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BY DANA GOLDSTEINWith the exuberance of a pep rally andthe talent and beauty of a full-scale the-atrical production, “Zamana,” this year’sSouth Asian Students AssociationCultural Show, blew away a sold-outcrowd Saturday in Salomon 101.

Celebrating the religiousand cultural traditions ofSouth Asia, dozens of stu-dents performed a varietyof dances, readings and

guitar improvisations.The evening’s theme, “Zamana”

(“generation,”) was reflected throughmodern and traditional music anddance styles, as well as commentary ongrowing up South Asian in the UnitedStates. Masters of Ceremony MumalHemrajani ’03, Arjuna Kuperan ’04 andAshwin Cheriyan ’04 skillfully juggledthe evening’s rapid-fire switchesbetween farce, showmanship and seri-ous social commentary. Well-dressedand well received, the three provedadept at the all-important job of stallingduring costume changes. Their talentswere best displayed in a series of hyster-ical videos. One depicted the emceessurveying Thayer Street denizens ontheir knowledge of Indian dance.Another, interspersed throughout theshow, was entitled “Brown” Date andmildly critiqued parental matchmaking.

Dance was the primary medium of“Zamana,” and a diversity of styles waspresented. “Raas — That Stick Dance,”the first number of the show, drew itspower from the rhythmic hand acrobat-ics of couples striking sticks together.Other stand-out dances performed bylarge groups included “Hubba Hubba …

Hawa Hawa!” a couples’ dance thatrecreated the drama of Bollywood loveand “Apna Sangeet, Apna Shaan,” abhangra, or dance style, from the Indianstate of Punjab that displayed amazinggymnastics reminiscent of a co-edcheerleading squad. For pure spirit,both the senior and first-year classesmust be commended for the numbersthat closed the first and second acts.

With as many as 20 dancers filling thestage with glittering costumes and over-sized movements, the larger dancesoften showcased more activity than anaudience member could properly takein. “Hypnatyam: Dheem ta Dare,” a per-formance of the ancient South Indiandance style Bharatanatyam and set tocontemporary Carnatic music, was ableto steal the show with its slower, moreprecise choreography. The number fea-tured Praveen Basaviah ’05, MedhaDevanagondi ’05, Leena Sastry ’03 andSeema Vora ’06. It was choreographedby Basaviah and Sastry, who did anexcellent job of creating neat, geometricformations for the dancers to fill.

Another highlight was “Kaahe ChhedMohe (Why do you tease me?),” per-formed by Herald Senior Editor KavitaMishra ’04. The North Indian classicaldance form Kathak features a blend ofHindu and Muslim cultures. Beginningwith a narration by Mallika Mendu ’04,the dance portrayed a somewhat flirta-tious relationship between the Hindugod Krishna and his childhood friendRadha. Mishra was able to deftly illus-trate the story using her hands, facialexpressions and beautifully swirling red

Undergroundopens doors,with changesBY LOTEM ALMOGThe Underground opened its doors for thefirst time in 2003 on Friday night, but notwithout some drastic changes in policy andatmosphere.

The Brown administration allowed theUnderground to reopen on the conditionthat only patrons aged 21 and above wouldbe permitted to enter, according toUnderground manager Ally Dickie ’03.

Four bands performed at theUnderground on Friday night as part of ashow sponsored by Brown Student Radio.By the time the second band took the stage,there were about 30 people in the bar. Mostof them, however, were either band mem-bers or Underground employees.

When asked why he chose to come to theUnderground Friday night as opposed tosome other establishment, a student said,“because a lot of my friends work here.”

The student added that he enjoys thefamiliarity of the Underground. “It’s homebase — I don’t have to bring a gun.”

The exclusion of underage students atthe Underground will present a challengein attracting customers, Dickie said. “Thestudents were very opposed to limitingentrance to students who are 21 plus,” sheadded.

In the past, the Underground was opento all students, with those 21 and over wear-ing wristbands that allowed them to pur-chase alcohol.

On Friday, students were asked to pres-

BY ALEX PALMERA group of five panelists discussed the def-inition of ethnic studies and the role stu-dent activism plays in the fight for ethnicstudies at a Friday event of the “Race,Globalization and the New Ethnic Studies”conference.

The visibility of activism for ethnic stud-ies has moved in cycles throughout theyears, said Professor of Africana StudiesRhett Jones M.A., Ph.D. ’72, who came toBrown in 1969 and has continued to be anactive part of the community. He said thestructure of ethnic studies has becomemore conservative over the years. “It looksmore like pre-1968 now,” Jones said.

Panelists said an established studentorganization is necessary to combat thelulls in activism caused by students perpet-ually graduating, said Miabi Chatterji ’02.Several panelists, including AssociateProfessor of Political Science at ProvidenceCollege Tony Affigne ’76 M.A. ’91 Ph.D. ’92,agreed more student organization was vitalto the efforts of activism on universitycampuses.

Chatterji and panel chair Nikhil Laud ’03said student activism is still a part of theethnic studies agenda. “Much of what

Panelists discussethnic studies andstudent activism

BAA no longerbacks off-campusSenior NightsBY LOTEM ALMOGSenior Nights and Senior Week in 2003 willface imminent changes, thanks to arevamping of the Brown AlumniAssociation’s policies regarding seniorclass events.

As a temporary policy, some off-cam-pus senior events will no longer be spon-sored by the BAA, wrote senior class presi-dents Benjamin Dalley ’03 and MumalHemrajani ’03 in an e-mail to the classsent late Sunday night. The issue of trans-portation to these events has not yet beenresolved, Hemrajani told The Herald.

Over the past 10 years, the senior classhas formed a relationship with the AlumniAssociation where the two organizationswork together in planning events duringthe year as well as Senior Week, said LisaRaiola ’84, vice president for AlumniRelations.

In the past, the BAA provided busing forstudents to off-campus bars and clubs,Dalley told The Herald late last week. Thepolicy originated in the hopes that busingwould minimize the risk of drunk drivingand thus provide a safe environment forBrown students to commune, Raiola said.

The BAA began to reevaluate this policyfollowing an incident at a club night lastNovember.

Senior class officers organized a seniornight at Hot Club in downtownProvidence. When the club closed around1 a.m., a fight broke out among someJohnson and Wales students at a nearbybar, Dalley said.

The fight grew in scope until the alter-cation ended up in front of Hot Club andthe Brown students waiting to be busedback to campus, Raiola said.

“It was like in a movie where everyone isoutside fighting,” she said. Raiola addedthat some students were removed in hand-cuffs.

Shortly thereafter, another altercationensued between one of the bus driversemployed by the BAA and some Johnsonand Wales students in a Jeep. The resultwas a minor automobile accident in whichno one was injured, Dalley said.

Following these incidents, the BAAdecided the liability risks were too severeto continue sponsoring such off-campusevents. The BAA will not sponsor off-cam-pus events that involve alcohol, such asbar and club nights, Hemrajani said.

“We were lucky that no students wereinjured, and you have to ask yourself howlong our luck will last,” Raiola said. “Do Iwant to be in a situation where I have tocall a parent the next day and say ‘Sorry,your son or daughter was hurt last night —or worse, even killed.’”

The BAA is a completely independentorganization from the University and doesnot have the same coverage policies theUniversity does, Raiola said.

Hemrajani said the senior class will usefunds from an independent account toprovide for senior events not sponsored bythe BAA. She said senior officers plan tocontinue the tradition of Senior Nights tocompliment events held through the BAA.

SASA show wows crowd

see UNDERGROUND, page 4

see ETHNIC, page 5see SASA, page 4

see SENIOR NIGHTS, page 4

“Six Characters”proves a worthwhileshow of wild anticsand interpretationarts and culture,page 3

Sanders Kleinfeld ’03says he sees flaws inthe arguments againstaffirmative actionopinions,page 7

Schuyler von Oeyen ’05says Bush should becertain we have back-up before war in Iraqopinions, page 7

Men’s hoops sets schoolrecord with 12-2 recordin the Ivy League andhas a chance at NITsports, page 8

Equestrian team fin-ishes strong seasonplacing first inRegional I Zone I sports, page 8

Photo courtesy of Rishi Sanyal

At Saturday’s SASA cultural show “Zamana,” Seema Vora ’06 and Neha Mehrotra ’05dance to a medley of Bollywood songs.

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BY JEN SOPCHOCKCHAIBuckle up for this one, folks; it’sgoing to be one wild and crazyride.

Only in “Six Characters inSearch of an Author,” by LuigiPirandello, playing this week atStuart Theater, will you find thegrim reaper, a yoga ball, a little girlon crutches, silly string, Greektragedy, cell phones, professionalwrestling, a disco ball, the musicof Britney Spears and lesbianporn all on the same stage. Thisshow is truly a theatrical celebra-tion of the absurd, as the cast of14 takes a Scooby Doo-esqueromp through time and space.

The show begins harmlesslyenough — a troupe of actors,dressed in 19th-century garb, arerehearsing a play when a family ofsix “characters” appears in searchof an author to finish their story.The director and his cast laugh atthem at first, writing them off asdelusional, but the charactersinsist they are not real people, butfictional characters who need to

be represented on stage. Thescene ends abruptly, and a chaot-ic exploration of theater as an artform ensues.

This play is nothing if not self-referential. Are characters in thescript inherently more “real” thanthe actors playing them on stage?Does the fact we speak in order tobe heard on stage automaticallydestroy any hope of realism indrama? And what happens to theauthenticity of a text when it istranslated into another language?Pirandello’s work poses theseheavy philosophical questions,but in a humorous and highlydigestible way.

The production is truly anensemble piece. Directors KevinMoriarty, head of directing for theBrown/Trinity Consortium, andSteve Kidd GS cast multiple actorswhose parts vary throughout theplay. This makes it difficult to pin-point select performancesbecause the division of labor is soequal. The multi-actor roles alsoconfuse the play because few

parts are played by the same actortwice — but keeping track ofeveryone is not necessary toappreciate the play’s treatise ontheater.

The production of this play isflawless. The sound and lights areimpeccable and the scene and

costume changes nearly unno-ticeable. The fact “Six Characters”is set in a theater allows for theuse of every corner of StuartTheatre, making the production atruly three-dimensional experi-ence.

“Six Characters” may strap you

into a car spinning out of control,but it’s a ride you won’t mindbeing on.

Herald staff writer JenSopchockchai ’05 can be reachedat jsopchockchai@browndaily-herald.com.

At Stuart,“Six Characters”celebrates the absurd

Photo courtesy of Tracy Schultz / Brown University Theatre

Michael Benn ’04, David Myers ’03 and Rachel Bonds ’05 star in “Six Characters in Search of an Author.”

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ent their Brown cards, which werechecked against a list of studentsand their birthdays provided bythe University. Bar-goers also hadto show a government-issuedform of photo identification.

Even after two forms of identifi-cation were shown and a braceletdistributed, patrons wishing topurchase alcohol had to presentbracelets at the bar.

The crowd at the Undergroundhas historically been Brown stu-dents of all ages based on theopen admittance policy, Dickiesaid. She said underage drinkingissues forced the bar to shut downand re-evaluate policy in the fall of2002.

Since only of-age students areallowed in the Underground, thebar will have to compete with allother local drinking establish-ments for business.

Dickie said she hopes the livemusic will draw students to theUnderground. “It’s the only placewhere student bands can per-form, and it’s just a nice, coolatmosphere,” she said.

The student said he believesunderage students should beallowed, even encouraged, todrink at the Underground.

“I think it’s a blessing to Brownto know where their underagedrinkers are. Now, they’ll just go toplaces where they’ll get drunk andhave to drive home,” he said.

Herald staff writer Lotem Almog’03 can be reached atlalmog@browndailyherald.com.

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Off-campus Senior Nights helpbuild community among mem-bers of the senior class, Dalleysaid. “We’re all living off campusright now — it’s a polarized class,and the Senior Nights are reallythe events that build communi-ty,” he added.

In addition, money raised atSenior Nights helps cover manyof the expenses incurred bySenior Week events, Dalley said.Eliminating these events puts atight budget constraint on thesenior class to provide the eventsthat have been included in thepast, he said.

Senior class officers consid-ered abandoning the class’ role asa branch of the BAA to become a

student group through theStudent Activities Office. Withstudent group status, the seniorclass would be provided suchbenefits as free police and securi-ty at on-campus events, Raiolasaid.

But the BAA would like tomaintain its existing relationshipwith the senior class. “When stu-dents are alumni-in-training, it’sthe easiest to communicate withthem as a class and introducethem to the idea that they’ll soonbe a part of an alumni communi-ty,” Raiola said.

Dalley said the senior class

would not seek student groupstatus, but the senior class shouldexpect some changes this semes-ter.

“Senior Week will be drastical-ly different than last year,” Dalleysaid. The BAA will likely continueto sponsor Senior Week events oncampus that involve alcohol,Hemrajani said. The BAA alsoplaced funding caps of $6,000 to$8,000 on on-campus events,Dalley added.

Herald staff writer Lotem Almog’03 can be reached atlalmog@browndailyherald.com.

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scarf. As the only solo dancer ofthe evening, Mishra filled thestage with confidence.

Neel Shah ’04 performed two“sitar/guitar fusions” with his 12-string acoustic guitar. Shah’schoice to play in an open-tuningimproved the guitar’s resonance,allowing each piece to evoke thesounds of the ancient Indianstring instrument. Delicately fin-gered melody lines blended witha series of chromatic chordchanges.

Two readings stood out fortheir personal expression andconfident delivery. AswiniAnburajan ’03, in the spokenword piece by the South AsianWomen’s Collective, presented abravely delivered first-personaccount of a girl whose motherrubs her body with boiled creamin order to decrease the darknessof her daughter’s complexion.

Waciuma Wanjohi ’03 present-ed a more difficult reading of ashort story he had written. Toldfrom the perspective of a Muslimpilot named Omar, the story pro-ceeds as if Omar was one of thehijackers who crashed into thePentagon. In the last paragraph,Wanjohi reveals that, in fact,Omar is a member of the U.S.Army, about to drop a bomb overIraq. The story deals with themoral misgivings, fears and com-mitments experienced by boththe suicide bomber and the fic-tional U.S. pilot.

“Zamana” was rounded out bya fashion show.

The show cannot be charac-terized as anything other than anabsolute success. Talented andspirited performers donnedbeautiful costumes and man-aged to transmit incredibleamounts of exuberance to theiraudience.

Herald staff writer Dana Goldstein’06 can be reached at dgold-stein@browndailyherald.com.

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makes us so unique and innova-tive is also what makes universi-ties upset,” Chatterji said.

She said she was confident abody of students is willing to fightfor the institutionalization of eth-nic studies. “It takes a lot of fight-ing and a lot of being comfortablewith being on the edge,” Chatterjisaid.

But panelists Affigne andJones, both of whom studied atBrown during the ’70s, said stu-dent activism at Brown hasdiminished since then. “The mostsuccessful years were when stu-dents were fully empowered on alevel of equality with the faculty,”Affigne said.

Jones said the divisionbetween students and staff is amajor barrier for activism and theprogram. Jones and Affigne bothsaid the wall had cyclically beenbuilt and broken down by stu-dents over the years. Today, theysaid, the wall is solid and stand-ing.

The lack of tenure preventssome staff from involvement incampus activism, furthering thedivide between staff and stu-dents, said panelist and AssistantProfessor of Sociology atMacalester College Karin Aguilar-San Juan M.A. ’95 Ph.D ’00.

“I think it can be very threaten-ing (to not have tenure), but thereis always room for one weirdo.Maybe you can be that weirdo,”said Aguilar-San Juan, who is nottenured.

But Affigne, who said shestrongly supported the tenureinstitution, said that instead offighting the system, an educatorshould strive to be the best in thesystem. “The most importantactivism we engage in happens inthe classroom,” he said.

While ethnic studies exists inacademia, it is virtually absent inurban life and at lower levels ofeducation, said Evelyn Hu-Dehart, director of the Center forthe Study of Race and Ethnicity inAmerica. “I think that all of us inethnic studies need to encourageour students to be high schoolteachers,” she said.

Last week’s conference, spon-sored by the CSREA, focused onthe challenge of reshaping theethnic studies program to make ita more solid institution.

While the majority of the con-ference’s events were gearedtoward academic reformation ofethnic studies, Friday’s discussioncentered upon its attitude andvoice, said RESist member HanaTauber ’03.5.

“This student panel is the onlyformal place in the conference forstudents to tell their history. It isimportant to remember that eth-nic studies started as a studentmovement and we need to heartheir voices,” Tauber told TheHerald.

RESist is a student organizationdedicated to the full implementa-tion of a strong, community-based ethnic studies department.

“I feel that the fight for sthnicstudies is pretty integral to mak-ing the University truly account-able to the public,” said RESistmember Daniel Schleifer ’03.“The purpose of RESist is toachieve the departmentalizationof ethnic studies. But that alsomeans including student andcommunity voices, and makingsure that the department holdsitself accountable to those voic-es,” Schleifer said.

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A quick fixStudents will still be able to drink off campus for Senior Nightsthis year, thanks to a bold move by the class officers. Plaguedby liability concerns involving buses used to transport stu-dents to off-campus venues, the Brown Alumni Association,which generally coordinates senior activities with the officers,had decided to host Senior Nights on campus this year. Butlast night, the senior class officers sent an e-mail to membersof the class of 2003, announcing they will continue to organizeoff-campus Senior Nights independently of the BAA.

In past years, Senior Nights, often held in off-campus bars,have served as some of the last chances seniors will have to getto know members of their class and celebrate their final daysat Brown. While underclassmen can look forward to seeingtheir classmates at the Ratty or in dorm hallways, seniors arespread throughout the East Side in apartments. Senior Nightsgive those who desire it the chance to actually get together.

But Senior Nights hit a roadblock this year. The BAA, whichhad previously offered buses to off-campus locations, deter-mined it could no longer absorb the potential liability afterfights broke out near clubs where Senior Nights were beingheld. Although the University buses students to other events,such as The Gala, the BAA is governed by different rules.

Although the BAA’s position is understandable, the tempo-rary policy to restrict alcohol-related Senior Nights to on-cam-pus locations would have significantly limited the choice ofvenues. Cutting corners here would be particularly detrimen-tal to the University, considering those attending are also soonto become potential Brown donors.

While we applaud the senior officers’ decision to continuethese events independently — both to build camaraderie andBrown’s financial future — we urge them to find a way to pro-vide safe transportation to off-campus bars. Buses sparked thiscontroversy in the first place, and the class officers have yet toaddress this issue.

Senior Nights off campus should continue, but only ifthey’re safe and well-organized.

LETTERS write them.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2003 · PAGE 7

Why the world makes a difference

COUCHED WITHIN THE SLICK ANTI-AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONrhetoric of Alex Schulman’s recent column (“Affirmative actionredux,” March 7) is an insidious premise that deserves to beexposed and debunked. Schulman’s assertion that “underqualified”blacks and Hispanics are overwhelmingly being rewarded with a“back-door entry system” by being admitted to top universitiessuch as Michigan implicitly presupposes the years one spends in

college are a gift bestowed upon teens for highschool success. Attending a four-year college oruniversity to earn a Bachelor’s degree is not areward; it’s an opportunity. Affirmative actionis about creating opportunity for those whosepotential demonstrates they deserve it.

High school grades and standardized testscores are one measure of achievement thatpresumably is correlated with excellence inhigher education and beyond. But collegesrequire more than scores for a reason. In theideal admissions process, the college essay,teacher recommendations, high school pro-files and extracurricular achievement figureprominently into the decision to accept or

reject. When juxtaposed with the numbers and letters with whichwe rank academic achievement, these factors provide the criticalcontext necessary to make a meaningful judgment call about a stu-dent’s potential to succeed in college. A student’s score of 650 onthe verbal section of the SAT looks far more impressive when onelearns the applicant picked up English as a second language uponmoving to the United States just two years prior.

For schools like the University of Michigan, which don’t have timeto read 25,081 application essays, grades and test scores are absolute-ly essential in formulating a successful admissions rubric to separateout the impressive from the mediocre. But achievement is not syn-onymous with potential. What about those thousands of studentsout there for whom a lack of access to educational resources hasengendered a huge disparity between their scores and theiruntapped reserves of talent? Here’s where affirmative action getsthrown into the mix. It’s a nod to the fact there’s no equity in anadmissions process that favors the bright and motivated who are for-tunate enough to attend top-notch secondary schools and takeexpensive SAT preparatory classes over the bright and motivated whohappen to attend depressingly inadequate inner-city high schools.

Affirmative action is not a remedy for the deplorable and disturb-ing inequities that pervade U.S. public school systems. In the collegeadmissions process, it is a reasonable means of alleviating some ofthe symptoms of social injustice by safeguarding the rights of deserv-ing disadvantaged students to a bachelor’s degree. Opponents of thepolicy are fond of arguing that “underqualified” advantaged minori-ty students unjustly benefit from affirmative action at the expense of“more qualified’ white applicants. Obviously this is often going to bethe case. But there are two crucial follow-up questions that one has aduty to pose. First, does the benefit afforded minority disadvantagedstudents outweigh the negative side effects (often perniciously codedas “reverse racism”) inadvertently affecting other individuals?Second, is the college admissions process fairer to students of allbackgrounds if affirmative action is revoked?

Perhaps it’s best to respond with anecdotal experience, as affir-mative action is more than some ethereal concept to be debated inour Ivy League classrooms; it affects real people’s lives. For the pastyear, I have been involved in Brown’s chapter of Let’s Get Ready!, anon-profit organization that provides free SAT and college prepworkshops to inner-city Providence high school students. Thesekids are brilliant — and more driven than any student I ever met inmy posh suburban high school. They crave a college education, andthey’re willing to work their asses off to get there. I’ve spent count-less frustrating hours tutoring kids on SAT verbal skills. It’s an uphillbattle; most of the kids who join LGR score approximately 300 onthe verbal section of their first SAT diagnostic. By the end of the pro-gram, students have boosted their scores impressively. But mostwill never see the 1200s and 1300s they are capable of earning,because their K-12 experience has been an educational wasteland.

The majority of the students in the program are members of under-represented minority groups. Affirmative action plays a huge role ingetting these kids into college, where they can realize their dreams ofbecoming engineers and lawyers. Of course, I wish these kids wereaccepted to schools like Michigan solely because admissions officersrecognized how much they had achieved with so little help and howmuch they could achieve in the future with such voracious desire forsuccess? But I’ll settle for race factoring into the equation.

College educationan opportunity,

not a reward

SANDERS KLEINFELDHOW VERY

ON MARCH 17, THE U.N. AMBASSADOR JOHNNegroponte and the Bush Administration will returnto the international bargaining table one last timewith the British and Spanish on their side to plead foran international war stamp of approval in Iraq. Atleast one of the other three countries onthe Council with veto power that isn’tsponsoring the bill — China, Russia orFrance, if not all three — will kill the reso-lution and force the United States to go italone.

After the United States exhausts its lastdiplomatic effort that it knows will fail, itwill go in and drop 3,000 bombs on acountry in which half the population isunder age 16 as a means of driving out itsruthless dictator, who will likely be safelyprotected. The United States does nothave international authority for regimechange, which is its explicit goal in theprocess. But besides the obvious drawbacks of thewhole plan, which include but are not limited tomassive casualties, massive financial drain, destabi-lizing the region as a whole, unprecedented creativeinterpretation of international law and just war the-ory through pre-emptive strike, an angry Europeand a bypassed United Nations, the United States isgoing to need the world community on its side toaccomplish the real change everyone would love tosee — an independent, democratic Iraqi nation.

This whole plan was justified by Bush at his pressconference last week as being vital to our nationalsecurity. What bothers me about that assertion isthat it isn’t true at all. Afghanistan was a war of neces-

sity, but this is a war of choice. Here we are attackingIraq, which has no proven ties to al-Qaida like SaudiArabia does and hasn’t been intercepting our planeslike North Korea has. No question Saddam is a tyrantwho rules with an iron fist. But at least the guy isn’t a

religious fanatic. As far as I can tell, hisprimary interest is maintaining hispower. If a new, more factional post-warleader gets the royal palace, that won’t bethe case, and he might use that mobilestockpile of biological and chemicalweapons that seems to evade U.N.inspectors every time they move theirvans to a new site in a country the size ofCalifornia. Yes, Saddam has used them onhis own people, but the new guy mightuse them more liberally.

So how can we prevent this scenariofrom happening once we kick outSaddam Hussein? We need to rebuild

Iraq, and that is a very difficult problem. We needthe world community to rebuild Iraq, and we willostracize them from the starting line if we contin-ue with Bush’s plan. Installing a legitimate, inde-pendent government that has any real credibilitywithin country borders is a painful task that willneed U.N. peacekeeping forces. And while I thinkthe Bush administration is willing to grease themilitary machine for instant regime change, Iremain unconvinced that it will continue to findfinancing for the necessary grassroots organiza-tions to institute long-term democratic stabilityafter the fighting is over to be in its national securi-ty interests. Multinational backing is crucial forthis reason and because it will help give the opera-tion credibility within the country’s borders —something that lacked in Vietnam. This is whyfinding a plan the world — and not just Tony Blairand Jack Straw — can agree upon, makes a differ-ence.

SCHUYLERVON OEYENALL THINGS

CONSIDERED

I WANT TO BE A POLITICIAN WHEN I LEAVEcollege. When I tell other people that, they laughat me or try to convince me of how dirty politics isor how worthless our representatives are. I try notto let that kind of political cynicism overwhelmme though I realize that many of the claims aretrue. Idealistic as I am, I was totally taken abackby an action two of our elected representativestook that occurred in Washington State onMonday.

Last Monday, an imam from the IslamicCenter of Olympia, Mohamed Joban, gave theinvocation in the Washington House building.Two state representatives (both Republicans) leftthe room. Now, if they had leftbecause of church-and-state issues,then I would sympathize. I am not ahuge fan of prayers at official statefunctions (heck, even “In God WeTrust” irks me), but that’s a whole dif-ferent column.

So why did they walk out? The representatives(named here because they deserve public humil-iation and intergalactic condemnation), CaryCondotta of East Wenatchee and Lois McMahanof Gig Harbor, gave different answers. Condottawas, apparently “talking to another lawmakerand ‘wasn’t particularly interested’ in theprayer…(and) would not elaborate” (CNN “Twostate lawmakers walk out during prayer byMuslim leader”). Oh, right. I’ve heard that storybefore. So, basically, he was talking to someoneelse and wasn’t interested, so he left? Perhaps

Cary’s a religious bigot — or maybe just has anincredibly short attention span. And if he wasreally that bored with the invocation, maybe“Can’t Sit Still for One Minute” Cary should seeka job that requires less simple respect.

Lois does much better though. Her reasoningfor walking out goes all the way. She said, “It’s anissue of patriotism… Even though the main-stream Islamic religion doesn’t profess to hateAmerica, nonetheless it spawns the groups thathate America.” Wow. That doesn’t even makesense. Islam is OK, but it spawns hate groups, soI’ll be a bigot. Great idea! How about we forgetother religions have also spawned hate groups

that hate America, not to mentionthe fact you don’t even need a reli-gion at all to have hate. So now wehave to rudely ignore not onlyMuslims but everyone in the world.Gosh darn. And I was hoping to find adate this Saturday night, too.

But have no fear, patriotic readers: Joban’s prayerwas a veritable gospel of hatred and lies, spoutinganti-American rhetoric and calling for global vio-lence. “At this time, we also pray that America maysucceed in the war against terrorism. We pray toGod that the war may end with world peace andtranquility.” Thank goodness that Cary and Loistook a stand against hate and protested against thisradical madman Joban.

You readers can help keep Lois and Cary inpower. Fight so our nation remains divided alongethnic and religious lines. Ensure your vote isalways given to the candidate with the mostproven track record of ignorance. With your help,we can make sure anti-American hatred is here tostay.

JOHN BROUGHERCAN'T STOP THE BROCK

Religious bigotry gives ourlawmakers a bad name

Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 believes the long-termconsequences will be more painful if the worldcommunity isn’t part of the democratic rehabili-tation process.

John Brougher '06 enjoys non-denominationalChristmas lights.

Sanders Kleinfeld ‘03 is the esteemed opinions editor emeritus.

I’VE BEEN TO AT LEAST 30 PROFESSIONALsporting events and never worried aboutmy personal safety, or the players’ safety, forthat matter, but from now on maybe Ishould. Saturday night at the Fleet Center, agroup of fans decided to entertain them-

selves by sprayingpepper spray onthe Celtics’ bench,causing playersand coaches to fleethe area in cough-ing fits.

The game wasdelayed for nineminutes becauseof the incident,and the assailantshave yet to befound. In the end,the game went on,

as the Celtics won a horrendously boringgame over the Clippers. Yet in this environ-ment, many of the players expressed theirinitial fears that this substance makingthem cough was somehow terrorist-relat-ed. Thankfully, it wasn’t, but this incidentshows how possible such an event is.

One of the great things about basketballis the fact that the players are right there,only a row away from the fans, not separat-ed from the roaring crowds by the dugoutsin baseball or the glass in hockey. But, inanother light, this just makes these playersmore vulnerable to these threateningshenanigans.

As much as I love having the players soclose, perhaps we need to put in a barrierbetween them and the fans. One precautionsome older German soccer stadiums likeWalstadion in Frankfurt take is a menacing12-foot high barbed wire fence that sepa-rates the rowdy fans from the field. However,that still wouldn’t stop pepper spray.

In an NFL.com article last year, BrianBaldinger wrote, “In the hooligan-riddenworld of soccer, restrictions like this arecommon; if there aren’t fences, there aremoats or attack dogs.” Perhaps the FleetCenter should invest in a moat around thefloor to stop the fans from assaulting theplayers, or maybe the New York Knicks’attack dogs could sit courtside with SpikeLee at MSG.

While no one should have to worryabout his or her safety at a Celtics game,this type of ridiculous prank could happenat any time, at any game, and there’s no realway to prevent it from happening. AfterSept. 11, 2001, planes could no longer flyabove stadiums and security was heavilybeefed up, yet last September a father-sonduo still made its way onto the field andpummeled the Kansas City Royals’ firstbase coach from behind. And last Saturday,a group of guys managed to get pepperspray containers through security.

So after recounting all of the awful thingsthat could possibly happen the next timeyou want to see a game — here’s to enjoyingthe games and hoping our fellow fansdecide only to do the same.

Jonathan Meachin ’04 hails from New YorkCity. He is a public and private sector organ-izations concentrator.

SPORTS MONDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 10, 2003 · PAGE 8

In first competition after mandatory three-weekrest period, equestrian trots to first-place finish

Next stop NIT? Men’s basketball finishes12-2 in Ivy League, sets school record

Going to a game?Bring pepper spray

S C O R E B O A R D

JON MEACHINSUICIDE SQUEEZE

BY SARAH STAVELEY-O’CARROLLThe equestrian team ended its fall seasonby leading Region I Zone I with a total of217 points, a solid 14 points ahead of run-ner-up University of Connecticut. Hopingto maintain their lead and thus win a bidto zones and then nationals, the womenhave been focusing on defending theirregionals title of the past three years.

Last Saturday, the women did morethan that, extending their lead by threepoints in the spring season opener atWesleyan’s barn, Windcrest, in Hebron,Connecticut. After observing three of theseven Ivy League-mandated “dead weeks”this year, the women had only two and ahalf weeks with which to prepare for theshow. Given the limited time frame, CoachMichaela Scanlon and Co-Captains JessicaKingsborough ’04 and Chelsea Hamilton’03 planned a few extra practices to helpget the women back on track.

Those extra practices paid off when theBears won 10 of the 30 classes they enteredand nearly swept an entire division, withthree first places in intermediate flat.

During this time, the intermediate rid-ers learned their jumping course andquickly warmed up in preparation for theirclasses. This turned out to be the power-house division of the day, as LeilaLedsinger ’04.5 and Severine Brustlein ’05won two of the four Intermediate fences

classes. Novice, the last fences division, proved

disappointing, but the team regroupedand entered the flat portion of the day (inwhich riders are judged on their perform-ance at the walk, trot and canter) withrenewed determination. After looking atthe team’s scores so far, Brown knew it hadto beat Trinity, a newly formidable rivalthat currently stood in first, and UConn,traditionally its main opponent.

Jamie Peddy ’06 packed the necessarypunch by winning her competitive Openclass and getting the ball rolling for flat.Ledsinger and Brustlein in addition toKingsborough continued their earlier suc-cesses by sweeping the Intermediate divi-sion with three blue ribbons. With twoblues each, Ledsinger and Brustlein quali-fied for the high point rider ride-off.

First, however, was novice flat. KatWarshaw-Reid ’04.5, after a difficult jump-ing round, came back strong with a firstplace finish on the flat, buoying the team’sstanding. Alysson Oakley ’03 took secondplace in the next class.

Meanwhile, Ledsinger and Brustleinprepared for their first intercollegiate ride-off. The two competed against an openrider — in a division above them — fromTrinity College. After a brief test, theannouncer declared Ledsinger in third andBrustlein in first, as the high point champi-

on of the day. With her wins, Brustlein alsopointed out of Intermediate and into openflat and fences, qualifying her for regionals(an individual competition) in April.

Amanda Burden ’04 continued the win-ning streak and pushed the team into thelead by winning the next class, AdvancedWalk/Trot/Canter. This win also pointedher into the next division, in this case,Novice, and qualified her for regionals.After being abroad last semester, this wasBurden’s first show since winning theW/T/C Miller’s Cup at Nationals last May,helping the team take third place.

Galyn Burke ’05 followed her lead bytaking the red ribbon in Beginning W/T/C.Rebecca Sills ’05 also took second inWalk/Trot, while Connie Lee ’05 won thelast class of the day, giving the Bears astrong finish as they prepared for the triphome.

With a score of 42, the team edged outits major rival, UConn, by three points.With only three more shows left to gobefore the end of the season, the Bears justhave to compete defensively and holdtheir lead to qualify for Zones on April 12.In the meantime, the women are travelingback to Windcrest March 8 for a show host-ed by Teikyo Post University.

Sarah Staveley-O’Carroll ’03 is a member ofthe equestrian team.

BY ADAM STERNThe men’s basketball team (17-11 overall,12-2 Ivy) successfully finished what turnedout to be an extraordinary regular seasonlast weekend, topping Dartmouth andHarvard on the road to set a school recordfor league victories. Brown became thefirst Ivy League team other than theUniversity of Pennsylvania and Princetonto win 12 games since Columbia did so in1964. Bruno also finished the season win-ning 14 of its last 16 games, only falling toPenn in that span.

Despite its record-setting year, Brownfell short in its quest for a league title asPenn was able to clinch the Ivy Leaguechampionship with two victories of itsown over the weekend against Columbiaand Cornell. However, the Bears secured asecond place finish, keeping them in con-tention for a postseason berth at theNational Invitational Tournament.

“There are a lot of teams out there withpostseason aspirations, so now we justleave things up to the selection commit-tee,” said Head Coach Glen Miller. “I amjust happy that our guys did everythingthat could be done to put themselves inconsideration.”

Bruno’s two senior stars provided muchof the offense in the win over Dartmouthon Friday as Alai Nuualiitia ’03 led theteam with 20 points and Earl Hunt ’03 con-tributed another 18. Hunt nailed a jumpshot in the first half to score his 2,000thcareer point, a milestone no other Brownplayer has accomplished, sparking theBears to a 15-0 run. With 9:42 left beforeintermission, the Bears led 24-9.

Upon returning from halftime, Brunoscored eight straight points. While the BigGreen fought back with a slew of three-pointers, Dartmouth was unable todecrease the deficit to fewer than fivepoints. With 11 points, 10 rebounds andeight assists Jason Forte ’05 ensured

Brown’s 79-67 victory. Jaime Kilburn ’04also added 11 points and Luke Ruscoe ’06dished out eight assists.

In Brown’s regular season-ending 93-80win over Harvard, Forte led the Bears with26 points, converting on 11 of 12 free throws.He also brought down eight rebounds andhad five assists. He finished the season with149 assists, only one shy of Brown’s singleseason record set by Mike Waitkus in 1986.

“Jason is the best point guard in the IvyLeague, hands down,” Miller said. “He’sshown his skills all season, and he’s onlygoing to get better. Our offense and defensestarts with him.”

In addition to Forte’s contributions,Nuualiitia and Hunt also made sure theBears came back from a first-half deficit toovercome a hot-shooting Harvard squad.In particular, Harvard senior BradyMerchant was on fire, scoring a school-record 45 points for the Crimson. Merchantwas single-handedly outscoring Brown, 28-27, until 5:28 to go in the first half. Brown’shighest scoring duo added a combined 29points to offset Merchant’s phenomenalperformance.

Pat Powers ’04 also added 17 points,including a torrid five-for-six shootingfrom beyond the arc. Harold Bailey ’04 wasthe fifth Bear in double-figures, putting up11 points.

Nuualiitia and Hunt have tallied a com-bined 3,365 career points for the Bears overthe last four years. The game allowedNuualiitia to become Brown’s third all-timeleading scorer, moving past MarcusThompson ’90 and former head coachMike Cingiser ’62.

“It’s hard to replace two of the top threescorers in our school history,” Miller said.“Earl and Alai mean more to this programthan just scoring. They provided leadership,commitment to the program and provideda great example to our younger players.”

Nuualiitia and Hunt may still be able to

contribute to the program as the Bearshave landed themselves in a position topossibly make the NIT. Bruno will find outshortly after the NCAA field is announcednext Sunday, if its impressive season andsecond-place finish was worthy of a post-season invite.

Last season, two teams from the IvyLeague, Yale and Princeton, were invited tothe NIT, with Yale winning its openinggame. It is rumored the tournament selec-tion committee plans on asking one Ivyteam to compete this year.

“This year has been fantastic,”Nuualiitia said. “We have won 14 of our last16, are playing great and I hope we get alook at the postseason.”

“Having a great season like this in mylast season has been important to me andthe team,” Hunt said. “We have nothing tohang our head’s about and if we don’t(make the NIT), it’s their loss.”

—With reports from Joshua Troy

dspics.com

Despite a record setting season,the men’sballers fell short of a league title.

Men’s basketball:BROWN 79, Dartmouth 67BROWN 93, Harvard 80

Women’s basketball:BROWN 64, Dartmouth 54Harvard 83, BROWN 51

Softball:East Carolina 8, BROWN 3College of Charleston 5, BROWN 0Jacksonville State 9, BROWN 1Iona 3, BROWN 1

Baseball:Charleston Southern 5, BROWN 4

Men’s ice hockey:BROWN 2, Princeton 1BROWN 3, Princeton 1(Brown wins best of 3 series)

Women’s ice hockey:St. Lawrence 4, BROWN 1BROWN 3, St. Lawrence 1BROWN 3, St. Lawrence 1(Brown wins best of 3 series)