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Underground railtunnel could allowBrown to expandoutwardmetro, page 3

Christopher McAuliffe’05 says the abortionfight is more than menversus womencolumn, page 7

Providence needscities’ help to improve,writes CouncilmanDavid Segalcolumn, page 7

W. ice hockey finish-es successful regularseason, bests YaleUniversitysports, page 8

Senior m. basketballplayers set new Brownrecord for wins duringa college careersports, page 8

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Proposal aimsto expandMedical SchooladmissionBY MERYL ROTHSTEINFor the first time since the 1980s, theMedical School will open its applicationprocess to students completing their under-graduate education at any college or univer-sity, pending the approval of a two-yearexperiment announced by Provost RobertZimmer at a faculty meeting last Tuesday.

Unlike most medical schools, Brown’smedical school currently accepts only stu-dents from the Program in Liberal MedicalEducation, current Brown undergraduatesor those from special avenues, like post-baccalaureate programs, according to theMedical School’s Web site.

An open application process will help theschool “get the best students it can get,”Zimmer said. “It can’t help but enhancewhat is already a really incredible studentbody.”

A broader mix of students from the topschools in the country will inevitably enrichthe Medical School’s culture, he said.

The proposed change is also a way toincrease visibility of the Medical School,said Interim Dean of Biology and MedicalSciences Richard Besdine.

Because most undergraduates at othercolleges cannot apply to Brown’s medicalschool, pre-medical students and theiradvisors might not know of it, Besdine said.

“Having the name of Brown in front ofmore people will ultimately be good for thecollege and the graduate program,” he said.“We’re terrific, and everybody should knowthat we are.”

Greater visibility in communities rele-vant to medicine inevitably increases aschool’s attractiveness to students, thoseseeking residencies, faculty, federal grantingagencies, potential donors and many oth-ers, Zimmer said.

The standard admission process, whichwill be open to students entering inSeptember 2005 and 2006, will not increasethe size of the class or reduce the number ofenrolled PLME students, Besdine said.

The opportunity to open the applicationprocess resulted from a two-year windowwith fewer PLME students that left 10 to 12spots open, he said.

24-hour studyspace opens inNew Pembroke,space in FaunceHouse to follow

Brown was pioneer in accommodating learning disabilities

BY KATE GORMANStudents pulling all-nighters now haveplaces other than the Center forInformation Technology to watch the sunrise.

The first of two new 24-hour studyspaces is now open on the ground floor ofNew Pembroke #4, said Ari Savitzky ’06,chair of campus life for the UndergraduateCouncil of Students.

Another 24-hour study space is set toopen in a few weeks in Faunce House,Savitzky said. These spaces are the first ofmany forthcoming near-term improve-ments to community and campus life, hesaid.

Planning for the 24-hour spaces andother common-area renovations began atthe beginning of this academic year,Savitzky said.

“There has been a big push to improvecommon resources on campus in order tomake students’ academic and social livesbetter, and the study space at NewPembroke #4 is a part of that,” he said.

Savitzky said students and administra-tors involved in creating the space lookedfor a regional balance of places to study oncampus, since the Rockefeller andSciences libraries are a long walk fromPembroke campus.

“The 24-hour spaces fit into our largervision for building community at Brownby creating an environment where stu-dents are able to interact and engage withone another,” said UCS President RahimKurji ’05.

The New Pembroke #4 facility will helpmeet the demand for late-night studyareas, he said.

“It is especially good for those studentswho may not feel safe going to a librarylate into the night,” Kurji said.

Sonia Gupta ’06, UCS Chair ofAdmission and Student ServicesCommittee worked with Savitzky on get-ting 24-hour spaces established on cam-pus.

“We requested that the spaces havecard access, computer networking capa-bilities, computer clusters, study con-ducive furniture, study carrels and vend-ing,” Gupta said.

But not all of these amenities are avail-able yet, said David Greene, interim vicepresident for campus life and studentservices.

Greene said getting the 24-hour studyspaces open and available for students touse as soon as possible was a higher prior-ity than opening them with all of theplanned amenities intact.

“The way the New Pembroke #4 studyspace is set up right now, with literally bor-rowed furniture, is not how it will stay. Wewill be renovating both the New Pembroke#4 and Faunce 24-hour study spaces overthe next couple of months and over thesummer,” he said.

College students’ mortality causedprimarily by accidents, suicideBY SARAH LABRIEBrandy Cooks ’04 remembers attending aweekend party at a fraternity house.Almost everyone there was intoxicated,but Cooks most clearly remembers onestudent who drank until he vomited andpassed out. The most striking thing aboutthe situation, said Cooks, was that thepeople around him didn’t seem to be atall concerned for his well-being. “Peoplejust looked at him as though it weren’tunusual,” she said.

Decades ago, college students werebeing killed in conflicts such as theKorean and Vietnam wars. But today,accidents related to alcohol like the oneCooks observed and suicide are the lead-ing causes of death on college campuses,according to multiple studies. The recentmedia focus on Harvard University’s highrate of depression among students — aHarvard Crimson poll reported that 80percent of Harvard undergraduates feltdepressed at least once last year — hassome colleges wondering what they cando to safeguard students’ mental health.

A 2002 Harvard study found that ahigh rate of excessive drinking on collegecampuses helped make motor vehicleaccidents the leading cause of death

among college students. The study alsorevealed that levels of binge drinkingamong students remain the same as inthe early 1990s, despite more concentrat-ed efforts on the part of administrationsto end it. In addition, alcohol abuse maylead to depression and suicide, furtherincreasing mortality rates.

“I can understand how these issueswould effect the lives of college stu-dents,” said Serena Hon ’06, who hasworked with Brown’s Emergency MedicalServices for three semesters. On Fridayand Saturday nights, Hon said she esti-mates that more than 90 percent of thecalls EMS receives are due to alcohol-related injury or illness.

Depression is also a central contribu-tor to campus deaths. A Kansas StateUniversity study found that over thecourse of a decade the number of stu-dents who report depression doubled andthe number of students who report con-sidering suicide tripled. Another study, bythe American College Health Association,found that a third of students surveyedfelt depressed to the point where theywere unable to function normally. Nine

BY STEPHANIE CLARKBrown is considered a pioneer of supportprograms at competitive universities forstudents with learning disabilities, accord-ing to Executive Associate Dean of theCollege Robert Shaw. The flexible structureof Brown’s curriculum is helpful for stu-dents with learning disabilities, Shaw said.

Disability Support Services, which pro-vides support for students with a widerange of physical, psychological and learn-ing disabilities, offers a number ofresources for learning-disabled students.The most common of these include theuse of volunteer note-takers, extendedtime and quiet rooms for taking tests and

textbooks on tape for students who havedifficulties with their reading load, saidCathie Axe, coordinator of DisabilitySupport Services.

Learning-disabled students are alsoprovided with ample opportunities to dis-cuss academic issues with qualifiedadministrators, such as Axe or Shaw.

The job of DSS is to “work with the stu-dents and provide the support they need,and also to support the professors,” Axesaid.

The faculty in general is “very support-ive” of students who need special accom-modations for exams, but with the growingnumbers of such students, it has become

more difficult to provide these accommo-dations, she said.

“The problem of rooms is always a bigone,” Axe said, especially during midtermsand finals period.

One possible solution is a testing centerthat would provide extra rooms for stu-dents to take exams, as well as extra proc-tors. But Axe said the possibility of such acenter is “still in the idea stage at thispoint.”

DSS is currently in the process ofupgrading some of its equipment, such asvoice-activated software that transfers

see STUDY SPACE, page 5

see MED SCHOOL, page 4

see DISABILITIES, page 5

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Monday’s snow came after several weeks of warm weather, dusting Sayles Hall andthe Main Green.

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BY ROBBIE COREY-BOULETA train service linking College Hill to EastProvidence is one of several proposalsmeant to address demand for parking spaceon College Hill, but University officials havenot approved the idea, said Executive VicePresident for Planning and Senior Advisor tothe President Richard Spies.

The train service would allow the aban-doned East Side Railway Tunnel to resumeservice to Providence residents after a hia-tus of more than 20 years. The tunnel linksthe Providence and Seekonk rivers, runningfrom Benefit to Gano streets, and operatedfrom its official opening in 1908 until 1981.

The proposal was conceived by RobertManchester ’66 of Burlington, Vt., and hasthe support of East Providence MayorRolland Grant, according to the ProvidenceJournal. Manchester is currently a lawyerlooking at property for a potential develop-ment in East Providence.

The plan would allow people to park in anew lot in East Providence and be taken bytrain to College Hill.

“It makes sense, and it has a lot of institu-tional backing,” Grant told the Journal. “Itseemed to be a wacky idea” at first.

Brown administrators said the idea is stillvery much in its conceptual stage andrequires further research and evaluation byUniversity and Providence officials.

“We still don’t have anything to report” interms of action taken by the University, saidDirector of Real Estate and AdministrativeServices Abigail Rider.

“I think that’s several years off if it hap-pens,” Spies said. “I think anything like thatwould require a fair amount of time andmoney to get it ready to use, if it could bedone at all.”

The Journal reported Dec. 29 that theidea “has the backing of Brown University.”

Spies refuted reports of the University’sapproval, writing in a letter to the editor ofthe Journal, “We have not, as of yet, reachedany conclusions nor developed any interest

in any specific development projects oropportunities” related to the proposal.

But the University is actively seekingways to solve the parking problem, whichhas been exacerbated by construction andother space-consuming projects, Spies said.

“It’s a real problem that is getting worseyear by year,” Spies told The Herald. “Thereare some things that will happen next yearthat will make it even more so.” TheUniversity must find room for trailers need-ed for the Life Sciences building, he said.

The tunnel was most recently in the newsafter a 1993 party thrown at the BenefitStreet entrance by Brown and RISD studentsled to officer injuries and student arrests.The party, which took place the night of May1, was in celebration of “the pagan origins ofMay Day,” according to the Journal. Police,who called the party “satanic,” attempted tobreak up the group of 300 students becauseof ventilation concerns. When studentsresisted, officers resorted to using pepperspray, which incited students to throw rocksat police cruisers and attack policemen.

“My people got the … beat out of them,”then-Police Chief Bernard Gannon told theJournal. In the end, seven officers wereinjured and eight partygoers were chargedwith disorderly conduct, including oneBrown student and five RISD students.

The incident created tension betweenBrown and RISD and the city of Providence.Residents were outraged that students,many of whom did not pay local taxes,could contribute to such chaos and vio-lence, the Journal reported.

Prior to 1993, citizens had long debatedwhat to do with the East Side RailwayTunnel, as alternate railroad routes and adecrease in railway traffic seemed to makethe Providence tunnel obsolete.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the cityconsidered switching the tunnel’s functionfrom railroad to highway transportation, amove that was expected to improve traffic

going into and coming out of the downtowndistrict.

In 1953, the Journal reported that then-Providence Mayor Walter Reynolds hadfielded offers from the ClarkesonEngineering Co. of Boston, which haddrawn up plans for a highway conversion.The deal ultimately fell through.

The highway issue resurfaced in early1964, as the city debated whether to go for-ward with an $8 million conversion plan. AJournal editorial encouraged readers tothink beyond transportation purposes,wondering if the tunnel could be used as a“massive underground vault for storage ofrecords against the danger of enemynuclear attack.”

In researching future plans, the

University must deal with more modernconcerns, especially those of residents whowish to see Brown’s development remain onCollege Hill. The University’s StrategicFramework for Physical Planning recentlyconcluded that Brown will eventually needto look elsewhere for expansion, Spies wrotein a letter to the Journal.

“The University’s long-term growthneeds cannot be fully accommodated onCollege Hill,” he wrote. “I would like toemphasize that Brown cherishes itsProvidence roots and its home in one of thenation’s most beautiful historical districts.”

Herald staff writer Robbie Corey-Boulet ’07can be reached at [email protected].

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Old train tunnel could see new life as Brown park-and-ride, but use is far in the future

Nick Neely / Herald

The east tunnel portal (above), characterized by graffiti and abandoned shopping carts,sits in stark contrast to the west portal, a newly made parking lot.The proposal to resumeuse of the tunnel aims to redefine both.

At the end of the two years, theMedical School will evaluate theprogram, Besdine said.

“If we get all (summa cumlaude) and 4.0 students who arediverse and socially consciousabout medicine the way our cur-rent classes are … then that wouldbe a powerful message that weshould strongly consider trying tofigure out a way to admit those

students,” he said.But the Medical School has not

given much consideration toadmitting more students yet, hesaid. The school’s facilities arebarely adequate to accommodatethe current number of students,making an increased class sizenearly impossible, he said.

In preparation for the changes,Director of Communications forthe Medical School SarahBaldwin-Beneich said she ispreparing a view book, a hot sheet,Web sites and possibly a DVD topresent at college fairs and send toother colleges.

The proposal is tentative andwill not be official until a discus-sion takes place with faculty thisspring, Zimmer said. The proposalhas been discussed and approvedby the Division of Biology andMedicine, he said.

Herald staff writer Meryl Rothstein’06 edits the Arts & Culture section.She can be reached at [email protected].

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percent had considered suicideduring the year.

“A lot of people went throughperiods of depression, especiallytheir freshman year, because it’ssuch a rough transition period,”said Felicia Mercer ’04. She saidthat in her experience, friends whosought help at the University’sPsychological Services generallycame away dissatisfied.

“Psych Services tends to notwant to deal with the issues athand. Instead of actually trying totreat the student, they encouragestudents to take time off or to takemedication. It makes students feelas though their problem is worsethan it really is,” she said.

A screening program at EmoryUniversity allows students to learnmore about depression and toreceive help via the Internet. Theprogram is part of a long-termstudy by the American Foundationfor Suicide Prevention aimed atuncovering the causes of suicidaldepression in young people.

Colleges with high rates of sui-cide among students tend to behigher ranked and more academi-cally challenging, according tomedia reports. In 2001, theMassachusetts Institute ofTechnology had the highest rate ofsuicide among students, andHarvard ranked second. Largeurban universities, especially thosewith a high enrollment of whitemales, are particularly susceptibleto student suicide, according to the

Daily Princetonian. Rises in rates of depression

might have occurred as a result ofan increase in competition andstress on campuses. Higher num-bers of depressed students over-works the psychological staff,which might keep some studentsfrom getting help they need.

At New York University in 2003,three undergraduate studentscommitted suicide in the fall, lead-ing the university to post guards bythe library stairwell where two ofthe deaths occurred. Depressionled students at MIT and Harvard totake their own lives this year; anMIT junior killed himself by jump-ing off a bridge, days after AnthonyFonseca, a Harvard junior, wasfound dead in his dorm room of anapparent suicide.

Belinda Johnson, director ofpsychological services at Brown,said Brown will not follow Emory’sexample of online counseling, andinstead continue to offer a morepersonal approach.

The Office of Student Life pro-vides grief counseling for studentsaffected by the deaths of othermembers of the Brown communi-ty. These students invited to meetwith a dean from the Office ofStudent Life, as well as counselorsfrom Psychological Services and arepresentative from the chaplain’soffice. Students also work togetherwith the chaplain’s office to createa memorial for the deceased.

“It’s a healing process,” Johnsonsaid.

Herald staff writer Sarah LaBrie’07 can be reached [email protected].

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vocal information into text, and amachine called the Kurz-Weil3000, a reading and scanningdevice that helps students takenotes more effectively, Axe said.

While the resources Brown pro-vides for students with learningdisabilities are comparable to pro-grams at equally selective schools,Shaw said Brown is uniquebecause it was one of the first tooffer them.

Brown’s support program wasstarted in 1984 by then-Dean ofthe College Harriet Sheridan, aftershe was approached by a few stu-dents requesting specific accom-modations for learning-disabledstudents. Sheridan was especiallydedicated to the cause, Shaw said,because her own son was affectedby learning disabilities.

When the program was firstinstituted at Brown, “you could

have named the schools that hadprograms for learning disabilitieson two hands,” Shaw said.

A law passed in 1973 requiredall schools to provide resources forlearning-disabled students, but“most schools ignored it,” Shawsaid. It wasn’t until the passage ofthe Americans with DisabilitiesAct of 1990 that schools beganadopting policies similar to theone Brown had instituted in 1984.

The number of Brown studentsidentified as having learning dis-abilities or Attention DeficitDisorder has grown significantlysince the program was created,Shaw said. While five studentsparticipated at the beginning ofthe program, about 180 are cur-rently registered as having eitherlearning disabilities or ADD. Theincrease has in part been due toearlier identification of learningdisabilities in children, Shaw said.

The number of learning dis-abled students has “plateaued” atabout 2 percent of the student

body in recent years, a numberconsistent across the Ivy League,Shaw said.

Shaw said other schools withnotable learning-disability sup-port programs include CurryCollege in Massachusetts, whichoffers the Program for theAdvancement of Learning, a“structured support program” thatoffers “comprehensive, strength-based support,” according to theprogram’s Web site.

As for Brown, Shaw said thegoal of DSS is to provide studentswith the tools they need to realizetheir full academic potential. “Ifthey want to learn French, wewant to help them learn French.That’s our job,” Shaw said.

A pamphlet entitled “LearningDisabilities and AlternateLearning Styles,” written by for-mer Brown students with learningdisabilities, identifies Brown asparticularly conducive to the suc-cess of learning-disabled stu-dents. Because all students have

the option of taking anywherebetween three and five classes asemester and can opt to takeclasses S/NC, students with learn-ing disabilities can choose theprogram of study that best suitstheir needs.

Shaw said learning-disabledstudents do as well as other Brownstudents. If the transcripts oflearning-disabled students wereexamined, “you couldn’t tell those

transcripts from another hundredyou grabbed at random,” he said.

Axe pointed to faculty supportas a large factor in the success ofthe program. “The general climatehere is a positive one,” she said.

The program would be evenmore successful, Axe said, if morestudents took full advantage of theresources available. “I really wantthe students to come see me morethan they do,” she said.

Greene said student input willbe influential in determiningwhat type of furniture, lighting,computers, internet access androom layout are best for thespaces.

“The University is starting amore aggressive plan of renewal,and a regular funding cycle hasbeen set up to fix cosmetic prob-lems in the dorms as well as cre-ate new common spaces aroundcampus,” Greene said. After the

24-hour space in Faunce isopened, work will begin on twonew satellite fitness centers atAndrews and Emery halls, whichwill be completed over the sum-mer, he said.

There are also plans to reno-vate community lounge spaces inAndrews and Barbour halls andArnold Lounge in KeeneyQuadrangle, Greene said. Thebudget for the overall renewalprocess of the Faunce studyspace, New Pembroke #4 studyspace and the lounges is$400,000, he said.

“One thing we’re doing differ-

ently this year than we’ve done inthe past is we’re bringing in anarchitect and designer and meet-ing with them and a group of stu-dents to work together and makeresidences as desirable for stu-dents as possible,” Greene said.

Miller, Metcalf, Caswell,Hegeman and Machado dormswill all be renovated, Greene said.

“Possibly all will be completedthis summer, but if some requiremore creative design work, thenthat will take longer,” he said.

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Bulldogs took the early lead, scor-ing a wrap around goal from rightoutside the post after only oneminute of play. Brown’s LindseyGlennon ’06 evened the game fiveminutes later, taking one homewith a rifle shot from the slot.Christine Holdredge ’07 and KrissyMcManus ’05 earned assists on theplay.

Ashlee Drover ’06 gave Brownthe 2-1 lead with a tally to the topright corner from outside thecrease at 16:49.

Brown dominated the secondperiod from the drop of the puck,perfecting its shot selection andstuffing every Bulldog attack. Linkschooled the Yale goalie halfwayinto the period with her 25th goalof the season, giving the Bears the3-1 lead.

“The best thing about this gamewas that we came out strongerevery period,” said Glennon. “Weoutplayed this team because we

wanted it more, and that feltgood.”

Zucker added Bruno’s fourthgoal with minutes remaining inthe third, scoring a top-shelf tallyfrom the point. Glennon clinchedthe victory with her second goal ofthe showdown, scoring a flopperinside the blue.

“We played 60 minutes ofstrong hockey,” Murphy said. “Itwas definitely the best seniorgame I have ever been a part ofand a great game to watch.”

Captain goalie Katie Germain’04 stopped 21 shots on the day,earning the win.

The Senior Day victory earnedfourth-seeded Brown home ice forthe first round of the ECAC play-offs. The Bears will host fifth-seed-ed Princeton at MeehanAuditorium Friday in the firstgame of a best-of-three series.

Herald staff writer Lexi Costello ’06covers women’s ice hockey. She canbe reached at [email protected].

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C O R R E C T I O N S

An article in the March 8 issue of The Heraldreporting on a weekend orchestra perfor-mance contained several inaccuracies and omis-sions.

The correct title of one of the works performed

was “Ellis Island: The Dream of America.”The orchestra performed at Veterans Memorial

Auditorium.The violin concerto performed was composed by

Jean Sibelius.

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A N D R E W S H E E T S

L E T T E R S

Column on off-shoringmisses humanitarianangleTo the Editor:

The dispute over globalization, specifically “off-shoring” of American jobs to developing nations, isanother one of those debates where neither side everaddresses the arguments of the other. While Peter IanAsen (“Gesturing forward, marching backward,”March 8) is completely correct in pointing out theflaw in Thomas Friedman's New York Times article —his claim that jobs going offshore are predominantlylow-paying, low-prestige jobs in the United States —he doesn't answer the fundamental humanitarianargument for offshoring: namely, that citizens ofthird-world nations have just as much a right to workin high-tech industries as citizens of developednations.

The problem with off-shoring is not that Americanjobs are being taken overseas, since there's nothingthat makes these jobs “American” to begin with(unless you subscribe to some sort of race-superiori-ty theory), but that the jobs being taken off-shoreexcludes any sort of elite, corporate executive jobs.

Globalization, in its current form, excludes anyexecutive employees, since the corporate executiveisn't going to decide to export its own job. This is aprime example of where the government ought tostep in. If an enforceable law were passed that wouldmake it a legal requirement to export the same pro-portion of top-level positions as bottom-level ones toa foreign country, the problems with current off-shoring policies would be solved. It would preventoff-shoring from ever altering the society of theUnited States, since in order to ship both high andlow-level jobs overseas, companies would bedecreasing the net payroll of the American public(including the upper-class, which drives a lot ofAmerica's consumption) and thus decreasing theirpotential market for sales. What would end up hap-pening is companies would move their entire opera-tions overseas: hiring foreign workers, and foreignCEOs and selling to the increasingly consumerist for-eign public, while back at home there would still bean incentive to hire American workers and CEOs sothat they could keep consuming.

The problem with off-shoring is not its existence,merely the socioeconomically lopsided form it is cur-rently taking. Of course, the same thing could be saidabout American society as a whole.

Michal Zapendowski ’07 March 8

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Medical missionIt might be an instance of retrograde thinking to believe that

an expanded medical school will sacrifice Brown’s nature as auniversity college.

The Brown Medical School, with its emphasis on public serv-ice and dynamic public health program, epitomizes the kind ofthinking the University is known to foster. It follows that thestrengthening of the Medical School can only further theUniversity as a whole, in terms of benefits to medical studentsand upper-level undergraduates as well as in terms of its mis-sion.

Nevertheless, we worry that the decision to open the MedicalSchool to applicants outside its traditional application pool,announced by Interim Dean Richard Besdine in January, willcompromise the unique quality of the institution.

Besdine said the Medical School will look for diverse, sociallyconscious applicants — but only after noting it would be a“powerful statement” to consider applicants with summa cumlaude on their diplomas and 4.0 averages on their transcripts.

Brown doesn’t even compute students’ grade point averages,let alone distinguish among honors for graduating seniors. Thetraditional model of a Brown medical school student is a partici-pant in the Program for Liberal Medical Education, whichrewards pre-meds for not grade-grubbing in their biology class-es or sacrificing learning to study for the MCAT exam. By pro-viding a more relaxed route to medical school, Brown encour-ages PLME students to develop critical thinking skills and dis-courages the level of competition common among medical-school-bound students.

It almost goes without saying that broadening the MedicalSchool’s applicant pool should not come at the expense ofPLME’s scope.

According to Besdine, the number of national applicantsaccepted will not affect the number of spots available to PLMEstudents and other Brown undergraduates. Still, we wonderwhat it means that the Medical School intends to accept pre-cisely the kind of applicants the College does not produce.

Brown already has a national-caliber medical school, and itmakes sense to solicit applications on a national basis. But ifBrown undergraduates aren’t the right applicants for the pro-gram the Medical School strives to be, then in what medicalschool do Brown pre-meds belong?

OPINIONSTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2004 · PAGE 7

It is an unfortunate fact that much city policy, par-ticularly standard economic development strategy,relies not on the creation of good, but on the displace-ment of it from one municipality to another.Frequently, as municipalities compete for a benefit andundercut each other to attract it, the value of the bene-fit to any of the relevant communities diminishes.

Recent economic development in Providencefocused on tourism serves no good on a regional scale.Investment in new hotels (construction of several ofwhich is underway or will commence this spring) andother pretty things will supposedly allow Providence tolure ever larger, higher-profile conventions to town.Thousands of mostly wealthy visitors will flock toProvidence when these conventions pass through, andthey will spend freely in the city’s restaurants and bou-tiques and bodegas. In this process we might createsome, but not a great amount of new tourism. For themost part, we will only nab travelers who would havevacationed elsewhere, and swipe conventions fromother municipalities along with all the benefits theseconventions yield.

More disturbing is the way in which municipalitiescompete for industry, jobs and corporate headquarters.Soon after I took office, the GTECH HoldingsCorporation (which prides itself as being largelyresponsible for the rapid global growth of automatedlotteries), based in West Greenwich, R.I., drew theattention of state and local lawmakers when it did a jigand waved its hands in the air and screamed, “Overhere! Look at me! I'm gonna run away toMassachusetts, and you just try and stop me!”

Providence tried and (I hope to nobody’s surprise)succeeded almost immediately. We bested a bid fromsuburban Boston by offering an $8.3 million, 20-yeartax break from the city, and a sweet 20-year contract tomanage the Rhode Island Lottery.

Several years ago, in the negotiations that eventuallyled to the construction of Gillette Stadium, Robert Kraftand the Patriots — who are normally great fosterers ofregional unity — played Foxboro and Massachusetts

against Hartford and Connecticut against Providenceand Rhode Island. Kraft and co. made it evident thatconversations to move the Patriots to each city andstate were, or had been, underway. Connecticut actual-ly offered to fully finance the stadium project with pub-lic dollars, which led to a Massachusetts offer that wasmore lucrative for the Patriots than what the teamwould have received had they originally stated theirinterest to stay put.

These three examples reveal that our municipalitiesare investing tremendous volumes of thought, energy,time and money into endeavors that do little toimprove quality of life in the aggregate whole of theregion or the country. Luring tourism and business

from elsewhere makes Providence more attractive butother communities less so. Lives of those in Providenceimprove, but lives elsewhere are worse. To value thewell-being of residents of Providence, or any city forthat matter, more than the well-being of others wouldbe to succumb to psychotic impulses analogous tothose that yield nationalism and all the terrible conse-quences thereof.

A dollar is more useful to a poor man than to a mil-lionaire. In that sense, a tourist or a corporate head-quarters or another economic generator is more mean-ingful to Providence than to, say, Boston. This factmight be grounds by which to rationalize our attemptsto woo business from other cities. A given developmentis not, however, worth more to us than to Worcester,Hartford, Bridgeport or other nearby cities that are in

worse shape than we are. Competing with these com-munities is much more difficult to justify. As dilapidat-ed city centers throughout our country competeagainst one another for economic development, theyreduce that development’s public value and lose bil-lions of dollars in potential tax revenue on an annualbasis. Providence might be better off with a particularcorporate headquarters than without, but competitionfor development makes cities worse off in the aggre-gate.

Individual cities are not able to combat this problemon their own. This is, in theory, why we have state andfederal governments. In Rhode Island it is illegal forone municipality within the state to use tax incentivesto lure an existing development or business fromanother Rhode Island community. (The GTECH movefrom West Greenwich to Providence was justified via alengthy legal opinion defining it as an expansion ratherthan a relocation.)

Analogous federal laws restricting interstate tax con-cessions would be useful. Some might fear that certainbusinesses could be driven offshore if tax breaks hereare made less available. But a nuanced law could bemade to cover businesses whose markets or resourcesare predominantly domestic. (The Patriots, forinstance, would never threaten to move to, say, Jakartain order to lower operating costs.) Industries with realflight risks could be exempted, and tax breaks could beallowed when one locality can prove that it isn’t usingsuch incentives to entice an entity operating elsewherein the United States but is intervening to prevent other-wise inevitable job exportation.

A second, also terribly unlikely solution would be thebanding together of states and cities in pacts not to usetax concessions to steal businesses from one another.But this would require an unusual degree of coopera-tion, and I don't think the harm that comes from inter-jurisdictional competition is evident to most govern-mental officials.

David Segal is Providence’s Ward 1 City Councilman.

Providence versus standard economic strategy

Trading stadiums

and lottery contracts

to other cities.

After reading Rachel Marshall’s exultation of Roe v.Wade and concomitant demonization of pro-life beliefs(“And like that – poof, they’re gone!” March 4), I feelcompelled to wonder what makes her so certain in herorthodoxy as to be comfortable banishing any sem-blance of moral ambiguity from the abortion debate.

Why, indeed, does much of the pro-choice lobbyrefer to adherents to the pro-life position as “anti-choice”? Is murder a choice in the metaphysical systemof those who use this diction? Should we begin referringto pro-choicers as being “anti-life” or “pro-death”?Apparently, a balancing of rights and obligations withan eye toward the inherent moral uncertainty of theabortion question is not a task that far-left pro-choicersare prepared to take on. And why should they? Howperfectly convenient it is to parse the issue simply interms of rich white men seeking to colonize women’sbodies.

So is abortion murder? I don’t know. No matter thestrength of conviction on either side, pro-lifers don’tknow, pro-choicers don’t know and the governmentmost certainly doesn’t know. However, many people dohold this belief, and a slight majority of them, accordingto recent polls, are women. Even as their numbersincrease, pro-lifers have all but been made into aliens intheir own country.

By judicial fiat, the Supreme Court has declared thatno state may ban abortion, even when a vast majority ofits residents equate the practice with murder.Additional governmental meddling has sought torestrict pro-lifers’ rights to protest and forced taxpayerfunding of organizations that promote and finance pro-choice activities. Most Democrats now hold that beingpro-life is sufficient grounds for disqualification from

consideration for any high judicial office. While manyChristians are pro-choice on pragmatic grounds, theirbelief system makes it impossible for them to recognizea fundamental right to an abortion. It seems that theyneed not apply for judicial vacancies.

Personally, I tend towards the view that the ambigui-ty of the issue requires government restraint. Thismeans, however, restraint on all sides of the argument.The federalist system under which the United States

ostensibly operates is intended to recognize the vastcultural differences between the many regions of thiscountry. Clearly, states have the right to regulate moralissues, particularly when they involve matters of life anddeath. Of course, no level of government may take awayfundamental rights, either those enumerated in theConstitution or those private and consensual behaviorsdeeply rooted in the nation’s culture and tradition.

However, abortion is in none of those categories. It isnot protected by an enumerated right, it is not deeplyrooted in American culture and tradition and its con-sensual nature is arguable at best. States should proba-bly not ban abortion, but neither should the SupremeCourt feign divine omniscience by forcing a particularmoral code on the entire country, absent grounding inthe Constitution.

Some may now ask if federalism was not the very sys-

tem which perpetrated the great evils of slavery and seg-regation. Indeed, defenders of these odious practicesoften used federalist arguments to justify their posi-tions, though their discontinuation is, in fact, a tributeto federalism’s success. Federalism exists to protectrights, not to deny them. It is also a two-way street: Thefederal government is perfectly justified in acting toprotect the fundamental rights of its citizens.

Still, it cannot overstep its enumerated powers, suchas it is now attempting to do by banning all “partial-birth” abortions. This example also proves that federal-ism is not a partisan issue; indeed, absent federalism,Vermont and Massachusetts would not have the optionof recognizing same-sex marriages and civil unionsunder their respective jurisdictions.

Pro-choicers’ concerns for women’s rights are welltaken. It may not be fair that a woman in a state that hasbanned abortion must carry her fetus to full term, butneither really is it fair that women must alone bear theburden of carrying and delivering children, wanted ornot. Considerations of individual rights are, indeed,fundamental in a liberal society. I am certainly glad thatRachel Marshall seems to recognize this, and I invite herto help me secure my right not to be robbed blind bytax-and-spend progressives. However, reducing souncertain and enigmatic an issue as abortion to a goodfight of empowered women versus conniving men ismore convenient than it is descriptive. Our society mustbe protected from moralizers of right and left. The sim-ilarity between the two is something that seems to belost on much of the pro-choice left.

Christopher McAuliffe ’05 is a political science concentrator.

Moralizers obscure debate over abortion

GUEST COLUMN BY DAVID SEGAL

Federalism sorts out the

abortion divide.

CHRISTOPHER McAULIFFE

SPORTS TUESDAYTHE BROWN DAILY HERALD

MARCH 9, 2004 · PAGE 8

BY LEXI COSTELLOThe women’s ice hockey team finished itsregular season at home this weekend, falling6-3 to Princeton University Saturday butcoming back to beat Yale University 5-1Sunday.

Against Yale, Brown took a 1-0 lead mid-way through the first period, after 10 min-utes of dominant offensive attacks. AmyMcLaughlin ’05 launched a rocket from out-side the crease, and Jessica Link ’05 was atthe goal post to cherry-pick the rebound fora goal. The teams battled head-to-head inthis first frame, trading momentum backand forth. Finally, with only 13 secondsremaining, Link capitalized on a Tigerturnover and took the puck to the Tigers’ topshelf, faking out the goalie with a delayedwrist shot. Keaton Zucker ’06 assisted on theplay.

Princeton narrowed Bruno’s lead in thesecond stanza with an early goal. The Bearsregained the two-goal advantage on thepower play when Kathryn Moos ’07 notchedher ninth goal of the season with a low cor-ner shot just outside the crease. The Ivyrivals picked up the pace towards the closeof the second, playing intense and aggres-sive hockey that cost them 4 penalties each.It was Princeton, however, that found thepockets in the Bruno net twice in the secondto level the score at 3-3 going into the third.

“They scored some inopportune goalsthat really messed with our momentum,”said Zucker. “We played really well butcouldn’t seem to finish our plays.”

At the 2:21 mark, Princeton extended itsscoring streak with a deep slap shot fromthe point. While Brown battled for the game,

outshooting the Tigers 12-5 in the finalframe, the Bears could not connect for thelate goal. Princeton added two more talliesfor the 6-3 defeat, ending the game with anopen-netter.

“There were a lot of calls that hurt us,”said Head Coach Digit Murphy. “We out-played them, and we’re a more aggressiveteam. It just didn’t seem to go our way.”

The following afternoon, Bruno pickedup its 32nd consecutive win over Yale. The

BY BRETT ZARDAEach week, the finalists for ESPN’s real-ity show “Dream Job” compete for aposition as the next “SportsCenter”anchor. Included in the field are Brownalum Lori Rubinson ’86 and MaggieHaskins ’04.5. In week three of the com-petition, the 10 remaining contestantspaired up to co-anchor the show andinterview a “sports expert” on a break-ing news story. Rubinson and Haskins,the only two female contestants, werepaired in an all-Brown team. Here’s howI ranked the individual performances ofeach contestant (co-anchor in paren-theses).

1. Zachariah Selwyn (Mike Hall):Trimmed his hair and put on a suit.That may be all he needs to win thisthing. He formed solid follow-up ques-tions during interview and looks themost natural among the contestantswithout sounding fake.

2. Hall (Selwyn): Gave a

Kilbornesque performance. He’s wittyand worked well with Selwyn. I justdon’t think I’d enjoy drinking a beerwith him as much as his co-anchor.

3. Aaron Levine (Casey Stern): Askedopen-ended, quality questions and justlooked like he fit. In my opinion, onlyLevine and the top two have a real shotat this thing.

4. Stern (Levine): As polished asLevine, but looked awkward on camera.It’s not his fault, but his Smurf framemay cost him in the end.

5. Kelly Milligan (Nick Stevens):Made a crucial factual error and stillreminds me of a used-car salesman. Hemight sound too polished. There’s onlyroom for one Bob Ley at ESPN.

6. Haskins (Rubinson): Still writes aswell as anyone, but fumbled a few timesand looked awkward while Rubinsonspoke. Haskins needs to tone it down abit and clean up the mistakes to breakinto the contenders.

7. Stevens (Milligan): Did just anaverage job. The judges find him smug,so he won’t last long.

8. Rubinson (Haskins): Eliminated.Even a reference to group showers withHaskins couldn’t save Rubinson. Shelooked uncomfortable, struggled to getquality responses during the interviewand lacked any continuity with Haskins.

9. Chet Anekwe (Michael Quigley):Too much Tyrese, not enough MikeTirico. Quigley didn’t help him any.

10. Quigley (Anekwe): Eliminated.This was painful. Quigley stuttered,paused and said “um” more than Dubyaduring a press conference. He neverbelonged.

Tune in Sunday at 10 p.m. to watchthe final eight contestants, includingHaskins.

Herald staff writer Brett Zarda GS can bereached at [email protected].

Nick Neely / Herald

Lindsey Glennon ’06 scored two goals in Sunday’s 5-1 win over Yale.The fourth-seededBears will host fifth-seeded Princeton on Friday in the first round of the ECAC playoffs.

Rubinson ’86 and Quigley eliminated,new-look Zach shines on “Dream Job”

B R O W N S P O R T S S C H E D U L E

Tuesday, March 9

Women’s Lacrosse: vs. UNH, 3 p.m., Stevenson FieldGymnastics: at MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

M. basketball seniors finishcareers with new Brown record after beating CornellBY JOSHUA TROYAfter the team lost two of the top threescorers in school history, many predict-ed men’s basketball (14-13, 10-4 Ivy)would have a disappointing season. Butwith the exception of an 81-74 loss toColumbia University Friday night, theteam has exceeded all expectations. A69-66 victory over Cornell UniversitySaturday gave the team four consecu-tive winning seasons for the first time inschool history.

“They’ve been part of a lot of winninghere that has not happened in 90 years,”said Head Coach Glen Miller, of histhree seniors. “They expect to win andmean a lot to the whole basketballteam.”

The road loss to the Lions marked theone time the Class of 2004 lost toColumbia. Despite the defeat, the sen-iors on the team finished with winningrecords against every Ivy League teamaside from the University ofPennsylvania and Princeton University.

The seniors, Jamie Kilburn ’04, MikeMartin ’04 and Patrick Powers ’04, infour seasons never lost to DartmouthCollege and lost only once to Cornelland Columbia. Their success in the IvyLeague led Brown to four straight win-ning seasons as well as school recordsfor most team and Ivy victories in afour-year span.

“It is a great achievement,” Kilburnsaid. “When we came in here, we allknew we would be part of something onthe rise. We’ve accomplished a lot ofthings, coming short of the NCAA tour-nament a few times.”

Against the Lions, the Bears held a43-36 halftime lead and appeared to beon their way to win. But after Columbiaopened the second half with an 18-1run, Brown never recovered.

Leading the Bears were Jason Forte’05 and Martin, who each finished with19 points. Forte completed his all-around effort by dishing out eightassists and pulling down six boards.

Meanwhile, Powers set a new single-season record for three-pointers andfinished the game with 13 points and

nine rebounds, despite fouling out inthe second half. Kilburn was the fourthBear to reach double figures, finishingwith 14 points and six rebounds, whileColumbia’s Matt Preston led all scorerswith 22 points.

In the team’s final game of the sea-son, against Cornell, Bruno almost letanother halftime lead slip away. Afterpulling out to a 20-7 lead, the Bears helda 33-24 edge at break. The marginwould not hold, as Gabe Stephenson’slay-up with 8:15 to play tied the score at52. But Powers’ two free throws with7:58 remaining put Brown in front forgood.

Martin sealed the win, making bothfree-throw attempts with less than 11seconds to play. The win was the 64thfor Kilburn, Martin and Powers, extend-ing a school record.

Powers finished the game with ateam-high of 19 points, while his threethree-pointers pushed his single-sea-son record to 77. Kilburn added 15points on seven-of-10 shooting, on hisway to a place on the Ivy League WeeklyHonor Roll.

Kilburn finished the season shooting62 percent from the floor in league play,with a league-high 98 field goals. Forteand Martin again finished with identi-cal scoring totals, notching 14 pointseach.

Forte also added four assists and ateam-high seven rebounds, making himthe first player in Ivy League history tolead the league in both scoring andassists in league play, averaging 21.8points and 5.8 assists.

The Bears will finish in second orthird place in the Ivy League, dependingon the outcome of Tuesday’s gamebetween first-place Princeton (12-1 IvyLeague) and second-place Penn (10-3).Rounding out the standings are YaleUniversity at 7-7, Columbia andCornell, both at 6-8, Harvard Universityat 3-11 and Dartmouth at 1-13.

Herald staff writer Joshua Troy ’04 is aformer sports editor. He can be reachedat [email protected].

W. ice hockey wraps up fourthseed and home ice in openinground with win over Yale

see HOCKEY, page 5