THE BROWN DAILY HERALD An independent newspaper serving the Brown community since 1891 OCTOBER 3, 2002 Volume CXXXVII, No. 84 www.browndailyherald.com THURSDAY In college classrooms, the study of ‘whiteness’ is becoming a growing trend page 3 Outside Ivy League, most universities continue to attract more women than men page 3 Pro-choice, pro-life groups see this fall as an important time for abortion activism page 5 Bill Tortorelli GS says the Providence Police must do more to pre- vent E. Side crime column, page 11 Doug Grutzmacher ’04 leads the way for men’s water polo, garners Athlete of Week honors sports, page 12 partly cloudy high 69 low 44 INSIDE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002 TODAY’S FORECAST Seth Kerschner / Herald BATTER UP It was time to break out the bats for some hockey-baseball Wednesday evening on Lincoln Field. For Simmons, corporate positions mean added obligation BY CARLA BLUMENKRANZ President Ruth Simmons sits on the cor- porate boards of several Fortune 500 com- panies at the advice of the Brown Corporation, but said she questions whether or not it is in the best interest of the University. Simmons joined the boards of technol- ogy manufacturer Texas Instruments Inc., pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. when she was president of Smith College, and continues to serve on them and other corporate boards with the support of the Corporation. Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62, who approves the president’s corporate com- mitments, said he does so with the convic- tion that they serve the University. “How a chief executive spends her time is an important and also a very complicat- ed issue,” Robert told The Herald. “Certainly, the vast majority of a president’s time should be spent directly on Brown, but there are other things that presidents do, and I think there’s a benefit to Brown to U. appoints 12 professors to tenured ranks BY DANIELLE CERNY The University tenured 12 professors and six assistant professors in May, increasing the portion of total Brown faculty mem- bers currently tenured to 73 percent. Seven more faculty members were tenured in 2001-02 than in 2000-01, said Associate Dean of the Faculty William Crossgrove. The associate professors granted tenure are Rebecca Burwell from the Department of Psychology; Tony Cokes, Modern Culture and Media; José Itzigsohn, Sociology; Xinsheng Sean Ling, Physics; and Kerry Smith, History. The professors granted tenure include Pravin Krishna from the Department of Economics and Leonard Tennenhouse from the Department of English. Newly appointed as professors with tenure are John Bodel from the Department of Classics; Qian Chen, Bio Med Orthopaedics; William Cioffi, Bio Med Surgery; Elliott Gorn, History; Christopher Hill, Philosophy; Evelyn Hu- DeHart, History; Ronald Martinez, Italian Studies; Paula Vogel, English; and Provost Robert Zimmer, Mathematics. see BOARDS, page 4 see TENURE, page 6 For graduate TAs, making ends meet is job one BY BRIAN BASKIN Karen Newman spent her first day as dean of the Graduate School Tuesday with repre- sentatives from the Graduate Student Council, working on a new teaching assis- tant policy that aims to clarify expectations for student teachers like Alanna Hildt GS. Hildt is teaching four sections of an intro- ductory art history class this semester to make ends meet while she studies Canadian modernism as a sixth year graduate student. She might work 40 hours in a typical week — twice the amount Brown assumes a TA to be working for a stipend — but she couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Work hours and the number of sections and students given to each TA varies by department. Extra effort goes largely unre- warded and can lengthen the time it takes to earn a Ph.D., Hildt said. Brown’s summer stipend often isn’t enough to allow gradu- ate students to continue researching with- out taking a job outside the University. Hildt said she still feels grateful to be a TA at Brown even under the current system. “I just think we’re privileged. Sometimes we forget that,” Hildt said. “I feel fortunate to be working in a field I love and earning enough money to live on.” Hildt said she chose to do a third stint this semester as a TA for introduction to the history of art and architecture because it gave her the opportunity to express her love of art to students who might only take one art history course at Brown. Though the courses Hildt teaches usually have nothing to do with Canadian mod- ernism, the rigorous preparation necessary to lead even a section in an introductory course often gives her own research a boost. “The more you think about (art), the better you become at what you’re doing yourself. Your base of knowledge broad- ens,” Hildt said. Many TAs aspire to be professors them- selves, so leading a section is an asset in the job market for providing valuable teaching experience, said Joan Lusk, asso- ciate dean of the graduate school, who allocates and manages all TA positions. Many departments require potential professors to teach a class as part of their application, Lusk said. Laetitia Iturralde GS, a French citizen who studied at the Sorbonne in Paris as an under- graduate, said she wanted to attend an American graduate school partly because it would give her the opportunity to teach. Three semesters leading sections in Scandinavian and American literature in the comparative literature department took her far from her studies of the French literary tradition in Argentina. Iturralde said her confidence in her own research and writing improved while she — a native French speaker — was forced to study the structure of a research paper to grade papers in English. But experience and an improved stand- ing in the job market don’t change the fact that every hour spent on TA duties is an hour away from the research that ulti- mately leads to a degree, said Lennart Erickson GS, who has worked as a TA in the economics department. “TAing definitely has a lower priority than one’s research,” Erickson said. “That’s the way academia works. There are real benefits to TAing … but the tradeoff is time away from your own research.” A graduate student gets paid a stipend to lead a section, but the quality of that section is up to the TA, Hildt said. Hildt said she spends several hours preparing for each section because she enjoys teaching and doesn’t want her own performance to reflect badly on the pro- fessor. But her job performance as a TA seems to have little effect on her standing with the University, Hildt said. Erickson said he made the most of his teaching opportunities because it could be many years before he teaches undergradu- ates of Brown’s caliber. “The students in my TA sections may very well be the best students that I ever have the opportunity to teach,” he said. Each department assesses its graduate students differently, but in many depart- ments a TA’s performance evaluation is taken seriously, said Associate Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller, the direc- tor of graduate studies in the political sci- ence department. “For us, it’s part of advancement,” Schiller said. More fellowships, which allow graduate students to focus solely on their research, would go a long way toward diminishing the toll on TAs, Hildt said. The Graduate School last year decided to give fellowships to all first-year graduate students so they would not need to TA until at least their third semester. Herald staff writer Brian Baskin ’04 can be reached at [email protected].
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Volume CXXXVII, No. 84 www.browndailyherald.com
T H U R S D A Y
In college classrooms,the study of ‘whiteness’is becoming a growingtrendpage 3
Outside Ivy League,most universitiescontinue to attractmore women than menpage 3
Pro-choice, pro-lifegroups see this fall asan important time forabortion activismpage 5
Bill Tortorelli GS saysthe Providence Policemust do more to pre-vent E. Side crimecolumn,page 11
Doug Grutzmacher ’04leads the way for men’swater polo, garnersAthlete of Week honorssports,page 12
partly cloudyhigh 69
low 44
I N S I D E T H U R S D AY, O C TO B E R 3 , 2 0 0 2 TO D AY ’ S F O R E C A S T
Seth Kerschner / Herald
BATTER UPIt was time to break out the bats for some hockey-baseball Wednesday evening on Lincoln Field.
For Simmons,corporatepositionsmean addedobligationBY CARLA BLUMENKRANZPresident Ruth Simmons sits on the cor-porate boards of several Fortune 500 com-panies at the advice of the BrownCorporation, but said she questionswhether or not it is in the best interest ofthe University.
Simmons joined the boards of technol-ogy manufacturer Texas Instruments Inc.,pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. andGoldman Sachs Group Inc. when she waspresident of Smith College, and continuesto serve on them and other corporateboards with the support of theCorporation.
Chancellor Stephen Robert ’62, whoapproves the president’s corporate com-mitments, said he does so with the convic-tion that they serve the University.
“How a chief executive spends her timeis an important and also a very complicat-ed issue,” Robert told The Herald.“Certainly, the vast majority of a president’stime should be spent directly on Brown, butthere are other things that presidents do,and I think there’s a benefit to Brown to
U. appoints 12professors totenured ranksBY DANIELLE CERNY The University tenured 12 professors andsix assistant professors in May, increasingthe portion of total Brown faculty mem-bers currently tenured to 73 percent.
Seven more faculty members weretenured in 2001-02 than in 2000-01, saidAssociate Dean of the Faculty WilliamCrossgrove.
The associate professors granted tenureare Rebecca Burwell from the Departmentof Psychology; Tony Cokes, ModernCulture and Media; José Itzigsohn,Sociology; Xinsheng Sean Ling, Physics;and Kerry Smith, History.
The professors granted tenure includePravin Krishna from the Department ofEconomics and Leonard Tennenhousefrom the Department of English.
Newly appointed as professors withtenure are John Bodel from theDepartment of Classics; Qian Chen, BioMed Orthopaedics; William Cioffi, BioMed Surgery; Elliott Gorn, History;Christopher Hill, Philosophy; Evelyn Hu-DeHart, History; Ronald Martinez, ItalianStudies; Paula Vogel, English; and ProvostRobert Zimmer, Mathematics.
see BOARDS, page 4
see TENURE, page 6
For graduate TAs, making ends meet is job oneBY BRIAN BASKINKaren Newman spent her first day as deanof the Graduate School Tuesday with repre-sentatives from the Graduate StudentCouncil, working on a new teaching assis-tant policy that aims to clarify expectationsfor student teachers like Alanna Hildt GS.
Hildt is teaching four sections of an intro-ductory art history class this semester tomake ends meet while she studies Canadianmodernism as a sixth year graduate student.She might work 40 hours in a typical week— twice the amount Brown assumes a TA tobe working for a stipend — but she couldn’timagine doing anything else.
Work hours and the number of sectionsand students given to each TA varies bydepartment. Extra effort goes largely unre-warded and can lengthen the time it takesto earn a Ph.D., Hildt said. Brown’s summerstipend often isn’t enough to allow gradu-ate students to continue researching with-out taking a job outside the University.
Hildt said she still feels grateful to be a TAat Brown even under the current system.
“I just think we’re privileged.Sometimes we forget that,” Hildt said. “Ifeel fortunate to be working in a field I loveand earning enough money to live on.”
Hildt said she chose to do a third stintthis semester as a TA for introduction tothe history of art and architecture becauseit gave her the opportunity to express herlove of art to students who might only takeone art history course at Brown.
Though the courses Hildt teaches usuallyhave nothing to do with Canadian mod-ernism, the rigorous preparation necessaryto lead even a section in an introductory
course often gives her own research a boost.“The more you think about (art), the
better you become at what you’re doingyourself. Your base of knowledge broad-ens,” Hildt said.
Many TAs aspire to be professors them-selves, so leading a section is an asset inthe job market for providing valuableteaching experience, said Joan Lusk, asso-ciate dean of the graduate school, whoallocates and manages all TA positions.
Many departments require potentialprofessors to teach a class as part of theirapplication, Lusk said.
Laetitia Iturralde GS, a French citizen whostudied at the Sorbonne in Paris as an under-graduate, said she wanted to attend anAmerican graduate school partly because itwould give her the opportunity to teach.
Three semesters leading sections inScandinavian and American literature inthe comparative literature departmenttook her far from her studies of the Frenchliterary tradition in Argentina.
Iturralde said her confidence in her ownresearch and writing improved while she— a native French speaker — was forced tostudy the structure of a research paper tograde papers in English.
But experience and an improved stand-ing in the job market don’t change the factthat every hour spent on TA duties is anhour away from the research that ulti-mately leads to a degree, said LennartErickson GS, who has worked as a TA in theeconomics department.
“TAing definitely has a lower prioritythan one’s research,” Erickson said. “That’sthe way academia works. There are real
benefits to TAing … but the tradeoff is timeaway from your own research.”
A graduate student gets paid a stipendto lead a section, but the quality of thatsection is up to the TA, Hildt said.
Hildt said she spends several hourspreparing for each section because sheenjoys teaching and doesn’t want her ownperformance to reflect badly on the pro-fessor. But her job performance as a TAseems to have little effect on her standingwith the University, Hildt said.
Erickson said he made the most of histeaching opportunities because it could bemany years before he teaches undergradu-ates of Brown’s caliber.
“The students in my TA sections mayvery well be the best students that I everhave the opportunity to teach,” he said.
Each department assesses its graduatestudents differently, but in many depart-ments a TA’s performance evaluation istaken seriously, said Associate Professor ofPolitical Science Wendy Schiller, the direc-tor of graduate studies in the political sci-ence department.
“For us, it’s part of advancement,”Schiller said.
More fellowships, which allow graduatestudents to focus solely on their research,would go a long way toward diminishingthe toll on TAs, Hildt said.
The Graduate School last year decidedto give fellowships to all first-year graduatestudents so they would not need to TAuntil at least their third semester.
Herald staff writer Brian Baskin ’04 can bereached at [email protected].
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BY SARA PERKINSThe best class ever is 56 percent female.
Since 1992, every first-year class to enter Brownhas had a higher female-to-male ratio than the last,and the Class of 2006 is no exception.
Though Brown is still the only Ivy League schoolin which women outnumber men, the nationaltrend shows more women enrolled in both two andfour-year colleges than men — 56 percent nation-wide — and more women earning undergraduatedegrees. Fifty-six percent of professional degreesstill go to men.
Statistics point to a disparity of achievement inhigh school to explain the phenomenon. Men aremore likely to drop out of high school or be enrolledin special education classes.
“I hesitate to say this, but it seems that womenhave an orientation not only toward achievement,but also toward being good and pleasing others,”Linda Sax, a UCLA professor of education, told theNew York Times. Female high school students aremore likely to be enrolled in honors and collegeprep courses, the Times reported.
Last year, “62 percent of our early applicationswere women,” said Director of Admission MichaelGoldberger. Of those accepted early, 58 percentwere women, and women made up 59 percent of thetotal applicant pool.
Two years ago, Goldberger predicted that otherIvy schools would see a female majority “soon.” Asof yet, “It hasn’t really happened,” he said. “I thinkthat Columbia has more female applicants. … I’mnot sure why” Brown is the only school with animbalance, he said.
Columbia’s undergraduate student body is 49percent female.
“Most colleges across the country have morewomen, regardless of being public or private,” saidLiliana Mickle, director of undergraduate admis-
Numbers showgender gapincreasing at mostschools nationwide
‘Whiteness’ emerges as study trendBY JOANNE PARKAt Brown and a handful of schools across the nation,courses on “whiteness” are challenging the way scholarsthink about the study of race.
Professor of Sociology Gordon Morgan at theUniversity of Arkansas is one of a growing number ofscholars who have taken a step to define the experience ofthe majority group in the United States.
Though Morgan initially proposed the idea of a white-ness studies course in 1995, his request was denied.Morgan said he “found a certain amount of resistance tothe course from faculty members that feel a little intimi-dated by the subject matter.”
His course, “Special Topics in Whiteness,” is now beingoffered this fall. His students encounter literature fromJeffrey Kaplan’s “Encyclopedia of White Power” to ToniMorrison’s “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness in the LiteraryImagination.”
At Brown, Jennifer Roth-Gordon, a research associate atthe Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, teaches asimilar course called “Critical Perspectives on Whiteness.”
Morgan said his motivation in teaching the course wasto “bring to public understanding to the nature of white-ness.
“This concept did not exist prior to the New World … sothat leaves us to find out how it got started, how it is main-tained, and what its future is,” he said.
Morgan’s view of “whiteness” is based primarily oncolonialism.
“Ordinary sociology teaches that epochs can stamppersonalities. … During the colonial period, there was anascendancy of the dominant colonial personality,” hesaid.
What Morgan terms the “colonial personality” reignedfrom 1500 to about 1950. “One of colonialism’s biggestprops was whiteness. People have been freed from colo-nialism. Therefore, the major props supporting colonial-ism have been superceded,” he said.
Morgan cited the 1954 Brown v. Board of Educationdecision and the liberation of European colonies in Africaas factors further contributing to the fracturing of white-ness.
He said that with current progress in globalization, it istime for a revised definition of whiteness. “This is not anattack on whiteness … but an attempt to understand thatsociety does not stand still,” he said.
Morgan, who is black, said his course was an exerciseto analyze the basis for change, as opposed to an ideolog-ical attack.
Morgan said students have responded in positive fash-
ion. The demographic in his course of 24 students is var-ied, with seven to eight people identifying themselves aswhite, four to five as mixed race and the remaining stu-dents as black.
“Sparks are always flying (in class). There is tension,particularly in the first few days of class,” he said.
Morgan said the white students in his class were sub-dued at first but have come alive recently.
“Now that the class is gelling, the environment is not ashostile. We are getting good discussion, friendships arebeing made,” Morgan said. “Everybody is finding theyhave to revise what they once viewed as canonical knowl-edge.”
Morgan acknowledged the controversy surroundingthe subject matter. “Courses on minority relations orcriminology deal with outgrowths of earlier emphasis onwhiteness — so if we construct a good course on white-ness, we could potentially face fewer social science cours-es on the minority perspective,” he said.
Roth-Gordon said whiteness studies are groundbreak-ing because “white people are taken to be the norm. Whatwhiteness studies do is say that if you really want tounderstand race, you have to understand what whitenessmeans as well. When we talk about people of color, that’simplicitly comparing them to whiteness.”
While she agreed that the Civil Rights movement was abacklash against whiteness, she said the current backlashagainst Affirmative Action is an indication that whitenessis becoming more pronounced.
Roth-Gordon said her whiteness studies course is not areaction to the rise of minority perspective courses, butan attempt to critically observe the concept of whitenessand privilege. “Often, by not acknowledging the fact thatthey have white privilege, they are reinforcing a racialhierarchy,” she said.
Jody Green ’03 completed his own analysis of white-ness in an independent study last year. Green said white-ness is often undetectable in society. “The U.S. has a lot ofrhetoric about racial equality and addresses racism as ifit’s a tangible thing that can be taken care of … whereasit’s something systemic that infiltrates every institution,”Green said. “As a white person, it has been invisible for mewhere I grew up.”
At the conclusion of his study, Green said he betterunderstood “my own whiteness … especially the implica-tions of (it) when joining in grass-roots campaigns withpeople of color.” Green said his study allowed him to see“just how relevant these issues are to the current debate
see WHITENESS, page 6see RATIO, page 6
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other colleges. Returning riderRebecca Barker ’05 reestablishedthe team’s position with a com-petitive second place inWalk/Trot/Canter, a score whichplaced her into the Novice divi-sion and qualified her forRegionals in the spring.
Galyn Burke ’05, who placed4th at Nationals last spring in theTeam Walk/Trot division, kept upher undefeated streak within theregion by winning at her fifthconsecutive show. Her winplaced her into Walk/Trot/Canterand also qualified her forRegionals.
After the flat classes finished,the team rallied during a lunchbreak and prepared for the sec-
ond half of the show, the fencesor jumping portion. Since Brownwas still neck and neck with atleast three other colleges, theseremaining classes were crucial.
When Peddy and Bialo wontheir Open Fences classes, theBears began confidently eyeingthe blue again. Newcomer LeilaLedsinger ’05 continued thestreak by winning herIntermediate Fences class, help-ing to secure Brown’s victory.
As team members excitedlytallied up points, Peddy and Bialocompeted, along with two other,non-Brown riders who had wonboth their flat and fences classes,for the high point rider award.After a test on the flat, Brownasserted its dominance again asthe judge named Peddy highpoint rider and placed Bialo sec-ond, or reserve high point.
Brown won the show with a
total of 39 out of a possible 49points, beating out the other ninecolleges in the region. While thewin provided a promising start tothe season, the Bears know theyhave a tough act to follow if theyplan to do as well as last year,with an Ivy title last April and athird at Nationals in May.
However, even with the signifi-cant loss of last year’s seniorclass, the Bears feel confidentthat their talented returning rid-ers and competitive new mem-bers can continue the success ofprevious years.
They hope to extend their leadin the region at their next showon Sunday, Oct. 6, which they arehosting at Windswept Farm inWarren, R.I. Friends and fans arewelcomed, especially since this isthe team’s only home show allyear and should prove to be anexciting one.
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Equestrian
or any other type of seafood forthat matter, why not pay homageand give it big fat kiss?
Sadly enough, many sports arestuck in the Middle Ages and affordno opportunity for the athletes toexpress their sheer jubilation. Whenwas the last time you saw anyonestrut around the lane at a bowling
alley sober? (Okay, well Jesus fromthe Big Lebowski doesn’t count.)Billards, Ping Pong, Equestrian,Frolf, Croquet and Curling are justof few of the many prospects.
For every sport there are clearlyan infinite number of possible cel-ebrations, so there is next to noexcuse for duplication. In order tomake sports marginally moreinteresting, why not require a cele-bration? There should be a sepa-rate set of officials, who are not fig-ure skating judges, to judge
whether or not the score shouldstand, based solely upon theaspects of the celebration. Okay,maybe this is beginning to soundlike the next American Idol, so I’llstop before you get sick. Regardlessof your sport, I urge you to get outon the practice field and work onthat prized celebration, becauseyou never know when the oppor-tunity for fame or shame will arise.
Ian Cropp ’06 hails from Buffalo,N.Y.
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know what’s going on in the com-mercial world.”
Simmons said she agrees thather presence on corporateboards generally furthers theinterests of the University. In ful-filling her obligations to variouscorporations, she also makesvaluable contacts for Brown andenhances her leadership skills,she said.
The engineering program shedeveloped at Smith and Brown’songoing Program for AcademicEnrichment are both indebted toknowledge she gained throughserving on corporate boards,Simmons said.
Even so, Simmons said shequestions the time she currentlyinvests in the corporate world.
“I don’t always think myselfthat it’s necessary for people toserve on corporate boards inorder to do well as a leader,” shetold The Herald. “That’s why Ileave the judgment as to whetheror not I should do it essentially tomy board.”
When she assumed the Brownpresidency, Simmons resignedfrom the board of MetropolitanLife Insurance with theCorporation’s approval. She hasnot joined any major corporateboards since, despite a prolifera-tion of offers, she said.
“Clearly, this is an activity that,if anything, she is trying todecrease,” Robert said.
Even without participation inthe MetLife board, Simmons’ cor-porate obligations remain sub-stantial. Texas Instruments, basedin Dallas, expects its directors toattend about nine mandatorymeetings each year. The mostrecent meeting, held Sept. 19,coincided with Simmons’fundraising tour of Dallas and
Fort Worth.Simmons also attended a
meeting in Texas in April 2002,which coincided with the A Dayon College Hill orientation pro-gram for incoming first-years. Asa result, she did not attend any ofthe events of the 2002 ADOCH.
As chair of Texas Instruments’Stockholder Relations and PublicPolicy Committee, Simmons wasrequired to attend three subcom-mittee meetings in Fiscal Year2001. The Audit Committee,which she served on untilNovember 2001, held four meet-ings last year, the companyreported.
Simmons receives stockoptions and annual compensa-tion of approximately $165,000from Texas Instruments, Pfizerand Goldman Sachs, according topublic financial documents.
In return for her service toTexas Instruments, Simmonsreceives a $55,000 yearly retainerand options for 10,000 shares ofcommon stock. She also wasgranted 2,000 restricted stockunits when she joined the boardin 1999.
Both Pfizer and GoldmanSachs provide similar compensa-tion for their directors’ involve-ment.
At Pfizer, Simmons wasresponsible for attending ninegeneral board meetings and atleast six meetings of the AuditCommittee in Fiscal Year 2001. AtGoldman Sachs, she was expect-ed at five board meetings andreported to the CompensationCommittee and the AuditCommittee in 2001.
Since Texas Instruments, Pfizerand Goldman Sachs released theirmost recent definitive proxy state-ments in March 2002, the respon-sibilities of corporate directorshave increased substantially,according to Goldman Sachsspokesperson Kathleen Baum.
Following the development of
new corporate guidelines by theNew York Stock Exchange, “boardmembers at nearly every well-runcompany have taken on furtherresponsibilities,” she said.
This holds true for members ofGoldman Sachs’ compensationand audit committees, of whichSimmons is a member, Baumsaid. “It’s probably not easy,” sheadded.
Despite the extensive timecommitments corporate boardsrequire, Simmons insists that shedoes not spend less time on cam-pus as a result. Rather, she said,meetings detract only from herpersonal time.
In total, she added, her corpo-rate consulting adds up to lessthan four to five hours each week,the maximum the Universityallows for faculty and administra-tors. Yet Simmons said she still hasher doubts about serving on cor-porate boards.
“It’s a lot easier for me if I don’tdo them, but, on balance, myguess is that the pressure to docorporate and other boards won’tdisappear,” she said. “I think it’ssomething that a leader is expect-ed to do.”
Herald staff writer CarlaBlumenkranz ’05 covers the Officeof the President. She can be reachedat [email protected].
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myself that it’s
necessary for people
to serve on corporate
boards in order to do
well as a leader.”
President Ruth Simmons
CAMPUS NEWSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
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BY DANA GOLDSTEINOn-campus groups on both sides of theabortion debate are looking to createawareness by holding events on campus,beginning with today’s Love Your BodyDay, hosted by various pro-choicegroups.
Meanwhile, Brown Students for Life, agroup that opposes abortion, is tenta-tively planning an on-campus event forhigh school students.
That event, slated to take place Nov.23, will feature a talk by Richard Varieur,a Catholic family therapist practicing inPawtucket. Varieur has spoken at otherpro-life events in the area. While BSLmembers stressed that the event is still inthe works, they said they are working tomake it happen.
Thomas Reutland ’03, leader of BSL,said Varieur’s presentation will focus onthe ethical issues surrounding abortion.
Planning for the event started lastweek when Rhode Island Right to Lifecontacted BSL with the idea, Reutlandsaid. RIRL is hosting Varieur’s appear-ance and publicizing the event, posteringat local high schools and contacting pro-life student leaders.
At Monday’s BSL meeting, the eightmembers in attendance discussed theevent. The day will include Varieur’s talk,lunch, small-group discussions and avideo. Sections led by members of BSL willexamine critical readings of pro-life andpro-choice texts and information on how
the high school students could getinvolved in pro-life activism.
BSL, while primarily focused on theabortion issue, began its last meetingwith the reading of an ACLU briefingpaper on the death penalty. The paperargued that the death penalty should beabolished because it is inherentlyracist, targeted at the poor, and that itfails to deter crime. Most BSL memberssaid they were against the death penal-ty.
BSL members said they resist thenotion that being pro-life and anti-deathpenalty are politically mutually exclu-sive.
“Brown Students for Life is not about astereotype of being pro-life only mean-ing being against abortion,” Reutlandsaid.
Group member Cate Waldrop ’05acknowledged that the current politicalclimate presented a problem for peoplewho opposed both abortion and capitalpunishment.
“On an individual level, it’s not neces-sarily a conflict,” she said. “These issuesare connected on an ethical and morallevel as the value of human life.”
BSL also plans to discuss euthanasiathis year. The group’s position oneuthanasia is that “human life is to berespected up until natural death,” saidKeeley Schell GS. “It’s a sad consequenceof our society if elderly people do nothave the support they need to feel like
life is worth living.”On the other side of the abortion
debate, members of pro-choice groupssay they are less anxious to de-politi-cize abortion. Katie Del Guercio ’04,president of the Brown FeministMajority Leadership Alliance, saidpolitical activism centering on repro-ductive health and a woman’s right tochoose will be a big part of Love YourBody Day.
“We will be talking about the right,politically, to respect your body,” DelGuercio said.
At 1 p.m. today, two campus organiz-ers from the off-campus FeministMajority Foundation will give a talk titled“Never Go Back: The Threat to LegalizedAbortion.” On Oct.16, Eleanor Smeal,president of the Feminist MajorityFoundation, will come to Brown to speakon the same topic.
“Abortion is a very, very current issueat this time, given the political climate,”Del Guercio said. Her group, along withStudents for Choice, is particularly con-cerned about the make-up of the U.S.Supreme Court, which Del Guercio fearsmay overturn Roe v. Wade.
“I encourage people to educate them-selves about both sides,” Del Guerciosaid. “It’s their responsibility to knowwho they’re electing.”
Students for Choice is also planningseveral other events. On Oct. 24, NationalYoung Women’s Day of Action, the group
hopes to show the Academy Award nom-inated documentary “On HostileGround.” The film is about the dangersfaced by abortion providers, group mem-bers said.
Students for Choice members alsohelp escort women past picketing pro-testors into local clinics, promote aware-ness and host fundraising events oncampus.
The group is part of the Rhode IslandChoice Coalition, and plans to partici-pate in a lobbying week at the RhodeIsland State House.
Group members are also involved inBrown Undergrads for Sex HealthEducation. This group will organize sem-inars for high school students on rela-tionships, sexual health and reproduc-tive choice.
A.J. Rathmann-Noonan ’02.5 ofStudents for Choice said she agreed withWaldrop that the abortion debate shouldbe de-politicized. But she said she feels itnot feasible to do so in the current polit-ical climate.
“Taking it out of the political sphere isincredibly dangerous for women rightnow,” she said.
Del Guercio concurred. “Because conservative political forces
are chipping away at women’s reproduc-tive freedom continuously, it has to be apolitical debate,” she said. “Women’sreproductive freedoms are not secure inthis country, in the slightest.”
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around TWTP.“The white people who criti-
cize TWTP seem to do so withouta real understanding of their ownwhite self or their white privi-lege,” he said.
“None of (The Herald opinionscolumnists) ask what the role ofwhite people is in anti-racist cam-paigns. Such questions can onlybe asked after there is a con-sciousness of white self,” Greensaid.
Green echoed ProfessorMorgan’s concerns about theeffect of whiteness studies onother ethnic studies courses.
“Whiteness studies have thepotential to be good, when usedin a proactive way. It becomesproblematic when discussions onwhiteness become too centered,detracting focus from people ofcolor,” he said.
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sions at the University ofMassachusetts-Boston.
But the gender imbalance ismore pronounced in publicschools and community collegesthan in certain well-known privateuniversities. Cape Cod CommunityCollege is 59 percent female, andIndiana University is 52.5 percent,whereas women make up 48 per-cent of the undergraduate body atHarvard and Rice universities.
Birth rates cannot explain thephenomenon. Although womenmake up 51.1 percent of the totalU.S. population, 51.2 percent ofbabies born in the U.S. are male.
Until 1999, the University ofGeorgia’s admission policy gavepreference to men in an attemptto correct the gender imbalanceof entering classes, but a lawsuitby three rejected applicantsresulted in a judge ruling the
practice unconstitutional. Theundergraduate body is now 59percent female.
Goldberger found little meritin the suggestion that Brown’sbrochures may be responsible forsome of the imbalance in appli-cation rates. A recent New YorkTimes report suggested some col-leges’ brochures may appealmore to women than men.
“I think that they are (bal-anced). … If we felt that the waywe were portraying Brown wasnon-male-friendly, we would beconcerned,” he said. “What doyou do, count pictures” of menversus women?
But Goldberger said theCorporation could discuss theproblem at its next meeting inFebruary.
The Corporation “possibly willdiscuss making a change if it antic-ipates a real problem. … I think it’salways healthy to examine wherewe are,” he said. For now, “we wantto get the best students here, andwe’ll go from there.”
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The only newly appointedassociate professor with tenureis Michael Satlow of Judaic stud-ies.
Through the tenure process,professors are guaranteedtheir current faculty positionuntil retirement. Tenuresecures professors’ positionsby allowing them to teach andconduct research without fearthat unpopular views orchanging circumstances willlead to their termination,Crossgrove said.
Professors are recommendedfor tenure by the head of theirdepartment.
“Departments preparedossiers, including a lengthy listof items such as a CV, a summa-ry of teaching evaluations, adepartmental recommendationand confidential evaluationsfrom five or more experts in theindividual’s field,” Crossgrovesaid.
This detailed collection ofpapers is then sent to theCommittee on FacultyReappointment and Tenure.The committee currently con-sists of eight faculty membersand four senior administrators,and is chaired by Dean ofFaculty Mary Fennell,Crossgrove said.
Most Brown professors areactually tenured immediatelyafter being hired, based on theirprevious accomplishments. Theprocedure is slightly differentfor assistant professors who areusually hired for an initialthree-year contract. The con-tract is renewable for up to fouryears, and by the sixth year, atthe latest, they are reviewed forpossible tenure, Crossgrovesaid.
The six-year standard appliesfor all tenure track faculty.Before that time period expires,all professors are entitled totenure review.
With tenure come highlydesirable benefits.
“Tenure includes job securityand an increase in salary, whichmakes it very attractive for any-one of course. But more impor-tantly, it’s nice to know your col-leagues have embraced you as aprofessor and as a member ofyour department,” saidAssociate Professor ofEngineering Gregory Crawford,who was tenured in late springof 2001.
In reality, “nearly all facultywho are professors or associateprofessors are tenured,”Crossgrove said.
With such a large number ofprofessors tenured, Brownreserves certain rights to releasea tenured professor should thatprofessor fail to live up toacceptable standards,
Crossgrove told The Herald. In most cases, tenure assures
academic employment until aprofessor retires unless there isa clear demonstration ofincompetence, neglect of duty,dishonesty in research orteaching, or unacceptable per-sonal conduct that impairs aprofessor from fulfilling hisresponsibility to Brown,Crossgrove said.
The burden of proof, howev-er, rests on the University andtherefore, “a professor withtenure can be dismissed, butonly after a lengthy procedure,”Crossgrove said.
With the planned increase of100 new Brown faculty mem-bers by next year, the percent-age of tenured professors isexpected to decline, Crossgrovesaid.
“The anticipated overalleffect of new hires should bethat the percentage of the facul-ty that holds tenure shoulddecline as we bring in more newassistant professors,”Crossgrove said.
Regardless of the percent-ages, Crawford said being nomi-nated for tenure was a much-appreciated gesture of defer-ence.
“It is absolutely an incrediblehonor to be tenured, especiallysince the recognition comesdirectly from your fellow col-leagues for everything you’veaccomplished,” he said.
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WORLD & NATIONTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002 · PAGE 7
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Clinton cautions against Iraq strikeBLACKPOOL, England (Washington Post) — Former presidentBill Clinton Wednesday warned his successor of “unwel-come consequences” if President Bush launched a pre-emptive military strike against Iraq. Speaking to a BritishLabor Party conference here, Clinton sharply criticized theadministration’s foreign policy while endorsing the goal ofcompelling Iraq to disarm.
“A pre-emptive action today, however justified, maycome back with unwelcome consequences in the future,”Clinton told the group. He urged Bush to continue to seekU.N. Security Council approval before sending in U.S. forces.
“I have done this — I’ve ordered this kind of action,” saidClinton of a military attack.“I don’t care how precise yourbombs and weapons are, when you set them off innocentpeople will die.”
In a speech generally less critical than former vice presi-dent Al Gore’s sharp attack of a week ago,
Clinton suggested focusing on the fight against the al-Qaida terrorist network.“Our most pressing challenge is tofinish the job,” he said.
The former president criticized the administration forrejecting the 1997 Kyoto agreement on global warming, thenew International Criminal Court to try alleged war crimi-nals and the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty.Thosepolicies, he said, had understandably made Europeans lessinclined to trust the Bush administration on Iraq.
Clinton said that Iraq’s president, Saddam Hussein, was“bobbing and weaving” to thwart international inspec-tions. He added:“We should call his bluff.”
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who invited Clinton tospeak here, has been Bush’s strongest foreign supporter inthe campaign against Saddam, and Clinton was lavish inpraising his host.
TOKYO (L.A. Times) — At least two North Korean agencieswere responsible for kidnapping 13 Japanese — one morekidnap victim than previously acknowledged — duringthe 1970s and 1980s to provide language training andidentities for spies, officials in the communist nation tolda team of Japanese diplomats Wednesday.
The disclosure came as doubts mounted about thedetails North Korea provided concerning how eight of thevictims died, most in their 20s and 30s: Megumi Yokota,abducted at age 13, hanged herself from a pine tree at 28after being hospitalized for severe depression, the diplo-mats were told. Two victims died of carbon monoxide poi-soning; two were killed in traffic accidents; one drowned;and three died of heart disease or cirrhosis.
All but one of their graves has washed away in floods,North Korea maintains.
The Japanese said the newly identified kidnap victim,Hitomi Soga, is alive and married to a former U.S. soldiernow living in North Korea. The American — identified asCharles Robert Jenkins, now 62, of North Carolina —defected in 1965 from his post in South Korea.
In Washington, Lt. Col. Thomas Erstfeld, from thePentagon’s POW/Missing Personnel office, confirmed thatJenkins defected to North Korea as an Army sergeant, thehighest ranking of six defectors to the country in the1960s. Two defectors have since died. Erstfeld did notknow Jenkins’ hometown or unit.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il first alluded to thepurpose of the kidnappings in his surprise acknowledg-ment and apology to Japanese Prime Minister JunichiroKoizumi in a summit two weeks ago. Because so fewdetails were provided, Tokyo sent officials from theForeign Ministry to Pyongyang, the North’s capital, forfour days to find out more.
North Korea said nine of the 13 victims were abducted byagents working for a special agency from 1978 to 1980 thatprovided Japanese language training to help spies more eas-
ily infiltrate South Korea. Members of another department kidnapped Japanese
in Europe from 1980 to 1983 because “they didn’t havetheir own contacts” to carry out abductions in Japan,Deputy Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said.
The Japanese officials were told that two senior NorthKorean officials responsible for the kidnappings weretried in 1998. One was put to death and the other sen-tenced to 15 years in prison.
The North Koreans disclosed that Soga, the newly iden-tified victim, was taken in 1978 while shopping with hermother. She was 19 at the time. Soga and Jenkins weremarried in 1980 and have two teen-age daughters.
Soga told Japanese investigators that she was stuffed ina sack and taken by boat and train to Pyongyang, whereshe worked at a special agency. Her mother has not beenheard from since, although the North Koreans insistedthat only the younger Soga was kidnapped.
The Japanese victims who remain alive in Pyongyangtold the investigators they want to see their families butwish to stay in North Korea because they have jobs andchildren who don’t speak Japanese.
North Korea’s latest details have brought condemna-tion from the victims’ families and opposition party lead-ers, who doubt their veracity.
“The families aren’t sad — we’re furious,” said TakuyaYokota, Megumi’s brother.
Liberal Party leader Ichiro Ozawa said the report seems“made-up well.”
“I have never seen such a mockery,” he said. “I can’timagine a Japanese government accepting such a ludi-crous report.”
Nevertheless, Koizumi said he intends to press ahead withbilateral meetings later this month aimed at improving tieswith North Korea. “We need to keep absorbing the respons-es by North Korea, but it seems that they responded with sin-cerity to the investigations,” the prime minister said.
N. Korea identifies 13th kidnapped Japanese
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WASHINGTON (Washington Post) —Another move toward a compro-
mise on the stalled homelandsecurity bill was postponedWednesday when a group of sen-ators from both parties called offa meeting scheduled to discuss adeal on workers’ rights.
The meeting was to have beena follow-up to discussionsTuesday about giving PresidentBush more flexibility in manag-ing the 170,000 federal workerswho would comprise a newDepartment of HomelandSecurity.
Senators John Breaux, D-La.,and Ben Nelson, D-Neb., werehoping to get talks moving on theissues of civil service and collec-tive bargaining rights for thoseworkers, which have stalled thebill in the Senate.
The House approved a versionfavored by the White House inJuly.
The senators were workingon a draft that would have givenPresident Bush expanded man-
agement freedoms while pro-viding some protections tounion members, according tosources familiar with the dis-cussions.
The draft was intended tojump-start discussionsWednesday by a larger group ofsenators that included SenateMinority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Sen. JosephLieberman, D-Conn.
Bush has insisted that the leg-islation must give him authorityto design a new personnel systemthat would make it easier to hire,fire, discipline and reassignemployees of the new anti-terrordepartment.
The White House also wants topreserve Bush’s current right toremove workers from unions iftheir primary responsibilitiesinvolve intelligence, counterin-telligence, investigative ornational security work.
Breaux, Nelson and Sen.Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., the onlyRepublican to publicly break
with the White House on theissue, earlier proposed givingBush the authority to developpersonnel changes with laborunions and take any disputes to apresidentially appointed impassepanel.
The same proposal wouldhave permitted Bush to removeworkers from unions if their jobduties changed so that they wereprimarily performing intelligenceor investigative functions relatedto terrorism.
Breaux and Nelson need moretime to develop a new compro-mise, staff members saidWednesday.
The talks were put off indefi-nitely as the Senate prepared toshift its focus to a resolution onthe use of force in Iraq.
Ranit Schmelzer, a spokes-woman for Senate MajorityLeader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., saidthat Democrats have not givenup on finding a way to bridge dif-ferences, but that nothingappeared imminent.
Homeland security compromise delayed
(Washington Post) — Scientistshave determined the completegenetic codes of the single-cellparasite that causes malaria andof the mosquito that transmits itto people, a feat they said wouldallow them to launch a high-tech assault on one of theworld’s deadliest and mostintractable scourges.
Capping a six-year effortinvolving hundreds of scientistsin nearly a dozen countries, sci-entists say the accomplishmentshould speed development ofnew drugs and vaccines thattake aim at the parasite’s mostvulnerable genes, and couldfacilitate the creation of envi-ronmentally benign insecti-cides.
Moreover, malaria’s genomicunveiling has revealed a host ofnew research opportunites thatcould inspire a much-neededshot of international investment
in the faltering global waragainst the disease, researcherssaid. Malaria kills more than 2million people annually—thevast majority of them childrenyounger than five—and hasspread in recent years as afford-able drugs have lost their effec-tiveness and mosquitoes haveperfected their resistance to themost widely used sprays.
Scientists probing the newlydissected strands of DNAalready have found genes thatthe mosquito uses to sniff outhumans—a discovery that couldlead to the creation of sophisti-cated new repellants—andgenes that the malarial parasiteuses to invade red blood cells,which if blocked might preventhuman infection.
Researchers have even foundgenetic evidence that malarialmosquitos’ eyes glaze over aftera big blood meal, just like peo-
ple after a Thanksgiving dinner. In combination with the
human genome, unraveled togreat fanfare 18 months ago, thenew work gives rise to a biomed-ical trifecta.
“For the first time we have thegenetic sequences of all three ofthe players in the global malariadebacle: the parasite, theanopheles mosquito and thehuman,” said Anthony Fauci,chief of the National Institute ofAllergy and Infectious Diseases,which provided much of theU.S. share of the project’s fund-ing. “It’s a very important mile-stone.”
But Fauci and others warnedthat for all the opportunities thenew work presents, an extraor-dinary commitment from theworld’s wealthier countries willbe needed if the fruits of thatresearch are to reach those whoneed it.
Scientists map genetic code of malaria
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NEW YORK (Newsday) — DouglasFaneuil, the boyish assistant toMartha Stewart’s stockbroker,pleaded guilty to a single misde-meanor charge Wednesday,admitting he was offeredmoney, plane tickets and anextra week’s vacation to keepmum that Stewart had beentipped off to inside informationregarding her ImClone SystemInc.’s shares.
The plea by the Merrill Lynchbroker assistant—signed withfederal prosecutors in the officeof Manhattan U.S. AttorneyJames Comey on Sept. 24—waspart of a deal to testify in theirinvestigation of Stewart and herdumping of $228,000 worth ofImClone shares last December.
The domestic diva sold her3,928 shares of ImClone stockson Dec. 27, just before the pricenose dived on news the Food andDrug Administration would notapprove its anti-cancer drug,Erbitux.
Stewart has denied any wrong-doing in the sale of ImCloneshares, and has maintained thatshe had a standing order with hissupervisor, Peter Bacanovic, tosell the stock if the price wentbelow $60.
Her friend, ImClone’s formerchief executive and founder SamWaksal, was indicted in Augustfor allegedly telling family mem-
bers to dump millions of dollarsworth of ImClone stock beforethe bad news about Erbitux hitthe market. He has pleaded notguilty.
Wednesday, Faneuil, 27, con-tradicted Stewart’s account,telling U.S. Magistrate-JudgeKevin Fox that Bacanovic had“directly or indirectly” toldStewart that Waksal family mem-bers had been selling theirImClone stock and that SamWaksal had also attempted to selloff his stock.
Neither Stewart nor Bacanovicwere named in the indictment,but the nine-page misdemeanorinformation describes his superi-or as a “Financial Advisor” andStewart as “the Tippee.”
Asked to identify the “Tippee,”one of Faneuil’s lawyers, MarvinPickholz, said, “If you guys readthis information and you can’t fillin the blanks, you’re in serioustrouble.”
Stewart’s spokeswoman, AllynMagrino, refused to commentWednesday.
The youthful former “clientassociate” described how he hadaccepted “a percentage of thefinancial advisor commission,”and been offered an extra week’svacation and airline tickets.Faneuil also admitted to lying in aJan. 3 interview with theSecurities and Exchange
Commission and a March 7 inter-view with an SEC lawyer and anFBI agent.
“I knew that it was importantfor the SEC to learn why theTippee sold his or her stock inImClone on Dec. 27, 2001, withinhours after the Waksal familyattempted to sell their stock,”Faneuil said.
“I did not truthfully revealeverything I knew concerning theactions of my immediate super-visor ... and of the reasons for theTippee’s sale of stock.”
Prosecutor Michael Schachtersaid that subsequent to his twointerviews, Faneuil had admittedto authorities that he had con-cealed the truth.
Schachter said Faneuil’s storycould be corroborated by otherwitnesses, phone records, e-mailmessages and brokerage recordsand other evidence.
Merrill Lynch fired bothFaneuil and BacanovicWednesday.
Spokesman Bill Halldin indi-cated that Faneuil was terminat-ed because of his guilty pleaWednesday, and Bacanovic wasterminated because “he hasdeclined to cooperate with inves-tigators.”
Faneuil faces up to a year inprison for the charge and a mini-mum fine of at least $100,000when he is sentenced Jan. 7.
Aide to Martha Stewart’s broker lied
(Washington Post) — About 1.6 mil-lion people die violently each yeararound the world, accounting forabout 3 percent of all deaths. Mostof the victims are men, half are sui-cides, and 90 percent live in poorand middle-income countries.
Those are among the conclu-sions of a massive new analysis ofglobal violence being publishedThursdays by the World HealthOrganization.
Hidden beneath the big num-bers is a grim and detailed portraitof how personal risk varies by coun-try, region, age, culture, and the sim-
ple availablity of means to do harm. For example, Colombia leads
the world in murder rate, withnine times as many homicidesper capita as the United States’s,and 88 times as many as France.China may be the only place wheremore women than men kill them-selves. Suicide in Samoa increasedthree-fold after the pesticideparaquat became available in 1972,falling steeply when access to thechemical was controlled in 1981.One in every 236 Cambodians haslost a limb to a landmine.
In the Egyptian city of
Alexandria, nearly half of all femalemurder victims are women whohave been raped, and are thenkilled by family members as an actof “cleansing.” One third of rapes inJohannesburg are gang rapes, withboyfriends often participating.About 500 elderly women are killedeach year in Tanzania as witches.
However, the purpose of the 346-page report isn’t to produce a luridcatalogue of human suffering, saidEtienne Krug, a Belgian physician atWHO who lead the three-year effortto gather information from about150 countries.
Report finds 1 million violent deaths yearly
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‘God Bless America’song of prayer, notassurance that UnitedStates protected by GodTo the Editor:Although there are lots of things I would like toaddress about Eric Mann’s speech as reported inThe Herald (“Mann calls for action against U.S.injustices,” 10/1), I was struck by his seeminginability to grasp the central point of a simple song.
“God Bless America” (which is not, by the way,our national anthem) is far from a blanket decla-ration that God stands behind and abets everyU.S. action, no matter how awful the conse-quences to other nations. It is instead a request, a
prayer, that God would bless the United Statesand guide us in our actions. Even if it did say thatGod has blessed America, that statement is notconsistent with Mann’s spin on it. Having beengifted by the almighty does not mean a blankcheck written to the U.S. spiritual bank account.Being blessed, if anything, implies an obligationto live up to the blessing, an obligation to use thegift wisely.
We can argue as to whether or not the UnitedStates has done this, but the characterization thatpatriots are blind to the moral imperatives inher-ently characteristic of the United States is simplyfalse. Then again, maybe I’m expecting too muchfrom someone who thinks that the main challengein the wake of an awful attack against this countryis “revolutionary organizing” and “resistance.”
As a member of the corporate boards of three Fortune 500companies, President Ruth Simmons was expected to attendat least 20 off-campus meetings in Fiscal Year 2001. In April2002, Simmons flew to Texas for a meeting at TexasInstruments Inc. and missed all of A Day on College Hill.
Simmons is locked into her board positions until her termsrun out, but when that happens, she must significantly cutback on these responsibilities.
The University is in the midst of exciting but volatilechange. As Simmons plans for a capital campaign and pre-pares to implement new academic initiatives, it is unaccept-able that she spends up to five hours a week on corporatework. Simmons doesn’t just leave Brown for occasional boardmeetings — she is burdened by daily homework.
We point the finger at the Brown Corporation, which askedSimmons to remain on these boards. Chancellor StephenRobert ’62 said Simmons’ positions benefit the Universitybecause she can learn from the corporate world. But with theNew York Stock Exchange’s new guidelines, Simmons will like-ly have to spend even more time on her corporate obligations.
We salute the Corporation for wanting our president tobroaden her horizons, but we believe Simmons is a capableleader and won’t learn more about Brown’s future by workingfor businesses not directly associated with the University.Simmons’ initiatives for University enrichment may have ben-efited from what she learned at distant Texas Instruments’board meetings and from line items on Goldman Sachs’ finan-cial statements, but while Brown begins to revamp its founda-tion, this time away from the University is time poorly spent.
Hopefully, Simmons will not miss any more events like ADay on College Hill. And if the Corporation remains con-vinced that Simmons’ efforts in the corporate world are inBrown’s best interests, we ask the Corporation to announcepublicly the dates and locations of her upcoming corporateboard meetings.
Simmons admits that her time on boards is not ideal. TheCorporation must ask Simmons to discontinue most of hercorporate work when her terms run out. As Brown looks toshape its uncertain future, it is imperative that Simmonsfocuses all her efforts on the University.
Cutting out boards
OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2002 · PAGE 11
Hungry East Side burglars an increasing threatProvidence police of little help in stemming the tide of near campus robberies
I ’ V E B E E N RO B B E D. A COMMONphenomenon, and one people must getused to when they live in a sprawlingmetropolis like Providence. But this time ithappened to me. This has set off an oddseries of emotions in me. “Violated” wouldbe too strong a word, but I cer-tainly felt abused. Audio CDsare often difficult to replace,and my thief seemed to be try-ing to take those closest to myheart. A music lover? Or did hejust happen to grab three earlyimport Jesus and Mary Chainalbums? I don’t know why I hadtwo copies of the Stone Roses,but why did he have to takeboth? Why am I left with all ofmy Dead Milkmen and none ofthe Cure?
Actually, I must admit thattrain of thought did lead me towonder if my thief had set out to upset mepersonally. I didn’t take the mess created asa personal affront — such are the exigen-cies of burglary. But why else take mybrand new running shoes two weeks intomy training for the Ocean State Marathon?(Oct. 13. Save the date.) Why else take mycrappy, battered walkman with the irre-
placeable Aimee Mann tape? Why else takemy last Powerbar, important for the afore-mentioned training?
That last item led me to reevaluate thescene in the kitchen. The mess there cen-tered around a search not for cash or valu-
ables but for food. A suddencase of the munchies while onthe job? Perhaps, but I now takeit as the work not of a profes-sional burglar but of a desper-ate and hungry individual. Noprofessional thief would haveleft so many fingerprints on theziplock baggie he tried to putmy leftover Vietnamese foodinto, spilling half on the floorand forgetting the baggie whenhe left. The questionable nutri-tion of the Bee Boong wasabandoned in favor of the quickcaloric intake offered by a bag
of Hershey’s Kisses in the freezer. It’s hard tobe mad at someone subject to such direneed. I guess I can live without the stack oflaundry quarters that used to be on the table.If my thief took a few cans of beer to dull thepain of hunger, destitution and screamingignorance, I can forgive that — especially ofa thief polite enough to leave one can for me.
But don’t get me wrong: this new clarity— call it pity, call it social consciousness —does not mean that I want to make a habitof victimization. I have taken steps to avoidfuture attacks on my living space and its
contents. Follow these simple guidelinesand you, too, can live without fear of crime:
1. Lock your doors. Oops. Did I mentionthat little detail of my own sad, embarrass-ing story?
2. Don’t waste your time with theProvidence Police. They exhibited nointerest in catching the perpetrators of thefive break-ins in my complex this summer.I recommend vigilante justice. Thereshould be maiming booby traps on all ofyour valued possessions and drugged foodin your refrigerator.
3. Doris’ apartment was not broken into.Get yourself a huge dog. If that’s not anoption, borrow a dog and make a recordingof its panting, pacing and barking. Play thatvery loudly whenever you’re not home.
4. Get rid of everything you own. My lifeis much simpler now that I have nothing ofvalue to anyone. Except books; but I’venoticed that books are rarely listed amongthe items taken during a break-in. My poordumb bastard could have made thousandsif he had known which books to take. Butdon’t get any ideas because you neverknow which of my books are now spring-loaded and waiting for the next thief.
This self-defense, take-the-law-into-your-own-hands, overly-hyphenated sug-gestion does not apply to those luckyenough to live on campus. I have foundBrown’s Department of Public Safety offi-cers to be far more responsible, profession-al and effective than their Providence
Police Department colleagues. Havingdealt with PPD regarding four break-insand an attempted assault, I cannot creditthem with a single effective interview orreport. And they do not understand theconcept of the follow-up. In two of thosecases the responding officers did not eventake the time to get out of their cars.
But perhaps I’m being unfair. I shouldapply my newfound perspective and spiritof understanding to the police as well as tothe criminals. It must be difficult to fightcrime when their hands are tied by dueprocess, legal loopholes and incompe-tence. Knowing that crime will continue inspite of their efforts must be terriblydepressing, leaving them without the willto attempt serious investigations. And ontop of that cycle of disillusionment, theonly recently checked reign of corruptionin the municipal government must havebeen a daily message discouraging anyefforts toward adequacy.
Does this mean that policing willimprove throughout the city now that cor-ruption is being addressed? Yes, but I won’thold my breath or tell you to stop lockingyour doors. I’m just glad that I now live oncampus. I have great faith in ColonelVerrecchia’s police force. I hope the rest ofyou are expressing your appreciation tothem, including our new CaptainFioravanti and the yellow-shirted SterlingSecurity guards who are now watchingyour back as you stumble home at night.
Bill Tortorelli GS reserves the right toreplace all of his CDs with pirated copies ifthe police aren’t going to protect theoriginals.
BILL TORTORELLIDIARIO MINIMO
SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
OCTOBER 3, 2002 · PAGE 12
Celebrate goodtimes, come on Grutzmacher ’04 leads men’s water polo
Men’s soccer shuts out URI, 2-0
BY SHARA HEGDEIf you told Doug Grutzmacher ’04 eightyears ago that he would be a dominatingforce on a college water polo team, heprobably wouldn’t have believed you.
“I wanted to try out for basketball so Itook up water polo to stay in shape,”Grutzmacher said. “I enjoyed playing soI decided to stick with it and play yearround.”
The Bears (4-6) are sure glad that hedid, as Grutzmacher, a co-captain, hasstarted off this season on a tear. He leadsthe team in goals, including a team-highsix goals in a game against MIT earlierthis year.
“Doug is a great leader in the pool,”said Coach Todd Clapper. “A great deal ofour offense runs through him.”
The California native’s play hasattracted a great deal of attention. Last
week the Collegiate Water PoloAssociation named Grutzmacher Playerof the Week for his performance againstMIT where in addition to his goal-scor-ing, he drew four ejections.
He followed up on this game withanother exceptional performanceagainst Harvard, scoring two goals anddrawing two ejections.
Clapper attributed Grutzmacher’searly success to his off season work.
“Doug really worked hard this off sea-son and the results are beginning toshow,” he said. “He brings a great deal ofenergy to the team and his teammatesreally rally around him.”
After a successful four-year highschool career, Grutzmacher choseBrown because of the flexibility it offeredhim.
“A lot of these big California schoolswith big programs pretty much expectyou to live in the pool. After playingevery season in high school, I wanted toplay for a program that would allow meto fully experience other aspects of col-lege,” he said.
One of those other aspects is academ-ics. Grutzmacher has decided to concen-trate in biology.
At present, he is unsure of his plansafter Brown, but hopes to use the nexttwo years to figure out where his inter-ests are strongest.
As for this season, Grutzmacher’s
focus is on helping a young team adjustand do well in a difficult conference.Brown plays in the CWPA NorthernDivision that always fields many compet-itive teams. The Bears will rely heavily onGrutzmacher’s experience and leader-ship to carry them through this year.
“We have a very young team this yearas five out of our eleven players arefreshman,” Clapper said. “Doug hasdone a great job helping them improvetheir game and adjust to this level ofplay.”
Co-Captain Nate Hughes ’03 echoedClapper’s sentiments regardingGrutzmacher’s contribution to the team.
“He’s a great leader and we really workwell together,” Hughes said. “He’s verypatient and always willing to listen to histeammates and their concerns.”
As the season winds down,Grutzmacher and the Bears hope to endon a strong note.
“After being here a few years, you canreally see the improvement in our play,”said Grutzmacher.
“We’ve struggled the past few years,but we’ve come a long way and we canonly get better.”
With Grutzmacher leading the way,that’s very likely.
Sports staff writer Shara Hegde ’05 coversthe women’s soccer team and can bereached at [email protected].
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
The California native andco-captain was namedCollegiate Water PoloAssociation Player of theWeek and is leading theteam in goals, including ateam-high six in one gameagainst MIT
BY NICK GOUREVITCHThe Brown men’s soccer team (3-2-1, 0-1Ivy) defeated its in-state rival, theUniversity of Rhode Island, 2-0 inKingston, R.I., on Tuesday night. AdomCrew ’04 scored both goals and goalkeeperChris Gomez ’04 notched eight saves torecord the team’s first shutout of the sea-son.
While Crew continued his hot streak —scoring in his fourth consecutive game —and provided the offensive spark, it wasthe emergence of the defense that madethe difference in the game.
“It was pretty huge to get a shutout andwe’re coming together in the back four,”said starting defender Edward Thurston’03. “It takes a little while to get the chem-istry together in the back, but we are gain-ing an understanding of each other.”
The victory was especially satisfying asit ended Brown’s two-year losing streakagainst the Rams despite the Bears’ signif-icant advantage in the all-time series witha 31-11-1 record.
In recent years, this match-up has beenwildly entertaining and Tuesday’s win wasthe first time since 1994 that this game hasbeen decided by more than a one-goalmargin.
While Brown ended the night with thedecided advantage, the Rams outshot theBears 24-10 over the course of the matchand the Bears did not take the lead untilthe 68th minute.
“In the middle of the first half, it seemedlike they were winning most of the secondballs,” Thurston said. “But towards the endof the half we got the ball out wide andstarted working it better.”
Gomez’s play in goal was a big factor inkeeping the game scoreless when theRams were controlling possession. Hesandwiched the half-time break with out-standing play when he twice made back-to-back tough saves near the end of thefirst half and to start the second half. It wasGomez’s third consecutive start of the sea-son after sitting out the Bears’ first twogames. He has allowed only four goals in352 minutes — a little less than four fullgames — this season.
Brown’s first goal came when Crew putback a rebound off of a mid-range shotfrom Evan Ryan ’03. Twelve minutes later,Crew broke through again when he putaway a Matt Goldman ’04 cross. The assistswere the second of the season for bothRyan and Goldman
With his third multi-goal performanceof this short season, Crew — one of theco-captains of the team — is puttingtogether a remarkable season. He is aver-aging more than a goal per game andleading the team with 17 points on eightgoals and an assist.
This weekend the Bears will travel toSan Francisco, Calif., and compete in theDiadora Classic.
This will be their second trip in twoyears to a west coast tournament. Last sea-son, they had a rough time in San Diego,losing two games, but hope to learn fromthat experience this year.
“This weekend is just a huge weekendin terms of momentum,” Thurston said.“We have been plagued with disappoint-ment on these big trips and it will be greatfor our morale if we can win one or two ofthese games.”
Brown will face off against Santa ClaraUniversity on Friday at 5 p.m. and the host,the University of San Francisco, on Sundayafternoon at 2 p.m.
Nick Gourevitch ’03 is an assistant sportseditor and covers the men’s soccer team. Hecan be reached at [email protected].
BY SARAH STAVELEY-O’CARROLLLast Saturday, the Brown varsityequestrian team traveled to Storrs,Conn., for the first show of the sea-son, hosted by the University ofConnecticut.
Traditionally the team’s most diffi-cult show, the Bears had never wonat this venue in the past. So whenBrown took home the blue ribbon onSaturday after a long day of vying forthe top spot against the nine othercolleges in the region, the victorywas especially significant.
In fact, this fall posed more obsta-cles than did previous years — 16seniors graduated last spring, leavingless than half of the team to returnthis year. Included in the graduateswas three-time national championAmanda Forte, who won the presti-gious Caccione Cup in May 2001 andwho is now pursuing a professionalriding career.
However, after significant work torebuild their team with new mem-bers and lots of hard work fromreturning riders, the Bears provedthat they could still dominate theregion.
The Brown team kicked off themorning with an impressive start:two wins in Open flat, the first byreturning rider Jackie Bialo ’04, andthe second by newcomer JamiePeddy ‘06. These victories broughttogether the team, and seniorMarston St. John kept the momen-tum up as she placed second inIntermediate flat.
The competition remained tough,however, and Brown at one pointwas tied for second place with five
Equestrian trotsto win at Conn.
see EQUESTRIAN, page 4
Adom Crew ’04 continuedhis hot streak, scoring in hisfourth consecutive game andproviding the offensive sparkfor the Bears
WHILE I WAS WATCHING THE SECONDquarter of my Buffalo Bills playingagainst the Chicago Bears this weekend,something happened that most peoplewould think strange, I took partialpleasure out of watching the opposing
team score. Thishas only hap-pened onceprior in my life,and since I was-n’t alive duringthe Black Soxscandal, you canrule out any sortof conspiracy(sorry OliverStone, no storyhere). In bothinstances thereason for mytwisted sado-
masochism can be best explained byKool and the Gang’s song “Celebration.”
Ever since watching Ickey Woods pullhis patented “Ickey Shuffle” in the end-zone, I knew that there was more toscoring than just hugging your team-mates. Celebrations are one of the mostentertaining aspects of any sports con-test. Sure, anyone can score a touch-down off of a fade route — we’ve seenthat a million times — but how manypeople can actually pull a move like the“Dirty Bird” and make it look like itcould be on Darren’s Dance Grooves? Agood celebration is like partying onThursday nights, it isn’t absolutely nec-essary, but how much does it improvethe quality of life?
What exactly makes a good celebra-tion is tough to say, although spontane-ity and creativity definitely help. Plansare essential, but as former TexasGovernor Bush will attest, it’s all aboutexecution. The delivery is what eitherputs the play on the highlight film orlands you a spot on celebrity boxing,squaring off against Chunk fromGoonies. Many people remember theexhilaration when Brandi Chastain tookher shirt off after scoring the winninggoal, but who could forget the shamefulmoment of Bill Gramatica injuring hisknee after a field goal that wasn’t even inthe 4th quarter.
Obviously different sports call for dif-ferent celebrations. The most familiarcomes in the form of the end-zonedance. Due to taunting restrictions,however, the end-zone festivities mustbe kept at a reasonable level. While Idon’t propose the NFL hires MichaelFlatley as an end-zone instructor, Iwouldn’t mind seeing Will Farrell andCheri Oteri teaching the players a fewtricks.
In soccer, there are about 10 typicalcelebrations you’ll see, ranging from theairplane, to the shirt over the head, tothe gymnastics routine that has youwondering if Bela Karolyi has beencoaching the team. While I’m thorough-ly impressed with the physical talent ofsoccer players, I’d expect more dramat-ics out of players who via their divesand fake injuries have more actingexperience than Andy Rooney.
There are some things that are appar-ently twice as nice on the ice, and I wouldhave to say hockey celebrations have thepotential to fit into this category. Enoughwith the fist-pumps and raising of thearms, let’s see some ice luging, canoeingand snow angels. And if the crowd isinsane enough to throw out an octopus,
