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BY PHILISSA CRAMERMore than 1,200 miles separate JamesKatz ’03 and Andy Golodny ’03, but theyare working for the same man — Sen.John Edwards, D-NC, one of nineDemocratic candidates for president.

Katz is a regional field coordinator forEdwards’ campaign in northwestern NewHampshire, and Golodny is a databasemanager in Edwards’ Iowa office.

Katz works to sign on new Edwardssupporters, who he said range from

everyday citizens to state assembly repre-sentatives.

“It’s the most basic grassroots level ofpolitics,” he said.

And Golodny is building and maintain-ing a list of voters and activists who canbe called on for support.

Both men had significant experienceworking for political campaigns in thepast. Golodny worked for Bill Bradleyduring his 2000 run for the Democraticpresidential nomination and for HillaryClinton’s 2000 senatorial race.

Katz said he researched potentialDemocratic candidates in one ofAssociate Professor of Political ScienceWendy Schiller’s seminars last year. Hecame to the conclusion that only Edwardscould unseat the current presidentialadministration.

“That isn’t a reason to work for some-one,” Katz said. “It’s a reason to vote forsomeone.”

But when Katz heard Edwards speak insupport of New Hampshire gubernatorialcandidate Jean Shaheen in 2002, the sen-ator’s ability to bring a crowd of 600“Democratic faithfuls” to their feetinspired him.

Golodny also said he decided to workfor Edwards’ campaign after careful con-sideration.

“I was attracted to his youthful image,”he said, as well as a proposed policy thatwould subsidize students’ first years at

public colleges and universities in returnfor service.

Katz was active in Brown CollegeDemocrats, serving as acting presidentfor one semester, and worked on severalcampaigns in Rhode Island.

But he said his work as rush chair forAlpha Epsilon Pi gave him the best expe-rience for his current work.

“The work of selling an idea to peopleis a unique skill that I wouldn’t have oth-erwise learned,” Katz said.

Katz said Edwards’ leadership is mag-netic, pointing to an outdoor rally twoweeks ago where 200 participants — fourtimes the number expected — showedup. Even though it was dark and cold,Katz said, nearly 50 people stayed afterthe speech to talk about what they hadjust seen.

“That was when I knew we were doingsomething special,” he said.

Golodny was also originally assignedto work in New Hampshire but wasswitched at the last moment, a move hesaid has allowed him to experience a newregion.

“We have nothing like the Iowa StateFair in the Northeast,” he said.

Golodny said his experience brings tolife his studies as a political science con-centrator at Brown.

“(The office is) very War Room-like, or

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Undergroundwill reopen as abar in OctoberBY LISA MANDLEThe Underground will reopen as an 18-and-over pub on Friday and Saturdaynights by the beginning of October. TheHourglass Café will use the space for theremaining nights of the week beginningthis month.

Previously a popular bar in the lowerlevel of Faunce House, the Undergroundwas closed by the Office of Student Lifelast October amid concerns of underagedrinking. It reopened in March as a 21-and-over pub but has remained closed sofar this fall.

Once again, the Underground will belicensed as a “private club,” allowing it toserve beer and wine to members of theBrown community, said Director ofStudent Activities David Inman.

The Underground will reopen by thefirst weekend of October when it findssomeone to serve as overseeing manager,said Leslie Friedman ’04, general manag-er for the Underground.

“The University feels having (a manag-er) who is not an undergrad will get rid ofconcerns about underage drinking,” shesaid.

The overseeing manager will be some-one with five years of bartending experi-ence and an undergraduate degree,Friedman said. An undergraduate degreeis necessary because they want a manag-

Students protestracial profilingsince Sept. 11BY LOUIS TEE“On September 12, United We Stand,”read the first placard raised by membersof Brown’s South Asian Women’sCollective, which staged a silent demon-stration Friday against racial profiling.

Ten students from the 30-membergroup congregated on the steps of FaunceHouse for almost two hours to urge sup-port for racial minorities, who groupmembers said have been mistreated sincethe Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

“I personally know people who werephysically and verbally assaulted” follow-ing Sept. 11, said organizer NehaMehrotra ’05. Hearing their storiesprompted Mehrotra to organize theprotest, which was planned for a day that“symbolizes the aftermath of 9-11,” shesaid.

Amita Manghanhi ’03, who co-organ-ized the protest, said SAWC principallyobjects to the “unconstitutional deporta-tions and detentions” with which the U.S.government responded to Sept. 11.

Protesters also criticized the October2001 Patriot Act, which expanded theintelligence-gathering powers of federalauthorities.

Demonstrators said the Patriot Actthreatens the rights and privacy of peopleliving in America.

“I disagree with the direction the coun-try is headed,” said demonstrator BharatiKalasapudi ’07. “It’s becoming a ‘BigBrother’-like state.”

Fears of diminishing civil liberties pro-voked a number of onlookers to join theprotest. Matt Hamilton ’05, a member ofFaith-Based Activists, said he chose totake part because his group focuses ondiversity and liberty.

“I’m worried about the slow erosion ofreligious freedom” in the United States, hesaid, citing the intimidation that has pre-vented some Muslims from worshippingin mosques since Sept. 11.

Hamilton said Faith-Based Activistsnow plans to work with SAWC to raiseawareness about religious and racial dis-crimination.

BY SUV BOSEEven incarceration can’t keep formermayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci out ofthe spotlight.

“The Prince of Providence,” a book byProvidence Journal reporter MikeStanton, has been a fixture on the NewYork Times bestseller list since itsrelease in August. There’s even talk of aCianci-inspired movie.

Stanton spoke about the infamousformer mayor and read from “ThePrince of Providence” Saturday after-noon in Starr Auditorium.

An account of true stories and inte-grated perspectives, Stanton’s bookexamines the life of Cianci, who was

convicted of racketeering in June 2002.“The book tells the good, bad and the

ugly of Providence,” Stanton said.“Providence was a smudge on the high-way to Cape Cod,” he said, reflecting onhis childhood memories of the city.

Stanton’s audience laughed with himas he read passages from his book, illus-trating the duality of a man consideredby locals to be both a villain and a hero.“He offered unemployed men jobs in hisoffice and helped the elderly cash theirsocial security checks,” Stanton said. Yethe was also imprisoned in the 1980s forassaulting his estranged wife’s lover.

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Student members of Brown’s South Asian Women’s Collective protested racial profiling.

Recent U. grads work for John Edwards

“Buddy” still in the media spotlight

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Lack of guidanceleads to call for searchof Native Americanfaculty memberpage 3

First Dump and Runsale over the weekendfeatures 400,000discarded itemspage 3

Brian Rainey ’04 saysLGBT communitiesmust fight backlash togay rights advancescolumn, page 7

M. soccer claimsweekend of victories,defeating Stanford andWisconsin sports, page 8

Field hockey wins firstgames of the seasonagainst the Big Greenand BUsports column, page 8

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BY AMY GOINSThe Main Green was littered with junk onFriday, but as the well-worn saying goes,one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

The junk in question was part of thefirst Dump and Run yard sale, co-spon-sored by the Swearer Center and the StaffAdvisory Committee. With over 400,000leftover items collected from Dump andRun boxes placed around campus as stu-dents moved out of their dorms lastspring, the sale was managed by volun-teers from student organizations and localgroups, including the BrownEnvironmental Action Network and thewomen’s rugby team.

In return for their help, the nine groupsthat participated will each receive a shareof the sale’s profits. According to the sale’spublicity materials, proceeds will alsobenefit Providence Science Outreach, aSwearer Center Program.

The yard sale featured a wide variety ofitems, ranging from the typical textbooks,appliances and Rubbermaid containers tooddities like a Thigh-Master, an Easy-BakeOven and a stack of crutches. The piled-high tables drew shoppers at 10 a.m., anhour before the sale officially began.

As of Saturday, the final destination ofunsold items had yet to be determined,said Ana Lyman ’04, one of the coordina-tors of the event. She said she expectsmost of the leftover clothing will go tocharity.

BY ALEJANDRO GOLDINGMany Native American students areeager to take any courses about theheritage and future of their people.But one course rubbed students thewrong way, not for its content, but itstitle — “From Coyotes to Casinos.”

Students saw the name of thecourse as emblematic of the prob-lems caused by non-Native Americanprofessors teaching Native Americanstudies courses, and the reasonBrown needs a Native American pro-fessor, both to teach courses andserve as a mentor for Brown’s 30Native American students.

Evelyn Hu-Dehart, director of theCenter for Race and Ethnicity inAmerica, sympathized with the stu-dents complaints.

“There is nothing we can do withthe name of the course,” she said. “Itis not my place to tell the professor tochange it.”

But what she could do is push,along with the group NativeAmericans at Brown, for theUniversity to hire a Native American

Search for NativeAmerican prof.to begin soon

Dump and Run sells junk, raises money

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The Main Green was covered with used goods and students buying it on Friday.

er who understands the under-graduate experience, she said.

Except for the overseeingmanager, the Underground willcontinue to be staffed by Brownstudents, said Dean for CampusLife Margaret Jablonski.

When it reopens, theUnderground will be completelynon-smoking, Friedman said.

“That’s sad because there arevery few places where you cansmoke,” Friedman said.“Smoking was something thatwas a draw, but it’ll never goback.”

Underground staff will use acard-swipe machine that willdisplay a person’s age in years,

as well as a back-up printed listof names, Inman said. Studentswill also need a valid driver’slicense as required by RhodeIsland law, he said.

Underage students will beallowed into the bar, but will notbe allowed to purchase alcohol,Inman said.

Under the current plan, theUnderground will be open from6 p.m. to 1 a.m. Friday andSaturday nights, Friedman said.

She said Underground man-agement was told last springthat they would be able to oper-ate Thursday through Saturdaynights, but this agreement waschanged when she got back oncampus this fall.

“Thursday was the most pop-ular night,” she said. “We’recampaigning for Thursday nightnext semester.”

The Office of Student Lifeagreed to move the HourglassCafé from its Bear’s Lair locationafter Café student volunteersproposed the idea at a meetingof the Undergraduate Council ofStudents.

The Hourglass Café is set toopen next Sunday in its newspace, said General ManagerStefanie McGowan ’04. It will beopen Sunday through Thursdayfrom 6 p.m. to midnight, she said.

“We want the Hourglass Caféto be the student center wedon’t have,” said Site ManagerDavid Lee ’05.

The café will serve bubble teain addition to fair trade bever-ages, pastries and vegetarianburritos, McGowan said. Allprofits go to OxfamInternational, she said.

Patrons receive a 10 percentdiscount for bringing their ownsilverware and mugs, McGowansaid. The Hourglass Café wouldlike to eventually providereusable serving ware, butunder state code the café wouldhave to have three sinks, which

is not currently feasible, shesaid.

Both groups said sharing alocation will be a challenge, butthey are trying to accommodateeach other as much as possible.

If the Underground is allowedto open on Thursday nights, itwould force the Hourglass Caféto reduce its operating week,Friedman said. “It puts us in areally unfortunate position,” shesaid.

In order to create an inter-changeable pub and café atmos-phere, some changes will bemade to the space. TheHourglass Café will bring newchairs and a refrigerator,McGowan said. Tablecloths, artwork and couches may also beadded during the café’s hours ofoperation, she said.

“Hopefully we’ll be able tokeep up the neon lights,” saidFriedman.

Managers of both theHourglass Café and theUnderground said they areexcited about the use of thespace for performances. TheHourglass Café will host openmic nights on Thursdays andhas scheduled a speaker to talkabout fair trade goods,McGowan said. A cappellagroups from Brown are expectedto perform during the café’sopening night, she said.

The Underground plans tohave musical entertainmentevery night and has alreadybooked bands including GruvisMalt, Kenin, Holiday and Zox,Friedman said. Managers areplanning to book many Brownbands as well, she said.

“The Underground is one offew places where students canplay or see their friends play,”she said.

Herald senior staff writer LisaMandle ’06 can be reached [email protected].

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Stanton has received nationalacclaim for his book, which hespent the better part of two yearswriting. While doing research forthe book, Stanton said he spent agood deal of time with Cianci. Hesaid the former mayor wasfamous for his relationship withRaymond Patriarca, a long-timeboss of Mafia rackets inMassachusetts and RhodeIsland, before taking office.

“He knew how to cut deals andcut corners and did what heneeded to get things done” saidStanton of Cianci.

The audience for Stanton’stalk and book-signing includedlocals who could relate to theCianci-era of politics inProvidence and Brown studentsunfamiliar with the history ofwhat Stanton called “the capitalof New England’s Mafia.”

Stanton entertained com-ments from the audience andanswered questions about therelationship between local andnational politics.

“I think the public enjoysinteresting characters when itcomes to politics and it is some-thing we notice in presidentialcampaigns,” he said, comparingthe two.

Stanton said Brown studentsalso appreciated the former

mayor’s antics.“He’d often pardon parking

tickets for graduating seniorsand spent a lot of time on top ofthe hill,” he said.

Even movie executives havebeen captivated by the colorfulmayor’s story. Stanton said theprocess of choosing a screen-writer for a film based on thebiography is underway.

“The story of Buddy Cianci isdefinitely a roller-coaster saga,”he said.

When asked what actors hethought could play Cianci,Stanton smiled and said, “I’m notsure who would fit the part thebest, but I’m sure Buddy wouldsay Buddy should play Buddy,and I can’t say I disagree.”


Buddy

Several shoppers at Friday’s“Dump and Run” yard sale on theMain Green also expressed supportfor SAWC’s position. Alison Singer’07 said she would participate insimilar protests in the future.

“It is important to celebratediversity in a community. Thisdemonstration has caught peo-ple’s attention and it gets youthinking,” she said.

Friday’s demonstration wasthe first of several SAWC intendsto organize throughout the year,Mehrotra said.


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on the West Wing,” he said. “It’sbusy, and there are peoplemilling about and phones ring-ing.”

Katz said the demandingnature of the job does not

detract from his satisfaction“It’s long hours, it’s hard

work, but if you’re doing it forsomeone and some cause youreally believe in, then it’s worth-while and fulfilling,” Katz said.

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


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Pope concludes difficult Slovakia trip BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (Los Angeles Times) — A greatly dimin-ished Pope John Paul II concluded his 102nd trip abroadSunday, an agonizing, four-day mission to Slovakia duringwhich he was unable to complete a single sermon orspeech.

Weeks shy of marking 25 years as pope, John Paul’sweakened condition revived speculation that this maywell be the last time he travels outside of Italy — athought on the minds of thousands of pilgrims whoarrived here from neighboring Poland and Hungary to joinSlovaks in worship of the head of the Roman CatholicChurch.

On Sunday, the pope presided over an open-air Massunder clear, sunny skies before about 200,000 faithful andhonored two communist-era martyrs, a nun and a bishop,placing them in the running for sainthood.

Seated before a massive crucifix, on a stage laid beforea warren of concrete apartment blocks, the pope’s voicestarted relatively strong. But by the end of the ceremonynearly three hours later, he spoke in little more than awhisper and handed off the bulk of his prepared remarksto another cleric.

In the final passages, where he was to greet worshipersin seven different languages, he could only get halfwaythrough.

“I thank God because you have been able to safeguard,even in difficult times, your fidelity to Christ and to hischurch,” the pope told the people of Slovakia, a formerlycommunist land where Christian leaders endured harshpersecution.“I exhort you: Never be ashamed of theGospel.”

Repeatedly during his public appearances in Slovakia,the pope faltered, slurred words, appeared out of breathand had to hand off to aides. Nonetheless, crowds cheeredhim.“Nech zije svaty otec,” they chanted: Long live theHoly Father.

At 83 and afflicted with debilitating Parkinson’s disease,the pope has been in poor health for some time, withpeaks and valleys and much speculation over whether hecan continue to travel.

By all accounts, it is the pope’s unbending determina-tion that keeps him on the road. He sees the public evi-dence of his physical suffering to be part of the messageand part of his duty.

“How can you say what is ‘last’ with John Paul II?” saidCardinal Josef Tomko, a Slovak who is considered close tothe pope.“He always has his surprises.”

The chief Vatican spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls,said Sunday he strongly doubted that this would be thelast papal voyage.

“Knowing the Holy Father, I think it is very difficult tosay that this will be the last trip of his pontificate,” Navarrosaid. Already, the Vatican has received invitations fromAustria, France and the pope’s native Poland, all of whichare being considered seriously, Navarro said.

He added that the pope’s infirmities do not hamper hisability to serve.

Powell discusses politicaltransition with Iraqi leadersBAGHDAD, Iraq (Los Angeles Times) — In a reflection of thegrowing role of State Department diplomacy in craftingpostwar strategy, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell metSunday with emerging Iraqi leaders on his first visit toBaghdad to discuss the next phase of the difficult politi-cal transition.

Powell repeatedly stressed that the United Stateswould have “no greater honor” than turning over fullauthority to the Iraqi people as soon as several steps,including a new constitution and elections, were fin-ished. “We’re not hanging on for the sake of hanging on,”he told a news conference after a full day of talks.

But Powell’s three-day diplomatic blitz in Geneva andIraq has been dogged by conflicts and uncertainty —among veto-wielding U.N. members and among Iraqis— over how and how quickly the transition can beachieved given a host of problems that have effectivelycreated a Catch-22.

After lunch with Powell, Iraqi Foreign Minister HosyarZubari said Iraqis wanted independence and a return ofsovereignty “as soon as possible.” He added, however, thatthe governing council saw “eye-to-eye” with the U.S.-ledCoalition Provisional Authority on the possibility of a han-dover by the middle or end of next year, which echoed

comments of other U.S.-appointed officials on the council. The handover, Zubari said, will depend on the securi-

ty situation, which now seems an open-ended problem.“This is a transitional period and we need to see the newIraq stable, peaceful, prosperous” before resuming fullauthority.

The dangers and dilemma were underscored by thedeath Sunday of another U.S. soldier en route toFallujah, about 30 miles west of Baghdad, just an hourbefore Powell’s arrival, amid tight security on U.S. mili-tary transport from Kuwait.

Powell is increasingly being brought back into theprocess of sorting out the transition, which also repre-sents the beginning of an exit strategy for the UnitedStates. For the past five months, the Pentagon dominat-ed the postwar discussions, often ignoring StateDepartment plans. That sparked an interagency battleleading to mixed results on the ground.

“We have more and more of a role,” a senior StateDepartment official in Baghdad said. “It’s more of anevolution than a shift. After the war, the president isgoing back to his foreign-policy agenda.”

But he acknowledged, “It’s a reflection of the situationwe’re in.”

N. Korea shifts slightly toward capitalism SEOUL (Washington Post) — On the thoroughfares ofPyongyang, the North Korean capital, five remarkableroadside billboards are scheduled to go up later thismonth. In one, a young man will stare out with an expres-sion of wonder once reserved for official posters of NorthKoreans gazing upon their leader, Kim Jong Il. This time,the object of awe will instead be a shiny new Fiat.

The billboards are part of what is being dubbed the firstcorporate media blitz to hit North Korea. PyeonghwaMotors Corp. — a South Korean company with close tiesto the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church —coaxed the North Korean government this year into amajor break with its communist doctrine: the launch of acapitalist marketing campaign. Pyeonghwa began assem-bling cars in North Korea 18 months ago using importedFiat parts.

Creating an ad campaign acceptable to North Koreanofficials wasn’t easy, said John Kim, the company’s directorof general affairs. “We had to work closely with the govern-ment, and they kept on rejecting ads ... because theylooked too much like we were trying to sell something.”

The company has already begun publishing ads in gov-ernment-sponsored trade magazines showcasing the slickWhistle sedan, named after a popular North Korean song,as well as a new, roomier SUV model. Several months ago,the company began running a seven-minute infomercialon government-controlled TV depicting studious NorthKoreans test-driving a Whistle and inspecting the compa-ny’s North Korean assembly plant, according to

Pyeonghwa executives and independent observers whohave seen the magazine ads and TV spots.

“The nuclear issue with North Korea is clouding thesigns of recent progress in the North’s economic opening,”said Park Chan Bong, South Korea’s deputy assistant min-ister for unification policy. “They have been movingtoward change, and, we believe, they are now movingquicker still.”

Even as North Korea has belligerently confronted theWest with threats to become the world’s newest nuclearpower, foreign business leaders, political analysts andSouth Korean officials say the government has been quiet-ly taking bold steps to deepen a nascent foray into capital-ism.

Although virtually no one — except Pyeonghwa Motors— is predicting huge sales in a nation where most adultscan’t drive and where it would take an average citizenabout 15 years’ salary to afford one of the $14,000 cars, thefact that the North Koreans have allowed the ad campaignis being seen by many observers as a breakthrough.

The North Koreans, aware of their withering economy,began taking steps toward economic reform in July 2002.The government started permitting some food markets tosell groceries and cooking materials without fixed govern-ment prices. In doing so, it abandoned a key tenet of com-munism and for the first time let the market determineprices. That sparked a serious bout of rising prices that,experts say, has been only partly offset by across-the-board wage increases.

(L.A. Times) — Gray Davis is far from popu-lar. But with the recall campaign at its mid-way point, a substantial portion ofCalifornians — perhaps enough to savethe governor’s career — appears to havecome around to the argument that theeffort to oust him violates basic standardsof fair play.

“I don’t think someone should be votedout of office because the voters don’t likethem any more,” said Barbara Pavey, aRepublican from Hollywood. “It’s petu-lant.”

That, in a nutshell, is what has becomethe main rationale against the recall: Evenif you don’t like Davis, he has done nothingso terrible that it justifies such a drasticact. A recent Los Angeles Times pollshowed the view had been embraced byroughly half of California voters, mostlyDemocrats, but many independents and afew Republicans too. Davis needs justmore than 50 percent of the vote on Oct. 7to stay in office.

Other arguments exist, of course. Manyopponents of the recall cite specific issueson which they prefer a Democratic gover-nor. Labor unions point to laws protectingworkers, conservationists single out envi-ronmental laws, civil rights advocates

point to measures that aid minorities.Other recall opponents say they flirtedwith supporting the measure, but decidednone of the candidates to replace Davispromised a clear improvement.

For most, however, the case against therecall rests on an elaboration of Pavey’sobjection: The Oct. 7 recall is baldly parti-san, threatens the civility that allowsAmerican democracy to work, has becomea “circus” that mocks the electoral process,is inherently undemocratic and hasexposed serious flaws in a nearly century-old law that had never before been put tothe test.

The opposition reprises many of thearguments made against the impeach-ment of President Clinton. “That’s reallywhat a recall is, it’s an impeachment,” saidUniversity of Southern California law pro-fessor Erwin Chemerinsky, who helpeddraft a constitutional amendment thatwould revise California’s recall statute.

Just as in the Clinton impeachment, therecall campaign has aroused strong feel-ings and considerable bitterness on bothsides.

Many critics of the recall point out thelaw allows citizens to attempt to recall anelected official for any reason, no matterhow petty or grave.

And just as in the impeachment fight,the perceived faults in the recall processhave given many Democrats an argumentfor supporting a leader despite what theysee as his fundamental flaws.

For many recall opponents, the voteshould not be taken as a referendum onDavis’ record. Many agree with backersof the recall that Davis bungledCalifornia’s electricity crisis, spent thestate into a $38 billion budget hole anddevoted himself more to fundraisingthan to governance. Their point: It does-n’t matter.

The governor broke no laws, and thosewho want to oust him had their chancelast November, when he won re-electionover Republican Bill Simon Jr., these recallopponents say.

“We elected him,” said Susan Gerson,56, an independent from the SanFrancisco Bay area. “It was not that longago, and if these guys didn’t want him in,they should have done something then.”

Davis himself sketches the recall effortin starkly partisan terms, drawing a linedirectly from the Clinton impeachment tothe current California campaign.

“This recall is bigger than California,”the governor said in a speech at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles lastmonth that kicked off his fight for survival.“What’s happening here is part of an ongo-ing national effort to steal electionsRepublicans cannot win.”

This effort, Davis said, “started with theimpeachment of President Clinton whenRepublicans could not beat him in 1996. Itcontinued in Florida, where they stoppedthe vote count (in 2000), depriving thou-sands of Americans of the right to vote.” Ithas continued, he said, in redistrictingfights in Colorado and Texas, and in “thisrecall to seize control of California justbefore the next presidential election.”

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WASHINGTON (L.A. Times) — Vice PresidentDick Cheney, a leading advocate of thewar in Iraq rarely heard in the publicdebate, on Sunday strongly defended hisprewar claims that Iraq posed a chemical,biological and nuclear threat and that ithad links to al-Qaida.

Cheney joined other top figures in theBush administration in a growing effort todefend their Iraq policy, from the ration-ale for the invasion, to the way securityand reconstruction are being handled. Inrecent weeks, the president addressed thenation and top Cabinet officials includingDefense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld,and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell vis-ited Iraq.

Democrats and even someRepublicans have questioned the recon-struction effort, beset by ongoing vio-lence and a rising death toll amongAmerican soldiers and Iraqi civilians. InIraq on Sunday one U.S. soldier was killedand three others injured in the flashpointtown of Fallujah, a day after residentswielding guns pledged to avenge theshooting of nine Iraqi policemen byAmerican troops.

Cheney denied that U.S. troops havebecome “bogged down” in Iraq andpressed for funds to get “the job doneright here.” But even as the vice presidentpressed his explanation, leadingDemocrats, eyeing new polls showingpublic concerns about the price tag,called for a freeze on President Bush’s taxcuts to help defray the administration’srequest for another $87 billion to pay foroperations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In his comments on NBC’s “Meet ThePress,” Cheney was forceful in discussingweapons of mass destruction. SaddamHussein’s alleged possession of suchweapons was one of the main justifica-tions for the invasion, and Cheney hadstated the case in starker terms than anyother major administration figure.

“The whole notion that somehowthere’s nothing to the notion that SaddamHussein had or had developed WMD juststrikes me as fallacious,” Cheney on theshow. “Nobody drove into Baghdad andhad somebody say ‘Hey, there’s the build-ing where all of our WMDs are stored.’ Butthat’s not the way the system worked.”

Questioned by host Tim Russert,Cheney acknowledged that he had beenwrong to claim, as he did on “Meet thePress” before the war, that Iraq had recon-stituted its nuclear weapons.

“Yeah, I did misspeak,” Cheney said. “Isaid repeatedly during the show‘weapons capability.’ We never had anyevidence that (Saddam) had acquired anuclear weapon.”

Cheney said he believed David Kay, theCIA special adviser directing the hunt forweapons of mass destruction in Iraq,might well find evidence of chemical andother banned arms “buried inside(Saddam’s) civilian infrastructure.”

He cited the case of an Iraqi scientistwho came forward with plans and com-ponents for a centrifuge that could beused to process uranium for use innuclear weapons.

“That’s physical evidence that we’vegot in hand today,” Cheney said. “So to

suggest that there is no evidence that(Saddam) had aspirations to acquirenuclear weapons, I don’t think is valid.And I think David Kay will find more evi-dence ... that, in fact, (Saddam) had arobust plan, had previously worked on itand would work on it again.”

The materials the scientist turned overhad been buried since 1991, and are onlya small part of the equipment needed toproduce nuclear arms.

The inability to find banned weaponshas led critics to charge that the adminis-tration may have misread or even manip-ulated intelligence information.

Claims about Iraq’s nuclear programwere the source of a previous embarrass-ment for the administration. In January,Bush said in his State of the Union mes-sage that, according to British intelli-gence, Iraq had tried to acquire from anAfrican nation raw materials for a nuclearbomb. But it turned out that the CIAdeemed there was insufficient evidenceto make such an assertion. DirectorGeorge J. Tenet apologized for allowingthe claim to get into Bush’s speech.

Cheney dismissed speculation that hisintense interest in Iraq’s weapons haveresulted in pressure on U.S. intelligenceanalysts.

“I ask a hell of a lot of questions —that’s my job,” Cheney said.

But “I’m not willing at all ... to buy theproposition that somehow SaddamHussein was innocent and he had noWMD and some guy at the CIA, because Icalled him, cooked up a report saying hedid,” Cheney added. “That’s crazy.”

Cheney stands by claims Iraq had WMD, al-Qaida ties

Californians are losingenthusiasm for recalling Davis

Swedish voters reject euroSTOCKHOLM (Washington Post) — Sweden’svoters Sunday overwhelming rejectedadopting the common European currency,the euro, in a referendum overshadowedby the assassination last week of the coun-try’s popular, pro-European foreign minis-ter.

Near-complete results showed 56.1 per-cent of voters casting ballots against theeuro, and only 41.8 percent in favor, withturnout topping 80 percent. About 2 per-cent of the ballots were reported to beblank, confirming predictions that manySwedes might choose to cast their ballot asa show of support for democracy after theslaying of Anna Lindh, but were undecidedon the currency issue.

Political analysts and some weekendopinion polls suggested the stabbing ofLindh by an unknown assailant in aStockholm department store Wednesday,and her death the next day, might create alast-minute surge for the “yes” campaign.Lindh was one of the most prominent ofthe country’s pro-euro campaigners.

Twelve European nations have adoptedthe euro.

But the resounding “no” vote Sundayindicated Swedes were swayed by eco-nomics, not emotion. The huge margin ofthe rejection caught the government, andeven the leaders of the “no” campaign, by

surprise, with many predicting the out-come could slow Europe’s march to closerintegration and compel governments toconsult more with their populations.

“This is a landslide, really,” said LarsOhly, a leader of the Left party of formercommunists and a euro opponent. “This isa very mature way to vote. They are honor-ing Anna Lindh by taking part in the vote,but voting their conviction.”

He said the vote sent a message toSweden’s political elite, which backed join-ing the euro, and to the European Union’stop bureaucracy “to listen more to whatpeople really want” before taking furthersteps toward closer European economicand political ties.

Another prominent “no” campaigner,Per Gahrton, a Green Party member of theEuropean Parliament, said in an interviewat a boisterous victory party: “This is a sig-nal, I hope, to the Swedish government,and to the European elite, that thisEuropean project has to be less central-ized.... People are not against Europeanintegration — they are against centraliza-tion.”

Sweden has traditionally had a stand-offish attitude toward European integra-tion, only joining the European Union in1995, a year after a similarly divisive refer-endum.

on goalie Katie Noe ’05 and theBrown defense. Just seven min-utes later, Caitlin Barrett retaliat-ed with a chip shot from the topof the circle that went in high andleft. Dartmouth retained themomentum and forced a penaltystroke after Noe landed on theball in the circle. The shot missedand Brown seized the momentumback. With under eight minutes toplay in the first half Townsendonce again found the back of thenet recapturing the Bruno lead 2-1.

Coming out of the half Brownlooked as if it might pull away.After making a diving save ondefense, Buza pushed the ball upthe field. After a Dartmouthpenalty in the circle, Brown wasawarded a penalty corner. Buzasent a scorching shot from the topof the circle, but it was blocked bythe Dartmouth goalie. Once againTownsend was there to knock inthe rebound and complete herhat trick, giving Bruno a two-goallead.

Coach Norris, who movedTownsend from sweeper to for-

ward last week, remarked that“Brooke is in a zone right now.”

Less than a minute laterDartmouth narrowed the gap toone. The last 24 minutes of thegame were a constant battle backand forth between the Bears andthe Big Green. The Bears defensethough would not falter and heldoff Dartmouth advances snap-ping a three-year losing streak.

With most of the Bears startersracking up a full 70 minutes,fatigue played a factor in theSunday afternoon showdownagainst No. 17 Boston University.This was not the case. TheDartmouth victory acted as a cat-alyst for the Bears.

“We knew that we should (beatDartmouth) and when we did, itgave us the confidence we neededto come in and win again,” Buzasaid. “Winning becomes a habitand that is what our team is get-ting a habit for.”

Molly Carleton ’04 gave theBears an early lead eight minutesinto the game. Brown continuedto pressure BU and the pressurepaid off. Tess Belmont ’06 slippeda great pass behind a Bostondefender and Laura Kazavarjian’06 scored to give the Bears a 2-0lead.

While BU would score in thesecond half, the Bears shut thedoor on a BU comeback with acaptain-to-captain goal with 49seconds remaining in the game.Buza fed Laurel Pierpont ’04 andfollowing the goal the team erupt-ed with joy.

“We had nothing to lose andeverything to gain,” Norris said.“The pressure was on BU. It iseasy to come in as the underdog.”

Brown certainly did not playlike the underdog though, stiflingalmost all BU attempts to breakinto the circle.

“We did a really good job ofblocking free hits and clogging upthe midfield,” Buza said. “Whenwe lost the ball we blocked reallywell to prevent them from pene-trating.”

Even when BU did breakthrough Brown rose to the chal-lenge. Noe recorded six saves onthe day.

“The defense played well,”Norris said, noting “Katie Noe hadan outstanding game. She’s beenstruggling a little bit and todayshe stepped up to the challenge.”

Prior to this weekend Brownfelt that it would be competitivein the Ivy League this season, butfollowing the wins overDartmouth and BU, the team nowtruly believes it can challenge forthe title.

“We are really excited wherethe season is going. These winsgave us a huge boost of confi-dence,” said Buza.

News from around the leagueis also helping the Bears’ hopes.On Saturday Yale forced perennialpowerhouse Princeton into over-time before losing 5-4 and Pennalso forced Harvard into OT.

“Anybody is up for the leaguechampionship because the powerhouses aren’t dominating thisyear, the underdogs are givingthem a good run,” Buza said.

This was “one of the strongestweekends Brown field hockeyever had in the history of thesport,” said Norris.

Brown will face off againstRhode Island on Wednesday andVermont on Saturday before trav-eling to Harvard on September27.

Sports editor Maggie Haskins ’04covers field hockey. She can bereached at [email protected].

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Field hockey

professor.Although a formal search has

not yet begun, Hu-Dehart saidthe first phase of a search willcommence within the monthand a professor will be hiredwithin six months.

Since the departure of NativeAmerican research associateCraig Love two years ago, therehave been no faculty membersof Native American descent atBrown.

Many Native American stu-dents said Love was integral totheir overall well-being. Thetransition from life on a ruralreservation to an urban institu-tion like Brown is a difficultone, some students said.Having a faculty member ableto address their unique con-cerns was vital.

“Craig was the reason why westayed,” said Phillip Sanchez ’05.

Since Love’s departure, mem-bers of the student group NativeAmericans at Brown said therehas been a decline in the amountof attention paid to their cause.

“Craig designed courses and

programs but now they are dis-appearing,” said Deana Wagner’04, a member of NAB.

Wagner said the Center for theStudy of Race and Ethnicity inAmerica has been accommodat-ing to their needs but said “… allother ethnic studies staff arededicated to other projects.”

Hu-Dehart, herself a NativeAmerican Studies scholar,agreed that a Native Americanprofessor is needed to attend toNative American students, andhas spearheaded the campaignto attract one to Brown.

Brown’s approximately 30Native American students is asmall number compared to peerinstitutions, said JenniferEdwards ’05.

She said Brown is quickly

becoming overshadowed byother schools’ growing NativeAmerican Studies programs.

“Other Ivies have more Nativestudents and therefore are moreattractive places for Native pro-fessors,” Wagner said.

Hu-Dehart said a meeting willbe held in the near future tobegin the search for a NativeAmerican professor. She prom-ised that students will beinvolved in the search butemphasized that “faculty willhave the last say.”

Students in NAB said theyremain optimistic, but are nottotally convinced by Hu-Dehart’sclaim that a Native professor willbe at Brown within a year. “Wehave been overlooked before,”Wagner said.


New prof. Hu-Dehart said a meeting will be held in

the near future to begin the search for a

Native American professor. She promised

that students will be involved in the

search but emphasized that “faculty will

have the last say.”

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buried the ball into the far postwith his left foot.

Wisconsin was far from dis-couraged, and scored two goalsin a four-minute span shortlyafter. Jed Hohlbein ’06 scoredboth goals, which were theresult of poor clearing attemptsand unmarked men by Brown.Hohlbein would later add athird to complete the rare hattrick.

“I think (the two Wisconsingoals) were a sign of mentalfatigue from Friday night morethan anything else,” Noonansaid. “But after those two mis-takes we played a lot better.”

Five minutes before half-time, Romaneiro found himselfin the familiar position of tak-ing a corner kick from the nearend. Larentowicz, moving infrom his usual deep position,used one of his trademark headballs to bring the Bears evenwith the Badgers.

A Brown goal early in thesecond half brought the tally to3-2. Crew’s tally finished what

was a melee in front of theWisconsin net in which SethQuidachay-Swan ’04 threw ashot on net and EricFeuchtbaum ’06 hit the post.

As the half wore on, Noonanlooked to put in fresh legs andmade six substitutions.

“It was a complete teameffort,” Crew said. “Seventeenplayers came in and they all didtheir part.”

Hohlbein’s third goal tied thegame up at three with around23 minutes to play, and itlooked like the game would endin a draw as Wisconsin held offseveral Brown offensive push-es. But Brown kept cominghard, and in his 179th minuteof play of the weekend, Crew

showed why he is such a dan-gerous threat. After collectingthe ball and giving it to Daniels,Crew moved to the top of theright box and received a returnpass from Daniels. Crew movedthe ball around a Wisconsindefender and moved into theright side of the box alone. Witha quick move, Crew froze thegoalkeeper and booted the ballin the near side, giving Brownthe 4-3 victory and capping offan impressive weekend for theteam.

Four Brown players werenamed to the all tournamentteam-Crew: Edward Thurston’04, Larentowicz and IbrahimDiane ’06. Crew, with two goalsand an assist, was namedoffensive MVP as well.

“Adom is just a tremendousworker,” Noonan said. “He’s theepitome of our team — heartand soul.”

The Bears will take the weekoff and head to New Havennext week to play two games inthe Yale Classic.

Assistant sports editor IanCropp ’05 covers men’s soccer. Hecan be reached [email protected].


Soccer

113. “I thought I won by one or two

rounds,” Mosley said. There can be little dispute that

it was a close fight. And also onecuriously lacking in drama, cer-tainly in comparison to thebuildup.

The MGM Grand GardenArena sold out early, added moreseats and sold out again. It waspredicted that the pay-per-viewnumbers could exceed 700,000.There were 2,000 closed-circuitsites around the country.

For Mosley, it was considered alast chance. He hadn’t won a fightin 26 months, had been beaten byVernon Forrest twice and foughtto a no-decision over RaulMarquez in a fight stoppedbecause of accidental head butts.For De La Hoya, it was thought tobe another crowning moment bythe oddsmakers who establishedhim as a 2-1 favorite. He was com-ing off his victory over FernandoVargas a year ago.

But over the 12 rounds, bothmen fought conservatively andtentatively at times, seeminglyaware of the stakes. Mosley wouldget aggressive, then back off. DeLa Hoya would score with hispatented jab and then stopthrowing it. Both fighters foughtflat-footed much of the time,rarely dancing. There was littletime spent on the ropes by eitherfighter and very little holding.

It often looked more like achess match than a boxing match,both fighters standing in front ofeach other, feinting and waitingfor a responding move, not will-ing to commit themselves to whatcould prove to be a fatal move.

A highlight reel of memorablemoments would start and endwith an accidental head butt byMosley in the fourth round. Itopened up a cut on the side of DeLa Hoya’s right eye, at the pointwhere his eyebrow ends. But itwasn’t a factor in the fight,although it opened up periodical-ly, leaving the right side of De LaHoya’s face bloody at times.

George Foreman, an HBOcommentator, said it was a factor.

“The judges scored the blood,”he said.

But longtime trainer EmanuelSteward thought Mosley’s fast fin-ish was a bigger factor.

“The Las Vegas judges like tosee a fighter finish strong,” hesaid. “They won’t give points to afighter who seems to weaken.”

The punch stats clearly favoredDe La Hoya. He connected at a 36percent success rate, landing 221punches. Mosley connected at a26 percent success rate, landing127 blows. De La Hoya dominatedin terms of jabs landed (106-33)and also won the battle of powerpunches (115-94).

“We were never concerned inthe corner,” said FloydMayweather, De La Hoya’s trainer.“I told Oscar, ‘You are strong.Keep boxing.’ It never evencrossed our minds that we couldlose.”

When it was over, Mosley wasquick to compliment De La Hoya.

“I knew I hurt him,” Mosleysaid. “He never hurt me. I couldhave gone another 12 rounds.”

Mosley said his increasedaggressiveness in the later roundscame at his father’s urging.

“My father tried to convey tome,” Mosley said, “that, since LasVegas is Oscar’s town, we reallyhad to pour it. I felt I had over-whelming power.”

So now Mosley (39-2-1, 35knockouts), the man who couldn’tput fans in the seats, the man whohad to settle for a $4.5 millionguarantee (plus the $500,000 putin the pot for the winner) hasagain defeated the Golden Boy ofboxing, who had a $17 millionguarantee (minus the half mil-lion).

Mosley also won De La Hoya’sWorld Boxing Council and WorldBoxing Assn. super welterweighttitles.

“Oscar is a great warrior,”Mosley said. “If he wants to fightagain, I’m ready to do again. It’s agreat feeling. It would have beenheartbreaking to have lost in thering after losing the negotiations.”


Boxing A highlight reel of

memorable moments

would start and end

with an accidental

head butt by Mosley

in the fourth round. It

opened up a cut on

the side of De La

Hoya’s right eye, at

the point where his

eyebrow ends.

“It was a complete

team effort,” Crew

said. “Seventeen

players came in and

they all did their

part.”

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Underground . . . againOne year and dozens of meetings after it closed as an 18-

and-over bar, the Underground is back. On Fridays and

Saturdays, students will drink, they’ll dance and some

may want to ask a few questions, starting with: What was

it all for?

The new Underground looks a lot like the old

Underground. All the card swipes, professional managers

and wristbands in the world won’t stop students under 21

from asking their legal friends to buy them a beer. And

wasn’t that the reason for closing the bar in the first

place?

The major change this time around is that on

Thursdays, traditionally the Underground’s biggest night,

the space will house the Hourglass Café. This appears to

be designed to ensure that Brown profits as little as possi-

ble from perhaps the only space on campus to cause

more controversy than the lot that will soon house the

Life Sciences building. Or, to phrase it another way,

would students rather drink beer or bubble tea with their

friends on a Thursday night?

Not that moving the Hourglass Café to the

Underground’s space is a bad thing. It will certainly

receive more traffic in its new high profile location than it

did in the Bear’s Lair. And with the profits going to chari-

ty, Brown creates a decidedly wholesome social space five

days a week to balance the more worldly weekends.

Students should celebrate the Underground’s reopen-

ing while it lasts. Because a cherished Brown ritual may

soon make its return to campus — the semiannual police

raid and subsequent closing of everyone’s favorite on-

campus bar.

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I DON’T KNOW WHY I DECIDED TOopen that e-mail last week. Like manyBrown students, I rarely read the crimereport e-mails. But this time was different.For some reason, I opened it. And before Icould read any of the e-mail,one word violently grabbedmy attention — that wordwas “homophobic.” It was areport about an anti-gay hatecrime.

The topic of the QueerAlliance’s kickoff meeting lastTuesday was changed tomake the recent bias inci-dents the main topic. Insteadof basking in our collective“queerness,” which is whatusually happens for the firstmeeting, we were forced toconfront the harsh realitiesthat “queer” people face. The emotionsexpressed ran the gamut: anger, fear, con-fusion, betrayal (“this isn’t supposed tohappen here”), concern, etc. Some used itas an opportunity to talk about their ownexperiences with anti-gay sentiment oncampus. Others discussed the outpouringof support the administration and stu-dents on campus give when hateful inci-dents (which are more common thansome would think) occur. The fact thatmany expressed a desire to do somethingin response was by far the most noticeableaspect of the meeting. About 20 to 30 stu-dents, despite homework and other pres-

sures, talked for a very long time after themeeting about ways to respond to the inci-dent.

The strong desire to respond amongQueer Alliance members, I think, reflects a

new sense of urgency among“queer” communities in theUnited States. As Matt Forman,executive director of theNational Gay and Lesbian TaskForce put it, “There’s never beena time of greater promise andgreater peril for our communi-ty.” There is widespread senti-ment that we need to be farmore serious than we havebeen in the past because thereis so much at stake.

When I read the crimereport, I went back to 1998 andthe murder of Matthew

Shephard. Shephard’s murder took place ata time very much like the last few months.It was a time in which ferocious battlesover gay and lesbian rights made the newsalmost weekly and anti-gay rhetoric waspervasive and stifling. His brutal slayinghappened at exactly the same time atwhich some reactionary “Christian” groupslaunched so-called “ex-gay” ads in thenation’s leading newspapers. Shephardwas beaten and left to die in the Wyomingwilderness at the same time Trent Lott andother Republican leaders were comparing“queer” people to kleptomaniacs and alco-holics. His death made it clear that whenanti-gay rhetoric goes up (as it inevitablywill whenever “queer” communitiesdemand more political rights), hate crimeswill go up.

Interestingly, as the 1990s dragged onand the political debate over civil rightsbecame more heated, the FBI’s hate crimesstatistics showed a steady increase in anti-gay hate crimes. What is most stark aboutthe statistics is they show a large spike inanti-gay hate crimes in 1995 (from 685incidents in 1994 to 1,109 incidents in1995), which (conveniently) coincides withthe 1994 right-wing offensive and theGingrich Revolution.

The 1990s was a turbulent decade forgay rights, and the decade actually broughtmore political defeats (the Defense ofMarriage Act; “don’t ask, don’t tell;” failureto pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act; failure to pass a feder-al hate crimes statute; many successfulanti-gay ballot measures in several states)than victories (Vermont civil unions; suc-cessful anti-discrimination measures inmunicipalities and states). But publicopinion was gradually moving in our favor.The culture was changing, despite the factthat political leaders were slow to act.Slowly but surely the political gains wedesired would come as politicians movedin line with the people — or so we thought.

The current backlash surrounding theLawrence v. Texas sodomy law decisionpoked some holes in that philosophy. Theink had not yet dried on the decision whenanti-gay bigots started mobilizing for theirwar of attrition. The Vatican, George W.Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist,Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum andright-wing “Christian” groups all lined upto hurl poisonous anti-gay rhetoric into analready noxious, anti-gay environment.Sadly, their efforts are paying off. Recent

polls show that for the first time in severaldecades, public opinion has actuallyreversed. In the months after the Lawrencev. Texas ruling, tolerance for “queer” peopleand support for gay rights (including thelegalization of “sodomy”) fell considerably.

As a result, many “queer” groups arewaking up to the reality that it’s not alwaysup, up and away. Things can go backwardsand get worse. Political and cultural gainsmust be vigilantly defended. Resting onone’s laurels is dangerous and fatal to ourcommunities. Serious incidents necessi-tate serious responses. They’re hard les-sons to learn, but judging from lastTuesday’s Queer Alliance meeting, manyare taking the lessons seriously.

When a hate crime occurs, there is moreat stake than the bureaucratic mechanismsthis University has to respond to the specif-ic incident (which, despite some com-plaints, were by and large adequate). Theincident that took place on this campusoccurred in a national climate of increas-ing hostility towards “queer” people. Andregardless of the intentions of the perpe-trator, his acts reinforced and buttressedthat oppressive atmosphere of bigotry andintolerance.

The angry responses to last week’sassault are not necessarily expressions ofanger at the Brown community itself. Theresponses are probably rooted in arenewed sense of vigilance and a desire tofight homophobia and bigotry moreaggressively. Students are mobilizingbecause the national climate is so hostileand there is so much on the line that wecannot politically afford weak responses tohomophobia.

Queer communities must vigilantly fight the backlash that has followed recent gay rights advances

When hate comes to campus

Trash and burnIncinerate your garbage today, save the Spotted Owl tomorrow

I THREW OUT THE RECYCLING. I SWOREI’d never tell anyone. But now that I’m liv-ing off-campus and away from those easy-as-pie color-coded University-issue recy-cling bins, I just didn’t know what else todo with it. First there was one bag of bot-tles. Then there was a plasticbucket full of aluminum cans.Then there was another bag fullof plastic milk jugs, yogurt con-tainers and empty detergentbottles. A box crammed withissues of the New York Times —from June, July and August.Suddenly recycling filled myhallway, kitchen and diningroom. It was me, or my room-mate’s empty cans of Diet Pepsi.Something had to be done.

My boyfriend first put theidea into my head. “Just throw itaway,” he said. “You know, thebest thing to do with trash is burn it.” I fig-ured that was the kind of crazy thing youcould expect a libertarian to say. What’s hegoing to tell me next, that tax cuts will curecancer? Riiight.

I wasn’t about to give up. I grew up witha compost pile, for crying out loud. I’dbeen taught to recycle in the second gradeand even volunteered at the recycling cen-ter in my hometown in high school(Remember the three R’s kids? Reduce,Reuse, Recycle!). So first I tried to take thesoda cans back to the grocery store. The

clerk stared at me. “We don’t do that inRhode Island” — leaving unsaid the words“you clueless Masshole.” I asked my land-lord what I should do about the recycling.His prompt response: “Throw it away.”(Apparently apartment buildings are

classed as commercial build-ings and have prohibitivelyhigh fees for roadside pickupof recyclables.)

And in the end, that’s justwhat I did. But I felt so guilty,I just couldn’t keep my darksecret to myself. I told myroommate (the one whosaves all her plastic shoppingbags and buys SeventhGeneration toilet paper).And do you know what shesaid to me? “Sarah, that’sokay. You know, we shouldactually just be burning all

our trash.”Could it be? Was this true? How could

my right-wing boyfriend and my love-the-earth roommate possibly concur?

Municipal incinerators (as opposed tobackyard trash fires) are actually surpris-ingly clean. And who knew that one ton oftrash contains the same amount of energyas 70 gallons of gasoline! Trash can beburned as fuel — the leftovers can bemade into bricks or cement, as is done inChina. (In other words, don’t throw awaythat trash — we might need it one day!)

Unfortunately, waste managementdoesn’t seem to be the hot button issue itought to be, even in the environmental

community. Searching the Web site for theEnvironmental News Network, I found alot of information about farming, garden-ing and fuzzy little animals. I found some-thing entitled, “Action Alert! MangroveAction Project,” but there was literallynothing about trash.

Which is too bad. As in 1996, Americansproduced 208 million tons of municipalsolid waste. (Shouldn’t the EPA have morerecent figures? What were they doing overthere during Clinton’s second term?)Twenty-seven percent was “recovered,” asthey like to say, by recycling or composting,sixteen percent was incinerated and 57 per-cent was buried in landfills. If we burnedthe 152 million tons of solid waste left overafter recycling, it would be like getting 10.6billion gallons of gasoline — for free (notcounting what it costs to process it).

But of course that’s the next issue — isburning all this trash cost effective? It is ifyou’ve got a lot of garbage. And the UnitedStates clearly does, even though moreAmericans recycle (140 million) than vote.

Switzerland, as usual, seems to have theanswer, combining incineration and recy-cling. The Swiss manage to recycle almosthalf their waste (45 percent). The rest? Theyburn it. The cars on the highway next to

one Swiss incinerator actually producemore dioxin than the incinerator itself.

Waste management is an especiallypressing issue in our own Ocean State, asRhode Island only has one landfill. And asLittle Rhody has no municipal incinera-tors, that landfill could be full by the timetoday’s pre-med freshmen are finishingmedical school. Not to mention thatProvidence, the second-largest city in NewEngland, only recycles about 10 percent ofits garbage, according to the ChristianScience Monitor. Improvement is possible:In South Kingston, recycling rates rose to40 percent after the town ordered a $1.25fee per bag of trash, but made recyclingfree. And clearly the commercial sector(apartment buildings included), whichproduces three-quarters of all waste, has tohop on the recycling train.

So what is the off-campus dwelling stu-dent to do? Bring her recyclables to theCentral Landfill in Johnston off 295, abouta 20-minute drive from Brown. They’ll takeyour Brown Daily Herald back issues andCampbell’s soup cans for free. I guess nowI can stop sneaking out during the weehours of Sunday morning to slip emptybeer bottles into the neighbors’ curbsidebins.Sarah Green ‘04 never drinks Diet Pepsi.

Brian Rainey '04 admits that he agreeswith George W. Bush on one thing. Bushdoes have a huge log in his eye.

SARAH GREENBETTER THAN CATS

Could it be? Was this true? How could my right-wing

boyfriend and my love-the-earth roommate possibly

concur?

BRIAN RAINEY‘TILL JUSTICE ROLLSDOWN LIKE WATERS

SPORTS FRIDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2003 · PAGE 12

BY IAN CROPPRight from the opening kickoff againstStanford, the Brown men’s soccer teammatched the intensity of the electrifiedStevenson Field crowd. On Friday night,the Bears knocked off No. 19 Stanford 2-1. The Bears kept the streak live throughSunday, scoring with 19 seconds left inplay to Wisconsin 4-3 and win the adidasClassic championship.

Most of the first 10 minutes of Friday’sgame were played in the Stanford zone,with Brown on the attack. The Browndefense, led by Jeffery Larentowicz ’05,kept the Stanford offense at bay for mostof the game. At halftime, the Bears wentinto the locker room having outplayedStanford, although the Cardinal did hitthe crossbar on one occasion.

The start of the second half was any-thing but auspicious for the Bears, asStanford netted a goal two minutes in ona corner kick. Right after the goal, theintensity that had filled the stadium forthe first half picked back up again.

On a drive down the right side of thefield, Captain Adom Crew ’04 fought hisway through two defenders and the ballbounced back to Marcos Romaneiro ’05.Without hesitation, Romaneiro chippedthe ball from about five meters beyondthe box over the head of the Stanfordgoalkeeper Robby Fulton, who dovebackwards but was unable to touch thewell-placed shot. The sell-out crowderupted and Romaneiro and teammatesran toward the far-end stands to greet thewild student section.

“There is nothing better than playingin front of the Brown home crowd,” saidMatt Goldman ’04. “Listening to thosefans on the far end, it was such an amaz-ing feeling.”

“You’ve got to give credit to thecrowd,” said head coach Mike Noonan.“They act as the 12th man and help putour team on the front foot.”

Brown continued to mount heavyoffensive pressure, playing ball after balldown the right side, hoping to breakthrough. Hard offensive work resulted ina corner kick that Romaneiro bendedright to an open Matt Britner ’07. BeforeFulton or any other Stanford player couldtrack the ball, Britner headed the ballinto the net to record his first collegiatepoint, a game-winning goal. For theremaining 25 minutes, Brown limitedStanford to only one shot on net, whichmade its way into the hands of goalkeep-er Chris Gomez ’05.

“Our play was a testament to the hardwork we’ve put in during the pre-sea-son,” Larentowicz said. “We worked onshaping up our back four, and I think wedefinitely implemented our game-plan.

Noonan’s decision to put out a lineupthat consisted of two freshman, Britnerand Andrew Daniels ’07 paid off.

“Coach set me up on the corner on thesecond goal, and I just went to the net,”Britner said.

A Wisconsin victory over Yale in theprevious game set up the Sunday match-up between Brown and Wisconsin in thechampionship game. The game pro-duced a full score sheet that had a com-bined seven goals, 41 shots and five yel-low cards.

Much like on Friday night, Browncame out hard, although this time therewere immediate fruits to show for thelabor. About five minutes into the gameGoldman brought the ball into theStanford end ahead of any defender and

(L.A. Times) LAS VEGAS — From ShaneMosley’s corner came squeals of joy. FromOscar De La Hoya’s corner came squeals ofprotest.

But from the judges came only silentunanimity.

In a rematch that resembled their firstmeeting, Mosley beat De La Hoya by deci-sion Saturday night at the MGM GrandGarden Arena in front of a sellout crowd of16,268.

De La Hoya (36-3, 29 knockouts) haddeclared before the fight that if he lostSaturday night, he would retire. But in theaftermath of Saturday’s match, it was hispromoter, Bob Arum, who was threateningto leave boxing, claiming his fighter hadbeen robbed.

“I’m out of this mess,” Arum said. “I willnever, ever be a party to this again.”

De La Hoya says he wants to investigatethe decision.

As in the first fight three years ago atStaples Center, De La Hoya had the earlylead, then faded in the closing rounds,Mosley using his blazing speed, quick fists,body shots and a relentless attack to pullout a close match. Mosley, who won thefirst meeting by split decision, won the lastfour rounds Saturday night on all threejudges’ scorecards.

De La Hoya didn’t see it that way. “Obviously I thought I won the fight,” he

said, “I didn’t think it was even close. Ithought I won by at least three points.”

All three judges, Duane Ford, StanleyChristodoulou and Anek Hongtongkam,had Mosley winning, 115-113. The LosAngeles Times’ Steve Springer had Mosleywinning 115-114. The Times’ Bill Plaschkeand Randy Harvey both had Mosley, 115-

see BOXING, page 9see SOCCER, page 9

BY MAGGIE HASKINSTensions were running high on Saturdayafternoon as the Brown field hockeyteam opened its Ivy League seasonagainst Dartmouth. Last year, the Bearsblew a 4-2 second-half lead atDartmouth and gave up two goals in thefinal two minutes to lose the seasonopener.

With four minutes and 25 seconds lefton Saturday Brown clung to a 3-2 lead.After a Bears’ penalty, the Big Green wasawarded a penalty corner and looked totie the game at 3. Yet, a collapse was notin the cards this year. The Brown defenseheld strong and Brown won the game 3-2. Bruno’s work was not done afterSaturday’s efforts. Though fatigued, theteam came out and dominated No. 17Boston University on Sunday for much

of the game, winning 3-1.“(The Dartmouth game) was a bat-

tle,” said Head Coach Carolan Norris. “Itcould have gone either way but in theend, I knew that we were the betterteam.”

Much like Wednesday’s game versusSacred Heart, the Bears jumped on topof the Big Green early when BrookeTownsend ’06 tipped in a Lizzie Buza ’04pass just four minutes into the game.

“I think we are a team that likes totake the lead and we gain the confidencefrom that,” Norris said. “It’s good toknow that we do not have that pressureof coming from behind.”

The Bears were not worry-free asDartmouth continued to place pressure

Men’s soccer sweeps adidas Classic knocking off no. 19Stanford and finishing Badgers with 19 seconds left

Mosley shows firstvictory no fluke

Grant Smith / Herald

Edward Thurston ’04, who was named to the all-tournament team, dribbles past a Stanford midfielder in Friday night’s 2-1 victory.

After first Ivy win, field hockeyfully controls no. 17 BU

Nick Neely / Herald

Brooke Townsend ’06 dominated the Dartmouth defense with a hat trick.

see FIELD HOCKEY, page 8

monday, september 15, 2003

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