The Johns Hopkins University News-Letter, Volume 105, Number 26 (2001 May 4)

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O H N S H O P K
NEWS-LETTER
Votume™ CV, Issur 26 PUBLISHED SINCE 1896 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE JOHNS Hopkins UNIVERSITY May 3, 2001
WJHU Hunt announced
proposals as grad speaker
received
BY DAVID CRANDALL
Tue JoHNS Hopkins News-Letter
i Community:
Al Hunt, executive Washington
University received at editor for the Wall Street Journal and
panelist on CNN’s The Capital Gang,
least four proposals for will be this year’s Commencement
speaker. The Class of 2001 secured
radio station
Hunt after several months of uncer-
tainty regarding the speaker, which
BY WILL ADAMS culminated in last week’s speaking
THE JOHNs Hopkins News-Letter cancellation by Condeleezza Rice.
One concern of the senior class
At least four groups submitted | was that most Hopkins’ seniors are
proposals on Monday to buy or con- unfamiliar with Hunt.
trol the management of WJHU, the “A lot of people haven’t heard of COURTESY OF HTTP: // WWW.CNN.COM
Johns Hopkins University-owned LIZ STEINBERG/NEWS-LETTER [Hunt],” said Margaret Richards, Al Hunt of the Wall Street Journal.
radio station. Freshmen will not be able to declare their majors until the end of their first year under the new system. presideonf tth e Class of 2001, “buthe
While spokespersons for JHU | will definitely be a great speaker.” Huntwas originally considered for
would not comment on the propos- New advising system planned. Huntis best known for his role in Commencement, but Rice was se-
als, The Baltimore Sun reported that CNN’s Evans, Novak, Hunt and lected to speak instead. Upon Rice’s
the suitors include American Shields, a show in which the hosts cancellation, the senior class decided
University's WAMU, Boston address current political issues. to offer Hunt the chance tob e speaker.
University’s WBUR, Maryland Pub- Hunt also appears on NBC’s Meet Several factors contributed to Hunt’s
lic Television and a group ofd onors | BY LIZ STEINBERG The biggest change is in how re- meet with their advisorwshi,l e sopho- the Press and the CBS Morning selection, including his friendship
assembled by current WJHU person- THE JoHNS Hopkins News-LeTTER turning students will be treated. mores can setup meetings in Novem- Show, for which he isap olitical ana- with JHU President William Brody.
ality Marc Steiner. Rather than a single week of advising ber and March. lyst. “We had a bunch of connections
Minnesota Public Radio, the first At the urging ofA ssistant Dean of before registration, students will be Instead of requiring an advisor’s “One oft he best things is he is not to Hunt,” said Richards. “[Class of
companyt o consider buying WJHU, Academic Advising John Bader, the encouraged to meet with their advi- signature ona specific class schedule, apolitician,” said Richards. “Hewon’t 2001 VP] Kristin Marconi knew
and WETA, a public broadcast sta- | Curriculum Committee for the sors earlier in the semester. however, students must now only be spelling out some political agenda someone who worked in Hunt’s
tion in Washington, both failed to School ofA rts and Sciences has engi- For example, October and Febru- obtain a “registration clearance just so we'll vote for him. He should Washington office. We also found
bid on the station by the Monday neered a major overhaul in how stu- ary have been set aside for juniors to CONTINUED ON Pace A4 give us objective, sound points.” out that his nephew is a member of
deadline. | dents will be advised. Starting with the senior class, [and] Brody and he
The proposals will be examined the Class of 2005, A&S undergrads Student services move to Garland are good friends.”
by the Senior Vice President for Fi- will not be allowed to declare a major The senior class could only pursue
nance and Administration James until the end of their freshman year. one speaker ata time, which extended
McGilland othertop administrators. ‘In addition, students will no longer the speaker search process.
If JHU decides to pursue some of need to have their final class choices “We got a hold ofh im, [and also]
those proposals, a recommendation approved by advisors, and the advis- | had his nephew call him and talk to
for action will be presented to the ing period for registration will be sig- him about coming to Hopkins,” said
Board of Trustees at their June 11 nificantly extended. Richards. “[Hunt’s] very enthusias-
meeting, said JHU’s Director of Com- The current advising system “does tic about doing it. He is really hon-
munications and Public Affairs Den- | not do enough to promote an ethic of | CONTINUED ON PAGE A4
nis O’Shea. exploration” by tying students down | §
TheB altimore Sunspeculated that to a departmental advisor as soon as Plywood
CONTINUED ON Pace A4 they matriculate, Bader said.
Boxfest draws crowds board flies,
hits student
BY SHERYL KANE bishing a house next year, the fourth
‘AND WILL ADAMS house worked on by the JHU chapter,
Tue JonNns Hopkins News-LeTTeR and toward a down payment on a
house that the group worked on this
Over 40 students helped raise year. BY WILL ADAMS
Tue JoHNs Hopkins News-Letter
money for the homeless by sleeping Jay Smith, a co-chair of Boxfest,
in cardboard boxes located on the was concerned that the turnout may
A quarter-inch thick piece of ply-
Beach as part of Habitat for have been lower as the event was re-
Humanity’s annual Boxfest on scheduled due to unseasonably cold CHUNG LEE/NEWS-LETTER wood that was propelled by strong
Weds., April 25. weather in early April. But, the change Offices will move to Garland Hall in preparation for the construction of Hodson Hall in place of Merryman. winds outside of Mudd Hall, strucka
Johns Hopkins University student,
According to Boxfest co-Chair did not seem to negatively impact
Jamie Ingraham, the event raised turnout, which exceeded the groups BY LIZ STEINBERG preparation for the construction of “Students that are considering sending him to the emergency room
nearly $1,000 for the Johns Hopkins expectations, said Meredith Ward, a THE JoHNs Hopkins News-Letter HodTshoen OHfaflicle si n oMfe rArcyamdaenm’isc pAldavcei.s - Hdeonptksi nasn dw ilgle ts eea msoernsee [ocufr rwehnot] tshteu-y on TThuees .,s tuAdpernitl 2s4u.s tained a concus-
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Members of Academic Advising ward condensing student services mentatthe Health and Wellness Cen-
believe that the move to Garland will into a “central core” or an adminis- ter, the student was rushed to the
encourage communication between tration building, Bader noted. emergency room at Union Memorial
the student service offices. Accord- Thereare no current plans to move Hospital, where he was released over
ing to John Bader, assistant dean of the student service offices from their six hours later.
Academic Advising, the offices have new location in Garland, in part be- Beth Zeitlin, a senior who wit-
just begun to improve inter-office cause of moving expenses, according nessed the incident, said the sheet of
programming and work towards a to Bader. wood “cartwheeled on its corners”
common mission. “The Hodson gift [which is fund- from the breezeway in front of Mudd
Academic Advising frequently re- ing the construction of the Hodson Hall toward the freshman quad.
fers students to the other offices, and building] did not include money for The wood was “at least half the
vice versa, explained Senior Aca- these moves,” Bader explained. size” of the student, estimated Zeitlin.
demic Advisor Ruth Aranow. The Universithyas gutted the third From her, vantage point 30 feet
Moving student services into the floor of Garland in order to make away, Zeitlin commented that she
same building as the office of the room for student services. thought the wood was made of poster
president, the provost and admis- Aranow said that she does not be- board because of the speed at which it
sions will also be beneficial, accord- lieve that students will have any diffi- was traveling.
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Israel’s Activist: Media Students protest World Bank.
birthday
prompts violence
BY ALEX KINGSBURY “Weare here today to show those parison. I
U-WirE WASHINGTON people in that building that the The protest was one of many in a2)
sparks | people in underdeveloped third growing movement that is winning)''c
(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON — world countries have a voice, and the support of college activists acrosg ‘!
A loud group ofn early 300 scream- they will be heard,” said protester the country. Despite the well-in-u»
BY KIRSTEN SAUR “The more we give people analytic ing demonstrators gathered out- Adriana Keller. “We are loud, and formed nature of many of the pro“.
protests | THe Dairy Free Press (Boston U.) tools to deconstruct these issues, the side the headquarters of the World we will scream at them until we are testers, some are unclear as to whab<>
less destructive they become,” Katz Bank on Pennsylvania Avenue Sun- heard.” the notion of Global Justice actually:
(U-WIRE) BOSTON — In 1964, said. day to protest the bank’s interna- Following the speeches, the is.
| the biceps of action figure G.I. Joe, to Accordingt o Katz, between 80 and tional lending policies, its involve- group marched up Pennsylvania “I am not really that up on the -
the scale of the average man, mea- 95 percent of violence in the United ment in developing countries, and Avenue, through the campus oft he specifics of the issues,” said Joe
sured a formidable 12.2 inches. By States is perpetrated by men. A sig- the propagation of international nearby George Washington Univer- Amalay, astudentatthe Universityo f
BY ADAM JADHAV 1998, their size had more than nificant number of those crimes, such debt. sity and around the World Bank Maryland, who carried a sign decry-
Day Ittint (VU. ILunots) doubled, measuring 28.8 inches. as rape, domestic abuse and teen re- The demonstrators, representing building. ing the World Bank. “I think that if
Male activist Jackson Katz, a lationship violence, are inflicted upon an amalgamation of different causes, George Washington students what people are saying about the con-
(U-WIRE) CHAMPAIGN, II. — | member of the U.S. Secretary of women. were untied under the catchall slogan lined the streets to watch the pro- ditions are true, then it is a serious
Five University of Illinois police of- Defense’s Task Force on Domestic Katz said he believes the biggest “global justice.” cession as it made its way through problem.”
ficers stood between students | Violence in the military, addressed obstacle in combating these issues is They sought an end to the debt the heart of the campus. About 50 Many protesters saw the day as
Wednesday on the Quadasacelebra- | such changes and their impact on a lack of support and involvement burden on burgeoning economies students actively protested, many only a stepping-stone to further ac-
tion of Israel’s 53rd birthday met a the male image Tuesday at North- from most men. by the cancellation of debt from of whom were members of the tions in the future.
vocal protest ofIs rael’s occupation of | eastern University during his pre- “A lot of men see these as World Bank loans. They made their George Washington Action Coali- “It is good that so many people |
Palestine. | sentation entitled, “Tough Guise: women’s issues,” Katz said. “People presence known at the spring meet- tion, an on-campus progressive stu- came out here today,” said Amanda
Calling America a “racist state,” | Violence, Media and the Crisis in hear the word ‘gender’ and think ing of the World Bank this week- dent activist group. Jenkins, a graduate of the University
Palestinian supporters criticized the | Masculinity.” women.” end, “Students from around the world of Pennsylvania who was in the ci
United States for its support of Israel. | “Ifw e look at images of men and Katz noted support for women, Police presence was high for the and around the U.S. are saying “No!” on business and attended the rally,
Calling Israeli occupation of Pales- | the media in the past 50 years, we see through services such as rape crisis scheduled protest, with uniformed said Todd Tucker, aleader of the dem- “It is nice to see that so many are
tine a form of racism, protesters chal- an interesting change in the size of centers and women’s groups, has officers manning steel barricades onstration and GWAC member. wanting to show their solidarity with
lenged bystanders to join the protest men’s bodies,” Katz said. improved dramatically since the around the building and surround- “Look at the police presence out those who are less fortunate.”
and fight. One of Amerlieadcinga an’tis-se x- women’s movement of the 1970s. ing streets. The unusual police re- here,” he said. “It is a waste of tax- Official estimates for the demon-
“Go home today and educate your- ist male activists, Katz has investi- However the level of crimes perpe- sponse came on the heels oflast year’s payer money, of our money.” stration predicted as many as 1,000
self and take a stand,” said Ali gated how mainstream media images trated against women has not protest in which over 1,000 people Police were vigilant during the people would turn out on Sunday,
Ammoura, a sophomore in LAS. help promote violent masculinity in dropped significantly. were arrested. event due to the recent heated con- however, the actual turnout was far
Ammoura, secretary of Students | males. Katz said by defining such crimes “We are out here to see that ev- frontation between police and Glo- lower. ;
for Palestine, said that while every- “The media culture is teaching as women’s issues, “we are uncon- erything runs smoothly,” Metro bal Justice demonstrators in Seattle, “Tamstillexcitedtoseethismany,” |
one remembers the Holocaust of | boys that violence is part of mascu- sciously shifting the responsibility Police Chief Charles Ramsey told Quebec, and last April’s meeting in said Keller.
World War II, no one pays attention linity,” said Katz, citing the behavior from men and boys onto women and U-WIRE. Washington. The World Bank and Interna- |
to whathe feels is an equal injustice in of professional athletes and portray- girls.” Demonstrators gathered in Ed- Atprevious events, police used tear tional Monetary Fund meetings |
Palestine. als of “real men” in movies, television “Until we get more men, young ward R. Murrow Park, located be- gas and riot control to restrain crowds continued as scheduled and plan to |
“But what about the holocaust go- and advertisements. men and boys involved, this will con- tween the World Bank building and of demonstrators that got out ofhand. continue amid planned protests on
ing on now?” Ammoura asked. “The Katz showed clips from his video tinue, and in another 25 years we Pennsylvania Avenue. They heard Sunday’s action was reserved in com- Monday.
oppressed have become the oppres- documentary, “Tough Guise,” which could be in the same position we are from numerous speakers who led
sors. was created to educate high-school now.” chants and told stories of the realities THE JOHN S HOP KIN S
Meanwhile, only feet away, stu- and college students on issues affect- “It’s more than a cliche to say that of World Bank assistance across the NEWS-LETTER _
dents danced and ate in celebration ing males today. we're all in this together.” globe.
of the 53rd anniversary of Israel’s
founding. Many pro-Israel campus Florida students lead pot crusade
groups — Hamagshimim, Tagar, Il- PUBLISHED SINCE 1896 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE JOHNS HopKINs UNIVERSITY
linois-Israel Public Affairs Commit-
EDITORIALBOARD
tee, Hillel Student Board and Jews on
Campus — collaborated to set up a BY CLAES BELL incurs have brought the marijuana fication in the United States. Each
booth showcasing Israeli culture and FSView & FLorIpA FLAMBEAU legalization debate to the forefront. classification measures the potential Editors-in-Chief
history. (FLoripA STATE U.) Marijuana legalization initiatives for medical use, the potential for
Business Manager
Daniel Weinberg, president of have appeared in several states, in- abuse and any other safety problems.
Hamagshimim, said he was not re- | (U-WIRE) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. cluding California and Arizona, as The highest level of classification is Managing Editors
actingtothe protest. — Millions of Americans have reported by the ACLU. _, Schedule a eT I
“Our response was to not re- smoked marijuanfao r medicinal or — Politicians, however, have been The Drug ney | Advertising Manag
spond,” Weinberg said. “We’re set- recreational purposes, despite its il- reluctant to embrace decriminaliza- Clakaifieds Bde
ting up and celebrating.” legality. tion for many different reasons. i
Weinberg said hethoughttheday’s The National Organization for “NORML isn’t going to get pot According tothe DEA’s Website, | Photography Editors Chung Lee, Ana Zampino.*
events were very civilized. Although the Reform of Marijuana Laws legalized anytime soon,” senior John _ this means that the drug has a higher ; 7 : —
police officers were ready to handle (NORML) hopes to end the pro- Whitney said. “There hasn’t been _p otential for abuse, the drughas no | COPY Editors Sabina Rogers, Julia Schiesel =
any problems, they said none oc- hibition of marijuana from stu- enough long-term research.” currently accepted medical uses as
Special Editions/Focus Editors
curred. dents on campuses all over the The FSU chapter of NORML is an a treatment in the United States and
Protesters set up a fake tomb and country, including Florida State active campus organization with asig- there is a lack of accepted safety for News Editors
said a ceremonial burial prayer to re- University, said leaders of the or- nificant following and strong leader- use of the drug under medical su-
member Palestinians killed during ganization. ship. According to FSUNORMLhead pervision. LSD, heroin and cocaine Features Editors
clashes with Israeli police forces. They | NORML was founded in 1970 and Chris Mulligan, the group has over are also classified as Schedule I Sports Editors David Gonen, David Pollack:
also stood onan Israeli flag while they has since become the principle advo- 500 students on its mailing listand an drugs.
continued to attack Israel and its sup- cate for marijuana decriminalization attendance rate of about 200 students Enforcement of marijuana laws Arts Editors Matt O’Brien, Caroline Saffers
porters. in the country. Throughout its 30- at its major events. has beefed up recently, according to
“U.S. imperialism must stop,” said year history, the organization has re- Because of rules governing stu- the NORML Web site. According to Science Editor Brian Kinte
“ty
Jason Schultz, a graduate student. lied on college students for support dent organizations, NORMLIargely the group, years of government mis- Opinions Editor Kathy Cheung
“The Zionist lobby that controls U.S. and manpower. limits its activities to educating stu- information and persecution sur-
policy toward Israel must stop.” “There are around 35 NORML dents. rounding marijuana use has led to an Events Edit or Mici helle Fenster’
Schultz helda sign reading, “White chapters on U.S. campuses,” said Through petitioning, protesting adverse image of the drug among
supremacy is not just the Chief.” He Allen St. Pierre, executive director of and circulating pro-legalization lit- some Florida voters. Electronic Editions Editor Andrew Pinzlet’s
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said the media doesn’t show what he the NORML Foundation. erature, the group has worked hard “J don’t think (legislators) will le- Systems Manager Jason Gordon $.
feels is the racial injustice occurring Since NORML’s founding, mari- to change minds among Florida of- galize it because it would be the gate-
in the Middle East. The sign, he said, juana legalization for both medicinal ficials and FSU students over the way to the legalization of all drugs,” Graphics Editor Jeffrey Freiling =
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ACES and president of Jews on Cam- marijuana possession in the U.S., ac- “Tve seen them around a lot.” portamong politicians hamper legal- David Merrick, Jessica Kronish wv
pus, said she didn’t feel the protest corditno gth en ational NORML Web However, the group acknowl- ization, NORML remains confident
disrupted her celebration. However, site. edges that it has a long way to go in about the demise of federal marijuana SPORTSASSISTANT BUSINESSASSISTANT
Gilman said it will make the Middle This mass incarceration of non- its quest for marijuana legalization. prohibition. Ron Demeter Emilie Romeiser ws
East fighting look worse. violent drug offenders and the cost it There are four levels of drug classi- The group claims that upwards of STAFFWRITERS | tp
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THE JOHNS Hopkins News-LeETTER A3
NEWS
JHU gender analysis released
BY SEAN FORMATO vost last March. shot” of the University’s gender em-
THE JOHNS Hopkins News-Letrer While women formed onlyasmall ployment statistics to compare with
minority of tenured professors, they other universities.
The percentage of full tenured pro- make up exactly one-half of all the However, the 2000 report states
fessors at JHU that are women is up full-time non-tenure track positions. that it cannot be compared with past
slightly from 11.6 percent in 1997 to At the same time women lag in lead- reports on gender employment sta- |
12.9 percent in 2000, but they made ership appointmmaekinng tusp o,nl y tistics at JHU because the older re-
up a disproportionate number of full 14 percent of that category. ports were compbyi thel inedivdidu al
tenured departures at 38 percent, ac- The report, compiled by Coordi- departments, each of which had dif-
cording to the Gender Analysis re- nator of Institutional Research Ronni ferent standards for gathering gen-
port issued by the Office of the Pro- Haertig, sought to provide a “snap- der data.
New standards were imple-
mented for the 2000 report, and the
university is looking to form a new
| Composition of Full-Time Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty data collection system that will ap- |
1999-00 ply universal standards among all
departments at each of the cam- |
puses.
Haertig said that one oft he goals
of the long-term project is to develop CHUNG LEE/NEWS-LETTER
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tion system in place, long-term sta- |
tistics can be collected and analyzed,
and trend analyses canbemade. Once
trends are established, more mean-
ingful analyses will be possible, said BY DAVID CRANDALL hinges upon several factors. Hopkins Also, efforts are being made to
Haertig. Tue JoHNS Hopkins News-LeTTER isin the first stage of the project, which make the new building a social place
According to Haertig, although is making a request for proposal for Hopkins students.
the 2000 report will not be useful for The Johns Hopkins University (REP), a form that reflects the plans “We hope there'll be some kind of
Women Men kJiHnUd awnilall ysbees ,u sfeudt urteo rceopmopratsr e ofJ tHhUis | bBaosoekcmeenntte r ofw iGlli lbmea nm ovHialnlg tfor oam ntehwe froerq utehset sn eiwn bthuei lbdoionkgs taonrde .c ommunity “caWfeé' roer rceoaflfleye trsyihnogp ,t”o cMrielaltae nea soscaiiadl.
hiring policies to other universities; building within the next couple of “We have to do a request for pro- environment where students can go.”
however, such analysis is beyond the years. Other retailers currently lo- posal,” said Millane.” [After that], we Parking will be an issue at the new
scope oft he 2000 report. cated in the basement, such as the put that RFP to Barnes and Nobles bookstore. According to University
“What’s missing here, and Johns Hopkins Federal Credit Union and its competitors, like Borders.” studies, the bookstore and other ven-
which needs to be done, is put this and the post office, are anticipated to Millane said that the RFP will be ues within the new building will cre-
in context with our peers,” said move to the new building also. done in a year and the construction ate a significant need of parking
Haertig. The new builwidll ibenl ocgate d at will be finished in two to three years. within an area that is already facing
Other statistics released in the 3301 N. Charles St., whichis currently Hopkins met with Barnes and parking shortages.
2000 report indicate slight changes a Hopkins-owned lot next to the Nobles, the current manager of the Possible solutions include limit-
in the hiring of women between 1997 Charles Apartments. Construction on bookcenter, last week to discuss the ing parking time on N. Charles St. to
and 2000. The amount of tenured the site will start after the University new building. halfhour intervals and expanding the
women holding the position of asso- | finishes gathering information on “We've started to talk to Barnes parking garage space in the block.
ciate professor increased from 26.7 what the Hopkins community and and Nobles, [and] they’re excited The University is seeking student
Women B Men | percent to 29.1 percent. The number residents of Charles Village would like about the opportunity,” Millane said. opinions about the new building. The
ofwomen assistant professors stayed to see in the new bookstore. “We hope there will be students from bookstore will be approximately four
essentially the same, dropping from “We're really trying to create other colleges coming up the road [to timesits current size, and student opin-
| Note: Includes only thase divisions that offer tenure 36.7 percent in 1997 to 36.4 percent somethintgh e [Hopkins] community the new bookstore].” ions will help decide what will be of-
COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF THE PROVOST INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH in 2000. wants and also the neighborhood Besides the bookstore, the new fered in the expanded space. Besides
would want,” said Joanie Millane, building will have enough space to expanding current merchandise, pos-
BoxFest raises $1,100 for charity Executive Director of Johns Hopkins house the post office and retailers lo- sibleadditions to the bookstore include
Real Estate. “We want to understand cated in the Gilman basement. Also, a technology section, an art supply de-
| what everybody wants there.” the JHU Real Estate office is looking pot and additions to the academic and
Millane was brought to Hopkins at including other venues within the non-academic book selection.
last fall to head the newly created building. “Bookstores today are wonderful
Johns Hopkins Real Estate office. “(The building] may include stu- places that are more than just book-
Development of the new bookstore dent housing, but we have to make stores,” said Millane. “We hope this
has been a priority of the department sure there isaneed first,” said Millane. will be an economic engine that will
since its formation. “We don’t want to pull students [out help bring more developers to Charles
Completion of the new building of local housing].” Village.”
-Monpay NIGHT,
5PM TIL LAM!
Wings just 25¢!
LIZ STEINBERG/ NEWS-LETTER
Around 40 students camped out on the Beach last Wednesday night to raise money for Habitat for Humanity.
CONTINUED FROM Pace Al brought a person who lived in one refurbish a house. While Habitat
“consciousness-raising event [be- of the houses that the group for Humanity receives money from
cause it is]... making students aware worked to refurbish and discussed the SAC and next year will receive
of the housing problem in Baltimore how their activities had impacted matching funds for money raised
and more aware of the fact that his life. from the Habitat for Humanity In-
people are without adequate hous- Of the 40 students who came ternational Fund, the group has
throughout the night, almost all had some recent fundraising prob-
we were either active members of Habi- lems.
tat for Humanity or Circle K,aJHU For instance, the annual “Car
However, many
community service group, said Bash”, where participants can pay
participants found the Ingraham. a dollar for a hit at a used car with
Creative events like Boxfest are a mallet, was cancelled by Spring
necessary to help the group raise Fair this year due to space con-
social part of the event the $15,000 per year that it costs to straints.
the most appealing. In Advising offices move
addition to sleeping in
out of Merryman Hall
boxes, recreational
activities like soccer
ConTINUED FROM Pace Al purge our files because our quar-
and ultimate frisbee culty finding the new location of the ters are being greatly reduced,” said
were played. | movTehde Uofnfiivceers.s ity° is currently “try- AraTnhoew .m ove was originally sched-
ing to get [the move] publicized” in uled to occur in April.
order to ease the transition, she ex- While the move was delayed
.e e| plained. by the removal of asbestos from
However, many participants The Merryman offices are filling Garland Hall in the process of 3333 N. Charles St.
— found the social part of the event space vacated on March 30, when construction, this is not respon-
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iS eo t probed and it was so June 11 as reorganization takes “It’ll be sad to see [Merryman] Yuengling Pints on
ch fun that I stayed...then I | p lace go, but [the University] needs the ©
‘brought my boyfriend,” said cording to Bader and Aranow, space,” Aranow said.
cAmlandea oOw ens. the Boxfest thhaev eO fsfiigcnei foifcA acnatdlye milecs s Asdpvaicsien gi nw iiltsl locTahtee d art ind epatrhtem enbta,s epmreenvito usloyf
include a speaker. Last” new location. Merryman, has already moved to
“We've been given orders to the new Mattin Center.
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THE JOHNS Hopkins News-Letter May 3, 200]
NEWS
Changes aim to ease advising
WJHUs
Student sent to
emergency room future in
=
hands of
CONTINUED FROM Al regarded the incident as a, “freak ac-
“(With its forcifeit ]hit,hi m in the cident ... Ijust haven’t seen anything Trustees
face...he would have losthis eye,” said like that before.”
Zeitlin. LeBrun said that this was the sec-
The student fell to the ground af- ond injury toa studentas the result of
ter being hit and failed to get up. The Master Plan construction. The other CONTINUED FROM Al
amount of blood flowing from his accident occurred when a female stu- the bids for the station would be “in
chin startled the observers, said dent walked down the steps from the the millions” of dollars. JHU did not
Zeitlin. upper quad to the lower quad and require prospective buyers or man-
Zeitlin helped the student to a tripped on gravel. agers of the station to submit exact
bench and called Security from her Itis unclear from observer reports bids on the station, nor did it request
friend’s cell phone. Shortly after, JHU where exactly the wood came from, proof that the buyers had the re-
Security officers helped the student or what it was being used for as it lay sources to fulfill their bids.
to the Health and Wellness Center. scattered on the ground, said LeBrun. WJHU’s Marc Steiner has report-
Hopkins Security Shift Com- He speculated that it might have been edly raised only $160,000 from Balti-
mander Sgt. Richard LeBrun said that left on the ground as a scrap from more City philanthropists. Steiner’s
officers stayed in the breezeway for Master Plan construction. group, called Maryland Public Radio,
the remainder ofthe afternoonso that Zeitlin guessed that the wood has solicited funds with the claim that
CHUNG LEE/NEWS-LETTER no other wood injured students. might have been laid on top ofa hole the group would keep WJHU’s local
John Bader, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, reveals changes in undergraduate advising system. Later, security inspected the rest of to cover it for safety purposes, though programming, a priority that it feels
the campus to make sure that other the gusts of wind on Tuesday picked JHU administration does not share.
CONTINUED FROM Pace Al their majors’ requirements. at a meeting on April 23, said they pieces of wood were laid flat to the the wood up because it was not se- “The university has done a service
forWmhat. co”urs esan undergrad Each senior will then receive a believe the new system will work bet- ground and were not prone to being cured to the ground. to the community to bring this broad-
takes willbe soleluyp to that student’s “prescription” of courses he or she ter, though they have some questions. picked up by the wind. The student who was hit and con- casting over the last 15 years... butat
discretion. still needs to take, Bader said. “T think [the changes] show they’re No other safety precautions are struction managers were unavailable its heart, [JHU] is nota broadcaster,”
“The understandingi s that the stu- “All we'll have to do [in order to redoubling their commitment to un- being taken, said LeBrun, because he for comment. said O’Shea. “But, the end result will
dent is responsible for implementing see if they have met their require- dergraduate advising,” said writing be more resources ... for WJHU to
[their advisor’s] advice,” said Bader. ments] ismake sure seniors have filled seminars senior lectTruistran eDarvie s, chart an even better course.”
Advisors’ signatures will also no all their prescriptions,” he said. who served on the committee. “I was Hunt is over now If the Board of Trustees approved
longer be required for a student to The advising system for A&S fresh- genuinely impressed [by] howseriously an outright sale of the station and its
add or drop a class, although a pro- man has also been overhauled. Instead everyone takes this question.” license, it would open up room for
fessor must sign add slips after the of being assigned a faculty advisor, Professor of Political Science Mat- another Federal Communications
second week of class. freshmen will now be divided among thew Crenson concurred, explaining CONTINUED FROM Al has recently authored several books Commission (FCC) licensed univer-
“That means you can adjust your four advisors hired by the Office of that the new system will make the ored by the invitation.” on presidential elections, and won sity station. O’Shea said that he had
schedule as you see fit,” explained Academic Advising. Each advisor will process “less frenetic.” In addition to his editorial and po- the William Allen White not heard any discussion in the ad-
Bader, stressing that the new system oversee about 150 students, Bader said, Both Davies and Crenson, how- litical position, Huntalso is president Foundation’s national citation in ministration of turning that license
gives students more responsibility. He but if that turns out to be too heavy a ever, expressed concern for potential of the Board of Directors of the Dow 1999. Presented annually, the cita- over for a student-run station.
added that this “seems appropriate workload, he said the system will be re- problems, especially when it comes Jones Newspaper Fund and a direc- tion is one of the highest honors in The proposals were “felt out” by
for a university that emphasizes indi- evalwithu thea postsibielityd th,atmo re to how freshmen could be handled. tor of Ottaway Newspapers, a Dow journalism. the JHU administration due in part
vidual study and research.” staff could be hired. “Will freshmen miss having one Jones subsidiary. “Tm excited about commence- to financial difficulties that the sta-
Students wishingt ot akemore than Bader said his goal is to help young on one contact with a faculty mem- Hunt brings eight years of expe- mentthis year,” said Richards. “Hunt tion had encountered and would suf-
18.5 credits, however, must obtain an students prepare for their futures. ber?” Davies wondered. rience as executive Washington edi- should give the [class of 2001] many fer in the near future because of tech-
approval signature from Academic “J don’t think that an 18-year-old Crenson said that he hopes “the tor for the Wall Street Journal. He insightful points.” nology upgrades, said O’Shea, who
Advising. is capable of making an accurate life freshmen aren’t too intimidated _ AlHunt has been the acting general manager
Seniors will also be required to plan,” he said. about seeking out the faculty. [They] of WJHU since June.
meet with their advisors in Septem- Members of the Curriculum Com- need someone to talk to them, prefer- The station was made financially
ber to complete a “final review” of mittee, which approved the changes ably someone who gives grades.” self-sufficient after years of losses
when it changed its format to include
more news and talk, said O’Shea.
STUDENTS SELECTED TO PHI BETA KAPPA, APRIL 2001
Executive Washington Editor, WallS treet Journal bHeorw eovfe rc,o stWlJy HuUp grwialdle rse quiinr et hae nunema-r
future including newrelay and studio
The following students were recently electedt o PhiB eta Kappa, then ational honor society. Juniors elected to the equipment, currently 15-years-old.
D 0 to ci AClhsaonc ,g et hfe eFCsC enrwi oemflo rc e aWneJloeHteU tetto
counting engineering students or those previously elected, The nominating committee looks for evidence, of
outstanding intellectual achievement and breadth of learning in addition to a high cumulative average. . 92514 ibe 200 ; ee spank : aa ip tal within the next few years. Accord-
Undergraduates attending SAIS and the Johns Hopkins/Columbia University Accelerated Interdisciplinary Foundation’s national citation ing to O’Shea, these costs could total
“in the low seven figures.”
Legal Education Program are eligible for election and are judged on the same basis as the students completing a
regular four-year sequence at Homewood. The Hopkins Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa does permit some doctoral The station’s signal has been a
-NBC’s Meet the Press sticking point for some potential buy-
tudents to be admitted as well.
ers as it remains one of the weakest in
The annual induction of new members into Phi Beta Kappa will be held on Wednesday, May 23 at 10:00 a.m. in
the Glass Pavilion. Students and faculty who have previously been elected to Phi Beta Kappa by any university are -CNN’s Evans Novak Hunt & Shield Baltimore city, leaving out many po-
tential listeners.
welcome to attend.
“[The signal] is only 10,000 watts,
CLASS OF 2001 Sriyesh Krishnan SCHOOL OF ADVANCED -Wake Forest University, Class of7 64 and so it creates a bizarre listening
area,” that excludes growing suburbs
ARTS AND SCIENCES Janakuo INTERNATIONAL STUDIES in Howard County, said O’Shea.
Catherine H. Lee
Anna Poorna Agrawal Ji Unn Lee Lauren Debra Cherande Harvard closes Yard after assault
Alheli de Maria Alvarado-Diaz llana Lillette Lifshitz Brendan Robert Gallagher
Philip Steven Amanik Alissa Keely Lipton Gloria Yuan Hsu
Marina Bedny Hal Michael Lucas Oya Memisoglu
Thomas Hegarty Bouman Shima Majidi BY GARRETT M. GRAFF “We’re just trying to balance free both replied, “No.”
Cathryn Ruth Broderick Vincent Benjamin McGinty M.D. CANDIDATES HARVARD CRIMSON speech and the academic calendar,” One man then grabbed the guard,
Scott William Canna Zina Meriden SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Wrinn said. threwhim up against the door, knock-
Jessie Lange Chaffee Jodie Mercer Misiak (U-WIRE) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. According to PSLM member ing him to the ground. The assailant
- An assault on a Harvard University Aaron Bartley, protesters plan on fled on foot, however, the guard man-
-Kuang-Yu Marvin Chang Sarah Marie Moody William Stanley Anderson.
security guard Tuesday morning and staying in the Yard and Mass. Hall aged to subdue the other man, who
Steven Shih-Wei Chang _ Westley W. Morre James Edmond Conway
increasing concerns over safety in the until they see a “commitment by ad- was then arrested by HUPD units
-Tien-Mann Chau Sridaran Narayanan Joseph Esaum Rahman Yard has led University administra- ministration to improve the lives of from nearby Mass. Hall.
_ Joan Chunghwei Chen Kristi Lynn Nelson Peter Sean Rose tors to order the Yard closed to out- workers who live in poverty.” Vaugn Sneed, 26, of Cambridge,
Lindsay McDonald Collins Alikemal Ozturk Aliza Mai Thompson siders during the night. “We haven’tseen thatyet,” Bartley was charged with trespassing.
Branden John Cord j Luiz Carlos Pantalena-Filho In an email message to the College said. Itis unknown whether Vaughn or
LyaCarolCrichlow = Susan Suh Park PH.D. CANDIDATES Tuesday night, Dean of the College Bartley says that even though the the assailant have a connection to the
Abigail Bair Cuthbertson — _A shley Marie Patterson SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HarryR. Lewis 68 said that Tuesday’s University says it plans to create a PSLM protest. However, the incident
"Melissa Yahaira DeJesus — David Charles Pollack assault, andan overallincreasein Yard committee to reexamine the living has highlighted the strain placed on
Brian Paul Rafferty Shu-Ching Hu crime in the two weeks since the Pro- wage issue, PSLM wants a more HUPD during the protest.
Maryam Rahman John Dodd Neely gressive Student Labor Movement immeidiate solution, not any “vague In recent days, HUPD has had to
(PSLM) occupied Mass. Hall, has committments.” request help from CPD when re-
Mahil Rao Mary Teresa Silcox prompted ad ecision to close the Yard “We're wary of a committee solu- sponding to an assault, a chemical
eather Ann Relyea Kirsi Faith Turbedsky between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m., and only tion to what has become an immedi- spilland a two-alarm fire because they
EricA. Eisner : L Dmitry Sergeevich Ruban Jie Yang allow people with Harvard IDs into ate and daily crisis,” Bartley said. lacked sufficient manpower.
mily5 .Ru ckdeschel
David Rice Elliot PH.D. CANDIDATES the area. Wednesday night, PSLM support- As it is, HUPD officers are work-
SCHOOL OF HYGIENE Administrators and the Harvard ers and members of the Cambridge ing 12-16 hours a day, including on
University Police Department City Council plan to march from City their scheduled days off.
AND PUBLIC HEALTH (HUPD) say that the PSLM protest Hall to Mass. Hall and the Yard. One HUPD officer joked that he
has stretched HUPD’s manpower and Tuesday night’s assault has not hung a photo ofhimselfon the wall at
has threatened Yard security. been linked to the PSLM protest, but home so that his children would not
Yi-Hua Chen
The problem, they say, stems not it has served to mobilize the forget what he looked like.
Shou-En Lu from the PSLM protesters themselves University’s tightened security pro- Last Thursday, HUPD Chief
Kim Lisbeth Sydnor but from concerns over the outsiders cedures. Francis D. “Bud” Riley asked for help
Kelly Ansley Young the protest is attracting. Tuesday’s A Harvard security guard noticed from CPD in policing the Mass. Hall
Ralf Reynir Buhrmann additional security measures are simi- two suspicious men in the Straus protest.
_ Wei-Ting Hwang lar to those the College implements Common Roomshortlybefore6a.m. Since last Friday’s rally, half-a-
during Head of the Charles weekend Tuesday; when he approached them dozen CPD officers have helped
CLASSOF2002— when Harvard Square is also flooded and asked them if they were students, HUPD outside Mass, Hall.
ARTS AND SCIENCES by outside visitors.
Lewis also said that although the
administration has been lenient about STUDENT APARTMENTS
enforcing College rules on noise, pub-
lic gatherings and postering, he has
asked for PSLM to cease its loud ral- RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM CAMPUS
lies before Saturday, when reading THE ALLSTON APARTMENTS - 3111 NORTH CHARLES STREET
period begins.
“As reading period approaches, we Unfurnished ~ Beautiful Hardwood Floors ~ Large Rooms ~ Cable Television ~
believe that the overwhelming senti- Basement Laundry ~ Specious Eat-in Kitchen ~ Tile Bath with Tub & Shower
ment of Yard residents is that the right 1 Bedrooms $650 up 2 Bedrooms $800 to $925
of the PSLM to have its case heard has 4 Bedrooms $1265
3Bedrooms $1150
been given much greater deference
and respect than the right of the resi-
4 h Rent Includes Heat and Hot Water
dents of Massachusetts Hall and
nearby buildings to stuadndy t os leep
in peace and quiet,” Lewis wrote.
The statement is not an ultima-
tum, according to University Spokes-
person Joe Wrinn. ;
i,
mg
“May 3, 2001
THE JOHNs Hopkins News-LetTTer SESS od Pa RE
NEWS
NEWSBRIEFS
Bloomberg considers Hopkins team finds Ina newstudy, scientists analyzed Coyle, chairman of psychiatry at for next year. If approved by the City As the weather warms every year,
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at Johns Hopkins University School 390,000 children be put on medicines pay. ; the sun. May is National Skin Cancer
of Medicine took fluid and cells from suchas Zoloft, Paxiland Prozac. Such In Baltimore, getting nonprofit Detection and Prevention Month.
A lifelong Democrat, he switched The latest research on the re- the milk ducts of 56 women using a vast numbers leave critics aghast. Too groups, particularly the Johns Next Monday was declared Mela-
his registration to Republican last sourceful AIDS virus that causes the process called ductal lavage. many children are being put on pow- Hopkins University and health sys- noma Monday by the American
year. The owner of a media empire disease suggests a disheartening an- Ductal lavage involves inserting a erful brain-altering drugs for behav- tem, to pay more for city services they Academy of Dermatology, which will
employing thousands, he has never swer to a decade-old question: AIDS threadlike catheter through the nipple iors that may be merely troublesome, use has long been a goal of some offi- holda screening for members of Con-
held government office or overseen a will probably not be cured. to pump in saline solution and collect critics say. cials. gress today. Last year, Sen. John
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for mayor, No basic AIDS discoveriyn recent test in which cells are removed from was among the most common prob- the city. deep red-brown under the cloudless
And because of Bloomberg’s times has proved so disturbing as the the cervix and examined under a mi- lems that kids have,” said the Na- In 1997, when the city considered blue sky. He said he worries about the
outsized confidence, his remarkable way HIV burrowsin forthe long haul. croscope to detect early changes that tional Institute of Mental Health’s but abandoned plans for a 2-percent hole in the ozone over Brazil, his na-
business success and his enormous It has made the goal of AIDS treat- may lead to cervical cancer. Daniel Pine, who led the study. energy tax on nonprofit groups, tive country, but not in Baltimore.
-Wealth, no one is counting him out. ment less ambitious. Since eradicat- The researchers looked for three “When researchers follow children Hopkins officials estimated the cost He’ll lie in the sun all summer, he
“With his money, you never ing HIV seems so unlikely — al- signs of pre-cancerous changes and with anxiety over time, sometimes to be $600,000 a year. said, and never apply sunscreen.
know,” said pollster Maurice Carroll. though not everyone has given up — malignant cells that had not shown anxiety developed into more chronic Copyright 2001, The Baltimore “We need the sun,” he said. “The
The biggest task for Bloomberg many contend the next-btheinsg wtil l up on mammograms. problems.” Sun plants need the sun.” Neither a jogger
mayb e persuavotderis tnhagt h isr un be training the body to control the Doctors say mammograms are An example of a child with severe nor a woman reading in the sun
for City Hall is not a rich man’s lark. virus, to help patients live with HIV. good at detecting cancer in post- social phobia would be one who re- Sun worshippers’ nearby was wearing sunscreen, either.
To that end, Bloomberg’s advis- Many of the insights come from menopausal women, but it’s harder fused to go to school for two weeks, At Hopkins, James Miller, a 22-
ers, drawing on extensive polling and the work of Dr. Robert Siliciano of to spot tumours in the breasts of said Mark Riddle of the Johns ritual carries risk year-old senior, put it this way: “Ifit’s
focus groups, have sought to portray the Johns Hopkins University, who women under 40 because their breast Hopkins University School of Medi- an option between going to classes
him as a man who uses his estimated regularly tests the blood of about 50 tissue is so dense. cine, one of the study’s authors. A and lying on the beach, people will lie
$4 billion fortune to benefit everyone Baltimore AIDS patients, measuring The researchers detected suspi- milder example, he said, would be a Fifty years ago, malignant mela- on the beach.”
but is beholden to no one. the virus’ persistence. cious changes in the breast cells ofs ix child who went to school and partici- noma the most deadly type of skin Copyright 2001 by The Baltimore
“I don’t believe that a regular “What HIV has done is tap into women, two of whom werelater diag- pated in clubs and group events, but cancer, rarely struck people in their Sun.
Democracta n run the city anymore,” the most fundamental aspect of the nosed with breast cancer. A third is with intense discomfort. 20s. Now, it is one of the most com-
said David Garth, Bloomberg’s po- immune system, and that is its im- undergoing further tests. Copyright 2001 Akron Beacon mon types of canceri n young women. Hopkins study finds
litical consultant, who guided munological memory,” he says. “It’s In another study, the test detected Journal In the past 20 years, the incidence of
Rudolph Giuliani to City Hall. “Mike the perfect mechanism for the virus abnormalities in the breast fluid of 17 melanoma more than tripled in Cau- women are as often
isaclear, hardheaded businessman. I to ensure its survival.” out of 20 women with confirmed in- Baltimore to charge casians. Nationwide, 51,400 newcases
can’t see him put in a corner by the Theviruslies silentinside cells that vasive breast cancer. of melanoma are expected this year. researched as men
teachers union, or the cops or the do nothing but sit and wait. These Copyright 2001 CBC All Rights JHU for city services Doctors have known for years that
‘hospital workers.” resting memoryT cells store a record Reserved overexposure to the sun is a leading
To retain that independence, of germs they encounter, keeping the cause of melanoma and other skin Contrary to longstanding public
Bloomberg is said to be willing to body prepared for the next time it Study shows drugs Mayor Martin O’Malley’s pro- cancers and have tried to spread the perception, women do not appear to
spend up to $15 million on the race. sees them. posed expansion of Baltimore’s en- message that people should wear hats, be underrepresented or understud-
With five months before a poten- These cells are the immune work for shy kids ergy tax to cover nonprofit groups apply sunscreen and stay out of the ied in scientific clinical research trials
,tial GOP primary against former Rep. system’s memory; they must survive follows a national trend of getting sun. Yet the public has been slow to in the United States. Researchers at
Herman Badillo, Bloomberg’s friends for a long time. HIV lies inside these historically tax-exempt institutions to react. the Johns Hopkins University
have become highly disciplined pur- cells, dormant but dangerous. A study of children ages 6 to 17 pay for the city services they use. At the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
_veyors of the campaign message. Siliciano believes this means HIV in- found that the drug Luvox, which is Nonprofit groups have been ex- this time of year, students flock to the say the findings were most pro-
Unbidden, they mention “Mike’s fection lasts a lifetime. widely prescribed for adults with de- empt from paying most taxes on the grassy hill in front of the library affec- nounced among cancer-related clini-
charity work” and “Mike’s need to Copyright 2001, The Baltimore pression, alleviated the debilitating theory that they provide important tionately nicknamed “the beach.” cal trials. The scientists say women
give something back.” Sun symptoms of social phobia, separa- services that government would oth- They throw Frisbees, do homework are represented in twice as many can-
The few political ideas that tion anxiety and generalized anxiety. erwise have to pay for. But while they and work on laptops. Men take off cer trials as men, even though men
Bloomberg has discussed are similar Hopkins researchers Although the effects of the medi- provide education, feed the hungry their shirts; women wear sports bras die more frequently from the disease
.to those of hisD emocratic challeng- cine were dramatic, experts were di- and step in when misfortune strikes, or bathing suits. and often die at an earlier age.
.ers. For instance, repairing the city’s develop breast test vided about its appropriateness: The they also use city services without “T don’t come out here to get tan,” “The findings are important be-
school system is his top priority. He medicine can help children with se- paying for them. said Genevieve Gallagher, an 18-year- cause the perception that females are
_ also supports civilian oversight ofth e vere emotional problems, butit might As a result, more cities are devis- old freshman from outside Pittsburgh under represented and their diseases
: Police Department, and rejects Mayor An experimental technique can also be abused as a chemical quick fix ing ways to tap the nonprofit sector who on Monday was studying organic are understudied erodes the public
Giuliani’s decency commission to detect early signs of breast cancer in for normal anxieties, with lasting ef- with taxes and user fees. O’Malley is chemistry in her bikini. “It’s usually, trust, which is essential to continued
review publicly funded art. ......, womenzat high risk of developing the fects on growing brains. recommendinga first-ever energy tax I’m out here studying anyway ‘cause clinical research,” said Dr. Curtis L.
Copyright,2001, The Associated disease, according to researchers at “Any drug that is effective is not on nonprofit entities in Baltimore to it’s a beautiful day and why not get Meinert.
|, Press Johns Hopkins University. going to be innocuous,” said Joseph bridge gaps in his proposed budget tan in the process?” Copyright 2001 by United Press
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A descent into Hopkins he latest Summit of the are forced onto food stamps. This ever did. A draft today provides &
Americas in Quebec isn’t just sad, my friends, it’s damned well-trained corps ofc itizen-soldiers
brought out the usual near catastrophic. We're talking fall ready and able to fight the wars of
motley assortment of of Rome here, people. It’s time to put tomorrow.
treehuggers, anarchists up or shut up. Compulsory military Naturally, such a draft would re-
| and Reds that together comprise the service will serve to turn this listless, quire a significant increase in the
One man’s journey reveals Dante has nothing on the Master Plan Department of Defense’s budget. Of
current anti-globalization crowd. It
was lovely to see young people exhib- course, I couldn’t stomach a tax in,
| iting their youthful vigor and passion CHARBELB: crease to pay for all this. That would,
Walking across Charles Street, heading to- shallow dreams. Mye yes hurt. Atthis point words on behalf of a cause they obviously seem to leave me with a quandary,
cared deeply about. Sure, they lack Our MAN IN But, no! I would propose that we sim-
wards campus, I weave my way through speed- fail at how disgusted I am. ply compensate for the increased de-
any real understanding oft he issue at
ing cars, seeing how close I can come without I walk down marble stairs and wait ina single- hand, but, dammit, they sure do try fense spending by corresponding re;
getting hit. Who thought that a 9 a.m. class was a file line, like a prisoner shuffling around for his hard. Even the harshest critic would AMSTERDAM ductions in the social welfare system.)
have to give them A’s for effort. Fear not for the nation’s poor,
good idea, even if it is with a good professor? daily exercise. The metal fencing closes in on me. Alas, they're so darned destruc- however. Instead of allowing the un-
I crack a Coke and start to slurp it down, This is what it must be like to wait for Charon’s tive. I’m all for freedom of speech, flabby Athens of ours intoa well-oiled employed to grow fat off the govern,
another car nearly clipping the heelo fmy sneaker boat to cross the Styx. but does identifying the detriments Spartan machine. ment dole, they would instead be en-
| of the global menace really require Is there a legitimate need? Most listed into the armed forces where
as I meander across the Death Lane. An enemy passes, brushing my shoulder. I
looting the local Starbucks? Accord- certainly. With Fidel Castro still 90 they’d-do a service to their fellow
Straight ahead is the Beach, once a haven for recognize the wild, confused eyes. Like a deer ing to a representative oft he Socialist miles off our shore, Khaddafi hiring Americans while learning potentially
safe, frollicking undergrads. A few would sneak waiting to be run down. I wish I were in my car. Workers I recently ran into, it does. I thugs to hijack planes and cruise
offintothewoods _nowlostin the shadow ofthe It is one of my class officers. beg to differ. ships, and Saddam Hussein insisting ——
So, all this gets me to thinking. I he really did win the Gulf War, there’s Compulsory military
Arts Center and its mirrored dance studios — I turn right, almost pinned against the metal can’thelp but ask, couldn’t the coun- no shortage of potential threats to
and enjoy some semi-adolescent groping and cage by a brute of a lacrosse player. This is an try be better served by the young by our national security out there. service will serve to
unsure kissing. inferno from whichI cannotescape. [lookaround putting their youthful energy to work The current size of our military
Beer flowed free and easy. I can almost see the in vain for my Virgil; then I realize that, here, on its behalf? Isn’t there a better way permits the nation to enter and win turn this listless, flabby,
to teach these young men and women two regional conflicts simultaneously.
brick and marble wall removed, and the circular reason is dead. a lesson on self-sacrifice while utiliz- That’s nowhere near enough. Time
Athens ofo urs into a -
Goodnow Drive restored, another casualty of I step over a low-slung chain link fence block- ing their violent tendencies for the and again, history has proven even
greater good? Then it hit me. the best laid plans are unable to cope
the Master Plan. Soon, no one will remember the ing the green grass, with its roots barely clinging What we need to do is restart the with the contingencies ofg lobal poli- well-oiled Spartan
unified show of college fun that went on here. to the soil. My steps are hard, beating down on draft. tics. Though our technological ad-
Hopkins students were never apathetic about the sod as if trying to gain entrance into some Let’s face it. We’ve grown lazy. vantages are significant, they are in machine.
Not just teenagers, not just college no way insurmountable. In 1939, the
the Beach. more comforting world beneath.
studebunt tthes w,hol e stinking coun- French Army possessed the most
I shake my head, but almost run into a front On the horizon, Levering Hall, once a haven, try. Fifty years after winning WWII technologically formidable tanks and
end loader moving piles of dirt around to unde- now the bane of my existence. A microcosm ofall and ten years after winning the Cold artillery in the world. On the battle- valuable job skills. Talk about a great
termined places. The driver smokes a Camel, a that is wrong in my small world. Meal equiva- War, Americans are getting compla- field, that meant little. Now, consider deal. :
cent. People worry more about the that Red China’s People’s Liberation Finally, the bignation on the block
flask tucked neatly under his flannel shirt. A lency gone, twitching and bleeding between the number of people left on the Survivor Army currently lists over one million will once again have the big stick it
lunch time treat. jaws of an unfeeling wolf. island than they do the number of soldiers on its rolls, and its 1.3 billion deserves. With conscription,
I trudge past the bleary-eyed crowd of fresh- E-Level, the one place I could comfort myself rogue states in the world. Baseball citizens pose a greater potential threat everyone’s a winner. Why? Because
players earn millions while soldiers than Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia freedom isn’t free, baby. d
men returning from their 8 a.m. Physics lecture. or at least forget why I was troubled, taken away
v,
Fools. But what am I? by a faceless authority. Once it nurtured us,
Cinco de Mayo an excuse to drink’ it
Climbing the steps alongside the MSE, a tinge womb-like, with ambrosia and nectar fit for the hi.
of anger touches my belly. Anger at unrecover- highest inhabitants on Olympus. Bud Light. ry
able hours on C-Level and “socializing” on M- Milwaukee’s Best. Rolling Rock. Moosehead. The
Chicanos and Americans perpetuate the stereotypical Mexicans :
Level. Dean Massa sandwich.
The sun beams across the once-glorious Now its cold, dead hallways welcome only
ola! Here we are, a few in 1810 but then went through various as Cinco de Mayo — represents Mexi#
Gilman Quad, now criss-crossed with already- those soulless fools who prefer donuts to drafts.
days prior to Cinco de stages of dictatorship, most notably can nationalism at its height. ib
decabyriickn pagths , the University’s feetof c lay A chill runs down my spines I think of trading = Mayo, a day devoted under Antonio Lép de Santa Anna. But enough of the history. In
onabed of sand. The former beauty just another — myb eer buzz for as ugar high, like P’'m sellinmgy aig Hebanien POUL be seal ial 9a Jedd iow sal fi ebaimnt ailhatied the aIQiSvieAraighinCaHee:
havior in'the honor of ~ SHANNON: Sf ified de May6 ‘has been lost ovet
hazy, Tuesday-morning memory. soul to Mephistopheles. Mexican independence. But wait. the last few decades. More and more}
My uncertain feet carry me along red paths. I descend the back stairs and walk out of Le- Cinco de Mayo isn’t a day that cel- Americans and Mexican-American$
Colored with the blood of premeds who couldn’t vering sadly. But maybe years from now, asI take ebrates Mexican independence; it’s a WHATEVER YOU have come to view Cinco de Mayo a8
hack it? Wishful thinking. that day’s first sip of Beast, the college student’s day that celebrates Mexico’s win over a day of celebration for the Mexicait
France in the Battle of Puebla in 1862. culture and heritage. :
I come upon the Breezeway, that undefined madeleinet,h e smweilll brilng me batco wkarm er Mexican Independence was granted WANT For most, this means indulging in
bastion ofcomfort, oncea welcomingand charm- days. I shudder. The beer is cold. Itis time to walk on September 16, 1810. margaritas, sangria and nachos. Even
ing Colossus, now a rubble pit of dust, sand and on. Mexico was awarded independence Chicanos contribute to this stereo-
typed notion of Mexico by having
Thenin the 1850s, Benito Judrezhelped festivities that include parades,
The AIIN ighters and the Pat McGee Band are create the Reform movementthat even- mariachi music and costume-clad
tually led to Mexico’s declaration as a men and women. 2
democratic nation in 1857. A fewyears But really, do we care? If the Mexi®
an inspiration to many artists of the world later, Juarez became the president of can-Americans are promoting this
Mexico and was recognized as such in stereotypei n America, then is it sé
1859 by the United States. However, it wrong for us ignorant Americans to
wasn’t until 1861 that Judrez and his learn from them and help perpetuate
administratiwoenre able to regain con- this thought? After all, it wasn’t your
erful thing the arts can do for a per- newfound interest in trying — which trolofMexico City and, therefore, claim run-of-the-mill white male who in-
’m turning over anewleaf. This
son, (besides impress someone and is something that only a good rock to be Mexico’s legitimate head of state. vented the margarita, sangria
past Saturday night, I went to
the AllNighter’s concert. I nor engender criticism), I believe, is of- concert can give a person. The de- The new administration issued a nachos; it was a Mexican, who w
fer the shovel to dig and find the sire to emulate is a very powerful moratorium on foreign debts on July proud of his or her heritage.
mally hate college a cappella
[“Collegea cappellaneedskey- passion we all have, but so few of us force. 17, 1861. Three countries — England, Cinco de Mayo celebrates all that
have found. After every live music show I’ve France and Spain — retaliated by in- is American. The holiday represents
boards, guitars, drums and some So while Pat McGee was standing seen, I feel a sense of immediacy to vading Mexico. England and Spain another triumph of capitalistic ten-
Jethro Tull,” October 26, 2000], but I up there, strumming on his acous- try to learn as much as the guy on withdrew, but France continued to dencies to commercialize holidays
hsahvowe wsiansc el ikceh wanagedt cmyah bmaiinnddn .y oguT’h vee tic, I said to myself, “J-No... You're stage knows in his pinky. I feel as proceed with its plan of attack, which and to exploit the accomplishments
gonna be a better guitarist over the though this person has such a large eventually led to the Battle of Puebla. of others to turn a quick buck.
been looking forward to seeing for
summer. You're going to write some head start on me — that he’s been During the Battle of Puebla, ap- So, as a silly American, I will also
months, It was that entertaining. And
songs. Hell, maybe you'll even be in playing so much longer and he’s so proximately 5,000 untrained Mexi- help perpetuate the Chicano-inspired
it has given me a new outlook on aband — youwere in onea fewyears much better. I look at this as a kind can nationals began to aggressively stereotype of drunken fools by having
things. ago, you can do it again.” Sure, I'll of challenge, to try to catch up with attack the well-equipped French my own Cinco de Mayo party this Sat“
I don’t want to be known as the
probably play the same old chords I his musical talent. It’s worth the army. On May 5, 1862, the Mexicans urday and serving sangria, nachos and
loathsome cynic my column has race, even if you know you won’t defeated the French in the Battle of beer. And ifanyonehasa problem with
defined me as. So, from this article win. The payoff is all in the effort, Puebla. Though this was an early win that, don’t bother me. Bother the
on, I’m turning over a newleaf. I’m JEFFNOVICH SS and this is what I’ve found with play- in a conflict that lasted several years, Mexican who thought up the holiday
replacing the “Bitches” to So while Pat McGee ing guitar. the Battle of Puebla — better known and its various commercial trappings.
“Strange,” (Miles Davis to Cream), “STRANGE BREW Singing is a different story. The
which will mark the dawning of a
was standing up there, AllNighters (as did the UNC Loreli
new year with an occasional posi-
and the UMD Faux Paz) gave me a
tive outlook on life instead of my
pessimistic grudge. I hope this is a outat the Pat McGeeand AllNighters strumming on his seenntseed ogfr oauwpe, —a ndt heayl l arteh e sumcehm abe trasl-
refreshing improvement to my col- concert.
have incredible voices. Watching
umn... The reason I sayal lt his? This envy, acoustic, |s aid to them sing, all I could think was “Ev-
Back to a cappella. While watch- at least for me, translates immedi-
ery girl here must be getting worked
ing the performance, I’m sure most ately to motivation to try to find what myself,J-No ... You're up by all of these guys.” And the
people felt some level of jealousy — the performers have already discov-
jealousy set in.
to be on stage, singing to a crowd of ered. And here lies the greatest gift gonna be a better Why am sitting here in the audi-
screaming fans. I think this is some- art, in its many forms, offers me af-
ence? I want to do that. I want to be
thing most people desire. ter it has been forgotten. guitarist over the on stage, singing to girls, the spot-
After the concert, 1 managed to Pat McGee made me want to bea light on me. I wish I could do that; I
hseeea rdth es oPmaet oMfc tGheeeir mbuasnidc , —b utI Ih aasd- bmeatdteer megu iwtaarnits t;t o ttrhye toA lsliNnigg.h tSeurr’es, summer. You're going thinWkh ewne aPlrl adsoh.a nt Desai and Kobie
sumed they were just another “jam maybe it’s all just to meet girls (if O. Bowles did Shaggy’s “It wasn’t
band,” wannabe-Phish group that I could meet a handful of the to write some songs. me,” and Roy Lirov did the Count-
gets boring after five minutes. Not to thousands of screaming femme ing Crows’ “Anna Begins,” the
be outdone by college a cappella, they fatals at these concerts, I’d be a Hell, maybe you'll even pieces fell into place like clock-
were exceptional, and shattered my happy camper). And sure, maybe © work. They were on and unstop-
expectations; I’m even listening to it’s to ... okay, so it’s basically to beinaband—you ., pable, and frankly, they blew me
theTmh ea s lIe awdr itsei ngtheirs . reminded me of mseoemte thgiinrlgs . aBt utw orI kt hibnekh intdh eret’hse were in one a few taow awy or—k soo nm umcyh shoi dtehoaut sI ’ms ignogiinngg
the lead singer of “Our Lady Peace,” scenes — the desire to excel at voice this summer as well. This is
ao pCeanneadd ifaonr Evbearncdl eaIr sianw 19w9h5e. nW htehney somDeitghgiinngg. deep and finding some years ago, you can do tthhee gArlelaNtiegshtt ecros.m pliment I can give
wI astacwh inOgL Pt heb ascikn getrh etnh,i nkIi rnge,m e“mMbaenr, wsoaryts oaf tpeadsisoiuosn awnidth idni ffoincuelste ltfa siks a—l - itagain.” mucSho whhoiplee fIo rd omn’yt mtuhsiincka l thaebriel’is-
unless you are extremely talented,
ties, it really is the journey and not
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May 3, 2001 THE JOHNs Hopkins News-Letter A7
OPINIONS
With the exception ofe ditorials, the
opinions expressed here are those oft he
contributors. They are not necessarily
those of The Johns Hopkins News-Letter.
Death provides valid reason to legalize DDT Why does Hopkins
make people mad?
he days of summer are lives destroyed by malaria each year of “organic” growing techniques into by their irrational fear of DDT as a
creeping upon us, and could be spared by the use of one their communities. IfI couldhave my controlled and life-saving pesticide.
summer brings to our at substance — prepare your sensitive way, we would all be in pre-Elizabe- It seems incredible that such caring
tention many things that souls — DDT. The dear reader may than England where, as legend has it, people as environmentalists, who are
were forgotten in other be thinking, “What the deuce? Does a squirrel could traverse the entire known to express their indignation at
portions ofthe year. Wearereminded this maniac think that saving millions country without touching the ground, the destruction of life by strapping heconsensuson Hopkins, tion? Do they really do anything that
of the fact that there is sucha thing as of lives is worth using DDT?” If so, because of the copious trees that cov- themselves to a tree, ignore the hu- I’ve discovered, is how shockingto incur our wrath? Aside from
life removed from schoolwork. The yes must be the answer given. Other ered the Island. There would be no man consequences oft he policies they much it sucks here. The taking away the Beach, they haven't
wnahtoi onh avoef Fnroatn ceye,t idnihsacboivteerde db yt pheeo pvilre- msuobssqtuaintcoeess , mbauyt DbeD Tu siesd t hteo chceoampbeastt ariuatgoemso, btihluess ,r idodnilnyg htohre sweos rladn do f cfaure-l aradtvhoecra tety paincadl croefa tteh,e bpuotl istaidclayl, ltehfits iins afboloed, tchoen tpernotf eisss qourse stdioonn’-t ndiocnee ainfy Htohpiknign st hatc otdedrrliebdl e.i tIst wstouudlednbtes
tues of regular bathing, becomes un- emissions. Contented serfs, untainted which environmentalists flourish. I care, academic advising is indiffer- and submitted to their every whim, but
bmeaairnadbelry opfu ttrhied ,y eairn, c ownhternas ti titso mtehre erley- NICHOLASESTERHAZY bfoyr bboeunregfeiocienst ,a mbpeirtfieocnt,l y wopuatlrdi arlcahbaolr caloln gveenyu imneyl ya pgooloodg-iehse arbteefdo reahnadn ds ent-o emnits,p ltahceeda, damndi n— itshet rmoasprtti oivreoitxniien’sg s aor fe ycoolul ewgeo ualddm ibnei shtarradtiporne sswehdo two ofuilndd apnuyt
revoltingly putrid. Women are re- landlords, the more intelligent of the sible liberals whom I know exist, but all — the girls are their students
minded of the fact that they are ca- For KING AND former being encouraged to enter the the political left has historically been just plain ugly. above public re-
pable, merely by altering their dress, professional classes. How fortunate more than willing, if not to kill mil- Then again, KATHYC lations. Once the
of eliciting unthinking gawks from COUNTRY it is that I did not make this world, lions of people, then to pooh-pooh despite the rank- University andits
the male population. Men are thank- indeed, but unless I am strikingly the deaths of millions caused by the ing ofwhatimoss t FRANKWEILERS marketing strate-
ful for the present, as they are re- uninformed, neither did any of my implementation ofits ideology. Gen- likely a fictitious gies have sucked
minded that it once took years of and most effective. One example of readers. erally speaking, the ideology of the Playboy article, the high-school
courting, gentlemanly behavior and, DDT’s efficacy is seen in Sri Lanka, Seeing as we have inherited a left, offering to create a new and per- the guys here FILES demographic
finally, marriage to see so much of the where 2.8 million malaria cases were world which we cannot overhaul en- fect world, inclines one to ignore those aren’t exactly stel- into the system,
fairer sex’s physique as that which reported in 1948 prior to the use of tirely, we must make pragmatic trampled underfoot by the endeavor lar either. and coerced par-
women now voluntarily and shame- DDT, but after a few years’ use of choices as to our environmental poli- towards a newworld order. But in the Why are ents into paying
lessly display whenever the thermom- DDT, only 17 cases were reported in cies, keeping in mind both the envi- case of environmentalists, there had Hopkinites so pissed off? fortheir progeny seducattiheosnch,oo l
eter reads above seventy degrees. And 1963. ronment and the human costs of better not be shrubbery trampled Could itbe the academics? Possibly. administration’s job is done. Realisti-
yes, those ever-bothersome little crea- Other countries that continue the underfoot. Quantitative courses are typically cally, it’s just politics, and maybe we
tures, mosquitoes, bring their scourge use of DDT, like Ecuador, have con- Malaria is not the creation of hu- curved, and orgo’s notoriously cut- should just buck up.
to humanity once more, sinking their tained or reduced the cases of malaria mans, and it has neither good nor evil throat. This doesn’t account for the Is it sexual frustration? Naw. We've
ensanguined fangs into our unsus- within their borders. Poor — pardon [T]he political left has qualities. What is evil is that some other half of our population, who nev- got our very own Red Light District.
pecting (and for women, increasingly me — “fiscally challenged” govern- environmentalists, tirelessly striving ertheless all seem to have equivalently We've got D-level, and the Beach is
uncovered) hides. ments of the Third World simply can- historically been more to build their ideal, pristine, green long sticks up their asses. deserted at nights now, which offers us
Mosquitoes are not such a great not afford the use of other pesticides; world, know perfectly well that the Isitthe weatIthmaye nortbe?sun ny another prime location. Plus, there’s
concern to this portion of the world, thus, when Western environmental- use of DDT could save millions of here every day of the year, but at least nothing else to do in Baltimore. If what
as they are, despite their more exas- ists force the banning of DDT in their than willing, if not to lives, and still object to its use on the temperature fluctuations keep us they say about like-attracting-like, and
perating qualities, generally rather countries, people die — a great lot of ideological grounds. Perhaps these on our toes and at least mildly inter- everyone agrees that the opposite sexat
harmless. Most people are not aller- people. kill millions of people, ideological objections show us that ested in the outdoors — if only to keep Hopkins is butt, with more guys than
gic to them and the threat of con- For many years, environmental- human life is truly less important to us from freezing our asses off in the girls here, our average ugly girl would
tracting diseases from them is not ists have labored to have DDT banned then to pooh-pooh some environmentalists than that of middle of spring. each be fending hordes of equally hid-
severe. Nonetheless, we do reside in across the world. So far, they have a tree? Or perhaps these objections Is it the local politics? Unlikely. The eous guys. In short, people should be
one of the happier portions of the done quite admirably, considering the deaths of millions are simply to hide the fact that envi- only thing we know about O’Malley is hooking up like mad.
globe. In other areas of the world, that DDT is now banned in over 100 ronmentalists enjoy facilitating the that he’s got a fantastic Irish band, has Itmay make fora convenient scape-
being bitten by a mosquito may very countries. Wherefore this crusade caused by the deaths of sub-Saharan Africans, who impressive biceps thatmhiam kmiledl y goat, but there’s really nothing terribly
well end in death, as somewhere against DDT? What terrible environ- are the chief victims of malaria. And attractive in jeans anda wifebeater, and wrong with Hopkins.
around 3 million people die of ma- mental catastrophes accompany the you thought racism was a thing of the has a deluded notion that Baltimore is It seems, then that the problem lies
implementation of its
laria, a mosquito-borne illness, each use of DDT? past. the “Greatest Cityin America.” Wecan’t with us. We’re too darn smart, which
year in the Third World. Millions DDT, when used extensively, has But let us not dwell in the realm fault him for his optimism, though. But makes us anal about details, and drives
more are sickened from the disease been shown to damage some crops ideology. of conjecture. No matter what the unless he dresses in drag ala New York us to pointedly hiss “Johns” at people
and the worldwide casualties of ma- and cause thinner shells on chicken reasoning of environmentalists for City’s mayor, none of us are likely to who call us “John Hopkins.” Knowl-
laria are growing. eggs — effects, albeit largely revers- crusading against DDT, one might care about his ideas. Ironic, too, that edge breeds discontent — God may
There are 300 million malaria cases ible, so very deleterious and expan- hope that environmentalists would although Hopkins has one of the lead- have been angry about the apple, but
in the world today. One striking ex- sive in their breadth as to send shivers implementing policies “friendly” to consent to the limited use of DDT ing programsin international relations, let’s not forget that Adam and Even
ample of malaria’s growth is seen in down the collective spine of America’s the environment. Covering crops in undeveloped countries. One Hopkinites are just not inclined to get were also pissed off about walking
South Africa, where cases of malaria boobgeoisie. But there are informed with DDT and giving children a daily might hope, but to employ a fitting riled up about political issues. How around without their fig leaves. We're
have shot up by 1000 percent in the minds in the world that feel that these DDT bath is not sensible. In devel- vulgarism, “Don’t hold your many of us even considered going to just inherently angry, angry people. As
past five years. Romantic as death by effects do not justify the worldwide oped countries that are able to sus- breath.” There is no threaotf inhal- Quebec? my favorite character in Joy Luck Club
malaria might seem to some of the banning of the substance. The Ma- tain the cost of more expensive pesti- ing DDT anyway. What about the school administra- insists, “Must be born with it.”
more sentimental types, having laria Foundation International re- cides, these other pesticides should
claimed Alexander in his prime, the cently distributed an open letter that beused. But then again, banning DDT
increasing prevalence of the disease proclaimed, “setting a firm deadline outright is not sensible, especially Changes to Academic Advising
portends much unnecessary death in to ban DDT places an unethical bur- when considering that very small,
the Third World. Tragic indeed are denon theworld’s poorest countries” strategically placed amounts of DDT
the fates of these human beings re- — over 600 scientists and specialists can significantly diminish the pres- good, but look closely at details
duced to numbers, but what could we in malaria signed the letter. ence of a fatal disease in a specific
do for them other than emit an emo- In principle, environmentalists area.
tivesigh, say “that’sterrible,” and then have an admirable goal. Who would But, most fiscally-challenged na-
forget about these lives completely, not prefer having a world in which tions shall choose not to use DDT,
considering such important matters there would be no pollution? Most of preferring to let countless civilians ean John Bader really drop forms. realizes that this is the case, they will
as how terrible such and such TA is, us have a vision of what their perfect die from the disease than to incur the cares about students So, at first glance, Bader’s changes consider hiring more advisors, he
or how so and so’s girlfriend is truly world would be. For environmental- wrath of environmentalists world- here at Hopkins. You seem to do nothing but help students: says. He also says they will hold
an inveterate hussy? ists, this isa green, happy world, where wide. And many environmentalists don’tknowJohn Bader? both by reducing the hassle of regis- evening workshops for freshmen,
, Pressing as such matters are, the starving Third World indigenous are more than happy to take no no- Don’tworry, neither do tration and by using only qualified have open office hours during Orien-
reality is that a great number of the tribes are saved by the introduction tice of the deaths of millions caused I. But if you take a quick look at the advisors. However, in developing the tation, and host a “Re-Orientation”
changes he’s made to the advising new policies, Bader has overlooked eventat the end of September to make
Cokes for $0.85 no longer as the system used by the Office of Aca- some important details in the regis- up for the small number of advisors.
demic Advising, I think you'll agree tration process. My advice: Start looking for advi-
with me. This guy definitely wants to sors now. Don’t wait for half of next
make things better for us. JEREMIA year’s freshman class to slip through
Hopkins Store closes its doors Bader, the new head of Academic the cracks before finding more advi-
Advising, has been here for only two GUEST EDITORIAL sors to prevent it from happening
monthsandhe’salready admitted that again.
“what [Academic Advising was] do- And don’t waste time on the
any of you may have and ends of everythinygou couldever of the store enjoying the day. I think ing was not very good.” And, unlike evening workshops and Re-Orienta-
walked down 32nd needif your needsincludeminorhouse- everyone in the area knows the lady the hordes of people at this school First of all, the periods designated tion. People won’t attend — and since
street on the way to hold repairs and $0.85 Cokes. who worksatthe store, as Io verheard who love to complain about prob- for students to meet with faculty ad- Bader already seems to understand
Eddie’s or Video some of my neighbors talking about lems without offering suggestions on visors are scheduled too early in the that freshmen won’t come to events
Americain or home the recent demise of the store and how to fix them, he is actually doing semester. According to the new sys- that aren’t required, he should aban-
if you live in Charles Village. You STEVENPORTER referring to some of the players in- something. tem, juniors should meet with their don the idea now. Hopefully he won’t
may have noticed a sign in a window volved. The phrase “She finally de- Thanks to Bader, students will no advisors in October and February, waste valuable time and money on
ofastore on 32nd St. between Charles GUEST EDITORIAL cided to close the store” was said and longer have to wait in long lines to get but unless the Registrar also makes flyering and other ineffective tech-
and St. Paul. Ithada Coca-Cola bottle that’s when I realized that someone their advisors’ signatures a week be- changes, the courses being offered niques of persuasion that are often
on it and it read “85 cents.” It was, should definitely give the store some fore registration. Instead, advisors the following semester won’t be used by administrators with no suc-
perhaps, the only store in town that The first time I went into the store, formal good-bye in print form. willbe able to sign “registration clear- known yet.
sold 20-oz. bottles of Coke for less it was to buy one of the Cokes. Idon’t Itis definiteltyh e end ofan era. No ance forms” ahead of time that allow Though this may not seem like a (BS
than $0.99 or $1.09. And yet, I doubt really drink Coke but I couldn’t pass longer will students get it confused students to choose their own courses. problem since advisors will no longer No longer will
that many of you went into the store up this good of a deal (at least $0.14 Since many advisors already sign be approving specific classes for stu-
to buy a Coke. Usually you would just cheaper than any local competitor). registration forms without even look- dents, it severely limits the amount of freshmen be sent to
pick one up at Eddie’s while you were The lady who always works at the [I]t's provided ing atthe courses on them, this should help that students can receive.
hgoetwteivnegr ,a sawnerdew icohn.l yT haev ai$l0a.b8l5e Caotk etsh,e mstyo reC owkaes annidc ew eennto uognh .w iIt hp umrych daasye.d numerous occasions iresltireavtei ons omtiem eo fw sittuhdoeuntts ’m astkrienssg att hreegm- ing Braedgeirs trcaltaiiomns ctlheaatr atnhce ep ofionrtm so f (uisn-- faculty who admit that
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ever, the Hopkins Store is a staple in plicated. I asked around and some- by Bader state that freshmen will no advice” of their advisor. But how will about advising.
the Charles Village community and one told me that the Hopkins Store the local Charles longer be able to declare majors. Asa advisors even be able to make sugges-
I’m pretty sad to see it go. It’s been duplicated keys, and, sure enough, result, they will discuss their course tions about what classes students
herthreee yaearls thlat I ’veb eenhere, they did. And for cheap, too. Al- Villagers at their finest. plans with Academic Advising rather should take if they don’t know what
andit’s provided numerous occasions though, I’m not sure that key dupli- than randomly-selected faculty mem- will be offered? Will they be able to cess,
for observing some of the local cation is a very expensive market bers in their chosen area of study. give the advice that Bader wants stu- As for the advising periods — they
Charles Villagers at their finest. _ these days. with the Hopkins’ Deli in the Hop- Clearly, this is a step in the right dents to implement? must be scheduled during registra-
The lady didn’t seem too happy kins House; nor will unsuspecting direction. No longer will freshmen be Also, Bader’s system has assigned tion time. Otherwise, the advisors
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; ‘dium freshman year. Who knows?) ers, which, in my opinion, is by far his keys duplicated when we move next chology department didn’t have tem is supposed to “deepen the rela- rush for signatures can only be
2444 ‘Since I hadn’t heard of a store that best book, and I was excitthaet dsh e year. All jokes, or attempts at jokes enough advisors for all of the fresh- tionship between faculty and stu- avoided if the Registrar distributes
vwas ci by Hopkins, I decided to thought so, too. aside, I will miss the Hopkins Store. I men psych. majors. dents?” Maybe that’s true, but only if lists of classes to be offered earlier
Iwalk up 32nd St. quite frequently. will miss seeing the lady outside her Without freshmen to worry about, you ignore the freshman class. ; and extends the registration period,
fT-eat .f ,R EEbeenin , sot hfeosr totrheo,s ey oouf kynoouw wthhaot ihtahvaes Tushuea lllayd oyu wt hfor onwto rtkaslk iantg tthoe as gtourye wwiatsh Vstiolrlea.g eA nwdil lI, thais nkw eltlh.e rHeesrt eo’fs Chtaor ltehse dsteupdaernttmse tnot sa dsvhiouslod rwbhseo aabclteu atlol ya scsairgen, thesSeo pwrhoablte mcsa?n Wbeel l,d oonne t hteo p lruesmsieddey, worSkoi,n gJ othon m aBkaed etrh,i ngtsh aenaks iery ofuo r fuosr
no connectto iHoopkinns other than wispy white hair and a nice-sized gut Hopkins Store; wishing you the best and faculty that want to do nothing Bader already admits that 150 stu- Let's just hope other offices in the
3 eing extremely close to campus. In- which somehow suited him. They in your future wherever it may be. but research will no longer have to dents may be too many for one advi- University are also willing to try some-
the small shop you'll find odds | were always in the little nook outside Keep the Cokes at $0.85 forever. leave their labs to sign students’ add/ sor to handle. If Academic Advising thing new,
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May 3, 2001
THE JOHNS Hopkins News-LetTrTer
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Billionaire Tito arrives at Research suggests dolphins
international space station capable of self-recognition
Study shows that dolphins can pass the “mirror test” of intelligence
BY BRIAN KIM
THE JOHN Hopkins News-Letter
DAVID MERRICK
Dennis Tito, founder of Wilshire
THE JoHNs Hopkins News-LetTeR
Associates, paid NASA $20 million to
be the world’s first space tourist.
Two, unrelated studies released
Despite the hefty sum, it was not
recently claim that dolphins possess
too difficult for the Californian con-
the ability to recognize themselves in
side,ring his investment management
a mirror, a behavior often taken as a
firm manages more than $10 billion
sign of self-awareness, and to com-
in assets.
prehend the thoughts of other indi-
The Californian tycoon flew up
viduals, namely their human train-
into orbit with Russian cosmonauts,
ers.
Talga Musabayev and Yuri Baturin,
Both studies maintain support
and succssfully docked with the in-
for the commonly-held notion that
ternational space station on Mon-
dolphins can develop the concep-
day.
tion of themselves and others as dis-
In the past, Tito had wanted to
tinct individuals. These character-
visit the Mir, but the fall of the Soviet
istics were previously considered
Union placed his dream on hold.
exclusive to humans and great apes.
When the MirCorp company was COURTESYO F HTTP://WWW.WIRE.AP.ORG Dolphins possess brains half the
formed in April 2000 with the hopes The world’s first space tourist, Tito gives the thumbs up from the Interna- size of ahuman’s and have complex
of maintaining the Mir station, Tito tional Space Station. He will spend six days in the Russian capsule. social structures, superb memories
paid millions along with undergoing and sophisticated sonar systems. COURTESY OF HTTP://WWW.NYTIMES.COM
intensive training for his trip to the the Russian Zvezda module contain- but suffered a bout of motion sick- They can learn quickly and easily A bottlenose dolphin examines itself in the mirror held by a trainer,
Mir. ing sleeping compartments, a table ness shortly after. mimic researchers but have evaded examining its own body for ink markings placed there by researchers.
When the Russians decided to sink for securing meals and a toilet and Tito claims that he needed to be many attempts at understanding
the space station, Tito was offered a hygiene facilities. careful. Despite the brief sickness, he their intelligence. In 16 video-taped repetitions, each sity of Liverpool, England and three
chance to ride along on the Soyuz Russian Aerospace Agency thought that the trip was worth it. It However, recent studies have dolphin repeatedly swam directly to researchers from South Africa,
mission to the international space sta- spokesman Konstantin Kreidenko was a dream come true for the mil- shed some light on the complexities the mirror to investigate the place claims to uphold the notion that
tion. said, “The tourist Tito will simply sit lionaire. of the dolphin’s mind and social where ithad been marked, often twist- dolphins can interpret the thoughts
Tito will be spending a relatively and watch.” “Tt goes well beyond anything that life. ing and turning to expose the proper and intentions of other animals by
inactive six days aboard the space sta- Tito was feeling very comfortable Ihave ever dreamed,” Tito said. “Liv- The bottlenose dolphin has be- spot. documenting dolphin responses to
tion with most of his stay situated on following initial liftoff on Saturday ing in space is like having a different come the first non-primates to pass Dr. Reiss says that the new dol- human pointing and gaze direction
life, living in a different world.” the mirror test of self-recognition ac- phin study brings up some interest- without prior training.
Growing up in Queens, New York, cording to the study conducted by ing questions about brain evolution These test were conducted with
Tito’s passion for space was sparked Dr. Diana Reiss, a senior research sci- because dolphin and primate/human six dolphins at Sea World in
SCENCEBRIEFS when Sputnik was launched into or- entist in the Osborn Laboratories of brains have evolved along very dif- Durban, South Africa. While the
bit in 1957 by the Soviet Union. Marine Science at the New York ferent evolutionary lines for than 60 researchers admit that the dolphins
THE ASOCIATED PRESS He continued his fascination with Aquarium in Brooklyn, and Dr. Lori million years. may have been unintentionally ex-
space pursuing studies in aerospace Marino, a lecturer in neuroscience Dolphin brains lack a primatelike posed to pointing and gazing dur-
engineering. and behavioral biology at Emory frontal lobe, and the neocortex of ing training sessions for perfor-
Deadly gas may help After receiving a bachelor’s and University. dolphin is organized differently from mances.
Following the lung damage, sur-
master’s degree, Tito went on to work It has long been known that chil- that of primates. However, the researchers claim
vival of the normal mice rose from 10
in lung care for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in dren begin to recognize their reflec- According to Dr. Marino, dol- that even than the dolphins would
percent to 70 percent with CO treat-
Pasadena, California charting flight tions at about 18 to 24 months. This phin brains arrived at the same have had to interpret those cues on
ment. Inhalation improved survival
paths for NASA’s Mariner Mars probes. recognition, scientists say, usually cognitive plane while evolving their own.
in the genetically altered mice from
Later on, Tito founded Wilshire marks the beginning of self-aware- differently. Dr. Dunbar said the results sug-
By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID zero to 50 percent.
__ Associated Press Writer Sporcaky ‘explainetdh atw heanc ut - Associates and went to make his first ness, the ability to think internally The results of these studies has gested that dolphins were capable of
"WASHINGTON (AP) - Don’ttr y - anillion by the age of 40.) yhelie and to recognize thought processes — already stemmed debiam tthee sc i- « ding the most basic inten-
PORE triggers ee etn pro-
this at home, but experiments in mice cess, the body’s own clot-dissolving Although he believes this is the in others. entific community because of dis- ‘tion of others - “what you are trying
indicate that inhaling carbon mon- machinery is suppressed by a natural last time he will be going up into The “mirror test” was devised in agreements over the interpretations to do or what you are thinking. But,
space, he thinks there is a potential 1970by Dr. Gordon G. Gallup Jr., a of the mirror test itself. unlike humans, they cannot under-
oxide can save the animals’ lives after protein called PAI-1.
severe lung damage. “Carbon monoxide significantly future for space tourism. professor of psychology at the State Manyscientists express skepticism stand the mental state or belief state
The findings could suggest new reduces the body’s production of this He said that after this mission, University of New York at Albany. while others uphold the research as underlying those thoughts.”
treatments for humans after heart at- suppressor protein, and therefore, he would pioneer for the future of Test subjects are marked with a dye, part of a growing collection of evi- Dr. Herbert L. Roitblat, a psy-
recreational space travel. and if they go to the mirror to inspect dence pointing to self-awareness and chology professor at the University
tackand stroke, but experts warn that promotes dissolution of the clot,” he
caution must be used in administer- said. “This relieves the obstruction in Although it is very expensive at themselves it is believed to represent advanced cognitive abilities in cer- of Hawaii and an expert on dol-
this point, Tito encourages those who self-awareness. tain animals. phins’ biological sonar, claims that
ing the toxic gas, long feared as a small blood vessels and permits blood
dangerous and often deadly part of flow to be re-established to the or- can afford it. Many animals, when presented Dr. Irene Pepperberg, associate “shared gaze” could occur among
Hopefully, the price tag of such an with a mirror will either ignore it or professor of ecology and evolution- dolphins in the wild because a dol-
pollution. an.
endeavor will go down in the future, respond aggressively as if it was an- ary biology at the University of Ari- phin swimming next to another
Carbon monoxide, a colorless, The body’s own production ofc ar-
making trips up into space more ac- other animal. Animals that seem to zona, said the study conclusively dolphin can pick up the reflected
odorless component of industrial bon monoxide probably evolved to
cessible to the public. be self aware, such as monkeys, lesser demonstrated that “a differently or- sonar from its companion and thus
emissions, cigarette smoke and ex- protect the blood flow to vital organs, NASA, on the other hand, was apes, elephants and African gray par- ganized brain is capable of doing share in “seeing” what the other
haust has long been known to be haz- and providing extra carbon monox- not so obligatory with the idea of rots, have been shown to use the mir- something only primates were be- dolphin ii s looking at.
ardous. It starves cells of oxygen by ide by inhalation seems to give an
space tourism. NASA was worried ror to perform tasks like finding hid- lieved capable of.” “It makes sense that in animals
replacing oxygen molecules in the added boost, Pinsky said.
blood and, in sufficient concentra- that Tito’s presence aboard the den objects but not to examine However, Dr. Gallup called the with complex social relationships,
space station would cause problems themselves. results “the most suggestive evidence you have self-awareness or self-con-
tions, can be deadly.
But at lower doses it may have Study shows more or interruptions in the work of the Previously only chimpanzees, or- to date” of mirror self-recognition in sciousness because social animals are
~ therapeutic value, the new findings crew. They expressed concern that angutans and gorillas have been dolphinsb,u t “not definitive” because making decisions all the time about
_ indicate. girls going to jail the crew’s safety would be compro- shown to examine themselves, as it was not entirely clear to him that social interactions and the conscious
mised with Tito’s presence. shown by the dye mark test. the dolphins did not interpret what motivations of others,” said Dr. Ri-
When mice with severe lung dam-
However, there was no apparent The studies began in 1998 at the they sawin the mirror as another ani- chard Connor, an assistant professor
"age resulting from a cutoff of blood
tension or problem since he has ar- New York Aquarium with two cap- mal. of biology at the University of Massa-
_ flow were given inhaled carbon mon- By KAREN GULLO
rived at the station so far. tive-bred bottlenose dolphins. A con- Another study conducted by Dr. chusetts at Dartmouth, who first re-
~ oxide, 70 percentsurvived, compared Associated Press Writer
On board the space station, he was trol was first established by marking Josep Call, a professor of develop- ported in 1999 that dolphins in Shark
~ to just 10 percent of mice who didn’t WASHINGTON (AP) - More girls
given a tour of the American segment the dolphins with a marker filled with mental psychology at the Max Bay, Australia, formed
~ get the CO, according to a paper in are getting into trouble with the law
of the space station. water rather than ink. After several Planck Institute for Evolutionary “superalliances” of up 14 individu-
the May issue of the journal Nature and ending up in jail or detention,
American astronauts Jim Vossand repetitions, they were marked with Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, als.
_ Medicine. according to a report by the Ameri-
When blood flow is cut off, clots can Bar Association. Susan Helms showed Tito some safety circles and triangles and then sham Dr. Robin Dunbar, a professor of But these assumptions are aes
drills. marked once again. biological sciences at the Univer- cult to prove he asserted.
form in small blood vessels around Girls under age 18 have become
the site. CO helps promote the clot- the fastest growing segment of the
_ dissolving process, allowing blood juvenile justice population, said the
Upcominc Lectures at Homewoop AND JHMI
" flow to be re-established, explained ABA report Monday. The reportisan
”D r. David J. Pinsky of the Columbia amalgamation of many studies on
“ University College of Physicians and girls and crime.
_ Surgeons in New York, a member of The report suggested that the surge Thursday, May 3, 2001 Wednesday, May 9, 2001
“ the research team. in young female delinquentsisn’t nec- Alfonso Caramazza Dr. Robert Korneluk
s_ If, after more testing, such a treat- essariltyhe result of more violent and Professor Cognitive Neuropsychology Department of Pediatrics
. ment could be used in humans, it aggressive behavior among girls. Harvard University University of Ottawa
“would “likely be eminently practical Rather, the report blamed the “Grammatical class distinctions in the brain” “Analysis of apoptosis using transgenic approaches”
‘and relatively inexpensive,” Pinsky problem onarelabeling of family con- 3:30 p.m., Homewood, 12:00 p.m., Wood Basic Science Building, West Lecture Hall
_ said. flicts as violent offenses, changes in Mattin Center Room 162
Scenarios in which low dose car- police practice regarding domestic (The New Art Center) Thursday, May 10, 2001
‘bon monoxide may be tested might violence, gender bias in the process- Dr. Clare Waterman-Storer
~ include lung transplantation, stroke, ing ofminor offenses, get-tough poli- Thursday, May 3, 2001 Scripps
_ heart attack, severe bacterial infec- cies for curfew violators and a lack of Leland Chung “Dynamic interactions between microtubules and
_t ions or before surgery when there services aimed at helping troubled Department of Urology actin during cell motility”
" might be an interruption in blood girls. University of Virginia Medical School 4:00 p.m., Homewood, Mudd Hall Room 100
_ flow, such as coronary artery bypass “At every point in the process, the “Prostate Cancer”
_g rafting, he added. juvenile justice system presents girls 4:00 p.m., School of Hygiene and Public Health, Tuesday, May 15, 2001 ~=v—~ r
"He stressed the importance of a with a narrower range of options,” Woodruff Room (Phipps 240) Dr. Robert A. Weinberg
, careful monitoring system to avoid said ABA President Martha Barnett. MIT, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
" giving toxic levels of this potent gas. “For girls, there are fewer alternatives Thursday, May 3, 2001 ’ “Telomerase and the creation of human cancer cells”
“Christoph Thiemermann of St. to arrest, longer waits in detention Professor Robert Moss 4:00 p.m., Wood Basic Science Building, Auditorium
Rutgers University
-Bartholomew’s and the Royal Lon- and few choices about placement.”
“don School of Medicine and Den- Arrest, detention and custody data “The fragmentation of carbenes” Thursday, May 17, 2001
- tistry in London was more cautious. shoawn increase in both the number 4:15 p.m., Homewood, Dr. Cathy Jackson
“These findings ... do not suggest and percentage of girlsi n the juvenile Remsen Hall 233 National Institute of Health ee
that we should rush to treat patients justice system - a trend that runs “ARF nucleotide exchange factors Gealp and1 Geaap
with acute lung injury with CO-inha- counter to that of boys, the report Monday, May 7, 2001 regulate golgi structure and function in yeast”
lation therapy, as the dangers of CO- said. Edward S. Yeung, Ph.D. 4:00 p.m., Homewood,
sausetionS ee a the benefits,” Law enforcement agencies re- Ames Laboratory Mudd Hall Room 100
USDOE and Department of Chemistry
i said in ac ommentary ported 670,800 arrests of girls under
age 18 in 1999, which accounted for lowa State University Wednesday, May 23, 2001
27 percent of the total juvenile arrests “Real time dynamics of single-DNA molecules Dr. Gary Silverman
undergoing adsorption and desorption at Children’s Hospital
made that year, the report said.
liquid-solid interfaces” “Ov-serpins and emergence of an ancient
Delinquency cases involving girls
en- ene oe 4:00 p.m., Homewood, antiproteinase defense system”
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Other articles discuss fields of Between 1990 and 1999, arrests of
More than ever before, under- chemistry, genetics, and applied girls increased more than male ar- By LINDSEY TANNER
graduates today across the world are physics. “The Basis of Acidity” rests for curfew and loitering, drug AP Medical Writer
actively participating in some of the discusses the developments of abuse and assault. CHICAGO (AP) - Women should
most interesting and revolutionizing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to The report said: beable to keep an advance prescription
“research. determine the acidic effects from - Girls are more likely to be ar- of “morning-after” pillsathometo pre-
ts Much of this research is either structure and solvent for insight rested for running away than boys. vent pregnancies if they have unpro-
“under-publicized or simply just dif- into how we can efficiently design The report attributed the disparity to tected sex, the incoming president of
b ficult to discover. In order to in- molecules. bias on the part of police, prosecu- the American College of Obstetricians
crease awareness of the research that “The Aging Enigma: Consulting tors, judges and public agencies that and Gynecologists said Monday.
«is being done and, as editor-in-chief, the Fly” discusses the importance of handle runaway cases. The nation’s 40,000 obstetrician-
-Ram Srinivasan, says, to get [stu- using flies to research physical prop- - Girls are detained for less serious gynecologists should use checkups to
,d ents] up to speed on cutting edge ertofi thee hsuma n body, suchas why offenses than boys and are morelikely offer women of childbearing age ad-
if ieldst,h e undergraduates at the Cali- we age. to be detained for minor offenses, vance prescriptions for emergency
‘fornia Technical Institute established The muscles of fruit flies have such as public disorder, probation contraceptives, Dr. Thomas Purdon
* anewsletter entitled the Caltech Un- much to tell us about humans. “Crys- violations and traffic offenses. said at ACOG’s annual meeting.
;dergraduate Research Journal tals Grow Quicker in E-Fields” is the - Girls are more likely to be sent Halfofall U.S. pregnancies, or about 3
*{CUR)). title of the last research articles and is back to detention after release. million yearly, are unintended and more
~- Available both in print at selected self-explanatory. From research on The ABA recommended that com- than a million of them end in abortion,
* campuses and on-line, this bi-annual this topic, scientists are forming new munities develop alternatives to de- “In the 21st century, this scenario
_ journal’s debut edition was in April hypotheses on crystallization that will tention and incarceration for girls and isabysmal,” Purdon said, arguing that
2001 andincludes publications ofun- aid in the application to research in revamp policies that send girls into making emergency contraception
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3'tissue repair from injuries and dis- Another article: discusses ‘the Reader), tion of all the big structures in the uni- while wa wail fox thiss cenanig te pe:
“lease. enzyme evolution research and a There is also information on how verse — galaxies, stars and planets.” cur,” Purdon said. fy
~ The article pertaining to the ad- new method to produce these im- the team of researchers at Caltech to submit an article for consideration. The new findings, said John So far, neither maker of the two U.S.
>'vancement of neuroscience, “Con- portant catalysts very rapidly discovered that the reaction can be Take the time to get in the loop with Carlstrom, an astronomy professor brands , Preven and Plan B, has asked
sciousness, Meet Neuroscience,” dis- through a technique of DNA clon- achieved much faster and the ef- what researchers our age are doing at the Universityo fC hicago and head the Food and Drug Administration to
‘cusses the newly acquired research ing. fects of the antibiotic will be much across the world. of the DASI team, lend strong sup- approve over-the-counter sales.
port to the inflation theory. Plan B’s makers are awaiting the
“It’s always been theoretically outcome of research and probably will
tcM icrosoft Windows XP more appealing to compelling,” said Carlstrom. “Now not seek over-the-counter approval
~a- it’s on very solid experimental untilnextyear. Gynetics Inc.,themaker
ground.” of Preven, hopes to file for over-the-
r* Carlstrom and his team presented counter status within thenext two years,
hr ome computer users than Windows NT
~ the research Sunday at the spring Chairman Rod Mackenzie said.
meeting of the American Physical THE ACADEMY SAYS ONLY I PERCENT OF
Society. WOMEN HAVE EVER USED THE PILLS AND
The DASI experiment could de- MANY CONFUSE THEM WITH THE MORE
2's tectripples of temperature differences CONTROVERSIAL RU-486 ABORTION
“Wr would be remiss to write about When they brought the finished _ WindoXwPs ha s rounded buttons whether I want to delete icons off my ata time when the universe was about PILL. ONLY 20 PERCENT OF OB-GYNS
4 Office XP, as I did last week, product to Microsoft, an entire new and lots of pretty colors. Can some- desktop that I don’t use very often is 400,000 years old. The universe is ROUTINELY DISCUSS THE PILLS WITH PA-
’" @i without including some com era of computer gaming began. one say Apple? MS has stolen from not my idea of fun. thought to be about 14 billion years TIENTS.
“" @ mentary on the ever-looming Suddenly, Microsoft was confi- them before, and is obviously not too That’s my desktop, not yours. I old. The inflation theory predicts that Some critics have questioned
~ adil next big Microsoft operating dent enough with its own operating broken up over it to do it again. don’t care if Bill Gates has whittled the temperature differences would whether women might substitute the
“System: Windows XP. Windows XP environment, that they resented the Apple’s MacOS has always been about down his need foricons. That doesn’t show up as three peaks that become pills for regular birth control, but
“is sort of a culmination of a project fact that it was built off of such an aesthetics. progressively fainter with time. Purdon said such use is not advised.
“that Microsoft has been working on antiquated kernel as DOS. This re- And, yes, Windows has been get- Carlstrom said DASI detected two Though emergency contraceptives
“for years now. alization directly led to the deci- ting there, little by little. peaks and suggestions of a third. contain lower hormone doses than
Last week, | was
In an attempt to create a more sion to bring NT to the personal But rounded buttons appear for Researchers believe the data also the first birth control pillsin the 1960s,
» stable and just all-around better ker- computer. the first time in XP. That, of course, support the idea that ordinary mat- studies showing they’re safe have
praising Microsoft for
“nel, they developed NT, which stands ter, of which planets, stars and even evaluated their use on an emergency
___for “New Technology.” people are made, accounts for only basis rather than long-term.
The problem with NT’s appeal, trying to give up its about four and a half percent of the Morning-after pills are available
however, sort of goes along with what universe’s total mass. without a prescription in several Eu-
_ Many people mistakenly think NT pushy attitude. Well, The rest of the energy in the uni- ropean countries and in Washington
i ' stands for, and that’s networking. verse is attributed to cold dark mat- state. Planned Parenthood, which of-
Microsoft spends all this time cre- the Windows XP team ter, which cannot be easily detected, fers women advance prescriptions at
ating a nice new kernel and all people and to a force called “dark energy,” many of its clinics, praised ACOG’s
are using it for is for networks and was obviously not which is thought to be causing galax- move though it still favors making
servers. ies to separate at a faster and faster the pills available over-the-counter.
Now, let’s be fair. The NT op- rate. But many pharmacies don’t stock
informed about the
erating system isn’t just used for Other experimenters, using instru- them, and women typically have to
networks and servers, it’s been ments boosted up to 120,000 feet by call several before finding one that
totally embraced by them. It new corporate image. balloons detected variations to within does, said Sharon Camp, founder and
single-handedly put Novell in the 100 millionths of a degree in the cos- CEO of Women’s Capital Corp.,
toilet. Little pop-ups coming micmicrowave background radiation which makes Plan B.
It still has a much larger mar- temperature, The pills are designed to prevent
ket share than Linux, as well as to ask me whether | The data, from a project called conception by blocking the release of
_ any other OS. (Technically, ifyou Balloon Observations of Millimetric eggs from a woman’s ovaries. If ovu-
_ group Linux together with all -want to delete icons Extragalactic Radiation and Geo- lation has already occurred when a
_ other UNIX-based systems, NT’s physics, was gathered in 1998. The woman has unprotected sex, they may
barely ahead, and wasn’t fora part off my desktop that | data provide more detail for cosmic also prevent the fertilized egg from
of last year.) microwave background temperature implanting in the uterus.
But Microsoft isn’t happy with COURTESY OF HTTP://WWW.CORBIS.EDU data first obtained by a satellite in The pills won’t work if implanta-
that. Bill Gates is at it again with Windows XP, Microsoft’s unique product. don't use very often is 1991, tion has occurred - the big difference
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. -P erspective must have had something dows ME, the integration wasn’t format ripped off from Apple’s affect the path taken by light streak- opposes both, but other abortion foes
__ todotwhei cotmphute r gaming mar- total. QuickTime Player. mean I have. At least they don’t dis- ing across time and space. have been less vocal on “morning-
With Windows XP, Microsoft _ What else has Microsoft ripped appear like Program Groups from the
_ When Windows first came out, all off? Start Menu.
_ games were still developed for DOS DAVEFISHMAN — How about the newly expanded Evidently, folders you don’t use
_ (besides the ones that came with Win- Start Menu and Task Manager, ideas very often will disappear from imme-
that have come from the Linux camp? diate view, ala the drop down menus
dows or the infamous Windows En- Pop TECH ©
The look here is different, but the in Office programs.
; _ eSt erMtfaicnemoenstv f:Pa wcakss)c. o m© mitted 09P EE basic premise is the same. While I do appreciate Microsoft’s
gaming, thseo omruigcihna ls oi dea othaft Dtihreey ctX,dis - can finally say that they’re running - for Ltarsyt iwnege kt,o Igw iavse purpa iistisn gp uMsihcryo saotftit- liontt elnets so fc lmuatktiernegd , myI pceormsponuatlelry ldooonk’at
their own product. (They didn’t de- tude think it’s any of their business.
mat that allowed for game pro-
velop DOS.) : Well, the Windows XP team was Someone needs to get that point
_ Their own product, though, obviouslnyo t informed about thenew across to them ~ people don’t like to |
‘DirectwXa sa ctually developed in
bys o-called “rogue” progran looks a whole lot like other prod- corporate image. be dictated by software that is sup-
idea was rejected. ucts. Little pop-ups coming to ask me posed to make their lives easier.
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THE JOHNS Hopkins News-Letter May 3, 2001
SPORTS
Looking back on (race in) sports Hopkins Athlete -
of the Week:
”
or anyone who has even about a black athlete'(at least until it history of the club with regard to race. and if he was dishonest in his ma-
glanced at the last few is- was found out for sure that he was Ofcotuhe rCamspaneisi,ssu e sur- nipulation of his daughters’ careers,
sues of the News-Letter wrongly accused), I asked myself? faced, as well as some other minor then what he did was wrong. It hurt
Sports section, you have As I pondered this case, I began to racial concerns, but, as it turned out, the cause of blacks, minorities and Brandon Shook
noticed a series of articles realize that the issue of race was not Sheffield was really in the wrong. others fightfoirn eqgua l rightasl lo ver
on race. Sometime in the middle of only more pervasive than I had cur- Confused and frustrated about where America. Such actions did not de-
this semester, the column formerly rently recognized; it was also ignored he would finish his major league ca- serve tiptoeing and circumvention
known as “The Sportsman” trans- more than I had ever thought. Even in reer, he had gotten tied up in many but all-out assault from the black and
formed, taking on the title “On Race the letters written to SI attacking the issues, and, I would say, he stumbled white community combined.
in Sports.” article, no one mentioned race either into territory on which he did not Finally, on the issue of anti-
I think the change was an impor- explicitly or implicitly. In addition, mean to tread. Semitism, the now widely popular
tant one, and I would like to now After another article on white rac- quip by Charlie Ward, that his best
share my thoughts on it. Hopefully, ism, in which I discussed the erred friend is Jewish...Jesus Christ, sum-
this article will serve as a defense not perception of a fundamentally “per- marais tozry ethast w as often told but
only for my own work on the subject, fect” Princeton basketball team, I not often analyzed. Again writers
but also for that of writers with simi- went into slightly different topics for chose to stick to sports rather than a
lar aspirations for years to come. my last two articles, which, although more major concern. ‘That concern
Perhaps this explanatory article different, were quite relevant to eth- lay in the heightening tensions be-
should have come before I made the nic issues in sports. One article dealt tween the African-American and Jew-
switch in the theme of my column. with trumped up charges of racism, ish-American communities, and no
That is, maybe, I should have at- while the other dealt with anti- one was discussing them.
tempted to explain the reasoning be- Semitism in the African-American As with all of the above issues, I
hind my focusing on ethnic and ra- community. think that this was not the correct
cial issues before writing about them Certainly, the first of these articles line to take. Perhaps most sports
directly. was not alone in questioning allega- writers, feeling as though they are
But I did not do that, and one of tions of racial discrimination, but only qualified to write about sports,
DAVIDPOLLACK
the major reasons was because oft he the manner in which my “open let- attempt to omit ethnic and cultural
suddenness with which the idea hit ter” dealt with the question was dif- issues in their writing because they
me. Scrambling for something for THE SPORTSMAN ferent. When Richard Williams shot see such issues as dangerous. After
“The Sportsman” to write about for his mouth off about the crowd at all, one can get sued for writing
the Feb. 15 issue of the News-Letter, I the Indian Wells tennis center, ev- about certain things without proper
cameupon the Sports Illustratsetodr y when people commented on my ar- eryone recognized it, and, to the evidence.
on Mark Chmura, a former Green ticle, they would complement it but best of my knowledge, no one took I take a different stand on the is-
Bay Packer who had been charged ask if] “really thought that was true” the side of the infamous father of sue, however. If sports writers do not FILE PHOTO
with sexual assault. or if I was “just looking for an angle.” tennis’s twin dynamos Serena and write about race in sports, a very im- Brendan, atri-captain on the Men’s Lax squad, is finishing a stellar year.
The article subheadline, which Such talk merely spurred on my Venus. But most critics, at least in
read, “Can Mark Chmura, acquitted cause. People ignored race, I felt, be- the sports venue, took a position of BY DAVID GONEN scoreless on three attempts and Syra-
of sexual assault, rebuild his reputa- cause they were uncomfortable with frustration. They were annoyed at The issue of race,| THE JoHNS Hopkins News-LeETTER cuse scoreless on two attempts.
tion?” underscored the bias that the it. But this was no excuse; it had to be the elder Williams more than any- The three captain defenders
writers exhibited in portraying this discussed. In fact, it was not in spite of thing else. thought, was a subtle Just like in most other sports, de- started their 19th consecutive game
millionaire athlete asa hapless, strug- the fact that it was often overlooked He had taken the sacred, un- fense wins championships. That is together against Maryland and are
gling individual. I was taken aback by that I should write about it, but be- touchable issue of race and force- why our Men’s Lacrosse team is for- quickly making a case for themselves
but undeniable force
the lack of objectivity (noted also by cause of this very fact. fully mixed it into the sporting tunate to have one of the premier as one of the top defensive units at
many writers of letters to the editor in So I continued on my quest to sphere so that the two were no defenses in the nation, much credit Hopkins in recent years. The Blue
motivating the writers.
the following issue) and the failure to scope out race, and admittedly, espe- longer clearly distinguishable. Writ- going to this week’s athlete of the Jays sport a 15-4 record in those 19
interview Chmura’s wife and any cially in the next issue, I had to do ers asked tentatively whether he week, senior defender Brendan games and have held the opposition —
friends of the victim. How could SI, a some reaching. When Gary Sheffield might have overheard comments Shook. to eight goals or less in 10 of those 19 _
supposedly reputable magazine read was negotiating his contract with the that he misinterpreted, and sweated portant aspect of our society will be An All-America honorable men- games.
by the vast majority of American Los Angelos Dodgers, he mentioned over the fact that there was no solid ignored. Besides, constantly writing tion last season, Shook is one of the Hopkins has allowed an average .
sports fans, act so irresponsibly? that the franchise had never had a evidence of the wrongdoing on his on “purely”’sports issues becomes three team captains that make up the ofju st 8.9 goals per game in the 19"
To me, the answer was obvious, black player finish his career with part, which he tried to mask through tiresome. At a high-level university defense unit, the others being Shawn games Testa, Shook and Nadelen have ’
and it necessitated an entire article. them. While I noted that Gary should his antics. such as this one, and indeed in any Nadelen and Brandon Testa. started together. Of the four losses
The issue of race, I thought, was a have done some better research (see- In short, they did exactly what arena, other topics more intellectu- Shook is arguably the top athlete JHU has suffered since Shook, Testa,
subtle but undeniable force motivat- ing as the first black player ever to Williams had hoped they would. ally stimulating should be dis- onthe team and has nine ground balls and Nadelen first started together ~
ing the writers, who, knowing that a play in the major leagues — Jackie This was, in my view, the entirely cussed. I can only hope that I have in eight games. against North Carolina last year, two
high percentage of their readers were Roosevelt Robinson — did finish his wrong way to go about a question as begun a tradition that will be car- Beside this, individual statistics have been by one goal (including one
white, played to their audience. career with them), I took issue with important as this. If Williams had ried on in some form for years to don’t generally show up for in overtime), one was by two goals
Woulda similar story ever be written the Dodgers’ management and the truly made up the charges of racism come. defensemen, so lets look at how the and the other was by four goals in a
| defense as a unit is doing. Johns Hop-. _gamein which JHU allowejuds t eight”
Tennis ends strong in individuals kins finished thirdin thenationmiann - goals.
down defense last season, killing off55- In those four games, JHU has al- '
of-67 (0.821) opportunities. lowed a total of just 41 goals.
Through nine games this season, Next up for Shook and the rest of ~
the Blue Jays have killed off 26-of-36 the team is their last regular season
(0.722) man down situations. The game of theyear, this Saturday against '
Blue Jays limited Princeton to just Loyola here at Homewood. The Blue
BY DAVID GONEN one extra-man goal in five attempts Jays hope to finish the season strong,
THE JoHNs Hopkins News-LeTTER in the season-opener, held Hofstra and start preparing for their title run.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE RANKINGS
The Johns Hopkins Women’s
Tennis team, coming off a 4-9 season
(3-6 in their Conference), headed to
the 2001 Centennial Conference In-
-IWCLA Division I Women’s
dividual Tennis Championships held
at Franklin & Marshall.
Despite a disappointing season,
Lacrosse Rankings _
they knew they had some special tal-
ents on their team who could do well
in an individual tournament such as —1-Maryland
this.
Freshman Lauren Shevchik ad-
vancedt o the round of 16, onlyt ol ose 2)
to the eventual singles champion out
_ 3. Georgetown
of Swarthmore, 6-1, 6-3.
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tory in the opening round. Shevchik
had a second chance in the double _ 5. Princeton -
competition where she was paired up
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Three Blue Jays _ 7.Virginia
_ 8. Loyola
advanced to the
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singles quarterfinal Both the Men’s and Women’s Tennis teams performed very well in their respective post-season competitions. 10.W&M
round of eight. Two 11.S yracuse
ment, the men’s team looked to managed to rally back with a one- the No. 4 seed, 6-2, 6-4.
show off its talent after concluding break game in the final two sets while Alford received a bye in the first 12. Cornell
were seniors Andrew
a 10-6 season, with an impressive 7- round, thanks to his No.5 seed in the
1 record in the Centennial Confer- draw. He beat out his opponent in the 13.Penn State _
Chu and Dan Kreeger; ence. round of 16 in straight sets by a score
The team placed second in the Despite a of 6-1, 6-4. He was matched up with 14.0ld Dominion _
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week’s Athlete of the who won the conference for the eighth earned a second set tiebreak victory
time. [the women's tennis at 7-6 and then captured the third set
JHU was on a major roll this sea- as well, 6-2. kd, Boston U.
Week sophomore son, winning eight of 11 dual matches. players] knew they In doubles competition, Alford
Their only setbacks were to formi- and Saxe teamed up to be seeded No.2
Kevin Alford. dable competitors Northwood, St. — had some special in the draw. They received a bye in
Thomas and the aforementioned the first round and beat out their sec- 19: otre Da :
Shoremen. Three Blue Jays advanced talents on their team ond round challenger 9-7 in a close 20.Yale
with junior Emily Petersen. The to the singles quarterfinal round of contest.
doubles tandem made it to the eight. Two of these players were se- who could do well in They next took on Gettysburg’s
quarterfinal round of eight. They re- niors Andrew Chu, Dan Kreeger; the offering, defeating them handily, 8-
ceived a bye from the first round, and third was last week’s Athlete of the 3, to advance into the semifinals.
an individual Here they were to fall to the even-
defeated their second round oppo- Week sophomore Kevin Alford.
tual: doubles champion unit, who
nent handily, 8-3. The JHU doubles duo of Alford MERRELL
_ That victory advanced the duo to and senior Jamie Saxe performed well tournament such as were actually seed lower than them
face the top seeded doubles squad in enough to reach the semi-finals. In at No.4. Performance Footwear"
the tournament. The combo battled, the singles, Chu topped his opening this. That wraps up the seasons for both
but lost 8-2 to their tough challeng- round opponent 6-2, 6-1 and beat his Men’s and Women’s Tennis. Both
ers, who went on to capture the second round opponent 6-4, 7-5 to teams have much to look forward to
next year, as they have enough non-
doubles title. advance.
4 - Petersen, seeded asthe No.5 draw, He went on to fall to the No.1 seed holding his own serve, to win out 7-5, seniors to forma solid team nextyear.
; The women’s team hopes to turn
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_ Competing at the same tourna- Kreeger lost the first set 7-5, but round, 6-2, 6-2. He eventually lost to effort.
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