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BROWNWILL ARMPOLICEBY CARLA BLUMENKRANZBrown will arm the Department of PublicSafety within the next 12 to 18 months,President Ruth Simmons announcedMonday in an e-mail to the Brown commu-nity. The announcement follows over twoyears of deliberation and several high-pro-file campus crimes this fall.
“I know that many will be unable toembrace this decision,” Simmons wrote. “Itis, however, our firm belief that it is the mostprudent course to assure the safety of (the)campus.”
The decision permits DPS to developuse-of-force policies and submit its officersto intensive training in firearm use andcommunity sensitivity, as well as renewedbackground checks and psychological test-ing.
“We will move carefully to ensure that allsafeguards, policies, procedures, trainingand supervision are in place before approv-ing this step,” Simmons wrote. “The deci-sion to proceed to issuing firearms will notbe made until we are fully satisfied that theDepartment is ready.”
Arming deliberations began in the fall of2001, when, in the midst of a local crimewave, the University commissioned WilliamBratton, former chief of police for New YorkCity, to study campus safety. Bratton and hisconsultants compiled a report recommend-ed arming DPS among other measures theUniversity has since taken, includingimproving safety on Thayer Street.
Simmons was prepared to announce thedecision to arm DPS as early as spring 2003,but postponed an official decision at therequest of Mayor David Cicilline ’83, shetold The Herald in October. New ProvidencePolice Chief Dean Esserman had just insti-tuted a community policing program andwanted to resolve a number of jurisdiction-al issues before the arming of DPS,Simmons said.
The timing of Monday’s announcementwas part of a long-term decision-making
Right rising:conservativeson campus gainmomentumBY GABRIELLA DOOB When Stephen Beale ’04 started writingcolumns for The Herald his first year, hewas one of the few students publiclyexpressing conservative opinions atBrown.
Today, Beale is editor-in-chief of Brown’sconservative magazine, The BrownSpectator.
The Spectator is part of a growing con-servative movement at Brown. Despite theschool’s reputation as one of the most lib-eral universities in the country, conser-vatism on campus has grown significantlyin the last few years.
The articles and editorials published inrecent issues of the Spectator — rangingfrom “Killing Capital Punishment:Exposing Cruel and Unusual Mercy” to“Invade Iraq: Now is the Time for MilitaryAction” to “Affirmative Action is NegativeAction” — make the magazine a mouth-piece for some of Brown’s most outspokenconservative voices, seeking to promote“intellectual diversity” and encouragedebate when political conformity threat-ens to take over, Beale said.
Bias incident, carbreak-ins topcrime reportBY ZACH BARTERA bias-related incident outside Hegemanand a spate of car break-ins topped theDepartment of Public Safety crime reportfor the last three weeks of November.
The bias-related incident occurredNov. 8, when two males in their early tomid-20s directed racist comments towardthe complainant when he attempted towalk around them.
DPS is investigating two previous inci-dents as hate crimes — the Nov. 6 assaultof a male student near Pembroke campusand the Sept. 6 assault of a female studenton Charlesfield Street.
Thayer Street saw two additionalharassment incidents during the month.
The passenger of a silver Nissan Altimastopped a passerby and asked him fordirections. When he approached the car,the passenger threw a cup of water athim.
A female student heading home from aparty at 3 a.m. on Nov. 18 reported thatfour men taunted her near the corner ofThayer and George streets. The suspectsreportedly pushed her around and askedone another, “Should we take her things?”before a Providence Police Departmentpatrol caused them to flee the area.
Officers also received reports of five carbreak-ins, all occurring between Nov. 15and Nov. 21. Two break-ins took place
BY ELLEN WERNECKEFilmmaker Spike Lee was not shy aboutsharing his inspiration with a packedSalomon 101 Monday night — reality.
“Brooklyn Gas turned off the gas,ConEdison turned off the electricityand Ma Bell turned off the telephone,”he said.
But Lee encouraged audience mem-bers to follow their dreams, not theirwallets, and to hold media and the gov-ernment to higher standards.
“You’re at a very important age whereyou can’t allow anyone to dictate whatyou want to do,” he said. “We don’tprotest enough.”
Lee said he discovered his own love offilmmaking as a sophomore in college,when he shot his first movie in Super 8about the 1977 New York City blackout.
But though he said he has tried toportray blacks realistically in hisfilms, Hollywood fails to live up to
that standard.“Just because you have an African
American behind the camera or in frontof it doesn’t mean it’s going to be good,”he said, singling out the movie“Barbershop,” which pokes fun at RosaParks and Martin Luther King Jr.
“We’re the only race that would dosomething like that to our heroes,” Leesaid, “and then pay money to see it.”
Lee said his goal has always been toput different forms of African-Americanculture onscreen and to “try to bring asmany people of color in with me,” in hisrise into the Hollywood elite.
“We all need models,” he said. But he didn’t let audiences escape
blame, either. He criticized consumersfor being lazy and having low standards.
“We need to be more choosy,” hesaid. “Somebody must be watching
Lee encourages audienceto avoid pop culture’s trap
BY JUSTIN ELLIOTTIn 1982, Secretary of Health Margaret Heckler said she expectedan AIDS vaccine to be ready in two years. That obviously didn’thappen, said Professor of Medicine Dr. Charles Carpenter in aMonday afternoon panel on World AIDS Day.
Since then, researchers have opened many fronts in the fightagainst HIV/AIDS, he said.
Carpenter moderated the panel on HIV research and preven-tion initiatives, which featured four doctors from the BrownUniversity AIDS Program (BRUNAP). The forum presented abroad look at current areas of HIV/AIDS research — from strate-gies for better adherence to drug regimens to the worldwidesearch for a vaccine.
Dr. Kenneth Mayer, professor of medicine and director ofBRUNAP, said AIDS has already killed 28 million people, andanother 42 million are living with the disease. In the formerSoviet Union, where HIV had been a relatively small problem, theinfection rate has increased by 1,300 percent in the last few years,
AIDS vaccine a more distant, but still real, goal for researchers
Judy He / Herald
A small group gathered on the Main Green in honor of WorldAIDS Day and those affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.see AIDS, page 5
CRIME SUMMARY
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see SPIKE LEE, page 4see GUNS, page 4
East Providence rollsout plans to developpolluted andabandoned waterfrontmetro, page 3
Local rents rise,bucking the nationaltrend, but studentsstill live off-campusmetro, page 3
Arming U. police is adifficult but ultimatelybeneficial move, saysvon Oeyen ’05column, page 7
M. basketball winstwo of three overThanksgiving Break,including openersports, page 8
Chris Hatfield ’06says Patriots deservemore respect withconsistent winssports column, page 8
Sara Perkins / Herald
“I was determined that a phone call (for a directing job) would fall out of the sky,”filmmaker Spike Lee told a packed audience in Salomon 101.“And then I woke up.”
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Off-campus rentsrise, but demanddoesn’t fallBY SHEELA RAMANRents for off-campus student housing are bucking anational trend by increasing steadily, thanks to higherdemand and taxes. Yet the cost is worth it, according tosome Brown students.
“It’s inevitable that rents will increase from year toyear. Off-campus housing is still a better value than on-campus housing, and I think most students realize that,”said Megan Lynch ’05, who recently signed a lease for ahouse on John Street with four friends.
According to the Office of Rental Facilities, Providenceproperty taxes have increased by 8 percent since lastyear, the steepest increase since 1996. Maurice Carriere,a landlord who has rented houses to Brown students forthe last five years, said this puts a strain on local land-lords, who must raise their rents to compensate for high-er tax costs without driving away their student market.
Also, with college enrollment rising steadily nationally,competition for housing on and near campuses is grow-ing. The higher demand drives up rent, Carriere said.
Sandra Gandsman, a longtime Providence residentwho rents to graduate students and professors, said she’snoticed the same forces.
“It’s an economic law that when you have a limitednumber of spaces in a prime neighborhood like the EastSide, the cost for those spaces will grow,” she said.
The higher rents locally contrast with a downwardnational trend. Landlords, faced with housing gluts incities like Nashville, Cleveland and Denver, are courtingprospective tenants with incentives like one month rentfree, according to the New York Times.
But both Carriere and Gandsman said the rentincreases on the East Side and College Hill have beensteady and predictable. The increases are relativelyinsignificant considering that similar university neigh-borhoods in Boston are at least twice as expensive,Carriere said.
BY KIRA LESLEYFor years, a stroll along the East Providence water-front has featured views of abandoned warehouses,decaying railroad tracks and industrial waste. But ifthe East Providence City Council has its way, thewaterfront could soon be a poster child for large-scale urban revitalization.
The City Council unveiled its redevelopment planat a public meeting in East Providence City Hall onNov. 17. The plan, known officially as the “EastProvidence Waterfront Special Development DistrictPlan,” was also available on the city’s Web site beforethe meeting — the first forum on the plan open to thepublic.
The plan, which city leaders say has been in theworks for five years, outlines broad changes to theeast bank of the Seekonk River, from Kettle Pointnorth to the city’s border with Pawtucket. It dividesthe area into several development districts, each withits strategy for revitalization.
According to East Providence city planner DianeFeather, the implementation of the plan will alter theentire nature of the waterfront and “create a newcity.” Previous zoning laws were geared toward heavyindustry, she said, but under the new mixed land-useplan, the waterfront would house recreational space,commercial offices, hotels, restaurants, condomini-ums, artist lofts and studios, athletic centers andlight manufacturing. In some areas, height and sizeof buildings will be restricted to ensure visibility ofthe river, she said.
In deciding how to develop the waterfront, one ofthe city’s major considerations was how to deal withpotentially or definitely contaminated property, or“brownfields,” created by such companies as theOcean State Steel Co., said East Providence PlanningDirector Jeanne Boyle. The Environmental ProtectionAgency identifies a brownfield as property thatpotentially contains or contains pollutants or con-taminants that complicate the property’s develop-ment.
When the steel company ceased operation at its
Phillipsdale site in the mid-1990s, it left acres ofabandoned buildings and land contaminated withheavy metals, Boyle said. Other areas of the water-front are also contaminated with metal and petrole-um residue, she said.
To solve the problem, the city hired New York-based company GeoNova, which specializes indecontamination, and developed an innovativeprocess for “reclaiming” soil that contains heavymetal waste, Boyle said. State Rep. ElizabethDennigan (D-East Providence, Pawtucket) saidGeoNova’s process is cheaper than traditional meth-ods for heavy metal removal but just as effective.
While a majority of attendees at the Nov. 17 meet-ing commended the project, others expressed con-cern that the city had not adequately consulted EastProvidence residents in developing the plan.Community member Julie Lundgren pointed out thatthe city council did not poll the community to seewhat it would like to see done with the area.
Boyle said city leaders would like to hear as muchcommunity input as possible before the plan’s sched-uled adoption this month, but Lundgren said she feltit was unrealistic to think much input would actuallybe taken into consideration. Holding the first publicmeeting about the development plan only a fewweeks before its scheduled adoption does not allowenough time for the community to give feedback, orfor the city to study it, she said.
Some community members said they are also wor-ried the project will place undue burden on EastProvidence taxpayers.
David Faria, president of the citizen-based envi-ronmental group C Care of Rhode Island, criticizedthe Council for undertaking such a large projectwithout having residents vote on it.
“You bring big development in, and we know we’regoing to foot the bill for that,” he said. “We’ve seenwhat happened with Providence Place Mall, andwe’re still paying for that.”
Waterfront redevelopment in the works
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ers and the weaknesses of theopposing team. Actually, offen-sive coordinator Charlie Weismay be his equal on the otherside of the ball. With four of theteam’s top five receivers eitherout or hurting, and virtually norunning game for the last twoweeks, the man was able to milk61 points out of his offense. Lookfor him to become a head coachsome time in the near future.
There has also been one moreconstant for the team throughall this success: Tom Brady. Tobe sure, there are certainly moretalented quarterbacks in the
league. Yes, saying he’s good forat least one turnover a game is abit optimistic. I’ll even admit Ihad a feeling the Patriots madethe wrong move by letting DrewBledsoe go to Buffalo before lastseason. But there simply isn’t abetter crunch-time quarterbackin the league, save maybe SteveMcNair. Of course, after you’vesuccessfully engineered a driveto win the Super Bowl with onlytwo minutes left, everything elsewould be a cakewalk to you too.With him at the helm, it seemsthe Patriots have everythingunder control as long as there isphysically enough time left toscore the minimum amount ofpoints necessary to win. Theconfidence he brings to theteam cannot be underestimat-
ed, and it may be responsible forthe Pats’ knack for winningclose games (7-1 in gamesdecided by 8 points or less thisseason).
So go ahead, don’t mentionthe Patriots when discussing thebest teams in the AFC (althoughthey certainly are up there).Don’t think about RichardSeymour, Rodney Harrison, TedyBruschi or Ty Law when decidingfor whom to vote for the ProBowl (although you should). ThePats have been seriously under-estimated during a successfulseason before, and we all knowhow that ended.
Chris Hatfield ’06 hails from NewHampshire and yearns to haveBill Belichick’s style.
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Lee also criticized “gangstarap,” focusing on artist 50 Cent forglamorizing a life of greed andviolence. Lee said artists shouldbe held more accountable fortheir behavior.
“Is it coincidence that Tupac(Shakur) died the way he did?” heasked. “I don’t think so.”
Lee reserved no words of praisefor the Bush administration andthe war in Iraq.
“The Red Sox will win theWorld Series,” he said, “beforethey find weapons of massdestruction in Iraq.
“And,” he said, gesturing to hisYankees hat and sweater, “youknow that is never.”
He characterized MiddleEastern foreign policy, and thesearch for Osama Bin Laden, andthen Saddam Hussein, as “the oldbait and switch.”
It’s up to the younger genera-tion to correct problems in mediaand government, he said.
“They were probably tearingup stuff here at Brown in 1968,”Lee said. “I think it’s time for thatcycle to hit again because it’smuch more critical than when Iwas growing up.”
Lee accused media of exagger-ating postwar casualties in Iraqand “spoon-feeding” audiences.
“You have to realize that inmany cases the media is an opi-ate,” he said. “Otherwise you’regoing to be strung out and notknow what’s happening.”
Even African-American cine-ma has “not gone that far,” Leesaid.
Lee majored in MassCommunication at Clark AtlantaUniversity because his homeschool, Morehouse College inAtlanta, Ga., had no communica-tion major. When he got hisMasters of Fine Arts in filmmak-ing at New York University, Leesaid he thought he was set for life.
“I was determined that aphone call (for a directing job)would fall out of the sky,” Lee said.“And then I woke up.”
Herald senior staff writer EllenWernecke ’06 can be reached [email protected].
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Carriere also said quality, notprice, is what Brown students aremost concerned with whensearching for housing.
“My cheapest apartments arealways the last to go. Studentsalways want the best one and arewilling to pay more for it,” hesaid.
A Samson Realty representa-tive who asked not to be namedsaid groups of Brown juniorshave been looking for housesand apartments earlier this yearthan in previous years. This, hesaid, indicates a stronger interestthan usual in off-campus hous-ing. Samson Realty managesabout 20 student spaces on theEast Side.
In spite of increasing off-cam-pus rent in recent years, the levelof student interest in off-campushousing has remained strong,
said Chad Amidon, housing offi-cer for the Office of ResidentialLife. On average, permission tolive off-campus is granted toabout 1,100 students, leavingabout 300 to 400 applicants dis-appointed, he said.
“Although on-campus hous-ing is often more convenientlylocated and is comparable incost to off-campus housing,ranging from $2,515 to $2,983per semester, including utilitiesand Ethernet, the majority of stu-dents continue to opt for off-campus housing as seniors,”Amidon said.
Lynch said she’s glad she hasthe opportunity to live off cam-pus.
“Our house is beautiful. It’sjust a welcome change from thedorm environment we’ve beenliving in for three years,” Lynchsaid.
Herald staff writer Sheela Raman’06 can be reached [email protected].
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Strapping residents withincreased taxes to fund thedevelopment project wouldcause people to “bail out” ofEast Providence, he said.
“I want taxpayers involved inthis project, not just the businesspeople here, because, regardlessof what (the Council) says, it’sgoing to change the tax base ofEast Providence,” Faria said.
Acting East Providence CityManager Bill Conley said he andthe other city leaders “don’t seeit that way.” City leaders believethe project will generateincreased tax revenue, attractmore high-paying jobs to thearea and encourage people tomove to East Providence, all ofwhich will aid the revitalizationeffort, he said.
Boyle said the city tried tominimize the impact on East
Providence tax payers, andFeather added that committeemembers have tried to take les-sons from other urban water-front development projectssuch as those in Baltimore andProvidence.
According to Boyle, the com-mittee’s time spent studyingother cities development proj-ects reflects planners’ commit-ment to a thoroughlyresearched, successful redevel-opment. The city has been for-mulating ideas about the futureof the waterfront for decadesand is now finally getting to takeaction, she said.
State Rep. Susan Story (R-EastProvidence, Barrington) said sheis optimistic about the project.“I think it’s going to be a hugeasset to East Providence if it getsgoing,” she said, “and it lookslike it’s going to.”
Herald staff writer Kira Lesley ’07can be reached [email protected].
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process and not related to therecent increase in crime, VicePresident for AdministrationWalter Hunter told The Herald.
“The president said she wasgoing to make up her mind thissemester, and she has,” Huntersaid. “Crime statistics on amonth-to-month basis go up anddown, but the principles thatunderlie her decision remain.”
The University first consideredarming Brown Police in 1992,under former president VartanGregorian. Debate lasted nearlythree years, ending with a 1995memo from Gregorian thatBrown Police would not be armeddue to “widespread unwillingness
on campus.”A March 2002 Herald poll
found the campus evenly split onarming, with 37.8 percent of stu-dent in favor and 37.8 percentagainst. But an April 2003 pollshowed opinion had shifted, with34.1 percent of students in favorand 56.1 percent against.
This year, Brown had the man-date of the UndergraduateCouncil of Students, in aNovember 2002 resolution, aswell as a number of other campusgroups. Hunter said the adminis-tration will continue to solicitcommunity opinion on arming,beginning tonight with an opendiscussion with Hunter andInterim Vice President forCampus Life and StudentServices David Greene.
Preparations to arm DPS will
take one to two years, accordingto a press release on the BrownWeb site. In the meantime,Providence Police and SterlingSecurity Officers will continue topatrol the campus, Hunter said.The extent of the presence ofexternal officers following thearming of DPS has not yet beendetermined, he added.
DPS Chief Paul Verrecchia wasnot available for comment follow-ing the press release, according toMichelle Nuey, assistant managerfor special services. Nuey, whohad not been made aware of thedecision, declined to comment.
Herald staff writer CarlaBlumenkranz ’05 edits the campuswatch section. She can be reachedat [email protected].
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Beyond the vocal Spectator, anincreasingly strong network ofconservative groups has formedon campus, including the CollegeRepublicans, Students for Libertyand Young Americans forFreedom, Beale said.
Students formed a chapter ofStudents for Academic Freedomearlier this semester, and there iseven talk of starting a NationalRifle Association chapter, saidJoseph Lisska ’04, president of theCollege Republicans.
The College Repblicans wasrevived in 2002 after a period ofinactivity and currently has a cou-ple dozen active members, he said.
“The number of groups hascertainly expanded,” Lisska said.“People are now less surprisedthat we exist,” he said.
It’s not just Brown experienc-ing a growth in conservatism oncampus.
At colleges around the country,conservatives have been makingtheir presence felt by starting orreviving student groups and pub-lications. These groups are oftensupported by a national, well-funded network of right-wingorganizations.
Conservative groups at Brownand elsewhere have benefitedfrom the support of right-wingorganizations, such as theCollegiate Network. These groupsseek to remedy what they per-ceive as the unbalanced presenta-tion of issues on campus by pro-viding guidance and aid to collegegroups nationwide, said JamesJustin Wilson, a CN employeewho was the editor-in-chief of theMichigan Review at theUniversity of Michigan.
When Beale looked to establishthe Spectator, CN gave him a$2,000 seed grant. Although Bealesaid he hopes the Spectator canachieve the status necessary toreceive University funding, CNcontinues to subsidize the maga-zine. Many other publications likethe Spectator also receive CNfunds, Wilson said.
When he joined the staff of the
Northwestern Chronicle, a con-servative newspaper atNorthwestern University, currenteditor-in-chief David Weigel wasone of six staffers. Three yearslater, he heads a staff of 32.
Since becoming a membernewspaper of CN, Weigel said theChronicle has received a yearlygrant, including $6,000 for thisyear’s printing costs. The paperhas “grown in esteem” during histime at Northwestern and conser-vative influence on campus hasspread in large part due to thegrowing prominence of the news-paper, he said.
It is usually “very, very hard toraise the capital to publish everyyear,” but Weigel said the fundingfrom CN has helped greatly. “It’s awarm relationship.”
In addition to funding publica-tions, CN provides scholarships,fellowships, internships andother help to students who sharethe organization’s conservativepolitical philosophy, Wilson said.CN regards itself as the “home ofconservative journalism,” dedi-cated primarily to supporting stu-dent journalists and their effortsto voice alternate opinions oncollege campuses, according toits online mission statement.
Besides offering support liketraining and subsidies for alterna-tive student publications, Wilsonsaid CN organizes conferences sostaffs of member newspapers cannetwork with other conservativecollege journalists, policy expertsand alumni.
Wilson said one of the confer-ences he attended was more valu-able than many of the journalismclasses he has taken in college.
Because universities generally“don’t provide the kind of supportthat a lot of these papers need,CN is there when universitiesfail,” Weigel said. He said he sends“two or three staffers to (CN’s)yearly conferences” and has writ-ten for CN’s magazine.
The organization is wary, how-ever, of its reputation as “one ofBush’s minions,” Wilson said.
Bryan Auchterlonie, CN’s exec-utive director, emphasized thatCN does not try to “advance par-ticular issues” but rather remainsinformed by students from itsmember newspapers aboutissues receiving attention oncampus. The idea that CN would“toss money at students andaggressively recruit them …couldn’t be further from thetruth,” he said.
But CN does provide signifi-cant financial support to newspa-pers that otherwise might not beable to meet the costs of publica-tion, Wilson said. In 1995, CNfunded more than 50 conserva-tive college publications, includ-ing the Harvard Salient, theDartmouth Review and theOregon Commentator,Auchterlonie said. Today, he said,the number of publications iscloser to 80.
The American Prospect reportsthat conservatives are still consid-ered a minority on many campus-
es, but they are “undoubtedly anenergized one.” Despite conser-vative control over national gov-ernment and increased mediainfluence, “conservative activistson campus still draw energy fromfeeling like a beleaguered minori-ty,” particularly at elite schoolswhere liberal dominance is par-ticularly noticeable, according tothe Prospect.
According to the AmericanProspect’s article, no equivalentsource of support exists for col-lege groups and newspapers onthe ideological left. Despite theprominence of liberal thinking oncampuses nationwide, liberal andprogressive newspapers lack sup-port from alumni and organiza-tions on the left. The AmericanProspect reports that “campusprogressives have two big prob-lems: funding and fragmenta-tion.”
Yoni Appelbaum, who led anorganization at ColumbiaUniversity that gives funding tostudent groups and works withthe nonpartisan Columbia
Political Union, told the AmericanProspect this disparity wasnoticeable.
“It was far easier for us at theCPU to locate external sources offunding to bring conservativespeakers to campus than it was tolocate sources of funding to bringDemocratic speakers to campus,”he told the Prospect.
The Undergraduate FinanceBoard is the primary source offunding for Brown’s CollegeDemocrats, despite the group’s 80to 100 active members and visibleposition on campus, saidPresident Ethan Ris ’05. TheDemocrats also conduct internalfund-raising efforts, Ris said. TheDemocrats’ official newsletter,tentatively titled “The Left Hook,”will be funded entirely out of itsUFB budget.
“I wish that outside actioncommittees and think tankswould throw money at us,” Rissaid. “But the fact is that liberalsand the causes they support gen-erally do not have money tospread around.”
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Mayer said. “The numbers are just stagger-
ing,” he said.Research into microbicides —
gels and creams used to preventsexual transmission of HIV — isnot currently available, but thereare many ongoing trials investi-gating the safety and efficacy ofthese compounds, including twoin Providence, Mayer said.
Carpenter stressed the impor-tance of these “chemical con-doms” because “women getinfected earlier and in greaternumbers than men” and cannotalways ensure use of condoms.
“The real beauty of these is thatthey’re female-controlled,” hesaid.
Dr. Michelle Lally, an assistantprofessor of medicine and a facul-ty associate in BRUNAP, discussednew rapid HIV testing techniques— one of which requires only afinger prick and 20 minutes —and the state of vaccine research.
The new rapid tests, she said,are important because people
who take conventional bloodtests often fail to come in for theirresults several weeks later, Lallysaid.
“We talk about HIV and AIDSprevention at the same time, butif we can’t prevent HIV,” then weneed to learn to prevent AIDS, shesaid.
“If we can find a way to imple-ment this rapid testing,” she said,people can get linked to carebefore they develop AIDS. An esti-mated 200,000 Americans areunknowingly HIV-positive, Lallysaid.
Most of the potential vaccinesfor HIV are in Phase One trialsthat test for drug safety inhumans, she said. If proved safe,the vaccines go on to larger andlarger efficacy trials.
Lally said she hoped a vaccinewould be available in seven to 10years.
“We’ve got the best minds inthe country and world,”Carpenter said, “but it’s an elusivegoal.”
Patients with unstable lives,such as the homeless and sub-stance abusers, often have trou-ble adhering to their anti-HIVdrug regimens, but Dr. Timothy
Flanigan, associate director ofBRUNAP said, “We feel verystrongly that there is no suchthing as a patient that doesn’tdeserve to be treated.”
To target these patients,Flanigan, also associate professorof medicine, said outreach work-ers are using Directly ObservedTherapy in which they go out,sometimes every day, to deliverthe medication and watchpatients take it.
“One outreach worker met(the patient) at the corner of theliquor store — some people mightnot approve, but if it works, itworks,” he said.
Adherence to drug regimens isparticularly important, Flanigansaid, because drug-resistantstrains of the disease can develop.
Dr. Karen Tashima, assistantprofessor of medicine and a facul-ty associate of BRUNAP, talkedabout studies available in the areafor drug-resistant patients. Shesaid the studies inlcude oneexploring complaints of memoryloss in AIDS patients.
Herald staff writer Justin Elliott’07 can be reached [email protected].
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along Manning Street, whilethe others took place onPower, Charlesfield andBenevolent streets.
At least four of the theftstook place during the daytime.A dean who witnessed theCharlesfield Street break-incontacted DPS with a descrip-tion of the suspect, whom theofficers were unable to locate.
A backpack was reportedstolen from Josiah’s the nightof Nov. 21, while furniturefrom a Morris Hall lounge wasreported stolen the night ofNov. 17.
A professor also reportedhis laptop stolen from his labfile cabinet in MacMillan. Theprofessor had locked the cab-inet before leaving, but hereturned to find the lockundone.
Herald senior staff writer ZachBarter ’06 covers crime.He can bereached at [email protected].
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Murphy. “We played two goodperiods of hockey butProvidence was right therewhen we let up.”
The Bears couldn’t pene-trate the Providence defenseand had trouble finding selec-tive shots on goal. Providence’sability to capitalize on Bruno’sweaknesses decided the Friars’victory.
At the 7:09 mark,Providence’s Karen Thatchernotched a goal for the 3-1 leadduring the power play. Withonly 10 seconds left on theclock, she netted her secondon an empty net to seal the 4-1Mayor’s Cup victory for theFriars.
“We are a better team thanProvidence, but they played abetter game,” McManus said.“The loss taught us thatmomentary mental lapses candetermine a game. I am confi-dent that the defeat will moti-vate us to focus on each andevery game from here on.”
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Guns for DPSAfter years of deliberation and numerous postponements, theadministration has finally announced it will arm Department ofPublic Safety officers. We agree with this long-overdue decision. Twoyears of at times intense debate have led to a plan that addressesnearly all issues with arming critics have brought to the administra-tion’s attention.
But one crucial element remains to be addressed — DPS is stillnot required to release crime reports for individual incidents to thepublic. Instead, it sends filtered summaries of major incidents, a fewof which have contained incorrect information. Without publicrelease of officers’ actual reports, there is no community oversight —no one can scrutinize the department’s actions except the depart-ment itself and other administrative bodies that are similarlyimmune to outside pressure. When police are armed, trust from thecommunity, along with the gun itself, are an officer’s most importantweapons. As a preparation for arming, the University should reworkthis policy, creating a more transparent and, to students, more trust-worthy on-campus police presence.
Such changes should go hand-in-hand with the increased trainingto come for our officers. Discourse is also a part of the armingprocess. Rising crime on College Hill has proven the need for anarmed Brown Police presence on the East Side. There is no reasonwhy police officers, many of whom have gone through training simi-lar to that of their Providence Police counterparts, should be pre-vented from protecting students to the fullest. At the same time, theUniversity must address concerns expressed by critics and weigh avariety of options in preparing officers for their new roles.
Administrators have promised to act with caution, and studentsshould hold them to this. Before arming begins, all DPS officers mustundergo intensive training in firearm use and community sensitivity.In addition, the department has pledged to ensure officer prepared-ness through stepped up background checks and psychological test-ing.
We trust that a well-trained, armed and transparent police forcewill be more than adequate in protecting the Brown community. Butif DPS is to continue to operate, armed, under its current veneer ofsecrecy, no amount of training can make up for the breach of trustthe closed records office represents.
University shouldconsider non-lethalalternatives to armingBrown Police
To the Editor:
We are deeply disappointed in President RuthSimmons’ recent announcement to arm the Brownpolice officers with lethal weapons. We believe the
tenor of student-officer relations on campus willinevitably change for the worse when members ofBrown’s Department of Public Safety will be carry-ing firearms — guns which, although intended onlyfor self-defense or the apprehension of criminals,might at some point be turned against Brown stu-dents.
We urge President Simmons to consider non -lethal alternatives to firearms, and we call upon ourfellow students to make sure their opinions areheard in this matter.
James DeBoer ’05Brown Greens
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A tough decision
MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION ISN’Talways easy. But the administration sur-prised the campus by finally announcinglast night that the campus will movetoward arming Brown Police.
President Ruth Simmons knew armingthe Brown Police was controversial. If shehad any doubt that there were studentconcerns, Herald polls conducted lastyear were enough to confirm them. Sheknew there would likely be vocal studentand staff objection. But she also knewthat each day the decision was delayed,another day would pass during which theBrown Police assumed additional unnec-essary personal risks to their alreadystressful and demanding jobs. Anotherday would pass during which studentswalking the streets late at night wouldknow that if they were threatened with afirearm or other serious weapon, theDepartment of Public Safety designed toprotect them would have little powerto assist them even if they were atthe scene. For this reason, herdecision was justified.
In Monday night’s e-mail,Simmons announced to staffand students that theUniversity had finallydecided to arm theBrown police andexplained, in part, herd e c i s i o n - m a k i n gprocess: She took sever-al months to discussthe issue with senioradministrative officialsand delayed it a secondtime at the request ofProvidence Mayor DavidCicilline. Alternatives were
thoroughly discussed, and it was decidedthat arming the police with guns was thebest way to assure the highest level ofpublic safety for the Brown community.Simmons has e-mailed the Brown com-munity about the specific issue of armingthe Brown Police several times since shetook office two years ago and been veryprudent to stress the deliberative natureof this decision process. I commend herfor conveying a sense of understanding tothe community and keeping people edu-cated about the steps taken to resolve thisimportant issue.
Those concerned about the immediateeffects of this decision should be some-what comforted by the fact that, accord-ing to the e-mail, Brown Police officerswould not actually be allowed to start car-rying the firearms for another 12 to 18months. This lag time is necessary to trainthe officers carefully about how this poli-cy change will affect the work that they
carry out on this campus. But forthose who already favored arming,however, this lag time will appearunnecessarily lengthy. Officers are
already well-trained in gun safetyand operation of firearms. Theadditional diversity trainingand psychological profiles the
implementation processrequires are useful but couldbe carried out in a shortertime than 12 to 18 months.If there are additional legalor operational hurdles that
necessitate the 12 to 18
month period, they were not madeknown in the e-mail and the student bodyshould be aware of these issues.
There will be those who say armingBrown Police is counter-productivebecause it will induce would-be criminalsto resort to using guns instead of otherweapons. This concern is unfoundedbecause weapon-carrying criminalsalready know that the Providence Policeare carrying guns and regularly patrolBrown streets. Thus, would-be criminalsalready face the possibility of runninginto one force carrying guns and areunlikely to purchase new firearms oncethey learn the Brown Police are also usingfirearms.
The other main argument against arm-ing the Brown Police is that the campuswill not be any safer. These opponents ofarming suggest that while arming thepolice might not induce others to carryguns, the presence of firearms wouldpresent an additional risk to students. Iargue that while the deterrence benefit ofarming the police may be small, adequatetraining will minimize the safety risk tostudents. Eight of Brown’s current officersare former municipal police officers, andthe supervisors of DPS have experience inoverseeing an armed police department,according to a recent Brown News Servicepress release. This experience, combinedwith additional training, suggest that theDPS will bel prepared once officersreceive firearms.
The following is a partial list of crimesthe Brown Police were unable to directly
respond to immediately withoutProvidence Police assistance due to thelack of firearms:
Armed assaults against students; theattack of a Brown Police car by someonearmed with a fire axe; people committingcrimes in a car (Brown Police are notallowed to pull them over.), and an inci-dent where students were assaulted witheggs.
Issuing firearms to Brown Police willallow them to respond to all of thesecrimes as the initially responding officers.Some will ask why Brown can’t continueto rely on the Providence Police to do this.The answer is that the response time forBrown Police is much shorter than it is forthe Providence Police, and immediatepolice presence can drastically changethe outcome of a potentially dangeroussituation. Therefore, this decision willhave a real world impact that is immedi-ately appreciated by police officers andutilized to the community’s advantage.
Arming Brown Police will clearlyenhance the safety of students and staffand should be expedited in a timely man-ner. But, the decision to go forward witharming is not a panacea for the crimeproblems on and around campus.Officers must remain visible, relationswith the Providence Police must be main-tained and lighting around campus mustbe improved, including the installation ofbetter lighting around safeRIDE stopsand campus walkways. Students mustcontinue to take precautionary measuressuch as locking room doors and not keep-ing dormitory doors propped open, walk-ing in groups, and taking full advantageof safeRIDE, Safewalk and Brown’s onCallservices.
WITH NINE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATEStrying to win their party’s nomination forpresident, this primary season is basicallylike watching an enormously high-stakesreality TV show. I’m excited. But althoughI’m psyched to do the nomination boogie,we need to realize that a final round con-testant won’t matter much if he or shecan’t get Americans to think about a sim-ple question that puts the 2004 election inperspective: Are you better off than youwere four years ago?
This is a very easy question to answer.America (and far too many of its citi-zens) is much worse off than itwas four years ago. I charge Mr.Bush (I still have trouble think-ing of him as our president) withthree major crimes: depressingour economy, curtailing our civilrights and ruining the image ofAmerica around the globe.
Thanks to Bush, our econ-omy has suffered a lot ofunnecessary pain.Inheriting a strong andvibrant economy fromformer President Clinton,Bush decided to pushthrough not one, butthree, tax cuts. Fine, I’mall for tax cuts, especial-ly cutting the taxes of low-income and working-classAmericans. Sadly, Bush
showed us there is no such thing as a“compassionate conservative” by target-ing the tax cuts at his peers, the ridicu-lously wealthy. Millions of jobs havebeen lost under Bush. But he refused tostop at fiscal folly and threw us into anunnecessary and costly (in every senseof the word) war in Iraq. More on thatlater.
Economic devastation would beenough, but Bush also led us down thepath away from freedom, all in the nameof the war on terror. In case anyone did-n’t know, we’ve been fighting terrorists
for decades, not just since Sept. 11.Our military has thousands oftroops (from the Navy SEALS andDelta Force to the Green Berets)that have been fighting “the war on
terror” since before I was born.The war on terror is not new
— the crackdown on civilliberties is. The infa-
mous Patriot Act andits sequel, Patriot II,are chock-full of waysfor the government toeliminate dissent.Protesters, whether
leftist or rightist, canhave their citizenship
revoked. Even Americancitizens can be
detained secretly, their identities onlybecoming known once charges are filed(and there is no guarantee that chargeswill be filed swiftly). No democratic gov-ernment needs such oppressive meansto fight a war on terrorism. The Bushadministration has declared war on freethought.
Perhaps most devastating for Americaas a nation, Bush has ruined the image ofAmerica around the globe. The nations ofthe world extended their hands to us insympathy after the devastation of Sept.11, 2001 and were even willing to supportour war in Afghanistan as a war of retri-bution against a state that had directlyaided the attackers. But Bush would notbe content with one war. No, we had tosend our soldiers to fight in Iraq as well,without the support of the UnitedNations. Why? No one really knows. Theadministration always came up with a dif-ferent reason for war. It was “weapons ofmass destruction” until we didn’t find any.Now it’s “pre-emptive self-defense,” whichmakes a lot of sense. Invade a country
because we’re afraid it threatens us? I don’tknow about you, but there are a hundredthings more threatening to me than thenot-very-imposing Republic of Iraq underSaddam Hussein. But off to war we went,severely damaging our relations withalmost the entire world. It’s a wonderFrance (who saved our butts in theRevolutionary War, a fact which conserva-tives seem to forget) still talks to us.
So — are we better off or not? Theanswer is a resounding “no.” The econo-my has lost three million jobs, Ashcroftand the Department of Oppression havetrampled all over American freedomsand the world views us as arrogantAmericans who fought a needless war inIraq for our own selfish purposes. That’swhy I want Bush out. Dean, Sharpton,Kucinich, Braun, Edwards, Gephardt,Clark, Kerry, even Lieberman — I havemy favorite Dem, but I’ll supportwhichever candidate wins the nomina-tion. Any of the nine would be animprovement over GWB. Bush has to go.For the sake of America.
Bush needs to goFrom our world standing to the economy, we are in no way better off than we were four years ago.
Although arming Brown Police will face strong opposition, it will increase safety on campus
Schuyler von Oeyen ’05 has not been a victim of a crossbow mugging …yet. Hopefully he won’t be in the next 12 to18 months.
schuylervon oeyenthe sky isthe limit
John Brougher '06 appreciates that Gephardt supports American flag-wavers, not Confederate flag-wavers.
john broughercan’t stopthe brock
No democratic government needs such oppressive
means to fight a war on terrorism. The Bush administra-
tion has declared war on free thought.
SPORTS TUESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD
DECEMBER 2, 2003 · PAGE 8
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Pat Powers ’04 averaged 16.3 points per game as the Bears took two of threeover break.
M .basketball wins home openerover Wagner, goes 1-1 in Maine
Can the Patriotsget some love?
Women’s icehockey defeatsUNH 5-2, butfalls to Friars 4-1
I DON’T UNDERSTAND YOU PEOPLEsometimes. By “you people” I am referringto the NFL fans of the nation — a group ofwhich I am happily a member. With theplayoffs coming, the hot questions on theminds of fans and writers alike are, “Who
will make the play-offs?” and “Who isthe best team in theAFC/NFC/NFL?”Watching theexperts discussthese questions onTV, I have foundmyself becomingfurious with thelack of respectshown to mybeloved NewEngland Patriots.It’s high time thatthe pundits wake
up and realize that, while they may not beas impressive as the Chiefs or as estab-lished as the Titans, the Pats need to beconsidered in the same league as thoseteams and considered favorites to win theSuper Bowl.
Think about this for a second. ThePatriots have the longest active winningstreak in the NFL at eight games. Granted,they have not exactly been the prettiest ormost dominating wins, but they still countthe same. So far this season, they havedefeated the Eagles, Titans and Colts, whomay also be included among the five bestteams in the league right now. As far as I’mconcerned, the only team you can make anargument for as being better than thePatriots right now is the Chiefs, but I’m notconvinced.
Consider the circumstances for thePatriots’ success. Their opening dayloss/disaster in Buffalo was basicallydecided before the game, for not only hadthey lost their defensive captain, LawyerMilloy, that week, but he was playing forthe other team with a gargantuan chip onhis shoulder. Since that debacle, the Patsare 10-1, with the lone loss coming inWashington in Week Four.
In that span of time, they have dealt withnumerous injuries, including the season-ending injury to big free-agent signingRoosevelt Colvin early in the season.Earlier in the year, their linebackers wereparticularly affected, a huge disadvantagesince Head Coach Bill Belichick finally putin his trademark 3-4 defense in the off-sea-son. The loss of Ted Washington for most ofthe year didn’t help the situation either.Then the bug spread to the running backs,as Mike Cloud emerged during the absenceof tailbacks Antowain Smith and KevinFaulk. Meanwhile, fullbacks Fred McCraryand Larry Centers have both been hurt,necessitating more one-back sets and analmost complete lack of any running game.Recently, the receiving corps has been hithard, with David Patten lost for the yearwhile Troy Brown, Deion Branch and DavidGivens have all been nursing injuries.
So how on earth are the Patriots headedfor a first-round bye? There are several keyreasons. Number one is that the team isrun by arguably the best coaching staff inthe league. Belichick won’t win Coach ofthe Year because Marvin Lewis and BillParcells are working miracles with far less-talented teams, but he will get votes. This isa coach who may not know how to dresshimself. But can design a defense to shutdown any offense in the league (see SuperBowl XXXVI for proof). There simply isn’t abetter coach in the league for designing ascheme based on the strengths of his play-
BY JOSHUA TROYThe men’s basketball team improved to2-3 on the young season after threegames during Thanksgiving break.
After opening its home schedule witha win Tuesday night against Wagner, theteam headed to Maine for the MaineInvitational. After disposing of Maine-Fort Kent, the Bears fell to the Universityof Maine in the championship game.
In its home opener, Bruno puttogether a 14-5 run to close out the firsthalf and take a 31-22 lead into lockerroom. The halftime edge marked thefirst time this season the Bears held alead at the break, having trailed both theUniversity of Texas and Rider in previousgames. To start the second half, the teamopened up a 10-point lead before theSeahawks went on a run of their own.Trailing 45-43 with just over nine min-utes to play in the game, the Bears puttogether a 12-0 run and would not fallbehind for the remainder of the game.Although Wagner trimmed the lead tosix, big baskets by Pat Powers ’04 andJason Forte ’05 gave Brown an 11-pointlead and the team held on for a 63-57victory.
Leading the Bears was Luke Ruscoe’06, who scored a career high 15 pointson six of eight shooting. Ruscoe wasjoined in double figures by Powers andForte, who had 11 and 12 points, respec-tively. Marcus Becker ’07 led the teamwith six rebounds off the bench andForte led the team in assists with five.Making his second straight start andcoming off a 19-point effort againstRider, Sam Manhanga ’07 chipped inwith eight points and five boards.
In the opener of the MaineInvitational, Brown dominated non-Division I school Maine-Kent, grabbingthe lead from the start and eventuallywinning 95-73. After leading by as manyas 19 in the first half, the Bears took a51-36 halftime lead. At the beginning ofthe second half, Bruno would go on a12-0 run and put Maine-Kent away for
good.The game marked career scoring
highs for four players, including fresh-men Manhanga, Becker and P.J. Flaherty’07 and second-year player AndrewSalter ’06. Manhanga led the team with20 points on nine of 10 shooting, whileBecker and Flaherty each added eightand Salter had nine. Powers was secondin scoring with 15 points, and JaimeKilburn ’04 led the team in rebounds onhis way to his second double-double ofthe season, with 12 points and 10boards.
It was a different story for the teamagainst Maine. Despite trailing by asmany as 16 in the first half and facing a40-28 deficit at halftime, the Bears werenot willing to give in. The team puttogether a run and pulled within one,50-49, midway through the second half.Unfortunately, the Black Bears would goon a 21-5 run of their own, putting thetournament’s championship game outof reach. When the final buzzer sound-ed, Maine was victorious with a 79-69win. Maine was led by guards EricDodson and Kevin Reed, who had 19points and 17 points, respectively.
With seven three-pointers, Powers ledall scorers with 23 points. He also fin-ished tied for first on the team with fourassists and third on the team with sixrebounds. Kilburn came up two boardsshort of a second straight double-dou-ble, with 14 points and eight rebounds.Ruscoe led the team in rebounds,pulling down nine, including four on theoffensive glass.
The team is back in actionWednesday night with a match-upagainst the University of Rhode Island atthe Pizzitola Sports Center. The Ramscurrently sit at 3-2, coming off a four-point loss to defending NationalChampion Syracuse on Sunday night.
Herald staff writer Joshua Troy ’04 coversthe men’s basketball team. He can bereached at [email protected].
BY LEXI COSTELLOThe women’s ice hockey team (3-4-0) beatthe University of New Hampshire Wildcats(6-3-2) in an impressive 5-2 showdown onNov. 25. The game at Meehan Auditoriummarked Bruno’s sixth consecutive homevictory over the No. 7 UNH squad. But overthe weekend the squad lost the Mayor’sCup 4-1 to the Providence Friars (4-4-2) forthe first time in 11 years.
Brown’s Krystal Strassman ’07 set thepace for the Bears, giving Brown the early1-0 lead with a rebound goal assisted byKerry Nugent ’05.
After a series of attempts rejected byBrown’s starting goalie and Captain KatieGermain ’04, the Wildcats evened thescore 1-1 on a power play with a rocket tothe corner at 12:07.
But Keaton Zucker ’06 regained the leadfor Bruno only 65 seconds later with arebound goal assisted by Jessica Link ’05.Brown carried the advantage into the sec-ond stanza, and the team refused to let up.
“We were confident right from the firstfaceoff, and the adjustments we madealong the way only strengthened our men-tal edge,” Germain said. “We were all hun-gry for the win which generated tons ofenergy all around.”
While UNH came out aggressive, Browndefenseman Katie Guay ’05 andMarguerite McDonald ’04 managed tokeep the puck in the Wildcats’ defensiveend. Strong shots from the point kept theBears’ offense buzzing.
Kathryn Moos ’07 earned her premierecareer goal, striking for Bruno at 11:00with a top-shelf tally tipped off of an assistby Strassman. Link extended the lead to 4-1, roofing a breakaway goal with only 16seconds left in the second period.
Less than a minute into the final frame,the Wildcats trimmed the deficit to 4-2.But determined to secure their victory, theBears retaliated with a series of offensiverushes. The Bruno attack helped Moos tonet her second goal of the night at 7:59,tipping in a shot from Amy McLaughlin ’05at the point.
While UNH threatened later in thethird, Brown held onto the win in its mostoutstanding exhibition this season.
“We all played our best games of theseason and demonstrated that we can getthe job done when we use focus collective-ly,” Zucker said.
Germain posted 29 saves on theevening in a stellar performance.
Last Saturday, the Bears lost to cross-town rivals, the Providence Friars, atSchneider Arena — Brown’s first Mayor’sCup upset in over a decade.
The teams came out even in the first,playing solid hockey in both zones. TheBears and the Friars traded momentumthroughout the opening stanza and head-ed into the second scoreless.
Providence gained the advantage in thishead-to-head match-up at the 16:22 mark,as Mara Armhein’s wrist shot from the halfboards earned the 1-0 lead. But Brown’sKrissy McManus ’05 retaliated three min-utes later capitalizing on the power playand knotting the game 1-1.
Entering the final frame tied, the Friarscapitalized on Brown’s weak defensive sideand tallied a quick go-ahead goal a minuteand a half into the period.
“It’s hard to come back when little mis-takes cost goals,” said Head Coach Digit
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CHRIS HATFIELDSPORTS COLUMNIST