal withjust over 10 minutes remaining as theyremained the only undefeated and untiedteam in the country.

Sarah Gervais ’04 stopped seven shots innet for the Bears, who were outshot 18-3.

Brown continues action on Saturday,when it hosts Cornell University in an Ivycontest at 5:00 p.m. on Stevenson Field.

MEN’S SOCCERThe men’s soccer team suffered a 2-0 loss athome against Fairfield University on Tuesday.The Bears fell to 4-4-4 on the season, whileFairfield improved to 5-5-1.

The first half was evenly matched, withFairfield taking eight shots to the Bears’seven. Brown came close to getting on theboard with two hard shots by EduardoRomaneiro ’03 that sailed just high.

Fairfield took a 1-0 lead five minutes intothe second half on a set shot taken by BryanHarkin inside the box. At 68:37, the Stagsadded an insurance goal on a breakawayscored by Joseph Dos Santos. Peter Mahoney’03 initially made the stop but the balldeflected past him and into the goal.Mahoney prevented the Stags from taking athree and four goal lead on two diving stopsduring a one-minute span.

Brown continues action on Saturday at7:30 at home versus Cornell University.

— Brown Sports Information

see CROPP, page 4

IAN CROPPLOLLICROPP

ATHLETEOF THE WEEK

ERICPERLMUTTERPERL MUTTERS

“My attitude toward the

sport has not always been

the greatest. But this year,

with the team we have,

I’m more focused and

dedicated to winning.”

Eduardo Romaneiro ’03Men’s soccer team