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BY DANIELLE CERNY Wang Youcai, a Chinese dissident who fought for democracy in China, was released on medical parole from a Chinese prison early Thursday morning and arrived at T.F. Green airport that same night. Wang helped lead the 1989 Tiananmen Square student demonstra- tions, which resulted in a military crack- down that left hundreds dead, and served one year in prison on charges related to this incident. He was then sen- tenced to 11 years in prison in 1998 for his involvement in the founding of the China Democracy Party, according to CNN. Wang is the third prisoner released by Beijing this week after heavy lobbying in Washington, D.C., where the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday urged President George W. Bush to respond more forcibly to China’s poor human rights record. Wang was among the U.S. BY KATE GORMAN An interest in race and gender issues demands engagement in traditional Western thought, said Nell Painter, Edwards Professor of American History at Princeton University, in a Wednesday night lecture in Smith-Buonanno 106. Titled “Where are Race and Sex in the ‘Beautiful and Sublime?’” Painter’s lec- ture addressed changing ideas about beauty and the sublime throughout his- tory. “Race and sex are rarely present in tra- ditional Western discussions of the beautiful and the sublime. When they are, it’s in an insulting way,” Painter told an audience of about 50 people. Philosophers of the 18th century such as Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke and Johann Joachim Winckelmann wrote extensively on beauty and the sublime, and their theories have influenced 21st- century perspectives of these concepts, Painter said. “Winkelmann described beauty as something that is not passionate — to him, it was a non-sexual aesthetic,” Painter said. As a German art historian, Winckelmann drew from the ideal of the Greek statue when describing beauty. “Winckelmann interpreted beauty as mathematically proportionate and bleached white like the marble. This was seen as the human ideal well into the 1920s,” she said. This ideal was so elemental that in Miss America pageants of the 1920s, contestants’ measurements were taken and the woman whose proportions were closest to the Greek standard won, Painter said. “Winkelmann’s description of beauty still endures today. Art stu- dents still work from plaster casts on white statues,” she said. Burke was fascinated by beauty but wrote loosely about the sublime, com- menting briefly on blackness in his work, Painter said. For Burke, the sublime is elevated over beauty: the sublime is associated with males, justice, wisdom, power and darkness, whereas beauty is small, smooth and lovable, Painter said. Burke conceived of beautiful women as white, of the upper class, weak and deli- cate, she said. “Black people did not fall under ‘dark- ness’ in the sublime. To Burke, black people were a sight of horror and uneasi- ness, and therefore not sublime,” Painter said. Kant was the first philosopher to introduce race, as we interpret the word today, into the concept of the beautiful and sublime, Painter said. “In the writ- ings on Kant today, this disappears. His views of race are not known about by many scholars,” Painter said. Kant praised the noble white form, blonde hair and blue eyes, Painter said. “He thought that black people were vain in their own way and so talkative that they must be driven apart by thrashing,” Painter said. Kant effectively set up racial lines that flourished into the 19th and 20th centuries, Painter said. Kant deprecated the image of the strong woman, Painter said. “He thought that laborious learning destroyed a woman’s beautiful merits. He wrote that women are disgusting when they go unchaste,” she said. Painter cited Thomas Jefferson’s 1787 “Notes on the State of Virginia” as anoth- er source of discussion on race and sex in the context of the beautiful and the BY DANA GOLDSTEIN This weekend, Brown is hosting the nation- al student conference of the organization Tikkun, a progressive Jewish group commit- ted to working toward peace in the Middle East through the creation of a Palestinian state side-by-side with Israel. Speakers at the conference will include Princeton University Professor of Religion and Tikkun Co-Chair Cornel West; Medea Benjamin, founder of the human rights group Global Exchange; and Jewish Renewal Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder of the Tikkun Community and Tikkun Magazine. The conference, which organiz- ers said will bring in about 100 students from other universities, will also host work- shops on topics such as Arab-Jewish rela- tions on college campuses and Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. While attending Tikkun’s national confer- ence last summer in Washington, D.C., Michaella Matt ’06, president of Brown’s Tikkun chapter, said she met Lerner, who asked her if Brown would be interested in hosting Tikkun’s next national student con- ference. “What impressed me about the group I met from Brown was the intellectual matu- rity and sophistication of the people that I’ve had contact with,” Lerner told The Herald. “The reason to have (the national student conference) at Brown is because Brown has become famous as a place that encourages open thinking about issues that are usually dominated by cliches and rigid thinking.” Tikkun’s message of a Jewish spirituality fundamentally connected to progressive politics is a perfect fit for Brown, Matt said. Before Brown’s Tikkun chapter formed, the Israeli-Palestinian debate on campus was dominated by Jewish groups, such as Brown Students for Israel, that “defend Israel no matter what it does,” and the International Socialist Organization, which “pretty much denies the right of Israel to exist,” Matt said. “Tikkun started out as a group for people who cared about Israeli security but who wanted to openly and harshly criticize Israel,” she said. What Matt describes as Tikkun’s “harsh” criticism of Israel has been divisive in the American Jewish community, as has Lerner, whose name, when entered into Google, pulls up dozens of accusations of “self-hat- ing Jew.” In the past year, Tikkun has argued that the wall currently being constructed by Israel’s right-wing Likud government to sep- arate Israel from Palestinian territories will be a barrier to peace. The group also has supported the Geneva Accords, an alternate peace plan drafted in December 2003 by Israeli and Palestinian opposition leaders. The Accords call for the creation of a Palestinian state and the withdrawal of Israeli to its pre-1967 borders. Tikkun also mobilized against the war in INSIDE FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2004 TODAY’S FORECAST showers high 47 low 44 THE BROWN DAILY HERALD An independent newspaper serving the Brown community since 1891 MARCH 5, 2004 Volume CXXXIX, No. 26 www.browndailyherald.com FRIDAY John Hay Library exhibits military collection of Anne Brown arts & culture, page 3 Festival brings French film into focus for Brown students arts & culture, page 3 Maximilian Silvestri ’05 says safety first, even at the expense of good fashion column, page 7 Christianity sells at American box offices, writes Jonathan Liu ’07 column, page 7 Jayne Finst ’04 is Athlete of the Week after performance at Ivy competition sports, page 8 Nick Neely / Herald Sitting on the floor of the Thomas J.Watson Institute for International Studies, monks from the Tashilhunpo monastery in southern India labor to create a finely detailed sand mandala. After two days of labor, the monks will destroy the creation, collect the sand and scatter the grains in the Providence River.They began assembling the design Thursday morning, and they will perform the dismantling ritual at 4 p.m.today in the lobby of the Watson Institute. Conference to advocate “middle path” in Israeli-Palestinian debate Chinese dissident arrives in Providence Judy He / Herald Nell Painter spoke about race, gender and aesthetics in a lecture Wednesday night. Race and gender transform concepts of beautiful, sublime, scholar says in speech Thursday see PAINTER, page 4 see TIKKUN, page 4 see WANG YOUCAI, page 4

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BY DANIELLE CERNYWang Youcai, a Chinese dissident who

fought for democracy in China, wasreleased on medical parole from aChinese prison early Thursday morningand arrived at T.F. Green airport thatsame night.

Wang helped lead the 1989Tiananmen Square student demonstra-tions, which resulted in a military crack-down that left hundreds dead, andserved one year in prison on chargesrelated to this incident. He was then sen-tenced to 11 years in prison in 1998 forhis involvement in the founding of theChina Democracy Party, according toCNN.

Wang is the third prisoner released byBeijing this week after heavy lobbying inWashington, D.C., where the U.S. Houseof Representatives Wednesday urgedPresident George W. Bush to respondmore forcibly to China’s poor humanrights record. Wang was among the U.S.

BY KATE GORMANAn interest in race and gender issuesdemands engagement in traditionalWestern thought, said Nell Painter,Edwards Professor of American Historyat Princeton University, in a Wednesdaynight lecture in Smith-Buonanno 106.

Titled “Where are Race and Sex in the‘Beautiful and Sublime?’” Painter’s lec-ture addressed changing ideas aboutbeauty and the sublime throughout his-tory.

“Race and sex are rarely present in tra-ditional Western discussions of thebeautiful and the sublime. When they

are, it’s in an insulting way,” Painter toldan audience of about 50 people.

Philosophers of the 18th century suchas Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke andJohann Joachim Winckelmann wroteextensively on beauty and the sublime,and their theories have influenced 21st-century perspectives of these concepts,Painter said.

“Winkelmann described beauty assomething that is not passionate — tohim, it was a non-sexual aesthetic,”Painter said. As a German art historian,Winckelmann drew from the ideal of theGreek statue when describing beauty.“Winckelmann interpreted beauty asmathematically proportionate andbleached white like the marble. This wasseen as the human ideal well into the1920s,” she said.

This ideal was so elemental that inMiss America pageants of the 1920s,contestants’ measurements were takenand the woman whose proportions wereclosest to the Greek standard won,Painter said. “Winkelmann’s descriptionof beauty still endures today. Art stu-dents still work from plaster casts onwhite statues,” she said.

Burke was fascinated by beauty butwrote loosely about the sublime, com-menting briefly on blackness in his work,Painter said. For Burke, the sublime iselevated over beauty: the sublime isassociated with males, justice, wisdom,power and darkness, whereas beauty is

small, smooth and lovable, Painter said.Burke conceived of beautiful women aswhite, of the upper class, weak and deli-cate, she said.

“Black people did not fall under ‘dark-ness’ in the sublime. To Burke, blackpeople were a sight of horror and uneasi-ness, and therefore not sublime,” Paintersaid.

Kant was the first philosopher tointroduce race, as we interpret the wordtoday, into the concept of the beautifuland sublime, Painter said. “In the writ-ings on Kant today, this disappears. Hisviews of race are not known about bymany scholars,” Painter said.

Kant praised the noble white form,blonde hair and blue eyes, Painter said.“He thought that black people were vainin their own way and so talkative thatthey must be driven apart by thrashing,”Painter said. Kant effectively set up raciallines that flourished into the 19th and20th centuries, Painter said.

Kant deprecated the image of thestrong woman, Painter said. “He thoughtthat laborious learning destroyed awoman’s beautiful merits. He wrote thatwomen are disgusting when they gounchaste,” she said.

Painter cited Thomas Jefferson’s 1787“Notes on the State of Virginia” as anoth-er source of discussion on race and sexin the context of the beautiful and the

BY DANA GOLDSTEINThis weekend, Brown is hosting the nation-al student conference of the organizationTikkun, a progressive Jewish group commit-ted to working toward peace in the MiddleEast through the creation of a Palestinianstate side-by-side with Israel.

Speakers at the conference will includePrinceton University Professor of Religionand Tikkun Co-Chair Cornel West; MedeaBenjamin, founder of the human rightsgroup Global Exchange; and JewishRenewal Rabbi Michael Lerner, founder ofthe Tikkun Community and TikkunMagazine. The conference, which organiz-ers said will bring in about 100 studentsfrom other universities, will also host work-shops on topics such as Arab-Jewish rela-tions on college campuses and Kabbalah,Jewish mysticism.

While attending Tikkun’s national confer-ence last summer in Washington, D.C.,Michaella Matt ’06, president of Brown’sTikkun chapter, said she met Lerner, whoasked her if Brown would be interested inhosting Tikkun’s next national student con-ference.

“What impressed me about the group Imet from Brown was the intellectual matu-rity and sophistication of the people thatI’ve had contact with,” Lerner told TheHerald. “The reason to have (the nationalstudent conference) at Brown is becauseBrown has become famous as a place thatencourages open thinking about issues thatare usually dominated by cliches and rigidthinking.”

Tikkun’s message of a Jewish spiritualityfundamentally connected to progressivepolitics is a perfect fit for Brown, Matt said.Before Brown’s Tikkun chapter formed, theIsraeli-Palestinian debate on campus wasdominated by Jewish groups, such as BrownStudents for Israel, that “defend Israel nomatter what it does,” and the InternationalSocialist Organization, which “pretty muchdenies the right of Israel to exist,” Matt said.

“Tikkun started out as a group for peoplewho cared about Israeli security but whowanted to openly and harshly criticizeIsrael,” she said.

What Matt describes as Tikkun’s “harsh”criticism of Israel has been divisive in theAmerican Jewish community, as has Lerner,whose name, when entered into Google,pulls up dozens of accusations of “self-hat-ing Jew.”

In the past year, Tikkun has argued thatthe wall currently being constructed byIsrael’s right-wing Likud government to sep-arate Israel from Palestinian territories willbe a barrier to peace. The group also hassupported the Geneva Accords, an alternatepeace plan drafted in December 2003 byIsraeli and Palestinian opposition leaders.The Accords call for the creation of aPalestinian state and the withdrawal ofIsraeli to its pre-1967 borders.

Tikkun also mobilized against the war in

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Sitting on the floor of the Thomas J.Watson Institute for International Studies,monks from the Tashilhunpo monastery in southern India labor to create a finelydetailed sand mandala. After two days of labor, the monks will destroy the creation,collect the sand and scatter the grains in the Providence River.They beganassembling the design Thursday morning, and they will perform the dismantlingritual at 4 p.m. today in the lobby of the Watson Institute.

Conference toadvocate“middle path” inIsraeli-Palestiniandebate

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Nell Painter spoke about race, gender andaesthetics in a lecture Wednesday night.

Race and gender transform concepts of beautiful,sublime, scholar says in speech Thursday

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“Panoramas, Peepshows”highlights eclecticcollection of Anne BrownBY LELA SPIELBERGPop-up books, paper dolls and toy sol-diers are not objects one would expect tofind in the library. But since Feb. 17, theJohn Hay Library’s exhibit “Panoramas,Peepshows and Other Fun Things,” hashad them on display as part of an exhibi-tion of the Anne S. K. Brown MilitaryCollection.

Peter Harrington, curator of the col-lection, said he dreamed up the exhibitduring winter break.

“But it wasn’t until I was putting theexhibit together that I discovered all theinteresting pieces we had,” Harringtonsaid.

The pieces on display are indeed quiteintriguing. While one might assume amilitary collection would feature guns orother weapons, “Panoramas, Peepshowsand Other Fun Things” is an eclectic dis-play of military art and toys.

Most of the military collection wasacquired by Anne Brown, who lived onBenefit Street from the 1930s until herdeath about 20 years ago.

Brown had been collecting since the1930s, and by 1981, when she donatedthe collection to the University, herhouse was “literally bursting at the seamswith military artifacts,” Harrington said.

“Anne Brown’s passion was uniforms,”he said. “She wanted to be the expert onthem.”

Most of the pieces on display show-case an intricate mix of military uniformsfrom France, Scotland and Austria,among other nations. The exhibitionincludes only one non-European piece, aChinese painting of a military funeralprocession.

“That painting was actually stored in aservant’s room in Brown’s NewportMansion,” Harrington said.

Paper soldiers from the early 19th cen-tury can also be found in most of theglass cases, scattered among intricate,handcrafted scrolls depicting battles andfuneral marches.

In one display is a 19th-century paperdoll of a British soldier so rare that it willbe featured in an upcoming Rhode Islandexhibit devoted to paper dolls,Harrington said.

The child’s play doesn’t stop there. Theexhibit also features two cardboardoptics, called peepshows, featuringpeepholes which reveal three-dimen-sional military scenes.

Other children’s toys featured in theexhibit include wooden panels, calledflipbooks.

These flipbooks have different por-traits of soldiers on each side, allowingchildren to mix and match soldiers’ uni-forms and body parts by flipping thepanels.

The exhibit itself is relatively small,but the military collection is growing,Harrington said.

While in Germany this summer,Harrington added to the collection oneof the handcrafted scrolls included in“Panoramas and Peepshows,” on displayon the first floor of the Hay until April 2.

The full military collection is stored onthe second floor of the Hay and can beviewed by appointment.

Herald staff writer Lela Spielberg ’07 canbe reached at [email protected].

BY STEFAN TALMANFrench cinema is commonly describedas cooler than American cinema, to thefrustration of many Hollywood filmmak-ers. Hollywood, however, must approachcinema differently.

The relative coolness of French filmsis due largely to the fiscal structure ofU.S. cinema. That is, American films aremade to make money, whereas France’sMinistry of Culture funds the vast major-ity of French films.

In turn, Brown partially fundsProvidence’s French Film Festival, nowrunning at the Cable Car Cinema.

Studies in behavioral economics haveshown people exhibit substantially dif-ferent patterns of production whenfreed from fiscal constraints. Brown stu-dents, for example, vividly illustrate thispattern.

With French filmmakers freed fromeconomic constraint, the measurableeffect is aesthetic, namely coolness.

French film’s particular “je ne saisquoi” also falls within an art-historicalmovement. Films at the festival are to agreat extent bastard children of theFrench New Wave. This movement,which began in the late 1950s, featuredfilmmakers such as Jean-Luc Goddard,Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol.With new lightweight equipment, theybegan to leave the studio, exploiting nat-ural lighting and shooting on location.Protagonists of their films were oftenyoung iconoclasts. The result was a morecasual, raw film, the tradition of whichlives on to a great extent in modernFrench film.

In this vein, the films screened at theCable Car are in a sense more “real” than

those of the “Hollywood blockbuster.” To switch from Hollywood to French

requires a switch in value judgment:from fantasy, special effects and spec-tacular expenditure aggrandizing themundane to New Wave, artful close-upsand long takes holding a magnifyingglass to the unwashed pores of “real life.”

Wednesday night’s “On the Run,”written and directed by Lucas Belvaux, isthe first film in a trilogy; its charactersdance in and out of each film. The catch:each film falls into a different genre —thriller, comedy and drama.

“On the Run” is the thriller of theseries, a perfect example of the Frenchtake on Hollywood thrillers. Thoughgritty and violent, the film approachesstock thriller material with a certainmethodology. Picture a car chase withmore than 30 seconds between each cut.(The average for American action scenesis about three seconds).

This is where French cinema doeswhat Hollywood will not, perhaps can-not ever do: be daring. Aside from therecent “Star Wars” and “Lord of theRings” trilogies — both essentially longmovies partitioned for the sake of ourattention span — no mainstream direc-tor has tried such an experimental con-cept on such a scale. Yet coming fromFrance, it is de rigueur.

The French Film Festival runsthrough Sunday at the Cable CarCinema. Films show from 2 to 9:30 p.m.,with a special free screening Saturday at11 p.m.

Herald staff writer Stefan Talman ’05 canbe reached at [email protected].

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to perform at a high level.“Being a gymnast at Brown is a

great honor. There is a lot of sup-port from alumni and the univer-sity, and it really makes me feelproud to represent Brown at eachevent,” she said.

Finst is a true leader, team-mates said, setting high goals forthe team as well as herself andgetting them excited for everycompetition.

“Jayne does a great job ofpumping up the rest of the team.She’s great with dealing with peo-ple and does a great job of leadingby example. She sets a high stan-dard that other teammates try toemulate,” said Melissa Forziat ’05.

With so much success duringher career at Brown, Finst

acknowledges that it will be bit-tersweet to see this part of her lifecome to an end. With only fourmeets left in the remainder of theseason, she is trying to cherisheach moment. She is also hopingthat the team will avenge its thirdplace finish at the Ivy LeagueClassic and finish first at theECAC Regionals.

“I think we have a very goodchance of winning at Regionals.I’m sure there will be very closematches, so we have to be sure tomaintain our poise and compo-sure,” Finst said.

With only three freshmen thisyear, it is safe to assume the teamwill be just as competitive in theIvy League next year. Sincealmost all of the team has beentogether for more than a year, theteam has been able to learn towork well together.

“Because we have so many

upperclassmen on the team,their experience has really beenhelpful to us. All the teammatesare always encouraging eachother. The team’s closeness alsoextends outside of gymnastics,where many of the girls eat andlive with each other,” Carver-Milne said.

As Regionals approach quick-ly, the gymnastics team will bevery focused and counting onFinst to lead the way to victory.

“Jayne has qualified for NCAAregionals twice in the all-aroundcompetition, but her ultimategoal is to qualify for nationals.She holds almost every Browngymnastics record and will beseverely missed after this sea-son,” Carver-Milne said.

Herald staff writer Robby Klaber’07 can be reached [email protected].

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Finst

In singles action, Falconirolled to a 6-0, 6-3 win overBarfuss at No. 1, using speedand movement to create longerpoints and force backhanderrors from her opponent.

Arlak needed three sets toovertake the big baseline gameof Viviana Figueroa, winning 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 at No. 2.

Saiontz and Pautler bothpulled out three-set matches atthe No. 3 and 5 spots, respec-tively. Pautler’s enduranceallowed her to win a third-settiebreaker, 10-8. Meath andAmes posted straight-set winsto sweep singles competition.

Brown saw improvement inits Sunday doubles matches,led by a strong 8-6 showingfrom Falconi and Meath at No.1. But Arlak and Pautler fell intheir second tiebreak loss of theweekend, while Saiontz andAmes were also unable to con-vert in a 9-8 defeat.

“The second day, I think they

got it together a little bit more,”Beck said of Sunday’s doublesplay.

Brown once again dominat-ed the singles matches Sunday,winning all five completed con-tests without dropping a set. Aback injury forced Ames to for-feit her No. 6 match after goingdown 2-3 in the first set.

Particularly impressivematches came from Arlak atNo. 2 and Meath at No. 4, who,together, dropped only threegames.

“Tennis-wise, we were justbetter,” Falconi said of theweekend’s competition. “Theywere pretty good and prettycompetitive, but we won all thebig points.”

Taylor said she believesinjuries have contributed to theconsistently sub-par doublesperformances, with this week-end being no exception.

“So far this spring season, wehave not had our entire teamhealthy for any of our match-es,” Taylor said. “So the conti-nuity of regular doubles part-ners has not been there.”

Beck said she agrees thatinjuries affected the doublesoutcomes.

“Playing with people you’venever played with before is noteasy,” she said. “Againststronger teams I’m sure theinjuries would’ve affected usmore.”

Both Taylor and Beck saidthe team will use the upcomingfree weekend to focus on dou-bles improvements.

“We need to be more aggres-sive on high balls and poach-ing,” Taylor said, adding thatthe team will hopefully have ahealthy line-up in time for theMarch 14 match against theUniversity of Alabama-Birmingham.

As of Thursday, Beck was stillunable to return to practicebecause of her surgery, but shesaid she expects to return nextweekend.

Herald staff writer RobbieCorey-Boulet ’07 covers women’stennis. He can be reached [email protected].

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Iraq, and on March 20, 2003, choseto participate in major anti-wardemonstrations organized by theorganization ANSWER (Act Now toStop War and End Racism).ANSWER has been viewed withskepticism within the Jewish com-munity because of its tendency tolink Israel’s actions in the occupiedterritories to the United States’occupation of Iraq. In fact, Lernerwas barred by ANSWER fromspeaking at an anti-war rally in SanFrancisco, Calif., in February 2003after ANSWER’s leadershipdeemed him too pro-Israel,despite his history of support forPalestinian statehood.

It is through events like thisweekend’s national student con-ference that Tikkun hopes tobridge divides between the pro-gressive Jewish community andother leftist groups, as well asencourage a new generation ofJewish activists to reconnect withtheir Judaism, Lerner said.

“We have reports all the timefrom different college campuses ofstudents feeling trapped betweena pro-Israel voice that claims thatthe only way to be pro-Israel is tosupport the policies of ArielSharon and, on the other hand, apro-Palestine voice that often talksin a voice that is demeaning to theJewish people and denies the rightof existence of the state of Israel,”he said.

Judaism risks alienating manyyoung progressive Jews if it doesnot provide “a progressive, middlepath,” Lerner said — one that“makes it possible for students torecognize the complexity, which isthat both sides have a legitimatestory and both sides are incrediblyscrewed up.”

Professor of AmericanCivilization Paul Buhle, who haswritten for Tikkun Magazine forthe past 10 years, told the Heraldthe voice of the American Jewishcommunity is dominated byorganizations like the Anti-Defamation League, which tend toequate support for the policies ofthe Israeli government with sup-port for Jewish causes in general.

This “uncritical” approach toIsrael is “unhelpful for achievingpeace,” Buhle said. “The situationin the Middle East is so desperateand getting worse so fast, attitudestoward America are so negative. …The ability to detach all that fromanti-Semitism is something soimportant that every voice mustbe heard.”

Buhle and leaders of studentgroups that address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict agreed that atBrown, debate tends to be moreacademic and less confrontationalthan on other campuses.

Sarah Zakowski ’06 is presidentof Brown Friends of Israel, a Hillel-affiliated group whose only politi-cal platform is that membersbelieve in the right of the State ofIsrael to exist. Zakowski, who isfrom Los Angeles, Calif., said shehas heard reports of shouting andphysical confrontations from highschool friends who engage in pro-Israel activism at the University ofCalifornia-Berkeley.

Brown students, however, “tryto intellectually challenge ideas,”she said. “There’s less of a sense ofaggression. People are really look-ing for debate.”

President of the Brown Chapterof the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)Akram Bakkour ’06 said thatalthough his group is primarily

interested in hosting Arab culturalevents on campus, it jumps atopportunities to cosponsor cultur-al and political events with prima-rily Jewish student groups such asFriends of Israel.

The ADC and Brown Studentsfor Israel will be cosponsoring a“taste of the Middle East” eventlater this semester that will featureMiddle Eastern cuisine, Bakkoursaid. Those types of events bringstudents of different backgroundstogether in a casual, social setting,as opposed to a highly charged,political one, Bakkour said.

But the fact remains that atBrown, politically oriented organi-zations focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian issue tend to be ethni-cally and religiously homogenous,student leaders said, even whenstudents of different backgroundscan agree on the issues.

Both Matt and Lerner saidTikkun is an interfaith communityworking toward peace in theMiddle East, but at Brown, theorganization is comprised almostcompletely of Jewish students,Matt said. Similarly, Zakowski saidStudents for Israel includes nonon-Jewish students, and Bakkoursaid that from time to time, there ispolitical tension between the ADCand the Muslim StudentsAssociation.

Bakkour said he would haveloved to participate in the organi-zation of the Tikkun conference,but he found out about it afterpreparations were already under-way. He did publicize the confer-ence over the ADC’s e-mail list,and he said he and other membersof the ADC are excited aboutattending the weekend’s events.

“Everyone should grab thisgreat opportunity this weekend tolearn more,” he said.

Students who are rigid in theiropinions of the Israeli-Palestinianconflict tend to avoid events thatdo not espouse their views, thestudents leaders said, but allagreed the Tikkun conferencewould benefit from a large anddiverse group of participants.

Although Zakowski said somemembers of Students for Israel“are really into Tikkun, and somereally believe that Tikkun iswrong,” she said she did notexpect the conference to cause anyrifts in the Jewish community atBrown.

“I could see several speakersbeing controversial,” she said, “butI don’t see it getting ugly. I don’t seeit getting out of hand. I see peoplegetting passionate.”

Bakkour and Matt said they feltmost Arab, Muslim and Jewish stu-dents on campus are wellinformed about the Israeli-Palestinian issue and open to bet-ter understanding viewpoints withwhich they are less familiar.

“By virtue of Arabs being Arabs,they feel very strongly about theissue. They live it day to day, even ifthey don’t live in Palestine”Bakkour said. “Arabs think it couldbe them, it’s their people suffering.I think the Jewish community feelsexactly the same pain.”

Non-Brown students have topay a $40 admission fee to attendthe conference, but admission forBrown students is covered by adonation from the Office of thePresident. Brown students canregister for the conference at Hillelfrom noon to 4 p.m. today.

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein’06 edits the RISD News section. Shecan be reached [email protected].

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sublime — one that has longgone unnoticed by scholars.“Jefferson felt that white peoplehad a greater share of beautyover any other race, due to theirelegant symmetry of form,” shesaid.

Jefferson associated blackwomen with sex, and that setthe tone for writings on raceand beauty in the 19th century,Painter said. “But DNA finallygot to Jefferson, and I’m hopingthat Kant will be next,” she said.

The fine arts experienced achange in the 19th century thatfractured people’s ideas ofbeauty. “In the early 19th centu-ry, images of sublime naturewere portrayed in idealized

waterfalls and mountains,”Painter said. After the inventionof photography in 1839, fine arttook on a life of its own, sepa-rate from the reproduction ofidealized nature.

Painter said the 20th centuryfurther shattered past views ofbeauty. “When white peopleslaughtered millions of peoplein the world wars, artists pulledaway from the idea of beauty infine art and turned to abstrac-tion and cubism. Beauty wassuspect and merely somethingthat would sell,” she said.

After the world wars, humanexistence was seen as ugly,Painter said. Feminists showedthat beauty leads to the oppres-sion of women, and the blackpower movement challengedtraditional definitions of beau-ty, she said. “In the 1990s, how-

ever, there were renewed con-cerns for the beautiful and sub-lime,” she said.

In the later 20th century,beauty was described by schol-ars as having symetrical fea-tures, Painter said. “After 1990,beauty, to the scholar, was nolonger dependent on skin color,hair type or sexual attractive-ness, but only on symmetry,”Painter said.

Evolutionary biologists sincethe late 20th century havedefined beauty as genetic.“There are genetic proxies forgood health and youthfulness,”Painter said.

Still, today scholars discussthe beautiful and sublime inethical terms and leave out sexand race, she said. “It’s a com-pulsive avoidance that needs tobe reconciled,” Painter said.

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government’s human rights pri-ority cases, according to CNN.

Wang was greeted at the air-port by Xu Wenli — a fellow

Chinese dissident released onmedical parole from Chineseprison in 2002. Xu is regarded asthe father of the Chinese pro-democracy activists, according toa Brown press release.

After his release Xu emigratedto the United States and now

serves as a senior visiting fellowat the Thomas J. Watson Institutefor International Studies.

Head of the Brown NewsService Mark Nickel said Wangwill be staying with Xu and hiswife, but he currently has noappointment at the University.

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their matches in straight sets.Brown shuffled its doubles

teams against Hofstra, pairingCerretani with co-captain BenBrier ’04 rather than his usualpartner, Adil Shamasdin ’05. Thenew pairing made little differ-ence, as Cerretani and Brierdefeated Djordjevic and Teixeira8-2. Shamasdin teamed withGoldberg for an 8-1 victory, whileGoddard and Charm completedthe sweep for the Bears, winning8-3.

Brown returned to the courtTuesday to take on WesternMichigan in its first home matchagainst a ranked opponent. Thistime, the Bears faced an uphillbattle to victory.

“We knew it was going to be atough match,” said Head CoachJay Harris. “We’re both rankedvery similarly.”

Of the three doubles matches,two were decided quickly by largemargins. Brier and Goldbergdefeated Tom Dennis and Brady

Crosby 8-2, but Goddard andCharm lost to Dan Grupp andJose Orozco 8-3.

The doubles point came downto the match between the ninth-ranked team of Cerretani andShamasdin and the 27th-rankedteam of Jeff French andRavishankar Pathanjali. Cerretaniand Shamasdin prevailed 8-5,despite several questionable callsby the official.

Having taken the doublespoint, Brown moved into singlesplay looking to put the matchaway. But Western Michigan wasnot finished. Pathanjali upsetCerretani at number one singles,6-4, 6-2, to tying the team score atone apiece. Shamasdin came upbig for Brown with a convincing6-2, 6-4 victory, and then NickGoldberg sprang into action.

After dropping the first set ofhis match against Dennis 3-6,Goldberg was looking at matchpoint in the second set. But afterfighting off two match points,Goldberg swung the momentumtoward the Bears in the third set,with a 6-3 victory that won thematch 3-6, 7-6, 6-3.

Goldberg’s victory put theteam score at 3-1, in favor of theBears. Brier followed Goldberg’svictory with one of his own,defeating Brady Crosby 7-6, 2-6,6-3 to clinch the win for Brown.Charm and Thomas both hadexcellent first sets against theiropponents but faltered anddropped their second sets. In thetiebreak, Thomas was able to pre-vail over his opponent, butCharm dropped a close decision,leaving the final team score at 5-2in favor of Brown.

Harris said he was pleasedwith his team’s performance,especially at the moments whenWestern Michigan appeared to begaining momentum. “Wheneverwe had our backs against the wall,the guys responded with a lot ofheart,” he said.

The Bears return to the courtSunday for an 11 a.m. homematch against No. 58 Universityof New Mexico.

Herald staff writer CraigMcGowan ’07 covers men’s tennis.He can be reached at [email protected].

ty they experienced in acquiringpodium status during the teamcompetition.

The women’s saber squadended their day in the ninth spotdespite excellent showings fromOlivia Partika ’06 at the A-stripand Peiling Li ’06 at the C-stripthroughout the day.

In women’s foil, JenniferHausmann ’07, known for heraggressive fencing style, endedher first ECAC/IFA competitionwith a seventh-place finish in theteam competition and a 10th-place finish in the individuals.Her foil squad-mate NanetteMilner ’06 also ended the day

with a solid ninth-place finish.In women’s epee, All-American

Ruth Schneider ’06 fenced herway to fourth place, one awayfrom the podium, for the teamcompetition and secured theeighth spot during the individu-als. Her squad-mates AlessandraAssante ’04 and Lucy Walker ’06ended their strips with ranks ofninth and 10th, respectively.

But in spite of strong perform-ances from both rookies and vet-erans, the women couldn’t earnenough victories to place higherin the standings.

“We’ve had our share of bothreally good fencing and disap-pointing days. As much of a teamsport as it is, a lot of the measureof our success will come down tohow individuals on the team do,”

Sheehy said.Like the women, the men had

difficulty stealing victories fromunder their opponents’ feet.

Despite the success of nation-ally-ranked Jeremy Zeitlin ’07,who easily secured a seventhplace finish in his first ECAC/IFAcompetition, men’s foil had aninth–place finish. Fellow foilistsJeremy Moore ’06 and JohnWurzel ’05 ended the team com-petition round with sixth-placeand 10th-place finishes, respec-tively.

But tough competition didn’tstop the men’s saber squad fromgarnering two top-10 rankingsthrough the performances ofsabermen Dan Dworsky ’05 andJeremy Adler ’06, who rankedseventh and third in their strips,

respectively. The saber team’sperformance throughout thecompetition secured its status asone of New England’s elite sabersquads.

The men’s epee squad faced atough match. With epeeist AdrianMartin ’06 still recovering fromlast week’s head injury, the squadstepped up to the challenge butfell short. Epeeists Brian Williams’04, Pat Culhane ’06 and Sheehyended the day ninth, 11th and15th, respectively, but that wasonly enough for an 11th-placefinish.

“Talking from the rather limit-ed perspective of my squad, wecould have done better. With(Martin) being out of action, twoof the three men’s epeeists werefencing above their usual level,

which hurt a lot. I think everyonehas a few bouts that they feel theyshould have won, as well,”Sheehy said.

Martin, who accompanied histeam to the tournament, spentthe day coaching his teammates.

“Well, it would have been niceto fence instead of standingaround trying to get my fencersto do what I want them to do.Coaching is extremely frustrat-ing,” said Martin.

Martin has been granted per-mission to fence with his team inthe upcoming NCAA Regionals ,to be held at Brandeis March 25.

Herald staff writer ZanetaBalantac ’07 covers fencing. Shecan be reached at [email protected].

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time: a third of $1 billion. Nowonder a beer and a hot dogcosts 18 bucks.

The sad part about the AL Eastis that the Jays and Rays wouldhave a shot in almost any otherdivision in major league baseball,save perhaps the NL Central,which is shaping up to becomethe AL East’s clone. The Jays, wholast year somehow managed tocapture 86 wins with RoyHalladay as their only savinggrace and no relief pitching, haveadded three starters and threerelievers to their staff.

After nipping on the heels ofthe Red Sox for the Wild Card lastseason, the Jays are once again aforce to be reckoned with. VernonWells and Carlos Delgado returnto fill out the lineup, and eventhough the SkyDome is emptierthan Mike Tyson’s head, the sixpeople that do follow Torontowon’t be taken by surprise if theymake the playoffs.

The Devil Rays, who last yearwere little better than a low-levelminor league team, are lookingto do anything but finish at thebottom of the heap and havemade slightly more drasticchanges. With an outfield thathad 28 more hits than theYankees’, the Rays undoubtedlyhave some talent, namely inAubrey Huff, who finished lastseason above .300, with 30homers and 100 RBI. In addition,they’ve filled out their ranks withthe likes of Tino Martinez. Theadded experience will make adifference with the plethora ofnovices on the Devil Rays (theystill have two of the three topprospects in baseball), andhopefully add to their teamchemistry.

So that’s the AL East — let’s talkNL Central. The Cubs and theAstros have a combined payrollof $118 million lower than thecombined payroll of the Red Soxand Yankees. But given last year’sstatistics, the schism in fundsdoesn’t seem to make a differ-ence. The Astros, and especially

the Cubs, held on until the bitterend and have made significantchanges to their teams this yearthat will allow them to once againcompete with the likes of theYanks and BoSox in interleagueplay.

Houston, the middle-marketunderdog of its division, has hadjust as scandalous an off seasonas their double dealing neigh-bors, the Texas Rangers. Startingwith the acquisition of Pettitte inDecember, rumors began circu-lating of Roger Clemens comingout of retirement to join his palAndy Pettitte in his hometown ofHouston.

The Rocket’s ego (which isprobably 80 times bigger than theHummer Steinbrenner gave himas a farewell gift) couldn’t resist,and presto, the Houston Astrosnow have one of the most com-petitive pitching rotations inbaseball. With Clemens, Pettitte,Oswalt, Miller and Redding, the’Stros are more than capable ofrepeating last year’s performanceof a no-hitter on the Yankees,even if they do have A-Rod.

Not to be outdone by theirdivisional brethren, the Cubssigned Greg Maddux, four-timeCy Young Award winner, back toChicago where he began hiscareer. Whether or not Maddux isthe difference-maker the Cubbiesneed to hold up against the ’Strosstellar hurling staff remains to beseen. Regardless, Houston andChicago’s rivalry is getting as hotas New York and Boston withcompetition and excitement; itwon’t be a surprise if both divi-sions end in nuclear winter.

So even with all the chaos,controversy and climax of thisyear’s off season, opening day willbe more exciting then ever.Everyone is waiting to see howthe dramatic shifts in talent andchemistry will hold up in springtraining and ultimately the regu-lar season. 2004 has the potentialto be one of the most exhilaratingand cutthroat years in baseball.Now if only your love life was thisstimulating.

Kate Klonick ’06 is too cool foraboutlines.

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The real SupremeCourt opinionTo the editor:

Rachel Marshall’s assertion that there is only afive-to-four majority on the Supreme Court touphold Roe v. Wade is simply dead wrong. Infact, six out of the nine Justices would vote touphold the Court’s ruling in that case — JusticesJohn Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O’Connor,Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth BaderGinsburg, and Stephen Breyer.

Five-to-four is the vote on which the lastmajor abortion case, Stenberg v. Carhart, wasdecided, wherein the Court struck downNebraska’s ban on dilation-and-extraction (a.k.a.partial-birth) abortions. Only Justice Kennedydeserted the pro-choice movement in that case,but he coauthored the opinion in PlannedParenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v.Casey, upholding Roe. He doesn’t vote to strikedown every regulation of abortion, but he refus-es to overturn Roe. There are six such justices.And considering that Bush has constantly beentalking about nominating pro-choice WhiteHouse counsel Alberto Gonzales to the SupremeCourt, I hardly think that the 6-3 pro-choicemajority is likely to shrink anytime soon.

Alan Silverman ’03.5March 4

Federalism is besidethe pointTo the editor:

Regarding Eric Mayer’s (“Divided we Stand,”March 3) article: I was home last week in Denver,Colo., when I first read about Bush’s proposed aConstitutional amendment concerning marriage.I madly flipped through the paper to find theDemocrats’ response. Kerry and Edwards had thesame reaction: states’ rights. States’ rights?

Yeah, sure, marriage is a state issue and Bush isattempting to usurp that power, which is animportant issue indeed, but breaches of federal-ism occur all the time, and most go unnoticed.What we should be getting furious about is Bush’sattempt to force his vision of what America shouldlook like on a population of free citizens, and thespinelessness of the Democrats’ response. Theissue isn’t federalism, the issue is personal auton-omy. Should Americans be able to live their lives,marital aspirations included, without intrusionfrom the government? I could care less what levelof government — local, state or federal — is rob-bing gay couples of their right to the AmericanDream, but I sure care that it’s happening.

Arguing about federalism is dodging the issue.What we should be arguing about is how a “right-eous” majority is legally prescribing its idea abouthow people should live their lives. We have tounderstand that it is not our place, nor the gov-ernment’s, to dictate how others should live.Every person should decide his or her own lifepath, and the government (and the public) shoulddo everything within practical reason to accom-modate that choice.

Justin Patrick ’07March 4

Diamonds and coalA diamond to Sleater-Kinney: Hot Rock for the springsemester.

Coal to Nalgene bottles — more dangerous than globalwarming. Find a new location for those Greenpeace stick-ers, kids.

A diamond to double-booking “Starsky & Hutch” and “ThePassion of the Christ.” Just when we thought it couldn’t getbetter than latkes vs. hamentaschen, it’s Ben Stiller vs. J.C.!

Coal to New York University for releasing students’ socialsecurity numbers online. Now if only Brown would stopselling our phone numbers.

A diamond to pirate supply stores (so quirky!). We eagerlyanticipate the myterious disappearance of Dave Eggers inthe Bermuda Triangle.

Coal to President George W. Bush’s politicization of Sept. 11.Don’t make us regret crediting you with a “compassionate”reaction to tragedy.

A diamond to Professor (Michael) Ray Charles for pointingout the minstrel-show dynamic in “Space Jam.” Charles,you’re “all right by me”!

A cubic zirconium to the Oscars. We’re all about hobbits,but nobody makes us want to lip our stockings like BillMurray.

Green eggs and diamonds to the late Dr. Seuss on his 100thbirthday — but only if you promise to stop calling it aSeussentennial.

And a coal to The Herald. When it comes to respecting ourreaders, sometimes our best effort doesn’t cut it.

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WASHINGTON — Long ago, President Bush made clear his inten-tion to end the requirement that wage workers be paid time-and-a-half for each hour they work over 40 a week. Since there is no goodreason that this longstanding law be ended, Bush is essentially stat-ing that he no longer believes that extra work need be rewarded, northat workers should be compensated when they have to spend moretime away from their families.

He has also made it clear that he intends to allow unemploymentbenefits to expire for those who are still without jobs. It is a fact thatworkers have been paying into a “rainy day” unemployment trustfund for years, which now stands with a $17 billion balance. Thistrust fund is intended to be used when a weak economy is justbeginning to pick up. Because each dollar paid out in unemploy-ment benefits brings two dollars recycled into the economy, it canmake a weak recovery — like the jobless one we have now — pick upsteam.

But on Feb. 26 I attended a press conference where Senators TomHarkin (D-Iowa), Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) andMaria Cantwell (D-Wash.) spoke about introducing bill amend-ments to protect overtime and extend unemployment benefits.Unless these senators are each spectacular actors, the performancesI witnessed were fueled by genuine concern for ordinary people andoutrage at Bush’s callousness. They each spoke as though it was theywho had lost their job or were about to lose overtime pay.

Harkin and Daschle made passionate arguments about protect-ing overtime and a worker’s opportunity to raise his own wages withextra hours. Cantwell introduced her amendment to extend unem-ployment benefits, and she and Kennedy made eloquent and furiousarguments against Bush’s disregard for the less-than-rich and hardwork. It is a testament to the Democrats’ connection to theAmerican people that they attempt to extend unemployment bene-fits when a boost to the economy could help Bush get reelected.

And it was not a simple outburst for the cameras; Kennedy con-tinued his attacks on the Senate floor for much of the afternoon.Earlier on Feb. 28 I was present during Harkin’s weekly press call and

listened to an extemporaneous blasting of Bush’s use of saved SocialSecurity funds to subsidize his tax cut for the rich, while AlanGreenspan now says Social Security payments will have to bereduced for our generation.

On March 3, Republicans grudgingly agreed to pass Sen.Christopher Dodd’s (D-Conn) amendment, which will disallowcompanies with government contracts to use foreign labor for thosecontracts, to Sen. Charles Grassley’s (R-Iowa) “jobs” bill. While thiswas a victory for Democrats, they are largely losing the battle to pro-tect the United States’ working and middle classes.

Republicans have not given Harkin a chance to introduce hisamendment to protect overtime pay as planned. They do not wantto even vote on it, because a vote against overtime could obviouslybe used against them. Instead, they plan to introduce it monthsdown the road and use their majority privilege immediately toamend his amendment and render it useless. That way, they candefeat it without any political consequences.

Harkin and the Democrats are fighting this. Harkin is trying tointroduce his plan to guarantee overtime pay as a second-degreeamendment (an amendment to an amendment), which must bevoted on as introduced. That is precisely what he tried to do after theDodd amendment passed on Wednesday, repeatedly requesting thatthe Republican president recognize him to speak. As I watched fromthe sidelines of the Senate floor, Harkin’s first three requests wereignored as the presiding officer stared straight at Senator Grassleyuntil Grassley requested to be recognized. When he was, Harkinangrily objected, twice, to no avail. He then watched, incensed, asGrassley introduced his own second-degree amendment, againblocking a possible vote on the overtime issue.

When Grassley finished, Harkin gave a passionate, outragedspeech decrying the Republicans for not even allowing a vote on theissue. As he did, Grassley, the senior senator from Iowa, turned hisback on Harkin, the junior senator from Iowa, and cleaned his glass-es for a full five minutes. Harkin angrily promised, “I don’t mean toquote the governor of California, but I’ll be back. I’ll be back, I’ll beback, I’ll be back!”

Americans concerned with protecting the right to be paid premi-um pay for working premium time should be proud that senatorssuch as Harkin are standing up for them are in Washington. They arefighting the good fight, and as frustrating and disheartening as suchunderhanded tactics are, they will not back down. They will be back.

Rob Sand ’05.5 is interning for Iowa Senator Tom Harkin this semes-ter.

Fighting the good fight

The Democrats work

overtime for America.

ROB SAND A message about safety

Full disclosure: I have not seen “The Passion ofthe Christ,” but, in full support of the idea that thezeitgeist can’t be avoided, I’m sure I will somehow. Ihave no doubt that it is an expertly made film; I amsure that $25 million of pure Australio-Americanpiety allows one to bloody up Jesus real good. Andwhile it may be untoward to pack buses full ofchurch group children into a movie described byRoger Ebert as “the most violent I have ever seen,”who am I to criticize Red State parenting? Faith, itseems, doesn’t come with a V-Chip.

Still, one wonders what this new government-multiplex-megachurch complex means in the longrun. For, indeed, as much as God may have talkedspecifically to Mel Gibson, a $117 million openingweekend in February speaks even to folks asunrighteous and (gasp!) un-Christian as, say,Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein. Will we see a spat ofBrad Pitt as Jesus and Colin Farrell as Satan vehiclesspewed from whatever special effects bowel pro-duced such Oscar-winning dreck as “Gladiator” and“Titanic”? Will we see the movies stop projectingtheir messiah complexes onto inscrutable Matrixesand hobbits and just embrace the real thing?

Here’s guessing no. Hollywood, in the end, is afundamentally conservative place; it is no accidentthat the major studios avoided “The Passion” likethe plague. It’s unlikely that the industry, even in thelight of Gibson’s success, would institutionalize aradical marketing scheme that relies on courtingclaims of anti-Semitism, whispering rumors ofNazi-sympathizing fathers and forcing its producton ailing popes — the kind of thing that brings outtrue believers and ironic car-crash watchers alike.

No, delusions of grandeur notwithstanding,celebrities and the media corporations that createthem tend to avoid radicalism — or anything unset-tling, for that matter — at all costs. Witness CharlizeTheron thanking all manners of agents and lawyerswithout acknowledging the immense societal fail-ure that created the “Monster” that necessitated her“brave” weight gain or that, gee, maybe a deludedmultiple rape victim shouldn’t be electrocutedwhile Jeb Bush laughs.

Which, incidentally, is where the real impact ofGibson’s work begins. The tremendous financialsuccess of the film, that beautiful entanglement ofGod and money, is in many ways the ultimate signthat despite his recent slide in popularity, this is stillGeorge W. Bush’s America. Indeed, W. — cheer-leader, oilman and baseball tycoon — is nothing ifnot American and nothing if not practical.

Measuring the polls, watching “The Passion” andintuitively sensing the pulse of the nation, Bush hasadroitly exploited what most American presidentswould have tremendous difficulty coming to termswith: namely, that the Republic could convert to (orsimply come out as, as the case may be) theocracyovernight and no one would really care.

With “faith-based” now a euphemism for “fullyfunded” and a ridiculous proposed amendmentcodifying homophobia receiving presidential sup-port, “The Passion of the Christ” is giving way to thePassion of America. In some ways, this develop-ment simply adheres to that old cliché: that UnitedStates is inordinately religious because we can be.With no history of religious genocides, religious civilwars or religious inquisitions, so goes the story,Americans are free to bat around our deities, ourmessiahs and our theologies as a part of everydaydiscourse. The politicization of religion, in otherwords, is unsettling and disruptive but ultimatelyharmless.

And yet there’s the feeling that for the first time inour lifetimes, religion has become something morethan another rhetorical filter through which politi-cal noise is absorbed. Perhaps it is the advent ofIslamic terrorism, which mercifully presents anOther (not unlike the Communist) against whichChristianity must be defined. Perhaps it is thenature of American Christianity itself, a faithuniquely able to inhabit both the position ofabsolute strength and that of the self-consciouslyoppressed. Perhaps it is simply an evolutionary fact:the idea of a unifying deity on a country’s side is,politically and aesthetically speaking, just moreconvenient than the secular alternative.

Thus the theocracy of Bush’s America is finallynot purely Christian but the Christ-fetishizing ide-ology of a superpower with a crucifixion complex.There are always imagined enemies at the gates,always imagined threats to “freedom,” always rea-son to believe that we are still on the cross. It is thisneeded melodrama that Hollywood can provide;Falwell and Robertson may have tried, but it is ulti-mately Mad Max and William Wallace who re-adhere fundamentalism — that splendidly LethalWeapon — to the Brave American heart.

Jesus is back and gays, Jews, civil libertarians andthe Islamic world better get out of the way; $117million can’t be wrong.

Jonathan Liu ’07 thinks “Lost in Translation” is ori-entalist, but damn, what good orientalism.

America’s crucifixion complexJONATHAN LIU

Occasionally, though not often, something comesup which forces me to leave my dorm at night. Herein Providence, nighttime is often dark. And as every-body knows, when it’s dark, you get stabbed.Personally, I don’t like getting stabbed, and appar-ently neither do other Brown students.

What’s a guy to do, then? Clearly, the shuttle isn'tan option, because for every legitimate SafeRide vanout there, there are three station wagons spray-painted with “SafeRIDE” and a toothless driveryelling, “Get on in! I'm totally not a criminal!”Thanks, but no thanks. I'm pretty sure real SafeRidedrivers don’t make a point to ask me what my hairsmells like as I get into the van.

Walking poses its own problems, though, butuntil I can figure out how to boost a Vespa, it’s all I'vegot. First off, you’ve got to deal with people yellingvery clever things at you from moving vehicles.Once, I was leaving Grad Center at night, and a carslowed down next to me. The driver was smiling andlaughing and obviously very excited to take medown a peg or two with a homophobic comment.But then he just said, at a normal volume, “GregBrady.” Greg Brady? Huh? Yeah, he sure zinged me,as I have both brown hair and parents.

Not to mention walking places is nowhere near assafe as driving. In a car, if someone tries to jump you,you can roll up your window, because all glass isstab-proof. But what do you do when you’re on foot

and get attacked? Run? Yeah, right. Most criminalshave bicycles. Bicycles that they stole.

The University listened, though, to the concernsof the good, knife-fearing students of the Browncommunity. Their plan of action? Buy a bunch ofrandom dudes yellow jackets and flashlights andplace them at stealing hotspots!

Is there anything that says safety more than a coatthat is entirely yellow, people? Criminals see yellow,and immediately they think: giant bees. That’s scary.And you can’t just buy a yellow ColumbiaSportswear jacket anywhere. Like Store 24. That'sone example of a place you can’t buy one. Maybethere are others. But that's not the point. The point isthat Brown is now completely free of crime, due toguys in jackets sitting in pickup tricks around cam-pus and drinking large containers of Pepsi.

Maybe I’m not giving these guys a fair shot. I'mjust unclear as to how exactly they are going to stopcrime. They certainly don’t have guns. Sometimes, Ilike to imagine that they are all ex-professionalwrestlers, and should a crime happen before theireyes, they’ll be ready with a suplex, or a piledriver.That'd be pretty rad. I’d feel safe then. But I thinktheir time could be much better spent by carryingme from place to place, piggy-back style, wheneverit’s dark out.

Maximilian Silvestri ’05 enjoys compliments.

GUEST COLUMN BY MAXIMILIAN SILVESTRI

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SPORTS FRIDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 5, 2004 · PAGE 8

BY CRAIG MCGOWANThe 49th-ranked men’s tennisteam improved its spring recordto 7-1 with wins over HofstraUniversity and No. 62University of Western Michigan.Brown blanked Hofstra 7-0Sunday and beat WesternMichigan Tuesday, 5-2.

Currently ranked No. 52 inthe nation, Brown came outblazing against Hofstra. TheBears, looking to rebound fromtheir loss to the University ofMichigan last weekend, did notdrop a single set in six singlesmatches and won the threedoubles matches by a com-bined score of 24-6.

Nick Goldberg ’05 got theball rolling for Brown with aconvincing 6-1, 6-3 win overNikola Djordjevic. Co-captainJamie Cerretani ’04, ranked No.81 in the nation, took a breakfrom No. 1 singles againstHofstra and, at No. 2, dominat-ed Rodrigo Teixeira 6-2, 6-0.

Zach Pasanen ’06 played themost one-sided match of theafternoon, blanking Matt Schor6-0, 6-0 to clinch the victory forthe Bears. Phil Charm ’06, EricThomas ’07 and co-captain KrisGoddard ’04 finished off thesingles for Brown, each winning

BY ZANETA BALANTACDespite 15 top-10 finishers inthe team competition, six quali-fiers for the individuals and anoverall ninth-place finish, thefencing team walked away fromthe 2004 ECAC/IFAChampionships at VassarCollege without any team acco-lades.

“Generally, we haven’t donesuperbly at this tournament,and there are some ridiculouslystrong teams there, so we went

in looking at it as an opportunityto learn from fencing betterfencers,” said epeeist JohnSheehy ’07.

Going into the competition,the Bears knew they would buttheads with the best teams theNortheast has to offer, includingfencing powerhouses Columbia,Harvard, Princeton, Brandeis,Yale and Boston universities, theUniversity of Pennyslvania andthe Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology.

“The way the tournament wasset up, the focus was more on‘OK, I have (this fencer) next, Ishould work on these actions,’rather than ‘the team needs Xvictories this round.’ Peoplegoing to Regionals will definitelyfind that handy when it’s justindividual wins that reallycount,” Sheehy said.

With this in mind, the Brownwomen gladly engaged theircompetitors despite the difficul-

M. tennis sweepsHofstra, defeatsranked W. Michigan

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Athlete of the Week Jayne Finst ’04 won the all-around and the beam atthis weekend’s Ivy Classic.

Fencers fall short against toughcompetition at ECAC/IFAChampionships

The Brown Daily Herald Spring SportsMeeting,Tonight,6 p.m.195 Angell St.

Finst ’04 continuesstellar season by takingall-around at Ivy ClassicBY ROBBY KLABEROver the past four years, JayneFinst ’04 has been a dynamicplayer in the Brown gymnasticsteam’s victories. Finst recently

came infirst in theindividualall-aroundand beam

at the 2004 Ivy League Classic,leading the Bears to a third-placefinish, which brought its overallseason record to 8-7.

“Jayne is one of the mostfocused competitors on theteam,” said Head Coach SaraCarver-Milne. “Part of whatmakes Jayne so good is that shenever crumbles or loses focusduring a competition — we candefinitely count on her at everymeet.”

Finst’s winner’s mentality and

dedication to gymnastics havebeen crucial to her success, shesaid.

“I go in believing I will wineach event,” Finst said. “While Iam very competitive andfocused, at the same time, I amable to truly enjoy each event.”

Finst said that even thoughshe has competed in gymnasticsmost of her life, she continues tolearn new skills.

“It is great to constantly learnnew aspects of the sport, but it istough to change what I havebeen doing for so long. Refiningmy skills is extremely importantand should pay off during therest of the season,” Finst said.

As a co-captain on a teamwith five seniors, Finst has hadmore responsibility this season

BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETStrong performances from first-years pushed the No. 75women’s tennis team (4-2) pastunranked Seton Hall Universityand Rutgers last weekend,allowing the team to continueits winning ways despite twostarters injuries.

Captain Victoria Beck ’04underwent oral surgery lastThursday and was unable toplay, while Kim Singer ’06 con-tinued to sit out due to illness.

Brown once again relied onstrong singles performances tocarry both matches, as the teamwas unable to secure either dou-bles point.

Daisy Ames ’07 and Amanda

Saiontz ’07 won at No. 3 doublesby a score of 8-4. Theirs was theonly doubles win for the Bears.

Ames and Saiontz “played avery intelligent and smartmatch, using different forma-tions and playing consistently,”said Head Coach Norma Taylor.

Stephanie Falconi ’06 andKerry Meath ’05, who filled in atNo. 1 for the injured Beck, wereunable to overcome the strongnet play of Kim Barfuss andViviana Figueroa, losing 8-6. AtNo. 2, Alexandra Arlak ’05 andMichelle Pautler ’07 droppedtheir match in a tiebreaker, 9-8(2).

Strong singles play leadshurting w. tennis pastSeton Hall, Rutgers

Welcome to the off season: the offseason on crack. And that’s notjust for Red Sox and Yankees fans,but for the Cubbies, the Rays, the

A s t r o sand theJays. Som a n ym a j o rt r a d e s

and signings have happenedbetween October and Februarythat it’s almost impossible tokeep up. Never before has base-ball gotten so much attention sixmonths before July.

As a quick summary, this off-season has been like a girl you seeat a bar. She bats her eyelashes,flips her hair, hands you hernumber ... and now all that’s leftis to see if anything actually hap-pens. A-Rod, Clemens, Pettitte,Guerrero, Schilling, Wells. Talentis changing hands faster thanPete Rose is changing stories.And there’s nothing left to do butsit back and watch it all unfold.

This brings us, naturally, tospring training — what all of thismoney, talent and energy hasbeen directed toward. It’s easy toknow what the stakes are inBoston and New York. In fact, it’sbeen hard not to keep up withtheir trades, even if you don’t fol-low baseball between Octoberand April.

But with the Red Sox andYankees as the predominantteams in the American LeagueEast, the rest of the division hasreceived little or no attention inchanges to its lineups and pitch-ing staff. And can we really won-der why? The salaries of AlexRodriguez, Derek Jeter, JasonGiambi and Kevin Brown arehigher than the entire payroll ofthe Jays and the Devil Rays com-bined. In total, the Red Sox andYankees have yearly budgets thatare close to a $1 billion. One more

MLB: an offseason oncrack

ATHLETE OF THEWEEK

Friday, March 5

Women’s Basketball: vs. Columbia, 7 p.m.,Pizzitola Sports CenterGymnastics: at RIC w/ Springfield, 7 p.m.,Providence, R.I. Men’s Basketball: at Columbia, New York, N.Y.Women’s Track: ECAC Championships,Boston, Mass.Men’s Track: IC4A Indoor Championships,Boston, Mass.Men’s Swimming: EISL Championships,Princeton, N.J. Men’s Squash: NISRA Individuals, Canton,N.Y. Women’s Squash: WISA Invitationals, Canton,N.Y.

Saturday, March 6

Women’s Ice Hockey: vs. Princeton, 2 p.m.,Meehan Auditorium Women’s Basketball: vs. Cornell, 7 p.m.,Pizzitola Sports CenterMen’s Basketball: at Cornell, Ithaca, N.Y. Equestrian: at University of Connecticut,Storrs, Conn.

Softball: vs. Seton Hall, Towson, MD Softball: at Towson, Towson, MD Men’s Lacrosse: vs. Vermont, at MiddleburyCollege, Middlebury, Vt. Wrestling: EIWA Championship,Philadelphia, Penn. Men’s Swimming: EISL Championships,Princeton, N.J. Men’s Squash: NISRA Individuals, Canton,N.Y. Women’s Squash: WISA Invitationals, Canton,N.Y.

Sunday, March 7

Men’s Tennis: vs. New Mexico, 11 a.m.,Pizzitola Sports CenterWomen’s Ice Hockey: vs. Yale, 2 p.m., MeehanAuditoriumSoftball: at Towson, Towson, MD Softball: vs. Seton Hall, Towson, MD Wrestling: EIWA Championship,Philadelphia, Penn. Men’s Squash: NISRA Individuals, Canton,N.Y.Women’s Squash: WISA Invitationals, Canton,N.Y.

W E E K E N D S C H E D U L E

see FINST, page 4

KATE KLONICKOFF THE FINGERTIPS

see KLONIK, page 5 see M. TENNIS, page 5

see W. TENNIS, page 4

see FENCING, page 5