Senate Denies Film Group Hmding Club Sports Funding Was Discussed Totaled, Amounted to Their $12,000 Schnirman Said

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+ THETUFTS DAILY Where You Read It First Wednesday, February 17,1999 Volume XXXVIII, Number 16 Senate denies film group hmding Club sports funding was discussed totaled, amounted to their $12,000 Schnirman said. buffer request. In their opinion, Schnirman acknowledged that by BENJAMIN GEDAN explained. Farouky explained, last year’s ef- Tufts has no film department, but Daily Editorial Board According to Harris, an official fort was a success. he said it was “over our head” to The Tufts Community Union resolution to “put the administra- “We see it as the primary goal support an organizationto fill that (TCU) Senatedebated extensively tion on the line” with regard to to createagood product,” Farouky void. on the issues ofclub sports, buffer club sports will be presented to said. “There is not enough student funding, and the proposed the Senate next Sunday, at which Last year’s project, the 25- support tojustify the expenditure,” women’s studies major in front of pointadebatewilltakeplace. Until minute film Cloth0 ’s Gambit,was Schnirman said. a small audience of interested stu- then, Harris said, meetings be- screened on campus and at the Members ofthe Senate Execu- dents at Sunday’s meeting in the tween team captains and senators New England Film Festival, among tive Board spoke in opposition to lobby of South Hall. will try to elucidate the needs of other amateur filmmaking compe- the proposal. Senate Treasurer Larry Harris the club teams and establish a titions. “ALBO made the only respon- announced a pending Senate reso- realistic proposal to present to Philosophicaldifferences con- sible decision ... They are a rela- lution that will end Senate funding administrators. cerning club funding sparked an tively small group asking for a of club sports and insist upon full One senator raised administra- hour of heated debate on the Sen- relatively large amount ofmoney,” Freshman Senator Tommy administrative financial support. tive concerns about past disci- ate floor. Although 16 mm con- Assistant Treasurer Marc Lipson -. . Membersofthe Tuftsski,rugby, plinary problems of club teams, tended that last year’s film was said. tiavert. and equestrian teams all spoke in but Harris dismissed the issue as professionally done, and its suc- “There comesa time where you According to Harris, an expen- support of increased funding for an administrative “loophole” to cess justifies a renewed Senate have to say no and this is it,” he diture of more than one third of club sports, but stopped short of shirk its financial responsibilities. investment, the majority of sena- continued. remaining buffer funds would be directly supportingthe resolution. Issues of Senate spending con- tors spoke against the club. Treasurer Larry Harris agreed . irresponsible.

Anne Schmidt, ski team cap- tinued to dominateSunday’s meet- “It comes down to the fact that with both Lipson and Schnirman, ’ ALBO member Jesse Levey tain; was among the athletes who ing following the club sport dis- they don’t have enough members and continually stressed the lim- voted to withhold funds from 16 discussed the costs of fielding cussion. The 16 mm Conspiracy, a and they don’t have enough of an ited buffer hdsavailable for Tufts competitive teams and the disad- filmmaking club formed last year, effect on the Tufts community,” clubs during the second semester. see SENATE, page 11 vantages which emanate from appealed the recent Senate Allo- budgetary constraints. cations Board’s (ALBO) decision “We have an extremely high not to allocate funds forthe club’s Senate election debates held budget ... paid for by fund raising annual film making effort. byMICHAELC”G the audience. the Senate to become more con- and the students,” Schmidt said. Last year, the upstart organiza- Contributing Writer Voting will take place all day nected to their constituents. Club sports are currently fi- tion received $8,000in buffer find- On Monday night in the large today in the campus center, ac- Stein also feels that a campus- nanced by both the Senate and the ing. President Jack Schnirman ex- conference room in the campus cording to Senate Vice President wide e-mail should be instituted. athletic department. Now, Harris plainedthat the Senate anticipated center, five freshman candidates Vivek Ramgopal. Unlike in past “OneofTufts’benchmarkschools, said, the athleticdepartmentwants large student participation in the vying for two open seats on the elections, students will not be able UPenn, has a List Serve that auto- the Senate to pay more. bold filmmakingproject, including Tufts Community Union (TCU) to vote in Carmichael or Dewickl matically sendsan e-mail with Sen- “[Club sports] are vastly un- script submissions and produc- Senate engaged in a pre-election MacPhie dining halls. ate events to all students,” she der-funded... and we could not tion. The mission, Schnirman said, debate. The candidates-Victoria Crispin hopes that her “deter- said. “If people don’t want to be fund them in the way they need to didn’t pan out. Crispin, Jaya Gupta, Ilene Stein, mination and passion for making on it, they can have their name be funded. Ifwe were to find them Saeed Farouky and Michael Anoop Swaminath, and Dave changes” will benefit the Senate taken off the list.” at even halfthe rate that’sneeded... Shlain, representativesof I6 mm, Tamaroff-were each given two and make a difference for the Tufts Stein also hopes to have the it would put a large burden on the gave the Senate a detailed expla- minutes for an opening statement community. She said she had been Registrar’s office offer registration student activities fund,” Harris nation ofeach expense that, when and time to answer questions from instrumental in ensuring that stu- through SIS Online. dent rights and privileges weren’t “The present preregistration taken away from students at her system is really inefficient.A lot of Congressman- Marty Meehan high school, and said she wants to people have to miss their preregis- 0 makeadifferenceat Tuftsas well. tration times because ofothercom- Jaya Gupta said she has ob- mitments,” she said. “We should speaks in Cohen Auditorium served tension between the Sen- have online registration at Tufts.” the wrong thing to do. ate and its constituenciesand said Anoop Swaminath has an ag- byANDREWFREEDMAN she hopes to help alleviate the gressive and long-term plan for Senior Staff Writer ‘‘I have conceded pub- RepresentativeMarty Meehan liclythat limitingmyselfwas situation. She proposed a “Stu- future Senate functions. He cited poor living conditions on campus spoke to Professor James Glaser’s amistake-it was stupid,” dent Relations Board that will act “Candidates, Campaigns, and he said. Meehan explained as a formal voice for the student as an issue that needs to be ad- Elections” class on Tuesday in thathis term-limitingpledge body by allowing students to ex- dressed immediately.“InTilton last Cohen Auditorium. The Massa- was influenced by a book press their feelings about Tufts in semester, the laundry machines were broken, and we had to wear chusetts Democrat, who sits on he read on campaign fi- a formal setting.” dirty underwear. 1 both the Judiciary and National nance reform. Ilene Stein hopes that the Sen- propose that Security committees, discussed Meehan views limits as ate will better publicize events, Res. Life purchase new washers topics ranging from term limits to awayto improveapolitical speakers, and classes. Stein also and dryers and replace old ones after two of impeachment. system in need ofcampaign said, “TCU Senators can be more years service.” Meehan, who represents Mas- finance reform. “It was sort integrated and connected with the Swaminath also proposed “envi- sachusetts’ Fifth Congressional of a knee-jerk reaction to rest of the student body by edu- ronmentally- efficient, automatic District, had pledged during his the lack of campaign fi- cating students about important hand dryers in all bathrooms,” as well as more on-campus housing. campaign in 1992 to limit his tenure nance reform,” he said. you’re not really governingso you issues through channels such as in Congress to eight years. Meehan is also contemplating need to [gowith what is popular].” writing Viewpoints in The TUBS In reaction to the recent diver- sity issue, Swaminath also pro- Meehan has been hinting that he a jump into the private sector. “I Daily.” Stein stressed the need for see MEEH~,page 11 posed a solution. “As a South wants to run again in 2000, thus wouldn’t mind going into the pri- 1 had looked forward to going againsthis campaign pledge. vate sector and making money,” Asian, taking courses relevant to my cul- Meehan’s challenge is to explain he said. ‘‘I don’t view myself as a ture and background at Tufts. I this contradiction to voters in his lifer [in Congress].” district, which encompasses ar- Speaking about his support for was disappointed,however, to find eas to the north and west of Tufts, campaign financereform, Meehan so few courses offered once I ar- fromLowellalltheway intopartof quipped, “Being for campaign fi- rived. I feel that minority students Worcester county. The dilemma nance reform makes you pretty who are accepted at Tufts will be more inclined to come ifTufts of- lies in “saying one thing and do- unpopular.” fers more culture courses. This ing another,” Meehan said. “I “Everybody in DC likes the will also allow all studentsto learn haven’t figured out totally how rules under which they were more about other cultures,’’ he said. I’m going to do it yet.” elected,” he said. Meehan said he Meehan’s increasing power in gained ground during the most Dave Tamaroff addressed is- Washington is part of the reason recent session of Congress on fi- sues of everyday life, such as the meal plan situation,cultural aware- behind his apparent desire to run nance reform legislation. “I was for re-election. He has become a finally able to convince the Demo- ness, student isolation, and the ~ Davis Square shuttle problem. major force in Congress since he cratic leadership to support the “Freshmen should be required to was first elected in 1992, influenc- bill,” he said. enroll inthe20- meals-a-week plan, ing policy on campaign finance Democrats,Meehan explained, but sophomores should be able to reform and tobacco legislation,as have an easier time supporting well as the recent impeachment campaign finance reform than the get a pay-as-you-go plan so that situation. Now that he is in aposi- Republicans do because they are meals won’t be wasted.” Tamaroffalsoplans to promote tion of influence,Meehan realizes the minority party in Congress. that leaving Congress would be “When you’re the minority party, see DEBATE, page 2 2 THETUFTS DAILY February 17,1999 Candidates propose some new programs l- ~ -

DEBATE lation that presently exists on cam- ing. < continued from page 1 pus.” Crispin cited student apathy cultural awareness through a bi- During the question-and-an- as a central reason for the Senate’s monthly Ethnic Food Night at swer portion of the debate, the past ineffectiveness. “People Hodgdon. candidates were allowed to field can’t expect miracles from the Tamaroff smostambitiouspro- general questions from the audi- Senate; it’s not just the Senate’s posal is an intramural sports tour- ence. When asked how they pro- fault when things don’t get done,” President expresses nament to promote interaction pose to change Senate meetings she said. between students. “We will work and how to improve student in- “You have to have a lot ofwant enthusiasm for Hillary with Res. Life and the athletic de- volvement in the student gov- and will to be a senator and to get partment to have hall sports tour- ernment, several proposals sur- things done,” she continued. “A naments that will allow students faced that aimed to make the senator has to be determined in Senate run who live in different places to in- Senate more efficient and to en- order to get through to people. MERIDA, Mexico -In his first public musings on the subject, teract with each other. This will courage students to be involved The Senate needs to get students President Clinton said Monday that First Lady Hillary Rodham decrease the level of student iso- in campus life and decision mak- more involved.” Clinton “would be terrific” in the US Senate and that he would support whatever decision she makes “enthusiastically.” In a brief Exchange with reporters, Clinton was asked about a run by Mrs. Clinton to fill the seat ofretiring US Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, DN.Y. Clinton said people in New York had started calling her. “I don’t think it had ever occurred to her to do it. I think she would be terrific in the Senate, but that’s adecision she will have to make,” the president said. “And for reasons I’m sure you’ll understand, she hasn’t had anything like adequate time to talk to the people who think she should do this, much less people who think perhaps she CIA\IDAIIAtl AND jhouldn’t.” But he added a note of caution: “She has a lot of other 3pportunities for public service that will be out there, and she and Iboth would like to continue to be useful in public affairs when we leave office.” Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who was traveling with the president to Mexico, said he had talked with Mrs. Clinton about running and she told him she had set a timetable. He wouldn’t say what sort of timetable. Biden said Mrs. Clinton also said she had talked to other senators. “That says to me that it’s notjust agame, that she’sserious ribout it,” the senator said. Gun locks trigger false sense of security, skeptics say MILWAUKEE-The October 1997 ceremony was an unprec- :dented show of solidarity between gun control advocates and firearms makers. The heads of some of the largest US gun companies, facing even stricter legislation, had gathered around President Clinton in the Rose Garden and signed an agreement to include ‘child safety locks” with new handguns. “This will affect eight often handguns made in America, and it will save many young lives,” Clinton said. Now, more than amonth afterthe deadline for includingthe locks, 3nly a handful ofthe 27 arms makers who eventually signed on are :omplying, according to industry insiders - although others are scrambling to include the devices with their guns. Although gun control advocates are disturbed by the lack of :imely compliance, many find themselves in a similarly unusual iosition’ofagreementwith the National Rifle Association and other firearms groups: Trigger locks, by far the most popular ofthe locking jevices, are being hyped well beyond their capabilities - to the ioint, some say, that they might actually lead to accidents because ynowners frequently don’t understand their limitations. “If it is a loaded gun, there isn’t a lock out there that will keep it From being fired,” said Tracy Lang of Milwaukee-based Master Lock, which manufactures the devices. “lfyou put a trigger lock on my loaded gun, you are making the gun more dangerous.” if pu dm’t Many gun control advocates also question the wisdom of xomoting trigger locks in the name ofchild safety, and wonder how nany people forced to buy one-eitheraspart oftheirgun purchase Ir under a growing number of laws -will actually use it. Clinton likely to recertify Mexico MERIDA, Mexico - President Clinton is virtually certain to ‘ecertifyMexico as an ally in the war on drugs,US officialssaid here Monday, despite evidence that its anti-drug effort is faltering. Clinton signaled his intentions after meeting with Mexican ’resident Ernest0 Zedillo in this colonial city in the Yucatan. “Neithercountry has won the drug war,” Clinton said, but added: ‘We’ve got a lotof the indicators going in the right direction in the Jnited States. And cooperation with Mexico has clearly improved inder President Zedillo’s leadership.” Under federal law, the administrationhas until March 1 to inform Zongress if Mexico was an ally in the drug war in the past year. US >fficialsprivately admit that Mexico’s record was woefully inad- Curtis Hall :quate, with seizures of cocaine, marijuana and heroin falling iignificantly last year and drug arrests also declining. There were THETUFTS DAILY Tufts University io arrests of drug kingpins. Directory Medford, MA 02155 But Clinton told reporters, “The issue is, what is most likely to ‘ree our children ofthis scourge in the new century, and that’s what Front Desk x3090 Sports x2944 will guide my decisions. News x2958 Business x2943 Viewpoints/Features x2962 Fax x3910 Compiled from the Los Angeles Times-Washington Arts8cEntertainment Post News Service and College Press Exchange x2941 THETUFTS DAILY February 17,1999 3

Managing America’s health care problems Daniels researches health care issues

by JAYA GUPTA choosefiom,Daniels notedthatthe Contributing Writer employer may impose restrictions. Hoaor stories concerning in- The impact of the employer’s deci- adequate health care from man- sions goes unnoticed. The public aged care companies permeate the has, partly through the media, been media and society on a regular led to blame managed care formak- basis. We hear of patients dying ing bottom-line decisions. But, as from lackofproper medicationsor Danielsreminded, health care com- procedures that do not fall under panies are only tools. health care guidelines. “Large purchasers are trying to In light of these problems, the control costs, but they’re invis- question on every American’s ible,” Daniels said mind is why managed health care Daniels will combine the programs provide inadequatecov- $250,000 ofgrant money from the erage. Tufts philosophy profes- InvestigatorAwardin Health Policy sor Norman Daniels is in search of and Research with funding from the answer. additional sources to work on vari- Daniels was chosen as one of ousprojectsoverthenextfew years. Wannabe in pictures? These students in line at the bookstore may be the next movie stars. eight researchers nationwide to He will use the Robert Wood receive the Robert Wood Johnson Johnson grant to write a book on Foundation’s Investigator Award setting limits for managed care. in Health Policy Research. Daniels will also update his Video to be filmed at bookstore InDaniels’25yem.ofresearch, books, Just Health Care, and Am Students have the opportunity to be extras in film he has tackled such questions as: I My Parents’ Keeper? ‘ . Why do private organizationshave Applyingwhat he learned while byLAURENHEIST should know that the video won’t he said. the power to decide what health serving on Clinton’s Health Care Daily Editorial Board make it to the big screen; it’s a Fillippone said this is the first care we receive? Why do they af- Task Force, he will develop a ma- Today may be the day that Tufts corporate video for Barnes and time Reunion Production Com- fect our welfare so greatly? What trix to evaluate health care reform students get their 15 minutes of Noblewhichwillbeshownattheir pany, the company producingthe restrictions and limitations should proposals. The World Health Or- fame. The bookstore has been cho- annual trade show in the spring. video, has filmed at Tufts, although be placed on them to ensure that we ganization will apply thematrix to sen as the Fite ofanew video, which The 30-minute film is designedto they have filmed at other local receive fair and properhealth care? developing countries. will be shottoday and Friday using show the difference between good colleges,including Harvard Medi- The arrival of managed health “In other countriespublic agen- students as extras. customer service and bad cus- cal School. care has resulted in “huge social cies might be making the same All you have to do is show up tomer service. This is also the first time Re- experiment in the delivery of ser- kind ofdecisions that private com- at the bookstore, sign up, and wait In fact, the portions ofthe video union has produced anything for vices,” Daniels said. panies make in this country. I’m for your call-back time. Every stu- filmed at Tufts, including some Barnes andNoble. The company, He believes that health care learning that even public systems dent who appears on camera will footage filmed yesterday without based in Watertown, has made corporations are not to blame be- face the same difficulties as do receive$20. the use ofactors, will take up only corporate and training videos for cause they are only following the private systems. Some of our re- Not bad for standing around a small part of the final product. companies throughout New En- contracts put forth by the compa- search as to how private corpora- and looking like a student. That’sthree fulldaysoffilming- gland. “Wejustdidamajorjobfor nies that hire them. Thus, these tions should behave would im- Between 70 and 80 actors audi- a total of about 25 hours of video [Lycos] with John Turturo,” companies are the ones that make prove public health care systems.” tioned to play the main characters -for only eight to ten minutes of Fillippone said, adding that the the final decisions concerning Additionally, Danielswillwork - Tufts students and employees screen time. video will bedistributed by Block- health care. with Dr. James Sabin, a psychia- -but Collinge Pickman Casting Fillipponesaid he and his crew buster in March. “The employers might say to trist at Harvard Medical School, to pared down the group to 14 based came to campus yesterday to ask Fillippone said the main differ- themanagedcarecompanies, ‘We examine mental illness in theman- upon age and appearance. students what they thought about ence between making movies Hol- won’t accept apremium increase,’ aged care system. Through prior So what does a Tufts student the bookstore, but found very few lywood-style and Reunion-style so cuts are made and people com- research, Daniels found that large look like? “We just told them to students who were willing to talk is a simple matter of economics. plain, but it’s behind the scenes,” companies sometimes manage dress like students and they sort to them. He attributed the lack of “It’s the same basic principle, the Daniels added. mental health care benefits and of knew what that meant,” said response to the beginning of mid- same idea, but this is much, much L‘Halfofallemployedworkersare pharmacy benefits for managed Andrew Fillippone, the video’s terms. smaller,” he said. in insurance schemes chosen by health care companies in “carve- producer. “We were a little concerned that Bufhey it’sstillamovie. We’re employers,not them,”Daniels said. outs.” Before you get too excited, you it’s going to look kind of empty,’’ famous. Even with several plans to “There’s acompany managing pharmaceuticalbenefitsfor52mic

The voice of black feminism,r bell hooks 2::::;::::;:;;;:;:;: many drugscoming downthe pike Los Angeles Times-Washington female presence on panels with scholars like Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Post News Service Cornel West. they will cover. These are ration- WASHINGTON -On a recent night the crowd at Vertigo Books She’s not surprised at the criticism of her progressive ideas because ing decisions. We are examining linedupearly, spillingoutthe front door intothedusk. Theyweremainly this is “not a pro-feminist moment in our culture.”Nor does she expect the grounds for the decisions that under30, blackand white,maleandfemale-butmostly female,waiting awarmreceptiontoradical feminismfiommany African-Americans. But are made,” Daniels said. to hear bell hooks read from her new book. she is deeply annoyed about the slam that she writes too much. Daniels’ study of the distribu- Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work includes hooks’ reflec- At 46, she lives alone in New York’s Greenwich Village, leading a tion of health care began in the tions on famous writers, her own work and “women who write too spare existencerooted in her daily writing schedule. When she emerges 1970s when he wasexaminingcon- much.” This commandingwriter with the attention-gettingname draws from her solitary life, she seestwo worlds: those who applaud her right Crete examples of theories of jus- a devoted public that responds to her themes about the exclusion of to say what she wants, and those who wish she would pick one cause tice. minority women from mainstream feminism,how black women should instead of two. think more about loving and celebrating themselves instead of merely Straddling the often- surviving, how men dominate all women’s lives. separate battles for civil And yet, even as she is greeted by overflow crowds nationwide, she rights for black people and seems to spend much of her time explaining her enviable output of 17 equality for women has not books in less than 20 years. been easy. “No one said to John Coltrane, ‘Why do you play the saxophone so Ofher latest book, Kirkus much?”’ says hooks. “They accepted he had a passion for this.” Reviews noted that “hooks Wrapped in black and red wool, as dramatic in person as she is on the in her usual, forthright and page, hooks says that writing is as easy for her as breathing -and as engaging style makes plain necessary. “There is a lushness to how my mind works.” her opinions: on the dearth She notes, as well, that many people still think an African-American of nonfiction by black woman’s role is servitude. “I can be standing in Barneys with my coat women authors, the role of and purse andmy selections, and some white woman will say, ‘Can you race in the critical reception get this in my size?”’she says sharply. “What she sees is a black woman of new work, and the cyni- and her service button goes off.” cism of the publishing in- At 46, hooks has become the best-known voice of contemporary dustry. What could have black feminism. Her books are taught in colleges, including Ain’t la been a caustic, scathing col- Woman:Black Women and Feminism, selected by Publishers Weekly lection of essays, however, as one ofthe “20 most influential women’s books ofthe last 20 years.” proves to be just the oppo- A former instructor at Yale University and Oberlin College, and site: -generous. ,. open and in- currently teaching at City College in New York, hooks is often the only spiring.” bell hooks, one of the best-known voices of black feminism.

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.. /I THE TUFTSDAILY February 17,1999 5 > Arts &? Entertainment Boston’s band ‘Dick’ shows that Britpop is still alive and Well by CLAUDIA ASCH ton where he wasaneighborof Rik Daily Staff Writer Ocasek of the Cars. Adam To most people, Britpop was Johnson, Dick’s bass player, grew the thing of 1995, the phenom- up surrounded by music. His par-

enon from Britain that featured ents.I. avid music lovers. owned Johnson String Instruments and Dick played hosts to musicians who would come to their house to jam. House of Fiction After hying his luck at acting in New York and Los Angeles for a Rating: (3 1/2 out of number ofyears, Deny decided to ,)**e$ return to Boston to begin working on House ofFiction, the first Dick such bands as Oasis, Blur, Cast, album. Originally, it was a solo Dodgy, Supergrass... pretty much project, but his old high school any British band that was playing buddies Johnson and drum- the harmonious, infectious mer Joe Patten ioined Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) answered many questions in Sunday’s ‘X-Files’, but opened new conspiracy theories at the same time. The truth... is still out there Second part of ‘X-Files’conspiracy episode confuses byLESLIEKUNG ful hybrid. I mean, how exactly do Lone Gunmen, Mulder’s computer- Contributing Writer you make a humadalien hybrid? hacking trio. Mulder gets pissed “It’s all led up to this.” Like Simple,you take the DNA from an when Scully questions Diana’s many of you who watched the alienfetus,mixitwithhumanDNA, loyalties and affiliation, prompt- second of the two-part X-Files play around with it a little, inject it ing Scullytotellhimoff.GoScully! conspiracy episodes this week- into your human, and you got your Mulder goes and investigates end, I foundmyselfthinking,“Yes, hybrid. Well, just a couple weeks Diana’s apartment and guess who but what exactly is this?” It ago we learned that Cassandra showsup? The Cigarette Smoking wouldn’t be in the true spirit ofthe Spender,Cigarette SmokingMan’s Man. Let that be a lesson to you, X-Files to actually explain things. ex-wife, is the first successful hy- Mulder: Scully is always right. Let’s start with the aliens. Not brid. Better start mass production So Cigarette SmokingMan tells only do they exist, but there is of that vaccine. himabout his father’s involvement more than one race of aliens. One So where does Mulder fit into in all this, why Samantha was race, the little gray ones with the all of this? The noble and truth- taken, yada, yada, yada. Before he bulbous heads, have been in con- seeking Mulder has worked his leaves, he gives Mulder the loca- tact with the United States Gov- whole life to solve the mysteries tion of where he is to go to be ernment as early as the ’40s. This behind the disappearance of his reunited with his sister and in- is where the Cigarette Smoking younger sister, Samantha, when jected with the hybrid DNA. And Man steps in. Fifty years ago, Ciga- he was 12. As it turns out, Mulder’s he tells Mulder to bring “her.” rette Smoking Man worked for father was amember ofthe Syndi- of their lives. Dick on this album are Deny, band leader and main song clearly the Beatles, the Stones, some branch of the government cate. Although he had opposed see X-FILES, page 10 and international group, doing the alien colonization, peer pres- writer ofthe band, grew up in Bos- and Cheap Trick. The band’s mix what he does best: covering up sure forced him to comply with the ofoptimism andmelancholyisjust conspiracies. alien’s wishes of handing over a right, and the backwards master- Along with several other men, familymemberfortestingandex- ing of “Interlude” adds a fun, known as the Syndicate, an agree- perimentation in order to create strange twist. The catchiest tune ment was made with the aliens to the humadalien hybrid. The plan by far is “Sunshine In.” The title allow them to colonize the planet was that when colonization would reveals the ’60s character of the and turn humans into a slave race. begin, the members of the Syndi- song, and the lyrics are just as In return, the aliens guaranteed cate and their family members fitting: “Yougottaletthesun shine safety from the impending slavery would be reunited. Thus, Mulder’s in/Yougotta let your life begin,”or for these men and their familiesby father’s intentions were that “You gotta open up your heart, allowing them to work on human/ Mulder and his sister be reunited. cause that’s the way it starts.”You alien hybrids through a project How sweet. will definitely findyourselfcroon- called “Purity Control.” So what went down this week- ing “do do doo doo do do doo Little did the Syndicate know end? Well, lasttime wesaw Jeffrey doo” too. that there wasanotherraceofaliens, Spender strip Mulder and Scully Dick Deny’s voice isgreat, and the faceless ones with their eyes oftheir position at the FBI. Mean- the background vocals add to the and mouth sewn up, who didn’t while, his mother Cassandrapleads sweet harmoniesthat characterize want the little gray ones to colo- for death because her mere exist- the band’s sound. Most of the nize earth because of an ongoing ence could initialize alien coloni- songs feature such instruments war between the alien races. Some zation. Since Spender is too much as the tambourine, shakers, organ, of these faceless aliens came to of a wuss to do anything, and piano. earth and tried to stop the Syndi- Cassandra goes to Mulder and The band really makes its per- cate from making the hybrids by Scully. A lot of chaos ensues as a sonal interpretation of Britpop burning the doctors alive. As if bunch ofguys in space suits barge entertaining. Put another way, they needed more to worry about, into Mulder’s apartment declaring theseguys are like Ben Folds Five, the Syndicate soon discovered a state of quarantine (huh?) along only with guitars. I thoroughly thatthe littlegray alienshad played with Agent DianaFowley,Mulder’s enjoyed this shorttrip back in time them for fools. They weren’t go- ex-flame. (the album runs only 27 minutes), ing to make slaves out of humans. At the quarantine facilities, and I recommend Dick to anyone The alien virus (black oil stuff) Mulder runs into one of his infor- in search of a quick ’60s fix. infects a human and uses his body mants, Marita Covarrubias, who as a host. Basically,the alienswere looks like hell because of all the IRight brained? going to use us for food. Not to black oil tests done on her. She fear. The Syndicate was also se- tells Mulder of Cassandra’s suc- cretlyworkingonavaccineforthe cess as the first hybrid. Once the alien virus which would interrupt aliens know of this, colonization the growing of the aliens inside will begin with no stopping. humans. Scully disappears for a while At first the Syndicatewasthink- because she just really really re- ing that we wouldn’t have to worry ally does not like Diana Fowley because the aliens wouldn’t come (jealous, maybe?) and decides to I write arts until the completion of a success- dig up some dirt on her with the

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Los Angeles Times-Washington around with the guys. Things are going other is defenseman Sandis Ozolinsh, who That won’t matter ifhe wins a Stanley Cup. L Post News Service well.” ended his holdout in early January. Since In his first year with the Dallas Stars, Hull A year ago, New York Rangers center Much better than last season. Though then, the Avalanche went 12-0 with him in has conformed to Coach Ken Hitchcock’s Marc Savard put up some decent mileage he played in 28 games with the Rangers, the lineup before Tuesday’s 2-1 loss to defense-first system. He hasn’t lost his , between Hartford, Conn., and New York. Savard didn’t get much ice time. He had Calgary. scoringtouch,either. Hul1,playingonaline He made the trip from one city to the other one goal and five assists. A year later, “I just think everybody was so with center Mike Modano, leads the team no fewer than ten times. This year, his his production has forced Rangers coach pumped up when he got back,” Ava- with 19 goals and has a plus-14’rating. mileage is down and his numbers are up. John Muckler to play him regularly. lanche captain Joe Sakic said. “He is “I think he really understandsthat he has Savard has 26 points in 40 games with the “I’m not getting comfortable,” Savard such a big part of this team and he is a got to play well defensively,”Modanosaid. Rangers, the same number of points vet- said. “I think it takes a good full year to great guy, so I just think everybody was “I think the most important thing is just eran Kevin Stevens has in 5 1 games. And get a name in the league. Right now, I excited to have him back. And the way adding another threat out there on the ice, only three players- Wayne Gretzky (42), don’t think teams know who I am or he plays the game, it really opens up the another guy that other teams have to worry Brian Leetch (26), and Niklas Sundstrom whatever. Hopefully by the end of this ice for the forwards.” about .... I think heunderstands hisrole,that (2 1)- have more assists than Savard (19) year or the start of next year, I’ll be *** he is not expected to come in and score 40- on the team. known.” BrettHullmayneverscore50goalsagain. 50 goals a year.” “I’m here,” Savard said, “and hopefully *** I’ll stay here.” Savard was in Hartford The Tampa Tribune reported Wednes- when the season began, playing for the daythat Lightning owner Art Williams has WolfPack. After dominating the AHL last thought about selling the team less than a season, many believed Savard would be in year after he bought it. He might have the Rangers’ starting lineup on opening trouble finding a buyer. According to the Eastern Conference Western Conference night. paper, Williams could lose more than $20 “I think that was a bit of my fault, too,” million this year, his firstasanNHLowner. Atlantic Pacific he said. “I came into camp thinking that Furthermore,whoeverbuys the team would the job was there for me. I didn’t have the have to keep it in Tampa because the Light- TEAM WLTPT TEAM WLTP” best preseason. I think that’s what [the ning have 27 years remaining on their 30- Philadelphia 28 12 13 69 Dallas 33 10 8 ’74 Rangers] based it on, that I wasn’t work- year lease with the Tampa Sports Author- ing as hard as I could. They sent me ity. Pittsburgh 30 15 ’7 6’7 Phoenix 29 14 10 68 down and I learned a lesson early. I Williams,whopaid$117millionforthe NewJersey 30 18 7 6’7 Anaheim 23 23 9 55 worked hard in Hartford, and I’m back team and rights to the Ice Palace, is confi- N.Y.Rangers 21 26 ’7 49 here now.” dent he’ll find a partner. Whether that per- SanJose 20 22 13 53 The experience has been humbling. But son will be as generous as the current N.Y.Islanders 16 33 , ’7 39 Loshgeles 20 31 4 44 he doesn’t mind not being the star. “I’ve owner remains to be seen. Williams, who handled it fine,” Savardsaid. “It’s tough in made his money in the insurance industry, some situations, like a five-on-three. All increased payroll in hopes of improving Northeast Central my career, I’ve been out there. But you just the team. But the Lightning will likely fmish Ottawa 30 16 8 68 Detroit 29 23 4 62 got to suck it up and hopefully the team with the worst record in the league for the wins. second consecutive season. Toronto 30 20 4 64 St.Louis 22 22 9 53 “I learned a lot last year. I still have stuff “I haven’t been coming to games re- Buffalo 26 18 10 62 Nashville 19 31 5 43 toleam. I’m still21. I don’tactlikea40-year- cently for a simple reason - this team Boston 22 23 9 53 Chicago 15 33 8 38 old, but I still like to have fun a lot. I joke brokemy heart,” Williams said. “I couldn’t have been happier the first month of the Montreal 21 27 8 50 season... then the bottom fell out. I’ve been more upset with the constant losing than all the money coming out of my Southeast Northwest . Wednesday, Februaty 17 wallet. This has been apainful experience Carolina 25 22 9 59 Colorado 29 21 5 63 No Games Scheduled forme.” I I *** Florida 20 20 14 54 Edmonton 21 25 8 50 Thursday, Februaw 18 Patrick Roy has been Patrick Roy. That’s Washington 22 28 4 48 Cakary 19 28 8 46 Men’s Ice Hockey: @ Wentworth, one reason the Colorado Avalanche are TampaBay 11 38 5 2’7 Vancouver 18 30 7 43 I 7:15 p.m. I looking like Stanley Cup contenders. An- He’s got friends in high places Sometimes it pays to live in a name on my ball. Normally, this would be no big athlete, but he’s no baseball player. ready ruled out the possibility of minor-league town. A native of Overtheyears,I spentalotoftime deal, but these were no ordinary Teams, especially in baseball, will him makingthemajor leagueroster, Memphis, I grew up cheering for at the ballpark. I was one of maybe a Barons. As the AA affiliate of the often invest in multi-sport athletes but the minors are still a definite thousand or so fans who attended Chicago White Sox, they had the whomtheyhopetomoldintosome- possibility.Brooks will most likely Just a bit games more than once or twice a great fortune of possessing minor thing useful, but this was clearly makeitandspendthesummerplay- season. I evenwenttobaseballcamps league baseball’s most famous not the case with Jordan. He was ing to sell-out crowdsjust like Jor- there, where I met and got to know a player ever - the great Michael there because he decided that he dan did, although I doubt he’ll be -1 -1 lot of the players. My closest ties Jordan. 1’11 admit it, even I was in- wanted to be, and the manage- half as good. Does anyone really the Chicks,a AA baseball team that were with a veteran outfielder by the trigued by the idea of watching this ment knew he would sell out every want to see this happen? He’ll be has belonged to the farm systems name of Tommy Dunbar. He only sportslegend fumblehiswayaround park in which they played him. making a mockery of the sport, of ofthe Montreal Expos, Kansas City playdin91 gamesinthemajors,over a baseball diamond, so when I got As ifthat weren’t enough, now every true minor leaguer, of base- Royals, and San Diego Padres, to athree-yearspanin themid-lOs, but the opportunity to go, I went. fast-forward to today. Country ball fans everywhere, and ofevery name a few. As a kid, I would go to everytimehe went outtotheon-deck Ifeltcheap.There1wassitting in music star Garth Brooks, fresh off childhood dream any of us have games at Tim McCarver Stadium circle, I would go down behind the theleft-fieldbleachers,faraway hm his appearance presenting the ever had. with my Dad and cheer on a team backstop and talk to him. my normal seats behind the third- ESPY for team ofthe year, will be AtChicks’games,Iusedtodream made up of mostly no-name has- IalsometguyslikeBrianMcRae base dugout (those had been sold trying out with the San Diego Pa- about playingprofessionalbaseball. beens or never-will-be’s; young and Jeff Conine, who are now in the out for months) and surrounded by dres. Instead of going to the Despitemy little leagueperfomances, players trying to make a name for majors, although they probably about 10,000 screaming maniacs. Grammys next week, Brooks will I always kept that hope alive, and themselves or older veterans try- neverreallyknewwho1was. In fact, Every time Jordan steppedup to the head to Peoria, Ariz., to report for practicedhardin the hopesofgetting ing to hold on to the game for a few one of the highlights of my child- plate, the whole place erupted into spring training. better. i guess I had it all wrong. I more years. Occasionally,however, hood baseball career was when, af- pandemonium. Hehitafoulballand Sure, he played baseball in high guess now I should hope that some- we would catch aglimpseofarising ter Brian McRae decided that my the stadium shook. I can’t imagine school, and even threw the javelin day I, too, will be famous enough to star-aplayer destined forthe big glove was too small, let me use his. what would have happened if he in college, buthe isnow 37andjust play minor league baseball. leagues that was just stopping for I had to give it back later, but for the had actually gotten a hit. These slightly a few months on his way through. next few hours, I wasaprofessional people had sold out their national out of For my seventh birthday,mypar- baseball player. Memories of play- pastime to see a guy play simply shape. ents took ten or so of my friendsand ers like these kept my dreams alive because he was famous, and I felt Compared me to a game. As the birthday boy, I and made baseball what it is to me like I was one ofthem. to Jordan, got to throw out the first pitch, and today. No one should be able to buy his who turns then I got the ball back signed by Fast-fo&arda few more years. way into a professional sport. Play- 36 today, everyone on the team. The names It’s now the summer of 1994, and ersspendtheirlivesworkingtowards he might have by nowalmostcompletelyfaded the demands of high school have perfectingtheirskillsenough toplay as well be away, butthereisonelwillalwaysbe lessenedmyability tomake ittoas atahigherlevel.Theyput in yearsof the able to make out- Bo Jackson. He many games as I would like. I still hard work and dedication, often for Pi 1 lsbury wasn’t there long, but he left behind make it to some, however, and I the smallest of rewards, and it is an Doughboy. a lot ofmemories. There’sstillasign enjoy the small-crowdatmosphere insulttothemandtotheir sportwhen Team inthe left-field bleachers where he hit ofthe game. That is, until the Bir- someone steals away their place. officials his first home run, and there’sstillhis mingham Barons came to town. Yes, Michael Jordan is a great have al-

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Miranda ruling Los Angeles Times-Washington just as soon leave well enough those who were strongly pro-state making mistakes, reading the Irvine, found that 78 percent of Post News Service alone. hadcometotheconclusion, ‘Hey, wrong words, etc. We went suspects waived their Miranda t When the US Supreme Court In the intervening 33 years, wecan live withthis,’“saidCharles through about a year there where rights and three-quarters of those ’ ruled in 1966that policemustwarn Miranda has become one of the E. Moylan, who was the state’s it was kind ofagift to the defense,” whotalkedsaidsomethingincrimi- suspects of their rights to remain best-known symbols of consti- attorney for Baltimore in 1966and said Fairfax Commonwealth’sAt- nating to police. Even critics con- silent and consult an attorney, tutional protection. Television now sits on the Maryland Court of torney Robert F. Horan Jr. cede that very few confessions- the decision was instantly re- shows like “NYPD Blue” and Special Appeals. Over time, everyone adjusted. perhaps one-tenth of one percent viled. Many in the justice system “Law and Order” regularly show’ Moylan added, “It would be The Supreme Court approved - are thrown out because of feared it would shackle law en- officers reading suspects their chaos to ever go back.” some exceptions-for example, if Miranda violations. forcement and allow criminals to rights, and kiddie detective kits FairfaxCounty,Va., IawyerDex- a suspect confesses twice, once “It says that the most igno- go free. include, alongside the badge, ter S. Odin vividly remembers the before being read his rights and rant, uneducated and poorest But now that a federal ap- gun and handcuffs, a wallet-size day the Supreme Court threw out again afterward, police can use the among us has access to the knowl- peals court in Virginia has put card listing the Miranda warn- the confession of Ernest0 second statement. Police began edge that only the wealthy could what are known as the Miranda ings. Miranda, a Phoenix rapist and kid- carrying Miranda cards, and most afford,” said Rutgers University warnings potentially back in “Every prosecutor in the coun- napper, because he hadn’t been departments created written law professor George C. Thomas, question, many prosecutors and try hated Miranda the day it came told of his rights. waiver forms. who has written a book on judges are saying they would down ... but after a decade, even Odin, then an assistant Investigators also began put- Miranda. commonwealth’s attorney, was ting more emphasis on cooperat- But practitioners who have prosecuting a suspect who had ing witnesses and scientific and learned to live with Miranda say American Airlines, confessed to molesting a young circumstantial evidence. The de- they would welcome a new ruling child. “The confession was es- cision also helped put the kibosh that would allow judges to deter- sential,’’ Odin said, but the sus- on police who pushed the bound- mine whether a confession was pilots resume talks pect hadn’t been.advised of his aries of “voluntary” confessions voluntary, rather than emphasiz- College Press Exchange pline the pilots. rights first. “We had always oper- through physical abuse or long ing technical rules. Such a system DALLAS -After a weekend American is also preparing for a ated for years with an essential interrogations. -unlike the current one-would of courtroom wrangling, leaders Wednesday hearing in federalcourt, assumption that people knew the “It rewarded intelligent police allow investigatorsto go back to a of Fort Worth-based American where a judge is expected to levy law.” work,” said Vincent Femia, a former suspect who had previously exer- Airlines and its pilots union re- damages against the union. Beckes The next day, Odin said, LLwe prosecutor and retired judge in cised his right to silence. “When sumed negotiations Monday, try- declined to say what American’s dismissed the case.” Prince George’s County, Md. there are multiple interrogations ing to settle the wage and job damages are, though the carrier has A 1967Pittsburgh study found “There’s nobody going free be- overalong periodoftime, itwould securitydispute that prompted last said it has lost sales ofmore than $40 a 31 percent decline in confes- cause of Miranda who didn’t de- be helpful to start with aclean slate week‘s wildcat strike. million. Analyst estimatesrun up to sions after the warnings became serve to go free.” every time,”said FBI special agent And operations for the carrier twice that amount. mandatory. A recent study by Richard A. Austin Andersen, chief division were almost back to normal Mon- Meanwhile,the pilots union was “Early on, it was a bonanza for Leo, a criminology professor at counsel for the Washington field day as the immediate effects of a preparing to put up a $10 million the defendant. You had police the University of California at office. pilot sickout petered out. Only bond due Tuesday, one ordered by about 300 flights were canceled, the federal judge who sent pilots down from 563 on Sunday. Only a back to work on Saturday. Red Cross; Dole’s leadership few dozen cancellations are ex- American is also plotting how Los Angeles Times-Washington cations director for Robert J. Dole’s 1996 presiden- pected Tuesday. to win back customer support, Mr. Post News Service tial bid, who served as a consultant for the blood But underlying the new peace Becker said, but he did not know if As the just-retired president ofone ofthe nation’s program). Dole also installed important COP donors is a deeper, longer-running streak the carrier would try a fare sale. largest charities, Elizabeth Hanford Dole portrays such as Inez Andreas, the wife ofagribusiness giant ofhostility and suspicion between Americandecided Mondaytopay herself as a bold reformer who rescued a critically Dwayne Andreas, a longtime Dole supporter, on the American and its pilots. Though commissionstotravel agents who injured blood program and delivered “real-life board of directors. the carrier has said it wants to booked tickets that were later re- miracles” to victims of natural disasters worldwide. Always mindful of image, she occasionally tried improve employee relations, ana- funded because of the sickout. Her work as president ofthe American Red Cross, to distance herself from controversiesthe Red Cross lysts said the strike and subse- Commissions usually aren’t paid she told an audience in New Hampshire last week, faced, according to those inside and outside the quent court hearings didn’t help on refunded tickets. - gave her experience “overseeing 32,000 employees organization, leaving others to take the public heat. that goal. Regarding the negotiations, and 1.3 million volunteers. I undertookaseven-year, “She delivers the good news,” said Paul Clolery, Even ifnegotiatorsreachaquick spokesmen for both sides said $287 million transformationofthe way theorganiza- editor of the Non-Profit Times, which has closely agreement on the current feud, fu- there was no progress to report as tion collects,tests and distributes halfofthe nation’s monitored Red Cross operations for years. “The bad ture upheaval could be in store un- of late afternoon Monday. blood supply.” The system is now the best in the news is delivered by someone else.” less both sides can build better rela- The negotiators are trying to world, she proclaimed. An event late last year showed how she some- tions in the long term, analystssaid. settle a dispute over how Ameri- This image of confident leadership and superla- times left the impression that she was using the Red “Neither side trusts the other can can absorb the pilots of Reno tive performance as head of a huge and complex Crossjob to betterposition herselfpolitically,charity side, and they’re each trying to out- Air Inc., a small Nevadaairlinethat organization is central to Dole’s pitch as she posi- watchdog groups say. machothe other,” WidPeter Capelli, American bought on Dec. 23. tions herself for a possible Republican presidential Dole was prominently featured on a prime-time amanagementprofessorattheUni- The union wants the carrier to candidacy, her first run for public office. television Christmas Eve “spectacular” showcas- versity of Pennsylvania’s Wharton immediately put Reno pilots at the But some who closely watched Dole’s manage- ing the charity’s achievements. “People were Schoolof Business. “And once you bottom of its seniority list, which ment ofthe Red Cross during a period ofturmoil and thrilled,” said Red Cross spokeswoman Josie Mar- go down that path of distrust, and would give pay raises to Reno controversy offer a mixed assessment of her perfor- tin, who left her post last week. The show raised think you have to play hardball, it pilots and at least 150 American mance and what it suggests about her possible $25,000 through anational toll-free number andmay just gets worse and worse and pilots. The pilots say American is presidential leadership style. have brought in more to the Red Cross’s 1,300 local worse,” As of late Monday after- violating what it cal1s”scope” - a She is a manager of great strengths and broad .chapters. noon, onlyahut3OTuesdayflights, contract clause that ensures only vision, competently overseeing a charity with $2 The telecast cost the Red Cross $1.3 million to six Wednesday flights and one members of the Allied Pilots As- billion a year in revenue and missions as diverse as produce and was planned by Red Cross consultant Thursdayflight had been cancelled. sociation union will fly on behalf aForhme 500 company, her admirers say. At a time Melinda Farris, who had helped organize special “We’re looking forwardtojust ofAmerican Airlines. when the Red Cross, like many charities,had seen its events for Dole at the 1996 Republican National about normal operations,” Ameri- American officials want to inte- United Way funding plunge, Dole not only made up Convention. can spokesman AI Becker said. grate Reno’s operations and pi- the differencebut used her own tenacity and persua- Farris came to the Red Cross in 1994 after doing While some pilots had com- lots over the course of a year to 18 sivecharm to increasepublic donations by9 percent. political image consulting work for Republican plained over the weekend that they months, giving raises as Reno pi- But she also has intertwined politics and philan- women. She said she and Dole never discussed her had trouble getting through an lots are trained, and letting them thropy in a way that gave fuel to her critics in the possible presidential candidacy during preparations automated system that takes them maintain senioritybuilt up at Reno. nonprofit world. for the show. off asick list, most should have no Ifnoquick agreementis reached, At times, Dole seemed more interested in her own Robert 0. Bothwell, president of the National trouble now, Becker said. the pilots union could follow sev- image than that of the Red Cross, some observers Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, said the He added that about a dozen eral options under the Railway La- inside and outside the charity say. Even in managing program may have had a legitimate purpose but its L pilots are being blocked from the bor Act, the federal law that gov- the crisis involving the safety ofthe Red Cross blood timing alsogave it“the appearanceofbeinga launch- automatic system and sent to erns airline workers. Those include supply -which Dole cites as her greatest achieve- ing show” for a Dole presidential bid. speak to a supervisor instead. filing a grievance, or seeking arbi- ment - she first launched what federal regulators Eleven days after the show aired, Dole announced Those include pilots who called tration or mediation. later viewed as a public relations effort, and her that she would resign to consider a run forthe White in sick, but then traveled on Ameri- Union spokesmanDrew Engelke reform proceeded at a slow and costly pace until a House. can, hesaid. Italso inc1udes“afew said “we’renot inclined to arbitrate federal agency finally sued the Red Cross’to force The purest indicators of Dole’s performance as cases where pilots called in sick or adjudicate on scope... it will be serious top-to-bottom change. Red Cross president are the numbers that nonprofit from the jet bridge, or had passen- settled at the negotiating table.” In a schedule laced with paid speeches to civic groups use to measure success. gers board and then (the pilots) The federal law says a mediator and political groups, Dole spent so much time on the Money magazine rated the Red Cross the nation’s got off the aircraft. Those are cases must declarethat talks have reached road that she left herself open to criticism that no best-run charity in 1996, based on the proportion of where we wanted to sit down and an impasse before a legal strike can one was overseeing routine operations. A 1996 its income, 92 percent, that went directly toward talk to them before they’re rein- be called. American and its pilots independent study of the Red Cross by KPMG Peat helping the public. stated,” he said. lastreachedthatpointin 1997,when Marwick criticized Dole’s management style and Norman R. Augustine, longtime chairman of the Becker said American wants to a Valentine’s Day strikewas halted reliance on a“shadow staff’ of consultants. Critics Red Cross board, said he thinks Dole ranks high as learn the details of these cases by an order from PresidentClinton complained that she added political allies to the aleader. “If I was speaking in business terms, I’d say before it decides whetherto disci- just minutes after it began. payroll (including Mari Masing Will, the communi- she’s done ‘a turnaround.”’

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I refusing all contributions from laws that are on the book today.” concludedthat in recent years“it’s they just mishandled it.” think that is a mistake.” Meehan Political Action Committees Meehan does not expect Congress gotten much more partisan.” He Meehan acknowledged that wants to make changes to the stat- (PACs). “I probably forfeit raising to pass campaign finance reform used former House Speaker Newt some individuals felt the Presi- ute, but not get rid of it entirely. $400,000 per election cycle,” he this session. “But it is coming,” he Gingrich as an example ofthe high dent should have been impeached “There needs to be a major over- said. Despite refusing PAC mon- predicted. level of partisanship. “[Gingrich] due to his lying in a civil deposi- haul,” he said. ies, Meehan’scommitmenttocam- Meehan’s idea of campaign fi- took no prisoners -it was kill or tion, which Meehan called a “le- “I fearthestatutewillbethrown paign finance reform does not nance reform “would mean acap in be killed. gitimate point of view.” out this year and no one will care hamper his campaigns. “I’m very overall spending... Members “That philosophy makes for an “I believe [Judiciary Commit- because of the abuses we’ve * aggressive about raising money.” wouldn’t have to spend so much unpleasant experience,” he con- tee Chairman] Henry Hyde thinks seen,” he said. The Shays-Meehan-McCain- time raising money.” He referredto tinued. Meehan said he does not it was the right thing to do,” he “[Getting rid of the statute] is Feingold campaign financereform the need for funding as a “never- think today’s level ofpartisanship said. very dangerous... There is a rea- bill isacompromise. ending quest to raise money.” is good for the country. Meehan said pursuing im- son we have the Independent He said the bill especially tar- When asked about the height- Meehan said the impeachment peachment so vigorously was a Counsel Statute.” gets the issue of “soft money,” ened partisanship in Washington hearings and subsequent Senate big mistake for Republicans,and it Meehan plans to air his views which is unrestricted donations to he said, “When people vote for a trial are an exampleofthe extremes will affect the Presidential elec- before the House Judiciary Com- political parties that is supposed Democratic President and a Re- ofpartisanship. “I don’t think im- tions in the year 2000. “I don’t mittee, but that will be an uphill to be used for party activities. publican Congress, they are say- peachment should be a tool that is think somebody with Clinton’s battle. “I’ll be hard-pressedto find These funds have been increasing both parties have good ideas, used in such a way,’’ he said. history will get elected in 2000,” someone whoagrees with me,” he ingly diverted to finance cam- [so] you work it out.” Such deci- He characterized the closed- Meehan said. He said the Repub- said. paigns. Taking soft money out of sion making fails to take into ac- door sessions in the Judiciary Com- licans feel they have enough time Meehan said the investigations the equation will help in establish- count the partisan nature of Con- mittee on impeachment as “ugly toget overthe stigmaof impeach- into the Clintonadministrationwill ment. also result in a different type of ing a level playing field, Meehan gress, he said. and bizarre.” ’ said. He saidpartisanship is“mostly Republicans were “playing to Meehan called Clinton’s testi- attorney general. “Janet Reno is mony outrageous. truly an independent attorney gen- 7- 11 “It shows an incredible flaw in eral.” he said. “She doesn’t -give a this President who I think is an damn about politics.” Vision of Tibet presents: extremely talented President... he He predicted thenext president is absolutely brilliant.” will appoint someone with whom Meehan also discussed his he or she has close political ties. East Timor and the Support for women’s studies SENATE by groups seeking to supplement page 1 continued from theirbudget.Apenni1e.w 16mm is mm durhgthe ALBOmeeting and now unable to produce its second Future-ofIndonesia defended his decision to the eager effort. filmmakers. “[Leonard CarmichaelSociety] “It iswrongtouse47percentof didn’tgrowovernight... Theques- the buffer fund to benefit less then tion is whether we’ll live or be one percent of the community,” shot,” Shlain said. Levey said. The Senate did offer its sup- After Schnirman motioned to port to one group, however. A uphold ALBO’s recommendation resolution in supportofa women’s not to grant the club any money, studiesmajorpassedunanimously SenatorTQmmy Calvert emerged after relatively brief discussion. as the sole dissenting opinion. The bulk of relevant information “I know that the Senate allo- had been dispensed at last cates money to groups with less Sunday’sSenate-meeting, and this e Representative of RENETIL members and gives similar past Sunday senators expressed amounts,” Calvert said. “I don’t continued interest in the proposed know if senators, including my- major., self, have worked hard enough to Associate English Professor helpstudent activities... There are Sonia Hofgosh addressedthe Sen- things wecould do better,” Calvert ate and explained the movement concluded. for a women’s studies major from Schnirmanand Harris reiterated a faculty perspective. . Hurst Hannum theSenate’sconcernswith 16mm. Hofgosh said that a proposal is Schnirman said it is “a very frus- currently being reviewed by the trating thing” that the Senate can- facultyCurriculumCommittee. Ifit Professor of International Law, The not dictate how clubs are run, but passes that hurdle, she said, the J he insisted that the Senate had entirefacultywillvoteontheissue. Fletcher Sc h 1 “done everythingpossible to make Hofgosh explained that the oo this activity work.” impetus behind the movement is Schnirman’s motion passed by “educational integrity.” Even if a 15-1-5 vote. In the months prior there is only one student who to the meeting, 16 mm had chosen wants it, he or she should have a film script and assembled a pro- that opportunity, she said. .. duction staff of 40 students, in Senator Dan Zandman, author addition to a myriad of other pre- of the resolution, explained that Jim Murphy paratory operations. The Senate money is not a factor in the debate. vote, however, essentially elimi- Although itcosts$4,500 torelease nates the organization.The buffer a professor to teach a new course, East Timor Action Network funding request was unusual in Zandman said it is the Senate’s that the 16 mm Conspiracyhad no responsibility only to demonstrate original budget. Normal buffer student opinion, rather than fund funding requests are submitted all its ventures.

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Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship Hispanic American Society and Public Affairs Latino Forum A World Champion Athlete with over 20 Large Conference Room, 7:00pm world records, Dr. Robert Goldman Cabot Auditorium, 4pm Taiwanese Association General Interest Meeting German Club Zamparelli Room - I12,9:00pm KafFeestunddRecruitmentMeeting .- lilbert bv Scott Adam Serman House, Hillsides 130's. 4pm-6pm University Chaplaincy CHAPLAINS TABLE - INTERPER- SONAL RELATIONSHIPS Spirit of Color "Interracial Dating: Perspective from TOMORROW 50 I' 1st General Meeting Asian-AmericanStudents" POWER SUPPLY SO >earson 106, 1O:OOpm SPEAKERS: Asian-American Student Panel Asian Christian Fellowship MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7pm )inner in Dewick lewick Conf. Room, 5-7pm Strategic Gaming Society Weekly Meeting Tufts Brazilian Club Campus Center Room 2 19,8pm kneral Meeting :ampus Center, 5:30pm University Chaplaincy NOON HOUR CONCERT SERIES don Sequitur . by Wile! Schubert & Beethoven PERFORMED BY: Barbara Englesberg, Violin; Esther Ning Yau, Piano Goddard Chapel, 12:30-1:OOpm

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16 THETUFTS DAILY February 17,1999

Will speak in Alumnae Lounge on Friday Feb. 19th @ I:30 p.m.

= reception to follow =

As part of her nation-wide campus speaking tour for the Lesbian Rights Summit on April 23 - 25th, I999

Brought to you by: Lecture Series Feminist Alliance and TTLGBC

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