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Cicilline, Segal win; Carcieri defeats York

Expectation and disappointment

Green Segalrides wave ofsupport to 1stWard victoryThe 22-year-old emerged as the victorwith over 38 percent of the vote,winning a seat on Providence’s 15-member City Council

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Democrat Myrth York conceded the gubernatorial election to Republican Donald Carcieri ’65 Tuesday night atDemocratic headquarters in the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Providence. Carcieri won with 55 percent of the vote.

BY ADAM STELLAGreen Party candidate David Segal won the hotly contest-ed four-way 1st Ward City Council race yesterday withbroad support from the Brown community.

Segal captured 38.6 percent of the vote, beating outDemocrat Kyle Diggins who received 28.8 percent,Independent Harry Bilodeau who received 22.3 percentand Republican Bill Miller, who received 10.4 percent.

Both neighborhood and student support played amajor role in Segal’s victory. In the polling places wheremost Brown students vote, Salomon Hall and the Ladder8 Firehouse, Segal beat hisnext closest competitors by231 and 207 votes, respec-tively. Overall, Segal gar-nered 1,068 votes and wouldhave won the race even if thevotes at Salomon Hall hadnot been counted.

“I’m sort of flabbergast-ed,” Segal said at his victoryspeech at the TrinityBrewhouse on FountainStreet in downtownProvidence.

The race’s outcome is sig-nificant in part becauseSegal is the first Green Partycandidate elected in RhodeIsland.

“It was a triumph of theGreen Party, a triumph ofyouth and a triumph of realissues,” said Riana Good ’03,president of the Green Partyat Brown.

Segal attributed much ofhis success to his ability toset the policy agenda for the campaign and at the Oct. 91st Ward candidates debate, he said.

Segal entered the race because of a passion for theissues, but also to help overcome “debilitating shyness,”he said. Constant campaigning and public speakinghelped him reduce but not eliminate this shyness, he said.

Segal will join a city council comprised of 13 returningDemocrats and one newly elected Democrat, MiguelLuna in the 9th Ward. His challenge will be to serve as theminority leader on the council, Good said.

“Just as in the campaign, he will bring issues to thetable,” she said.

Segal credited the many Brown students and Brownalumni who worked on his campaign for his success. Theywere his “adoring fans” in the last tense days of the cam-paign, he said.

“Brown students were a major part of the infrastruc-

BY JULIETTE WALLACKBrown graduates will lead city and state governments,with Democratic candidate David Cicilline ’83 electedmayor of Providence and Republican candidate DonaldCarcieri ‘65 elected governor of Rhode Island.

Nationally, Republicans maintained their majority rep-resentation in the U.S. House of Representatives and tookcontrol of the Senate in Tuesday’s elections.

Cicilline, who led polls since winning the Democraticprimary in September, defeated the three other mayoralcandidates by winning 84 percent of the vote. Carcieri,who pulled ahead of his Democratic opponent Myrth Yorkin the polls just days before the election, earned 55 per-cent of the vote. York is now a three-time losing candidate,having waged unsuccessful campaigns for governor in1994 and 1998.

At Tuesday night’s traditional Democratic Party gather-ing at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Providence, revel-ry was muted by York’s defeat, and even Cicilline’s land-slide victory seemed mundane after months of theimpending victory.

York thanked her supporters who had gathered to hear

what they hoped would be a victory speech. It was clearby 9 p.m., though, that Carcieri was winning despite York’sstrong support among Providence-area voters.

Despite her loss, York said during her 11 p.m. conces-sion, “I’m still determined to do everything I can for thepeople of Rhode Island.”

As predicted, David Cicilline ’83coasted to victory in the mayoralelection with 84 percent of the vote;Myrth York, in her third campaign forgovernor, was defeated by RepublicanDonald Carcieri ’65

Sanders Kleinfeld / Herald

Green Party candidateDavid Segal spoke to hiscampaign workers andsupporters at the TrinityBrewhouse Tuesday.

see RHODE ISLAND, page 4 see SEGAL, page 6


Democrat Matt Brown delivered his victory speech atparty headquarters last night. He will serve as the nextRhode Island Secretary of State.

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BY MARION BILLINGSFirst reported in ancient Egyptian texts,smallpox ravaged human civilization,often playing an important role in his-tory. U.S. history has certainly beentouched by the variola virus, which wasfirst brought to the island of Hispanola,now the Dominican Republic and Haiti,in 1507 by the invading Spanish army ofHernando Cortez.

A current exhibit at the John CarterBrown Library titled “Smallpox in theAmericas, 1492 to 1815: Contagion andControversy” documents the history ofthe disease with various books, pam-phlets and primary sources pulled fromthe library’s collection. The exhibit wascoordinated with the publication of anessay entitled, “God Have Mercy onThis House,” by Professors Emeritus ofMedicine Stanley Aronson and LucileNewman.

The idea for the exhibit originatedwhen Norman Fiering, director andlibrarian of the John Carter BrownLibrary, approached Aronson to writean essay, with Newman’s help, chroni-cling smallpox in the Americancolonies. The library then enlisted thehelp of its curators to prepare the exhi-bition from its collections.

Aronson’s interest in smallpox hasbeen a long time in the making. “I’m

probably the only physician in the com-munity who has ever seen smallpox,” hesaid. During the 1947 smallpox epidem-ic in New York City, Aronson was work-ing as a young doctor and becameinvolved in the crisis. Since then, he hasbeen interested in smallpox as both “asocial phenomenon and a socialtragedy,” he said.

Brought from the Old World byinvading and settling Europeans, small-pox wreaked havoc on native popula-tions in North and South America,which had no prior immunity to thevirus. Individuals who survive an infec-tion of smallpox will be immune for therest of their lives. Having never beenexposed to the foreign virus, an esti-mated 2 million Native Americans diedof smallpox after a member of Cortez’sarmy brought the disease there in 1520.

A 17th-century book in the exhibitdocuments the surprise of manyEnglish settlers in North Carolina when“within a few dayes after our departurefrom every such towne, the peoplebegan to die very fast and many in shortspace.”

Smallpox further sped the rapid exter-mination of Native American populationsin North America, a phenomenon recog-

BY AKSHAY KRISHNANOver the last four years, five teams fromBrown participated in NASA’s ReducedGravity Research Program. These teams flyon the KC-135 aircraft and experience“zero-g,” or the weightless environment ofspace flight, under which they performspecific experiments.

The program gives undergraduatesacross the country the opportunity toresearch and work with NASA and theJohnson Space Center. Each state usessimilar grants to supervise student proj-ects that have been approved by NASA.

Peter Schultz, director of the RhodeIsland space grant and professor of geo-logical sciences, described how the spacegrant helps students who participate inthe Reduced Gravity Research Program.

“We provide financial and materialassistance to students who have had theirpreliminary proposals accepted by NASA.In addition, we provide traveling expensesfor the students when they travel to JSC tofly aboard the KC-135 and also help themwith research,” he said.

In addition to his role with the RhodeIsland space grant, Schultz is the facultyadvisor to this year’s team of Brown stu-dents, who just submitted their prelimi-nary proposal to NASA on the low velocityoblique impact of free floating viscousbodies.

David Shean ’04, a geo physics concen-

trator, is the team coordinator of this year’sproject. He also worked on last year’s proj-ect, which focused on intravenous devicesin weightlessness.

“It turned out to be a great experienceto fly the KC-135, aptly dubbed the ‘vomitcomet,’” Shean said.

“The plane creates a weightless envi-ronment under which we performedexperiments to test our hypothesis,”Shean added.

Ellen Syracuse ’03, a physics and geophysics concentrator, worked with Sheanon last year’s project and is also workingon the current project.

“We were at the JSC for 10 days, and theprogram ended with the actual flight itself.The KC-135 is not a FAA recognized air-craft, so we underwent safety training andlearned a lot about altitude sickness,”Syracuse said.

“We were made to take a quiz undersimulated pressure conditions in whichless oxygen gets to your brain. It sort offeels like you’re drunk,” Shean added.

Dorcas Metcalf, Rhode Island spacegrant program manager, said the BrownSpace Club helps students get involvedwith some of these projects.

“The space club was originally formedby a group of students who organized toapply for the microgravity program run

New exhibit examines smallpoxdisease in historical context

Brown, NASA team up on‘zero-g’ in-flight program

see SMALLPOX, page 4see NASA, page 8

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nized by many British settlers. JohnArchdale, governor of the Carolinacolony, observed in a 1707 bookfeatured in the exhibit how “it atother times pleased the Almightyto send unusual sickness amongstthem, such as the smallpox … tolessen their numbers, so that theEnglish, in comparison to theSpaniard, have but little Indianblood to answer for.”

The exhibit also documentsearly ideas about using smallpoxas a weapon. A 1777Revolutionary War documentproposes shooting the contents ofsmallpox pustules at colonial sol-diers in order to debilitate them.

The exhibit also addressesearly techniques used to controlthe disease. A practice known asvariolation that had been usedfor centuries in Africa, Asia andthe Middle East, came to thecolonies by way of England in theearly 18th century.

Variolation was met with con-siderable controversy. The processinvolved intentionally inoculatinghealthy people (usually children)in the skin with fluid taken fromthe pustules of a smallpox victim.

The procedure caused thepatient to suffer from a milder ver-sion of smallpox, with a much lowermortality rate. After recovering, theindividual would then be immunefor life. Many people argued that theprocess had not been properlyinvestigated, while others called it aheathen practice that attempted tointerfere with God’s will.

But in 1799, a doctor named

Benjamin Waterhouse, who wason the faculty of Brown andHarvard College, brought a total-ly new technique of vaccinationto the United States.

The procedure, which involvedintentional infection with cowpox(a milder cousin of smallpox) toconfer immunity to smallpox, hadbeen developed by Edward Jennerin England several years before.

The vaccination procedure, thefirst in history, was much more suc-cessful. Vaccination initiatives wereconducted all over the world untilthe disease was eradicated in 1977.

The exhibit’s examination ofsmallpox in historical context iswhat makes it particularly excep-tional. Bill Jesdale GS, a student ofcommunity health who visitedthe exhibit, said, “It was interest-ing to draw parallels not justthinking about smallpox as apotent biological weapon, butalso in terms of thinking aboutwho in society is responsible forinterpreting and creating mean-ing for the biological threats ofour day.”

The exhibit will remain on dis-play until Jan. 15.

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Smallpox

York spoke just seconds afterCicilline completed his victoryspeech. As he and his campaignstaff gathered on stage, the crowdgreeted him by repeatedly chanti-ng “David, David,” just as support-ers had when his primary victoryin September became obvious.

Cicilline said his campaign “daredus all to risk believing in something.”

He said some observers chidedhim for running an idealistic cam-paign but reminded everyone to“think big.

“Only when we aim high do ourbest ideas emerge,” he said.

Cicilline promised that the “visionof this campaign will become thevision of our city government.”

In the race for the governor’soffice, York and Carcieri spent thepast week campaigning heavilyaround the state, trying to garnerlast-minute support. Carcieri, aninternational relations concentra-tor who grew up in Rhode Islandand attended Brown prior to thecreation of the New Curriculum,never held an elected office.

“Seven months ago, when Ilaunched this campaign, I askedyou to picture a better RhodeIsland,” Carcieri said in his victoryspeech. “Tonight we begin turningthe dream into reality.”

Both Carcieri and Cicilline’scampaigns heavily favored clean-ing up Rhode Island politics.

Carcieri told The Herald onSunday that he is convinced “peo-ple are kind of tired of the politicsof the state.”

Carcieri, former chief executiveofficer of Cookson America, Inc., isthe lone Republican victor in themajor Rhode Island races.

Incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep.Patrick Kennedy retained his Houseseat, and incumbent DemocraticTreasurer Paul Tavares beat hisRepublican challenger with 72 per-cent of the vote. Democrat MattBrown was the projected winner inthe race for secretary of state. Also,Democratic incumbent CharlesFogarty retained his lieutenant gov-ernor position. Democrat PatrickLynch won the position of attorney

general. Incumbent DemocraticU.S. Sen. Jack Reed was also victori-ous in his reelection bid.

Cicilline visited the SalomonCenter polling station earlyTuesday afternoon on his tour ofthe city. He cast his vote earlierthat morning, he told The Herald,at the Hillside polling center.

He said support for his candida-cy had not tapered off since hisclose primary victory over former

Mayor Joseph Paolino. He said hiscampaign had been “building onthe primary success.”

Cicilline told The Herald he wasimpressed with the issues raisedby the four 1st Ward candidates forCity Council, and he said helooked forward to working withwhoever the victor was.

“I’m very proud of the kind ofinvolvement” the College Hillneighborhood had,” Cicilline said.

“There are lots of fine candidates,”and he said it would be an “honor”to work with any of them.

Late Tuesday night, officialsannounced Green Party candidateDavid Segal won the 1st Ward elec-tion with 39 percent of the vote.

Herald staff writer JulietteWallack ’05 edits the metro sec-tion. She can be reached at [email protected].


Rhode Island


Democrat Patrick Lynch, center, delivered his victory speech at party headquarters Tuesday with the help of his young son. Lynch will be the nextattorney general of Rhode Island, replacing Sheldon Whitehouse, who failed in his bid for the governorship.

A 1777 Revolutionary

War document pro-

poses shooting the

contents of smallpox

pustules at colonial

soldiers in order to

debilitate them.

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SEGAL VS. THE FOXBill Miller’s campaign fox and David Segal supporter Peter Asen ’04, right, joined together for a moment of revelry on the MainGreen yesterday. Hundreds of students joined East Side residents in casting their votes at polling stations like Salomon Center, left.

Facultyapprove firststep towardgovernancechangeBY ELENA LESLEYFaculty members passed one of 12motions included in a proposal to revampthe University’s faculty governance duringa meeting on Tuesday.

For nearly two hours, faculty, adminis-trators and members of the Task Force onFaculty Governance debated the merits ofthe proposal’s first motion, which recom-mends the creation of an AcademicPriorities Committee. After much discus-sion, the motion was passed with severalamendments.

In accordance with the task force’s over-all plan to streamline faculty governance,the APC would take over functions former-ly performed by the Faculty Committee onEducational Legislation, the AcademicCouncil and the Academic PrioritiesSubcommittee.

The APC “recommends to the Facultyfor its approval all new departments anddegree programs approved by the APC,makes budgetary recommendations to theproposed University ResourcesCommittee and makes general recom-mendations on academic policy to thePresident,” the proposal states.

President Ruth Simmons’ arrival last fallled faculty to examine problems with theUniversity’s government. In April, the

see FACULTY, page 6

Monteromakes pitchfor servicesexpansionto ACUPBY LISA MANDLEDespite confirming Tuesday that she isconsidering leaving Brown and is a finalistfor a position at the University ofCalifornia-Los Angeles, Vice President forCampus Life and Student Services, JaninaMontero is working to increase spendingon campus life services next year.

At Monday’s meeting of the AdvisoryCommittee on University Planning,Montero reviewed this year’s $103.3 mil-lion campus life and student servicesbudget and requested more money tomeet campus life needs and continueoffering need-blind admission in FiscalYear 2004.

The meeting was closed to the Browncommunity and to the press. AssistantProvost Brian Casey and Associate VicePresident for Budget and Planning SusanHowitt reviewed Montero’s presentationwith The Herald on Tuesday. Montero willrequest a specific amount of money forFY04 at a future ACUP meeting, Caseysaid.

Montero told The Herald Tuesday that

BY XIYUN YANGThe Graduate School is moving to addEnglish-enhancing courses for its interna-tional teaching assistants in an effort toease their transition to the classroom.

Beginning next semester, five specifi-cally designed English-enhancing cours-es previously registered through theCenter for Language Studies will now beoffered through the course announce-ment due to increased demand, saidAssociate Dean of the Graduate SchoolJoan Lusk. Adding three more classes willalso accommodate students of varyingproficiency levels.

“I’m a little bit (embarrassed),” saidHak Rim Kim GS of his less-than-stellarEnglish. Kim, a second year graduate stu-dent in cell physiology, is one of about1,000 international students at Brown.Unlike undergraduate students, who haveoften received parts of their education inEnglish-based institutions, graduate stu-dents face the additional stress of teach-ing other students as teaching assistants.

The addition of more classes is a step tosolidify the support program for interna-tional students like Kim that began in1992, said Barbara Gourlay, the coordina-

tor for the center who will teach all fiveclasses.

Working with about 60 students eachsemester from all disciplines, the two CLScourses focus on English pronunciation,proficiency and expressiveness, Gourlaysaid.

All international graduate students needto pass a screening test before they are ableto accept a TA position, Lusk said. Mostdepartments require that every graduatestudent teach for at least a year. Thesecourses are mainly targeted toward thosegraduate students whose English has yet toreach the fluency needed to teach a class,“focusing on language appropriate forclassroom communication,” Gourlay said.

The English proficiency test, TOEFEL,required for most U.S. graduate schools,does not test speaking.

“There is a fair amount of cheating” onthe TOEFL, Lusk said. High scores do nottranslate into fluency.

“The international students we workwith do not speak English on a day-to-daybasis,” Gourlay said. Students may have asubstantial knowledge of written English,but daily conversation may be a more dif-ficult task.

Yen-ling Chang GS majored in Englishliterature in her university in Taiwan, butfinds communication on a day-to-daybasis difficult.

“I think it’s still very hard. Most studentsfrom Asia are not used to speaking out inclass,” Chang, now a theater arts student,said.

Kim studied English for six or sevenyears, beginning in middle school andcontinuing through high school, but saidthat “I was studying proper English —these very old expressions no one usesanymore.” These classes also introduceU.S. culture to international students,Chang said.

Along with the UndergraduateConsulting Program, which pairs one U.S.undergraduate student with two interna-tional graduate students, these courses willbe one of the many ways for internationalgraduate students to familiarize them-selves with a U.S. university, Gourlay said.

But when asked about the possibilityof teaching a classroom of Brown stu-dents next year, Kim still seemed appre-hensive. “I’m a little bit nervous. If I’mresponsible to some small section, Ithink it’s not bad.”

Grad school to expand English-enhancing course offerings

see SERVICES, page 6


ture” of Segal’s campaign, Goodsaid. Over 100 Brown studentsvolunteered for the Segal cam-paign yesterday, she said.

The Segal campaign registeredmany Brown students in lateSeptember and early October,which gave it a base of voters inthe community, Segal said.Having this strong base helped

earn him the endorsement of theService Employees InternationalUnion, he said.

Although, Segal won the race,he did not receive a majority ofvotes. But he said he is confidentthat he will represent the wardwell.

“I’ll work hard,” he said. “I’ll bestrong on the positions I careabout.”

Herald staff writer Adam Stella’05 can be reached [email protected].


Segal

Faculty Executive Committee cre-ated the eight-member task forceto examine the problem moreclosely.

“The faculty government systemat Brown has grown a little like theBritish constitution,” Chair of theFaculty and Associate Professor ofAnthropology William Beeman toldThe Herald at September’s FacultyMeeting.

“Anytime we had a problem, wecreated a new committee. Therehave been some attempts atreform, but the revisions werepiecemeal and specific to eachcommittee,” he said.

After months of deliberation, thetask force determined that a moreefficient form of faculty governancewould require trimming the 44 fac-ulty committees in existence to amore manageable number. Theproposed system would consist of ahandful of committees currently inoperation, 12 new or revised com-mittees that would absorb manyresponsibilities of those being dis-continued and eight administrativeadvisory boards.

Tuesday’s meeting was the firstwhere faculty members couldbegin debating and voting on theproposal’s 12 motions.

Beeman introduced the firstmotion to create the APC and thenopened the meeting up for dicus-sion.

John Emigh, professor of the-atre, speech and dance, introducedan amendment that would allowsenior lecturers to be consideredfor committee positions instead ofhaving slots filled only by tenuredfaculty. He said this would help

diversify the body because thereare more women and minority sen-ior lecturers than tenured faculty.

Michael White, task force mem-ber and professor of sociology,responded that the rationalebehind the decision to consideronly tenured faculty was related to“the simultaneous consideration ofresearch and teaching at Brown.”Tenured faculty, he argued, wouldbe more likely to have experience inboth of these areas.

“Were any senior lecturers partof the task force?” rhetoricallyasked Shoggy Waryn, a lecturer inthe French studies department.

Louiz Valente, an associate pro-fessor of Portuguese and Brazilianstudies, said “there are many distin-guished members of the facultywithout tenure for a variety of rea-sons.”

Other faculty members addedthat senior lecturers were oftenactive in research related to theirfields.

After closing off debate, the fac-ulty voted 84 to 50 in favor ofEmigh’s amendment.

Faculty members also passedamendments related to nominationprocedures for the committee andseveral “friendly amendments” thatclarified the proposal’s wording.

Near the meeting’s end, facultyraised the issue of compensationfor service on work-intensive com-mittees. Task force membersagreed to take up the issue again inthe future.

Another meeting will be heldNov. 19, and the task force hopes toconclude the process of passingmotions by Dec. 3, Beeman said.

Herald staff writer Elena Lesley’04 is a news editor. She can bereached at [email protected].

she remains “fully engaged” inthe “tremendous amount ofextraordinary work going on atBrown.”

But she did not rule out thepossibility of accepting the posi-tion of vice chancellor of studentaffairs at UCLA, which she is afinalist for.

“Now and again, in one’s pro-fessional life, there are certainkinds of opportunities that comeforth,” she said. “This is one ofthose opportunities that, in goodfaith, I must look at.”

Michael Bartini, director offinancial aid, told ACUP thatfinancial aid costs for Fiscal Year2003 exceeded its $38.3 millionbudget due to an increased pro-portion of first-years on finan-cial aid, a higher than expectedyield rate and the weak econo-my.

With the introduction of need-blind admission, the University isexpecting 45 percent of first-years to receive aid next year, ascompared to 38 percent this year,Bartini and Montero said.

The downturn in the economyis expected to increase the needof continuing students as well,Bartini and Montero said. TheUniversity’s financial aid budgetis expected to increase to $46 mil-lion in Fiscal Year 2004 and $50million in Fiscal Year 2005.

Despite that increase, every-one at the meeting reaffirmed theUniversity’s commitment to needblind admission, Casey said.Repealing the need-blind admis-sion policy is “not on the table,”

he said.The $47 million budget for

food services, health services andresidential life is approximately67 percent of the overall budgetfor campus life and student serv-ices, Casey said.

The other components ofMontero’s division have a totalbudget of just under $18 million,he said.

Montero reviewed the budgetwith the committee and made anumber of requests for next fiscalyear.

The committee discussedoffering greater compensationfor residential and peer coun-selors, Casey said. Currently,counselors receive $1,000 a yearand single occupancy rooms, hesaid.

Some peer institutions providetheir counselors with free boardor greater pay, while at other

schools the program is entirelyvoluntary, Casey said.

The University wants to ensurethat the level of compensation isnot a deterrent to students onfinancial aid, Howitt said. Thereis no evidence of this being thecase, she said.

ACUP did not come to anyconclusion on the issue, saidundergraduate student represen-tative Laura Lehmann ’04.

Montero also requested fund-ing for one additional psy-chotherapist in PsychologicalServices, an additional staff per-son for the Third World Centerand more recreational athleticactivities and equipment, Caseysaid.

The committee discussedways to improve the food serv-ice and the flexibility of diningoptions, Casey said. Everyoneat the meeting agreed that thecurrent layout of space at theRatty was hindering this, hesaid.

ACUP will not make any deci-sions on the budget until justbefore the Corporation’s nextmeeting in February, Lehmannsaid.

ACUP will hold a campusforum on Nov. 11 from 5 to 6:30p.m. in List auditorium to givestudents and community mem-bers the opportunity to discussplanning, governing and budget-ary concerns with the committee,Casey said.

— with reports from JulietteWallack

Herald staff writer Lisa Mandle ’06covers the Advisory Committee onUniversity Planning. She can bereached at [email protected].


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David Segal and Riana Good ’03, president of the Green Party at Brown,celebrated Segal’s victory in Tuesday’s City Council election.

“Now and again, in

one’s professional

life, there are certain

kinds of opportunities

that come forth. This

is one of those oppor-

tunities that, in good

faith, I must look at.”

Janina MonteroVice President for Campus Lifeand Student Services, speakingabout the possibility of accept-ing a job at UCLA

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Author Hines explains intersection ofhip-hop culture and social resistanceat Rites and Reason TheatreAuthor Selwyn Hines discussed the connections betweenhip-hop, social resistance and his own coming-of-age ashe read from his new book,“Gunshot in My Cook-Up”Tuesday night at Rites and Reason Theatre.

The former editor-in-chief of The Source magazine,Hines characterized hip-hop as the voice of the black gen-eration that grew up in the 1970s and 1980s.

“We swore collectively that hip-hop was the vehicle bywhich we would ride to Washington,” he said of his gener-ation.

This legacy of music as social resistance continuestoday, even as the genre has grown more commercial, hesaid.

For instance, some artists choose to deal with the harsh-ness of life by focusing on the economic success associat-ed with the American dream, he said. Their music shouldnot be discounted, but rather seen as “their own testamentto resistance, in a sense,” he said.

But the best hip-hop is prophetic of social resistance tocome, he said, citing Ice Cube’s first two albums as exam-ples.

“They told anyone who cared to listen what would hap-pen in Los Angeles ten years later,” following the RodneyKing decision, he said.

Hines also characterized hip-hop as crucial to his owndevelopment, from his childhood in the Caribbean to hiscareer as a journalist. He had hoped to write a book on thesubject since his time at Princeton University where hefound resources for a thesis on hip-hop hard to find, hesaid.

His book, which he read from extensively over thecourse of an hour, is part memoir and part cultural cri-tique, he said.

It uses a range of narrative structures, from journalentries to personal letters.

Hines’ distinctive, rhythmic reading style echoed thecadences of hip-hop and thoroughly engaged his audi-ence.

“The way he read made me want to read the book,”David Williams ’05 said. Williams also appreciated thepersonal content of the readings and conversation, hesaid.

— Carla Blumenkranz

New group will fund international scholarships

BY JUAN NUÑEZThe International Scholarship Council, formerly theBrown International Organization ScholarshipCommittee, will fully finance one international student’scollege education each year.

Members of BRIO Scholarship Committee created theInternational Scholarship Council to fund internationalstudent scholarship, Laura Lehmann ’04, vice president ofthe International Scholarship Council said.

Fundraising for the BRIO scholarship historicallycame from the Office of International Development andBRIO after an endowment was created for the scholar-ship in 1996. But the Office of Development did not pub-licize the scholarship among students and parents, andthe scholarship was never one of BRIO’s priorities,Lehmann said.

“BRIO’s emphasis is more that of a cultural organiza-tion,” said Hector Pro ’03, president of the InternationalScholarship Council.

He said there has always been a person or two incharge of the scholarship, but the scholarship was notreaching its potential in BRIO.

Pro said the idea of forming a new organization toadminister the scholarship was first considered in 2001,but the organization’s name was not made official untilMay 2002.

The organization’s intent is as much to raise funds as itis to raise awareness about international diversity andfinancial aid, he said.

Each BRIO scholarship is funded through the inter-est derived from a $500,000 endowment, Lehmannsaid. The endowment is not touched and is continuallyreinvested, thus assuring the scholarship’s perma-nence.

Lehmann said that there is one scholar for each$500,000 raised, adding that the organization’s goal for thenext couple of years is to raise $1 million and fund twoadditional scholarships and subsidize one student’s costson a yearly basis.

The group would like to have a BRIO scholar in eachgraduating class, Pro said.

“Our goal is to be able to fund one scholar every year,”Lehmann said.

Lehmann said that neither BRIO nor the InternationalScholarship Council had any control over who was grant-ed the scholarship and that the admission office selectsthe scholar based on academic achievement and finan-cial need. No one in the organization knows the identityof the current scholars, only their country of origin.

The Office of International Advancement andVolunteer Engagement provided The Herald with figuressaying only 20 percent of undergraduate internationalstudents at Brown receive any form of financial aid, com-pared with 62 percent at Yale University. Smaller universi-ties such as Louisiana State University and Mount

Holyoke College rankhigher where provi-sions for internationalfinancial aid are con-cerned.

International Sch-olarship CouncilEvents CoordinatorThesy Surface ’03 saidthe lack of financialdiversity of interna-tional students isskewing the percep-tion domestic stu-dents have of them.

“The reason we areperceived as the ‘richViva crowd’ is becauseat the end of the day,

we are,” she said. “This needs to change.”“How can Brown put itself forward as a liberal, interna-

tionally-minded institution if it doesn’t provide theopportunity for (the international community) to comefrom different backgrounds?” Surface said.

This week’s International Scholarship Week is the firststep in the International Scholarship Council campaign,Lehmann said. The week’s events do not have a fundrais-ing intent, and will focus on raising awareness that thenew need-blind admission policy applies only toAmerican and Canadian applicants, not to the rest of for-eign applicants.

The second phase of the group’s plans includes areception for parents of current students, alumni andparents of alumni held in New York, London and possi-bly Paris to raise funds for the scholarship and aware-ness among people currently affiliated with theUniversity. The third phase involves the creation of aWeb site.

“The reason we are

perceived as the

‘rich Viva crowd’ is

because at the end

of the day, we are.

This needs to

change.”

Thesy Surface ’03

The International Scholarship Council,created to address financial aid issuesfor international students, will fundone scholarship each year


out of the JSC,” she said. “Theyhave around 15 members andhave always had a proposalaccepted by NASA over the lastfew years.”

“The students reciprocate oursupport on the micro gravity pro-gram by helping the R.I. spacegrant’s outreach program where-in they go to grades K-12 and talkto parents and teachers aboutNASA’s presence in R.I.,” Metcalfsaid.

Schultz said Brown has a long-standing relationship with NASA.

“Each year, we receive $2 mil-lion from NASA to support ourprograms in geology, physics andastronomy, engineering andmedicine.

“There have also been sever-al instances of students gradu-ating from Brown taking upjobs with NASA,” Schultz said.“However, I don’t think thatthis has anything to do with

our success in the reducedgravity program. That is moredown to the students individ-ual efforts.”

Carolyn Ernst ’01, GS, wasinvolved in the reduced gravityprogram two years ago.

“The KC-135 was a neat per-sonal experience,” she said. “Itis extremely unique to doresearch in weightless condi-tions. We sought to find whichpositions gave the best resultswhile performing CPR inspace,” she said.

Though students say theirexperiences with the project wereenriching, not all of them seetheir future in space.

“I don’t think I will be directlyinvolved with NASA,” Syracusesaid.

Shean holds a different opin-ion.

“I can definitely see myselfworking with NASA in the future,”he said.

Herald staff writer AkshayKrishnan ’04 can be reached at [email protected].


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ing three) and threw two inter-ceptions, giving themselves toomuch to overcome.

Willingham’s defensive troopscan hardly be blamed for the twoB.C. scoring drives, which were38 yards and zero yards respec-tively.

Even after the Irish had hand-ed the ball to the Eagles fivetimes, it still seemed clear thatthey would come back and win.They dominated all but five min-utes of the game, finishing with357 total yards to BostonCollege’s 184. Yet, as Notre Dameis well aware, outplaying a teamis different thing than beatingthem.

The fact that the luck of theIrish finally ran out againstanother Catholic school onlyadds fodder to the musings ofthose who perceive DivineIntervention in athletics. If any-one in Heaven was watching lastweek’s game, they were surelyfaced with a quandary in choos-ing a cheering section.Something apparently tipped thescales in favor of B.C., and ifNotre Dame seeks an explanationfor this they might be referred to

Proverbs 16:18.

Everybody else loses tooWell, almost. Notre Dame onlybegan the bad luck streak for thetop ten on Saturday. Numberthree Virginia Tech lost to mightyPittsburgh 28-21, number fiveGeorgia fell at home to hot-and-cold Florida 20-13 and GeorgiaTech burst the bubble of numbereight North Carolina State downin Raleigh 24-17.

Number seven Texas wouldhave lost at Nebraska if it hadn’tpicked off a pass in the waningmoments. Perpetual numberone Miami was losing in thefourth quarter to 1-7 Rutgers. Ifyour team was not one of theunlucky ones that fell, it was awonderful day to watch the car-nage and ponder the ramifica-tions.

The ramifications, we nowknow, are that Washington Stateand Iowa have quietly slippedahead of almost every nationalpowerhouse, claiming the five andsix spots. For the first time in for-ever, these schools are dreamingabout national title scenarios. 8-0Bowling Green probably is too,which is incredibly cute, but prob-ably a story for another column.

Luke Meier ’04 hails fromChampaign, Ill.


Meir

and Providence College willprobably get the automatic bids,and both teams are untouchableat this time.

The goal for Brown won’t be toqualify for Nationals, but ratherto compete at its highest leveland to finish the season offstrong.

“We have the capability ofcatching a lot of teams that beatus this weekend,” Wemple said.“We have another opportunity torun the same course with anextra thousand meters and showthat Heps was just a bad day forus as a team.”

Crocker, however, won’t beconceding the idea of Nationalsso fast.

According to Wemple, she hasa legitimate shot at qualifying as

an individual. The top four individual finish-

ers that are not part of a qualify-ing team are also sent toNationals, and Crocker will bevying for one of those spots.

Crocker, who is keeping herpersonal goals to herself, isfocused on getting revenge atRegionals.

“I think because of our wholebad experience at Heps, we haveeven more reason to go outthere at Regionals and showeveryone what we really cando.”

The Brown women will com-pete at the RegionalChampionships in Van CortlandtPark in New York City onSaturday, Nov. 16.

Sports staff writer MelissaPerlman ’04 covers women’s crosscountry. She can be reached [email protected].


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Lautenberg wins decisively in N.J.NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Washington Post) — A tumultuousSenate race marked by the stunning 11th-hour withdrawalof Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., and a court battle withovertones of the 2000 Florida recount case ended Tuesdaynight with Frank Lautenberg, the three-term senator calledout of retirement, winning a decisive Democratic victory.

Republican Doug Forrester, 48, a multimillionairebusinessman and political novice only five weeks ago wasleading Torricelli in the polls by double digits. ButForrester’s lead evaporated with the scandal-taintedTorricelli’s exit, and Lautenberg steadily reassembled thecoalition of Democrats and independents that has electedDemocrats in New Jersey in every U.S. Senate race since1978.

With more than 80 percent of precincts reported,Lautenberg led by more than 10 percentage points.

For a change, voting goes relativelysmoothly in the Sunshine stateMIAMI (L. A. Times) — An unusual thing happened Tuesdayin Florida, land of the dimpled chad, perplexingly designedballot and dragged-out vote tally. They held an electionagain, and it came off smoothly. There was even a winnerbefore people went to bed.

“No voter was turned away if they were at the correctprecinct and they were eligible voters,” boasted Miriam M.Oliphant, elections supervisor in Broward County, whocaught plenty of flak for the glitches last time around.

On Tuesday, nearly two months of frenzied preparations— military-style planning, poll worker retraining, millionsof dollars in additional spending and large-scale draftingof police and civil servants — paid off.

There was even a final result less than two hours afterthe last polls in the Panhandle closed. IncumbentRepublican Gov. Jeb Bush, the president’s brother, had wona second term, fending off Democratic challenger BillMcBride.

Florida’s error-prone electoral process has been a richvein for the likes of Leno and Letterman, but from now on,predicted Richard Conley, assistant professor of politicalscience at the University of Florida,“other states will takeover — they will make the comedy hour.”

Davis opens lead over Simon in tightCalifornia gubernatorial race(L. A. Times) — Democrat Gray Davis inched pastRepublican Bill Simon Jr. to open a small lead Tuesdaynight in a surprisingly close finish to a California gover-nor’s race that underscored broad voter discontent withboth major-party candidates.

Three Democratic incumbents — Lt. Gov. CruzBustamante, Attorney General Bill Lockyer and TreasurerPhil Angelides — were also narrowly leading in their effortto hold onto their seats, as a Republican wave that sweptthe country appeared to stop short of California’s border.

Races for three other open seats — controller, secretary ofstate and insurance commissioner — were tight in the earlyreturns, while Democrat Jack T. O’Connell jumped out to asizable lead over Republican Katherine H. Smith in the non-partisan contest for superintendent of public instruction.

In the state’s most closely watched congressional race,Democratic Assemblyman Dennis Cardoza opened a sub-stantial lead over state Sen. Dick Monteith in his bid toreplace scandal-scarred Rep. Gary Condit.

Elsewhere, attorney and Democratic labor leader LindaT. Sanchez was poised to make history by winning a newlydrawn congressional seat in southeast Los AngelesCounty. She was leading in early returns and stands to joinLoretta Sanchez, a Garden Grove Democrat, as the first sis-ter team ever to serve in the House.

In one clear bright spot for Democrats, the party main-tained its substantial advantage in the state Legislature.But Democrats looked to be thwarted in their effort topick up a state Senate seat that would have given them asupermajority of 26 in Sacramento’s upper chamber.

Also being decided Tuesday were a bevy of statewideballot initiatives. The highest-profile measure —Proposition 49, an effort by actor Arnold Schwarzeneggerto promote after-school programs—was leading in earlyreturns. Also ahead were bond measures to improve thestate’s public school facilities and address California’swater needs.

(Washington Post) — Republicans recaptured control of theSenate and were poised to expand their majority in theHouse last night as GOP candidates rode the back ofPresident Bush’s popularity and turned a competitivemidterm campaign into an election that defied the oddsof history.

The last piece fell into place early this morning whenMissouri slipped into the Republican column after Sen.Jean Carnahan (D) called former representative Jim Talent(R) and conceded defeat. Talent’s victory secured a newGOP majority in the Senate, an outcome that hadappeared almost out of reach to party leaders a day earli-er and that left Democrats dispirited and looking forscapegoats.

Republicans also picked up a Senate seat in Georgia,maintained control of two crucial open seats in NorthCarolina and New Hampshire, held on to Colorado andwere leading in Texas early this morning. Democratsgained a seat in Arkansas but could not turn the othercompetitive races in their direction.

In the House, the GOP was closing in another majorityafter blunting Democratic challenges in key competitiveraces and picking up several Democratic-held seats, witha strong possibility that they would enlarge the majoritythat Democrats had been eroding in the past three elec-tions.

In gubernatorial races, Democrats claimed three bigprizes by winning in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan.But Republicans retained power in Florida, where Gov.Jeb Bush easily defeated Democrat Bill McBride in a racethat echoed with the bitter memories of the Floridarecount battle two years ago. The GOP also scored thebiggest upset of the night in ousting Georgia Gov. RoyBarnes (D), who was seen as coasting toward a secondterm not long ago.

Republicans were attempting to turn history on itshead last night, given that the party that controls theWhite House almost always loses seats in the midtermelection of a new presidency. But Bush, with his approvalrating buoyed by his handling of the war against terror-ism, threw himself into the battle with a campaign. He

blitzed through competitive House and Senate races inthe final weeks of the campaign and appeared to havebeen repaid by a surge of Republican votes.

GOP victories early in the night put Democrats on thedefensive. In North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole (R) held off alate challenge from former Clinton White House chief ofstaff Erskine Bowles, and the GOP fended off anotherstrong Democratic challenge in New Hampshire, whereRep. John Sununu stopped Gov. Jeanne Shaheen (D).Later in Georgia, Rep. C. Saxby Chambliss (R) defeatedSen. Max Cleland in a race crucial to Democratic hopes ofretaining their one-seat majority.

One bright spot for the Democrats was Arkansas,where attorney general Mark Pryor, son of former senatorDavid Pryor, defeated Sen. Tim Hutchinson (R), consid-ered the GOP’s most vulnerable incumbent heading intoyesterday’s balloting.

But the Democratic odds of holding their majorityhinged on the outcome of races in Minnesota, Missouri,South Dakota, Colorado and Louisiana. In Colorado, Sen.Wayne Allard (R) appeared headed toward victory againstformer U.S. attorney Tom Strickland.

In South Dakota, Sen. Tim Johnson had a tiny leadagainst Rep. John Thune (R) in what had been seen as theclosest race in the country on election eve. In Minnesota,where counting was slow, former vice president Walter F.Mondale (D) was running behind former St. Paul mayorNorm Coleman (R) in very early returns on a night whenRepublicans ran well in other races. Mondale replacedSen. Paul D. Wellstone (D) on the ballot after Wellstonewas killed in a plane crash.

In the open GOP seat in Texas, where Democrats werelooking to spring a surprise in the president’s home state,state attorney general John Cornyn (R) was leading for-mer Dallas mayor Ron Kirk (D), seeking to become thefirst African American to go to the Senate from the statesince Reconstruction.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) led the field in Louisiana, butfell short of the necessary 50 percent and was thrown intoa Dec. 7 runoff against election commissioner SuzanneHaik Terrell (R).

GOP takes Congress

Newscom

Senator Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., declares victory at campaign headquarters in her hometown of Salisbury, N.C. Dole,standing with her husband Bob Dole, defeated Democratic candidate Erskine Bowles.


LOS ANGELES (L. A. Times) — Los Angeles voters wererejecting both San Fernando Valley and Hollywoodsecession proposals in early returns Tuesday, lean-ing toward keeping the nation’s second-largest cityintact.

Even in the Valley, the spawning ground of thesecession movement, the breakup plan was trailingslightly. In Hollywood, secession was losing badly.

Half an hour after the polls closed, a confidentMayor James K. Hahn, who led the anti-secessioncampaign, was already relaxing at a cocktailreception alongside hundreds of developers, lob-byists, union members and other breakup oppo-nents.

“The people behind secession shouldn’t be sadthey didn’t get a new city,” the mayor told the crowd.“I think they ought to be glad. They really gave citygovernment a swift kick in the rear and got us ingear.”

A few miles away, about 100 Valley secessionistsgathered under a canopy of red and blue balloons towatch the returns.

Breakup leader Richard Katz said the proposalwas being buried under an avalanche of anti-seces-sion campaign cash and union opposition. Thedrive to defeat secession raised $7 million, morethan four times the breakup proponents’ $1.7 mil-lion.

“The mayor had the best campaign money couldbuy,” said Katz, a former assemblyman. Even if vot-ers rebuff Valley cityhood, he added, “frankly, we’vealready won. The Valley has had a lot more atten-tion” from City Hall.

To win, the secession measures need a majorityof votes both citywide and in the breakaway areas.Richard Close, chairman of the secession groupValley Vote, said the organization might file a law-suit if secession wins in the Valley but loses city-wide.

“If the Valley votes to leave Los Angeles, weshouldn’t be held hostage,” Close insisted. He saidhe does not plan to work with Hahn to addressValley concerns. “He hasn’t been a problem solver,”he said of the mayor. “He has tried to squelch themovement.”

Republican Assemblyman Keith Richman, a can-didate for Valley mayor, was leading nine other can-didates in early returns. After an election day spentrelaxing, lifting weights and getting his hairtrimmed, Richman was also coasting to re-electionin his Assembly race.

“I expect to win both races tonight,” saidRichman, as he gathered with supporters.

None of the candidates for Valley mayor and 14Valley council seats, as well as for five Hollywoodcouncil posts, will take office if voters spurn seces-sion.

As for the name Valley voters prefer for a new city,the straight-forward “San Fernando Valley” was eas-ily outpacing choices such as “Camelot” or “RanchoSan Fernando” in early returns.

At the Hollywood Independence Committee’sheadquarters, about 100 candidates and supportersgathered around loudspeakers blaring the cam-paign’s rock ‘n’ roll theme song, belting out the lyricsat the top of their lungs.

“Hey, L.A., set Hollywood free! Give her back herdignity!”

Despite the dismal showing in early returns, GeneLa Pietra, the wealthy nightclub owner whobankrolled the Hollywood secession bid, clung tothe conviction that his camp would pull off a victo-ry. “I’m fine with these numbers, even the big gapcitywide. We’ve got quite a long ways to go,” he said.

Hahn assembled a potent coalition of municipalunions, black and Hispanic leaders, billionaire busi-ness moguls and most of the city’s politicians toraise the money to put down the Valley andHollywood insurrections.

The mayor’s L.A. United campaign deluged thetelevision airwaves with ads warning of secession’sdire consequences for public safety, taxes, utilitycosts and rent control.

Separatists had limited options for counteringsuch claims, which they labeled scare tactics.Pressed for money, they aired their commercialsonly on cable stations, and otherwise relied on mail-ers, debates, e-mail messages and word of mouth topersuade voters.

In Los Angeles,referendum callingfor partial secessionappears to fail

Ehrlich stuns Townsend in Maryland(Washington Post) — Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. scored a surpris-ingly decisive victory over Democrat Kathleen KennedyTownsend Tuesday, becoming the first Republican toclaim the Maryland governor’s mansion in more than 30years and generating enough GOP energy to knock off thepowerful Democratic speaker of the house.

Townsend, the state’s lieutenant governor, won strongsupport in the Washington suburbs and in Baltimore, aformula that worked for her and Gov. Parris N.Glendening in the past two elections.

But Ehrlich, a four-term congressman from suburbanBaltimore, was boosted by huge leads and enthusiasticturnout in his home base, in Western Maryland and onthe Eastern Shore, routing Townsend by nearly 100,000votes.

“Welcome to history,” Ehrlich told a boisterous crowdgathered at a Baltimore hotel. “This is an incrediblenight.”

Townsend conceded defeat shortly before 11:30 p.m.,looking remarkably cheerful and relaxed. She offeredEhrlich her congratulations and her help in resolving agrowing state budget crisis that threatens to cripple hisfirst year in office.

“I know we came up short, but we stood up for ourbeliefs,” Townsend told supporters. “He was a formidableopponent. He ran an effective campaign.”

Townsend’s poor showing marks the end, for now, ofher roller-coaster political career, which once promptedspeculation that she would be the first woman elected tothe White House.

She was originally expected to coast to victory in theheavily Democratic state, but her gubernatorial bidfoundered under the direction of an inexperienced cam-paign team and the burden of the public’s growing dislikefor Glendening, her political partner.

Glendening, for his part, said Townsend had “one of theworst-run campaigns in the country.”

“She was a great lieutenant governor, and she wouldhave been a great governor with all kinds of options avail-able,” Glendening said. But “she had a very small group ofadvisers, and they put on the oddest campaign for gover-nor anybody has ever seen. You have to remember yourbase, and they did not.”

Ehrlich becomes the first Republican to be elected gov-ernor of Maryland since Spiro T. Agnew defeated a segre-

gationist Democrat in 1966. Ehrlich’s running mate,Michael S. Steele, becomes the first African American tobe elected to statewide office in Maryland history.

Ehrlich’s victory increases the odds for a substantialexpansion of legal gambling in the state and will trigger amassive upheaval in state agencies, county courthousesand local boards and commissions, whose officials areappointed by Maryland’s powerful chief executive.

The unexpectedly powerful performance helped to sweepother Republicans into office, a phenomenon GOP officialswere calling “the Ehrlich effect.” Election officials estimatedthat 60 precent of Maryland’s 2.8 million voters cast ballotsthis year, compared with 61 percent four years ago.

Democrats maintained their overwhelming domi-nance in the General Assembly. But they lost the seats ofseveral key veterans to Republican challengers, includingHouse Speaker Casper R. Taylor Jr.

Taylor’s opponent, LeRoy E. Meyers Jr., scored a stun-ning upset after running against Taylor’s support for gun-control measures. The local businessman, a politicalunknown, also benefited from radio ads Ehrlich broad-cast in the conservative Western Maryland district urgingresidents to support a slate of GOP candidates to help himgovern in Annapolis.

Democrats began immediately to engage in post-elec-tion recriminations, with many blaming Townsend forrunning an insular campaign that ignored the party’sloyal base of African American and liberal voters.Particularly damaging, they said, was her decision tochoose a lifelong Republican as her running mate, retiredadmiral Charles Larson, and pass over several qualifiedblack candidates.

The governor’s race was, by far, the most expensive instate history, nearly doubling the $12 million spent in1998. Ehrlich spent close to $11 million; Townsend spentmore than $9 million, according to campaign officials.

The money paid for a relentless fusillade of mostly neg-ative television ads.

Ehrlich and Townsend agreed on many major issues,from building a controversial new highway known as theintercounty connector across Washington’s northern sub-urbs to fully funding a historic expansion of state spend-ing for public schools. They both pledged to avoid raisingtaxes, despite the biggest projected budget shortfall instate history.

Referenda go down to different fates(L. A. Times) — Voters across the United States generallysupported animal protection Tuesday and opposedsmokers — of both tobacco and marijuana — based onpreliminary election returns among some 200 ballotmeasures from coast to coast.

In Florida, voters adopted a measure to ban the use ofcages to contain pregnant pigs in the state’s industrial hogfarms, calling it cruel and inhumane, while cockfightingwas headed to a prohibition by voters in Oklahoma, eventhough the state Legislature has repeatedly refused tooutlaw the sport. Arkansas voters, however, were soundlydefeating a measure that would have made cruelty to ananimal a felony rather than a misdemeanor. The measuresaid animal cruelty ‘’cannot be tolerated in a civilizedsociety.’’

Georgia voters adopted a specialty license plate tofinance spay and neuter campaigns, while in Arizona, vot-ers were rejecting a measure to expand gambling at grey-hound racing tracks.

In Oregon, a proposal to establish a $20 billion univer-sal health care plan for all residents — making Oregon thefirst state in the nation to provide full medical coveragefor all residents — was headed toward a resoundingdefeat, following a campaign that warned of catastrophicfiscal problems for the state if it passed.

An effort in Nevada to legalize possession of up to 3ounces of marijuana was being defeated by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Voters in Arizona were similarly rejecting aproposal to lessen the crime for possession of marijua-na.

South Dakota voters were rejecting a measure to allowfarmers to grow hemp for industrial purposes — an ideaopposed by law enforcement.

Police argued that hemp so closely resembles marijua-na plants, the job of busting pot farms would be all themore difficult.

Also in South Dakota, voters were declaring that thelaw’s the law and should not be changed by jurors.

A bold move to allow juries to nullify state criminallaws if they consider them unfair while weighing the guiltor innocence of a defendant was headed toward a majordefeat.

For years, Seattle residents have campaigned for anexpanded monorail system through downtown Seattle tohelp cure traffic congestion, and on Tuesday, voters wereapproving a plan to finance the $1.7 billion projectthrough increased vehicle license fees.

Voters in two states were split on whether to banish

bilingual education programs in favor of full-immersionEnglish instruction. In Massachusetts, English won overSpanish by about a 2-to-1 margin, while voters inColorado were turning down a similar proposal by a slimmargin. In past years, California and Arizona had rejectedbilingual education; Massachusetts becomes the thirdstate to do it.

A proposal to quadruple the tax on a pack of cigarettesto 72 cents, an effort to deter smoking, was trailing amongMissouri voters, while a ban on smoking in all workplaces— with few exceptions, including stand-alone bars —won by a more than 2-to-1 margin in Florida.

To stem the flow of college graduates fleeing NorthDakota, voters there considered whether to reimbursethem up to $5,000 in college tuition — and offer a $5,000tax credit over five years — if the students found employ-ment in the state; in early returns, the proposal was trail-ing.

A proposed constitutional amendment in Nevadato require that marriages be recognized only betweena man and a woman was being approved in earlyresults. Critics said constitutional language wasunnecessary because state law already bans same-sexmarriages.

An effort in Nevada to legalize

possession of up to 3 ounces of

marijuana was being defeated by a

nearly 2-to-1 margin. Voters in

Arizona were similarly rejecting a

proposal to lessen the crime for

possession of marijuana. South

Dakota voters were rejecting a

measure to allow farmers to grow

hemp for industrial purposes — an

idea opposed by law enforcement.

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MIAMI (Washington Post) — Florida RepublicanGov. Jeb Bush swept to a convincing re-elec-tion victory Tuesday night, defeatingDemocrat Bill McBride in a race that res-urrected leftover grudges from the 2000presidential election quagmire and fore-shadowed the partisan war to come in2004.

The Bush family political dynasty was inevidence throughout election night. Bush’sfather, former president George Bush,introduced him at a raucous victory cele-bration, drawing cheers from a huge, sign-waving crowd at the Renaissance Hotel indowntown. Jeb Bush later thanked hisbrother, President George W. Bush, for“lending a hand to his little brother” dur-ing the campaign.

Jeb Bush told the crowd that he wouldwork to strengthen the state’s economyand improve its schools.

“I want to create a climate where strongfamilies can prevail,” Bush said during abrief victory speech.

Bush voted early Tuesday in CoralGables, an upscale Miami suburb, emerg-ing from a polling place to see his firstname spelled out by a skywriter. Later, heand his wife, Columba, had dinner herewith his parents and waited for results.

National figures loomed over the race,at times obscuring the contestants. Thecampaign’s last weekend featured duelingappearances by former president BillClinton, who wooed voters for McBride,and by the governor’s brother, PresidentBush.

“It’s the kickoff for the 2004 campaign,”said Susan McManus, a political scientistat the University of South Florida.“Whoever wins the governor’s chair has abig impact. You’ve got the contacts, you’vegot the network built and you’ve got thebragging rights.”

The election was tracked by more than400 special poll monitors, including repre-sentatives of the Justice Department andseveral civil rights organizations, who dis-persed across Florida with cell phones andnotepads in anticipation of problems atthe polls. Democrats and Republicans sta-tioned hundreds of lawyers throughout thestate, recruiting them nationwide in antic-ipation of possible legal challenges. Thelawyers and the poll monitors were drawnto the state because of fears of a repeat ofthe calamitous Democratic primary inSeptember, when polls opened late, work-ers failed to arrive on time and numerousvoting machines malfunctioned.

Instead, they found a remarkablysmooth election. Polls opened on time,lines were manageable and most of thenew touch screen voting machines, whichreplaced paper ballots in several big coun-ties, functioned properly.

“Everybody’s pleased,” said MaryFrances Berry, chairwoman of the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights, which heldhearings on the 2000 presidential election

and sent monitors to watch the governor’srace Tuesday. “I don’t think the people inFlorida wanted Florida to continue to bethe butt of jokes.”

But, this being a Florida election, therewere some missteps. About half-dozen ofMiami-Dade County’s 700-plus precinctsreported problems with voting machines,with some registering votes for Bush aftervoters selected McBride.

At first, Reginald Smith, 26, said hethought Bush’s name kept popping up onhis screen because his forefinger was too

big, so he tried to touch McBride’s namewith his pinky. It still didn’t work.

“What’s the difference from paper tomachines?” Smith said. “I’d rather punch. Iknow who I punched for in 2000.”

Jeb Bush was the favorite in the racefrom the outset, but seemed to gain evenmore momentum in the campaign’s finalweeks when he launched repeated attacksabout the cost of McBride’s plan to reduceclass sizes in public schools. McBride triedto counter the attacks by accusing Bush ofinflating the cost of the class-size proposal

and running “the most dishonest cam-paign in modern Florida history.”

Bush cemented his front-runner statuswith endorsements from many of the state’smost prominent law enforcement agencies,giving him an edge on crime issues, whichranked as one of the top priorities withFlorida voters. McBride may have sufferedfrom relying too heavily on education as thecentral theme of his campaign, McManussaid, noting that two-thirds of Florida votersare either retirees or parents who do nothave children in public schools.

(L.A. Times) WASHINGTON — The Republicangains in Tuesday’s election testified to thetransformation of President Bush’s stand-ing with the American public in themonths since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

With his job approval rating approach-ing the midterm election as high as anypresident’s since John F. Kennedy’s in 1962,Bush threw himself into the campaign,gambling that he could transform his per-sonal popularity into congressional gainsfor the GOP.

His bet paid off, spectacularly. Bushmanaged a historic feat Tuesday night: Hehelped his party win seats in both cham-bers of Congress during his first midtermelection. Since the Civil War, the only otherpresident to achieve such a midtermsweep was Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934,when he was still basking in the glow of the100 days and the New Deal.

The GOP didn’t gain as much ground onCapitol Hill on Tuesday as Democrats didin 1934. And the Republican advance was-

n’t unqualified; Democrats pointed withpride at their recapture of the governor’soffices in big states such as Michigan,Illinois and Pennsylvania.

But the Democratic successes in thosestates couldn’t salve the disappointmentover the dramatic setbacks on Capitol Hill.Retaking the Senate and holding the Houseat a time when Americans were so uneasyabout the economy represents an enor-mous achievement for the GOP — and acritical missed chance for the Democrats.

“You have to look at it from their per-spective and say it was a blown opportuni-ty,” said Rep. Thomas M. Davis, R-Va.,chairman of the National RepublicanCongressional Committee.

The strong GOP showing, amid wide-spread uneasiness over the economy, isbound to produce intense finger-pointingfrom dissident Democrats who believe thecongressional leadership failed to define aclear alternative agenda to Bush’s, espe-cially on the economy.

“The most significant fact politically ofthe past 18 months has been the incapaci-ty of the Democratic Party to mount aneffective critique of the Bush economicprogram or to propose a meaningful alter-native to it,” said Bill Galston, a top domes-tic policy adviser to President Clinton.

Likewise, former Clinton campaignmanager James Carville declared on CNNon Tuesday night: “Part of the Democrats’problem is timidity.”

Tuesday’s Republicans gains were morea tilt than a tide; though they bucked thehistoric precedent, the GOP advances did-n’t approach the scale of the party’s break-through in 1994.

Yet because the parties have been sobalanced over the last half-decade, evensmall changes in the vote can trigger largetremors in Washington. The Republicangains in the Senate were modest, butbecause the Democrats held such a precar-ious majority to start, they were enough tomove the GOP back into control.

In a period when neither party hasestablished a lasting hold on the elec-torate, the new GOP majority will still besmall enough that Democrats can legiti-mately hope to recapture the chamber in2004. Yet in that next election Democratswill face the same challenge they did thisyear: a battlefield that favors Republicans.

Half of the 14 Democrats seekingreelection this fall ran in the “red” statesthat Bush won in 2000, as did all of theseven leading Democratic challengers.With Bush’s popularity high, theseDemocrats became extremely reluctant todisagree with the president; almost allendorsed his tax cut and his demand forcongressional authority to invade Iraq.

That made it tough for Democraticleaders to fashion an opposition agenda toBush in the Senate, since so many of the“red state” Democrats were reluctant tovote against the administration, or todevise a sharp critique of Bush’s record onthe campaign trail.

Newscom

Governor Jeb Bush, brother of President George Bush, won a convincing victory Tuesday in his bid for re-election in Florida.

Gov. Jeb Bush wins a convincing victory in Florida

Missed opportunities bode ill for Democratic party’s prospects


(Newsday) — New York Gov.George Pataki, who came topower eight years ago as a classicconservative but veered left towoo adversaries, Tuesday easilywon a third term, quashing H.Carl McCall’s Democratic chal-lenge.

In the most expensive race inNew York State history, Patakimined his post-Sept. 11 populari-ty and cleverly dispensed thestate’s financial resources, whileMcCall, the state comptroller,never overcame meager fund-raising and disjointed campaignstrategy.

With two-thirds of theprecincts reporting Tuesdaynight, the Republican governorwas maintaining a comfortablelead over McCall, who was tryingto become the state’s first blackgovernor.

The GOP victory, whichincluded Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue,extends Pataki’s tenure at least aslong as the reign of Mario Cuomo,the Democrat he deposed in1994.

The governor’s coattails, how-ever, did not trail all the waybeyond his running mate, offer-ing the Democratic party somesalve in this otherwise disap-pointing year. As expected,Democratic Attorney GeneralEliot Spitzer dispensed with DoraIrizarry, a Court of Claims judgeunknown in state politics.

The Pataki victory had beenpredicted in poll after poll, but hissupporters considered the win animportant endorsement of thegovernor’s first two terms and anaffirmation that New Yorkers trust

him to lead them through dire fis-cal times ahead.

McCall, whose performancewas appearing precariously closeto the poorest Democratic show-ing in modern times, concededdefeat in a call to the governor.

Pataki’s win also seemed toprove the pragmatism of hismetamorphosis. From laborunions to Hispanics, Democraticmayors to a gay rights group, hedeprived McCall of traction, evenin heavily Democratic New YorkCity. His prospects there wereaided by his steady performanceafter the terrorist attacks. Andthough approval ratings dwin-dled and polls showed a largenumber of New Yorkers unhappywith the direction the state isheading, Pataki sailed above it,cutting ribbons and promisingbetter times.

Upstate, too, where the ailingeconomy could have been turnedagainst him, Pataki deflatedMcCall, as well as Independencecandidate Tom Golisano, whoused his vast wealth to saturatethe airwaves with sensationalattack ads aimed at hisRepublican nemesis.

Democrats had welcomedGolisano into the race, predictingthat the billionaire making histhird gubernatorial run wouldpeel off Pataki’s conservativesupporters and boost McCall.Instead, pre-election pollsshowed Golisano drawing aboutequally from both candidates.

For all his money, more than$54 million on the race, Golisanocould not budge out of thirdplace and in the final days teased

that he might pull out. The episode, which culminat-

ed in a $1.5 million Sunday nightTV address, added a moment ofdrama to an otherwise ploddingcampaign. But it distracted votersfrom McCall’s efforts to mobilizesupport. Tuesday night Golisanowas nowhere near McCall or therecord for a third party candidate.

Golisano also helped makethis the most expensive race instate history and one of thecostliest non-presidential con-tests in the country: as of lateOctober, spending exceeded$118 million and was expectedto end up far higher. In thispricey, cut-throat climate,McCall’s defeat was yet anoth-er blow to the Democraticestablishment, which holds a 5to 3 enrollment edge, but wasunable to muster enoughmoney or enthusiasm arounda candidate who is the firstblack elected to statewideoffice and has one of the mostdistinguished resumes in thestate.

Instead of spending the sum-mer sharpening his attack onPataki, McCall had to fend off aprimary challenge by former fed-eral Housing Secretary AndrewCuomo. Cuomo’s campaignimploded and he withdrew aweek before the primary, but bythen McCall had virtually deplet-ed his treasury.

McCall was also sluggishresponding to revelations he usedofficial comptroller letterhead tolobby for jobs for relatives at com-panies in which the state investsits pension funds.

Pataki rolls to easy victory inNew York, claims a third term (L.A. Times) — Harvey L. Pitt, the

embattled chairman of theSecurities and ExchangeCommission, resigned under pres-sure late Tuesday after his latestmisstep left the White Houseembarrassed and unwilling to fightfor his future as the nation’s topmarkets regulator.

Pitt’s resignation ends a termmarked by repeated gaffes andcontroversies in a year when publictrust in financial markets has beenshaken by a steep slide in stockprices, widespread allegations ofWall Street misconduct and mas-sive corporate accounting scan-dals.

But the decision by the formerstar securities lawyer to depart alsocreates new complications for theSEC and the Bush administration.

The agency faces a huge work-load in negotiating Wall Streetreforms and implementing corpo-rate governance changes mandat-ed by Congress. Yet it is unclearhow quickly a new chairman canbe named by President Bush andconfirmed by the Senate, givenpartisan politics that Pitt helpedinflame in recent weeks.

In a letter to Bush on Tuesday,the 57-year-old Pitt said it is “withdeep regret that I have decided totender my resignation to you aschairman, and a member, of theSecurities and ExchangeCommission.

“The issues confronting ourcapital markets are enormous, andI am pleased I was able to play arole in starting to restore investorconfidence,” Pitt said.

“Unfortunately, the turmoil sur-rounding my chairmanship andthe agency makes it very difficultfor the commissioners and dedi-cated SEC staffers to perform their

critical assignments. Rather thanbe a burden to you or the agency, Ifeel it is in everyone’s best interest ifI step aside now, to allow theagency to continue the importantefforts we have started.”

In recent days, Washingtonsources have suggested severalpeople as possible successors toPitt. Among them: James Doty, aformer SEC general counsel;Michael Chertoff, an assistantattorney general at the JusticeDepartment; and Richard Breeden,who served as SEC chairman in theearly 1990s.

Pitt sparked a firestorm lastweek after it was revealed that hedid not share with the other fourSEC commissioners potentiallydamaging information aboutWilliam H. Webster, whom Pitt hadchampioned to be chairman of anew accounting-industry oversightboard.

Webster, a former federal judge,had served as a director of a smallWashington-based company thathad a run-in with its accountingfirm and has been sued by share-holders for fraud.

Webster told Pitt about theissues before the SEC voted onWebster’s appointment on Oct. 25.But Pitt did not inform the otherSEC commissioners. Webster wasconfirmed in a 3-2 vote, with theRepublican majority on the com-mission voting in favor and the twoDemocrats in opposition.

When the four other commis-sioners learned that Pitt had notshared the information aboutWebster, they demanded an inves-tigation. Meanwhile, keyDemocrats in Congress howled forPitt’s resignation, saying he hadwithheld potentially critical factsabout Webster.

Harvey Pitt resigns fromSEC chairmanship

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GOP declares shutout of Dems in Texas(Washington Post) AUSTIN, Texas —Buoyed by the intensive supportof President Bush, TexasRepublicans declared they hadstaved off the most aggressiveDemocratic challenge in years totheir iron grip on statewideoffices.

With about half the ballots andprecincts counted in the race forthe state’s open U.S. Senate seat,Texas Attorney General JohnCornyn, a Republican, held astrong lead — 56 percent to 43percent — over former DallasMayor Ron Kirk, the Democratwho hoped to become the firstAfrican American senator fromthe South since Reconstruction.Cornyn said he had won, but Kirkdeclined to concede defeat lateTuesday evening.

The seat, last held by aDemocrat 42 years ago whenLyndon B. Johnson was in theSenate, was vacated this year bythe retirement of Sen. PhilGramm, a staunchly conservativeRepublican.

In the race for governor of thenation’s second most-populousstate, Republican incumbentRick Perry, who succeededGeorge W. Bush after he becamepresident, held a commandinglead of nearly 20 percentagepoints over Democrat TonySanchez, a political novice andoil and banking mogul who triedto parlay his huge personal for-tune into becoming the state’sfirst Hispanic governor.

Perry declared victory early inthe evening after President Bushtelephoned to congratulate himon his apparent win. Sanchezalso refused to concede defeat.

In nearly every statewide race— for attorney general, landcommissioner, railway commis-sioner, comptroller, judges on thestate Supreme Court —Republicans appeared to beholding on — and in some cases,strengthening their hold onpower.

The results, if they held,seemed likely to be a harsh disap-pointment to Democrats, whohad high hopes for their ethnical-ly diverse “dream ticket” toppedby Kirk and Sanchez.

A computer glitch at pollingstations in Fort Worth that affect-ed about 270,000 ballots andother mishaps in voting aroundSan Antonio were expected todelay the final count forstatewide races.

Turnout Tuesday was muchheavier than in the last midtermelections, in 1998. That year, just32 percent of Texas voters, about3.7 million, cast ballots on whichBush, then a candidate for re-election as governor, headed thestatewide Republican ticket.

This year, more than 40 per-cent of Texas’s 12.5 million regis-tered voters were expected at thepolls.

The jump in turnout hadseemed to offer Kirk, a charis-matic candidate, at least a distantchance of an upset victory. Asmayor of Dallas for six years, Kirk,48, already enjoyed broad bipar-tisan support there, havingpatched up the city’s divisive racerelations and led a potent pro-business majority on the citycouncil. The Democrats’ hopewas that large numbers ofHispanics and blacks also would

back Kirk, confounding the poll-sters by voting for the first time.

But with most votes countedin Dallas, Kirk’s supposed strong-hold, the Democrat was runningbarely ahead of Cornyn. Andthere was little indication thatSanchez’s prodigious spendingon his gubernatorial campaign,which exceeded $60 million of hisown funds, had boostedDemocrats generally by drawingHispanic voters into the party’scolumn. About 30 percent of thestate population is Hispanic.

The Sanchez-Perry contestwas the most expensive guberna-torial election in the country thisyear and the costliest in Texashistory.

If the Democrats are stymied,it will be at least in part becauseof an all-out blitz by the WhiteHouse to ensure that PresidentBush would not be embarrassedin his home state.

Although Tuesday’s Texas bal-lot was the first in 22 years not tofeature the name Bush in a gen-eral election, the president madethree campaign trips to Texas tosupport Cornyn and other candi-dates. He also dispatched his vicepresident, his wife, his mother,his father and one of his closestadvisers, Karen Hughes, to stumpfor Cornyn.

Cornyn, 50, who beforebecoming attorney general was astate Supreme Court judge, ran acautious campaign, not strayingtoo far from the White House lineon any major issue. Moderate,mild-mannered and pro-busi-ness, he looked the part of a tra-ditional senator — tall, square-shouldered, white haired.

Citing shaky polls, voter news servicecalls off projections, creating frustrationWASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Votersand candidates anxious for earlyresults from Tuesday’s electionswere left hanging like chadswhen a key system used to pre-dict winners broke down.

As a result, a nation accus-tomed to hearing the networkspredict winners as soon as thepolls close was forced to dosomething unusual in the age ofinstant information: Wait for bal-lots to be counted.

Voter News Service, the mediaconsortium that conducts theexit polling used by the networksand Associated Press to projectwinners, said it “was not satisfiedwith the accuracy of today’s exitpoll analysis.”

The decision not to release thedata meant that many voterswent to bed Tuesday night notknowing who won a number ofclosely fought House and Senateraces.

The snafu was the latest for asystem that suffered a majorembarrassment — and cameunder scrutiny during congres-sional hearings — after makingthe wrong calls in Florida in the2000 presidential election. TheVNS data announced the electionfirst for Al Gore, then for GeorgeW. Bush, and finally said it wastoo close to call.

This year’s breakdown in theVNS exit poll system forced exec-utives, producers and anchors innetwork newsrooms to scrambleto implement back-up plans forthe night’s election program-ming.

“There’s no sin in actually

counting votes,” said CNNanchor Aaron Brown. “So if we allhave to hang back and see whatactually happened, there’s inher-ent drama in that, too.”

“It’s actually kind of refresh-ing,” said David King, a HarvardUniversity professor of publicpolicy who has studied the VNSoperation. “It makes the electionexperience more genuine. Now,they actually have to wait for realnumbers as opposed to statisticalsamples from questionablesources.”

“In 2000, we took heat — andrightfully so because we project-ed incorrectly,” said BarbaraLevin, communications directorfor NBC News. “In 2002, we’retaking our time because we wantto get it right.”

The exit polls not only identifywhom voters cast their ballots forbut provide information aboutvoters that help analysts call anelection. Some networks were,nonetheless, projecting winnersbased on their own analysis ofthe vote in precincts. But theglitch clearly slowed down pro-jections.

A representative of each of themedia outlets that make up VNS— Fox News Channel, ABC, NBC,CBS, Associated Press and CNN— learned about the problemwhile huddled around theirspeakerphones Tuesday after-noon.

“We got the report from thestatisticians that the computerswere having problems compilingthe votes,” said Bill Wheatley, vicepresident of NBC News. “There

was no debate, even. We just saidno.”

VNS had dispatched 30,000staffers to precincts all over thecountry, armed with a toll-freephone number to VNS headquar-ters in Brooklyn, N.Y., and aschedule to call in three timeswith fresh data.

Their accounts from precinctswere fed into the system. But theanalysis didn’t look right, saidTed Savaglio, VNS executivedirector.

“If a number looks much larg-er than it’s ever been in the past,then you know,” he said. “Youhave expectations and somebasis on which to base theresults.”

In the days leading up to theelection, VNS had been consis-tent and clear that its goal was tobe bug-free by the presidentialelection in 2004. VNS represen-tatives candidly said that ifthings went smoothly on thisElection Day, it would be abonus — but they weren’t count-ing on it.

“We were prepared for thepossibility that the processingand compilation of the exit polldata would not be satisfactory inorder for us to publish,” Savagliosaid.

ABC News executives actuallyplanned for VNS to stumble.

“In anticipation of this, werelied on our own field reportsand Associated Press tabulationof raw vote,” said spokeswomanCathie Levine. “Our goal all nightwas to be 100 percent accurateand reliable.”

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A mandate for change

HERALDTHIS COULD HAVE BEEN YOU

Brown students played a pivotal role in Tuesday’s election.The votes cast in Salomon and at the Brook Street firehouseassured Green Party candidate David Segal’s victory in the 1stWard city council election. Segal joins newly elected mayorDavid Cicilline ’83, another fresh face in city government whowas victorious Tuesday night.

On the local level in particular, residents of the East Sideand all of Providence elected candidates who promise tochange the old machine-based, backroom dealing ways ofcity government. We urge our newly elected representatives tohold true to their campaign promises and to make their pro-posed progressive ideas for running city government into areality.

Segal and the Democratic City Council have the opportuni-ty to pass the living wage ordinance that Segal focused hiscampaign on. As the council minority leader and a member ofthe Green Party, Segal stands in a unique position to spear-head the drive to pass the living wage ordinance, in its currentform, in a swift manner.

Students who made the effort to cast their vote on Tuesdaydecided the outcome of the hostly contested 1st Ward elec-tion. Brown students have proven to future candidates forthat position and other state-wide positions that their supportis pivotal. Candidates now realize that the Brown communitycan make or break their chances for success.

Students, who were so concientious to vote Tuesday andmake Brown’s voice heard all the way to City Hall, must notthink their political clout is gone just because election seasonis over. Brown students’ political responsibilities do not endon election day. They must watch the city’s, state’s andnation’s new leaders carefully, challenge them to uphold cam-paign promises and urge them to do good.

As the nation continues to struggle with the uncertaintiesof war, terrorism and the economy, it is more important thanever that citizens demand that their elected officials areaccountable after election day. It is normal for politicians toexpress deep concern and compassion for their constituentson and before an electon. We never hear of a politician whogoes door-to-door after an election. Students must compelltheir newly elected officials to defy that norm. It’s importantto hold the new officials accountable to their promises.

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Why is there no Ms. Brown University Pageant?Sponsoring male beauty pageants while decrying female pageants as sexist is a ludicrous double standard

MONDAY NIGHT, SENIOR GUYS FROMseveral campus organizations competedin Mr. Brown University, as one of the sen-ior class activities. They willingly baredtheir muscles (or lack thereof), ripped offtheir pants and strutted their stuff. Theaudience cheered them on,clapping, yelling and hootingthroughout the event. It waslight-hearted and all in goodfun; yet it was, indeed, a pag-eant. After the crowning, aquestion remained in mymind. Where was Ms. BrownUniversity?

The answer is obvious. Thisis Brown; if we put a femalepageant up on stage, cries of“exploitation” would ringacross campus. But the popu-lar anti-pageant sentimentamong women these daysstems from pure misconception aboutwhat goes on in them.

Women prancing around in swimsuitsand high heels — that’s probably one ofthe first images that comes to mind formost people when they think about pag-eants. But having participated in severalmyself, I know that what you see on televi-sion is somewhat different than what goeson behind the scenes. And there’s muchmore to pageants than crowns andevening gowns.

Not all pageants are “beauty pageants.”

Take the most well-known pageant, MissAmerica, for instance. Since 1945, it hasbeen a scholarship pageant, providingover $40 million in cash and tuition assis-tance to young women at the local, stateand national levels. But are these women

exploiting themselves to payfor college? Absolutely not. Ifanything, the participants inthis pageant must be well-rounded, intelligent, talentedand articulate. The purpose isto show off these empoweringqualities of women, not theirbodies. The fact that someviewers end up focused onthe swimsuit competition orthe appearance of the con-testants is a reflection only onthem, not the women thatparticipate.

However, it is somewhatunderstandable that people overlook themore valuable aspects of pageants. Afterall, the most important part, the inter-view (which counts for 40 percent of thepreliminary score that determines the top15), is not shown on television. In Brown’sversion of a pageant Monday night, theguys were asked simple questions:“What’s your favorite class at Brown?”and “Where would you take a girl on afirst date?” These are far from the type ofquestions asked in the Miss America pro-gram. Miss America contestants areasked about current events, politics andcontroversial issues. They can’t hesitate— they have to know their stuff. An easytask? For some, but many Brown students

I know can’t even handle a job interview,let alone a grilling on the state of worldaffairs.

The talent competition accounts foranother 30 percent of the preliminaryscore. Considering most of us will not goon to be professional performers after col-lege, opportunities for those of us in theperforming arts drop significantly. So,what’s wrong with letting women show-case talents that they have probably spenttheir whole life developing?

The fact that 70 percent of the pag-eant score is made up from the interviewand talent competitions probably stillwon’t convince many that pageantshighlight admirable qualities rather thanexploiting women. Though it comprisesonly 10 percent of a pageant score, theswimsuit competition most likely stilllingers in the back of your mind. Andyou ask, “How can women gettingjudged for walking back and forth onstage in bikinis not be exploitative ordemeaning?” The truth is that thisaspect of the competition probably stillremains part of the pageant purelybecause of tradition and entertainment.(What better way to boost ratings than toshow scantily clad women?) But doesthis one facet of the pageant necessarilymake it exploitative?

To answer this question, I’ll return toMonday night’s Mr. Brown Universitypageant. There was no swimsuit segmentin this pageant, but the guys oftenstripped down to their undies for the tal-ent competition — and even the eveningwear portion of the program. These men

chose to bare their bodies. Did anybodyaccuse Brown of exploiting these malestudents? No. Similarly, the women inpageants choose to participate in them.So why is a female’s choice to be in a pag-eant viewed as demeaning? Well, youcould possibly argue that the differencelies in the perspective of the spectator:the possibility that men watching theMiss America pageant might think dirtythoughts about a contestant’s bodyimplies exploitation. But if that’s thecase, then Mr. Brown University alsoconstitutes exploitation, for there wereplenty of girls making comments aboutcertain participants’ bodies (Not that Iwould ever do such a thing). Yet, even so,few people would say that Mondaynight’s pageant took advantage of orexploited the Brown boys.

So we’re left with a dilemma. When itcomes to showing some skin, men andwomen are held to different standards.Apparently for guys, taking off theirclothes is comical. It’s no big deal thatthey undress simply for laughs or enter-tainment. But for women, simply wearinga swimsuit for a pageant becomes a seri-ous issue of exploitation. I can’t explainwhy such a dichotomy exists, but some-thing tells me that it shouldn’t. Ratherthan denouncing pageants as demeaningtowards women, people should recognizethe positive side to these competitionsand question why other aspects deservesuch public disdain. And for those whoare still skeptical, follow the lead of ourMr. Brown University contestants, anddon’t knock it till you try it.

Camille Gerwin ’03 hails from Alabama,where true pageant contestants are bornand bred.

I DON’T KNOW IF IT IS THE CLASSES Ichoose or if Brown is just a section-happyschool, but either way, 50 percent of theclasses I’ve taken required section atten-dance. As best I can tell, some sections arecool, some provide excellent self-reflec-tion time (meaning you canzone out and nobody will getmad) and others are just horri-ble. I love a good section, amthankful for the kick-backones and have to reread thesyllabus each week to makesure attendance is mandatorybefore I can get the motivationto go to a bad section.

Usually, during those bor-ing, self reflecting meetings,you can do other classwork,maybe even eye-flirt withsomebody in the room orengage in some other form ofmindless exercise. But sometimes, whenyou run out of song lyrics to recite in yourhead and all other options are out, you endup completely at a loss. It was in one suchsection that I began to observe the differ-ent patterns I saw in people’s participationand began categorizing them accordingly.

Before I continue, I must give somecredit to Adam Stern ’06, whose list ofmale college student categories (“The fivecategories that classify college-age guys,”10/28) sent me on a categorizing rampage,leading to this article. Listed below aretypes of section attendees. Think aboutwhich group you fit into and then decide ifit is where you really want to be. Perhaps it

is time for a change?

The idea hijacker:It is very rare that I make a good point insection, but when I do, somebodyinevitably will raise their hand and

rephrase exactly what I’ve justsaid. These students are usual-ly involved in theater anddramatize the original state-ment. “Racism was definitely acentral issue,” becomes “Ibelieve that one of the most(quick glance around theroom) important issues (longdramatic pause) was racialdiscrimination.” Wild gesturesusually accompany suchrephrasing. I hope I’m not theonly one that sees throughthis. Sadly, however, the pro-fessor usually seems to simply

nod when the original thinker makes hispoint, but is ready to nominate therepeater for Ivy League student of the cen-tury, responding with a “Very well said.”Hijackers are the future copyright violatorsof the United States.

The pouncer:These people suck. They have done all thereading and are fully prepared to talk. Butinstead of saying something constructive,they wait until somebody messes up. Theinstant another student misspeaks, thepouncer’s hand flies up like a secondgrader out of his seat at the sound of thelunch bell. The pouncer starts his sen-tences by saying, “I feel like it is dangerousto say ...” or “It is problematic to claim ...”and proceeds to shred the original pointto pieces, suggesting that the problem

isn’t with the argument but with the origi-nal speaker.

Basically, pouncers like telling peoplehow wrong they are. For some strange rea-son, it seems that the pouncer and thehijacker are favorites of professors, whichtroubles me greatly. This is largely becauseI am frequently assaulted by both.

Lately, I have been trying to makefriends with pouncers outside of sectionso that they will be on my side. It isn’t coolto piss off a pouncer, as he will tear you up.

The ass talker:A close relative of the hijacker is the asstalker. I have never had a section that wasfree of these people, who have clearly notdone any of the reading, yet still insist onspeaking up. Without fail, they end uptalking out of their ass, using words suchas “agency” and “discourse.” If you hearsomebody in section use more than threefive-syllable words in a sentence, chancesare you are dealing with an ass talker.While more honest than the hijacker, theyare still a nuisance, especially when theymanage to fool the TA. They have, howev-er, been known to provide comic relief onoccasion, especially when a pouncercatches sight of them.

The silent partner/space cadet:Among the people that don’t ever do thereading, the silent partner is my favorite.Silent partners just sit there and know toshut up and avoid eye contact with theTA. If they didn’t do the reading, they’renot going to be so pompous as to assumethat we care what they have to say, or thatthey have any reason to talk. When I don’tread, I have the courtesy to become aspace cadet, drawing strange shapes on

my notebook and hoping I don’t getcalled on. Sometimes I see if I can writeout the entire lyrics to a song so that Ilook busy.

Occasionally, the space cadet will noticethat the TA is looking at him, which iswhen he goes for the reaction shot. Thereaction shot is a practiced art, executedwhen a more prepared student makes apoint. The cadet will immediately nod hishead in an attempt to appear as though heis following what is going on, or at othertimes, allow a flash of anger to enter hiseyes. If you bump into somebody at aparty who says they know you from sec-tion, yet you have no idea who they are,you can bet that they were a silent partner.

The good student:Ah, the student who does the reading andis original and articulate. I wish I fit in thiscategory, but any time I do the reading, Ican never effectively communicate what Iam trying to say. But those of you who canpull it off, bravo. I pretend to hate youbecause you make me look bad.Sometimes I wonder if good students havelives outside of school, and their existenceannoys me. But that isn’t fair. They aregood students. Sometimes they become asacrificial lamb for the parasitic pouncer,but I am sure the TA knows their name andsays “hi” to them in the street. My TAalmost ran me over with his car on ThayerStreet and still didn’t recognize me. Whenthe good student speaks, I don’t have tolook up to see who is talking because I rec-ognize their voice so damn well.

If anything I have said bothers you, per-haps you should write me a letter the nexttime you are bored in section. It may beyour only recourse.

Nick Noon ’05 asks that people don’t try tomake him look dumb in section. He doesthat all by himself and requires no help.

Breaking down student participation in sectionsBrown students can be neatly categorized by their performance in class discussions

CAMILLE GERWINBEYOND

THE BUBBLE

NICK NOONBROWN INTRUDER

SPORTS WEDNESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

NOVEMBER 6, 2002 · PAGE 16

BY BRETT ZARDAThe women’s soccer team lost 2-0Saturday afternoon in an away matchagainst the University of Pennsylvania.The Bears played a solid scoreless first halfand looked primed for a victory with 25minutes remaining.

The game turned sour in a hurry,though, when Penn was granted a penaltykick on a tough challenge inside the box.

“It looked like a 50-50 ball in the box,”said Co-Captain Kristin Nabb ’03. “Ourkeeper came up with the ball. There wasdefinitely contact, but it was a call [the ref-eree] didn’t have to make.”

Brown goalkeeper Sarah Gervais ‘04 wasinjured on the play and took several min-utes to collect herself before the penaltykick. From only 12 yards out, Gervais got ahand on the ball but was unable to makethe save.

Three minutes later, things went frombad to worse. A second goal for Penn allbut cemented its victory and pushedBrown’s Ivy League record to a disappoint-ing 0-5-1.

Brown’s record is not indicative, though,of the way the team has battled and hasremained optimistic in several close loss-es.

“Contrary to our record, we’re in everygame and we work hard,” Nabb said. “I’veconsidered this a great experience.”

The Bears will look for a silver lining tothe season in their final game Friday, athome, against Yale University. For the sen-iors, it will be an emotional climax to theircollege careers and a chance to end with avictory.

This weekend featured several upsets inboth college and pro football. The fol-lowing are some notes looking back onthe weekend.

Pats rock BledsoeDon’t you have to feel badly for Drew

Bledsoe? Theguy is throwingthe football bet-ter than anyother quarter-back this sea-son, and then heand his teamhave their oneperfectly badgame againstthe team thatspurned himand the over-achieving boy

wonder who replaced him. It must killthe guy.

It’s not that Brady’s not a good quar-terback or a good guy. He’s both. Buthe still has to drive Bledsoe nuts.Likeable as he is, he stole Bledsoe’sfranchise. Playing with ever-increas-ing poise and confidence, he did wellenough to keep his job and even win aSuper Bowl last year, all the whilebeing too charming, polite andrespectful to really be hated.

So Bledsoe was the stand-up guy. Hetook one for the team and graciouslymentored the golden boy of themoment, all the while biding his time’til next season when someone wouldgive him his deserved respect, let himthrow downfield and let him be a staragain.

The plan pretty much worked out toperfection, except that in the game thatreally mattered the most to him (I refuseto believe otherwise), everything wentwrong. Now even if the Bills win all therest of their games, Bledsoe’s still goingto feel sick every time he walks by aDunkin Donuts and sees Brady grinningover his breakfast sandwich in the win-dow poster. He’ll remember Week Ninewhen his long awaited redemptiongame turned into a nightmare and hehad to watch four touchdown passes flyoff the hand of cute, little Tom Brady.Tough break.

Hopefully Drew can take some solacein his 256 passing-yards lead over RichGannon and the rest of the NFL.

B.C. beats Notre DameThe Golden Eagles saved my pride, did-n’t they? One week after I predictedNotre Dame’s downfall only to watchthe team dismantle once-mightyFlorida State, the Irish almost got shutout at home, losing to a Boston Collegeteam still looking for its first conferencewin back home in the Big East. Anyonewho watched this game witnessed oneof the most miserably unlucky after-noons ever to befall a college footballteam. B.C. did its best Notre Dame imi-tation, using a big play defense andplenty of good luck to pull out a narrowwin.

Not only did Boston College giveNotre Dame a taste of its own medicine,but they also gave them every pill in thebottle. Notre Dame had been the fortu-nate beneficiary all season of turnoversthat scored points for an offense thatcouldn’t, but it never had a game hand-ed over to it as easily as the one it gavethe Golden Eagles on Saturday. TheIrish fumbled the ball seven times (los-

Fun weekend tobe a football fan

Yet another close loss for women’ssoccer, as winless Ivy season continues

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The women’s soccer team will close out its season on Friday night, at home, against Yale.

LUKE MEIERBOLTS AND NUTS

Controversy, falls plague Hepsfor women’s cross country

Two fencersfinish firstin seasonopener

BY MELISSA PERLMAN ’04The women’s cross country team finisheda disappointing seventh place at theHeptagonal Championships this pastweekend, and the Bears are still not com-pletely sure why.

Brown’s 171 points put it behind IvyLeague powerhouse Columbia Universityand a string of solid teams, including Yale,Cornell and Princeton universities.

Coach Rick Wemple believes the start ofthe race and lack of aggressiveness on thedownhill played a part in the Bears’ sub-par finish, he said.

“First, the starter was grossly incompe-tent,” Wemple said. “Two of our athletesfell down within 10 to 14 meters of thestarting line, and he didn’t fire the gun tocall them back. Second, three runnerswere afraid to lean forward on the downhills and let themselves go.”

Cross country races, where crowdedstarts are very common, require that if arunner falls within the first 100 meters ofthe start, the entire field be called back.According to Wemple, the starter put hishead down right after firing the gun.

Meredith Crocker ’05, who has been theBears’ top performer this season, wastripped from behind and fell flat out, caus-ing teammate Anya Davidson ’06 to tripand fall over her.

“That took our top performer out of thetop ten, which she very well could havebeen in,” Wemple said. “You are looking at13 points from Meredith because of herfalling.”

Despite her fall, Crocker was able tocatch up to and pass most of the field, fin-ishing in 23rd place, second for the team.

“At first I was mad,” Crocker said. “Butthen was like, ‘Okay, I have to catch up andget back up to the front.’ It was frustrating.I didn’t know if I could get back up where Ishould have been. I tried to make all up assoon as I could.”

Captain Rosie Woodford ’03 was theBears’ top finisher, in 18th place in a timeof 18:20. According to Wemple, Woodfordshowed that she is back to where she was ayear ago.

“She demonstrated that she is a bigmeet performer,” Wemple said.

Following Woodford and Crocker wasNora Sullivan ’06 in 36th place, JulieKomosinski ’05 in 51st, Anna Willard ’06 in65th, Kristin Ware ’04 in 68th and AnnieHatch ’06 in 78th.

Woodford blames the Bears’ finish on alot of bad luck.

“It was a tough day for us,” she said. “Ifelt how people dealt with the circum-stances were pretty good. I don’t think theycould have dealt with them any otherway.”

According to Woodford, the mostimportant thing is for the team to focus onthe next meet — Regionals.

“What happened at Heps happened,and it wasn’t our fault,” she said. “We are achampionship team. (Regionals) is our lastmeet, and there is no reason not to leave itall out there.”

Though Regionals is the qualifyingmeet for Nationals, Wemple and the Bearscannot help but accept that NCAAs are notin their future this season. The reason,according to Wemple, is that Columbia

see X-COUNTRY, page 8

In the first meet of the 2002-2003 sea-son, the Brown fencing team showedsigns of great potential at the annualpreseason individual “Big One” meet atSmith College on Saturday Nov. 2. TheBears had two first place finishers andeight top-ten finishers.

Paul Friedman ’03 took first place inmen’s saber, while Dan Dorsky ’05 camein third out of 46 competitors.

In men’s foil, John Wurzel ’05 came in29th and Ven Tadipatri ’04 came in 40th.

Adrian Martin ’06 took sixth in themen’s epee, while Brian Williams ’04came in 17th and Mike Krawcyznski ’05came in 26th out of 44 competitors.

Laura Brion ’04 came in fourth inwomen’s saber and Carmen Blackwell’03 took tenth place.

Competing in the panache for thefirst time were Lacey Gray ’06, who took22nd place, and Peiling Li ’06, who took31st place out of the 48 competitors.

The women’s epee squad had a strongshowing, placing three competitors inthe top-ten. Ruth Schneider ’06 was thetop finisher of the day, while fellowclassmate Lucy Walker ’06 took eighthplace. Also placing in the top-ten wasSophie Klein ’03, who took ninth place.

After the first round of pools, Schneider,Walker and Klein were undefeated.

— Brown Sports Informationsee MEIER, page 8

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