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Former Sen. Santorum to speak on traditional values tonight

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, a vocal advocate for moral values, will speak tonight on the decline of traditional American values.

The lecture, titled “The Dawn of an American Renaissance,” is sponsored by the Brown Lecture Board and will take place at 7 p.m. in Salomon 101.

Santorum “will chronicle his battles for the dignity of all hu-man life, his effort to protect tra-ditional marriage and his strug-gle to reverse the media’s on-slaught against virtue,” accord-ing to the Lecture Board.

Santorum served two terms as

a Republican senator from Penn-sylvania, gaining a reputation as an outspoken social conserva-tive with fi rm stances against gay marriage and abortion.

Since losing his 2006 re-elec-tion bid to Democrat Bob Casey Jr., Santorum has returned to pri-vate law practice and serves as a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, described on its Web site as “dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy.”

“No matter if you agree or dis-agree with his speech or his val-ues, I guarantee it will be a good speech,” said Lecture Board Co-President Daniel Fombonne ’07,

who explained that the Lecture Board felt bringing a speaker from the conservative side of the political spectrum would help balance the more liberal speak-ers Brown usually attracts.

“A liberal way of thinking is very prevalent here,” said Sam Culver ’07, the Lecture Board’s vice president for media rela-tions. “He is a good person to bring to challenge our audi-ence and challenge the students here.”

Tickets for the speech were distributed Wednesday and will also be available today free of charge to anyone with a Brown ID from 12 to 2 p.m. in Lower Faunce House.

BY MICHAEL SKOCPOLSENIOR STAFF WRITER

A year after travel ban is lifted, students study in Israel

A year after Brown lifted its ban on studying abroad in Israel, the Uni-versity has fi ve students studying in the country this spring and plans to send six more next fall. The ban on travel to Israel was part of the Uni-versity’s more general ban — also lifted a year ago — against travel to countries on the State Depart-ment’s travel warnings list.

After Brown Students for Israel collected over 2,000 signatures on a petition to allow study abroad in Israel, the University began per-mitting study in Israel in March 2006. The petition showed “the administration there were people who cared,” said Sam Zuckerman ’08, a member of Brown Students for Israel.

When the ban was in place, some students determined to get to Israel temporarily withdrew from the University to do so. “People who want to go to Israel are going to go to Israel,” Zuckerman said. Af-ter students went on personal leave and returned to Brown, they were “often applying for retroactive cred-it,” said Kendall Brostuen, director of international programs and asso-ciate dean of the College.

Brostuen said the BSI petition against the ban was “strongly sup-ported by the University popula-tion.” Still, he said, studying in a country on the State Department warning list is a “decision (that) needs to rest with the student.”

Students must fi ll out waivers acknowledging that they “under-stand the inherent risk,” Brostu-en said. He also encouraged stu-dents to “monitor the situation” while they are abroad in hot spots like Israel and said the University provides students with the State Department’s written warning for

BY RACHEL ARNDTSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Med School ‘Match Day’ sees primary care boost

Breaking a downward local and national trend, 45 fourth-year med-ical students will go on to residen-cies in primary-care specialties next year. In all, 88 Alpert Medi-cal School seniors were among the 15,000 medical and osteopath-ic school seniors nationwide to be “matched” March 15 into residen-

cy programs for next year.Each March, the National Resi-

dent Matching Program — man-aged by the American Association of Medical Colleges — assigns graduating medical students to specialty-specifi c residency pro-grams using a computer algorithm that considers ranked preferences of both applicants and residency

BY KRISTINA KELLEHERSENIOR STAFF WRITER

16 recently installed security cameras now monitor SciLi

Approximately 185 security cam-eras now quietly observe loca-tions on Brown’s campus, includ-ing Faunce House, the Power Street parking garage and — the newest addition — the 24-hour Friedman Study Center in the Sciences Library.

“The logic behind installing the cameras was to enhance pub-lic safety. As we began to think through the implications of the Friedman Center’s extended hours of operation, we wanted to make sure that we provided ad-equate safety measures,” wrote University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi in an e-mail to The Her-ald.

There are 16 cameras in the SciLi, according to Hemmasi. Cameras were installed during the construction of the study cen-ter, which opened at the begin-ning of this semester, according to Barbara Schulz, head of facili-ties and business services at the University Library.

As an additional security mea-sure, guards are present in the building from midnight to 8:30

a.m., Hemmasi added.Schulz said Mac Systems,

which installed the SciLi cam-eras, furnishes most security camera installations on campus. There were 180 cameras on cam-pus in November 2005, The Her-ald reported at the time — a size-able increase from the 60 on cam-pus in 2000.

Given the center’s location off Thayer Street, “it’s easy to see the need for adequate safe-ty considerations,” wrote David Cardoza, technical and support systems manager for the Depart-ment of Public Safety, in an e-mail to The Herald.

“Cameras are not there to spy on people. They are there to pro-vide a sense of what’s happen-ing with this building,” Hemmasi said. There is one camera on B level of the SciLi, six on A level, eight on the ground level and one on the mezzanine, she wrote, while others are located outside the building to monitor entrances and exits.

Hemmasi said the camer-as help determine the cause of alarms, frequently set off by

BY JESSICA ROTONDISTAFF WRITER

Venezuelan ambassador puts Chavez presidency into context

Bernando Alvarez Herrera, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United States, told a packed Mac-Millan 117 last night that the rise of President Hugo Chavez — wide-ly seen as a fi rebrand in the United States — must be understood in the context of the instability that preceded his 1998 election.

“People have heard a lot about Hugo Chavez and Venezuela, and the chance to hear about the situ-ation from an insider is very valu-able,” said James Green, associate professor of history and director of the Center for Latin American

Studies, who moderated the lec-ture. “Students are fascinated by Chavez’s critiques of Washington policy.”

Herrera spent much of his half-hour speech talking about the his-tory of Venezuela and the prob-lems it faced before Chavez was elected in 1998. Herrera pointed to a series of protests in the late 1980s and early 1990s as signs of a country in turmoil, despite be-ing portrayed in foreign media as a stable nation.

“There was an illusion of har-mony in Venezuela,” Herrera said. “The riots were the starting points

BY CHAZ FIRESTONESENIOR STAFF WRITER

Courtesy of Congress.govFormer Sen. Rick Santorum will deliver a lecture at 7 p.m. titled “The Dawn of an American Renaissance.”

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MAKE $ ON THE INTERNETAaron Luryi ’07 is his ownInternet startup — after de-signing software that logs AIM chats, he sells it on hisWeb site for $25 a pop

SDS AND ITS CRITICSStudents for a Democratic So-Students for a Democratic So-Students fciety and guest columnist Jeff Wardyga ‘08 offer differentviews on the group’s protests of defense contractors

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State House considers education tax credit

A bill introduced last month in the state House of Representa-tives would create a tax credit for Rhode Island residents pursuing post-secondary education. The bill is designed to expand the current federal tax credit for education ex-penses to residents’ state-tax bill.

“Rhode Island has identifi ed the creation of a better-educated workforce as one of our priori-ties and one of our methods for strengthening our economy. Just like the federal government, we should provide a tax break for people who are working toward a degree,” said Rep. Edwin Pa-checo, D-Dist. 47, the bill’s pri-mary sponsor, in a press release. “Since they are spending a signifi -cant amount of money on their ed-ucation, this tax break would pro-vide them some needed relief. It will also serve as an incentive to encourage more Rhode Islanders to pursue higher education.”

Under the legislation, a state taxpayer paying for a spouse, a de-pendent or his or her own educa-tion would be eligible for the de-duction. Residents with an adjust-ed gross income under $65,000 or a combined $130,000 if fi ling joint-ly with a spouse would be able to receive $4,000 from the state. In-dividual returns up to $80,000 and joint returns up to $160,000 would be eligible for a $2,000 credit.

“We woefully underfund educa-tion in Rhode Island at the grade-school level and at the secondary level, and this will provide some relief to people who are having

trouble funding their education,” said Rep. David Segal, D-Dist. 2, a co-sponsor of the bill who former-ly represented Providence’s Ward 1 — including much of Brown’s campus — on the City Council. “We’re way below average in per capita education funding,” he said.

“For me, (a tax credit) didn’t make that much of a difference when I was paying for tuition be-cause you have to come up with that money initially to even come in the door,” said Josh Marland GS, a Rhode Island resident pay-ing for his own education. “What’s the answer to the initial entrance into college?”

Segal said the criticism is le-gitimate. “For some people, this might not be the most effi cient method of doing it, but these things are always subject to modi-

fi cation as they move through the process,” he said.

Some taxpayers said the state could do more to help with college tuition. “I’d love it if it passed — every little bit helps, and tuition is a nightmare for most people,” said Judy Knowles P’10, a resi-dent of Newport. “Unfortunately, with a kid at Brown, we don’t real-ly take advantage of the public in-stitutions. It’s my opinion that no state or federal program is really enough.”

“I think that there is a lot more they could do with the money on the front end,” she said. “Is it a real commitment to education or a symbolic one?”

The bill is currently awaiting a hearing by the House Finance Committee. Segal predicted that a hearing might happen as early as this month.

BY NICK WERLECONTRIBUTING WRITER

A date with danger?

Middle school and high school students in Rhode Island may soon be required to undergo dat-ing violence education as part of the public school curriculum if proposed legislation is passed by the General Assembly.

The legislation, which has been introduced in both the House and the Senate, is called the Lindsay Ann Burke Act, after a 23-year-old woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in September 2005. He was con-victed of the murder in January.

The legislation was intro-duced by Rep. Eileen Naughton, D-Dist. 12, and Sen. Beatrice Lanzi, D-Dist. 26, at the request of state Attorney General Pat-rick Lynch ’87.

“A moment is presented to us coming out of the tragic case” to attempt to prevent dating-re-lated violence among young peo-ple, Lynch told The Herald. He said he believes an educational program is especially appropri-ate because Burke was training to be a teacher.

Under the legislation, each school district would be re-sponsible for incorporating dat-ing violence education into its health education program for grades 7 through 12. Addition-ally, schools would have to es-tablish guidelines and disciplin-ary procedures for dealing with acts of dating-related violence on school grounds or at school events, according to a press re-lease from the attorney gener-al’s offi ce.

“It’s alarming, the amount of dating violence that occurs in schools,” Lynch said. “Worse is the silence associated with it. People are afraid to recognize it and reach out.” He added that most schools in the state have a “lack of a proper educational curriculum” to deal with the in-cidence and severity of dating violence.

Terry Thornton, a student assistance counselor at Roger Williams Middle School in Prov-idence, runs a violence preven-tion program at the school called Students Against Violence Ev-erywhere. Thornton’s program is designed to teach students “the consequences of violence”

as well as “the skills of nonvio-lence” such as confl ict resolu-tion and anger management, she said, but does not empha-size dating-related violence.

“The earlier you can start teaching kids about these things and skills to deal with the pres-sures, the better you are,” Thornton said. But, she said, a dating violence education pro-gram could be diffi cult to imple-ment in Providence schools.

“Schools in Providence are behind, academically,” she said, “It’s a tall one to fi t in.” Thornton said she has been advocating for more nonviolence education in Roger Williams, but that “teach-ers are tapped out, so you have to bring people in, and that costs a lot of money.”

But, Lynch said, “no one thinks costs are going to be very high at all.” He said the bill’s benefi ts — “saving one high school or middle school student from the horrors of domestic vi-olence by encouraging them to speak up” — is worth whatever cost the program might bear.

“The cost of saving that child is priceless,” Lynch said.

The Katie Brown Education-al Program is now developing a standardized curriculum and a program to train teachers to pro-vide a similar dating violence ed-ucation program, said Andy Rob-inson, an educator for the pro-gram. A nonprofi t based in Fall River, Mass., it teaches a fi ve-day dating violence education program for grades 5 through 12 in schools across southeast-ern New England, according to its Web site.

Though Robinson said he supports the legislation on dat-ing violence, he said actually implementing it in school dis-tricts may be expensive. His program costs $500, but educa-tors will teach for a reduced rate at economically disadvantaged schools if their schedules allow it, Robinson said.

Frances Mantak, Brown’s di-rector of health education, said she believes it is best to begin educating people about dating violence when they are young. “We have to be learning about it all the time,” she said, though she warned that such education would be “not effective if it’s not age-appropriate.”

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Bill would address dating violence through education mandate

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students exiting doors with fi re alarms attached. “Most of the time it is just by accident, someone goes out (an) exit that has a fi re alarm attached,” she said.

The cameras can be accessed by security personnel at the library as well as by members of DPS. “The monitor on the guard’s desk at the Sciences Library/Friedman Center is for responding to alarms and door bells,” Schulz wrote, “not for the purpose of monitoring.” She said the images are monitored by DPS for alarm response during the day and that at night “there is more attention given since there is more chance for an incident when there is less staff around.”

In addition to live monitoring, images captured by the cameras at the Friedman Center and other areas on campus are temporarily stored for future reference. “There is a DVR that records activity on the cameras for 60 days, then once that 60 days is fi nished and the DVR is fi lled up, it begins writing

again,” Hemmasi said.“In our situation, we don’t intend

to archive information to check up on somebody,” she added.

Cardoza wrote that the 16 cam-eras in the SciLi, though they could be watched in “real time,” are handled like all other Univer-sity closed-circuit cameras. “Their main purpose is the digital record-ing of the actual video images,” Cardoza wrote.

“Retrieval of that information is used solely for crime investiga-tions,” he added. Cardoza cited vehicle theft in parking areas, van-dalism and bike theft as examples when archived footage would be used.

“To the best of my knowledge we have not had any problems,” Hemmasi said. She added that, should concerns with the current security system arise, a meeting between DPS offi cials and library administrators would be held to ad-dress the situation.

—with additional reporting by Abe Lubetkin

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their chosen country.That risk wasn’t theoretical for

Herald Opinions Columnist Benja-min Bright-Fishbein ’07, who ran into trouble while studying abroad in the Middle East last summer. Bright-Fishbein spent the fi rst se-mester of his junior year at the American University in Cairo and the second semester and following summer in Israel studying at He-brew University in Jerusalem, dur-ing which he was not technically a Brown student. While visiting the West Bank last summer, Bright-Fishbein was kidnapped by Pales-

tinian gunmen. He was released un-harmed after less than 24 hours.

“I don’t think it’s that dangerous anymore,” Bright-Fishbein said of Israel.

Many Jewish students at Brown want to study abroad in Israel “with the explicit permission” of the Uni-versity, he said, and “they should be encouraged.”

“Israel’s an exceptional country,” Bright-Fishbein added.

While travel to countries on the While travel to countries on the WState Department list has general-ly been allowed since the ban was lifted, travel to a country can be re-stricted if the dean of the College and the Offi ce of International Pro-grams believe it is too dangerous.

Last summer, because of the war between Israel and Lebanon, the

University restricted travel to Isra-el, specifi cally an archaeological dig that had been planned in Appollonia just outside Tel Aviv, Brostuen said. just outside Tel Aviv, Brostuen said. just outside Tel Aviv

Bright-Fishbein’s kidnapping in the West Bank was a “completely sep-arate issue” and did not play a role in last summer’s restriction, Brostuen said.

The OIP worked with the Pro-gram in Judaic Studies to fi nd uni-versities in Israel that are “very hands-on,” Brostuen said. Cur-rently, there are no Brown study abroad programs in Israel, though there are six approved alternative programs, including a program in Jerusalem and a program for envi-ronmental studies concentrators at the Arava Institute for Environmen-tal Studies in Hevel Eilot.


programs. 84 percent of applicants from U.S. medical school were placed into one of their top three choices, according to the matching program.

“We always have a lot of students going to other Ivies and to the West Coast” for their residences, said Philip Gruppuso, associate dean of medicine for medical education. “(We had) a lot of students going to Harvard-affi liated programs this year, which is normal.”

Eleven out of the 88 Med School seniors will go onto Harvard-affi li-

ated programs this year. Ten out of 78 did last year, and seven out of 66 in 2005.

Nationally, the number of seniors interested in primary care special-ties continued to drop this year. Just 15 percent of this year’s applicants for residency positions selected pri-mary-care programs in pediatrics, internal medicine or family medi-cine.

“There is an extraordinary need nationally for primary care physi-cians as the baby boomers age,” Gruppuso said.

Brown has been part of the trend for the last fi ve years but bucked it

this year. “There has been a steady decline in the number of Brown stu-dents entering primary care residen-cies in the last fi ve years, which was reversed this year,” Gruppuso said. “We don’t have a clue why.”

This year’s class had a spike in the number of seniors going into in-ternal medicine, pediatrics and an increasingly popular combination of the two known as “med/peds,” Gruppuso said.

To begin the match process, graduating students submit applica-tions in September to numerous pro-grams. “You spend essentially most of your fourth year applying,” said Tamara Chang ’03 MD’07.

For some competitive specialties, such as dermatology, students often apply to almost all available programs — as many as 60 in dermatology, ac-cording to Bob Dyer MD’07, who was matched to the dermatology pro-gram at Rhode Island Hospital. Stu-dents don’t always apply to programs in just one specialty.

After applying, seniors are of-fered interviews, which usually oc-cur between early November and late January.

“Not every place offers you an in-terview. It’s a big weed-out process,” Chang said. “A lot of people don’t go on all the interviews offered.”

“It’s a scary thing, having no idea where you are going to be living for the next however many years,” said Chang, who applied to many resi-dencies and was ultimately matched to the med/ped program at Uni-versity of Massachusetts Medicine School in Worcester.

Many students apply to programs throughout the country, but the Uni-versity is relatively unique in the num-ber of students who stay at Brown for their residencies, Gruppuso said. Fifteen seniors were matched with Brown residency programs this year, compared to 10 seniors last year and eight the year before.

For Dyer, a native of Rhode Island who calls himself “quite a bit older

than the average student,” staying in Rhode Island for his residency was a priority. Dyer’s wife works in the state, and his parents and adult chil-dren live nearby.

“I had a very unique situation. Most students are willing to relocate for their perfect match. I couldn’t,” Dyer said.

This year, the match program saw a 9 percent increase in the par-ticipation of graduates of non-U.S. medical schools. Only 45 to 50 per-cent of international medical gradu-ates typically match to a residency position, whereas the success rate for U.S. students is about 94 percent, according to the matching program.

The National Resident Match-ing Program began in 1952 and is sponsored by the American Board of Medical Specialties, the American Medical Association, the Associa-tion of American Medical Colleges, the America Hospital Association and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies.

Matching season anxiety, uncertainty end for graduating medical students

16 security cameras now monitor SciLi

Students studying in Israel one year after travel ban ended


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The newly established Center for Vision Research, which brings together the nearly 30 faculty members in nine different academic departments currently researching vision at Brown, is scheduled to start its work July 1.

The multidisciplinary nature of the center is one of its greatest assets, said Professor of Neuroscience Michael Paradiso, who will be co-director of the center with Michael Tarr, professor of cognitive and linguistic sci-ences. “We feel that we can accomplish more and have a bigger impact if we centralize things,” he said.

Faculty in fi elds such as neuroscience, physics and cognitive science who had researched vision individually will now have a place to come to-gether and share ideas, which should lead to more rapid and further prog-ress, Paradiso said.

In addition, Paradiso said, “research means money,” and organizing the center will help attract grants from the federal government and private foundations. Paradiso said the University will provide start-up money and cover administrative costs but will not provide research money, so such grants are necessary for the center’s survival. The National Institutes of Health recently awarded a $1 million training grant to the center to help it get off the ground.

The grant from NIH is a “training grant specifi cally for grad students for vision research,” Paradiso said. Attracting top graduate students is crucial to the success of any university research program, Paradiso said, and he said the grant is “an acknowledgement that Brown is a real, great place to get training in this area.”

Though the researchers do not yet have a specifi c plan for what re-search they will focus on, one topic they will address will be why building an artifi cial visual system is so diffi cult and how the hardware in a human visual system is different from that in a robot, Paradiso said.

— Patrick Corey

New faculty center to study vision

Aaron Luryi ’07 makes $1,500 a month without ever leaving the comfort of his room.

Luryi has been CEO of Nalsoft, the software company he found-ed, since his freshman year. The mathematics and economics con-centrator from Long Island sells the programs AIM Log Manager, RuitLeaguer and Subtitle Player, all of which he created.

Luryi fi rst created a version of AIM Log Manager for his own personal use during his freshman year. He wanted a program that would record his conversations for future reference.

“I chose to make it because it’s something I use, and I knew how to do it,” Luryi said. Though he has never taken a course in the Department of Computer Science, Luryi said he’s been “tinkering around with computer programs since seventh grade.”

“So now I’m pretty good at it,”

Luryi said.In April 2004, shortly after cre-

ating the program, Luryi built the Web site Nalsoft.com to market and sell the program. The retail version included many new fea-tures, such as the capacity to sort buddies based on the number of conversations with the user, a graphing feature which tracks the

number of conversations over time and a log of “buddy events” like signing on or off.

Despite the innovations, Luryi could not fi nd a single buyer for three months. “I plunked down $70 to get a domain name, and I thought it was all a failure,” Luryi said.

But in July 2004, Nalsoft found a customer. The program soon start-ed to sell about one copy per week. Sales increased steadily over the next three years: Luryi now sells two or three copies per day, and raised his price from $14.99 to

$24.99 as demand increased.Most of Nalsoft’s customers fall

into two groups: college students and parents who are monitoring their children’s Internet usage. For the parents, Luryi has creat-ed a special “stealth mode” which makes the program invisible on the computer and e-mails the con-versations to the parents.

“I think that’s very bad parent-ing, but I don’t question it,” Luryi said. “I’m just a businessman, I’m not going to make moral judg-ments. I personally wouldn’t do that to my kids, but people have different parenting methods.”

After his success with AIM Log Manager, Luryi expanded Nalsoft and now sells two other software applications, RuitLeaguer and Sub-title Player.

“Some of my friends are very hardcore Beirut players and form leagues, so I’ve made a soft-ware program to keep stats for the leagues,” Luryi said of Ruit-

BY ISABEL GOTTLIEBSTAFF WRITER

Luryi ’07 profi ts from AIM logging for students, parents

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Appointments to “short-term” Uni-versity committees by the Under-graduate Council of Students will go through the standard appoint-ment process outlined for estab-lished committees under an amend-ment to the UCS code proposed at last night’s UCS meeting.

The amendment is expected to pass when it is voted on next week. The UCS code requires that any resolution or amendment to the UCS code be introduced at least one week before it is voted on.

Appointments Chair Drew Mad-den ’10, who co-authored the amend-ment with Vice President Tristan Freeman ’07, said appointments to such “ad hoc” committees needed to be standardized to streamline the process and to maximize transpar-ency in student government.

Currently, appointments to such committees are not subject to some of the strict procedures used for standing University com-mittees, including interviews of candidates and approval of appoin-tees by the general body, though the appointments often follow those guidelines anyway.

The amendment contains a

provision for releasing the ap-pointments committee of these re-quirements in the case of a “time-sensitive” appointment.

Also at last night’s meeting, Academic and Administrative Af-fairs Chair Sara Damiano ’08 in-troduced a resolution on student concerns over Banner. The reso-lution calls on professors to famil-iarize themselves with the system and for administrators to ensure that professors know how to use the course registration system.

In an internal election, Gabriel Kussin ’09 was elected as an at-large representative, fi lling a va-

cancy caused by the resignation of Brian Bidadi ’07. Bidadi was elected as UCS president in the spring of 2005 but resigned in Jan-uary 2006 to take medical leave for a semester, later rejoining the council as an at-large representa-tive and as the UCS representa-tive to the Undergraduate Finance Board. Jose Vasconez ’10, a fresh-man class representative, was un-opposed in the election for UCS/UFB representative.

Hapa Club was approved for Category III status. Students for Hillary and Mariachi Brown were approved for Category I status.

BY MICHAEL BECHEKSENIOR STAFF WRITER

Ad hoc appointments to be standardizedM Y S T E R Y M O T O R C A D E

Chris Bennett / HeraldAn unannounced motorcade on the Main Green caught students off-guard during the noon rush to class.

Interim EMS manager appointedTom Lawrence, who was recently named interim manager of Brown Emergency Medical Services, met Wednesday with student Emergen-cy Medical Technicians to discuss the future of EMS.

Lawrence will serve as manager this month while University offi -cials seek a permanent replacement for former manager Richard Lapi-erre, who resigned from the post in February, wrote Director of Health Services Edward Wheeler in an e-mail sent Saturday to student EMTs.

Lawrence is currently an EMS training coordinator for Rhode Island and Hasbro Children’s hospitals and has experience as an instructor for a number of EMT classifi cations, Wheeler wrote.

Lawrence’s duties will include monitoring EMS procedures to en-sure “what we are doing is safe, meets EMS state protocols, meets Joint Commission standards and is of high quality,” Wheeler wrote. Law-rence will also develop new care protocols, update EMS worker docu-mentation and provide educational opportunities for student EMTs.

“We are especially interested in looking at ways to enhance the ed-ucational experience of the student EMT program, and Tom Lawrence will be important in that effort,” Margaret Klawunn, associate vice president for campus life and dean of student life, told The Herald.

The announcement of Lawrence’s appointment comes after the unexpected resignations earlier this semester of Lapierre and EMT Su-pervisor Anthony Fusco.

Lawrence will “relieve the other supervisors from the extra shifts that they have been covering,” Klawunn said. His appointment will also help supplement the existing Health Services staff in April, which is typically a “busy month” for the department, Klawunn said.

At Wednesday’s meeting with student EMTs, Lawrence “presented his ideas for EMS and told us what he wants to get done while he is here,” said Beth Hoffman ’07, a senior EMT.’07, a senior EMT.’07, a senior EMT

“I hope that, since he has a fresh eye … that he can be objective in looking at what we are doing (at EMS) and help us improve,” Hoffman said. She added that she hopes he can “help to improve communica-tion with the rest of Health Services.”

“I am really excited. He is well-qualifi ed. He will be great for the pro-gram, at least until we can get a permanent director,” Hoffman said.

— Scott Lowenstein

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Leaguer. The program tracks players, teams and “hit percent-ages” and includes a game simula-tion window where someone can click on the cups on a computer screen when they are hit in the real game.

“When I made this, I thought it would sell better than it has,” Luryi said. He said he has sold about 12 copies of the program, which has been available on the Internet since November 2005.

Subtitle Player was born of Luryi’s love for foreign fi lms. The program enables users to down-load a fi lm and its subtitle fi le sep-arately and watch them together. Luryi said he has had many cus-tomers from France, Portugal and Mexico. Subtitle Player, which sells for $10, has netted Luryi about $800 total. AIM Log Man-ager still comprises 95 percent of sales.

“The reasons I commercialized it were that I liked being my own boss and being an entrepreneur,”

Luryi said. “I can’t go into busi-ness right away when I graduate — I need capital and a good idea — but in the end I want to be the head of a large company that I cre-ate myself.”

He said he invests most of his profi ts in stocks and mutual funds. But he has also used his earnings for travel — recently, to Cancun and Asia.

Luryi has already accepted a job for next year as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs. He said he has not decided if he will keep Nalsoft in business.

“After I graduate I’ll have a full-time job, so I don’t know how much time I’ll have to expand this business,” he said.

In the meantime, Luryi said his business has been a success. “I guess there’s no product out there exactly like this — a hardcore AIM logging program — with so many options, so conveniently,” he said. “I found a little niche in the soft-ware market that hadn’t been fi lled yet. As soon as I fi ll it, people dive in and buy.”


Luryi ’07 profi ts from AIM logging

are really strong at the top. If we can win those fi rst two positions, it shows that we have depth and tal-ent at the top as well.”

Despite great efforts from the fi rst two singles players, Long Beach State took the last four matches in singles play, securing the victory.

Brown next takes to the court this weekend, when it travels down Interstate 95 to take on league ri-vals Princeton on Friday and the University of Pennsylvania, who

won the Ivy League crown a sea-son ago, on Saturday.

Ames plans to return from her injury to fi nish the rest of the Ivy League season.

“No matter what the pain is, I plan on playing the rest of the year,” Ames said.

As for the rest of the season, Brown is confi dent that it can make a move on the rest of the Ivy League.

“I think we are playing well right now, and I think we are going to play really well against Penn and Princeton,” Ames said.


W. tennis drops two matches

THE BROWN DAILY HERALD THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2007PAGE 8

of political change. If we want to un-derstand the election of President Chavez, we have to see it in that context.”

Herrera said the 1994 Summit of the Americas — one of a series fo-cusing on promoting globalization and free trade in North and South America — was a key event leading up to the regime change that saw the election of Chavez.

“The supposed consensus at the Summit of the Americas did not ex-ist,” Herrera said. “It was an agree-ment of elites, not of the people.”

Herrera said the summit was a catalyst in promoting a change of ideas in Venezuela. “We have to rec-ognize that that path is part of the problem,” he said. “We have to re-conceptualize everything, includ-ing the role of the state.”

Now, Herrera said, there is more optimism in Venezuela about the future.

“What is amazing is the way people have connected with the process of changes,” he said. “We have gone from a very pessimistic

world to a very optimistic world.”During the following question-

and-answer session, which ran over an hour, it became clear that mem-bers of the audience held strong views both for and against Chavez’s government. Herrera answered the questions put to him patiently, taking over an hour to answer only eight questions. He was frequently given notes by his aides to help him answer some of the more specifi c questions.

“Thousands of us in the United States would hail, support and sa-lute the social transformation of Venezuela,” one man shouted into a microphone, “and we will do any-thing in our power to encourage and aid your new government.”

A woman who identifi ed her-self as a Brown graduate student asked about Chavez’s use of rule by decree, which allows the leader to create laws without a legislative process.

“You talk about participatory de-mocracy in Venezuela,” she said. “But circumstantial and statistical evidence would seem to suggest that many Venezuelans are wary

about President Chavez’s increas-ingly expansive executive powers. How do you reconcile that focus on participatory politics with the reac-tion of the Venezuelan people?”

“You need two to tango,” Herre-ra responded. “Last year we didn’t have a loyal opposition in congress, but let me tell you that the loyal op-position decided not to participate. They didn’t want to legitimize the regime, so they committed political suicide and decided to withdraw. Believe me, this is not something we like.”

Students who attended the lec-ture said they appreciated Herre-ra’s appearance but wished he had been more substantive in his re-marks.

“I found that he didn’t actu-ally say all that much,” said Carla Cornejo ’10. “I think it’s fair that we’re being presented with a dif-ferent view, but it was clear that he was speaking like a politician.”

Herrera briefl y spoke about U.S.-Venezuelan relations, calling U.S. foreign policy “myopic.” But some students said they wished there had been a greater focus on the issue.

“I was a bit disappointed with the main speech, because I thought he would go into the U.S. confl ict,” said Daniela Rodriguez Da Silva ’10, who said she lived in Venezu-ela until coming to Brown. “He re-fl ected perfectly the situation of my country by going around the most important issues.”

Rodriguez Da Silva entered into a heated debate with Herrera after interrupting his answer to another person’s question, saying she want-ed “to provide context for what he was saying.” Herrera said there was a concerted effort by Venezue-lan private media to broadcast anti-Chavez propaganda, but Rodriguez Da Silva said the media only re-acted that way after Chavez forced them to cover his speeches instead of the “violent” acts of his govern-ment.

“I recognized that I interrupt-ed him, so I apologized afterwards and explained why I felt so passion-ate about this issue,” she told The Herald after the lecture. “My father was kidnapped for three days a few years ago by the government and forced to do things he didn’t want to do.”

The lecture was part of a “diplo-matic dialogue” series of lectures run by the Center for Latin Ameri-can Studies. It was also part of Lati-no History Month, which will con-tinue through the end of April.

Venezuelan ambassador speaks on context of Chavez presidencycontinued from page 1

Iran returns 15 British detainees as ‘gift’ after two-week standoffBY RAMIN MOSTAGHIM AND KIM MURPHYLOS ANGELES TIMES

TEHRAN, Iran — Ending a tense, two-week diplomatic standoff, Ira-nian President Mahmoud Ahma-dinejad on Wednesday pardoned 15 British sailors and marines de-tained while on patrol in the Per-sian Gulf and said he was sending them home as a “gift” to the British people.

The Iranian president made the unexpected announcement dur-ing a news conference at which he pinned medals on the border patrol offi cers who oversaw the detention of the sailors on March 23.

“On the occasion of the birth an-

niversary of the great prophet of Islam, and on the occasion of Eas-ter and Passover, I would like to an-nounce that the great nation of Iran, while it is entitled to put the Brit-ish military personnel on trial, has pardoned these 15 sailors and gives their release to the people of Britain as a gift,” Ahmadinejad said.

British diplomats appeared to be caught off-guard at the announce-ment, but scrambled to make ar-rangements for the sailors’ return to Britain, tentatively expected at midday Thursday. The British For-eign Offi ce said Britain’s ambassa-dor in Tehran had visited with the detainees Wednesday.

The logjam appears to have bro-ken after telephone contacts Tues-

day night between Ali Larijani, Iran’s chief international negotiator, and Nigel Sheinwald, Blair’s chief adviser on foreign affairs, who is slated to become Britain’s new am-bassador to the United States.

It also followed the release in Iraq of an Iranian diplomat detained in Baghdad in February, prompting the British media to raise the spec-tre of a “secret deal.” British offi cials said the events were unconnected.

Also in Iraq, the U.S. military dis-closed Wednesday it was consider-ing an “informal” request from Iran to allow a consular visit to fi ve Irani-ans detained in Iraq since January. The Islamic Republic News Agency reported that an Iranian embassy offi cial was scheduled to meet with the detainees. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, a U.S. military spokes-man in Iraq, said that an Iranian was among a Red Cross delegation that visited the fi ve men.

“An informal request has come in for a consular visit, and is being assessed at this time,” he said.

In his news conference, Ahma-dinejad said the pardon did not rep-resent a sudden shift in Iran’s posi-tion.

“I didn’t change my decision sud-denly. From the beginning, I didn’t want to have any confrontation. We wanted our rights,” he said. “The British government behaved badly, and it took longer.”

He said no concessions had been offered by the British government in exchange for the release, but con-tended that British offi cials had as-sured Iran there would be no future incursions into Iranian territory.

“Nothing specifi cally was done by the United Kingdom. The U.K. government has sent a note, a memo, to the ministry of foreign af-fairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and in that letter they mentioned

that incident would not be repeat-ed,” the president said. “Of course, that decision that we are going to release the 15 British sailors is not related to that letter, and it was a gift from the Iranian people to the Brit-ish people.”

A Foreign Offi ce spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonym-ity, said he “certainly could not con-fi rm” that Britain offered any pledge not to “repeat” the incident.

“I think if that area is raised as an issue in the future, then it could be considered in the future,” he said.

Ahmadinejad’s pardon an-nouncement came after the Iranian president had spent more than an hour of a scheduled news confer-ence deploring historical Western transgressions against Iran, the plight of the Palestinians, the grim history of Iran’s war with Iraq and the actions of British sailors who “invaded” the territory of Iran.

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dying to insert Jason Isringhausen back into the closer’s role.

It’s not rocket science. It doesn’t take a baseball genius to see how overrated the closer role is in base-ball. What is the difference be-tween a run given up in the second inning and a run given up in the ninth inning? Nothing other than the fact that one of them gets more press than the other one does. We remember the ninth inning losses, but no one seems to remember the games that were lost because re-placement starter “A” — in Bos-ton’s case, currently Julian Tavarez — gave up fi ve runs in innings one through six, while Papelbon was wasting away in the pen.

Closers don’t become ninth-inning specialists because they are the best pitchers on the team. They earn the job because they are most effective over one inning, but not nearly as effective the second and third time through a batting order. Eric Gagne, for example, struggled as a starter but excelled as a reliever. Sometimes it’s a lack

of stamina and sometimes it’s the pitcher’s limited repertoire.

Papelbon, however, is lacking in neither of those departments. He came up through the minors as a starter and scared the crap out of my brother, former Herald sports columnist Ross Trudeau ’06, and me in the fall of 2005 when he was given a few starts at the end of the season. Papelbon has pinpoint command of his mid-90s fastball but also has excellent secondary pitches that keep hitters guessing even in their second and third trips to the plate. His plus-plus splitter is among the best in the game, while he also fl ashes an average slider and a show-me curve. If Mariano Rivera, the greatest closer of all time, had a second plus pitch to go with his legendary cutter, you can bet he would be in the Yankees starting rotation.

Take this quotation from a blog written by ESPN’s Buster Olney, which refl ects the idea of how pitchers mysteriously lose value if they aren’t supposed to be clos-ers: “With Papelbon now set as the closer, Hansen and Delcar-

men are pretty much locked in as middle relievers when they hit the big leagues. Some executives with other teams had wondered if both faced an immediate future of di-minished trade value.”

Clearly the pitchers in question, Hansen and Delcarmen, don’t be-come any more or less effective if they are viewed as future closers, and yet their value declines simply because the path to Red Sox closer is now blocked.

Listen, I’m not complaining. I’ll also clarify that I think Papel-bon will once again be a dominat-ing closer. The guy doesn’t walk anyone (76 Ks to 16 BB) and can get out both lefties (.203 BAA) and righties (.128 ), but I still hope he is the Boston Red Sox closer for as long as he is on the team. I’m guess what I’m trying to say is … suck-errrsss! Enjoy Julian Tavaraz every fi fth day, Red Sox Nation. Ha ha ha ha! Let’s go Yank-kees.

You know what Tom Trudeau ’09 hasn’t had in awhile? Big-League

Chew.


level of play, and if staff ace Don-trelle Willis pitches like he did on Monday — one earned run over six innings — the Marlins could be a surprise contender in the NL East. (Disclaimer: They were playing the Nationals, the consen-sus worst team in baseball. Let’s not get too excited.)

In an outcome that not even the most delusional Boston-hat-er would’ve predicted, Kansas City ace Gil Meche held the Red Sox to one run in seven innings, striking out six and earning the Opening Day win for the Royals. Boston’s strength is supposed to be its offense, but even sluggers Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz couldn’t get much done against $55 million Meche. Meanwhile, Boston SP Curt Schilling was shellacked by the likes of Mark Grudzielanek and catcher John Buck. If these no-names keep producing, the Royals’ offense may deserve a second look. And the Red Sox can only hope that Daisuke Matsuzaka volunteers to pitch every day.

On a quick sidenote — I spent my spring break in Florida and was lucky enough to witness Dice-K start a Spring Training game. I can’t overstate how intim-idating he is on the mound — he is like no pitcher in the Majors. He doesn’t fi dget, wipe his fore-head or chew gum. He stands with his back straight and shoul-

ders relaxed, staring at the oppos-ing batter until he detects fear. His movements are slow, precise and reminiscent of Japanese Noh theatre. He reaches a state of “ro-jaku,” eliminating all unnecessary movements and embodying the true essence of competition and ferocity. The American League should be very nervous.

Speaking of AL Cy Young can-didates, expect Seattle SP Felix Hernandez to make a serious run for the crown. The King was clearly anxious to get his break-out season started, going eight innings with zero ERs, three hits and a whopping 12 Ks against Oakland. Hernandez is only 21 years old, but he’s already settled in as Seattle’s ace for the foresee-able future. It will be interesting to see how Felix fares against an offense more powerful than the punchless A’s — he faces the Indians (who scored 12 runs on Opening Day) next week.

Other games to look out for this weekend:

NYY vs. BAL, April 6 — SP Kei Igawa’s debut!

CHC vs. MIL, April 6 — Can SP Rich Hill repeat his success from last year’s second-half?

BOS vs. TEX, April 8 — Can SP Curt Schilling rebound against a much better offense?

Ellis Rochelson ’09 can fi nally stop pretending to like college basket-

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To the Editor:

It is paradoxical to me as to how Sean Quigley ’10 can assert (“Lent and Easter have become a sham,” April 4) that while in “making specifi c sacrifi ces dur-ing Lent … no one is seriously harmed” and that the pagan-derived traditions (Easter eggs, candy baskets, etc.) breed a “selfi sh and consumerist society.” Why is the fact that these traditions are pagan-based such a crime? The truth of the matter is that these tradi-tions serve to foster the development of the principles and morals Christians claim to hold dear. God knows it was probably only the Easter bread that brought my family together at the table on Sunday, but in the end it ended up unifying us and reminding us that life is about love and family. One could even argue that this parallels the way the Catholic Church functions, Ca-tholicism being a very material-based religion in and of itself. It is the myriad rites and rituals and unnec-essarily ornate robes, garments and hierarchies that

end up bringing religious constituents together.Having been raised a Catholic and traveled all over

the country, I have come to appreciate Christianity in the United States as a highly evolved religion. Some may consider it sad that many families that label them-selves as Christian really only participate in Christmas and Easter, and secularly at that. But even many be-lievers realize that Easter is in fact the most joyous of all Christian celebrations, being that it confi rmed the divinity of Christ and ensured us all that there was a nice happy place we could go after we die. Pretty ex-citing stuff. Makes me so happy, I could go dye some eggs and eat a scrumptious feast of a brunch with all my friends and family. Peeps included.

Carrie Schepker ‘09April 4

Readers respond to Quigley’s ’10 critique of modern-day celebration of Easter andmodern-day celebration of Easter andmodern-day celebration of Easter Lent

Self-proclaimed pro-lifers, gay marriage opponents and intelligent design advocates — whether students, faculty or visitors — are likely to run into vocal opposition on our campus. When Rick Santorum, a man who built his career fi ercely advocacating each of these positions, takes the podium tonight, we hope students will listen and choose to agree or disagree re-spectfully rather than turning his lecture into something akin to “Nonie Darwish: The Sequel.”

Two months ago, Nonie Darwish’s harsh criticisms of Islamism and Middle Eastern nations sparked anarchy in Salomon 101. Regardless of whether they agreed with her, student attendees expressed disappoint-ment and even disgust at the personal attacks and shouting matches that broke out during the question and answer session.

Tonight, Santorum’s speech could sadly elicit a similarly hysterical response.

The Lecture Board’s decision to bring the two-term former Pennsylva-nia senator — who is largely derided by mainstream media and reviled by most left-leaning Americans — to our famously liberal campus may seem like asking for trouble. Landing a conservative speaker in Salomon may be a superfi cial attempt to infuse Brown with intellectual diversity. But Santorum’s speech on what the Lecture Board described as “his effort to protect traditional marriage and his struggle to reverse the media’s onslaught against virtue” will undoubtedly challenge the views of many students and faculty.

And so while we hope the event will spur a lively discussion as audi-ence members ask questions of the senator, we also urge attendees to be civil. Displays of political vitriol not only embarrass our community and reinforce stereotypes about Brown but also diminish the University’s role as a forum for intellectual discourse.

This time around, let’s show a guest that we know how to behave.

Let’s not shout at Santorum

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With the University’s recent emphasis on internationalization — which has yet to touch undergraduates in a meaningful way — and the increased popularity of concentrations like international relations and development studies, we’re glad undergraduates are taking advantage of newly permit-ted study in Israel and other countries on the U.S. Department of State Travel Warning list.

Before last March, University policy prohibited students from study-ing in countries on the State Department’s travel blacklist. But many stu-dents studied in Israel anyway, fending for themselves by withdrawing temporarily from Brown, enrolling as a visiting student at a local universi-ty and hoping to get retroactive credit at Brown after they returned. Uni-versity offi cials fi nally buckled to swelling student pressure — marked by over 2,000 signatures collected by Brown Students for Israel — to allow study abroad in Israel.

We’re relieved that University offi cials didn’t retreat from their policy change after a Brown student enrolled as a visiting student in an Israeli university was briefl y kidnapped while traveling in the West Bank only a few months after the ban was lifted.

Brown stands out among Ivy peers as uniquely supportive of study abroad experiences, and many concentration programs underscore the educational value of cross-cultural experiences. Though studying abroad in developing or politically sensitive countries is certainly riskier than spending a semester on College Hill, it’s a decision for students and their families, not administrators, to make.

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The opinions column by Sean Quigley ’10 (“Lent and Easter have become a sham,” April 4) was thought-provoking but based on some odd assumptions.

First, his claim that the date of Easter is infl uenced by pagan spring festivals ignores the fact that the ap-proximate date of Easter, unlike that of Christmas, is easily inferable from the Gospels — according to which the Crucifi xion of Jesus took place on the eve of (or on the fi rst day of) the feast of Passover, which occurs in the spring.

Second, his attempt to link the length of Lent with the god Tammuz is doubly fl awed. The death and res-urrection of Tammuz occurred in late summer, not in spring. In addition, I would like his source for the claim that the mourning for Tammuz lasted 40 days. I hope I am not correct in perceiving here the infl uence of anti-Catholic polemics like Loraine Boettner’s infa-mous “Roman Catholicism” (not to mention secularist or neo-pagan works intending to discredit Christianity entirely).

The more obvious source of the length of Lent is

the 40 days for which Jesus fasted and was tempted in the desert.

Third, Easter sunrise services (which are a Prot-estant, not a Catholic tradition) also have an obvious source in the Gospel of Matthew’s statement that the discovery of the empty tomb was made “as it began to dawn.”

Even leaving aside these errors, I am not sure I quite understood Quigley’s argument. Is he saying that a true Christian would be able to give up soda or television all year (I assume his reference to these as “eminently indispensable” is sarcastic), or is he say-ing that a true Christian should be above the practice of fasting? If the latter, he should take note that Jesus Himself fasted and clearly envisioned periodic fasting as part of His followers’ lives (see Matthew 6:16 — “When you fast, do not look dismal,” etc.).

James Kabala MA’03 GSApril 4

To the Editor:

On December 15, 1791, the United States rati-fi ed the Bill of Rights. The document’s fore-most amendment proclaimed several funda-mental freedoms guaranteed to every Ameri-can citizen, including freedom of speech and “the right of the people peaceably to assem-ble, and to petition the Government for a re-dress of grievances.”

In the past few weeks, Brown’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society has whole-heartedly embraced this amendment in two fl agrant demonstrations that are worth ad-dressing.

At one protest, SDS members picketed in a circle around Raytheon’s booth at the Ca-reer Fair in Sayles Hall. SDS targeted Raythe-on due to the company’s manufacture of de-fense technology products.

As an engineering student, the prospect of working for an industry leader like Raytheon is extremely attractive to me. Just last year, Busi-nessWeek named Raytheon the seventh-best place to launch a career. While SDS strives to emphasize Raytheon’s role in the production of armaments, it fails to mention the multi-tude of other benefi cial products the company manufactures for sonar, passenger aircraft and space systems.

Megan Collins ’08 wrote that the Raythe-on protest was a disservice to Brown students (“Raytheon protest was a disservice,” March 8). In its response to Collins, SDS stated that “we do not want to impede anyone from get-ting a job” – even though they did exactly that during the protest. I was personally inconve-nienced as a result of SDS’ actions, although I’m happy to say that just this week I was of-fered a job with Raytheon. Nice work, guys — here’s an A for effort.

SDS was at it again last month, staging a die-in rally at the offi ces of Textron, Inc. in downtown Providence. Textron is another large defense corporation that regularly con-tracts with the U.S. military.

SDS’ demonstration included raspberry jam simulating blood, pantomimed cluster bombs and rushing a building after they were refused entry. One member of SDS was even arrested for disorderly conduct. If anything, this demonstration generated more comical sentiment than progressive political impact.

I fully support the right to protest and speak out against something you do not be-lieve in, but this should be done in a tasteful and diplomatic manner. As far as calling the protest “an overwhelming success,” if you think the charades enacted on Monday after-noon will cause a multibillion dollar compa-ny like Textron to stop making weapons and start hugging trees, you should probably look into joining some other club — perhaps relat-ed to self-help or psychotherapy.

Let us return to the First Amendment. This “land of the free” was not given to us in a generous gesture, but earned through combat, bloodshed and the sacrifi ce of thou-sands of soldiers who gave their lives in the American Revolution. American soldiers have fought and are continuing to fi ght so that you and I can enjoy our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In today’s world, this is accomplished with guns, laser-guided missiles, tanks and in-tegrated defense systems — the very same products that corporate contractors regularly manufacture. I sleep better at night knowing that there are companies like Raytheon and Textron that are providing U.S. soldiers with the most technologically advanced combat systems in the world.

Freedom isn’t free, and if the members of SDS would like to continue to exercise their freedom of speech, then I suggest they recon-sider their principles, who they target and how they conduct themselves in their protests.

Jeff Wardyga ’08 loves the smell of napalm in the morning.

Education is a right. Education is fundamen-tal — it’s more than just a stepping stone to-wards a career. An educated citizenry is an essential element in the creation of a demo-cratic society — a society in which individu-als control the resources upon which they de-pend as well as the decisions that affect their lives.

To deny access to education on the basis of wealth is both a gross violation of individu-al rights and a profound abandonment of the ideals of democracy. The rising cost of post-secondary education is therefore a cause for deep concern, both for individuals and for ed-ucational institutions.

Brown made a commitment to accessible education — although late relative to other Ivies — by instituting a need-blind admis-sions policy. We believe Brown should live up to the spirit of the need-blind promise by fol-lowing the example set by Princeton Univer-sity and other institutions that have declared a tuition freeze. Brown should shift to a poli-cy of fi nancial assistance based on grants and scholarships rather than increasingly crush-ing student loans.

The Corporation recently approved, with-out student input, a 5 percent increase in tu-ition and student fees. Next year, students will be paying $1,696 more in tuition. This sort of unilateral action has become a common Uni-versity practice.

Making decisions, especially fi nancial ones, without even an invitation to student involvement is inherently undemocratic. It places the interests of students behind those of the institution which supposedly serves them. The Corporation is clearly more con-cerned with the fi nancial well-being of the

University than with the fi nancial realities its students face.

Today, we pay double the amount in tu-ition and fees that students did 15 years ago. This rate of annual increase — on average 5.75 percent — is more than twice the aver-age rate of infl ation over the same period, 2.45 percent. To allow the cost of an already unaf-fordable education to increase at such an as-tronomical rate is socially irresponsible.

Current total undergraduate charges amount to $45,948 per year. This is almost $4,000 per year more than the total annu-al median household income in the United States. In 10 years, at the current average rate of increase, the cost of tuition alone will be $62,238. This rise is incompatible with the belief that education is a right rather than a privilege — a belief that we hope the Univer-sity shares.

The myth that fi nancial aid solves the in-accessibility of high tuition is just that — a myth. What fi nancial aid really does is saddle those who cannot afford tuition with crushing loans at increasingly high interest rates.

Student debt has already become a crisis: It is increasing nationally at more than $2,000 a second, with a total national burden of $462 billion. This surpasses the annual Depart-ment of Defense budget by over $50 billion.

The University, through student initiatives like the New Curriculum, has historically been committed to the values of accessible education and to a student-focused process of participatory learning. However, recent insu-lar administrative decisions have made it ob-vious that this commitment is wavering. Stu-dents didn’t even know the new registration system Banner, a $23 million expense, was going to be implemented — it was introduced without student involvement or consent. The University has also dramatically cut funding for graduate students, a decision made unilat-erally without the consent of the students it will affect.

Brown prides itself on providing an envi-ronment where students have the freedom to craft their own education. We are promised we will have direct involvement in our entire educational experience, yet we have been re-peatedly excluded from decisions that shape that experience.

The rising cost of education and the in-sularity of Brown’s decision-making process are fundamental problems that need to be ad-dressed. The environment they produce priv-ileges creating an “effi cient,” affl uent Univer-sity rather than a center of liberal learning. This is a betrayal of everything the New Cur-riculum stands for.

In the face of these trends, it is necessary for us, the students, to proclaim our concerns, needs and rights in a manner that the admin-istration cannot ignore. Democratic educa-tion and intellectual growth require our indi-vidual and collective engagement.

The fi nancial inaccessibility of higher ed-ucation is a problem not just for those who cannot afford the membership fee. We are all being denied the right to attend an institution that truly promotes democratic ideals and the principle of education accessible to all.

Princeton could afford to freeze their tu-ition — it’s clear that other private institu-tions, like Brown, can do the same. It is time for us, the students, to recover our place as active participants in the Brown community.

Alex Ortiz ‘09, Alex Tye ‘10, Amy Littlefi eld ‘09, Bucky Rogers ‘07, Donata Secondo ‘10, Ella

Chary ‘07, Ingrid O’Brien ‘07, Jason Hitchner ‘10, Nicole Carty ‘10, Noah Wiener ‘09, Margaree Lit-tle ‘08.5, Mike da Cruz ‘08.5, Rick Ahl ‘09, Robin Peckham ‘10, Senia Barragan ‘08, Will Emmons ‘09, Will Lambek ‘09, Will Pasley ‘07, Vale Cofer-

Shabica ‘09, Connor Ashenbrucker ‘10, Alex Campbell ‘10 and Liz Sperber ‘06 are members of the Brown chapter of Students for a Demo-

cratic Society.

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTHURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2007 PAGE 11

Stop the student debt spiral

When I grow up, I want to be lazy

OXFORD, England — It is more than halfway through my junior year, and my parents and I are beginning to have the scariest of conver-sations. More and more, I fi nd them asking me what it is I’m going to do with my life.

They hope, perhaps, that I’ll display some youthful idealism and tell them I want to “see the world” or “help people.” They are some-what disappointed when I tell them I’m wor-ried about getting a job and paying the bills and that many of my friends are thinking the same thing. I am one of the lucky ones — fi -nancially, I will be running to stay in place, while many of my peers will be running twice as fast to catch up.

In a recent New York Times column, Bob Herbert bemoans the rising cost of higher education. With tuition fees at top universi-ties crossing the $40,000 mark and Pell Grants disappearing, today’s students have to rely in-creasingly on loans. As a result, young Ameri-cans are beginning life in the real world with the deck already stacked against them — with the burden of debt.

No surprise, then, that jobs in fi nance and consulting are overtaking Teach for America and the Peace Corps as top choices for fresh-out-of-college fi rst jobs. Twentysomethings can’t afford to spend fi ve or 10 years in phi-lanthropy when they have to pay off their col-lege loans.

Herbert, like my parents, laments the straight and narrow ambitions of our genera-tion. A society where the young have lost their moral idealism is a “society in decline.” Amer-ica, he says, will lose its competitive edge if it doesn’t act fast and start subsidizing college education.

The U.S. Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings, took a similar view when she spoke

at the Commission on the Future of Education, a national summit held at the end of March. Laying out 25 initiatives for colleges and uni-versities to adopt, Spellings urged the nation to expand access to education across America.

The recommendations were mostly re-iterations of general principles we’ve heard before: They included revisions in fi nancial aid policy, increased private-sector funding of need-blind aid, expansion of the Pell Grant program, creation of government incentives for institutions that successfully reduce costs for low-income students and the elimination of institutional barriers to the implementation of new aid programs.

Like efforts to state-subsidize education or coax education funding from big business in the past, these proposals are meeting with resistance in America. They sound too much like European socialist education systems, fundamentally antithetical to the do-it-your-self, up-by-the-bootstraps model of American social mobility.

Herbert and my parents are concerned with social injustice, with the tragedy that stu-dents can’t afford to take socially conscious public sector jobs. But there is something big-ger and closer to the heart of American busi-ness minds than the moral justice of equal op-portunity. The competitive threat to America posed by a debt-burdened youth is not the cost Herbert and my parents seem so alarmed by. It is the economic cost of creativity.

Back in the day, college graduates could spend fi ve years traveling the world and explor-ing jobs in new industries, even if they didn’t pay very well. Nowadays, as one of my friends says, “everyone dreams of being bankers.” But sending the best and brightest into high-pay-ing jobs may be less valuable to the national economy in the long run than the decade of ex-perimentation that graduates are giving up.

In the coming decades, the global econom-ic contours will be defi ned by new industries based around new technologies. Those still re-

lying on tradition — French wine-growers, for example — are faltering. The countries choos-ing to invest in the new and uncertain (such as the gamble India made in the 1990’s on soft-ware) are raking it in.

Taking the fi rst years out of college to ex-periment is more than a moral right, it’s an in-vestment in the national economy. Facebook and Google, it’s worth remembering, are both the result of such adolescent experiments.

Solving the big issues of our time will de-pend on taking chances — global warming and shrinking natural resources are not obstacles that can be overcome by expanding in tradi-tional ways, they require a generation of lead-ers that can think outside the box.

The paradox is that [pullquote] just when the open economic mind is becoming indis-pensable, America is confi ning its youth to the box of tradition with the cost of education.

In doing so, America is confi ning itself to the box of second-best. Countries where young people are given the fi nancial security to experiment, with their semi-socialist educa-tional systems that we so often scoff at, may overtake America in innovation. In the 21st century, capital will follow creativity, and cre-ativity needs comfort.

It is time to bring back the lackadaisical, fi nd-yourself spirit that allowed many Genera-tion Xers, like the cast of “Friends,” to remain in career limbo into their early 30s.

It is time to drop the moralizing rhetoric so often adopted by education reformers and start talking the language of business. Re-claiming our twenties is not an act of nostalgia for a slower paced world, and subsidizing edu-cation is not an exercise in achieving social uto-pia. These are acts of sound investment — and if America doesn’t buy in now, other countries will buy us out.

Maha Atal ‘08 is fi nding herself. She’ll be back in 2017.

MAHA ATALCOLUMNIST ABROAD

STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, BROWN CHAPTER

GUEST COLUMNISTSGUEST COLUMNISTSGUEST

SDS should reconsider actions, principles

JEFF WARDYGAGUEST COLUMNISTGUEST COLUMNISTGUEST

SPORTS THURSDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALDTHURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2007 PAGE 12

Papelbon to close is a mistakeI’m generally not too subtle about how much I hate the Red Sox, so why am I happy to hear that the man who had the eighth-lowest

ERA in history (.92) and the low-est batting aver-age against (.162) in history last sea-son is primed to reclaim his spot as closer for the Boston Red Sox? Because now we

only have to see him dominate one inning per game — probably some-where around 70 innings on the year, rather than 200.

To plenty of people, this seemed like the logical move — Mike Tim-lin is hurt, Okajima can’t get it done against right-handed batters, Craig Hansen has struggled and will start the year in AAA, Manny Delcarmen is too inexperienced and the team’s most dominating pitcher, Jonathan Papelbon, is just chillin’ and ready to rock ‘n’ roll. For a team that had by far the best off-season in the Major Leagues, the Boston brass sure does seem dumb right now.

Last year’s NLCS ended with a big hook from Cardinals’ starter-turned-super closer Adam “Young” Wainwright that absolutely froze Mets outfi elder Carlos Beltran with the bases loaded. Wainwright was again on the mound when St. Louis won the World Series, com-pleting his magical run as closer during the post-season. So what did the Cards do with their secret weapon just a few short months lat-er? They moved him into the start-ing rotation. And believe you me, folks, it wasn’t because they were

Impressions on a young 2007 MLB seasonAh, springtime — the sun is shin-ing, the birds are chirping and

MLB.com has news to report other than “Cle-mens still unde-cided” and “Craig Biggio excited for upcoming sea-son.” Yes, base-ball has begun! The agonizing

winter is over, and I’ve been poring through box scores to see what in-teresting storylines have begun to develop.

Jake Peavy and Ben Sheets pitched brilliantly in their opening-day starts. Peavy won his second-straight Opening Day start for the San Diego Padres, allowing only three hits and no runs over six in-nings while notching six strike-outs. Sheets was even more im-pressive for the Brewers, holding the NL West-favorite (ha!) Los An-geles Dodgers to two hits and only one run over the full nine innings. Sheets and Peavy, fi nally injury-free, will battle all season for the NL Cy Young Award.

As the New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 9-5 on Opening Day, the two teams re-vealed their most obvious strengths and weaknesses. The D-Rays boast-ed their unrelenting little-ball skills, getting a stolen base from three dif-ferent players and smacking nine hits — eight of which were singles. Speedy second-baseman B.J. Up-ton and slugger Elijah Dukes fi nal-ly have starting jobs, giving the of-fense a signifi cant boost.

Their glaring fl aw remains their bullpen — no Rays reliever con-tained the Yanks’ bats, and two of their pitchers left the game nurs-ing 27.00 ERAs. The Bombers, de-spite their image of being a slug-ger-heavy, three-run-homer-or-bust team, played great all-around baseball. Alex Rodriguez, Johnny Damon and Bobby Abreu each had a stolen base.

New York fl exed their power with home runs from Jorge Posada and A-Rod. Jason Giambi and Cap’n Derek Jeter drilled clutch RBI sin-gles, and Doug Mientkiewicz laid a textbook bunt down the third-base line. Sure, SP Carl Pavano was wild and hittable. But the Yanks’ under-rated bullpen came in to pitch four and two-thirds scoreless innings, capped by Mariano Rivera striking out the side in the ninth.

Lessons learned? The Dev-il Rays are a scrappy and capa-ble team, and they will win some games against teams not from the Bronx. The Yankees proved that they will fi nd ways to win ball-games, even when Carl Pavano is on the mound.

The Florida Marlins might be way underestimated. On Opening Day, Florida destroyed the Wash-ington Nationals, 9-2. Second-year players Hanley Ramirez and Dan Uggla, primed for sophomore slumps, got off to great starts: Ramirez went four for six, scoring four runs and stealing two bases. Uggla went one for four, walking twice and launching a home run.

If that duo can maintain this

Track team opens season at Northeastern, Stanford

The men’s and women’s track teams competed in two meets over spring break, taking some of the squad to the Northeast-ern Spring Open on March 24 and a smaller, select group to the highly competitive Stanford Invi-tational on March 30 and 31. Nei-ther meet kept team scores, so the team only posted individual results.

The less-competitive North-eastern meet served as an op-portunity for athletes to get their competitive juices fl owing, and many competed in events other than their primary specialty. The women’s team was lead by co-captain Akilah King ’08, who cap-tured fi rst in the 200-meter dash, running 25.15 seconds, and won the triple jump as well, leaping 37 feet, 4.5 inches.

Other notable performances included a slew of second-place fi nishes. Thelma Breezeatl ’10, fresh off of her win in the 60-me-ter dash at the Indoor Heptago-nal Championships, fi nished second in the 200-meter dash. Classmate Jasmine Chukwueke ’10 placed second in the 400-me-ter dash and helped the 4x400 meter relay to a runner-up fi n-ish in 4:00.19. Former volley-ball standout Rikki Baldwin ’07 continued the streak of second-place fi nishes, claiming the run-ner-up position to King in the tri-ple jump. Danielle Grunloh ’10 was the runner-up in the discus.

The men had several strong individual performances, as well, including two wins by Jamil Mc-Clintock ’08, who won the 110-

meter hurdles and the 200-meter dash, running 14.58 seconds and 22.49 seconds, respectively. Mc-Clintock’s effort in the hurdles currently ranks him third in the Ivy League. Captain Paul Rosiak ’07 won the javelin with a throw of 199 feet, 10 inches and is current-ly ranked second in the league in the event. Andrew Chapin ’10 also claimed a victory, winning the triple jump with a leap of 44 feet, 2.5 inches.

Matthew Jasmin ’09 placed second behind McClintock in the 200-meter dash, while Christian Tabib ’07 fi nished third in the 800-meter run. Bryan Powlen ’10 placed second in the discus, with teammate Kai Brown ’08 placing third in the same event. Miles Craigwell ’09 also broke into the top three, placing third in the tri-ple jump. Brown also entered two 4x400 meter relays that claimed second and third place.

The following weekend, a small group of athletes traveled to California with the hope of hit-ting Regional-qualifying times. Highlighting the effort was rook-ie Jenna Ridgway ’10, whose 16:40.08 effort in the 5,000-me-ter run nearly broke the school record set last year by All-Amer-ican Anna Willard ’06. The time qualifi es her for Regionals and ranks her second all-time for the Bears.

Naja Ferjan ’07 and Lindsay Kahn ’09 nearly qualifi ed for Re-gionals in their respective events, both missing the standard by less than a second. Ferjan completed the 800-meter run in 2:10.41, while Kahn clocked in at 10:50.28 in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

Brian Schmidt ’09 was the

standout performer for the men’s team at Stanford, running 14:20.60 in the 5,000-meter run. Schmidt’s time is good for eighth on Brown’s top-10 list. Another outstanding effort came from rookie Reginald Cole ’10, who leapt 47 feet, 10.5 inches in the triple jump. The performance ranks him ninth all-time for the Bears.

The teams head to the Univer-sity of Connecticut this Saturday for their next competition.

BY MADELEINE MARECKIASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

After two impressive non-con-ference wins against Syracuse University and the University of West Virginia, the women’s ten-nis team opened its Ivy League season on Monday against Yale. However, the momentum creat-ed from those two wins was not enough to overcome the Bull-dogs, who defeated the Bears 6-1.

Brown was back on the courts Tuesday in its last non-confer-ence match of the season against Long Beach State University. But the No. 51 49ers overcame loss-es at fi rst and second singles to down the Bears 5-2.

The Bulldogs came out strong on Monday, winning the fi rst doubles match. The twosome of Christine Alford and Olivia Nix defeated Sara Mansur ’09 and Michelle Pautler ’07, 8-6. Daisy Ames ’07 and Kathrin Sorokko ’10 won Brown’s only doubles match, defeating the duo of Lind-say Dashiell and Janet Kim 8-2. But Yale took the last doubles match to win the doubles point and take an early 1-0 lead.

Singles play did not treat Brown any better. The Bulldogs took fi ve of the fi rst six singles

matches and cruised to victory.“All the matches were really

close,” said Ames. “Some of the matches went to the third set, and some went to tiebreakers. They just got a lot more balls in the court then we did.”

To add injury to insult, Ames, who has been playing fi rst sin-gles for Brown all year, hurt her back, forcing her to sit out of the Long Beach State match.

“I’ve been having back prob-lems for a while,” she said. “But by the end of my singles match against Yale, the pain was so in-tense that I could barely walk.”

The Bears tried to reverse their fortune against Long Beach State. But the 49ers won all three doubles matches and cruised to win the doubles point.

Brown did not go down with-out a fi ght. Bruno won the fi rst two matches of singles play. Due to Ames’ injury, Pautler and Man-sur played one step up from their normal two and three positions. Both played very well and dis-posed of their 49er counterparts.

“Michelle did a great job at No. 1, and Sarah did a good job at No. 2,” Ames said. “It’s impor-tant to play well at the fi rst two positions because a lot of teams

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Jacob Melrose / HeraldSara Mansur ’09 earned one of Brown two singles victories against Long Beach State on Tuesday.

Courtesy of Dan Grossman ‘71Co-captain Akilah King ’08 sprinted and jumped to two fi rst place fi nishes at the Northeastern Spring Open on March 24, winning the 200-meter dash and triple jump.

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