Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Williamsburg, VA Permit No. 26 WILLIAM ef MARYInternet: hup://www.wm.edu/wninews/wm_news.html E-mail: [email protected] NEWS VOLUME XXVIII, NUMBER 15 A NEWSPAPER FOR FACULTY, STAFF AND STUDENTS THURSDAY, APRIL 1,1999 Borgenicht Scholar Shares Insights On Kosovo It's good that Mihailo Crnobrnja conference on Bosnia scheduled is a natural teacher. This week for April 9-10 and teaches a Wil¬ he's been teaching a complex liam and Mary class on the topic. lesson to his largest class ever. If this weren't enough, he will Through appearances on the PBS soon be shepherding seven "NewsHour," CNN's "Early Edi¬ Bosnian students who arrive this tion" and the worldwide program¬ week to participate with William ming of the BBC, the Borgenicht and Mary students on people-to- Scholar- in-Residence and former people ventures in the region. Yugoslav ambassador to the Euro¬ The complete text of pean Union has been helping Crnobrnja's PBS interview can be American and international audi¬ accessed through the scroller on ences understand the complexi¬ the William and Mary home page. ties of the war in Kosovo. Information about the Bos¬ Crnobrnja has taken on the nian conference can be found at task, even as he helps the Reves http://www.wm.edu/academics/ Center organize an international reves/bosnia. I Pitcher Justin Wellen visits with Joe Plumeri and his mother Josephine at the March 20 dedication. Plumeri's 'Field Of Dreams' Inspires Tribe To Opening Day Victory William and Mary's falling behind the visiting Penn ments before hurling the first new baseball sta¬ State team by giving up five runs pitch to a Tribe catcher. In dium may have in the first three innings. But characteristic fashion, the started out as Joe that's when Plumeri Park's magic chief executive officer of Plumeri's "field of dreams," began to show, and the Tribe be¬ Primerica Financial Service but by the end of a bright gan to convert its dream of an shared the credit with his fam¬ Mihailo Crnobrnja responds to reporters' questions about Kosovo opening day on March 20, it opening day victory into reality. ily and in particular with his during a news conference last week in the Reves Center. was clear that the state-of-the- In a furious, multi-inning rally, late father, Samuel, who was art facility was big enough to the William and Mary squad hit responsible for bringing a mi¬ hold everybody's dreams. four home runs, then doubled the nor league team to Trenton, Just ask the Tribe nine, Penn State score and went on to N.J. who dug a hole early on by win by a final 16-10 score. There "This is more than just Joe Economist Floats Block Grant was joy in the 'burg. Plumeri Park," said the Tribe It was a fitting way to alumnus. "This is Plumeri System For Funding Colleges cap a day that began with Park because we would not be the dedication of the $1.8- here if not for my family." million facility, which was As true as that may be, indeed the dream—as well fans will long remember The Budget Policy Advisory lawmakers who charge the col¬ leges with lacking fiscal discipline. as the gift—of former Plumeri's generous support Committee faces the quandary Tribe second baseman Joe of Tribe baseball, which in¬ every year—how to plan Will¬ For Robert Archibald, profes¬ sor of economics, a system of Plumeri '66. It also marked cludes establishing an endow¬ iam and Mary's operating bud¬ the culmination of Plume- ment for baseball scholar¬ get when it doesn't know how block grants provides the best al¬ ri's long effort to guaran¬ ships, donating several an¬ much money the state will appro¬ ternative to the often haphazard tee the future of William nual baseball scholarships priate. and frustrating state budget pro¬ and Mary baseball, a sport and providing the funds to Uncertainty has long charac¬ cess for higher education. that just a few years ago build what surely must be one terized the state budget process for In a plan developed with was struggling on a make¬ of the finest collegiate stadi¬ higher education in Virginia. Michael BeVier, chairman of Mor- shift field behind Zable ums in the country. Whether an individual college or Banc Financial Corporation, for the Stadium. Located at the corner of university realizes millions in new Virginia Institute for Public Policy, "This is not just a base¬ Ironbound and Longhill state subsidies or has its budget cut Archibald argues that imposing ball park; it's a dream Roads, the brick and steel often depends on the direction of "market discipline" on public col¬ leges and universities through a come true. It shows what structure complements the the political winds, the state of the Pitcher Randy Leek aims a fast bail can happen in America," economy and even the effective¬ block grant system would allow ness of its lobbying effort. Because colleges to plan their spending for during the Tribe's opening game in said a proud Plumeri mo¬ CONTINUED ON PAGE 4. appropriations change from year the long term and promote better Plumeri Park against Penn State. to year, institutions can't plan their financial management. spending for the long term which, photos by Bob Keroack in turn, evokes the antagonism of CONTINUED ON PAGE 6. Rape As An Instrument Of War Is Focus Of Movie Screening At Balkan Conference to On behalf of the estimated award-winning documentary to be brary on April 9, at 7:30 p.m. former Yugoslavia for the first time 20,000 women and girls shown in conjunction with a con¬ "The mass organized, ethnic in 1993 to document the mass who were raped during ference on the prospects for peace rape that was so pervasive during rapes. Since then, she has re¬ the war in Bosnia, in the Balkans, April 9-10, at the the war in the former Yugoslavia turned to the region on numerous Jadranka Cigelj and Nusreta Sivac University Center. has resurfaced as a weapon of war fact-finding missions on behalf of agreed to discuss, on camera, how The film's co-director, Karmen in Burma, Rwanda and Indonesia," human rights organizations. She I/) they were repeatedly raped and Jelincic, will join Bianca Jagger, a said Craig Canning, acting director has campaigned for human rights tortured while confined at the member of the Coalition for Inter¬ of the Reves Center for Interna¬ throughout the world and has tes¬ <v Omarska Detention Camp in 1992. national Justice and the executive tional Studies, a conference co- tified before the U.S. Congress, The disturbing experiences of director of the leadership council sponsor. "The upcoming showing the British Parliament and the these two Bosnian lawyers, plus for Amnesty International, USA, of this courageous documentary Helsinki Commission on Human their quest for justice, are por¬ in a discussion following the view¬ provides a forum to discuss the Rights. The winner of many hu¬ trayed in Calling the Ghosts: A Story ing at the Arts Centre Theatre at elimination of this shameful hu¬ manitarian awards, Jagger lectures about Rape, Women, and War, an the Williamsburg Regional Li¬ man rights violation. If we are to at colleges and universities world¬ prevent such atrocities tomorrow, wide in an effort to inform the C we must renounce them today." public of human rights tragedies Released in 1996, the one- in Latin America, the former Yu¬ hour documentary has won nu¬ goslavia and elsewhere. merous awards internationally, The conference is the center¬ plus two 1997 Emmys and the piece of a semester-long examina¬ Robert F. Kennedy Award for Jour¬ tion of the Balkan situation cur¬ E nalism. Following the film's pre¬ rently taking place at William and miere, the United Nations Inter¬ Mary under the direction of national Criminal Tribunal ruled Mihailo Crnobrnja, Borgenicht that rape would be prosecuted as Scholar-in-Residence at the Reves a war crime. This past December, Center. Other conference partici¬ a war crimes court for the first pants include Professor of Law time heard a case that focused ex¬ Linda Malone, an expert on the clusively on rape as a war crime, rights of children and women in Jadranka Cigelj takes the finding the defendant guilty. Bosnia, NATO Commander Wesley testimony of a Bosnian A long-time human rights ad¬ Clark and former Secretary of refugee in August 1993. vocate, Jagger traveled to the State Lawrence Eagleburger. I by Amy Ruth Interdisciplinary tools and teams are keys The Problem Solvers to success of Public Policy Research Center It he world has problems quired to use not only their exper¬ Foundation. there is not sufficient transporta¬ sisted living options. to solve," said David tise in environmental studies, but While the study found that the tion to take the elderly and dis¬ That information will be put Finifter, and it's clear also other academic tools learned health of the local population is abled to medical appointments; to good use, said Kerry Mellette, T from the economics from the interdisciplinary public generally good, several significant James City County had the high¬ executive director of the Williams¬ professor's expression that he and policy curriculum, which include unmet needs did emerge. More est number of confirmed cases of burg Community Health Founda¬ his colleagues in the William and courses in law, political science, than 14 percent of the local popu¬ child abuse per capita of any juris¬ tion.